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Thank you ALL for your generous support!

presents

by Reed Martin and Austin Tichener, with additional material by Dominic Conti

directed by Paul McKenzie

Cox Building Playhouse October 27 - November 17, 2012

Rover Dramawerks’ Season Sponsors

Special Thanks

Completely Hollywood (abridged) would not have been possible without the generous contributions of the following:

Our wonderful donors, season sponsors, and purchasers of program ads. Please visit those businesses whose ads you see here

and let them know you appreciate their support of the arts!

YOU, for being in our audience - with an extra special thanks to our season ticket holders!

Please turn off all pagers, cellular phones, wristwatch alarms,

and other noise and light making devices. Thank you!

There will be one 15-minute intermission.

Completely Hollywood (abridged) is produced by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing, Inc., New York, NY.

Rover's Mission Searching for treasures, new and rediscovered,

for theatre "off the beaten path."

Rover Dramawerks produces lost or forgotten works of well-known authors, revives excellent scripts that have suffered from lack of exposure,

and discovers unknown gems of the stage.

Monty Allen Alliance Architects Assured Self Storage City of Plano

Ian Giles The Habitat ReStore HP Enterprise Services Love Your Lawn

MBS Productions Beverly & Leonard McDonald Plano Stages Staff Pocket Sandwich Theatre

Charlie Reagan Stephen and Scott Rice Texas Commission on the Arts Kate Werner

Randy & Diana Wright

Get Involved! Rover Dramawerks currently presents six exciting mainstage shows and two One Day Only 10-minute play festivals every season, as well as camps and classes in three North Texas cities, and we are elated about our continued growth! Join us as we grow, won’t you? Volunteers make all of this possible. We are a business. We are an art. We are a community. If you have ever been a part of any of these things, you have the skills we’re looking for! We’re looking for people to join our dynamic Board of Directors, help us write grants, network on Rover’s behalf with local businesses, build sets, join our new guild - if you’ve got a talent, we can probably make use of it! Just give your contact information to the box office or a roving board member and we’ll take it from there. You can also send an email to Rover’s Artistic Director Carol M. Rice at carol@roverdramawerks.com for more information or with kudos, questions, or concerns about anything Rover related, too! If you don’t have a lot of extra time, you can still help us out. Use GoodSearch.com when surfing the web (instead of Google), and Rover gets a penny per search. Use GoodShop when you shop online, and we get a percentage of your purchase! There’s even a nifty toolbar you can download that will tell you when you’re visiting a shopping site that will benefit Rover! With COUPONS! And new to the GoodSearch family is GoodDining, which benefits Rover when you eat out at participating restaurants. Check it out today and register, and you can support us without even thinking about it! You can also link your Tom Thumb Reward Card to Rover. Just fill out an application at the store including our account number, 10965, and we’ll get a percentage every time you buy groceries! Every little bit ads up! Another easy way to support Rover is to visit the businesses whose ads appear in our program, and let them know you’re there because you saw them here! You can even buy an ad for YOUR business! Rates start at just $48 for a quarter page, and we have season ads available, too. More than anything though, we love it when you’re here in our audience. We need and appreciate your support and hope to see you again SOON. Be sure to make your tax-deductible donations and buy your season tickets!

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The Cast

Joel Frapart Jason Lunn Chris Sykes

The Production Staff

Director.…...............................................................................Paul McKenzie Stage Manager.…………..........................................................Carryn Walker Producer........................................................................................Jason Rice Set Designer.............................................................................Clint Alan Ray Scenic Painters.........................................................................Clint Alan Ray Kayla “Buster” Robbins Costume Designer...………………………........................Rebecca McDonald Lighting Designer.…...…………………....................................Christina Giles Sound Designer.............................................................................Jason Rice Properties Designer.….................…...............…......................Robbi Holman Video Production........................................................................J.R. Bradford Light and Sound Board Operator..................................................Joey Simon Backstage Crew.....................................................................Catie Blencowe Darcy Koss Program.................……………………………………..................Carol M. Rice Box Office…………………………………..................................Kim Wickware

Next Up For Rover Onstage...

January 24 - February 9, 2013 Courtyard Theater, 1509 H Avenue in Plano

A wonderfully zany musical parody of Agatha Christie mysteries!

Tickets are on sale now!

Who's Who J.R. Bradford received his Associate of Applied Arts Degree and Motion Picture Production Degree at KD Studio Conservatory of Film & Dramatic Arts. He was last seen in Rover Dramawerks’ production of Written in Time and he is pleased to work behind the scenes with Rover. J.R. serves as the Unit Publicist for Star Quality Talent Network and is represented by the Core Talent Agency.

Joel Frapart is happy to be making his debut for Rover Dramawerks. His previous credits include Lt. Kerrigan in Fu Manchu: the Melodrama for the Pocket Sandwich Theater, Tiresias/Shepard in Oedipus the King for Broken Gears Project Theater, and Mr. Deltoid in A Clockwork Orange for Sundown Collaborative Theater. Furthermore, Joel is a proud member of the Murder Mystery Co. where he is known for his portrayal of Detective P. Ness in multiple shows. Joel is glad to finally be working with Rover and hopes to work with them more in the future.

Christina L. Giles earned her BA in Communication Studies from Austin College and her MFA in Technical Lighting Design from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her design repertoire includes lightning for dramatic, comedic and musical theater, opera and a wide range of dance genres, with Austin Dance India and Borealis Dance, both located in Austin, TX. Among the shows she has designed are Tennessee Williams' Fugitive Kind, Frank Loesser's How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and Armide, along with several dance productions. Recently, she just completed work with the Garland Civic Theatre production of The Nerd.

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There are so many opportunities! You can purchase an ad, sponsor a show, or donate goods and services! Contact Jason Rice, Board President, at jasonrice@roverdramawerks.com for more information about how easy it is to sponsor a show at Rover Dramawerks! You can sponsor the whole run, be a co-sponsor, or even just sponsor an opening night, closing night, or any special night during the run of any show in our season! We also offer very affordable ads in our programs - and this is a captive audience! You can purchase single show ads or ads for the whole season! Does your company provide something Rover could make use of? Labor for our move-ins, printing services, the loan of a moving truck, and food and drink for our volunteers are just a few things we have gratefully received from local businesses. Do you have an empty building we could rehearse or build in, unused laptops, volunteers you could loan us for various duties, or something else? Contact us!

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Robbi Holman is pleased to be working with Rover Dramawerks again as Properties Designer. Previous Rover credits include The Girls in 509 and Written in Time. Her mentor is Jill Stephens of Theatre Britain, and she has studied both Stage Management and Physical Comedy and Movement with tutors at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Jason Lunn is excited to be making his Rover debut under the direction of Paul McKenzie! Jason is a recent graduate of KD Studio: School of Film and Dramatic Arts. Jason has worked in productions in his hometown of Joplin, MO and in Los Angeles, CA before moving to Dallas to attend KD. Some of Jason's previous roles include: the title role in Hamlet, O’Connor in The Fugitive Kind, Lt. Kendrick in A Few Good Men, and Trinculo in The Tempest.

Rebecca “Becki” McDonald recently graduated with an MA in Drama (emphasis directing) from Texas Woman’s University. She has sung, acted, directed, and choreographed around the DFW Metroplex, New York, Ireland, and Scotland. Her most recent acting roles included Nairobi in Level Ground Arts Raft of the Medusa and performances at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Recent directing credits include: staged readings at Kitchen Dog Theatre’s “PupFest”, Gilligan's Island: the Musical at Rover Dramawerks, Boy Gets Girl and Mark One at Texas Woman’s University, and Words with Junior Players. Recent choreography credits include: Crazy For You, The Wizard of Oz, Superhero, 5E: Hot Jazz, and Crabs in a Bucket: The Ladder of Booker T. Washington. Recent design credits include Props Design for The Nerd at Garland Civic Theatre and costume, make up and hair design for No Exit at TWU.

Paul McKenzie is no stranger to Rover, having costumed nine shows for Rover since 2008, and he is now thrilled to be making his Rover directing debut. Recently Paul directed The Red Velvet Cake War for Mesquite Community Theatre, and a staged reading of The Snowflake Theory for McKinney Repertory Theatre. Paul wishes to thank Carol and Jason for the opportunity, the actors and designers and everyone else involved in the show for their hard work and support, and his friends who have continued to support his theatre ventures!

Clint Alan Ray received his BFA in Studio Arts from Lamar University. He has been involved in the theatre since 1978, mostly doing scenic painting. For Rover he has designed the sets for Adventures in Mating, Rabbit Hole, Mary’s Wedding, Gilligan’s Island: the Musical, An Infinite Ache, and The Runner Stumbles, as well painting the Egyptian backdrop seen in Epic Proportions. He has also constructed and painted sets for other local theatres such as Dallas Children’s Theater, Second Thought Productions, Risk Theatre Initiative, and Contemporary Theatre of Dallas. Outside the theatre world, Clint is a muralist, with over two decades of work in homes and commercial venues, including the entire pediatric wing of Memorial Hermann Hospital in Beaumont, TX. Check out his work at www.clintray.net or e-mail him at clintalanray@gmail.com.

Jason Rice has been on the Rover board since it was founded and is the current Board President. He has designed sound for such shows as Written in Time, The Crowd You’re in With, Morphic Resonance, Epic Proportions, Adventures in Mating, Mary’s Wedding, The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged), and Night Must Fall. He has received awards for acting and sound design, and he has written several custom murder mysteries and one-act plays. Jason has composed music for both live theatre and video, receiving the Aegis Award for his original composition for Matt Kaufman’s film short Willoughby. Some of the plays he has directed for Rover include More Fun Than Bowling, Premiere!, Around the World in 80 Days, The Runner Stumbles, and War of the Worlds. As much fun as theater is, Jason’s favorite role is Daddy to Stephen and Scott. “What’s my motivation for ‘Because I said so!’?

Kayla “Buster” Robbins is from Amarillo, TX. She studied theatre technology with specialization in scenic painting at Lamar University in Beaumont. Currently she is a lighting designer and technician for Sound Mind events out of McKinney. This is Chris Sykes’ second time to perform with Rover Dramawerks, Black Comedy being the first. He was last seen in Plan 69 From Outer Space at Pocket Sandwich Theatre and in Tigers Be Still at Dallas Theater Center. He is currently on the Rover Dramawerks Board of Directors and is in the process of coordinating their upcoming epic new late night program. Chris would like to thank his family for their love and undying support for all that he does. He also wants to apologize to his mom and dad for having to see him in multiple dresses in this show; He didn't like wearing them... Too much.

Carryn Walker is originally from Fort Worth TX and a graduate from O. D. Wyatt High School. She has been active in performance arts most of her life. Her experience includes dance, acting, spoken word, and choir, and she previously worked on Rover’s Written in Time and Love in E Flat. She is currently a student in Multi-Media Management in preparation to become a stage manager and producer in the Dallas area. She is currently a tutor/mentor for Dallas ISD; as well as a volunteer at her church with the youth and young adult ministries where she teaches dance, sings in the choir, and teaches Bible studies and Sunday School.

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