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AT THE PERFORMANCE

Blue DoorBy Tanya BarfieldDirected by Bobby Bermea

PROFILE THEATRE BLUE DOOR | P1

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the professional union of actors and stage managers.

Lewis ....................................................................................... Victor Mack*Simon, Rex, Jesse ........................................................................ Seth Rue

Scenic Design ............................................................... Megan Wilkerson+Lighting Design ............................................................... Ruth NardecchiaCostume Design ................................................................ Sarah GahaganSound Design, Music Director & Additional Compositions ............................................... Rodolfo OrtegaStage Manager ................................................................... D Westerholm*Production Assistant .....................................................Natasha Stockem

CAST

DESIGNERS & PRODUCTION

By TANYA BARFIELD Directed by

BOBBY BERMEA

Profile Theatre Presents

Playwrights Horizons presented the world premiere of Blue Door in 2006.Blue Door was commissioned by Playwrights Horizons with funds provided by The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Commissioning Program. Blue Door was first produced by South Coast Repertory.A workshop of Blue Door was presented by New York Stage and Film and The Powerhouse Theatre at Vassar.Blue Door was developed in part with the assistance of the Sundance Institute Theatre Laboratory. Blue Door is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

VIDEO AND/OR AUDIO RECORDING OF THIS PERFORMANCE BY ANY MEANS WHATSOEVER IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED.

THIS SEASON IS FUNDED IN PART BY

RUN TIME IS APPROXIMATELY TWO HOURS WITH ONE FIFTEEN MINUTE INTERMISSION.

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

BLUE DOOR

+The Designers at this theatre are represented by United Scenic Artists • Local USA 829 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes.

Lyrics by Tanya Barfield

Music by Larry Gilliard Jr.

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“HE LAY STILL, HIS BLOODSHOT EYES STARING BLANKLY BEFORE HIM, AND DRIFTED INTO DREAMS

OF HIS PROBLEMS...

Richard Wright, The Outsider

“THERE IS NO GREATER AGONY THAN BEARING AN UNTOLD STORY INSIDE YOU.”Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“It’s a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.” –W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk

“I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes.”Amiri Baraka, An Agony. As Now

“MEN CAN STARVE FROM A LACK OF SELF-REALIZATION AS MUCH AS THEY CAN FROM A LACK OF BREAD.”

Richard Wright, Native Son

“To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back, perhaps to God; or to Gods. We remember them because it is an easy thing to forget: that we are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love and die. The grace with which we embrace life, in spite of the pain, the sorrow, is always a measure of what has gone before. Alice Walker

“FROM THE SLAVE SHIP TO THE CITIZENSHIP WE FACED A LOT OF BULLSHIP”

Amiri Baraka

“WHEN I DISCOVER WHO I AM, I’LL BE FREE.”

Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“THE SOUL THAT IS WITHIN ME NO MAN CAN DEGRADE.”Frederick Douglass

“...TO SEE WAS NOT TO CONTROL, THAT SELF-UNDERSTANDING WAS FAR SHORT OF

SELF-MASTERY. HE WAS AFRAID OF HIMSELF.”

Richard Wright, The Outsider

“PEOPLE PAY FOR WHAT THEY DO, AND STILL MORE FOR WHAT THEY HAVE

ALLOWED THEMSELVES TO BECOME. AND THEY PAY FOR IT VERY SIMPLY;

BY THE LIVES THEY LEAD.”

James Baldwin

“YOU WANNA FLY, YOU GOT TO GIVE UP THE SHIT THAT WEIGHS YOU DOWN.”

Toni Morrison

“I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING AND

I KNOW THE TRUTH, AND I

DON’T HAVE TO BE WHAT YOU

WANT ME TO BE. I’M FREE TO BE WHAT I WANT.”

Muhammad Ali

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“If we forget our past, do we in some way forget ourselves?”

–Tanya Barfield


Join us for In Dialogue, our series of lectures, pre-show talks, post-show discussions and concerts, as well as community events and other exciting programming, all of which explore our featured writer’s world. Through our In Dialogue programming, we extend the event of a Profile production beyond the bounds of what is onstage, bringing the community together for exciting, provocative and inspiring experiences.

UPCOMING IN DIALOGUE STAGED READING

JUNE 20–21, 2016

SuperTrueBy Karen Hartman

In Dialogue Staged Readings include new and contemporary plays in conversation with Tanya Barfield’s body of work, as well as readings of Barfield plays not included in our Main Stage season. Staged Readings are ALWAYS FREE and open to the public. Reservations open open six weeks prior to event. Look in your email for alerts!

NEW IN 2016!All In Dialogue Staged Readings will have special subscriber-only pre-show events! Arrive early for an exclusive look inside the plays featured. See profiletheatre.org/in-dialogue for details!

The dramatists we profile have something significant to say about humankind in all its variety, complexity, humor, tragedy, anger and hope. They cast a light on the desires and demons that drive us to seek a better understanding of who we are, where we are going and why.

As Profile moves into our third decade, we are excited to explore our mission by looking forward, featuring the work of contemporary playwrights who are creating the canon of tomorrow.

With our 2016 season, Profile is thrilled to embark on our three year Initiative for Diversity and Inclusion. Through this initiative, we are intentionally considering playwrights whom, traditionally, our industry has not supported. We have committed to three years of presenting the work of female playwrights and/or playwrights of color. Currently, there is energized and passionate conversation happening in theatres throughout the country around the ideas of diversity and inclusion. With this initiative, Profile places itself not only at the center of that conversation, but also on the leading edge of change.

THE UNIQUE MISSION OF PROFILE THEATREProfile Theatre’s mission is to produce a season of plays devoted to a single playwright, engaging with our community to explore that writer’s vision and influence on theatre and the world at large. We do this through large-scale professional productions, In Dialogue Series readings and lectures, and our vibrant education programs.

See the billboard in the lobby for a listing of all In Dialogue events around performances of Blue Door.

For more details visit profiletheatre.org.

Jasper Howard and Amanda Soden in The Call by Tanya Barfield. Photo by David Kinder


Grown Deep with BaseRoots Theatre, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents with Theatre Vertigo, and Wait Until Dark at Northwest Classical.

MEGAN WILKERSONScenic DesignMegan is a resident artist at Artists Repertory Theatre, the Resident scenic designer for Bag&Baggage Productions, and a member of the Rivendell Theatre Ensemble. Her design work has been recognized by The Chicago Tribune, The Oregonian, The Austin Critics Circle and The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Regionally Megan has worked with The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, The New Conservatory, Renaissance Theaterworks, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Broadway Rose, Teatro Milagro, deFunkt Theatre, Theatre Vertigo, Northwest Classical Theatre, Next Act Theatre, Skylight Opera, First Stage Children’s Theatre, Michigan Opera Theatre, Pittsburgh Public, Portland Center Stage and the Portland Opera. She is a member of United Scenic Artists and holds an MFA from The University of Texas at Austin.

RUTH NARDECCHIALighting DesignRuth happily returns to Profile Theatre’s design team. Past lighting designs include The Call and Blood Knot at Profile, Cinderella at Northwest Children’s Theatre and Christmas Unplugged at Artists Repertory. She thanks Profile for another opportunity of collaborative art.

SARAH GAHAGANCostume DesignSarah is a costume and scenic designer for theatre, dance, festivals and stop-motion animation film as well as being adjunct theatre instructor at Portland Community College. She has worked with many of Oregon’s beloved arts organizations including: Artist Repertory Theatre, Oregon Children’s Theatre, Miracle Theatre Group, Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Oregon Ballet Theatre and Michal

VICTOR MACKLewisVictor’s Portland credits include: Ralph D. in The Motherfucker with the Hat and Odysseus/Jacob in the World Premiere

of Ithaka at Artists Rep; Kenny in Detroit and Turnbo in August Wilson’s Jitney for Portland Playhouse; Henry in The Lion in Winter at NWCTC. Other local credits include: Seven Guitars, Top Dog/Underdog, Superior Donuts and Take Me Out at Artist Rep.; Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Drammy Award for Actor in a Lead Role), Radio Golf (Drammy Award for Actor in a Supporting Role), King Hedley II and Gem of the Ocean for Portland Playhouse; Hamlet and Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune at CoHo Rep.

SETH RUESimon/Rex/JesseSeth is overwhelmed to make his debut at Profile with this powerful show. To be working with two of his artistic idols in

Victor and Bobby is a dream come true. He is humbled to be trusted to give voice and shape to Simon, Jesse and Rex and to tell this story, celebrating self-love and acceptance, family, our journeys of identity, ancestral and spiritual vitality, and of the depth, diversity and beautiful —and often painful—complexity of Blackness in America. He is supremely grateful to Bobby and Profile for this opportunity, and to Tanya Barfield for her incredible work. Look for him in the upcoming production of Cottonwood in the Flood with the Vanport Mosaic Festival.

BOBBY BERMEADirectorBobby is a director, a playwright, and an actor and has performed in theatres from New York, NY to Honolulu, HI. He is co-artistic director of the Beirut Wedding World Theatre Project, artistic director of BaseRoots Theatre Company, a company member of of Sojourn theatre, and a company member of Badass Theatre. Recent directing credits include My Soul

Curry Design. Sarah has received Drammy Awards for her costume design work on Eurydice, James and The Giant Peach, Trojan Women, El Quijote and A Year With Frog and Toad.

RODY ORTEGASound Design, Music Director & Additional CompositionsRodolfo received his Bachelor’s Degree in Music from the University of Arizona and his Master of Music degree from Manhattan School of Music where he studied piano and composition. He has composed music and designed sound for the recent productions of Artist Repertory Theater’s The Miracle Worker, The Liar and Broomstick. He has composed several musicals for Northwest Children’s Theater including Snow White, Pinocchio, El Zorrito and Peter Pan.He has also composed many of the productions at Santa Cruz Shakespeare including their recent productions of Macbeth, Julius Caesar,Man in the Iron Mask and Henry V. Additionally he has composed the music for Denver Center Theater Company’s productions of Three Musketeers and Romeo and Juliet. For the Oregon Shakespeare Festival he composed the music for Tenth Muse.

KRISTEN MUNFight ChoreographerKristen is happy to be back at Profile as fight choreographer. She has worked for over half a dozen theatre companies in the Portland area including Third Rail Rep, Action Adventure, Post5, Milagro, and Anon it Moves. She is the recent recipient of the Leslie O. Fulton fellowship has won Drammy Awards for her work on Danny in the Deep Blue Sea, Oedipus El Rey, and Henry IV Part 1. Outside of Portland she has worked at Utah Shakespeare Festival, Idaho Repertory Theatre, and was the assistant fight choreographer at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for 2 seasons (09-10). She is an officer and a recognized fight instructor with Dueling Arts International.

CAST & CREATIVE TEAM


EMILY WILKENProp MasterEmily is happy to have been asked back for her second show with Profile. A graduate of Illinois State University’s Scenic Design Program, Emily works with a variety of materials and with various age groups, musicians, organizations, and budgets. She enjoyed three seasons in Illinois Shakespeare Festival Prop Shop, has led mural & public arts projects, and has spearheaded puppetry workshops at public schools, libraries, and the Children’s Discovery Museum. In addition she’s worked with several companies in the area including Northwest Classical Theatre Company, Artists Repertory Theatre, Lincoln High School, Action Adventure, Valley Repertory Theatre, and Enlightened Theatrics. Navigating the Northwest arts scene, she takes every opportunity to broaden her reach! www.emilywilken.com

D WESTERHOLMStage ManagerPortland Stage Management credits: The Call, 2013 Sam Shepard Season, 2014 Sarah Ruhl Season, The Road to Mecca (Profile Theatre); The Price (Artist’s Repertory Theatre); The Light in the Piazza (Portland Playhouse). Oregon Shakespeare Festival, non-equity Assistant Stage Manager: The Unfortunates (2013), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2013), Troilus and Cressida (2012), The Very Merry Wives of Windsor, Iowa (2012), Julius Caesar (2011), The African Company Presents Richard III (2011). BA in Theatre Management from Western Washington University, MFA in Stage Management from Columbia University. Active member of Actor’s Equity Association.

NATASHA STOCKEMProduction AssistantNatasha is glad to be back at Profile Theatre and a part of Blue Door. Her previous credits include co-stage managing Far Away, assistant stage managing Romeo and Juliet, stage managing Last Summer at Bluefish Cove and most recently with Profile Theatre and Shaking the Tree, Passion Play. She has worked as part of rig

and focus crews for a variety of productions, was the blood maven for Macbeth, and the properties mistress for The Importance of Being Earnest and Romeo and Juliet, all at Portland State University, where she received a Masters in theatre studies with a focus in tech. She also works with Prismagic, a local production company that develops mixed medium shows.

TANYA BARFIELDPlaywrightTanya Barfield’s The Call premiered at Playwrights Horizons in co-production with Primary Stages.

Her play Blue Door was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and AUDELCO Award and was seen at numerous theaters around the country. Her play Of Equal Measure played at Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles and was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Short plays include: Medallion (Women’s Project/Antigone Project), Foul Play (Royal Court Theatre, Cultural Center Bank of Brazil), The Wolves and Wanting North (Guthrie Theatre Lab, published in: Best 10-Minute Plays of 2003). Tanya wrote the book for the Theatreworks/USA children’s musical, Civil War: The First Black Regiment which toured public schools around the country. Barfield has been a recipient of a 2013 Lilly Award and the first inaugural Lilly Award Commission, a 2003 Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, a 2005 Honorable Mention for the Kesselring Prize for Drama, a 2006 Lark Play Development/NYSCA grant and she has twice been a Finalist for the Princess Grace Award. She is a proud alumna of New Dramatists and a member of The Dramatist Guild Council.

Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 49,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence.www.actorsequity.org

CAST & CREATIVE TEAMProfile Theatre was founded in 1997 by Jane Unger with the mission of celebrating the playwright’s contribution to live theatre. Profile’s mission is to produce a

season of plays devoted to a single playwright, engaging with our community to explore that writer’s vision and influence on theatre and the world at large.

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2014 Sam Shepard

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2002–2003 Edward Albee

2001–2002 Harold Pinter

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1998–1999 Tennessee Williams

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

RESOURCE COUNCILAdriana BaerLue DouthitGwyneth Gamble BoothErika GeorgeLeslie JohnsonMike Lindberg

Patrick StupekGeorge ThornJane Unger, FounderJulie VigelandPriscilla Bernard Wieden

Steve Young, ChairRichard BradspiesMelissa BockwinkelPaul Duden

Linda JensenMargaret McKayMary SimeoneMelissa Stewart

STAFFLauren Bloom Hanover, Interim Artistic Director & Director of Educations and Community EngagementMatthew Jones, Managing DirectorPaul Jacobs, General ManagerNatalie Genter-Gilmore, Marketing & Communications ManagerD Westerholm, Patron Information ManagerJillian Gibson, Artistic AssociateSummer Olsson, Education Coordinator

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PRODUCTION MANAGERD Westerholm

PROP MASTEREmily Wilken

FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHERKristen Mun

ASL INTERPRETERSEdwin Cancel Rich Hall

Production services provided by Artists Repertory Theatre

FOR THIS PRODUCTION

FALL FESTIVAL ANTIGONE PROJECT

A Play in Five PartsBy Tanya Barfield, Karen Hartman, Chiori Miyagawa,

Lynn Nottage and Caridad Svich

SEPTEMBER 7–11, 2016Tickets at profiletheatre.org | 503.242.0080

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THE COMMUNITY AND SCHOOL TOUR brings professional theatre out into our community, visiting schools and programs with limited access to arts education and performing one of our main stage productions. The touring productions are presented with the original cast in full costume, with props, sound and small set pieces that enable the audience to fully engage with the world of the play. Each performance is followed by a conversation between audience members and the cast.

THE HANDS ON RESIDENCY PROGRAM was developed to help address the lack of theatre and arts education in our local schools. The program offers both short term and extended residencies with an experienced teaching artist, to local middle and high schools. Whether it be over the course of a few hours, or over several months, students explore language and text within the context of performance. Our curriculum uses integrated learning techniques that engage the mind, body and voice while encouraging collaboration and confidence. Residencies are crafted to address the unique goals of each education partner, whether they culminate in a classroom presentation or a fully produced production with an audience. Teaching materials and scripts are selected based upon our featured playwright and the themes that lie at the heart of their body of work.

PROFILE INTERNSHIP PROGRAM is unique in its structure and its breadth of opportunity. Ideal for college students and new graduates, an internship with Profile is entirely project based, giving our interns the opportunity to be a crucial part of the artistic and/or administrative team, while being provided with the guidance and supervision of an appropriate member of Profile’s staff. Our interns have meaningful artistic and professional experiences while building the skills to launch them into their theatre career.

TOP L to R: The 2014 School tour team Intern Ross Jackson, actors Beth Thompson, Chris Murray, Andres Alcala, stage manager D Westerholm, actor Nelda Reyes and intern Hannah Fattor.

MIDDLE Students at Metropolitan Learning Center in Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice. Photo by David Kinder.

BOTTOM Former Artistic Director Adriana Baer and intern Jillian Gibson. Photo by David Kinder.

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