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DIAL ‘M’FOR

MURDER

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A NOTE FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Dear friend of Olney Theatre Center,

Thrillers are the theatergoer’s guilty pleasure. Like reading a Robert Ludlum novel on the beach, or binge-watching House of Cards, or spending an afternoon at the multiplex taking in three sci-fi movies on one ticket (you know all my secrets now!), this genre promises to get your adrenaline flowing as the action inexorably leads to the Inspector getting his man, and giving you a whopping emotional catharsis into the bargain. It’s no surprise that the longest-running play of all time is that grandmother of all thrillers, Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap, still packing them in on the West End after 66 years. Though it’s indeed a guilty pleasure, Dial ‘M’ for Murder is not just empty calories. That’s because the playwright, Frederick Knott, combined a facility for crafting suspense (the placement of a key, the timing of a phone call, the loss of a silk stocking) with profound character study. When you think of an Agatha Christie mystery, you probably think of the details of the murder or how the murderer gets caught (“I’ve gathered you all here because… one of you is the murderer!”) But when you think of Dial ‘M’, you think of the characters, don’t you? Tony, Max,

Inspector Hubbard, and of course, the radiant Margot. That’s why Alfred Hitchcock, the undisputed master of the psychological thriller, largely left the script intact when he chose to adapt Knott’s play for the silver screen. Something I love about producing plays at Olney Theatre Center is that our audience is diverse enough to support everything from thrillers like Dial ‘M’ to big musicals to serious new plays. That’s why I select a variety of plays that give each member of the community at least a few things they really want to see. We’ve just announced our 16-17 season, and for those of you who love classics like Dial ‘M’, you’ll find plenty to enjoy: an effervescent My Fair Lady, an intimate The Diary of Anne Frank, a raucous 17th-century French comedy, and more recent classics like Sweeney Todd. You only need to purchase three shows to become a member, and showers of benefits await you… among them heavily-discounted tickets to the other shows we’re doing next year, so you can experiment a little. A brand new play by the author of last year’s hit Colossal? The 25th anniversary production of the Tony- and Pulitzer-winning Angels in America? How about a one-man show about local legend Thurgood Marshall? There’s so much to see next year at Olney Theatre Center, and I hope you’ll find plenty of reasons to join me on the journey. Let me know what you think about Dial ‘M’, and about our upcoming season at [email protected].

Onward!

Jason Loewith Artistic Director

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Dial ‘M’ for Murder is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.

Opening Night: Saturday, April 9, 2016

OLNEY THEATRE CENTERDebbie Ellinghaus,

Managing DirectorJason Loewith,

Artistic Director

presents

DIAL ‘M’FOR MURDER

By Frederick Knott

Costume Design

Seth GilbertScenic Design

Charlie CalvertLighting Design

Sonya DowhalukSound Design

Roc Lee

Fight Choreographer

Casey KalebaDialect Coach

Zachary CampionProduction Stage Manager

Elisabeth Ribar

Associate Artistic Director/Director of Education

Jason King JonesDirector of Production

Dennis A. Blackledge

Directed By

Jason King Jones

featuring

James KonicekAshley Smith

Cameron McNaryNisi Sturgis

Alan Wade

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CAST OF DIAL ‘M’ FOR MURDER (in order of appearance)

Margot Wendice ................................................................................................................... NiSi STuRGiS*

Max Halliday .............................................................................................................. CAMERON McNARy*

Tony Wendice .....................................................................................................................ASHLEy SMiTH*

Captain Lesgate ...............................................................................................................JAMES KONiCEK*

inspector Hubbard ................................................................................................................. ALAN WADE*

*Member, Actors’ Equity Association

Production Stage Manager – ELiSABETH RiBAR*

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creatiVe team SponSorSKathleen Quinn sponsoring Jason King JonesEveline Roberts sponsoring zachary Campion

ARTIST SPONSORSAndi Drimmer sponsoring James Konicek

Lane and Cheryl Jennings sponsoring Elisabeth RibarClifford L. Johnson & Margaret T. Roper sponsoring Nisi SturgisSteve C. Phan & Richard J. Poster sponsoring Cameron McNary

Kathleen Quinn sponsoring Ashley Smith and Alan Wade

ACT ONEScene i - A Friday evening

in SeptemberScene ii - An hour later

ACT TWOScene i - Saturday EveningScene ii - Later that night

Scene iii - Sunday morning

ACT THREEA few months later,

early afternoon

The action takes place in the living room of the Wendices’ apartment in London.

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WHO’S WHO - CAST

James Konicek (Captain Lesgate) OLNEY THEATRE CENTER: Rancho Mirage, Annie, King of the Jews, Democracy, The Elephant Man. DC AREA: Forum Theatre: The Pillowman; Ford’s Theatre: 1776, Parade, Liberty Smith, A Christmas Carol; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Marie Antoinette, In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play); Round House Theatre: Pride & Prejudice, Around the World in 80 Days; Imagination Stage: When She Had Wings, The BFG, Peter Pan & Wendy; Washington Stage Guild: Elling, Lord Arthur Saville’s Crime; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Man of La Mancha, Merry Wives, As You Like It, Edward

II; Studio Theatre: The Internationalist, Autobahn, Terrorism, Ivanov; The Kennedy Center: Oliverio, Unleashed, Blues Journey, Alice; Folger Theatre: 12th Night, Romeo & Juliet; Arena Stage: Born Yesterday; American Shakespeare Center: The Tempest, Midsummer Night’s Dream, King Lear, Coriolanus, Much Ado About Nothing, Tartuffe. James has an MFA from USD/Old Globe Theatre. www.jameskonicek.com.

Cameron McNary (Max Halliday) is pleased to be returning to the stage where he earned his Actor’s Equity card. OLNEY THEATRE CENTER: Bye, Bye Birdie (Birdie). REGIONAL: Utah Shakespeare Festival: Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Merchant of Venice, Merry Wives of Windsor, Julius Caesar and Damn Yankees; Mill Mountain Theatre: I do! I do!; Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival: A Moon for the Misbegotten; Critical Threat Theatre: Of Dice and Men; DC AREA: Studio Theatre: The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow [Helen Hayes Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor] and The Internationalist; Theater J: Bal Masque; Scena Theatre: Mein Kampf (Adolf Hitler); Shakespeare

Theatre Company: The Alchemist, Richard II and Henry V. FILM: Of Dice and Men. TV: The Men Who Built America and American Genius. PLAYWRIGHT: Of Dice and Men and Shoggoths on the Veldt. EDUCATION: BFA in Acting from Southern Methodist University, and MFA in Acting from the Professional Theatre Training Program at the University of Delaware.

Ashley Smith (Tony Wendice) is delighted to make his Olney Theatre Center debut in Dial ‘M’ for Murder. Previous credits include: OFF-BROADWAY: Edward II, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Joan of Lorraine. RE-GIONAL: Shakespeare Theatre Company: Much Ado About Nothing, All’s Well That Ends Well. Utah Shake-speare Festival: Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Our Town. Dallas Theater Center: Pride and Prejudice, The Misanthrope, The Glass Menagerie. Stage West: Major Barbara. Great Lakes Theatre Festival: Arms and the Man. Idaho Shakespeare Festival: Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing.

FILM: Texas Rein, The Whyte Album, The Guests. TELEVISION: The Daily Show with Trevor Noah (Comedy Central), VEEP (HBO), Whistler: A Case for Beauty (PBS), and the recurring role of Captain Wakefield in all three seasons of TURN: Wash-ington’s Spies (AMC).

Nisi Sturgis (Margot Wendice) Nisi’s New York credits include The 39 Steps, Intimate Apparel, Dyspho-ria, and The Less We Talk. Her regional credits include Disgraced (Goodman Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Seattle Rep.); In The Next Room (or the vibrator play) (Cleveland Play House); A Doll’s House, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Life of Riley, Pentecost, Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, and Pericles (the Old Globe); Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pride and Prejudice, Doubt, You Can’t Take It with You, and Richard III (Denver Center Theatre Company); A Streetcar Named Desire, To Kill a Mockingbird, Arms and the Man,

Our Town, and Trelawny of the Wells (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey); Hamlet and Emma (Pioneer Theatre Company); Failure: A Love Story and Macbeth (Illinois Shakespeare Festival); Twelfth Night (Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre); and Trying (Merrimack Repertory Theatre). Her television credits include 5 seasons as the recurring role of June Thompson on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire. Nisi received her MFA from the Old Globe.

Alan Wade (Inspector Hubbard) celebrates a 44-year relationship with Olney Theatre Center having first appeared on the Historic stage as Zack, the tavern keeper’s son, in George M. Cohan’s The Tavern in 1972. Other OTC appearances include The Tempest, Angel Street, Witness for the Prosecution, Farragut North, Copenhagen, Art, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tartuffe, The Laramie Project, Voice of the Prairie, Fallen Angels, Holiday Memories, No Man’s Land, Stanley, Good, and Scenes from an Execution. His work locally includes appearances at Arena Stage, Center Stage, Studio Theatre, The Stage Guild, MetroStage, Potomac Theatre

Project [Helen Hayes Award nomination], and Horizons Theatre. In New York he appeared off-Broadway at The Atlantic The-atre, in Chicago at The Victory Gardens Theatre, and in San Francisco at Marin Theatre [Bay Area Theatre Award nomination]. Film and Television include House of Cards (season 4), Homicide: Life on the Streets, A Man Called Hawk, The Pelican Brief, and Major League II. Voice-over work includes Time-Life Books, The Smithsonian Institution, and Bell and Howell, and his latest recording for Amazon Audible is Sherlock Holmes: Beastly Mysteries by New Zealand novelist Lyn McConchie.


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WHO’S WHO - CREATIVE

Frederick Knott (Playwright) is the author of three suspense dramas beginning with Dial ‘M’ for Murder which opened at London’s Westminster Theatre on June 19, 1952, and then on Broadway at the Plymouth Theatre, October 29, 1952. His play Write Me A Murder premiered on Broadway at the Belasco Theatre (October 26, 1961), and was followed by Wait Until Dark at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on February 2, 1966. Dial ‘M’ for Murder became a successful motion picture (1954) starring Ray Milland, Grace Kelly and Robert Cummings as did Wait Until Dark (1961), which starred Audrey Hepburn and Alan Arkin. Mr. Knott was bom in China. He was educated at the Oundle School and Cambridge University in England. He married the actress, Ann Hillary, and they had one son and two grandsons. Knott received Edgar Allen Poe Awards for both Dial ‘M’ for Murder (1952) and Write Me A Murder (l961). Mr. Knott died in New York City in 2002.

Jason King Jones (Director) is Associate Artistic Director / Director of Education, and Artistic Director of National Players here at Olney Theatre Center. Past productions at OTC: Godspell, Tempest and Neville’s Island. Past National Players productions: A Tale of Two Cities, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Of Mice and Men, Romeo and Juliet, Animal Farm, The Comedy of Errors, The Tempest, and Odyssey (which he also adapted); and for Tour 68 he will directing Hamlet. At The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Jason has directed The Comedy of Errors, The Servant of Two Masters, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), The Merry Wives of Windsor, and The Grouch, along with nearly a dozen abridged classical plays for their educational touring companies. Other directing credits include Peer Gynt, (TriBeCa Performing Arts Center), Fallujah (The Kennedy Center / ACTF), A Number (Whistler in the Dark), Murdering Marlowe (Access Theater), Twelfth Night (Shakespeare Center Los Angeles), The Women of Lockerbie and The Good Daughter (NJ REP); The Rainmaker and The Brothers Karamazov (12 Miles West). He has taught and directed at Boston University, New York’s TVI Actor’s Studio, Fairleigh Dickinson University, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Missouri State. Jason was twice Staff Repertory Director with The Acting Company, and he is the co-creator and director of Very Very, a Shakespeare rock show based on As You Like It. Jason is a proud graduate of the Boston University School of Theatre.

Charlie Calvert (Scenic Designer) is happy to return to Olney Theatre Center. Previous Olney Theatre Center credits include The Tempest. Other regional credits include Love’s Labour’s Lost, Henry VIII, The Learned Ladies, Our Town, Arms and the Man, Noises Off, The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged) and Comedy of Errors at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Next to Normal at Charleston Stage Company and Glengarry Glen Ross at PURE Theatre. Charlie received his MFA in set design from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and serves on the faculty of College of Charleston’s Department of Theatre and Dance.

zachary Campion (Dialect Coach) is the Education Manager at Studio Theatre and a member of the Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory faculty where he teaches voice, speech, and dialect. Since joining Studio, Zach has coached dialects for Terminus, Chimerica, Between Riverside and Crazy, and the upcoming Hand to God. Other recent credits in the area include the world premiere Voracious at University of Maryland Baltimore County and When the Rain Stops Falling at 1st Stage Theater. Mr. Campion is a certified teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework® and holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Theatre Pedagogy from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Sonya Dowhaluk (Lighting Designer) is delighted to be returning to Olney Theatre Center, having first worked here as an electrics apprentice in 1999. Past lighting designs at Olney Theatre Center include Godspell, A Christmas Carol, National Players Tour 63, The Tempest, and Grease (co-design). She has also worked as an assistant lighting designer at Shakespeare Theatre Company, Center Stage, and The Santa Fe Opera. Ms. Dowhaluk holds a BA from The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and an MFA from the University of Maryland. In addition to her theatre work, she also works as an assistant lighting director at CNN.

Seth M. Gilbert (Costume Designer) is the Resident Costume Designer and Assistant Costume Shop Manager at Olney Theatre Center. Recent credits: OLNEY THEATRE CENTER: Carousel, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying [2014 Helen Hayes Award Nomination for Outstanding Resident Musical], A Chorus Line (Associate Costume Designer) [2013 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Resident Musical], You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown, The Sound of Music, Grease, Annie, Forever Plaid. NATIONAL PLAYERS: Tour 66; As You Like It; To Kill a Mockingbird (Associate Costume Designer). REGIONAL: Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Marie Antoinette (Associate Wig Designer) [2014 Helen Hayes Award Nomination for Outstanding Costume Design; Helen Huang]; Theatre 40: The Ghosts of Mary Lincoln; University of Michigan – Flint (Guest Designer): Elegies; St. Clair County Community College (Guest Designer): James and the Giant Peach, Star Spangled Girl. EDUCATION: BS in Costume Design & Technology from the University of Michigan – Flint.


WHO’S WHO - CREATIVE

Casey Kaleba (Fight Choreographer) OLNEY THEATRE CENTER: Neville’s Island, Spring Awakening, Camelot; National Players: Tour 56-present. DC AREA: Folger Theatre: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, Julius Caesar, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Henry V; Signature Theatre: West Side Story, Road Show, Cabaret; Round House Theatre: Stage Kiss, The Night Alive, Ironbound, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Guards at the Taj; Castleton Festival: Romeo et Juliette, Otello, The Girl of the Golden West; Rorschach Theatre: She Kills Monsters, Neverwhere; Constellation Theatre Company: Lieutenant of Inishmore [Helen Hayes Award nomination], Gilgamesh, Zorro. Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors; audition choreographer for Marvel Universe Live.

Roc Lee (Sound Designer) is a Helen Hayes Award nominated DC based Composer/Sound Designer. He holds a Master of Music in Stage Music Composition from CUA. Credits include: OLNEY THEATRE CENTER: National Players Tour 67. DC AREA: Arena Stage: Mother Courage [Helen Hayes Award Nomination]; Mosaic Theater: After the War (projections and programming); Faction of Fools: Our Town; Catholic University: The Revolutionists; We Happy Few: Romeo and Juliet; Georgetown University: In the Red and Brown Water, Insurrection, Begotten, Visible Impact; Pointless Theatre: Sleeping Beauty; Lean and Hungry Theater: Othello, The Scarlet Letter, As You Like It, Taming of the Shrew; Madeira School: Anything Goes, Footloose, Wizard of Oz. UPCOMING: National Players Tour 68 (Olney Theatre Center). Roc is the Assistant Audio Supervisor at Shakespeare Theatre Company. (http://www.roclee.net)

Elisabeth Ribar (Stage Manager) is a former stage management apprentice and excited to be back at Olney Theatre Center. Previously at OLNEY THEATRE CENTER: The Tempest, Bedlam’s Hamlet and Saint Joan, A Christmas Carol, Sleuth, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, The Sound of Music, Witness for the Prosecution. Selected DC AREA: Folger Theatre: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Pericles, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Mary Stuart, Julius Caesar; Imagination Stage: When She Had Wings [Helen Hayes Award nomination, Outstanding TYA Production]; Signature Theatre: Beaches. REGIONAL: Heritage Theatre Festival: Next to Normal, Annie Get Your Gun, Little Shop of Horrors, Oliver! EDUCATION: Murray State University.

Jason Loewith (Artistic Director) recently directed Olney Theatre Center’s critically acclaimed production of Marjorie Prime. Previous Olney Theatre Center productions include Carousel, the NNPN Rolling World Premiere of Steven Dietz’s Rancho Mirage as well as Avenue Q and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying [2015 Helen Hayes Award nomination for Outstanding Musical]. Jason won Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle, and Jeff Awards for Best New Musical for Adding Machine: A Musical, which he co-wrote with composer Joshua Schmidt (off-Broadway, 2008). His latest musical is Big Nate: The Musical which premiered in 2013 at Adventure Theatre-MTC, co-written with Olney’s Associate Artistic Director Christopher Youstra. Recent regional work as a director includes the world premiere of Broke (Alliance Theatre, Atlanta), Time Stands Still (Everyman, Baltimore), Crime and Punishment, and Working It Out (Center Stage, Baltimore), Adding Machine: A Musical (Studio Theatre, DC), and a dozen plays for Chicago’s Next Theatre Company, where he served as Artistic Director from 2002-08. Those credits include the Chicago area premieres of Dying City, Defiance, The Long Christmas Ride Home, and Fabulation. He conceived and directed the world premiere of The American Dream Songbook, and produced Chicago premieres by Caryl Churchill, Suzan-Lori Parks, Carson Kreitzer, Sam Shepard, Dael Orlandersmith, and many more. He is a three-time grantee from the NEA for Artistic Excellence, a recipient of support from the Rockefeller MAP Fund and MacArthur’s International Connections Fund, and a TCG New Generations Future Leaders grant. Jason joined Olney as Artistic Director in 2013 after serving four years as Executive Director of the National New Play Network. Jason is the proud recipient of a 2015 Montgomery County Executive’s Award for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities, and serves on the board of Governors for theatreWashington.

Debbie Ellinghaus (Managing Director) joined Olney Theatre Center in August 2014. At Olney, she partners with Artistic Director Jason Loewith to lead the staff and execute the mission and vision of the Theatre. She also serves as a liaison to Olney Theatre’s Board of Directors, of which she is a member. Prior to joining Olney, she was the Director of Development at the University of Maryland, College of Arts and Humanities where she raised major gifts to help advance student scholarship and academic programming. From 2005-2011, she was the Senior Associate Director of Development at Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, CT. At Yale, she she was part of a university-wide campaign that raised more than $3.8 billion and included transformational gifts for Yale Rep from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Robina Foundation, which established the Binger Center for New Theatre. Ms. Ellinghaus was the Director of Development at Jean Cocteau Repertory (New York, NY) and held positions at the Guggenheim Museum, the Cathedral School (NY) and the Epiphany School (NY). She has a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Maryland (College Park) and is a graduate of the New Actors Workshop, where she studied with George Morrison, Mike Nichols, and Paul Sills. Since 2013, Ms. Ellinghaus has served as Chair of the Downtown Columbia Arts and Culture Commission, a not-for-profit organization that helps to preserve the cultural significance of Merriweather Post Pavilion and provides support to other arts and culture organizations in Howard County, MD.

http://www.roclee.net/


A CONTEXT GUIDE

DRAMATURGy NOTEFrederick Knott was inspired to write Dial ‘M’ For Murder when he heard a gunshot one afternoon in the English countryside. He was living in a cottage on his parents’ estate in Sussex, and that gunshot inspired the setting of a murder gone wrong – in “an old, very oak-paneled English house that had seen better days,” as he put it. After eighteen months of writing in solitude, Knott emerged with the manuscript of Dial ‘M’, his first screenplay. Although he was turned down by multiple studios, he sold it to the BBC as a television play, and then watched it become extremely successful as a stage play on the West End and on Broadway. Knott collaborated on the script with Alfred Hitchcock for the 1954 film adaptation, and afterwards only wrote two more plays in his career. Dial ‘M’ For Murder is his most widely produced work. Dial ‘M’ is not the typical ‘whodunit’ we have come to expect from our favorite Agatha Christie novels or twenty-first century crime shows. Knott used his play to pry into the psychological makeup that can drive a person to plan an intricate murder and examine what happens when that plan is derailed. Tony is perceptive, meticulous, and skilled at spinning stories on a dime; if anyone can pull off a masterpiece murder, it would appear to be him. But will he? In Knott’s dramas, the beauty is in the details – where someone is, when something happened, or the color of an item, for example. Knott was reportedly concerned with all the minutiae in his script, to the point where he abhorred ceding creative control over to directors. Like Tony, he knew every detail had to be examined from all angles to pull off a play (or premeditated murder) of this scale. Hitchcock’s interest in the script grew from the desire to manage a film on a micro level as a sort of technical exercise; rather than dramatizing large scale cons and serial murders, as was his general style, he wanted to examine the nitty gritty nature of how the story of a murder and its resulting actions could unfold in a single room on the big screen. We produce classic plays and musicals because the past can illuminate the present in surprising ways. Think of this play’s title: Dial ‘M’ for Murder. How many people under 30 have ever “dialed” a rotary phone? In contrast to the instantaneous communication we’re used to today, Tony’s methodical plan (including one meticulously-timed phone call that can only happen on a very specific landline!) has many steps to follow it to fruition, and requires a good deal of time to execute. It’s hard to imagine a 21st-century murder having the patience to plot so extensively. In a world where everything seems to be a click away, Tony’s psychology appears even more frightening and threatening. London society, complete with its sexism and social rules, has evolved as much as technology has. All of these seemingly outdated components on our stage contribute to a sense of nostalgia for ‘simpler’ times, but alas, these characters’ secrets make their lives so complicated! Knott’s subtitled this work “a collage for voices,” indicating the small but essential piece each ‘voice’ can contribute to the greater work. Dial ‘M’ For Murder demonstrates the fickleness of human nature and how it impacts us all. Small choices made by these characters amount to something much larger by the time this mystery play ends, reminding us that the tiniest details can still carry a great deal of weight.

—Alexandra Ley,Dramaturg

CONTEXT GUIDE

The inner workings of a fifteen-year-old murder investigation became a national topic when the Serial podcast gained pop-ularity in 2015. The podcast begins with an elaboration on how fickle memory is:

And that is, it’s really hard to account for your time, in a detailed way, I mean. How’d you get to work last Wednesday, for instance? Drive? Walk? Bike? Was it raining? Are you sure? Did you go to any stores that day? If so, what did you buy? Who did you talk to? The entire day, name every person you talked to. It’s hard. Now imagine you have to account for a day that happened six weeks back. Because that’s the situation in the story I’m working on in which a bunch of teenagers had to recall a day six weeks earlier.

- Sarah Koenig, investigative journalist

Serial has exposed the many nuances of the criminal system to the general public in its attempts to solve the question of whether the good-natured seventeen-year-old Maryland high school student Adnan Syed murdered his girlfriend.

About a decade ago, many of the hit television shows were crime series that followed a typical ‘whodunit’ plot where the ‘good guys’ search for a killer. Murder stories and films have been con-sistently popular as well. However, today many of the stories we enjoy from different media take a different approach to the same sort of story. In sagas detailing a real-life murder case, we start off knowing who allegedly committed the crime, and our suspense is dependent on the ‘good guys’ accusing them of the crime. In these kinds of programs, the audiences come to know the alleged or known perpetrators and various methods of killing instead of marveling at the detectives, inspectors, and observant bystanders who attempt to solve the case.

The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst Robert Durst, a prominent New York City real estate mogul, was arrested for a murder 21 years after his wife disappeared in an unresolved incident. This documentary series is focused on contemporary interviews with Durst, his family, and New York professionals associated with the case.

Filmmaker Andrew Jarecki intersperses the interviews with dra-matized recreations of the past to provide a clear visualization of the events. Similar to Making A Murderer, one man is accused of two major crimes, and it is difficult to believe that strong evidence to committing one is not transitive proof of the other. Because we like to believe that humans are either mostly good or mostly evil, the challenge for the filmmaker is finding the best way to present the historical and legal information.

DIAL ‘M’ FOR MURDERThe popular Netflix documentary series Making A Murderer debuted on December 18th of last year and has already become a sensation. The first episode establishes how flawed the crimi-nal justice system can be; Steven Avery was in jail for eighteen years on a charge of sexual assault, despite a definitive lack of evidence and thorough investigation to that effect. While in the process of suing the sheriff’s department in pursuit of financial compensation for time in jail, he ends up accused of a murder.

The audience experiences the events in Avery’s life along with him, starting in 1985 and moving towards the present day. He consistently insists that he is innocent of sexual as-sault and murder, but the interviews and the stories documented over a course of thirty years call that innocence into question. Much like Serial, the creators hook their audience into the story by calling into question the credibility of other civilians and motives of the professionals involved. Even if one story seems plausible, another equally believable testimony can follow it and alter how someone thinks about the crime.

The hit ABC drama How to Get Away With Murder begins with a frenzied group of students trying to use their early law school knowledge to hide a dead body. Going for-ward, the show follows the students in preceding months. Suspense develops as the students begin to know each other, and their lives get closer and closer to what the audience recognizes as the time of the murder.

I’m always skeptical when somebody says that another person is evil. I think it’s an excuse to separate our-selves and to say, Well, I can’t even conceive of the possibility that I could be capable of such things, because that person is “evil.” But the truth is all people do strange things.

- Andrew Jarecki, director of The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst

CONTEXT GUIDE DIAL ‘M’ FOR MURDER

“Fear – jealousy – money – revenge...and protecting someone you love.”

– Max Halliday, listing the five important motivesfor murder, in Dial ‘M’ for Murder by Frederick Knott

CostumesRenderings by Costume Designer Seth Gilbert

Margot MaxTony Hubbard

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Olney Theatre Center is an award-winning, nonprofit, Equity theatre. Our mission is to produce and present extraordinary theatre and performance on our four-theatre campus for an ever-more diverse set of audiences in our community, and to educate the next generation of theatremakers to follow in our footsteps. We strive every day to unleash the creative potential of our artists and audiences, and in so doing, become Maryland’s premier center for theatre performance and education. In the past two years, Olney Theatre has produced six world or

regional premieres, including Andrew Hinderaker’s Colossal (2015 Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play or Musical), and Jennifer Hoppe-House’s Bad Dog (2015 Steinberg Award nominee). Olney’s shows and educational activities are accessible and affordable, and we strive to provide a thought-provoking and enjoyable theatrical experience.

Olney Theatre Center is situated on 14 wooded acres in the heart of the beautiful Washington-Baltimore-Frederick “triangle,” within easy access to all three cities, and is also home to National Players, America’s longest-running touring company. Olney Theatre Center is led by Artistic Director Jason Loewith and Managing Director Debbie Ellinghaus. For more information, please visit www.olneytheatre.org.

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We attended performances at the Olney for decades. At first it was just for a change of pace and entertainment. As time passed, we began to recognize returning actors/actresses, as well as directors and other key contributors to the whole Olney experience. The family thing was taking root. Then the dependence phase began in which we looked forward to each new season and anticipated shows. I am now in the immersion phase. Since my wife’s passing, I now support the Olney with money. To me that means I am seriously hooked and part of the family. It is a perfect vehicle for staying relevant with intellectual currents washing over society and for stimulating thinking in directions and topics I would not normally encounter as a retired software engineer. I now judge plays differently from before. A good play causes me to think about it and talk about it for a good long time. I think of the Olney as a key ingredient of living a full life.

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OLNEY ThEATRE cENTER SUMMER STOcK is a one-of-a-kind theater arts program for students in grades 4-6. Students will work with OTC theater artists daily, taking classes in Acting & improvisation, Voice & Singing, Dance & Movement, and Scene Creation. Masterclasses from Guest Artists and special visits to rehearsals of active OTC produc-tions are also on the schedule. At the end of the two-week session, students will perform in a showcase featuring their original scene along with musical theater song and dance: parents and family members are invited!

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FOR INFO AND REGISTRATIONVisit OlneyTheatre.org/Camp or contact Jason King Jones

Associate Artistic Director/Director of Education301.924.4485 ext. 127 • [email protected]

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When you support Olney Theatre Center, you help us toprovide outstanding productions, hire the best artists, and

train the next generation of theatre leaders and lovers.

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We offer thought provoking, edgy new plays likeCOLOSSAL, BAD DOG, and MARJORIE PRIME,and provide the highest quality productions of classicsand family programming like GUYS & DOLLSand THE PRODUCERS.

We’ve been your home theatre for generations and we strive to become your mid-Atlantic destination for the arts. We believe Olney Theatre Center plays a vital role in the cultural fabric of our community and we take that role seriously.

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YOUR GIFT MAKES A BIG DIFFERENcE

STrengThen Our prOgramming ThrOugh ARTISTIC RISk and RIGOR

Build On Our 78–YEAR HISTORY

MAKE YOUR GIFT TODAY!

ONLINE: Visit www.olneytheatre.org/donate

PHONE: Call us at 301-924-4485 ext. 103

MAIL: Make checks payable to Olney Theatre Center and send to Olney Theatre Center • 2001 Olney Sandy-Spring Rd • Olney, MD 20832

We also accept donations of stocks. Please call for more information.

We train a new troupe of theatre practitioners each year through our Apprentice Program and provide professional experience for early-career actors through the renowned National Players. Our education programs introduce the magic of live theatre to hundreds of students each year through on-site programs and our unique Arts Integration program in our local schools.

There are many ways to give to Olney Theatre Center. Choose the most convenient from the following options:

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Holly Twyford (Molly) and Alyssa Wilmoth Keegan(Abby) in 2016 Helen Hayes Award nominee Bad DogPhoto: Nick Griner

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Director of Education Jason King Jones takes questions from students

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CORPORATE AND FOUNDATION GIFTSThis list consists of contributions of $250 or more for the period 12/1/2014 through 2/29/2016

$100,000+

$10,000+

$5,000+

$2,500+

$1,000+Adventure Park

Fidelity Charitable Gift FundGraham Holdings

National Philanthropic Trust

500+America’s CharitiesCQI Associates, LLC MedImmune, LLC.

National Housing Endowment - In honor of Robert Mitchell

United Jewish Endowment Fund

Matching GiftCompanies

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Johnson & JohnsonPEW Charitable TrustsVerizon Foundation

In-Kind Donations

MaryLee AdamsJ. Roger Bentley

Brooke Grove Retirement VillageDavid and Laura Epstein

Susan and Jay FinkelsteinSuzanne Gust

Mr. and Mrs. Jason King JonesRuth A. PollackKathleen Quinn

Michael RicciardellaMargaret T. Roper and Clifford L. Johnson

Linda Rosenzweig and Sandy BieberMartin H. SachsDeborah Vicino

Pam Wade

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INDIVIDUAL GIFTSThis list consists of contributions of $250 or more for the period 12/1/2014 through 2/29/2016

$500,000+Bob and Eveline Roberts

$100,000+Gana and Jim DunlopMrs. Maggi Root

$10,000+AnonymousSusan and Jay FinkelsteinRhonda Friedman and James RaffertyCharles S. Mack and Alice Barrett MackHelen MarshallKathleen QuinnMargaret T. Roper and Clifford L. JohnsonPatricia Woodbury

$5,000+Anonymous - In memory of Kate GibsonRobert E. HebdaMr. and Mrs. Stephen Z. KaufmanJennifer and Scott KneelandPaul and Pat MangusBill and Babi MeekinsBob and Marlene MitchellLinda Rosenzweig and Sandy BieberMr. Vernon L. SkinnerKevin White & Rossana Salvadori - In honor of our parents Anson and Marge, Dilvo and Dina

$2,500+AnonymousMr. and Mrs. David BottegalM. Charlene DorrianHal and Karen GordonMorty and Meghan GudelskyMs. Winifred E. HerrmannNettie HorneAndi KasarskyStephen and Mary KleinSidney KramerThe Honorable Karen S. Montgomery and Mr. Harry MontgomeryTony and Connie MorellaMr. and Mrs. Tommy Mulitz - In honor of the Mulitz-Gudelsky FamilyJames Pape and Nancy Newman-PapeMita M. Schaffer and Tina M. Martin

Victor Shargai and Craig PascalCarol Trawick

$1,000+Dr. Patricia BeastonDeborah and Bruce BermanCathy S. BernardMerle and Nancy BigginDennis and Holly BlackledgeRobert BurkJulie B. ChristopherNed CramerEd and Leslie CroninSteve Danielson and Dr. Kenneth HoyleEileen and Paul DeMarcoFrederick DeneckeGordon and Margot DibbleJoan Elise Dubinsky and Craig N. PackardDebbie and Andrew EllinghausEdith L. EmbreyEdward EpesMaureen and Tom EstrinBob and Pat FauverBerdie and David FirestoneBarry and Marie FleishmanMrs. Mary GrahamThe William H. Graham, Sr. FamilyWilliam A. Hanson and Gail A. LiebermanJohn HaugePaul Henderson - In memory of Marilyn HendersonMax and Helen Jacobs - In memory of William GrahamMr. and Mrs. Lane JenningsThe Honorable Benjamin F. KramerJane Thérèse LarsenMegan and Tony LimarziMr. Jason LoewithDavid and Jennifer LubitzJohn and Kathy LyonsMaggie and Tico McCreadyLisa McKillop - In honor of Wes Meekins, Weldon Brown, and Valerie LeonardSue Morss - In loving memory of Lester Robert MorssClyde and Christina NorthropSteve C. Phan and Richard J. PosterRobert and Lelia RussellAdrienne and Louis SacksMarlin R. and Alicia B. TaylorJohn R. and Andrea Z. UrcioloSandy and Alan WadeBrad Watkins

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Lawrence and Joan FriendEd Grossman and Rochelle Stanfield - In memory of Howie StanfieldFreddi and Dick HammerschlagJoshua and Ana Rita HaugeMs. Linda Lurie HirschJoannene HudakMr. Richard F. HughesMs. Susan B. HughesMr. and Mrs. Jason King JonesElizabeth S. KingEmanuel and Aimee KokotakisLinda Levy and Dennis Kronenberg - In honor of Victor ShargaiMrs. Lillian LitowskyMarcia D. LitwackJesus and Alicia LizarazoKatherine C. MadalenoMr. Walter Magruder Jr.Peg MancusoFrederick and Betty MarcellMaury and Beverly MarksEdwin M. Martin and Nancy A. SpanglerLinda and Tom McCabeMs. Donna P. MerglianoFrederick and Elizabeth Montgomery

Reginald and Chrissie NashNancy M. NortonJohn and Maureen PelosiWilliam PhillipsWesley Pickard and Jeanette StudleyDr. Carole A. RayburnFill and Linda RueggDonald SauerJulia and Peter Shawhan - In honor of Susan J. Shawhan and National PlayersCora and Murray Simpson Family FundLeslie F. Smith and Stacy P. SmithMichael and Camilla SmithPatricia M. SmithRoger and Carolyn SorensenGary and Janet SowersHilda SpringerWyman and Tine StoneSusan Stracquatanio and Thomas JonesLois Taylor and Stephen SimpsonPeter ThreadgillCarrie and John TrauthMarc Walton and Toni Stifano-WaltonHelene Weisz and Richard LiebermanDavid Mendick and Naomi Yadin-Mendick

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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEECharles S. Mack .....................................................................................................................................President Susan Finkelstein ...............................................................................................................................Board ChairLinda E. Rosenzweig .......................................................................................................................Vice PresidentClifford Johnson ................................................................................................................................... TreasurerRobert Mitchell ..................................................................................................................................... SecretaryJennifer Kneeland ........................................................................................................ immediate Past President

DIRECTORSPhyllis Bottegal • Debbie Ellinghaus • Rhonda Friedman • Robert E. Hebda • Stephen Klein

Jason Loewith • Helen Marshall • William Meekins • Alan Wade • Patricia Woodbury

HONORARy BOARD MEMBERSStephen Kaufman • Anthony Morella • Mita M. Schaffer

William H. Graham, Sr. (in memoriam)

OLNEy THEATRE CORPORATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS

ARTISTIC ASSOCIATES

ACTORSEvan Casey • Julie-Ann Elliott • Rick Foucheux • Helen Hedman • Valerie Leonard

Susan Lynskey • Donna Migliaccio • Paul Morella • Jon Hudson Odom • Tracy Lynn OliveraMichael Russotto • Bobby Smith • Stephen Gregory Smith

DIRECTORS, CHOREOGRAPHERS, AND MUSICAL DIRECTORSMichael J. Bobbitt • John E. Going • Eleanor Holdridge • Tara Jeanne Vallee • Mark Waldrop

DESIGNERS AND STAGE MANAGERSColin K. Bills • James Fouchard • Misha Kachman • Pei Lee • Josiane M. Lemieux

Milagros Ponce de León • ivania Stack

THEATER POLICIESLatecomers are seated at the discretion of the house manag-er. Please do not bring food into the theater (beverages are allowed). All buildings are smoke-free. The use of recording or photographic equipment during the show is prohibited. Olney Theatre Center is not responsible for any items left on our campus. All children, including babies, require a ticket. We will ask parents to take their children to the lobby if their behavior is disturbing patrons. Please turn off your cell phone in the theater.

SIGN-INTERPRETED PERFORMANCESSign interpretation is available for the third Thursday eve-ning during a show’s run. The service must be requested two weeks in advance and is based on the availability of qualified interpreters. To request this service, please [email protected].

POST-SHOW DISCUSSIONSJoin the artistic staff and/or invited guests after select Sat-urday matinees for AfterWords. Please call the Box Office at 301.924.3400 for more information on these events.

LISTENING ASSISTANCEWe offer devices that amplify sound free of charge in ex-change for identification. Please ask the house manager for assistance. (This service is not available on the third Wednesday evening of a show’s run.)

AUDIO-DESCRIBED PERFORMANCESAudio-described performances are offered during the third week of a show’s run on Wednesday evenings. This includes pre-show program notes and descriptions of the action, scenery, and costumes during pauses in the dialogue.

AUDIENCE SERVICES


ARTISTICArtistic Director Jason LoewithAssociate Artistic Director/ Director of Music Theater Christopher youstraAssociate Artistic Director/ Director of Education Jason King JonesArtistic Apprentice Leah Wedge

PRODUCTIONDirector of Production Dennis A. BlackledgeCompany Manager/ Assistant Production Manager Claire KennedyTechnical Director Stephen M. GreeneAssistant Technical Director David AshShop Foreman Sarah SplaineCarpenters Joseph Caverly, Brad ZieglerResident Scenic Artist Fred ViaCostume Shop Supervisor Jeanne BlandResident Costume Designer/ Assistant Costume Shop Supervisor Seth GilbertMaster Electrician Samantha CampbellProperties Master Rachael ErichsenResident Sound and Projections Supervisor Eric BosticProduction Management Apprentice Kathryn LeaCompany Management Apprentice Elana LantryProduction Apprentices Trey Brazeal, Caron Davis, Carissa Gilson, Emily E. James, Shelby Marie Gable, Natalie Petruch, Benjamin Ramos

SHOW STAFFProduction Manager Kathryn LeaAssistant Director Brian J. ShawAssistant Stage Manager Emily E. JamesAdditional Voiceovers Ned Cramer, Stephen Z. Kaufman Delegate Ben Kramer, Kathleen QuinnLight Board Operator Trey BrazealSound Board Operator Natalie PetruchDeck/Props Caron Davis Wardrobe Shelby Marie GableProgrammers Joe Gugliuzza, Ashley WagonerSound Supervisors Natalie Petruch, Ed SolomonAdditional Electricians Tyler Bristow, Khaiya Darnell Stephanie DeHart, Patrick Gillespie, Dawn Kelley, Brittany ShemugaAdditional Painter Anna Mihm Additional Carpenter Brendan Gregg

OLNEy THEATRE CENTER STAFF

ADMINISTRATIONManaging Director Debbie Ellinghaus

General Manager Fred T. Paul

Facilities Manager Michael Plater

DEVELOPMENTDirector of Development Julie Carew

Manager of institutional Giving Tom Eisman

individual Giving Manager R. Wesley Meekins

Marketing and

Development Apprentice Clara Huang

FINANCESenior Accountant Chyeslan Buso

Business Manager Kynda Reid

COMMUNICATIONSDirector of Marketing and

Communications Joshua Ford

Sales Director Weldon C. Brown

Brand Director/

Graphic Designer JJ Kaczynski

Patron and Volunteer

Services Manager R. Wesley Meekins

Box Office Supervisors Chisomo Maluwa, Taylor Payne,

Josh Rose

Front of House Supervisors Lucirae Cooley, Desirée Ward

House Managers Lina Al Dajani, Nic Lopez,

Ricardo José Meléndez, Barbara Scanlan

Box Office Associates Judy Abrams, Jessica Comstock,

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EDUCATIONEducation Programs

Manager Kevin Hasser

Dramaturgy Apprentice Alexandra Ley

Education Apprentice Brittney Biddle

Olney Theatre Center for the Arts is a professional theater employing members of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.

Actors’ Equity Association, founded in 1913, represents more than 45,000 actors and stage managers in the U.S. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. Equity seeks to foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society.

Olney Theatre Center for the Arts is a member of Theatre Communications Group, the national service organization representing the not-for-profit American theater; the Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington; the League of Washington Theatres; and the Baltimore Theatre Alliance.

The Director is a member of the

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