Performed by Chris Payne Gilbert, Jason Lott and Leslie

Presented by
Performed by Chris Payne Gilbert,
Jason Lott and Leslie Murphy
Lighting Designer Rebecca Bonebrake
Set Designer Jacob Muehlhausen
Costume Designer Halei Parker
Sound Designer/Composer Colin Wambsgans
Production Manager Shara Abvabi
Stage Manager Tony Carnaghi
Directed and Produced by Jeremy Skidmore
There will be one 15 MINUTE intermission
All the actors and the stage manager working on this production are members of
Actors’ Equity Association
the union for professional actors and stage managers in the United States
The director of this production is a member of the
Stage Directors and Choreographers Society
Producing Director for the Playhouse Diane Namm
Production Photography by Tia Chen
Graphics and Program Design by Leslie Wong
The Media Hound PR, Marina Anderson
“We wish to express our gratitude to the
Performers’ Unions:
ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION
AMERICAN GUILD OF MUSICAL ARTISTS
AMERICAN GUILD OF VARIETY ARTISTS
SAG-AFTRA
THE STAGE DIRECTORS AND
CHOREOGRAPHERS SOCIETY
through Theatre Authority, Inc. for their cooperation in permitting the Artists to appear on this
program.”
CAST
CHRIS PAYNE GILBERT (Peter) is a graduate
of Siena College where he played Division I soccer,
and received a BA in English with a concentration
in Theatre. He subsequently spent the beginning of
his career working in New York where he appeared
in many Off-Broadway productions including
Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
(Minetta Lane), Kilt (Directors Co), Through Fred
(Playwrights Horizons), Walking Off the Roof
(Signature Theatre Co), as well as Freesailing, Lem,
Experimental Actions (all Williamstown Theatre Festival). His Los Angeles credits
include All My Sons (Geffen Playhouse), It’s Just Sex (Two Roads Theatre), Larry
Moss’ production of Beggars in the House of Plenty, and Reid Scott’s production
of The Elephant Man. Chris is a founding member of the Obie Award winning
experimental theatre company Mad Dog, whose work includes productions
in New York, the Williamstown Theatre Festival & MASS MOCA, and at the
Belgrade International Theatre Festival. His television appearances include Suits,
Backstrom, Mistresses, Criminal Minds, Dexter, Burn Notice, Bones, The Shield,
Friends, CSI, and Sex and the City, as a series regular on the TBS comedy 10 Items
or Less and Lifetime’s The Protector as well as the television movie Hollywood
Vice. His film credits include Broken Hearts Club, Story of a Bad Boy, Brothers,
and Refuge, written and directed by Tony Award winner Mark Medoff. Chris
would like to dedicate this performance to his amazing family: MLRDLAE & TT.
JASON LOTT (Narrator) is thrilled to return
to the Malibu Playhouse, previously appearing
in his one-man holiday show Wonderful Life.
An actor and writer recently transplanted
from Washington, DC, Jason has worked with
numerous regional theaters over the years,
including productions with The Kennedy
Center, Folger Theatre, Studio Theatre, Theater
Alliance, The Hub Theatre, Olney Theatre
Center, and Everyman Theatre. He is a two-time
Helen Hayes Award nominee, including a nomination for Wonderful Life for
the 2012 Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding Play or Musical, and a
proud member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA.
LESLIE MURPHY (Kari) is so happy to
be a part of this beautiful play, and to be
performing for the first time on the Malibu
Playhouse stage! She hails from Palm
Springs, and received her theatre degree
from UC Berkeley. She has appeared
several television shows including
“Criminal Minds,” “House,” and “Franklin
and Bash”. Her film work includes Acting
Like Adults, Seeking A Friend For The End
Of The World, White Irish Drinkers, and she wrote and performed a
solo show last year called, Sincerely. Thank you to The Pavilion team
for having her over to play with them, and to her hands-down, topnotch family for every.last.thing--big and small.
COREY JOHNSON (Narrator
Understudy) is thrilled to be working
on such a beautiful play. Theater credits
include Claudius in Four Clowns presents
Hamlet (Four Clowns); Tony in West Side
Story (Toulouse Opera, France); Neville
in Mystery of Edwin Drood (River Rep).
He was a writer for the 2016 CBS Sketch
Comedy Showcase and an actor in the
2014 NBC Scene Showcase. Corey
performs regularly at Upright Citizens Brigade and collaborates
with his sketch team, Onassis (SF Sketch Fest, Friar’s Club Sketch
winners). Training: MFA Acting, University of Southern California.
RACHAEL MARKARIAN (Kari
Understudy) attended Oklahoma
City University as a Dance & Theatre
Performance Major. Since moving to Los
Angeles she’s been fortunate enough to
dance and tour the world with artists such
as Rihanna, Katy Perry, Beyonce, Pink,
Justin Timberlake, Kanye West, Cher
and many more. After many years as a
professional dancer she began to immerse
herself back into her acting career. Over the past several years
Rachael has had the opportunity to work with directors like Steven
Soderbergh in HBO’s Behind the Candelabra, Ivan Reitman in No
String Attached, Brett Ratner in Rush Hour 3, and most recently with
Christopher Guest in his new film for Netflix, Mascots. Some of her
TV credits include recurring roles on Glee and True Blood, as well as
Dr. Ken, How I Met Your Mother, Bones, Vegas, CSI, Criminal Minds,
The Hustle, Nip/Tuck, The Haunted Mansion, Southland Tales, and
Dance Night Obsession. She thrilled and honored to be joining the
talented cast of The Pavilion.
SCOTT SPEISER (Peter Understudy)
is from Chapel Hill, North Carolina and
graduated from Northwestern University
with a degree in theater. He has performed
as a Blue Man in “Blue Man Group” all
over the world and on numerous TV shows
such as “Ellen”, “Access Hollywood”, and
“The Latin Grammys”. As a “non-Blue
Man”, Scott has Guest Starred on “NCIS,
and has appeared in episodes of “Criminal
Minds”, “Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD”, and “Mike & Molly”. He can
be seen in the feature films May the Best Man Win, Southbounders,
and The Mangler Reborn. His extensive improv and sketch comedy
experience led him to perform with The Groundlings Sunday
Company. He is allergic to penicillin and cats.
PRODUCTION
CRAIG WRIGHT (Playwright) creates for theater, film, and television. His plays
include Grace, The Pavilion, Melissa Arctic, Orange Flower Water, Recent Tragic Events
and The Unseen. He has received several awards for his writing, including the Helen
Hayes/Charles MacArthur Award for Best New Play (for Melissa Arctic) and has been
the recipient of fellowships from the McKnight Foundation, the Jerome Foundation,
and the National Endowment for the Arts. For his work as a writer on Six Feet Under,
he received an Emmy nomination, and a Writer’s Guild of America award for his work
on Lost. He created Dirty Sexy Money for ABC, Underemployed for MTV, worked with
Howard Gordon to develop Tyrant for FX, and also wrote and produced episodes of
Brothers and Sisters and United States of Tara. He is the creator and executive producer
of Greenleaf, scheduled to premiere on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN in June of 2016. Mr.
Wright wrote Mr. Peabody and Sherman for Dreamworks Animation. He lives in Los
Angeles with his wife Sarah and daughter Evelyn and his grown son, Louis, is currently
completing his studies in architecture at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.
SHARA ABVABI (Production Manager) is a Los Angeles based lighting designer
and stage manager. Her most recent design work includes Plan-B Entertainment’s Always...Patsy Cline, the Saban Theatre with performances by Englebert Humperdinck,
The Zombies, and Don Rickles, and Stand Up! (w/ Jimmy Dore and Mike Scully) at the
Malibu Playhouse. As the resident lighting designer and production manager for the
Malibu Playhouse, her work includes God of Carnage directed by Graham Clifford
(w/ A Martinez), Oxymorons (w/ Ed Asner and Mark Rydell), A Man and His Prostate
directed by Ed Weinberger (w/ Ed Asner), and Dick Van Dyke and the Vantastics starring Dick Van Dyke. Other selected works: stage management for Plan-B Entertainment’s RENT at the Saban Theatre and the Always...Patsy Cline national tour, lighting
designs for The Pulse PAC, named the Best Dance Studio in Kansas City by KMBC-TV’s A-List Award, Prometheus choreographed by Ronnald Tice at the Kaufman
Center for the Performing Arts, and the world premier of Dante’s Inferno: The Ballet at
the Maydenbauer Center in Seattle, Washington.
REBECCA BONEBRAKE (Lighting Designer) is a Los Angeles based designer
for theatre, dance, events, and architectural projects. This is her first design for the
Malibu Playhouse and she is thrilled to be working with this excellent team. Rebecca is
a member of Chalk Repertory and hes designed several of their productions including
Diet of Worms, Lady Windermere’s Fan and Three Sisters. Her work has been seen at the
San Diego Ballet, East West Players, the Blank Theatre, USC and UCSD. She has also
designed the lighting for two of the past mazes at Halloween Horror Nights for Universal Studios Hollywood. She holds an MFA in Lighting Design from the University of
California, San Diego. For more information, visit www.rebeccabonebrake.com.
TONY CARNAGHI (Stage Manager) marks his fifth production as Stage Manager with The Pavilion. His recent productions as SM include Educating Rita at Theater
40, Mud Blue Sky and Things Being What They Are both at the Road Theater Company,
The Manor at Theater 40/Beverly Hills Recreation & Parks collaboration. Tony is a
proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.
CONNOR HAYES (Assistant Scenic Designer) Connor has been involved in
theater since high school. After graduating in 2010, work in set construction consisted of annual haunted walkthroughs in Malibu West, the production of Into the Woods
at Malibu High School and Once Upon a Time Children’s Theater’s production of
The Wiz. Connor is currently working for Center Theater Group as a carpenter and
running a home wood shop that produces custom products and furniture for various
businesses, family, and friends.
JACOB MUEHLHAUSEN (Scenic Designer) currently manages props for
Cirque du Soleil’s Michael Jackson: ONE at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Previously he
managed carpentry and props for Cirque du Soleil’s “O” for over 5 years. Before Vegas he designed numerous productions, including: Kennedy Center’s Brave No World;
Theater Alliance’s Gross Indecency: the Trials of Oscar Wilde; and the Keegan Theatre’s
Irish tour of Glengarry Glen Ross. Assisted design on: Roundhouse Theatre’s A Murder,
a Mystery, a Marriage; Kennedy Center’s Journal of Ben Uchida; Williamstown Theatre
Festival’s The Opposite of Sex; and Ford’s Theatre’s Jitney. Jacob was the recipient of
the Kennedy Center’s Kennan Institute for the Arts Fellowship in set design for 2005.
He is a design graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts. He has a parrot
named Oliver and a boyfriend named Derek, both of whom deserve a large amount of
thanks.
HALEI PARKER (Costume Designer) is a professional freelance costume designer for theatre, dance, opera, film, television, and commercials. She is also the resident
costume designer for the site-specific theatre company Chalk Repertory Theatre.
She is, additionally, a company member at Rogue Machine Theatre. Some of her
recent Los Angeles designs include Uncle Vanya, Gallery Secrets, Lady Windermere’s
Fan, and Fool for Love with Chalk Repertory Theatre, Animals Out of Paper at East West
Players, Gruesome Playground Injuries at Rogue Machine Theatre and Edinburgh
Fringe Festival. Last year Halei also had various works that were seen by international
audiences in Mexico City and Prague. Halei is a faculty member at Cal Poly Pomona
and holds an MFA in Costume Design from UC San Diego. Check out more of her
work at www.HaleiParker.com.
COLIN WAMBSGANS (Sound Designer and Composer) last worked with
Malibu Playhouse in December’s production of Wonderful Life. His work has also been
heard at LaMama (New York, Maria Kizito and Drunk, Still Drinking), Center Repertory (Walnut Creek, CA, Status Update), Chalk Rep (LA, Mommune, Diet of Worms), and
Rogue Machine (LA, Gruesome Playground Injuries, A Permanent Image, Dirt) as well
as Occidental College and USC. As a composer, he has been a resident at the Millay
Arts Colony and his compositions have been presented at the Darmstadt Ferienkurse,
Getty Center, Hammer Museum, Boston Court, and the wulf. He received an MFA
from CalArts in 2011 and lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Dorothy Fortenberry, and
their two daughters.
JEREMY SKIDMORE (Director/Producer) previously directed Mary’s Wedding
for the Malibu Playhouse where he is currently serving as Guest Artistic Director. In
Washington, DC he co-founded and served as President of the Capital Talent Agency,
as Artistic Producer of the Source Festival, and as Artistic Director of Theater Alliance. Jeremy has directed or taught all over North Carolina and in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Nebraska, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, London, Oslo, Galway,
Kilimanjaro, Tokyo, Macau, and Tai Pei. He has as a BFA in directing from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and an MBA from American University.
CREW
Assistant Designer: Connor Hayes
Carpenters: Conner Hayes, Mercy Rodriguez,
and Geoff Armstrong
Scenic Painter: Jennifer Cockerham
Special Thanks: Craig Wright, Julia Holland, Diane Namm,
Yvonne Gelbman, Chad Smith, Peter Wylie, Mike Anderson,
Paul Stanko
Rehearsals were held at the new Lilith’s Corner rehearsal and performance space at
672 S La Fayette Park Pl #31, Los Angeles, CA.
Coming in June...
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