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PLAYS ARE A CONDUIT THROUGH WHICH WE learn larger truths about ourselves and each other. Often, they are truths
we already know, but there is something about having them illuminated
before our eyes that reconnects us to them and, when done elegantly,
ushers us out of the theater with a feeling of catharsis. Some plays take
it one step further and are constructed on the basis that what is true at
the end of a play is identical to what is true at the start. What drives the
action is unearthing these revelations and watching the chips fall where
they may.
As we enter a luxurious Aspen chalet in Big Sky, we immediately recognize
a typical, affluent American family. But Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros’ play
explores the all-too-current idea of the precariousness of life in America
after a nationwide financial crisis. This undercurrent propels this very
funny and wry play into a rather profound place.
Our pleasure is to welcome Alexandra to the Geffen and to welcome
back John Rando, who has directed here on many occasions. Together
with a stellar cast and world-class designers, they have brought to life a
story to which we can all surely relate. What does a family do when faced
with challenges? Do they bond together to fight the elements, or is the
wreckage insurmountable — one from which no recovery is possible?
As we close out our 20th anniversary season, we are so pleased to have
had so many gifted artists, both alums and new additions, join the Geffen
family. These partnerships that we have built over the last two decades
are the foundation upon which great work flourishes. We strive to keep
welcoming more artists and patrons into the fold as we continually expand
the scale and scope of what we do. Here’s to the next 20!
Enjoy the show!
Randall Arney ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
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WELCOME TO THE GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE
FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
MARTHA HENDERSONCO-CHAIR
PAMELA ROBINSONCO-CHAIR
PATRICIA KIERNAN APPLEGATE
RANDALL ARNEYARTISTIC DIRECTOR
BETH BEHRS
DR. GENE D. BLOCK
KEVIN BRIGHT
HAROLD A. BROWN
GIL CATES JR.EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
MICHAEL CENTENO
MARY ANN CLOYD
MERLE DANDRIDGE
DR. BRAD EDGERTON
MARK FLEISCHER
HERBERT M. GELFANDCHAIRMAN EMERITUS
PATRICIA L. GLASER
SAM GORES
ADI GREENBERG
ARTHUR GREENBERG
JOAN KALOUSTIAN
LORETTA EVERETT KAUFMAN
DR. GERALD S. LEVEY
CARLA MALDEN
SUSAN MALLORY
GINNY MANCINI
BARRY MEYER
SCOTT MINERD
STEVEN A. OLSEN
HOLLY RICE
LINDA BERNSTEIN RUBIN
TERI SCHWARTZ
RICHARD SHERMAN
FRED SPECKTOR
LORRAINE SPURGE
CYNTHIA P. STAFFORD
HOWARD TENENBAUMVICE CHAIRMAN
FOUNDING TRUSTEESKIRSTEN COMBS
ROBERT A. DALY
DAVID GEFFEN
QUINCY JONES
JEFFREY KATZENBERG
GLORYA KAUFMAN
FRANK G. MANCUSOCHAIRMAN EMERITUS
RON MEYER
LESLIE MOONVES
JERRY MOSS
JERRY PERENCHIO
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VICTORIA MANN SIMMS
ANDY SPAHN
STEVEN SPIELBERG
STEVE TISCH
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IN MEMORIAMGILBERT CATESFOUNDER
MARCIA ISRAEL-CURLEY
AUDREY SKIRBALL KENIS
CHARLES KENIS
KARL MALDEN
EDIE WASSERMAN
LEW WASSERMAN
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LETTER FROM THE CO-CHAIRS
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MARTHA HENDERSON
PAMELA ROBINSON
THANK YOU FOR BEING A PART OF OUR LANDMARK 20TH
anniversary season in the Gil Cates Theater! We’ve seen a vibrant
collection of saucy Shakespearean comedy, sweet Irish romance and
seductive new works onstage. Thank you for joining us for today’s
performance of Big Sky, the provocative world premiere written by the
enormously talented Pulitzer Prize finalist Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros.
We’d like to highlight the extraordinary generosity and commitment of
the Edgerton Foundation, whose major support of this world premiere
production has given the artistic team the opportunity to workshop
Big Sky in ways that had a profound impact on the play. Our deepest
gratitude to the Edgerton Foundation for giving us the room to make
bold creative choices and bring new work to the American stage.
This season has been exhilarating, not only artistically but educationally
as well. Our Geffen Playhouse Teaching Artists have spent over 850
hours in the classrooms of our high school partners, leading pre- and
post-show sessions and theater workshops, and working with our
partnering community organizations through pre- and post-show
sessions and improv workshops. We look forward to sharing more
with you in the fall about the overall impact students and community
members have experienced this year.
Cheers to a spectacular 20th anniversary season!
Martha Henderson Pamela Robinson CO-CHAIR, GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE CO-CHAIR, GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE
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THERE IS NO BLUEPRINT, NO RECIPE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW PLAY. The process can begin with a phone call, a relationship,
an idea or a collaborative history. A year — more or less
— after the seed has been germinated, Geffen Playhouse
audiences may be watching the first production of a
new play by an award-winning playwright.
In its 20 year history, Geffen Playhouse has produced
31 world premieres, eight of them commissioned and
nurtured along by the Geffen’s literary department with
the help of targeted grant money from the Edgerton
Foundation and the Harold and Mimi Steinberg
Charitable Trust. Donald Margulies and Jane Anderson
have premiered new plays at the Geffen, as have Neil
Simon, Joan Rivers, Carrie Fisher and Alan Alda.
Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros’ Big Sky “arrived” at
the Geffen via an exploratory phone call that director
John Rando made to Geffen Artistic Director Randall
Arney. Rando, the Tony Award-winning director of
Urinetown, had directed three previous productions
at the Geffen including The Underpants in 2004.
Having developed new plays both in New York and
regionally, Rando thought that Big Sky belonged at the
Geffen. A draft of the play already existed, and Rando
envisioned a safe, pressure-free environment in which
the playwright could hear it being read aloud and
subsequently do extensive revisions.
“I suggested at that time that it needed to be
incubated in a good, nurturing theatrical environment,
and the Geffen Playhouse is a kind of home for me,” said
Rando. “I’ve done a lot of work here and I received my
M.F.A. at UCLA, so I had a nice connection here. I called
Randy [Arney] and said, ‘I think you might be interested
in this play. I’m not saying you should do a production
but I’d love it if we could develop it with you guys.’”
Arney knew Gersten-Vassilaros from when he
commissioned her play My Thing of Love at the
Steppenwolf Theatre Company. He shared Rando’s
enthusiasm. Big Sky would receive three workshops,
two at the Geffen and one at New York Stage and
Film (all featuring Jon Tenney), leading up to its world
premiere production.
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Big Sky director John Rando and playwright Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros
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“I like the idea of trying to plug into how a writer
works and how we can best serve their process,
whether a reading or a workshop is part of that,” Arney
said. “John and Alex came to us with the play already
written, but I knew Alex would love the opportunity to
have some workshops and to be able to gather some
people together in a room and hear the play.”
The Edgerton Foundation supported the development
of Big Sky through a grant that funded extra production
costs and workshops.
“It’s a big gift for a new play,” said Gersten-
Vassilaros, who was thrilled to receive the grant. “We
get more time to ask, ‘OK, is this really working?’ and
then work on it and come back. By the time we go
into rehearsal, it will be pretty close to what we end up
putting onstage on opening night.”
The company’s concept-to-stage pipeline is a
testament to the groundwork laid by the Geffen’s late
founder and producing director, Gil Cates, whose vision
for the not-for-profit theater included making the
Geffen a home for new work. In the mid-1990s, when the
Geffen started gearing up to offer its first commissions,
Literary Director Amy Levinson interviewed more than
a dozen established playwrights, informally asking
them what they considered an ideal environment for
developing a new play.
The answers were consistent. The playwrights
longed for a place where they could bring their work
in rough form and work on it for an extended period of
time. They wanted the freedom to write combined with
institutional artistic support.
Given the Geffen’s proximity to Hollywood and the
fact that many established playwrights have also tried
their hand at screenwriting, nobody wanted to see new
works get bogged down in the theatrical equivalent of
“development hell.” A full production is the endgame,
and the Geffen has historically produced a majority of
the plays it commissions, according to Levinson.
The funds to support new work have allowed the
Geffen to tailor the development process to each
playwright’s specific needs. Some may use workshops
early on to collect diverse opinions. Others may prefer
that a draft be much closer to completion before
hearing it read aloud. Levinson recalls the experience
of working with Donald Margulies on commissions
of Coney Island Christmas and Time Stands Still, a
production which premiered at the Geffen in 2010 and
would later move to New York for a Broadway run.
“Donald likes to hear what he calls his ‘‘very rough’
rough draft’ out loud. It gives him a sense of where it’s
going to go,” Levinson said. “In almost every case, I
read it before it’s read aloud, and then we chat about
it. He goes back to work and does a little futzing with
it and then we sit down with a small group of trusted
folks to hear a draft. After that, he’ll write for three to
six months and come back to hear it again. Then he
likes to just get into rehearsal and see what he has. Of
course, the rewrites continue until opening.”
“He wrote Coney Island Christmas very quickly and
learned an enormous amount in the first reading —
things one can only learn in the hearing of it,” Levinson
added. “Another example: Time Stands Still. Originally
titled The Elephant in the Room, Donald had written
in a character and in hearing/seeing the reading, he
realized the character held more power being entirely
absent. He made significant changes and by the
second rewrite was ready to go into rehearsal with the
additional week.”
Carrie Fisher’s solo show Wishful Drinking, another
huge success, came about after Fisher and her co-
writer and director Joshua Ravetch told a few stories
Fisher felt would be a good basis for a play. “She’s such
a fantastic storyteller that we really committed on the
spot,” Levinson said.
Artistic administrators concede that balancing new
works and revivals of audience favorites is a constant
challenge. The recently announced 2016/2017 season
has at least one world premiere, Alena Smith’s Icebergs,
and Geffen audiences can expect the numbers of new
play commissions and world premieres to increase
significantly in the coming seasons, thanks in part to a
grant from the Edgerton Foundation.
“We have continued to build on our commitment to
new plays and feel strongly that the way to appeal to a
broader audience is to tell stories that are new, diverse
and very much of this moment. What better way to
generate that work than through commissions? So,
stay tuned,” Arney said. “If we continue to do our job
supporting and nurturing the work of writers, we are
sure to have plenty of premieres for years to come.”
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Opening Night: Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Directed by John Rando
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS CIRCLE MEMBERS
Laurie & Bill Benenson • Martha Henderson • Pamela Robinson Hollander & Robert Hollander Loretta Everett Kaufman & Victor Kaufman • Jason & Yvonne Lee • Gail & Andrew Roth
Linda Bernstein Rubin & Tony Rubin • Miranda & Brett Tollman
Scenic Designer Derek McLane
Costume Designer Denitsa Bliznakova
Sound Designer Jon Gottlieb
Lighting Designer Jaymi Lee Smith
Written by Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros
Dramaturg Amy Levinson
Fight Director Steve Rankin
Casting Director Phyllis Schuringa, CSA
Production Stage Manager Elizabeth A. Brohm
Assistant Stage Manager Maggie Swing
OPENING N IGHT SPONSORS
Big Sky is co-produced by Dede Harris Productions
Recipient of the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award
Major support for this world premiere production provided by the Edgerton Foundation New Play Production Fund
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CAST OF CHARACTERS(In alphabetical order)
Jonathan ............................................................................................................................................ Arnie Burton
Tessa ............................................................................................................................................. Emily Robinson
Jack ......................................................................................................................................................... Jon Tenney
Jen ........................................................................................................................................... Jennifer Westfeldt
SETTING/TIME Ritz-Carlton Condo. The Present.
RUNNING TIME Approximately 95 minutes
There will be no intermission.
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PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES
ARNIE BURTON (Jonathan)Broadway: The 39 Steps, Peter and the Starcatcher, Machinal, A Free Man of Color, Amadeus. Off-Broadway highlights include Lives of the Saints and Mere Mortals, both by David Ives and directed by John Rando. Also The Temperamentals (Drama Desk Award), 30th anniversary revival of The Mystery of Irma Vep (Drama League Award), The Last Sunday in June, The Explorers Club, Tail! Spin!, The Merchant of Venice/The Jew of Malta. England: The Merchant of Venice at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Regional highlights include the L.A. premiere of All in the Timing at the Geffen Playhouse and the world premiere of A Confederacy of Dunces at the Huntington Theatre Company, Boston. Other theaters include the Old Globe, Berkeley Rep, Alley Theatre, A.R.T., Philadelphia Theatre Company, Berkshire Theatre Festival. Television appearances include The Blacklist, Flesh and Bone (recurring), Frasier, Blue Bloods, Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, White Collar, Caroline in the City, Life on Mars, Faith and Hope, 6 Degrees and Sister, Sister. Film: The Real Meaning of Things, Igby Goes Down, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee and Game 6.
EMILY ROBINSON(Tessa)Emily made her Off-Broadway debut in Horton Foote’s epic, The Orphans’ Home Cycle at Signature
Theatre in New York, directed by Michael Wilson, (Drama Desk Special Award) and is delighted to be making her L.A. theater debut at the Geffen Playhouse in Big Sky. Upcoming films include Behold My Heart, Going Under and Broken Vows. Television credits include Amazon’s Golden Globe-winning Transparent (Screen Actors Guild Award Nomination for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series), Criminal Minds (CBS), Rizzoli and Isles (TNT), Scorpion (CBS), A.N.T. Farm (Disney), Girl Meets World (Disney), The Following (FOX), CSI:NY (CBS), Person of Interest (CBS), Saturday Night Live (NBC), Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (NBC) and The Guiding Light (CBS). Emily also recently wrote, directed and starred in her first short film, Virgin Territory. Emily is represented by UTA, Perlman Management Group, and Marilyn Zitner Management.
JON TENNEY(Jack)Previously at the Geffen: David Lindsay-Abaire’s Good People and David Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow. Broadway credits include: the Tony Award-winning revival of The Heiress (opposite Cherry Jones), Biloxi Blues, Brighton Beach Memoirs and Sweet Sue, as well as the national tour of Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing directed by Mike Nichols. Off-Broadway credits include: Jon Robin Baitz’s The Substance of Fire (Playwrights Horizons and Lincoln Center Theater), John Guare’s Chaucer in Rome (Lincoln Center Theater), John Patrick Shanley’s Beggars in the House of Plenty and David Marshall Grant’s Current Events (Manhattan Theatre Club), Beth Henley’s Impossible Marriage (opposite Holly Hunter at Roundabout
Theatre Company) and Tuesdays with Morrie (opposite Alvin Epstein at New York Stage & Film and The Minetta Lane Theatre). Television credits include seven seasons starring opposite Kyra Sedgwick on TNT’s The Closer, reprising his role in Major Crimes and directing episodes of both. Tenney played Vice President Andrew Nichols on ABC’s Scandal and recurs on Amazon’s Hand of God. Film credits include You Can Count on Me, Tombstone, Fools Rush In, Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World and Rabbit Hole. A Vassar graduate and trained at The Juilliard School, Tenney will next be seen in the film adaptation of Chekhov’s The Seagull opposite Annette Bening and Saoirse Ronan.
JENNIFER WESTFELDT(Jen)An actress and filmmaker, Jennifer is perhaps best known for writing and starring in the indie films Kissing Jessica Stein, Ira & Abby and Friends With Kids, which also marked her directorial debut. Jennifer made her Broadway debut in Wonderful Town, directed by Kathleen Marshall, for which she received a Tony nomination, a Theater World Award and a Drama League Award. Recent stage work includes the world premieres of Nicky Silver’s Too Much Sun at The Vineyard Theatre, directed by Mark Brokaw; Scott Z. Burns’ The Library at the Public Theater, directed by Stephen Soderbergh; Nell Benjamin’s The Explorers Club at Manhattan Theatre Club, directed by Marc Bruni; Cusi Cram’s A Lifetime Burning at Primary Stages, directed by Pam McKinnon; and Stephen Belber’s The Power of Duff at the Huntington Theatre Company and at the Powerhouse Theater,
directed by Peter DuBois. Recent television credits include Girls, 24, Grey’s Anatomy, Notes From the Underbelly and Children’s Hospital.
ALEXANDRAGERSTEN-VASSILAROS(Playwright)Her play Omnium Gatherum (2004 Pulitzer Prize Finalist, co-written with Theresa Rebeck) premiered at the Humana Festival and moved Off-Broadway with subsequent regional and international productions. Her controversial play The Argument (Vineyard Theatre) had a recent “revised” production at Theatre J in Washington, D.C. The Ordinary Yearning of Miriam Buddwing (directed by Anna Shapiro), My Thing of Love (directed by Terry Kinney; Broadway, directed by Howard Davies) and Supple in Combat (directed by Max Mayer) were commissioned by and premiered at Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Mother of Invention (directed by Nicholas Martin) premiered at the Williamstown Theatre Festival starring Estelle Parsons. Mean Time, about the fracturing effects of war on soldiers and their families, was workshopped at Juilliard, NYU Grad Theatre Program and New York Stage and Film Co. (directed by Daniel Aukin). Her plays are published by Smith & Kraus and Samuel French. Radio: Playing On Air is currently featuring two of her short plays for public radio: Two Jewish Men in Their Seventies with Jerry Stiller and Open Arms with Julie White and Bill Irwin. She has developed several television projects with co-writer Carl Capotorto for HBO (Executive Producers Will Scheffer and Mark Olsen), and for KILLER/MOXIE films. Alexandra is a graduate of the NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and a member of PEN. She leads writing workshops for veterans and women at The Bowery Mission in N.Y.C. Special thanks to my theater family at New York Stage & Film and to Michael Hoffmann. Alex dedicates Big Sky to her three boys Tonio, Luka and Stefano and to her husband Johnny.
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JOHN RANDO(Director) Big Sky is John’s fifth production for the Geffen. Other Geffen shows are: All in the Timing (Ovation Award), Merton of the Movies, The Underpants and Matthew Modine Saves the Alpacas. Broadway credits include Penn & Teller on Broadway, On The Town (Tony Nomination for Best Direction of a Musical), A Christmas Story, The Wedding Singer, Urinetown (Tony and Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Director), A Thousand Clowns and Neil Simon’s The Dinner Party. His recent Off-Broadway credits include Lives of the Saints (Primary Stages), The Heir Apparent (2014 SDCF Calloway Award for Direction — Classic Stage Company), All in the Timing (Primary Stages — 2013 Obie Award for Direction), and The Toxic Avenger, among many others. He directed the Encores! Productions of Annie Get Your Gun, Little Me, It’s a Bird... It’s a Plane... It’s Superman, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, On the Town, Damn Yankees, Face the Music, Strike Up the Band, Do Re Mi, The Pajama Game and Of Thee I Sing. He also directed Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel with the New York Philharmonic. M.F.A. from University of California, Los Angeles.
DEREK McLANE(Scenic Designer)Derek McLane’s Broadway designs include Noises Off, Fully Committed, Beautiful, Gigi, The Heiress, Nice Work, The Best Man, Follies, Anything Goes, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Million Dollar Quartet, Ragtime, 33 Variations, The Pajama Game and I Am My Own Wife. Off-Broadway: Into The Woods, Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Spoils, Sticks and Bone, The Last Five Years, Ruined, Lie of the Mind and Hurlyburly. He designed the 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 Academy Awards. Awards: winner of 1997, 2004 OBIE Awards; 2004, 2005, 2007 Lortel Awards; 2009 Tony Award; 2011 Drama Desk Award; 2015, 2016 Art Directors Guild Award; and 2014 Emmy Award.
DENITSA BLIZNAKOVA (Costume Designer)Denitsa is happy to return to the Geffen Playhouse, having previously worked on Guards at the Taj. Her work has been seen at venues such as Denver Center for the Performing Arts, San Diego Opera, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Cleveland Play House, Old Globe Theatre, A Noise Within, Falcon Theatre, New Repertory Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival and others. Costume design and stylist credits for other media include music videos for various artists and films. Denitsa is a professor in the School of Theatre, Television and Film at San Diego State University and is also the head of the graduate Design and Technology program there. Her work may be viewed at www.Denitsa.com.
JAYMI LEE SMITH (Lighting Designer) Jaymi is thrilled to be designing her first show at the Geffen Playhouse. She has been designing around the country for the last twenty years at theaters such as the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Dallas Theater Center, Alley Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, La Jolla Playhouse, Goodman Theatre, Court Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Alliance Theatre, Getty Villa, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Milwaukee Repertory and Lookingglass Theatre, among others. Some of her most recent favorites have included The Nether at Alley Theatre, Rocky Horror Picture Show at Dallas Theater Center, The Who and the What at La Jolla Playhouse, Peter and the Starcatcher and Vietgone at South Coast Repertory and The Daughter of the Regiment at the Mill City Opera. Her work has also been seen in China, Italy, Spain, Scotland and Ireland. Previous awards have included the 2003 Michael Merritt/Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award, a 2014 Column Award and a 2010 Joseph Jefferson Award. She is currently an associate professor of lighting design
and associate head of design at University of California, Irvine. Her work can be seen online at jaymismith.com.
JON GOTTLIEB (Sound Designer)Jon’s design work at the Geffen Playhouse includes The Country House, Equivocation and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (directed by Gil Cates). He most recently designed Twelve Angry Men and Kiss Me Kate for Pasadena Playhouse as well as Master Class with Tyne Daily at the Vaudeville Theatre in London and Manhattan Theatre Club on Broadway. Other Broadway credits include Neil Simon’s Dinner Party, Terrance McNally’s Master Class and QED with Alan Alda at Lincoln Center. Center Theatre Group credits include iWitness (L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award), The Flower Drum Song (Ovation Award) and Hughie with Al Pacino. Jon has received eight LADCC Awards, three L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Awards, and over 60 Drama-Logue, LA Weekly and NAACP Theater awards. Jon also serves as the head of the Sound Design program for the School of Theater at California Institute of the Arts.
STEVE RANKIN(Fight Director)Most recently at the Geffen: Mathew Modine Saves the Alpacas. Broadway: Memphis, Jersey Boys, Henry IV, Twelfth Night, The Who’s Tommy, Anna Christie, The Real Inspector Hound, Macbeth, The Farnsworth Invention, Guys and Dolls, Dracula, Doctor Zhivago, Bonnie and Clyde, Getting Away With Murder, Two Shakespearean Actors. Off-Broadway: Pig Farm, The Third Story, The Night Hank Williams Died, Below the Belt. Regional: Mark Taper Forum, Ahmanson Theatre, Old Globe (Associate Artist), La Jolla Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, Actors Theater of Louisville, Center Stage, Geva Theatre Center, Virginia Stage Company, Asolo, et al. Stratford Shakespeare Festival: Romeo and Juliet, Caesar and Cleopatra, The Who’s Tommy,
Macbeth, Henry V. Metropolitan Opera: Faust, Rodelinda, Boris Godunov, Iphegenie at Tauride. Future projects: The Front Page (Broadway), Hunchback of Notre Dame (Japan). Mr. Rankin also plays mandolin and guitar with The Susie Glaze Quintet.
AMY LEVINSON(Dramaturg)Amy is the Artistic Associate and Literary Director at the Geffen Playhouse. Dramaturgy credits include the commissions and world premieres of Donald Margulies’ Time Stands Still and Coney Island Christmas, Jane Anderson’s The Quality of Life and The Escort and Jeffrey Hatcher’s new adaptation of Wait Until Dark. Other credits include The Weir, Extraordinary Chambers, Build, Equivocation and Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress by a Life in Progress. At the Geffen she has helped to build programs for the purpose of fostering new work including the commissioning and development of plays. Also a translator of Yiddish drama, she holds an M.F.A. in Dramaturgy from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
ELIZABETH A. BROHM(Production Stage Manager)Geffen Playhouse: Barcelona; Thom Pain (based on nothing); Bad Jews; The Night Alive; Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin; Ruth Draper’s Monologues; Yes, Prime Minister; By the Waters of Babylon; Shipwrecked! An Entertainment — The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (as Told by Himself); Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress by a Life in Progress; Boy Gets Girl; The Unexpected Man; Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks; Looking for Normal; The Weir; Dinner With Friends; Defiled; Wit; It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues. National Tour/Kennedy Center: Wit. Other: Production Coordinator, Geffen Playhouse 2001-2007; Cup Coordinator, X-Prize Foundation; Adjunct Professor in Stage Management, UCLA since 2005. M.F.A. in Stage Management from UCSD. Love to Gino & Mack.
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MAGGIE SWING(Assistant Stage Manager)Geffen Playhouse: Barcelona, Guards at the Taj, Discord, The Country House, The Judy Show: My Life as a Sitcom, American Buffalo. European Tour of The Apple Family Plays. Off-Broadway: Regular Singing, Sorry, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Sweet and Sad, Knickerbocker, Compulsion, That Hopey Changey Thing (Public Theater), Slowgirl (Lincoln Center), Blood Knot, The Orphans’ Home Cycle (Signature Theatre). Regional: Discord (Arizona Theatre Company), Bell, Book and Candle (co-production with Long Wharf), The Orphans’ Home Cycle, Dividing the Estate, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Christmas Carol, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore, The Bluest Eye, Our Town (Hartford Stage Company).
PHYLLIS SCHURINGA, CSA (Casting Director) Phyllis has been the casting director at Geffen Playhouse for 12 years and now is also the Artistic Associate. Recent plays at the Geffen include Outside Mullingar, These Paper Bullets!, Bad Jews, The Night Alive, Switzerland, The Country House, Wait Until Dark and American Buffalo. Before joining the team at the Geffen, she was the casting director for Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago where her favorites include Frank Galati’s adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath (also La Jolla Playhouse, National Theatre in London, and Broadway, where it received the Tony Award for Best Play), the original production of Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile (and subsequent productions including Westwood Playhouse and Briar Street Theater in Chicago), Austin Pendleton’s Orson’s Shadow and Charles L. Mee’s Time to Burn. Broadway transfers include One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Tony Award for Best Revival) and The Song of Jacob Zulu. She teaches auditioning at Steppenwolf West and is a member of the Casting Society of America.
RANDALL ARNEY (Artistic Director)Randall Arney has been a theater professional for over 30 years and has served as Artistic Director of the Geffen Playhouse since 1999. In addition to his artistic programming and oversight at the Geffen, Arney has helmed many productions for the theater, most recently Outside Mullingar, The Night Alive, Reasons to Be Pretty, Slowgirl, American Buffalo, Superior Donuts, The Female of the Species, The Seafarer, Speed-the-Plow and All My Sons. Arney is an ensemble member and former Artistic Director of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre where his directing credits include: Slowgirl, The Seafarer, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Death and the Maiden, Curse of the Starving Class, Killers and The Geography of Luck, among others. Arney also directed Steppenwolf’s world premiere of Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile, as well as the subsequent national and international acclaimed productions. Mr. Arney’s acting credits with Steppenwolf include Born Yesterday, Ghost in the Machine, The Homecoming, Frank’s Wild Years, You Can’t Take it with You, Fool for Love, True West, Balm in Gilead and Coyote Ugly. As the Artistic Director for Steppenwolf from 1987 to 1995, he oversaw the creation of a new state-of-the-art theater which is Steppenwolf’s current home. Broadway transfers under his leadership include The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, The Song of Jacob Zulu (six Tony Award nominations) and The Grapes of Wrath (1990 Tony Award, Best Play). Mr. Arney has an M.F.A. degree in Acting from Illinois State University and has taught master classes and workshops at UCLA, Steppenwolf, around the U.S. and in Tokyo.
GIL CATES, JR. (Executive Director)Gil Cates, Jr. has proudly served on the Geffen Playhouse Board since 2012 and has years of producing and directing experience in theater, film and television. Gil’s theater credits include the award-winning Names (Matrix Theatre) starring Dixie Carter and Greg Mullavey, The Night I Knocked Out Joe Frazer and Lost 90 Pounds (Gardner Stage Theater), as well as Three Sisters and David Mamet’s A Life in the Theatre (both at Syracuse Stage). Gil’s film credits include The Surface (starring Sean Astin and Geffen Playhouse alumnus Chris Mulkey), Jobs (starring Ashton Kutcher, Josh Gad, Dermot Mulroney, as well as Geffen Playhouse alumni Matthew Modine and Ron Eldard) and the 2011 feature film Lucky (starring Colin Hanks, Ari Graynor, Ann-Margret and Golden Globe winner Jeffrey Tambor). In addition, Gil produced and directed the critically acclaimed Life After Tomorrow, featuring Sarah Jessica Parker, which won best documentary at the Phoenix Film Festival and later had its premiere Christmas Eve on Showtime. His other films include Deal (starring Burt Reynolds, Bret Harrison and Charles Durning), The Mesmerist (starring Geffen Playhouse alumnus Neil Patrick Harris), and the critically acclaimed independent film Order of Chaos. Gil also made his television directorial debut with an episode of the NBC comedy, Joey, starring Emmy winner Matt LeBlanc. He studied at the National Theatre Institute in Waterford, Connecticut, and holds a B.F.A. in Drama from Syracuse University in 1991.
REGINA MILLER (Chief Development Officer)Regina has been a development professional for over 18 years, working with non-profit institutions, foundations and corporations on strategy, analysis and fundraising. She has worked for Simon Wiesenthal Center, The Clinton Foundation, Ben Affleck’s Eastern Congo Initiative, Hank Azaria’s Determined to Succeed, Charlize Theron's Africa Outreach Project, Water.org, Codenow.org among others. Prior to the Geffen, Regina served as the Director of Partnerships for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles and the Inland Empire where she led strategic planning and development while executing policies that advanced the organization’s visibility and growth. Regina also has a strong passion for teaching. After graduating from University of North Carolina School of the Arts, she taught in preschools and kindergartens in New York. From the age of 13, Regina worked as a professional dancer on Broadway as well as with a number of prominent modern dance ensembles. Fusing two of her interests, she created a highly successful program which incorporated dance therapy and creative movement into an early childhood curriculum as well as wrote and produced a television show based on this concept. In addition to being a published author and photographer with Tallfellow Press and Prometheus Books, Regina has taught and lectured at numerous schools in New York, Los Angeles and abroad.
PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES
PRODUCTION STAFF FOR BIG SKY
Assistant Set Designer Erica Hemminger
Assistant Costume Designer Beatrice Collins
Assistant Lighting Designer Sarah Elizabeth Resch
Assistant Sound Designer Dan Gower
Wardrobe Supervisor Liz Rose
Properties Artisan Cami Viand
Properties Artisan Lilian Bartenstein
Production Assistant Vaneh Assadourian
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Set provided by Scenic Highlights
Lighting Equipment provided by 4Wall Entertainment Lighting
Sound Equipment provided by Jon Sound Inc.
Production Photographer Michael Lamont
Media Filming Four Leaf Media
Key Art Stockholm Design
SPECIAL THANKS
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television Scene, Prop, Sound and Costume Shops; London Cleaners
UCLA SCHOOL OF THEATER, FILM AND TELEVISION
Geffen Playhouse is affiliated with the University of California at Los Angeles,
specifically the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Geffen Playhouse
values its role as an important educational resource by providing students
with master classes, workshops and internships. Students are also able to work
and learn from distinguished visiting Geffen artists such as Alan Ayckbourn,
Jon Robin Baitz, Annette Bening, Ed Harris, David Ives, Neil LaBute, David
Mamet, Donald Margulies, Terrence McNally, John Rando and Kathleen Turner
in areas of directing, playwriting, acting, design, dramaturgy, management and
production. Geffen Playhouse also draws upon the distinguished experts in the
university to enhance the theater’s programs and research.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This theater operates under agreement between the League of Resident Theaters and Actors Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers
in the United States.
The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States
This theater operates under agreement between the League of Resident Theaters and Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, an independent national labor union.
The scenic, costume, lighting and sound designers in LORT theaters are represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA-829, IATSE.
GEFFEN AT A GLANCE
ADDRESS
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by the house staff even if different from
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Opening Night of Stage Kiss
Sponsored by Audi of America, Inc., Hint Water, KIND,
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The cast of Stage Kiss with Artistic Director Randall Arney, director Bart DeLorenzo and Executive Director Gil Cates, Jr.
Ron Simms, Geffen Trustees Victoria Mann Simms and Glorya Kaufman and guest
Conan O’Brien and Liza Powel O’Brien with director Bart DeLorenzo Geffen Board member and alum Merle Dandridge with her friend Kim
Geffen alum Laurie Metcalf with Artistic Director Randall Arney
Geffen Board Co-Chair Pamela Robinson with Board member Loretta Everett Kaufman Donors Steve and Paula Mae Schwartz
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THANK YOU FOR BEING A PART OF THE GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE’S STORY for the past 20 years and for sharing what the theater means to you. We have loved
hearing from you and look forward to more stories in the next 20 years and beyond.
Enjoy this story by Delphine Frost, who, along with her husband Richard, has been a
long-time supporter of the Geffen.
20 YEARS OF STORIES
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DELPHINE & RICHARD FROST
SEARCHING FOR A GHOST.That’s my first memory of the Geffen
Playhouse. In 1993 I was blessed to be one of
the members of Gil Cates’ team that would help
acquire and reshape the Westwood Playhouse
into the beautiful theater it is today.
On that particular afternoon, Gil, Westwood
Playhouse owner Kirsten Coombs and I were
taking a casual tour of the theater and its
adjoining spaces. As we explored offices, peered
into closets and climbed up and down stairs,
it was a great joy to observe the warmth and
professionalism of a man who always seemed
to combine just the right amount of show biz
savvy with the sensitivity of a kindly rabbi. Gil
understood how much it meant to Ms. Coombs
to share the history of a theater she so obviously
loved and how important it was that this transfer
of responsibility be handled with sensitivity and
deference.
So there I was with these two kind souls…
one who represented the theater’s respected
past and one who would shepherd its dynamic
future…when I felt a cold breeze along my spine.
I shivered slightly and Gil noticed. “Everything
OK, Delsy?” he asked. “Sure,” said I. But Kirsten
just smiled and mentioned that every theater
had a ghost and this one had made its presence
known. And with that, we were off. Gil led the
way with much enthusiasm to search under the
stage where this apparition apparently resides.
The eternal optimist, Gil was certain that we’d
come face-to-face with our own phantom of
Westwood but we were out-foxed. Instead we
found our way on to the stage looking out to
an imaginary audience — with the excitement of
possibility that only live theater can provide.
And the ghost? Well, every once in a while
during a performance, if you look in the shadows,
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HUNDREDS MORE HIGH SCHOOLERS SERVEDTHANKS TO A GENEROUS CHALLENGE GRANT BY THE EDWARD A. & AI O. SHAY Family Foundation and individual donors, Geffen Playhouse was able to add a second all-student
matinee for the 2015/2016 production of Barcelona. 500 students experienced theater for the first
time, as well as in-class sessions with Geffen Playhouse Teaching Artists before and after the show.
This additional matinee performance effectively doubled the number of students served, as the High
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these students are living in some of the most low-income, isolated neighborhoods of East Los Angeles,
South Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley. The depth of this program, which includes pre- and
post-show workshops, coupled with exposure to a full season of Gil Cates Theater productions, yields
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and your commitment to the entire Los Angeles community, Geffen Playhouse has been able to build
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However, the job is far from over. There are still more than 10 high schools on a year-long waiting
list for this extraordinary High School Partnerships Program. While the addition of a second student
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for every Gil Cates Theater production in the 2016/2017 season! Please consider a tax-deductible gift
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TIMELINE
EXPERIENCE 20 UNFORGETTABLE SEASONS OF GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE PRODUCTIONSONLINE AT GEFFENPLAYHOUSE.ORG/TIMELINE
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THE UNDERPANTSSteve Martin’s The Underpants, an adaptation of
Carl Sternheim’s classic 1910 farce, had its West
Coast debut in the spring of 2004 and was directed
by Big Sky director John Rando. It was the final
play to premiere at the Geffen Playhouse prior to a
seventeen-month renovation that included a major
redesign of the Gil Cates Theater and the addition
of the Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater.
MARCH 2004 – APRIL 2004
Randall Arney Artistic Director
Gil Cates, Jr. Executive Director
ARTISTIC
Amy Levinson Artistic Associate / Literary Director
Phyllis Schuringa Artistic Associate / Casting Director
Young Ji Artistic Coordinator / Company Manager
Rachel Wiegardt-Egel Literary Associate
Rebecca Birstock Artistic Intern
Isabel Espy Artistic Intern
DJ Woullard Artistic Intern
DEVELOPMENT
Regina Miller Chief Development Officer
Ellen Catania Senior Vice President, Development
Jessica Brusilow Rollins Director of Education Partnerships & Donor Relations
Jamie Mikelich Associate Director of Individual Giving & Spotlight Manager
Kristen Smith Eshaya Development & Education Programs Coordinator
Scott Kriloff Development Concierge Manager
Clay Dzygun Development Associate
Adam Carr Development Assistant
Taylor Cerny Development Assistant
Jessie Sherman Development Assistant
EDUCATION
Jennifer Zakkai Director of Education & Community Engagement
Carolyn Marie Wright Manager of Education & Community Engagement
Mariel Higuera Education Assistant
Brian Allman, Corky Dominguez, David Guerra, McKenna Kerrigan, Kristina Leach, Connor White Teaching Artists
ADMINISTRATION
Behnaz Ataee Chief Financial Officer
Frankie Ocasio Executive Assistant
Peter Banachowski Accounting and Payroll Manager
Samone Watts Accounts Payable
Marguerite Harris Receptionist
PRODUCTION
Daniel Ionazzi Production Manager
Jill Barnes Associate Production Manager / Company Manager
Sam Craven-Griffiths Technical Director
Evan Friedman Assistant Technical Director
Rich Gilles Properties Master
James Grabowski House Sound Supervisor
Darren Rezowalli Lighting & Video Supervisor
Ramine Ameli Production Electrician
MARKETING & SALES
Jessica Buzzard Director of Marketing
Karen Gutierrez Director of Advertising & Sponsorships
Brian Dunning Graphic Design Manager
Kevin O’Brien Marketing & Graphics Coordinator
Mark San Filippo Ticket Services Director & Database Administrator
Stephanie Strand Audience Services Manager
Janice Bernal Box Office Manager
Bryan Martin Box Office Manager
Zack Hamra Box Office Assistant Manager
Kaitlin Huwe, Richard Martinez, Cameron Reck, Celia Rivera, Celeste Russi, Alyssa Tyson Box Office Staff
COMMUNICATIONS
Katy Sweet, Pam Giangregorio, Anna Yan Katy Sweet & Associates Public Relations
Sue Fleishman Consultant
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Karim Bouzzit System Administrator
FRONT OF HOUSE
Jeni Pearsons Director of Special Events
David Gerhardt Supervising House Manager
Jane Phillips Harper Deputy Supervising House Manager
Josiah Davis, Brett Donaldson, Amy Farkas, Caroline Harrison Kohler, Nathaniel Meek, Roxana Meyers, James Porter, Jonathan Schwartz House Managers
Rebecca Birstock, Kailey Bray, Christopher Caron, Taylor Cerny, Vianney Cossyleon, Taylor Dearden, Ida Herndon, Mariel Higuera, Isaac Jay, Sarah Lyddan, Aaron Newman, JoJo Nwoko, Madison Shamoun, Iain Thomas, Adam Turney, Oliver Vaughn, Cody Williams, Dennis Woullard Ushers
Rob Mersola Bar Manager and Mixologist
Manuel Mayorga Weekend Bar Manager
Adam Carr, Brenda Davidson, David Gregory, Mariel Higuera, Lyndsi LaRose, Kimberly Legg, Ryan Turner Bartenders/Event Staff
FACILITIES MANAGEMENT
Miguel del Castillo Facility Manager
Mario Santillan-Perez Custodial
Juan Carlos Umaña Cleaning Custodial
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Geffen Playhouse is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.
This project was also funded in part by the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles.
Geffen Playhouse, a not-for-profit theater company, is proudly affiliated with the University of California at Los Angeles.
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