MUD BLUE SKY by Marisa WegrZYn

JuN. 9, 2017through

JUL. 2, 2017

BAD JEWS by Joshua harmon

JuL. 14, 2017through

AUG. 6, 2017

2017 SUMMER SERIES

DINNER by Moira Buffini

Aug. 25, 2017through

Sep. 17, 2017

presents

SUMMER SERIES SHOW #3

by Moira Buffini Directed by Scott Bellot by Moira Buffini Directed by Scott Bellot

CAST PHOTOS

CAROL BLOOM(Paige)

EMILY TUCKMAN(Wynne)

RONAN VIARD(Waiter)

VERL HITE(Lars)

SAMARA BRIDWELL(Sian)

JACK WEFSO(Hal)

SEAN MICHAEL CUMMINGS

(Mike)

SETTINGA fancy dining room in the expensive home of Lars and Paige. London, England Play running time is approx. two hours, including one 15 minute intermission.

SPECIAL THANKSThank you very much to our season pass holders, the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District, our partners at 40 West. A very special thanks to all of our donors. For a complete listing of donors, go to www.theedgetheater.com

WELCOME TO THE EDGE

Dear Edge Patrons,

Our Edgy Summer is sooooo HOT! After successful runs of Mud Blue Sky and Bad Jews, we are introducing you to a playwright who has not been produced in the Denver area to our knowledge! When Dinner was first read in our play reading group, no one could believe this show hasn’t been done before in Denver! Carol Bloom, no stranger to The Edge stage, stars as the hostess with a plan. Carol has also made a huge contribution to our theater by creating and growing the Senior Edge program! We are excited that she is joined by four returning Edge veterans (Verl, Jack, Emily, and Samara) and two first time Edge performers (Sean and Ronan.) So, fasten your seat belt for this wild ride called Dinner, the final show of our summer series! Next up....our second Edward Albee production, A Delicate Balance!

If you have any questions about our theater, please email me at ryaconis@theedgetheater.com

Rick YaconisExecutive/Artistic Director,Board Member

CREDITS & SHOW INFORMATION

DINNERBY MOIRA BUFFINIProduced with permission from Samuel French, New York City.

THE PRODUCTION TEAMExecutive Artistic Director Rick YaconisManaging Director Patty YaconisAssociate Artistic Director Warren Sherrill

THE CASTPaige Carol BloomLars Verl Hite Hal Jack WefsoWynne Emily TuckmanSian Samara Bridwell Mike Sean Michael Cummings Waiter Ronan Viard

THE TEAMPlaywright Moira BuffiniDirector Scott BellotStage Manager Katie EspinozaAssistant Stage Manager Emily GomesSet Design Warren SherrillSet Construction Jeff JesmerSet Painting Julie LamieuxMaster Carpenter Emeritus Rich Munoz

Kenny StormsKevin Taylor

Sound Design Lighting Design Props Master Scott Bellot

Scott BellotRachel D. GrahamGloria ShanstromTim Ovesen, Raven Print

Costume Design Photography Publicity Poster/Cover/ Program Design & Marketing

Moira Buffini was born in Cheshire to Irish parents. She studied English and Drama at Goldsmiths College, London University (1983–86) and subsequently trained as an actor at the Welsh College of Music and Drama. Jordan, co-written with Anna Reynolds in 1992, earned Buffini a Time Out Award for her performance and Writers’ Guild Award for Best Fringe play. Her 1997 play Gabriel was performed at Soho theatre, winning the London Weekend Television Plays on Stage award and the Meyer-Whitworth Award. Her 1999 play Silence earned Buffini the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for best English-language play by a woman. Loveplay followed at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2001, then Dinner at the National Theatre in 2003 which transferred to the West End and was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Comedy. Buffini is also a prolific screenwriter. In 2010 her film adaptation of Posy Simmon’s “Tamara Drewe” was released, directed by Stephen Frears. In 2011 her adaptation of Jane Eyre for BBC Films and Ruby Films was released. Buffini adapted her play A Vampire Story for the screenplay of Neil Jordan’s film Byzantium released in 2013.

Rick Yaconis co-founded The Edge Theater in 2010 with his wife Patty. Since then he has produced over 55 shows, directed ten including recent productions of The Nance and Murder Ballad, and appeared in ten shows including recent productions of Misery and A View From the Bridge.

Scott Bellot has been acting for over twenty years. He holds an MFA in Acting from the University of South Carolina. He is a resident director at the Edge Theater, which he considers his artistic home, having worked on 13 different productions. He has recently appeared on Denver stages at the Arvada Center, Curious Theatre, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, the Aurora Fox, Firehouse Theatre, Germinal Stage, Equinox Theatre, and Vintage Theatre. He is also an educator, teaching and directing at Red Rocks Community College. Scott has appeared on stage at The Edge as George in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Randall P. McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Joey in A Steady Rain, and Charlie Fox in Speed-The-Plow, for which he won the Edgy Award for Outstanding Actor.

MOIRA BUFFINI (Playwright)

SCOTT BELLOT (Director)

DINNER CAST BIOS

Carol Bloom (Paige) Carol is delighted to be back on stage at the Edge, where she has had the privilege of portraying a number of wonderful characters over the years. Carol has been acting, directing and teaching theatre for the past 30 years, and she is tremendously honored to be working professionally with many of her former students. Favorite roles include Beatrice in A View from the Bridge, Felicity in The Shadow Box, Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest, Dotty Otley in Noises Off, and Dorothy Parker in The Singular Dorothy Parker. Love and gratitude to Patty and Rick for so much.

Verl Hite (Lars) Verl is very pleased to be back at The Edge. He is also very pleased to be working with this fantastic cast and crew. Verl, who is originally from Louisiana, has been in Colorado for twenty years acting, directing and designing lighting in the Denver area. He would like to say how much he has enjoyed meeting and getting to know all of the many talented people he has had the privilege to work with here. Thank you Cassandra and Debra for your patience, support and love. Goodnight Mrs. Calabash where ever you are.

Jack Wefso (Hal)Jack is thrilled to return to the Edge, having previously been seen in 2014’s Orphans and 2015’s Woman in Mind. Around town, you may recently seen him as Jason in the 2017 World Premiere of Myth (Aurora Fox), or as the wealthy but hapless castaway Neville in Siren Song, an episodic monthly show at Buntport Theater for All Ages. Jack is also an active producer and director, currently co-producing the podcast The Hardy Boys Drinkbook, as well as an upcoming autobiographical web-series titled At Any Rate. His previous web series, Weird Denver, is available on Youtube. Jack often appears in television and radio commercials. He is represented by Radical Artists Agency.

Emily Tuckman (Wynne) Emily just relocated to Colorado after performing for over 15 years in New York. Her favorite roles include Jackie-O in House of Yes (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), Guildenstern in The Hamlet Project (La Mama Etc.), Blanche in Streetcar Named Desire, Laura in The Glass Menagerie (New York Fringe Festival), Devon in Elemeno Pea (Misfits Theater Company, Broadway World winner for Best Small Ensemble of 2016) and most recently Carmen in The Nance (The Edge Theatre) and Cora Cobb in Vintage’s A Time to Kill. Emily also studied at Williamstown Theatre Festival, with Shakespeare and Co, and at Upright Citizens Brigade. She is so grateful for this wonderful cast, crew, to Scott, and to Patty and Rick at the Edge! She would like to thank her incredibly supportive family and friends (huge thanks to Lia Leets and Annie Kaup for creating her costume:), and so much gratitude to her two greatest loves, Peter and little William, for inspiring her every day!

Samara Bridwell (Sian)Samara is always delighted to get back on these old, edgy boards, where she has been lucky enough to work since 2011, most recently in Marie Antoinette, Woman In Mind, and Jerusalem. You may have also caught her prowling around the front of house as Manager of Customer Experience. She holds a BA in theatre and has been performing throughout the Denver area for many years with Vintage, Germinal, Spark, Goodness Gracious Productions, Miner’s Alley, Theatre Out, and on this very stage. Favorite roles include Jo in boom, Catherine in Proof, Cecily in The Odd Couple, Lana Sherwood in It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, Odette in Southern Baptist Sissies, Nurse Kelly in Harvey, various stints in The Vagina Monologues, and a brief appearance on Icelandic television. To Rick and Patty Yaconis: there will never be thanks enough for creating such a beautiful artistic home these past seven seasons. To Katie and Emily: meow. To Scott: thank you for being my person and my penguin. I love you more than Hal loves microbes.

Sean Michael Cummings (Mike) Sean Michael Cummings is an actor, writer and stand-up comedian in Denver. Other credits: Evan in The Aliens (The Orchard Project NY), A Time to Kill (Vintage Theatre); As You Like It (Band of Toughs); Eurydice, KJ in The Aliens, ShakesBeer (The Wit Theatre Company); The Stonemason’s Wish (The BiTSY Stage); White Rabbit Red Rabbit (Pipedream Productions)l; and The Room: Live! With Greg Sestero (Alamo Drafthouse Littleton). Awards/Training: Orchard Project Core Playwriting Fellowship 2017, Comedy Works New Faces Semi-Finalist 2012; B.A.; Colorado State University.

Ronan Viard (Waiter)Ronan is thrilled to be in his first show at the Edge. He moved to Colorado from Paris, France, in 2015. He had to leave his own theater company in which he was directing La Ronde by Arthur Schnitzler and was performing in as the Count. In Colorado, Ronan made his debut as Froth and Abhorson in Measure for Measure with 5th Wall Productions in Denver. Last winter, he was one of the conductors of The Polar Express for the Colorado Railroad Museum. He has been working several times with Candlelight Dinner Playhouse as Ensemble (The Wizard of Oz, 42nd Street, The Slipper and the Rose).

NEW WORK DONATION FUND

BE A PRODUCER OF NEW WORK!

A significant piece of our mission at The Edge over the past seven years has been to help local writers develop their work and to get produced! We are proud to have produced an average of one new work per year for the past six years, a feat very few theaters can boast about!

In December 2017, we will produce a new commissioned play by Josh Hartwell. Josh has directed many notable plays at The Edge, including The Motherfucker With the Hat, Casa Valentina, I’ll Eat You Last, and Bad Jews. His talent and keen eye has been evident in every production. Now, The Edge Audience will have the opportunity to see his work as a writer in Resolutions.

The genesis of Resolutions was simple; The Edge wants to do a holiday show but we don’t want the same holiday shows that everybody is else is doing. And there hasn’t been a holiday show that’s about NEW YEAR’S instead of CHRISTMAS! So, we decided to have one written for us. In Resolutions, a group of friends have been meeting for years to discuss their resolutions from last year and to state the new ones for the upcoming year. But this year, something is different; our hostess has divorced her husband and has a new young lover. The husband is nowhere to be found……or is he? Secrets, lies, sex, addictive personalities, shock…..all of the Edge values are there!

It will cost us $25,000 to produce this show! So, we’re inviting you to help keep the emphasis on new work grown in the Denver metro area.

EDGE NEW PLAY Development FUNDHelp The Edge support our local writers by producing the finest quality New Work in December!

Resolutions by Josh Hartwell Directed by Missy Moore

• We are investing in the very best talent to bring this to life!

• Help us make it the BEST! • Every donation matters and are tax

deductible! • Donations of $500 or more receive

producer credit!

WAYS TO CONTRIBUTE!• Go to www.theedgetheater.com and click on the link on the

home page (rotating gallery)

• Write a check to The Edge Theater and mail to

The Edge Theater c/o Rick Yaconis 233 S. Washington Street, Denver CO 80209

• Call 720-233-1270 for more options