2016–2017 SEASON

JUN 16 – JUL 30Proscenium Stage

By Joseph Goodrich; Directed by Peter MooreAdapted from the Novel by Rex Stout

A NERO WOLFE MYSTERY

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OUR MISSION is to enrich our community by producing and presenting exceptional live theatre that touches the heart, engages the mind and delights the spirit.

Dear Park Square Patron:

Richard Cook, Artistic Director 651.767.8482 | cook@parksquaretheatre.org

C. Michael-jon Pease, Executive Director, CFRE651.767.8497 | pease@parksquaretheatre.org

Welcome to a production that has many “owners.” Some are obvious: playwright Joseph Goodrich, Rebecca Stout Bradbury and the Rex Stout estate who literally own the rights to the original novel, director Peter Moore and his amazing team of designers, cast and crew.

This play is also the fourth undertaking of our wildly enthusiastic Mystery Writers Producers’ Club who have owned it since the beginning. Started by like-minded mystery/theatre fans, club members contribute funds and journey through the production process together. This year it has grown to 40 households!

Over dinners, cocktail parties, play reading and rehearsals, they have helped bring this play to life. It was their idea that the original businessman who starts the action to find a missing son should be a woman. They sat in on early readings to identify the red herrings that didn’t work and applaud the turns of phrase that did.

You become an owner by investing your energy in this performance. While we always appreciate those who can make a tax-deductible contribution to further our mission, you become a Park Square “owner” when you invest your time, recommend a play or send us your passionate criticism.

Many thanks to all of our owners in the house today! To the newcomers: we are owned by this community, which means you (yes you).

Gratefully,

AnonymousSteve & Nancy ApfelbacherClint & Sara BeckstrandHerbert & Lynne BenzLinda BossJohn Clarey & Robyn HansenMike & Sharon ConleyKenneth & Gwen CrabbRichard Crowell &

Mary Beth BrodyTim & Susan FlahertyDavid & Genevieve FreierThe Gallagher Eversoll FamilyPhilip & Deborah Gelbach

Jewelie GrapeThe John W. Harris FamilyDavid & Ann HeiderRobert & Lucille IngramTom & Victoria KellerWes & Deidre KramerRay & Jan KrauseKent & Diane KruegerJim & Mary LaFaveElizabeth Wall LeeJames & Sharon LewisKen & Diana LewisBill Mahlum & Donna AllanJack & Jeanne Matlock

Michael Monahan & Molly O’Shaughnessy

Rosanne NathansonGeorge Perez &

Karna Johnson PetersSteve & Deb RagatzSusan RostkoskiJames Rustad & Kay ThomasJoe & Christi SchmittDan & Emily ShapiroJoan T. SmithJim & Mimi StakePaul Stembler & Mary EbertFred Wall

MYSTERY WRITERS PRODUCERS’ CLUB:This show was made possible in part by Park Square Theatre’s

The Mystery Writers Producers’ Club is a fun and devoted group of Park Square Theatre donors who help support our Mystery Show each year and stay connected to the production

year round. Find out how you can help produce next year’s production of Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery. Also, learn about our Premiere Club (Next Production:

Cardboard Piano) and Future Audiences Club (Next Production: Hamlet).

Contact Mackenzie Pitterle at 651.767.1440.

The Latin Dance Music in Act I is dedicated to the

JOHN W. HARRIS FAMILY

PLAYWRIGHTJOSEPH GOODRICH is a playwright whose work has been produced across the United States, in Canada and Australia, and published by Samuel French, Playscripts, the Padua Hills Press, and Applause Books, among others. Canada’s Vertigo Theatre produced the world premiere of his adaptation of Ellery Queen’s novel Calamity Town, which received the 2016 Calgary Theater Critics’ Award for Best

New Script. In 2014, The Red Box was commissioned by Park Square Theatre and marked the stage debut of Nero Wolfe. Panic received the 2008 Edgar Award for Best Play and was produced at Park Square in 2011.

He is the editor of Blood Relations: The Selected Letters of Ellery Queen, 1947-1950, which was nominated for Anthony and Agatha awards. His fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Noir Riot, and in two Mystery Writers of America anthologies: The Mystery Box, edited by Brad Meltzer, and The Rich and the Dead, edited by Nelson DeMille. His nonfiction has appeared in AHMM, Mystery Scene and Crimespree. In 2018, Perfect Crime Books will publish This Business of Revenge, a collection of short stories. He is an alumnus of New Dramatists and a former Calderwood Fellow at the MacDowell Colony. Born in Minnesota, he survived four years in Los Angeles, and now lives in New York City.

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on the PROSCENIUM STAGE

Director ..................................................................Peter MooreAssistant Director .................................................. Sophie PeytonScenic Designer .....................................................Rick PolenekCostume Designer ................................................. Sara WilcoxLight Designer .......................................................Michael P. KittelSound Designer .....................................................Anita KellingProperties Designer ...............................................Robert “Bobbie” SmithFight Choreographer .............................................Brandon EwaldChoreographer .......................................................Austene VanStage Manager ....................................................... Laura Topham*Assistant Stage Manager ......................................Charles Fraser*Assistant Stage Manager ...................................... Samantha Diekman

CASTNero Wolfe ............................................................. E.J. Subkoviak*Archie Goodwin .....................................................Derek DirlamInspector Cramer ..................................................Michael Paul Levin* Fritz/Tom Irwin ...................................................... Jim PoundsDol Bonner/Suki Molloy .......................................Am’Ber MontgomeryPeter Hays/Johnny Keems ....................................Brandon EwaldMrs. Herrold/Franny Irwin/Mrs. Arbuthnot.........Austene Van*Delia Brandt/Rita Arkoff .......................................Marisa B. TejedaPat Degan/Morgue Attendant ..............................Don MaloneyAlbert Breyer/Ralph Arkoff ....................................Paul ReyburnAlbert Breyer/Ralph Arkoff Understudy ................Brian P. Joyce

TIME PERIOD/SETTING: May 22-28, 1956 The office of Nero Wolfe’s Brownstone at 918 W. 35th Street, and other locations on the Island of Manhattan.

PERFORMANCE TIME: The performance will run approximately

2 hours, 5 minutes, including one 20-minute intermission.

Copies of the novels and stories of Rex Stout are available from Bantam Books.

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

** Member, Stage Directors and Choreographers Society

Park Square Theatre is a member of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the American theatre.

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The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited.

As a courtesy to our actors and those around you, please DEACTIVATE all PHONES and ELECTRONIC DEVICES.

On Wednesday evenings, the role of Albert Breyer/Ralph Arkoff will be played by Understudy Brian P. Joyce

By Joseph Goodrich; Adapted from the Novel by Rex StoutA NERO WOLFE MYSTERY

Michael Monahan & Molly O’Shaughnessy

Rosanne NathansonGeorge Perez &

Karna Johnson PetersSteve & Deb RagatzSusan RostkoskiJames Rustad & Kay ThomasJoe & Christi SchmittDan & Emily ShapiroJoan T. SmithJim & Mimi StakePaul Stembler & Mary EbertFred Wall

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PERSPECTIVE

Rex Stout was among a handful of authors in the pre-World War II era to document the grimy underbelly of the American dream, and his six dozen works are cited along with Dashiell Hammett’s and Raymond Chandler’s as among the most influential of the century. The “pulp” genre had inauspicious beginnings in the nineteenth century, as writers in newly urbanized environments poured out sordid crime stories printed on cheap paper (thus the name). The form demonstrated (and exacerbated) a tenacious anxiety that cities were havens of evil filled with dens of iniquity run by vile sinners. (It would come to be known as “hardboiled,” like an egg cooked so long it’s tough on the outside and good luck getting in.)

The genre has been criticized in recent years for its celebration of half-drunk, perpetually penniless carousing bachelors. (From Chandler’s The Long Goodbye: “Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl’s clothes off.”) Such casual misogyny has given rise to queer readings – Freud would have much to say about so many men and oh so many guns. Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin are markedly kinder (and more sober) than Hammett’s Continental Op and Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, but the duo still revel in the muck of humanity. Like other gumshoes, Wolfe and Goodwin will find trouble when trouble doesn’t find them first. (It usually does.)

Perhaps the most distinctive (and parodied) aspect of hardboiled fiction is its language: euphemisms, sharp turns in logic, extended metaphors that can be sharp or languorous but

always precise. From Chandler: “He snorted and hit me in the solar plexus.” From Hammett: “I haven’t laughed so much over anything since the hogs ate my kid brother.” And, of course, Nero Wolfe: “I have no talents. I have genius or nothing.” Such conflations and contradictions suggest a world collapsing, a blurring of good and evil, the rise of an anti-hero – and not a small amount of delight in the mounting rubble.

The genre’s glee with the unseemly parts of human nature – boundless greed, lust, and corruption – would be quickly tempered. The cloying normalcy of I Love Lucy, Leave It to Beaver, and The Andy Griffith Show was a salve after the devastation of the Depression and World War II. By the 1960s, readers had turned away from one of America’s most dominant literary genres as political turmoil demanded more urgent forms. But sleuths are still sleuthing – and not just Garrison Keillor’s Guy Noir. Robert Mosley’s Easy Rawlins and Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch tangle with evil with the kind of lazy indignation that kept Philip Marlowe soaked in gin. Sue Grafton’s alphabet soup and Gillian Flynn’s recent novels have enhanced the form with women crime-solvers who’d rather be home alone, and probably in the dark. They’re all (mostly) welcome reminders that we still need unlikely heroes. Or, as Nero tells Archie in The Red Box, “I cannot remake the universe, and must therefore put up with this one.”

—Matt DiCintio

Matt DiCintio holds a PhD in Drama from Tufts. He works at Boston University and teaches at Emerson College.

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official selection Training B.A., Theatre Arts, Bethel College Upcoming Projects Theatre in the Round (as Director): Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None

MICHAEL PAUL LEVIN*Inspector CramerPark Square The Diary of Anne Frank, Of Mice and Men, The Red Box, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, August: Osage County,

The Sisters Rosensweig, The Soul of Gershwin Representative Theatre Illusion Theater: Bill W. & Dr. Bob; Actor’s Theater of MN: Sleuth; History Theatre: The Immigrant; St. Croix Valley: My Fair Lady; Mixed Blood Theatre: The Boys Next Door; Paul Bunyan Playhouse: I Ought to Be in Pictures TV/Film Thin Ice, Hiding Victoria, I Am Not A Serial Killer, In an Instant, The Jingle Dress, Don’t Blow It Training American Academy of Dramatic Arts, West Accolades/Other Morrow-Heus Screenwriting Fellowship, Fargo-Moorhead Community Theatre Playwright Award Upcoming Projects A Prairie Home Companion

DON MALONEYPat Degan/Morgue AttendantPark Square Fortinbras, Arsenic and Old Lace Representative Theatre Theatre in the Round: A

View From the Bridge, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me; Lyric Arts: The Odd Couple, Anatomy of Gray; Theatre Pro Rata: A Lie of the Mind, Bedroom Farce; The Eclectic Theatre (Los Angeles): Salsa Saved the Girls; The Actor’s Project (L.A.): Biloxi Blues, Ten November; Candlefish Theatre (L.A.): Moonchildren TV Crossing Jordan (NBC); American Family (PBS), The Shield (FOX/FX) First Monday (Paramount/CBS), ER (WB/NBC), Profiler (NBC/MTM) Film Walking The Walk, Slightly Thicker Than Water, The Doorway, Iron Will Training B.F.A., at University of Minnesota, Duluth

DEREK DIRLAMArchie GoodwinPark Square Debut Representative Theatre Theater in the Round: A View From the Bridge;

Lex-Ham Community Theater: Antony and Cleopatra; Conundrum Collective: A Study In Emerald; Mission Theater: Much Ado About Nothing; Brazen Theater: Boys in the Band; Applause Community Theater: An Inconvenient Squirrel; Historic Mounds Theater: Guards! Guards!; MN Shakespeare Company: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; nimbus: Beautiful Things; Duck Soup Players: Moon Over Transylvania Training B.F.A., Theatre Arts, University of North Dakota Other Director of Conundrum Collective

BRANDON EWALDPeter Hays/Johnny KeemsPark Square Debut Representative Theatre Jungle Theater: Hamlet; Mu Performing Arts:

Yellow Fever; MN Jewish Theatre Company: Photograph 51; Acadia Repertory: School for Wives, The 39 Steps, The Unexpected Guest; Theatre in the Round: The Three Musketeers; Sidekick Theatre: The 39 Steps, Red Herring; Pioneer Place on Fifth: Romeo and Juliet, The Seagull Training B.A., Theatre Arts, Augsburg College; Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, London, England; The Brave New Institute, Remedios Creative; Fight choreography: Mu Performing Arts, Walking Shadow Theatre Company, Macalaster College and others.

BRIAN P. JOYCEAlbert Breyer/Ralph Arkoff UnderstudyPark Square 18 productions including Tiger at the Gate, Medea, Candida, Cat on

a Hot Tin Roof, King Lear Representative Theatre Theatre in the Round, Lakeshore Players, Shakespeare and Company, Red Eye Theater, Theatre Coup d’Etat, New Native Theatre, Theatre Unbound Film Grandpa Walt in Catching Faith (Netflix); Dad’s voice in Shinaab, a 2017 Sundance film festival

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*Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) was founded in 1913 as the first of the American actor unions. Equity’s mission is to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Today, Equity represents more than 40,000 actors, singers, dancers and stage managers working in hundreds of theatres across the United States. Equity members are dedicated to working in the theatre

as a profession, upholding the highest artistic standards. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions and provides a wide range of benefits including health and pension plans for its members. Through its agreement with Equity, this theatre has committed to the fair treatment of the actors and stage managers employed in this production. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. For information, visit www.actorsequity.org.

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CASTMARISA B. TEJEDADelia Brandt/Rita ArkoffPark Square Debut Representative Theatre Guthrie Theater: A Christmas Carol, The

Sunshine Boys; Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey: The Learned Ladies; South Dakota Shakespeare Festival: The Winter’s Tale; Artistry: Hairspray; Mission Theatre Company: Much Ado About Nothing, Titus Andronicus; Paul Bunyan Playhouse: Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike; CLIMB Theatre: Touring Company Member 2016-2017 Training B.A, Theatre Arts, Concordia University 2016; Acting Apprentice, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey 2015 Upcoming Projects GIRL Theatre’s Production at MN Fringe Festival 2017

AUSTENE VAN*Mrs. Herrold/Franny Irwin/Mrs. ArbuthnotPark Square As Actor: To Kill a Mockingbird; As Director: Hot Chocolate,

Gee’s Bend, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill Representative Theatre As Actor: Penumbra Theatre (Company Member): The Owl Answers, Detroit ‘67, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Seven Guitars; Theater Latté Da: Aida; Ten Thousand Things: A Street Car Named Desire; Jungle Theater: In the Next Room; Guthrie Theater: Trouble in Mind, Disgraced; IRT/Cleveland Playhouse: Radio Golf; Children’s Theatre Company: Shrek the Musical, Once on This Island; Ordway: Singin’ in the Rain; As Director: Ten Thousand Things: Intimate Apparel; Theatre in the Round: Six Degrees of Separation; Rarig Center: Joan: Voices in the Fire; History Theatre: Lonely Soldier Monologues, A Civil War Christmas; Ordway: Blues in the Night; Capri: Ain’t Misbehavin’; Penumbra Theatre: Black Nativity Other Artistic Director of New Dawn Theatre Productions Upcoming Projects As Director: Skylight Music Theatre: Hot Mikado; Ordway: Annie

AM’BER MONTGOMERYDol Bonner/Suki MolloyPark Square A Raisin in the Sun Representative Theatre Phoenix Theater: Girls in White Dresses; Jungle Theater: Two Gentlemen

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JIM POUNDS Fritz/Tom IrwinPark Square The Red Box, Saint Joan, Mary Stuart, Julius Caesar Representative Theatre Walking Shadow Theatre Company: Gross

Indecency: The Trial of Oscar Wilde; Theater Latté Da: Company; Bloomington Civic Theatre: My Fair Lady; Actors Theater of Minnesota: A Thousand Clowns; Torch Theater: Fezziwig’s Feast; Gremlin Theatre: The Homecoming Other Media Director for The College of St. Scholastica at the St. Paul campus

PAUL REYBURNAlbert Breyer/Ralph ArkoffPark Square Debut Representative Theatre Daleko Arts: Urinetown; Paul Bunyan Playhouse: Gypsy, The Full Monty,

Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Chicago, She Loves Me; Directing: Theatre in the Round: 110 in the Shade; Lakeshore Players: Big River, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, The Happy Elf, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Film Invincible Force, Drop Dead Fred Training B.A., Theater (Acting, Directing), Moorhead State University Upcoming Projects Artistry: The Music Man

E.J. SUBKOVIAK*Nero WolfePark Square Great Expectations, Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders, The Red Box, Of Mice and Men, King Lear,

Oliver Twist, The Last Seder, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, You Can’t Take It With You Representative Theatre Jungle Theater: On Golden Pond; History Theatre: The Highwaymen; Actors Theater of Minnesota: We Gotta Bingo; Hey City Theater: Tony ‘n’ Tina’s Wedding Training B.S., Theater Arts, Minnesota State University, Mankato Upcoming Projects Park Square: Of Mice and Men

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Juliet Training B.A., Theatre Arts, University of Minnesota Upcoming Projects Girl Friday Productions: Idiot’s Delight (on the Andy Boss Thrust Stage at Park Square)

MICHAEL P. KITTEL Lighting DesignerPark Square Over 120 productions (as Resident Lighting Designer) including The Color Purple, Red, Ragtime, Grey Gardens, Democracy, To Kill a Mockingbird, Rock ‘n’ Roll Representative Theatre Ordway, Frank Theatre, Stages Theatre Company, Steppingstone Theatre, Mu Performing Arts, Bloomington Civic Theatre TV/Film tpt: The St. Olaf Christmas Festival Training University of Wisconsin-River Falls Accolades Ivey Award for The Pillowman (Frank Theatre); Lavender Magazine Best Lighting Design 2008 & 2009

SOPHIE PEYTON Assistant DirectorPark Square Debut Representative Theatre History Theatre: The Highwaymen; McCarter Theatre Center: Baby Doll, A Christmas Carol, The Mousetrap; Wilma Theater: The Real Thing; PlayPenn: No Such Thing; Simpatico Theatre Project: Missed Connections; Plays and Players Theater: Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet Training B.A., Theatre Arts with concentration in Directing, Temple University

RICK POLENEK Scenic Designer Park Square Over 30 productions including Great Expectations, 4000 Miles, The Red Box, King Lear, Ragtime, Spider’s Web, Pacific Overtures, Born Yesterday Representative Theatre Theater Latté Da: Oliver!, The Light in the Piazza, Evita; History Theatre: Glensheen, Teen Idol, Working Boys Band; Ordway; Skylark Opera; MN Centennial Showboat Training M.F.A., Theatre Arts, University of Minnesota Other Retired faculty in Theatre, Normandale College Upcoming Projects History Theatre: All The Way, Coco’s Diary

ROBERT “BOBBIE” SMITH Properties DesignerPark Square Amy’s View Representative Theatre Theater in the Round: Deathtrap; Minnesota Jewish Theatre: The Magic Dreidels, Aunt Raini, The Chanukah Guest, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, Jericho; Theatre in the Round: Death on the Nile; Walking Shadow Theatre Company: The River

PETER MOOREDirectorPark Square 18 productions including Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders, The Red Box, King Lear,

The Soul of Gershwin, Becky’s New Car, Spider’s Web, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure Representative Theatre Guthrie Theater, Coconut Grove Playhouse - Miami, Virginia Stage Co. - Norfolk, Winter Garden Theater -Toronto, Parker Playhouse - Ft. Lauderdale, York Theater (Off-Broadway), University of Minnesota, Playwright’s Center TV/Film (as Director) Autistic License; (as Stunt Coordinator) Wilson (with Woody Harrelson), Thin Ice (with Greg Kinnear), Factotum (with Matt Dillon), Old Explorers (with James Whitmore), Vampire’s Embrace (with Alyssa Milano), In An Instant (ABC-TV) Training B.A., Penn State University Accolades Best Educational Film, Autistic License, L.A. International Family Film Festival.

BRANDON EWALD Fight ChoreographerSee bio on page 7

CHARLES FRASER* Assistant Stage ManagerPark Square Of Mice and Men, The Language Archive, 33 Variations, To Kill a Mockingbird, King Lear, The Last Seder Representative Theatre Penumbra Theatre: Jitney; History Theatre: Lonely Soldiers; Burning House Group: 3 Parts Dead; Jon Hassler Theater: Seascape; Minnesota Shakespeare Project: King Lear; Mixed Blood Theatre: Jackie Robinson Training B.F.A., University of Mississippi Upcoming Projects Penumbra Theatre: Wedding Band

ANITA KELLING Sound DesignerPark Square The Snow Queen, Murder for Two, Shooting Star, The House on Mango Street, 33 Variations, The Red Box, The Diary of Anne Frank Representative Theatre Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company: The Whipping Man; Yellow Tree Theatre: Clybourne Park; Theatre Unbound: The How and the Why; Freshwater Theatre: Pioneer Suite; Public Theatre of Minnesota: I and You; 20% Theatre: Changes in Time; Theatre in the Round: Morning’s at Seven; COLLIDE Theatrical Dance: Romeo and

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LAURA TOPHAM* Stage Manager Park Square The Realistic Joneses, Calendar Girls, Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders, The Diary of Anne Frank, 33 Variations, The Red Box, Of Mice and Men, Mary T. & Lizzie K. Representative Theatre Ordway: Flint Hills Children’s Festival; Theater Latté Da: Beautiful Thing Training B.A., Theatre Arts, University of Minnesota

AUSTENE VAN Choreographersee bio on page 8

SARA WILCOX Costume Designer Park Square Debut Representative Theatre Old Log Theatre: Savannah Sipping Society, Reluctant Dragon, Million Dollar Quartet, Jungle Book, Wedding Singer; Walking Shadow Theatre: The River, The Christians, The Coward, Gabriel; DalekoArts: The Rink Training B.F.A., Costume Design, DePaul University Upcoming Projects Old Log Theatre: Jack and the Beanstalk, Life Could Be a Dream

Production Staff & CrewAssistant Stage Managers: Charles Fraser*,

Samantha Diekman Dresser: Britt KellerWardrobe and Wig Maintenance: Mary Farrel Sound Operator: Charlotte DeranekProduction Director: Rob JensenTechnical Director: Ian StoutenburghPaint Charge: Mary Montgomery-Jensen,

Angelique PowersMaster Carpenter: William BankheadCarpenters: Meagan Kedrowski, Brittany PooladianTech Intern: Maya SimonWardrobe Supervisor: Aaron ChvatalMaster Electrician: Tony StoeriElectrician: Courtney Schuitz, Jeremiah EllarbySound Supervisor: Charlotte Deranek

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SallyFrank P. MayersWilliam & Virginia McDonaldRobert Milligan & Sharon DanesRussell & Kathryn RhodeTimothy M. ScanlanSummer Seidenkranz &

Clark SchroederDavid & Ann SmithSheri Zigan

SUSTAINERS $250+Carolyn AdamsJanet AlbersWilliam A. AndersonElizabeth AndrewsSteve & Nancy ApfelbacherMarcia J. AubineauTerry BanaszewskiRobert & Mary BeckTanya BellSusan & James BerdahlIris BierbrauerLaura & Jon BloombergJudy & Arnold BrierJean & Carl BrookinsDavid BrunsCecil & Penny ChallyRon & Kathy Colby

Steve ColtonRoger ConeBuzz CumminsSheila FaulknerDavid E. FeinbergRichard & Beverly FinkMary Finnerty &

Patrick EsmondeCarolyn FitermanK. Paul FreborgMike & Carol GarbischMary Beidler GearenBess GoldSara GraffunderBonnie Hancock & Joe WeyendtRobin HubbellTodd & Mary JacobsonNancy JonesMary A. JonesArt & Martha KaemmerLinda KlaverJan KonkeRuth LadwigDavid & Pamela LandeColles LarkinKim LeventhalMary & David

Lundberg-JohnsonMichael Mallory &

Catherine GrayRon & Mary MattsonBryan McgeeDennis & Kathy McGuireBev & Ward MontgomeryJames & Nancy MulveyMerritt Nequette in Memory of

Pauline LambertBonnie PalmquistJames Persoon &

Barbara Schmidt PersoonSidney & Decima Phillips

Rick PolenekNicole & Charlie PrescottBrad & Linda QuardererLawrence RedmondNancy & Kevin RheinJill RiceChuck & Terri RoehrickSandra SandellJack & Judy SchlukebierJim SeidelConnie ShaverRonald-Craig &

Mariana ShulstadGeorge Skinner &

Anne HanleyJackson SmithCynthia & Mark StangeStanley & Connie SuchtaRon and Margaret TabarJon & Lea TheobaldDebra VenkerJenifer Wagner & James VogelLeon & Lindy WebsterClaudia & Don Wiebold

FRIENDS $150-249Margaret AlbrechtJames & Kathy AndrewsAnonymousKay C. BachMark & Pam BintzlerJeanne CorwinDavid & Evelyn CoslettSusan FlynnCaroline & H Dutton FosterJeremiah & Karen GallivanNancy & Jack GarlandAnnamary & Jim HertherJulie & Anders HimmelstrupMike & Lorinda JacksonAlfred & Sharon Kauth

Keith KuffelRobert LeonardEdward & Judith MaleckiMary MarkgrafVirginia McFerranKathleen McLeod & Eric HeppPatricia MitchellMuriel NelsonJoann NelsonMichael & Kay O`BrienMary O`KeefeJim OstlundKathy and Don ParkSydney PhillipsNancy & James PromanSharon RadmanThue & Uttara RasmussenBarbara & William ReadFarrel RichMike Ring & Flannery ClarkCatherine & Ferrol RobinsonShelly RucksMichael RyanWilliam & Glennis SchlukebierBruce & Julianne SeiberLee & Lois SnookMichael & Sherry SpenceJohn & Nan StegerMarcia & John StoutBarbara & Randy SutterMichael SymeonidesJoyce ThielenBob & Kathy ThompsonGerald & Beth VoermansCarol WestbergTerry & Susan WolkerstorferWendy Worner

Individual support was received between 1.1.2016 and 12.31.2016. Please help keep our records correct by contacting us at 651.767.8483 or donate@parksquaretheatre.org with any changes or oversights.

OUR CONTRIBUTORS

The Founders Society recognizes individuals who have made a future gift to the Theatre through their wills or other estate plans. These gifts literally lay the foundation for the next generation of theatre goers – making each donor a founder of Park Square’s future.

You don’t need to be rich to leave a lasting legacy. You can provide for your heirs, gain important tax benefits, and even receive an income now by making a thoughtful planned gift.

Planned Gifts include: A Bequest in Your Will; Retained Life Estate; Gift of Retirement Plan Assets; Charitable Remainder Trust; Gift of Life Insurance Policy; Charitable Lead Trust; Charitable Gift Annuity

For more information about planned gifts and their potential tax advantages, please visit parksquaretheatre.org/legacy

Betty AnderlikAnonymousRobert BakerJohn & Barbara BalfanzDennis BreiningRichard Cook &

Steven Kent LockwoodMargaret DurhamNancy FeldmanJohn & Hilde FlynnJohn Paul Gillen in memory of

Lawrence E (Larry) PiersonJohn W. HarrisSheila Henderson† Sue McAllister

Jack & Jeanne MatlockDick Morrison†

Corrie Ooms BeckRonald ParkerC. Michael-jon PeaseJames Persoon & Barbara

Schmidt PersoonScott T. &

Jennifer Norris PetersonBerneen RudolphPaul & Pat SackettLaurie SimonDoris Swenson† John & Sandy White

* In-Kind Gift † In Remembrance

FOUNDERS SOCIETYPLANNED ESTATE GIFTS

Richard Cook, Artistic DirectorMichael-jon Pease, CFRE, Executive Director

ARTISTICRob Jensen, Production DirectorIan Stoutenburgh, Technical DirectorLaura Leffler, Company and Contract ManagerJamil Jude, Artistic Programming AssociateMichael P. Kittel, Resident Lighting DesignerWilliam Bankhead, Master CarpenterCharlotte Deranek, Sound SupervisorMeagan Kedrowski, Rep Crew HeadAaron Chvatal, Wardrobe SupervisorJohn White, Literary Management VolunteerErnest Briggs, Production Intern

EDUCATIONMary M. Finnerty, Education DirectorQuinn Shadko, Education Sales and Services ManagerConnor M. McEvoy, Education Program AssociateAlexandra Hatch, Education Assistant Marcia Aubineau, Post-show Discussion ModeratorImmersion Day and Ambassador Program Teaching Artists: Tessie Bundick, Josh Campbell, Shanan Custer, Annie Enneking, Mary K. Flaa, Christina Ham, H. Adam Harris, Steve Hendrickson, Brian Hesser, Katharine Horowitz, Stephen Houtz, JuCoby Johnson, Aditi Kapil, Mike Kittel, Carson Kreitzer, Kory LaQuess Pullam, Kym Longhi, Katy McEwen, Leslye Orr, Joseph Papke, Aaron Preusse, Doug Scholz-Carlson, Jen Scott, Eric Sharp, Dane Stauffer, Jennifer Weir, Regina Marie Williams

EXTERNAL RELATIONSConnie Shaver, Marketing & Audience Development DirectorMackenzie Pitterle, Annual Fund ManagerRachel Wandrei, Marketing & Engagement ManagerRachel E.H. Bentley, Marketing & Development AssociateLynne Beck, Development ConsultantMadge Duffey, Graphic DesignerPetronella J. Ytsma, Photographer Michael Hanisch, VideographerJim Heideman, Telemarketing ServicesAlicia Pedersen, Marketing CoordinatorZach Anderson, Marketing Intern

FINANCE AND OPERATIONSSheri J. Zigan, Finance & Operations DirectorJackson Smith, Finance Coordinator Dave Peterson, Facility & Event ManagerJohn Romano, Facility & Event AssociateFront of House Staff: (Evening) Jiffy Kunik - Performance Supervisor; Jimmy Vincent - Lead House Manager; Ashe Jaafaru, Jackson Smith, Kasey Tunell, Mariah Christensen, Michelle Clark, Sarah Bauer, Justin Campbell, Maria Perez, Sophie Wozniak; (Daytime) Maria Perez - Lead House Manager; Justin Campbell - House Manager; Gayle Smith, Louise Rosemark, Ann Feider, Patricia Arnold, Paula Manzuk, Ting Ting Cheng, Liz Englund Ticket Agents: Ben Cook-Feltz - Ticket Office Supervisor; Jimmy Vincent, Sophie WozniakUsher & Friday Morning Club Coordinator: Judy Bartlett

ARTISTIC ASSOCIATES: Aditi Kapil, Playwright, Director and Actor; Carson Kreitzer, Playwright; Ricardo Vázquez, Playwright and Actor; James A. Williams, Director, Actor and Teacher

ACCESS SERVICES STAFF: Audio Description: Rick Jacobson, Laurie Pape-Hadley, Elana Centor; ASL: Paul Deeming, Shelley Lehner, Susan Masters, Linda Gill, Carlos Grant, Nella Titus, Alicia Hoch; Open Captioning: Kathleen Conroy, Elana Centor, Laura Wiebers

CONSULTANTS: Assignment Writers: Ting Ting Cheng, Matt DiCintio, Vincent Hannam, Eric “Pogi” Sumangil; Auditor: Clifton Larson Allen; Disability Advisor: Jill Boon; Marketing Consultant: Christopher Taykalo; Volunteer Curator: Toni Dachis

VOLUNTEERS: Friday Morning Club: Susan Adix, Doreen Aszmus, Sue Bjerke, Pat Dalluhn, Monica Fritzen, Pat Sackett; Thank you to all of our Volunteer Ushers.

PARK SQUARE STAFF

PARK SQUARE INFORMATION

CONTACTPark Square Theatre 408 St. Peter Street, Suite 110, Saint Paul, MN 55102Ticket Office: 651.291.7005Usher Hotline: 651.767.8489Education: 651.291.9196Donor Development: 651.767.1440Audience Services: 651.767.8487Group Sales: 651.767.8485Audition Hotline: 651.767.8491

TICKET OFFICE HOURSTuesday – Friday: 12:00 – 5:00pm & 6:30 – 8:00pm (performance days only)12:00 – 5:00pm (non-performance days) Saturday: 2:00 – 8:00pm* (performance days only) *For Sat matinees, ticket office & phones open at 12:30pmSunday: 1:00 – 3:30pm (performance days only)

Proscenium Stage seats 348. Andy Boss Thrust Stage seats 203.The Historic Hamm Building is smoke-free.Latecomers are seated at the discretion of the House Manager.Restrooms and water fountains on main floor and lower level.Cameras/audio/video equipment and laser pointers prohibited.

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June 29-July 23Andy Boss Thrust Stage at Park Square

The 1936 Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatic comedy with musical

accents—set in a world on the brink.

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June 29-July 23Andy Boss Thrust Stage at Park Square

The 1936 Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatic comedy with musical

accents—set in a world on the brink.

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P R E S E N T S

Tim Ober (President) President, Red Oaks of Dakota County Inc.

John L. Berthiaume (Vice President) VP, Financial Advisor, RBC Wealth Management

Karen Heintz (Treasurer) Senior VP, Branch Manager, Robert W. Baird

Nancy Feldman (Secretary) President and CEO, UCare, Retired

Daniel Boone Executive Director, Integrated Programs Marketing Services, DELUXE

Kristine Clarke Learner Representative, University of Minnesota: College of Continuing Education

Barb Davis Realtor, Coldwell Banker BurnetJim Falteisek VP of Commercialization, 3MKristin Taylor Geisler Principal, Iris Consulting, LLCJewelie Grape Partner, Conner & Winters, LLPAndrea Trimble Hart CPCU, Senior VP, Willis of Minnesota, Inc.Jeff Johnson (Immediate Past President) CFO, Amesbury TruthPaul Johnson VP, Investor Relations, Xcel EnergyGreg Landmark VP - HR, Compensation,

Benefits and Operations, Travelers InsuranceJohn LeFevre Community Volunteer (Deluxe, Retired)Paul Mattessich Executive Director, Wilder Research FoundationKristin Berger Parker Partner, Stinson, Leonard, StreetKari Ruth Director of Strategic Communications,

Hennepin Theatre TrustPaul Sackett Professor of Psychology and Liberal Arts,

University of MinnesotaPaul Stembler ConsultantHelen Wagner Community Volunteer (3M, Retired)Susan Wenz Director of Programming – KSTP-TV & 45TV

Marcia Aubineau, University of St. Thomas, retiredLiz Erickson, Rosemount High School, retiredTheodore Fabel, South High SchoolCraig Farmer, Perpich Center for Arts EducationAmy Hewett-Olatunde, LEAP High SchoolCheryl Hornstein, Freelance Theatre and Music EducatorAlexandra Howes, Twin Cities AcademyDr. Virginia McFerran, Perpich Center for Arts EducationKristin Nelson, Brooklyn Center High SchoolMari O’Meara, Eden Prairie High SchoolJennifer Parker, Falcon Ridge Middle SchoolMaggie Quam, Hmong College Prep AcademyKate Schilling, Mound Westonka High SchoolJack Schlukebier, Central High School, retiredTanya Sponholz, Prescott High SchoolJill Tammen, Hudson High School, retiredCraig Zimanske, Forest Lake Area High School

THEATRE AMBASSADORSPayton Anderson (Shell Lake High School), Marissa Bergin (Columbia Heights High School), Alex Boss (Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists), Amiri Burns (Harding High School), Arianna Diaz-Celon (SPCPA), Soren Eversoll (Highland Park High School), Schyler Fish (Highland Park High School), Greta Hallberg (Minnehaha Academy), Madisyn Haukland (Coon Rapids High School), Thomas Henry (Trinity School at River Ridge), Mairi Johnson (Mounds View High School), Elizabeth Koetz (South High School), Jonah Schmitz (Buffalo High School), Katherine Swartzer (Buffalo High School), Emma Symanski (SPCPA), Ava Tesmer (Eagle Ridge Academy), Emily Twardy (Buffalo High School), Claire Umolac-Bunker (Highland Park High School), Catherine Vorwald (Twin Cities Academy), Brigham Williams (SPCPA), Kiersten Ziegler (Minnehaha Academy)

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TICKET OFFICE HOURSTuesday – Friday: 12:00 – 5:00pm & 6:30 – 8:00pm (performance days only)12:00 – 5:00pm (non-performance days) Saturday: 2:00 – 8:00pm* (performance days only) *For Sat matinees, ticket office & phones open at 12:30pmSunday: 1:00 – 3:30pm (performance days only)

Proscenium Stage seats 348. Andy Boss Thrust Stage seats 203.The Historic Hamm Building is smoke-free.Latecomers are seated at the discretion of the House Manager.Restrooms and water fountains on main floor and lower level.Cameras/audio/video equipment and laser pointers prohibited.

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