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STRAWDOG
t h e a t r e
c o m p a n y
HANK BOLAND*
Artistic Director
MIKE MROCH*
General Manager
THE LONG CHRISTMAS
RIDE HOME
By Paula Vogel
Directed by Josh Sobel*
Scenic Design
Mike Mroch*
Lighting Design
John Kelly*
Sound Design/Composer
Jeffrey Levin
Puppet Design
Stephanie Diaz
Properties Design
Jamie Karas
Choreography
Peter Carpenter
Projection and
Video Design
Michelle Underwood
Masks Design
Shaun Renfo
Stage Manager
Alexa Berkowitz
Costume Design
Raquel Adorno
*Denotes Strawdog Company Member
The Long Christmas Ride Home
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THE PL AY
There will be no intermission
CAST
Man........................................................................................................................................................Ed Dzialo
Woman........................................................................................................................................ Loretta Rezos
Stephen.....................................................................................................................................Sam Hubbard*
Rebecca................................................................................................................................ Sarah Giltenstein
Claire....................................................................................................................................... Kristen Johnson
Minister..........................................................................................................................................John Taflan*
UNDERSTUDIES
u/s Man ............................................................................................................................................ John Blick
u/s Woman ................................................................................................................................ Mandy Walsh
u/s Rebecca / Claire................................................................................................................... Erin O’Brien
u/s Stephen / Minister................................................................................................ Christopher Bryant
A D D I T I O N A L P R O D U C T I O N S TA F F
Assistant Director.................................................................................................................Sarah Goeden*
Assistant Director.......................................................................................................... Madisen Dempsey
Technical Director............................................................................................................... Alan Weusthoff
Paint Charge ................................................................................................................................. Zoe Claster
Casting Director........................................................................................................... Casey Cunningham
Media Relations....................................................................................................................Shout! Chicago
SPECIAL THANKS
Strawdog Theatre Company would like to thank the Saints for their time and talent.
D I R E C TO R N O T E
If you are reading this, a favor: if you would, please stop reading for a moment, take a
look around the room at the people you are sharing this space with tonight, and just take
a moment to breathe. Okay. Go. How rare is it that we give ourselves a moment to just be in a room with others and
breathe? Or rather, to simply be present in a moment with each other? And how much
are we missing along the way by denying, consciously or unconsciously, these moments?
The true gift of Paula Vogel’s masterful play is in its advocacy of this simple idea - that the
act of putting our own concerns aside in order to share a moment together has value.
And it is with this spirit and with great joy that I invite you to breathe with us tonight. I
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A R T I S T I C D I R E C TO R N O T E
I am sure I am not the only one guilty of picking up a few things for myself when
shopping for holiday gifts. Little things, you know: a pair of gloves, new socks, or a fortyseven piece toolset. Things that you hope for, but can’t trust you will receive, so you get
them for yourself. It’s holiday insurance. And if Aunt Gladys happens to get you a fortyseven piece tool set, you can still say, “Thank you so much, it’s just what I wanted!” That’s how I feel about this play.
This is one that I love, and really wanted, and I’m thrilled that we’re doing it, and I’m
glad we don’t have to wait to see someone else produce it. But unlike the socks, this is
something that we get to share with you. So ultimately it is our gift to you, as well. And
like any gift you give, that you love, we are excited and hope you love it like we do.
We hope that you might also say, “Thank you so much, it’s just what I wanted!” We are
honored that you are spending your holiday time with us in our home in this our final
season here on North Broadway. Where we’ll be next year at this time is hard to say, but
that’s true of everyone, now isn’t it? So my advice is that we settle in for a story together,
and enjoy the time we have, and the company that we keep.
Hank Boland
Artistic Director
CAST BIOGR APHIES
John Blick (u/s Man)
This is John’s first
appearance with
Strawdog. He is an
artistic associate with
Dog & Pony Theatre
and appeared in D&P’s
As Told By the Vivian
Girls, Roadkill Confidential, & The Whole
World is Watching. As a producer with D&P:
The Twins Would Like to Say, Dead Letter
Office, Roadkill Confidential, Auctioning the
Ainsleys & Counterfeiters. Other companies
include City Lit, Signal Ensemble,
Northlight, Open Eye, Piccolo, Hubris,
Collaboraction & more.
Ed Dzialo (Man) is
delighted to be back at
Strawdog, having last
worked here on
Manufracture, during
their 12th season.
Other Chicago theaters
with whom Ed has
been privileged to work include 16th
Street, Steppenwolf, Jackalope, Haven, The
Hypocrites, LiveWire, Prop, Mary-Arrchie,
Curious, Arc, Greasy Joan, Collaboraction
and Trap Door. Ed is a 2011 graduate of the
School at Steppenwolf and Artistic Director
of Rose Productions. Next up for Ed is
London Wall with Griffin Theatre.
Christopher Bryant
(u/s Stephen and
Minister) is so excited
to be working with
Strawdog for the first
time. This amazingly
talented group of artist
was amazing to study
under. Thanks to my family and friends for
their continued support in this crazy
business.
Sarah Gitenstein
(Rebecca) is thrilled to
work with Strawdog
Theatre. She is an
ensemble member at
The New Colony and
earned her theater
degree from Kenyon
College. Acting credits include work at
Collaboraction, Irish Theatre of Chicago,
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CAST BIOGR APHIES
c o n t.
Signal Ensemble, Teatro Vista, and Timeline
Theater. For The New Colony, Sarah has
performed in Hearts Full of Blood, The
Warriors, and ReWILDing Genius, and she
directed Kate and Sam are Not Breaking Up
and the Off-Broadway and commercial
productions of 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche.
Love to my family and Griz.
Sam Hubbard
(Stephen) is a
Strawdog ensemble
member, previously
appearing in
Neighborhood 3 and
directing fights for After
Miss Julie, Great
Expectations, Miss Marx and Charles Ives
Take me Home. Recent acting credits: The
Diary of Anne Frank (Writers Theatre);
Hamlet and Cymbeline (Michigan
Shakespeare Festival); Playboy of the
Western World and Brighton Beach Memoirs
(Raven Theatre); Hotel Aphrodite (The
Factory); and Short Shakespeare! Romeo
and Juliet (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre).
You can see him next in Raven Theatre’s A
Loss of Roses.
Kristen Johnson
(Claire) is thrilled to
make her debut at
Strawdog Theatre. She
most recently
performed in the world
premiere of Traces by
Shannon Pritchard at
Jackalope Theatre with Feast Productions.
Other Chicago credits include The Gift
Theatre, American Theatre Company, TUTA,
Second City, Chicago Dramatists, Pegasus
Players, Teatro Vista, Collaboraction, and
Redmoon Theater, among others. Kristen
also directs theatre in the city. She would
like to thank friends, family and (always)
Tim for their support. Kristen is represented
by Shirley Hamilton Talent.
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Erin O’Brien (u/s
Claire and Rebecca) is
pleased to be working
with this incredible
team of people to help
tell this story. She has
previously been seen in
Strawdog Season 27
World Premiere adaptation of Jules Vern’s
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Erin has also
been a dedicated member of our Front of
House staff for three seasons.
Loretta Rezos
(Woman) is a Strawdog
Emeritus Ensemble
member. Previous
Strawdog productions:
The Master & Margarita,
Impossible Marriage,
Detective Story and
Julius Caesar, among others. Recent
Chicago Credits: The Woman Before (Trap
Door Theatre); Russian Transport
(Steppenwolf Theatre); Trevor (A Red Orchid
Theatre); The Pitman Painters (Timeline
Theatre). Also worked with Chicago
Shakespeare Theatre, Northlight Theatre,
Two Pence Theatre, Lifeline Theatre, About
Face Theatre, and others. Television:
Chicago Fire, Lipstick Jungle (NBC)
John Taflan (Minister)
is happy to be
returning to Strawdog
where he is an
ensemble member.
Previous Strawdog
credits: Great
Expectations and The
Duchess of Malfi. Most recently, John was in
All Our Tragic (Jeff Awards, Best Production
– Play [Midsize] & Best Ensemble) with The
Hypocrites where he is a community
member. Other Chicago area credits
include work with The Goodman Theatre,
Steep Theatre, 16th Street Theater, Mudlark
Theater, BoHo, Theo Ubique, and LiveWire.
BIOGR APHIES
Mandy Walsh (u/s
Woman) is thrilled to
be working with
Strawdog for the first
time! Chicago acting
credits: Monstrous
Regiment and Watership
Down (Lifeline Theatre);
The Ring Cycle (The Building Stage); Hotel
Aphrodite, Street Justice: Condition Red, and
Incident on Run #1217 (Factory Theater);
and Carmilla (WildClaw Theatre). She is a
proud company member with both Factory
Theater and WildClaw Theatre. Much love
to her family and friends, but especially to
Chris.
PRODUCTION BIOGR APHIES
Josh Sobel (Director) is an Ensemble
Member and Literary Manager of Strawdog
Theatre Company, where he directed the
world premieres of The Hunting of the Snark,
Best Beloved: The Just So Stories and The Pied
Piper in Hugen Hall. Directing credits include
work at Victory Gardens, Steep Theatre, A
Red Orchid Theatre, Chicago Dramatists,
Collaboraction, The Ruckus, LiveWire,
WildClaw, Tympanic, Polarity Ensemble, Fine
Print Theatre, Citadel, the side project and
New Leaf. Artistic Director, Haven Theatre.
Formerly Associate Director of the National
Theater Institute summer program at the
O’Neill Theater Center. Associate Member,
Stage Directors and Choreographers
Society. Janet Bookspan.
Raquel Adorno (Costume Design) Recent
credits include: We Gotta Bingo (Chicago
Theatre Works); Cymbeline (Lakeside
Shakespeare Theatre); Motel 666 (WildClaw
Theatre); and Murder Ballad (Bailiwick
Chicago). Other credits: Barefoot in the Park,
Crimes of the Heart (Step Up Productions);
The Jacksonian, Our New Girl, Genius, The
Other Place, The Cryptogram (Profiles
Theatre); Dust (Lower Case Theatre);
Scenes from an Execution (Runcible Theatre
Company); Desperate Dolls (Strawdog
Theatre Company); Angry Fags (Steppenwolf
Garage); Book of Merman, The Submission
(Pride Films and Plays).
Alexa Berkowitz (Stage Manager)
graduated from the University at Buffalo,
SUNY with a B.A. in Dance and a B.A. in
Theatre in 2010. Her Chicago productions
include Fuddy Meers (Ka-Tet Theatre);
Peyton Place , The Haunting of Hill House,
and Father Ruffian (City Lit Theatre); Study
in Scarlet, The Lark, and Tiger at the Gates
(Promethean Theatre Ensemble); Inventing
Van Gogh (Strange Bedfellows); and King
John (Linchpin Theatre). She is a proud
Promethean Theatre Ensemble member.
Peter Carpenter (Choreographer) His
dance and physical theater performances
have often intersected with critical theory
and queer politics. He has received a Joseph
Jefferson Citation for Outstanding Theater
Choreography, a Ruth Page Award for
Performance and Choreography and was
twice nominated for the Alpert Award in the
Arts. He holds an MFA in Dance and PhD in
Culture and Performance, both from UCLA.
He is currently the Acting Chairperson of
Dance at Columbia College Chicago.
Madisen Dempsey (Assistant Director)
is in her 2nd year as a directing student at
Columbia College Chicago. She has been
seen performing there in a production of
Peter Pan and #NoVoice. This show was a
great introduction into the professional
Chicago theater scene, and she has learned
so much to carry her into her first directing
project next spring. She’d like to thank
the director, cast, and crew for being so
welcoming and encouraging as she finds
her voice.
Stephanie Díaz (Puppet Design)
specializes in Bunraku-style tabletop and
shadow puppetry. Her critically-acclaimed,
full-length show, Mariposa Nocturna: A
Puppet Triptych, opened the 2015 Chicago
International Puppet Theater Festival and
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c o n t.
enjoyed successful runs at Free Street
Theater and 16th Street Theater, where
she is Associate Artist. Her puppets have
been seen at Cock and Bull Theater, A Red
Orchid, O’Neill, Links Hall, Lookingglass,
Prop Thtr and The Paper Machete Show. She
is the recipient of a grant from the National
Association of Latino Arts and Cultures, a
2014 Ragdale Artist-in-Residence and a
proud Guatemalan-American.
Sarah Goeden (Assistant Director) has
never assistant directed before, but she’s
acted in a whole bunch of plays and done
some work with puppets. Sarah tries to
follow her heart when it comes to making
decisions about artistic projects. When she
read this play, it meant a lot to her, and for
reasons she still cannot totally grasp, she
felt compelled to try to get involved on the
direction side of things. Each day as she has
worked on it, she has fallen more in love
with the production team, actors, and the
play itself. She would like to dedicate her
work on this production to her recently
deceased father-in-law, Gerard Boyle.
Jamie Karas (Props Designer) is happy
to return to Strawdog Theatre! Past shows
at Strawdog: Miss Marx or the Involuntary
Side Effect of Living, Charles Ives Take Me
Home, The Arsonists, Desperate Dolls, 20,000
Leagues, Quiz Show, Pied Piper, After Miss
Julie, and With Love and A Major Organ. She
is a local to Chicago and has done props for
theatres all around! These theatres include:
McLeod Summer Playhouse, Next Theatre,
Teatro Vista, Buzz22, Ashlawn Opera, Steep
Theatre, About Face Theatre, Griffin Theatre,
Lookingglass Theatre, Steppenwolf, House
Theatre, Rivendell Theatre, Haven Theatre,
Peninsula Players, Windy City Playhouse, and
American Blues Theater.
Jeffrey Levin (Sound Designer/Composer)
is a composer and sound designer based
in Chicago. This is his first collaboration
with Strawdog and he has collaborated
with Steppenwolf, Hope Summer
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Repertory, Profiles, Stage Left, TUTA, Step
Up, Dead Writers, Chicago Fringe Opera,
Collaboraction, ChiArts High School, and
Columbia College. Awards and Recognitions
include: Equity Jeff Award Nominations for
In the Company of Men (Sound Design) and
In God’s Hat (Original Music), both at Profiles
Theatre.
Mike Mroch (Scenic Designer) is a
graduate from Columbia College with a BFA
in Directing and Scenic Design. He is the
General Manager and an ensemble member
at Strawdog. Recent Strawdog design
credits: After Miss Julie, Quiz Show, Arsonists,
Charles Ives Take Me Home, Miss Marx. Mike
directed 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea last
season in Hugen Hall. Other recent design
credits: Four (Jackalope-TOTL); Look, We are
Breathing (Rivendell); Agreed Upon Fictions
(16th Street Theater). Upcoming credits:
Duchess of Malfi (Trap Door).
Michelle Underwood (Projection and
Video Design) has designed video and
projections for I Am Montana; Corazón de
Manzana; Bombs, Babes and Bingo (Mortar
Theatre); Geography of a Horse Dreamer
(Mary-Arrchie); Kill Shakespeare: A Live
Graphic Novel; The Hunting of the Snark
(Strawdog Theatre); and Rapunzel, Three
Little Pigs, Charlotte’s Web, Hansel and
Gretel (Emerald City). Michelle works as
an Associate Creative Director/Art in the
Chicago advertising scene.
Michelle-Underwood.com
Alan Weusthoff (Technical Director) This
is Alan’s first show with Strawdog Theatre.
Most recently he has built the sets for The
Cheats (Steep Theatre) and The Play About
My Dad (Raven Theatre). Other recent
Chicago credits: Brilliant Adventures and
Martyr (Steep Theatre); The Rainmaker
(American Blues Theatre); 15 Breaths (About
Face Theatre); and Blue Planet (Akvavit
Theatre), as well as productions with North
Park University. Alan is a graduate of the
Theatre program at Truman State University.
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DONORS
Strawdog Theatre Company gratefully acknowledges
the generous contributions of individuals, organizations,
and businesses made between October 1, 2014– October 15, 2015
These gifts allow us to continue to champion our core values of
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P R O D U C T I O N H I S TO R Y
1988
Season Zero
Five of Us+
1989
Season One
The House of Correction+
1990-1991
Season Two
Temptation+
A Family Affair+
Dearest Father~
Back Bog Beast Bait
Muzeeka#
1991
Season Three
Play With Repeats
Titanic / Icarus’ Mother
1991-1992
Season Four
Can’t Stand Up for Falling
Down#
The House of Yes+
Etta Jenks+
A Circle of People: 4 by
Chekhov+
Gertrude Stein and
Companion+
Speed-The-Play+
1992-1993
Season Five
Ancient History+
Light up the Sky
Absent Friends
The Revenger
1993-1994
Season Six
The Big Funk+
Search and Destroy+
Race~
New Anatomies
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1994-1995
Season Seven
Wilhelm Reich in Hell
Goodnight, Desdemona
(Good Morning, Juliet)
Burn This
A Mother, a Daughter, and
a Gun+
1995-1996
Season Eight
Mariposa~
Cat’s Paw
Criminal hearts
1996-1997
Season Nine
Interrogating the Nude
It’s a Mediocre Life~
Skeletons
1997-1998
Season Ten
Dark Rapture+
Imagine Drowning
The Waltz Invention
1998-1999
Season Eleven
Hurly Burly
Owners
1999-2000
Season Twelve
Manufracture+
Measure for Measure
Return of the Howard
Bowl~
2000-2001
Season Thirteen
Disco Pigs#
Our Country’s Good
The Ball of Justice~
2001-2002
Season Fourteen
Ivona, Princess of
Burgundia
The Green Bird
2002-2003
Season Fifteen
Julius Caesar
Knives in Hens
Spring Awakening
2003-2004
Season Sixteen
Detective Story
Wireless 1
Merchant of Venice
Fuddy Meers
2004-2005
Season Seventeen
Wireless 2
Puntila & His Man Matti
Wireless 3
Impossible Marriage
The True Ballad of Fall’s
Blessings~
2005-2006
Season Eighteen
Wireless 4
Three Sisters
Wireless 5
Tooth of Crime (2nd Dance)
2006-2007
Season Nineteen
Marathon ‘33
Radio Theatre 6
A Lie of the Mind
Radio Theatre 7
2007-2008
Season Twenty
Aristocrats
Richard III
Old Town
2008-2009
Season Twenty One
R.U.R.
The Cherry Orchard
Red Noses
P R O D U C T I O N H I S TO R Y
2009-2010
Season Twenty Two
St. Crispin’s Day+
Uncle Vanya
Good Soul of Szechuan
2010-2011
Season Twenty Three
Red Noses (Remount)
State of the Union
Master and Margarita
Conquest of the Southpole
2011-2012
Season Twenty Four
Old Times
Petrified Forest
The Duchess of Malfi
c o n t.
2012-2013
Season Twenty Five
Neighborhood 3:
Requisition of Doom
Pontypool~
Improbable Frequency+
Kill Shakespeare~
Big Love
Hunting of the Snark~
2013-2014
Season Twenty Six
Conversations on a
Homecoming
Detective Partner Hero
Villain~
Great Expectations+
Pontypool (remount)
Miss Marx: or the
Involuntary Side Effect of
Living~
Best Beloved: The Just So
Stories~
Charles Ives Take Me Home+
2014-2015
Season Twenty Seven
The Arsonists
Fail/Safe~
Great Expectations
(remount)
Desperate Dolls~
The Sweeter Option~
20,000 Leagues Under the
Sea~
Quiz Show#
The Pied Piper~
2015-2016
Season Twenty Eight
After Miss Julie
With Love & a Major Organ~
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S T R AW D O G T H E AT R E C O M PA N Y
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ensemble
Aly Renee Amidei
Jennifer Avery
Brittany Dee Bodley
Hank Boland
Mike Dailey
Scott Danielson
Anita Deely
Paul Fagen
John Ferrick
Mikhail Fiskel
Kyle A. Gibson
Sarah Goeden
Carmine Grisolia
Kyle Hamman
Heath Hays
Erik Hellman
Tom Hickey
Shannon Hoag
Sam Hubbard
Jordan Kardasz
John Kelly
Nikki Klix
Anderson Lawfer
Sean Mallary
Kat McDonnell
Joanna Melville
Mike Mroch
Gregor Mortis
Janice O’Neill
Michaela Petro
Mike Przygoda
John Henry Roberts
Brandon Saunders
Josh Sobel
John Taflan
Justine Turner
Jamie Vann
artistic associates
Matt Hawkins
Shade Murray
board of directors
Seth Rickard:
Board President
James Hobart
Jennifer Nelson
board of directors emeritus
Pat Yuzawa Rubin
Jack Rubin
membership emeritus
Dan Apodaca
Nancy Bishop
Abigail Boucher
Michelle Caplan
Donald Cardiff
Erin Carlson
Debbie Caruso
Kristen Caskey
Elea Crowther
Scott Cummins
Tim Curtis
Jaime Denton
Nic Dimond
Michael Dobbs
Amy Dunlap
Paul Engelhardt
Chris Hainsworth
Chuck Harper
Carrie Hegdahl
Jess Hill
Karen Hough
Lindsay Jones
Kristen Kelly
Oona Kersey
Lynn Koscielniak
Elizabeth Laidlaw
Meaghan Clayton
Chelsea Wilson
Thomas V. Linguanti Patrick Zubrod
Mark David Warner
Katherine Laidlaw
Stephanie Manglaras
David Meihaus
Larry Novikoff
Stacy Parker
Bart Petty
Andre Pluess
Loretta Rezos
Kevin Ritchey
Steve Savage
Richard Shavzin
Sean Sheridan
Noah Simon
administrative and production staff
Julie Stanton
Sarah Stray
Garrett Todd
David Warren
Kenny Williams
Jo Ann Oliver Wooley
Tim Zingelman
James Anthony
Zoccolli
Artistic Director..........................................................................................................................Hank Boland
Hugen Hall Artistic Director.......................................................................................... Anderson Lawfer
General Manager.........................................................................................................................Mike Mroch
Literary Manager...........................................................................................................................Josh Sobel
Social Media Associate...................................................................................................... Cassandra Rose
Administrative Assistant................................................................................................Krista D’Agostino
Front of House staff ..........................................Zoe Claster, Shannon Ford, Amber Gensterblum,
Mark Maxwell, Erin O’Brien, Matt Pierce,
Cassandra Rose, Kaylee Ross, Derrick Van Tassel
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