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JUL. 7–AUG. 7, 2016
2016 SUMMER
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2016 FALL
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2016–2017
INDOOR SEASON
2017 SPRING
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Hamlet
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Romeo and Juliet
The Winter’s Tale
Medea
Bring Down the House, Parts 1 & 2
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Romeo and Juliet
The Taming of
the Shrew
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Titus Andronicus at Young Shakespeare Workshop
The Young Shakespeare Workshop, a free program celebrating 25
years, is a Seattle-based non-profit that serves youth from Seattle and
regions beyond. The seven-week summer First Year program draws
teenagers from all walks of life to study and perform Shakespeare —
sonnets, speeches, scenes — giving them the opportunity to celebrate
the power of the human voice to illuminate experience. YSW was
awarded the nation’s highest honor for out-of-school youth arts training
in 2011, the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award.
We sat down recently with Darren Lay, a professional
actor, director and teaching artist, that has been
directing the program since 1998, to discuss
Shakespeare’s power, the essential nature of art, and
ways you can help.
How did you get involved with the
Young Shakespeare Workshop?
My love of Shakespeare began when I
was a teenager in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It is
incredible to me that a city like Seattle,
priding itself on the arts, has public high
schools without theatre programs. After
moving to Seattle I joined with Eric Ray
Anderson, a fellow working actor, and
Kimberly White, to take up the mantle
of the Young Shakespeare Workshop
from Edward Payson Call who began the
program. I was not thinking I would still
be at it 19 years later.
What’s the demographic profile of those
kids you serve?
Kids of every description and stripe
have participated in the program
over the years — poor kids, rich kids,
white kids, kids of color, straight
kids, queer kids, religious kids, nonreligious kids, kids with supportive
parents, kids without parents, English
language learners, immigrants, refugees,
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Othello at Young Shakespeare Workshop
conservative, or liberal. It is astonishing
how wide a range of people Shakespeare
can bring together.
Adding
,a
new independent living option,
the Hearthstone offers a lifestyle
that matches the vibrant and
family-friendly neighborhood of
Green Lake and the freedom to
pursue what matters to you the
most.
Our in-school academic year work
focuses primarily on low income public
schools where most all of the students
are kids of color. Cleveland High School
in the last several years has been the
school we have devoted the most time
and energy too, providing after-school
performance projects as well as in-class
residencies for humanities classes. Last
year for the first time we offered a forcredit Performing Shakespeare class in
the fall. We are hoping to do the same
this coming year if we can find enough
funding.
Is selling Shakespeare to kids a hard
sale?
It can be hard sometimes, if the context
and situation is not supportive, but once
kids get up on their feet and perform
Shakespeare with each other as opposed
to just reading it and have the time to
begin to own the words for themselves,
and see Shakespeare as ‘their artist’
writing for them, then Shakespeare the
brilliant poet and truth-teller does all of
the work. Shakespeare’s work easily sells
itself given the right environment.
What can Shakespeare’s plays give
kids?
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Shakespeare gives kids a chance to
step directly into thoughts and feelings,
relationships and circumstances that
intrigue us all, a chance to experience
intensely nuanced reflection that can
relate to your own life experience or
circumstances of those around you
which acts to nourish a more intelligent
and observant understanding of us all.
The safe remove of art engages teens’
empathy and thoughtful weighing of
human interaction, incredibly valuable
to teenagers shaping their own identity
and voice. Theatre is such a deeply
worthy and important human invention
for examining the world and our place
in it.
What are your favorite Young
Shakespeare Workshop memories?
There are really too many to
choose from. Most revolve around
performances when students transcend
“the ordinary of Nature’s sale-work”
and we are all compelled to marvel at
Shakespeare’s brilliance. One should
never mistake Shakespeare’s brilliance
for your own, but sometimes it is lovely
to imagine it is yours for a while, and
you do come away feeling as if some
of it might have rubbed off on you in
some way during the insane funniness
of Midsummer’s rough mechanicals, or
the brutal and terrifying word induced
pindrop silences in Othello or the
hauntingly beautiful Richard II as either
performer or audience member.
What can people do to help YSW?
We are always cash poor (currently
working to raise funds to be at
Cleveland High School next fall) and of
course the absolute best way anyone
can help is to encourage that young
person you know who needs that extra
boost of confidence to contact us and
join an often wonderfully life changing
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LOVERS
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HEROES
Putting together a summer of free Shakespeare in the parks is a whole lot of fun. Some
of the fun is in the planning spaces: What shows should we do? Who will direct? Who
will be in the cast? Are we going to go to any new parks? And then the fun amps
up when we start rehearsals. A few Wooden O veterans return to join us for another
summer. We welcome new friends to the family. We get to learn what the plans are for
each show. And we start to anticipate meeting you in the parks.
But Wooden O also has its challenges.
We strive to compensate our artists as best we can, because they are at the heart of our
work. We find ways to underwrite expenses. We tightly manage our construction costs
on sets and costumes. A company generously donates rehearsal spaces. We promote
the shows through inexpensive means such as social media.
We’ve been fortunate in our friends. We’ve had heroes who stepped up to help,
but some of that support has recently run dry. We’re facing significant increases in
costs to bring this summer tradition to you and this year’s Wooden O has been more
challenging than in the past.
We know that you enjoy and value your time with us in the parks; we hear it in your
applause and in your praise after the show is over. We love performing these great works
for you. They take on a different tone when performed outdoors. We love that you bring
your friends, family, and colleagues (and your dogs!). These plays are for everyone.
You are our partners in this summer tradition, and we need your help to make
it happen. This is why, at the end of the show, we ask you to contribute with a
donation. Please, when you give, take a moment to think about the value of the
memories created each year with friends and family.
But, also, please think about the other ways you can help — do you know of a free
space that can serve for rehearsals? Do you want to volunteer as an usher for our
indoor shows? If you enjoyed the performance, would you spread the word over a
beer with friends, through an email, or by sharing on Facebook or Twitter?
By doing any of this, you can be one of our heroes.
Your generosity makes each summer of Wooden O worth it. Not only to us, but to
everyone else who loves the experience . . . whether it’s their first time at Wooden O
or their twentieth time.
Thank you! It’s great to have you here with us in the park. Enjoy the show!
— John Bradshaw
Managing Director
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PLOT SYNOPSIS
The King of Navarre wants to make
his kingdom the center for academic
learning, in part by eliminating
all distractions — including the
company of women. He invites
three friends to join him and swear
to devote themselves to three years
of strenuous study. Longaville and
Dumaine agree, but Berowne is
dubious. He reminds the King that
the Princess of France is arriving
on state business. The King agrees
to speak to her but insists that
she and her ladies sleep outside
the palace. He also concedes to
the need for entertainment and
retains a clown called Costard and
a Spanish aristocrat, Don Armado.
Both men are in love with a peasant
named Jaquenetta, with whom
Costard has already been caught in
compromising circumstances.
The King is immediately captivated
by the Princess, and, of course, his
three lords are attracted to her
three ladies: Maria, Katherine, and
Rosaline. Rosaline and Berowne
fall into a bantering relationship.
Berowne writes her a love poem
and gives it to Costard to deliver.
Don Armado asks Costard to deliver
a love letter to Jaquenetta. The two
letters are, of course, mixed up.
The King and his three friends
finally overhear each other writing
love poems and decide to give up
their oaths. Disguised as Russians,
they set about actively courting
their respective lovers. The women,
already alerted to the scheme,
tease them by wearing masks
and switching partners. When the
tricks are discovered, everyone
takes it in good humor. They sit
down to enjoy a bungling pageant
performed by Don Armado and his
cohorts. The show is interrupted by
news that the French King has died,
and the Princess must return home
immediately. The men propose
marriage. The women refuse but
agree to return the following year.
Adapted from Shakespeare’s Genealogies by
Vanessa James
LOVE’S LABOUR’S
LOST
By William Shakespeare
CAST
PRODUCTION TEAM
Maria
Courtney Bennett
Director
Mary Machala
Berowne
Aaron Cammack
Stage Manager
Susannah Butler*
Sir Nathaniel
Anthony Duckett
Set Designer
Craig Wollam
Dull
Brandon Felker
Costume Designer
Kelly McDonald
Rosaline
Keiko Green
Sound Designer
Kyle Thompson
Boyet
Harry Todd Jamieson
Properties Designer
Robin Macartney
Holofurnia
Imogen Love*
Technical Director
Seattle Scenic Studios
King of Navarre
Jason Marr
Assistant Stage Manager
Caitlin Denney-Turner
Dumaine
Benjamin McFadden
Associate Technical Director
Adrian Delahunt
Don Armado
David Pichette*
Properties Artisan
Chloe McNutt
Princess of France
Betsy Schwartz*
* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union
of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the
United States.
Katherine
Porscha Shaw
The taking of pictures or the making of recordings of
any kind during the performance is strictly prohibited.
Costard
Chris Shea
Longaville
Marco Adiak Voli
Mote
Nathan Wornian
Jaquenetta
Emily Wright
American Life, Inc
McKenna Lynch
Original music for end song
composed by Aaron Cammack and
sung by entire cast
WOODEN O SPONSORS
Anne & Mary
ARTS & ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FUND
at the Greater Everett Community Foundation
A-2 SEATTLE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY
SPECIAL THANKS
HAMLET
CAST
PRODUCTION TEAM
Player / Sailor / Gravedigger / Attendant
Meghan Dolbey
Director
George Mount
Gertrude
Amy Fleetwood
Stage Manager
Miranda C. Pratt*
Ghost / Player / Gravedigger
Jim Gall*
Set Designer
Craig Wollam
Ophelia
Meme Garcia
Costume Designer
Jocelyne Fowler
Claudius
Ray Gonzalez
Sound Designer
Evan Mosher
Laertes
Trevor Young Marston
Properties Designer
Robin Macartney
Rosencrantz / Attendant
Rafael Molina
Fight Choreographer
Peter Dylan O’Connor
Hamlet
Conner Neddersen
Technical Director
Horatio
Arjun Pande
Assistant Director
Chris Mikolaizik
Polonius
David Quicksall*
Victoria Thompson
Guildenstern / Attendant
Kayla Walker
Adrian Delahunt
Marcellus / Player
Dylan Zucati
Properties Artisan
Chloe McNutt
* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union
of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the
United States.
The taking of pictures or the making of recordings of
any kind during the performance is strictly prohibited.
SPECIAL THANKS
American Life, Inc
WOODEN O CIVIC PARTNERS
Bellevue Arts Commission / Des Moines Arts Commission
Edmonds Arts Commission / Mercer Island Arts Council
Sammamish Arts Commission / City of SeaTac
Seattle Center / Shoreline-Lake Forest Park Arts Council
Metro Parks Tacoma
PLOT SYNOPSIS
The ghost of Denmark’s recent
king has been seen walking the
castle. Prince Hamlet returns from
university for his father’s funeral.
He learns his uncle, Claudius, has
married his mother, Gertrude, and
is now king. Hamlet is horrified by
the hasty remarriage. He seeks the
ghost of his father, who reveals
that Claudius was responsible for
his death. Hamlet swears revenge,
assuming a pretense of insanity
to throw off suspicion. Claudius,
however, is still wary and employs
Hamlet’s friends, Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern, to spy on him.
Hamlet is in love with Ophelia, and
her father, Polonius, is convinced it
has caused the prince’s apparent
insanity. Hamlet maintains the
guise of madness even in Ophelia’s
presence and cruelly rejects her.
Hamlet hires a group of actors to
reenact his father’s murder. Claudius
is unable to conceal his reaction
during the performance. Later,
Hamlet visits Gertrude’s bedroom,
where Polonius hides behind a
curtain to spy on them. Hamlet
accuses his mother of adultery but
is tempered by his father’s ghost.
Hearing a noise behind the curtain,
he stabs the intruder to death,
mistaking Polonius for Claudius.
Hamlet is exiled and learns
Claudius has arranged to have him
killed, but engineers the deaths
of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
instead. Returning to Denmark, he
finds that Ophelia has died. Her
brother, Laertes, challenges Hamlet
to a fencing match. Claudius
poisons Laertes’s sword and a
glass of wine, in case Hamlet wins.
Halmet is mortally wounded, and
Gertrude unwittingly drinks the
poisoned wine. Hamlet kills Laertes,
then Claudius, then dies.
Adapted from Shakespeare’s Genealogies by
Vanessa James
Courtney Bennett
Aaron Cammack
CAST BIOS: LOVE’S
LABOUR’S LOST
Courtney Bennett
Maria
Courtney is ecstatic to make her Wooden
O debut. Other work in Seattle includes
appearances at Annex Theatre, Ghost Light
Theatricals, and The Pocket Theater. She is
also a playwright who has work-shopped
her work in upstate New York, at tiny
theatre in NYC, and at The Pocket Theater
here in Seattle. She would like to thank all
the wonderful people in this production for
making this first experience so lovely.
Aaron Cammack
Berowne
Aaron is over the moon to have his Seattle
Shakespeare Company debut with Wooden
O’s Love’s Labour’s Lost! A Chicago native,
Aaron has performed with such companies
as New American Folk Theatre and
Transcendent Ensemble Theatre Company.
Recently, he played the role of Phillip “Flip”
Ranoni in Kia Corthron’s Force Continuum
under the direction of Malika Oyetimein.
Additionally, Aaron played Ted Bundy in
a short film recently wrapped called King
of Hearts which will premiere late this
summer. A now-third-year actor in the MFA
Professional Actor Training Program at the
University of Washington, he has also trained
in Chicago under the masterful tutelage
of Kathryn Gately and Richard Poole in the
Gately/Poole Meisner Conservatory and has
a BFA with an Acting/Directing focus from
Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi.
Anthony Duckett
Sir Nathaniel
Anthony is a Seattle-based actor who is
thrilled to be performing with Wooden O
for the first time; he considers it an honor to
grace the stage with his talented cast mates.
Previous Shakespeare in the park credits
include: Arthur and Prince Henry in King
John, Trinculo in The Tempest, Cornwall in
King Lear, and Sir Nathaniel and Dumaine in
Love’s Labour’s Lost (Greenstage); and Charles
and Silvius in As You Like It (Eclectic Theatre).
Select indoor credits: Ferdinand in The
Duchess of Malfi, Anselmus in Cardenio, and
Anthony Duckett
Brandon Felker
Oberon, Lysander, and Flute in A Midsummer
Night’s Dream (Greenstage); Sam Wainwright
in It’s a Wonderful Life (Theater Anonymous);
Yankee Pot Roast in And Jesus Moonwalks
the Mississippi (Sound Theatre Company);
Nelson in End Days (Seattle Public Theater);
and Marek in My Antonia (Book-It Repertory
Theatre). Anthony holds his BFA from
Cornish College of the Arts.
Brandon Felker
Dull
Brandon has been acting and improvising in
and around Seattle for the last twenty years
or so. He has previously appeared in Seattle
Shakespeare Company’s statewide educational
tour, and this is his second production with
Wooden O. He would like to thank everyone
involved for a lovely experience.
Keiko Green
Rosaline
Keiko is a playwright and performer,
originally from Georgia. This is her first time
with Wooden O, after appearing as Bianca in
Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Othello last
year. Recent work includes Stupid F#@*ing
Bird (ACT Theatre), The Comparables (Seattle
Repertory Theatre), and Amadeus and
Caught (both at Seattle Public Theater). She
can next be seen in the ACTLab/ArtsWest
musical Bad Apples this September and in
ACT Theatre’s Dangerous Liaisons in October.
Keiko is a proud member of ACT Theatre’s
2016 Core Acting Company, and just finished
up her residency with the Seattle Repertory
Theatre Writers’ Group. BFA in Acting: New
York University, Tisch School of the Arts.
Harry Todd Jamieson
Boyet
This summer marks Harry’s sixth with
Wooden O, and he could not be happier
about it. Harry is an actor, director, sound
designer, and teaching artist and has worked
in these disciplines locally and regionally
at various companies including Seattle
Shakespeare Company, ACT Theatre, Book-It
Repertory Theatre, Seattle Public Theater,
Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle Children’s
Theatre, New City Theatre, ArtsWest, Seattle
Opera, Theater Schmeater, Annex Theatre,
eSe Teatro, Balagan Theatre, Shakespeare
Walla Walla, and The Horse in Motion, among
others. Recent Shakespearean roles include
Keiko Green
Stephano in The Tempest, Rosalind in As You
Like It, Elbow in Measure for Measure, and
Gratiano in The Merchant of Venice. Harry is a
graduate of Western Washington University
where he received his BA in Drama.
Imogen Love
Holofurnia
Imogen first appeared in Seattle in 1991, in
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Red
Farm/Pioneer Square Theatre). Subsequent
favorites include:The Yellow Kid and Relative
Values (Annex Theatre); Reverse Psychology,
Under the Gaslight, and Chicks With Dicks
(Empty Space Theatre); Deflowered in the Attic
and What’ve We Done to Baby Jane? (Re-bar),
both of which she co-wrote; Maud/Lin in
Cloud Nine (Strawberry Theatre Workshop);
and Christine in These Streets (ACT Theatre).
She spent her last two summers in
Bellingham at the Mount Baker Theater, as
Elaine in Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Ginger in
Becky’s New Car, Maggie in Jake’s Women, and
Silda in Other Desert Cities. Directing credits
include Hedwig and the Angry Inch and What
You Sing Might Save You (Re-bar 2004, 2006).
TV credits include Grimm. She is delighted to
be making her Wooden O debut.
Jason Marr
King of Navarre
Jason is excited to be back with Wooden
O again this year! He last played Proteus
in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and,
more recently, he performed with Seattle
Shakespeare Company in Mother Courage
and Her Children and Titus Andronicus. Other
roles include Felix Humble in Humble Boy
with Seattle Public Theater and Oliver in
Pitmen Painters with ACT Theatre. He has
performed with Shakespeare Santa Cruz,
Shakespeare Theatre Company in D.C.,
Book-It Repertory Theatre, Washington
Ensemble Theatre, Theater Schmeater,
GreenStage, Taproot Theatre, Harlequin
Productions, Theatre Anonymous, and
Island Stage Left. He is a co-founder of One
Lump or Two Productions (Elsinore Diaries,
Holiday of Errors). Jason earned a BFA in
Acting and Directing from UNC Greensboro
and an MFA from the Shakespeare Theatre
Company’s Academy for Classical Acting
at George Washington University. He is
married to the extraordinary Jill Marr.
Harry Todd Jamieson
Imogen Love
Benjamin McFadden
Dumaine
Benjamin is a Pacific Northwest native and
a graduate of Cornish College of the Arts.
Although this is his first time with Wooden
O, he spent three seasons touring schools
with the Seattle Shakespeare Company’s
statewide educational tour as well as
appearing on the main stage in Cymbeline.
Some selected credits include Max in
Where the Wild Things Are (Seattle Children’s
Theatre), Paul Lazzaro in Slaughterhouse Five
(Book-it Repertory Theatre), Young Doctor
Larch in The Cider House Rules (Book-It
Repertory Theatre), and Kurt in The Art of
Bad Men (MAP Theatre). Benjamin recently
wrapped on his first feature film entitled
Colton and will produce, direct, and act in
Disconnected, a short film late this summer.
David Pichette
Don Armado
Previously at Seattle Shakespeare Company,
David has been King Henry in Henry IV Parts
1 and 2, Polonius in Hamlet, and Jaques in As
You Like It. At Utah Shakespeare Festival the
last two seasons he played Malvolio in Twelfth
Night, Shallow in Henry IV Part 2, Gremio in The
Taming of the Shrew, and The Fool in King Lear.
He just finished a run of Death of a Salesman
at ArtsWest, portraying Willy Loman.
Betsy Schwartz
Princess of France
Betsy has worked for many theatres in town
including Book-It Repertory Theatre, ACT
Theatre, Strawberry Theatre Workshop, Village
Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, and Intiman
Summer Festival. Previous Wooden O/Seattle
Shakespeare Company roles include Rosalind
in As You Like It and Mrs. Linde in A Doll’s House.
Betsy is a founding member of upstart crow
collective and played Arthur in the collective’s
2006 production of King John; she will also be
seen in the Seattle Shakespeare Company/
upstart crow collective’s collaboration of Bring
Down the House, Parts 1 and 2 in 2017. She is
also a founding company member of New
Century Theatre Company and was last seen
in Festen and 2014’s Tails of Wasps, for which
she won a Seattle Times Footlight Award,
Gypsy Rose Lee Award, and a Gregory Award
nomination. Betsy has a MFA from Southern
Methodist University.
Jason Marr
Benjamin McFadden
Porscha Shaw
Katherine
Porscha is overjoyed to be joining Wooden
O this summer! Porscha moved from Santa
Fe nine months ago to Seattle with her
best friend and two dogs. She is currently
finishing up her first year as a graduate
student in UW’s acting program.
Chris Shea
Costard
Chris is a multi-faceted theatre artist from
Dayton, OH (go Flyers!) who has worked
with companies across the nation on both
sides of the table. His short play based on
Shakespeare’s clowns and fools, ‘Sup, Fool?,
recently premiered at the Pocket Theatre.
Chris is a company member with Seattle’s
Theatre22 and a licensed home inspector
with Optimized Inspection Services.
Marco Adiak Voli
Longaville
Marco is thrilled to be playing Longaville in
his debut with Wooden O. He is a current
student at Cornish College of the Arts,
graduating with the class of 2017. He has
had the privilege of working with companies
such as eSe Teatro, ACTlab, Seattle
Playwrights’ Circle, and the Blood Ensemble.
School productions have included Baloo
in the Jungalbook, Juror #3 in Twelve Angry
Jurors, and a variety of original works. He
lives in Belltown with his lovely girlfriend,
Hannah, to whom he attributes his sanity.
Nathan Wornian
Mote
Nathan is incredibly excited and honored
to be performing in this wonderful
production with such an amazing cast!
He has just graduated from the University
of Washington with a BA in Drama
Performance and a BS in Environmental
Science and Resource Management. You
may have seen him over the past few years
in the UW Drama Main Stage productions
of Boys’ Life, The Beggar’s Opera, and The
Workroom — as well as many productions
with the Undergraduate Theatre Society on
the UW campus. He is incredibly excited to
continue his love and exploration of acting,
clowning, physical theatre, and circus arts
here and into the future.
David Pichette
Emily Wright
Jaquenetta
Emily is a sophomore Drama major and will be
studying drama at the University of East Anglia,
United Kingdom, next fall. She spent the last
year studying theatre with the University of
San Francisco’s Performing Arts and Social
Justice program. Previous credits include
Perdita in The Winter’s Tale (Hawaii Shakespeare
Festival); Thomas Hodges in Dear Harvey
(University of San Francisco); Celia in As You Like
It (Mid-Pacific Institute School of the Arts); and
Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice (MidPacific Institute School of the Arts).
PRODUCTION BIOS:
LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST
Susannah Butler
Stage Manager
Susy is thrilled to once again return to the
parks this summer for Love’s Labour’s Lost!
Previous Wooden O credits include Henry
IV Part I, Julius Caesar, and The Winter’s Tale.
Recent Seattle Shakespeare Company
credits include Mother Courage and Her
Children and Twelfth Night. Regionally Susy
has recently been backstage or in the
booth at Seattle Repertory Theatre (Outside
Mullingar), Village Theatre (No Way to Treat
a Lady), and Book-It Repertory Theatre
(Truth Like the Sun). She also enjoys helping
out with Sandbox Radio and Endangered
Species Project when time allows.
Adrian Delahunt
Adrian is happy to be back with Wooden O
for another season. Adrian’s work has been
seen in many Seattle Shakespeare Company
and Wooden O shows, most recently Romeo
and Juliet and Mrs. Warren’s Profession.
Regionally, Adrian has worked with
numerous theatres and schools, including
Seattle Public Theater, Centerstage Theatre,
Youth Theatre Northwest, and Roosevelt
High School.
Caitlin Denney-Turner
Caitlin is happy to be working her first
summer on Wooden O. She last worked
Betsy Schwartz
Porscha Shaw
Chris Shea
Marco Adiak Voli
with Seattle Shakespeare Company earlier
this season on Titus Andronicus. Caitlin has
been working as a stage manager in the
Seattle area for two years and is glad to call
the Pacific Northwest home. Past credits
include: All The Way, The Great Society, and
Lizard Boy at Seattle Repertory Theatre; A
Midsummer Night’s Dream and Avenue Q at
Wagon Wheel Center for the Arts; and My
Fair Lady and Billy Elliot with Village Theatre.
O), and Julius Caesar (Wooden O). Designs
around town include Hello My Baby! (Village
Theatre Originals), BootyCandy (Intiman
Theatre Directors Lab), Chinglish (ArtsWest),
In the Heights (Village Theatre), S.O.A.P. Festival
(Sandbox Radio), Something Burnin (Café
Nordo), and The Beebo Brinker Chronicles
(Cherry Manhattan Presents). She has also
designed many shows at Cornish College of
the Arts and Village Theatre’s Kidstage.
Robin Macartney
Properties Designer
Robin always loves working with Seattle
Shakespeare Company. Professional credits
include technical work with Café Nordo,
Youth Theatre Northwest, Annex Theatre,
14/48 Projects, Live Girls! Theater, Pork Filled
Productions, Macha Monkey Productions,
Printer’s Devil Productions, and ese Teatro.
She is the scene shop supervisor at the
University of Puget Sound as well as Front of
House manager/resident Set Designer at the
Theatre Off-Jackson.
Mary Machala
Director
Mary is a founding member of Book-It
Repertory Theatre, where she has directed
her adaptation of A Confederacy of Dunces
and Lady Chatterley’s Lover; as well as
Waxwings, Silver Water, Double Indemnity,
Anna Karenina, and many short stories. Other
directing credits: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet,
The Winter’s Tale (for Seattle Shakespeare
Company statewide touring productions/
Wooden O), Zoo Story, Finding the Sun, After
Magritte, Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant,
and The Turn of the Screw. She was a writer/
actor/improvisationalist with Dudley Riggs’
Brave New Workshop in Minneapolis, MN,
performing locally and across the Midwest
and the Artistic Director of the socio/political
improv group, Off the Wall Players, in Seattle
where she directed/acted and co-wrote Every
Which Way But Lucid!, Mad Dogs and English
Majors, A Fistful of Transfers, and many more.
Acting credits include roles at most major
Seattle theatres.
Kelly McDonald
Costume Designer
Kelly has previously designed for Seattle
Shakespeare Company’s productions of
Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It (Wooden
Technical Director
Seattle Scenic Studios is the only nonprofit scenic fabrication organization in
the United States. They provide technical
support to non-profit theatres and
museums throughout the state, including
Seattle Shakespeare Company. Seattle
Scenic has supported productions from
Washington to New York, from Lincoln, NB,
to Spoleto, Italy. They also train the next
generation of technical theatre artists,
supporting programs at Roosevelt High
School, Kamiak High School, the Bush
School, Evergreen Middle School, Billings
Middle School, Seattle Prep, and Islander
Middle School.
Kyle Thompson
Sound Designer
Kyle is thrilled to be making his Seattle
Shakespeare Company debut with
Wooden O this summer. Since 2010, he has
designed sound for over 35 productions
in the Seattle area, including: Annapurna,
Water by the Spoonful (Theatre22); 4,000
Miles, Every Christmas Story Ever Told…
and then some! (ArtsWest); Marisol (The
Collision Project); Terre Haute (Bridges Stage
Company, ACTLab); Oedipus el Rey (eSe
Teatro, ACTLab); and H.P. Lovecraft: Stand-Up
Comedian!, Balconies, The Underneath, Undo,
Kittens in a Cage (Annex Theatre). This fall,
his work can be heard in the West Coast
premiere of The Wedding Gift with Forward
Flux Productions. Kyle also plays trumpet in
the Jazz Underground big band.
Craig Wollam
Scenic Designer
Craig is happy to be designing his 27th and
28th Wooden O production. As a freelance
scenic and lighting designer, Craig’s work
has been seen at Seattle Shakespeare
Nathan Wornian
Company, Langston Hughes, Intiman
Theatre, Seattle Opera, Centerstage, Seattle
Repertory Theatre, Book-It Repertory
Theatre, Village Theatre, Seattle Children’s
Theatre, Spectrum Dance Theatre, Civic Light
Opera, ArtsWest, Bellevue Opera, Wing Luke
Museum, The Bruce Lee Exhibit for Inter*Im,
The Empty Space, Seattle Public Theater,
Youth Theatre Northwest, and Tacoma
Actors Guild here in Washington. Out of
town, Craig has designed for Arizona Theatre
Co., Chicago Theatre Center, Atlanta’s 14th
Street Theatre, Boston’s Lyric Theatre, Dance
Theatre Workshop of NY, the Spoleto Festival
of Italy, the Colony in Miami, the Zephyr in
LA, Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, and the
Actor’s Playhouse NY.
CAST BIOS: HAMLET
Meghan Dolbey
Player / Sailor / Gravedigger / Attendant
Meghan is pleased to be making her
Seattle Shakespeare Company debut. She
is a recent Musical Theatre graduate from
Cornish College of the Arts, where she
mounted her one woman show Unsex
Me Here, using female Shakespearean
monologues to talk about women’s issues.
Past productions have included The
Children’s Hour (Intiman Theatre), Twelfth
Night (Cornish College of the Arts), Blown
Youth (Cornish College of the Arts), and
Robin Hood (Anything is Possible Theatre).
Meghan also performs as her fierce NeoBurlesque alter-ego The Feline Frenzy, as
well as in a performance art duo entitled
The Partners alongside Rafael Molina.
Meghan hopes to continue working in
Seattle theatre and pursue her passion for
evocative, challenging theatre.
Amy Fleetwood
Gertrude
Amy is tickled to be back with Wooden O
for a second summer in a row, appearing
last summer in As You Like It. Previously
with Wooden O, she played Lord and Lady
Capulet in Romeo and Juliet. Other plays
and companies include: Strawberry Theatre
Workshop’s Our Town, This Land, Breaking
the Code, and An Enemy of the People; Paul
Budraitis’s The Salesman Is Dead and Gone;
Emily Wright
Book-It Repertory Theatre’s Sense and
Sensibility and An Owen Meany Christmas;
Intiman Theatre’s All the President’s Men;
and A Theatre Under the Influence’s Ritter
Dene Voss, Everything in the Garden, and
Ashes to Ashes. Thanks, as always, to her two
daughters and her partner, Paul, for their
tremendous love and support.
Jim Gall
Ghost / Player / Gravedigger
Jim most recently appeared at Seattle
Shakespeare Company in Titus Andronicus
as Marcus. Before that Jim was in Mother
Courage and Her Children, as well as playing
Montano in Othello. This is Jim’s 5th Wooden
O summer, last being seen as the Duke in
The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Last summer
Jim played Kurt Vonnegut in Book-It
Repertory Theatre’s Slaughterhouse-Five,
for which he received a Gregory Award
nomination for Outstanding Performance.
Some of Jim’s favorite roles to date include
Atticus Finch in Village Theatre’s To Kill a
Mockingbird and Mountain McClintock
in Theater Schmeater’s Requiem for a
Heavyweight. Jim has four Seattle Times
Footlight awards. He is married to the
beautiful and talented Kelly Kitchens.
Meme Garcia
Amy Fleetwood
Meghan Dolbey
Ophelia
Meme is a recent graduate of Seattle
University, where she received a double
major with departmental honors in
Performing Arts and Women and Gender
Studies. In addition to performing with
Wooden O, she is currently working
with Seattle Repertory Theatre to create
a curriculum for community-oriented
Shakespeare productions, as well as
working on House of Sueños, a solo show
that weaves together Shakespeare’s Canon
and her own memories and stories. She has
previously worked with New City Theatre,
Strawberry Theatre Workshop, Book-It
Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre Festival,
Seattle Shakespeare Company, upstart
crow collective, The Merc Theatre, Actors
Shakespeare Project in Boston, and Freehold
Theatre. She is a Fulbright Scholar and will
be traveling to the UK this fall to receive her
MA in Classical Acting from LAMDA.
Ray Gonzalez
Claudius
Ray is happy to be back at Wooden O after
a very long time away. Past Wooden-O
credits include, Romeo and Juliet, All’s Well
That Ends Well, and The Taming of the Shrew.
He is a founding company member of New
Century Theatre Company. Other local
credits include: Orange Flower Water and
Festen for New Century Theatre Company;
Twelfth Night, The Comedy of Errors, Love’s
Labour’s Lost, Measure for Measure, Much Ado
About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
and Richard III for Seattle Shakespeare
Company; Double Indemnity, Sweet
Thursday, Hard Times, Waxwings, Giant and
Rhoda, A Life in Stories at Book-It Repertory
Theatre; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are
Dead, Back, Back, Back, and The Other Place
at Seattle Public Theater; and Alki and
Language Rooms at ACT Theatre. Other
Seattle Theatres include CHAC, Intiman
Theatre, and Seattle Reparatory Theatre.
Ray is the proud father of two beautiful
daughters, Shelby (20) and Rubyrose (15).
Laertes
Trevor recently appeared in Romeo and Juliet,
Mrs. Warren’s Profession, and Titus Andronicus,
and previously performed for two years with
Seattle Shakespeare Company’s statewide
touring productions. A Seattle-based actor
and producer, he has performed locally with
Book-It Repertory Theatre, Seattle Public
Theater, Playing in Progress, Island Stage
Left, SOAPfest, ReAct Theatre, and The 14/48
Projects. As a producer, Trevor has helped
bring to the stage the world premieres of For
Christmas by Nick Edwards, A Cure for Pain by
Stephanie Timm, Boots by Libby Matthews,
and Barbarians — a devised piece with SITI
Company associate Jeffrey Fracé. He earned
his MFA from the University of Washington’s
Professional Actor Training Program. You can
see him this fall in The Pride with Theatre22
at 12th Ave Arts.
Rafael Molina
Meme Garcia
Jim Gall
Rosencrantz / Attendant
Rafael is an actor, director, playwright, singer/
songwriter, and a San Francisco native. Recent
acting credits include Romeo and Juliet and
The Tempest (Seattle Shakespeare Company
statewide tour), Quixote (Cornish College of
the Arts), and The Children’s Hour and John
Baxter Is a Switch-Hitter (Intiman Theatre
Festival). Rafael graduated from Cornish
College of the Arts with a BFA in Original
Works. This August at the Cornish Playhouse,
he will be directing Raisins in a Glass of Milk, an
original documentary-style piece comprised
of interviews from theater artists of color in
our community.
Conner Neddersen
Hamlet
Conner is a New Century Theater Company
member and a graduate of Cornish College
of the Arts. He is a local teaching artist
and is very thankful to be returning to
Wooden O for a third year. He made his
Wooden O debut as Valentine in The Two
Gentlemen of Verona in 2014, then played
Prince Hal in Henry IV, Part 1 last year. Away
from the park, Conner was most recently
seen this past spring as PFC Daniel Reeves
in 9 Circles (Strawberry Theatre Workshop)
and as Asher in My Name Is Asher Lev
(New Century Theatre Company). Other
credits include: Poul in Festen and Charlie
in Mary’s Wedding, a Gregory nominatedoutstanding performance (New Century
Theatre Company), A Christmas Carol (ACT
Theatre), The Explorers Club (Taproot Theatre),
and Twelfth Night (Seattle Shakespeare
Company). TV credits Include A&E, Discovery
Channel, NBC’s Grimm.
Arjun Pande
Horatio
Words alone cannot express how excited Arjun
is to be performing for you, or how happy
he is that you came to see the show. He last
appeared with Seattle Shakespeare Company’s
statewide touring productions of Romeo and
Juliet and The Tempest and, last fall, as Dromio
of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors. You also
may have seen him and his sideburns last
winter at Book-It Repertory Theatre where
he played Frank Churchill in their adaption
of Emma. And before those you may have
seen him on stage at Brown University, where
he received a BA in Theater and Performing
Arts. But regardless, those shows have passed
and this one has not, so above all else, Arjun
sincerely hopes that you have as much fun
during this show as he does.
Ray Gonzalez
Trevor Young Martson
David Quicksall
Polonius
David’s work with the Seattle Shakespeare
Company was most recently seen in
the capacity as director for last season’s
grindhouse gore-fest, Titus Andronicus. As
a director, David also helmed the Wooden
O “doo-wop” production of The Two
Gentleman of Verona a couple of summers
back. You may remember David as an
actor for Wooden O as the picnic-stealing
Autolychus in The Winter’s Tale or as the
redneck Petruchio in The Taming of the
Shrew. This production marks David’s eighth
time as a summertime participant with
Wooden O. As always, he is delighted to be
doing what actors have been doing for over
400 years — playing Shakespeare outdoors
for exuberant, sometimes rowdy, audiences.
Kayla Walker
Guildenstern / Attendant
Kayla is thrilled to be back with Wooden O! As
a dialect coach and actress, she has worked
with Book-It Repertory Theatre (Emma, I Am
Of Ireland), ACT Theatre (A Christmas Carol),
Annex Theatre (Zapoi!, Bunnies), Wooden O
(Julius Caesar), Washington Ensemble Theatre
(Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo), Theater
Schmeater, Taproot Theatre, Strawberry
Theatre Workshop (This Land), and Village
Theatre (Billy Elliot, Mary Poppins, Cabaret). She
is a proud graduate of Cornish College of the
Arts and holds a BFA in Theater and Original
Works. Most days, you can find her at Village
Theatre KIDSTAGE where she manages
an exceptional musical theatre training
program for middle and high school
students. In August, you can see her again
in GIRL, a choose-your-own-adventure play
at Annex Theatre.
Dylan Zucati
Marcellus / Player
Dylan is a Theater and Creative Writing
major at Seattle University. His most recent
productions, all at Seattle University,
include Women of Troy directed by Rosa
Joshi, Our Lady of 121st Street directed by
Jane Nichols, and Picnic directed by Ki
Gottberg. He will be a senior in the fall and
is looking forward to what Seattle has in
store in the years to come.
Rafael Molina
Conner Neddersen
PRODUCTION BIOS:
HAMLET
Adrian Delahunt
Assistant Technical Director
See Love’s Labour’s Lost production bios.
Jocelyne Fowler
Costume Designer
Jocelyne has designed for Seattle Shakespeare
Company (Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Titus
Andronicus, Richard II), Wooden O (Henry IV
Part I, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Henry V,
and The Tempest), Book-It Repertory Theatre
(Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein; or, the
Modern Prometheus, Anna Karenina, Hotel on
the Corner of Bitter and Sweet), SecondStory
Repertory Theatre (Evita, The Lion in Winter,
Legally Blonde, Chess: The Musical, Moon Over
Buffalo, and more), Seattle Musical Theatre
(Young Frankenstein and Legally Blonde),
Harlequin Productions (Clybourne Park, Jesus
Christ Superstar, and more), Vashon Opera (Elixir,
Albert Herring, Werther, and Eugene Onegin), and
other local theatres.
Robin Macartney
Properties Designer
Chris Mikolaizik
Assistant Director
Chris has a bachelor’s degree in Theatre
and English from Western Washington
University, where he studied directing.
There he directed a production of Cyrano de
Bergerac and assistant directed The Iceman
Cometh. He has also worked at the Mount
Baker Theater on The Odd Couple. For the
last three years he has been a stagehand
at Village Theatre, recently working on My
Heart is the Drum, My Fair Lady, and Cabaret.
Evan Mosher
Sound Designer
Evan is a Seattle sound designer, musician,
and actor. He’s delighted to be back in the
parks with Wooden O this summer after
previously designing Julius Caesar in 2014. His
designs have also been heard at Strawberry
Theatre Workshop, Seattle Shakespeare
Company, Seattle Public Theater, Washington
Ensemble Theatre, ArtsWest, Satori Group,
Arjun Pande
Azeotrope, Splinter Group, New Century
Theatre Company, Book-It Repertory
Theatre, and recently in a design residency
at Whitman College. Evan is also a company
member, performer, and sound custodian at
Café Nordo, who opened their Pioneer Square
culinary/performing-arts venue Nordo’s
Culinarium in April 2015. He’s also a founding
member of art-pop band “Awesome” with
whom he’s made melodic noise and peculiar
performance since 2004.
George Mount
Director
For Seattle Shakespeare Company, George
has appeared in Romeo and Juliet, Titus
Andronicus, Twelfth Night, Richard II, Love’s
Labour’s Lost, A Doll’s House, The Comedy of
Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear,
Richard III, and Macbeth and directed Henry
IV Part I (Wooden O), Waiting for Godot,
Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, and
The Tempest as well as statewide touring
productions of Hamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer
Night’s Dream, and Othello. George is the
founding Artistic Director of Wooden O,
where he has played Malvolio, Iago, Richard
III, Shylock, Hamlet, Cassius, Benedick, Caliban,
Romeo, and Feste and directed Henry IV Part
1, Henry V, The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and
Juliet, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, A Midsummer
Night’s Dream, and Much Ado About Nothing.
Other credits include work at ACT Theatre,
Book-It Repertory Theatre, Seattle Public
Theater, SecondStory Repertory Theatre, and
Village Theatre.
Fight Choreographer
Previous Seattle Shakespeare Company fight
direction credits include: King Lear, Twelfth
Night (x2), Henry V, Macbeth, Much Ado About
Nothing, Pericles, As You Like It, Othello, and The
Taming of the Shrew. Other local and regional
choreography credits include: A Streetcar
Named Desire, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Crime and
Punishment, The Children’s Hour, John Baxter
Is a Switch Hitter, and Bootycandy (Intiman
Theatre), As You Like It (Oregon State College),
Henry IV (Engaged Theatre), Seattle Children’s
Theatre, New Century Theatre Company, UMO
Ensemble, Cornish College of the Arts, The
14/48 Projects, and many others. Peter is the
Production Director for both New Century
TRIPLE CROWN
David Quicksall
Kayla Walker
Theatre Company and for The 14/48 Projects.
Peter works on faculty and as the Scene Shop
Supervisor at Cornish College of the Arts
where he graduated with honors in 1994.
Miranda C. Pratt
Stage Manager
Miranda is so excited to be back with Wooden
O and Seattle Shakespeare Company for the
summer! Previously, Miranda has worked
on The Taming of the Shrew and The Tempest
for Wooden O, and Tartuffe, The Importance
of Being Earnest, Richard II, The Taming of the
Shrew, and Electra, to name a few, for Seattle
Shakespeare Company. She also served as
Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Production
Manager for a couple years before choosing
to pursue stage management full time.
Miranda has worked at Village Theatre (My
Heart Is the Drum, My Fair Lady, Cabaret,
Around the World in 80 Days, and In the
Heights), Seattle Repertory Theatre (Dancing
at Lughnasa), Book-It Repertory Theatre,
14/48, and Theatre Schmeater during her
time in Seattle. Miranda has also worked
at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and
La Jolla Playhouse. She has a BFA in Stage
Management from Webster University.
Technical Director
Dylan Zucati
LEADERSHIP BIOS:
John Bradshaw
Managing Director
Now in his thirteenth season with Seattle
Shakespeare Company, John is a graduate of
the University of Washington and has spent
nearly his entire career as part of the Seattle
theatre community. Prior to joining Seattle
Shakespeare Company, he was Managing
Director at The Empty Space Theatre and
Director of Endowment and Planned Giving
for Seattle Repertory Theatre. John served
as General Manager and Development
Director during construction and initial
operations at Kirkland Performance Center.
At Seattle Children’s Theatre, he was part of
the development staff during the capital
campaign to build the Charlotte Martin
Theatre. Prior to going into administration,
John served as an AEA stage manager at
several professional theatres in Seattle. John is
on the Honorary Advisory Board for the School
of Drama at the University of Washington and
the Board of Directors for TeenTix.
George Mount
Artistic Director
See Hamlet production bios.
Xandria Barber
Susanna Burney
Louise Butler
Gordon Carpenter
Gavin Cummins
Tom Dewey
Jocelyne Fowler
Noah Greene
Anastasia Higham
Harry Todd Jamieson
Brenda Joyner
Kelly Kitchens
Annie Lareau
Mary Machala
Chris Maslen
Benjamin McFadden
Carolyn Marie Monroe
George Mount
Victoria is excited to be back at Seattle
Shakespeare Company after previously
working on Romeo and Juliet, Waiting for
Godot, Richard II, The Tempest (Wooden O),
and Twelfth Night (Wooden O). She has
worked with various companies around town
including New Century Theatre Company,
ACT Theatre, Village Theatre, Book-It Repertory
Theatre, and On the Boards. She is a member
of New Century Theatre Company.
Scenic Designer
Patrick Allcorn
Gavin Sakae McLean
Victoria Thompson
Craig Wollam
The Triple Crown honors a very
special group of actors, directors,
stage managers, and designers who
have participated in all three of our
performance programs — indoor,
statewide educational tours, and
free Wooden O in the parks:
Conner Neddersen
Richard Nguyen Sloniker
Arjun Pande
Brandon Petty
José Rufino
Jason Sanford
Actors’ Equity Association (AEA),
founded in 1913, represents more
than 45-thousand actors and stage
managers in the United States. Equity
seeks to advance, promote and foster
the art of live theatre as an essential
component of our society. Equity
negotiates wages and working conditions, providing
a wide range of benefits, including health and
pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and
is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of
performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our
mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org
Stephanie Shine
Victoria Thompson
Terri Weagant
Craig Wollam
ENRICHMENT
Seattle Shakespeare Company
provides several opportunities with
indoor productions for audience
members to learn more about the
play and interact with our artists.
The best part? They’re all free!
DIRECTOR’S
NOTE
LOVE’S
LABOUR’S
LOST
Depending on who you read, Love’s Labour’s Lost is a comedy cum tragedy, a satire, a
play on words, a punfest, a pastoral, a masque, an experiment in language, or a farce.
For three hundred years it was dismissed by critics as being unworthy of production,
and then it experienced a renaissance beginning in the 20th century. Most of the
references are dated or lost, action is sparse and the ending is…well, the ending.
Why then produce this challenging and unconventional piece? Because Will had plenty
of keen insights into humanity’s foibles even at this very early stage of his calling.
This is a play about love – the timelessness of falling in love and falling all over
oneself in pursuit of love. It’s about language and verbal jousting between
characters (relate that back to how people do the same thing today - think
politics!). And it’s a play about self – what people think they are versus what they
really are (and how other people see them). In other words “it’s all about me.’
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“Me” as in how cleverly I can speak when fewer words would do; how breaking my
solemn oath is okay if I get what I want; how my needs prevent me from seeing the
truth and how life based on “me” alone is on the most perilous of grounds.
So I decided to set the piece in what was probably the quintessential “it’s all about
me” era of the last 50 years – the late 1970s. After the heady days of civil rights and
antiwar activism in the 60s, the country took to the pursuit of inner/outer self with an
obsessive determination during the 70s: Transcendental Meditation, mood rings, body
building, est, I’m Okay, You’re Okay, jogging, pet rocks, earth shoes …some of which was
beneficial and lasting, but most of it was as peculiar as four young men retreating from
the world and solemnly vowing to see no women, read, fast and sleep very little for
three years. A vow destined to go the way of those polyester disco shirts.
So, we’re off to the Navarre Retreat where we’ll contemplate body/mind/spirit (at
least until the women show up) aided by a crew of some of Shakespeare’s odder
characters. And since the play does not end the way we expect it to, it is a reminder
that life has its own agenda that often has nothing to do with what we want.
— Mary Machala
Director
WHAT IT’S ABOUT
Two generations overcome past wrongs and
misjudgments in this exotic and magical
saga. Obsessive King Leontes accuses his
queen, Hermione, of having an affair and
puts her publicly on a trial. Meanwhile their
infant daughter gets spirited away to a
distant shore. Sixteen years later, through
fate and love, the young woman discovers
her true heritage and reunites her family.
WHO YOU’VE SEEN
Spencer Hamp: Mother Courage and Her
Children, The Comedy of Errors, As You Like It
(Wooden O), and more.
Reginald André Jackson: Richard II, A
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth (Wooden
O), and more.
Directed by Sheila Daniels
SEPTEMBER 7–OCTOBER 2
Brenda Joyner: As You Like It (Wooden O),
Richard II, Much Ado About Nothing, and more.
Darragh Kennan: Othello, Waiting for
Godot, Antony and Cleopatra, and more.
George Mount: Romeo and Juliet, Titus
Andronicus, Twelfth Night, and more.
ON STAGE THIS FALL
Tickets on sale now!
MJ Sieber: The School for Scandal, The
Comedy of Errors, and more.
Amy Thone: Julius Caesar (Wooden O), King
Lear, The Tempest (Wooden O), and more.
WHAT IT’S ABOUT
Wife. Mother. Exile. Medea abandons
her home and country for Jason, the
man she loves. When he discards her
and their children for a new bride, the
blow strikes deep into Medea’s heart.
She is transformed into concentrated
white hot fury. Love smolders to hate
then burns to revenge, driving her to
savage acts. With their children caught
in the crossfire, Medea scorches all and
everything around her.
WHO YOU’VE SEEN
By Euripides
Directed by Kelly Kitchens
Kevin McKeon: A Midsummer Night’s
Dream, King Lear, and Macbeth.
OCTOBER 18–NOVEMBER 13
Alexandra Tavares: Othello, Henry V,
The Comedy of Errors, and more.
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By Euripides | Directed by Kelly Kitchens
Directed by Sheila Daniels
BRING DOWN
THE HOUSE
The premiere of an epic
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of Shakespeare’s
Henry VI trilogy
Jan 25–Mar 12, 2017
Center Theatre
Adapted by Rosa Joshi and Kate Wisniewski | Directed by Rosa Joshi
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May 3–May 21, 2017
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By William Shakespeare | Directed by George Mount
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Washington State Arts Commission
Wells Fargo Foundation
Williams Trading, LLC
$1,000–$2,499
Actors’ Equity Foundation, Inc.
Ascent Private Capital Management
F5 Connects Matching Program
IBM Matching Gifts Program
Mercer Island Rotary Club
Moccasin Lake Foundation
Sky River Meadery and Tasting Room
U. M. R. Foundation
$500–$999
Elysian Brewing Company
Expedia Gives Matching Gift Program
Hildegard Protection Society
Mercer Island Lions Club
Savage Color
U.S. Bank Foundation Employee Matching
Gift Program
$100–$499
Adobe Matching Gifts Program
American Life, Inc.
The Boeing Gift Matching Program
Costco Arts Education and Access
Issaquah Arts Commission
KUOW 94.9 FM
Mercer Island Community Fund
Nesholm Family Foundation
Owen Richards Architects
Perkins Coie LLP
U.S. Bankcorp Foundation
AT&T Corporate Giving Program
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Matching
Gifts Program
Bridge Partners LLC
Bumbershoot Designs and Supplies
The Coca-Cola Foundation
Eastside Acupuncture & Chinese
Medicine Center
Goldman, Sachs and Co. Matching Gift
Program
Kiwanis Club of Mercer Island
Mangetout Catering
Oriental Royal Arch Masons #19
T-Mobile Matching Gift Program
$2,500–$4,999
Workplace Campaign Donors
$5,000–$9,999
Anne & Mary Arts & Environmental Ed
Fund at the Greater Everett Community
Foundation
The Bungie Foundation Matching Gifts Program
Carillon Points Matching Gift Program
CliftonLarsonAllen LLP
Daqopa Brands LLC
Fales Foundation Trust
Gartner Matching Gift Program
Hazel Miller Foundation
Horizons Foundation
IBM International Foundation
The Seattle Foundation
Teatro ZinZanni
Tulalip Tribes Charitable Fund
Thank you to the following companies
and organizations for encouraging giving
through workplace campaigns:
Boeing Employee Individual Giving Program
City of Seattle Employee Giving
IBM Employee Charitable
Contribution Campaign
King County Employee Charitable Campaign
Microsoft Workplace Campaign
Washington State Employee Combined
Fund Drive
THE ARDEN CIRCLE
Arden Circle members are pillars of support who
ensure Seattle Shakespeare Company’s growth
and development through a multi-year, sustaining
pledge of $1,500 or more.
Anonymous
—
David Allais
Sarah and Bob Alsdorf
Steve and Stella Bass
Scott and Mary Berg
John Bodoia
Jeannie Buckley Blank and
Tom Blank
Nicole Dacquisto Rothrock
and Tim Rothrock
Pierre and Susan De Vries
Dan Drais and Jane Mills
Dike and Sherri Drummond
Lauren Dudley
Rick and Terry Edwards
Emily Evans and
Kevin Wilson
Don and Ann Frothingham
Lynne Graybeal and
Scott Harron
Bert and Bob Greenwood
Maria Mackey Gunn
John and Ellen Hill
Ken and Karen Jones
Gustavo and Kristina Mehas
Sarah Merner and
Craig McKibben
Phil and Carol Miller
Nancy Miller-Juhos and
Fred Juhos
Sue and Steven Petitpas
Mary Pigott
Anne Repass and JJ Ewing
Chuck Schafer and
Marianna Clark
Laura Stusser-McNeil and
K.C. McNeil
TheHappyMD.com
Maggie Walker
Pat Walker
Steve Wells
Janet Westin and
Michael McCaw
Susan and Bill Wilder
Jeanne and Jim Wintz
Jolene Zimmerman
and Darrell Sanders
For more information about joining the Arden Circle,
please contact Tracy Hyland, Individual Giving Manager:
[email protected] or 206-733-8228 x 268
THE SWANS OF AVON
Charitable estate gifts ensure that passion for the
works of Shakespeare and live classical theatre will
be shared with generations to come.
Anonymous
—
Emily Evans and
Kevin Wilson
Robert H. Green
Sandra Perkins and
Jeffrey Ochsner
Nancy Talley
Janet Westin
and Michael McCaw
To learn more about The Swans of Avon and planned
giving options at Seattle Shakespeare Company, please
contact Tracy Hyland, Individual Giving Manager:
206-733-8228 x 268 or [email protected].
INDIVIDUAL SUPPORTERS
$10,000 and More
Anonymous (1)
—
David Allais
Warren and Anne Anderson
Jeannie Buckley Blank and
Tom Blank
Dan Drais and Jane Mills
Emily Evans and Kevin Wilson
John and Ellen Hill
Stellman Keehnel and
Patricia Britton
Douglas and Kimberly McKenna
Mary Pigott
$5,000–$9,999
In Memory of Sid and
Rae Buckley
—
Charles and Nancy Bagley
Steve and Stella Bass
Scott and Mary Berg
John Bodoia
Jody Buckley
Jane and Robert Doggett
Sandra K. Farewell
Elizabeth George
Bert and Bob Greenwood
Maria Mackey Gunn
Mark Hamburg
Peter and Kelly Maunsell
Phil and Carol Miller
Nancy Miller-Juhos and
Fred Juhos
Patrick O’Kelley and Laura
McCorkle
Rosemarie and H. Pike Oliver
Kyle and Michele Peltonen
Sue and Steven Petitpas
Mavis and Stephen Roe
Laura Stusser-McNeil and
K. C. McNeil
Shirley and David Urdal
Steve Wells
Susan and Bill Wilder
Jolene Zimmerman and
Darrell Sanders
$2,500–$4,999
Anonymous (3)
—
Terry Barenz Bayless
Marisa Bocci
Paula and Paul Butzi
Sharon Coleman
Rick and Terry Edwards
Donald and Ann Frothingham
Lynne Graybeal and
Scott Harron
David and Meg Haggerty
Lawrence and Hylton Hard
Randi Jean Hedin and
Andy Gardner
Harold and Mary Frances Hill
Jeff Kadet and Helen Goh
Steve and Carole Kelley
Susan Leavitt and Bill Block
Angelique Leone and
Ronald Fronheiser
Gustavo and Kristina Mehas
Sarah Merner and
Craig McKibben
Richard Monroe
Meg and David Mourning
Bill Neukom
David and Valerie Robinson
Jim and Kasey Russell
Chuck Schafer and
Marianna Clark
Helen Stusser and Ed Almquist
Nancy Talley
Jim and Kathy Tune
Richard and Catherine Wakefield
Pat and Charlie Walker
Jay Weinland and
Heather Hawkins Weinland
Janet Westin and
Michael McCaw
Christina Wright and
Luther Black
Elisabeth S. Yaroschuk and
Miles A. Yanick
$1,000–$2,499
In Memory of Melissa Hines
—
Anonymous (6)
—
Rhoda Altom and Cory Carlson
Philip and Harriett Beach
Julie Beckman and Paul Lippert
Lenore and Dick Bensinger
Nancy and Sam Bent
David and Debra Boyle
John Bradshaw
Bobbe and Jon Bridge
Janet Brown
Frank Buxton and Cynthia Sears
Barney and
Denise Balthrop Cassidy
Cathy and Michael Casteel
Hugh and Nicole Chang
Steven and Judith Clifford
Manuela and Terry Crowley
William Cummings
Martin and Gillian Dey
Mary Dickinson
Michael Dryfoos and
Ilga Jansons
Lauren Dudley
Jean and David Farkas
Stan and Jane Fields
Brad and Linda Fowler
Natalie Gendler
Robert H. Green
Lisa Hager
James Halliday and Tyson Greer
John and Wendy Hardman
Brad and Zoe Haverstein
Edwin and Noriyo Hawxhurst
Lucy Helm
Susan Herring and Norman Wolf
Randy and Barbara Hieronymus
Mark Houtchens and
Pat Hackett
Jane and Randall Hummer
Dean W. Koonts
Karl and Anne Korsmo
Frida Kumar
Susan Lantz-Dey and Mike Dey
Charlotte Lin and Robert Porter
Teresa Mathis
Beth McCaw and Yahn Bernier
Vicki McMullin
Brian and Launi Mead
Sue and Bob Mecklenburg
Michael Milligan and Jeanne E
Susan F. Nelson
Nick and Joan Nicholson
Hal Opperman and
JoLynn Edwards
Dave Oskamp
Anne Otten and James Adcock
Sandra Perkins and
Jeffrey Ochsner
Kevin Phaup
Lori Lynn Phillips and
David C. Lundsgaard
Steve Pline and Tony Paul
Judy G. Poll
Erik Pontius
Ben and Margit Rankin
Madhu T. Rao
Kim and Ken Reneris
Joanne Repass and JJ Ewing
Kerry and Jan Richards
Paula Riggert and Doug Stevens
Joanne Roberts
Nicole Dacquisto Rothrock and
Tim Rothrock
Renée Roub and Mike Slass
Jain Rutherford
K.D. Schill
Harry Schneider and
Gail Runnfeldt
Ann Schuh
Wolfram and Rita Schulte
Goldie and Don Silverman
Suzanne Skinner and Jeff Brown
Laurie Smiley
Mary Jo and Michael Stansbury
Tom Sunderland and
Emily Riesser
TheHappyMD.com
Ann and Gregory Thornton
Dan Tierney and Sarah Harlett
Annette Toutonghi and
Bruce Oberg
Muriel Van Housen
Stacey Watson and
Duncan Moore
Helen Wattley-Ames and
Bill Ames
Peggy and Jack Weisbly
Jerry and Karen White
Sally and Tom Wilder
Jeanne and Jim Wintz
$500–$999
In Memory of Carlo and
Helen Romeo
—
Anonymous (3)
—
Nina Abelman
Eric and Lynette Allais
Kathleen and Mike Ambielli
Bradley and Sally Bagshaw
Captain Paul Bloch and
Sherilyn Bloch
The Bluechel Family
Pirkko and Brad Borland
Jeff Brown and Anne Watanabe
Roberta Browne and Paul Vosper
David C. Brunelle
Julia Buck
Rita Calabro and James Kelly
Sylvia and Craig Chambers
Laurie Corrin
Ronald G. Dechene and
Robert J. Hovden
Helen and David Dichek
Eric and Tracy Dobmeier
Bassim and Kara Dowidar
Christopher G. Dowsing of
Morrow & Dowsing, Inc.
John Ellis and Ann Wilkinson Ellis
Joyce Erickson and
Kenneth Brown
Barbara and Tim Fielden
Michael and Deborah Fletcher
Michele and Gaston Godvin
Marjorie and Rick Goldfarb
Mary Gorjance and Bob Winship
Slade Gorton
Chris and David Hansen
Jason Harris
Madeline and Peri Hartman
Sandi and Shawn Heffernan
Barbara and David Heiner
Ross and Kelsey Henry
Bill Higham
Marion Hogan
Lynn Hubbard and
David Zapulsky
Fritz and Nancy Huntsinger
Jill Kirkpatrick and Marcus Wheeler
Barbara Knight
Marianna and Agastya Kohli
Brian and Peggy Kreger
Teri Lazzara
Marianne and Jim LoGerfo
Mary Anne and Chuck Martin
Ellen Maxson
Ann McCurdy and Frank Lawler
Neil McDevitt
Mary Metastasio
Bruce and Elizabeth Miller
Terry and Cornelia Moore
Scott and Pam Nolte
Charles G. Nordhoff
Colette Ogle
Cheryl and Tom Oliver
Nancy and Joseph Pearl
Peggy and Greg Petrie
Gwen Pilo
Ed and Cyndy Pollan
Megan and Greg Pursell
Gail and Larry Ransom
Shelly and Mike Reiss
John Ryan and Jody Foster
Jayleen Ryberg and Paul Moritz
Chuck and Tommie Sacrison
Michael and Jo Anne Sandler
Christine and David Saulnier
Kris and Rob Shanafelt
Mika and Jennifer Sinanan
Bruce and Denise Smith
Lisabeth Soldano
Kenneth and Debra Stangland
Robert Stokes and
Susan Schroeter-Stokes
Derek Storm and Cindy Gossett
Sheila Taft
Jen Taylor
Seda and Soner Terek
Mick and Penny Thackeray
Amy Thone and Hans Altwies
Michael and Lois Trickey
Yvonne and Bruno Vogele
Susan Wagner and Don DeSalvo
Jessica Wagoner
Judith Warshal and Wade Sowers
Jim and Sharron Welch
Tania Westby and Owen Richards
Leora Wheeler
Wayne Winder and
Amy Eisenfeld
Sally and Richard Wolf
Robert and Cathy Wright
$250–$499
In Loving Memory of Russ Palmer
—
Anonymous (10)
—
Shawn and Lynne Aebi
Michael and Carol Aoki-Kramer
Dana Armstrong
Christine Atkins
Robert Atkins
Paul and Francis Bailey
Harriet and Jon Bakken
Sybil Barney
Sally Bartow
Susan and Glen Beebe
Sandra and Jonathan Bensky
Leslye Bergan
Irv and Luann Bertram
Deborah Black
Janet Boguch and Kelby Fletcher
Hamida Bosmajian
Ronald Bowen
Philip Brazil
Ann M. Brice
George Bright
Anne Brindle
Audra Brown
Kitty Brown and Jeff Duchin
Jean Burch Falls
Margaret Bustion
Martin Christoffel
Bob and Loretta Comfort
Richard Conlin and Sue Ann Allen
Catherine Conolly
Keith and Kerin Dahlgren
Virginia Daugherty
Cathy and Phil Davis
Sue B. Drais
Lynn DuPaul
Ian and Maria Einman
Keith and Karen Eisenbrey
Karen Elledge and
Gerald Ginander
Martha Evans
Jeffery Fickes and John Hinds
Gilbert and Jean Findlay
Karin Fosberg and Kevin Majeau
Amanda Froh
Nan and Bill Garrison
Kathleen and Richard Gary
Christine and David Gedye
Fredric and Ze Gerber
Russell and Susan Goedde
Gail Goralski
Tom Graff and Tracy Waggoner
Nancy and Bob Grote
Mark Gunning and
Helen Lafferty Gunning
Hallidie G. Haid
Jeff Harris and Judy Wasserheit
Adam Hasson
Leanne and Rick Hawkins
Lewis and Lisa Horowitz
Cynthia Huffman and
Ray Heacox
Maureen Hughes
Carolyn J. Iblings
Trudi Jackson
Brien and Catharine Jacobsen
Sydney Johnson-Gorrell
Cynthia B. Jones and
Paul J. Lawrence
Ken and Karen Jones
Karen Jones and Erik Rasmussen
Angela and Peter Junger
Gabrielle Kaplan
Paul Kassen
Ian F. Keith
Kim Kemp
Andrew and Polly Kenefick
Evan and Tremaine Kentop
Maggie Kilbourne-Brook
Gary Kirk and Norma Fuentes
Pam Kummert
Kychakoff Family
Simon Leake and
Molly Pritchard
Kathleen Learned and
Gerald Anderson
Roger Levesque
Andrea Lewis
Scott Lien
Arni Litt
Sue Livingstone and
Donald Padelford
Gerald and Janet Lockwood
Lance Losey
Ellen and Jared MacLachlan
Mary and Carl Marino
Colleen Martin and Shea Wilson
Elizabeth Mathewson
Elaine Mathies
David Mattson
Donna McCampbell
Deirdre and Jay McCrary
Marcie and John McHale
Joseph and Jill McKinstry
Patrick Mealey
Clare Meeker and Dan Grausz
Tami and Joe Micheletti
Megan Moholt
Charles and Kathleen Moore
CoeTug Morgan
William and Judy Morton
George Mount and
Amy Allsopp
Timothy L. and Heidi A. Nelson
Christine O’Connor
Lisa and Keith Oratz
Anne Frances Owen
Robert Papsdorf and
Jonetta Taylor
Meredith Perlman
Mark Peterson
Larry and Gail Phillips
Michael Pickett and Ann Watson
Kathleen and Elizabeth Pitts
David Ragozin and
Marilyn Charlat Dix
Steve and Linda Reichenbach
Nancy Reichley and Tim Higgins
Steven and Fredrica Rice
Annie Rosen
Patricia and David Ross
Stephen and Elizabeth Rummage
Robert Rust
Bryan and Sharon Rutberg
Harold Sanford
Betsy Schwartz and
Tina Scoccolo and Kevin Steiner
Polly and John Shinner
Christine Shuken
Catherine Smith and Carl Hu
Randy Smith and
Sharon Metcalf
Teresa Sparling
John Spence and
Karlene Johnson
Carmen Spofford and Bruce Wick
Kevin Howard St. John
John and Sherry Stilin
Linda and Hugh Straley
Suzanne Suneson
Constance Swank
Margaret Taylor
Michael Temple
Robert and Marion Thomas
Robert Townsend and
Karen Stein-Townsend
Nancy Uscher
Eugene Usui
Ellen Walker
Jerry and Vreni Watt
Dr. and Mrs. James K. Weber
Greg Wetzel
William White
Rob Williamson and
Kim Williams
Susan Winokur and Paul Leach
Carol Wolfe Clay
Ruth Woods
Laura and Chris Zimmerman
Spring Zoog and Richard T. Marks
$100–$249
In Memory of Mardi Newman
on Behalf of Brenda Joyner
—
Anonymous (21)
—
Diane Aboulafia
Blaise Aguera y Arcas
Peter Aiau
Dina Alhadeff
Kathy Alm and Bill Goe
Georgia Angus
Bridget Ardissono
Jonathan Aries
Amanda Austin
Scott Bailey
Monique Barbeau and
Rodney Snyder
Deena and Bill Baron
Janet Bartlett
Shari Basom
Shawn Baz
Arthur and Beverly Becher
Sheryl Beirne
Ann Beller
Michael Berlin
Steven Billeau
Molly Blank and Greg Johnson
Rebecca Bloom
Jim and Caroline Boren
Arthur Borst
Rev. M. Christopher Boyer
Sonja Brisson and
Mick Van Fossen
Darby and Cara Brown
Mary and Tom Brucker
Darlene and Harlan Bruner
Sally Brunette
Patrick and Gayle Bryan
Scott and Cindy Buchanan
Betty Buckley
Kurt and Miriam Bulmer
Blake Bundesmann
Charlotte and
Michael Buschmohle
Brian and Rebecca Butler
Karlyn and Richard Byham
J.L. Byrne and C.M. Hersh
Robin C. Calhoun
Carrie Campbell
Jeffrey Cantrell
Teresa Carew
Lisa and Joel Carlson
Lisa Carpenter
Melissa Chase
David and Marilyn Chelimer
Catherine Clemens and
Daniel Speth
Lynne Cohee and Matt Smith
Jeffrey Coopersmith and
Lisa Erlanger
Nancy and Monty Correll
Megan Coughlin
Christina and Fernando Cuenca
Vince and Darcie Curley
Deborah Daoust
Jason Dardis
Lisa Dart-Nakon
Emily Davis
Jeff Davis
Reiner and Mary Decher
Stephanie and Walter Derke
Debbie Dimmer
Lauren Domino and
Andy Schroeder
Marcia and Daniel Donovan
Mike Doubleday and
Sandra Borg
Laura and William Downing
Karen Dunn and Ken Mapp
Glenn and Bertha Eades
Janet Elmore
John Erlick
Eric and Polly Feigl
Gwen and Henry Fenbert
Puffer and Tuna Fish
Gerald Folland
David W. Francis
Susan and Albert Fuchs
Bryant Fujimoto
Wendy Gage
Cheryl Gagne
Rosalie Gann and Steven Breyer
Kathryn Gardow and
David Bradlee
Mark and Diane Gary
Alan Gibbs
Eleanor and Arye Gittelman
Georgine Goldberg
Philip B. Gough, PhD
Sharon Griggins-Davis
Janice Grimstad
Linda Haas
Karen Halpern
Amber Hanaway
Margaret and Tom Hartley
Sue Hartman and Patrick Caffee
Peter and Diana Hartwell
Duston and Kathleen Harvey
Cindy and Jamie Hennessy
Paul Herstein
Leonard Hill and Cathy Stevulak
Shirley and Melvin Hogsett
Gary Holland, Jackie McGourty,
Quinn, and Kyle
Lisa Holmberg
Corey Holmes and
Jim Anderson
Anne and William Hopkins
Roy L. Hughes
Tracy and Tim Hyland
Barb and Mike Ingram
Bob Ingram
Allison Jacobs
David Jamieson
Lisa Jaret
Warren Jessop
Avis Jobrack
Bill Johns and Stephanie Kallos
Lauren Johnson
Dan Johnson and Jill Chelimer
Brenda Joyner
Joan Kalhorn
Steve and Suzanne Kalish
Paris Kallas and Arthur Faherty
Stefan Kaminski
C.R. Kaplan
Bill Katica
Deirdre Katt
Renee S. Katz
Sharon Kean
Jennifer Kelly and Gerry Scully
Darragh Kennan
G. David Kerlick
Nathan and
Courtney Kessler-Jeffrey
Monique Kleinhans and
Bob Blazek
Ross Kling
Donna S. Klopfer
Jorji Knickrehm and Jason Rich
Tim and Leslie Knowles
Larry Kucera
Akshay Kulkarni
Ellen Lackermann and
Neal Stephenson
Kristen Laine
Richard and Shelly Lamoreaux
Hana Lass and Connor Toms
Christopher and Courtney Lee
Meredith Lehr and Bill Severson
Joyce Lem
Peggy and Ronald Levin
Bonnie Lewman
Michael Lieberman
Dale Lindsley and Carol Stanley
Martha Lloyd and Jim Evans
Nancy Lomneth
Thomas Lucas
Kirby and Marlene Luther
Sabrina MacIntyre and
Thomas Delfeld
Alice Mailloux
Steve and Trina Marsh
Tracy and Mark Mason
Lori Mason Curran
Karri Matau and Shelton Lyter
Heidi Mathisen and Klaus Brauer
Barbara Mauer
Jennifer McCausland
Ann McCutchan
Joe McDermott and
Michael Culpepper
Martin McGee
Nancy and Jim McGill
Sarah McGuinn
Douglas and Theresa McLean
Mary Metz
Laura and David Midgley
Michael and Yoriko Mikesell
Julie Miller
Michael and Michele Miller
Scott J. Miller
Will Miller
Vanessa Miller and
Eric McConaghy
Tom Miller and Terri Olson Miller
Montsaroff Family
Phoebe Ann and
Malcolm A. Moore
Teresa Moore
Diane M. Morrison and
Joel C. Bradbury
Jill and Ed Mount
Martha Mukhalian and
Ronald S. Eckerlin
Allen and Amy Murray
Antonia Natoli
Peter and Amy Beth Nolte
Peter Norby
Caroline Normann
Cindy Noteboom
Christine O’Connor
Christopher and B.J. Ohlweiler
Mary Ellen Olander
Rebecca Olson and
Doug Mazzeo
Joni Ostergaard and
William Patton
Norm Paasch
Monica Padineant
John and Margaret Pageler
Bill and Monica Parent
Michael Patten
Liz and George Pavlov
Lenore Pearlman
Jane Pesznecker
Peterson, Cline, and
Husted Families
Molly Peterson
Mary Peterson and Agnes Govern
Katrina Pflaumer
Jim Phelps
Judy Pigott
Robert Pillitteri
Loretta Pirozzi
Lauren and John Pollard
Bettina Pool
Carrie and Quentin Powers
Nancy Preg
John Purdon
Doug and Kathie Raff
Arlene Ragozin
Randall Family
Eric Raub
Colby Ray
Toni Read
Brian and Roberta Reed
Margo Reich
Robert and Judy Reichler
Julie Renick
Eric and Karen Richter
Carla Rickerson
Ted and Teresa Rihn
Richard and Rebecca Ripley
Daniel Ritter
Roberta Roberts
Lynn and Bob Rodgers
Lisle and Harriet Rose
Karen Rotko-Wynn
Charles Royce
Aris Running
Dolores Ryan
John Sager
Karleen N. Sakumoto
Mark Sanders
C. and Mary Sankaran
Sam and Ruth Ann Saunders
Carole Schaffner
Marguerite Schellentrager
Robert Schlosser
Mike Scully
Carole Sharpe and
Lou Piotrowski
Sally Sheck
John Sheets
Frances Sherwood
Bernice Smith
Fred Smith and Sandra Berger
Rebecca Staffel
Bryanann Stavley
Steven Sterne
Diane and Larry Stokke
Isabel and Herb Stusser
Shelly Sundberg
DOUBLE
YOUR IMPACT WITH
MATCHING GIFTS
When you donate to Seattle Shakespeare
Company, your gift can go much farther.
Many employers will match your gift to nonprofit organizations on a one-to-one basis.
It’s an easy way to increase your impact here
at Seattle Shakespeare Company.
HOW TO MATCH YOUR GIFT
Check with your Personnel Department.
They will either provide you with a Gift
Matching form or direct you to an online
resource. If a form, you simply fill out the
employee part of the form and mail it to:
Seattle Shakespeare Company
PO Box 19595
Seattle, WA 98109
We’ll take care of the rest!
David Tarshes and
Deborah Kerdeman
Edward and Jeri Tharp
Annie Thenell and Doug Moll
Marie Thompson
Ron and Cathy Thompson
Marie Annette Tobin
Maria Tomchick
Deborah and Brian Torgerson
John and Joan Tornow
Eric and Heather Tuininga
Loma Vander Houwen
Sharon and Michael Vanderslice
Miceal F. Vaughan
Moya Vazquez
Nikki Visel
Colette Vogele
Padmaja Vrudhula
Julie Wade and Tom Phillips
Ian Walker
Judy and Mike Walter
Victoria Ward
Elizabeth Wasson
John and Margaret Wecker
Joella Werlin
Maxine Wheat
Margo and Jon Whisler
Cynthia Whitaker
David and Beth Whitehead
Evan Whitfield
Alexandra Wilber and
Andrew Himes
Ann Williams and John Taylor
Andrew Willner
Lin and Judith Wilson
Helena Winstrom
Michael Winters
Becky and Rob Witmer
Dan and Judy Witmer
Jodie Wohl
Morton and Martha Wood
Sara Yingling and
Jason Johnson
Karen and Michael Zeno
This list recognizes donors
with combined donations
of $100 or more made
between December 1, 2014
and June 1, 2016. Thank you!
If you wish to change your
acknowledgement listing,
please contact Tracy Hyland,
Individual Giving Manager, at
(206) 733-8228 x 268 or
[email protected]
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STAFF
Leadership
John Bradshaw, Managing Director
George Mount, Artistic Director
Artistic
Amy Thone, Casting Director
Courtney Bennett, Casting Associate
Sheila Daniels, Associate Artist
John Langs, Associate Artist
Box Office
Lorri McGinnis, Box Office Manager
Courtney Bennett, Box Office Associate
Hannah Mootz, Box Office Associate
Ali Morgan, Box Office Associate
Thea Roe, Box Office Associate
Lucinda Stroud, Box Office Associate
Communications
Jeff Fickes, Communications Director
Thea Roe, Graphic Designer
Development
Tracy Hyland, Individual Giving Manager
Kaeline Kine, Events Manager and
Development Associate
Annie Lareau, Institutional
Funding Manager
Education
Michelle Burce, Education Director
Casey Brown, Education Associate
Ticket office: (206) 733-8222
Administrative offices: (206) 733-8228
Fax: (206) 733-8202
Front of House
Doug Fries, Site Manager
Ali Morgan, Site Manager
Seattle Shakespeare
PO Box 19595
Seattle, WA 98109
Operations
Victoria Watt Warshaw, Bookkeeper /
Office Manager
Ticket Office Hours
Production
Louise Butler, Production Manager
Courtny Bennett, Production Intern
Jocelyne Fowler, Costume Shop Manager
Marleigh Driscoll, Properties
Shop Manager
Tuesday–Friday: 1–6 pm
BOARD OF
DIRECTORS
Board Officers
Susan Petitpas, President
Marisa Bocci, Vice President
Patrick O’Kelley, Vice President
David C. Allais, Treasurer
Phillip S. Miller, Secretary
Sarah Alsdorf, Immediate Past President
Board Members
Steve Bass
Jeannie Buckley Blank
Lynne Graybeal
Robert H. Green
David Haggerty
Chris Hansen
Brad Haverstein
Steve Kelley
Michele Peltonen
Dr. Madhu Rao
Renee Roub
Suzanne Skinner
Laura Stusser-McNeil
Tom Sunderland
Jay Weinland
Jeanne C. Wintz, Ph.D.
Jolene Zimmerman
Advisory Board
Kenneth Alhadeff
John Bodoia
Paula Butzi
Mary E. Dickinson, CPA
Dan Drais
Emily Evans
Barbara Fielden
Donald Frothingham
Slade Gorton
Maria Mackey Gunn
Ellen Hill
John Hill
Stellman Keehnel
Sarah Merner
Jane Mills
Meg Pageler Mourning
Mary Pigott
Laurie Smiley
Nicole Dacquisto Rothrock
James F. Tune
Pat Walker
Steven Wells
FACILITIES PARTNERS
Verdi Good Idea
Bringing Classical Music to the Masses
A recent Opera on Tap performance at the Narwhal in Capitol Hill
Opera on Tap is pouring
out opera locally.
Photos by Shane Williams
It’s a regular night at the dive bar that is
the Blue Moon Tavern. Folks perched on
stools looking out at the Seattle gloom.
Folks arrayed in a booth, wooden tables
all scuffed and abused with graffiti.
Folks standing around outside with
cigarettes, trying not to get wet from
the besotted sky. Or is it a regular
night? For what’s happening on stage,
exactly? A soprano is singing. A tenor,
too, and they’re singing…opera? Here?
At the Blue Moon Tavern? Why can’t
opera stars be rock stars, too? They can,
thanks to Opera on Tap.
Founded in Brooklyn, New York in 2005,
Opera on Tap now has 19 chapters
internationally, bringing opera to the
masses. It was founded, as their website
states, to “promote opera as a viable,
living and progressive art form and to
support the artists who continue to
keep the art form alive.” Drinking beers
with Berlioz and booze with Beethoven
is something Seattleites are now
growing accustomed to because of the
city’s chapter growing event by event.
Ksenia Popova, a proclaimed “comanaging diva” of the operation, is a
Russian-born, Seattle-based soprano.
This is to say, Popova is not just
promoting opera locally, she’s singing
it. A frequent soloist for Seattle Opera
Guild’s Preview Groups, she, along
with other like-minded divas and
divos, put together events around the
city with accomplished singers and
musicians. “We make opera,” she says,
“approachable and digestible. Also, it’s
rare that you’ll have a singer blasting
away just inches from you — it’s a
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NENGUDI:
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visceral feeling you wouldn’t get going
to a concert hall.”
This past April, at Naked City in
Greenwood, they put together “Art
of War,” highlighting opera’s most
famous power struggles. In May, at the
Blue Moon, Opera on Tap performed
“Much Ado about Opera,” focusing on
Shakespearean opera. In June, they had
a show at the tiki-themed bar, Hula
Hula. The shows are a $5 suggested
donation with the monies garnered
distributed amongst the performers.
Senga Nengudi: Improvisational
Gestures is organized by the Museum
of Contemporary Art Denver and
the University of Colorado Colorado
Springs Gallery of Contemporary
Art. The presentation at the Henry is
organized by Nina Bozicnik, Assistant
Curator, with support from 4Culture,
ArtsFund, and the Seattle Office of
Arts & Culture.
Senga Nengudi, studio performance of Mesh
Mirage, 1978. Image courtesy of the artist
and Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver.
Photo: Adam Avila.
There’s a growing effort to showcase, in
the city, classical music and its forms
to communities who might not have
access to it otherwise. Perhaps a ticket
to Seattle Opera’s The Flying Dutchman
is a little too much for some, but
perhaps $5 and a couple of drinks at the
bar to hear selections from La Boheme
and The Marriage of Figaro isn’t as
challenging. Perhaps one has never
been exposed to opera at all and then,
suddenly, one hears Bizet’s The Pearl
Fishers in their local watering hole and
it moves them. That’s what happened
at a brewery in Ballard. Popova recalls,
“At the end of our show, a woman – who
was part of a motorcycle convention
on the same street — came up to me
with tears in her eyes. She’d never heard
opera before and thought it was the
most beautiful thing. That means a lot
to me — when we make someone feel.”
That’s what the organization is hoping
for — to expose new audiences to what
opera is and to aid opera singers in
their quest to do what they love doing
— singing opera. What better feeling
is there – than comfortably at a local
haunt with friends, frosty pints in hand,
and Pagliacci arias in one’s ears? <
6 ENCORE STAGES
Intermission
Brain Transmission
Are you waiting the curtain to rise? Or, perhaps, you’ve just returned your seat before the second act
and have a few minutes to spare? Treat your brain to this scintillating TRIVIA QUIZ!
Answer the bonus question for a chance to win tickets to a show!
1) Taproot Theatre is staging Daniel
Wallace’s Big Fish. The movie was
nominated for an Academy Award
in what category?
a) Best Picture
b) Best Director (Tim Burton)
c) Best Supporting Actor
(Albert Finney)
d) Best Score (Danny Elfman)
2) Seattle Shakespeare Company is
presenting free productions of
Love’s Labour’s Lost and Hamlet
throughout the summer outof-doors. What is the name of
Hamlet’s late father who visits his
son as a ghost?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Claudius
Fortinbras
Hamlet
Polonius
3) ACT Theatre is presenting a
world-premiere play, Daisy,
the true story of a political ad
during Lyndon Baines Johnson’s
presidential campaign. Who was he
campaigning against?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Pat Brown
Nelson Rockefeller
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
Barry Goldwater
Photo courtesy of MOHAI
4) What is the King’s name in
Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Dumaine
Marcadé
Boyet
Ferdinand
5) What year did Seattle’s Moore
Theatre open?
a)
b)
c)
d)
1894
1907
1921
1938
Bonus Question
What was the last performance you attended that you liked best and why?
Email [email protected] or tweet to @EncoreArts with #EncoreStages and be
entered to win two tickets to an upcoming Encore Arts performance.
ANSWERS 1) C. It was nominated for Best Picture at the Golden Globes but didn’t win. 2) C. To differential from his son, he’s often referred to as King Hamlet. 3) D. Goldwater got
trounced 486 to 52 electoral votes in the ’64 election. 4) D. One of Shakespeare’s early comedies, it was first performed in 1597. 5) B. The opener was the operetta The Alaskan.
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