Directed by

May 28 - 31, 2009Wyatt Pavilion Theatre

AndrewsCandice

by Steven Dietz

Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.This performance lasts two hours including one 15 minute intermission. This production contains mature adult content, partial nudityand sudden loud noises. Before the performance begins, please note the exit closest to your seat. Please turn off the ringers on your

cell phone, pager, and all other electronic devices. Video, photographic, or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited by law.Food and drink are not permitted in the theatre. Thank you for your cooperation.

Production StaffProduction ManagerTechnical DirectorFacilities Manager/Audio SupervisorPublicity DirectorCostume Shop DirectorCutter/Draper/TailorCutter/Draper/Hair SpecialistMaster ElectricianScene Technician/PropertiesScene Technician/Charge ArtistTechnical Theatre Teaching Assistants

Company Managers

Lighting Assistants

Costume Shop Teaching AssistantStitchers

Stock AssistantWardrobe/Makeup/Hair assistantScene Shop Assistants

House Managers

Web MasterWeb Designers

Lead Graphic DesignerGraphic DesignerPublicity AssistantPhotographerProduction Assistant

DARRELL F. WINNDANIEL NEELAND

NED JACOBSONJANICE BISGAARD ROXANNE FEMLINGABEL MERCADOANGELA KIGHTBRIAN WEBBER

BYRON RUDROWJOHN MURPHY

JACOB NELSONSARAH KENDRICKMARK CURTIS FERRANDODANIEL A. GUTTENBERGTODD HARPERMARK CURTIS FERRANDORYAN MAHANSARAH NORTONROBERT QUIGGLECHRISTIAN SAVAGE

WENTING GAOSHANNON DUPONTAPRIL GENUNGCHERYL HIGGINSKIM NUGEYENCANDY WONGCHRIS CARSTENS

KATIE WALTONELIZABETH ANDREWSCATHERINE FRYEKEVIN GANGERHEIDI KENDRICKSAM SHIRLEY KEVIN SHUNTA MARK CURTIS FERRANDODANIEL A. GUTTENBERGTODD HARPERJENNA SEIDSAM SHIRLEYDANIEL TIEUDEREK HUNZIKERNATHAN COUCHPRIYANKA PATELALIX GATESMATTHEW ESCARCEGAKRISTINE SLIPSONEHSUN FORGHANY

Administrative Staff FELICIA BRADSHAW, BookkeeperMARTHA CLARK-GARRISON, Faculty Personnel AdministratorVICTORIA DYE,Graduate Programs AdministratorSOCORRO FIGUEROA, Receptionist/Staff Undergraduate AdvisorEMMA KATLEBA, Account ManagerTHIEN NGUYEN, Student Office AssistantROBERT PATTISON,Chief Administrative OfficerHUY TRAN, Systems Administrator

FacultySARAH PIA ANDERSON, Directing LARRY BOGAD, Performance StudiesDELLA DAVIDSON, Dance DAVID GRENKE, Department Chair, DanceLYNETTE HUNTER, Performance Studies JOHN IACOVELLI, Scenic Design PETER LICHTENFELS, DirectingJADE ROSINA MCCUTCHEON, Acting, PlaywritingBELLA MERLIN, Acting MAGGIE MORGAN, Costume DesignTOM MUNN, Lighting DesignJON ROSSINI: Performance StudiesPEGGY SHANNON, Directing DARRELL WINN, Production Management

Visiting Faculty STUART CARROLL, DanceMARY BETH CAVANAUGH, MovementMINDY COOPER, Choreography, DirectingJOSE GUTIERREZ, Media TheatreMICHELLE LEAVY, ActingLISA PORTER, Voice

Special Thanks Shawn CarnesDaniel Jordan

DIRECTOR’S NOTESI deeply appreciate the hard working and highly educated designers and skilled actors in our wonderful creative team. We had eight weeks of fun sharing many laughs that I hope will be reflected for you on tonight’s stage. This was a truly collaborative process with many creative voices putting in long hours discussing the subtext of Private Eyes. I was first inspired in design class after working with amazing faculty who helped my concepts take root. The work began to breathe when Professor Lichtenfels and I did a rewarding independent study on Steven Dietz’s play.

I’ve always been intrigued by the psychology of human emotion and a correlation to Performance Studies. Private Eyes was the perfect play to explore this interest. I was blown away by the psychological puzzle that the playwright provides in the text. Unable to wrap my head around it, I continued to explore it and researched psychiatric wards developing a unique approach..

I had lost a brother to suicide in 2008 and I made it my mission to learn more and more about the psychology of human emotion and behavior as a way to better understand others, communicate more effectively, and heal from such a devastating blow to one’s family. I audited a Psychology of Human Emotion class that helped my understanding and at the same time provided insight regarding the characters in Private Eyes.

I compare my style of directing to the layers of an onion. Each day we discuss a scene, what is at the core of the text, and what human emotions the characters explore. Then we walk the stage and look at what energy the text naturally gives off. I ask my actors to feel the character and try several different exercises in the mind of the character. Over the next few days I have the actors live in that character’s world, digesting what we have worked on. Then we come back and peel away the next layer of the onion or text. At the core is truth but all around it is such complexity that perhaps the clarity is rendered virtually impossible until one discovers it personally.

I hope to provide a sense of comic relief as laughter may be deeply rooted in the ugliness of reality. The scenes explore the breakdown in communication that is sadly more common than not in some marriages today. Their multiple layers reveal a romantic triangle where nothing is ever quite what it seems leading us to question what love and lustful affairs can do to a marriage.

I would like to extend a special thanks to Professor Peter Lichtenfels for the immense amount of support he has given me as a student and MFA director. I

would also like to thank my Stage Manager, Julie Friedrichsen, for her teamwork. It was a pleasure. And most importantly, I would like to thank my loving fiancé, Brandon Ingold, for his support both on, and off, the stage.Thank you for having supported me through this graduate journey away from our home in Colorado. None of this would have been possible without an amazing directing faculty and the continued smiles, support, and hard work of Victoria Dye from behind the scenes. Thank you!

- Candice M. Andrews

ABOUT THE PLAY

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

A first-year MFA candidate in Directing, Andrews comes to UC Davis after working as a traveling drama director and speech and drama teacher in Colorado for four years. She holds a double BA degree in Theatre and Speech Communication from Colorado State University. In 2003 Andrews received a grant to teach in thirteen countries. These included the poorest neighborhoods in India, Cuba and Africa, as well as futuristic institutes and theatres in Japan and Hong Kong. Andrews introduced drama curriculum into many schools while touring and researching the infrastructure of theatres that had moved from rags to riches.

Andrews has directed at the Rialto Theater for C.A.S.T. (Creative Arts for Students of Theatre) and the Roberta Price Civic Auditorium in Loveland, Colorado. She has worked at Colorado State University’s Summer Theatre, Lincoln Center, and Open Stage Theatre Company in Fort Collins, Colorado. Andrews hopes to continue her travels and research as a professional director and professor in speech and drama. Candice permanently resides in Colorado with her fiancé and two dogs that are the love of her life.

Last fall and winter Andrews interned at Sacramento Theatre Company where she taught in the Young Professionals children’s theatre program, co-directed the after school program Kids Write Plays, directed the 2008 winter dance production, Home for the Holidays, and assistant directed La Pastorela. Andrews was recently featured in Artist Spotlight for Inside the City-Sacramento, November 2008.

“Dietz is the master of the perception shift, in each of his works there is an unexpected twist or series of twists that alter the perceptions of the characters and of the audience.”

-Elyse Sommer, CurtainUpReview: Berkshires Theatre

Acting/ Directing Advisors

Scenic Design AdvisorCostume Design AdvisorLighting Design AdvisorSound Design AdvisorAssistant Scenic Designer Assistant Stage Managers

Production Team

Costume Production CrewHALEY DASOVICHCHRISTINA DENIZCAROLYN DUNCANVERONICA FIGUEROARACHEL GETMANMARY KATHRYN MACKOKIMBERLEY MARKKIM PHANSARAH POWERSSARAH SHUKENSARAH SILVADANA SMITHELODIE THAOJULIANA YEAMANS

DressersEOWYN CARLILE SAMATA FERNANDEZ DANIEL A. GUTTENBERG

PropertiesJASON MASINO

Scenery Production CrewJOHN GREENADI HAMOVSEPIDEH SAEBKELLY JANOWKATE MCGRATH

Stage CrewMICHELLE COHENSIERRA FELDMANNJULIA MCCANDLESSMARRY ORTEGAPAKOU VANG

Lighting TechnicianELIZABETH TREMAIR

Audio TechnicianSHANNON MILLER

Video Projection TechnicianCHRIS HONG

Production Team

Production Crew

SARAH PIA ANDERSONPETER LICHTENFELSJOHN IACOVELLIMAGGIE MORGANTHOMAS J. MUNNNED JACOBSONWENTING GAOTASHA COOKESHANNON MILLERAMBER PARLEMY-AN VAN

UC Davis Department of Theatre & Dancepresents

Private eyesby Steven Dietz

with

Tommy Anker Amy Cole* Brett DugganYonatan Morag Anne Reeder

DIRECTORcandice M. Andrews

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

SCENIC DESIGNERChris Jee

COSTUME DESIGNER Sarah Kendrick

LIGHTING DESIGNER Jacob W. Nelson

PROPERTIES DESIGNERJason Masino

STAGE MANAGERJulie Friedrichsen

SOUND DESIGNERS Candice Andrews

Michelle Lam

PROJECTIONS DESIGNER James Marchbanks

Living Grace to Grace, EPC, and A Piece of Water. This is Julie’s twelfth production at UC Davis.

CHRIS JEE (Scenic Designer) is a fourth-year undergraduate at UC Davis with a background in visual arts. Previous designs include: Measure for Measure (Scenic) directed by MFA candidate Randy Symank, Ghost Bathtub Windmill (Scenic and Costume) written by Elise Kane and directed by Daniel Guttenberg, and Five Seemingly Unrelated Vignettes (Scenic) choreographed by artist Ashanti Newton.

SARAH KENDRICK (Costume Designer) is a first-year MFA who is thrilled to have worked on this show with so many friends. She last costumed the two graduate dance pieces in the Main Stage Dance/Theatre Festival in April. She hails from Washington DC where she worked for many years as a government contractor and as a member of the MD Army National Guard before giving it all up to pursue her real passion: costumes!

MICHELLE LAM (Sound Designer) is a third-year at UC Davis pursuing double majors in Economics and International Relations. This is Michelle’s first production as sound designer.

JAMES MARCHBANKS (Projections Designer) is a first-year MFA candidate in Acting. Previous feature film work includes Damaged by Default at Sonoma State’s Communications Department under Professor M. Litle.

JASON MASINO (Properties Design) is a fourth-year Dramatic Art major with emphasis in theatre. Jason has acted, directed, and assistant costume designed numerous UC Davis Theatre & Dance productions throughout his four years including: THIRDeYE Theatre Festival 2006 and 2008, Measure for Measure, Main Stage Theatre/Dance Festival 2007 and 2009, Nights at the Circus, fig. a: The Heart. This is his first time designing properties for a show. Upon completion of the GRE and a fifth-year, Jason plans on attending graduate school for an MFA in Acting or PhD in Performance Studies. He would like to thank Darrell Winn, Candice Andrews, and Julie Friedrichsen for giving him the opportunity to work on such a unique and complex show.

JACOB W. NELSON (Lighting Designer) is a first-year MFA candidate at UC Davis in Lighting Design. Previous designs at UC Davis include The Winter’s Tale, and Main Stage Dance/Theatre Festival. At Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA. he designed for 3 More Sleepless Nights and Al Takes a Bride. He has served as master electrician and lighting designer on various other Muhlenberg College productions, and recently designed the lights for Oklahoma! at the Pennsylvania Playhouse in Bethlehem, PA.

SettingsAct i: 50 minutes

intermission: 15 minutesAct ii: 70 minutes

Private EyesCast in order of appearance

Matthew…...……………TOMMY ANKERLisa……….…......……..……AMY COLE*Adrian.....….…...……YONATAN MORAGCory……………………...ANNE REEDERFrank…………………..BRETT DUGGAN

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

PerForMer BioS TOMMY ANKER (Matthew) was born into a family of performing artists in Hollywood, California. His father was a singer and his aunt and grandfather were both actors. Tommy was in his first play at age five as Tigger in Winnie the Pooh. Tommy remained in theatre throughout his junior high and high school years. Upon graduation Tommy signed with Angel City Talent in Los Angeles. Since then, he has been in national commercials and made appearances on numerous television shows including Angel and Scrubs. Tommy, now a Genetics major at UC Davis, is on a path to becoming a doctor, but acting and theatre are unextinguishable passions that burn inside him.

AMY LOUISE COLE (Lisa) is a first year MFA candidate in Acting at UC Davis and has been performing professionally in the Bay Area for the past decade. Earlier this year, Amy was seen as Goram in #5 The Angry Red Drum and Paulina in The Winter’s Tale, both at UC Davis. Amy is Co-founder of El Gato Theatre in San Francisco (www.elgatotheatre.org) and for the past two years has traveled to classrooms throughout the Bay Area as a professional Teaching Artist. Amy is a proud member of Actor’s Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild, and Theatre Bay Area.

BRETT DUGGAN (Frank) is an actor, comedian, musician, and performance artist. He is a first-year MFA Acting candidate at UC Davis. Brett received his BFA from Emerson College in

Boston. This is Brett’s fourth UC Davis production.

YONATAN MORAG (Adrian) is acting in his first production at UC Davis. He has enjoyed theatre since elementary school, and did a good deal of acting and directing throughout his high school career. Yoni is in his second year at Davis, studying physics. He hopes to be involved in more theatre productions in the coming years.

ANNE REEDER (Cory) is a first year MFA Acting candidate at UC Davis. Anne received her B.A. in Theater Studies with concentrations in Acting and Dance from Emerson College in 2004. After graduating she moved to Los Angeles where she pursued a professional career in acting and production. Some credits include: When Men Are Scarce (Lee Strasberg Theater), Brotherhood (Showtime), The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS), The Art of Being Straight (Great Graffiti Films). Most recently, Anne performed in Granada-Artist-in-Residence John Jasperse’s, Beyond Belief, at UC Davis winter 2009. Anne is thankful to be working and studying with the talented people at UC Davis for the next two years.

coNcePT ArTiST BioS

JULIE FRIEDRICHSEN (Stage Manager) graduated from UC Davis with a BA in Dramatic Art in 2008. She has worked in theatre for nearly thirty years as an actor, writer, designer, director and stage manager. Previous writing credits include Voce Velatura,