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Chance Theater proudly presents

The Eight: Reindeer Monologuesby Jeff GoodeDirected by Alex Bueno*Associate Director James McHale*Production Designer Masako Tobaru*Scenic Design adapted from design by Alex GironSound Designer Casey Long*Stage Manager Courtny Greenough*

Cast:

Dasher ..........................Ben Green, Casey Long*, Aaron McGeeCupid ............................Miguel Cardenas, Casey Long*, James McHale*Hollywood .....................Adam Lebowitz-Lockard, Casey Long*Blitzen ...........................Katie Canavan, Lola KellyComet ...........................Ahmed Brooks, Andrew PuenteDancer ..........................Kelly Ehlert, Karen O’Hanlon*Donner ..........................Jeff Hellebrand*, Casey Long*Vixen .............................Camryn Zelinger

Time:The days leading up to the annual Christmas run

Place:The North Pole

Running Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes without intermission

* Chance Resident Artist

THE EIGHT: REINDEER MONOLOGUES is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.

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

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Additional Production Credits Booth Operator Courtny Greenough*Master Carpenter Teodora Ramos*Casting Associate Crystal PhillipsLoad-In Crew James Markoski, Chris SchmidtScenic Painter Yui Suzuki

Special ThanksFrome Enterprises, The City of Anaheim, Jeff Goode, and, of course, Jim Book.

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Ben Green (Dasher) BA in Theatre Arts - CSU Fullerton ‘11. Chance Fellowship Inaugural Member. Chance Theater credits: The Boy at the Edge of Everything (The Boy), A Chorus Line (Zach), The

Big Meal (Man #3), Reindeer Monologues (Dasher/Hollywood), Jesus Hates Me (Georgie). Other credits: The Glass Menagerie (Tom Wingfield), Psycho Beach Party (Kanaka), RENT (Benny), The Rocky Horror Show (Rocky Horror), The Violet Hour (John Pace Seavering), Beyond Therapy (Bob), The Busy World is Hushed (Brandt), Edward II (Edward II), Bent (Horst), Bell, Book, and Candle (Shep Henderson), You Can’t Take It With You (Tony Kirby), Extremities (Raul), Our Town (Stage Manager), Proof (Hal), Frost/Nixon (Jim Reston), The Playboy of the Western World (Christy Mahon), Prelude to a Kiss (Peter), Romeo & Juliet (Romeo), Midsummer... (Demetrius), The Glass Menagerie (Jim O’Connor), Sexual Perversity in Chicago (Dan Shapiro), and Baby (Danny). Thank you to Mom, Dad, Michelle, Lindsay, this incredible cast and crew, and every member of my Chance family for their belief, encouragement, and support. Always. RG/RR/GR.

Casey Long (Dasher/Cupid/Donner/Hollywood/Managing Director) This is Casey’s 13th appearance in The Eight: Reindeer Monologues and is excited to be tackling all four roles that he knows in one year. Prior

Chance acting credits include this season’s Seminar, as well as A Bright New Boise, the SoCal premiere of Reborning, the West Coast premiere of Nerve, and the SoCal premiere of Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter, among others. In a case of split personality, Casey also directed all three shows featured in Chance’s Holiday Literature Series -- Anne of Green Gables, Little Women - The Broadway Musical, and The Secret Garden - The Musical while cursing his way through Reindeer performances. Thanks for joining us tonight for this un-holiday tradition that has lasted for over a decade! “For Camryn, the Vixen-iest Vixen I know, and the best wife I could hope for.”

Aaron McGee (Dasher) is happy to be coming back to the Chance Stage after performing the role of Brom Bones in the TYA production of The Legend(s) of Sleepy Hollow. Other such Orange County credits include

the role of Marty Pascal in The House of Yes and Dr. Hansen Guy in The Villain of Mystery Island. Aaron is a graduate of Fresno State with a Bachelor’s in Theatre Arts and couldn’t be more grateful that he is putting it to some use. He would like to thank all those

who have shown their support throughout the years and Chance Theater for giving him this creative outlet.

Miguel Cardenas (Cupid) is excited to be back for another year with the 8! Previous chance roles include: Fakir (Secret Garden), Hawker (Tommy) and staged readings of LA VIDA and Who’s Your Baghdaddy?. Miguel is

the resident Drama coach at Canyon High School and can be seen performing around Southern California bringing kids stories to life with The Imagination Machine. Spread Love.

James McHale (Cupid/Donner/ Associate Director) is a Resident Artist at the Chance whose past productions include Dogfight, Samsara, Maple and Vine (OC Weekly’s Best Play of the Year), Bloody Bloody Andrew

Jackson (Ovation Recommended & LA Times Critic’s Choice), The Laramie Project & Laramie Project: 10 Years Later (LA Stage Times Top 10 of 2013), and the World Premiere of A Celtic Holiday with Craic in the Stone, which he helped create with Chance artists and his Irish/Folk band for which the show is titled. Some of his favorite past roles include Chris in All My Sons, Jaime in The Last 5 Years, and The Baker in Into The Woods. James received his BA in Theater Arts Performance from CSU Long Beach, and has studied with the Michael Chekhov Association and The Actor’s Center (NYC). For more information, check out www.JamesMichaelMcHale.com. He would like to thank his wife Christi for her love and support.

Adam Lebowitz-Lockard (Hollywood) is thrilled to be making his Chance Theater full production debut after appearing in a reading of Jenny Connell Davis’ Penelope this summer. Adam’s favorite Christmas

movie is Love, Actually. Right now his favorite couple in it is the porn couple, but it usually changes every few weeks. http://www.adamll.weebly.com

Katie Canavan (Blitzen) is thrilled to take the stage with Chance Theater! After graduating from Michigan State University with a BA in Acting & Costume Design, Katie spent time in Chicago, honing her skills

as director, actor, designer and musician. She’s now happily making exciting theater in LA, most recently appearing in Urinetown with Coeurage Theater, and as Rosencrantz with American Coast Theater in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Hamlet. Katie is also a textile artist, and one half of The Darling Kathleens, a vintage songstress duo. www.katiecanavan.com

Artist Biographies

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Lola Kelly (Blitzen) has a BA in Theatre from LMU and an MA in Performance Studies from RADA/King’s College London. Recent theater credits include Ophelia in ACTC’s Hamlet and Rosencrantz and

Guildenstern are Dead, the Countess Bathory in the Araca Project’s off Broadway new work Lady, Miss Julie at South Coast Rep, the lead in the immersive hit Delusion, ensemble drama Life Without Parole at the Edgemar, ensemble comedy Saint Mel at the Hollywood Fringe, and originating a role in Circle Jerk, an absurdist work on the Surrealists, at REDCAT. She has worked with Skylight, Moving Arts, the Ruskin and the Blank. Lola has starred in three feature films in the past year, played a series regular on the sketch show Enchufe, appeared on Fox’s The Grinder, Amazon’s The Next Steps, Lifetime’s My Haunted House and recently played a recurring role on The Fosters on Freeform. lolajameskelly.com

Ahmed Brooks (Comet) is ecstatic to be working in his first production with the Chance Theater. Although he’s grown comfortable in his artistry, he still falls short on his Bios.

Andrew Puente (Comet) is a Chance Theater Fellow, a proud CSULB Theater Alum, and a Slytherin. You can usually find him puppeteering, doing weird voices or singing/rapping. Recent theater credits include: Hamlet

(Horatio), Fancy Nancy the Musical (Lionel), Avenue Q (Rod), Dogfight (Eddie Birdlace), and The Merchant of Venice (Lorenzo). @andrew_puente andrewpuente.com

Kelly Ehlert (Dancer) is a Chance Fellow and previously appeared at the theater as The Server in The Big Meal, Little Red Running Shorts in The Stinky Cheese Man: and other fairly stupid tales and as Ellen in

Maple & Vine. A selection of other credits include: Marcy in Dog Sees God at Theatre Out; Outlaw in Two Gentlemen of Verona at Seattle Shakespeare Company; Mrs. Ruley in Holey Smokes at Boom! Theatre Company; various roles in ClassicsFest at Antaeus Theatre Company; Fan in A Christmas Carol and Liz in Florence, David, and Art at South Coast Repertory; The Loud Stone in Eurydice and Minnie Tinwell in The Doctor’s Dilemma at A Noise Within Theatre Company where she also also appeared in several Words Within Reading Series events including Catherine Sloper in The Heiress. Kelly has a BFA in Acting from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle.

Karen O’Hanlon (Dancer/Education Director) received her B.A. in Theatre from East Stroudsburg University. She has worked as a teaching artist, actress and director throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware

and New York, including and most notably at the McCarter Theatre at Princeton University. Previous performances include Cinderella Waltz, Are the Lights Still on in Paris, Great Western Wanderlust, Coyote Ugly, Slaughter City and Tony and Tina’s Wedding. She would like to thank her family and friends for their ongoing support, especially her loving and patient husband Nick for being her rock.

Jeff Hellebrand (Donner/Box Office Associate) co-founded Chance Theater in 1999 in his native Orange County. He received his degree from Cal State Fullerton and additional training at Cal State Chico and The

Professional Actors Conservatory. He has worked on both sides of the curtain in venues throughout California. He currently sits on the Stagecraft Technology advisory committee for North Orange County Rgional Occupational Program. Chance Theater acting credits include Anne of Green Gables, Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol (Back Stage Critic’s Pick), The Stroop Report, Therese Raquin, The Diary of Anne Frank (O.C. Register Best Ensembles), Memories on the Wind and the O.C. entry in 365 Days/365 Plays by Suzan Lori-Parks. Script writing credits dear to his heart are Is Pepperoni a Vegetable? And Other Mysteries of Love, But I Don’t FEEL Grown Up, and The Beach... Without Leo.

Camryn Zelinger (Vixen) is thrilled to be returning to the stables for her sixth year in a row. Camryn has been in many shows at the Chance, including, but not limited to, A Chorus Line, Hairspray, After The Revolution,

She Loves Me, Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play, Lysistrata Jones, and Triassic Parq (Ovation nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical). Camryn continues to live her dream teaching at Encore High School for the Arts and running her youth theater education program, Lola Mae Performing Arts. She would like to thank Chance Theater for their unstoppable drive to keep the arts alive and her loving family for believing in her and always pushing her to reach higher. “For brat. Who is always such a brat.”

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Jeff Goode (Playwright) is the award-winning author of The Eight: Reindeer Monologues and the creator of Disney’s animated series American Dragon: Jake Long, as well as many other plays, musicals, and television

shows. He is a founding member of the original No Shame Theatre, and founding artistic director of No Shame Los Angeles.

Alex Bueno (Director) has been a part of The Eight since the very beginning. She is thrilled to return and shake things up for Christmas. Some of her past credits include A Bright New Boise (Anna), Passion Play

(Village Idiot/Violet), Overlooked (Gail Going), Merrily We Roll Along (K.T.), The Eight: Reindeer Monologues (Blitzen and Comet) and Rabbit Hole (Izzy). She would like to thank this brilliant cast for going on this journey with her. She would also like to thank her friends and family for their incredible amount of love and support. This show is in no way dedicated to her baby boy Riker because it’s not appropriate for children.

Masako Tobaru (Production Designer/Technical Director) has been with the Chance since 2003, and also serves as a resident stage manager and lighting designer. Her Chance Theater credits include Little Women,

Anne of Green Gables, Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?, The Eight: Reindeer Monologues, and Evita, among others. Her credits outside the Chance include Ganga...Life as a River, Much Ado About Nothing, Cabaret, Medea, Patient A and The Last Night of Ballyhoo. Masako received her BA in Theater and Communications from Concordia University, Irvine.

Courtny Greenough (Stage Manager/Company Manager)is a Resident Company member and Company Manager of Chance Theater. Previous shows with the Chance: Dogfight, Hairspray, In the

Heights, Lysistrata Jones, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, The Laramie Project & The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, West Side Story, Reborning (Back Stage Critic’s Pick), Jerry Springer: The Opera (Ovation Award- Best Musical, Intimate Theater), Welcome Home Jenny Sutter (Southern California Premiere), HAIR: The American Tribal Love Rock Musical (Stage Manager, five Ovation Award nominations, including Best Musical, and six LADCC Award nominations), the West Coast premiere of The Girl, The Grouch and The Goat (Rehearsal Stage Manager). BA in Business Administration: Management, Concordia University, Irvine. Merry Christmas!

Oanh Nguyen (Artistic Director) has been serving as Chance Theater’s founding Artistic Director since 1999. Oanh is a recipient of TCG’s New Generations Grant and the TCG Nathan Cummings Young Leaders of

Color Fellowship. He was awarded the Outstanding Artist Award by Arts Orange County, profiled in Orange County Register’s “Most Influential People” 2014 series and OC Weekly’s 2014 People Issue, inducted into Anaheim High School’s Hall of Fame and recently was the commencement speaker to the 2014 graduation class of Chapman University College of Performing Arts. Oanh was Producing Associate at South Coast Repertory for four years. He also served on the advisory board of the Anaheim High School Performing Arts Conservatory, the board of Network of Ensemble Theatres, LA’s 99-seat Transitional Committee, multiple SDC committees and grant panels for the National Endowment for the Arts and Theatre Communications Group. Oanh is a proud member of SDC and SAG-AFTRA. His directing credits include productions at Chance Theater, East West Players, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Segerstrom Center for the Arts, and South Coast Repertory, and served as the Associate Director for the international tour of David Henry Hwang’s Chinglish (Berkeley Repertory, South Coast Repertory, Hong Kong Arts Festival). His selected film credits include Two Brothers directed by Jean-Jacques Annaude, Rush Hour 3 directed by Brett Ratner, and Lonely Boy directed by Dale Fabrigar (Best First Feature Grand Jury Prize at the 2013 Louisiana International Film Festival and Audience Award Winner at the 2013 BolderLife Festival).

Erika C. Miller (Development Director) is a Chance Founding Artist alongside husband, Oanh Nguyen. She began singing professionally with The Los Angeles Children’s Chorus where she was privileged to

perform with Peabo Bryson, Barry Manilow, Andre Previn, Yo-yo Ma, Doc Severinsen, Luther Vandross, among others. She can be heard on the soundtracks of “Hero”, “The Dark Half” and “Merry Christmas from Doc Severinsen and The Tonight Show Orchestra”. Opera credits: Die Frau Ohnne Schatten and El Gato Montez with Placido Domingo at The Music Center, Carmina Burana at the Hollywood Bowl, and The Magic Flute at UCLA’s Royce Hall. Ragtime solist at Steamers Jazz Club, Old Town Music Hall, and the Muckenthaler Cultural Center. Backup singer for local Celtic band Craic in the Stone, and featured on their two albums. Favorite Chance Roles include: She Loves Me (LA Times Critic’s Choice), Little Women (remounted at La Mirada Theatre in 2013),The Laramie Project Cycle, Jerry Springer: The Opera (Ovation Award for Best Musical, LA Times Critic’s

Choice), title role in Evita, Into the Woods (Back Stage Critic’s Pick and Garland Award Honorable Mention), Cabaret (Garland Award nominee: Best Actress), Closer Than Ever (LA Times Critic’s Choice), and Lee Miller: The Angel and The Fiend (OC Weekly Award). Erika and Oanh are happy to be the proud parents of twins, so Erika will be taking some time off this Fall.

Bebe Herrera (Production Manager) is delighted to be working with Chance Theater. A member of Theatre of NOTE in Los Angeles, some previous stage management credits include Chance’s Maple

and Vine, the world premiere of Pat McGowan’s FILM, regional premiere Holy Ghost by Jon Tuttle, B. Walker Sampson’s Alceste, and The Pity of Things, an evening of one-act plays. Hailing from the South Bay, she has worked with theatre companies from Hollywood to Anaheim and back including Rangeview Productions, the University Players, Movimiento Estudiantil de Teatro y Artes and Moveable Piece. She would like to thank Chance Theater for making every time working with them such memorable experiences.

Teodora Ramos (Master Carpenter) is a proud Chance Resident Artist. She earned her BA in Theater - Technical Production and Design from Cal State Fullerton. Recent credits include Anne of Green Gables

(Stage Manager), world premiere of The Boy in the Bathroom (Master Carpenter), The Secret Garden (Stage Manager), Edward Albee’s The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? (Master Carpenter, Back Stage Critic’s Pick and LA Times Critic’s Choice), The Who’s Tommy (Master Carpenter), Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter (Master Carpenter), Merrily We Roll Along (Assistant Stage Manager), Little Women - The Broadway Musical (Assistant Stage Manager), The Seagull (Master Carpenter), Hair (crew), Guys and Dolls (Assistant Technical Director), and Noises Off (Stage Manager). She would like to thank Calvin for his constant love and support.

Jocelyn A. Brown (Associate Artistic Director) Chance directing highlights include The Artist as a part of the Chance’s “On The Radar” Series, Evita, Never In My Lifetime (Back Stage Critic’s Pick), Big Love, and

The Cherry Orchard (OC Weekly Best Direction nomination). Chance acting highlights include Blitzen in The Eight: Reindeer Monologues, the Witch in Into The Woods (Back Stage Critic’s Pick), Cathy in The Last 5 Years (Back Stage Garland nomination for Best Actor), Nancy in Closer Than Ever (LA Times Critic’s Choice), and Ann in Goodnight Children Everywhere (OC Weekly Award for Best Female Lead Performance). Outside of the Chance, Jocelyn teaches at Laguna Hills High School, is earning her Masters in

Education, runs around after two toddlers, Kyden and Torin, and on occasion sees her loving husband, Kirk.

Jennifer Ruckman (Literary Manager) is endlessly proud to be a Resident Artist here at the Chance. Since joining this amazing group of artists, she has appeared in the Southern California

premiere of Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter (Ovation Recommended), the West Coast Premiere of Jesus Hates Me (Chancie Award - Best Supporting Actress), Rabbit Hole (Back Stage Critic’s Pick), and Frozen (Garland Award Honorable Mention: Performance). You may also have seen her deflecting bullets as Wonder Woman in the West Coast Premiere of The Superheroine Monolgoues. Additionally, Jennifer has performed at The Oval Theatre in London and in the remounting of Jesus Hates Me at South Coast Repertory. She studied at USC and the British American Drama Academy and has lent her face to Smallville and her voice to the Bratz Babyz.

Darryl B. Hovis (Producing Associate) earned his MA in Theatre Production at Central Washington University and studied acting at the Professional Conservatory at UCSD under Anna Shapiro (Steppenwolf) as

well as South Coast Repertory under Karen Hensel. He is the co-founder and artistic director of the Culver City Academy of Visual and Performing Arts, where he developed an intensive arts program for high school students in theatre, film, music, and art, and has gone on to develop theatre programs at other Southern California high schools, as well as Theatre International at Leysin American School in Leysin, Switzerland. Some of his favorite shows that he has directed include Therese Raquin (Chance Theater), Rent and The Threepenny Opera (Samohi Theatre), Machinal and Resurrecting Antigone (UniTheatre), and The Miracle Worker and Treehouses (AVPA).

Marc Sanford (Associate House Manager) is very happy to be a Chance Theater Resident Artist. In 1994, Marc did a production of Little Shop of Horrors at Rancho Santiago College (now known as Santa Ana

College), where he met future Chance founders Oanh Nguyen and Jeff Hellebrand. Marc first performed at the Chance in A History of the American Film as Mickey (plus 4 other characters) and soon became a resident artist. In 2004, Marc had to drop out of the company due to the discovery of a tumor about the size of a ping-pong ball on his optic nerve. His surgery was successful, but he moved up to the Seattle area to stay with family to recuperate. While he was up there, he attended the Seattle Film Institute where he received a Filmmaking Certificate. Marc has been a resident artist since June 2008.

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Robin “George” Shorter (Associate House Manager) is very excited to be working with the Chance. She has been very involved since 2012’s 24hr Chance-a-thon, where she stayed up all night with some

Chance staff members. Since then, she has built sets, ushered people, but you’ll recognize her most as the person who’s usually behind LindaBAR. When not volunteering her time at the Chance, “George” (as she’s lovingly known at the Chance) hands out caffeine drinks at Starbucks in Disneyland and California Adventure. Come by and say “hi” the next time you visit the happiest place on earth.

Crystal Phillips (Casting Associate) is proud to be a Chance Fellow. She has been involved at the Chance in a variety of different roles, but her true passion is to be the bridge between directors and actors by ensuring that

each director has the best possible options when casting a show. Additionally, she strives to help the actors feel as comfortable as possible in the audition room, so their true talents and personalities can shine through. Past casting credits include: She Loves Me; Loch Ness, a new musical; Alice in Wonderland; After the Revolution; Samsara; Fancy Nancy, the Musical;

Dragon Play; Hairspray; Kiss Me Kate; A Bright New Boise; The Legend(s) of Sleepy Hollow; Anne of Green Gables; The Eight: Reindeer Monologues; Dogfight; The Stinky Cheese Man; The Big Meal; Beauty and the Beast; and A Chorus Line, in addition to multiple OTR readings and LAB workshops.

Chance Theater is proud to be one of the leading ensemble-driven theatre companies in Southern California. We have won five Ovation Awards (including two for Best Production of a Musical for Triassic Parq -- The Musical and Jerry Springer: The Opera). The Chance also received an LADCC Award for our reimagined revival of West Side Story. Anaheim City Council named us “the official resident theater company of Anaheim”. Twice named “Outstanding Arts Organization” by Arts Orange County, Chance Theater is also a recipient of the LADCC’s Polly Warfield Award for Excellence. Founded in 1999, we are focused on the goal of being Orange County’s premiere mid-size contemporary theater by contributing to a more compassionate, connected, and creative community. As a constituent member of Theatre Communications Group, Network of Ensemble Theaters, and the LA Stage Alliance, Chance Theater continues to bring national attention to the Southern California and Orange County theater scenes.

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Darla LeaLucky Strike Bowling CenterGiovanna MeeseLeslee MiddlebrookIrina MorrisMotel 6 Feet UnderM R MountMarya NguyenErika NguyenMichael OppenheimMary OttmanArthur PartridgeThe Pasadena PlayhouseTeodora RamosScott Roberts

Goldie RoeMarc SanfordSix Flags Magic MountainBill StronginRosalynn StronginCharlotte Hemme & Peter H. TannerGlenn ThomasMitchell TurnerMichael VuKai WilbanksWade WilliamsonHoward & Sumi Yata

PATRON CIRCLE ($1,200-$2,499)

Jean AbdallaAnaheim Arts CouncilRob BlaneyAnaheim Council Member Jordan BrandmanBristol Consulting GroupRyan Brodkin & Bebe HerreraRachel Oliveros Catalano & Tim CatalanoSusie DittmarDramatists Guild FundMargaret GatesJoyce GivensGregory Heiertz & Carollyn LobellElizabeth Jones & Dennis O’ConnellJudith Todd & Dan KeeAndy & Judith Lamb

Madeleine & Tommy LongKris MurrayOanh & Erika Miller NguyenJennifer Ruckman & Ken FavellSally Ann CateringTerry & Michelle SchomburgAnaheim Mayor Tom Tait & Julie TaitWendy & Jac TobiskaAnaheim Council Member James VanderbiltRobin Walton

List as of November 18, 2016

Producer’s Circle�ese are the individuals who have stepped forward to publicly a�liate their name with our theater company. While they enjoy a one-of-a-kind VIP all-access, they are also providing vital support for the artists, the productions, the organization, and their community. We can’t thank them enough.

Committed to signi�cantly increasing the support to

our theater artists, including directors, designers, actors,

stage managers andEquity contracts.

Martin & Wendy Benson

Wendy Hooper

Rachelle Menaker & Eddie SchullerLaurie Smits Staude

Robert BermanSophie & Larry CripeMary Kay Fyda-MarGFS, Inc. & Sammy PierceScott & Sandy GrahamScott & Georgia WellTod & Linda White

Season Producers Bette & Wylie Aitken

OTRCircle

Speak UpCircle

Bruce Goodrich

Rachelle Menaker & Eddie Schuller

Georgia & Scott Well

Allergan Foundation

Orange County Community Foundation, Robert J. &

Doreen D. Marshall Fund for Dramatic Arts & Classical

Music

AssociateProducers

ExecutiveProducers

PROGRAM SPONSORS

Committed to creating a home for the hottest new

voices in American �eater through our new works program, On �e Radar

(OTR).

Committed to broadening the reach of our company

into the community through summer youth workshops,

veteran programs, free performances and more.

ArtistsCircle

ENDOWMENT FUND DONORSThe endowment fund ensures the future of the Chance for years to come.

Tod & Linda WhiteMAJOR INDIVIDUAL GIFTS

Diane & Chimo ArnoldRobert E. CampbellSophie & Larry Cripe Camille Goulet

DEFERRED ESTATE GIFTSTo find out more

or to make a donation

Call Erika at(714) 970-0592

$10 pre-sale or $15 at-the-door

Tuesday, December 13Sign-up starts at 7pm / Music starts at 7:30pm

Ghost Light Vocal JamBACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!

Broadway Inspired Open-Mic Night

Come hear some of the best new voices in Southern California or share your talent

at one of the hottest venues.

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16 v 18th Anniversary Season

STAFF

Oanh Nguyen, Artistic DirectorCasey Long, Managing DirectorErika C. Miller, Development DirectorMasako Tobaru, Technical DirectorTeodora Ramos, Master CarpenterBebe Herrera, Production ManagerJeff Hellebrand, Box Office AssociateJocelyn A. Brown, Associate Artistic DirectorJennifer Ruckman, Literary Manager Courtny Greenough, Company ManagerKaren O’Hanlon, Education DirectorDarryl B. Hovis, TYA Producing AssociateMarc Sanford, Assoc. House ManagerRobin “George” Shorter, Assoc. House Manager

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Scott B. Well, ChairLarry Cripe, Vice-ChairAndy Lamb, TreasurerMary Kay Fyda-Mar, Immediate Past Chair

Jocelyn A. Brown, councilAlex Bueno, councilCourtny Greenough, councilLaura M. Hathaway, councilJeff Hellebrand, councilBebe Herrera, councilCasey Long, councilErika C. Miller, councilOanh Nguyen, councilTeodora Ramos, councilJennifer Ruckman, councilMarc Sanford, councilBill Strongin, council

Masako Tobaru, councilKelly Todd, councilKaren Webster, councilSherry DomeregoRobert ForanRobyn ManionJames McHaleKaren O’HanlonSarah PierceNicole SchlittDavid McCormick, member emeritusMyrna Niles, member emeritus

M I S S I O N Chance Theater seeks to create exciting theatrical experiences that will engage, surprise and unite our audiences, our artists, and our community.The mission of the Chance is to contribute to a more compassionate, connected and creative Orange County.

We do this by:• producing powerful, socially-conscious, provocative, intimate theater experiences• generating participation and dialogue between our diverse communities• nurturing and supporting local artists• inspiring and empowering creative young minds

R E C E N T H O N O R S / A W A R D SNamed official “Resident Theater of Anaheim”Winner of 6 Ovation Awards, including 2 for Best Musical (Triassic Parq and Jerry Springer: The Opera) Winner of 5 LADCC Awards, including the Polly Warfield Award for Excellence for Outstanding SeasonOC Weekly’s Best of OC 2015 - Best Musical (Loch Ness, a new musical) and Best Play (Maple and Vine)29 Ovation Award nominations15 LADCC Award nominationsWinner of Robby Award for Best Choreography (Lysistrata Jones), plus 5 more nominationsRecipient of American Theatre Wing’s 2016 National Theatre Company GrantRecipient of National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) Grant Two “Outstanding Arts Organization” Awards from Arts Orange County

RESIDENT ARTISTS

Bette AitkenMartin BensonRobert BermanSusan BowmanSusie DittmarBruce GoodrichSandy GrahamWendy HooperElizabeth Jones

Casey Long Guy W. Marr Rachelle MenakerOanh NguyenTerry SchomburgLaurie Smits StaudeGeorgia Well