DALLAS CHILDREN’S THEATER STUART LITTLE Dramatized by Joseph Robinette

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DALLAS CHILDREN’S THEATER
STUART LITTLE
Dramatized by Joseph Robinette
Based on the book by E.B. White
Funded in part by the NEA Challenge Grant Fund and the Visiting Performing Artists Fund.
Sunday, May 4, 2014 | 3 pm
Spaulding Auditorium | Dartmouth College
CREDITS
Dramaturg..................................................................................................................... Joseph Robinette
Based on the book Stuart Little............................................................................................... E. B. White
Director.............................................................................................................................. K. Doug Miller
Scenic Designer.......................................................................................................... H. Bart McGheeon
Lighting Designer.................................................................................................................. Jason Lynch
Sound Designer...................................................................................................................Marco Salinas
Costume Designer.................................................................................................................. Laurie Land
Properties Designer...........................................................................................................Anna Klawitter
Stage Manager/Technical Director...................................................................................Ryan Tolzmann
Lighting Director/ASM........................................................................................................Robert Molina
Producer/Tour Director........................................................................................................ Sally Fiorello
DCT Production Staff
Production Manager........................................................................................................Melissa Cashion
Technical Director....................................................................................................... H. Bart McGheeon
Scenic Artist.......................................................................................................................Anna Klawitter
Scene Shop Foreman/Master Carpenter................................................................................ Josh Smith
Carpenters........................................... Kenneth Gardner, Jeffrey Stanfield, Luke Norton, Kenneth Hall
Production Coordinator........................................................................................................John Moss II
Special thanks to Sandy Clark Travel
Produced by special arrangement with Dramatic Publishing, Woodstock, Illinois
National Tour presented through arrangements made by Holden & Arts Associates, Inc., Michael Holden, Director.
Federal copyright laws prohibit the videotaping, photographing or audio recording of this production.
CAST
Mr. Little/Ensemble........................................................................................................ Nathanial P. Reid
George/Snowbell/Ensemble...............................................................................................Justin Duncan
Mrs. Little/Ensemble.................................................................................................. Kathryn Taylor Rose
Margalo/Ensemble...................................................................................................................Jad Saxton
Angie/Mrs. Morrison/Ensemble............................................................................................ Sky Williams
Stuart Little......................................................................................................... Randall Scott Carpenter
ABOUT THE DIRECTORS
Robyn Flatt DCT founder & executive artistic
director co-founded DCT in 1984 with start-up
funds of 500 dollars. Under her artistic
leadership, the theater’s creative and operational
stature has grown over the past 24 years to
reflect its current annual budget of more than 3
million dollars. Her theatrical career has brought
her acclaim as a professional director, actor and
lighting designer. During her tenure as a member
of the Dallas Theater Center Resident Company,
she served as assistant artistic director and
director of MimeAct and Theater-in-the-Parks.
She holds an MA from Baylor University and
studied with Etienne Decroux, Juana Laban and
Hanya Holm. Among Flatt’s many acting credits
include two roles she created for award-winning
world-premiere productions: Dewey Dell in
Journey to Jefferson and Martha Ann Sickenger
in Preston Jones’ The Oldest Living Graduate.
Her directing credits at DCT include Coyote
Tales; The Great Gilly Hopkins; the world
premiere musical adaptation by Linda Daugherty
and Danny Ray of Steven Kellogg’s The Three
Sillies; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The
Miracle Worker; Island of the Blue Dolphins; and
the critically acclaimed productions of And Then
They Came For Me and To Kill A Mockingbird.
She has served on the boards of AATE and
ASSITEJ/USA and is a recipient of The 500,
Inc.’s prestigious Ken Bryant Visionary Award,
Dallas Historical Society’s 1999 Excellence in
Community Service for Creative Arts, the 2002
Leon Rabin Standing Ovation Award, and the
Excellence in Nonprofit Management Award.
Flatt is an inductee into the College of Fellows of
American Theatre and holds the honorary
designation of American Theatre Fellow for life.
She was recently nominated by The Dallas
Morning News arts staff for the 2010 Texan of
the Year Award, and received the Northwood
University 2011 Distinguished Women’s Award.
K. Doug Miller director has directed Click, Clack
Moo: Cows That Type, Giggle, Giggle, Quack
(local and national tour), Alexander and the
Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day and
last season’s national tour of The True Story of
the Three Little Pigs! Miller was also the
performance director for Barney & Friends (PBS)
for several seasons. Favorite stage roles include:
Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors, Sparky in
Forever Plaid, Cosmo in Singin’ in the Rain,
Rooster in Annie, and Jeffrey in Jeffrey. Roles for
which he has received Dallas Theatre League’s
Rabin Awards for acting include The Baker in Into
the Woods, and Roger in A New Brain. He has
also received Rabin Awards for direction for A
Man of No Importance, Pump Boys and Dinettes,
Aida, Love! Valour! Compassion! Other favorite
shows that he has directed include Grease,
Barefoot in the Park, You’re a Good Man Charlie
Brown and Valley of the Dolls. He has also
received many Column Awards, and the
prestigious Dallas/Fort Worth Critics Forum
Award for Acting & Directing. Miller is the
director of musical theater at Park Cities Dance/
The Dallas Conservatory for the Arts.
Sally Fiorello producer/tour director began
her association with Dallas Children’s Theater
in 1984 and has since served as a director,
designer, actor and consultant for numerous
DCT productions. In 1998 she joined the staff
as producing director of the national touring
company. Stuart Little marks her sixteenth
touring production in a distinguished line of
shows that includes the nationally acclaimed And
Then They Came For Me, Most Valuable Player
and A Midnight Cry: The Underground Railroad
to Freedom, which she also directed. Fiorello
also spearheaded DCT’s inclusion in the 2006
Shanghai International Children’s Culture and
Arts Expo in Shanghai, China. She has worked
as a designer and/or performer with The
Haymarket Theater Company, Pegasus Theater,
The Dallas Symphony, The Dallas Opera,
Bootstraps Comedy Theater and the Broadway
ABOUT THE DIRECTORS
touring production of Patio/Porch. As a master
puppeteer and senior designer with the critically
acclaimed Kathy Burks Theatre of Puppetry Arts,
she has performed throughout the country and
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served as art director for the award-winning
children’s television pilot Discovery Outpost.
Fiorello is a recipient of the Dallas Theater Critics
Forum Award.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Nathaniel P. Reid Mr. Little/ensemble is making
his first appearance with DCT in Stuart Little. His
previous roles include S Bubba Little Joe in
Hotel for Hollywood Has-Beens with Sam Bass
Theatre Youth Organization, Pops in Babes OffBroadway with The Original Cast II, Pantalone in
A Company of Wayward Saints with Sam Bass
Theatre, Brighella in The Servant of Two Masters
and TR in the musical Tintypes with Stephen F.
Austin State University’s School of Theatre. He
was most recently seen as the titular Mother
Goose in the 2012 panto Mother Goose with
Dallas’ own Theatre Britain. Reid holds a BA in
theater and English literature from Stephen
F. Austin State University and dedicates
his performance to the memory of Dallas
Children’s Medical Center Funnyatrics clown
Sarah “Dippity” Hale.
Justin Duncan George/Snowbell/ensemble is
thrilled to be making his debut with DCT’s
national touring production Stuart Little. A
native of Dallas, TX, his previous acting credits
include Thaliard in Pericles with Shakespeare
Dallas, Dayne in Yellow with Uptown Players,
Geek in Sideshow with PFamily Arts, Old
Soldier/Dorsey in Parade with Casa Manana,
Bob McCaffrey in South Pacific with Garland
Summer Musicals, and Father in Ragtime with
Collin Theatre Center. “Sometimes, you can put
it together with a good imagination and invent
something.”
Kathryn Taylor Rose Mrs. Little/ensemble is
making her first appearance with DCT in Stuart
Little. Her other acting credits include Ethel
Toffelmier in The Music Man with Lyric Stage,
Patricia in Crazy For You with Theatre Three,
Dolly in Sideshow with PFamily Arts, Ferdinand in
Ferdinand the Bull with Stages Repertory
Theatre, and Ensemble member in Ragtime with
Turtle Creek Chorale & Uptown Players. Rose is a
musical theater graduate of Sam Houston State
University. Thanks and love to family and friends!
Caro mio! kathryntaylorrose.com
Jad Saxton Margalo/company manager/
ensemble is incredibly excited to be making her
debut with Dallas Children’s Theater! Her other
theater credits include Avenue Q, Enron,
Ragtime, Sideshow, Present Laughter, and The
Great American Trailer Park Musical. She also
has numerous Anime voice-over credits from
FUNimation Entertainment. Saxton holds a BA in
music from Texas Wesleyan University and is
represented by Core Talent.
Sky Williams Angie/Mrs. Morrison/ensemble is
thrilled to be a part of DCT’s 2013-2014
National tour of Stuart Little. She is a recent
Honors graduate from Stephen F. Austin State
University where she earned her Bachelor’s
degree in theater with a minor in educational
ASL interpreting. Her most recent theatre credits
include Gary Coleman in Avenue Q, Ronnette in
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
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Little Shop of Horrors, Dina in Schoolhouse
Rock Live, Collin in Puss in Boots, Thyona in
Big Love, and Ruth in Blithe Spirit. Sing... Pray...
Love... Work!
Randall Scott Carpenter Stuart Little is simply
ecstatic to be on tour with DCT’s Stuart Little!
A recent graduate of KD Studios Actors
Conservatory, Carpenter has been seen in
numerous theaters throughout the Dallas and
Houston areas, including Uptown Players,
Garland Summer Musicals, Level Ground Artsts,
Our Productctions, Co., Blackbox Productions,
PFamily Artsts, and Stages Repertory Theatre. A
few of his previous roles include Jack in Into the
Woods, Tobias Ragg in Sweeney Todd, Man #1 in
Songs for a New World, Jesus in Godspell, Troy
Bolton in Disney’s High School Musical, Mortimer
in The Fantasticks, Squeegee Man and others in
Rent, Little Guido in Nine and Doody in Grease.
Randall would like to thank his friends, family, and
past instructors for helping him chase his dream.
Caro Mio!
Ryan Tolzmann stage manager/technical
director/audio engineer has served as an audio
engineer for numerous productions throughout
the Western United States. His diverse credits
include corporate conferences, arena concert
tours and live theater. A twenty-three year-old
native of Minnesota, this is his first national tour
with Dallas Children’s Theater. He is excited to be
a part of Stuart Little and eager to present the
best show possible for audiences all around the
country
Robert Molina lighting director/assistant stage
manager is very excited to be working with DCT
for the first time. His regional credits include
Clybourne Park and Raisin in the Sun with
Dallas Theater Center, Rudolph the Red-Nosed
Reindeer for Wishing Star Productctions, Kiss of
the Spiderwoman, Songs for a New World, Hello
Again, Broadway Our Way 2011 & 2013, Next to
Normal, Victor Victoria and Yellow with Uptown
Players, and Evita with Casa Mañana. Molina was
the proud recipient of the Ben Berttell Youth
Award at the 2013 Column Awards.
Dallas Children’s Theater last performed The
True Story of the Three Little Pigs at the Hopkins
Center in 2013.
CONNECTING ARTISTS TO THE COMMUNITY
While at Dartmouth, Dallas Children’s Theater will perform for Upper Valley schools in the School
Matinee Series. For more information on Hop Outreach & Arts Education, call 603.646.2010 or visit
hop.dartmouth.edu/online/outreach.
FREE ONLINE STUDY GUIDE
In conjunction with its School Matinee Series, the Hop prepares study guides to enhance student
learning prior to and following performances. The Dallas Children’s Theater study guide can be found
on its performance page at hop.dartmouth.edu and on the Outreach and Arts Education section of the
Hop’s website.
FREE FAMILY PROGRAMMInG!
BASH THE TRASH
PART OF THE COMMUNITY VENTURE INITIATIVE
Art meets recycling: invent, build and play musical instruments made from
trash! Join in the free public workshops to make instruments and/or
perform in mini-concerts at recycling centers throughout the Upper Valley.
BASH THE TRASH WORkSHOPS
Tue-Fri | May 6-9 | 6-8 pm | Studio 60A, Hop Lower Jewett Corridor
TRASH MOB MInI-COnCERTS
Sat | May 10 | 10 & 10:30 am | Thetford, VT Transfer Station
Sat | May 10 | 1 & 1:30 pm | Hartford, VT Transfer Station
Sun | May 11 | 10:30 & 11 am | Lyme, NH Fire Station
Sun | May 11 | 1 & 1:30 pm | Lebanon, NH Green
HOPSTOP FAMILY SERIES
The HopStop Family Series offers FREE hands-on programs designed for ages 3 and up with
accompanying adult, these hour-long interactive presentations are an engaging way
to stimulate the curious minds of children. HopStops are
offered one Saturday each month at 11 am throughout
the school year. Don’t miss this summer’s announcement
of the 2014-15 HopStop series. Subscribe to HopMail, a
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HOPKINS CENTER MANAGEMENT STAFF
Jeffrey H. James Howard Gilman Director
Marga Rahmann Associate Director/General Manager Joseph Clifford Director of Audience Engagement
Jay Cary Business and Administrative Officer Bill Pence Director of Hopkins Center Film
Margaret Lawrence Director of Programming Joshua Price Kol Director of Student Performance Programs
HOPKINS CENTER BOARD OF OVERSEERS
Austin M. Beutner ’82
Kenneth L. Burns H’93
Barbara J. Couch
James W. Giddens ’59
Allan H. Glick ’60, T’61, P’88
Barry Grove ’73
Caroline Diamond Harrison ’86, P’16
Kelly Fowler Hunter ’83, T’88, P’13, P’15
Please turn off your cell
phone inside the theater.
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Richard P. Kiphart ’63
Robert H. Manegold ’75, P’02, P’06
Nini Meyer
Hans C. Morris ’80, P’11, P’14 Chair of the Board
Robert S. Weil ’40, P’73 Honorary
Frederick B. Whittemore ’53, T’54, P’88, P’90, H’03
Jennifer A. Williams ’85
Diana L. Taylor ’77 Trustee Representative
Assistive Listening Devices
available in the lobby.
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RECYCLES
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discard it in the recycling bin provided in the
lobby. Thank you.