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PLAYS ARE A CONDUIT THROUGH WHICH WE learn larger truths about ourselves and each other. Often, they are truths

we already know, but there is something about having them illuminated

before our eyes that reconnects us to them and, when done elegantly,

ushers us out of the theater with a feeling of catharsis. Some plays take

it one step further and are constructed on the basis that what is true at

the end of a play is identical to what is true at the start. What drives the

action is unearthing these revelations and watching the chips fall where

they may.

As we enter a luxurious Aspen chalet in Big Sky, we immediately recognize

a typical, affluent American family. But Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros’ play

explores the all-too-current idea of the precariousness of life in America

after a nationwide financial crisis. This undercurrent propels this very

funny and wry play into a rather profound place.

Our pleasure is to welcome Alexandra to the Geffen and to welcome

back John Rando, who has directed here on many occasions. Together

with a stellar cast and world-class designers, they have brought to life a

story to which we can all surely relate. What does a family do when faced

with challenges? Do they bond together to fight the elements, or is the

wreckage insurmountable — one from which no recovery is possible?

As we close out our 20th anniversary season, we are so pleased to have

had so many gifted artists, both alums and new additions, join the Geffen

family. These partnerships that we have built over the last two decades

are the foundation upon which great work flourishes. We strive to keep

welcoming more artists and patrons into the fold as we continually expand

the scale and scope of what we do. Here’s to the next 20!

Enjoy the show!

Randall Arney ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P1

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WELCOME TO THE GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE

FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

MARTHA HENDERSONCO-CHAIR

PAMELA ROBINSONCO-CHAIR

PATRICIA KIERNAN APPLEGATE

RANDALL ARNEYARTISTIC DIRECTOR

BETH BEHRS

DR. GENE D. BLOCK

KEVIN BRIGHT

HAROLD A. BROWN

GIL CATES JR.EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

MICHAEL CENTENO

MARY ANN CLOYD

MERLE DANDRIDGE

DR. BRAD EDGERTON

MARK FLEISCHER

HERBERT M. GELFANDCHAIRMAN EMERITUS

PATRICIA L. GLASER

SAM GORES

ADI GREENBERG

ARTHUR GREENBERG

JOAN KALOUSTIAN

LORETTA EVERETT KAUFMAN

DR. GERALD S. LEVEY

CARLA MALDEN

SUSAN MALLORY

GINNY MANCINI

BARRY MEYER

SCOTT MINERD

STEVEN A. OLSEN

HOLLY RICE

LINDA BERNSTEIN RUBIN

TERI SCHWARTZ

RICHARD SHERMAN

FRED SPECKTOR

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LETTER FROM THE CO-CHAIRS

P2 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE

MARTHA HENDERSON

PAMELA ROBINSON

THANK YOU FOR BEING A PART OF OUR LANDMARK 20TH

anniversary season in the Gil Cates Theater! We’ve seen a vibrant

collection of saucy Shakespearean comedy, sweet Irish romance and

seductive new works onstage. Thank you for joining us for today’s

performance of Big Sky, the provocative world premiere written by the

enormously talented Pulitzer Prize finalist Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros.

We’d like to highlight the extraordinary generosity and commitment of

the Edgerton Foundation, whose major support of this world premiere

production has given the artistic team the opportunity to workshop

Big Sky in ways that had a profound impact on the play. Our deepest

gratitude to the Edgerton Foundation for giving us the room to make

bold creative choices and bring new work to the American stage.

This season has been exhilarating, not only artistically but educationally

as well. Our Geffen Playhouse Teaching Artists have spent over 850

hours in the classrooms of our high school partners, leading pre- and

post-show sessions and theater workshops, and working with our

partnering community organizations through pre- and post-show

sessions and improv workshops. We look forward to sharing more

with you in the fall about the overall impact students and community

members have experienced this year.

Cheers to a spectacular 20th anniversary season!

Martha Henderson Pamela Robinson CO-CHAIR, GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE CO-CHAIR, GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE

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THERE IS NO BLUEPRINT, NO RECIPE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW PLAY. The process can begin with a phone call, a relationship,

an idea or a collaborative history. A year — more or less

— after the seed has been germinated, Geffen Playhouse

audiences may be watching the first production of a

new play by an award-winning playwright.

In its 20 year history, Geffen Playhouse has produced

31 world premieres, eight of them commissioned and

nurtured along by the Geffen’s literary department with

the help of targeted grant money from the Edgerton

Foundation and the Harold and Mimi Steinberg

Charitable Trust. Donald Margulies and Jane Anderson

have premiered new plays at the Geffen, as have Neil

Simon, Joan Rivers, Carrie Fisher and Alan Alda.

Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros’ Big Sky “arrived” at

the Geffen via an exploratory phone call that director

John Rando made to Geffen Artistic Director Randall

Arney. Rando, the Tony Award-winning director of

Urinetown, had directed three previous productions

at the Geffen including The Underpants in 2004.

Having developed new plays both in New York and

regionally, Rando thought that Big Sky belonged at the

Geffen. A draft of the play already existed, and Rando

envisioned a safe, pressure-free environment in which

the playwright could hear it being read aloud and

subsequently do extensive revisions.

“I suggested at that time that it needed to be

incubated in a good, nurturing theatrical environment,

and the Geffen Playhouse is a kind of home for me,” said

Rando. “I’ve done a lot of work here and I received my

M.F.A. at UCLA, so I had a nice connection here. I called

Randy [Arney] and said, ‘I think you might be interested

in this play. I’m not saying you should do a production

but I’d love it if we could develop it with you guys.’”

Arney knew Gersten-Vassilaros from when he

commissioned her play My Thing of Love at the

Steppenwolf Theatre Company. He shared Rando’s

enthusiasm. Big Sky would receive three workshops,

two at the Geffen and one at New York Stage and

Film (all featuring Jon Tenney), leading up to its world

premiere production.

FIRST DRAFT

TO FINAL

DRESSTHE MAKING

OF A WORLD PREMIERE

BY EVAN HENERSON

Big Sky director John Rando and playwright Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros

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“I like the idea of trying to plug into how a writer

works and how we can best serve their process,

whether a reading or a workshop is part of that,” Arney

said. “John and Alex came to us with the play already

written, but I knew Alex would love the opportunity to

have some workshops and to be able to gather some

people together in a room and hear the play.”

The Edgerton Foundation supported the development

of Big Sky through a grant that funded extra production

costs and workshops.

“It’s a big gift for a new play,” said Gersten-

Vassilaros, who was thrilled to receive the grant. “We

get more time to ask, ‘OK, is this really working?’ and

then work on it and come back. By the time we go

into rehearsal, it will be pretty close to what we end up

putting onstage on opening night.”

The company’s concept-to-stage pipeline is a

testament to the groundwork laid by the Geffen’s late

founder and producing director, Gil Cates, whose vision

for the not-for-profit theater included making the

Geffen a home for new work. In the mid-1990s, when the

Geffen started gearing up to offer its first commissions,

Literary Director Amy Levinson interviewed more than

a dozen established playwrights, informally asking

them what they considered an ideal environment for

developing a new play.

The answers were consistent. The playwrights

longed for a place where they could bring their work

in rough form and work on it for an extended period of

time. They wanted the freedom to write combined with

institutional artistic support.

Given the Geffen’s proximity to Hollywood and the

fact that many established playwrights have also tried

their hand at screenwriting, nobody wanted to see new

works get bogged down in the theatrical equivalent of

“development hell.” A full production is the endgame,

and the Geffen has historically produced a majority of

the plays it commissions, according to Levinson.

The funds to support new work have allowed the

Geffen to tailor the development process to each

playwright’s specific needs. Some may use workshops

early on to collect diverse opinions. Others may prefer

that a draft be much closer to completion before

hearing it read aloud. Levinson recalls the experience

of working with Donald Margulies on commissions

of Coney Island Christmas and Time Stands Still, a

production which premiered at the Geffen in 2010 and

would later move to New York for a Broadway run.

“Donald likes to hear what he calls his ‘‘very rough’

rough draft’ out loud. It gives him a sense of where it’s

going to go,” Levinson said. “In almost every case, I

read it before it’s read aloud, and then we chat about

it. He goes back to work and does a little futzing with

it and then we sit down with a small group of trusted

folks to hear a draft. After that, he’ll write for three to

six months and come back to hear it again. Then he

likes to just get into rehearsal and see what he has. Of

course, the rewrites continue until opening.”

“He wrote Coney Island Christmas very quickly and

learned an enormous amount in the first reading —

things one can only learn in the hearing of it,” Levinson

added. “Another example: Time Stands Still. Originally

titled The Elephant in the Room, Donald had written

in a character and in hearing/seeing the reading, he

realized the character held more power being entirely

absent. He made significant changes and by the

second rewrite was ready to go into rehearsal with the

additional week.”

Carrie Fisher’s solo show Wishful Drinking, another

huge success, came about after Fisher and her co-

writer and director Joshua Ravetch told a few stories

Fisher felt would be a good basis for a play. “She’s such

a fantastic storyteller that we really committed on the

spot,” Levinson said.

Artistic administrators concede that balancing new

works and revivals of audience favorites is a constant

challenge. The recently announced 2016/2017 season

has at least one world premiere, Alena Smith’s Icebergs,

and Geffen audiences can expect the numbers of new

play commissions and world premieres to increase

significantly in the coming seasons, thanks in part to a

grant from the Edgerton Foundation.

“We have continued to build on our commitment to

new plays and feel strongly that the way to appeal to a

broader audience is to tell stories that are new, diverse

and very much of this moment. What better way to

generate that work than through commissions? So,

stay tuned,” Arney said. “If we continue to do our job

supporting and nurturing the work of writers, we are

sure to have plenty of premieres for years to come.”

FIRST DRAFT TO FINAL DRESS

THE GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE PRODUCTION OF


Opening Night: Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Directed by John Rando

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS CIRCLE MEMBERS

Laurie & Bill Benenson • Martha Henderson • Pamela Robinson Hollander & Robert Hollander Loretta Everett Kaufman & Victor Kaufman • Jason & Yvonne Lee • Gail & Andrew Roth

Linda Bernstein Rubin & Tony Rubin • Miranda & Brett Tollman

Scenic Designer Derek McLane

Costume Designer Denitsa Bliznakova

Sound Designer Jon Gottlieb

Lighting Designer Jaymi Lee Smith

Written by Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros

Dramaturg Amy Levinson

Fight Director Steve Rankin

Casting Director Phyllis Schuringa, CSA

Production Stage Manager Elizabeth A. Brohm

Assistant Stage Manager Maggie Swing

OPENING N IGHT SPONSORS

Big Sky is co-produced by Dede Harris Productions

Recipient of the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award

Major support for this world premiere production provided by the Edgerton Foundation New Play Production Fund

MEDIA SPONSOR


CAST OF CHARACTERS(In alphabetical order)

Jonathan ............................................................................................................................................ Arnie Burton

Tessa ............................................................................................................................................. Emily Robinson

Jack ......................................................................................................................................................... Jon Tenney

Jen ........................................................................................................................................... Jennifer Westfeldt

SETTING/TIME Ritz-Carlton Condo. The Present.

RUNNING TIME Approximately 95 minutes

There will be no intermission.

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PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES

ARNIE BURTON (Jonathan)Broadway: The 39 Steps, Peter and the Starcatcher, Machinal, A Free Man of Color, Amadeus. Off-Broadway highlights include Lives of the Saints and Mere Mortals, both by David Ives and directed by John Rando. Also The Temperamentals (Drama Desk Award), 30th anniversary revival of The Mystery of Irma Vep (Drama League Award), The Last Sunday in June, The Explorers Club, Tail! Spin!, The Merchant of Venice/The Jew of Malta. England: The Merchant of Venice at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Regional highlights include the L.A. premiere of All in the Timing at the Geffen Playhouse and the world premiere of A Confederacy of Dunces at the Huntington Theatre Company, Boston. Other theaters include the Old Globe, Berkeley Rep, Alley Theatre, A.R.T., Philadelphia Theatre Company, Berkshire Theatre Festival. Television appearances include The Blacklist, Flesh and Bone (recurring), Frasier, Blue Bloods, Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, White Collar, Caroline in the City, Life on Mars, Faith and Hope, 6 Degrees and Sister, Sister. Film: The Real Meaning of Things, Igby Goes Down, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee and Game 6.

EMILY ROBINSON(Tessa)Emily made her Off-Broadway debut in Horton Foote’s epic, The Orphans’ Home Cycle at Signature

Theatre in New York, directed by Michael Wilson, (Drama Desk Special Award) and is delighted to be making her L.A. theater debut at the Geffen Playhouse in Big Sky. Upcoming films include Behold My Heart, Going Under and Broken Vows. Television credits include Amazon’s Golden Globe-winning Transparent (Screen Actors Guild Award Nomination for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series), Criminal Minds (CBS), Rizzoli and Isles (TNT), Scorpion (CBS), A.N.T. Farm (Disney), Girl Meets World (Disney), The Following (FOX), CSI:NY (CBS), Person of Interest (CBS), Saturday Night Live (NBC), Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (NBC) and The Guiding Light (CBS). Emily also recently wrote, directed and starred in her first short film, Virgin Territory. Emily is represented by UTA, Perlman Management Group, and Marilyn Zitner Management.

JON TENNEY(Jack)Previously at the Geffen: David Lindsay-Abaire’s Good People and David Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow. Broadway credits include: the Tony Award-winning revival of The Heiress (opposite Cherry Jones), Biloxi Blues, Brighton Beach Memoirs and Sweet Sue, as well as the national tour of Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing directed by Mike Nichols. Off-Broadway credits include: Jon Robin Baitz’s The Substance of Fire (Playwrights Horizons and Lincoln Center Theater), John Guare’s Chaucer in Rome (Lincoln Center Theater), John Patrick Shanley’s Beggars in the House of Plenty and David Marshall Grant’s Current Events (Manhattan Theatre Club), Beth Henley’s Impossible Marriage (opposite Holly Hunter at Roundabout

Theatre Company) and Tuesdays with Morrie (opposite Alvin Epstein at New York Stage & Film and The Minetta Lane Theatre). Television credits include seven seasons starring opposite Kyra Sedgwick on TNT’s The Closer, reprising his role in Major Crimes and directing episodes of both. Tenney played Vice President Andrew Nichols on ABC’s Scandal and recurs on Amazon’s Hand of God. Film credits include You Can Count on Me, Tombstone, Fools Rush In, Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World and Rabbit Hole. A Vassar graduate and trained at The Juilliard School, Tenney will next be seen in the film adaptation of Chekhov’s The Seagull opposite Annette Bening and Saoirse Ronan.

JENNIFER WESTFELDT(Jen)An actress and filmmaker, Jennifer is perhaps best known for writing and starring in the indie films Kissing Jessica Stein, Ira & Abby and Friends With Kids, which also marked her directorial debut. Jennifer made her Broadway debut in Wonderful Town, directed by Kathleen Marshall, for which she received a Tony nomination, a Theater World Award and a Drama League Award. Recent stage work includes the world premieres of Nicky Silver’s Too Much Sun at The Vineyard Theatre, directed by Mark Brokaw; Scott Z. Burns’ The Library at the Public Theater, directed by Stephen Soderbergh; Nell Benjamin’s The Explorers Club at Manhattan Theatre Club, directed by Marc Bruni; Cusi Cram’s A Lifetime Burning at Primary Stages, directed by Pam McKinnon; and Stephen Belber’s The Power of Duff at the Huntington Theatre Company and at the Powerhouse Theater,

directed by Peter DuBois. Recent television credits include Girls, 24, Grey’s Anatomy, Notes From the Underbelly and Children’s Hospital.

ALEXANDRAGERSTEN-VASSILAROS(Playwright)Her play Omnium Gatherum (2004 Pulitzer Prize Finalist, co-written with Theresa Rebeck) premiered at the Humana Festival and moved Off-Broadway with subsequent regional and international productions. Her controversial play The Argument (Vineyard Theatre) had a recent “revised” production at Theatre J in Washington, D.C. The Ordinary Yearning of Miriam Buddwing (directed by Anna Shapiro), My Thing of Love (directed by Terry Kinney; Broadway, directed by Howard Davies) and Supple in Combat (directed by Max Mayer) were commissioned by and premiered at Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Mother of Invention (directed by Nicholas Martin) premiered at the Williamstown Theatre Festival starring Estelle Parsons. Mean Time, about the fracturing effects of war on soldiers and their families, was workshopped at Juilliard, NYU Grad Theatre Program and New York Stage and Film Co. (directed by Daniel Aukin). Her plays are published by Smith & Kraus and Samuel French. Radio: Playing On Air is currently featuring two of her short plays for public radio: Two Jewish Men in Their Seventies with Jerry Stiller and Open Arms with Julie White and Bill Irwin. She has developed several television projects with co-writer Carl Capotorto for HBO (Executive Producers Will Scheffer and Mark Olsen), and for KILLER/MOXIE films. Alexandra is a graduate of the NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and a member of PEN. She leads writing workshops for veterans and women at The Bowery Mission in N.Y.C. Special thanks to my theater family at New York Stage & Film and to Michael Hoffmann. Alex dedicates Big Sky to her three boys Tonio, Luka and Stefano and to her husband Johnny.


JOHN RANDO(Director) Big Sky is John’s fifth production for the Geffen. Other Geffen shows are: All in the Timing (Ovation Award), Merton of the Movies, The Underpants and Matthew Modine Saves the Alpacas. Broadway credits include Penn & Teller on Broadway, On The Town (Tony Nomination for Best Direction of a Musical), A Christmas Story, The Wedding Singer, Urinetown (Tony and Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Director), A Thousand Clowns and Neil Simon’s The Dinner Party. His recent Off-Broadway credits include Lives of the Saints (Primary Stages), The Heir Apparent (2014 SDCF Calloway Award for Direction — Classic Stage Company), All in the Timing (Primary Stages — 2013 Obie Award for Direction), and The Toxic Avenger, among many others. He directed the Encores! Productions of Annie Get Your Gun, Little Me, It’s a Bird... It’s a Plane... It’s Superman, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, On the Town, Damn Yankees, Face the Music, Strike Up the Band, Do Re Mi, The Pajama Game and Of Thee I Sing. He also directed Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel with the New York Philharmonic. M.F.A. from University of California, Los Angeles.

DEREK McLANE(Scenic Designer)Derek McLane’s Broadway designs include Noises Off, Fully Committed, Beautiful, Gigi, The Heiress, Nice Work, The Best Man, Follies, Anything Goes, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Million Dollar Quartet, Ragtime, 33 Variations, The Pajama Game and I Am My Own Wife. Off-Broadway: Into The Woods, Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Spoils, Sticks and Bone, The Last Five Years, Ruined, Lie of the Mind and Hurlyburly. He designed the 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 Academy Awards. Awards: winner of 1997, 2004 OBIE Awards; 2004, 2005, 2007 Lortel Awards; 2009 Tony Award; 2011 Drama Desk Award; 2015, 2016 Art Directors Guild Award; and 2014 Emmy Award.

DENITSA BLIZNAKOVA (Costume Designer)Denitsa is happy to return to the Geffen Playhouse, having previously worked on Guards at the Taj. Her work has been seen at venues such as Denver Center for the Performing Arts, San Diego Opera, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Cleveland Play House, Old Globe Theatre, A Noise Within, Falcon Theatre, New Repertory Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival and others. Costume design and stylist credits for other media include music videos for various artists and films. Denitsa is a professor in the School of Theatre, Television and Film at San Diego State University and is also the head of the graduate Design and Technology program there. Her work may be viewed at www.Denitsa.com.

JAYMI LEE SMITH (Lighting Designer) Jaymi is thrilled to be designing her first show at the Geffen Playhouse. She has been designing around the country for the last twenty years at theaters such as the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Dallas Theater Center, Alley Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, La Jolla Playhouse, Goodman Theatre, Court Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Alliance Theatre, Getty Villa, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Milwaukee Repertory and Lookingglass Theatre, among others. Some of her most recent favorites have included The Nether at Alley Theatre, Rocky Horror Picture Show at Dallas Theater Center, The Who and the What at La Jolla Playhouse, Peter and the Starcatcher and Vietgone at South Coast Repertory and The Daughter of the Regiment at the Mill City Opera. Her work has also been seen in China, Italy, Spain, Scotland and Ireland. Previous awards have included the 2003 Michael Merritt/Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award, a 2014 Column Award and a 2010 Joseph Jefferson Award. She is currently an associate professor of lighting design

and associate head of design at University of California, Irvine. Her work can be seen online at jaymismith.com.

JON GOTTLIEB (Sound Designer)Jon’s design work at the Geffen Playhouse includes The Country House, Equivocation and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (directed by Gil Cates). He most recently designed Twelve Angry Men and Kiss Me Kate for Pasadena Playhouse as well as Master Class with Tyne Daily at the Vaudeville Theatre in London and Manhattan Theatre Club on Broadway. Other Broadway credits include Neil Simon’s Dinner Party, Terrance McNally’s Master Class and QED with Alan Alda at Lincoln Center. Center Theatre Group credits include iWitness (L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award), The Flower Drum Song (Ovation Award) and Hughie with Al Pacino. Jon has received eight LADCC Awards, three L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Awards, and over 60 Drama-Logue, LA Weekly and NAACP Theater awards. Jon also serves as the head of the Sound Design program for the School of Theater at California Institute of the Arts.

STEVE RANKIN(Fight Director)Most recently at the Geffen: Mathew Modine Saves the Alpacas. Broadway: Memphis, Jersey Boys, Henry IV, Twelfth Night, The Who’s Tommy, Anna Christie, The Real Inspector Hound, Macbeth, The Farnsworth Invention, Guys and Dolls, Dracula, Doctor Zhivago, Bonnie and Clyde, Getting Away With Murder, Two Shakespearean Actors. Off-Broadway: Pig Farm, The Third Story, The Night Hank Williams Died, Below the Belt. Regional: Mark Taper Forum, Ahmanson Theatre, Old Globe (Associate Artist), La Jolla Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, Actors Theater of Louisville, Center Stage, Geva Theatre Center, Virginia Stage Company, Asolo, et al. Stratford Shakespeare Festival: Romeo and Juliet, Caesar and Cleopatra, The Who’s Tommy,

Macbeth, Henry V. Metropolitan Opera: Faust, Rodelinda, Boris Godunov, Iphegenie at Tauride. Future projects: The Front Page (Broadway), Hunchback of Notre Dame (Japan). Mr. Rankin also plays mandolin and guitar with The Susie Glaze Quintet.

AMY LEVINSON(Dramaturg)Amy is the Artistic Associate and Literary Director at the Geffen Playhouse. Dramaturgy credits include the commissions and world premieres of Donald Margulies’ Time Stands Still and Coney Island Christmas, Jane Anderson’s The Quality of Life and The Escort and Jeffrey Hatcher’s new adaptation of Wait Until Dark. Other credits include The Weir, Extraordinary Chambers, Build, Equivocation and Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress by a Life in Progress. At the Geffen she has helped to build programs for the purpose of fostering new work including the commissioning and development of plays. Also a translator of Yiddish drama, she holds an M.F.A. in Dramaturgy from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

ELIZABETH A. BROHM(Production Stage Manager)Geffen Playhouse: Barcelona; Thom Pain (based on nothing); Bad Jews; The Night Alive; Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin; Ruth Draper’s Monologues; Yes, Prime Minister; By the Waters of Babylon; Shipwrecked! An Entertainment — The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (as Told by Himself); Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress by a Life in Progress; Boy Gets Girl; The Unexpected Man; Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks; Looking for Normal; The Weir; Dinner With Friends; Defiled; Wit; It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues. National Tour/Kennedy Center: Wit. Other: Production Coordinator, Geffen Playhouse 2001-2007; Cup Coordinator, X-Prize Foundation; Adjunct Professor in Stage Management, UCLA since 2005. M.F.A. in Stage Management from UCSD. Love to Gino & Mack.

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MAGGIE SWING(Assistant Stage Manager)Geffen Playhouse: Barcelona, Guards at the Taj, Discord, The Country House, The Judy Show: My Life as a Sitcom, American Buffalo. European Tour of The Apple Family Plays. Off-Broadway: Regular Singing, Sorry, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Sweet and Sad, Knickerbocker, Compulsion, That Hopey Changey Thing (Public Theater), Slowgirl (Lincoln Center), Blood Knot, The Orphans’ Home Cycle (Signature Theatre). Regional: Discord (Arizona Theatre Company), Bell, Book and Candle (co-production with Long Wharf), The Orphans’ Home Cycle, Dividing the Estate, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Christmas Carol, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore, The Bluest Eye, Our Town (Hartford Stage Company).

PHYLLIS SCHURINGA, CSA (Casting Director) Phyllis has been the casting director at Geffen Playhouse for 12 years and now is also the Artistic Associate. Recent plays at the Geffen include Outside Mullingar, These Paper Bullets!, Bad Jews, The Night Alive, Switzerland, The Country House, Wait Until Dark and American Buffalo. Before joining the team at the Geffen, she was the casting director for Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago where her favorites include Frank Galati’s adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath (also La Jolla Playhouse, National Theatre in London, and Broadway, where it received the Tony Award for Best Play), the original production of Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile (and subsequent productions including Westwood Playhouse and Briar Street Theater in Chicago), Austin Pendleton’s Orson’s Shadow and Charles L. Mee’s Time to Burn. Broadway transfers include One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Tony Award for Best Revival) and The Song of Jacob Zulu. She teaches auditioning at Steppenwolf West and is a member of the Casting Society of America.

RANDALL ARNEY (Artistic Director)Randall Arney has been a theater professional for over 30 years and has served as Artistic Director of the Geffen Playhouse since 1999. In addition to his artistic programming and oversight at the Geffen, Arney has helmed many productions for the theater, most recently Outside Mullingar, The Night Alive, Reasons to Be Pretty, Slowgirl, American Buffalo, Superior Donuts, The Female of the Species, The Seafarer, Speed-the-Plow and All My Sons. Arney is an ensemble member and former Artistic Director of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre where his directing credits include: Slowgirl, The Seafarer, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Death and the Maiden, Curse of the Starving Class, Killers and The Geography of Luck, among others. Arney also directed Steppenwolf’s world premiere of Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile, as well as the subsequent national and international acclaimed productions. Mr. Arney’s acting credits with Steppenwolf include Born Yesterday, Ghost in the Machine, The Homecoming, Frank’s Wild Years, You Can’t Take it with You, Fool for Love, True West, Balm in Gilead and Coyote Ugly. As the Artistic Director for Steppenwolf from 1987 to 1995, he oversaw the creation of a new state-of-the-art theater which is Steppenwolf’s current home. Broadway transfers under his leadership include The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, The Song of Jacob Zulu (six Tony Award nominations) and The Grapes of Wrath (1990 Tony Award, Best Play). Mr. Arney has an M.F.A. degree in Acting from Illinois State University and has taught master classes and workshops at UCLA, Steppenwolf, around the U.S. and in Tokyo.

GIL CATES, JR. (Executive Director)Gil Cates, Jr. has proudly served on the Geffen Playhouse Board since 2012 and has years of producing and directing experience in theater, film and television. Gil’s theater credits include the award-winning Names (Matrix Theatre) starring Dixie Carter and Greg Mullavey, The Night I Knocked Out Joe Frazer and Lost 90 Pounds (Gardner Stage Theater), as well as Three Sisters and David Mamet’s A Life in the Theatre (both at Syracuse Stage). Gil’s film credits include The Surface (starring Sean Astin and Geffen Playhouse alumnus Chris Mulkey), Jobs (starring Ashton Kutcher, Josh Gad, Dermot Mulroney, as well as Geffen Playhouse alumni Matthew Modine and Ron Eldard) and the 2011 feature film Lucky (starring Colin Hanks, Ari Graynor, Ann-Margret and Golden Globe winner Jeffrey Tambor). In addition, Gil produced and directed the critically acclaimed Life After Tomorrow, featuring Sarah Jessica Parker, which won best documentary at the Phoenix Film Festival and later had its premiere Christmas Eve on Showtime. His other films include Deal (starring Burt Reynolds, Bret Harrison and Charles Durning), The Mesmerist (starring Geffen Playhouse alumnus Neil Patrick Harris), and the critically acclaimed independent film Order of Chaos. Gil also made his television directorial debut with an episode of the NBC comedy, Joey, starring Emmy winner Matt LeBlanc. He studied at the National Theatre Institute in Waterford, Connecticut, and holds a B.F.A. in Drama from Syracuse University in 1991.

REGINA MILLER (Chief Development Officer)Regina has been a development professional for over 18 years, working with non-profit institutions, foundations and corporations on strategy, analysis and fundraising. She has worked for Simon Wiesenthal Center, The Clinton Foundation, Ben Affleck’s Eastern Congo Initiative, Hank Azaria’s Determined to Succeed, Charlize Theron's Africa Outreach Project, Water.org, Codenow.org among others. Prior to the Geffen, Regina served as the Director of Partnerships for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles and the Inland Empire where she led strategic planning and development while executing policies that advanced the organization’s visibility and growth. Regina also has a strong passion for teaching. After graduating from University of North Carolina School of the Arts, she taught in preschools and kindergartens in New York. From the age of 13, Regina worked as a professional dancer on Broadway as well as with a number of prominent modern dance ensembles. Fusing two of her interests, she created a highly successful program which incorporated dance therapy and creative movement into an early childhood curriculum as well as wrote and produced a television show based on this concept. In addition to being a published author and photographer with Tallfellow Press and Prometheus Books, Regina has taught and lectured at numerous schools in New York, Los Angeles and abroad.

PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES

PRODUCTION STAFF FOR BIG SKY

Assistant Set Designer Erica Hemminger

Assistant Costume Designer Beatrice Collins

Assistant Lighting Designer Sarah Elizabeth Resch

Assistant Sound Designer Dan Gower

Wardrobe Supervisor Liz Rose

Properties Artisan Cami Viand

Properties Artisan Lilian Bartenstein

Production Assistant Vaneh Assadourian

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Set provided by Scenic Highlights

Lighting Equipment provided by 4Wall Entertainment Lighting

Sound Equipment provided by Jon Sound Inc.

Production Photographer Michael Lamont

Media Filming Four Leaf Media

Key Art Stockholm Design

SPECIAL THANKS

UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television Scene, Prop, Sound and Costume Shops; London Cleaners

UCLA SCHOOL OF THEATER, FILM AND TELEVISION

Geffen Playhouse is affiliated with the University of California at Los Angeles,

specifically the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Geffen Playhouse

values its role as an important educational resource by providing students

with master classes, workshops and internships. Students are also able to work

and learn from distinguished visiting Geffen artists such as Alan Ayckbourn,

Jon Robin Baitz, Annette Bening, Ed Harris, David Ives, Neil LaBute, David

Mamet, Donald Margulies, Terrence McNally, John Rando and Kathleen Turner

in areas of directing, playwriting, acting, design, dramaturgy, management and

production. Geffen Playhouse also draws upon the distinguished experts in the

university to enhance the theater’s programs and research.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This theater operates under agreement between the League of Resident Theaters and Actors Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers

in the United States.

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

This theater operates under agreement between the League of Resident Theaters and Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, an independent national labor union.

The scenic, costume, lighting and sound designers in LORT theaters are represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA-829, IATSE.

GEFFEN AT A GLANCE

ADDRESS

Geffen Playhouse10886 Le Conte Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90024

Administrative Offices ... 310.208.6500

Mon – Fri ................. 10:00 am — 6:00 pm

Box Office Phone Line ... 310.208.5454

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Daily ......................... 12:00 pm — 6:00 pm

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hours, parking and more information

TICKET SERVICES

BOX OFFICE WINDOWWhen shows are not in performance,

the box office window is open:

Daily ......................... 12:00 pm — 6:00 pm

During the run of a show, the window

will be open until curtain. Please

note: the box office is unable to

process exchanges and future sales

one hour prior to curtain time on any

performance day.

ACCESS

ACCESSIBLEACCOMMODATIONGeffen Playhouse is fully

committed to ensuring a

satisfying theater experience

for our patrons with special

needs or disabilities. Please

contact the box office or an

usher to discuss your needs.

AT THE THEATER

LATE SEATINGShould you arrive late to the theater

or vacate your seat during the

performance, please expect to be held

in the lobby until an appropriate pause

in the action on-stage. To minimize

disturbance to other patrons, you may

be seated in the first available location

by the house staff even if different from

your assigned seat. Be advised that

some productions or circumstances may

not allow for late or return seating.

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Opening Night of Stage Kiss

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The cast of Stage Kiss with Artistic Director Randall Arney, director Bart DeLorenzo and Executive Director Gil Cates, Jr.

Ron Simms, Geffen Trustees Victoria Mann Simms and Glorya Kaufman and guest

Conan O’Brien and Liza Powel O’Brien with director Bart DeLorenzo Geffen Board member and alum Merle Dandridge with her friend Kim

Geffen alum Laurie Metcalf with Artistic Director Randall Arney

Geffen Board Co-Chair Pamela Robinson with Board member Loretta Everett Kaufman Donors Steve and Paula Mae Schwartz

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THANK YOU FOR BEING A PART OF THE GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE’S STORY for the past 20 years and for sharing what the theater means to you. We have loved

hearing from you and look forward to more stories in the next 20 years and beyond.

Enjoy this story by Delphine Frost, who, along with her husband Richard, has been a

long-time supporter of the Geffen.

20 YEARS OF STORIES


GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE SUPPORTERS

DELPHINE & RICHARD FROST

SEARCHING FOR A GHOST.That’s my first memory of the Geffen

Playhouse. In 1993 I was blessed to be one of

the members of Gil Cates’ team that would help

acquire and reshape the Westwood Playhouse

into the beautiful theater it is today.

On that particular afternoon, Gil, Westwood

Playhouse owner Kirsten Coombs and I were

taking a casual tour of the theater and its

adjoining spaces. As we explored offices, peered

into closets and climbed up and down stairs,

it was a great joy to observe the warmth and

professionalism of a man who always seemed

to combine just the right amount of show biz

savvy with the sensitivity of a kindly rabbi. Gil

understood how much it meant to Ms. Coombs

to share the history of a theater she so obviously

loved and how important it was that this transfer

of responsibility be handled with sensitivity and

deference.

So there I was with these two kind souls…

one who represented the theater’s respected

past and one who would shepherd its dynamic

future…when I felt a cold breeze along my spine.

I shivered slightly and Gil noticed. “Everything

OK, Delsy?” he asked. “Sure,” said I. But Kirsten

just smiled and mentioned that every theater

had a ghost and this one had made its presence

known. And with that, we were off. Gil led the

way with much enthusiasm to search under the

stage where this apparition apparently resides.

The eternal optimist, Gil was certain that we’d

come face-to-face with our own phantom of

Westwood but we were out-foxed. Instead we

found our way on to the stage looking out to

an imaginary audience — with the excitement of

possibility that only live theater can provide.

And the ghost? Well, every once in a while

during a performance, if you look in the shadows,

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Together with the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, we engage more than 500 underserved

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program. Profoundly disadvantaged youth gain access to year-round opportunities to experience

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1 MONTH PRIOR TO EACH MATINEE Our Director of Education and Community Engagement

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theater activities and the study guides as tools.

DAY OF EACH MATINEE Buses bring students to the Geffen, where they enjoy a snack

before the show. The matinee performance is followed by a

moderated talkback with the cast. After the performance,

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guide students as they reflect on the play, its themes and the

impact of the overall theater-going experience.

We invite you to help give youth from Los Angeles’ most underserved communities the opportunity to experience live theater and to work with world-class artists who inspire and educate them like nothing else can.


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HUNDREDS MORE HIGH SCHOOLERS SERVEDTHANKS TO A GENEROUS CHALLENGE GRANT BY THE EDWARD A. & AI O. SHAY Family Foundation and individual donors, Geffen Playhouse was able to add a second all-student

matinee for the 2015/2016 production of Barcelona. 500 students experienced theater for the first

time, as well as in-class sessions with Geffen Playhouse Teaching Artists before and after the show.

This additional matinee performance effectively doubled the number of students served, as the High

School Partnerships Program currently supports 500 students from 4 different high schools. Many of

these students are living in some of the most low-income, isolated neighborhoods of East Los Angeles,

South Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley. The depth of this program, which includes pre- and

post-show workshops, coupled with exposure to a full season of Gil Cates Theater productions, yields

a strong, lasting impact on the students. Their progress as thoughtful theatergoers has been witnessed

on a continual basis by teachers, principals and parents. Through your gracious spirit, your generosity

and your commitment to the entire Los Angeles community, Geffen Playhouse has been able to build

new partnerships with these underserved high schools, extending the program’s impact into 2016.

However, the job is far from over. There are still more than 10 high schools on a year-long waiting

list for this extraordinary High School Partnerships Program. While the addition of a second student

matinee for a single production is exciting, Geffen Playhouse aims to add a second student matinee

for every Gil Cates Theater production in the 2016/2017 season! Please consider a tax-deductible gift

to Geffen Playhouse to allow these schools to experience the magic of live theater with a second

series of student matinees.


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at the Geffen. Donors are listed at the Associate level and higher for gifts made between March 10, 2015 and May 10, 2016.

In appreciation, donors enjoy a host of special benefits including house seats, complimentary drinks, receptions and much more.

For more information, please call Jamie Mikelich at 310.208.6500 ext. 128.

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THE UNDERPANTSSteve Martin’s The Underpants, an adaptation of

Carl Sternheim’s classic 1910 farce, had its West

Coast debut in the spring of 2004 and was directed

by Big Sky director John Rando. It was the final

play to premiere at the Geffen Playhouse prior to a

seventeen-month renovation that included a major

redesign of the Gil Cates Theater and the addition

of the Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater.

MARCH 2004 – APRIL 2004

Randall Arney Artistic Director

Gil Cates, Jr. Executive Director

ARTISTIC

Amy Levinson Artistic Associate / Literary Director

Phyllis Schuringa Artistic Associate / Casting Director

Young Ji Artistic Coordinator / Company Manager

Rachel Wiegardt-Egel Literary Associate

Rebecca Birstock Artistic Intern

Isabel Espy Artistic Intern

DJ Woullard Artistic Intern

DEVELOPMENT

Regina Miller Chief Development Officer

Ellen Catania Senior Vice President, Development

Jessica Brusilow Rollins Director of Education Partnerships & Donor Relations

Jamie Mikelich Associate Director of Individual Giving & Spotlight Manager

Kristen Smith Eshaya Development & Education Programs Coordinator

Scott Kriloff Development Concierge Manager

Clay Dzygun Development Associate

Adam Carr Development Assistant

Taylor Cerny Development Assistant

Jessie Sherman Development Assistant

EDUCATION

Jennifer Zakkai Director of Education & Community Engagement

Carolyn Marie Wright Manager of Education & Community Engagement

Mariel Higuera Education Assistant

Brian Allman, Corky Dominguez, David Guerra, McKenna Kerrigan, Kristina Leach, Connor White Teaching Artists

ADMINISTRATION

Behnaz Ataee Chief Financial Officer

Frankie Ocasio Executive Assistant

Peter Banachowski Accounting and Payroll Manager

Samone Watts Accounts Payable

Marguerite Harris Receptionist

PRODUCTION

Daniel Ionazzi Production Manager

Jill Barnes Associate Production Manager / Company Manager

Sam Craven-Griffiths Technical Director

Evan Friedman Assistant Technical Director

Rich Gilles Properties Master

James Grabowski House Sound Supervisor

Darren Rezowalli Lighting & Video Supervisor

Ramine Ameli Production Electrician

MARKETING & SALES

Jessica Buzzard Director of Marketing

Karen Gutierrez Director of Advertising & Sponsorships

Brian Dunning Graphic Design Manager

Kevin O’Brien Marketing & Graphics Coordinator

Mark San Filippo Ticket Services Director & Database Administrator

Stephanie Strand Audience Services Manager

Janice Bernal Box Office Manager

Bryan Martin Box Office Manager

Zack Hamra Box Office Assistant Manager

Kaitlin Huwe, Richard Martinez, Cameron Reck, Celia Rivera, Celeste Russi, Alyssa Tyson Box Office Staff

COMMUNICATIONS

Katy Sweet, Pam Giangregorio, Anna Yan Katy Sweet & Associates Public Relations

Sue Fleishman Consultant

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Karim Bouzzit System Administrator

FRONT OF HOUSE

Jeni Pearsons Director of Special Events

David Gerhardt Supervising House Manager

Jane Phillips Harper Deputy Supervising House Manager

Josiah Davis, Brett Donaldson, Amy Farkas, Caroline Harrison Kohler, Nathaniel Meek, Roxana Meyers, James Porter, Jonathan Schwartz House Managers

Rebecca Birstock, Kailey Bray, Christopher Caron, Taylor Cerny, Vianney Cossyleon, Taylor Dearden, Ida Herndon, Mariel Higuera, Isaac Jay, Sarah Lyddan, Aaron Newman, JoJo Nwoko, Madison Shamoun, Iain Thomas, Adam Turney, Oliver Vaughn, Cody Williams, Dennis Woullard Ushers

Rob Mersola Bar Manager and Mixologist

Manuel Mayorga Weekend Bar Manager

Adam Carr, Brenda Davidson, David Gregory, Mariel Higuera, Lyndsi LaRose, Kimberly Legg, Ryan Turner Bartenders/Event Staff

FACILITIES MANAGEMENT

Miguel del Castillo Facility Manager

Mario Santillan-Perez Custodial

Juan Carlos Umaña Cleaning Custodial


Geffen Playhouse is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.

This project was also funded in part by the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles.

Geffen Playhouse, a not-for-profit theater company, is proudly affiliated with the University of California at Los Angeles.

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