Sam WoodhouseArtistic Director

Larry AlldredgeManaging Director

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BY TRACY LETTS

DIRECTED BY SAM WOODHOUSE

February s-March 6, 2011in the Lyceum Space

Scenic Design Robin Sanford Roberts*Lighting Design M. Scott GrabauCostume Design Kate StallonsSound Design Tom JonesFight Director James NewcombDialect Consultant Ursula MeyerStage Manager Jennifer Kozumplik'Assistant Director Charmen Jackson

Assistant Stage Manager Jason McNabbFight Consultant. Stephen Morgan-McKay'

CAST:

(in order of appearance)

Max Tarasov Dimiter D. Marinov'

Officer Randy Osteen DeAnna Driscoll*Officer James Bailey Keith Jefferson'Lady Boyle Kathryn HerbruckArthur Przybyszewski Robert Foxworth'Franco Wicks Anthony B. Phillips'Luther Flynn Stephen Morgan-MacKay'Kevin Magee Tyler HerdklotzKiril Ivakin Brian Abraham

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UNDERSTUDIES:

Bryan Barbarin, Patrick Daffy, Demetrius Greene, Charmen Ja"ckson,

Laurie Lehmann-Gray, Quentin Proulx, Dave Rivas

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Superior Donuts, a small donut shop in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood

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THERE WILL BE ONE IS-MINUTE INTERMISSION.

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OUR VERY SPECIAL THANKS TO:

Larry Alldredge & Dawn Moore

Oanah Fayman

Joan & Irwin Jacobs

Darlene ShileySunny Donuts on Clairemont Mesa Blvd.

Financial support for San Diego Repertory Theatre is provided in partby the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture.

Original Broadway production produced by jeffrey Richards, jean Doumanian, jerry Frankel

Awaken Entertainment Debra Black, Chase Mishkin, Karmichelle Productions/Robert G. Bartner,

Dena Hammerstein/Pam Pariseau, Carole &. Barry KayelIrv Weltzer, Andrew Asnes, Rebecca Gold,Kathleen K. johnson, George Kaufman, Charlie McAteer, Terry Schnuck, Michael Gardner/David jaroslowicz,

Stewart F. Lane/Bonnie Comley, Roy Gottlieb/Raise The Roof Two

The world premiere of Superior Donuts was presented at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago, IL

Martha Lavey, Artistic Director; David Hawkanson, Executive Director

Superior Donuts is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited.

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artist profiles(in order of appearance)

Com pa ny in L.A. His other theatre credits

include: Bronzeville (June Bug) directed by

Ben Guillory at the Robey Theatre Company;

No Place to be Somebody (Melvin Smeltz)

directed by Sam Nickens with Upward BoundProductions at the Stella Alder Theatre Hol­

lywood; and The Man Who Came to Dinner

(John) directed by Zina T. Bleck with the

Virginia Repertory Theatre. He received aBachelor of Science from the School of Com­

munications at Grand Valley State University.

STEPHEN MORGAN­

MacKAY(Luther Flynn,

Fight Consultant) is

thrilled to be making

his REP stage debut.A Renaissance man

of trade by fate,

Stephen has donned many theatrical

crowns both nationally and internationally.

Stephen's previous stage credits, while

somewhat noteworthy. are not necessarily

an interesting read and tend to deter us from

reveling in what Suzuki might describe as the

eternal moment of Now. Stephen earned his

BA in Theatre from the University of South

Florida and his M FA in Dramaturgy/Literary

Management from the State University ofNew York.

TYLER HERDKLOTZ

(Kevin Magee)is both excited and

proud to be working

with San Diego REPfor the first time. His

last performa nce was

the role of Jake in Diversionary Theatre's

production of Anita Bryant Died for Your

Sins, previous to which he played the role

of Nick in Compass Theatre's production of

Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf. He hosts a

weekly internet comedic talk show entitled

"The Morning After Show." which can befound online at ustream.com.

BRIAN ABRAHAM

(Kiril Ivakin) San DiegoREP: Debut. Other

San Diego Theatrical

highlights include:As You like It. Picasso

At The Lapin Agile,

Summer And Smoke (New Village Arts); The

Crucible (Moxie and Intrepid Shakespeare

Theatre Companies); Back Of The Throat (Ion

Theatre Company); Cymbeline, Merchant Of

Venice (Intrepid Shakespeare); PrometheusBound, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest,

Fires In Heaven (The Theatre, Inc.). Brian

has worked at various other regional theatres

in New York and Los Angeles. His television

ANTHONY B.

PHILLIPS (Franco

Wicks) appeared most

recently in The River

Niger (Skeeter) di­

rected by Ben Guillory

with the Robey Theatre

KATHRYN

HERB RUCK (Lady

Boyle) This is Kathryn'sfirst role with San

Diego REP, and she

is thrilled to play the

part of Lady. As well

as acting, she performs with The Fabulous

Earrings, a professional vocal trio. Her recent

roles were the Stepmother in Into the Woods

at New Village Arts and Mrs. Frencham in

Not Now Darling at Scripps Ranch. Other

projects include Nocturne. Prelude to a

Kiss and Two Gentlemen of Verona, as well

as stage readings of Boston Marriage and

Picturing My Sister.

ROBERT FOXWORTH

(Arthur Przybyszewski)is a n Associate Artist of

The Old Globeand has

appeared in King Lear,

The Madness of King

George Ill, Comelia,

Julius Caesar, Private Lives, Below the Beltand

Antony and Oeopatra. He was most recently

seen on Broadway in the Tony Award-winning

production of August: Osage County. He has also

recently starred as Claudius in Hamlet(South

Coast Repertory, directed by Daniel SulUvan) and

on Broadway in the award-winning production

of Twelve Angry Men (Roundabout Theatre

Company). In the 200112002 season he played

Robert in the national Broadway tour of Proof

Mr. Foxworth made his Broadwaydebutin The

American Shakespeare Festival's production of

Henry V. He won the Theatre World Award for his

portrayal of John Proctor in The Crucible (UncolnCenter Theater). His television series include

"Storefront Lawyers," "Falcon Crest" and "Late

Une" with Al Franken. He has guest starred on

countless series episodes over the years, the most

recent being on CBS's "Chaos," a two-year stint on

"Six Feet Under" and episodesof"Law& Order,"

"Law & Order: SVU" and "Gilmore Girls." His stage

work has included Cyrano (Great Lakes Theatre

Festival), George in VVho'sAfraid of Virginia Woolf?

(Hartford Stage), Galileo(CENTERSTAGE). Uncle

Vanya (Geffen Playhouse). On Broadway, he

was Count Shebyelskiin Ivanov(Uncoln Center

Theater), starred with Jane Alexander in Honour

(Belasco Theater) and played Colonel Parker in

Judgment at Nuremberg (Longacre Theater). Mr.

Foxworth was seen in "Syriana" and is the voice ofRatchet in "Transformers I, II & III."

DIMITER D. MARINOV

(Max Tarasov) returns

to the SO REP stage

after appearing inA Christmas Carol

and Mad Dancers.

Dimiter's theatre

venues also include: The Old Globe. the

NC Repertory. The Marin Theater Co. andDell'Arte International. Television credits

include: a co-starring role with Matthew

Perry in the upcoming ABC sitcom "Mr.

Sunshine." a series of "Peggy," Discover

Card commercials, and Nikon-Coolpix with

Ashton Kutcher. Dimiter's big screen debut

is with Legendary Pictures' production "Act

of Valor," premiering in the summer of 2011.

Dimiter is a native of Bulgaria. where he

com pleted a M FA Degree in theatre a nd film

and an Associate's Degree in classical music.

DeANNA DRISCOLL

(Officer Randy Osteen)

, is proud to return tothe REP. She was most

recently seen at iontheater in the role of

Frankie in Frankie and

Johnny in the Claire de Lune. Some favorite

roles include Haley in Bad Dates, Grace

in Bus Stop. Eve Ensler in The Good Body,

Regan in King Lear. just to name a few.

DeAnna won the 2005 Critics Circle Award

and The Garland Award for outstanding

performance for her role of Grace in the Old

Globe's production of Bus Stop. Television

and film credits include roles on Balancing

Act, Pt. Pleasant, Veronica Mars. Decaf,

Clipping Adam, among others.

KEITH JEFFERSON

(Officer James Bailey)

is originally fromHouston. TX, andnow makes his home

in LA. He is proud tomake his return to San

Diego REP's stage where he was seen in

the musical Working (A!, Trucker, Fireman).

Some of his favorite regional and local credits

include Othello (Othello), A Midsummer

Night's Dream (Oberon), Love's Labor's Lost

(Biron), St. Joan (Dunois), The Piano Lesson

(Avery), Once On This Island (Agwe). Big

River(Jim), and Nine (Guido Contini). Film/

TV credits: "Buffalo Soldiers." "The Last Free

Man." "The Jamie Foxx Show" (Recurring),"The Shield," "Moesha," "VH1 Illustrated."

He also produces music and performs two

songs on the "Buffalo Soldiers" soundtrack.

Keith is a proud member of AEA and SAG.

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credits include: "The Shield," "Drake and

josh," "As the World Turns," "Deadline."

Upcoming projects include Our Town at

Cygnet Theatre. Brian has a BFA in acting

from the University of North Carolina Schoolof the Arts.

TRACY LETTS (Playwright) is the author of

the plays Superior Donuts, August: Osage

County, Killer Joe, Bug, Man From Nebraska

(named one of Time Magazine's Top Ten

Plays of 2003) and an adaptation of Chekov'sThree Sisters. He is an ensemble member

of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company. His

appearances there include: Homebody/

Kabul. The Dazzle, Glengarry Glen Ross,

Three Days of Rain, and Picasso at the

Lapin Agile. Film appearances include:

"Guinevere," "U.S. Marshalls," and "Chicago

Cab." TV appearances include: "The District,"

"ProfIler," "The Drew Carey Show," "Home

Improvement" and "Seinfeld." Tracy made

his directing debut at the Lookingglass

Theatre with Glen Berger's play Great Men

of Science, No's 21 V 22. He wrote the

screenplay for Bug, which was made into

a feature film directed by William Friedkin

and starring Ashley judd. Friedkin will also

direct the feature film adaptation of Killer

Joe starring Matthew McConaughey. Tracy

was the recipient of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize

and Tony Award for his play August: Osage

County. He is currently writing the screenplay

for The Weinstein Company. Tracy's most

recent play, Superior Donuts, opened on

Broadway in October of 2009.

SAM WOODHOUSE (Director) Please see

Mr. Woodhouse's bio on pg. 8.

ROBIN SANFORD ROBERTS (Scenic

Design) Broadway: It Ain't Nothin' But the

Blues. San Diego REP: The Seafarer, Ain't

Misbehavin', Restless Spirits, Fire on the

Mountain, Working, The Merchant of Venice,

Shylock, The Beauty Queen of Leenane,Avenue X, It Ain't Nothin But the Blues. Old

Globe Theat~e: Alive and Well, The Price,

The Prince of L.A., Fiction, Bus Stop (Critics

Circle award), Blue/Orange (Critics Circle

Award: Outstanding Production), Rounding

Third, Faith healer, Betrayal (Critics Circle,

Patte Award), Da, Art, and many others.

REGIONAL: San jose Repertory: Sonia Flew,

Splitting Infinity, This Wonderful Life. Arizona

Theatre Company: Tuesdays with Morrie,Permanent Collection, It Ain't Nothin But the

Blues. Swine Palace Productions: Waiting for

Godot, Angels in America, Parts 1 V 2, Flesh

and Blood. Ms. Roberts holds a degree inArchitecture from LSU and a M FA in Scenic

Design from UCSD.

M. SCOTT GRABAU (Lighting Design)

Shows at San Diego REP include 'da Kink

In My Hair[NAACP Award], Don Quixote,

Long Story Short, Ain't Misbehavin andThe Goat. Credits elsewhere include: The

Sound of Music, Thoroughly Modern Millie,

Dreamgirls, Annie Get Your Gun, Me and

My Girl (Moonlight Stage); Romeo y Julieta

(Old Globe/CECUT); The Santaland Diaries,

Pageant, Curse of the Starving Class [Patte

Award], Cat On A Hot Tin Roof(Cygnet

Theatre); No Way to Treat a Lady, The Smell

of the Kill, Dracula [Patte Award], Back to

Bacharach (North Coast Repertory). Visit his

website at www.mscottdesign.com.

KATE STALLONS (Costume Design)

graduated from Fashion Careers College

with a major in costume design. Her debut

as a designer came with the Fritz Blitz'

production of Hair, and she has since

collected design credits including Speech and

Debate for Diversionary Theatre, Scrooge for

The School of Creative and Performing Arts,

co-designed the REP's Hairspray, and New

Village Art's Santaland Diaries. During this

time, she continues fulfilling her duties as the

costume shop manager for San Diego REP.

Kate's next work can be seen in Little Shop ofHorrors for SCPA's 2010-2011 season.

TOM JON ES (Sound Design) is proud to be

on staff as the resident sound designer and

audio supervisor for San Diego Repertory

Theatre. Previous SO REP design credits

include Storyville, The Road to Mecca,

Hairspray, boom, The Seafarer, The

Threepenny Opera, The Princess and the

Black-Eyed Pea, The Good Body, and Sweet

15. Other shows include Jazz Queens Cast

Blue Shadows (Common Ground Theatre),

The Listener (Moxie Theatre), Prelude to a

Kiss (New Village Arts), Humble Boy (NVA),

Seussical the Musical (j*Company, Lawrence

Family JCC), Joseph and the Technicolor

Dreamcoat (J*Company).

JAMES NEWCOMB (Fight Director) San

Diego REP: Water v Power, Celebration

of the Lizard, The Illusion; Resident fight

director O.S.F 1990-95, fight director for

productions @ D.C.1.C., T.O.G., L.P S.C.R.,

S.S.C.S & Co. Arizona T.e. and many others.

Stage fight instructor for the UCSD gradu­

ate theatre program. Partial acting credits:

14 seasons at O.s.F.; Rep. roles, R3,Oberon,

Bolingbroke, ThersItes, jekyll and Hyde.

]seasons D.C.T.C. Tranio, Finch (How to

Succeed ... ), Treat (Orphans); 4 seasonsSSC. Benedick, Feste, Touchstone, U.S.F.

Coriolanus, Kent, Iago, T.O.G. Feste, Brutus.

Awards: Drama-Logue (Touchstone). Denver

Theatre Critics (Orphans), Oxford Society

, artist profiles

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URSULA MEYER (Dialect Consultant) Ursula

Meyer has been coaching VoicelText since

1980. Credits include Yale School of Drama,

16 years at UCSD, as well as coaching at Yale

Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, South Coast Rep.

the Guthrie Theatre, and 14 years at Oregon

Shakespeare Festival. among others. Ursulaearned a distinction from Advanced Voice

Program at the Central School in London

and is a designated Linklater Teacher. Acting

credits include Seattle Rep, Milwaukee Rep,

La Jolla Playhouse, the Aspen Music Festival,

San Diego Symphony and numerous

seasons with the Oregon and Santa Cruz

Shakespeare Festivals. She resides happilyin Encinitas with her husband, actor James

Newcomb, and her son Daniel.

JENNIFER KOZUMPLIK (Stage Manager)

This is Jennifer's sixth production at San

Diego REP. Previous shows include: SMCulture Clash in AmeriCCa, ASM The Road

to Mecca, The Seafarer, Doubt, and Water

v Power. She was also the SM for the 2009

East Coast tour of The Blessing of a Broken

Heart. At Cygnet Theatre: ASM Private

Lives, Noises Off. ion theatre: SM Frozen,

La Gaviota, Punks. Playwrights Project SM

Stage Directions. San Diego State University:

SM The Grapes of Wrath, Proof, Vagina

Monologues, Rumors. Jennifer received her

Bachelors Degree in Theatre Arts from San

Diego State University.

CHARM EN JACKSON (Assistant Director)

Acting credits include Handel's Messiah-A

Soulful Celebration, Dussie Mae in Ma

Rainey's Black Bottom, understudy for

Rasechaba in Gangsters, Netta in Black Girl.

ensemble in 5 Shades of Blues, Passion vHoney, Ernestine Anderson in Raisin' the

Rent with IARP, ensemble in Dreamgirls

with San Diego Musical Theatre Co.,

understudy for Mrs. Muller in Doubt by

San Diego Repertory Theatre, and Gee's

Bend with North Coast Repertory Theatre.Jackson's directorial credits include Ain't You

Heard?, which she wrote, Night Motherwith

Ascension Theatre Co., Company Men with6th@Penn Theatre, Black Girl with CUFAA,and Assistant Director for The Old Globe's

production of Sammy.

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leadership profiles

LORI SCHICK

(Director ofInstitutional

Development) arrivedat the REP in October

2008 to take on the

newly created job

of director of institutional development.

In this role, Lori oversees all marketing

and development operations at the REP.

A graduate of the M BA program at San

Diego State University, Lori has returned

to San Diego after living on the East Coast

for nearly twenty years. She served as a

marketing director at INTAR HispanicAmerican Arts Center in Manhattan and

at Virginia Stage Company in Norfolk,

Virginia. As a fundraiser she ran six

successful annual resource campaigns

for the Hampton Roads Chamber of

Commerce and served as a major gift

officer for Old Dominion University. She is

very happy to be back in San Diego.

JOHN ANDERSON

(Production Manager)

joined the REP as

production manager

in 2003. Before

coming to the REP,

John managed

the productions for The California

Shakespeare Theatre in Berkeley/Orinda.

John studied Theatre at the University

of Kansas. Since school John has worked

as an actor, director, designer and

collaborator with theatres in Chicago,

Minneapolis, Norfolk, San Francisco,

Dallas and San Diego. John spent five

seasons as a core company member of the

Minnesota Shakespeare Company and was

the founding artistic director of Summer

Shakes in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

t1r\~ .. LARRY ALLDREDGE

t ~ (Managing Director)

"'It!ft';;-r ~''1n" Former REP BoardIf tJ dJ;tfi,\

ft\, ~......, of Trustees memberand theatre devotee

Larry Alldredge

joined the REP staff in

January 2008 as managing director. Larry

retired as vice president of technologyat QUALCOMM where he led a business

and engineering team to develop satellite

communication systems. He and his wife

Dawn have travelled extensively while

enjoying Larry's retirement. Now Larry

is excited about having a "real job" again

for a while. Larry's love of theatre began

with Community Theatre of Terre Haute,

Indiana, where he worked both on- and

offstage.

Doubt, The Blessing of a Broken Heart,

which he also adapted, Brooklyn Boy, the

world premiere of Yehuda Hyman's The

Mad Dancers, Hamlet starring Jefferson

Mays, Uncle Vanya and Death of a

Salesman starring Michael Genovese,Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia

Woolf?, King Lear, The Illusion, Uncle

Vanya, The Dybbuk, The ImaginaryInvalid, Three Hotels, and A Christmas

Carol. He is on the acting faculty at the

University of California, San Diego, wherehe has directed Six Characters in Search of

an Author and Stage Door. Mr. Salovey is

the artistic director of the Lipinsky Family

San Diego Jewish Arts Festival. which

commissions new work exploring Jewish

traditions in contemporary artistic forms.

He produces many REP Surround Events,

including Talkin' Theatre with Todd. Todd

is married to Diane Boomer and is the very

proud dad of Leah and Aryeh. tsalovey@ucsd.edu

TODD SALOVEY

(Associate Artistic

Director) is in his 20th

season as the REP's

associate artistic

director. M r. Sa lovey

has directed many

acclaimed REP shows including The Roadto Mecca, A Weekend with Pablo Picasso,

SAM WOODHOUSE

(REP Co-Founder,

Artistic Director)Mr. Woodhouse co­

founded San Diego

, REPertory Theatre('VI)' with D.W. Jacobs in

1976, and has since served as its producingand artistic director. He has worked as a

director, producer and actor on more than

180 REP productions. Mr. Woodhouse has

performed as an actor on the REP stages

in The Seafarer, in the title role of King

Lear, Proof, Hamlet, and with the San

Diego Symphony Orchestra in the title role

of Stravinsky's L' Histoire du Soldat. Hismost recent directorial work with the REP

includes: Hairspray, boom, The Threepenny

Opera, Water r{J Power, and The Clean

House. In 2003, he was awarded the Patte

Shiley Award for Lifetime Achievement by

KPBS and the prestigious Alonzo Award

by the Downtown San Diego Partnership.Mr. Woodhouse is the founder of the REP's

Calafia Initiative, a multi-disciplinary

artistic initiative that brings together

unlikely partners to create new works

that speak to the future of our bi-national

region. In January 2006, he and Jacobs

were honored with the Craig Noel Award

by the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle for

30 years of artistic dedication to downtown

and diversity.

The REP pays tribute to the memory of Sandra Ellis-Troy. Sandra was a talentedand distinctive San Diego actress, who will be greatly missed. She performed inA Christmas Carol and Women of Valor at the REP, as well as numerous roles fortheatres throughout San Diego. Her brash humor, audacious laugh, and fiercecommitment to art continue to inspire us.

Donations for the Sandra Ellis-Troy Memorial Fund supporting young artists

may be made online at sandraellistroymemorialfund.com or sent to:

San Diego Critics Circle1613 Madrid Drive

Vista, CA91081

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