Claudio Raygoza Glenn Paris Founder/Execu,ve Ar,s,c Director Founding Producing Ar,s,c Director

Kim Strassburger

Associate Ar,s,c Director

CAST : : in alphabetical order

Rhianna Basore : : Anna Kathi Copeland : : Kay Evan Kendig : : Sean Elaine Litton : : Linda Hannah Logan : : Helena Bailey Neill : : Rachel Mario Prado, Jr. : : Simon/Gideon Donal Pugh : : Adam Tim West : : Max Alanna Serrano : : Rachel (Select performances) ion company member

Setting: Over 7 years in present day Running time: 100 mins. There is one 10-­‐minute intermission and the use of smoke and smoking effects in this production.

Director/Design Claudio Raygoza

Assistant Director Julio Jacobo

Stage Manager Colleen Keith

Production Manager Dino Grulli

Marketing Director Rhianna Basore Hospitality & Audience

Development Associates Kate Schott,

Alanna Serrano & Yolanda Franklin

Executive Producer Hannah Logan

Technical Director Evan Kendig

Production Coordinator Yolanda Franklin

Producer Glenn Paris

Usher Coordinator Julie Ustin

Membership Directors Linda Libby

& Catalina Maynard

Photographer Ron Logan

Graphics | WebmasterClaudio Raygoza

ion company member

Kin is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New YorkPlaywrights Horizons, Inc., New York City, produced the world premiere of KIN Off-Broadway in 2011.

::: ion theatre company members ::: Co-­‐Founders: Trina Kaplan & Matt Scott

Founding Company Members: Jeffrey Jones, Linda Libby, Catalina Maynard, Sara Beth Morgan & Morgan Trant Company Members: Rhianna Basore, Robin Christ, DeAnna Driscoll, Karin Filijan,

Yolanda Franklin, Jason Heil, Evan Kendig, Hannah Logan, Ron Logan, Jorge Rodriguez & Mary Summerday

Special thanks: John Hyatt, Hair by Samantha Nunnery, Morgan Trant, Ron Logan, Mario Prado Jr. , Donal Pugh, Trina Kaplan, Linda Morrow, PROFIL Institute For Clinical Research, Moises Hernandez, Jason Bergado, Kate Schott, Mary Summerday, Alanna Serrano, Kim Strassburger, Catalina Maynard, Dino Grulli, Paloma Dominguez, MSusan Peck & the Company.

ion theatre on the Elaine Lipinsky Stage presents an Off-­‐the-­‐Radar Presentation of the Actor Academy Production of

ARTISTIC & PRODUCTION TEAM : :

RHIANNA BASORE : : Anna : : ion theatre: Ryes, 6, This Wide Night, Ass or a Midsummer Night’s Fever, Grace, Jack Goes Boating. La Jolla Playhouse: The Car Plays; North Coast Repertory Theatre: Romeo and Juliet, The

Uneasy Chair; New Village Arts: Circle Mirror Transformation, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Macbeth, Midsummer Night’s Dream; Diversionary Theatre: No Exit; Sledgehammer: Chrysalis. Regional Theatre: Shakespeare Theatre Company, Florida Studio Theatre, Shakespeare in Santa Fe, Cherry Lane Theatre, NY Fringe Festival. International: Theatre Les Rechargers (Paris); Peacock Productions (Toronto). Proud company member of ion theatre.

KATHI COPELAND : : Kay : : ion theatre: Debut. New Village Arts: To Kill a Mockingbird; Old Globe: Community Voices; Diversionary: Plumbing (staged reading); Circle circle dot dot: San Diego I Love

you 2.0, Warriors Duet (SD Fringe Best Selling Show); The Big Kitchen: The Coffee Shop Chronicles; Playwright’s Project: American Idyll; InnerMission: Swimming in the Shallows; Lyric Theatre LA: Into the Woods, A Piece of Tin; Sacred Fools LA: The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Bukowiscial (Best Musical, NY Fringe), Serial Killers, Retro Radio, Ivona (Princess of Burgundia), Dubya 2004; Ark Theatre LA: Return to the Forbidden Planet, A Clockwork Orange (LA Weekly Award), On The Verge; Goodman Theatre, Chicago: Night of the Iguana; Steppenwolf Theatre: Balm in Gilead (Jeff Awards, Best Ensemble, Best Production); Film/TV: Minority Report, Hollywood Homicide, Six Feet Under, General Hospital.

EVAN KENDIG : : Sean : : ion theatre: Ryes, 6, Bug, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, Ass or A Midsummer Night’s Fever, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Chicago: A

Speakeasy Cabaret, Heddatron, The Lieutenant of Inishmore. InnerMission Productions: Dog Sees God; Diversionary: Edward II.

ELAINE LITTON : : Linda : : ion theatre: Debut. PowPac: The Clean House, Philadelphia Story, The Underpants, Tea With Eleanor; Onstage Playhouse: A Delicate Balance ( Aubrey Award). Palomar Performing Arts: The Cider House Rules,

Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Last Summer at Bluefish Cove. Point Loma Actors: Kimberly Akimbo. Pickwick Players: The Crucible (Aubrey Nomination). Coronado Playhouse: The Man Who Came to Dinner (Aubrey nomination). New Village Arts: Boston Marriage (Staged Reading). San Diego Fringe Festival 2013: Aisle Six.

HANNAH LOGAN

: : Helena : : ion theatre: 6, Bug (Noel Award). Some of her regional credits include: Work: In Progress, actor/writer (San Diego Fringe Festival); Accomplice (La Jolla Playhouse), Blackout at Battery Cliff,

Mermaids (Scripps Ranch Theatre); Trailerville, actor/writer (Movings Arts, LA; Kraine Theatre, NYC), Crimes of the Heart, Golden Boy (Lillian Theatre, LA); Three Sisters (Odyssey Theatre, LA); Deep Fried Jesus, actor/writer (The Complex, LA); The Sisters Rosensweig (Theatre 40, LA); Tony 'n Tina's Wedding (Pilgrim Center for the Arts, Seattle); Star-­‐Spangled Girl (Boston Baked Theatre). Hannah directs and is a playwright.

BAILEY NEILL : : Rachel : : ion theatre: Debut. PowPac: Here Lies Jeremy Troy; San Diego Fringe: Attach[ed]; Trinity Theatre Co.: Importance of Being Earnest; Coronado Playhouse: Midsummer Night's Dream; SDSU: Paradise Hotel,

Dear Harvey; ALTO at SDSU: The Red Address, TempODYSSEY

CAST & PRODUCTION

CAST & PRODUCTIONMARIO PRADO, JR. : : Simon/Gideon : : ion theatre: Debut. New York Theatre: Trilogy Theatre: Titus Andronicus; Genesis Repertory Ensemble: A Midsummer Night's Dream; Intar Theater: Sebastian; The Gallery Players Theatre: The Comedy of Errors;

The Marlowe Project: The Jew of Malta; The Phoenix Players: Arcadia; The Gallery Players: The Comedy of Errors; Westside Repertory Theatre: The Millionairess; The Kraine Theatre: Marred Bliss; California Theatre: Palos Verdes Players: All in the Timing. Television credits include: CSI Miami, The Shield, Crossing Jordan, Strong Medicine, Frasier, Young & The Restless, Guiding Light.

DONAL PUGH : : Adam : : ion theatre: Debut. Diversionary: Anita Bryant Died For Your Sins; Bang! Productions: Side Man; North Coast Rep: Romeo & Juliet, A Christmas Carol; Compass Theatre: Killer Joe, Oresteia,

Middle Aged White Guys; Lamb's Players: Edith Stein; OctadOne: Amadeus, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Hamlet, Othello; CCT: Annie, South Pacific, West Side Story.

TIM WEST : : Max : : ion theatre: In the Heat of the Night. New Village Arts: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Twelfth Night, Playboy of the Western World; Cygnet Theatre: It's a Wonderful Life, Tragedy of the Commons, Communicating

Doors, The Little Foxes, The Invention of Love; North Coast Rep: Sight Unseen, The Fantasticks, Arcadia; Moonlight: Arms and the Man; Sierra Repertory: It's a Wonderful Life; Sledgehammer: Devil's River, Frankenstein Project, Furious Blood.

ALANNA SERRANO : : Rachel (Select perfs.) : : ion theatre: Debut. Mesa College Theatre Company: Words, Words, Words, Variations on the Death of Trotksy, Why Torture is Wrong and the People Who Love Them, Comedy of Errors.

YOLANDA FRANKLIN

: : ProducBon Coordinator : : ion theatre: Bug (Asst. Dir.) ‘night, Mother, This Wide Night (Noel Nominee), Chicago: A Speakeasy Cabaret, The Little Flower of East Orange (Actor). Other San Diego Theatre credits include New Village Arts: To Kill a Mockingbird, The Trip to Bountiful; Diversionary Theatre: The Divine Sister, The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler (Noel Award); OnStage Playhouse: The Sugar Witch (Noel Nominee); Moxie Theatre: A Raisin in the Sun (Noel Nominee), Dead Man's Cell Phone, Gibson Girl; Cygnet Theatre: Our Town; Common Ground Theatre: Handel's Messiah -­‐ A Soulful Celebration, Four Queens No Trump; Ira Aldridge Players: Prodigal Son.

DINO GRULLI : : ProducBon Manager : : ion theatre: ‘night, Mother, The Trojan Women. Onstage Playhouse: Come Blow Your Horn, Ordinary People, Night of the Iguana, Groucho: A Life in Review, Shivaree; Grossmont College: The House of Blue Leaves, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; Traveling Children's Show: Jackalope; Starlight: Annie Get Your Gun, Oliver; CCT: Peter Pan, The Wizard of Oz, Fiddler On The Roof, Beauty and the Beast, West Side Story; City College: The Wizard of Oz, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat.

JULIO JACOBO : : Assistant Director | ‘The Bear’ : : ion theatre: Debut. Broken Dolls Theatre: A Doll's House ( Assistant Director); Skull and Dagger Dramatic Association: Stone Cold Dead Serious (Director); Circle Circle dot dot: San Diego I Love You 2.0 (Co-­‐Director).

Hannah Logan, Executive Producer Evan Kendig, Technical Director Rhianna Basore, Marketing Director Please see Actor Bios on previous page

CAST & PRODUCTIONCOLLEEN KEITH : : Stage Manager : : ion theatre: Debut. Ms. Keith is delighted to make her ion theatre debut on Kin.

GLENN PARIS

: : Producer : : Founding Producing Artistic Director/Co-­‐founder with Claudio Raygoza of BLKBOX. For ion, most recently directed Ryes, ’night, Mother, Shining City, Ass or A Midsummer Night’s Fever, Punk Rock, The Little Flower of East Orange & The Mystery Plays and produced This Wide Night, Passion, Edgar & Annabel, Far Away, Bug, reasons to be pretty, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, In the Heat of the Night, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Grey Gardens, Julia and Topdog/Underdog. Recent ion credits: Request Programme, Angels in America (Noel Nomination) Grace, The Woolgatherer, bash: latterday plays, Wonder Wounded Hereos, Parasite Drag & Hurlyburly (Noel Nomination/ Noel Award, Ensemble), Punks (Patté/Ensemble). Also in San Diego: The Divine Sister, The Pride (Diversionary Theatre) Adam Baum (6th @ Penn); Step Into the Night (Playwrights Project). In NYC (Director) Recovering the Dark at The Kitchen; Two Women Write (for the theatre) at Tribeca Film Center; Second Coming at Bank Street Theatre. HB Playwrights (former Artistic Director): The Flip Side, After All, The Roadblock. Carnegie Mellon University (MFA Directing). Mr. Paris was named Producer of the Year 2010 (with Claudio Raygoza) by the San Diego Critics Circle for a season of critically-­‐acclaimed work and ion’s production of Angels in America earned the Circle’s inaugural Braunagel Award for Outstanding Work at a Small Theater in 2011. In 3013, ion once again earned the Braunagel Award for its Outstanding Body of Work.

CLAUDIO RAYGOZA : : Director | Designer : : Founder/ExecuBve ArBsBc Director. He has directed, acted, designed, written and/or produced over 70 productions for ion including most recently: Ryes, 6, ’night, Mother, This Wide Night, Passion, Edgar & Annabel, Far Away, Bug, reasons to be pretty, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, Shining City, Ass or A Midsummer Night’s Fever, In

The Heat of the Night, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Grey Gardens, Punk Rock, The Little Flower of East Orange, Julia, Topdog/Underdog, Request Programme, Blasted, Angels in America, Gypsy, Body Awareness, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Jack Goes Boating. As a playwright: Julia, La Gaviota & Punks. Other local work: New Village Arts; La Jolla Playhouse; Moving Arts; SD Rep; 6th@Penn; Diversionary; University of San Diego; MOXIE; Mo`olelo; Cygnet; Lynx Performing Arts. Regional: Los Angeles Theatre Center; Whittier College, Borderlands Theatre; MYE Theatre; Arizona Theatre Company; Several acting/directing in Paris, France. Mr. Raygoza has been recognized with multiple nominations and awards for his work as a director, playwright, actor and producer. Mr. Raygoza was named Producer of the Year 2010 (with Glenn Paris) by the San Diego Critics Circle for a season of critically-­‐acclaimed work while ion’s production of Angels in America earned the Circle’s inaugural Braunagel Award for Outstanding Work at a Small Theater in 2011. In 2013, ion earned a second Braunagel Award for its Outstanding Body of Work.

ion company member

PLAYWRIGHT

Bathsheba Doran's most recent play, The Mysteries of Love and Sex was produced at Lincoln Center this spring to criBcal acclaim.

Other plays include Kin, Parents’ Evening, Ben and the Magic Paintbrush, Living Room in Africa, Nest, and adaptaBons of Dickens'

Great ExpectaDons, Maeterlinck's The Blind and Ibsen's Peer Gynt. She is currently adapBng The No. 1 Ladies DetecDve Agency as a feature for HBO Films; and wriBng on Season Two of the acclaimed MarBn Scorsese/HBO series Boardwalk Empire. She was a story editor on Smash for NBC. Ms. Doran moved to the United States on a Fulbright Scholarship in 2000, aZer working as a TV sketch comedy writer in England.

She received her B.A. from Cambridge University, her M.F.A. from Columbia University and went on to become a playwriBng fellow at Juilliard. She is a recipient of a Helen Merill Award, and under commission from AtlanBc Theater and Playwrights Horizons.

She lives in New York City.

: : Ms. Doran’s Kin premiered at Playwrights Horizons in NYC in 2011 : :

Bathsheba Doran

Opening of Wonder Wounded Heroes: L-R, Holly Hunter, Production Sponsor Lon Bevers, Playwright Gordon Macdonald Wachsman, Glenn Paris & Immediate Past Board Chair Denise Bevers. (Photo: Claudio Raygoza) ion theatre’s current Board of Directors: Gail S. Ebner (Chair), Denise Bevers, Carol Ann Flanagan, Clark Mires & Julie Ustin

$100,000 + Elaine Lipinsky Family Founda7on in special recogni7on of ion theatre company’s achievements

Annual Giving

$20,000 + Lon & Denise Bevers * Bill & Judy GarreH * The Parker Founda7on

$10,000 -­‐ $19,999 Danah Fayman * Dorothy Cable * Gail Ebner & Tom Stockfisch

Ralph Johnson * Pierre & Sue Ellen Leroy * Dawn Moore & Larry Alldredge Mandell Weiss Charitable Trust

$5,000 -­‐ $9,999 Helga Moore (in loving memory of Jim C. Moore)

Pamela Wagner & Hans Tegebo

$2,500-­‐$4,999 Neil Senturia & Barbara Bry * County of San Diego Board of Supervisors

Nina & Homer Eaton * Jeffrey & Sheila Lipinsky and FamilyAllison RosseH * Arthur & Molli Wagner

$1,000 -­‐ $2,499 Howard Finnecy * Jon & Carol Gebhart * Ted & Trina Kaplan

Ellen Kulik & Bill Barry (in-­‐kind) * Ron Logan (in-­‐kind) * S. Todd Muffa Jordan Ressler Charitable Fund of the Jewish Community Family Founda7on of San Diego

Evelyn & Lawrence Solomon * Amy & Charles Speilman

$500 -­‐ $999 Barbara Burrill & Dennis Cooper * Pat & Rick Harmetz * Haig Koshkarian * Dr. David & Leanne Lynn Catalina Maynard (in-­‐kind) * Alex & Judy McDonald * Carol Mead * Clark Mires * Deborah Pebry

Stuart & Linda Robinson * Miriam Summ * Julie UsBn * Jordine VonWantoch

$200 -­‐ $499 Deana & Herb Gordon * Jenni & Kim Prisk * William Purves & Don Schmidt * Mark & Elaine Regan

Arnold & Linda Rosenberg Amy Roth * Jay & Julie Sarno * John Sprengle * Thomas D. West

Up to $200 Anonymous (2) * Lynn Basquez * Moira Berman * Sue Boland * Geoffrey Clow * Dan Feraldo * Linda & Jerry Goldberg June Goblieb * Joan Hanselman-­‐Wong * A.C. & Mike Harvey * Gerald & Ingrid Hoffmeister * Richard & Linda LaFetra

Lee Lawless & Todd Blakesley * Sylvia Levinson * James Mann * Chris & Roger McClung * John & Elan McMahanEllen Miles * Tom Minnich * Daryl Netherton & Robert Wheeler * Ron Petzoldt * Irene & Hans Recker

Maria Rybakova * Beeb & Deborah Salzer * Nancy Taylor * Harold Weinberger & L. Elana Kroll * Allen T. Yarowsky

List as of March 4, 2015: If you find that you are not listed, or listed incorrectly, we apologize and hope youwill allow us to correct the error by contacBng Glenn Paris at (619) 600-­‐5020 ext. 5

CONTRIBUTORS

#ion4nyc June 2015: ion theatre makes its Off-Broadway debut with one of four world premieres developed in workshops this season.

But that’s just part of the story…

BOLD. UNCOMPROMISING. THEATRE.

Workshop: (February 2015) Ryes by Claudio Raygoza

Revisionist history meets Hollywood

Workshop: (September 2014) Grove by Glenn Paris Brotherhood and secrets unravel

Workshop: (March 2015) Sea of Souls by Glenn Paris & Claudio Raygoza Music by Linda Libby Music and motherhood in Appalachia

Workshop: (December 2014) 6 by Claudio Raygoza

Epic storms and lost families

All four workshop pieces will be read for the public one last time, the weekend of April 24/25, before choosing the New York City Production. Join us!

Sunday in the Park with George music/lyrics by Stephen Sondheim book by James Lapine directed by Glenn Paris & Kim Strassburger (September 2015)

Refuse, or the Golden Door by ion theatre

and members of San Diego’s Refugee Community

(October 2015)