DIFFERENT STAGES` REPERTORY Begun as Small

DIFFERENT STAGES’ REPERTORY
Begun as Small Potatoes Theatrical Company
1981: August Strindberg’s Creditors and The Stronger. 1982: William Shakespeare’s The
Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. 1983: George Bernard Shaw’s Candida; Anton
Chekhov’s The Brute, Swan Song, and Celebration. 1984: Luigi Pirandello’s Right You Are
(If You Think You Are); Jane Martin’s Talking With… 1985: Caryl Churchill’s Cloud 9;
William Shakespeare’s As You Like It; Carl Sternheim’s The Underpants; Michael Weller’s
Moonchildren. 1986: Amlin Gray’s How I Got That Story; William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale; Eugene O’Neill’s Beyond the Horizon. 1987: Michael Weller’s Loose Ends; Aristophanes’ The Wasps; Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart; Arthur Schnitzler’s Anatol. 1988:
Wallace Shawn’s Aunt Dan and Lemon; Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood; Moss Hart’s
Light Up the Sky; Jean Racine’s Phaedra; Jean-Baptiste Molière’s The Misanthrope. 1989:
Caryl Churchill’s Fen; Charles Ludlam’s The Artificial Jungle; William Shakespeare’s The
Merchant of Venice. 1990: Eric Overmeyer’s On the Verge; Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s
Journey Into Night; Milan Kundera’s Jacques and His Master; Tom White’s The Trouble
with Tofu; William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus. 1991: George Kelly’s The Show-Off;
George Bernard Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession; Keith Reddin’s Life and Limb; Mozart/
Lorenzo da Ponte’s Così fan Tutte; Jean-Baptiste Molière’s The Learnèd Ladies. 1992:
Alan Ayckbourn’s Woman in Mind; Carlo Gozzi’s The Raven; Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild
Duck; Charles MacArthur’s Johnny on a Spot; George Farquhar’s The Recruiting Officer.
1993: Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good; Charles Ludlam’s The Secret Lives
of the Sexists; Tennessee Williams’ Orpheus Descending. 1994: Constance Congdon’s Tales
of the Lost Formicans; William Shakespeare’s Cymbeline; George M. Cohan’s The Tavern;
Marlayne Meyer’s Etta Jenks. 1995: Pierre Marivaux’s The Triumph of Love; Tom Stoppard’s Travesties; Larry Kramer’s The Destiny of Me; Alexander Ostrovsky’s The Diary of
a Scoundrel. 1996: Caryl Churchill’s Mad Forest; Agatha Christie’s Black Coffee; William
Congreve’s The Way of the World. 1997: Terrence McNally’s A Perfect Ganesh; Dorothy
Parker’s Here We Are; Alan Ayckbourn’s Drinking Companion; Terrence McNally’s Noon;
George M. Cohan’s Seven Keys to Baldpate; Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock. 1998:
Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia; Aeschylus’ Agamemnon; Giles Havergal’s Travels with my Aunt;
Arthur Miller’s All My Sons. 1999: Edit Villareal’s My Visits with MGM; Jean-Baptiste
Molière’s The Hypochondriac (tr. Martin Sorrel); Edward Percy and Reginald Denham’s
Ladies in Retirement; Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. 2000: Peter Parnell’s The Rise and
Rise of Daniel Rocket; Ann Ciccolella’s Fruits and Vegetables; George S. Kaufman and Marc
Connelly’s Merton of the Movies; Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan. 2001:
Milcha Sanchez-Scott’s Roosters; George Bernard Shaw’s The Devil’s Disciple; J. B. Priestly’s Dangerous Corner; Tennessee Williams’ Summer and Smoke. 2002: Ann Ciccolella’s
Madame X; David Linsay-Abaire’s Fuddy Meers; Agatha Christie’s The Unexpected Guest;
Federico Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba. 2003: Christopher Durang’s Betty’s
Summer Vacation; Horton Foote’s The Traveling Lady, William Shakespeare’s Two Gentlemen of Verona; Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband; Moliere’s The Miser. 2004: John Patrick’s
The Hasty Heart; Tom White’s The Misses Overbeck; Brian Friel’s Molly Sweeney, George
Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man. 2005:William Shakespeare’s Pericles, Prince of Tyre;
Edit Villareal’s Marriage is Forever; Agatha Christie’s Appointment with Death; John Millington Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World. 2006: Two into War (The Gifts of War
and The Retreating World); Amy Freed’s The Beard of Avon; Agatha Christie’s The Hollow;
Christopher Durang’s Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge. 2007: Edward Albee’s
The Goat or Who is Sylvia?, Peter Shaffer’s Lettice and Lovage, W. Sommerset Maugham’s
The Constant Wife; Moliere’s The Miser. 2008: Tennessee Williams’ Garden District: Something Unspoken & Suddenly Last Summer, Diana Son’s Stop Kiss; Tom White’s What I Want
Right Now; George Bernard Shaw’s Getting Married. 2009: Christopher Durang’s Miss
Witherspoon; Caryl Churchill’s A Number; J.B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls; Thornton
Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth. 2010: Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice; Horton Foote’s The Carpetbagger’s Children; Agatha Christie’s Spider’s Web; Paul Osborn’s Morning’s at Seven. 2011:
Charlotte Jones’ Humble Boy; Tennessee Williams’ The Night of the Iguana; W. Somerset
Maugham’s Too Many Husbands; Lisa Kron’s Well. 2012: Lillian Hellman’s The Children’s
Hour; Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Nile; Lennox Robinson’s Is Life Worth Living?;
George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart’s You Can’t Take it With You. 2013: Doug Wright’s
Quills; David Lindsay-Abaire’s Good People; Emlyn Williams’ Night Must Fall; Joseph Ketterling’s Arsenic and Old Lace; Julia Cho’s The Language Archive; Preston Jones’ The Last
Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia; George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion; Jay
Presson Allen’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Different Stages presents
Mauritius
by Theresa Rebeck
Director .................................................................................................. Mick D’arcy
Assistant Director ......................................................................... Shannon Stennis
Stage Manager.................................................................................Sebastian Garcia
Set Design ................................................................................. Ann Marie Gordon
Light Design ............................................................................................Amy Lewis
Sound Design ..........................................................................................Mario Silva
Costume Design ...................................................................................Paula Gilbert
CAST
Jackie ...................................................................................................... Melissa Vogt
Philip ...................................................................................................... Craig Kanne
Dennis ......................................................................................... Matthew Patterson
Sterling .....................................................................................................Barry Pineo
Mary ........................................................................................................Jean Budney
The play is set in Philip’s stamp shop, a coffee shiop, and Mary’s home.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND SPECIAL THANKS
Barry Pineo, Craig Kanne, Bonnie Cullum and The VORTEX,
Bob Tolaro, Lana Dieterich
FUNDING AND DONATIONS
Director Level $5000+
The City of Austin
Actor Level $1000 - $5000
Karen Jambon & Jennifer Underwood, Bobbie & Larry Oliver,
Jack Grimes, Ameriprise Financial
Stage Manager Level $500-$999
AMD Foundation, Ann Bower, Craig Kanne,
Connie McMillan
Designer Level $250-$499
Irene Dubberly, Emily & Kent Erington, Royce Gehrels,
Harvey Guion, Bruce McCann, Sarah & David Seaton
Stage Hand Level $100-$249
Pamela Bates, Marla Boye, Andy & Renee Brown, Bonnie & Frank Cahill, Melanie &
Travis Dean, Diane Herrera, Roy & Leona Kaskin, Bill Kemp, Steven Kinslow, The
Pfizer Foundation, Annette Sherman, David Smith, Keith Yawn, Tom White, Betty
Wood, Brian Graham-Moore, Anonymous
Audience Level $20-$99
Patricia Bennett, Cecilia Berg, Charles Ramirez Berg, Mary Alice Carnes, Paula
Gilbert, Reba Gillman, Dianne & Donna Le Roy, Cade & Al Minder, Gerald Moore,
Rebecca Robinson, Miriam & Larry Rubin, Kelly Slupek, Brian Graham-Moore
In-Kind Donations
Karen Jambon, Bill Peeler
Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.
Originally produced in New York by the Manhattan Theatre Club, Lynn Meadow,
Artisitic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer; Daniel Sullivan, Acting Artisitic
Director, 2007-2008 Season, at the Biltmore Theatre on September 13, 2007.
Mauritius was developed at the Lark Play Development Center, New York City.
Mauritius was originally produced by the Huntington Theatre Company, Boston,
Nicholas Martin, Artistic Director; Michael Maso, Managing Director.
This project is funded and
supported in part by the
City of Austin through
the Cultural Arts Division
believing an investment
in the Arts is an investment in Austin’s future.
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PRODUCTION STAFF
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
Set Crew.......................................................... Ann Marie Gordon, Kevin Squires
Properties ............................................................................. Norman Blumensaadt
Webmaster ..................................................................................Martina Ohlhauser
Photography.................................................................................... Bret Brookshire
Graphic Artist ......................................................................................Dean Schultz
Program Design ..............................................................................Emily Erington
Publicity .......................................................... Carol Ginn, Norman Blumensaadt
Theresa Rebeck is an American playwright, television writer, and novelist. Her
work has appeared on the Broadway and off-Broadway stage, in film, and on
television. Among her awards are the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar
Award. In 2012, she received the Athena Film Festival Award for Excellence
as a Playwright and Author of Films, Books, and Television.
ABOUT DIFFERENT STAGES
Different Stages, Inc. has been a community-based organization since its inception in 1981 and incorporation in 1984. It produces works by playwrights
who we believe to be defining forces in theatre. We seek to entertain with performances that reveal life in all its comedy, tragedy and intensity; and we hope
to educate by choosing plays that provide exceptional insight into the human
condition. By challenging ourselves as artists, and our audiences as participants,
we endeavor to provide the community with vigorous and exciting live theatre.
Producing Artistic Director
Norman Blumensaadt
Board of Directors
Karen Jambon, T.J. Moreno, Norman Blumensaadt
Operating Board
Norman Blumensaadt, Sarah Seaton, Royce Gehrels, Paula Ruth Gilbert
Rebeck was born in Kenwood, Ohio, and graduated from Cincinnati’s Ursuline Academy in 1976. She earned her undergraduate degree at the University
of Notre Dame in 1980 and followed that with three degrees from Brandeis
University: an M.A. in 1983, an M.F.A. in Playwriting in 1986, and a Ph.D. in
Victorian Era Melodrama in 1989.
Past New York productions of her work include Mauritius on Broadway at
the Biltmore Theatre in a Manhattan Theater Club production; The Scene, The
Water’s Edge, Loose Knit, The Family of Mann, and Spike Heels at Second Stage
Theatre; Bad Dates and The Butterfly Collection at Playwrights Horizons; and View
of the Dome at New York Theatre Workshop. Omnium Gatherum (co-written
finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2003) was featured at the Humana
Festival, and it had a commercial run at the Variety Arts Theatre in 2003. The
Understudy premiered at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in the summer
of 2008. Seminar played on Broadway beginning in October 2011 and starred
Alan Rickman. Fool premiered at the Alley Theatre, Houston, Texas, in February 2014.
In television, Rebeck has written for Dream On, Brooklyn Bridge, L.A. Law,
American Dreamer, Maximum Bob, First Wave, and Third Watch. She has been a
writer/producer for Canterbury’s Law, Smith, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and
NYPD Blue. Through March 2012 she was one of the executive producers for
the NBC musical series Smash, which she created and which debuted on February 6, 2012. Her produced feature-film screenplays include Harriet the Spy,
Gossip, and the independent feature Sunday on the Rocks.
Rebeck’s other publications include Free Fire Zone, a book of comedic essays
about writing and show business. She has also written for American Theatre
Magazine and has had excerpts of her plays published in the Harvard Review.
Rebeck’s first novel, Three Girls and Their Brother, was published in 2008 by Random House/Shaye Areheart Books.
This spring Rebeck is the playwriting instructor at the University of Houston,
and she will direct Arthur Miller’s All My Sons for the Alley Theater.
~Wikipedia
CAST BIOGRAPHIES
JEAN BUDNEY (Mary) is pleased to be working once again with Different Stages. She has appeared in Different Stages’ Good People, Quills, and Is Life
Worth Living? She made her Austin musical theatre debut this summer as Golde
in Fiddler on the Roof at The Trinity Street Theatre. Jean thanks the cast, crew
and production team of Mauritius for making room in the sandbox for her.
CRAIG KANNE (Philip) has been working on Austin stages for over 30
years. He came to Austin to attend St. Edward’s University where he graduated with a B.A. in theatre. Some of his most recent appearances were in Much
Ado About Nothing (Present Company), And Then There Were None (Austin Playhouse), and Liberty, Equality, and Fireworks! (Pollyanna Theatre). In November,
he received the B. Iden Payne award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Comedy for his performance as Colonel Pickering in Pygmalion (Different Stages).
MATTHEW PATTERSON (Dennis) has been active in the Austin theatre
community since 1989 as an actor, musician and director. He received his MFA
in Acting from the Professional Actor Training Program at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2007. Local credits include For Fear the Glass
May Shatter, Beirut, The Pitchfork Disney, King Lear, The Rocky Horror Show, and The
Baltimore Waltz, for which Matthew won the B. Iden Payne Award for Featured
Actor in a Play and the Austin Critics’ Table Award for Best Actor in Multiple
Roles. Regional: Richard II, Caesar and Cleopatra, The Front Page, The Underpants
(Playmakers Repertory Company). New York: CSI: Verona (Misfit Toys Rep.),
A Commedia of Errors (One Shot Productions).
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BARRY PINEO (Sterling) has been acting, directing, and writing in the
Austin area since 1986. This is his second appearance with Different Stages,
having also appeared as the wealthy murder victim in its 1996 production of
Agatha Christie’s Black Coffee. He most recently appeared in multiple roles in
Austin Shakespeare’s 2011 production of Hamlet.
MELISSA VOGT (Jackie) received her BFA in Acting from Texas State
University in 2003 and has been working as an actress, mask-maker, and playwright. She is the Managing Director at The VORTEX. Local credits include
Sing Muse, :Humpty, Wake for the Dark Poet, Vampyress, Midsummer in Motion,
Quills, and more. Regional: Globeworks (North Carolina Shakespeare Festival).
National: Encore! (Chamber Theatre Productions), Eureka! (Chamber Theatre
Productions). New York: CSI Verona (Misfit Toys Rep.), Almost Olive Juice (ArtEffects Theater Co.), A Commedia of Errors (One Shot Productions). She has
won B. Iden Payne awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in Music Theater
(Vampyress), Outstanding Ensemble (Wake for the Dark Poet, Sing Muse), as well
as for Outstanding Original Score (Sing Muse).
DIRECTION AND DESIGN BIOGRAPHIES
MICK D’ARCY (Director) is directing for Different Stages for the second
time and is feeling incredibly lucky and blessed to be doing this particular show
with this particular cast. He has directed twice for the VORTEX Summer
Youth Program. As an actor Mick has been in over 80 productions and has
been nominated for B. Iden Payne awards a number of times. As a writer he
has two pieces in the upcoming 2015 Fronterafest Short Fringe and his romantic musical Persephone will be receiving its world premiere at the VORTEX in
Spring 2016, music composed by Tyler Mabry and directed by Matthew Patterson. Thank you Norman!
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SHANNON STENNIS (Assistant Director) is making his directorial and
Different Stages debut. A long time VORTEX company member, he couldn’t
pass up the opportunity to work with such an amazing cast and production
crew.
SEBASTIAN GARCIA (Stage Manager) is thrilled to be working with Different Stages again. This is his first time as a stage manager. Normally an actor,
Garcia has appeared in the Different Stages productions of You Can’t Take It
With You and Pygmalion. He also recently played Superman in the fan video
Batman Loves Superman. Garcia would like to thank the entire cast and crew
and give a special thanks to Mick D’Arcy for trusting him to be good stage
manager.
AMY LEWIS (Light Design) is a graduate of McMurry University with a
BFA in Theatre. She is very active in the Austin theatre community as both
an actor and a lighting designer. Amy’s Austin-area acting credits include Sordid Lives, Human Sketches, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare
in Hollywood, Dracula at the Bastrop Opera House, The Laramie Project at City
Theatre, Bitten!: A Zombie Rock Odyssey, The Automat, Bride of Slapdash, Slapdash
Cinco de Flimflam, Slapdash Live Six Show and The Brothers Merlin with Loaded
Gun Theory, of which she is also a member and resident lighting designer. Past
productions with Different Stages include Pygmalion, The Skin of Our Teeth, An
Inspector Calls, What I Want Right Now, Mrs. Bob Crachit’s Wild Christmas Binge, The
Hollow, Playboy of the Western World, and Too Many Husbands.
ANN MARIE GORDON (Set Design) is pleased to be working again with
Different Stages. Her recent work with Different Stages includes The Prime of
Miss Jean Brodie, Pygmalion, The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia,
Good People, Is Life Worth Living?, The Children’s Hour and A Number, which was
nominated for a Critics Table Award. She is a member of the VORTEX Repertory Company, where she designed the sets for Oceana, The Inbetweeners and
The Dragonfly Queen, all premiere works recently presented by the VORTEX.
PAULA RUTH GILBERT (Costume Design) wishes to thank the cast and
others (you know who you are and take credit, please) for the assistance raiding
wardrobes, guidance in character fashion. Thank you to Norman Blumensasdt
for continued friendship and confidence. This cast is skilled, present, and it is a
joy to work with them. Thanks also to those at home, Mesko, Leonard, and the
myriad of folks who wander in and out who make it possible to do this work.
Paula’s latest gig was costuming The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
MARIO SILVA (Light Design) moved to Austin, TX in 2010 and has since
acted in, assistant-directed or composed for over 25 plays with various Austin
companies including Last Act Theatre Co., The City Theatre, The Gilbert &
Sullivan Society of Austin, The Baron’s Men, Austin Jewish Repertory Theatre,
Different Stages, The Exchange Artists, and Poor Shadows of Elysium. Some
favorite roles include Rodrigo in Othello (City Theatre), Quintus/Goth 3 in
Titus Andronicus (LATCO) and various roles in Moliere’s The Imaginary Invalid
(City Theatre).