COSTUME DESIGN

Jeanne Rcith _

LIGHTING DESIGNNathan Peirson _

SCENIC DESIGN

Da\'id Thayer.

PROPERTIES DESIGN

Chrissy Rcynolds-Vi)gele.

SOUND DESIGNDeborah Gilmour Smyth _

Patrick Duffy_

PRODUCTION STAGEMANAGER

I\laria !\Iangi:I\'cIlano _ .•.

Production Staff for Jo)ful NoiseDirector of Production NathanPei rson

A<;sistantSrngcManager Kan KerrBritish Dialect Coach Jillian Frost

German Dialect Coach Chriss)" Re)"uolds-VogeleTcchnical Director Chuck Batchumn

Technicians Brendan Farle)", Joshua Longlcllow,Stne Longfcllow

Pancmmaker/Clluer, \Vomeu'sGo\\llsjemimaDutmPattemmaker/Clllter, Menswear Keith BOmlr

Cutter/Stitcher, Meuswcar Km;saycHckdcHead Stitcher JoClare Longicllow

Stitchcr, Women's Cowus Rachad Bn~cs, MeganKnotz,Su7111IlIeLemastel's, Virh';uia I.ongfcllow

Trims, Women's Cowns CI'~stalJ\ihlel'Day IntcrnsTom)" G~si, Chario;eCunningimm

Pannier Pattcrnmaker Elena Ham

I lair & ,"VigsSusie Fel'glL';ou, Legeml, InternationalWigs l'amStompoIy-Ericson

Patron Sm·il'es Mana"o-erSusanCampbellTicketing Supervisor Rebecca Pulido GolT

BoxOffice!llcliss:JBald\\;u, Elizabeth Condon, 'flil;aManzo,Am:JndaSalmOIL', Karina \Ycstm,Liz Yarns

Front of Housc Mana"o-erTrieia!lIanzoFront of House Associatc Sherry Eyans

House Managers Amanda Gmham, Linda TuckerUsher Coordinator D,miclle Bolster

Progf'JJIIDesignSamhSem1l1DircctorofFacilities I),nid Cochnm Heath

VolunteerSuppol'tThe LPT Strikc Crew', Doug SI. Denis & SRO.John

Pamer. Shirley Ellcn, The Thursday Club

Special Thanks to KCITY Meads, Dr. Michael Hatyey,Fashion Careers College, Mesa College

RobertSmnh

Producing Artistic Director

Kern' MeadsA,sociatc Artistic Director

Dehorah Gilmour Sm\'thAssociate Artistic Dire~tor

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LAMB'S' •PLAYERS

THEATRE

loyfulNoiseBy Tim Slover

Directed byRobel'tSmyth_and Deborah Gilmour SUlYth_

October 9 - November 22, 2009

THE ENSEMBLE (In Order of Appearance)

SUSANNAH CIBBER ColleellKollarSmith.

VOICE OF THE TRIAL PatrickJ. DuffY.

GEORGE FREDRICK HANDEL RobertSmyth.

JOHN CHRISTOPHER SMITH Paul Maley.

CHARLES JENNENS NiekSpear •.•

KITIY CLIVE TeressaByrne •.

MARY PENDARVES DeborahGilmourSmyth.

KING GEORGE II Jim Choyiek.

BISHOP HENRY EGERTON Jason Heil •.•

ATIENDANTS MelissaBaldwilh

PatrickJ. DuffY.

Taran Gray.

SETTING1741 - 1743

The Town of London

- Locations -

Jennen's study at Gopsal in LeicestershireThe Salon of Handel's House on Brook St.

Backstage at Drury Lane Theatre

The Salon of Mary PendarvesSt. James Palace

Covent Garden Theatre

There will be one IS-minute intermission.

• Lamb's Players Staff Member • Lamb's Players Associate Artist .•. :\tember Actors' Equity Association

PROFILES

Taran Gray(Attendant) is gladto be back on the

mainstage withLamb's. His pastexperience withLamb's includes actingand writing music forPestival Of Christmas'07, acting in multipleproductions of AnAmerican Christmas

at the Del, and in the

'06 touring group"SWAT Team," Lamb'sPlayers educationaloutreach team. Taran

most recently workedat Sea World San

Diego as the singer andhost of the DolphinShow. He currentlyspends his off-timeas a performinglllUsic artist as well as

writing and producingmusic for upcomingjazz artist KristinaRasband. For more

info please visit·w\vw.myspace.com/tarangray

Festil'a! ofChristmas '07

Patrick J. Duffy(Attendant / Co-SoundDesigner) is also atechnician and sounddesigner with LPTand most recently hasbeen seen in Pestival ofChristmas '08. Othercredits include The

Voysey Inheritance,An Ideal Husband,

Cold ComfortParm, Smoke on thelIIIO/mtaitt, South

Pacific, and Rehearsalfor Murder (which healso stage managedand sound designed).Other sound designcredits here at LPTare Godspell, ThePantasticks, The Lightin the Piazza, Boomers

at HGT, Joseph '07,American Rhythm'06 at the Lyceum,The Secret Garden,

and Enchanted April.When not on stage ordesigning, he can befound building sets oras LPT's Audio Master.Patrick is thankfulfor all the blessingsin his life includingcelebrating the fifthyear of marriage toSeason Duffy.

Festim! ofChristmas '08

Jim Chovick(King Ge01ge II)has appeared in 22productions withLPT: Room Service;

Boomers; The VoyseyInheritance; Amadeus;

Rehearsal for Murder;The IVinslow Boy; 1776;

A i'vIan Par All Seasons;

Ring Round the Moon;My Pair Lady; TheLion, the Witch, and

the Wardrobe; YouCan't Take It With

You; A Woman ofNo Importance; The

Mystery of Edwin

Drood; Pestival ofChristmas '99, '04 and'06; and 5 productionsof An American

Christmas. Other

San Diego theatres:The Old Globe, TheCygnet Theatre(Resident Artist), LaJolla Playhouse, SanDiego Rep, NorthCoast Rep (AssociateArtist), New VillageArts, SledgehammerTheatre, Eveoke DanceTheatre, StarlightTheatre, The Avo@Moonlight,6th@Penn,The Ark, CCT, MysteryCafe, Vantage Theatreand The Fritz. Awards:San Diego CriticsCircle, Backstage WestDramalogue, KPBSPattE"Billie and Robby.

Boomers '09

Melissa Baldwin(Attendant) is

delighted to returnto Lamb's PlayersCoronado theatre! Shewas first introduced

to Lamb's Playersat the tender age oftwelve when her fathertook her to Pestival

of Christmas: Once

Upon a Time for herbirthday. Duringcollege, while earningher BA in Theatre,she interned with

Lamb's Players andbegan performingwith them in 1991's

Dickens, Dining and

Song. Since that timeshe has appeared insuch Lamb's Playersproductions asThe Utter Glory of

Morrissey Hall, The

Hunchback of Notre

Dame, Pestival ofChristmas, South

Pacific, toured withA Gift of Wonder andhas been a frequentperformer in AnAmerican Christmas

since its introductionin 1992. When not

performing on stage,Melissa pours herpassion into her family- husband Larry andher four children,Landen, Isaac, Emmaand Madeleine.

Festil'a! ofChristmas '99

The Light in thePiazza '08

Teressa Byrne(Kitty Clive) is

delighted to be onstageagain with Lamb'sPlayers! LPT: TheLight in the Piazza.

Regional stage:Tartuffe (Boston CourtTheatre), Cosi fan tutte

(West Bay Opera),Kiss Me Kate (CabrilloStage), Phantom(Fullerton CLO,Escondido PerformingArts Center, SanBernardino California

Theatre), The Sound

of Music (HollywoodBowl), Brigadoon /Guys & Dolls / My Way

/ My Pair Lady (PCPA),Master Class (BerkeleyRep, Fountain Theatre,Odyssey Theatre,Ensemble TheatreSanta Barbara). Film:Raton (Best Film,San Jose 48hr FilmProject), PintauroRoad, Nominated ­The Movie, Bottles.

Concert: L'ermitageFoundation, PacificRepertory Opera,No. CA tour withEnsemble di TeatroMassimo di Palermo,Krassimir "Popera"(Kodak Theatre).Recording: BroadwayBackers' CD forCreative HorizonsLLC. Please visit

TeressaByrne.com

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Jason Heil

(Bishop Henry Egerton)LPT Associate Artist:

The Glass Menagerie,Room Service, The

Voysey Inheritance, AnAmerican Christmas

('07 & '08), Enchanted

April, Into the Woods,and The Winslow

Boy. Other SanDiego credits include

Noises Off (Cygnet)

Three Days of Rain

(Compass Theatre),Dracula (North Coast

Rep), A Christmas

Carol (San Diego

Rep), The Goodbye

Girl (Moonlight) andall incarnations of

Lucy Simon's Zhivago(La Jolla Playhouse& NYC/London

Readings). Regionaltheatres includeArkansas & Tennessee

Rep, A Noise Within,and a combined nine

seasons with the Utah,

Lake Tahoe, Marin,

and Texas ShakespeareFestivals, wherefavorite roles include

Orlando, Christian,

Bolingbroke, Horatio,Lucentio, Sky

Masterson, Freddy,Thomas Jefferson, and

Richmond. Directing:You Never Can Tell

(Moonlight), TwelfthNight (Actors' Rep,OH), and Brilliant

Traces (Finishing theHat, L.A.). MFA: UCIrvine.

Room Service '09

Paul Maley(John Christopher

Smith) graduatedfrom UCLA's Theatre

program in 1984, then

performed with twotouring companiesand spent two years

creating sketches fora Northern California

church. He has been

the manager of LPT'sEducational Touring

Company since 1990.

LPT acting creditsinclude educational

productions of The

Glass Menagerie andJ.\1easure For J.\1easure,

and over 2,000

performances in 30

touring plays! Paulwas most recently seen

in LPT productionsof Leaving Iowa, The

Hit, Joseph ..., andAmadeus. He also acts

with his own company,StageWorks!,and in outreach

performances with the

San Diego Symphony.

Leaving Iowa '09

Colleen Kollar Smith

(Susannah Cibber) isa member ofLPT'sResident Ensemble

and has been seen

in Leaving Iowa, The\Toysey Inheritance,

Hello, Dolly!, An IdealHusband, Susan and

God, Joseph ... , TheSecret Garden. LifeX 3, Into The Woods,

Amadeus, The Winslow

Boy, Metamorphoses,Rehearsal for Murder,Smoke on the

Mountain, Detective

Story, and 1776,

as well as having

choreographed

Godspell, Hello, Dolly!Light in the Piazza,

Joseph ... , Pump Boysand Dinettes, AnAmerican Christmas,and assistant directed

Godspell, RoomService and Light in the

Piazza. She is a proudalumna of UC Irvine

and has worked with

such c0111panies asSteppenwolf, La Jolla

Playhouse, Moonlight

Amphitheatre andrecently CygnetTheatre in Bed and

Sofa. Colleen alsoserves as the directorof LPT's summer

drama workshops.Favorite roles to

date: wife to the

gifted Lance Arthur,

mum to the always

joyful, often noisyCarmen Scotland and

granddaughter to the

incomparable Nan.

Deborah Gilmour

Smyth (MaryPendarves) anAssociate Artistic

Director at LPT, is an

active actor, director,

and composer. Over

140 productions

including The GlassMenagerie, The Light in

the Piazza, The Tamingof the Shrew, Smokeon the lvIountain,

Into the Woods, Much

Ado About Nothing,Talley's Folly, My FairLady, Private Lives,

Joseph ..., and Uncle

\Tanya. Directingcredits include The

Wimlow Boy, Art, Life

X 3, Ring Round the

Moon, 1776, Cyrano,Steel Magnolias,South Pacific, A ManFor All Seasons,and Enchanted

April. Composedmusical scores for

such productions

as Metamorphoses,

Edith Stein, Flight,The Hunchback ofNotre Dame, The Great

Divorce, Till We Have

Faces, Dracula, andHamlet. Deborah's

father, Deane Gilmour,

was a professionaltenor who sang inmany oratorios.His gentle influence

was profound ... At

16, Deborah sangthe soprano solosin Messiah with

the Oakland Youth

Symphony. This one's

for Daddy.

The Light in thePiazza '08

Robert Smyth(George FredrickHandel) the theatre's

Producing ArtisticDirector, has directed

over 130 productionshere including The

Light in the Piazza,

Detective Story, EdithStein, A Woman

of No Importance,

Joyful Noise (here andOff-Broadway), TheGreat Divorce, Hamlet,

Metamorphoses, IntoThe Woods, The SecretGarden and RoomService. He is also thecreator and director

of the theatre's annual

holiday celebration, AnAmerican Christmas

at the Hotel Del. The

founding memberof our Resident

Ensemble, his

performance creditsinclude Damien, The

Boys Next Door, A

Midsummer Night's

Dream, Sleuth, Cyrano

de Bergerac, Uncle\Tanya, My Fair Lady,1776, Private Lives,

Rehearsal for Murder,Art, An Ideal Husband,and The Fantasticks.

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Nick Spear(Charles Jennens), is

happy to rejoin theLamb's Players Theatrefamily. LPT: Pump

Boys and Dinettes,The Secret Garden, AnAmerican Christmas.

Regional: The 25thAnnual Putnam

County SpellingBee, Godspell, andStones In His Pockets

at Alpine TheatreProject, I Love You,

You're Perfect, Now

Change (Milwaukee,Detroit, and SanDiego companiesas well as National

Tour), Forbidden

Broadway: SVU (SanDiego Company andNational Tour), No

Way To Treat A Lady

and Baby at NorthCoast RepertoryTheatre, and manyothers. Nick is a

San Diego native,an Actors' EquityMember, and hasboth his BA and MFAin Theatre from San

Diego State University.

Pump Boys andDinettes '05

Tim Slover

(Playwright) SinceJoyful Noise receivedits debut at Lamb's

Players, Tim's playshave been producedOff-Broadway and inprofessional regionaland un iversity theatresall over the U.S.The Fulton Theatrecommissioned and

premiered two of Tim'splays, Treasure andLightning Rod, andin 2006 he was thewriter-in -residence

at nearby Franklin &Marshall College. Hisnewest play, Virtue,

was developed inassociation with the

Penn State UniversitySchool of Theatre and

was given a stagedreading in Londonlast June as part of theArch 468 ProspectsSeries. It will havea second readingby the Salt LakeActing Company inOctober. His 2007

book inspired byJoyful Noise, Messiah,the Little-known

Story of Handel'sBeloved Oratorio,

was published bySilverleaf Press. In the

fall of2008, JoyfulNoise received a

staged reading at theHampstead Theatre'sMichael Frayn Spacein London. Despised,

his screenplay of JoyfulNoise, is optionedby Slickrock Films.With a doctorate

from the Universityof Michigan, Timdirects the playwritingprogram and teachesdramatic literature at

the University of Utah.Thank you Robert andDeborah and everyoneat LPT for taking theplunge the secondtime. I feel honoredand thrilled.

Jeanne Reith(Costume Design)has designed over 90

productions as residentdesigner for LPT.Jeanne's creative workhas achieved TheatreCritics Awards suchas the Craig Noel,KPBS Patte, and BillieAwards for An Ideal

Husband, A Woman

of No Importance, TillWe Have Faces, The

Boy Who Fell Into aBook, Joyful Noise,Tarantara! Tarantara!,

Dr. Faustus, The

Wimlow Boy, andlvfetamorphoses. In2008 Jeanne waspresented a PatteAward for Costume

Design Excellence forher entire season of

productions whichincluded Hello Dolly,

The Voysey Inheritance,The Hit, Boomers, The

Light in the Piazza,

Festival of Christmas:Angel's Arms andAn American

Christmas. "Theatreis a collaborative art.Without the visionof the director andthe hands of thetechnician it all would

be just a thought. Theteam V-I ins awards."

-Jeanne Reith

Nathan Peirson

(Lighting Design)a graduate of BiolaUniversity, is theLPT Director ofProduction. He has

designed lights formany productionsincluding The Light inthe Piazza, The Secret

Garden, Enchanted

April, Joseph and the

Amazing Technicolor

Dreamcoat, Life X 3,Metamorphoses, The

Hunchback of NotreDame, Boomers,Till We Have Faces,The Great Divorceand Dracula. He is

also a busy actor,photographer andmusician. As a

performer Natehas been seen in

such productions asTintypes, The WindIn The Willows, AliceIn Concert, Festival

of Christmas, and AnAmerican Christmas.

David Thayer(Scenic Design) is anaward-winning scenicand lighting designerwith extensive designexperience in theworlds of dance,television, galleriesand film. An LPTAssociate Artist, Davidwas on staff here from1981-86.His work

includes lighting forThe Diviners, for whichhe received the San

Diego Theatre Critics'Circle Award for Best

Lighting Design, andthe premiere of Joyful

Noise (San Diego andOff-Broadway). For LaJolla Playhouse, Davidreceived Drama-Logueawards for lightingWhat the Butler Saw

(directed by MichaelGreif) and The HairyApe. In Los Angeles,David received a

Drama-Logue awardfor scenic design forJose Rivera's Each Day

Dies With Sleep at theStella Adler Theatre.He was associate

lighting designer forAthol Fugard's ALesson From Aloes and

Playland, both directedby the playwright in LaJolla and Atlanta. InSan Francisco, Daviddesigned for Jon RobinBaitz's The End of

the Day at the MagicTheatre. He brings histheatre backgroundto his current roleas Co-Founder and

President of AspectStudios, LLe. Aspecthas provided contentfor Animal Planetand MTV episodes, aswell as reality-basedre-creation films forthe USDA, the US AirForce, and the DefenseIntelligence Agency.

A STANDING OVATION

TO OUR STAR

VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR\

Chrissy Reynolds- Vogele(Properties) is glad to be pickingup the glue gun again. A formerstaff member of I3 years shedesigned and built the propsfor some 70 LPT productions,including the original Joyful Noise,

here and Off-Broadway. Otherdesigns include Art, South Pacific,

Detective Story, Private Lives, 1776,

An American Christmas, Joseph,Quilters, American Rhythm,

numerous Festivals of Christmas,

Dr. Faustus, Dracula, My FairLady, Till We Have Faces, Ihe

Diviners, Beau Jest and manyincarnations of Boomers. As a

performer, Chrissy has been seenin over 30 LPT productions, mostrecently in Festival of Christmas:Angel's Arms, Into the Woods andMetamorphoses. Having grown upin antiques and auction houses, shenow is adding another generationof found object admirers - the nextaddition due to join the clan onThanksgiving. jerry and Anouk,thank you for sharing my passion!

Maria MangiaveIIano(Stage Manager) is LPT'sProduction Stage Manager and hasstage managed Enchanted April,GodspeU, The Glass Menagerie,Room Service, Boomers, The VoyseyInheritance, The Secret Garden, AnAmerican Christmas, American

Rhythm, kletamorphoses, DialM for klurder, South Pacific,The Great Divorce, 1776, Dr.

Faustus and Festival of Christmas.Elsewhere she has stage managedTravesties, The Importance ofBeing Earnest, Cabaret, Pageant,and lvlan of La lvlancha for NorthCoast Repertory Theatre and sixproductions for Moonlight at theAvo Playhouse and MoonlightAmphitheatre. She has also stagemanaged for San Diego Rep, LajoIla Playhouse, the GaslampQuarter Theatre Company, and theBerkeley Shakespeare Festival. Sheholds an MFA from UCSD.

Special thanks to those involved in

the premiere of Joyful Noise

Linda Bush, Paul Eggington, DavidCochran Heath, Jason Makiaris, KB

Mercer, Ted McCann, Mary Miller,Rosina Reynolds, Tom Stephenson,

Kerrie McCann, Crystal Verdon, GregCampbell, and Vanda Eggington.

Lamb's Players Theatre Costume Shop Designers and Technicians stand beside the pieces they created for Joyful NoiseFront row: Rhonda Suzanne Lemaster, Rachael Brees, Crystal Hibler. Back row: Megan Knotz, jemima Dutra, Virginia Longfellow,Keith Bonar, Kassaye Bekel and joClare Longfellow. Middle: jeanne Reith.