Itis a joy to welcome you and to take a moment to celebrate Elaine Jarvik, a local writer and playwright whose voice has helped shape the artistic life of Salt Lake Acting Company.
Elaine’s relationship with SLAC reflects our commitment to bold, brave, new plays. Her work has been produced four times on SLAC’s stages, each a world premiere developed in our New Play Sounding Series.
• (a man enters) (2011) is a whimsical, semi-autobiographical journey into love, identity, and family.
• Two Stories (2015) is how neighborhoods, news, and personal stories intertwine in surprising ways.
• Four Women Talking About the Man Under the Sheet (2021) is a sharp, thoughtful exploration of history, race, feminism, and lingering human regret.
• Sunny in the Dark (2026) is a 15-year-old’s exploration of existential questions about the universe, truth, and what it means to believe.
Elaine is a powerful role model for women. She has spoken openly about a fear many women have: the fear of becoming invisible. Her work stands as a refusal of that fate. With Sunny in the Dark, she once again brings us a play that is funny, provocative, and deeply of this moment. Thank you, Elaine, for showing us that women’s voices grow stronger, sharper, and more necessary with time.
Join us on March 6th for Elaine Jarvik’s Birthday Bash, a fundraiser to support SLAC’s New Play Development programs. We will honor Elaine for her extraordinary body of work and her commitment to storytelling, and dance to Elaine’s band. More info on page 18.
We are proud to call Elaine Jarvik a friend and a longtime collaborator, and we are honored to share her work with you tonight.
With love and gratitude,
Cynthia Executive Artistic Director
The initial spark for Sunny in the Dark was a question I’ve wondered about for a while: does a presidential candidate need to be religious (even if that candidate seemed to be faking it) in order to win. And that got me thinking about not just belief but about the cosmos, which got me thinking about the origin of, well, everything.
Truthfully, my ponderings weren’t exactly sophisticated; more on the level of, say, a 15-year-old girl. Which was fortunate, since in the play I had started to write in my head, there was already a 15-year-old girl named Sunny, who was wondering about her own creation story. I’m trying to be vague here, in case you’re reading this in your seat in the theater, before the lights go down.
Writing is a solitary endeavor. But theater is — thank heavens — collaborative, and I’ve been so lucky to collaborate with a theater full of brilliant, imaginative people, who have taken my script and made it even more whimsical that I had ever dreamed of. Thank you, Cynthia, for believing in this play; to Marion for understanding the script better than I do; to the design team that has created magic; and to these actors, whom I will love forever.
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Cynthia Fleming, Elaine Jarvik, and Director of Sunny in the Dark, Marion Markham
Murder Ballad
Conceived by and with Book and Lyrics by Julia Jordan
Music and Lyrics by Juliana Nash
Regional Premiere
Apr. 8 - May 3, 2026
A chamber rock musical about a love triangle that goes wrong. Sexy with a sharp wit and the driving force of a noir thriller, Murder Ballad, explores the complications of love, the compromises we make and the betrayals that can ultimately undo us.
SLAC’s Summer Show
World Premiere By Olivia Custodio, Austin Archer, & Penelope Caywood
June 24 - Aug. 16, 2026
The same Summer Show experience you’ve known and loved for decades. Pack up your food and drink and laugh at the quirky, peculiar, sometimes infuriating, always entertaining life and culture of the Beehive State, written every year by Utahns for Utahns.
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SUNNY IN THE DARK
By Elaine Jarvik Director
Marion Markham
Set Designer Lighting Designer Sound Designer
Gage Williams** James Padilla Jennifer Jackson
Costume Designer Props Designer Intimacy Director Spencer Potter Jessica Graham Adriana Lemke
Production Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Bridgette Lehman Tahra Veasley*
Executive Artistic Director Cynthia Fleming
Professional Theatre Program Actor Asst. Sound Designer CoCo May Berwald Calvin J. Vinson
World Premiere February 4th - March 1st, 2026
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. **Represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA 829 of the IATSE.
Salt Lake Acting Company gratefully acknowledges the following foundations and government agencies for their very generous sponsorship . Their support is truly essential to SLAC’s vitality and success .
FOUNDATION AND GOVERNMENT SUPPORT
SALT LAKE COUNTY ZOO, ARTS & PARKS PROGRAM
THE SHUBERT FOUNDATION
TERENCE KEARNS STEPHENS CHARITABLE FUND
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS
UTAH DIVISION OF ARTS AND MUSEUMS
GEORGE S. & DOLORES DORÉ ECCLES FOUNDATION
MARRINER S. ECCLES FOUNDATION
MCCARTHEY FAMILY FOUNDATION
LAWRENCE T. & JANET T. DEE FOUNDATION
JOHN & MARCIA PRICE FAMILY FOUNDATION
LARRY H. AND GAIL MILLER FAMILY FOUNDATION
JARVIS & CONSTANCE DOCTOROW FAMILY FOUNDATION
ANONYMOUS
B.W. BASTIAN FOUNDATION
SALT LAKE CITY ARTS COUNCIL
SORENSON LEGACY FOUNDATION
SEMNANI FAMILY FOUNDATION
ROCKY MOUNTAIN POWER FOUNDATION
HERBERT I. & ELSA B. MICHAEL FOUNDATION
HENRY W. & LESLIE M. ESKUCHE FOUNDATION
S.J. & JESSIE E. QUINNEY FOUNDATION
Salt Lake Acting Company sincerely thanks the following Corporate Partners who make the 2025/2026 season possible:
If your business is interested in becoming a corporate sponsor, please visit the Box Office or contact Erika Ahlin Bird at Erika@SaltLakeActingCompany .Org
This project is supported in part by Salt Lake County’s Zoo, Arts and Parks program, Utah Division of Arts and Museums, with funding from the State of Utah and the Salt Lake City Arts Council.
ELISE .................................................................... Alexandra Harbold*
TOM .............................................................................. Paul Mulder*
AJ ............................................................................. Micki Martinez*
THE ASTROPHYSICIST ............................................ Matthew Ivan Bennett
DAD/PRIEST/MAN ................................................ Jason Andrew Hackney
MATTHEW IVAN BENNETT
COCO MAY BERWALD
ALEXANDRA HARBOLD*
MATTHEW IVAN BENNETT (He/ Him) has been active in Salt Lake theatre scene since 2005, where he’s premiered several stage and radio plays as a playwright, including the fractured fairy tale Troll at Plan-B/RadioWest, A Night With The Family at PYGmalion, and From June To August at Meanwhile Park. He’s acted with SLAC (The Caretaker), Plan-B, PYGmalion, Voodoo, and Utah Shakespeare. He’s twice been a contributor at Great Plains Theatre Commons and has been a finalist at the O’Neill for his play Let Down Your Hair. His feature screenplay The Whole Lot was an Official Selection at the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival in 2022. His poetry has been published with Sugar House Review and his novelette Assimilant will soon be published with The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Matt was a 2024 artist fellow at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in New Mexico and is a member of the Dramatists Guild.
COCO MAY BERWALD (She/Her) is honored to make her Salt Lake Acting
JASON ANDREW HACKNEY
Company debut as Sunny in Sunny in the Dark. Previous credits include Miranda in The Tempest with MadKing Fellowship, Kate in Dancing at Lughnasa, and Violet in The Sweet Science of Bruising at the University of Utah. She sends all her love and deepest thanks to her family and friends — your constant support, encouragement, and willingness to run lines late into the night mean the world. She truly wouldn’t be here without you.
ALEXANDRA
HARBOLD* (She/Her) is thrilled and thankful to return to Salt Lake Acting Company. Previous projects at SLAC include acting in Hand to God, Two Stories, Circle Mirror Transformation and Six Years, and directing Western Minerals & Their Origins (Footpath Theatre Company, SLAC’s Making Space for Artist program), The Wolves, Death of a Driver, Tribes, The Persian Quarter and (a man enters) Recent projects include co-creating From Code to Universe and To See Beyond Our Time with Daniel Charon (Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company); and serving as dramaturg for Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 and The Lehman
MICKI MARTINEZ* PAUL MULDER*
Trilogy (Pioneer Theatre Company). Current and upcoming projects include directing The Cherry Orchard with Video Director Nick Dunn (U of U, Babcock Theatre) and dramaturging Come from Away (PTC). Harbold is Resident Director for Footpath Theatre, the Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Flying Bobcat Theatrical Laboratory and an Associate Professor with the University of Utah’s Department of Theatre where she serves as the Theatre Studies BA Area Head. She is a member of Actors’ Equity Association and LMDA and an Associate Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. AlexandraHarbold.com
JASON ANDREW HACKNEY (He/ Him) Making his SLAC debut, Jason’s recent local roles include Cassius in Julius Caesar (Whispering Room Theatre Co.), Donny Kirschner in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Pioneer Theatre Co.) and Michael in The Words at the Door (Sackerson Theatre Co.). A Park City native and U of U Actor Training Program graduate (BFA), when not acting this, Hemingway-wannabe enjoys outdoor adventure, writing, and international travel. “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” – Mary Oliver
MICKI MARTINEZ* (She/Her) was first seen on the SLAC stage back in 2016. As a freshman in college, Diary of a Worm, a Spider, and a Fly was her professional acting debut. A decade later, she is so excited to be back for her first professional play! Other SLAC credits include: Bat Boy: The Musical, SLAC’s Summer Show: Close Encounters in the Beehive, and Pinkalicious. Martinez holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from the University of Utah. Additional credits include: The Rocky Horror Show, The Prom, Something Rotten, Elf: The Musical, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, La Cage Aux Folles, and In the Heights (Pioneer Theatre Company), and In the Heights (West Valley Arts). Micki would like to thank her mom for all the ways she has supported her
over the years, but they would not all fit in this bio! @Micki_Martinez
PAUL MULDER* (He/Him) was last seen at Salt Lake Acting Company as Torvald in A Dolls House, Part 2. Additionally at Salt Lake Acting Company he was in the World Premier of Seeing the Elephant and Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde. Paul graduated from The University of Utah Actor Training Program, and then moved to New York City. Paul performed off-Broadway in Dr. Dietrich’s Process. Off-Off Broadway credits include Twelfth Night, Dancing at Lughnasa, and Angel “Uh” God. Paul Was a member of the Circle Repertory Theatre company in NYC. Regional credits include Sins of the Father at the Walnut Street Theatre, and The Second Shepard’s Play at Delaware Theatre Company. Locally Paul has appeared with Pioneer Theatre Company, SB Dance, Plan-B Theatre, The Emily Company, and the Utah Opera Company. Paul keeps busy with many local TV commercials and film productions. Paul is delighted to be back on stage at Salt Lake Acting Company.
CREATIVE TEAM
ELAINE JARVIK (She/Her) (Playwright) most recent play at Salt Lake Acting Company was Four Women Talking About the Man Under the Sheet in 2021. Previous plays at SLAC include Two Stories (2015) and (a man enters) (2011), co-written with her daughter Kate Jarvik Birch. Other plays include productions at Plan-B Theatre, Pygmalion Productions, and The Humana Festival of New American Plays. She is a former newspaper reporter and current drummer with The Distractions She has many questions about the universe and religion.
MARION MARKHAM (She/Her) (Director) is thrilled to be making her SLAC directing debut with Elaine Jarvik’s exquisite play, Sunny in the Dark. New York directing credits include Into Temptation (American Theatre of Actors), Dancing
WHO’S WHO
at Lughnasa, The Tinker’s Wedding, The Ring of Kerry (Irish American Historical Society), and A Child’s Christmas in Wales (Off Center Theatre). Outside of New York, Marion has directed A Perfect Analysis Given by a Parrot (Portable Production Company), The Golden Fleece (starring Tim Daly and Lorca Peress) and The Successful Life of Three (Bennington Theatre). For the Colonial Theatre, where she is the Artistic Director, Marion has directed Shakespeare’s Dead Dames, Persons of the Play, The 39 Steps, Backstage Bards, The Tempest, Waiting for Godot, and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)[revised] Marion is currently working on a new musical, Newport, which will showcase in New York in the Spring of 2026. Marion has appeared in film, on stage, television and social media sites. She created and directed the hilarious PRISSY FITCH film shorts on YouTube. Marion’s Cabaret experience extends from New York City to Florida writing and acting in over 50 original cabaret/comedy shows. www.MarionMarkham.com
GAGE WILLIAMS** (He/Him) (Set Designer) Previously at SLAC: Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed, Robertassey, Bald Sisters, Yoga Play, SLACabaret: Down the Rabbit Hole, Pete the Cat, Pinkalicious, Mercury, and Hand to God. Gage Williams is Professor of Theatre at the University of Utah. He has designed scenery for more than 300 productions in theatre, television, and opera throughout the United States. His professional appointments include Associate Artist (2002–2008) at Great Lakes Theater in Cleveland, Resident Set Designer (1994–2008) at Idaho Shakespeare Festival in Boise, and Chair of the Department of Theatre at the University of Utah (2009–2018). His design work spans major networks and studios including ABC, CBS, NBC, HBO, MTV, Disney, Showtime, ESPN, and FOX. Local and regional theatre credits include Pioneer Theatre Company, Utah Opera, Lake Tahoe
Shakespeare Festival, Actors Theatre of Phoenix, and Childsplay. Williams’s work has been exhibited internationally at the Prague Quadrennial (1999, 2003, 2019, 2023) and World Stage Design 2022. In 2016, he presented a retrospective of his theatre design work at the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) Conference in Salt Lake City. In 1994, he received a CableACE Award for Art Direction for the Showtime film Mastergate, by Larry Gelbart. He is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and USITT.
JAMES PADILLA (He/Him) (Lighting Designer) is a Lighting and Scenic Designer from Farmington, New Mexico. He holds his Master’s of Fine Arts in Lighting and Scenic Design from the University of Idaho. He also holds a Bachelor’s of Arts from New Mexico State University. He currently serves as the Lighting Supervisor at Kingsbury Hall, located at the University of Utah. He also freelances as a lighting designer in his free time. This is his first production with Salt Lake Acting Company. James has previously served as a lighting designer for Four Corner’s Musical Theatre Company, The American Southwest Theatre Company, Durango Playfest, and the Adobe Theatre. He has also previously served as a faculty member at Fort Lewis College where he taught courses in theatre design and technology. His favorite design credits include To Be a God (801 Salon feat. Little Moon), Behind Me is Silence (Fort Lewis College), and Little Shop of Horrors (Four Corners Musical Theatre Company).
JENNIFER JACKSON (She/Her) (Composer/Sound Designer) is excited to return for another season with SLAC. Previous design and/or original music credits include Romeo and Juliet (Yale Repertory Theatre); Lifespan of a Fact (Pioneer Theatre); The 39 Steps, Much Ado About Nothing, and Gold Mountain (Utah Shakespeare Festival); many
shows with SLAC including Bald Sisters, Yoga Play, Egress, Alabaster, Form of a Girl Unknown, Silent Dancer, The Wolves, Hir, Hand to God, Harbur Gate, Bull Shark Attack, Streetlight Woodpecker, Blackberry Winter, and Two Stories (Salt Lake Acting Company); Radio Slam (Plan-B Theatre); Twelfth Night, The Last Five Years, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry IV, Part I (Salt Lake Shakespeare); and Ion (Westminster College). Her sound installations have been exhibited at the Yale University Art Gallery and the University of Utah. Jennifer is on the faculty of the University of Utah Department of Theatre where her credits include The Heart of Robin Hood, The Tempest, Storm Still, The Odyssey, The Two Noble Kinsmen (with OSF Play On!), Good Kids, and School For Lies.
CALVIN J. VINSON (He/Him) (Asst. Sound Designer) is excited to be back at SLAC and joining the creative team this time! Some of his favorites from his recent work are: The School for Scandal (Sound Designer & Composer) with the University of Utah’s Department of Theatre, OMNIA (Lighting & Sound Designer) with Foreground Movement Collective, Machinal (Sound Designer & Composer) with The College of Southern Idaho, and The Deer and The Antelope (A1) with The Ephemerates Theatre Collective. He is currently a Junior in the University of Utah’s Performing Arts Design Program (Sound Design emphasis) after completing his first two years of studies at The College of Southern Idaho. He’d like to thank SLAC and Jennifer Jackson for giving him the opportunity to be a part of this amazing production!
WHO’S WHO
SPENCER POTTER (He/Him) (Costume Designer) is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Westminster University and a freelance costume/set designer. Spencer’s professional design credits include: Cape May Stage Cape May, New Jersey (set): Sidekicked, Erma Bombek: At Wits End, Outside Mullingar, Billy Bishop Goes to War, Buyer and Cellar, The Whipping Man, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life, Red Hot Patriot, Blithe Spirit, How to Make a Rope Swing. Salt Lake Acting Company(set) The Roommate. (costumes) – Can I Say Yes to That Dress, Four Women Talking About the Man Under the Sheet, The Cake, Hir, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs. Sundance Summer Theatre (costumes) The Wizard of Oz, Newsies: The Musical, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella. Lyric Repertory Company Logan, Utah, (set) Fences, Mamma Mia!, Grey Gardens, Wait Until Dark, Singin’ in The Rain, Noises Off, And Then There Were None, Tons of Money, The Woman in Black and Steel Magnolias. Tuacahn Amphitheatre Ivins, Utah (costumes)The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, SpencerPotterDesign.com
JESSICA GRAHAM (She/Her) (Props Designer) is a Salt Lake Based theatre maker, thrilled to be back designing props for Salt Lake Acting Company’s Sunny in the Dark after an exciting SLAC prop design debut with their fall production of The Roommate. Armed with a BFA in acting from the University of Utah and a love of being silly with friends, she can be found acting, directing, designing, and producing when she isn’t running around in the mountains. Some favorite recent productions include Western Minerals and Their Origins (actor/set/props/technical director/co-creator) with Footpath Theatre Company, The Quiet Rule (actor) with emily’s house, and Sender (director). Much love to her family and friends for allowing her to run wild and supporting her art.
ADRIANA LEMKE (She/Her) (Intimacy Director) is a Salt Lake City based
theatre-artist and movement professional. Previous Salt Lake Acting Company productions include Bat Boy: The Musical, The Roommate, Whitelisted, Hairy & Sherri, Sleeping Giant, Surely Goodness & Mercy, and The Wolves. Other fight and/ or intimacy direction credits include The Sweet Science of Bruising, As You Like It, and Julius Caesar (UofU); At the Bottom (Pinnacle Acting Company), Ion (The Classical Greek Theatre Festival), Head Over Heels (The Grand Theatre), Twelfth Night (Salt Lake Shakespeare), Man and the Moon (Good Company Theatre), and Hamlet (Sun Valley Shakespeare).
BRIDGETTE LEHMAN (She/Her) (Stage Manager/ Production Manager) Favorite select stage management credits include: Hairy & Sherri, You Will Get Sick, The Robertassey, Close Encounter in the Beehive, R+J: Star-Cross’d Death Match (SLAC), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Good Company Theatre), Orpheus in the Underworld (Utah Vocal Arts Academy). Favorite select assistant stage management credits include: Bald Sisters, Whitelisted, The Roommate, Bat Boy, The Secret Lives of The Real Wives in The Salt Lake Hive (SLAC). She is also a sound designer, including credits: Five Carols for Christmas, Shrek! The Musical (Ogden Musical Theatre) and various Zoom projects.
TAHRA VEASLEY* (She/Her) (Asst. Stage Manager / Production Manager) Favorite select Stage Management credits include: The Roommate, The Secret Lives of The Real Wives in The Salt Lake Hive (SLAC), Dating Comprehension (CH Productions), The Utah High School Musical Theatre Awards 2025 (Eccles Theatre), Whitelisted, Bald Sisters, Can I Say Yes To That Dress? (SLAC), Senior Stages Play Tour Series (Plan-B Theatre Company) and Eclipsed (KCACTF).
Off-Broadway: The Bleeding Class (59E59). Favorite select Assistant Stage Management credits include: The Robertassey, Elephant & Piggie’s: “We Are in a Play!”, Hairy & Sherri, and A Year With
Frog & Toad (SLAC), Once on This Island, Mamma Mia!, Cagney, and Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Pioneer Theatre Company), & First Date (Grand Theatre).
CYNTHIA FLEMING
(She/Her) (Executive Artistic Director) has been an integral part of Salt Lake Acting Company since 1998 and was named Executive Artistic Director in 2015. Over the years, Cynthia has lovingly shaped Salt Lake Acting Company into what it is today–creating and implementing SLAC’s Arts Education Programs (Title I Arts Education Program, Professional Theatre Program), deepening SLAC’s commitment to New Play Development through the Playwrights’ Lab, establishing a culture of community through the Making Space for Artists Program, outreach, and partnerships with other organizations. Under Cynthia’s leadership, SLAC has continually set the standard for accessibility, equity, diversity, and inclusion; in 2020, SLAC launched The Amberlee Fund, a capital campaign to make SLAC’s historic building wheelchair accessible. To date, Cynthia has produced over 100 plays.
SALT LAKE ACTING COMPANY
is celebrating its 54th Season and continuing its mission to engage and enrich community through brave contemporary theatre. Founded in 1970, SLAC is a not–for–profit 501(c)3 professional theatre dedicated to producing, commissioning, and developing new works and to supporting a community of professional artists. SLAC has been nationally recognized
by the Shubert Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pew Charitable Trusts, and the Edgerton Foundation, among others. SLAC operates under an SPT Actors Equity Association contract and is a Constituent Member of Theatre Communications Group (a national organization for non–profit professional regional theatres), and the National New Play Network (a national alliance of non–profit professional theatres that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays).
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(AEA) Founded in 1913, represents more than 51,000 professional Actors and Stage Managers nationwide. Equity seeks to foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of society and advances the careers of its members by negotiating wages, improving working conditions and providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. Equity is a member of the AFL–CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. www.ActorsEquity. org #EquityWorks.
* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
**Represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA 829 of the IATSE.
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PROFESSIONAL THEATRE PROGRAM FOR EMERGING ARTISTS
Through the Professional Theatre Program for Emerging Artists (PTP), SLAC provides opportunities for students and early-career theatre artists to gain meaningful, paid experience. This production’s PTP participants are: CoCo May Berwald (Actor); Calvin J. Vinson (Asst. Sound Designer)
“I’m so grateful to be working at Salt Lake Acting Company. Their shows have always felt daring, original, hilarious, and unlike anything else, and it’s so surreal to realize I’m now part of that work.” - CoCo May Berwald
“The PTP program has given me the opportunity to be guided by the many people and artists whose work I heavily admire and aspire to be a part of. It’s amazing just getting to sit in the room and be a part of this incredible company and creating something greater than ourselves.” -
Calvin J. Vinson
Our thanks to the following funders for their generous support of this program: Terence Kearns Stephens Charitable Trust The John and Marcia Price Family Foundation B.W. Bastian Foundation
Calvin J. Vinson, Jennifer Jackson
Throughout the run of Sunny in the Dark, we are honored to feature the art of Kate Jarvik Birch and Morgan Birch Salt Lake Acting Company’s Green Room Gallery is more than just a space for patrons to lounge; it’s a vibrant hub for local visual arts. The gallery exemplifies SLAC’s mission to nurture the local creative community by offering diverse visual perspectives and celebrating the connections between visual and performing arts.
Kate Jarvik Birch is a full-time visual artist, author, playwright, and daydreamer. Her art has been featured worldwide in stores like Target, Pier One and World Market, as well as in television series and major motion pictures such as, Transparent, Medium, Glee and Twenty-One Jump Street. For the past five years, Kate has been working on her painting-a-day series, creating one small piece in gouache every day. Kate graduated with a degree in Painting and Drawing from the University of Utah in 2005 and lives and works in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Morgan Birch is a visual artist, painter, tattoo artist, and daydreamer from Salt Lake City. She has an eye for detail, a love of color, and an illustrative style that she brings into all of her artwork, whether on canvas or on skin. When she’s not creating, she is usually enjoying a walk with her dog, or procrastinating.
Kate Jarvik Birch
Morgan Birch
Please join us Monday, March 16 at 7 PM for a free reading of, Last Lists, a new musical based on Julie Jensen’s Last Lists of My Mad Mother, directed by Alexandra Harbold. Contact the Box Office at (801) 363-7522 or visit our website to book your tickets. While the reading is free, tickets are required to reserve your spot.
SLAC acknowledges the Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation for their generous support of the New Play Sounding Series.
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Executive Staff
Nick Fleming
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Front of House Staff
Presley (PJ) Caywood, Kallie Filanda, Karen-Christina (KC) Jones, Max Ricks, Bryce Romleski, McKenna Soderberg, Emily Tatum, Lucy Urquhart, Nan Weber, Annette Wright, Akina Yamazaki, Ben Young
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54th Season promotional artwork created by Courtney Blair
Salt Lake Acting Company’s mission is to engage and enrich community through brave, contemporary theatre.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:
Lisa Killpack, President
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FOR OUR AUDIENCE
Your presence at Salt Lake Acting Company is met with sincere gratitude. You make everything possible.
Tickets:
For tickets call the SLAC Box Office at 801-363-7522 or visit us online at SaltLakeActingCompany.org. Box Office hours are Monday-Friday 11 AM – 5 PM, with extended hours during the run of a show.
Ticket Exchanges:
Season Subscribers can always exchange their tickets, and it’s free! Just call 801-363-7522.
Group Sales:
Discounts are available to groups of 10 or more. Call 801-363-7522 to discuss seating availability or email Info@SaltLakeActingCompany.Org for your party. We’d love to take care of you and your friends.
Emergency
Exits:
Please identify the exit closest to your seat in case of emergency.
Late Patrons:
Late patrons will be seated by the House Manager at the appropriate time.
Wheelchair Accessibility:
We offer various accessible accommodations including: ADA parking, ramped main and rear entry, automatic doors, elevator access.
Accessibility Considerations
• ASL-Interpreted Performances
• Open Captioned Performances
• Audio-Described Performances
• Sensory Friendly Performances
• Accessible Seating and Restroom
• Assistive Listening Devices
• Digital Programs
• Sensory Support Tools
• Support Animal Access
For a full overview of our accessibility offerings, please visit SaltLakeActingCompany.org
The use of film, video or audio recording equipment in the theatre during a performance is expressly prohibited.
