October 13—November 18, 2017

byLarry Shue

DirectorGeoffrey Kent

Scenic Designer Lighting Designer Brian MaLLGrave vance McKenzie

Sound Designer Costume Designer JaSon Ducat BrenDa KinG

Stage Manager Dialect/Movement Coach MaeGan BurneLL* GaBrieLLa cavaLLero

Artistic Director of Plays Lynne coLLinS

Casting by wojcik | seay casting, llc

Originally produced by the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

THE FOREIGNER is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

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

caSt of characterSS/Sgt. “Froggy” LeSueur ................................................................ Josh Robinson *Charlie Baker .....................................................................Sammie Joe Kinnett *Betty Meeks .......................................................................................Edith WeissRev. David Marshall Lee ........................................................Zachary Andrews *Catherine Simms .......................................................................Jessica Robblee *Owen Musser .....................................................................................Greg UngarEllard Simms .........................................................................Lance Rasmussen

unDerStuDieS(Understudies never appear in place of principal actors unless an announcement has been made.)

S/Sgt. “Froggy” LeSueur, Rev. David Marshall Lee, Owen Musser: Austin Terrell; Betty Meeks: Erica Sarzin-Borrillo;Catherine Simms: Candace Joice; Charlie Baker, Ellard Simms: Sean Michael Cummings.

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

the PLaceBetty Meeks’ Fishing Lodge Resort, Tilghman County, Georgia, U.S.A.

the tiMeThe Recent Past

act i act ii Scene 1 – Evening. Scene 1 – Afternoon, two days later. Scene 2 – The following morning. Scene 2 – That evening.

Who’S Who in the caSt

Zachary Andrews (Rev. David Marshall Lee) Arvada Center debut. Regional credits include: Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike (CenterStage Theatre Company, Kansas City Repertory Theatre); Romeo and Juliet, The Three

Musketeers, and A Christmas Carol (DCPA Theatre Company); Metamorphoses (Aurora Fox); Long Day’s Journey Into Night, More Stately Mansions, Candida, and The Actor’s Nightmare (Germinal Stage); Much Ado About Nothing, Antony and Cleopatra, The Comedy of Errors, and The Three Musketeers (Colorado Shakespeare Festival). Zachary is also an international award-winning filmmaker and photographer. Training: M.F.A.; University of Missouri, Kansas City. www.zacphoto.com

Sammie Joe Kinnett (Charlie Baker) returns to the Arvada Center where he previously appeared in How I Became a Pirate. Other credits include: Game of Love and Chance, The Liar, The Lying Kind, Love’s Labour’s Lost, and A Midsummer

Night’s Dream (Theatreworks); Man of La Mancha and Noises Off (Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center); The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Colorado Shakespeare Festival); Cyrano de Bergerac and The 39 Steps (Lone Tree Arts Center); Wynot Radio Theatre Show and TdA.

Lance Rasmussen (Ellard Simms) is making his Arvada Center and Denver debut. Credits include: Konstantin in The Seagull, Con in Stupid F***ing Bird, Brutus in Julius Caesar, and Garry in Noises Off (Swine Palace); Wait Until Dark, The Complete

Works of Shakespeare: Abridged, and More

Full of Melody (Lyric Repertory Company). Training: B.F.A.; Utah State University, M.F.A; Louisiana State University. www.lanceras.com

Jessica Robblee (Catherine Simms) returns to Arvada Center’s Black Box after appearing in last season’s The Drowning Girls. Other performance credits include: Sex with Strangers (Theatre Aspen); Frankenstein, All the Way, and Lord of the

Butterflies (DCPA Theatre Company); Homebody Kabul and Rabbit Hole (Curious Theatre Company); This (Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company); Gidion’s Knot (Sis Tryst Productions); 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche (Square Product Theatre); Siren Song: A Pirate Odyssey (Buntport Theater for All Ages); The Odyssey: A Walking Tour (Buntport Theater).

Josh Robinson (S/Sgt. “Froggy” LeSueur) per-formed in Waiting for Godot, Bus Stop, and Tartuffe in the Black Box Repertory last season, in addition to eight previous shows at the Arvada Center. Locally, he has performed with the DCPA

Theatre Company, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Theatreworks, and the Curious Theatre Company, of which he is a member. Josh is a recipient of the Denver Post Award for Best Year by an Actor, and a graduate of Oberlin College and the Yale School of Drama.

Greg Ungar (Owen Musser) has appeared in The Trip to Bountiful (South Coast Repertory); Measure for Measure and Coriolanus (Colorado Shakespeare Festival); Prospero in The Tempest, Polonius in Hamlet, Macbeth, and Romeo and

Juliet (New Swan Shakespeare Festival); Vladimir in Waiting for Godot (Hunger Artists); Touchstone in As You Like It, King Lear, and Merchant of Venice (Orange County Shakespeare); Matt Friedman in Talley’s Folly (Sis Tryst Productions). Training: M.F.A.; University of California, Irvine.

Edith Weiss (Betty Meeks) has performed in The Women, The House of Blue Leaves, and understudied Hollywood Arms at the Arvada Center. She’s directed 12 productions at the Arvada Center, including Mrs. Mannerly, Charlotte’s Web,

Miss Nelson is Missing! and Noises Off. Other credits: Sweet and Lucky (DCPA Theatre Company); Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike (Breckenridge Backstage Theatre), for which she received a Henry nomination; Till Death (Adam Stone production at Buntport Theatre); Moon Over Buffalo (Country Dinner Playhouse); The Fourth Wall (Nomad Theatre Boulder, Avenue Theater); Leading Ladies (Aurora Fox, Breckenridge Backstage Theatre).

Sean Michael Cummings (u/s Charlie Baker, Ellard Simms) is making his Arvada Center debut. Other credits: Evan in The Aliens (The Orchard Project); A Time to Kill (Vintage Theatre Productions); As You Like It (Band of Toughs);

Eurydice, KJ in The Aliens, ShakesBeer (The Wit); The Stonemason’s Wish (The BiTSY Stage); The Room: Live! With Greg Sestero (Alamo Drafthouse Littleton). Awards/Training: Orchard Project Playwriting Fellowship 2017; B.A., Colorado State University.

Candace Jo i ce (u / s Cather ine Simms) i s making her Arvada Center debut. Other credits: Abby in Belleville and Carol in Oleanna (Progressive Theatre); Mother in The Oldest Boy (Vintage Theatre Productions, Theatre Esprit

Asia); Olivia in Twelfth Night and Thaisa in Pericles (Hoosier Shakes); Alice in You Can’t Take It With You (Miners Alley Playhouse); The Cherry Orchard (Sweet Tea Shakespeare); All My Sons (Cherry Creek Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Colorado Shakespeare Festival). Training: M.A.; University of Central Missouri. www.candacejoice.com

Erica Sarzin-Borrillo (u/s Betty Meeks) was last seen at the Arvada Center in Death Takes a Holiday and The Women. New York credits include: Another Part of the Forest, Hedda Gabbler, The Medium, and the National Tour of Jacques Brel. Favorite

Denver credits: Circle Mirror Transformation, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Suddenly Last Summer, and Nine. Ms. Borrillo has garnered several acting awards from local papers such as Westword and Denver Post.

Austin Terrell (u/s S/Sgt. “Froggy” LeSueur, Rev. David Marshall Lee, Owen Musser) makes his debut at the Arvada Center with The Foreigner. Other credits include: Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Henry VI Part 3, and Troilus

and Cressida (Colorado Shakespeare Festival); Silent Sky (Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company); Perception (DCPA Off-Center); A Krumpus Story (Buntport Theatre). Training: B.F.A.; Baylor University.

Larry Shue (Writer, 1946 – 1985) was an American playwright and actor, best known for his farces The Nerd and The Foreigner. The Foreigner has earned two Obie Awards and two Outer Critics Circle Awards as Best New American Play and Best Off-Broadway Production. Larry Shue died in a plane crash the following year, not living to see the continued popularity of The Foreigner.

Geoffrey Kent (Director, The Foreigner) previously directed Waiting for Godot for the Arvada Center. Other work includes A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest, The Comedy of Errors and Henry VI Part 2 (Colorado Shakespeare Festival); An Act of God (DCPA Broadway); Metamorphoses and She Kills Monsters (Aurora Fox); Cowboy Macbeth (Listen Productions); The Lying Kind, A Wonderful Life, 39 Steps, and The Grapes of Wrath (Theatreworks). www.geoffreykent.com

Brian Mallgrave (Scenic Designer) serves as Resident Scenic Designer for the Arvada Center. Recent designs include: Jesus Christ Superstar (2017 Henry Award Nomination), The Drowning Girls (2017 Henry Award Nomination), and Death Takes a Holiday (2016 Henry Award Nomination). Other companies he has worked for locally include: Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Curious Theatre Company, Lake Theatre, and Colorado Shakespeare Festival. He is a graduate of Theatre Arts from University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Vance McKenzie (Lighting Designer) previously designed White Christmas at the Arvada Center. He is a freelance lighting designer working throughout North America. Regional designs include: Les Liasons dangereuses, Cabaret, and the regional premier of HIR (Miners Alley Playhouse); Sister Act and Ghost (Lake Dillon Theater); She Loves Me (Breckenridge Backstage Theatre); Anthony and Cleopatra (Theatreworks); Man of La Mancha (Lakewood Cultural Center). Other designs include: Carry On (Ballet Nouveau Colorado); A Journey of the Human Spirit (Newman Center). Vance has his M.F.A.; University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Jason Ducat (Sound Designer) returns to the Arvada Center where he designed Bus Stop, The Drowning Girls, and Waiting for Godot. Other credits: Hand to God, Venus in Fur, The Brothers Size, and 9 Circles (Curious Theatre Company); Two Degrees, The House of the Spirits, Lord of the Flies, and Shadowland (DCPA Theatre Company); Troilus and Cressida, Henry V, Henry IV, The Tempest, Macbeth, and Richard II (Colorado Shakespeare Festival); Constellations (Theatreworks); Marat/Sade and The Winter’s Tale (Purdue University); Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Elemental Theatre Company); The Little Mermaid and Peter Pan (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre).

Brenda King (Costume Designer) This costume design is her first for the Arvada Center. Brenda has designed for the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company of which she is a member, Phamaly Theatre Company, and Theatreworks. NY/NJ/PA region: George Street Playhouse, Bickford Theatre, and Arden Theatre. Notable designs include Morisot Reclining which garnered a Henry award nomination and Camera Eye Theatre Award. Currently, Brenda is the Costume Shop Manager for the Arvada Center.

Maegan Burnell (Stage Manager) Previous Colorado stage management credits include: The Drowning Girls, Bus Stop, Tartuffe, Lyle the Crocodile, Charlotte’s Web, and Junie B. Jones: The Musical (Arvada Center); Catch Me If You Can and Porgy and Bess (Aurora Fox); 4000 Miles, The Glass Menagerie, and Sondheim on Sondheim (Cherry Creek Theater); ‘Night Mother and The Spitfire Grill (Vintage Theatre Productions); Tell Me On A Sunday and Equus (Avenue Theater). Education: M.F.A. in Stage Management; University of Missouri, Kansas City.

Scene ShopNick Cimyotte ........................ Technical DirectorDavid Cimyotte .......................... House ForemanTodd Malcolm ..............Assistant House ForemanTim Krueger...................................Shop ForemanJacob Auten ...............................Master CarpenterMichael Walker ..........................Scenic CarpenterFrank Cason .................................Stage CarpenterDusty Sloan ..................................Stage CarpenterKorri Marshall .......................... Lead Scenic ArtistKrista Fernandez ...............................Scenic Artist

Prop ShopMeghan Markiewicz ...... Properties Shop ManagerMelissa Green .................................. Props ArtisanThomas Meche, Jr. .......................... Props Artisan

ADMINISTRATIONPhilip C. Sneed ....................... Executive DirectorClark Johnson .................Chief Operating OfficerTeresa Chamberland ......Director of Advancement and PhilanthropyCynthia DeLarber ........Director of Advancement, Communications, and Patron ServicesMelanie Mayner ............Public Relations ManagerAndy Terek ...........................................Controller

ARTISTICLynne Collins .................Artistic Director of PlaysRod A. Lansberry .....................Producing Artistic Director of Musical TheatreLisa Hoffman .............................Artistic AssociateBrian Mallgrave ............. Resident Scenic Designer Talia McCall ..............................Assistant Director

PRODUCTIONAdam Stolte ......................... Production ManagerJacob Kenworthy .............Production Manager for Concerts, Performance and EventsMaegan Burnell* ........................... Stage Manager

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Performing Arts Committee, and the Arvada Center Volunteers

The Arvada Center would like to acknowledge the following sponsors of The Foreigner

Arvada Center’s Preferred Hotel Partner: Residence Inn by Marriott, Denver North / Westminster

Costume Shop and WardrobeBrenda King ....................Costume Shop ManagerCrystal McKenzie .... Assistant Costume Shop ManagerSamantha R. De La Fuente-Meche ...... First HandAnneke Ciup ........................Wardrobe SupervisorJessie Page ................................Stitcher/WardrobeKathy Page ............................................... StitcherReba Todd ................................................ StitcherAlma Henderson ..........................Costume CraftsMegan O’Connor ...............................Wig Master

ElectricsJon Olson ..................................Lighting DirectorLucy Himsl ..........................................ElectricianBryan Hudson ......................................ElectricianWesley Reeves.......................................ElectricianEvan Schmidt .......................................ElectricianTom Fletcher ........................................ElectricianLauren Hergenreter ..............................Electrician

SoundGrant Evenson ..............................Audio DirectorMorgan McCauley .......................Audio EngineerElizabeth Jamison .........................Audio Engineer

Assisted listening devices and large print programs are available upon request.

Arvada CenterVolunteer Council

Nancy Bickford

Liz Cawthorne

Judy Davisson

Frances Evans

Sara Fuentes

Mary Jo Giddings

Nancy Terry

Shirley Walker

Special Thanks to the Actor SponsorsDiana and Mike Kinsey, sponsoring Geoffrey Kent

Isabelle Clark, sponsoring Zachary Andrews and Jessica Robblee

Pat and Chuck Griffith, sponsoring Lance Rasmussen

The 2017–2018 Black Box Theatre Acting Company has been generously underwritten by Mr. and Mrs. Terry Stevinson.

Adopt-an-ActorAs a way to support the work in the Black Box Theatre, you can “adopt” or sponsor an actor. Adopt-an-Actor gives you the opportunity to be a part of the Arvada Center’s Black Box Theatre productions on a deeper level, and it helps ensure that we are able to continue to hire the finest actors in the metro Denver area. To adopt an actor, contact Teresa Chamberland at 720-898-7225. 

Arvada Center for the Arts and HumanitiesBoard of Directors

Ken Fellman, PresidentTerry Stevinson, Vice President

Meyer Saltzman, TreasurerStephanie Tuthill, Secretary

Nancy AdamNancy BentzenJack Berryhill

Bob DyerJustin FalesNancy Ford

Nancy GaryAlan Hines

Craig KocianGene LuceroCraig SmithKeith Taylor

Carolynne White

Gabriella Cavallero (Dialect/Movement Coach) has been a dialect coach, foreign language specialist, and movement coach for Denver’s top theatres including the Arvada Center, the DCPA Theatre Company, Boulder Ensemble Theater Company, Modern Muse Theatre, and Local Theater. She’s performed as an actor most recently at Curious Theatre Company and acted on the DCPA Theatre’s stages for twenty-five seasons. As a voice–over artist, she has narrated nearly 1000 audio books

for the National Library Service and narrated several Emmy-nominated documentaries for PBS. Gabriella is a Voice and Presentation Coach for ARTiculate: Real & Clear.

Wojcik|Seay Casting (Casting Agency) is Scott Wojcik and Gayle Seay. Along with Holly Buczek and Kevin Metzger, they cast all mediums. National and International Tours: RENT, Kinky Boots, Motown, Vocalo-sity, Flashdance, Dreamgirls, Nice Work If You

Can Get It, Jekyll & Hyde, Joseph…Dreamcoat, A Chorus Line. Off-Broadway includes: Othel-lo: The Remix, Church & State The Play, The Portal, Tennessee Williams’ The Two Char-acter Play, Handle With Care, Triassic Parq and more. Regional: Multiple seasons/shows for Riverside Theatre, FL; John W. Engeman Theatre, NY; Theatre Raleigh, NC; Stages St. Louis, MO; Theatre Aspen, CO; Tuacahn Performing Arts Center, UT. www.wscasting.com

On this production,the Arvada Center Theatre’sproduction staff and crew

have created or coordinatedall elements of set, lighting, props,

sound and costumes.