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THE ELABORATE ENTRANCE OF CHAD DEITY

FROm THE PRODuCINg DIRECTOR

WELCOME TO THE GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE

WElCOmE TO THE 2011/2012 sEAsON AT THE gEFFEN PLAYHOusE. New plays, amazing casts and directors — theatrical events that will stay with you long after you leave the theater. It is going to be a wild ride.

And that ride begins with our first play, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity. Part sports play, part allegory and part political satire, Kristoffer Diaz’s Pulitzer nominated work is breath taking in its thematic and dramatic scope. In utilizing the world of professional wrestling as his backdrop, Diaz is able to tell his story with such heightened theatricality that the line between theater and the wrestling ring is difficult to find. But this is not simply an adrenaline rush with a large side of testosterone — at its heart Chad Deity is a play about winners and losers and the profound idea that one cannot successfully exist without the other. Further, the better and more believable the loser, the more popular the winner stands to be. The play’s protagonist is just such a loser — the best in the ring, as it were.

This play has numerous demands that are unfamiliar to us theater folk: a full-sized wrestling ring, a team of trainers, daily workouts and professional wrestlers. Add to that the demands of every production, and what is called for is a team helmed by an imaginative director and an inventive team of designers. Director Edward Torres brought together Brian Sidney Bembridge (Scenic Designer), Christina Haatainen Jones (Costume Designer), Jesse Klug (Lighting Designer), Mikhail Fiksel (Sound Designer), Peter Nigrini (Projections/Video), David Woolley (Fight Director), C. Andrew Bauer (Asst. Projections/Video) and Ned Mochel (Associate Fight Director). This powerhouse team, under Torres’ direction, have transformed our stage into a wrestling ring while maintaining a unique theatrical design that looks wonderful in our space.

There are so many amazing productions to look forward to this year, and we are excited about offering the plays in our Audrey Skirball Kenis theater as part of our season subscription. With the understanding that seats in that intimate space are limited, we are pleased to offer our Geffen family a chance to see everything we have to offer in this extraordinary collection of plays. So we hope you will join us for all there is to take in at the Geffen this season and we are thrilled you are here to start us off with a play that is sure to superkick your mind, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity.

See you at the theater,

Gilbert Cates Producing Director

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IT IS My PLEASurE To WELCoME you BACK To THE GEFFEN PLAyHouSE for our exciting new 2011/2012 season, which we are proud to commence with the energetic spectacle The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity.

Just like the flurry of action you are about to witness on stage, so too have our behind-the-scenes partners been abuzz with exciting new developments. It is with the utmost gratitude that I wish to acknowledge our spectacular donors — with a special eye toward our newly anointed Chairman’s Circle members — whose time, energy and gracious gifts keep the Geffen’s plays and our educational and community outreach programs running at a caliber in which we can all take pride.

The continued generous support of our wonderful Board member Ms. Cynthia Stafford means the world to us, and Ms. Stafford has outdone herself yet again by enabling us to bring hundreds of students to a matinee of last season’s closing show, the touching Superior Donuts. Gestures like these reaffirm that a trip to the theater is a gift and a privilege, and it is our pleasure to give access to young patrons who so clearly benefit from the experience.

our donors not only enable us to cast a wide net to bring in students from schools throughout the expansive Los Angeles school system; this year we look forward to deepening our existing relationships with the middle and high-school students whom we delight in bringing into our theater. I am inspired by their energy and engagement with the productions, and look forward to continuing to host the scores of Title 1 school students for matinees this coming season.

Heartfelt gratitude to everyone that joined the Chairman’s Circle and participated in a campaign. If you are interested in supporting the expansion of our community programs, please contact Development Director regina Miller at (310) 208-6500 ext. 112. your support is what makes a difference to our community.

Now sit back and relax as you enter the ring with Chad Deity.

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POWERBOMBING THE FOURTH WALL: HOW kRISTOFFER DIAz REACHES THE AUDIENCE

SoME PEoPLE LoVE IT. SoME people hate it. But say what you will, an actor breaking the fourth wall allows a connection with the audience in a way that no other device can. Suddenly, character, actor and audience are all on the same plane without the safety of a fictitious line to separate them and inevitably, it changes the dynamic for every person in the room.

This year, critic Charles Isherwood wrote a piece in The new York Times in which he took to task what he perceives as the overuse of this particular theatrical device. In his editorial he took this position:

“Instead of interacting with their fellow characters, they keep turning away from the action to give us commentary on what just happened, or explain what we’ve missed. They spout lyrical tangents describing their impressions or zoom into dazzling riffs that reveal the playwright’s comic gifts. They seem to be doing anything, in short, but talking to each other, which is to say exchanging dialogue, once the standard format of modern drama. Direct address, as it is called in the trade, has become the kudzu of new playwriting, running wild across the contemporary landscape and

threatening to strangle any and all other dramaturgical devices.”

Enter Chad Deity — a sophisticated and stylized play that is part wrestling, part allegory, part concert and all theater. A story telling tactic used throughout the play, direct address, has a long history in the theatrical tradition, but it’s not without controversy in terms of delivering on what audiences may expect.

Isherwood’s criticism specifically addressed how this breaking of the fourth wall is treated in The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity and respectfully examines the role

Breaking the fourth wall • when a character acknowledges their fictionality, by either indirectly or directly addressing the audience.

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this particular story telling tactic has played since early Greek times. In the end though, his argument is summarized as such: “... the device can also be used simply to cover up a multitude of playwriting sins.”

This sparked a heated discussion between the critic and his readers. Many asked if direct address is in fact a story-telling shortcut or a specific dramatic choice to enhance the effectiveness of a given work. Playwright Kristoffer Diaz responds to criticisms of his use of direct address with a variety of points. First, Diaz argues, like many other theatrical traditions, the choice to adhere or break with the traditional construct of the fourth wall is a fundamentally valid one and should be examined within the greater context of what the playwright is hoping to achieve with the work. Secondly, as in many sporting matches, there is a history of conflict addressed to those not specifically competing against each other. Team sports fans frequently sing songs disparaging rivals and supporting home teams long before games begin. Televised wrestling has a several decade long tradition of creating rivalry videos that play directly to the audience before the match.

Diaz states: “If the goal is to present a realistic vision of actual human existence, I’d argue that theater loses that battle to television and film more often than not. What theater has that no other art form has is simple to define: the audience. The human element. The thrill of the live event. I argue that the move towards establishing a tangible connection with the audience in attendance is not just a valid form of theatrical

expression, but an essential one. To acknowledge our audience is to play to our strength.”

So much of how we receive theater is based on expectations, and a large part of our expectations are molded by other areas of popular culture. The lines between fiction and reality are almost indistinguishable where reality television is concerned and we are accustomed to being privy to what goes on “behind the curtain.” This is not to say that theater ought to strive to be like reality TV. on the contrary, theater must strive to do as it has always done — to tell stories that are larger than life, relatable based on recognition of what is the best and worst of the culture in which we live. It should provoke, enlighten, entertain and challenge. It should forever remain interactive because it is entirely dependent on an audience and what that audience brings into the theater on any given night. It need not matter if the characters speak to one another, speak to the audience, or speak to themselves. What is being said is far more significant than to whom the words are directed.

Within the u.S., there is much disagreement over the most effective forms of theatrical constructs. In a generic sense, some audiences prefer musicals with flashy production values, large casts and grand orchestras while others prefer dramas or slapstick comedies. But these are subjective questions, a matter of taste. Some audiences love nothing more than the intimacy of a Pinter play where, as Pinter put it, dialogue is just words between the silences. others will be inclined

toward Mamet where words are spouted out like a rhythmic song. Countries and cultures with strong theatrical traditions like those of early Greece and present-day Japan will approach theater in an entirely different way, highlighting what is important in their theatrical constructs. Colors, intricate body movements, costumes, instruments, puppets, use of shadow and other theatrical devices can all mean very specific things in different contexts – expectations indeed vary across time and space. The blurring of the lines between genres can also be seen: take Green Day’s american idiot which crossed concert with musical theater or rent which layered an operatic narrative onto a rock score. Cirque du Soleil productions and Fuerza Bruta blur dance, gymnastics, circus and theater into incredibly physical live experiences. These relatively recent examples are popular touch points in an art form that continues to evolve as it takes from other traditions and invents some new ones of its own.

And it is the audience that plays a crucial role in that evolution. you provide the “wind in the sails” as Bertolt Brecht put it, to power the development of theater as an art form. In the end, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity does not succeed based on Diaz’s choice to break the fourth wall. It’s success lies in how audiences respond to its funny, provocative and outrageous take that is many things, but is, most importantly, undeniably theatrical.

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THE GEFFEN PLAYHOUSEPREsENTs

Directed by Edward Torres

Written by Kristoffer Diaz

Sound Designer Mikhail Fiksel

Fight Director David Woolley, S.A.F.D.

Projection and Video Design Peter Nigrini

Set Designer Brian Sidney Bembridge

Costume Designer Christina Haatainen Jones

Lighting Designer Jesse Klug

Production Stage Manager Young Ji

Assistant Stage Manager Gary J. Breitbach

Dramaturg Amy Levinson

Casting Director Phyllis Schuringa

Gilbert Cates ProDuCING DIrECTor Randall Arney ArTISTIC DIrECTor Ken Novice MANAGING DIrECTor

Opening Night: Wednesday, september 7, 2011

O P E N I N g N I g H T s P O N s O R E D B Y :


Second Stage Theatre Production of

The Elaborate Entrance of Chad DeityProduced by Second Stage Theater, New york, 2010.

Carole Rothman ArTISTIC DIrECTor

World premiere produced by Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago, ILDennis Zacek ArTISTIC DIrECTor • Jan Kallish ExECuTIVE DIrECTor

In association with Teatro Vista

CAST oF CHARACTERSVigneshwar Paduar (VP) .................................................................................................. Usman AllyChad Deity ............................................................................................................................ Terence ArchieMacedonio Guerra (Mace) ............................................................................................. Desmin BorgesThe Bad Guy / Cameraman ........................................................................................... Justin Leeper Billy Heartland / old Glory / Cameraman ............................................................... Timothy Talbott Everett K. olson (EKo) .................................................................................................... Steve Valentine

UNDERSTUDiESVigneshwar Paduar (VP) .................................................................................................. Jay AliBilly Heartland / old Glory ............................................................................................ Justin LeeperEverett K. olson (EKo) .................................................................................................... John Rushing Macedonio Guerra / Cameraman ............................................................................... Tony Sancho The Bad Guy ......................................................................................................................... Timothy Talbott Chad Deity ............................................................................................................................ Rylan Williams

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The Geffen Playhouse, a non-profit theater company, is proudly affiliated with the university of California at Los Angeles.

USMAN ALLY(Vigneshwar Paduar — VP)usman is delighted to reprise the role of VP in the award winning The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, which he originated during its world premiere at Victory Gardens Chicago, and then off-Broadway at Second Stage. usman has worked at many distinguished theaters around the country including Steppenwolf, Arena Stage, Kansas City rep, Baltimore Centerstage, and the Tony Award winning Lookingglass Theater Company. Television credits include a recurring role on season four of Damages and The Chicago Code. Film credits include Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion and Just Like a Woman by Academy Award winning director rachid Bouchareb. usman is the 2010-2011 recipient of the TCG Fox Foundation Grant for Actors of Extraordinary Potential. He holds an MFA Honors in Acting from the university of Florida. For Litke, Twice, Kamal and Jim. www.usmanally.com

TERENCE ARCHiE(Chad Deity)A Detroit native and North Carolina School of the Arts graduate, Terence is pleased to make his Geffen Playhouse debut. recently, Terence played the title role in the off-Broadway Pulitzer finalist production of The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity at Second Stage Theatre. other recent credits include Macheath in Arden Theatre’s Threepenny opera and The Greengrocer in Berkeley rep’s mounting of arabian nights. He also made his Broadway debut in the 2010 Tony-nominated production of ragtime. other stage credits include numerous one-man shows with urban Stages in NyC portraying Frederick Douglass, Matthew Henson

and George Washington Carver. TV credits include Law & order, one Life To Live and Teenage mutant ninja Turtles. Special thanks to Litke Abs, Twice, young Brother Productions, the ever-constant influence of whey protein and the Archie/Beckford family. Enjoy the show! Aaaaarrrrggghhh!!

DESMiN BoRGES(Macedonio Guerra —Mace)off Broadway: The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Theatre World Award/Lortel Nomination/Drama League Nomination-Lead Actor-Second Stage). regional: The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Jeff Award-Lead Actor-Victory Gardens/Teatro Vista), Boleros for The Disenchanted (Goodman Theatre), Elliot (a Soldier’s Fugue) (Steppenwolf Garage), The ascension of Carlotta (16th Street Theatre), The Buddy holly Story (Mercury Theatre), Esperanza rising (The Children’s Theatre Co. in Minneapolis). Freedom nY (Teatro Vista), The Defiant muse and i Sailed with magellan (Victory Gardens). Television: Law and order: SVu (NBC), The Good Wife (CBS), True Blood (HBo). Film: mr. Popper’s Penguins, Tower heist, Dreaming american, Compliance, Cherry, Taco mary, Viva El mariachi!, 2 De noviembre, milwaukee, Good People. Desmin is an Ensemble Member of Teatro Vista, and a graduate of The Theatre School at DePaul university.

JUSTiN LEEPER(The Bad Guy / Cameraman, understudy for Billy Heartland / old Glory)A veteran of hundreds of pro-wrestling matches, Justin finds comfort in the chaos of the squared circle. A move to LA seven years ago shifted his focus to stunts and martial arts. Justin was assistant stunt

coordinator on History Channel’s andrew Jackson and is robert Goodwin’s right-hand man at Film Fighting LA – training in kali, Hong-Kong styles and various weapons. He’s also spent time being humbled by the likes of “Judo” Gene Lebell and Benny “The Jet” urquidez. Justin’s love of video games melded with his passion for wrestling as he directed cinematics for the past three iterations of the WWE SmackDown vs. raw franchise. Justin’s debut novel, Still man Fights, is available wherever fine e-books are sold. He tips his hat to those making a living taking bumps.

TiMoTHY TALBoTT (Billy Heartland / old Glory / Cameraman, understudy for The Bad Guy)Timothy was born in Irving, Texas. At an early age he was fascinated with pro wrestling, TV and movies. He wanted to become a larger than life hero. Watching the stars like John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, and even Hulk Hogan he knew that his height at 6’3 would one day make him a movie star. When he was 19 years old he started following his dream of entertainment by joining a small wrestling outfit, Texas outlaw Promotions (ToPS). From there he rose to the top of the organization and became Texas heavyweight champion. There he also learned that entertaining the audience was a much greater reward than anything he had seen before. Hollywood is his true calling. Arriving in 2003, he quickly got started with stunt work and stage fighting for indie flicks The Last Bad neighborhood and La La Land. As an actor he has tremendous stage presence and makes bold creative choices that make directors sit up in awe. After being cast for a small role in anaheim The Film the writer/director quickly noticed his talents and rewrote the movie to feature Timothy as the main villain. Timothy’s comedic timing is that of the old school straight man and with the wrestling background, his physical comedy is truly a must see. Timothy tries to choose diversified roles and take chances with every genre and always approaches everything he does with commitment, humor and grace.

STEVE VALENTiNE(Everett K. olson — EKo)Born in Scotland, raised near London, Steve Valentine trained as an actor from the age of five. He made his stage debut at seven, playing Chululongkorn in a production of The King and i. From there, it was a wild journey getting to the uS. At eighteen, Steve ran a nightclub in yugoslavia, escaping to Italy when war broke out. He then entertained troops as a stand-up comedian, performing in the Belize jungle, Northern Ireland, and the Falkland Islands. Steve has also worked at the riviera in Las Vegas and the world famous Magic Castle in Hollywood, where he’s a multi award winner. As an actor, Steve has appeared in a dozen movies and over 200 hours of television, including series regular roles on NBC’s Crossing Jordan and Disney’s i’m in the Band. He also hosted SyFy’s Estate of Panic, which was nominated for a rose D’or. Steve is currently developing two series for network television and his graphic novel, Crimeworld, will soon be released. Best of all, he recently became a uS citizen!

KRiSToFFER DiAZ (Playwright)Full-length titles include The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, Welcome to arroyo’s, Guernica, and #therevolution. Awards: New york Times outstanding Playwright Award; Lucille Lortel Award for outstanding Play; Village Voice obie Award for Best New American Play; the inaugural Gali Merrifield Papp Fellowship from the Public Theater; finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. His work has been produced, commissioned, and developed at The Public Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Geffen Playhouse, Center Theatre Group, The Goodman, Second Stage, Victory Gardens, oregon Shakespeare Festival, Actors Theater of Louisville, American Theatre Company, The Atlantic, InterAct, Mixed Blood, The orchard Project, Hip-Hop Theater Festival, The Lark, Summer Play Festival, Donmar Warehouse, and South Coast repertory. He has written short work for the 24 Hour Musicals and the 24 Hour Plays on Broadway. Kristoffer was one of the creators of Brink!, the apprentice anthology show at the 2009 Humana Festival of New American Plays. He is a playwright-in-residence at Teatro Vista; a resident playwright at New Dramatists; a co-founder of the unit Collective; and a recipient of the Jerome Fellowship, the


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Future Aesthetics Artist regrant and the Van Lier Fellowship. Kristoffer holds a BA from New york university’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, an MFA from Nyu’s Department of Dramatic Writing, and an MFA from Brooklyn College’s Performing Arts Management program. EDWARD ToRRES (Director)Edward Torres is the Co-Founder and the current Artistic Director for Teatro Vista...Theatre with a View (in association with the Goodman Theatre). As Artistic Director, Mr. Torres has produced over 25 plays in the last twelve years. one of Mr. Torres’ most notable honors includes receiving the 2010 Jeff Award (Equity Wing) for Best Direction and Best Production for the The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Victory Gardens/Teatro Vista), which off Broadway premiere was also under his direction at Second Stage (2010 NyC Lortel for outstanding Play and obie for Best Play). He will as well make his Goodman Theatre/Teatro Vista directing debut with Fish men by Candido Tirado. Mr. Torres holds a BA in theatre from roosevelt university in Chicago and an MFA in Film from Columbia College. Mr. Torres currently serves on the Illinois Arts Council, National Endowment for the Arts-Theatre Panel (2005-2007) and on the MAP Fund-Theatre Panel (2008). Additional directorial credits for Teatro Vista include: The Show host and aurora’s motive (Jaime Pachino), ambrosio (romulus Linney), icarus (Edwin Sanchez), and The Boiler room (rubin Gonzales). Directorial credits for Latino Chicago includes Lolita De Lares (Migdalia Cruz).

BRiAN SiDNEY BEMBRiDGE (Scenic Designer)Brian returns to LA, where he has designed sets and lights for over a dozen shows for Circle x (Company Member), Boston Court, and Ensemble Studio Theatre LA, among others. Brian’s off-Broadway credits include The Public Theater, Second Stage Theatre, Jean Cocteau repertory Theatre, Kids with Guns and Theatre @ St. Clement’s. regional credits include, Guthrie Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Alliance Theatre, Arden Theatre Company, The Children’s Theatre Company, California Shakespeare Theater, round House Theatre, Virginia opera, opera omaha, Milwaukee repertory Theater, Madison repertory Theatre and Dallas Theatre Company, among others. His Chicago credits include Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, The Goodman Theatre, The Second City, Lookingglass Theatre Company (Company Member), Court Theatre, The Chicago Theatre, ravinia Festival, the Drury Lane theaters, Luna Negra Dance Theater, Writers’ Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater, TimeLine Theatre Company (Artistic Associ-ate) and Teatro Vista (Artistic Associate) among others. His film

production design credits include Wallace Shawn’s marie and Bruce; holding out; Stray Dogs. Mr. Bembridge has been honored with five Jeff Awards, three Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards, two Back Stage Garland Awards, an ovation Award and an La Weekly Award, and was named one of the five most prolific theater artists of the decade by Time out Chicago. briansidneybembridge.com

CHRiSTiNA HAATAiNEN JoNES (Costume Design)Tina most recently designed the costumes for the Geffen’s production of nightmare alley. other designs at the Geffen: Quality of Life; Joan rivers; a Picasso; Fat Pig; God of hell; Take me out; Steve Martin’s The underpants; i Just Stopped By to See the man; Boy Gets Girl; Neil Simon’s oscar and Felix: a new Look at The odd Couple; God’s man in Texas; all in the Timing; and the David Mamet plays The Cryptogram and The old neighborhood. regionally she has designed for the old Globe Theatre, The La Jolla Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, Denver Center Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Antaeus, Noise Within and the Lewis Family Playhouse among others. Tina is the Director of Design at the uSC School of Theatre.

JESSE KLUG (Lighting Designer)National Tour of The Screwtape Letters. off Broadway: The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Second Stage, Hewes Nomination), The Screwtape Letters (Westside Arts). romulus (Guggenheim Museum), The hourglass (NyMTF). regional: Chicago Shakespeare, Drury Lane, Goodman Theatre, Victory Gardens, Lookingglass Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Court Theatre, Writers Theatre, Marriott Theatre, Timeline Theatre, American Theatre Company, Fulton Theatre, Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, Portland Center Stage, Boars Head Theatre, American Theatre Company, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Milwaukee repertory, Noble Fool, Chicago Dramatist. resident Lighting Designer for Drury Lane, route 66, and Chicago Tap Theatre. Jeff, and After Dark award winner. www.jessekluglightingdesign.com

MiKHAiL FiKSEL (Sound Design/Composition)Mikhail is excited for his debut with The Geffen. Based in Chicago, he is an ensemble member of Strawdog Theatre Company and 2nd Story, an Artistic Associate with Teatro Vista, Collaboraction and redmoon Theatre and on the faculty at Loyola university. This is his 3rd production of Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, having worked on its world premiere by Chicago’s Victory Gardens and Teatro Vista (2010 Jeff Award Nomination) and on its off-Broadway premiere at 2nd Stage Theatre (2011 Lucille Award and 2011 Henry Hewes Design Award Nomination). other recent Chicago credits include The real

Thing and Travels with my aunt (Writers Theater); Tree, Living Green (Victory Gardens); master & margarita, The Good Soul of Szechuan, uncle Vanya, Cherry orchard and old Town (Strawdog); Pirates of Penzance, Frankenstein, oedipus (The Hypocrites); The Winter Pageant, Last of my Species, The Cabinet (redmoon Theater); 26 miles, Blindmouth Singing (Teatro Vista); 1001, Jon and intelligent Design of Jenny Chow (Collaboraction); a War with the newts, The u.n. inspector (Next); awake & Sing (Northlight); Feast (Albany Park Theatre Project); massacre (The Goodman Theatre). regional, off-Broadway and international projects include mauritius (Milwaukee Chamber Theatre); in The next room (St. Louis repertory), Festival FiLo (Londrina, Brazil) and The Fool (Arnhem, Holland). He was recently awarded the Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award and received his 5th Joseph Jefferson Award, in addition to an AfterDark Award and an orgie Award for original Music. When he is not busy fighting crime, he is performing or recording with his band Seeking Wonderland or the dynamic dj duo The ordeal. www.mikhailfiksel.com

PETER NiGRiNi (Projection Design) Peter has designed projection on Broadway for Fela!, 9 to 5: The musical and Say Goodnight Gracie. other designs include the Grace Jones hurricane Tour, Der Ferne Klang, (Bard Summerscape), haroun and the Sea of Stories (City opera), Blind Date (Bill T. Jones/Arnie zane Dance), Fetch Clay, make man (McCarter Theater Center), The orphan of Zhao (Lincoln Center Festival), Sweet Bird of Youth (Williamstown), Dido and aeneas (Handel Haydn Society), Biro (the Public Theater) and Wings (2nd Stage). For Nature Theater of oklahoma, no Dice (2008 obie Award), romeo and Juliet (Salzburger Festspiele) and Life and Times, Epiode 1&2 (Burgtheater, Vienna) among others. He was also the designer on Becoming helen Keller (PBS american masters), his current projects include here Lies Love at the public theatre and the off-Broadway revival of rent.

DAViD WooLLEY, S.A.F.D (Fight Director)David Woolley is a Fight Master with the Society of American Fight Directors, a Senior Lecturer at Columbia College Chicago, and Guido Crescendo in Dirk and Guido the Swordsmen! He has staged fights for over 500 productions in his 30 year career as a theatrical fight director based out of Chicago. Most recent work includes: as You Like it , Chicago Shakespeare; Billy Elliott at the oriental Theater; David Cromer’s a Streetcar named Desire at Writer’s Theatre and Cherrywood at Mary Archie; and The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, at both Victory Gardens/Teatro Vista (Joseph Jefferson Award for Fight Direction) and Second Stage, NyC. At Columbia College Chicago he oversees the violence needs

of a burgeoning department (23 shows this semester!) and teaches three classes of combative arts. He is currently performing in his 22nd season as Guido, now at the ohio renaissance Faire.

YoUNG Ji (Production Stage Manager) Geffen Playhouse: Extraordinary Chambers, in mother Words, Love Loss & What i Wore, ricky Jay: a rogue’s Gallery; Louis & Keely: Live at the Sahara. Center Theatre Group: The Cherry orchard (Taper); Wrecks, Trial of the Catonsville nine, Pyrenees, a Very old man with Enormous Wings, apollo, Flight, New Works Festival (Kirk Douglas Theatre); Speak to Me (CTG P.L.A.y. in-school program). other Los Angeles includes Antaeus Company: Cousin Bette, King Lear, The autumn Garden (Producer); La ronde, The Glass menagerie (Director); american Tales, Tonight at 8:30, Phaedra (Getty Villa), ClassicsFests 04, 06, 08, 10, mother Courage and her Children, Pera Palas, The Dickens Project, Chekhov X 4 (Production Stage Manager). LA Theater Works: Secret order, Sonia Flew, Work Song; Matrix Theater: Dealing with Clair; Theatre@Boston Court: a Winter People. Tour: Jerry Quickley’s Live from the Front in Finland: urban Festival, NyC: Public Theater, Apollo Theater, Portland: TBA Festival, Seattle: Bumbershoot Festival, and others; Mariachi Los Camperos De Nati Cano; Fiesta navidad ’06.

GARY J. BREiTBACH (Assistant Stage Manager)Gary is happy to be making his Geffen Playhouse debut with The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity. Local Stage Managing credits include: 1776 at Musical Theatre West, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Full monty, Fiddler on the roof and Bye, Bye Birdie at Civic Light opera of South Bay Cities. Assistant Stage Manager for; oliver, annie Get Your Gun, Sophisticated Ladies, Kiss me Kate, Twice upon a Time, Cinderella and miss Saigon with CLoSBC. other Stage Management credits include: miss Saigon with North Carolina Theatre, Diva on the Verge staring Julia Migenes at the Sydney opera House, how To Talk minnesotan, Guys on ice - The ice Fishing musical, a Closer Walk With Patsy Cline, Cotton Patch Gospel and The Lovely Liebowitz Sisters. National tours include; Same Time next Year with Adrian zmed and Mackenzie Phillips, The Sunshine Boys with Dick VanPatten and Frank Gorshin, The Fantastics, Pump Boys and Dinettes, a Christmas Carol, miracle on 34th Street, and Blast ii Shockwave. recently Gary was involved with the staged readings of Beatrice’s Goat for Heifer International and Standing on Ceremony – The Gay marriage Plays benefitting California Equality.

PHYLLiS SCHURiNGA (Casting Director) Phyllis is in her ninth season as Casting Director at the Geffen Playhouse. recent plays include: The Escort, ruined




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(LA Casting), Equivocation, matthew modine Saves the alpacas, Farragut north, The Seafarer, Time Stands Still, By the Waters of Babylon, The Quality of Life and Third. Prior to the Geffen, Phyllis served as casting director for the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago. 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 for Best revival) and The Song of Jacob Zulu. She teaches auditioning at Steppenwolf West.

AMY LEViNSoN (Dramaturg)Amy Levinson is the Literary Manager and Dramaturg of the Geffen Playhouse. Her dramaturgy credits at the Geffen Playhouse include The Weir, Looking for normal, Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks, under The Blue Sky, rose and Walsh, Boy Gets Girl, i Just Stopped By To See The man, Cat on a hot Tin roof, Third, The Quality of Life and Equivocation among others. Also a translator of yiddish drama, she holds an MFA in Dramaturgy from the university of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she taught until 1997. She has worked in literary offices at Hartford Stage and The Mark Taper Forum.

GiLBERT CATES(Producing Director) Gilbert Cates is recognized as a leader in television, film and theater. Currently presiding as the Producing Director of the Geffen Playhouse, he is dedicated to enriching the Los Angeles theatrical spectrum by presenting the finest in contemporary and classical theater. In November 1996, Cates was the recipient of the Jimmy Dolittle Award for outstanding Contribution to Los Angeles Theater. He received the 1999 ovation Award for best play for Collected Stories, starring Linda Lavin and Samantha Mathis, which he directed at the Geffen. The accolades for Cates expand into other areas of the entertainment industry. He produced and directed the 1970 film version of the Broadway hit i never Sang for my Father, starring Melvyn Douglas,

Gene Hackman and Estelle Parsons. The movie earned three Academy Award nominations. Cates also directed Joanne Woodward and Sylvia Sidney in the 1973 film Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams, which received two oscar nominations. other film directing credits include: The Promise, one Summer Love, The Last married Couple in america, oh! God Book ii and Backfire. He further distinguished himself as director and/or producer of a number of television dramatic specials. These include NBC’s 1972 Emmy Award-winning To all my Friends on Shore, starring Bill Cosby, ABC’s 1974 The affair starring Natalie Wood and robert Wagner, NBC’s 1975 after the Fall starring Faye Dunaway and Christopher Plummer. other credits include: Johnny, We hardly Knew Ye, The Kid from nowhere, County Gold, Faerie Tale Theater’s rapunzel and Goldilocks and the Three Bears, hobson’s Choice, Burning rage, Consenting adults, Fatal Judgment, Do You Know the muffin man, Call me anna, absolute Strangers, in my Daughter’s name, and Tom Clancy’s netforce (Cates directed James Agee’s a Death in the Family for Masterpiece Theater’s American Collection of PBS and Donald Margulies’ Collected Stories for PBS hollywood Presents). In September 2002, he directed David Eldridge’s under the Blue Sky for The Geffen Playhouse and directed Cat on a hot Tin roof in 2005, the inaugural production in the newly-renovated Geffen Playhouse. In February 2007 he directed Jeffrey Hatcher’s a Picasso in the Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater. He served two terms as President of the Directors Guild of America from 1983 to 1987. In 1989, he received the Guild’s robert B. Aldrich Award for extraordinary service and, in 1991, he received the DGA’s Honorary Life Membership. He also served as Dean of the uCLA School of Theater Film and Television (which he founded) from 1990—1998. In 2008, Cates produced the 80th annual academy awards show for ABC, his 14th occasion producing the Awards, for which he has already garnered 84 nominations and 17 Emmy Awards. Mr Cates was born in New york City and attended Syracuse university. Married to Dr. Judith reichman, he has four children, two stepchildren and six grandchildren.

RANDALL ARNEY (Artistic Director)randall Arney is known to Geffen audiences for his direction of The Female of the Species by Joanna

Murray-Smith; Speed the Plow by David Mamet; all my Sons by Arthur Miller, richard Greenberg’s Take me out, Stephen Jeffreys’ i Just Stopped by to See the man, rebecca Gilman’s Boy Gets Girl, David rambo’s God’s man in Texas and Conor McPherson’s The Weir and The Seafarer. He is an ensemble member and former Artistic Director of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre, where he directed The Seafarer; i Just Stopped by to See the man; The Beauty Queen of Leenane; Death and the maiden; Curse of the Starving Class; Bang; a Walk in the Woods; Killers and The Geography of Luck. In addition, he directed the world premiere of Picasso at the Lapin agile at Steppenwolf, as well as the subsequent Los Angeles (Westwood Playhouse, Drama-Logue Critics’ Award), off-Broadway, San Francisco, Washington D.C. and Tokyo productions. In Chicago, he oversaw the design, creation and completion of a new state-of-the-art theatre with a mainstage and studio. 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’s acting credits with Steppenwolf include Born Yesterday (opposite Glenne Headly); Ghost in the machine; The homecoming; Frank’s Wild Years (with Tom Waits, directed by Gary Sinise); You Can’t Take it With You; Fool for Love; True West (directed by Gary Sinise); and Balm in Gilead and Coyote ugly (both directed by John Malkovich). on film he has appeared in normal and Weapons of mass Distraction (HBo); mystery, alaska; The out-of-Towners; Chain reaction; The Color of money and miles from home. Mr. Arney has an MFA degree in Acting and has taught acting and directing at Columbia College in Chicago and Illinois State university. He has also held master classes and workshops at Steppenwolf, around the u.S., and in Tokyo.

KEN NoViCE(Managing Director) Prior to joining Geffen Playhouse Novice served as Managing Director and Director of External Affairs at Pasadena Playhouse. Prior to that he was Director of Marketing and Public relations for San Diego’s Tony Award-winning old Globe Theatre developing marketing and public relations programs for Jack o’Brien’s revival of Damn Yankees, the Tony Award-

nominated musical The Full monty, henry iV starring John Goodman as well as the Tony-nominated hit Play on! among many others. Novice’s credits also include marketing and public relations with the Tony Award-winning Denver Center Theater Company and New york’s Circle repertory Company. As Director of Programming for youthStream Media Networks he developed national marketing and public relations programs for major motion pictures from Columbia Pictures, DreamWorks S. K. G. , Buena Vista Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Fox Broadcasting, 20th Century Fox, MGM, New Line Cinema and Warner Brothers Pictures. He also managed Ken Novice Entertainment Marketing, working with such clients as The Salvation Army, Sephra Fountains LLC, and promotional partners including Warner Brothers, American Express and Gelson’s among others. Novice served as Head of Theatre Management for the California State university Long Beach theatre management M. F. A. / M. B. A. degree program and has been a guest lecturer at San Diego State university and the university of California, San Diego. He holds a B. A. from the Pennsylvania State university and an M. B. A. from San Diego State university.

SECoND STAGE THEATRE Producer of the New york run of The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, Second Stage Theatre was founded in 1979 under the leadership of artistic director Carole rothman. It produces a diverse range of premieres and new interpretations of America’s best contemporary theatre, including such productions as Let me Down Easy, Everyday rapture, Becky Shaw, animals out of Paper, Edward Albee’s Peter and Jerry, The Little Dog Laughed, The 25th annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Crowns, Jitney, Saturday night, The Good Times are Killing me, This is our Youth and Coastal Disturbances. The company’s more than 125 citations include the Pulitzer Prize, seven Tony Awards, the 2002 Lucille Lortel Award for outstanding Body of Work, 26 obie Awards, six outer Critics Circle Awards, two Clarence Derwent Awards, 12 Drama Desk Awards, nine Theatre World Awards, 11 Lucille Lortel Awards, the Drama Critics Circle Award and 15 AuDELCo Awards. www.2st.com.


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ACkNOWLEDGEMENTS

PRODUCTION STAFF FOR THE ELABorATE ENTrANCE oF CHAD DEITy

Deck Supervisor Dwayne BarnesMaster Electrician Darren RezowalliSound Master James GrabowskiWardrobe Supervisor Leah A. LewisProduction Assistant Leia Crawford Associate Fight Director Ned MochelFollowspot operator/Assistant Master Electrician Yelena BabinskayaAssistant Lighting Designer greg hofmannAssistant Set Designer Stephen RickerAssistant Sound Designer Beth LakeAssistant Projection Designer C. Andrew BauerProjection Editor dan vatskyProjection Programmer benjamin keightleyVideo Shoot Line Producer steven paraToreAssistant Costume Designer Holly Victoria

ACkNOWLEDGEMENTS

Set provided by scenic highlightsLighting Equipment provided by Entertainment Lighting ServicesSound Equipment provided by Jon Sound Inc.

SPECIAL THANkS

UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television Scene, Prop, Sound and Costume Shops, London Cleaners, Peet’s Coffee and Tea, Susan Barras, Roy Gabay Productions and PRG

UCLA SCHOOL OF THEATER, FILM AND TELEVISION

The Geffen Playhouse is affiliated with the university of California at Los Angeles, specifically the uCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. The 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 Donald Margulies, Annette Bening, Ed Harris, Neil LaBute, John rando, Terrence McNally, Alan Ayckbourn, David Mamet, David Ives and Jon robin Baitz in areas of directing, playwriting, acting, design, dramaturgy, management and production. The Geffen Playhouse also draws upon the distinguished experts in the university to enhance the theater’s programs and research.

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.

The director is a member of the society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Inc., an independent national labor union.




SIGNATURE SERIES SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT

THE GEFFEN IS THrILLED To WELCoME BACK West restaurant & Lounge as the official restaurant partner for Lounge Fridays this season! High atop the iconic Hotel Angeleno sits West restaurant and Lounge, a savvy penthouse level steakhouse, known for its breathtaking 200 degree views of Los Angeles and the Pacific ocean, flavorful mix of grilled and roasted all-natural meats, and an extensive list of unique Californian and Italian wines. The menu features farmer’s market fresh dishes like Jidori Chicken, organic Spinach and ricotta ravioli, Pan roasted Loch Duart Salmon and premium steaks ranging from a Chateau Filet to 28 oz. Porterhouse.

In addition, guests can enjoy live music throughout the week with performances by notable local jazz musicians and contemporary artists in the West Lounge a laid back section of the restaurant perfect for enjoying good conversation, a martini and champagne and small bites in the Bubbles & Bites Champagne Lounge. The warm and inviting ambiance, standout service, live jazz sessions in the lounge and breathtaking panoramic views of the city are just a taste of why people continue to go West.

The Geffen Playhouse looks forward to another season filled with delicious signature dishes from West restaurant & Lounge! Check our Facebook page regularly for updates on menu items that will be served at Lounge Fridays.

Next Fallnovember 18 & november 25

Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins

january 27 & february 3

Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie

november 25

The Jacksonianfebruary 3

The Exorcistjuly 27 & august 3

Good Peopleapril 27 &

may 4

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MARTiAN RANCHMartian ranch is an eclectic grower of grape varieties both esoteric and otherwise. They are a young, biodynamically-farmed vineyard on Alisos Canyon road in the Santa ynez Valley where they take their farming much more seriously than they take themselves. Martian ranch is the creation of its proprietor Nan Helgeland. Despite rumors to the contrary of out-of-this-world intervention, “Martian” is the melding of the names of her sons Martin and Ian.

The property is planted to 20 acres of Mediterranean and Iberian grape varieties, the grapes they like to drink. The grapes thrive in the warm central coast climate, making the wine ideal accompaniments to the food of the area. Their new winery should be ready to accept visitors at the beginning of 2012, so plan to stop by when visiting the area.

WiNEGRoWERS oF DRY CREEK VALLEYDry Creek Valley is located one hour north of San Francisco, nestled within the rolling hills just outside of Healdsburg in Sonoma County. Winegrowers of Dry Creek Valley is a trade association consisting of more than 60 wineries and 150 winegrape growers to promote the region’s multigenerational w ine and grape heritage. Many 100+ year-old vines are still in production, enabling winemakers to craft extraordinarily complex wine.

zinfandel is the grape for which Dry Creek Valley is probably best-known, although Cabernet Sauvignon, Petite Sirah and Sauvignon Blanc play integral roles in maintaining the region’s reputation as a go-to appellation for great, artisan-produced wine. Most of the growers engage in sustainable farming practices, with many having attained organic or biodynamic certification of their vineyard sources.


Next Fallnovember 6, 13, 20 & 27

december 4


january 15, 22 & 29 february 5 & 12


november 13, 20 & 27 december 4

The Jacksonianfebruary 5 & 12

The Exorcistjuly 15, 22 & 29august 5 & 12

Good Peopleapril 15, 22 & 29

may 6 & 13

Winegrowers of Dry Creek Valley, red Hot Patriot wine partner

martian ranch Vineyards, Next Fall & radiance wine partner

malibu Family Wines, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity wine partner

october 25 — december 4, 2011

Next FallWritten by Geoffrey NaufftsDirecteD by Sheryl KallerWest Coast Premiere

2010 tony aWard nominee

“Artful, thoughtful and very moving.” – new york times

“Surprisingly hilarious.” – new york Post

january 3 — february 12, 2012


Written by Margaret Engel & Allison EngelDirecteD by David EsbjornsonFeaturing Kathleen TurnerWest Coast Premiere

“See this play!”— Politics Daily

only available by subscription

april 3 — may 13, 2012

Good PeopleWritten by David Lindsay-AbaireJUST ANNOUNCED!West Coast Premiere

2010 tony aWard nominee

Pulitzer Prize Winning PlayWright


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july 3 - august 12, 2012

The ExorcistWritten by John PielmeieraDaPteD From the book by William Peter BlattyDirecteD by John DoyleWorld Premiere

tony aWard Winning direCtor

november 1 — december 11, 2011


Written by Alan AldaDirecteD by Daniel SullivanWorld Premiere


only available by subscription In the Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater at the Geffen Playhouse

only available by subscription In the Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater at the Geffen Playhouse

january 31 — march 11, 2012

The JacksonianWritten by Beth HenleyDirecteD by Robert FallsFeaturing Ed Harris, Glenne Headly, Amy Madigan & Bill PullmanWorld Premiere

Pulitzer Prize Winning PlayWright


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CYNTHIA STAFFORD’S GIFTED DAY AT THE GEFFEN JUNE 15, 2011

Thank you to our Board member Cynthia Stafford for inspiring hundreds of youth who were able to attend Superior Donuts thanks to her generosity!

tO FInd Out mOre abOut tHIs day and Our OtHer educatIOn and OutreacH PrOGrams Or tO suPPOrt tHem

Please call the development department at 310.208.6500 ext.112

“I was a boy born in areas people think of as the ghetto. Now I’m a young man getting good grades, knowing my subjects,

taking the opportunity my teachers gave to me. I am proving them wrong and will continue. I was stamped a failure, but

now I am and will be somebody.”

— Jeray Eighth grade student at markham middle School,

one of many students inspired by his day at the Geffen Playhouse

“I can tell you that the trip to the Geffen and the play Superior Donuts was truly a wondrous event. I can’t believe

how perfect that performance was for middle school kids! We had an outstanding time and it was very well organized. I hope that our students will have similar opportunities in the future.”

— Kit mcconnell, nbctr.L. Stevenson middle School

English Language arts Department



UP NIGHTS AT THE GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE: SkID ROW THEATER INITIATIVE

“Wow! I can’t imagine being more inspired by anything! I left the theatre feeling like I was walking on air!”

“I used to perform professionally when I as younger and then many things happened in my life.

This made me want to go back to acting, writing and singing again. Thank you and God bless you.”

“I now truly believe that through art many lives can be changed.”

— skid row theater Initiative attendees

In partnership with urban Possibilities (uP) — a Los Angeles-based non-profit whose mission is to inspire the homeless and working poor striving to become contributing citizens — the Geffen Playhouse continues its Skid row outreach program for all Gil Cates Theater productions.

The first portion of uP Nights takes place at the James Woods Community Center on 5th Street and San Julian in the heart of Skid row, where Geffen Playhouse Education Director Debra Pasquerette and uP Executive Director Evyette Jones-Johnson lead a discussion with the uP clients scheduled to attend the theater. The discussion is based on study materials created by the Geffen Playhouse’s Education Department, which explores each show’s characters, plot, historical context and themes that specifically impact the lives of uP clients.

uP Nights culminate at the Geffen Playhouse where clients are invited to attend a Talk Back Tuesday performance, which includes a post-show discussion with the actors and creative team. For some attendees this outreach allows them to see their very first play; for others it may have been decades since their last experience at a theater. Following their visit to the Geffen, Debra and Eyvette host a post-show workshop with the attendees of the performance at the James Woods Community Center.

GeFFen PLayHOuse educatIOn and OutreacH PrOGrams are desIGned tO PrOvIde sustaInabLe and LastInG

artIstIc ImPressIOns On tHe dIverse POPuLatIOns tHey serve. For more information on this initiative or those serving the elderly, students and veterans,

please contact the education and Outreach department at 310.208.6500 ext.156


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The cast of Superior Donuts with artistic Director randy arney and Producing Director Gil Cates

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Geffen Playhouse Chairman’s Circle donors Donna mcKenna and Flynn Chernos

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and Dr. Harold J. DelchampsNick CassavetesValarie de la Garza and Michael CentenoJosh ChaitLisa, Michael and rachel ChalfinMs. Martha ChaseChef Jaydene o’ConnorCirque du SoleilLaurel and Aaron ClarkScott ClarksonSandy ClimanJon CohenLinda and John ColemanLou ColenTerri Konheim CooperDonald and zoe CosgroveMichael and Arline CovellCreative BrandJeremiah CuertasNancy A. CypertDaedalus Foundation, IncStephen Philibosian FoundationSandy DaneshradShirley Lu and Norman DavidsonSky DaytonJason DelaneDeluscious CookiesDawn DeNoonJonathan DerosaDr. udayakumar DevaskarVin Di Bona and Erica GerardNicolina Clark and robert DinlockerWil* and Glorya DixonTremecca D. DossSteven DubinGerald and Sally Ducotrichard DuffyWilliam DuncanMarilyn P. Dunnrich S. EisenDr. and Mrs. Paul EisenbergJeff EisfelderColleen M. EllisKevin Watts and Christine EnlowCarl and Courtenay EnrightDaniel EricksonMica ErtegunCarol and J.B. EsterkinDean FactorBill FagerbakkeMark FeldmanAlex FerrariGloria and Morton Fieldrabbi Harvey and Sybil Fieldsrobert FinkelsteinTommy FinkelsteinEric Flamholtz and yvonne randleBurt and Nanette ForesterJoseph FrancisFreshSarah Leonard Fine JewelersTom FullerFuture LightingMike Gaineyrichard GallettiKathleen GarfieldInez Gelfandrick GenowPaul and Cheri GiengerHarry A. Gilbertrose GilbertKiki and David GindlerPriscila GiraldoCherna and Dr. Gary GitnickJacqueline M. Glass

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The Geffen Playhouse recognizes the following individuals and organizations for their generous support of our Annual Fund. Donors are listed at the associate level and higher for gifts made between April 1, 2010 and July 15, 2011.



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Vincent LupoMeyer and renee LuskinMalibu Beach InnThe Jennifer and Greg Malins FoundationGary MaloufBrian MannElizabeth MarcellinoEric G.C. MarkMarketCastSteve MarkoffMarlborough SchoolDan MarrowPaul MartinoMax MashourMaurice Amado FoundationLesia and William MaxwellKaren MbanefoNancy McCabePatrick McCabeJohn McCrite and Juan LopezJanis B. McEldowneySue McHugh and Herb SeeseDianne and Burton MerrillMona MetwalliThe Miles FamilyBarbara and Fred MillerPhilip MillerAndrew and Laura MintzerBarbara J. MitchellDr. Kirstin Moerk, Mr. Neil E. Woodburn,

Mr. Malcolm r. Down, Kenneth r. Johnson In Memory of Larry G. Mathis

Joanne and Joel MogyLaurie and Chuck Mondrusrich and Michele MonossonJonathan D. Moonvesrobert S. MooreMorgan StanleyLowell M. MorgenGarry Morris and Kent Harrison HayesDavid MorseLon Morse and Toni Hollander MorseKate MowleneJohn K. MurphyBenjamin and Hedy NazarianAndrew H. NewmanJoan and Fred NicholasAlbert and Barbara NicholsSusan Bay Nimoy and Leonard NimoyChase P. offieldGerald and Gail oppenheimerSteve and Judy orichLaura ornestPearl o’rourkeGuy osearyCarol and Bill ouchiCharles PachecoJason PackhamLaurie MacDonald and Walter ParkesCouncil Member Bernard C. and

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and Travis PowersGary rabinEdward C. rainey, Jr. and Scott C. Britainrichard rasiej and Joan Hermanrob reinerDonald B. and Susan F. riceIn Memory of Frances richmanEsther and Howard richmondLinda and Manny riderCarol and Ward ritterBeth roberts and Warren SmithDoug robinsonJames rodayDolores rogersSusan roseBrad and Nancy rosenbergKenneth and rochelle rosenbergSue Weiss rosenwasser and Joseph SinayMarlene rotblatt and FamilyTodd rubensteinBlanche and Bruce Joel rubinKathleen Hughes rubin and Stanley rubinPaula and Allan rudnick

Lawrence rudolphDavid A. and Karen richards SachsBob SafaiThomas L. Safranrichard and Amber SakaiDaphna SalimpourJanet Salter

In Memory of Hon. Maxwell Hillary Salter

Mark San FilippoWendy SchneiderJonathan SchwartzSteve SchwartzJonas ScottSe San Diego HotelCynthia C. SearsJed SeidelEric SemelMichele and Peter SerchukMike SextonAndrew ShackMartin ShaferGeorge Shapirorobert ShapiroLowell SharronTraci SheltonDora r. SherDiane Sherman-Smith

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Elaine and Donald WolfFred WolfKaren and rick WolfenMimi and Werner F. WolfenJames WongMichael yoshinoMs. Patricia youngmanJacques youssefmiryves Saint LaurentDean zanderDebra zavala and Alpha zavalaBarbara and Stanley zaxEllen and Arnold zetcherDavid and Ellie zuckermanBryan zuriffAdam zwicker

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In Memory of Maxine HandelmanJudy BoekenSherry Borkgrenreveta Bowersrobert BoynePaula BrandKevin BreenLionel BrownJanet and Mark Brownrebecca BrownHoward D. BrowneGerald BuckbergDr. r.W.G. BugentalMarcia BurnamDianne Burnett and Joan MinervaJon BykBruce CarrJanet regina ChapmanBarry CharlesJudy and Mike FantasiaCoachKen CoelhoDonell CohenTed CordesCraft Los AngelesSusan Georgine CraigPatrick CranleyValerie and Donald CravitzSharon DarnovDiana Davidow and Deborah ConstanceJeffrey S. Davidsonruth B. Davis and Pearl SchultzMrs. Dom DeLuiseAtum DeMonteJennifer and Jeffrey DenkerDaniel and Gayle DevinMr. and Mrs. Dennis DietzKevin and Elizabeth DillCarol Jean DoehringJonathan and Susan DolgenFred and Marilyn DorerDee Dee DorskindAnne Dougherty and David B. DobrikinPaul DowlingThe Milton L. and Betty J. Dranow

Family FoundationPatricia L. EisenbergMike ElisofonDoug EndicottElizabeth A. EvansExxon Mobil Corporation/

Matching Gifts Programsrebekah and Howard FarberMarjorie L. FasmanSusan and Mark FienSteven and randy FifieldMarjorie and Arthur FineSydney M. Finegold, M.D.Dr. Barbara FishMeg Fisher

Michael and Lynne FlynnCharles L. FonarowJ.D. Foxrhonda FrancesLorraine FrankelFran Fredella and Scott rubinDottie FriebandMichael Shaw and Janie FriedAndrew and Jennifer FriedmanFranky and Art FriedmanGwen and Jacob FriendL.T. FriesenSandy GageHelena GalatoloLois and Gerald GallopSharlene and Sol GalperLee GardenswartzBrian GeltCharles GerberJeff GerberMr. and Mrs. Fereydoon GhaffariPeter and Namhee GilhulyBenita and Bert GinsbergWilliam and Charlene GlikbargDr. and Mrs. Lee B. GoldDr. Irene GoldenbergLouis and Linda GoldsmanAbner and roz GoldstineEllie GoodmanLori and robert GoodmanIn Memory of Eugene S. GoodwinGotta Have S’moresSimon GratyGary GrossNeelam GuptaLouise Halevy and Kenneth ErlichPeter E. HallCarolyn and Bernard Hamiltonrobert HardingKay HarringtonMs. Arlene HarrisDr. and Mrs. Samuel HavesonGary HeckerPenny and Steve HeldMurray and Gail HeltzerNeal Hersh and Lynda KleinKathryn HibbsMarion and Todd HindinCina Hodgesrand Hoffman and Charlotte robinsonKelley M. HoganDr. Sharron HolmanAdrienne and Elliott HorwitchGerald Hundertrobin Hursh and FamilyTroy HutchinsonHarold and Evelyn Igdaloffrobert and Gail IsraelJ. CrewNancy and Len JacobySteve, Alex and Emma JaffeMelissa and Jonathan JaivinJil SanderLaurie JonesTrudy and Albert KallisMr. and Mrs. Bernard KamineMr. Stephen Kandelowen KatoNam Kim and Jeff Katemanrichard KindMr. and Mrs. William KingAnn and Jonathan KirschPhyllis KleinSuzanne K. KleinLaurie and Milton KlormanAndrew KnoxJay KogenBarbara and Stan KrasnoffFrumeh Labowrodger and Jennifer LandauJoan and Christopher LarkinAleyne Larner FawcettJill and Michael LaskyJeanne and Christopher LavagninoLarry Layne and Sheelagh BoydThe Lederer FamilyThe Bordy and Leibovic FamiliesAlexandra LeichterMatt LevinLydia LevyJoanne LindsayMrs. Monte E. LivingstonSteven Llanusa and Glenn MiyaJoe LotruglioMichael LyntonNeil L. and ora D. MacfarlaneJoann Magidow MesserSacha Malin and Dori LevanoniJoshua MalinaJeannette and Mervyn MandelbaumAlan Mandelbergruth K. March and FamilyBarry and Evie MarlinWilliam E. and Marcela H. McKenna

Dr. and Mrs. King M. MendelsohnDebra Michelregina and Wayne MillerLawrence MirischTrudy MonroSusan MooreCarol MoranBill MorinoSimona MorrisCaroline MossBill MullinsMax MutchnickFran NeimanJanice B. NelsenBetsy NewmanTimothy NoonanShelby Notkinrick Nyholmrobert and Monica o’Hagano’Melveny and Myers LLPMr. and Mrs. Martin PadillaPalace Head FoundationIn honor of Eunice, widow of

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Valerie CantwellMarlene and David CapellDeborah CarabetAndrew CarlbergCindy Carlin and Jeff roussoJill CarmonaCharles CarrGift Garden AntiquesLeigh Chapman and Peter WilkinsonMark Clymer and Marc Mullendorerobert CochranDr. Judy CohnDebra Colletti and Scott CooperIra and Marsha CoronDr. and Mrs. Earle E. CrandallStacy DalgleishHedva and Dudley DanoffJaye T. Darby and David FosterJeff and Pat DasteelPamela DavesJoel Davidman and Cheryl DavidChris and Lindsey DeemsHal and roberta DelevieLinda Levenson Delsack and Kurt DelsackAlan and DebbieVirginia DiBonaSuzanne and Bruce DoddsMarlene Davis and David L. DorseyDrs. Don and Donna DorseyDaryl and Paul F. DoucetteSusan B. DowneyDr. Laura’s Wholesome Junk FoodMr. and Mrs. Ed Dreyfusrachel and John EdwardsPat and Marvin ElliotDr. robert and Natalie EngelkirkValerie EntwellMauricio and Lidia EpelbaumAllan ErdyNorma Lorene EvansAlan and Barbara FaiolaJustice and Mrs. robert FeinermanAnonyMoose FoundationEarl I. FeldhornGladys FellmanArnold Anderson and Conchata FerrellAbby and Malcolm FieldMrs. Eva FieldLarry FieldFrances and Terry FlanaganElisabeth FleischmanWilliam and Elisabet FleischmanSheldon FogelSuzanne FollmerJanet FourticqGlenn and Jane FowlerDarryl FrankDorothy FrazierNadia and ray FreedLora FremontBarbara and Louis FriedmanKenneth J. Friedman and Marilynn J.

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ADMINISTRATIONFrankie ocasio Executive Assistant to the Managing DirectorMaryam Kermani Staff AccountantJanet Huynh Staff AccountantMaureen Lestelle Human resources/Benefits ManagerMarguerite Harris receptionist

FACILITIES MANAGEMENTMiguel del Castillo Facility ManagerVictor Cueva De Loera MaintenanceMario Santillan-Perez Custodial

PRODUCTIONDaniel ionazzi Production ManagerMatthew Carleton Technical DirectorJill Barnes Production CoordinatorDwayne Barnes Assistant Technical Director James Grabowski Sound MasterDarren Rezowalli Master ElectricianLeah A. Lewis Wardrobe Supervisor

COMMUNICATIONSAllison Rawlings Director of CommunicationsTyler Tangalin Communications Intern

MARkETING & SALESJoseph Yoshitomi Marketing DirectorKaren Gutierrez Associate Marketing DirectorMark San Filippo Ticket Services Director & Database Administratorivy Khan Marketing Coordinator Brian Dunning Graphics / Production ArtistStephanie Strand Audience Services & Subscription Manager Paul Millet Group Sales Janice Bernal Associate Box office Manager Bryan Martin Associate Box office Manager Janet Huynh Assistant Box office ManagerKorie Benavidez, Audrey Cain, Zack Hamra, Richard Martinez, Lilach Mendelovich, Ryan Sandoval, Ben Seay Martin Wurst Box office StaffRodrigo Perez Audience Services

FRONT OF HOUSEJeni Pearsons Events CoordinatorTyler Tangalin Supervising House ManagerJessica Kummer, Sarah Rosenbloom, Zack Schultz House Managers Abdoulaye N’Gom Head usherAdam Carr, Lindsey Cerny, Tiger Curran, Tommy French, Matt Jones, Sean Jones, Kimberly Legg, Katie Mitchell, Leah Munson, Jonathan Schwartz, Julianne Tveten ushers

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 scenic, costume, lighting and sound designers in LorT theaters are represented by united Scenic Artists Local uSA-829, IATSE.


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