Mainstage Playbill - Florida Studio Theatre · Patsy Cline..... Meredith Jones* Season Underwriters Dennis & Graci McGillicuddy, Arnold Simonsen & Ronda Montminy, ... Darin Songbook,

Richard Hopkins, Producing Artistic Director

This project is sponsored in part by the Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture and the State of Florida.

Mainstage Playbill

Always...Patsy ClineCreated and originally directed by Ted Swindley - based on a true story

Louise Seger ....................................................... Susan Greenhill *Patsy Cline ..............................................................Meredith Jones*

Season UnderwritersDennis & Graci McGillicuddy,

Arnold Simonsen & Ronda Montminy, and Anne H.S. Nethercott

Show Co-ProducersGulf Coast Community Foundation

Scenic DesignersIsabel & Moriah Curley-Clay

Costume DesignerSusan Angermann

Lighting DesignerThom Beaulieu

CAST(Listed in alphabetical order)

Directed by: Kate Alexander

Any taping, filming, recording or broadcast of this play (musical or otherwise) is strictly prohibited

Stage Manager: Roy Johns*

Sound DesignerThom Korp

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

Music DirectorDr. Justin P. Cowan

Drums ............................................................................ Tony BrunoPiano ...................................................................Dr. Justin P. CowanBass Guitar .................................................................... Chuck DavisSteel & Rhythm Guitar ...................................................... Skip Ellis

BAND(Listed in alphabetical order)

Author ................................................................................Ted SwindleyAuthor’s Representative .......................................................Joan KovatsBusiness Management ......................................................Melanie ClarkOriginal Music Director .......................................................Vicki MastersBand and Vocal Orchestrations ............ August Eriksmoen, Tony MiglioreLegal Counsel ........ Clair G. Burrill, Richard Garmise, Sawnie R. Aldredge

Licensed by the family and estate of Patsy Cline. All rights reserved. Original cast album available on MCA. Musical clearances secured and used by permission. For licensing information on Always...Patsy Cline and all Ted Swindley shows, visit

www.tedswindleyproductions.com or contact Joan Kovats, (203) 978-0102. For merchandise, please visit www.alwayspatsycline.

SUSAN GREENHILL (Louise Seger) FST: The Exonerated, Becoming Dr. Ruth, Chapatti, Shirley Valentine, Dinner With Friends (SRQ Award), …and LA is Burning, Molly

Sweeney, Don’t Dress For Dinner. Broadway: Crimes of the Heart. Off-Broadway: Primary Stages, Culture Project, Playwrights Horizon, Actors’ Studio Theatre. Regional: Clean House (Acclaim Award), Sideman (Barrymore Award), The Glass Menagerie, 4000 Miles. TV/Film: The Good Wife, Law & Order, Chappelle Show, Guiding Light, Clarrissa Explains It All, Pecker (John Waters director), Italian Movie, Noon Blue Apples (Sundance Festival), Bargain on Hale Street.

MEREDITH JONES (Patsy Cline) was last seen in FST’s 2017 Cabaret production of Gypsies, Tramps, and Theives. Since graduating from Emerson College with a BFA in musical theatre, she has

performed in numerous regional theatres across the country. Most recently she was seen at Theatre Raleigh in her regional debut of Vanities as Mary. Favorite credits include: Julie Jordan in Carousel, Julia Gulia in Wedding Singer, and Baker’s Wife in Into the Woods.

TONY BRUNO (Drums) is honored and proud of his 30-year work relationship with FST. Recently, Tony appeared in FST’s record breaking Piano Men, as well as FST’s 2017 Summer Mainstage production of Burt & Me. He has drummed for over 60 different musicals across the country, completed 15 national tours, and performed in

some of the most prestigious concert halls in the world. A career not limited to show drumming, Tony has shared stage and recording studio with many true greats in the music world; BB King, The Tokens, Junior Watson, June Garber, Benny E King, and Dick Hyman, to name a few.CHUCK DAVIS (Bass Guitar) started his musical career playing guitar in rock bands, Top 40 cover bands, and show bands. He was the lead guitarist for “The Happenings,” “See You in September” (1966), and “I’ve Got Rhythm” (1967). He shared the stage with Gloria Gaynor (“I Will Survive”), Lou Rawls, Little Anthony, Johnny Maestro and The Brooklyn Bridge, Fabian, Bobby Rydell, Lou Christie, Martha Reeves and The Vandella’s, and The Shirelles. A long time resident of NY, he built a recording studio in the Hudson Valley where he produced and recorded local artists. Most recently, Chuck was the guitarist for the FST Cabaret show Piano Men and The Toxic Avenger at Venice Theatre.SKIP ELLIS (Steel & Rhythm Guitar) has been a part of the area music scene since 1970, as a player, teacher, and retail music store owner. He discovered theater in the early 80‘s and has been a part of numerous productions all over the west coast, playing lead/rhythm guitar as well as pedal steel guitar for most of the area theaters, including FST. He’s excited to be back at FST as a ‘Bodacious Bobcat’ once again, presenting Patsy’s great tunes to theatergoers.KATE ALEXANDER (Director) is the Associate Director At-Large of FST and the Founder of the FST Theatre School with its acting method of training. Ms. Alexander has directed numerous productions and premieres on the FST stages including The Things They Carried; Native Gardens; Heisenberg; The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey; brownsville song (b-side for

ARTIST PROFILES

ARTIST PROFILEStray); Clever Little Lies; Alabama Story; Outside Mullingar; Over the River and Through the Woods; Chapatti; Dancing Lessons; Becoming Dr. Ruth; Freud’s Last Session; Thurgood; South Beach Babylon; The Columnist; Talley’s Folly; Jericho; Next Fall; The Savannah Disputation; Ghost-Writer; Two Jews Walk into a War...; I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change; Sylvia; Shotgun; The Miamians; Brooklyn Boy; The Exonerated; Wit; Proof; Lobby Hero; and Ten Unknowns. Ms. Alexander has also been a resident actress for over 25 years. Some of her leading roles were in the plays: Edward Albee’s The Goat; Filumena; Master Class; Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women, The Occupant, The Play About the Baby; Golda’s Balcony; and Taking Shakespeare. Ms. Alexander is the recipient of numerous acting, directing, and public service awards, including FAER, She Knows Where She’s Going Award (Girls, Inc.), The Woman of Light Award, National Council of Jewish Women Award, The Woman of Power Award, the Sarasota County Arts Leadership Award, Education Award, Sarasota Manatee Jewish Federation, The Unity Award, and most recently, the One World Award. Ms. Alexander leads the FST Forums Series and developed the Blue Butterfly Theatre Program, a program for teens suffering from grief through loss. She created the Art of The Gesture program at Ringling College of Animation and is the co-author of The Animated Short, with Karen Sullivan, now in its 2nd edition.

ROY JOHNS (Stage Manager) is pleased to be back for another season at FST. He has had an exciting and varied career both on stage and behind the scenes from Tokyo Disneyland to the White House. Past credits at FST include: Honor Killing, Native Gardens; Once; Doublewide; The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey;

Burt & Me; Rich Girl; brownsville song (b-side for tray); Million Dollar Quartet; The God of Isaac; The Roommate; The Fabulous Lipitones; Alabama Story; Outside Mullingar; One Man, Two Guvnors; The Hound of the Baskervilles; Chapatti; Hairspray; and Taking Shakespeare.DR. JUSTIN P. COWAN (Music Director and Pianist) NY Regional: West Side Story, The Producers, Hairspray, Cabaret, Annie Get Your Gun. Other Regional: Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George (North Carolina Summer Rep), Damn Yankees, Avenue Q, Gypsy, Guys and Dolls, Legally Blonde, How To Succeed... (Ocean State Theatre Company). South Pacific, Pump Boys and Dinettes, Dirty Blonde, A Christmas Carol (Triad Stage). [Title of Show], The Fantasticks (Florida Rep). Little Shop Of Horrors, Something’s Afoot, A Grand Night For Singing (The Schoolhouse Theatre). Caroline, or Change, Heathers, Hairspray, Into the Woods, Monty Python’s: Spamalot, Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play, A Year With Frog And Toad, Dani Girl, Cabaret (UNCG School of Theatre). Church Basement Ladies, The Winter Wonderettes (Prather Entertainment Group). Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Das Barbecü, Songs For A New World, The 25th Annual...Spelling Bee (BIG ARTS Herb Strauss Theatre). DMA Musical Theatre Conducting - University of North Carolina, Greensboro.ISABEL & MORIAH CURLEY-CLAY (Scenic Designers) are award-winning scenic designers whose theatrical work can be seen on regional stages across the U.S. Recent credits include: The Magic Negro and other Blackity Blackness as told by an African American Man who also happens to be Black (Alliance Theatre); Lumberjacks in Love (Penobscott Theatre); Constellations (Horizon Theatre); Exit Strategy (Kenny Leon’s True Colors

Theatre). Past designs at FST include Honor Killing; Native Gardens; Doublewide; Rich Girl; Clever Little Lies; The God of Isaac; The Fabulous Lipitones; Alabama Story; Outside Mullingar; Butler; Taking Shakespeare; Chapatti; Inspired Lunacy; Dancing Lessons; Hairspray; and One Man, Two Guvnors. Isabel and Moriah’s designs were recently featured in American Theater Magazine’s Roll Call, 7 Theatrical People To Watch, and are both members of USA 829. SUSAN ANGERMANN (Costume Designer) began designing for Florida Studio Theatre in 1993 for the WRITE A PLAY production of The Emperor’s New Clothes. She has designed for the Mainstage, Stage III, Cabaret, and other WRITE A PLAY productions. Among recent productions are Honor Killing, Once, Robin Hood, The Exonerated, Stalking the Bogeyman, Yesterday, Older Than Dirt, Piano Men, and Chapatti.THOM BEAULIEU (Lighting Designer) is an award-winning lighting and sound designer. His work has been experienced throughout the eastern US including Honor Killing, Once, Blue Suede Shoes, Mack the Knife: The Bobby Darin Songbook, Native Gardens, and Burt & Me (Florida Studio Theatre); The Waltz, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, Carrie: the Musical, and The Lord of the Flies (The Winnipesaukee Playhouse); A Chorus Line, Floyd Collins, Sweet Charity, and Singin’ in the Rain (Aurora Theatre). He holds a BFA in Drama from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama, and a MS in Physics.

THOMAS KORP (Sound Designer) a former FST intern, is excited to be in his second season as staff. Previous projection work includes Grounded and The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey. Sound design credits include: Honor Killing, Native Gardens, How to Use a Knife, Once, The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey, The Columnist,

Talley’s Folley, A Chorus Line, Spamalot, and The West Side Waltz. Mixing Credits: Next to Normal, Das Barbecü, Smokey Joe’s Café, The World Goes Round, Tango: Buenos Aires, We Will Rock You. Sound engineer with Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines 2014 – 2016TED SWINDLEY (Author) is internationally known as writer and director of the popular musical, Always…Patsy Cline. He is the founding artistic director of Stages Rep in Houston, Texas. He was also named to Esquire Magazine’s register of outstanding Americans in the arts and letters. Mr. Swindley was the recipient of the Los Angeles Dramalogue award for outstanding direction of Carnal Knowledge by Jules Feiffer. Currently, he is president of Ted Swindley Productions, Inc., a theatrical licensing and consulting company, and continues his 30 year career writing plays and musicals, consulting and mentoring playwrights, as well as directing plays for various theatres throughout the U.S. and abroad. Mr. Swindley is an active member of The Dramatists Guild of America and Stage Directors and Choreographers.

SPECIAL THANKS TO: Joyce Ward, Wig Master

ARTIST PROFILES

EXECUTIVE STAFFRICHARD HOPKINS (Producing Artistic Director) Mr. Hopkins is the Producing Artistic Director of Florida Studio Theatre. Mr. Hopkins has fostered the development of FST’s Mainstage and Cabaret productions. His many directing Mainstage credits include: Inspired Lunacy, The Best of Enemies, Next to Normal, Race, Ruined, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Boleros for the Disenchanted, Permanent Collection, and Metamorphoses, among numerous other plays. Mr. Hopkins led the development of FST’s Cabaret productions of Piano Men, The Prima Donnettes, Too Darn Hot, and By Gershwin. Mr. Hopkins also serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Florida Studio Theatre. This includes overseeing the creation and implementation of all FST programming, including Mainstage, Cabaret, Stage III, New Play Development, Education, and Touring. Since his arrival at FST in 1980, Mr. Hopkins has guided the theatre from a small touring company to a nationally recognized regional theatre which impacts over 200,000 adults and children annually. He created the New Play Development Program, the Cabaret Series, FST’s award-winning WRITE A PLAY Program, and he has directed the design and renovation of all FST’s theatres. Mr. Hopkins is the recipient of numerous awards including the Arts Leadership Award from the Sarasota Arts Council, the Richard G. Fallon Award for Artistic Excellence from the Florida Professional Theatres Association, and the 2012 Cultural Champion Award from the Arts and Cultural Alliance of Sarasota County. In 2016, Mr. Hopkins was awarded the Luminaire Award honoring excellence in creativity, philanthropy, advocacy, and all elements that are key to future growth of the arts in Sarasota.

REBECCA HOPKINS (Managing Director) Mrs. Hopkins serves as Managing Director for Florida Studio Theatre, and as such, is the Chief Operations Officer. Mrs. Hopkins is responsible for the oversight of FST’s Administration, including the Business Office, Development, Marketing, Box Office, Front of House, Restaurant, budgeting, and maintaining the overall quality of FST’s internal management. Nationally, Mrs. Hopkins is President of the National New Play Network and serves on the Board of Directors for the League of Resident Theatres and the Theatre Communications Group. She has been actively involved in development of FST’s Cabaret productions since her arrival in 1998. This season she is the lead developer on Blue Suede Shoes and on the development team for Mack the Knife and Shakespeare’s Greatest Hits. Previously, she was the lead developer on Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves; Older Than Dirt; Yesterday; American Pie; and Poems, Prayers, and Promises, and co-developer of Piano Men. She has been the head writer on all five Laughing Matters shows. Some of her favorite shows she helped develop include: The Prima Donnettes; That’s Life; The Wanderers; My One and Only Gershwin; Hot and Cole; Shakespeare’s Greatest Hits; The British Invasion; The Flip Side; and Outlaws and Angels. In addition, she is the founder and producer of FST Improv and the Sarasota Improv Festival. In 2012, the Arts & Cultural Alliance awarded Mrs. Hopkins the Cultural Champion Award in recognition of her many years of accomplishment and growth with Florida Studio Theatre. In 2016, Mrs. Hopkins was awarded the Luminaire Award honoring excellence in creativity, philanthropy, advocacy, and all elements that are key to future growth of the arts in Sarasota.

FST FORUMSWho Was The Real Louise Seger?by Mary Donofrio

Always...Patsy Cline is the story of an unlikely connection between Cline and Louise Seger, one of her biggest fans. While many people know about Patsy’s life and career, Louise lived a fascinating life as well. The real Louise Seger was born on May 31, 1932 in Jackson, Mississippi to Fred and Ruby Everett, and developed a love for music thanks to her step-father, Dick Alexander, who was a popular bandleader and musician along the Gulf Coast. At seventeen, Louise was voted Miss Biloxi. As a part of her prize, she went on tour with the popular country radio show “Louisiana Hayride,” even striking up a friendship with Grand Ole Opry legend Little Jimmy Dickens. After graduating college, Louise moved to Houston. She worked a variety of jobs from the oil industry, modeling, singing, and even owned a nightclub in Houston for a time. A mother of two, Louise met Patsy not long after her divorce from her first husband. As immortalized in Always...Patsy Cline, they remained in touch for the rest of Cline’s life through phone calls and letters, with Seger often getting calls in the late hours of the evening. In 1961, when Patsy got into the car accident that left her in the hospital for a month, Louise wrote her every single day. In an interview with Country Weekly Magazine, she recalled the last time she saw Cline after another performance in Houston. “I told her I was getting married and moving to Brazil,” said Seger. “She said, ‘Louise, you’ve got to be crazy.’ I said, ‘Yeah, you might be right.’ The last glimpse I have of Patsy in my mind was after the Houston show,” Seger continued. “She held up a bottle of bourbon, winked and said, ‘I’ll see you, hoss.’” Louise moved to a remote area in Brazil, and when her impending marriage fell through, she stayed there with her children, enrolling them in school there. It wasn’t until she heard of Cline’s death that she made plans to return back to the States. Louise never shied away from talking about her relationship with Patsy, and gave many interviews over the years. Always...Patsy Cline was written based on the stories she told author Ellis Nassour for his book Honky Tonk Angel: The Intimate Story of Patsy Cline. Louise passed away on October 28, 2004, and is remembered fondly by many friends and fans.

Susan Greenhill as Louise Seger and Meredith Jones as Patsy Cline. Photo by Matthew Holler.

FST FORUMS

Nashville to New York by Rebecca Leap For many musicals, success is defined by a Broadway marquee, but Broadway is far from the only place a show can thrive. Few musicals demonstrate this quite so well as Always… Patsy Cline, which began its life in the heartland of America and spent nearly a decade gaining steam before finding the lights of New York City.

In 1988, Ted Swindley was the Artistic Director of Stages Repertory Theatre in Houston, and he desperately needed a show to put on his stage. After happening upon an interview with Texas housewife Louise Seger, he discovered not only a Cline connection to the Houston area, but the heart of a show that would one day capture hearts from Atlanta to Australia.

The original production, which hit the stage in October of that year, was a modest one-act cabaret performance, but the response from local audiences was anything but. The play was a bona-fide hit with local audiences, though Swindley was dubious of any broader appeal. “I thought the show would be one with a little local appeal for Houston audiences,” Swindley told Houston Press in 2013, “but [I] soon found out that Patsy is a huge star and the story of her friendship with Louise is universal.” Just how universal, though, he could have never guessed.

Swindley returned to his script two years later at a theatre in South Carolina, when it began to take shape as the

full-length musical audiences know today. After adding ten

new songs and an act break, audiences raved as much as ever. With so much success, Swindley dedicated himself to the show, which caught the eye of executives from the Grand Ole Opry, who caught a performance of the show in Atlanta.

Following a one-night-only performance at the Grand Ole Opry House in 1993, a full-scale production was mounted in Nashville a year later. The Nashville production received an encore run the following summer, while the rest of the country was also catching on to Swindley’s sleeper hit. The Denver Center for the Performing Arts opened the show at their Garner Galleria Theatre in August of 1995. Chicago’s Northlight Theatre began their own run in 1996. And finally, on June 24, 1997, Always… Patsy Cline found its Off-Broadway home at the Variety Arts Theatre, where it received rave reviews and ran for 192 performances.

In the twenty-plus years since Always... Patsy Cline closed Off-Broadway, it has become a staple in regional theatres all over the world. From Australia to the UK to right here in Sarasota, FL, Seger and Cline’s friendship and Patsy’s timeless tunes continue to enchant audiences, and will keep casting their spell for years to come.

Meredith Jones as Patsy Cline. Photo by Matthew Holler.

SONG LISTHonky Tonk Merry Go Round .................................................. Frank Simon/Stan GardnerAcuff Rose Music, Inc.

Back in Babys Arms .............................................................................. Bob MontgomeryTalmont Music, Inc.

Anytime ....................................................................................... Herbert Happy LawsonUnichappel Music, Inc.

Walkin’ After Midnight ...................................................................Don Hecht/Alan BlockAcuff Rose Music, Inc.

I Fall to Pieces .................................................................... Hank Cochran/Harlan HowardSony/Tree Publishing, Inc.

It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels ...................................................... JD MillerPeer International, Co.

Come On In (And Sit Right Down) ......................................................VF “Pappy” StewartAcuff Rose Music, Inc.

Your Cheatin’ Heart ............................................................................... Hank Williams, Sr.Acuff Rose Music, Inc./Warner Chappell

Stupid Cupid....................................................................Neil Sedaka/Howard GreenfieldEMI Music Publishing

You Belong to Me .............................................................................King/Prince/StewartRidgeway Music

San Antonio Rose ..............................................................................................Bob WillisBourne Co.

Lovesick Blues ................................................................................. Irving Mills/C. FriendEmi Music Publishing

Sweet Dreams ................................................................................................ Don GibsonAcuff Rose Music, Inc.

SONG LISTShe’s Got You ............................................................................................ Hank ConchranSony/Tree Publishing Co.

Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray ................................................Eddie Miller/WS Stevenson Acuff Rose Music, Inc.

Crazy ............................................................................................................Willie NelsonSony/Tree Publishing

Seven Lonely Days ............................... Earl Schuman/Walden Schuman/Marshall BrownMusic Sales, Corp.

If I Could See The World (Through The Eyes of a Child) ....... Sammy Masters/Richard PopeMCA Publishing

Just a Closer Walk ..........................................................................................(Traditional)

Blue Moon of Kentucky .................................................................................. Bill MonroePeer International, Inc.

Gotta Lotta Rhythm ................................................. Barbara Ann Vaughn/WS StevensonAcuff Rose Music, Inc.

Shake Rattle and Roll ................................................................................ Carles CalhounUnichappel Music, Inc.

Faded Love ....................................................................................... John Wills/Bob WillsWarner Chappell

How Great Thou Art .......................................................................................(Traditional)

True Love .........................................................................................................Cole PorterWarner Chappell

If You’ve Got Leavin’ On Your Mind ......................................... Wayne Walker/Webb PiercePolygram International

Bill Bailey ......................................................................................................(Traditional)

GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION Together with its donors, Gulf Coast Community Foundation transforms our region through bold and proactive philanthropy. Gulf Coast is a public charity that was created in 1995 through the sale of the Venice Hospital. Since then, we have become the philanthropic home of more than 650 families who have established charitable funds here, and we have invested over $260 million in grants in the areas of health and human services, civic and economic development, education, arts and culture, and the environment. Learn more at GulfCoastCF.org

DENNIS & GRACI MCGILLICUDDY FST is important to us because we believe so strongly in the transformative power of the arts. For close to 30 years now, we have been so fortunate to experience first-hand how that transformative power works its magic in the hands of an organization that is not only experienced and dedicated but so highly skilled in their craft. The values of the theater and its leadership, as reflected in its mission, and as manifested in its work, whether it be on the mainstage, in the cabaret, in its education and community outreach programs: these are values that we so strongly believe in. As a consequence, it is a privilege for us to be a part of, and supportive of this great theater.

ANNE H.S. NETHERCOTT When asked to define giving, Anne said: “My mother used to say the best way to find you is to lose yourself, by focusing on the needs of others rather than on oneself.” So giving has always been an important family value, which in childhood was reinforced by the community experience of surviving the Depression. Anne is proud to be a supporter of FST.

ARNOLD SIMONSEN & RONDA MONTMINY Florida Studio Theatre is far ahead of any theatre in Sarasota. We try to see every play as the actors are truly professional. Richard Hopkins deserves much credit for the success of FST.

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FST COMPANYBOARD OF TRUSTEES

President ............................................... Dennis McGillicuddyVice-President ............................................. Richard HopkinsSecretary/Treasurer .......................................Jennifer MichellTrustee ..............................................................Gaele BartholdTrustee ................................................Carol Poteat BuchananTrustee ...............................................................Georgia CourtTrustee .......................................................... Patricia CourtoisTrustee ................................................................Jeff HotchkissTrustee .............................................................Robert IsraeloffTrustee ..............................................................Barbara LupoffTrustee ................................Chief Judge Charles E. Williams

EXECUTIVE STAFFProducing Artistic Director ....................... Richard HopkinsManaging Director ......................................Rebecca Hopkins

ARTISTIC STAFFAssociate Director At-Large .........................Kate AlexanderDirector of Artistic Operations ........................Greg LondonCasting/Hiring Coordinator .......................... James AshfordResident Pianist ..................................................... Jim ProsserAssociate Artist ................................................. Jason CannonAssociate Artist .......................................Catherine RandazzoDirector of Improvisation ......................................Will LueraAssistant to the Artistic Director .....................Doris Iemolo

PRODUCTION STAFFProduction Manager ............................................. Bruce PriceMainstage Stage Manager ...................................... Roy JohnsTechnical Director ...........................................Mike SchwentCostume Shop Manager ...........................Adrienne WebberSound Supervisor .................................................Thom KorpProps/Paint Supervisor .............................. Kristine KreutzerLead Carpenter ................................................. Marco Acosta

ADMINISTRATIVE STAFFGeneral Manager .............................................Jill ZakrzewskiDirector of IT .................................................... Clarke WeigleBusiness Manager .......................................Carmen GonzalezBusiness Office Associate. ......................................Bart Dolce Business Office Associate ................................David WallaceAsst. to the Managing Dir ..........................Phyllis SilvermanFacilities Manager .......................................Joseph Goepfrich Facilities Technician .............................. Mark Quackenbush Company Manager ...........................................Luke JohnsonDirector of Marketing .....................................Becca JenningsPublic Relations Associate ................................. Lydia BaxterDigital Marketing Associate. ............................ Emily Blazek Marketing Assistant. ............................................ Sarah HaleyDirector of Indiv. Giving ................ Melody Mora-ShihadehDevelopment Associate .................................Samus HaddadDevelopment Associate ..................................Melanie SlusarPatron Services Manager ................................. Kelsey Wehde Box Office Manager ......................................... Ryan SimpsonAsst. Box Office Manager ...................................Gigi DelperoAsst. Box Office Manager ..........................Katelyn McKelleyAsst. Box Office Manager ...........................Noah ScheibmeirEvents Coord/Asst. Box Office Manager ....Matthew QuickRestaurant Manager .............................................. Tom CurryRestaurant Manager ..........................................Karen KrasterRestaurant Manager ........................................... Josh RodoskiAsst. Restaurant Manager .................................. Kristy PlumReceptionist/ Volunteer Coord ....................... Joan O’Dowd

EDUCATION & TOURSDirector of Children’s Theatre .....................Caroline KaiserDirector of Education ...............................Christine HopkinsEducation Administrator .................................Pamela SmithTeaching Artist/YPF Coordinator ...................Adam Ratner Education Group Sales Assoc ......................Hannah BagnallTeaching Artist .....................................................Denee Lortz

COMMUNITY RESOURCE GROUP

AUDIENCE ENRICHMENT GROUP

OUTSIDE ASSISTANCEHouse Counsel ................................................. John PattersonFacility Custodian .....................................Carlos De Oliveira...............................................Confidence Cleaning CompanyCaretaker ................................................................ Doctor Nik

INTERN PROGRAMActing Apprentice ...............................................Kayla FainerActing Apprentice ............................................. Jabri JohnsonActing Apprentice ................................................Erin PaxtonActing Apprentice .............................................. Liam TannerDevelopment Intern ......................................... Jordan FaddisDirecting Intern ................................................... Meg GilbertLiterary Intern .................................................Mary DonofrioLiterary Intern ..............................................Thomas GalloglyLiterary Intern ....................................................Rebecca LeapLiterary Intern ................................................ Jordan OrlandoProd/Lighting Intern .........................................Bryce BensonProd/Scenic Intern .............................................Justen ZhangProduction Management Intern .............Kelsey PeavyhouseSummer Camp Intern ................................... Emma DensonSummer Camp Intern ....................................... Laura GuerraSummer Camp Intern ....................................Austin HowethSummer Camp Intern .....................................Priscilla PorterSummer Camp Intern .................................. Abigail TrageserSummer Camp Intern ................................Madeline WillardStage Management Intern ............................. Elliott KarlinerStage Management Intern ................................... Tanner LiasStage Management Intern ....................... Maddie LugenbeelStage Management/Sound Intern ................. David Sabbagh

Jan ColemanLarry ColemanShirley FeinMaddy FreshwaterCarol GilbertSy Goldblatt Jim GoldmanSandy GoldmanRobert GradyWendy GradyBonny Israeloff

Valerie JoelsMarie Kropp

Frank MalicksonMatty Matheson

Graci McGillicuddyIna Schnell

Alan SchottensteinLois Schottenstein

Lois StulbergCharlie Ann Syprett

Martin Taffel

Hon. Larry L. EgerTrevor HarveyThe Jewish Federation of Sarasota-ManateeGilbert KingMichéle D. RedwineDr. Eddy Regnier

Ina SchnellCommisioner Willie

Charles ShawHoward Tevlowitz

Chief Judge Charles E.Wil-liams