ENSEMBLE THEATRE CINCINNATI
The 2013-2014 Otto M. Budig Family Foundation Season D. Lynn Meyers, Producing Artistic Director
Premiere Sponsor:
The Otto M. Budig Family Foundation
OTHER DESERT CITIES
by Jon Robin Baitz
Directed by D. Lynn Meyers† September 4-22, 2013
Set & Lighting Designer
Sound Designer
Costume Designer
Properties Master & Design Assistant
Production Coordinator & Master Electrician
Production Stage Manager
Technical Operations Director
Brian c. Mehring
Matt Callahan
Reba Senske
Shannon Rae Lutz
Matthew Hollstegge
Brandon T. Holmes*
Originally produced by Lincoln Center Theater, New York City, 2010. OTHER DESERT CITIES is presented by special arrangment with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.
The photographing, video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited.
This Theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
Aaron Clements †
*Cast/production member belongs to Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers. This theatre operates under an agreement between Actors’ Equity Association, Professional Actors, and Stage Managers in the United States. Understudies never substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the performance.
SEASON SPONSORS:
Dr. & Mrs. Charles O. Carothers
Bill & Susan Friedlander
The Mitchell S. & Jacqueline P. Meyers Foundation
Ruth D. & John Sawyer
SEASON TICKET SPONSOR:
SEASON MEDIA PARTNERS:
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY:
EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH SUPPORTERS
William P. Anderson Foundation
The Charles H. Dater Foundation
The Andrew Jergens Foundation
P&G Fund
The William O. Purdy, Jr. Foundation
The John A. Schroth Family Charitable Trust, PNC Bank, Trustee
The Ladislas & Vilma Segoe Family Foundation
Jack J. Smith, Jr. Charitable Trust, PNC Bank, N.A. and Karen B. Wachs, Co-Trustees
Target Toyota
The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation
NEXT STAGE SUPPORTERS
Anonymous (2)
The Otto M. Budig Family Foundation
City of Cincinnati
The Greater Cincinnati Foundation
The Mitchell S. & Jacqueline P. Meyers Foundation
Ohio Cultural Facilities Commission
P&G Fund
Ruth D. & John Sawyer
SEASON ACCOMODATIONS SPONSOR
Garfield Suites Hotel
IN-KIND CONTRIBUTORS
Chet Cavaliere
Cincinnati CityBeat
Cincinnati State Technical & Community College, Interpreter Training Program
College Hill Coffee Co. & Casual Gormet
iSpyCincy.com
Lavomatic Café LPK
Suder’s Art Store
WGUC 90.9 FM
WNKU 89.7 FM
WVXU 91.7 FM
Yelp Cincinnati
PLAY/Back Series
Upcoming PLAY/Back Dates:
Other Desert Cities
Thursday, September 12th and 19th
Dr. John Getz
Professor of English, Xavier University and
Dr. Kathy O'Conner, Department of Psychological Science at Northern Kentucky University
Rapture, Blister, Burn
Thursday, October 17th
Dr. Andrea Kornbluh
Head of History, Philosophy, & Political Science, University of Cincinnati, Blue Ash
Thurs, October 24th
Dr. Anne Runyan
Professor, Department of Women's Studies, University of Cincinnati
Image: Mikki Schaffner
CAST & CREW
CAST (in alphabetical order)
Trip Wyeth .................................................................................. Ryan Wesley Gilreath*
Silda Grauman .......................................................................................... Dale Hodges*
Brooke Wyeth Sara Mackie*
Lyman Wyeth ........................................................................................ Dennis Parlato*
Polly Wyeth .............................................................................................. Amy Warner*
RUNNING CREW
Assistant Director ...................................................................................... Ben Ranaan
1st Assistant Stage Manager................................................................. Sola Thompson
2nd Assistant Stage Manager Hannah Sawicki
Sound Board Operator ........................................................................... Zak Schneider
Light Board Operator ................................................................................ Linnea Bond
Running Crew ..................................................................... Becca Howell, Ben Raanan
Wardrobe ....................................................................... Jared Hudson, Jeremy Parker
UNDERSTUDIES
Trip Wyeth Jared Hudson
Silda Grauman .......................................................................................... Linnea Bond
Brooke Wyeth .......................................................................................... Becca Howell
Lyman Wyeth .......................................................................................... Zak Schneider
Polly Wyeth ............................................................................................ Jeremy Parker
SETTING
Act 1: Christmas Eve Morning; Palm Springs, California, 2004 Act 2, Scene 1: Some hours have passed. Act 2, Scene 2: Some years later; a bookstore.
Other Desert Cities is performed with one intermission. Approximate total running time is 2 hours, 15 minutes.
DIRECTOR'S NOTES
It is utterly appropriate that Other Desert Cities is set in Palm Springs, California. This longstanding haven for the successful affords these characters a place to live and enjoy the best of life. Palm Springs, however, is also located in a desert.
The Wyeth home may appear to be a man-made oasis, but ever present is that fact that the temperature changes dramatically daily. Heat and cold are just outside the door and the vista, while fascinating, can also be bleak. The Wyeth family has made this house their home for decades, yet the comfort of it cannot make them comfortable. At one point, Brooke says she wants to talk about the silence they live it, the unspoken, unexplained pivotal part of their lives. This play is about filling the silent places with understanding.
Because the Wyeths have been deeply involved in politics, it may be easy to see this play as a political statement, but it is not. This play is about the belief systems we choose to organize our lives around, be that to the left or to the right, it is about the choices we make and those who fall between them. Smart, accomplished people occupy this play, but sometimes smart is not enough. Sometimes those who feel truly enlightened in this world are really in the dark.
Pain is part of living, and everyone in this play deals with loss and pain differently. Brooke says “One of the nice myths about pain is that one apparently can’t literally remember it…I am here to tell you I have a very good memory for pain.” But each of our memories is unique, our pain personal and the process of a family sharing their personal pain to create an understanding and peace in a painful process. However, we lighten our journey through honestly loving each other.
This play is set mostly in 2004. So 9/11 is a very close memory, the threat of what was to happen next was on our minds daily and the war being fought in another desert was relatively new and the controversy just beginning. There is much we did not know about our government in 2004 and much the Wyeths did not know about each other. Keep this in mind as you watch the play that what we witness on a Christmas Eve in 2004 is nine years ago in our collective memory. It is a carefully chosen date by the playwright to give us some distance and as they say in the play “distance is always good.”
Thanks you for journeying to Other Desert Cities with us.
-D. Lynn Meyers
by Joseph McDonough & David Kisor
Cincinnati Opera’s 2014 production of Carmen
Photo: Jeff Roffman/The Atlanta Opera
IN MEMORIUM
In loving memory of Ruth D. Sawyer
Ruth D. Sawyer’s favorite holiday was Christmas, fitting and appropriate for a woman whose life was about the joy of giving. Giving people a chance to work, giving artists a place to grow and thrive, giving to a community and touching countless people's lives whom she never met. However, for those of us lucky enough to know her, our lives were more than touched, they were transformed. Her passion to allow others to find and live in their passion was a rare and unique blessing. There was never a conversation with Ruth that did not contain a wonderful, gleeful laugh. There was never a time when something needed to be done that she did not step forward to do it. And she did it all well, very well with a grace that can only come from pure inspiration. Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati is a living legacy to her spirit, which will never leave us.
Thank you the following for their thoughtful memorial gifts honoring Ruth Sawyer:
Anonymous (2)
Julie & Khosrow Alamin
Barbara Amling
Donald W. & Mary E. Bahr
Jane K. & Lawrence T. Bennett
Carter & Jo Ann Bobbitt
Mary & William Bonansinga
Charitable Family Fund*
Jon & Jeanne Boss
M.C. Brennan
Thomas & Mary Anne Brennan
Mr. Henry P. Briggs, Jr.
JB Buse, Jr.
Chester Cavaliere
Mr. & Mrs. A. B. Closson, Jr.
Sue Cohen & Robert Schmuelling
Nancy Dillion
Elwood Dillion, Jr.
Suzanne Dunbar
Barbara Fitch
Mary & Bob Fitzpatrick
Barbara & Jack Hahn
Sally & Jack Heckscher
Joyce B. Hildebrand
Peter R. & JoAnne Jones
James & Ruth Keen
Margaret W. Kite
Lowell Latto
Nada Latto
Mayerson Foundation
Mitchell S. Meyers & Jacqueline P. Meyers
Foundation
Ronald & Nancy Mielech
Steve Moeller
William & Sara Morgan
Jean Marie & Tom Nelson
Christine Probst
Marianne & Snowden Rowe
Milton J. Schloss Jr.
Jeff Seibert
John & Linda Silvati
Kristin Sneider
Springer School & Center
Ethan & Barbara Stanley
Lynda Thomas
Sarah S. Timmons
Ernest Timperman
Walter & Patricia Timperman
Tim Tonges
Tom & Diane Wagner
Lee Walsh
Stuart Wheaton & Lenore Horner
Timothy Wynne
Zaring Family Foundation
THE CAST
RYAN WESLEY GILREATH (Trip Wyeth), a New York-based actor, is glad to be making his return to ETC. He was last seen in Next Fall. His other ETC credits include 33 Variations and Mary's Wedding. As a child growing up in Cincinnati, he always wanted to be a police officer, doctor, fireman, pilot, clown, lawyer...clown. After deciding that acting would allow him to do it all, he trained at the University of Central Florida's Conservatory program. His television credits include NBC's Deception, Fox's pilot Guilty in which he had a scene opposite Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Team Umizoomi on Nick Jr. Mr. Gilreath has also worked with Emmy-nominated Stephen David Entertainment on their next miniseries which is set to air on Discovery this October. For more info: www.ryanwesleygilreath.com
DALE HODGES (Silda Grauman) is delighted to be back on the Ensemble stage. After joining Actors' Equity Association in 1974, she worked both on and off-Broadway and in regional theatres around the country. In 1988, she move to Cincinnati, which has been her home ever since. Her previous Ensemble credits include: Mrs. Mannerly, 33 Variations, Grey Gardens, String of Pearls, Bed Among the Lentils, The Credeaux Canvas, Copenhagen, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Vigil, Side Man, The Skriker, Going to St. Ives, A Package Deal, Death of A Salesman, Find Me a Voice, Fragments, The Illusion, Seascape, A School for Scandal, Everything in the Garden, Buckminster Fuller: In and Out of the Universe, and Eleemosynary. At Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park Ms. Hodges has appeared in the following productions: The Piano Teacher, Witness for the Prosecution, The Crucible, The Retreat From Moscow, King Lear, Ten Little Indians, Wit, The Importance of Being Earnest, Our Country's Good, How the Other Half Loves, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Equus, and 20 seasons of A Christmas Carol. At Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, she has appeared in The Grapes of Wrath, Long Day's Journey Into Night, The Merchant of Venice, and Coriolanus. Ms. Hodges has also appeared on the Music Hall stage as the Duchess of Krakenthorpe in La Fille Du Régiment with the Cincinnati Opera and as a narrator with the Cincinnati Symphony. She is married to counselor David Logan and has a son Sebastian and a stepson Hugh.
THE CAST CONT.
SARA MACKIE (Brooke Wyeth) is a Wright State graduate and proud AEA member. She has been with Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati in all three Wonderettes iterations (Betty Jean), Rabbit Hole (Izzy), Mauritius (Jackie), and Alice in Wonderland (Cheshire Cat), among other holiday favorites. Her Human Race Theatre Company credits include: the premiere staged readings of three new musical works; Guarding Gold Street, a new musical, The Trimble Wars , and Red Blooded All-American Man and she was also seen as Olivia in Twelfth Night. She has performed with the Carnegie Theatre in Camelot in Concert, Pump Boys and Dinettes, and the premiere staged reading of The Sandman. In addition to small roles in commercials, short films and web skits, she has had the great pleasure of performing in theatres across the country, but for now prefers to make Cincinnati her home. She is immensely grateful to Lynn for this amazing opportunity in such an important and beautiful piece of theatre.
DENNIS PARLATO (Lyman Wyeth) returns to ETC, having recently appeared in Ghost-Writer. His other ETC credits include 25 The Musical, Becky’s New Car, 33 Variations, Mauritius, The Seafarer, Fiction, The Guys, Glimmer, Glimmer, and Shine, and A Question of Mercy. On Broadway, he’s played Lawrence Jameson in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Mr. Robinson in The Graduate, John the Baptist in Salome, Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music, and CIA agent Walter in Chess. His off-Broadway and regional credits include the title roles in Cyrano de Bergerac, Barrymore, J.B., and The Master Builder; Prospero in The Tempest, Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Oliver in David Hare’s The Vertical Hour, Sky in Guys and Dolls, and Julian Marsh in 42nd Street. Mr. Parlato’s film credits include Johnny Suede, Delirious, Dillinger’s Dead, Bury the Evidence, Rick, First Born, Starting Out in the Evening, and Bride Wars.
THE CAST CONT.
AMY WARNER (Polly Wyeth) is delighted to be returning to ETC, where she has been seen in End Days, Collected Stories, 33 Variations (CEA award), Fiction, Permanent Collection, The Women of Lockerbie , and The Guys . Her Fringe Festival production of The Edge was also seen on this stage. Ms. Warner has worked locally at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park in Speaking in Tongues, You Can’t Take it With You, Twelfth Night, Reckless, and A Christmas Carol; Cincinnati Shakespeare Company in All’s Well That Ends Well, Richard III, Cymbaline, Hamlet, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (CEA award), and Pride & Prejudice; New Stage Collective in Who is Sylvia? or The Goat (Acclaim award) and A Little NIght Music; Know Theatre Cincinnati in Angels in America, and she was in Dale Hodges’ production of Les Belles Sœurs (Acclaim award). She worked three seasons Off-Broadway with the Classic Stage Company. Her credits there include The Orestia, Faust, Danton’s Death, Frankenstein , and Wild Oats. Her Los Angeles credits include Lady Chatterley’s Lover (L.A. Drama Critics Circle nomination). She has had co-starring roles on Ally McBeal, Boston Public, The Guardian, E.R., and The Practice. She has toured her solo show, As the Wind Rocks the Wagon, directed by her husband Michael Haney across the country and abroad.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
D. LYNN MEYERS is in her sixteenth season as the Producing Artistic Director of Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati where she has directed over a fifty world and regional premieres, including Good People, Alice in Wonderland, Next to Normal, and The Whipping Man. She recently directed The Pavilion at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and Pride and Prejudice for the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company. She directed Off-Broadway at the York Theatre with Marsha Norman’s Traveler in the Dark and James McClure’s Max and Maxie. Her regional work includes Capital Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Florida Stage, and the Falcon Theatre in Los Angeles where she directed the Sweet 16 anniversary production of Steel Magnolias. Her several Canadian national tours included Mass Appeal with the late great Gale Gordon. As a producer for Dove Audio, she produced and directed dozens of audio books. She served as the Associate Artistic Director of the Cincinnati Playhouse for several seasons where she cast over one hundred productions as well as directed in both the Marx and Shelterhouse theatres. In addition to her directing work, she is a member of the Casting Society of America and has cast for PBS, CBS, BBC, HBO, MTM, Paramount and MGM. Her favorite feature credit is serving as Location Casting Director for the Academy Award-winning Shawshank Redemption. She was a named one of four finalists for the Zelda Fichandler National Award in 2011, honoring directors whose work is making an impact on the art form and their community. She was honored with as a YWCA Woman of Achievement and given the Cincinnati Entertainment Award for Continued Excellence. She is a proud graduate of Thomas More College and serves on the college’s Board of Trustees.
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
JON ROBIN BAITZ'S plays include The Film Society, The Substance of Fire, The End of the Day, Three Hotels, A Fair Country (Pulitzer Prize finalist 1996), Mizlansky/ Zilinsky, Ten Unknowns, and The Paris Letter, as well as a version of Hedda Gabbler (Broadway 2001). He created Brothers & Sisters, the TV series which ran for five seasons, until 2011. His other TV work includes PBS’ version of Three Hotels, for which he won the Humanitas Award, and episodes of The West Wing and Alias. He is the author of two screenplays: the film script for The Substance of Fire (1996) and People I Know (2002). He is a founding member of Naked Angels Theatre Company, and on the faculties of the MFA programs at The New School for Drama, and SUNY Stony Brook/ Southampton. His play Other Desert Cities won the Outer Critics Circle Award in 2011.
THE PRODUCTION TEAM
BRANDON T. HOLMES (Production Stage Manager) is currently in his second season with Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati. Previous productions include Alice in Wonderland, Freud’s Last Session, and Black Pearl Sings!. He holds a BFA from Wichita State University in Technical Theatre and Design. This past summer, he served as Production Stage Manager for LOOK Musical Theatre in Tulsa, OK. There, he stage managed productions of Hello, Dolly, The Drowsy Chaperone, and Side By Side By Sondheim. He has also worked with Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Cincinnati Fringe Festival, Music Theatre of Wichita, Theatre in the Park, Kansas City Starlight, and Wichita Center for the Arts. Favorite productions include Thunder Knocking on the Door, Merrily We Roll Along (directed by John Doyle), Disney’s The Little Mermaid, The Producers, Miss Saigon and Sunset Boulevard. Thank you to the cast and design staff for making this fantastic experience. Love to MDRJMAT. Proud Actors' Equity Association member!
BRIAN c. MEHRING (Resident Set & Lighting Designer) has designed over seventy productions at ETC. His favorite productions include: Thom Pain (based on nothing), James and Annie, Copenhagen, Blue/Orange, and I Am My Own Wife. Mr. Mehring’s regional favorites for set design include: The Last 5 Years and The Laramie Project, Playhouse in the Park; Henry IV, Part 1, The Georgia Shakespeare Festival; and I Am My Own Wife, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Peterborough Players, and Florida Studio Theatre; and for video design, Hiding Behind Comets (Playhouse in the Park). Mr. Mehring has also served as Charge Scenic Painter for the Cincinnati Opera. Mr. Mehring spent a season assisting mentor Paul Shortt at Teatro de Lucca and three seasons assisting Broadway Designer Robert T. Williams at Artpark in New York.
SHANNON RAE LUTZ (Properties Master/Design Assistant) earned her Master’s degree in 1996 and became Prop Master at ETC and since then she has “mastered” dozens of productions. Ms. Lutz would like to thank the Cincinnati theatre community and patrons for their generous, supportive and tenacious spirit. Trained as a performer, she first appeared on ETC’s stage during the 1989 New Works Festival. In 1991, she was granted an ETC Internship. Now the Director of Intern Programming, she is honored to guide ETC’s essential ensemble: the Intern Company. ETC performance credits include: Fiction, Alice in Wonderland (1998, 2003, 2008, 2012), Poor Super Man, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Chronicles of Plague, A School for Scandal, Cinderella, Zorro, The Frog Princess, and Sleeping Beauty (2009, 2000). She would like to thank her family for their persistent love and support, Ruth for lessons in art, life, and integrity, and Lynn for her dedication to our dreams.
PRODUCTION TEAM CONT.
AARON CLEMENTS (Technical Operations Director) is now in his fourth year at ETC. He is a native of Charlotte, NC and received his B.F.A. in Theater with a design/technical emphasis at Greensboro College. Mr. Clements worked four seasons at Seaside Music Theater as a carpenter, master carpenter, metal shop foreman, and as the assistant technical director for a winter season. He received his M.F.A. in Technical Direction from UC’s College-Conservatory of Music. He has also worked as a carpenter for ETC’s productions of Grey Gardens and Alice in Wonderland.
MATT CALLAHAN (Sound Designer) has been the Resident Sound Designer for Actors Theatre of Louisville for the past seven seasons. Most recent designs include The Pavilion, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; Bob, LMNO Pea, The End, Sirens, The Cherry Sisters, Ground, A Christmas Story, A Mid Summers Night Dream, Hard Weather Boating Party; Mrs. Mannerly and Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati; This Beautiful City, All Hail Hurricane Gordo, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Tempest and Sherlock Holmes. Mr. Callahan was also a co-creator/designer of Rock n’ Roll: The Reunion Tour. He has spent two seasons as the resident sound designer at The Eugene O’Neil Center for their National Playwrights Conference. He was formerly the sound engineer for The Steppenwolf Theatre, the Assistant Engineer for Blue Man Chicago and a member of the disbanded Defiant Theatre. He received a Jeff Citation for Red Dragon (Defiant Theatre), a nomination for Fortinbras (Defiant Theatre) and a Kevin Kline nomination for Sherlock Holmes (St. Louis Rep and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park).
REBA SENSKE (Costume Designer) is CCM’s Associate Costume Designer. She’s designed costumes for ETC’s Becky’s New Car, My Name is Asher Lev, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, 33 Variations, Mauritius, Grey Gardens, The Seafarer, The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Mary’s Wedding, Rabbit Hole, Souvenir, String of Pearls, I Am My Own Wife, Nite Club Confidential, and Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001), among countless others. Her other credits include ETC’s world premiere holiday productions of Ugly Duck, Cinderella, The Frog Princess, Alice in Wonderland, and Sleeping Beauty, as well as Side Man, A Question of Mercy, Edward Albee’s Seascape, and Traveler in the Dark. Recent CCM credits include: Hot Summer Nights’ Violet, We Tell the Story, and Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill. Other CCM credits include: Wonderful Town, The Boys from Syracuse, Oklahoma!, and Big River. She designed Noah’s Flood for the May Festival and is Cincinnati Opera’s costume coordinator. She designed Ainadamar, Cosi Fan Tutti and We Rise to Freedom for the Cincinnati Opera.
THE PREMIERE SOCIETY
The Premiere Society recognizes individuals who have made gifts totaling $1,000 or more within the past year. The exceptional generosity of these donors enables ETC to present world class new works and works new to the region by having the resources to achieve the highest level of artistic quality possible. The following list was updated August 1, 2013 and includes the names of donors whose gifts total $1,000 + since June 1, 2012. For questions or corrections, please contact Ashley Johnson at (513) 421-3555, ext. 17.
WORLD CIRCLE ($10,000+):
Anonymous (2) ArtsWave
The Otto M. Budig Family Foundation
Lucille K. & Charles O. Carothers
The Charles H. Dater Foundation, Inc.
Sue & Bill Friedlander
John & Gloria Goering Family Gift Fund
The Greater Cincinnati Foundation
The Andrew Jergens Foundation
LPK
Macy's
Mitchell S. Meyers & Jacqueline P. Meyers Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
Ohio Arts Council
P&G Fund*
PNC Foundation
John & Ruth Sawyer Fund*
The John A. Schroth Family Charitable Trust, PNC Bank, Trustee
Ladislas & Vilma Segoe Family Foundation
The Shubert Foundation, Inc.
The Estate of Andrew D. Smith
NATIONAL CIRCLE ($5,000-$9,999):
William P. Anderson Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. A.B. Closson, Jr.
Crosset Family Fund*
Reuben Herzfeld Fund*
Kroger
Edward & Anita Marks
Messer Construction Co.
Richard Postler & Manuel Hernandez
The Dudley S. Taft Charitable Foundation
Thompson Hine LLP
Western & Southern Financial Fund
The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation
REGIONAL CIRCLE ($2,500-$4,999):
Mary & William Bonansinga Charitable Family Fund*
Kenneth & Joan Campbell
Thomas R. Dietz
Gallagher SKS
Dennis & Rita Geiger
Chip Gerhardt
Mr. & Mrs. Skip & Susan Hickenlooper
Stephen M. King & Lynne M. Miller
Marcene & Jim Kinney
* Denotes a Fund of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation
MCF Advisors, LCC
David & Judith Morgan Fund*
Jack & Moe Rouse Fund*
Pete & Ginger Strange Family Fund*
UC Physicians Co.
CINCINNATI CIRCLE ($1,000-$2,499):
Anonymous (3)
Anatole Alper
Americana Arts Foundation
Nicholas Apanius
Mrs. Charlene Breidster
Kathy DeLaura & Ron Steinhoff
Dee & David Dillon Fund*
John & Jen DuBois
Grace A. Epstein
Mary & Bob Fitzpatrick
Linda & Gary Greenberg
Bob & Mary Hamilton
Suzanne & Dr. Bob Hasl
Bob & Judy Heaton
Daniel Hurley
William & Mary Jane James
Cecilia & Tom Kloecker
Kroger Community Rewards Program
Mr. & Mrs. Jim & Nancy Lutz
Judith B. Green & Thomas M. McDonough
Dr. Lisa Jo Melnyk
Sharon & Graham Mitchell
Diane & Dave Moccia
Dr. Patricia O'Connor
Joseph A. & Susan E. Pichler Fund*
Sue & Jerry Ransohoff Fund*
James & Sue Riley
Marvin & Betsy Schwartz Fund*
Jane Bogart Sellers
Shelly Shor Gerson
Drs. Brian & Tracey Skale
Mary Stagaman
Paul & Jill Staubitz
Paula Steiner
The Corky & Rick Steiner Family Foundation
Glenda Suttman
Judith B. Titchener
Ed Trach
U.S. Bank
Mr. & Mrs. Anthony. Woodward
The Dennis B. & Patricia L. Worthen Fund
Mike & Liz Zimmer
OUR SUPPORTERS
ETC gratefully acknowledges the extraordinary individuals, families, and organizations whose generous support makes it possible for us to present exceptional theatre and unique educational outreach programs for our community. The following list was updated August 1, 2013 and includes the names of donors whose gifts total $125 + since June 1, 2012. Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy. For questions or corrections, please contact Ashley Johnson at (513) 421-3555, ext. 17.
ACTORS COLUMN ($500-$999):
Anonymous (2)
Joan & Oliver Baily
Malcolm A. & Glenda Bernstein
Michael Berry & Melanie Garner
David & Elaine Billmire
Bob & Elaine Blatt
Carter & Jo Ann Bobbitt
Robert L. Bogenschutz
Clay & Emily Bond
Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation
Matching Gift Program
Jacklyn & Gary Bryson
Denise & Martin Chambers
Meredythe G. & Clayton C. Daley, Jr. Family Fund*
Mark & Louis Dauner
Mary Pat England
Nora Zorich & Thomas Filardo Family Fund*
Kenneth J. Furrier
GE Foundation Matching Gifts Program
Michael Haney & Amy Warner
Judith Harmony & Richard Jackson
Marilyn P. & Joseph W. Hirschhorn Fund*
Florette Hoffheimer
Betty Huck
John Isador & Sandy Kaltman
Keith & Patti James
Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies Matching Gifts Program
Arleene Keller
Norah & joe Mock
Deborah & John Moffatt
Marilyn Z. Ott
Kit & Jack Overbeck
Linda & Andy Smith
Nellie Leaman Taft Charitable Foundation
Carol Talbot & John Battistone
Mr. Laurence Weber
Irwin & Barbara Weinberg
Mark D. Manley & Annette Januzzi Wick
Jo Ann Wieghaus
Jeffrey & Nadia Wuest
STAGE MANAGERS COLUMN ($250-$499):
Anonymous (3)
Richard & Susan Baum
Leonard Berenfield
Neil E. Billman, In Memory of Eunice Billman
Eileen & William Bishop
* Denotes a Fund of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation
Mark Bowen
Daniel Brown & Mark Haggard
Brenda Carter
Cincinnati Veterans' Affairs Medical Center Research Service, In honor of Kathy DeLaura
Larry & Janet Clements
Susannah Davids & Steve Myer
Charlene Davis
Judith de Luce
Kelly M. Dehan & Stephen H. Gallenstein
Darin Dugan
Ray & Kay Edwards
Robert & Elizabeth W. Ehrsam
Richard & Carol Fencl
Terrell & Susan Finney
David W. & Frances H. Goldman Fund*
Helen & John Habbert
Sue Harris & Meredith Green
Debra Hartsell & Michael James
Dale Hodges
Nada Latto
Len & Sherie Marek
Dr. & Mrs. John E. McCall
Ryan Messer & James Musuraca
Ronald & Nancy Mielech
William & Sibyl Miller
Hatsuki Miyata
mj Dynamics
William & Sara Morgan
Hon. Norbert & Linnea Nadel
Michael Nordlund & Lisa Lee
Morris & Patricia Passer Family Fund*
Alice & Burton Perlman
Barbara & Michael Porte
Barry L. Prince
Becky & Ted Richards
Tim & Mary Riordan
George & Caroll Roden
J. R. Rulon
Jude Samuel
Jean Springer
Ed & Anne Stern
Elizabeth Stites & Kevin Randall
Dr. & Mrs. Joe & Nancy Stratman
Lynn & Dan Ticotsky
Sarah S. Timmons
Dixie & Bill Utter
Jennifer Verkamp
Jane A. Walker
OUR SUPPORTERS, CONT.
STAGE MANAGERS CONT.
Buzz Ward
Stuart Wheaton & Lenore Horner
Gene Wilson
Zaring Family Foundation
CREW COLUMN ($125-$249):
Anonymous (3)
Jean L. Abrahamson
Larry & Debby Adams
Scott & Anne Aiken
Albert & Lillian Andrews
Gail Barker, M.D.
Jane Bennett
Hal & Sandi Bernstein
Neil Bortz & Susan Myers
Mr. Henry P. Briggs Jr.
Warren & Gail Cato
Chester Cavaliere
Kevin & Linda Chaney
Sally Chatfield Dunn
Jean & Matt Chimsky
Susan Cohen & Robert Schmuelling
Dr. & Mrs. Alan Cordell
Rev. Dr. Robert W. Croskery & Beverly Croskery, Ph.D.
Douglas L. Custis & Katherine A. Keller
Sonia Daoud
Emilie W. & David W. Dressler Family Fund*
Peggy Eberhard
Charles K. Eckert
Charles & Harriet Edwards
Mr. & Mrs. Frederick A. Fink
Deborah Friedman
Carol S. Friel
Eugenie & Edward Goggin
Janice & Sidney Goldstein
Mrs. Madeleine H. Gordon
Cyndi Grammel, In Honor of Skylar Cherry
Sean Gray
Michael Gumbleton & Teddy Gumbleton
Tana Kirkbride & Amit Gupta
JoAnn & Gary Hagopian
Ann E. Hicks
David & Karen Hoguet
Cindy & Bill Hopping
Erin Houlihan & John Bostick
Marilyn Hurrell
Charles D. King
Marilyn Kircher
Margaret W. Kite
Pinky & Sam Kocoshis
* Denotes a Fund of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation
Carmen & Rich Kovarsky
Mr. & Mrs. Polk Laffoon, IV
Dorothy K. Larsson
Lowell Latto
M. Ann Leech
John Lin
DeDe & Kevin McNeal
Jan & Marilyn Methlie
John F. Metz
Dr. Ralph Meyer
Drs. Steven & Jacqueline Miller Family Foundation
Anu & Shekhar Mitra
Mobile Giving Foundation
Nora Moushey
Eunice H. Murphy
Paul & Mary Ann Odegard
Ms. Nancy Ohnmeis
Irene & Daniel Randolph Family
Barbara & Dave Reaman
Margaret M. Reid
Danielle & Kenneth Revelson
Joyce Rich
Barbara Robb, In honor of Sara Mackie
Dr. Raymond H. Rolwing
Sondra & Fred Ross
Marianne & Snowden Rowe
Richard Russell
Patti & Mitchell Sacks
Catharine B. Saelinger
Jeanie Schmidt
Elizabeth Sherwood
Paul Shortt
Eli E. Shupe, Jr. & Toby Ruben
John & Linda Silvati
Jacquelin & Richard Snyder
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Priscilla S. Walford
Pann & Terry Webb
Mike Wedig
Jackie Weist
Joseph Wessling
Barbara Wiedemann
Kate & Jay Wilford
Joseph D. Williams
Dr. & Mrs. James & Ronna Willis
EXECUTIVE BOARD
John Sawyer Stephen M. King
Chair President
Marcene Kinney
Mitchell Meyers
Vice President Treasurer
Jane Sellers
Secretary
ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF
D. Lynn Meyers
Producing Artistic Director
Richard J. Diehl
Managing Director
Jocelyn Meyer
Director of Marketing & Communications
Allison Fangman
Director of Education Outreach
Jared D. Doren
Director of Patron Services & Development Associate
Ashley Johnson
Producing Associate
FINANCIAL ADVISOR
Chet Cavaliere
BOX OFFICE STAFF
John Diehl
Seth Longland
Jenna McBride
Sarah Nix
HOUSE MANAGER
Amy Janowiecki
HEAD OF SECURITY
Officer Nick Ligon
OUR STAFF
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Nick Apanius
Mary Bonansinga
Otto M. Budig
Dr. Charles O. Carothers
Brenda A. Carter
Kathy DeLaura
Tom Dietz
Dennis Geiger
Chip Gerhardt
Skip Hickenlooper
Dan Hurley
Edward G. Marks
Richard L. Postler
Mary Stagaman
Mike Zimmer
PRODUCTION STAFF
Brian c. Mehring
Resident Set & Lighting Designer
Matthew Hollstegge
Production Coordinator & Master Electrician
Shannon Rae Lutz
Property Master, Design Assistant & Director of Intern Programming
Aaron Clements
Technical Operations Director
Jack Murphy
Technical Assistant
Jacob Himmelspach
Technical Apprentice
Brandon T. Holmes
Production Stage Manager
Starr Fish
Costume Assistant
DIRECTING INTERN
Ben Raanan
ACTING INTERN COMPANY
Linnea Bond, Becca Howell, Jared Hudson, Jeremy Parker, Hannah Sawicki, Zak Schneider, Sola Thompson
PATRON SERVICES
ENSEMBLE THEATRE CINCINNATI
1127 Vine Street | Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 | www.ensemblecincinnati.org (513) 421-3555
ETC BOX OFFICE HOURS & ACCEPTED PAYMENT
Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and 2 hours prior to curtain. Weekend hours vary. VISA, MC, Discover, and AmEx are accepted, as well as Downtown Gift Cards.
TICKET RESERVATIONS & SALE POLICY
Reservations can be made by calling the box office, in person, or online at. Ticket reservations are not accepted via email. Single-ticket purchases are a final sale with no refund. Single tickets may, however, be exchanged for another performance during the run of a show for a fee, but may not be exchanged from one production to another. If a patron is a no-show for their reserved performance, ETC is under no obligation to reschedule his or her tickets.
TAX CREDITS
If for any reason you cannot attend your performance and cannot reschedule for another date, tickets released prior to performances by calling the ETC box office are fully deductible as a charitable contribution. No-shows or tickets released after curtain time do not qualify as tax credits.
PARKING
Patrons may park at the Gateway Garage (accessible via 12th Street) or at the surface lot, both are conveniently located at the corner of Vine and 12th Streets. Parking is also available at Washington Park Garage, accessible via Elm or Race Street. Charges vary.
CHILDREN
Children under the age of 4 will not be admitted to productions unless otherwise advertised. Parents with disruptive children will be asked to leave the theatre.
LATECOMERS & ADMITTANCE
Latecomers will be seated at the House Manager’s discretion and may be denied admission depending upon the demands or structure of a particular production. Should you need to leave the theatre during a performance, readmittance is not guaranteed. ETC reserves the right to deny admission and/or remove any disruptive patrons from the theatre at any time.
RESTROOMS
Restrooms are located at the front of the lobby. Should you need to use the restroom during a performance, please exit the theatre the same way you came in. Readmittance will be at House Manager's discretion.
ACCESSIBILITY
Please notify the box office in advance if you require wheelchair-accessible seating or have special seating needs and our staff will be happy to accommodate you. Audio-enhancement and large-print playbills available. Generally, sign-interpreted performances are on the third Wednesday of every production.
CAMERAS, CELL PHONES & STAGE
Actors’ Equity Association strictly prohibits the use of cameras or recording devices (including camera phones) in the theatre. Kindly turn off any cell phones or pagers prior to the show starting. Text messaging during the show disturbs other audience members and actors and will not be tolerated. For safety reasons, audience members are strictly prohibited from standing, sitting or otherwise being or putting anything onstage at any time.
GROUPS & DISCOUNTS
Groups of 10 or more can save over single-ticket prices. Student rates, rush discounts, Public Radio Perks Card, AAA, ArtsWave ArtsPass, Enjoy the Arts, and educator and military member discounts available (please consult your appropriate membership(s) for details and exclusions).
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