Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike will be performed with a 10-minute intermission.

Please turn off your cellphone before the performance begins. No texting permitted at any time in the theatre.

The School of Music, Theatre, and Dance; 109 McCain, 785-532-5740, Gary Mortenson, DirectorJennifer Vellenga, Theatre Program Director, 785-532-6871

Director Jerry Jay Cranford

Scenic Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Kathy Voecks Dana Pinkston John Uthoff

Sound Designer Technical Director Stage Manager Drew Reisner Ben Stark Lucy McDonald

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Cast(In Order of Appearance)

Vanya ............................................................................................................... Mark Young Sonia ..................................................................................................... LaVonne Canfield Cassandra ................................................................................................... Sandy Chastan Masha ................................................................................................................... Cat HuckSpike ............................................................................................................. Sam JohnsonNina ............................................................................................................ Daijah Porchia

Mark A. Chapman Theatre Oct. 9-11 & 16-19, 2014

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike is presented through special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Made possible in part with funding from the Student Government Association (SGA)

Production StaffAssistant Director ........................................................................................... Logan Jones Assistant Stage Manager ........................................................................... Lindsey Brown Stage Management Supervisor ..........................................................................Marci MaullarComposer .................................................................................................... Matt Harrison Scene Shop Supervisor .............................................................. George Wame MatthewsScenic Artist ............................................................................................... Emily Barnhill Costume Shop Manager ..........................................................................Melissa SalvatoreFirst Hand ................................................................................................... Briana Koczan Wardrobe Supervisor ................................................................................. Norman HanksProps Master ................................................................................................ Kathy VoecksProps Assistant .......................................................................................... Jonah Erickson

Management StaffManaging Director ............................................................................................ Ben StarkAdministration Officer ..................................................................................... Lori Baker Marketing Director ............................................................................. Fatmah Al-QadfanMarketing Associates ........................................ Angelica McKinnis, Spencer WichmanMarketing Assistant .............................................................................. Mara Atzenhoffer Box Office Staff ..................................... Ivy Calvert, Nicole Casonhua, Mikaela Groff

Kristin McGuffin, Katie Omo, Hannah RubinCourtney Stover, Emma Wilson

House Manager .................................................................................. Angelica McKinnisAdministrative Assistants ..................................... Theresa Breymeyer, Cindy Friedrich

Construction CrewsScene Shop Staff .................................. Emily Barnhill, Deb Bruner, Chase Rossman,

James Sherwood, Kenneth Stark, Emily White, Andrew Winter

Technical Lab Students ............................ Kelsi Briggs, Michael Bugner, Blake Cordell,Christopher Daniel, Lauren Dunkak, Carolyn Fitzgibbons,

Hope Goertzen, Chance Thompson, Ian Walker, Kelli YoungCostume Shop Graduate Teaching Assistant ............................................ Norman HanksCostume Shop Staff ................... Madeline Davis, Katelyn Gustafson, Kaitlyn Knight,

Arianna Levin, Lucy McDonald, Emily SandersPaint Crew .................................................................. THTRE 364 Scene Painting Class

Run CrewLight Board Operator ........................................................................................ Chase FoxSound Board Operator ............................................................................... Tyler MarkleySet/Prop Crew ....................................................................... Anna Winkler, Max YoungWardrobe Crew ................................ Heidi Floyd, Morgan Sterrett, Billie Jo Wallaker

Audience NotesThe use of cameras or recording equipment is strictly forbidden.

Latecomers will be seated at the discretion of the management.

Listening devices are available for the hearing impaired. Please ask the House Manager.

K-State Theatre reserves the right to remove anyone from the audienceif his or her behavior is disruptive to the actors or other audience members.

Children under 5 years of age are not permitted to attend K-State productions,unless the play is specified as a performance for children.

All children, regardless of age, must have a ticket to enter the theater.

The Kennedy Center American College Theater

Festival™ 47, part of the Rubenstein Arts Access Program, is generously funded by

David and Alice Rubenstein

This production is entered in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF). The aims of this national theater education program are to identify and promote quality in college-level theater production. To this end, each production entered is eligible for a response by a regional KCACTF representative, and selected students and faculty are invited to participate in KCACTF programs involving scholarships, internships, grants and awards for actors, directors, dramaturgs, playwrights, designers, stage managers and critics at both the regional and national levels.

Productions entered on the Participating level are eligible for invitation to the KCACTF regional festival and may also be considered for national awards recognizing outstanding achievement in production, design, direction and performance.

Last year more than 1,300 productions were entered in the KCACTF involving more than 200,000 students nationwide. By entering this production, our theater department is sharing in the KCACTF goals to recognize, reward, and celebrate the exemplary work produced in college and university theaters across the nation.

Cast BiographiesLaVonne Canfield is a graduate student in drama therapy at Kansas State University. She holds a BFA in Acting from Florida International University. She has been an Expressive Arts Facilitator for the past 8 years bringing interdisciplinary workshops to prisons in South Florida. Acting credits include Fräulein Schnieder in Cabaret, June in Marisol, Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, Mother in The House of Yes, and Aileen Wournos in The Last Resort, which she also wrote and directed. She is grateful to have found a theatre family here in Kansas.

Sandy Chastan, a retired French teacher, is pursing her master’s in theatre performance. Last fall she was seen as Grandma Rosie in K-State’s production of The Wedding Singer. She has portrayed many roles at the MAC, most recently Mrs. Watts in The Trip to Bountiful. She has also performed as a Kit Kat Girl in Cabaret and as Winnie-the-Pooh in the musical Winnie-the-Pooh, both at the Arrowhead Regional Theatre in Hibbing, MN. She is supremely happy to be working with Jerry Jay and this amusing, amazing cast and considers herself very fortunate to have found a niche among so many talented people in the School of Music, Theatre and Dance.

Cat Huck is a senior majoring in theatre with an emphasis in performance. Her past roles at Kansas State University include Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest, Meena in Rx, Mrs. Montgomery in The Heiress, and Aniga Gringa in In The Blood. Cat would like to thank you for filling the seats.

Sam Johnson is a senior at Kansas State University. He has participated in one show at Kansas State University and is thankful for all of the new friends he has met in the School of Music, Theatre, and Dance! He would like to give a shout out to all the family and friends who have supported him throughout the years; he really appreciates it!

Daijah Porchia is a sophomore at Kansas State University and is thrilled to be a part of this production.

Mark Young is a senior at Kansas State University majoring in theatre. Past roles include Paul Bratter in Barefoot in the Park, Phil Gray in Rx, and Michael Novak in God of Carnage. The funny, handsome, and charming actor loves comedy and aspires to someday become a beloved sitcom star.

Director’s NotesChristopher Durang was awarded the Drama League, Outer Critics Circle, New York Drama Critics Circle, Drama Desk and the 2013 Tony Award for best play for his off-Broadway and Broadway runs of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. The New York Times review called it a “sunny new play about gloomy people.”

The script uses themes, names and familial situations found in the works of Chekhov. While an understanding of Chekhov might heighten the appreciation of Durang’s comedy, it is not a necessity. Durang calls it a comic homage to Chekov’s works, not a parody and not meant to emulate any of his works directly.

How exciting for K-State Theatre to produce such a recent hit from the Big Apple. I personally enjoy the quirky personalities of these characters and as a director of a certain age, can appreciate Durang’s rant against modern day sensibilities while yearning for a less technological, simpler time. I hope you enjoy this journey of our modern day Three Sisters as they seek to mend their broken family and reclaim their lost lives before it’s too late.

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