Lighting DesignerJared A. Sayeg

Sound DesignerRobert Arturo Ramirez

Set DesignerErin Walley

Costume Designer A. Jeffrey Schoenberg

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Props DesignerJohn M. McElveney

Casting Director Sandi Logan, CSA

Stage Manager Dale Alan Cooke

written by Adam Long, Reed Martin & Austin Tichenor

directed by Jerry Kernion

America

The Complete

AmericaAmericaAmericaAmericaAmerica

The CompleteThe CompleteHistory of

AmericaAmericaAmericaAmericaAmericaAmerica(abridged)

Produced through special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc. The script to this play may be purchased from B P P I at http://BroadwayPlayPubl.com.

Matt Matthew Patrick Davis Thomas Thomas HobsonKevin Kevin Symons

CAST (in alphabetical order)

UnderstudiesMatt track Nicole ErbThomas & Kevin tracks Zehra Fazal

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Mike JespersenSTAGE MANAGER Dale Alan CookeSOUND OPERATOR/ CREW Claudio RadocchiaBACKSTAGE CREW Contessa Redfearn

Additional Production Staff

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

There will be one 10-minute intermission.

This theatre operates under an agreement with Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.

Actors and Stage Managers in this Production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

The Lighting Designer of The Complete History of America (abridged) is represented by United Scenic Artists - Local USA 829 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.

Matthew Patrick Davis Broadway: Side Show. Selected Regional: Side Show (Kennedy Center); The Nightingale, Limelight, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Side Show (La Jolla Playhouse); South Street (Pasadena Playhouse); A Funny Thing…Forum, Sunday in the Park…(Reprise). National Tour: Great Tennessee Monkey Trial (LA Theatre Works). TV: Comedy Bang Bang, Sam & Cat, Community, Sarah Silverman Program, Greek, Days

of our Lives, Veronica Mars, Joan of Arcadia and national commercials. Davis writes and performs original comedy songs and musicals at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. www.matthewpatrickdavis.com

Thomas Hobson Numerous feature films, series and M.O.W.s. Film: Recent leading roles in Stars Are Already Dead and 23 Boss. Television: Regular on Fresh Beat Band (Nickelodeon’s hit series and touring franchise), NCIS: LA and Criminal Minds. Stage: Smokey Joe’s Café (Pasadena Playhouse), ‘C.C. White’ in Dreamgirls (San Diego Musical Theater), ‘Mike’ in Ain’t No Mountain High Enough (CTG), ‘Spike’ in City Kids (Hudson Theatre/

Six NAACP Image Awards), ‘Lysander’ in Midsummer Night’s Dream and ‘Pierre’ in Madwoman of Chaillot (Blue Sphere Alliance). Music: Beyond the Beat (CD), My Friends (vocalist). Yale graduate (multiple recipient of Excellence in Artistry Award). Tommy is thrilled to be making his Falcon debut. Follow @tommyhobson and tommyhobson.com.

Kevin Symons has appeared in numerous theatrical productions in Los Angeles at the Colony Theatre, Laguna Playhouse, Rubicon Theatre, South Bay CLO, Alex Theatre, MET Theatre, Los Angeles Theatre Center, Grove Shakespeare and in Off-Broadway and Regional Theatres. On television, he recently concluded four seasons on NBC’s Parks and Recreation and is currently starring on the Disney Channel series Best Friends

Whenever. Recurring and guest star roles include NCIS, Castle, Teen Wolf, Mad Men, Jessie, Wilfred, Weeds, Desperate Housewives, Haunted Hathaways, United States of Tara and others. Film credits include Alvin and the Chipmunks, Miss India America, and the upcoming Echo Park Blues.

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Nicole Erb LA/Regional: The Crucible (Antaeus Theatre), Completeness (VS Theatre), The Little Dog Laughed(TheatreOut!), Two Gentlemen of Verona (PA Shakespeare), Edge of Our Bodies (Theatre Exile), Romeo and Juliet(Lantern Theatre). TV/Film: V/H/S, Big Time Rush, My Haunted House. Locally Nicole’s a member of Antaeus Theatre where she’s been seen in both full productions and ClassicsFest readings. She’s also an alum of Upright Citizen

Brigades’ improv and sketch programs where she writes for her sketch team Eastwood (performing the 3rd Wednesday of every month at UCB Sunset). Education: UC Irvine (MFA), Temple University (BA). Love to Zach.

Zehra Fazal is delighted to make her Falcon Theatre debut. Stage: Othello (Folger Shakespeare Library), Kite on the Wind: A Tale of Pakistan (Kennedy Center), Opera Meets Improv Series (Groundlings/LAOpera), The Human Spirit (Odyssey Theatre), That Face(Studio Theatre) and the international tour of her one-woman musical Headscarf and the Angry Bitch(NYC Fringe, Cherry Lane Theatre) Television:

Legends of Chamberlain Heights (Comedy Central), Boj (PBS Sprout) Film: Man Down, They Watch, The Pink Sorrys.Education: BA, Wellesley College. Many thanks to the “Complete” team, Sandi Logan and Paul Kohner Agency. www.zehrafazal.com

Understudies

ProductionAdam Long (Playwright) lives in London, the same city where Shakespeare staged many of his plays. On Wednesdays, Adam works at a Buddhist monastery. The rest of the time he stays in a house. Also in the house are his wife named Alex, his son named Joe, his daughter named Tilly, his friend named John, a cat named Monty, and two fish named The Hinduja Brothers. Some mornings, Adam finds a dead mouse in his living room. That may have something to do with Monty. Adam has very short hair.

Reed Martin (Playwright) is a Managing Partner of the Reduced Shakespeare Company, which he joined in 1989. He co-created and performed in the original stage productions of The Complete History of America (abridged), The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged),Western Civilization: The Complete Musical (abridged), and Completely Hollywood (abridged)—and contributed additional material to The Complete

Works of William Shakespeare (abridged). Reed has written for the BBC, National Public Radio, Britain’s Channel Four, RTE Ireland, Public Radio International, the Washington Post, and Vogue Magazine. With Austin Tichenor he wrote the comic memoir The Greatest Story Ever Sold, as well as the comic reference book Reduced Shakespeare which is published by Hyperion. He has been seen on all the major television networks, and has performed in forty-six states and eleven foreign countries. Prior to joining the Reduced Shakespeare Company, Reed spent two years as a clown and assistant ringmaster with Ringling Brothers’ Barnum & Baily Circus. Reed has a BA in Theater/Political Science from the University of California at Berkley and an MFA in Acting from the University of California at San Diego. He is also a graduate of both Ringling Brother’s Barnum & Bailey Clown College and Bill Kinnamon School of Professional Baseball Umpire Training. He lives in Northern California with his wife and two sons.

Austin Tichenor (Playwright) is a Managing Partner of the Reduced Shakespeare Company, which he joined in 1992. He co-authored and performed in the original stage productions of Completely Hollywood (abridged), All the Great Books (abridged), Western Civilization: The Complete Musical (abridged), The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged), and The Complete History of America (abridged); the original film The Ring Reduced; and the radio show production of The Reduced Shakespeare Radio Show, The Reduced Shakespeare Company Christmas, and (for NPR’s All Things Considered) The Reduced Shakespeare Round Table. He’s also written over twenty original plays and musicals for young audiences, including Dancing On The Ceiling(published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc), The First Olympics, and the musicals Stone Soup and River Town. With his partner Dee Ryan, Austin wrote and developed the animated project Fowl Play for Disney, as well as the screenplays Birds of a Feather and All The Other Reindeer. With Reed Martin, he wrote the irreverent reference book Reduced Shakespeare: The Complete Guide for the Attention-Impaired (abridged) and the comic memoir The Greatest Story Ever Sold. He’s a member of the Dramatists Guild and an alumnus of the BMI Musical Theater Workshop. He lives in Los Angeles where he’s hard at work on three screenplays, a novel, and his wife.

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Director’s Note:When I was in high school, American History was taught by Mr. Rose. We all had that one teacher who we remember because they inspired us, made us crave the knowledge that they were there to impart and, ultimately, were responsible for the person we became. Mr. Rose was not that teacher. He was very quiet, slightly abrasive (especially when he was yelling my last name to startle me awake during a lecture) and the kind of teacher who could blend into the chalkboard. However, when he would get to a time or event in history that he was particularly fond of (the Emancipation Proclamation, the Great War, McCarthyism, to recall a few) he became possessed. He would animate all of the actions, don caps, props and accents to become historical figures and even draft us into his skits to play the supporting characters. It was as if somebody had replaced the teacher from Ferris Beuller’s Day Off with the one from Dead Poets Society. We were entertained, we were challenged and we were interested in finding out more about those particular events. It was a great way to learn and, as I reflect on it now, probably influenced my eventual career choice more than I knew. As Edmund Burke says, “Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.” I sincerely hope that you enjoy tonight’s performance and do not find it repetitive. Thanks, Mr. Rose!

-Jerry Kernion, Director

Jerry Kernion (Director) most recently directed the critically acclaimed Figure 8 at Theatre of Note. Other stage directing credits include the Los Angeles Premieres of UG by Jim Geoghan at The Attic Theatre where he served as Artistic Director for two years, The Holy Mother of Hadley, New York, Weightless, So You Wanna Marry My Mommy, Lulu, Choose Your Weapon, Greetings, Line, and Trojan Women at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He won Dances With Films’ “2 Minute, 2 Step” competition with his film, Speed Relationship-ing which he also wrote. Other film directing credits include The Traveling Salesman, Two Minute Warning, King For A Day, Flamingo Dreams (2nd unit) and the DVD version of this play for the RSC, which he also produced. As an actor, Mr. Kernion has done numerous films and television shows, most

recently The Middle, Longmire, Angel From Hell, The Night Shift, Truth Be Told, Snowfall (a new pilot for FX) and Last Call At Murray’s. He has performed in two shows for Cirque du Soleil and is a long time member of The Reduced Shakespeare Company.

Erin Walley (Set Designer) Graduated from the University of Missouri, Kansas City in 2012 with an MFA in Theatre Scenic Design. Her recent scenic designs include Deathtrap at Sierra Madre Playhouse, and The Tempest & Treasure Island with the Young Actors Project. Additionally, her recent properties work includes Prop Design for Always…Patsy Cline at SMP, All My Sons and Antigone at A Noise Within, Shiv at The Theatre @ Boston Court and The Lion King Jr. at Milken Community Schools. Upcoming projects include The Mystery of Love & Sex at the Mark Taper Forum, Six Characters in Search of an Author at A Noise Within and The Glass Menagerie at Sierra Madre Playhouse.

Jared A. Sayeg (Lighting Designer) An Ovation Award and Garland Award winner his credits include designs for theatre, opera, musicals, ballet, themed attractions, exhibits and architectural installations which have been seen throughout the world. Jared is currently represented on Broadway with the Illusionists. Regionally he’s designed for McCoy Rigby Entertainment, International City Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, 3D Theatricals, Reprise, Ensemble Theatre Company, Cabrillo Music Theatre, Laguna Playhouse, Virginia Stage Company, The Colony, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey & CLO of South Bay. Notable projects include four seasons lighting LA Opera, lighting Pope Benedict XVI in NYC and the USA International Ballet Competitions. Jared became the youngest member of the United Scenic Artist-Local 829 and serves as a trustee to the executive board. www.jaslighting.com

Robert Arturo Ramirez (Sound Designer) is pleased to be designing for the Falcon. Theatrical Designs include: Funny Thing Happened (AMDA), Scott and Hem (Falcon). For TV, he is currently Sound Designer on DC Comics’ ARROW for Warner Brothers. Past designs: I Ought to Be in

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A. Jeffrey Schoenberg (Costume Design) has been designing costumes for LA area theaters for more than 30 years, and is a four-time recipient of the LA Stage Alliance Ovation Award. Locally, his work has been seen at The Antaeus Company, Colony Theatre, Fountain Theater, LA Women’s Shakespeare, Lower Depths Theatre, Odyssey Theater, Open Fist Theater, Sierra Madre Playhouse, NoHo Arts Center, and the Daniel Ezralow Dance Company at the John Ansen Ford. He is resident designer for Musical Theatre Guild. Jeffrey is the owner and designer for AJS Costumes, Renaissance Dancewear, and Mr. Alan Jeffries Fine Gentlemen’s Apparel.

John M. McElveney (Prop Design) was an Equity Stage Manager and Lighting Designer for many years before joining ABC Television as a Production Manager. While there, he worked many sit-coms, specials and awards shows. He has served as Production Manager for The Emmy Awards and was Senior Production Manager for many Academy Awards Presentations. He and the group called MacAndME designed properties

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Sandi Logan, CSA (Casting Director) has been casting television for almost two decades, with credits including Boomtown and Monk (for which she was nominated for an Emmy for Best Casting of a Comedy). This past year, she cast the ABC comedy series Cristela and the TV Land series Jennifer Falls. She first worked at the Falcon Theatre over a decade ago, casting, among others, Golf with Alan Shepard and Wrong Turn at Lungfish starring Hector Elizondo and Ana Ortiz directed by Garry Marshall. She left the Falcon to join ABC as Vice President of Casting where she spent eight years before returning to her roots as a Casting Director. This is her third season back at the Falcon Theatre, having cast Bunny Bunny, The Last Act of Lilka Kadison, A or B?, and Class during that time. She has her degree in Theatre from UC San Diego, with a focus on directing. She currently serves on the Alumni Board of Directors for the University and works with the MFA Theatre students there.

Dale Alan Cooke (Stage Manager) It is always a pleasure to be part of the Falcon family having now worked on fifteen productions including the recent Scott and Hem, The Trouble We Come From, Class, and A Carlin Home Companion; at the Colony Theatre six productions including Sex and Education and Family Planning; at A Noise Within ten productions including Noises Off; at Native Voices at the Autry six original productions; at Theatre West A Very Brady Musical, Nunsense, three productions for Ray Bradbury’s Pandemonium Theatre Company and ten Storybook Theatre children’s shows. At other theaters over one hundred plays, musicals, benefits, concerts and staged readings. A proud Actors’ Equity member.

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THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF AMERICA (abridged) was originally produced and performed by The Reduced Shakespeare Company. It had its first public performance on 18 March 1993 at the Stewart Theatre at North Carolina State University. Later that year it was performed at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, MA, the Lincoln Center

“Serious Fun” Festival in New York City, and the Montreal “Just For Laughs” Festival. With one cast change, the play had extended runs at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC in the summers of 1994 and 1995. With two cast changes, the play opened at the Criterion Theatre in London’s West End in 1996 where it ran continuously until 2005.

ORIGINAL LONDON CASTMatthew Hendrickson

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