SET DESIGNERRAY RECHT***

ensemble member

This entire season sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Florida Repertory Theatre is a fully professional non-profit LOA/LORT Theatre company on contract with the Actors’ Equity Association that proudly employs members of the national theatrical labor unions. *Member of Actors’ Equity Association. **Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. ***Member of United Scenic Artists.

Anonymous • The Fred & Jean Allegretti Foundation • Naomi Bloom & Ron WallaceBruce & Janet Bunch • Gholi & Georgia Darehshori • Ed & Ellie Fox • Dr. & Mrs. Mark & Lynne Gorovoy

John & Marjorie Madden • Sue & Jack Rogers • Arthur Zupko

STARRINGEnsemble Members

CARRIE LUND* • BRENDAN POWERS* • PETER THOMASSON*and

KATE HAMPTON*

DIRECTED BYensemble member

CHRIS CLAVELLI**

COSTUME DESIGNERALEXANDRIA VAZQUEZ

LIGHTING DESIGNERKATE SMITH

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ASST. STAGE MANAGERKATINA WHITE

PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGERJANINE WOCHNA*ensemble member

Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

World Premiere at the Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, California. Artistic Director Jack O’Brien. Managing Director Thomas Hall.The Play was first produced in New York by Roger L. Stevens, Thomas Viertel, Steven Baruch and Richard Frankel.

SOUND DESIGNERJOHN KISELICA

Bradley...........................................................................................PETER THOMASSON*†

John.................................................................................................BRENDAN POWERS*†

Ann.............................................................................................................CARRIE LUND*†

Nina.......................................................................................................KATE HAMPTON*†

TIME & PLACEThe play takes place during early evening in early fall in the mid-seventies,

in a city in upstate New York.

THE COCKTAIL HOUR will be performed with one 15-minute intermission.

The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited.

Understudy: Ryan Gallerani (John)Wardrobe: Courtney Rigdon

Lighting and Sound Board Operator: Rachael SmithAssistant Costume Designer: Meredith Hubbard

The Actors & Stage Manager employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

A.R. GURNEY was born in 1930 in Buffalo, New York. He graduated from Williams College in 1952, served as an officer in the Navy, and afterwards attended the Yale School of Drama. For many years, he taught literature at M.I.T., but moved to New York in 1982 to devote more time to writing for the theatre. Gurney has been married to his wife Molly for over fifty years. They have four children, and eight grandchildren, and now live in Roxbury, Connecticut and New York City. His plays include The Cocktail Hour (Lucille Lortel Award), The Dining Room, Sylvia, Love Letters, Scenes from American

Life (Drama Desk Award), Children, The Middle Ages, Richard Cory, The Golden Age, What I Did Last Summer, The Wayside Motor Inn, Sweet Sue, The Perfect Party, Another Antigone, The Snow Ball (adapted from his novel), The Old Boy, The Fourth Wall, Later Life, A Cheever Evening, Overtime, Let’s Do It (a Cole Porter musical), Labor Day, Far East, Darlene and the Guest Lecturer, and Ancestral Voices. He wrote the libretto for the opera Strawberry Fields with music by Michael Torke. His other novels include The Gospel According to Joe and Entertaining Strangers. He is the recipient of the 2011 Drama Desk Special Award, a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Body of Work and has won awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation, and New England Theatre Conference. He is now a member of the Theatre Hall of Fame and of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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†Member of Florida Repertory Theatre’s Ensemble of Theatre Artists. See page 23 for the entire ensemble.

(in order of appearance)

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ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT

DRAMATURGY

ORIGIN OF THE MARTINIThe exact origin of the martini is unclear, though it is widely accepted as a uniquely American invention. Numerous cocktails with names and ingredients similar to the modern-day martini were first seen in bartending guides of the late 19th century. For example, in the 1888 Bartenders’ Manual there was a recipe for a drink that consisted in part of half a wine glass of Old Tom Gin and a half a wine glass of vermouth. In 1863, an Italian vermouth maker started marketing their product under the brand name of Martini, and the brand name may be the source of the cocktail’s name.

Make your Own!INGREDIENTS1 ounce dry vermouth 4 ounces gincocktail glasslemon twist

WASP CULTURE“The acronym WASP derives from White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. It is also referred to as a closed group of high-status White Americans of English Protestant ancestry... believed to control disproportionate social and financial power.” And although the term serves as an insult, “scholars agree that the group’s influence has waned since the end of World War II, with the growing influence of Jews, Catholics, African Americans, Asians, and other former outsiders.”

Born, raised, and educated in a period of unchallenged WASP ascendancy, A.R. Gurney came of age as a dramatist when that party was ending. He dramatizes this social transition in a number of his plays as a tension between generations, with old WASPs and their middle-aged offspring squaring off against each other. The former look back fondly and longingly at a mode of life that has largely vanished; the latter, while sharing some of this nostalgia, have mostly come to accept the critical view of the WASP world held by those “former outsiders” who are taking over. This leads to conflict between the generations, and conflict leads to drama.

GURNEY’S PLAYS AT FLORIDA REPA.R. Gurney’s plays are favorites among Florida Rep audiences, and his play, SYLVIA, still holds the record as Florida Rep’s biggest hit. How many of these A.R. Gurney plays did you see at Florida Rep?

SOURCES: THE WALL STREET JOURNAL • The Public Theater • Wikipedia

INSTRUCTIONSFill a metal shaker with cracked ice. Pour in the dry vermouth, stir briefly, and strain out (this may be discarded). Add 4 ounces gin (around 94-proof.) Stir briskly for about 10 seconds, strain into chilled cocktail glass, and garnish with an olive or lemon twist.

INDIAN BLOOD/Dec 2008Carrie Lund, Daniel Benzing, & Peter Thomasson

THE MIDDLE AGES/Jan 2006Greg Longenhagen & Mindy Woodhead

BLACK TIE/April 2012Adam Jones, Carrie Lund, & Peter Thomasson

SYLVIA/Jan 2011Michelle Damato & Gordon McConnell

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KATE HAMPTON* (Nina) is very glad to be back at Florida Rep. Broadway: The Best Man, The Deep Blue Sea. First national tour: Spring Awakening. More NYC: The Master Builder (BAM), All My Sons (Roundabout), Have You Seen Steve Steven?

(13P), The Typographer’s Dream (Clubbed Thumb), Over the River and Through the Woods. Regional: Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Palm Beach Dramaworks), Social Security, Lend Me a Tenor (Florida Rep), Talley’s Folly (Peterborough Players), Fallen Angels, God of Carnage, Once in a Lifetime, The Innocents, Las Meninas, Boeing-Boeing, La Bête, Pride and Prejudice, Expecting Isabel (Asolo Rep), Absurd Person Singular (Bristol Rep), Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom (Humana Festival), Loot (The Arden), The Real Thing (Olney), All My Sons, Hard Times (Williamstown). TV: Bones, The Law & Order trifecta, The Education of Max Bickford, Sex and the City. www.katehampton.net

CARRIE LUND*† (Ann) Co-founder, a company member, and Associate Producer of Florida Rep, and has acted in over 90 productions in Southwest Florida. In 2012, she was named Best Actress of the Year and named one of the “Power Women of the Year” by

Florida Weekly. She produced and acted on Sanibel Island from 1984-1998 at the Pirate Playhouse and on Captiva Island with Carrie Lund Presents. She taught theatre at Florida Gulf Coast University in its early years, produced theatre companies in her hometown of Erie, PA and New York City, and performed in regional theatres in NY, VT and NC, as well as the Three River Shakespeare Festival, Pittsburgh Playhouse, and American Ibsen Theatre in Pittsburgh, PA. In 1987, the Sanibel-Captiva Chamber of Commerce awarded her the Distinguished Citizen Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997. Carrie has been in all seven Florida Rep shows reviewed by The Wall Street Journal: One Slight Hitch, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Little Foxes, God of Carnage, Sylvia, You Can’t Take It with You, and Dancing at Lughnasa. Other selected credits include Florida Rep’s The Unexpected Guest, Dividing the Estate, Tribes, Heart Song, Clybourne Park, Rumors (2002, 2011), August: Osage County, Noises Off (1998, 2010), The Last Romance, Enchanted April, Rabbit Hole, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, All My Sons, and Private Lives. Married to Robert Cacioppo, she enjoys the accomplishments of their best productions: Matt, graduate of UCF and Julia, graduate of FSU.

BRENDAN POWERS*† (John) Select Florida Rep credits over the past eight seasons include A Christmas Story, The Unexpected Guest, Dividing the Estate, Around the World in 80 Days, The Fantasticks, Doubt, Opus, Boeing-Boeing, and The Glass

Menagerie. He is married to fellow Rep ensemble member Rachel Burttram and also serves as a Development Associate. Other credits include the Tony Award-winning play, Art, and The Big Knife, both with Alec Baldwin, the Noel Coward revue, Oh, Coward! at Off-Broadway’s Irish Repertory Theatre, God of Carnage, August: Osage County, Our Town, Arsenic and Old Lace, and numerous others. TV work includes FBI Agent Rick Cranston on Graceland (USA Network), and David Weller in the Netflix original series, Bloodline, starring Sissy Spacek. He can also be seen driving the big blue Cadillac in a series of national commercials for Alabama Road Trips. His cartoon captions have been winners for various contests including The New Yorker, Hartford Courant, Denver Post, Moment Magazine, Clinical Psychology, Inside Higher Ed, and the Greensboro News-Record. BrendanPowers.com

PETER THOMASSON*† (Bradley) is grateful to return to Florida Rep where he’s an ensemble member having last appeared as the devilish Mr. Lockhart in The Seafarer, the scarfaced Jonathan Brewster in Arsenic and Old Lace, and mean old

Uncle Henri Trouchard in My Three Angels. This past season he appeared in On Golden Pond as Norman Thayer, Jr. at Roanoke’s Mill Mountain Theater; as Mathias Gold in My Old Lady at Sarasota’s Banyan Theater for which he was nominated for a Handy award; as Nunzio in Over The River and Through The Woods and as Ebenezer Scrooge, both at Flat Rock Playhouse. He’s a biker, bridge player, and 39-year member of Actors Equity Association.

CHRIS CLAVELLI**† (Director) is the Associate Artistic Director here at Florida Repertory Theatre where he has directed and performed in more than 40 productions. He was honored with an Alan Schneider Directing Award nomination through Theatre Communications Group. He was a founding member and co-artistic director of the Neighborhood Theatre for Kids in Brooklyn. Directing credits: Florida Rep: One Slight Hitch, Tribes, The Santaland Diaries (since 2010), Collected Stories, Educating Rita, Lend Me a Tenor, Time Stands Still, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Black Tie,

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Sideman, Trying, Rounding Third, Alone Together, The Foreigner, The Glass Menagerie, and The Lady with All the Answers. Other directing credits: The Riverside Theatre, The Virginia Stage Company, Off Square Theatre, The New York Fringe Festival, The Chenango River Theatre, Southwest Florida Symphony, Symphony Space, York Theatre, 78th Street Theatre, Greenbrier Valley Theatre, Neighborhood Theatre for Kids, the famed Actors Studio, and 16 productions for the Depot Theatre. As an actor he has worked here at Florida Rep in 15 productions and all over the country. In 2012 he was named Florida Weekly’s Best Actor of the Year and has been the recipient of both the Barrymore Award (Philadelphia) and the South Florida Carbonell for best actor. His one-man play, A Little More Than You Wanted to Spend, recently ran at The Drilling Company in New York City. He currently serves in the Classical Acting Division of the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University. For Jess Ilias.

JOHN KISELICA (Sound Designer) is a graduate of West Virginia University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in lighting and sound design. He is the Resident Sound and Lighting Designer for Endstation Theatre Company in Central VA and acts as the Lighting and Sound Supervisor for year round consultation and project specific work. He has worked on a national tour, Buddy: the Buddy Holly Musical, as the master electrician after a contract with Royal Caribbean International as a stage technician. Commercial theatrical work includes installing Prodigy Hoists, an automated rigging system from Electronic Theatre Controls. John is excited to be here for his second year as the Resident Sound Designer and Master Electrician at Florida Repertory Theatre. John continues to freelance in addition to his seasonal position with Florida Rep in the professional, academic, and communitytheatre circles.

RAY RECHT***† (Set Designer)is delighted to be back at Florida Rep, where as an ensemble member, his designs include One Slight Hitch, Dancing at Lughnasa, Doubt, and others. Broadway designs include The Flowering Peach, Trick, Slab Boys, The Babe, several national tours, and over 20 Off-Broadway productions, such as Collected Stories, Marc Salem’s Mind Games, Mrs. Klein and sets for the Drama Desk Awards Shows. He has designed over 200 shows for many regional theaters, such as Asolo Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Florida Stage Co., Center Stage, and George Street Theatre. He has designed several feature films and was an art director or assistant art director on many others. He has worked extensively in television, including NBC, Fox, PBS, ABC, over 150 commercials, and many commercial parodies for Saturday Night Live. Internationally, he designed for the Wien Staatsoper Ballet, the Stratford Festival, Ontario, and the Manitoba Theatre Centre. He is a professor of

Theatre at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City.

KATE SMITH (Lighting Designer) is happy to return for her seventh season at Florida Rep. She is a native of Pennsylvania and a graduate from Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). Kate has worked in many aspects of theatre. She most recently served as the Art Director and Lighting Designer for Florida Rep’s summer camp program. Lighting design credits include Murder at the Howard Johnson’s, Tribes, Educating Rita, Time Stands Still, Black Tie, It’s a Wonderful Life, King o’ the Moon, The Santaland Diaries (2009-2011) and The Year of Magical Thinking. Sound design credits include Other Desert Cities, Miracle on South Division Street, The Little Foxes, Lend Me a Tenor, Talley’s Folly, Tru, Sylvia, August: Osage County, Trying and You Can’t Take It with You. Kate has also worke,d for Brevard Music Center, Flat Rock Playhouse, IUP’s Keystone Rep and Footlight Players.

ALEXANDRIA VAZQUEZ (Costume Designer) was born and raised in Orlando, Florida. She received her Undergraduate BA in Costume Design from Rollins College and MFA in Costume Design and Technology from West Virginia University. She has designed productions at both educational institutions as well as in the community and professionally. This year she is thrilled to be joining the Rep as Costume Shop Manager and Resident Costume Designer after serving as Assistant Costume Designer/Wig Master for the Ohio Light Opera’s 2015 Summer Season. This is Alexandria’s second season designing costumes at Florida Rep. She would like to thank her famillia, friends, and colleagues for their continuous support. www.alexandriavazquezcostumedesign.com

JANINE WOCHNA*† (Production Stage Manager) is tickled to be working with Chris Clavelli again. An ensemble member and part of the Florida Rep family since 2004. She has previously stage managed The Unexpected Guest, Tribes, Around the World in 80 Days, Collected Stories, Time Stands Still, Talley’s Folly, and many others over 11 seasons. Regional theatre credits include: Brother Wolf, Underneath the Lintel, and Abundance at Triad Stage, four seasons as Resident Stage Manager at the Geva Theatre, and 14 seasons at the Cleveland Playhouse. She is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

KATINA WHITE (Asst. Stage Manager) is thrilled to be interning as an assistant stage manager this season at Florida Rep! As a recent graduate from the University of Florida, she is proud and excited to be a new member of the Florida Rep team. Her previous works include Tribes, Sweeney Todd, and The Comedy of Errors. She would like to thank her parents and David for their love and support.

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ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION (AEA) was founded in 1913 as the first of the American Actor unions. Equity’s mission is to advance, promote and foster the art of theatre as an essential component of our society. Today,

Equity represents more than 40,000 actors, singers, dancers and stage managers working in hundreds of theatres across the United States. Equity members are dedicated to working in the theatre as a profession, upholding the highest artistic standards. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions and provides a wide range of benefits including health and pension plans for its members. Through its agreement with Equity, this theatre has committed to the fair treatment of the actors and stage managers employed in this production. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. For more information, visit www.actorsequity.org.

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development, production, and continued life of new plays. The NNPN strives to pioneer, implement, and disseminate ideas and programs that revolutionize the way theaters collaborate to support new plays and playwrights. Florida Repertory Theatre is proud to be an Associate Member of the National New Play Network.

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