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BOARD OF DIRECTORSBar t Roush (Chair ) / David Alvarez / Emi ly BoehmTony Cantaf io / Joan Carabin / José Rubén De LeónJoseph De Mott / Chr ist i Eanes / Rick Malone Al lan S. Ross / A lan Ut ley

FOUNDERSChris Cheever / Asia and Anthony Ciaravino / Diane and Rick Malone /Allan S. and Terri Peña Ross

THEATRE STAFF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR...................................................Kelly Roush CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTORS..................Diane Malone, Allan S. Ross DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION............................................Kacey Roye MARKETING INTERN .................................………………Tyler Dudley ARTIST/PROGRAM DESIGN............................King William Design BOX OFFICE MANAGER.........................................Florence Bunten HOUSE MANAGER ........................................................Rita Duggan

BOOKKEEPER ...............................................................Olivia Tober

NO TALKING, TEXTING OR RECORDING. PICTURES ARE PROHIBITED.... please silence your phone before the performace

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The Classic Theatre San AntonioPresents

The House on Mango StreetAdapted from Sandra Cisneros’ book by Amy Ludwig

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Directed by José Rubén De León

CAST Older Esperanza……………..……….................…………......Gypsy Pantoja Younger Esperanza………….….........................................Bella Villarreal Woman #1..................................………..............………….Maria A. Ibarra Woman#2....................................……..............……………..Eraina Porras Woman #3...................................………............………..Arianna Angeles Man #1.....................................................……………...Salvador Valadez Man #2.....................................................……………….Gabriel Sánchez Man #3........................................………….............……...Joshua Segovia AIM High Acting Intern……………..............…………….Grace Lamberson

PRODUCTION STAFF Stage Manager............................…………….............……….Kaitlin Muse Production Manager...................………………..............………John Coker Technical Director......................……………...............………….Rick Clyde Set Designer................................…...............………………..Allan S. Ross Costume Designer...................................……………………...Jodi Karjala Lighting Designer....................................…………………..Pedro Ramirez Sound Designer...........................….............………………….Rick Malone Properties Master.......................................………………..Bekka Broyles AIM High Stage Managing Intern...……...........…………..Bekka Broyles

The action takes place in a Chicago neighborhood in the mid-1960s.

There will be one 15-minute intermission

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Production Crew Set Construction…………….....................................................Rick Clyde Set Construction………............................................…….....Allan S. Ross Set Construction……………................................................ Scott Marker Board Operator………............……………………....................Scott Marker Photographer………………………………….............................Siggi Ragnar

Sandra Cisneros......................................

Sandra Cisneros is the only daughter in a family of six boys. Her family moved frequently between Chicago and Mexico City as her father took different jobs. Cisneros’ mother was her strongest positive female influence, as she encouraged Sandra to read and continue her education. Cisneros began writing poems at the age of ten, and later attended Loyola College and then the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. At Iowa she began writing about her own unique experiences instead of trying to imitate the primarily white male voices of the traditional literary canon. Cisneros is best known for The House on Mango Street and Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories. She has become a leading figure of the Chicano literary movement, and has founded both the Macondo Foundation, an association of socially engaged writers that now makes its home at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in San Antonio, and the Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation, a grant-giving institution serving Texas writers. She was Writer in Residence at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio. Currently, she lives with “many creatures, little and large,” in central Mexico.


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WHO’S WHO ..............................Arianna Angeles (Woman #3) makes her debut at the Classic Theatre of San Antonio in The House on Mango Street . This wi l l be her f i rst ro le in a professional theatre s ince graduat ing high school . She has also had roles in You Can’t Take I t With You, The 39 Steps, Once Upon a Mattress, and Mar isol .

John Coker (Product ion Manager) keeps act ive as an orchestral music ian and composer. He composed, per formed, and produced or ig inal music for Romeo Chang ( the Over t ime Theatre) , Medea ( the Classic Theatre) , and his work wi l l be heard next in the Classic ’s Spr ing product ion of Shakespeare’s The Tempest . He received his Master ’s f rom the Peabody Conser vator y of the Johns Hopkins Univers i ty.

José Rubén De León (Director) has created and per formed f ive one-man shows, f ive music t r ibutes to Lat ino composers, and recorded f ive music CDs. For the Classic Theatre, he has directed The House of Bernarda Alba , and acted in King Lear . He has sung El Corazón del Bolero: A Tr ibute to Bolero Composers , and UNFORGETTABLE: A Tr ibute to Nat King Cole , which was named one of the best theatre product ions of 2016 by the San Antonio Express-News. De León makes his home in San Antonio, where he remains act ive in p laywr i t ing, per forming, and recording. He is the founder and ar t ist ic d i rector of Teatro Farol i to , a b i l ingual and Spanish- language theatre company.


WHO’S WHO..............................Maria A . Ibarra (Woman #1) is the Director of Theatre at Edison High School . Ibarra played Magdalena in the Classic Theatre’s product ion of The House of Bernalda Alba , and Maria Cel ia in Two Sisters and a Piano at The Playhouse San Antonio. She has wr i t ten, per formed, and directed numerous plays local ly and nat ional ly, inc luding SCARS , a mult imedia ref lect ion on her personal l i fe exper ience as a cancer sur v ivor. An advocate of the ar ts , Ibarra is honored to be a par t of the cast , and remembers feel ing that her own stor y was val idated af ter reading the book The House on Mango Street as a young g i r l many moons ago. Mi l gracias to a l l involved.

Jodi Kar jala (Costume Designer) is the costume designer and costumer at Tr in i ty Univers i ty, where she has been teaching s ince 2000. Jodi has designed many shows previously with the Classic Theatre, inc luding Arms and the Man , The House of Bernarda Alba, King Lear , and Bl i the Spir i t , to name a few. Jodi wi l l be the resident costume designer for the Classic for our 2016-17 season. Jodi holds an MFA in Stage Design f rom Nor thwestern Univers i ty, Evanston, IL .

Rick Malone (Sound Design) is a co- founder of the Classic Theatre of San Antonio. He has designed award-winning sound and l ight ing for Jump-Star t Per formance Co. , the F i re l ight Players, the Sheldon Vexler Theatre, Extended Run Players, the Playhouse San Antonio, the Magik Theatre’s Shakespeare in the Park, the Summer Company, the Renaissance Gui ld, the Church Theatre, and the Classic Theatre of San Antonio. His sound designs have been selected for d isplay at the Prague Quadrennial Exposi t ion of Scenography in 2003, 2007 and 2011 and for the Gal ler y at the World Stage Design 2005 (Toronto) and 2009 (Seoul) . His sound design for Classic ’s The Firebugs was selected for exhibi t ion at the World Stage Design 2013 in Cardi f f , Wales.

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WHO’S WHO continued..............................Kaitlin Muse (Stage Manager) has stage-managed The Seagull, Santaland Diaries, and The Merchant of Venice for the Classic Theatre. She also served as the Classic’s lighting designer for The Celestials of Broadway, Medea, and Santaland Diaries. She has designed lights for many other shows in San Antonio, including Water by the Spoonful, End of the Rainbow, and Dead Man’s Cell Phone at the Cellar Theatre, and Romeo Chang at the Overtime Theatre. She won an ATAC Globe Award for her lighting design in The Mystery of Edwin Drood at the Playhouse San Antonio in 2015. Most recently, she was the lighting designer for A Chorus Line at the Playhouse. She also teaches dance at Trilogy Dance Center, and has performed as a dancer/actress in both Texas and California.

Gypsy A. Pantoja (Older Esperanza) teaches lower and middle school theatre at Keystone School. Theatre credits include: Hedda Gabler, Much Ado About Nothing, The House of Bernarda Alba, King Lear, Waiting for Godot (costumer) and Buried Child (costumer) for the Classic Theatre of San Antonio. Water by the Spoonful, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Santos y Santos, Trojan Women (director/costumer) and The Little Dog Laughed (costumer) for the Playhouse San Antonio. Gypsy holds a BA in Theatre from the University of the Incarnate Word and an MFA in Acting from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Eraina Seri Porras (Woman #2) was born in El Paso, Tejas, and has worked in various theaters (Zach Theatre, the Sheldon Vexler Theatre, the Playhouse San Antonio, Jumpstart, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center) around San Antonio as an actor, educator, playwright and as a backstage crew member. She is a founding member of F.I.R.E. Co. and holds a B.A. in Theater Arts with two minors in Education and Psychology from the University of the Incarnate Word. The House on Mango Street will be her debut at the Classic Theatre. Some of her favorite roles have been Little One in Rapid Eye Movement, Carolina in Enfrascada, Juana in Ninos Santos, and Councilwoman in Chatos’s Bridge. She also served as light board operator in Dead Man’s Cellphone.

“Al final del dia, podemos aguantar mucho mas de lo que pensamos que podemos (At the end of the day, we can endure

much more than we think we can).” - Frida Kahlo


WHO’S WHO..............................Pedro C. Ramírez (Lighting Designer) is the Facilities Manager/Technical Director at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in San Antonio. He received his MFA in Lighting Design at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and received his BFA in Fine Arts/Photography from the University of Texas, San Antonio. Pedro has served as a theatre consultant in sound, lighting, and stagecraft for the Edgewood ISD Theatre of Performing Arts, and has numerous credits as a scenic designer. Pedro recently designed lights for The Seagull at the Classic Theatre. Other lighting design credits include work at Our Lady of the Lake University, the University of Arizona Department of Theatre, the University of Texas - Austin, Six Flags Fiesta Texas, and the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts in Urbana, Illinois.

Allan S. Ross (Scenic Designer) is a founder and Co-Artistic Director of the Classic Theatre. For the Classic, he has been the scenic designer for The Glass Menagerie, She Stoops to Conquer, Uncle Vanya, Blithe Spirit, Hedda Gabler, The Importance of Being Earnest, Proof, The Merchant of Venice, Medea, and Santaland Dairies. Mr. Ross has been honored by ATAC with 20+ Globe Awards, including their highest award, the Jasmina Wellinghoff Award for Outstanding Contributions to Theatre in San Antonio. He was also honored by SATCO as a San Antonio Living Legend.

Gabriel Lee Sanchez (Man #2) is pretty new to the San Antonio stage, but is no stranger to the world of live theater. He just finished a run at the Classic Theatre as Eddie Brock in Born Yesterday. His credits span the small towns of East Texas, Dallas, and a few showcases in New York. He would like to thank José Rubén De León and the Classic Theatre for trusting him in this role.

Joshua Segovia (Man #3) received his BFA from Texas State University. He is proud to be performing at the Classic Theatre. Previously he has the pleasure to work with Teatro Campesino members Ruben Gonzales and Kinan Valdez, and was briefly a Next Stage Ensemble member at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. He left New Jersey early to be a caregiver for his mother, to whom he dedicates this performance. Without her, none of this would be possible. He would also like to thank Jeremy O. Torres for all his love and guidance, his director José, and all his fellow cast and crew for their dedication and vulnerability.


WHO’S WHO continued..............................Salvador Valadez (Man #1) received his BA in Drama in 1997 from Our Lady of the Lake Univers i ty and is now teaching Theatre Ar ts at Dr iscol l Middle School . Some of h is credits include roles in Mamma’s Boyz as Shine, The Tempest as Antonio, Tar tuf fe as Tar tuf fe, Trojan Women as Tal thybius, Lydia as Alvaro, and in King of Shadows as Er ic . Most recent ly, h is credits include Chato’s Br idge as Chale, Cuero as Cuero and La Ruby Red y El Big Bird as Halcon.

Bel la Vi l larreal (Young Esperanza) , 12, is a 7th grader at the Advanced Learning Academy downtown. She has previously per formed as Al ice in Al ice in Wonder land , the Cat in the Hat in Suessical , and the Fair y Godmother in Cinderel la , a l l under the magnif icent d i rect ion of Hol ly Cl i f ford at Bonham Academy. Bel la has also per formed in p lays at the Conser vator y ( the Playhouse) , Hairspray at the Woodlawn, and mult ip le ro les at Magik Theatre.

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Deborah Martin & the San Antonio Express-NewsEnrique LapeteguiSan Antonio CurrentSiggi Ragnar/sRagnar FotografiPhillip May and Palco SpecialtiesTerri Peña RossBekka BroylesTyler DudleyGrace Lamberson


sRagnar Fotografi is Siggi Ragnar: an internationally recognized award winning photographer whose talents transcend a broad spectrum of services for subject matter ranging from the performing arts to architecture and industry.

“I focus on finding the artistic aspects that are evident in and encompass today and tomorrow’s visual media. I offer theater, performance art, dance, model headshots, actor head shots, talent photography, architectural, aerial photography, real estate, luxury real-estate and very specialized capture for online marketing and listing of high end properties and ranches. My service area encompasses all of Texas with concentration in San Antonio, Austin, Fredericksburg, Boerne, Dominion and Hill Country.”-Siggi Ragnar

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