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39 2 PIANOS, 4 HANDS40 Cast Information41 Song List43 Artist Biographies48 Musical Terminology

ALSO INSIDE36 Coming Next68 Patron Information

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5 • IN THIS ISSUE

Happy holidays! We’re thrilled to have you join us for our 29th annual production of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. While the world can seem unpredictable at times, this heartwarming tale is a welcome reminder of our shared humanity and our capacity to change for the better. A Christmas Carol’s heartwarming messages of generosity, love and forgiveness have made the show a holiday favorite for generations of Cincinnatians, and we’re so glad that we can offer the opportunity for you to create memories for a lifetime with your family and friends.

Our Rosenthal Shelterhouse Theatre season continues with 2 Pianos, 4 Hands — an entertaining and hilarious musical journey about two young men and their quest to become concert pianists. Set to a live score of classical and contemporary piano music, 2 Pianos, 4 Hands will tug at your heartstrings and tickle your funny bone at the same time. We’re certain that it will resonate with anyone who remembers working towards a childhood dream. Join the two million people around the world who have already experienced this beloved production.

For those of you who may still be searching for the perfect holiday gift, a Three Show Sampler makes a wonderful holiday present. Share the joy and excitement of live theatre with your loved ones with an evening at the Playhouse.

We’re so pleased to share these amazing stories with you, and we wish you a happy holiday season!

Blake & Buzz

NOTES FROM BLAKE & BUZZ

Buzz WardManaging Director

Blake RobisonArtistic Director

7 • EXECUTIVE NOTES

CINCINNATI PLAYHOUSE IN THE PARKBlake Robison Artistic Director

Buzz Ward Managing Director

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Season Sponsor of New Work:The Rosenthal Family Foundation

presents

Director Michael Evan Haney Set Designer James Leonard JoyCostume Designer David Murin

Lighting Designer Kirk BookmanSound Designer/Composer David B. Smith

Lighting Contractor Steve O’SheaCostume Coordinator Cindy Witherspoon

Music Director Rebecca N. ChildsChoreographer Dee Anne Bryll

Casting Director Stephanie Klapper, CSA

Nov. 27 – Dec. 29, 2019Robert S. Marx Theatre

By CHARLES DICKENSAdapted by HOWARD DALLIN

Design Sponsor and Artist Sponsor/Ghosts:

Robert S. Marx Theatre Season presented by:

Additional support provided by:

Artist Sponsor/Ebenezer Scrooge: Artist Sponsor/Tiny Tim:

Supported by a generous endowment from The Stona Fitch Family

(in speaking order)

Ebenezer Scrooge Bruce Cromer*Mr. Cupp/Percy/Rich Man at Fezziwig’s Nick Rose*Mr. Sosser/Topper/Man with Shoe Shine/Guest at Fezziwig’s Taha Mandviwala*Bob Cratchit/Schoolmaster Oxlip Ryan Wesley Gilreath*Fred Daniel Petzold*Jacob Marley/Old Joe Greg Procaccino*Ghost of Christmas Past/Mrs. Peake Britney Nicole Simpson*Boy Scrooge/Boy at Fezziwig’s/Bootblack/Streets Benjamin ShefferFan/Guest at Fezziwig’s/Streets Ari Elizabeth JohnsonMr. Fezziwig/Ghost of Christmas Present Douglas Rees*Mrs. Fezziwig/Patience/Streets Annie Fitzpatrick*Dick Wilkins/Streets Nicolás AcostaMary (Scrubwoman at Fezziwig’s)/Caroler/Streets Jo Garcia-RegerYoung and Mature Scrooge/Ghost of Christmas Future Charlie Cromer*Belle/Catherine Margaret Sara Masterson*Constable at Fezziwig’s/Man with Pipe/Caroler/Streets Joshua CarandangMrs. Cratchit/Laundress/Streets Kelly Mengelkoch*Peter Cratchit/Gregory/Apprentice at Fezziwig’s/Streets Teancom Thacker Belinda Cratchit/Guest at Fezziwig’s/Streets Ashlynn Isabel HezlepMartha Cratchit/Guest at Fezziwig’s/Streets Mia GoodlettTiny Tim Roshan ChitnisRose/Guest at Fezziwig’s/Caroler/Streets Julia GomezIgnorance/Matthew/Apprentice at Fezziwig’s/Streets Stephen TaitWant/Guest at Fezziwig’s/Streets Teagan FarmerMrs. Dilber/Guest at Fezziwig’s/Streets Shonita JoshiUndertaker/Caroler/Guest at Fezziwig’s/Streets Ethan Graham RoederGeorge/Charles/Rich Son at Fezziwig’s/Streets Sabian SwanPoulteress/Guest at Fezziwig’s/Streets Deja Elliott

Stage Manager Andrea L. Shell*Second Stage Manager Jenifer Morrow*Assistant Stage Manager Suann Pollock*Stage Management Interns Gabriella C. Neuerer, Erin Speno

Time: 1843, Past and FuturePlace: England

A Christmas Carol will be performed with one intermission.

CAST

A CHRISTMAS CAROL • 12

UnderstudiesEbenezer Scrooge Nick Rose*Bob Cratchit/Schoolmaster Oxlip Daniel Petzold*Fred/Mr. Sosser/Topper/Marley/Old Joe/Man with Pipe/Man with Shine/Undertaker Nicolás AcostaMr. Cupp/Percy/Dick Wilkins Joshua CarandangGhost of Christmas Past/Mrs. Peake/Mrs. Dilber/Mary (Scrubwoman) Deja ElliottBelle/Catherine Margaret/Rose/Poultress Jo Garcia-RegerMrs. Fezziwig/Patience Julia GomezYoung and Mature Scrooge/Mr. Fezziwig/Ghost of Christmas Present/

Ghost of Christmas Future/Constable Ethan Graham RoederMrs. Cratchit/Laundress at Fezziwig Shonita Joshi

Understudies never substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement is made prior to the performance.

Additional Production StaffAssistant Director Stephen Skiles Dialect Coach Mike KingAdditional Stitchers Kathie Brookfield, Theresa KramerAdditional Prop Run Crew Gordon McKnight, Rachel Pelgen, Amy WitherbyAdditional Wardrobe Run Crew Ruth Wartman, Kacey VanderMolenAssistant to Stephanie Klapper Casting Caitelin McCoy

The Stona Fitch Family is pleased to support this production of A Christmas Carol as a gift from our family to yours — Happy Holidays!

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

This theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States and with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees-Local No. 5.

Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park receives partial funding from the Ohio Arts Council, a state agency created to foster and encourage the development of the arts and to preserve Ohio’s cultural heritage. Funding from the Ohio Arts Council is an investment of state tax dollars that promotes economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.

13 • A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Give Your Spirits a Lift!Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol has endured for generations since its original publication as a novel in 1843. Its heartwarming message of redemption and its timeless themes of faith and humanity helped restore the spirit of the holiday season throughout Britain in the 19th century. For these reasons, A Christmas Carol is considered “the second greatest Christmas story ever told” and its author a beloved storyteller who imparted sentiment and wisdom that we still embrace today. Check out these quotes from A Christmas Carol and other Dickens stories.

“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.” — A Christmas Carol

“Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we’d give blood.” — Nicholas Nickleby

“I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.” — David Copperfield

“Have a heart that never hardens and a temper that never tires and a touch that never hurts.” — Hard Times

“From the death of each day’s hope, another hope sprung up to live to-morrow.” — The Old Curiosity Shop

“Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.” — Nicholas Nickleby

“It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.” — Oliver Twist

The cast of A Christmas Carol. Photo by Mikki Schaffner.


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“And thus ever by day and night, under the sun and under the stars, climbing the dusty hills and toiling along the weary plains, journeying by land and journeying by sea, coming and going so strangely, to meet and to act and react on one another, move all we restless travellers through the pilgrimage of life.” — Little Dorrit

“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before — more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.” — Great Expectations

“There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.” — The Pickwick Papers

“I found every breath of air, and every scent, and every flower and leaf and blade of grass and every passing cloud, and everything in nature, more beautiful and wonderful to me than I had ever found it yet.” — Bleak House

“So may the New Year be a happy one to you, happy to many more whose happiness depends on you!” — The Chimes


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BRUCE CROMER (Ebenezer Scrooge)Bruce has appeared in A Christmas Carol at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park since 1997, including eight years as Bob Cratchit; other Playhouse credits include Speaking in Tongues

(2012), King Lear (2001) and Barrymore (1999). His directing credits for the Playhouse’s outreach touring company include Touch the Names and The Tempest. Regionally, Bruce has appeared in more than 170 professional stage productions at Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Santa Fe Stages, Clarence Brown Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Seattle Children’s Theatre and The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, among others. He is a founding resident artist with The Human Race Theatre Company in Dayton, a certified teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors and a professor of acting at Wright State University’s Professional Actor Training Program. He has been a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association since 1981. Sharing the stage in this A Christmas Carol with his son Charlie is a long-time dream come true.

NICOLÁS ACOSTA(Dick Wilkins/Streets)Nicolás is overjoyed to be an acting intern at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and in A Christmas Carol! Originally from Bogotá, Colombia, Nicolás is a recent graduate of the University of Kentucky in

Arts Administration and Theatre. Favorite credits include Chino in West Side Story, Timothy in Hand to God, Fighting Prawn/Grempkin/Mack/Sánchez in Peter and the Starcatcher, Lefou in Beauty and the Beast, Pepper in Mamma Mia!, Ensemble/Harry Houdini understudy in Ragtime and Soloist/Dance Captain in the regional Emmy Award-winning production of It’s a Grand Night for Singing. Muchas gracias a mi papá, mamá, mi familia y a Dios. ¡Arriba el talento hispano y latino!

JOSHUA CARANDANG(Constable at Fezziwig’s/Man with Pipe/Caroler/Streets)Joshua is an actor from Lorain, Ohio. A recent graduate of Xavier University, he’s eager to begin his career in theatre and thrilled to

be a member of the Bruce E. Coyle Intern Company at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. His recent credits include Henry in Next to Normal, Bobby Strong in Urinetown and Andrew Jackson in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. He’d like to thank his loved ones for being so supportive and his mentors inside the Xavier Theatre program whose tireless dedication to the development of their students has made him the actor he is today.

ROSHAN CHITNIS(Tiny Tim)Roshan plays Tiny Tim and is proud to be making his Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park debut. He is in the fourth grade at Endeavor Elementary and his favorite subject is recess. Roshan

enjoys reading and his favorite book is The Little Prince. He loves the Avengers and Star Wars movies, playing Roblox, Restaurant Tycoon and CoolMath games. He even manages to learn Taekwondo in his spare time! He would like to thank his older brother Rishi, twin sister Soni and his parents for putting up with his endless jokes and mimicry attempts. He would prefer cake over flowers anytime.

CHARLIE CROMER(Young and Mature Scrooge/Ghost of Christmas Future)Charlie is honored to be back for a second year in Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park’s A Christmas Carol. He has appeared nationally in lead roles with the Berkeley

Impact Theatre, Eureka Suitcase Classics and


7 Stages Atlanta, where he took part in the national premiere of Italian playwright Laura Forti’s Pesach. His shadow play, The Asylum of Dr. Moreau, won Critic’s Pick for Best Drama at the Orlando International Fringe Festival. Regional credits include Of Mice and Men, Romeo and Juliet and Titus Andronicus at the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company. You can currently hear him on Audible as the narrator for Colin Dodds’ novels The Last Bad Job and Watershed. Charlie earned his Master’s in Fine Arts in Acting from the University of Georgia in Athens, where he currently lives with his beloved fiancée, Lauren. He is a proud member of Actor’s Equity.

DEJA ELLIOTT(Poulteress/Guest at Fezziwig’s/Streets)Deja is very excited to be joining the cast of A Christmas Carol this year. She recently finished her time at West Virginia University studying theatre with a

concentration in musical theatre. Her favorite WVU credits were Rheba in You Can’t Take it With You and Beethoven in Dog Sees God. After graduating, she joined West Virginia Public Theatre for the world premiere of Storming Heaven: The Musical and got to be a part of PAC Production’s first show The Cherry Orchard as Varya. Deja would like to thank her family, her friends and her intern company for helping to make Cincinnati feel like home.

TEAGAN FARMER(Want/Guest at Fezziwig’s/Streets)Teagan is excited to be performing in her debut role in A Christmas Carol at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Teagan lives in Cincinnati with her family

and is an eighth-grader at St. Veronica School. In addition to acting, Teagan enjoys playing volleyball. Teagan would like to thank her mom, dad and sister McKenna for all of their love and support. Follow her on Instagram @june_star19.

ANNIE FITZPATRICK(Mrs. Fezziwig/ Patience/Streets)Annie is delighted to return for her sixth season of A Christmas Carol. Past Playhouse productions include Alias Grace (2019); A Prayer for Owen Meany

(2016); To Kill a Mockingbird (2016); Pride and Prejudice (2014); and Hank Williams: Lost Highway (2012). She recently appeared in The Roommate at American Stage and The Wolves at Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati. She was a founding member of The New Group in New York City and toured nationally and internationally with Murder a la Carte. Regionally, Annie has performed at The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Geva Theatre Center, Florida Stage, Florida Studio Theatre, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, The Know Theatre of Cincinnati, Porthouse Theatre and The Human Race Theatre Company. Television and film credits include Chicago P.D., Lifetime’s Army Wives, A&E’s Those Who Kill, The Old Man and The Gun, Fun Size, Milk Money, to be, Broken Hearts and the upcoming Dark Waters.

JO GARCIA-REGER(Mary [Scrubwoman at Fezziwig’s]/Caroler/Streets)Jo is so excited to be a part of the Bruce E. Coyle Intern Company at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park! She recently graduated from Indiana State University

with a BS in Theatre, with minors in both Music and Dance. Jo’s Indiana State credits include Urinetown (Hope Cladwell), J. Caesar (Cassius) and Company (Jenny), as well as many other shows that she is so thankful to have had the opportunity to be a part of. She was last seen as Juliet in Crossroads Repertory Theatre’s production of Romeo and Juliet, where her other credits include Steel Magnolias (Shelby), Young Frankenstein (Elizabeth Benning) and Cyrano de Bergerac (Lise), among others.


RYAN WESLEY GILREATH(Bob Cratchit/ Schoolmaster Oxlip)Ryan is a Brooklyn-based actor who is ecstatic to be returning to his home town for this amazing production. Recently, Ryan shot an indie pilot for Netflix and can be

seen as Deputy Westerlund in their film Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, starring Zac Efron. He also plays Forrest Mars in The Food That Built America for the History Channel. Other television and film credits include Jack Miller on TURN (AMC), Oppenheimer in American Genius (National Geographic), Gold Fever (Discovery Channel) and the pilot Guilty (Fox), opposite Cuba Gooding, Jr. Theatre credits include Seven Angels (Burning Desire, starring alongside Lou Diamond Phillips), Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati (Riptide, Tribes, Other Desert Cities, Next Fall, Mary’s Wedding), the national tour of Echoes of Ireland, The Human Race (Ears on a Beatle) and Florida Repertory (Deathtrap). Big thanks to his wonderful family, the Playhouse crew, Blake for having him back, Lynn Meyers and Cincinnati for being AWESOME! Follow him on Instagram @WildWesleyJames.

JULIA GOMEZ(Rose/Guest at Fezziwig’s/Caroler/Streets)Julia is over the moon to be joining the Bruce E. Coyle Intern Company at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park for the 2019-20 season! She is a recent

honors graduate from Wright State University (WSU), where she earned her BFA in Acting and BA in Spanish. Favorite WSU credits include Blood Wedding (Mother), Stop Kiss (Sara) and Macbeth (Witch 1/Seyton), under the direction of the esteemed Bruce “Ebenezer Scrooge” Cromer. After graduation, Julia joined Hope Summer Repertory Theatre (HSRT) for two seasons, performing in West Side Story (Rosalia), Cinderella (Evil Stepmother) and Dragon Pack Snack Attack (Ms. Melon). She

was the Assistant Director for Godspell and The Old Man and the Old Moon, as well as a teaching artist at HSRT. Julia is currently working on her original play titled, More than a Muse. She would like to thank her familia and friends for their endless love and support.

MIA GOODLETT(Martha Cratchit/Guest at Fezziwig’s/Streets)Mia is overjoyed to be performing once again with Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park in A Christmas Carol. She is in the sixth grade at Summit Elementary in

The Forest Hills School District. Mia has been dancing since the age of 3 at The Studio for Dance. As a dancer, she has performed with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, in Cincinnati Ballet’s The Nutcracker and in Billy Elliot with Fairfield Summer Theatre. Mia studies voice with Xan Jeffery. In addition, she is a First-Degree Decided Black Belt at Martial Arts America. Mia thanks her family, friends, teachers and Cincinnati PIayhouse in the Park for their support.

ASHLYNN ISABEL HEZLEP(Belinda Cratchit/Guest at Fezziwig’s/Streets)Ashlynn is excited to return with A Christmas Carol as Belinda. She’s a fifth-grader at Boyd E. Smith Elementary and most recently appeared as Matilda in Matilda the

Musical. Her favorite role is Matilda. She also has enjoyed being a part of the Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati’s STAR NKU Program. A big thank you to the Playhouse for having Ashlynn return this year. Thank you to friends and family for supporting her. She wishes the cast and crew all the best this season.


ARI ELIZABETH JOHNSON(Fan/Guest at Fezziwig’s/Streets)Ari is a sixth-grader from Mason, Ohio. She and her family split their time between Los Angeles and Cincinnati, with representation through The

Osbrink Agency (Los Angeles) and, locally, Wings Model Management. This summer, she excitedly added Stagecoach Entertainment, in LA, to her management team. Ari is so thrilled to return for her fifth year of A Christmas Carol! You may recognize her from Brownsville Song: B-side for Tray (Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati) or as Casey Affleck and Tika Sumpter’s daughter in the feature film The Old Man and The Gun. Follow her on Instagram @ariandteagan.

SHONITA JOSHI(Mrs. Dilber/Guest at Fezziwig’s/Streets)Shonita moved to New York in June of 2017 and is a recent graduate of the Stella Adler School of Acting. Prior to moving to the United States, she worked for three years

in Mumbai in the Indian film industry (lovingly called Bollywood) and with several theatre groups. Shonita has her master’s in Journalism and worked for two years at Google India before realizing that her love for theatre is more than just a hobby — it’s a necessity. Her recent credits include Aimee in The Humans and Sally in A Lie of the Mind. In her free time, Shonita enjoys dog-training, horse-riding and swimming. Shonita is passionate about the environment and is a proud vegetarian (who is working towards being consistently vegan).

TAHA MANDVIWALA(Mr. Sosser/Topper/Man with Shoe Shine/Guest at Fezziwig’s)Taha is thrilled to be returning to Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park for A Christmas Carol! He is a 2016 graduate of the University of Kentucky where he earned

a BA in Theatre, and he was a member of the 2016-17 Bruce E. Coyle Acting Intern Company at the Playhouse. Recent regional credits include Romeo and Juliet (Romeo) and Love’s Labour’s Lost (Dumaine) at Santa Cruz Shakespeare Festival, and Disgraced (Abe) at Virginia Stage Company. Cincinnati Playhouse credits include Treasure Island, Shakespeare in Love, A Christmas Carol, as well as touring productions of Pinocchio; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; and Robin Hood. In his downtime, Taha enjoys local volunteering, practicing martial arts/stage combat and partaking in epic, rousing and dangerous sessions of Dungeons and Dragons.

SARA MASTERSON(Belle/Catherine Margaret)Sara is thrilled to be returning to Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park for her fourth holiday season! Her credits include Next to Normal (Syracuse Stage), Fun Home (Portland Center

Stage), Mamma Mia! (Bucks County Playhouse), The Secret Garden (Idaho Shakespeare Festival/Great Lakes Theater), How to Succeed in Business… (Arts Center of Coastal Carolina), Love Story (Playhouse Square) and A Little Night Music (New London Barn Playhouse). She is a proud graduate of the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music. Endless gratitude to the wonderful people at Carlton, Goddard and Freer Talent. Love to Daniel and her family. Visit saramastersonactor.com or follow her on Instagram @saraemasterson.


KELLY MENGELKOCH(Mrs. Cratchit/Laundress/Streets)Kelly is delighted to ring in the holidays with her A Christmas Carol family once again this season. Locally, she has also worked with New Stage Collective,

The Human Race Theatre Company, Xavier University Theatre, Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati and Know Theatre of Cincinnati, and is a resident ensemble member and Associate Artist at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company. Most recently, she has been seen as Sherlock in Miss Holmes and Ivy in August: Osage County. Regional work includes St. Croix Festival Theatre, The Old Creamery Theatre Company and Kansas City’s New Theatre. Film credits include C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, A Kind of Murder, The Old Man and The Gun and Perception. For more information, visit kellymengelkoch.com. She would like to send love and thanks to all of her families, and especially so to her dear husband, Jeremy.

DANIEL PETZOLD(Fred)Daniel is delighted to be returning to Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park for his second year of A Christmas Carol. His New York credits include Switzerland (59E59 and Hudson Stage

Company), Pushkin (the american vicarious) and In the Line (Project Y Theatre). Regionally, he’s been seen in Measure for Measure, Macbeth, Love’s Labour’s Lost and Twelfth Night (The Old Globe); Tom Stoppard’s trilogy, The Coast of Utopia (Shotgun Players); Three Sisters (Berkeley Repertory Theatre); A Bright New Boise (Aurora Theatre Company); Any Given Day and Another Way Home (Magic Theatre); Julius Caesar and Romeo and Juliet (Pacific Repertory Theatre); as well as performances with the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, the Marin Shakespeare Company and Livermore Shakespeare Festival. He holds a Bachelor’s of Art from University of

California Berkeley and a Master’s in Fine Arts from The Old Globe/University of San Diego. Love to Sara. Visit danielpetzoldactor.com and follow him on Instagram @_danielpetzold.

GREG PROCACCINO (Jacob Marley/Old Joe)Greg’s Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park credits include A Christmas Carol (1991-2018), The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1996) and Romeo and Juliet (1978). Off-Broadway, he appeared

in Second Chance. His regional credits include theatres such as Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati and theatres in Washington D.C., Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, California and Ohio. On television and in film, he has appeared in The Greater Good (2006 FAIF Film Festival award winner), Heartburn, Best Friends, A Mom for Christmas, This Train, Little Man Tate, Crossing Fields, Milk Money, Murphy Brown, Hawk, Tanner ’88 (as a regular) and 2004’s Tanner on Tanner. He was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1990. Greg has directed over 20 stage productions in and around the Cincinnati area. He is the director of theatre at Thomas More University.

DOUGLAS REES(Mr. Fezziwig/Ghost of Christmas Present)Doug is delighted to return to Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park for his sixth turn in A Christmas Carol, and he is particularly grateful for the dear friends he’s made

along the way. Five years ago he was seen on the Marx stage in Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club, and more distant, he appeared in Macbeth in the 1981-82 season as a member of the first-ever intern company at the Playhouse. Other credits include the world premiere of Michael Hollinger’s Opus (Arden Theatre Company, Philadelphia), as well as the subsequent New York City premiere at Primary Stages; many appearances at the Mint Theater Company in New York City; The Beauty


Queen of Leenane, All in the Timing, Compleat Female Stage Beauty and as Scrooge in the world premiere of Christopher Durang’s Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge (City Theatre Company, Pittsburgh); the world premiere of Michael Hollinger’s Ghost Writer (Arden Theatre); Resurrection Blues by Arthur Miller (The Wilma Theater, Philadelphia); Travesties (Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre); and Romeo and Juliet, The Cherry Orchard and All the Rage (Pittsburgh Public Theater). Television appearances include 30 Rock. Originally from Pittsburgh, he presently lives in New York City.

ETHAN GRAHAM ROEDER(Undertaker/Guest at Fezziwig’s/Caroler/Streets)Ethan is happy to be in Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park’s adaptation of A Christmas Carol after three years playing Nick Oatway in a different adaptation at

the Clarence Brown Theatre. An actor/director from Knoxville, Tenn., he splits his time evenly between acting and directing. As an intern at the Playhouse, he just completed the outreach tour of The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane as the voice of Edward! Favorite performance credits include Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play; Spamalot; and Urinetown at the Clarence Brown Theatre. As a director and ensemble member, Ethan has mounted productions of bare: a pop opera, All’s Well That Ends Well and a variety of immersive musical revues in coffee shops, bars and sometimes theatres.

NICK ROSE(Mr. Cupp/Percy/ Rich Man at Fezziwig’s)Nick is excited to return to Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park for his 11th show. A veteran actor of A Christmas Carol, he was delighted to be part of Alias

Grace. His regional credits include Prospero in The Tempest and Iago in Othello (Cincinnati Shakespeare Company), Dead Man’s Cell

Phone (Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati) and When the Rain Stops Falling (Know Theatre of Cincinnati). He starred in the world premiere of Carson Kreitzer’s The Lasso of Truth in San Francisco (Marin Theatre Company). Nick’s television and film credits include Emulsion, The Tao of Tom, Justice in Bloom and various local television and radio commercials. He is currently pursuing an M.Ed. in Secondary Education. He currently resides in Anderson Township with his beautiful and more talented wife, Sara, their son, Brennan and their cat, Keillor.

BENJAMIN SHEFFER(Boy Scrooge/Boy at Fezziwig’s/Bootblack/Streets)Benjamin is thrilled to be performing in A Christmas Carol at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. His local performances at the Theatre of Anderson

Center include Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie), Mary Poppins (Michael), Into the Woods (Jack), Elf (Michael) and Matilda (Bruce). A sixth-grader at Wilson Elementary, Ben enjoys singing, acting, playing the cello, traveling and skiing. He is thankful for his many years of training from Miss Tina at Performing Arts, Inc. He hopes this production of A Christmas Carol brings joy and happiness to your holiday season!

BRITNEY NICOLE SIMPSON(Ghost of Christmas Past/ Mrs. Peake)Britney is thrilled to join Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park for a second season of A Christmas Carol! Theatre credits include Cyrano (Two River Theater); Into the Woods,

Cyrano, The Taming of the Shrew and Richard II (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival); Nina Simone: 4 Women (Seattle Repertory Theater); Beauty and the Beast, The Odyssey, The Yeomen of the Guard, The Wiz, Guys and Dolls, the world-premiere production of Head Over Heels and The Cocoanuts (The Oregon Shakespeare Festival); A Christmas Carol (Cincinnati Playhouse in the


Park); The Wizard of Oz and Fiddler on the Roof (PCPA Theaterfest); and S’Wonderful (Oregon Cabaret Theatre). She has performed with The Britt Festival years 2016, 2017 and 2018. She studied at The Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts and dedicates this show to Grace House Church of Stockton, Ambre Shoneff, Amanda Farbstein, Candy Farbstein, Carla Remulla, Ceazar Cabreros, Daddy Tom, Daniel Petzold, Hannah Jones Diaz, Monica Reye and Sabrina Willis-Bartram — God used your generosity to save my family. The magnitude of my gratitude and thanks for you is inexplicable. Thank you for BEING a blessing... May it be returned to you TENFOLD.

SABIAN SWAN(George/Charles/Rich Son at Fezziwig’s/Streets)Sabian is excited to be returning to the A Christmas Carol stage. He has a gift for performing and has participated in school plays, including the Troll in The

Three Billy Goats Gruff. Sabian sings and plays the violin, piano, drums and trumpet. He has attended acting camp at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and The Young Actor’s Toolbox, as well as boys’ ballet classes at College-Conservatory of Music. Offstage, Sabian enjoys spending time with his family and friends, seeing Broadway plays, playing tennis and basketball, swimming and meeting new people. Sabian hopes you enjoy the show!

STEPHEN TAIT(Ignorance/Matthew/Apprentice at Fezziwig’s/Streets)Stephen is a seventh-grader at Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy (CHCA). He got his start in theatre at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park’s summer camp three

years ago and has continued to participate. As the youngest of four siblings, it was on the stage that Stephen finally found where he belonged. Stephen’s credits include, Lion King Jr., Joseph

and the Technicolor Dreamcoat, Mary Poppins Jr., James and the Giant Peach, and in January 2020, Godspell Jr. (CHCA). His passion for theatre exudes every time he steps on the stage, no matter how small the part. Stephen is thankful to the Playhouse for igniting his passion for the arts and for the opportunities he’s been given through Playhouse programs and in CHCA’s Fine Arts Department. Stephen also plays the piano, has a love for languages and aviation, and is the pride and joy of his parents, Pastor Ennis and Sheree Tait.

TEANCOM THACKER(Peter Cratchit/Gregory/Apprentice at Fezziwig’s/Streets)Teancom is thrilled to be back for his second production of A Christmas Carol at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. In addition to playing Boy

Scrooge last year, Teancom has been in school and local productions, including Matilda (Eric); You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Linus); and The Lion King, Jr. (Young Simba). Teancom is an eighth-grader at the School for Creative and Performing Arts. He is a kind, thoughtful, upbeat person who dreams of working on Broadway. Teancom would like to thank his family and friends for supporting him and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park for this opportunity.

HOWARD DALLIN(Playwright)Howard’s 35 professional years in theatre were mostly focused on directing plays and corporate training videos. He is currently a writer and educator. As an actor, Howard

acknowledges “that the stage has had a narrow escape.” His adaptation of A Christmas Carol for Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park was heavily influenced by the 1951 movie starring Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge. In addition to adapting the story for the stage, Howard directed the first two productions at


the Playhouse. The first production was okay, but the script clearly needed more work. It was former Playhouse Producing Artistic Director Ed Stern who coached Howard through a series of revisions that allowed Scrooge to be a participant in the action rather than a mere observer. Michael Evan Haney, who was the production’s first-ever Bob Cratchit, eventually took over directing the work and has fashioned it into an endearing holiday classic.

MICHAEL EVAN HANEY(Director)Michael served as Associate Artistic Director for the Playhouse from 2002 to 2013. His productions here include Summerland, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, A Delicate Ship, Double

Indemnity, Speaking in Tongues, The Understudy, The History of Invulnerability, Blackbird, Crime and Punishment, The Clean House, A Christmas Carol (1993-2018), Hiding Behind Comets and The Syringa Tree, among many others. Off-Broadway, he directed Around the World in 80 Days at the Irish Repertory Theatre. International credits include the English Theatres of Vienna and Frankfurt. Regional productions include Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days (Open Eye Theatre in Minneapolis); All My Sons (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); The Drawer Boy (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Freud’s Last Session and Souvenir, for which he earned a Kevin Kline Award for direction (The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); The Humans, Bloomsday, Grounded, An Iliad, Tribes and others (Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati); Bad Dates (Kansas City Repertory Theatre); and Scotland Road (Pacific Resident Theatre, Drama-Logue Award for direction). As artistic director of the Allenberry Playhouse, Michael directed more than 30 plays, including Bus Stop, Shirley Valentine, Love Letters (with Shirley Jones) and The Secret Garden. Michael began his career as an actor appearing on Broadway, off-Broadway and at many regional theatres: Arena Stage (including their historic tour of the Soviet Union) and Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival where he appeared in the first American production

of Dickens’ Nicholas Nickleby. Michael and his wife Amy Warner appeared as Cate Blanchett’s in-laws in the movie Carol and now live in Minnesota. In 2013, he received the Rick Steiner Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence from the League of Cincinnati Theatres.

JAMES LEONARD JOY(Set Designer)James’ Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park productions include A Christmas Carol (1991-2018), Sylvia (1997), Inspecting Carol (1994), Hot ’N Cole (1992), The Cocktail Hour (1992) and

Top Girls (1986). His Broadway credits include Ned and Jack, Take Me Along, Peter Pan, State Fair, Play On! and Regina at New York City Opera. Regionally, he has designed for The Old Globe Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Alliance Theatre Company, Cleveland Play House, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, The Guthrie Theater, Pasadena Playhouse, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Goodspeed Opera House, Arena Stage, Ford’s Theatre and Roundabout Theatre Company in New York, among others. James has designed corporate theatre shows extensively for such clients as McDonald’s, Toyota, General Motors, General Electric and Takeda Pharmaceuticals, and various theme park shows for the Walt Disney World Company, Busch Gardens Tampa and SeaWorld San Antonio.

DAVID MURIN (Costume Designer)David’s Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park credits include A Christmas Carol (1991-2019). His Broadway credits include Steel Magnolias, Mixed Emotions, A Change in the Heir, Ned and Jack, Blues in the Night, Devour the Snow, A Talent for Murder, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial and Gorey Stories (supervisor for Edward Gorey’s designs). His off-Broadway productions include Crimes of the Heart (directed by Kathleen Turner), The Foreigner (with Matthew Broderick), The Holy Terror, The Middle Ages, Ladyhouse Blues, Translations, The Common Pursuit, Birds of Paradise, The Baby Dance, The Fourth Wall and


Down the Garden Paths. Regionally, David’s designs have been seen at Alley Theatre, Paper Mill Playhouse, McCarter Theatre Center, George Street Playhouse, Arizona Theatre Company, Long Wharf Theatre and Huntington Theatre Company. He has produced designs for made-for-television movies and the long-running ABC soap opera Ryan’s Hope, for which he received an Emmy Award in 1981. His designs were also seen in the 2007-08 edition of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. He has just begun his 30th year serving on the design faculty of Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts. He has just begun teaching a costume design mentoring class at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

KIRK BOOKMAN (Lighting Designer)Kirk’s Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park credits include more than 70 productions, including Million Dollar Quartet (2018), Summerland (2017), A Delicate Ship (2014), Speaking in Tongues

(2012), The Fantasticks (2010), A Christmas Carol (1991-2018), Sing Hallelujah! (2004), Proof (2003) and The Mystery of Irma Vep (2001). His Broadway credits include The Sunshine Boys (with Jack Klugman and Tony Randall), The Gin Game (with Julie Harris and Charles Durning) and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Additional New York off-Broadway productions include Closer Than Ever (off-Broadway); Right You Are and What Then (Ohio Theatre); The Cook (Intar 53 Theatre); Recent Tragic Events (with Heather Graham, Playwrights Horizons); Shanghai Moon (with Charles Busch, Drama Department); The Green Heart (Manhattan Theatre Club); and productions of Mondo Drama, Havana Is Waiting, Force Continuum, My One Good Nerve (starring Ruby Dee), The Shawl, Rude Entertainment, The Book of Liz (with David and Amy Sedaris), Les MIZrahi, Hope is the Thing with Feathers, As Thousands Cheer, June Moon, Bedbound, Playboy of the Western World, Eclipsed, The Importance of Being Earnest and Major Barbara.

DAVID SMITH(Sound Designer/Composer)David’s Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park credits include more than 70 productions, including Thunder Knocking on the Door, Beehive, Dracula, Dark Paradise: The Legend of the Five-Pointed Star,

Everything’s Ducky, A Little Night Music, Wit, Sweeney Todd, The Notebook of Trigorin, To Kill a Mockingbird and all productions of A Christmas Carol. Regional credits include Golden Boy (Long Wharf Theatre), Arena Stage, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Paper Mill Playhouse, Birmingham Theatre, Cleveland Play House, Huntington Theatre Company and New York Shakespeare Festival. David has designed Sinfonia orchestral enhancement systems for the national tours of West Side Story, Annie, Jekyll and Hyde, Evita, Steel Pier, The Phantom of the Opera, Ragtime, Titanic, Seussical, Miss Saigon, Cinderella, The Music Man, Porgy and Bess, Oliver! and Oklahoma! Las Vegas credits include KÁ, Le Reve and Love; London credits include Les Misérables. David is a founding Partner and Director of Research and Development for Realtime Music Solutions and Dean of the School of Professional Studies at NYC College of Technology (CUNY). He holds multiple U.S. patents for music performance systems. David received a Kevin Kline Award for outstanding sound design for Dracula. His compositions have been played across the country.

STEVE O’SHEA(Lighting Contractor)Steve is pleased to be returning to Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, where he made his debut with God of Carnage (2011). He is currently the resident lighting and scenic designer for TADA! Youth Musical Theater Company New York City (since 2006). He is a design associate for various international, Broadway, off-Broadway and regional productions. He received his MFA in Lighting Design from the University of Washington in Seattle in 2001.


REBECCA N. CHILDS(Music Director)Rebecca has been the music director for Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park’s production of A Christmas Carol since 2002. She was also the rehearsal pianist for the Playhouse’s production

of Tenderly: The Rosemary Clooney Musical (2014). She has been a musical director/vocal coach/accompanist for school, community and professional theatres in New Orleans and the southern Ohio area, and she has music directed shows for her alma mater, Miami University, and the University of Dayton. At The Carnegie, Rebecca was vocal director and assistant conductor for Carousel, for which she won an Acclaim Award, and vocal director for The King and I, The Sound of Music and West Side Story. She was music director for Mad Anthony Theatre Company’s The Story of My Life and Sondheim on Sondheim. She was also musical director for CCM Drama’s production of Coram Boy. Rebecca is an adjunct instructor at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music. Rebecca was privileged to join three other CCM faculty who taught a musical theatre program in Beijing in 2018. She served as music director for La Comedia’s 2018 productions of The Color Purple and White Christmas, and for the 2019 productions of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Newsies and Elf, the Musical. Rebecca received the Cincinnati Arts Association Overture Awards 2017 Arts Educator Award for excellence in arts instruction. She is also the proud mother of Erin Crouch and grandmother to Jack Crouch. Rebecca is honored to continue her association with the Playhouse and A Christmas Carol.

DEE ANNE BRYLL(Choreographer)Dee Anne is very pleased to return to Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park for her 19th year as choreographer for A Christmas Carol. Playhouse credits include Tenderly:

The Rosemary Clooney Musical (2014), Pride and Prejudice (2014), Marry Me a Little (2009), The Clean House (2006) and The Glass Menagerie (1999). Additional credits include work at Xavier University Theatre, Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati, The Carnegie, Cincinnati Landmark Theatre and Commonwealth Theatre Company. Dee Anne has been a director/choreographer for shows including Life Could Be A Dream, Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, The Sound of Music (2015 LCT outstanding production), Chicago (2013-14 LCT winner of outstanding musical 2013-14 and outstanding direction of a musical), Falsettos, Parade (2012-13 LCT winner outstanding musical), Big River, Singin’ in the Rain, Ragtime and Some Enchanted Evening. She won a 2006 CEA for her performance as Maggie Jones in 42nd Street. She and her husband, Edward Cohen, were awarded the 2010 Acclaim Trailblazer Award for contributions to Cincinnati theatre. In January 2015, she was awarded the 2015 Freddie G Broadway Junior Spirit Award presented and sponsored by Freddie Gershon (CEO of Music Theatre International) and his wife Myrna. Dee Anne holds faculty positions at Northern Kentucky University and Xavier University and is Artistic Project Mentor for JumpStart Theatre - Cincinnati.

STEPHANIE KLAPPER, CSA(Casting Director)Stephanie is thrilled to continue her collaboration with Blake Robison and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Select shows she has cast for the Playhouse are Once on This Island;

Alias Grace; You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown;


The Thanksgiving Play; Two Trains Running; A Christmas Carol; Cincinnati King; Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley and The Roommate; in addition to Shakespeare in Love, Mr. Joy, Be Here Now, Marie and Rosetta, Sooner/Later, Treasure Island and Murder for Two in 2017-18. Previously for the Playhouse, she cast A Prayer for Owen Meany, Disgraced, A Christmas Carol, Jane Eyre, All the Roads Home, Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, The Secret Garden, Sex with Strangers, Mad River Rising, Native Gardens, The Revolutionists, To Kill a Mockingbird, Mothers and Sons, Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club, Safe House, Tenderly: The Rosemary Clooney Musical, Circle Mirror Transformation, Peter and the Starcatcher, Buzzer, Fly, Seven Spots on the Sun, Clybourne Park, 4000 Miles and Pride and Prejudice; as well as Shipwrecked! An Entertainment, The Book Club Play, Leveling Up, Abigail/1702 and The Three Musketeers. Her work is frequently seen on Broadway, off-Broadway and regionally, as well as on film and television. She has many exciting projects running and upcoming in New York, regionally and in Europe. Stephanie is a member of the Casting Society of America.

ANDREA L. SHELL (Stage Manager)Andrea is excited to be celebrating her 20th season with Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, having worked on more than 90 productions. A highlight of every season for her is stage managing

A Christmas Carol. Favorite Playhouse credits include Alias Grace; The Last Wide Open; The Roommate; Treasure Island; Be Here Now; Mr. Joy; Erma Bombeck: At Wit’s End; Jane Eyre; Disgraced; Bad Dates; The Revolutionists; Peter and the Starcatcher; I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti; The North Pool; The Trip to Bountiful; Merrily We Roll Along; As You Like It; Behind the Eye; The Understudy; Blackbird; Durango; Around the World in 80 Days; Altar Boyz; Smoke on the Mountain Homecoming; Reckless; Ace; The Clean House; A Picasso; One; Abracadabra (2002-2007); The Bible … (abridged); and Dark Paradise.

Regionally, she stage managed The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead (Dallas Theater Center); Ace (The Old Globe); Lost Prospect (Ingenuity Festival of Cleveland); A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Nutcracker (Cincinnati Ballet); and Snow White and Beauty and the Beast (Cincinnati Ballet’s Otto M. Budig Academy). She also served as the production stage manager for the Jonesborough Repertory Theatre. Andrea is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. She would like to thank her family, friends, Dylan and Scott for their unending support.

JENIFER MORROW(Second Stage Manager)A proud member of Actors’ Equity Association for 30 years, Jenifer has been a stage manager at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park since 1994. She became the PSM (head of

the department) in 2005. Jenifer has worked on more than 100 productions, including a number of regional and world premieres, and has traveled to several other theatres to bring co-productions back to the Playhouse. Her recent credits include The Lifespan of a Fact; Tiny Houses; August Wilson’s Two Trains Running; The Second City — It’s Not You, It’s Me; Cincinnati King; Misery; Murder for Two; Marie and Rosetta; An Evening With Groucho; Shakespeare in Love; Little Shop of Horrors; The Second City’s Holidazed & Confused Revue; A Prayer for Owen Meany; To Kill a Mockingbird; The Secret Garden; and Tenderly: The Rosemary Clooney Musical. Jenifer served as the PSM at Santa Fe Stages for several seasons. She has also stage managed at Cleveland Play House, La Jolla Playhouse, Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Long Wharf Theatre, Goodspeed Opera House, Virginia Shakespeare Festival, The Ordway and Players Theatre Columbus. One of her most memorable experiences was stage managing the U.K. tour of Miss Evers’ Boys at The Barbican Centre in London and at the historic Bristol Old Vic.


SUANN POLLOCK(Assistant Stage Manager)In more than 20 years at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Suann has stage managed many productions. Her favorites include Company; The History of Invulnerability; Three

Sisters; Othello; Pure Confidence; This Wonderful Life; Love, Janis; Crowns; Leap; A Christmas Carol; The Crucible; Hiding Behind Comets; and The Smell of the Kill. Regionally, she has

served as production stage manager at Music Theatre Wichita, Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati, BoarsHead Theater and Cincinnati Ballet. Suann has directed Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse and The Phantom Tollbooth for Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park’s Off the Hill outreach tours. Other favorite directing credits include Pride and Prejudice; Rent; Urinetown; and Bat Boy, The Musical. Suann teaches Musical Theatre Acting for University of Cincinnati’s College- Conservatory of Music Prep Department and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

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CINCINNATI PLAYHOUSE IN THE PARKBlake Robison Artistic Director

Buzz Ward Managing Director

2 PIANOS, 4 HANDSDirector and Music Director Tom Frey

Scenic Designer Steve LucasLighting Designer James Sale

Casting Director Dale Brown, CSA

By TED DYKSTRA & RICHARD GREENBLATT

Artist Sponsor: Honorary Producer:The Daley Family

Foundation

Artist Sponsor: Barbara Weyand

Sponsored by

2 Pianos 4 Hands was originally produced in April 1996, by the Tarragon Theatre, Toronto, in association with Talking Fingers Inc. and produced across North America and in London by Mirvish Productions.

2 Pianos 4 Hands is produced by permission of the Playwrights and Marquis Literary (Colin Rivers) www.mqlit.ca.

Additional support provided by:

Rosenthal Shelterhouse Theatre Season Presented by:w

Nov. 9, 2019 – Jan. 5, 2020Rosenthal Shelterhouse Theatre

Design Sponsor:Steinway Piano Sponsor:

Season Sponsor of New Work:The Rosenthal Family Foundation

Artist Sponsor:

CAST(in speaking order)

Ted Jefferson McDonald*Richard Matthew McGloin*

Stage Manager Brooke Redler*Stage Management Intern Micah Akilah

2 Pianos, 4 Hands will be performed with an intermission.

Additional Production StaffCarpenter Daniel Bradburn

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

This theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States and with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees-Local No. 5.

Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park receives partial funding from the Ohio Arts Council, a state agency created to foster and encourage the development of the arts and to preserve Ohio’s cultural heritage. Funding from the Ohio Arts Council is an investment of state tax dollars that promotes economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.

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SONG LISTACT I

Concerto in D Minor, BWV 1052, 1st Movement (J.S. Bach)Heart and Soul (Hoagy Carmichael)The Birch Canoe (Leila Fletcher)By the Stream (Richard Greenblatt)Our Band Goes to Town (arranged by J.B. Duvernoy)Sonatina No. 6 in F major (L. van Beethoven)Sonata for One Piano, Four Hands in D major, 1st Movement (W.A. Mozart)Sonata No. 16 in C major, “Facile,” 1st Movement (W.A. Mozart)In Der Halle des Bergkönigs, “In the Hall of the Mountain King”, Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 (Edvard Grieg)Concerto in D minor, 1st Movement (J.S. Bach)

ACT II

Prelude No. 15 in D flat major, “Raindrop” (Frédéric Chopin)Asturias “Leyenda” (Isaac Albéniz)Rondo for Two Pianos, Four Hands in C major (Frédéric Chopin)Fantasiestücke No. 2 (Robert Schumann)Sonata No. 8 in C minor, “Pathétique,” 1st and 2nd Movements (L. van Beethoven)Ballade No. 2 in F major (Frédéric Chopin)Mephisto Waltz No. 1 (Franz Liszt)A Medley of Pop TunesImpromptu in A flat (Franz Schubert)My Funny Valentine (Richard Rodgers/ Lorenz Hart)Piano Man (Billy Joel)Concerto in D minor, BWV 1052, 1st movement (J.S. Bach)

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JEFFERSON McDONALD(Ted)Jefferson couldn’t be happier to return to the boards at the prestigious Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Audiences may remember his outrageous performance as Spike in the Playhouse’s

2015 production of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. His recent credits include Million Dollar Quartet (Weston Playhouse, Confederation Centre of the Arts, Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, The Forestburgh Playhouse), Avenue Q (Park Playhouse), Period of Adjustment (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater), Grapes of Wrath (Asolo Repertory Theatre) and Cabaret (Lake Dillon Theatre Company). Classically trained in both music and acting, Jefferson has studied in Moscow (MXAT) and London and holds a Bachelor’s of Art from Ithaca College and a Master’s of Fine Arts from the FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training. His new musical Jerry Lee Lewis Versus Jerry Lee Lewis will receive its world premiere this winter at Park Playhouse. Visit jeffersonmcdonald.com.

MATTHEW McGLOIN(Richard)Matthew is pleased to make his Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park debut. His off-Broadway credits include The Hello Girls (OCR, Prospect Theatre Company/59E59), Bastard

Jones (The Cell), Casablanca Box (HERE Arts), Xanadu (Piper Theatre), as well as workshops and readings with Tectonic Theater Project, Abingdon Theatre, Dixon Place, Ma-Yi and The Lark. Regionally, he has appeared in The Play That Goes Wrong (Repertory Theatre St. Louis); Murder for Two (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre); Beautiful Star (Triad Stage); Misalliance and Cinderella (Olney Theatre); The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Signature Theatre); As You Like It (Folger Theatre); History on Foot (Ford’s Theatre); On the Razzle and A Flea in Her Ear

(Constellation Theatre); The Tempest, The Taming of the Shrew, Complete Works of Shakespeare Abridged and Complete History of America Abridged (Virginia Shakespeare Festival); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Maryland Stage Company); and many world premiere plays and musicals at the Kennedy Center. On television, he has appeared in Primal Instinct (Investigation Discovery). Matthew received his Bachelor’s of Fine Art from the University of Maryland Baltimore County and works as a teaching artist and burlesque performer. He dedicates his performance to his childhood piano teacher, Rhunell, and to his parents, Dareen and Frank. Visit matthewmcgloin.com and follow him on Instagram @jackie_of_all_traits.

TED DYKSTRA(Playwright)Ted has played leading roles on every major stage in Canada and has directed dozens of award-winning productions as well. He recently wrote Evangeline, an enormously successful

musical, is the “Chief Engineer” of Toronto’s hottest new indie theatre, The Coal Mine, which he founded with his wife Diana Bentley, and a founding member of Soulpepper Theatre in Toronto where he has directed, acted, composed and written for dozens of productions. He has received five Dora Awards, as well as Gemini, Merritt, Sterling and Chalmers Awards and has oodles of award nominations for acting, directing, composing, writing and producing. Currently, he is the voice of Dad Tiger on Daniel Tiger’s Neighbourhood (PBS) and also routinely guests on TV shows and in movies. Coming up Ted will direct the Toronto premiere of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Cost Of Living for The Coal Mine. He loves tennis, soccer, the Oilers (he accepts your sympathy) and being a dad to Henry, Rosie and Theo.


RICHARD GREENBLATT(Playwright)Richard was born in Montréal and received his acting training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England. He has performed in theatres across Canada and abroad,

as well as in feature films, television and radio. He has directed well over 140 productions; the vast majority being original and/or Canadian works, as well as directing the premieres of many ground-breaking and award-winning plays for young audiences. As a writer, he wrote or co-wrote: 2 Pianos, 4 Hands; Athabasca, Sibs (also made into a TV movie for the CBC); The Theory of Relatives; i.d.; Letters from Lehrer; Care and Soft Pedaling. 2 Pianos, 4 Hands has played on five continents and in over 150 cities since it opened in 1996. Richard himself has performed the play over 950 times across Canada and in New York City, Washington D.C., London and Tokyo. Upcoming, he will be directing Elektra by Judith Thompson for Humber College in Toronto and reprising his role as the American “Indianist” composer Charles Wakefield Cadman in Jani Lauzon’s play, I Call myself Princess in Saskatchewan. He has received numerous nominations for his work and has won seven Dora Awards and two Chalmers Awards. He lives in Toronto with partner Tanya Greve and their daughter, Amelia, and is the proud father of Natasha, Will and the dearly missed Luke Greenblatt.

TOM FREY(Director and Music Director)Tom is delighted to be making his Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park debut. This production of 2 Pianos, 4 Hands marks his 14th as director. He began his association with this

show nearly 20 years ago as an actor in the role of Richard, later switching to the role of Ted. He performed it over 600 times in total

all over the United States and Canada in such venues as Hartford Stage, Houston’s Stages Repertory, Portland Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Merrimack Repertory, Geva Theatre, The Ordway Theatre, Laguna Playhouse, Dallas Theatre Center, the Globe Theatre, the Peterborough Players and the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, among others. Other credits include Breath and Imagination at Hartford Stage and Pittsburgh City Theatre, Arms and The Man, The 39 Steps, God of Carnage and The Drowsy Chaperone with Peterborough Players, Dirty Blonde at the Cleveland Play House and Pittsburgh Public Theatre, as well as leading roles at many other theatres around the country. He graduated from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts Professional Actor Training Program and now lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire. All his love to Bridget.

STEVE LUCAS(Scenic Designer)Steve is pleased to be making his Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park debut. His off-Broadway credits include 2 Pianos, 4 Hands and VeloCity. Steve has designed award-winning sets and lighting

and projections for more than 500 productions of theatre, opera, dance and performance art. His work has been seen across Canada, the United States, UK, Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, Australia and Asia. Steve’s work in theatre is focused on new and original plays; he has designed the world premieres of literally hundreds of shows. Steve has received four Dora Awards (Toronto’s version of the Tony Awards) for his set and lighting designs. He has also been nominated for several of Canada’s most prestigious awards including 33 Dora Award nominations. Visit stevelucasdesign.ca and follow him on Instagram @stevelucasdesign.


JAMES SALE(Lighting Designer)James is very happy to be back at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. James has designed lighting for plays, operas, ballets, buildings and even a fountain. This month

he will design lighting for La Traviata in Salt Lake City, the Cadet Fieldhouse Basketball Arena at the U.S. Air Force Academy, the Macy’s Christmas Light Show in Philadelphia and, of course, 2 Pianos, 4 Hands.

DALE BROWN, CSA(Casting Director)2 Pianos, 4 Hands marks Dale’s second project for Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, having cast last year’s co-production of In the Heights. His recent New York work includes

Life Jacket Theatre’s acclaimed production of America Is Hard to See at HERE and the Drama Desk Award-nominated Daddy Long Legs. Some of his other regional credits include Milwaukee Rep’s productions of West Side Story, Chinese Lady and Things I Know Should be True; Paul Gordon’s musical Sense & Sensibility for Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Disgraced for Syracuse Stage; and Nerds for Philadelphia Theatre Co. in collaboration with Duncan Stewart & Co. Dale cast the NYC lab production of Maltby and Shire’s new musical Waterfall, and a tour of Kathleen Marshall’s Tony Award-winning production of Anything Goes. Dale spent over five years with Tara Rubin Casting, maintaining the North American companies of The Phantom of the Opera and Billy Elliot and worked on the Broadway productions of A Little Night Music, Jesus Christ Superstar, Guys & Dolls and the off-Broadway production of Old Jews Telling Jokes. Dale is a member of the Casting Society of America and an honors graduate of Kalamazoo College and the BESGL Theater Program in London. Visit dalebrowncasting.com for more information.

BROOKE REDLER(Stage Manager)Brooke is pleased to return for her fifth season with Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Her off-Broadway credits include Breathing Time, The Faire and From White Plains (production

stage manager, Fault Line Theatre). Regional theatre credits include In The Heights, Million Dollar Quartet, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Summerland and Native Gardens (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Hair: Retrospection, Stillwater, The Whipping Man, August: Osage County, Cabaret and five seasons of A Christmas Carol (production stage manager, Kansas City Repertory Theatre); Peter and the Starcatcher and Richard II (Utah Shakespeare Festival); Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Center Stage in Baltimore); The Drowsy Chaperone, Is He Dead? and Harry the Great (Creede Repertory Theatre). Assistant stage management credits include Our Town, A Flea in Her Ear, Clay, Jitney and Love, Janis (Kansas City Repertory Theatre); and work at Starlight Theatre, Stages St. Louis and Heart of America Shakespeare Festival. Brooke also has worked in opera, with credits including Moscow, Cherry Town and Medea (PSM, Opera Long Beach); and Ariadne Auf Naxos, The Coronation of Poppea, Frida, Die Fledermaus and Tosca (ASM, Cincinnati Opera). She also spent two seasons at The Santa Fe Opera.


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Frank LoesserSONY/ATV Music Publishing Canada Inc.© 1938 by Famous Music Corp.Copyright Renewed 1965 by Famous Music

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“THE BIRCH CANOE”Music by LEILA FLETCHERMAYFAIR MONTGOMERY PUBLISHINGAll Rights Reserved. Used by Permission.

“BENNIE AND THE JETS”Words and Music by Elton John &

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“GREAT BALLS OF FIRE”Words and Music by Otis Blackwell &

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2 Pianos, 4 Hands and 30 Terms to KnowBy Gigi Relic

ADAGIO: to play at a slow tempo.

AGITATO: to play in an agitated manner.

ALLEGRO: to play at a brisk tempo.

ALLEGRETTO: to play at a fairly brisk tempo.

ANDANTE: to play at a moderately slow tempo.

APPASSIONATO: to play passionately.

APPOGGIATURA: a grace note performed before a note of the melody and falling on the beat. A musical ornament of an added non-chord note in a melody that is resolved to the regular note of the chord.

ARPEGGIO: the notes of a chord played in succession, either ascending or descending.

CRESCENDO: a gradual increase in volume.

FINGERING: the choice of which fingers and hand positions to use when playing a musical instrument.

FORTE: to play strongly and loudly.

FORTISSIMO: to play very strongly and loudly.

LEGATO: to play in a smooth and flowing manner without separation between notes.

LENTO: to play at a slow tempo.

MAESTOSO: to play in a majestic manner.

MEZZO FORTE: to play at a medium level of loudness.

MOLTO CON BRIO: to be performed with much liveliness or spirit.

ORNAMENTE: musical flourishes that are not essential to carry the overall line of the melody but serve instead to decorate that line and give the performer the opportunity to add expressiveness to a piece.

PIANISSIMO: to play very softly.

POLONAISE: a polish dance in triple meter.

Not quite a music aficionado? Don’t sweat it! Familiarize yourself with this glossary of piano terminology to better understand the musical references by characters Richard and Ted as they tell the humorous anecdotes of their grueling piano-playing days.


PRESTO: to play at a quick tempo.

RALLENTANDO: to gradually decrease in tempo.

RECAPITULATION: a section of a movement written in sonata form. Occurs after the movement’s development section and typically presents once more the musical themes from the movement’s exposition.

RITARDANDO: to gradually decrease in tempo.

RUBATO: a temporary disregarding of strict tempo to allow for greater musical expression. The performer may stretch or shorten certain beats, measures or phrases without altering the overall piece.

SEMITONES: the smallest interval used in classical Western music, equal to a 12th of an octave. Also referred to as a half-step or half-tone.

STACCATO: to play each note sharply separated from the others.

SUB-DOMINANT: the fourth note of the diatonic scale of any key.

TENUTO: to hold a note for its full length or slightly longer.

TRANQUILLEMENTE: to play tranquilly, calmly or in a quiet manner.


AnonymousRomola N. AllenHenrietta BarlagRoderick and Barbara BarrPeggy BarrettMr. Neil BillmanRosemary and Frank BloomThomas J. BreedCharlin and Peter BriggsJack G. and Rosemarie BrownJohn and Peg BruggemanSusan and Burton ClossonLeland and Carol ColeRichard and Theresa CurryGuy and Cathy DeDiemarJackie Dieckman and Mike CameryMrs. James M. EdwardsBarbara FitchSusan S. FriedlanderVictoria Buyniski Gluckman Mrs. Charles GoeringJ. Frederick and Cynthia GossmanLinda GreenbergJan and Herman GroshoffMary HainlineCheryl Harden-LoveJoan and Joe HarrisMrs. Robert J. HaslRobert and Judith HeatonMrs. Andrea and Dr. Edward HerzigKarlee L. HilliardAndrew MacAoidh JergensJudith E. JohnsonM. J. JohnsonJan and Jay KalagayanWinifred B. KesslerRandolph and Patricia KrummMs. Abby E. LangdonMinor and Dan LeBlondTerry LemmermanMr. and Mrs. Ron LyonsJacqueline M. MackRichard and Sandy ManteuffelJames A. Markley, Jr.David MartinDavid Mason

Ron Matson and Daniel YoungManuel D. and Rhoda MayersonBarbara A. McCrackenCharles and Joann MeadJames A. MillerDavid and Diane MocciaWilliam J. and Mary G. MoranMr. and Mrs. Arnold MorelliPatti Myers and Alan FlahertyMort and Barb NicholsonRichard and Julia OkenfussJack and Marilyn OsbornCharlotte and Robert OttoJenny and David PowellBetty L. PrincePamela ReisingEllen RieveschlRichard RosenthalJack and Moe RouseRobert and Dell Ann SatheMrs. Robert C. Schiff, Sr.Mark and Rosemary SchlachterCarol J. SchroederDigi France SchuelerJohn and Marsha ShieldsJerry and Betsy ShroatElizabeth C. B. and Paul G. SittenfeldAdrienne Angst SmithLouise W. SpiegelFrancis and Susan StantonCharles L. Thomas, Jr.Lynda A. ThomasSidney Thomas Dr. and Mrs. Thomas ToddMarty TombMargaret and Albert Vontz IIIDaniel G. WalkerJoAnn and Paul WardStuart WarshauerDr. and Mrs. Nelson B. WattsJim and Jo Ann WeberIrwin and Barbara WeinbergBarbara M. WeyandRonna and Dr. James B. WillisBarbara WitteSusan and Don Zaunbrecher

POSTHUMOUSLY REMEMBEREDHelen and Charles AbramovitzMrs. Thomas AdlerRobert H. AllenKaren H. BellEva Jane Romaine CoombeJohn V. CrableJohn F. CurleyAnne Elkins DidrichsenMrs. Elizabeth EasleyJames M. EdwardsFelix and Weta Mae ElkinsMargaret M. EmbshoffJerome A. Fey and Robert J. SchlafleStona FitchWilliam A. FriedlanderOliver M. GaleMr. Charles W. GoeringPeter HainlineCarlyn G. HamiltonDr. Robert J. HaslMrs. Morse JohnsonStanley M. Kaplan, M.D.Keith LemmermanMaurice E. OshryGeorge RieveschlLauncey RoderLois RosenthalGene F. SantoroMr. Robert C. Schiff, Sr.Karl and Roberta Schlachter Mary Louise SchrothRick SteinerJane K. SteinfirstThurza R. SternbergCharles and Sue StrausJoan ThomasHoward TombAlbert Vontz, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Dick WaiteGladys C. WarshauerMonte Witte

Please remember the Playhouse in your will or estate plan — and let us know if you do!

BOARD OF TRUSTEESBOARD OF TRUSTEESWoody Taft

PresidentEllen G. van der Horst

Vice PresidentJohn Stein

TreasurerTerry Lemmerman

SecretaryJack Rouse

Chair

TRUSTEESCathy BaileyRonald T. BatesMono BhattacharyaDavid BillmireDouglas Brauch

Ryan L. BrownRobert S. CastelliniJames P. Conway, Jr.Alva Jean CrawfordMark DawesScott X. DetersPeter A. DraugelisLouis A. FenderElizabeth GeorgeLinda GreenbergNirvani HeadAndrea A. HerzigKaren M. HoguetRichard P. HomanPeter HortonHolly HuttenbauerSusan IngmireThomas M. Keckeis

James C. LeonardStephen S. LettJacqueline MackKevin N. McMurrayRoy A. MitchellWilliam J. MoranPatti MyersJack D. OsbornKenneth OswaldJenny PowellMatt ReckmanRobert C. ReifsnyderAustin SchiffDigi SchuelerJerry ShroatMarty TombBarbara A. TurnerLawrence N. Vignola

Al Vontz IIIRandolph WadsworthJill A. WarmanJulia WesselkamperBarbara WeyandLeo T. WhittSusan B. Zaunbrecher

EMERITIOtto M. Budig, Jr.Charles O. Carothers, M.D.David C. HerrimanAndrew MacAoidh JergensMorse JohnsonLois RosenthalHoward TombAlbert W. Vontz, Jr.

Thanks to your vision and commitment to the Playhouse, we can continue to produce extraordinary theatre for Playhouse audiences of tomorrow. We are grateful to you for including the Playhouse in your estate plans.

This list recognizes members of the Morse Johnson Society as of September 27, 2019. For more information on joining or including the Playhouse in your estate plan, please contact Development Director Rachel Kirley at 513-977-2084.

THE MORSE JOHNSON SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI PLAYHOUSE IN THE PARK

BOARD OF TRUSTEES/MORSE JOHNSON SOCIETY • 52

IN-KIND CONTRIBUTORSTony Arrasmith/Arrasmith &

AssociatesThe Blind Lemon and

Eddie SheppardThe BonBonerieCincinnati Park Board Eat Well

Erlanger Window CleaningFunky’s CateringJeff Thomas CateringMt. Adams Bar & GrillOptic Lizard ProductionsPoemeVonderhaar’s Catering, Inc.

WCPO-TVWGUC-FMWKRC-AMWKRQ-FMWREW-FM WRRM-FMWXIX-TV

ACCESSIBILITY WITH DIGNITY

“The arts are a right, not a privilege … No citizen should be deprived of the beauty and insights into the human experience only the arts can impart.” – National Council on the Arts, 1973

AUDIO DESCRIPTION AND SIGNED PERFORMANCESThe Cincinnati Playhouse offers live audio description for patrons who are sight-impaired and signed performances for those with hearing impairments. These services are available for designated performances throughout the season. Audio description equipment courtesy of Cincinnati Bell Foundation. Telex FM equipment courtesy of Bethesda Hospitals. Signers and describers for the season are Dawn Caudill, Mark DeWitt, Paula Fleming, David Lichtenfeld, Betsy Mann and Mike Snyder.

FACILITY ACCESSIBILITYPatrons who are mobility-impaired may be dropped off outside the Playhouse’s south entrance to the Otto M. Budig Lobby. An elevator in the Budig Lobby allows for access to all levels of the Playhouse. Parking for those with disabilities is located in front of the main entrance, as well as in the Playhouse parking garage. Parking for persons with disabilities is limited and must be reserved and paid for in advance. All vehicles using these spaces must display a valid disability placard. Wheelchair seating in the theatres is subject to availability and should be requested at the time of ticket reservation.

LARGE PRINT PROGRAMSLarge print programs for those with visual impairments are available upon request at every performance.

HEARING ENHANCEMENTIn the Marx Theatre, hearing enhancement receivers providing volume enhancement to patrons with hearing impairments can be obtained prior to every performance from a house manager. The Rosenthal Shelterhouse Theatre has a new hearing loop system which works with existing T-Coil or Telecoil enabled hearing aids or cochlear implants. For more information, please see the house manager.

AUDIO DESCRIBED PERFORMANCE SCHEDULEFirst Financial Bank presentsA Christmas Carol Saturday, Dec. 7, 2 p.m.

Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story Saturday, Feb. 8, 4 p.m.

SIGNED PERFORMANCE SCHEDULEFirst Financial Bank presentsA Christmas Carol Sunday, Dec. 8, 2 p.m.

Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story Sunday, Feb. 9, 2 p.m.

Funding for this program is made possible by Bartlett Wealth Management.

53 • ACCESSIBILITY WITH DIGNITY

2019-20 LEADING LADIESBRAVA! Thank you for stepping into the spotlight and joining the Playhouse’s Leading Ladies program. This list recognizes members of the Leading Ladies as of September 26, 2019. For information on accepting your role as a Leading Lady, please contact Helene Herbert at 513-977-2025.

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRSLinda YoungSue Showers

GRAND DAMESSue CummingsLinda GreenbergKarlee HilliardRosemary SchlachterRonna K. Willis **Jill Wilson

DIVASJanet G. BanksRandal S. BlochLisa BrounMrs. Angela BuckleyMarjorie ComptonAlva Jean CrawfordAmelia Crutcher **Patricia DoyleBarbara HauckHolly HuttenbauerLindsey HuttenbauerMary E. Ivers **Judy KennistonMargo KirsteinAudrey MillerJill MitchellPatti Myers **Mrs. Julia PentecostAnne PierceJenny PowellDigi Schueler **Paula SteinerDr. Susan R. StrickGlenda SuttmanMaureen Vignola **Barbara Weyand

STARLETSDebra Hust AllisonSusan AnthonyCarol AquinoElizabeth C. ArmitageSusan ArnoldCathy Bernardino BaileyJean BalassoneMolly R. BarberJan BartelMandy BartelMarianne M. Beard

Rebecca BeckstedtMary Ann BellStephanie BeslSusan BrandLinda D. BrinkHeather BrownFaith BryanSara M. ButlerCarol CampbellAnne ChasserCynthia ColeKassy CorkenJudy S. DalambakisKelly DehanDebora Del ValleSharon FiscusDr. Gail H. FriedmanElizabeth GeorgeSue GilkeyNancy GollobinMargo HallLouise HeadNirvani Head **Camille K. HealyCarolyn HeckPatti HeldmanJudy Tondi HerdKyle HodgkinsCathy Hogan **Linda R. HolthausDebra E. HowieMarty HumesPatricia HumphreyDr. Linda HuntressSusan IngmireDiane IsemanAnne JaroszewiczCarrie JohnsonSarah Raup JohnsonEileen KildayRachel KirleyHeather KrombholzLynn P. LarsonFrance LeMaireTerry LemmermanNancy LippincottSally A. LloydJanet LongacreJackie MackCarolyn Ott MartinNancy MartinEvelyn Banzhaf McCord

Joann MeadEmily MiracleDanute MiskinisDiane MocciaAbby MoranMary G. Moran **Maura Moran-BerryConnan MorrisseyCatherine MoulasKaren NeyerJeannie NiebuhrClaire PattersonPatsy PikeJane PortmanIldiko PrayBetty L. PrinceKathy QuallsMargie RauhPamela ReisingSherri Adams RemaklusMargie RennieKaren RenzCarol ReubelDeborah White RichardsonMary Ellen RobertsKeke SansaloneCarol SchroederLaura SchumanPatricia SheppardJulie ShifmanSue ShowersKathryn Shumrick MDLaura SkidmoreKim SpringerKazue TakeuchiTeresa TelfordJan H. Tepe, D.D.S.Kathleen S. ThorntonSally TiekeCatharina Toltzis Ph.D.Dionn TronSusie TweddellMaureen ValentineEllen G. van der HorstNancy VirgulakJill WarmanBettie WattsJudith W. WellsShelby WoodLinda YoungSuzanne J. Zimmerman

Bold indicates Steering Committee Members ** Indicates Advisory Committee Members

55 • LEADING LADIES

MEMORIAL GIFTSWe are grateful to the following friends who have chosen to remember a loved one through a memorial gift to the Playhouse. The following memorial gifts have been received from June 1, 2018, through August 26, 2019.

RECOGNITION GIFTSWe are grateful to the following friends who have chosen to honor a loved one through a donation to the Playhouse. The following recognition gifts have been received from June 1, 2018, through August 26, 2019.

IN HONOR OF SANDY GRAYCharles and Deanna Ashing

IN HONOR OF NIRVANI HEADJeanne and Richard HannanLauren Hannan Shafer

IN HONOR OF JACKIE MACKAnne DeLyonsGreater Cincinnati Foundation

IN HONOR OF JULIA HASL MILLERDoug and Susan Moehring

IN HONOR OF MOE ROUSEMr. and Mrs. Lee Ault CarterBrooks and Beth EwingBarbara and Larry KellarSara and Glenn MohnElizabeth C. B. and Paul G. SittenfeldBrett Stover and Christopher HassallMargaret and John H. Wyant

IN HONOR OF JACK ROUSEMr. and Dr. Tim Zimmerman, Jr.

IN HONOR OF JOHN STEINAmy Magenheim

IN HONOR OF JULIA WARDMike and Tracy Ward

IN MEMORY OF KAREN BELLMr. Edward Lanzit

IN MEMORY OF KIM BLACKLEYThe Family of Kim Blackley

IN MEMORY OF LUCILLE ‘TWINK’ CAROTHERSMrs. Betty Salzer

IN MEMORY OF BRUCE COYLERon BuntCornelius and Jane CoyleRebecca J. Graham James and Colleen Tingue

IN MEMORY OF VICTORIA MOORE GRAYAnonymous

IN MEMORY OF JOSEPH H. HEAD JR.Liz and Hank AlexanderEllen and Ray van der Horst

IN MEMORY OF BARBARA HARKNESSJacqueline M. Mack and Dr. Edward B. SilbersteinRonna and Dr. James B. Willis

IN MEMORY OF TAMMY HILTONPamela M. GautierRoy and Peggy Whitford

IN MEMORY OF AMY MERRELLYousef Aouad

IN MEMORY OF OLIN CLYDE ROBISONBlake Robison and Connan MorrisseyJacqueline M. Mack and Dr. Edward B. SilbersteinRonna and Dr. James B. Willis

IN MEMORY OF EDWARD STERNMary Lou AufmannGordon M. BogdanSusan CohenJacqueline M. Mack and Dr. Edward B. SilbersteinSusan and James MarrsSusan and Roger MartinMs. Laura MilburnBetty RosenthalGhita R. SarembockCynthia C. Schmid-PerryGail and Tim SeifertElizabeth C. B. and Paul G. SittenfeldAnita TrottaLawrence and Maureen VignolaRonna and Dr. James B. Willis

IN MEMORY OF ALLISON TAFTBrian Swift

IN MEMORY OF HOWARD TOMBStephen Holmes and Christy Kaeser

IN MEMORY OF BRENDA WARRENAnonymous

RECOGNITION AND MEMORIAL GIFTS • 56

DIRECTING THE FUTURE: A NEW STAGE FOR CINCINNATI’S NATIONAL THEATREThank you to all our incredible supporters of our Directing the Future Campaign. Your support ensures the Playhouse’s new mainstage theatre is a place where great artists continue their work behind the scenes and on our stages.

This list recognizes donors to our Capital Campaign as of September 27, 2019. For more information about making a donation, please contact Allison Gerrety at 513-977-2022.

Anonymous (6)Richard and Virginia AdamsAtkins & Pearce Inc.Mr. and Mrs. Robert O. BanksDavid and Elaine BillmireMr. and Mrs. Robert BlattRuth and Tom BobenreadNeil K. Bortz FamilyJack and Rosemarie BrownMr. and Mrs. Ryan L. BrownMrs. L.L. Browning, Jr.Clement and Ann Buenger FoundationM. Cathleen CalliesCastellini Foundation/

Robert S. CastelliniDenise and Martin ChambersBurton and Susan ClossonCarl and Deborah CoburnMarjorie E. ComptonJim Conway and Richard RobertsonThe Crawford Family FoundationDawes direct, LLCNancy and Mark DawesKelly Dehan and Rick StaudigelJacquelyn Dieckman and

Michael CamryJohn and Liz DyeMs. Joyce ElkusLouis and Lisa FenderPete and Betsy FrameSusan FriedlanderChandra and Mel GravelyLinda and Gary Greenberg*The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr./

U.S. Bank FoundationMr. and Mrs. J. Joseph Hale, Jr.Jeanne and Richard HannanJeb and Nirvani HeadMrs. Louise A. HeadDave and Betsy HendyAndrea and Dr. Edward HerzigKarlee L. HilliardKaren and David HoguetRichard and Renita HomanMr. Peter HortonMarty and Tom HumesHuttenbauer FoundationSusan Ingmire and Lynn HaileyBill and Mary Jane JamesLinda Busken Jergens and

Andrew MacAoidh JergensThe Morse and Betty Johnson

Family FoundationPatti and Tom Keckeis*Barbara and Larry Kellar

Dennis and Laura KirleySally and Gerry KorkinMr. and Mrs. Michael H. KremzarMr. and Mrs. Randolph L. KrummMr. Edward LanzitTerry LemmermanMr. and Mrs. James C. LeonardMr. and Mrs. Stephen S. LettDoris M. and Charles B. Levinson FundJonathan and Nancy LippincottLKC FoundationWhitney and Phillip LongJacqueline M. Mack and

Dr. Edward B. SilbersteinCraig and Anne MaierMariner Wealth AdvisorsDavid L. MartinDr. and Mrs. Sean McCauleyMr. Kim and Mrs. Barbara McCrackenMary McCullough-Hudson and

Greg HudsonCharles and Joann MeadCarol MeibersMesser Construction Co.Leon and Barb MeyerBecky MiarsMr. Roy A. MitchellDiane and Dave MocciaWilliam J. and Mary G. MoranArthur C. Morrissey and

Janet M. HayesDean and Catherine MoulasPatti Myers and Alan FlahertyMs. Meghan Sullivan NelsonLouis and Louise Nippert

Charitable FoundationOhio Valley Foundation,

Fifth Third Bank, AgentRobert and Carol OlsonJack and Marilyn OsbornCharlotte and Robert OttoMr. and Mrs. Don PopelarJennifer and David PowellBetty PrincePrudential - Matching FundGerald D. RapeRob and Gretchen ReifsnyderPamela and Dick ReisMrs. Mary Ellen RobertsBlake Robison and Connan MorrisseyJohn and Amy Rosenberg Family FundThe Rosenthal Family FoundationMoe and Jack RouseWilliam S. Rowe FoundationAustin Schiff

Robert and Adele Schiff Family Foundation

Dr. and Mrs. Robert C. Schiff, Jr.Martha and Lee SchimbergRosemary and Mark SchlachterJacob G. Schmidlapp Trusts,

Fifth Third Bank, TrusteeThe Harold C. Schott FoundationThe John A. Schroth Family Charitable

Trust, PNC Bank, TrusteeDigi and Mike SchuelerAbby and David SchwartzLadislas and Vilma Segoe

Family FoundationThe Louise Taft Semple FoundationLauren Hannan ShaferBetsy and Jerry ShroatMr. Jeremy F. SimpsonRobert and Linda SingerElizabeth C. B. and Paul G. SittenfeldEllen Pease and V. Clark Sole, Jr.

Family Fund*John F. Steele, Sr.John and Jennifer SteinPhil and Berni StephensonRobert D. Stern Fund*Elizabeth A. Stone*Dudley and Tina TaftJennifer and Woody TaftMr. Charles L. Thomas, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Scott TiekeMarty C. TombDaman and Barbara TurnerEllen and Ray van der HorstLawrence and Maureen VignolaMargaret and Albert Vontz III*Randolph WadsworthBuzz WardDavid and Ginger WarnerDr. and Mrs. Nelson B. WattsBarbara and Irwin Weinberg Fund*Don and Sandy WeinkamJulia Wesselkamper and Julian JohnsonBarbara WeyandLeo Whitt and Xia WangRonna and Dr. James B. WillisSusan and Don ZaunbrecherMr. and Mrs. George Zuefle

*Denotes a fund of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation

57 • DIRECTING THE FUTURE

OUR MISSION

The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park is a professional regional theatre committed to producing and presenting for diverse audiences the broadest range of theatre in an inviting theatrical environment. Our mission is accomplished through works of the highest caliber produced on stage in a fiscally responsible manner and through stimulating educational and outreach programs.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORTWe couldn’t do it without you. The generous support of donors like you makes it possible for us to present the finest theatre and innovative education and outreach programs for the Greater Cincinnati community.

This list includes all gifts given to the Playhouse from August 8, 2018 through August 8, 2019, not including endowment and Capital Campaign gifts. For questions about making a gift, contact Director of Individual Giving Helene Herbert at 513-977-2025.

Photo by Tony Arrasmith/Arrasmith & Associates.

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S CIRCLEAUDIENCEArtsWaveFirst Financial BankLouis and Louise Nippert

Charitable FoundationThe Ohio Arts CouncilThe Rosenthal Family FoundationRobert and Adele Schiff

Family FoundationDigi and Mike SchuelerThe Schueler GroupThe Shubert Foundation

PLAYWRIGHTTony Arrasmith/Arrasmith

and AssociatesThe Charles H. Dater FoundationThe Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr.

/U.S. Bank FoundationHeidelberg Distributing CompanyThe Jewish Foundation of CincinnatiMacy’s, Inc.Moe and Jack RouseU.S. BankVonderhaar’s Catering

PRODUCERBB&TMrs. L.L. Browning, Jr.Chemed FoundationClark, Schaefer, Hackett & Co.Johnson Investment CounselTerry LemmermanOhio National Financial ServicesThe Daniel and Susan Pfau

FoundationNellie Leaman Taft Foundation

Randolph WadsworthBarbara WeyandWillis Music Company

DIRECTORAnonymousBahl & Gaynor Investment CounselBHDP ArchitectureRobert S. CastelliniThe Daley Family FoundationEmerge Managed Solutions, LLCFifth-Third FoundationSusan FriedlanderThe Geiler CompanyLinda and Gary Greenberg*Jeb and Nirvani HeadMrs. Andrea and Dr. Edward HerzigLinda Busken Jergens and

Andrew MacAoidh JergensKeyBankMr. Edward LanzitCharles and Joann MeadMesser Construction Co.Leon and Barb MeyerBecky MiarsThe Procter & Gamble Fund*The Seven Hills Group at

Morgan StanleyBetsy and Jerry ShroatJohn and Jennifer SteinThe Harold and Mimi Steinberg

Charitable TrustBarbara and Daman TurnerEllen and Ray van der HorstBarbara and Irwin Weinberg Fund*

STAGE MANAGERElsa Sule FoundationJennifer and Woody Taft

SET DESIGNERAAA Travel & Provident TravelBartlett Wealth ManagementMark and Lindsay BiblerDavid and Elaine BillmireBonbonerieDenise and Martin ChambersCarl and Deborah CoburnDawes direct, LLC, Nancy and

Mark DawesFifth Third BankMrs. Victoria Buyniski Gluckman

and Dr. Jack GluckmanHomewood SuitesMs. Holly HuttenbauerPatti and Tom Keckeis*Mr. and Mrs. Michael H. KremzarThe LeBlond Foundation of MakinoMr. and Mrs. James C. LeonardJacqueline M. Mack and

Dr. Edward B. SilbersteinCraig and Anne MaierJames A. MillerDiane and Dave MocciaPatti Myers and Alan FlahertyJack and Marilyn OsbornKenneth Oswald and

Mary Beth MartinJenny and David PowellRichard Goettle, Inc.Amy and John RosenbergMark and Rosemary SchlachterLouis and Melba Schott FoundationElizabeth C. B. and Paul G. SittenfeldSkidmore Sales & Distributing Co., Inc.Jack J. Smith, Jr. Charitable TrustMargaret and Albert Vontz III*Leo Whitt and Xia WangRonna and Dr. James B. Willis

59 • THANK YOU

PLAYHOUSE SUPPORTERSCOSTUME DESIGNERLouise Allen and Tom GougeonAlpine ValleyWilliam P. Anderson FoundationJan BartelThomas J. BreedHeather BrownEric Burgmann and Linda VaccarielloTerri and John ByczkowskiJanet and Bruce ByrnesCincinnati Coin LaundryPearl J. Compaan, M.D.James P. Conway, Jr. and

Richard D. RobertsonThe Crawford Family FoundationMr. and Mrs. David Ellis, IIIMr. Robert C. FeeLouis A. and Lisa K. FenderGeneral ElectricGradison FoundationThe John C. Griswold FoundationMrs. Suzanne HaslDavid and Karen HoguetRichard and Renita HomanHuntington BankHuttenbauer FoundationSusan IngmireBill and Mary Jane JamesJo Ann and George KurzMadison Wealth ManagementMr. and Mrs. W. R. ManteuffelBarbara and Kim McCrackenWilliam J. and Mary G. MoranDean and Catherine MoulasMt. Adams Bar and GrillPrudential - Matching FundRed Echo PostRob and Gretchen ReifsnyderEllen RieveschlThe Roehr AgencyJohn L. ShieldsRick SteinerDr. Susan R. StrickTaft Stettinius & Hollister LLPMarty TombUBS Financial Services Inc.

Lawrence and Maureen VignolaAmanda and Tom WhiteWorld Pac Paper, LLCSusan and Don Zaunbrecher

LIGHTING DESIGNERAnonymous (2)Americana Arts FoundationCathy Bernardino Bailey and

Terry BaileyJanet G. BanksBarnes Dennig & Company, Ltd.Peggy BarrettKate and Bill BaumannDoug and Mary Ann BellThe Blackley FamilyMartha P. BologniniJane and Gary BoothMr. and Mrs. Ken BorischMark and Jody BroseyJohn and Peg BruggemanMrs. Angela BuckleyRon Bunt and Wei SunBonnie and Dick ButenRosalind ChaikenCityBeatPhilip ClaytonBurton and Susan ClossonLois and Philip S. CohenLeland M. and Carol C. ColeMarjorie ComptonContemporary Cabinetry EastThe Cord FoundationCors & BassettRobin Cotton and Cindi FittonMs. Susan CummingsRichard and Teddie CurryThe David J. Joseph CompanyKelly Dehan and Rick StaudigelThomas and Florence DeWittMr. Albert C. Dierckes, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. DorwardPatricia and Timothy DoyleEat Well Celebrations And FeastsVictoria FleckMs. L.B. FleischmannJeffrey and Ann FrymierPaul and Nancy GaffneyMrs. James R. GardnerPeggy L. Golden and Kerry J. KlumpeChandra and Mel GravelyGreater Cincinnati FoundationAlan and Judy GuttmanBarbara HauckMs. Karlee L. HilliardHixson Architects Engineers InteriorsLinda R. HolthausMr. Peter HortonMs. Lindsey HuttenbauerEllen and Garrett Jackson*Johnson & Johnson - Matching FundMs. Wendy Johnson

Laurie F. JohnstonKyle and Sue JonesBarbara and Larry KellarArleene KellerMarilyn KinneDennis and Laura KirleyMargo KirsteinJack and Lynn KlahmMarvin KolodzikKroner Dry CleanersMr. and Mrs. Michael C. KrugMr. and Mrs. John LaMacchiaDr. John LarkinMr. and Mrs. Stephen S. LettBarbara Lewis and Bob GriffinMariner Wealth AdvisorsDavid MartinThe Mathile FamilyJill MitchellMr. Roy A. MitchellKaren NeyerMichael Nordlund and Lisa LeeRandy and Marianne OlsonMarilyn Z. OttJudy and Thomas OxmanMrs. Julia PentecostPhillips Family Fund*Anne PiercePoemeStuart and Ildiko PrayBetty PrinceNick PuncerMitch and Karen RashkinRobert and Connie ReedCharles Scott Riley III FoundationBlake Robison and Connan MorrisseyCaroll and George RodenJim Rubenstein and Bernadette UngerAnn Saluke and Don YeltonGlenn and Kitty SchaafPat and Paul SchlechtMarvin and Betsy Schwartz Fund*Mary D. SchweitzerScripps Howard FoundationGlenn and Sue ShowersGerald and Sarah SkidmoreMr. and Mrs. Stephen SmithEllen Pease and V. Clark Sole, Jr.

Family Fund*Sandra and Henry SpitzStapleton Electric Co.Paula SteinerBarbara E. Stern*Mr. and Mrs. Scott TiekeTowne PropertiesDoug and Molly TygerThe Utilities GroupCarol and Robert VidalWaltek and Company LimitedRichard and Jill WarmanLarry Weber

Chandra and Melvin Gravely at the ADC Dinner, Sept. 2019.

THANK YOU • 60

Julia Wesselkamper and Julian Johnson

Jo Ann WieghausAnthony and Sally Woodward

ACTORAnonymous (10)Liz and Hank AlexanderDebra Hust AllisonBob Amott and Janice FlanaganDr. Victor and Mrs. Dolores AngelThomas and Susan AnthonyCarol AquinoEric and Brenda Armstrong

Family Fund*Susan ArnoldJean BalassoneMandy BartelMarianne M. BeardRebecca BeckstedtMariana Belvedere and Samer HasanKit BergerStephanie BeslRodd and Carol BixlerMark BowenSusan BrandLinda D. BrinkEdward BrownMs. Faith BryanJackie and Gary BrysonJeff and Gay BullockSara M. ButlerJack and Marti ButzFrank and Jane CaccamoDeborah and Banca ChamberlainMr. Rick CoffeyBarbara and John CollinsDr. and Mrs. Robert H. CollinsKassy CorkenDavid Crotty and Joan Von HandorfJudy S. DalambakisMark DaunerKathy and Mike DavisDebora Del ValleJackie Dieckman and Mike CameryMichael and Kathleen DohertyDr. and Mrs. Walter E. Donnelly, Jr.

Emilie and David Dressler Fund*Ms. Fay DupuisFreeman Durham and

Dean ClevengerRichard ErnstJanet FetteSharon FiscusDr. Daniella FisherSarah and Grayson FitzhughDr. and Mrs. Bernard FosterSharon FreyhofDr. Gail H. FriedmanFrost Brown Todd LLCLarry and Diane GamesH. Jane GavinElizabeth GeorgeKathleen GibboneySue GilkeyClifford Goosmann and

Andrea WilsonTom GougeonBarbara GouldGrants PlusGreater Cincinnati Planned

Giving CouncilCarl and Joyce GreberHelen and John HabbertRobert and Judy HeatonCarolyn HeckIrmgard and Horst HehmannMrs. Anne P. Heldman*Betsy and Dave HendyMr. and Mrs. W. Hensel, Jr.Judy Tondi HerdMrs. Kyle HodgkinsNoel and Karen HofmannCathy HoganNancy HollingsworthMark and Deanna HollonCarolyn and Michael HoytAmy and Larry HughesJoan Hume-Cohen and

Marvin CohenPatricia HumphreyDrs. Linda and Gordon HuntressIBM CorporationDiane IsemanJennifer JacksonJarrell Media SolutionsCarrie JohnsonMark and Sarah JohnsonScott and Patricia JosephMr. and Mrs. Geoffrey KeenanDr. Robert Keith and

Kathleen Thornton-KeithPaul J. and Carolyn G. KemperRobert A. and Marian K. Kennedy

Charitable TrustEileen KildayDon and Kathy KingPatricia KingRachel Kirley

Ray and Marlene KloosHeather KrombholzEric and Maggie KuhnMichael and Paula KunkaLynn P. LarsonRichard and Susan LaufMs. France B. LeMaireAnna LerhauptNancy LippincottDr. Sally A. LloydWhitney and Phillip LongJanet LongacreMrs. Alleen Blesi ManningCarolyn Ott MartinNancy MartinAnne Atkins MartzEmily M. MasonStephanie McNeillMary Ann MeanwellJackie and Mitch MeyersAudrey MillerEmily MiracleMiramar Charitable FoundationMs. Danute M. MiskinisMaura Moran-BerryScott and Barb MuhlhauserJeannie NiebuhrJames NordlundNottinghill Investment Advisers, LTDMr. and Mrs. Timothy OppeltVictoria OttTom and Linda PalmerMr. and Mrs. Daniel PardekooperClaire PattersonAlice PerlmanJeff and Diane PfaffLana PiazzaBob and Patsy PikeJane PortmanMr. and Mrs. James PretzJim Price and

Empower MediaMarketingKathy QuallsJeff and Lori RaserPamela ReisingMs. Sherri RemaklusMs. Margaret Rennie

Melanie Ervin, Representative Catherine Ingram, Representative Sedrick Denson and Julian Johnson at the opening night reception for Once on This Island.

Buzz Ward, Jennie Rosenthal, Board President Woody Taft, Richard Rosenthal and Blake Robison at the Rosenthal Shelterhouse ribbon cutting.

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Ms. Karen RenzAlison and Rob RiceMrs. Deborah White RichardsonNancy RobinsonRita and Roger RossMichael and Christine RyanMrs. Betty SalzerMr. and Mrs. David Savage, Jr.Austin SchiffMartha and Lee SchimbergBret Schneider and Sean DavisCharles and Alice SchneiderRoger and Glenda Schorr Fund*Carol SchroederJanet R. Schultz and Russell LascellesMs. Laura SchumanDr. P. Robert SchwetschenauRadona Wells ScottLauren Hannan ShaferBetty Ann ShenkPatricia SheppardJulie ShifmanKaren and Ivan SilvermanMr. and Mrs. Irwin SimonLaura SkidmoreAdrienne Angst SmithBeth SmithWanda Wall SpiveyPaul and Jill StaubitzElizabeth A. Stone*Glenda SuttmanMs. Kazue TakeuchiThomas TamiMs. Teresa TelfordJan H. Tepe, D.D.S.Carlos and Roberta TeranMs. Catharina ToltzisMs. Dionn TronJames and Susan TrouttJames and Sue Ellen TweddellUnited MailMaureen and Andre ValentineChristopher and Nancy VirgulakMike and Tracy WardDr. and Mrs. Nelson B. WattsMs. Judy WellsDonald R. and Patricia R. WeltiChris and Diane WilliamsRobert L. and Judy A. Wilson, Jr.Wimberg LandscapingSusan and Dean WindgassenMs. Shelby WoodWow WindowboxesWuerdeman Family Fund II*Linda YoungSheri Zimmer

STAGEHANDAnonymous (15)Sue and Don AdickMs. Kathryn Al-LamadaniMr. and Mrs. R. Bruce Anderson

Albert and Lillian AndrewsMr. and Mrs. Daniel AnselDrs. Lori Aronson and Craig FroehleMrs. William T. Bahlman, Jr.Barbara and Roderick Barr*Mrs. Dolores BeebeMiss Martha L. BellMichael and Kathleen BenkenMichael BerryDoug and Judy BetzDr. and Mrs. John BismayerJulie and Mark BissingerPhyllis Bossin and Robert StraussBob and Dawn BrewsterHelena and Randy BrooksDr. Daniel T. Brown, DDS and

Mr. Mark HaggardMr. and Mrs. James CartledgeChristine and Bob ChristenJames CissellBob and Tisha ClaryMr. and Mrs. Wilbur CohenThomas and Sondra CopanasMr. and Mrs. Roger CreasyJean and John CroxtonAnne DagenbachJan DentonMr. Eric DepratoThomas and Pamela DonnellyJohn and Liz DyeMr. and Mrs. Jerome H. EichertDelores J. ErbyFinding Hope ConsultingJames K. and Susan FittonJoy and Bill FotschMr. and Mrs. Randel FranzDrusilla GarmsSusanne E. GeierFrank and Karen GirolamiMadeleine GordonPank and Wendy GouletDr. and Mrs. Samuel GreengusGlenn and Barbara GrohSandra Gross and John HuttonMary and Phil HagnerChristopher and Marti HallJoyce and Jim HambergDavid HammondJanet HeidenGwen and John HeilbrunAndrew D. Heldman Family Fund*David and Elizabeth HimesStephen Holmes and Christy KaeserMr. Neil Hoover and Mr. Shawn ScottBarbara J. HowardDr. Carol HubbardMr. Fruman JacobsonPatti and Keith JamesJeff Thomas CateringNathan and Vanessa JenkinDr. Toni and Rabbi Ken KanterRoz Kendall

Ms. Monica V. KindtMr. and Mrs. Larry E. KisselKroger Community RewardsRobert J. KrumdieckMr. and Mrs. Randolph L. KrummBill and Evie LandriganAimée and Louis LangréeSherwin LittleLupe LopezLynette LoveDr. and Mrs. Robert LukinKay Lynch and Chuck BeckmanCarol I. LyonJohn and Mary Ann MacLeodWard and Ellen MarescaRaymond and Madelynn MatlockRon Matson and Dan YoungMs. Shelly MaxwellMs. Nancy McBreenDennis and Carol McCoyJim and Dianne McEachenKim and Jan McNeilHope Earls McSwiganFaye and Bunny MeiselAnne and Rick MeyerRichard and Rhoda MeyerRoger and Mary Ann MeyerRichard I. Michelman and

Karen E. MeyerMr. and Mrs. Mark MillerSteven and Jacqueline Miller

Family FoundationMr. and Mrs. David A. MillettMonastery Event CenterMr. Mike MoninNora E. MousheyStephen E. and Meg B. MuethingDr. and Mrs. Charles Myer IIILaura NassauGeorge L. NielsenAndrew J. NuckolsBruce and Neda NutleyJ. Brett Offenberger and

Douglas DuckettCarol and Robert OlsonOssie BoutiqueKit and Jack Overbeck

Rosalyn and Heather Brown at the opening night reception for Once on This Island.

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Dr. and Mrs. Richard ParkTerry and Jill ParsonsMr. and Mrs. Donald PeairsPepper Family Fund*Mr. and Mrs. Roger PernaEd PlagemanLes and Molly PolaskySteve and Sharon A. PoppeNancy and Bruce PrewittSue and Jay PriceJoetta Prost and Kathy ShellMary and Ranjit RathMary RedingtonLeslie and Bernie ReissMr. and Mrs. Kenneth RevelsonMr. Carl ReynoldsBrian and Mary RhaneCraig and Sue RichmondGeorge and Phyllis RobertsonSylvia RobisonDonald H. and Rebecca RolfRich and Barb RuddyMr. Richard H. RussellSandy and John RussellPat and Tom Ruthemeyer

James SanitatoMark and Jan SassTimothy and Jeannie SchoonoverDr. and Mrs. L.J. SchottMichael E. Schroer and Carey KruerAmy SchubertDavid and Abby SchwartzMichael and Kathie SchwartzRecie and Jim ScottWilliam and Sandra SelveyMs. Janice SeymourSandy and Hal SheversRobert and Linda SingerMary Lee and Louie SirkinJack and Barbara SmithSusan and David SmithHarold and Faye SosnaSteelcase Foundation -

Matching FundJane and Paul StewartStephanie and Joseph StittJohn StrawserCarol and Ted StrikerDennis and Helen SullivanDick and Jeanne-Marie Tapke

Dr. Alan and Shelley TarshisRobert D. Temple and

Sue E. AuerbachCarol ThamanMr. Charles L. Thomas, Jr.Dr. Gary A. Thompson and

Dr. Lisa E. DunlapJames and Colleen TingueJanet G. ToddTorey and Tom TorreSarella WaltonMr. and Mrs. Paul H. WardDr. and Mrs. Galen R. WarrenDr. and Mrs. Barry W. WebbRichard A. WeilandShelly WeisbacherMary Ann and Ted WeissDonna WelchKurt and Jean WhitfordMs. Anne Warrington WilsonJohn M. YacherDavid and Cynthia ZinkMr. and Mrs. George Zuefle

*Denotes a fund of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation

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DIRECTORSArtistic Director Blake RobisonManaging Director Buzz Ward

ARTISTICAssociate Artists Wendy C. Goldberg, Nicole A. Watson,

Karen ZacaríasLiterary Associate Anita Trotta

ADMINISTRATIONGeneral Manager Suann PollockExecutive Assistant and Board Liaison Kathleen Roll UnkrichCompany Manager A.J. FordAssistant Company Manager Richard WanamakerReceptionist Steve Seitz

FINANCE/HUMAN RESOURCESHuman Resources Manager Fabrizio AlmeidaFinance Manager Jim HattonFinance Associate Brian AndersonPayroll Specialist Barb Gloeckner

DEVELOPMENTDevelopment Director Rachel KirleyDirector of Individual Giving Helene HerbertIndividual Giving Manager Kendra L. Struthers, CFREIndividual Giving Assistant William Stowell Meriwether Director of Institutional Giving Bethany DoverspikeGrants Manager Jenni MillerInstitutional Giving Assistant Josh HamiltonCapital Campaign Manager Allison GerretyCapital Campaign Assistant Molly K. HickeyDevelopment Events Manager Clare JaymesDevelopment Intern Annie Bloemer

OPERATIONSFacilities Manager Brian SmithFacilities Assistant Myron MonroeBar Manager Darren CoxBartenders Kathy Burr, Clint Collins, Justin Eckstein,

Rachel Ellis, Lori Hiltenbeitel, Barb Santel, John Simpson, Kathleen Thorman, Sharon Weber

Housekeeping Services Blue Chip 2000

MARKETING/COMMUNICATIONSDirector of Marketing and Communications Kathy NeusAssociate Director of Marketing Aly GomezMultimedia Designer Sean MartinContent Marketing Manager Natalie HullaMarketing Administrative Coordinator Assia M. JohnsonMarketing Associate Megan BowersContent Marketing Intern Gigi RelicPhotographer Mikki SchaffnerSales and Events Manager Piper N. DavisTicket System Administrator Patrick DesgrangeTicket Services Manager Don WongPatron Services Staff Julie Allen, Brianna Bernard,

Andrew Bishop, Ernaisja Curry, Emily Damelio, Jenny French, Sandra Gray, Christian Gutierrez, Chase Johnson, Jacob Krismanick, David Lopez, Julia Hasl Miller, Josh Neumeyer, Sarah O’Haver, Benjamin Ochsner, Julie Pergrem, Kathryn Pielage, Jennifer Radisch, Theresa Richmond, Sawyer Shafer, Tess Talbot, Hannah Wetherholt

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGYIT Manager Matt Parsons

CAPITAL PROJECTCapital Project Manager Phil Rundle

HOUSE MANAGEMENTHouse Staff Supervisors Joellyn Goos, Stacy SmithHouse Staff Amy Carroll, Kayleigh Clark, Ashley Goos,

Courtney Kennell, Suzann Kokoefer, Ryan Krofta, Spencer Pachta, Rachelle Penilla, Barb Santel, Jacqueline Smith, Brian Wylie, Richard Zenk

EDUCATION/OUTREACHDirector of Education and Community Engagement

Daunielle RasmussenEducation Associates Craig BranchEducation Associate Producer Rebecca Armstrong Education Coordinator Valerie Perez

PRODUCTIONProduction Manager Veronica Pullins BishopAssistant Production Manager Jessica LucasTechnical Director D.W. JonesAssistant Technical Director Haley SchutzenbergerScene Shop Assistant Emily Graver

STAGE MANAGEMENTProduction Stage Manager Jenifer MorrowStage Managers Brooke Redler, Andrea L. Shell

BRUCE E. COYLE INTERN COMPANYActing Intern Company Nicolás Acosta, Joshua Carandang,

Deja Elliott, Jo Garcia-Reger, Julia Gomez, Shonita Joshi, Ethan Graham Roeder

Stage Management Interns Micah Akilah, Gabriella C. Neuerer, Erin Speno

SCENERYCarpenters Bryan Bridewell, Leah Busse, Timothy FowlerSwings Bill Coates, Michael Lyons, Clint Nessler, Josh WardCharge Scenic Artist Kenton BrettAssistant Scenic Artists Stephen Childress, Abigail Heyd

PROPERTIESProperties Manager Liz LyonsAssistant Properties Manager Jen Lampson Properties Jeff Fowee, Ingrid Heithaus, Scott HubertMarx Properties Running Crew Lara SheridanRosenthal Properties Running Crew Chief Debra Hildebrand

COSTUMES/WARDROBECostume Shop Manager Gordon DeVinneyCutter/Draper Cindy WitherspoonFirst Hand Caitlin TurveyCrafts/Dyer Dean W. WalzWig Master/Makeup Artist Amy WhitakerAdministrative and Design Assistant Chad PhillipsCostume Technician/Shop Assistant Heather MerchantMarx Wardrobe Mistress Cindy Clifford SaalfeldAssociate Marx Wardrobe Mistress Karla KnochelmannRosenthal Shelterhouse Wardrobe Mistress Julie Hudson

LIGHTING/SOUNDElectricians John Parr, Jon PullenSound Cedric CollierRosenthal Shelterhouse Light Board Operator Justin ChandlerRosenthal Shelterhouse Audio Engineer M. Adam Jacob

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Cincinnati Playhouse in the ParkAddress: 962 Mt. Adams Circle, Cincinnati, OH 45202Administrative Offices: 513-345-2242Website: www.cincyplay.comBox Office: 513-421-3888OH, KY, IN Toll-Free: 800-582-3208Telecommunications Device for the Deaf access: 513-345-2248On non-performance days, the Box Office closes at 5:00 p.m.

ACCESSIBILITY WITH DIGNITY PROGRAM

The Playhouse is pleased to offer a variety of services to patrons with special needs. Included are an infrared sound enhancement system in the Marx Theatre, a hearing loop system in the Rosenthal Shelterhouse Theatre, large print programs, accessible seating in both theatres and all public areas, as well as audio described and signed performances in the Marx Theatre. For more information, please stop by the Box Office or see a house manager.

BACKSTAGE TOURS

Behind-the-scenes tours include information on the Playhouse’s history and the day-to-day workings of a professional regional theatre. Tours are $6 per person, last approximately 45 mins to one hour and are available for groups with a minimum of 10 participants. Some limited free tours are available based on financial need. Please contact the administrative office at 513-345-2242 to schedule a tour.

CAMERAS AND RECORDING DEVICES

Actors’ Equity Association strictly prohibits the use of cameras or recording devices in the theatre during the performance.

CHILDREN

Children under the age of 6 will not be admitted to Playhouse productions unless otherwise advertised. Parents with disruptive children will be asked to leave the theatre.

COAT CHECK

From October through March, a coat check facility is open inside the entrance to the Otto M. Budig Lobby.

EMERGENCIES AND PAGING SERVICES

If you require paging services, please register your seat location with the house manager upon arrival at the theatre. Leave the number 513-345-2247 with those who may need to reach you. Messages will be delivered to you as soon as possible. Please turn off beeping watches and other digital alerts.

GIFT CERTIFICATES

Need the perfect gift? The Playhouse offers gift certificates redeemable for single tickets or subscription packages. Call the Box Office or stop by at intermission for more information.

GROUP DISCOUNTS

Bring your group of eight or more to the Playhouse and receive great benefits and discounts, including special rates for students and seniors. Our popular corporate web discount program allows your employees to book tickets online at a discount whenever they want. Contact the group sales office at 513-345-2242 or [email protected] for more details.

LATECOMERS AND READMITTANCE

Latecomers are seated at the discretion of the house manager, which may be as late as intermission. Latecomers may be denied admission depending on the demands or structure of a particular production. Please allow yourself adequate time to arrive, park and be seated. Should you need to leave the theatre during a performance, re-admittance and seating will be at the discretion of the house manager so as not to disturb the audience and actors.

PARKING

The Park Board reminds you that Eden Park officially closes at 10 p.m. As a grace period to the Playhouse, the police will not ticket vehicles until one half hour following the end of a performance. The Playhouse assumes no responsibility for anyone receiving a ticket for illegal parking. Convenient parking is available in the Playhouse garage. Purchase parking in advance to secure a space. Parking can also be purchased from our parking attendant immediately before the performance if available.

PROHIBITION OF WEAPONS

The Ohio Revised Code (R.C. 2923.126) has established the privilege of carrying a concealed handgun to Ohio citizens who have obtained the proper license. The same law explicitly grants private employers in the state the right to prohibit their employees and visitors from possessing firearms on the employer’s premises. With this notification the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park is informing you that it prohibits weapons of any kind on its premises, and reserves the right to search persons, parcels and vehicles on the same. This policy applies to all employees, patrons and visitors to the facility.

RESTROOMS AND TELEPHONES

Restrooms are located in the Rosenthal Plaza. A phone is located near the Box Office in the Budig Lobby.

SMOKING/VAPING

Smoking/vaping is prohibited in the entire theatre complex.

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