SET DESIGNER RAY 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.

The Fred & Jean Allegretti Foundation • Naomi Bloom & Ron Wallace • Dinah Bloomhall • Jane & Bob BreischAlexandra Bremner • Janet & Bruce Bunch • Chippendale Audiology • Berne Davis • Mary & Hugh Denison

Ellie Fox • David Fritz/Cruise Everything • Nancy & Jim Garfield • Vici and Russ Hamm John Madden • Joel Magyar • Noreen Raney • Linda Sebastian & Guy Almeling • Arthur M. Zupko

STARRINGensemble members

CARRIE LUND* • JASON PARRISH* • BRENDAN POWERS*and

KATE HAMPTON* • FAITH SANDBERG* • PAXTON WHITEHEAD*

DIRECTED BY MARK SHANAHAN**

LIGHTING DESIGNERTODD O. WREN

ensemble member

2 0 1 7 - 1 8 G R A N D S E A S O N S P O N S O R S

FLORIDA REPERTORY THEATRE

2 0 1 7 - 2 0 1 8 S E A S O NHISTORIC ARCADE THEATRE • FORT MYERS RIVER DISTRICT

ROBERT CACIOPPO, PRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

P R E S E N T S

PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGERJANINE WOCHNA*ensemble member

How the Other Half Loves is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

SOUND DESIGNERJOHN KISELICA

SPONSORED BY FLORIDA WEEKLY

ASSISTANT DIRECTORGREG LONGENHAGEN

ensemble member

COSTUME DESIGNEREMILY TARADASH

Fiona Foster.......................................................................................................CARRIE LUND*†

Teresa Phillips..............................................................................................KATE HAMPTON*†

Frank Foster.........................................................................................PAXTON WHITEHEAD*†

Bob Phillips.............................................................................................BRENDAN POWERS*†

William Featherstone...................................................................................JASON PARRISH*†

Mary Featherstone....................................................................................FAITH SANDBERG*†

TIME & PLACEThe living rooms of the Fosters and the Phillips. 1969.

ACT I, Scene One: Early Thursday morningACT I, Scene Two: Evening

ACT II, Scene One: Saturday morningACT, Scene Two: Sunday morning

HOW THE OTHER HALF LOVES will be performed with one 15-minute intermission.

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Law. For more information, please visit: www.samuelfrench.com/whitepaper

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.

ALAN AYCKBOURN. 2017 marks the 60th anniversary of Alan Ayckbourn joining the Library Theatre company in Scarborough, of which he was the Artistic Director for 37 years and where he made both his professional playwriting in 1959 and his directorial debut in 1961. He has spent his life in theatre, rarely if ever tempted by television or film, which perhaps explains why he continues to be so prolific. To date he has written 82 plays - the 81st premiering this summer and the 82nd next year at the Stephen Joseph Theatre - and his work has been translated into over 35 languages, is performed on stage and television throughout the world, and has won countless awards. Major successes include: Relatively Speaking, How the Other Half Loves, Absurd Person Singular, Bedroom Farce, A Chorus of Disapproval and The Norman Conquests. In recent years, there have been revivals of Season’s Greetings and A Small Family Business at the National Theatre and in the West End productions of Absent Friends, Relatively Speaking and How The Other Half Loves. In 2009, he retired as artistic director of the Stephen Joseph, where almost all his plays have been and continue to be first staged. He has also forged close links with the 59E59 Theaters in New York, where he has directed a number of his own plays to great success since 2009. 2016 saw him direct the New York premiere of Confusions - 40 years after it first opened in Scarborough - as well as a more recent piece, Hero’s Welcome, for the Brits Off Broadway festival. In recent years, he has been inducted into American Theatre’s Hall of Fame, received the 2010 Critics’ Circle Award for Services to the Arts and became the first British playwright to receive both Olivier and Tony Special Lifetime Achievement Awards. He was knighted in 1997 for ‘services to theatre.’ www.alanayckbourn.net.

CAST

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

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ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT

(in order of appearance)

Asst. Stage Manager: Miranda PaineWardrobe Supervisor: Olivia Pedigo

Lighing and Sound Board Operator: Katie LoweUnderstudies: Dillon Feldman u/s William Featherstone • Haley Clay u/s Mary Featherstone

KATE HAMPTON* (Teresa Phillips) is very glad to be back at Florida Rep. Past shows here: The Cocktail Hour, Social Security, Lend Me a Tenor. 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: Gidion’s Knot, Stalking the Bogeyman (Florida Studio Theatre), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Palm Beach Dramaworks), God of Carnage, The Ladies Man, Talley’s Folly, Absurd Person Singular (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. Husband: David Breitbarth. www.katehampton.net

CARRIE LUND*† (Fiona Foster) is co-founder, ensemble member, associate producer of Florida Rep, was recently seen in Sylvia, 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 nine Florida Rep shows reviewed by The Wall Street Journal: The House of Blue Leaves, The Cocktail Hour, One Slight Hitch, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Little Foxes, God of Carnage, Sylvia (2011, 2017), You Can’t Take It with You, and Dancing at Lughnasa. Other selected credits include Florida Rep’s Erma Bombeck: At Wit’s End, Becky’s New Car, Doublewide, 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: Matthew and Julia.

JASON PARRISH*† (William Featherstone) is in his 13th season with Florida Rep as an Ensemble Member and the company’s Associate Director. His thirty appearances with the

company include Over the River and Through the Woods, The Dingdong, Twelve Angry Men, Around the World in 80 Days, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Clybourne Park, 2014’s nationally-acclaimed production of Arsenic and Old Lace, and six years in The Santaland Diaries. His directing credits with Florida Rep include The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, A Christmas Story, The Fantasticks, Tru, [title of show], and The Shape of Things, as well as Curious George: The Golden Meatball, Miss Nelson is Missing, Journey to Oz, Schoolhouse Rock Live, How I Became a Pirate, The New Kid, and The Mischief Makers for Florida Rep’s Theatre for Young Audience Series. His work with other theatres as an actor and director includes Actors’ Playhouse (Miami), Riverside Theatre (Vero Beach), Theatre by the Sea & Ocean State Theatre Company (Rhode Island), and guest appearances with the New York Philharmonic’s Young People’s Concert Series at Lincoln Center. Jason is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

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BRENDAN POWERS*†

(Bob Phillips) Select Florida Rep credits over the past nine seasons include Outside Mullingar, The Cocktail Hour, 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 Community Outreach Coordinator. 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. www.BrendanPowers.com

FAITH SANDBERG* (Mary Featherstone) is happy to be making her debut at Florida Rep. Off-Broadway/New York credits include originating Myra in The Fourth Messenger

(New York Musical Festival) and Terry in The Good Girl (BMI/Manhattan Musical Theatre Lab). Favorite roles include Helen Bechdel in Fun Home (Portland Center Stage), Molly in Peter and the Starcatcher (Arkansas Repertory Theatre) and Sophia in Tom Jones (Florida Studio Theatre, world premiere). Regional: Cape Playhouse, Pioneer Theatre Company, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and The Muny. TV/Film: Boardwalk Empire, Quantico, Mysteries of Laura, Blue Bloods and Price Check (Sundance, 2012). A proud member

of Actors’ Equity Association, when not on stage, Faith is an (exceptionally) amateur Instagram photographer and an (exceptionally) enthusiastic dog mom to her little Shorkie puppy, Baxter.

PAXTON WHITEHEAD* (Frank Foster) Broadway: The Importance of Being Earnest, Absurd Person Singular, My Fair Lady (Helen Hayes Award), Lettice and Lovage, A Little Hotel on the Side,

Artist Descending a Staircase, Run for Your Wife, Noises Off (Drama Desk Award), Camelot (Tony Award nomination), The Crucifer of Blood, Habeas Corpus, Candida, Beyond the Fringe, The Affair. Off-Broadway: The Heir Apparent, Bill Irwin’s Harlequin Studies, Suite in Two Keys, London Suite, One Way Pendulum, Gallows Humor. Westport Country Playhouse: What the Butler Saw, Bedroom Farce, The Circle, How the Other Half Loves, Time of My Life, Relatively Speaking, A Bench in the Sun, The Crucifer of Blood, and a script-in-hand play reading of Dial ‘M’ for Murder. Also recently: What the Butler Saw (L.A. and Boston, Norton Award); Pygmalion (The Old Globe, Williamstown Theatre Festival); The Habit of Art, All’s Well That Ends Well (Helen Hayes Award nominations, D.C.); A.E.H. in The Invention of Love (Jefferson Award nomination, Chicago). 1967-1977 Artistic Director of Canada’s Shaw Festival. Associate Artist San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre. Selected Film: Kate and Leopold, Back to School. Television: Desperate Housewives, Mad About You, Frasier, The West Wing, Friends, Ellen, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Dinosaurs, Early Edition, and more.

MARK SHANAHAN** (Director) returns to the Florida Rep having directed The Hound Of The Baskervilles and Around The World In 80 Days. In 2016, Florida Rep produced his play The Dingdong, the Off-Broadway and regional hit comedy adapted from Feydeau’s Le Dindon. Mark’s directorial work has been seen on numerous stages across the country, including The Alley Theatre, The George Street Playhouse, The Fulton Opera House, Arkansas Rep, Merrimack Rep, Penguin Rep, Florida Studio Theatre, Cape Playhouse, Weston

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CREATIVE TEAMPlayhouse, Hangar Theatre, Theatre Squared, Westport Country Playhouse and others. New York acting credits include the Broadway hit The 39 Steps (American Airlines, Cort Theatre); Small World (59E59); The Shaughraun and Tryst (Irish Rep); Checkers (The Vineyard Theatre) As Bees In Honey Drown (Lucille Lortel Theatre); Philadelphia, Here I Come! (Roundabout); and many more. Regionally, he has appeared extensively at The Alley Theatre and The Westport Country Playhouse, as well as Hartford Theatreworks, The Bay Street Theatre, Pioneer Theatre, Merrimack Rep, The Denver Center, The Kennedy Center and others. Mark has been seen on television on David Letterman and All My Children, and in the films Kill Me, Safe Men, Bug, Endsville, Yellow, Mad About Harry and more. Mark is a graduate of Brown University and holds an MA from Fordham University, where he teaches. He is an award-winning voice-over artist and Edgar Award nominated playwright. www.mark-shanahan.net.

GREG LONGENHAGEN† (Assistant Director) is thrilled to be back at Florida Rep after directing this season’s production of The Last Night of Ballyhoo. As a 20-year company member, Greg’s versatility as an Actor, Fight Director and Dialect Coach has been evident in many Rep productions. He served as Stage Director for the young audience’s version of Laura Ingalls Wilder and as Assistant Director for the Rep’s very first production, Noises Off. Greg directed for the PlayLab new play festival, including last season’s staged reading of We Will Not Be Silent. Other local directing credits include Florida Gulf Coast University’s The Foreigner and Leap at Theatre Conspiracy. In addition to his continuing efforts for the Rep, Greg is an Assistant Professor at FGCU and President of Abbott Productions, where has been responsible for many national marketing campaigns for television and the web. His past achievements include Assistant Director to Theodore Mann in the acclaimed production of The Music Box at HERE, NYC and Resident Director for Pittsburgh’s professional touring company “Shakespeare in the Schools.” Greg holds an M.F.A. from the University of Pittsburgh and certified with the S.A.F.D. at Carnegie Mellon University.

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. In addition to his seasonal position with Florida Rep, John continues to freelance in the professional, academic, and community theatre circles.

MIRANDA PAINE (Asst. Stage Manager) is so excited to be working with the amazing cast and crew of How the Other Half Loves! This is her third show with Florida Rep, and she is eager to ASM in Arcade Theatre after working in the Studio Theatre on Outside Mullingar and Disgraced. Miranda is a recent graduate of Florida State University with a BA in Theatre. Her favorite stage management credits include: Cabaret, How I Became a Pirate, Grand Hotel, Spamalot, and Curtains. She would like to thank her family and friends for their endless support.

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.

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T I C K E T S

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.

FLORIDA PROFESSIONAL THEATRES ASSOCIATION (FPTA) is a statewide organization of professional theatre companies and theatre professionals

interested in the development and promotion of professional theatre throughout Florida. Florida Repertory Theatre is a proud FPTA member theatre.

Florida Repertory Theatre is a member of THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP (TCG), the national organization for the American Theatre.

EMILY TARADASH (Costume Designer) is thrilled to be making her design debut at Florida Rep with How the Other Half Loves. She holds a BA in Theatre Design from the University of Vermont and an MFA in Costume Design from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she designed costumes for Urinetown, Machinal, Suitors (World Premeire), David Ives’ The Liar and J.M. Barre’s Peter Pan. Selected Regional Credits include Jogging (American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge), Dames at Sea (Stoneham Theatre), SWARM (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), The Kritik and A Doll’s House (The Harbor Stage, Wellfleet), On an Average Day, Romance, The Captain’s Doll (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre, MA), The Water Project (TheatreTruck, MA), Grease (New Bedford Festival Theatre), The Wakeville Stories (Mattie May Theatre Project, Boston), Victor/Victoria, Little Women, White Christmas, Avenue Q, Damn Yankees!, Anything Goes, The Miracle Worker, 1776, Breaking Legs, It’s a Wonderful Life (Ocean State Theatre, RI), Willy Wonka (Prescott Park Arts Festival, NH), and The Duck Wife (International Canadian Fringe Festival). When she is not freelancing, Taradash is the resident Costume Designer at the Beaver Country Day School.

TODD O. WREN***† (Lighting Designer) is delighted to participate in Florida Rep’s continued growth as an ensemble member. A special thanks goes to you, the audience, for your support. Todd’s theatrical credits include: Good Speed Musicals, Cleveland Playhouse, People’s Light and Opera Company, The Royal Manitoba Theatre Center, Merrimack Repertory, Barter Theatre, Tennessee Repertory, John F. Kennedy Center, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Charlotte Repertory, North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, Town and Gown Theatre, Casa Manana, and Flat Rock Playhouse. Todd is a member of United Scenic Artists, New York Local #829.

JANINE WOCHNA*† (Production Stage Manager) is delighted to return to Florida Rep where she is an ensemble member having previously stage managed Outside Mullingar, the critically acclaimed House of Blue Leaves, Over the River and Through the Woods, The Cocktail Hour, The Unexpected Guest, Tribes, Around the World in 80 Days, Collected Stories, Time Stands Still, Talley’s Folly, and many others over 12 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 Play House. She is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

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