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Mixed Blood: King of the Kosher
Grocers, Yellowman. Other
Theatre: Broadway (King
Hedley II, Ma Rainey’s Black
Bottom [revival]);Center Stage
(Seven Guitars, Two Trains
Running, Jitney, Police Boys);
Pittsburgh Public Theater (Seven Guitars, King
Hedley II, Fences, Jitney, Police Boys); Seattle
Rep (King Hedley II, Jitney); Mark Taper Forum
(King Hedley II, Gem of the Ocean, Jitney);
Huntington Theatre Company (King Hedley II);
Goodman Theatre (King Hedley II, Gem of the
Ocean, Jitney); Kennedy Center (King Hedley
II); Penumbra Theatre Company (Piano Lesson,
Dutchman, Generations of the Dead, A Soldier’s
Play, Resurrection of Lady Lester, Tracers); Indiana
Rep (Fences); Studio Theatre (Jitney); Geva
(Jitney); Second Stage (Jitney); Royal National
Theater (Jitney); Public Theatre (East Texas Hot
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Park Square Theatre (Waiting for Godot); Pillsbury
House Theatre (Bullrusher, Home); Kansas
City Rep (Gee’s Bend); The Children’s Theatre
Company (Bud, Not Buddy); Illusion Theatre
(Beauty is a Rare Thing). Awards: Obie Award
(Jitney); Audelco (Jitney, East Texas Hot Links);
Tony nomination (King Hedley II); Drama Desk
nomination (Jitney); Joseph Kesserling Award
(Police Boys); Beverly Hills/NAACP Award
(Gem of the Ocean, Jitney).
BY CARLYLE BROWN
DIRECTED BY MARION MCCLINTON
(Playwright)
Carlyle Brown is a writer/
performer and artistic director
of Carlyle Brown & Company
based in Minneapolis. He has
received many awards, including
playwriting fellowships from the
Minnesota State Arts Board,
Jerome Foundation, National Endowment for
the Arts and Theatre Communications Group
and commissions from Alabama Shakespeare
Festival and Minneapolis Children’s Theatre
Company. Brown is a core member at Playwrights’
Center in Minneapolis and he is an alumnus of
New Dramatists in New York and a member
of the Dramatists Guild. He is on the board of
directors of The Playwrights’Center and Theatre
Communications Group, the national organization
for the non-profit professional theater, and the
Jerome Foundation. He is the 2006 recipient of
The Black Theatre Network’s Winona Lee Fletcher
Award for outstanding achievement and artistic
excellence and a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow.
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SIMON CATO
GEORGE DEWITT
TOM ROLAND
GAVIN LAWRENCE
MARK SIEVE*
MARK ROSENWINKEL**
CHRIS MULKEY
KAREN LANDRY
CASEY GREIG
CHRISTIANA CLARK
MARK SIEVE*
MARK ROSENWINKEL**
CASEY GREIG
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
SET DESIGNER
COSTUME DESIGNER
LIGHTING DESIGNER
SOUND DESIGNER
PROPS DESIGNER
STAGE MANAGER
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER
MASTER ELECTRICIAN
PRODUCTION CARPENTER
SCENERY BY
LINDSEY CACICH
JOSEPH STANLEY
CHRISTINE A. RICHARDSON
MICHAEL WANGEN
C. ANDREW MAYER
GWEN HEYN
JULIA GALLAGHER
RAINBOW STAR PLANT
TOM DYER
VADIM MALINSKIY
SIGHTLINE FABRICATION
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MATTIE JOHNSON
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CAROLINE
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ACT I is set in 1861. ACT II is set in 1877.
The action takes place in various locations
of the South as well as Saratoga, New York.
Pure Confidence is performed with one
15 Minute intermission.
This performance contains the use of strobe lights.
Pure Confidence was commissioned and originally
produced by ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE
in the Humana Festival of New American Plays
and the ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
in the Southern Writers’ Project.
Pure Confidence by Carlyle Brown is presented by
arrangement with Bruce Ostler, BRET ADAMS, LTD.,
448 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036
www.bretadamsltd.net
MIXED BLOOD
THEATRE COMPANY
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR JACK REULER
PRODUCTION/COMPANY MANAGER RAINBOW STAR PLANT
ASSISTANT COMPANY MANAGER JERRY RUIZ
DIRECTOR OF MARKETING MALIA COLE
MANAGING DIRECTOR P.J. DOYLE
MIXED BLOOD THEATRE COMPANY
A professional, multi-racial theatre promoting cultural pluralism and individual equality through artistic
excellence. Using theatre as a vehicle for artistry, entertainment, education, and social change, Mixed
Blood addresses the artificial barriers that keep people from succeeding in American society.
The theatre has been recognized for its artistic merit and political commitment with numerous awards,
including the 2009 Sally Irvine Award for Vision, MetLife Foundation 2007 Award for Excellence in
Arts Access, two 2006 Ivey Awards, the VSA Arts of Minnesota 2005 Arts Access Award, the MN Council
of Nonprofits 2004 Antiracism Initiative Mission Award, the Council on Black Minnesotans Dream Keeper
Award (1997), an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Minneapolis Commission on Civil Rights
(1995), The Minneapolis Foundation’s Diversity Award, Actors’ Equity’s Rosetta Le Noire Award (1990)
for “celebrating the universality of the human experience on the American stage,” and three Drama Critics
Circle Awards. Artistic Director Jack Reuler has received a 2009 Spirit Recognition Award from Actors’
Equity Association, a Lifetime Achievement Recognition at the 2006 Ivey Awards, the 2006 Local Legend
Award from the United Negro College Fund, the City’s Minneapolis Award, and Minneapolis Community
College's Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award.
GAVIN LAWRENCE
CHRIS MULKEY
JACK REULER
(Simon Cato)
Mixed Blood: Salt Fish and Bakes,
Fires in the Mirror, Boy,
Colorblind, The Mad Dancers,
How to Improve Your Golf Game,
Flags, The History of Bowling,
Primary English Class, Birth of the
Boom, Gunplay. Other theatres:
Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Denver Center
Theatre Company, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park,
Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, Florida Studio Theatre
(Pure Confidence); Arena Stage (Ma Rainey’s Black
Bottom, Black No More); Kennedy Center (Project
Liberty); Guthrie Theatre (Dream on Monkey
Mountain, Many Colors Make the Thunder-King,
Julius Caesar, The Venetian Twins, Once in a
Lifetime, Blood Wedding, The School for Scandal,
A Christmas Carol, King Lear); Kansas City Rep
(Blood Wedding); Children’s Theatre Company
(The Beggar’s Strike, Anon(Y)mous); City Theatre
(Spunk, Birth of the Boom); Pillsbury House Theatre
(Slow Dance on the Killing Ground, The House
that Crack Built, Are You Now); Penumbra Theatre
(Two Trains Running, Waiting in Vain, The Last
Minstrel Show, Everlasting Arms, The Mighty Gents,
King of Coons, Buffalo Hair, Three Ways Home,
The Mojo and the Sayso, On the Open Road,
Black Nativity ’92-’98, ’00-’01); Source Theatre
(Smile Orange); D.C. Black Rep (Eden, Wine in the
Wilderness); Kresge Theatre (Hunters of the Soul,
Tribes); Illusion Theatre (Objects in the Mirror,
Among Our Own). Film/TV: Film -The Promise
(Lead); Justice (Featured); Joe Somebody
(Supporting). TV – The Promise (Lead); Newton’s
Apple (Featured); Macbeth (Featured); Wine in the
Wilderness (Lead). Awards: The Black Theatre
Alliance Lorraine Hansberry Award for Best Writing
Of A Play (Cut Flowers); Howard University’s
Distinguished Alumnus Award; Howard University’s
Children’s Theatre Recognition Award; Minneapolis
Star Tribune Citation for Best New Script (Salt Fish
and Bakes).
(Colonel)
Mixed Blood: Flags. Other Theatre:
Odyssey (Flags); Children’s Theatre
Company (Four Seasons); South
Coast Rep (Blue Window); Ruskin
Theatre (Café Plays); 59E59
Theaters (Flags). Film: Cloverfield,
Radio, Rambo, North Country,
Patti Rocks. TV: Twin Peaks, 24 Hours, Friday Night
Lights, CSI, Saving Grace, Any Day Now, Broken
Trail. Awards: L.A. Drama Critic, L.A. Drama League,
Spirit Awards: nominated Best Actor.
(Artistic director)
Mixed Blood: 250 productions, 73 world premieres,
33 years. Awards: Actors’ Equity’s Spirit Award
(2009), Facing Race Ambassador (2009), Ivey
Award for Lifetime Achievement (2006), United
Negro College Fund Local Legend (2006), Martin
Luther King Humanitarian Award; Minneapolis
Award, Macalester College Distinguished Citizen.
Film/TV: Justice (casting director).
KAREN LANDRY
(Mattie)
Mixed Blood: Flags, Vestibular
Sense, The Clean House. Other
Theatre: The Rubicon Theater and
Pacific Resident (My Antonia); Park
Square Theatre (Frozen); 59E59
Theaters (Flags); Theatre de la
Jeune Lune (Antigone); Pacific
Resident Theater (Death of a Salesman, A Delicate
Balance, Prelude to a Kiss); South Coast Rep Theater
(Lips Together Teeth Apart, El Dorado, Faith
Healer); San Jose Rep (The Geography of Luck);
Denver Center Rep (Moby Dick, Caucasian Chalk
Circle, Passing Game); The Guthrie Theatre (Darker
Face of the Earth, three full seasons - 1975-78).
Directing: (Orson Bean’s The Christmas Carol),
Pacific Resident Ensemble (When They Speak of
Rita, BLAST). Films: The Christmas Star, Inside
Darkness, Shattered, Frozen Kiss, Jimmy Zip, Patti
Rocks, The Personals. TV: Cold Case, 6 Feet Under,
JAG, Any Day Now, Beverly Hills 90210, St.
Elsewhere, The Practice. Awards: Bush Fellowship.
CHRISTIANA CLARK
(Dewitt, Clerk)* 5/22 - 6/7
Mixed Blood: Ten Percent of Marta
Solano, Glengarry Glen Ross,
Speed-the-Plow, Spinning Into
Butter, Six Degrees of Separation,
Lemons, Road to Nirvana. Director:
Bleacher Bums, The Last
Champion, Ohio Tipoff, How to
Improve Your Golf Game, Calvinisms. Other theatre:
Children’s Theater Company (Twelfth Night); Park
Square (Marat/Sade). Co-creator of the renaissance
vaudeville team Puke & Snot, the longest-running
two-man comedy duo in the country.
(Caroline)
Mixed Blood: Point of Revue,
Yellowman. Other theatre: Pillsbury
House Theatre (Bulrusher); Ten
Thousand Things Theatre
(Endgame); Jon Ferguson Theatre
(Animal Farm); Frank Theatre
(Fucking A, Women of Troy); Park
Square Theatre (Left Hand Singing, Constant Star,
You Can’t Take it With You); Penumbra Theatre
(Blue); Illusion Theatre (Autistic License); Starting
Gate Theatre (A Raisin in the Sun); Paul Bunyan
Playhouse (Chicago, Wait Until Dark); History
Theatre (Lutefisk Champ); Mystery Café Theatre
(Lights! Camera! Murder!, Who Wants to Kill A
Millionaire?); Skylark Opera (Lost in the Stars);
Theatre de la Jeune Lune (Letters of a Portuguese
Nun). Film/TV: Captured, Jimmy’s Getting Better.
Awards: Ivey Award: Emerging Artist 2006.
MARK ROSENWINKEL
CASEY GREIG
MARK SIEVE
(Dewitt, Clerk)** 6/9 - 7/3
Mixed Blood: Grapes of Wrath.
Other theatre: Guthrie Theater
(Peer Gynt, 1776, Merchant of
Venice, She Loves Me, As You Like
It, Antony and Cleopatra,
Measure for Measure, Sweeney
Todd, Merrily We Roll Along, His
Girl Friday, Pygmalion); Pillsbury House Theatre
(Bulrusher); Penumbra (Tracers); Chanhassen
Theatres (West Side Story, Guys and Dolls, Singin’
in the Rain, Chapter Two, Groucho: A Life in Revue);
History Theatre (Wellstone!, Sisters of Swing, The
Gangster Musical, Hormel Girls); Park Square
Theatre (Romeo and Juliet, Medea). Awards: Jerome
Fellowship for Playwriting, The Playwrights’ Center.
THE ACTORS AND STAGE MANAGERS EMPLOYED IN
THIS PRODUCTION ARE MEMBERS OF ACTOR’S EQUITY
ASSOCIATION, THE UNION OF PROFESSIONAL ACTORS
AND STAGE MANAGERS IN THE UNITED STATES.
www.actorsequity.org
(Auctioneer, Tom Roland)
Mixed Blood: Debut. Other
Theatre: Berkley Rep (Figaro),
Actor’s Theatre of Louisville
(The Tempest); La Jolla Playhouse/
Theatre de la Jeune Lune (The
Deception); The Guthrie Theatre
(Romeo and Juliet, Good Boys);
The Jungle Theatre (Molly’s Delicious, Torch Song
Trilogy); Penumbra Theatre (Sex DiaryÖ); Eye of
the Storm (Beauty Queen of Leenane, Skylight,
Cowbird); Emigrant Theater (Thom Pain); John
Hassler Theater (Pillowman); Ten Thousand Things
(Iphigenia). Film/TV: Nonames, Holiday Beach.
Awards: City Pages: Best Actor 2002.
LINDSEY CACICH
(Assistant Director)
Assistant Directing credits with Marion McClinton:
Pillsbury House Theatre (Home, Bulrusher), Children’s
Theatre Company (Bud, Not Buddy), Kansas City
Repertory Theatre (Gee’s Bend). Acting: The
Children’s Theatre Company (Dr. Seuss’ How the
Grinch Stole Christmas, Marvin’s Room, Chicago);
Piccolo Theatre (Jack and the Wild Goose Chase);
Plasticene (Site Unseen: Com-pendi-um); Loyola
University Chicago (The Madwoman of Chaillot,
Love’s Labour’s Lost, Dancing at Lughnasa, Cake,
That Time).
JULIA GALLAGHER
(Stage Manager)
Mixed Blood: Red Ink, Sweet 15, 1001, Distracted,
Esperando La Carozza, Love Person, The Poetry
of Pizza, The Clean House, Two Queens, One
Castle (2007); Messy Utopia, The Pajama Game
(ASM); Vestibular Sense. Other Theater: Jungle
Theater (Hedwig and the Angry Inch); Lake Tahoe
Shakespeare Festival ASM (Greater Tuna, Romeo
and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew); Illusion Theater
(2007 Lights Up! Series; Festival of Lights; The Seven
Poor Travelers); Guthrie Theater: Prod. Asst (The
Falls), SM Intern (The Great Gatsby).
RAINBOW STAR
PLANT
(Assistant Stage Manager)
Mixed Blood: Red Ink, Sweet 15, 1001, Distracted,
Esperando La Carozza, Love Person, The Poetry
of Pizza, The Clean House, Two Queens One Castle
(2007) Other theater: NYC - Off Broadway:
Abingdon Theater (Savage in Limbo), Off Off
Broadway: Theater 22 (Independence, Before
Breakfast, The Room), (SM); Brooklyn Back Stage
(Two Rooms); The Producers Club (Method of
Madness); Present Company (Danny and the Deep
Blue Sea). Co-founder of SameVein Productions,
NYC.
JOSEPH STANLEY
(Set Designer)
Mixed Blood: Distracted, Esperando La Carroza,
The Clean House, Dance on Widow’s Row, and
Sweet Nothing in My Ear. Other theatre: Children’s
Theatre Company (Romeo and Juliet, Magic Mrs.
Piggle Wiggle, Huck Finn, Antigone, Pippi
Longstocking); Pillsbury House Theatre (Blackbird,
Bug, [sic], Boesman and Lena); the Minnesota
Orchestra (Hansel and Gretel, Candide, Tosca);
Mu Performing Arts (Flower Drum Song, Happy
Valley, Circle Around the Island, Midsummer
Night’s Dream, Cowboy vs. Samurai); Stages
Theatre (Baseball Saved Us, The Mitten,
Schoolhouse Rock and others); 10,000 Things
(Eurydice, Emperor of the Moon); Steppingstone
Theatre; Guthrie Theatre BFA Program(Shadowgrass,
Lizards); 15 HEAD - a theatre lab (18 shows including
Sacred Space, Dracula and Mountain Giants);
Zorongo Flamenco Dance Co.; Eye of the Storm,
Ordway Music Theatre, Dancing People Company,
Sandbox Theatre, Minnesota Dance Theatre, James
Sewell Ballet, Margolis Brown, Viterbo University,
University of St. Thomas, Ballet Arts Minnesota, the
American Southwest Theatre Company, Northstar
Opera, Kohler Arts Center, and the Creede Repertory
Theatre;15 HEAD - a theatre lab (Founder and
Artistic Director).
CHRISTINE
A. RICHARDSON
(Costume Designer)
Mixed Blood: Distracted, Love Person, Esperando
La Carroza, The Clean House, Two Queens One
Castle, Messy Utopia, Vestibular Sense, Immigrant
Dreams, Point of Revue, Dance on Widows Row.
Other theatre: the Guthrie Theater: Costume
Workroom Manager/Costume Design (Happy Days,
The Caretaker, The Ugly One, Pen), Stages Theatre
(Baseball Saved Us, How I Became a Pirate, The
Giver, Aladdin, Winnie the Pooh, A Christmas Tail,
Charlotte’s Web, A Christmas Carol, Madeline’s
Christmas, Sacagawea, Oliver, The Giver);
Minneapolis Art Institute (VaVaVa Bloom); Salvation
Army MN (Doughnut Girls Remembered); Main
Street School for the Performing Arts (Burnt Dreams,
Waiting for Change); Artist Repertory Theater
(Fortinbras); Artemis Productions (Emma Goldman);
Theater on the Hill (Forever Plaid); Ballet Pacifica
(as is, is us); Trinity Irish Dance Co. (The Dawn,
O’Reely); BodyVox (The Big Room). Film/TV: Set
Costumer/Wardrobe Supervisor - multiple projects
for Wilshire Court Productions, Orion, Universal
Pictures/Largo Ent., Walt Disney, ABC, NBC,
20th Century/Fox.
MICHAEL WANGEN
(Lighting Designer)
Mixed Blood: Yellowman. Other Theatre: Pillsbury
House Theatre (Blackbird, Bullrusher, Home, Far
Away, Bug, An Almost Holy Picture, Jesus Hopped
the A Train); Guthrie Theatre (Fences, The Darker
Face of the Earth); Children’s Theatre Company
(Bud, Not Buddy); Ordway Center for the Performing
Arts (Blues in the Night); Frank Theatre (Vinegar
Tom, Puntilla and his Manservant, Mother Courage
and her Children); Illusion Theatre (Same Difference,
Iron Kisses, Vanishing Point); Carlyle Brown & Co.
(Are You Now or Have You Ever Been, The Fula
from America, Masks of Othello); Penumbra Theatre
(60+ designs from 1987-2000).TV/Film: Stage
lighting supervisor for the Robert Altman film,
A Prairie Home Companion.
C. ANDREW MAYER
(Sound Designer)
Mixed Blood: Love Person, The Poetry of Pizza,
The Clean House, Vestibular Sense, Yellowman,
A Jew on Ethiopia Street, League of Nations. Other
theatres: the Guthrie Theater, Jungle Theatre, Pillsbury
House, History Theatre, the Minnesota Opera, Park
Square Theatre, the Children’s Theatre Company,
El Portal Theatre, Acadia Repertory Theatre
(Producing Director). Awards: Playwrights’ Center
McKnight Theatre Artist Fellow 2008-2009.
GWEN HEYN
(Props Designer)
Mixed Blood: 1001, Love Person, Take Me Out.
Other Theatres: The Great River Shakespeare Festival:
Props Artisan (The Taming of the Shrew, The
Merchant of Venice); Chanhassen Dinner Theatre:
Prop Master (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor
Dreamcoat, Les Miserables, Easter Parade,
Grease, West Side Story, 42nd Street, Singing
in the Rain, Midlife, The Wonderbread Years);
The History Theatre: Prop Master (Fireball, Over
the Rainbow, Christmas of Swing). Film/TV: Paradise
(2001). Currently filming a music video for The
Danger Board.
SPECIAL THANKS
Nancy, Tammy and Jan, the ladies of Davita.
Linda Essig, Marcus Dillard.
This Production of Pure Confidence is made
possible in part by a generous donation from
the Korein Foundation.