february 5 - march 3, 2013up Next: adveNtures of huckleberry fiNN

by kevin mckeon ,adapted from the novel by leo tolstoy

directed by mary machala

In a time when theatres across the United States are eliminating literary managers from their payrolls, it is a testament toBook-It’s organizational strength

that the company has hired its first such position in July 2012. I’m honored to take on the role and am thrilled, if not also a bit daunted, by the abundance of new work that the company is generating.

The ink is still wet on the scripts that we workshopped in January for our 4th Annual Novel Workshop Series, our second year in partnership with the University of Washington’s Professional Actor Training Program. For two weeks the acting students collaborated with professional directors and actors to workshop Book-It scripts in their most infant stages, which were then presented for two nights to small audiences. The Novel Workshop focuses on developing the most basic elements of the script, discovering what may and may not work from the book on stage, and it is a time when actors, directors, and audiences provide the adapters with invaluable feedback, which they can apply to the work. The Novel Workshop Series is a great incubator for new scripts, and last season’s productions of Prairie Nocturne and Border Songs both first saw the light of day in the inaugural Novel Workshop.

This past fall, Book-It piloted a different kind of working laboratory called Circumbendibus, in which we sought new ways of adapting and producing literature as theatre. Circumbendibus (a word that means “a roundabout route or process”) allowed us to detour from material typically found on our main stage and to see what happened if we let the literature dictate the style, format, and even location of the performance. We produced Jesus’ Son, Denis Johnson’s collection of short stories about dreamers, addicts, and lost souls, at the Rendezvous Bar and Lounge in Belltown; we mined the vast worlds of food writing to create The Hunger Lounge, a new kind of dinner theatre in collaboration with The Dahlia Lounge; and in December, for the first time, we delved into science fiction, graphic novels, and new media in a variety show called Geek Out. Audiences loved our “detour” and we’re looking forward to future incarnations! Stay tuned.

This new development has all taken place even as we’ve

produced our mainstage season—with Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Financial Lives of the Poets yet to come—and toured our education shows, Thank You, Mr. Falker; Never Forgotten; and Skippyjon Jones across the state.

Creating this amount of new work is a formidable task and we couldn’t do it without the tremendous artists, artisans, technicians, and staff at Book-It, and it wouldn’t be worthwhile without you—the final, most important piece in completing the theatrical act—our audience. Thank you for spending an evening with us and we hope you’ll be back to see what new work we’ve prepared for you. Enjoy the show!

Josh AasengLiterary Manager

Literary Manager Josh Aaseng; photo by Shannon Erickson.

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We want you to come to Book-It’s signature Guilty Pleasures Gala Fundraiser, where we celebrate our mission by turning it upside down with hilarious tongue-in-cheek adaptations of the books you’ll never admit you read!

What: Dinner, Auction, and Performance

When: Friday, March 22, 2013

Where: The Neptune Theatre

Why: To support Book-It’s artistic and educational programming

All-Inclusive Tickets: $150

Join us for a night of uproarious performances, a delicious buffet catered by St. Clouds Food & Spirits, and try your hand at a chance to win getaways, dinners, and more!

Pictured left to right: Terri Weagant, David Anthony Lewis, David Silverman, Rachel Glass, David Quicksall, and Jason Marr; photos by Alan Alabastro.

Scenic DesignerLighting DesignerCostume DesignerSound DesignerDance ChoreographerProduction Manager

Dan SchuyMarnie Cummings

Jocelyne FowlerJohanna Melamed

Laura FerriAnders Bolang

Vronsky Karenin / KorsunskySeriozha / EnsembleAnna KareninaLawyer / Doctor / Priest / EnsembleDolly / EnsembleLevinMarya / EnsembleMother Scherbatsky / EnsembleKittyAnnushka / EnsembleNikolai / Father Scherbatsky / EnsembleStiva / Ensemble

Scott Ward AbernethyAndrew DeRycke*

Montserrat Fleck / Aaron Guthrie SterneEmily Grogan

Simon HamlinTracy Hyland*

David Anthony Lewis*Meg McLynnRuth McRee

Sara Mountjoy-PepkaLeah Pfenning†

Bill RitchieEvan Whitfield

Additional generous support is provided by individuals, and byCity of Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, Green Diamond Resource Company, The Ex Anima Fund, and The Wyman Youth Trust.

Thank you to all our supporters!

Anna Kareninaby Kevin McKeon, adapted from the novel by Leo Tolstoy

Directed by Mary Machala

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States† Book-It Intern

Ruth EitemillerBaylie Heims

Stage ManagerAssistant Stage Manager

Anna Karenina was influenced by and written in the Book-It StyleTM, developed by Book-It Repertory Theatre, Seattle, Wash.Anna Karenina was workshopped at JAW: A Playwrights Festival produced by Portland Center Stage, Portland, Ore.

Anna Karenina had its world premiere at Portland Center Stage in April of 2012.

Sources: The Last Days of Tolstoy. VG Chertkov. 1922. Heinemann; The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy. S. A Tolstaia, and Cathy Porter New York: Harper Perennial, 2009.; The Russian Empire, 1801-1917, Hugh Seton Watson. Oxford Clarendon.

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, aka Leo Tolstoy, was

born on September 9, 1828 to an old noble family on their ancestral estate of Yasnaya Polyana, 120 miles from Moscow. As a youth, Tolstoy served as an enlisted officer in the Russian army, and was present at the year-long siege of Sevastopol. It was during this period that the young Tolstoy began to take up the art of writing. His first major work, The Sevastopol Diaries, was published in Sovremennik, a magazine whose frequent contributors included Ivan Turgenev. In 1862, a year after Alexander II emancipated the serfs, Tolstoy retired to

his family’s estate and married the young Sophia Behrs. He spent the rest of his life balancing his family life, managing his estate, and writing. During this time he had 13 children with Sophia and published his most famous works, War and Peace (1862), and Anna Karenina (1877). As he grew older, Tolstoy grew more troubled by the cultural legacy of Russia and the divide between the nobility and the lower classes. These ideas led him along a progressively radical road, alienating him from his wife and family. In 1910, he attempted to abandon all his wealth and property for the path of a wandering ascetic. Several days into this life, he caught pneumonia and died in Astopovo station on the train line to Moscow.Tolstoy dressed in peasant clothing

by Ilya Repin (1901)

I do not like Anna Karenina. The character, that is. And I don’t think Tolstoy wanted me to like her, either.

I feel that Tolstoy completely stacked the deck against Anna, and used her as a metaphor for the damnation of Russia itself. I think he was angry that Russia was floundering, searching for an identity, borrowing every social mannerism it could from Europe. He was angry that there was such a great divide between the peasants and the aristocracy, and felt that Russia wasn’t interested at all in bridging that gap. He felt his country was fighting wars for no good reason, had no art it could call its own, no soul, in essence, no real reason to exist.

But he couldn’t come out and say this, so he used his characters as foils and let his readers draw their own conclusions. The way I see it, Anna forsakes her moral obligation to her husband and family, loses her place in society, and Tolstoy damns her for it. But people I know who’ve read the novel emerge with completely different impressions of her. Some like her, some love her, while others, like me, view her dispassionately. Anna is either incredibly noble or completely selfish. Vronsky is either supremely devoted or a self-absorbed twit. Dolly is either a stalwart or a supreme coward, her

husband either everyone’s favorite good old boy or a morally bankrupt philanderer. At least the novel is very democratic, giving all its characters ample room to like or hate them. They are all uniquely human, all of their faults and merits on display.

In fact, the novel could have been titled Konstantin Levin, whose story occupies at least as much page time as Anna’s. Unlike Anna, Levin follows a rocky path of righteousness. Though he doesn’t really get what he wants, he does the right thing, and is able to achieve some measure of happiness. But Tolstoy titled the novel Anna Karenina for a reason, because her story is the most sensational, the most scandalous, and mirrors the journey Tolstoy felt his country was on. Hers was the impression that Tolstoy wanted to leave on the reader.

And it’s why I have to give Anna a break. She was part of a larger purpose, a grand plan. Like all of us, maybe. I should be able to forgive her that.

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It isn’t often one gets the opportunity to work with one of the greatest classics of literature ever written. The sheer scope of Tolstoy’s work is tremendous, sprawling and rich with

people, places, history and those crazy Russian names that keep changing. But the foundation for all that lushness is really a very simple story: a woman leaves a loveless marriage for the passion of her life. And, as with all simple stories, things get complicated very quickly.

Those complications are beautifully rendered in Kevin McKeon’s adaptation which distills the story, and its sub-plots, into an concise framework that transports us deep into the novel’s heart. The themes leap out with clarity: love, adultery, addiction, obsession, vengeance, forgiveness, redemption, God, politics, the nature of human beings caught in their own webs. All of humanity is here, and though it takes place in 1870s Russia, the issues are timeless.

I do confess, however, that I have often struggled with Anna Karenina and her sister tragic heroine stories: the Tess-Madame Bovary-Moll Flanders-Camille books with the central female character who is killed-commits suicide-enters a nunnery-becomes a prostitute-goes mad because of the society she lived in and the main male character in her life. They drove me crazy because I couldn’t see what I had in common with any of these women and I got so impatient with their helplessness. Now, actually working with Anna has forced me to see things in a different light. What is the nature of love? Can and should one give up all for it? Isn’t loving with all one’s heart enough? I’m not sure I can answer these questions, let alone ask them. So how can I judge Anna and her behavior? I can’t. I can only try to imagine the enormity of what happens to her and offer my compassion for who and what she represents.

And I see now, too, that Anna K and her tragic sisters did serve a greater purpose beyond reading entertainment. They helped bring a woman’s lack of rights to her own body, property, emotional life, or her very self out of society’s darkness. They helped lay the groundwork for what was to come during the 20th century in the Americas and Europe. In the same way the stories we hear today from India, Pakistan, the Middle East and other parts of the world where women cannot live their lives the way they choose without enormous consequences are paving the way for their future. Or at least I hope so. Because for many, still, Anna and her circumstances are not fiction.

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Emily Grogan in rehearsal; photos by Shannon Erickson.

Director Mary Machala works with Emily Grogan (Anna) on the final monologue.

The history of the 19th century is one of growing pains. The modern world was arriving and, with it, the people of Europe began to realize that what they wanted was simple: the freedom to choose their leaders. The United States constitution had provided a template for the social contract between rulers and the ruled. While the leaders of France, Prussia, and Italy embraced the call for political reform, the Tsars of Russia, Nicholas II and, later, his son Alexander III, stood against constitutional discourse; their rule was absolute. While Alexander III did enable economic reform, he did so only to further cement his rule. Talk of constitutions and national assemblies was carefully monitored and quashed in due time.

This duality of reform and repression coincided with Russia’s Belle-Epoque (that period of relative peace in Europe between the end of the Franco-Prussian War until the beginning of World War I marked by flourishing arts and scientific discovery). From 1850 to the early 1900s, three writers dominated Russian literature both at home and abroad. Ivan Turgenev grew to prominence in the 1850s, writing for the liberal Russian magazine Sovremennik. Rather than deal directly with Russia’s political troubles, Turgenev focused his attentions on the struggle between the generations of Russian people. His greatest work, Fathers and Sons, demonstrated the disparity between the conservative older generations and their more liberal children. Author Fyodor Dostoyevsky witnessed the oppression of the Tsarist regime first hand. He was one of many political dissidents imprisoned under Nicholas I and was very nearly executed. It was only once Dostoyevsky left the country that he was able to publish work directly critical of the state of Russia. Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov all called the Russian political and cultural status quo into question. The latest of the three great writers, Leo Tolstoy, took a completely different route in his discussion of Russia at large. Spending most of his time managing his estate, Tolstoy witnessed the attempts of Alexander III to reform the economic foundation of Russia while keeping

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the corrupt government bureaucracy in place. These half measured reforms doomed Alexander III to failure, and Tolstoy could do nothing but watch and write.

While the great writers turned their attentions to the failings of Russia, their contemporary composers turned to creating something distinctly Russian. As with many cultures on the periphery of Europe, the Russians took their cultural cues from the French and Italians, particularly in regards to arts and music. The greatest contributors to this movement were dubbed “The Five:” Mily Balakirev, César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and Alexander Borodin. Between these five men, a distinctly Russian music was developed. Under Balakirev’s leadership, Mussorgsky composed Night on Bald Mountain, Rimsky-Korsakov composed the iconic Flight of the Bumblebee, and Borodin grew to European prominence with his First Symphony and his work in several string quartets. Though “The Five” were the first to create a distinctly Russian musical tradition, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was the first to combine the Russian style with classical European training. His ballets, operas, and overtures are now world renowned, with 1812 Overture, The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake, and The Sleeping Beauty counted among his best known works.

Also during this period, a group of artists who came to be known as “The Wanderers”—including Ivan Kramskoy, Grigory Myasoyedov, Nikolay Ghe and Vasily Perov—grounded their work in the same ideals as those shared by their friends and contemporaries, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Leo Tolstoy. Their artistic philosophy drew heavily on the views espoused by then-popular social activist Nikolay Chernyshevsky who stood vocally against press censorship, capital punishment, and serfdom. Viewing their art as social treaties, they highlighted the poverty endured by many across the country, but also the beauty that existed in nature and in the strength and cohesion of rural and urban society with an aim to create art that was rooted in the contemporary socio-political architecture, and useful for society.

Sources:, 1801-1917, Hugh Seton Watson. Oxford Clarendon.

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Scott WArd AbErNEthyVronskyScott is very thankful to be working with Book-It again. Recently with Book-It’s

Circumbendibus, Scott played Fuckhead in Jesus’ Son. Other professional credits include Hastings in Henry IV, Part 2 and Bazin in Man in the Iron Mask with Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Autolycus in The Winter’s Tale with Island Stage Left, and Frankie Avid in Shine!: A Burlesque Musical at Theatre Off Jackson. He can also be heard as Davi in the Ice Box Studio’s animated musical short En Passant. In March, Scott will be playing Boyet in Love’s Labour’s Lost with Seattle Shakespeare Company. Scott received his MFA in acting from the University of Washington.

ANdrEW dErycKE*Karenin / KorsunskyAndrew has appeared at Book-It since the 20th Century. Among memorable roles, he appeared as

Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice, Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities, and Wayne in Border Songs. Recently, Andrew happily contributed to Book-It’s Circumbendibus, playing numerous roles in Jesus’ Son, and the Reverend Wiggin in Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant. Other theatres he has appeared at include the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, ACT Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, American Player’s Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Oregon Repertory Theatre, Seattle’s Group Theatre, Harold Clurman Theatre, Cortland Repertory Theatre, Village Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Seattle Children’s Theatre, and both the Eugene and Seattle Operas.

MoNtSErrAt FlEcKSeriozha / EnsembleMontserrat is honored to be on stage at Book-It. She is fresh off her second year of playing a Cratchit daughter in

A Christmas Carol at ACT Theatre. Last year she performed in the youth chorus for Seattle Opera’s Turandot and in the Seattle Chorus Children’s Concert. She is currently a student of the Institute program at Village Theatre. Outside of performing she has a passion for reading and singing.

EMily GroGANAnna KareninaEmily is thrilled to be back on the Book-It stage for her 11th Book-It show. Past credits include Helen

in Howards End (Seattle Times Footlight Award for Acting Performance), Jane in Pride and Prejudice, Mrs. Elton in Emma, and Cassandra in Broken For You. Emily played Candy in Book-It’s Gregory Award-winning production of The Cider House Rules, Parts I & II. Emily played Olivia in Twelfth Night this past summer for Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Wooden O Theatre. She has played Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Roxane in Cyrano de Bergerac, and Sylvia in Two Gentlemen of Verona, all for Seattle Shakespeare Company. Emily is a graduate of Cornish College of the Arts.

SiMoN hAMliN Lawyer / Doctor /Priest / Ensemble Simon has long admired Book-It’s work and is excited to walk its boards for the

first time. He has performed in dozens of theatre, film, and television projects. Favorite stage roles include Benjamin Cohen in The Underpants with Boise Contemporary Theatre, Ferdinand in The Tempest with Freehold Studio, Sebastian in Twelfth Night with Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in Los Angeles, and Chuck in Everything in the Garden with Theatre 9/12. Simon appeared in the 2011 Academy Award-nominated The Fighter and TNT’s “Leverage,” among many other on-camera roles. His most recent project is a comedic web series he created, wrote, and produced called “Locally Grown.” www.locallygrowntv.com www.simonhamlin.com

trAcy hylANd* Dolly / Ensemble Tracy is pleased to return to Book-It, where she appeared in Rhoda: A Life In Stories. She is an original member

of The Sandbox Artists Collective, and performs regularly for the popular Sandbox Radio LIVE! podcast series. Recent stage credits include Lucius in Titus Andronicus with upstart crow collective, Mary in It’s a Wonderful Life with Theatre Anonymous, and Lady Macbeth in Macbeth with Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Wooden O Theatre. She has also worked with Chicago Shakespeare Theater, The Goodman, Bailiwick Repertory Theatre, Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, ACT Theatre,

New Century Theatre Company, Strawberry Theatre Workshop, Seattle Public Theater, 14/48, Island Stage Left, and Seattle Children’s Theatre. She is married to fellow actor/director Tim Hyland, and mother to their son August. www.tracyhyland.com

dAvid ANthoNy lEWiS* Levin David is happy to return to Book-It, particularly to play just one part; he played several dozen roles in the most recent

production of The Cider House Rules, Parts I & II. He graduated from Cornish College of the Arts late in the last millennium and has been fortunate to continue working ever since. Favorite roles include le Vicomte de Valmont in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Edward Hyde in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Franz Liebkind in The Producers, and The Ghost of Christmas Present in A Christmas Carol.

MEG MclyNN Marya / Ensemble Meg makes her Book-It debut in Anna Karenina. Locally, Meg has performed at ArtsWest, New City Theatre,

Seattle Opera, On The Boards, Centerstage, ConWorks, Tacoma Actors Guild, Theatre Off Jackson, and others. Most recently, she donned a ski mask and brandished a handgun in Kevin McKeon’s How They Attack Us. Next up is her one-woman tribute concert, Foolin’ Around with Patsy Cline with Purple Phoenix Productions. Meg earned her BFA from Emerson College, her MFA from Columbia University, and teaches the core curriculum at Freehold Theatre Lab. www.megmclynn.com

ruth McrEE Mother Scherbatsky / Ensemble Ruth was in at the birthing of Book-It, years ago in the upper rooms at the old Empty

Space, so she is particularly delighted to be making this appearance with the fully grown Book-It. Ruth recently performed in Gaudy Night, The House of Bernarda Alba, Frozen, Tartuffe, Everything in the Garden, and Ladies of the Corridor, with various Seattle theatres. She hones her craft in Theatre 9/12’s master classes and has appeared in many of Theatre 9/12’s Equity Member Productions. She is a proud co-founder of PLAYWORKS for which she is a teaching artist in local private and public schools. She performs in

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PLAYWORKS’ touring productions of I Can’t Remember Anything and Vesuvius at Home. Coming up next will be 33 Variations at ArtsWest.

SArA MouNtJoy-PEPKA Kitty This is Sara’s main stage debut with Book-It, having previously appearing in The Hunger Lounge and two Book-It

Arts and Education tours, and she couldn’t be happier to be back! Other favorite past credits include the summers she spent with Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Wooden O Theatre, and Greenstage; and A Mouse Who Knows Me and the Gregory Award-nominated Duel of the Linguist Mages at Annex Theatre. As a company member of Magic Circle Mime, she regularly performs family programs with symphony orchestras across North America, Asia, and Spain. She is also an ensemble member of Unexpected Productions and performs the improv-comedy show TheatreSports most weekends at the Market Theater in Pike Place Market.

lEAh PFENNiNG † Annushka / Ensemble Leah is graduating from Cornish College of the Arts this May from the theatre/original works department. Leah is

pleased to be making her Book-It debut in Anna Karenina.

bill ritchiE Nikolai /Father Scherbatsky / Ensemble Bill returns to Book-It where he previously appeared in Red Ranger

Came Calling, Breathing Lessons, and Ethan Frome. Bill is a founding member, along with Book-It’s Jane Jones, of the Oregon Repertory Theatre. His credits from his time with the acting companies at Old Globe Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and Seattle Repertory Theatre include A Christmas Carol, Enemy of the People, Death of a Salesman, Threepenny Opera, Moby Dick–Rehearsed, The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters, A Flea in Her Ear, She Stoops to Conquer, Enrico IV, and over a dozen plays by Shakespeare. A trained classical singer, Bill has also worked as a director and performer in productions of La Bohème, Rigoletto, Die Fledermaus, Don Pasquale, and Hansel and Gretel.

AAroN GuthriE StErNESeriozha /EnsembleAaron is pleased to make his professional debut in the role of Seriozha. Aaron has

recently appeared in several productions as a member of the Youth Education Program at Seattle Public Theater. His favorite roles include Friar Falstaff in The Merry Maids of Nottingham, The Demon of Insincerity in The Phantom Tollbooth, and Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Aaron is a graduate of Greenwood Elementary School where he was a longstanding member of the drama program, playing roles that included Young Nikola Tesla, Odysseus, and Paris. He is now a 6th grader at Whitman Middle School in Seattle.

EvAN WhitFiEld Stiva / Ensemble Evan makes his Book-It debut with Anna Karenina. He was just seen as Fred in A Christmas Carol at ACT

Theatre and has performed on Seattle stages for over a decade with Seattle Shakespeare Company, Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Wooden O Theatre, Strawberry Theatre Workshop, and Taproot. Favorite roles include Jeff in Lobby Hero and Walker/Ned in Three Days of Rain, both at Seattle Public Theater, and Eugene Wright in John Longenbaugh’s How to be Cool. Watch for him later in Book-It’s season as Matt Prior in The Financial Lives of the Poets.

KEviN McKEoN Adapter Kevin has adapted several novels for Book-It, including Anne Tyler’s Breathing Lessons, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, A Tale of Two Cities (with Jane Jones), and David Guterson’s Snow Falling on Cedars, which has been subsequently produced at Portland Center Stage, The Hartford Stage, Centerstage in Baltimore, and Theatreworks in California, among others. Anna Karenina was commissioned by Portland Center Stage, workshopped at their 2011 JAW Festival and had its world premiere there last April. Kevin has also worked locally as an actor at Book-It, Seattle Public Theater, Arts West, New City Theater, Freehold, and Seattle Shakespeare Company.

MAry MAchAlA Director Mary, a founding member of Book-It, was last seen here directing her adaptation of A Confederacy of Dunces. Past Book-It directing credits include Waxwings, Silver Water, Double Indemnity, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, which was co-adapted/directed with John Vreeke, and many short stories. Other directing credits include Romeo and Juliet, The Winter’s Tale, Hamlet, At Home At the Zoo, Finding the Sun, After Magritte, Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, and The Turn of the Screw. She was a writer/actor/improvisationalist with Dudley Riggs’ Brave New Workshop in Minneapolis, Minnesota. and the artistic director of the socio/political improv group, Off the Wall Players in Seattle where she directed, acted, and co-wrote Every Which Way But Lucid!, Mad Dogs and English Majors, A Fistful of Transfers, and many more. Acting credits include roles at most major Seattle theatres, most recently in Foreclosure with New Century Theatre Company.

dAN SchuyScenic DesignerDan is very happy to be working with one of his favorite directors at Book-It. Until recently, Dan was the designer/technical director for the theatre department at North Seattle Community College, a position he has held for over 22 years, and has been on the staff of the Bellevue Youth Theatre for the past 12 years as a designer and theatre day camp director. Additionally, he has designed Book-It’s Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, ArtsWest’s On The Verge, Black Gold, Measure For Pleasure, Love Song, Evil Dead: the Musical (Broadway World Award, Best Scenic Designer 2010), and Shipwrecked: an Entertainment; Seattle Public Theater’s Three Days of Rain, Dying City, and The Happy Ones; and at SecondStory Repertory and Theater Schmeater.

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MArNiE cuMMiNGSLighting DesignerMarnie is pleased to be working on Anna Karenina.

JocElyNE FoWlErCostume DesignerJocelyne’s design credits include Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet and Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant at Book-It; Legally Blonde at Seattle Musical Theatre; Eugene Onegin at Vashon Opera; The Sound of Music, The Crucible, and The Who’s Tommy at Youth Theatre Northwest; A Christmas Survival Guide and The Americans Across the Street at Harlequin Productions; Everything in the Garden, Jason and Medea, and The Cherry Orchard at Theatre 9/12; Zombie Prom, The Dancing Princess, The Princess and the Pea, and Children of Eden at SecondStory Repertory; and more at ReAct, Live Girls! Theatre, Ghost Light Theatricals, and Seattle Pacific University.

JohANNA MElAMEdSound DesignerJohanna is a sound designer and educator and is thrilled to join Book-It for this show. Her sound designs in Seattle include The Winter’s Tale at Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Wooden O Theatre, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice and All Through the Night at ArtsWest, Yellow Face and Driving Miss Daisy for ReAct, Dog Sees God for Balagan Theatre as well as creating multiple sound scores for visual and media artist Barbara Robertson and The Inner Life of Jack for Jack Straw Media, with visual and sound artist Ellen Sollod. Johanna is a TechStart teacher for Technology Access Foundation. She works with 5th graders at Mount View Elementary in White Center teaching S.T.E.M. skills using various computer programs and robotics. She received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College.

ruth EitEMillErStage ManagerRuth is excited to return to Book-It for another show, having worked on Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant and Sense and Sensibility in past seasons. Recent credits include The Wizard of Oz with Seattle Children’s Theatre, and the world premiere of Uncle Ho to Uncle Sam and the Northwest premiere of One Slight Hitch, both at ACT Theatre. Previous credits include O Lovely Glowworm and The Adding Machine with New Century Theatre Company, Lyle the Crocodile with Seattle Children’s Theatre, Das Barbecü with ACT Theatre, and Hamlet and Antonio’s Revenge with Univ. of Colorado, Colorado Springs Theatreworks. Ruth earned her BA in theatre from Seattle

Pacific University, where she stage managed Dancing at Lughnasa, On the Verge, and The Stinky Cheese Man.

bAyliE hEiMSAssistant Stage ManagerBaylie is excited to be working with Book-It for the first time! A recent transplant to Seattle, she has a BA in theatre from Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa. Seattle assistant stage manager credits include Tartuffe with Taproot Theatre, The Revues with Showtunes Theatre Company, and Odin’s Horse with Mirror Stage. She’s happy to take a break from electrics and get backstage again!

ANdErS bolANGProduction ManagerA graduate of Whitman College and the Yale School of Drama, Anders served as production manager for Tacoma Actors Guild and as technical director for the California Theatre Center and Whitman College. As a carpenter, he has created scenery for the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Intiman, and Yale Rep, among others. On stage, Anders has performed at Seattle Shakespeare Company, Baltimore Center Stage, Delaware Theatre Company, Yale Rep, Book-It, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Harlequin Productions, Tacoma Actors Guild, and as a guest artist with the Boston Pops. In New York, he has performed at the Performing Garage, NY Theatre Workshop, and La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club. Anders has appeared on “As the World Turns” and “One Life to Live,” the feature films Police Beat and Helene, and in industrial training films and voice-overs.

JANE JoNESFounder & Founding Co-Artistic Director Jane is the founder of Book-It and founding co-artistic director of Book-It Repertory Theatre, with Myra Platt. In her 24 years of staging literature, she has performed, adapted, and directed works by such literary giants as Charles Dickens, Eudora Welty, Edith Wharton, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Pam Houston, Raymond Carver, Frank O’Connor, Ernest Hemingway, Colette, Amy Bloom, John Irving, John Steinbeck, Daphne du Maurier, and Jane Austen. A veteran actress of 30 years, she has played leading roles in many of America’s most prominent regional theatres. Most recently, she played the role of Miss Havisham in Book-It’s Great Expectations. Film and TV credits include The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Singles, Homeward Bound, “Twin Peaks,” and Rose Red. She co-directed with Tom Hulce at Seattle Rep, Peter Parnell’s

adaptation of John Irving’s The Cider House Rules, which enjoyed successful runs here in Seattle, at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles (Backstage West Award, best director) and in New York (Drama Desk Nomination, best director). Jane directed Pride and Prejudice and Twelfth Night at Portland Center Stage which won the 2008 Drammy award for Best Direction and Production. For Book-It, she has directed The House of Mirth, The Highest Tide, Travels with Charley, Pride and Prejudice, Howard’s End, In a Shallow Grave, The Awakening, Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, A Tale of Two Cities, and The Cider House Rules, Parts One and Two, winner of the 2010 and 2011 Gregory Awards for Outstanding Production. In 2008 she, Myra Platt, and Book-It were honored to be named by the Seattle Times among seven Unsung Heroes and Uncommon Genius for their 20-year contribution to life in the Puget Sound region. She is a recipient of the 2009 Women’s University Club of Seattle Brava Award, a 2010 Women of Influence award from Puget Sound Business Journal, and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation’s 20th Anniversary Founders Grant, and was a finalist for the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation’s 2012 Zelda Fichandler Award.

MyrA PlAttFounding Co-Artistic Director As co-founder, director, adapter, actor, and composer, Myra has helped Book-It produce over 90 world-premiere stage adaptations. Most recently she adapted Garth Stein’s The Art of Racing in the Rain. Her adapting/directing credits include The River Why, Night Flight, Red Ranger Came Calling, The House of the Spirits, Giant, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Cowboys Are My Weakness, Roman Fever, A Little Cloud, A Telephone Call, and A Child’s Christmas in Wales. Directing credits include Persuasion, Plainsong, Cry, the Beloved Country, and Sweet Thursday. She co-adapted Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant with Jane Jones and composed music for Prairie Nocturne, Night Flight (with Joshua Kohl), Red Ranger Came Calling (with Edd Key), The Awakening, Ethan Frome, Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, A Child’s Christmas in Wales, A Telephone Call, and I Am of Ireland. As an actress, Myra most recently appeared as Susan Duff in Prairie Nocturne, Judith in The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, Edna in The Awakening, and Margaret in Howards End. Outside of Book-It, Myra has performed at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Intiman, New City Theater, and the Mark Taper Forum. Myra is thrilled to have been a recipient with Jane Jones of the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Founders Award,

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chArlottE M. tiENcKENManaging DirectorCharlotte is an administrator, director, producer, and educator who has been working in the producing and presenting fields for 28 years. Before moving back to the Seattle area in September 2003, she was general manager at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in Massachusetts. As president of her own consulting firm, Scarlet Productions, she has worked with companies across the country, including Chitresh Das Dance Company in San Francisco, Ben Munisteri Dance in New York, Seattle Theatre Group, EnJoy Productions in Seattle and Westwind, in Oregon among many others. She has taught at Seattle Pacific University, The University of Washington, The Evergreen State College, and the University of Puget Sound. She has been an adjunct faculty member at Lesley University in Cambridge, Mass. for seven years. Charlotte is a member of SDC, the union of stage directors and choreographers and is past president of the Board of Arts Northwest. She has served on the Board of the Pat Graney Dance Company, on granting panels for the Washington State Arts Commission and 4 Culture, and was president of the Board of Theatre Puget Sound. Her most recent directing credits include Eugene Onegin for Vashon Opera, Rashomon for Seattle Pacific University, Fool for Love at Stone Soup Theatre, and On the Verge at Seattle Pacific University. She lives on Vashon Island with her husband, Bill, three cats, and two dogs.

ActorS’ Equity ASSociAtioN (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 45,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote

and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark.

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book-it repertory theatre’s

2012-13 SeasonOh yeah. It’s happening.

family fun days

Never Forgottenby Patricia McKissack

February 16, 2013

Skippyjon Jonesby Judy Schachner

May 4 & 11, 2013

for tickets visitwww.book-it.orgor call 206.216.0833

Mainstage

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

(uNceNSOred)by Mark Twain

April 16 - May 12, 2013

The Financial Lives of the Poetsby Jess Walter

June 7 - 30, 2013

Book-It would like to thank the following for their generous support:

litErAry lEGENdS $75,000+The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation

litErAry chAMPioNS $25,000+ArtsFund • ArtsWA • The Boeing Company

Matthew N. Clapp, Jr. • Ann Ramsay-Jenkins • Gladys Rubinstein

litErAry hEroES $10,000+4Culture • N. Elizabeth McCaw & Yahn W. Bernier

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation • Stellman Keehnel • Lucky Seven FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundation • The Seattle Foundation

The Shubert Foundation, Inc. • Shirley & David Urdal • Anonymous (2)

literary classics $5,000+Jeff & Amanda Cain**Sonya & Tom CampionCenturyLink FoundationCity of Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural AffairsGreen Diamond Resource CompanyEmily Anthony & David MaymudesThe Medtronic FoundationNordstromMary PigottLarry & Michell PihlLynne & Nick Reynolds**Richard WeeningMary Ann & Robert WileyAndrew & Trish Zuccotti**

leadership circle $2,500+Monica Alquist**Boeing Gift Matching ProgramKaren Brandvick Baker & Ross Baker**Steven Bull & Christiane Pein**Joann Byrd**Allan & Nora DavisThe Ex Anima FundExpedia, IncJamie & Leesha FordJohn & Ellen HillStuart Frank & Marty Hoiness**Jane Jones & Kevin McKeon**Margaret Kineke & Dennis West**Mary Metastasio**Microsoft Matching Gifts ProgramLynn Murphy**Tom & Cheryl Oliver**Myra Platt**David Quicksall & Rachel Glass**Steve Schwartzman**Seattle Center Foundation*Garth & Drella SteinDeborah Swets**Jim & Kathy TuneU.S. Bancorp FoundationKris & Mike Villiott**Elizabeth Warman**April J. WilliamsonLucy Zuccotti**

Nobel Award Society $1,000+Stephen & Salli BauerLindsay & Tony BlacknerPatricia Britton**D. Thompson & Karen ChallinorAmy & Matthew CockburnBill & Carol CollinsCollins Group**George & Carolyn CoxTony & Emily CoxDavidson & Co. MatchingJulie Edsforth & Jabez BlumenthalExpedia Gives Matching Gift ProgramElizabeth & Paul FlemingPeter Godman & Munira RahemtullaAmy & Thaddeus HanscomLucy HelmHarold & Mary Frances HillHeather HowardDavid Thompson & Judith JesiolowskiClare Kapitan & Keith SchreiberKeyBank FoundationLea KnightAgastya KohliBill Block & Susan LeavittEd & Laura LittlefieldDarcy & Lee MacLarenLynn Manley & Alexander LindseyMelissa & Don ManningDonald E. MarcyHolly & Bill MarklynAnne McDuffie & Tim WoodSarah Merner & Craig McKibbenSusan & Furman MoseleyWhitney & Jerry Neufeld-KaiserPeter & Jane Powell**Puget Sound Business JournalJo Ann & Jim RobertsMatt SauriMarc & Stacie ScattergoodJohn SchafferMartha SidloVirginia Sly & Richard WesleyB. Richal & Karen SmithSara Thompson & Richard GelinasJared WatsonJudith WhetzelShannon WilliamsWilliams Miller Family Foundation

Nobel Award Society, cont.Merrily Wyman & Karen BryantThe Wyman Youth TrustAnonymous (2)

Pulitzer Award Society $500+Earl Alexander*All One Family FundRuth BaileyCheryl BoudreauJudy Brandon & H. Randall WebbDiana & Chuck CareyThe Carey Family FoundationCatherine Clark & Marc JacquesSteve Miller & Pamela CowanAmy & Paul CurtisEmily DavisMark Dexter & Deborah CowleyDiane DouglasBrent & Katie EnarsonThe Film School*Firesteed Cellars*Robert FosterJean Gorecki & Dick DobynsLaurie GriffithDr. Benson & Pamela HarerPhyllis HatfieldJay Hereford & Margaret WinsorHumanities WashingtonJeffrey M. KadetPam KendrickMarsha Kremen & Jilly EddyAnnie Lareau**Frank Lawler & Ann McCurdyCraig LorchStephen E. LovellEllen & Stephen LutzJames & Kaaren McElroyEleanor & Charles PollnowGlenna Olson & Conrad WoutersWill Patton & Joni OstergaardMeta L. PasternakPopCap Games MatchingThe Rodman FoundationPamela & Nate SearleSeattle International Film Festival*Mary SnappSt. Clouds Food & Spirits*Tamara StenshoelWilliam & Lynette ThomasKerry P. ThompsonRobert & Dolores TindalJudith Tobin & Michael BakerEdward & Genevieve TremblaySteve Wilson & Julie LinDavid & Sally S. WrightMary & Gerald ZyskowskiAnonymous (1)

National book Award Society $250+:Nota Bene Cellars*The 5th Avenue Theatre*Shawn & Lynne AebiChristina AmanteVirginia L. AndersonThe Bayless FamilyLuther Black & Christina Wright

honoring book-itcontributors

National book Award Society, cont.Gail & Doug BousheyJohn BradshawAdelaide H. Brooks & Robert PennellJeff Youngstrom & Becky BrooksDavid & Rachel BukeySylvia & Craig ChambersSandra & Paul DehmerDottie DelaneyMary DeLorme & Mark SchleckYasue DrabbleJim & Gaylee DuncanPamela & Kenneth EakesJoyce EricksonStan & Jane FieldsLiz Fitzhugh & Jim FeldmanBill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Matching Gifts ProgramKatharine Godman & Jerry Collum**Laura HansonFrederic & Karin HarderWendy HillikerBrent JohnsonSarah Kohut & Jim GrantDr. Eric Rose & Eleni LedesmaElizabeth LoveMarcia MasonRuth McCormickJim McDonaldJean McKeonLouise McNerneyRichard MonroeCharles MontangeMarc & Emily MoraDeborah & Jeff ParsonsCorliss J. PerdaemsCharles & Doris RayBradley RennerAnne RepassLinden RhoadsPaula RiggertDon & Marty SandsDr. Robert Saunders & Donna MarieFrank Schumann & Heather PullenGail & John SehlhorstAime & Mike ServaisCraig Shank & Meredith StellingMichael & Jo ShapiroStandard Insurance Company Employee

Giving CampaignKimberly & Mike StrandLiAnn & Stephen SundquistSuzanne Suneson*Tammy TalmanTerry TazioliTen Mercer*Emory & Laura ThomasMolly Thompson & Joe CasaliniSheila Valencia & Walter ParkerKaren & Ron Van GenderenSandra WaughEddie WestermanRobert & Leora WheelerElisabeth WhiteRachel Wilsey & Sam BernsteinJanet & Lawrence WilsonAnonymous (1)

Pen/Faulkner Award circle $100+ACT Theatre*Carol AdamsDoug AdamsConnie AndersonAmy ArvidsonCinnimin AvenaMichelle Badion*Jo Ann & Tom BardeenMary Murfin & Doug BayleyShawn Baz & Ellen BezonaDeb & Bill BigelowWatson & Jane BlairMarisa BocciRebecca BogardBarry Boone & Mary WilsonJonathan BridgeBroadway Center For The Performing Arts*Billie ButterfieldMelanie CalderwoodJane CamdenCarri CampbellHugh CampbellLinda & Peter CapellMichela Carpino & Rick KlingeleLynne & David ChelimerMarianna Clark & Charles SchaferHarvey Sadis & Harriett CodySonja M. CoffmanJane CommetEric Helland & Susan ConnorsRobert & Mary CooperSamantha CooperCovestic, Inc.Garry & Kay CraneMelinda Deane & Dan WheetmanRobin Dearling & Gary AckermanRobert Hovden & Ron DeCheneNancy DirksenLynn DissingerDan DraisVasiliki DwyerSusan M. DyerSarah L. EasterbrookEight Bells Winery*Lynne & Hollie EllisMarilyn EndrissKim & Rob EntropConstance L. EuerleJane Faulkner & Marc KittnerDeborah & Keith FergusonEllen FergusonLaura FerriNanette FokJames & Denise FortierJayn & Hugh FoyKai FujitaLaurel Garcia & Shi Kai WangCezanne GarciaBill GillJoan & Steve GoldblattDona GoldenLinda GouldAnke GrayPamela GreenwoodMichael GrimmNancy & Joseph Guppy

Pen/Faulkner Award circle, cont.Dr. Rena HamburgerFaith HannaLarry HansonBrenda HartmanEllen & David HechtRebecca Herzfeld & Gordon CrawfordSusan & Jim HoganDavid Hogan**Nancy HolcombLisa HoldermanCarolyn HoltzenMary & Eric HorvitzKaren L. HowardJulie Howe & Dennis ShawMelissa HutherMarcia JohnsonLorna JordanKris Jorgensen & Margey RubadoDavid Kasik & Jan LevineRebecca KavoussiAdam WestermanKatherine KingMary J. KlubbenShannon & Richard KnippDean W. KoontsAlan KristalFrances J. KwapilLarry LewinChristine LewisArni Litt & Lori EickelbergCynthia LivakMary Frances LyonsJoan MachlisJosie & Doug ManuelNancy ManulaKate MarksElizabeth MathewsonElaine MathiesJim McClaineKathy McCluskeyDeirdre & Jay McCraryMaggie McDonaldMarcie & John McHaleMetropolitan Market*Margaret MetastasioJohn MettlerJeanne MetzgerElaine MewShyla & Donald MillerDonna & Robert ParkerGeorge & Marion MohlerBecky MonkTerry & Cornelia MooreMorfey’s Cakes*Pam & Don MyersKim NambaDr. David Kaplan & Dr. Ann NelsonDonna & Dennis NeuzilBetty Ngan & Tom MailhotDorothy & Aaron NichollsPam & Scott NolteDeanna & Craig NorsenChris OhlweilerPacific Northwest Ballet*Pacific Office Automation, Inc.Jeff & Lauren Packman

honoring book-itcontributors

Pen/Faulkner Award circle, cont.Cecilia Paul & Harry ReinertSherry PerraultCheryl PetersonGloria PfeifPaula PimentalAnne & Lee PipkinPopCap GamesSusan PorterfieldRacha Noodles & Thai Cuisine*Diana RakowMichelle RebertBrian & Roberta ReedDennis ReichenbachJeannette ReynoldsKaren & Eric RichterShirley Roberson**Roberta RobertsLawrence & Karen RobinsMarga Rose HancockH. Stewart RossBeth RutherfordDonna SandKathy SaundersSeattle Repertory Theatre*Mark SeklemianMeredith Lehr & William SeversonMarcia & Peter SillShellie SlettebakGeorge & Susan SmithDiane SnellChristine StephersonPaul Stucki & Christina ChangDiane & Richard SugimuraDebra & Mark SzalwinksiT.S. McHugh’s*Theresa TamuraGail TanakaEric & Cassandra TaylorAnne TerryKristin & Mark ThomasAwnie ThompsonCharlotte Tiencken & Bill West**Caren ToneyMarcia UtelaRuth VerhoffVillage Theatre*Margot & Thomas WashingtonWashington State Employee Combined FundSally & Charles WeemsKayla WeinerJay Weinland & Heather HawkinsJennifer WeisJD WesslingGregory WetzelSara White & Robert JordanJane WiegensteinHope WiljanenLauren WilsonRichard Wilson & Lloyd HermanWright Runstad & Co.Juliette YamaneRobert Winsor & Valerie YockeySam Zeiler & Dawn FrankwickAnonymous (5)

o. henry Award circle $50+Amgen Foundation • Elizabeth Amsbary • William G. Anderson • Jennifer Sue & Russ Banham • Tina Baril & Dafydd D. Rhysjones • Roger Tucker & Becky Barnett • Tom Bartholomew • Maribeth Berberich • John Bianchi & Scott Warrender • Nancy L. Bittner • Audrey Blair • Diane Blake • Julia Bolz • Bridge Partners LLC • Tisha Cain • Pamela Cain* • Cory Carlson • Carl Chew • Deborah Christensen • Catherine Clemens • Combined Federal Campaign • Carol Crosby • Reidun Crowley • Jim Wilder & Margaret Curtin • Stephanie Czerwonka • Marilyn & Don Davidson • Sherri Del Bene • Marcia Donovan • Lorna Dykes • Nancy Ellingham • Margot & Dave Elsner • Dr. EM Faustman • Chandler & Janice Felt • Barbara & Timothy Fielden • Laura Fischetti • Mary Ellen Flanagan • Julia Geier & Phil Borges • Elizabeth Gilchrist • Ann Glusker & Peter Hunsberger • Google Matching Gifts Program • Laurie Greig • Scott Guettinger • Corina Hardin • Wier Harmon • Terri Helm-Remund • Catherine Hennings • Barbara Hieronymus • Chris Higashi • Kate Hokanson • Robert Hunter • Susanne Hussong • Alison Inkley • Lawrence Jackson • Malia & Chang Kawaguchi • Vickie Kawakami • Millett & Patricia Keller • King County Employee Chartiable Campaign • Tracy Krauter • Kristi’s Grooming Company* • Fay Krokower • Barb & Art Lachman • Asha & Lillian Lahiri • Dr. Donald & Alice Lewis • Madalene Lickey • Adelaide Loges • Nancy Lomneth & Mark Boyd • Frank Lott • Carol Lumb • Ginny Mason • Charles Mayes • Susan McCloskey • Mecca Café* • Gary Miller • Sara & Paul Mockett • Christine Mosere • Susan & Harold Mozer • Martha Mukhalian • Judy & Stephen Niver • Warren Northrop • Ellen Nottingham • Heidi Noun & Michael Collins • Nancy & Stephen Olsen • On The Boards* • Pat O’Rourke • Helen Ortiz • Timothy O’Sullivan • Ed & Carol Perrin • Katherine Phelps • Carolita Phillips • Laura Ploudre • Portage Restaurant* • Thomas W. Pratt • Andrea Ptak & Aaron Houseknecht • Daniel & Barbara Radin • Samantha Redsell • Nancy Reichley & Timothy Higgins • RN74* • T.A. Greenleaf & Rebecca Roe • Patricia Rytkonen & William Karn • Scarecrow Video* • Julie Schoenfeld • B. Charlotte Schreiber • Nancy Schroder • Ann Schuh • Seattle Art Museum* • Seattle Children’s Theatre* • Seattle Men’s Chorus* • Allen E. Senear • Audrey & John Sheffield • Janna Silverstein • Barbara Spear • Pat T. Starkovich • Julie Stohlman • Anne Stoltz • Janice Strand • Steve Suzuki • Taproot Theatre* • Alan & Michele Tesler • Margey Thoresen • Darcia Tudor • Marcellus Turner • UW World Series* • Deborah VanDerhei • Tom & Kristi Weir • Julie Weisbach • Jean & David White • Bill & Paula Whitham • Margaret Whittemore • Connie & Les Wiletzky • Wendy Yoker •Anonymous (4)

Gifts in honor & in Memory

Beth Amsbary in honor ofRachel Alquist, cheerful voice of Book-It

Nancy L. Celms, Kate C. Hemer, Connie Hungate, and Margaret M. Marshall in memory

of William Rees Phillips

Corliss Perdaems in memory ofJudy Runstad’s father, Gerry Wright Manville

Barbara Rollinger in memory ofStephanie Prince’s mother, Mildred Prince

Sonja M. Coffman in memory of Helen Robinson

*denotes in-kind donation **denotes in-kind plus monetary support

This list reflects gifts received January 1, 2012 – January 16, 2013. Book-It makes every attempt to be accurate with our acknowledgements. Please email Development Associate Samantha Cooper, samanthac@book-it.org with any changes that may be required.

2010 Mayor’s Arts Award-winner and recipient of the 2012 Governor’s Arts Award, Book-It Repertory Theatre was founded 23 years ago as an artists’ collective, adapting short stories for performance and touring them throughout the Northwest. Today, with over 90 world-premiere adaptations of literature to its credit—many of which have garnered rave reviews and gone on to subsequent productions all over the country—Book-It is widely respected for the consistent artistic excellence of its work.

booK-it rEPErtory thEAtrE

Jane Jones, Founder & Founding Co-Artistic DirectorMyra Platt, Founding Co-Artistic DirectorCharlotte M. Tiencken, Managing Director

Josh Aaseng, Literary ManagerRachel Alquist, Box Office Sales ManagerAnders Bolang, Production ManagerPatricia Britton, Director of Marketing & CommunicationsAmanda Cain, Grants AssociateSamantha Cooper, Development AssociateTom Dewey, Lead Box Office Associate, Group SalesShannon Erickson, Publications & Media ManagerJocelyne Fowler, Costume Shop ManagerEmily Grogan & Jennifer Sue Johnson, Casting AssociatesAnnie Lareau, Director of Touring & OutreachChristine Mosere, Director of DevelopmentErin Pike, House Manager & Volunteer CoordinatorNatasha Ransom, Education Associate

Gail Sehlhorst, Director of EducationVictoria Thompson, Production Stage ManagerRobert Thornburgh, CustodianCharles W. West, Legal ConsultantBill Whitham, Bookkeeper

Box Office Associates: Phoebe Keleman, Lauren Krumm, Amanda Ooten, Hannah Shirman, Victoria Schultz Volunteer Opening Night Party Coordinators: Linda Davis & Carol PhillippiProduction Photographer: Alan AlabastroSpecial Project Videographer: Bobbin RamseyIT Support: Mike Kostis & Tom Wahl

2012-13 internsArtistic Interns: Alex Miller & Allison DunmoreEducation Interns: Georgina Cohen & Amberlee WilliamsEducation / Costume Intern: Megan MillsProduction Intern: Bobbin Ramsey

Steven Bull, PresidentArchitect, Workshop for Architecture + Design

Joann Byrd, Vice PresidentJournalist & Editor, Retired

Kristine Villiott, TreasurerCPA, Minar and Northey LLP

Thomas Oliver, SecretaryEducator

Monica AlquistDir. of Events & Special Projects, Puget Sound Business Journal

Karen Brandvick-BakerCommunications Team, HomeStreet Bank

Amanda CainLibrarian, American Philanthropic, LLC

Stuart FrankProject Manager, Partner Capability Development, Starbucks

Jane JonesFounder & Founding Co-Artistic Director, Book-It

Margaret KinekeSenior V.P., D.A. Davidson & Co.

Mary MetastasioSenior Portfolio Manager, Safeco, Retired

Lynn MurphyRealtor, Windermere Real Estate Co.

Myra PlattFounding Co-Artistic Director, Book-It

David QuicksallIndependent Theatre Artist & Teacher

Lynne ReynoldsI.T. Consultant, Covestic, Inc.

Shirley Roberson, Board InternSenior Associate, Hughes Media Law Group

Steven SchwartzmanAttorney, U.S. Postal Service, Western Area Law Department

Deborah SwetsV.P. for Membership, Washington State Hospital Assocation

Elizabeth J. WarmanDir. Global Corporate Citizenship, NW Region, The Boeing Co.

Lucy Flynn ZuccottiProject Archaeologist, Cardno ENTRIX

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