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We’re so looking forward to bringing you the wonderful plays ahead this summer!  Since you’re reading, this I know you’ve got

an interest in, maybe even a passion for PCPA’s role in the community through its playmaking. It’s probably something to which you’ve grown accustomed, it makes sense to you.What makes sense to me is the

use of art to communicate, promote and shape the positive values of the culture – to inspire with a reflection of belonging, to challenge with enlightenment, to encourage with the value of a larger purpose. At PCPA, we seek to use our creative powers and energies for the good of our community because we know that people need a sense of meaning and connection to express and shape their human experience. We recognize their need to speak and to be heard and we know that stories are at the center of our humanity.These plays – My Fair Lady, Man of

La Mancha, Peter and the Starcatcher and Other Desert Cities – are about many things, but certainly prime among them is the human capacity to be transformed, transfigured even, by the persuasive powers of belief.  When belief is expressed through story, stories change our outlook, our outlook shapes our choices, and those choices frame our future.  Much of the time, we cannot

transform our circumstances, but we can refine the lens through which we view circumstance. In doing so, we find that perspective has much more to do with happiness than circumstance. How we see things is often much more powerful than what we see. So, we invest in satisfying that need to discover meaning – purpose, in connection to others and that can make sense to us all.

the Street Where You Live,” “Get Me to the Church on Time,” and “I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face.”

Director/Choreographer Michael Jenkinson will be re-exploring this

work after having acted and choreographed for PCPA’s production 14 years ago. Today, with dozens of choreography

credits, Jenkinson sees the internal story of each character as the greater challenge. Exploring and expanding the interrelated relationships in the world of the ensemble is one goal. And while he admires the film version, he has no intention to let it influence his creative vision. “The film is wonderful, but the film will always exist so there’s no reason to replicate that,” Jenkinson said. And, as he has done with past

World famous phonetics expert and British upper class professional bachelor, Henry Higgins is willing to wager that he can pass off a Cockney flower girl in high society as a duchess just by teaching her to speak proper English. Like Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion from which it was adapted, My Fair Lady explores society’s prejudices toward class and gender with the aid of a spectacular score to illuminate the broad and rich mix of characters we encounter. It features such memorable tunes as “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?” “With a Little Bit of Luck,” “The Rain in Spain,” “I Could Have Danced All Night,” “On

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“The perfectmusical.”

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productions, such as Oklahoma! and West Side Story, he works to strip away the familiar or the cliché to force the observer’s focus on the internal life of these characters, hence providing a brand new experience.

My Fair Lady opened on Broadway in 1956 and was a resounding record-smashing hit. It ran for 2,717 performances over the course of six-and-a-half-years. The original Broadway production featured Rex Harrison as Henry Higgins and Julie Andrews as Eliza Doolittle (in her American debut). In 1964 the musical was adapted for film again starring Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn, winning Best Picture–among other awards–at the Academy Awards the following year. My Fair Lady has had several revivals on Broadway and the West End, and has been called “the perfect musical.” Jenkinson agrees that My Fair Lady is an exceptionally well-constructed play that has great language, great music and a very unique story. “This is the most unconventional musical. I’m surprised, in a way, it ever happened and that’s a great challenge as a director because the relationships in the story are so unique. There’s no formula like ‘I met you, then we fall in love.’ This is ‘I don’t even like you’.”

show advisory: appropriate for all ages– a great show to see as a family.

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Book & Lyrics by alan Jay Lerner/Music by frederick Loewe/adapted from george Bernard Shaw’s play & Gabriel Pascal’s motion picture Pygmalion/originally directed by Moss hart

Beloved Broadway Musical

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OTHER DESERT CITIESOverseeing and orchestrating the confrontation that will explode in the Palm Springs home of Other Desert Cities is Director Roger DeLaurier. Roger

has directed over 50 productions for PCPA including this season’s world premiere, Christmas Is Here Again.

Man Of La ManCHaDirector Mark Herrier caught the acting bug at the age of 10 when his mother took him to see a production of The Music Man in Santa Barbara. After graduating

Lompoc High School he joined PCPA’s conservatory then continued his training at the University of Washington leading to work in regional theatres including Seattle Rep, Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Rep and Circle in the Square. He later moved to New York and was cast in Brigadoon and Macbeth on Broadway. In 1982 he was cast in

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Man of La Mancha began as a TV drama by Dale Wasserman for

CBS under the title I, Don Quixote. It was broadcast live in 1959. The original Broadway production which debuted 50 years ago ran for 2,328 performances,

winning five Tony Awards including Best Musical. Its popularity has never waned; it has had four Broadway revivals and numerous national and international productions that have been translated in over 30 languages. It was adapted for film in 1972 with Peter O’Toole.Written by Dale Wasserman/Music by

Mitch Leigh/Lyrics by Joe Darion/original Production staged by albert Marre/originally Produced by albert W. selden & hal James

My faIR LaDyDirector/Choreographer/Actor Michael Jenkinson graduated from PCPA’s conservatory in 1999. He has directed, choreographed and acted for numerous

regional theatres: Oregon Cabaret, Phoenix Theatre Company, Old Globe, Alliance, Geva Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory, Delaware Theatre, Sierra Rep Sacramento Theatre Company, and many others. For PCPA he has

such a unique theatrical adventure. Carroll says, “It’s theatre stripped

down to its very essence – twelve actors, a backdrop and some props creating nearly a hundred characters and dozens of locations. Three musicians provide musical accompaniment and all of the sound effects. And the beauty is: this style of old-time, low-tech stagecraft ends up being highly theatrical. I think it’s a type of theatre that many members of our audience may never have experienced before.”

Carroll describes the play as “part 19th century romantic adventure and part Warner Brothers cartoon. And when these two vastly different styles meet, an unexpected sort of magic happens!”

This prequel to J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan puts in place all the elements which Barrie cemented in the original story, Peter and Wendy, including the ticking crocodile, how Peter Pan’s home got the name Neverland, how Tinkerbell came to be, and how a boy never grew up and learned to fly. Here we have Molly, our hero, in a time before girls were encouraged to be heroes. We have no Captain Hook...or rather, we have no Hook yet. Instead, we have the pirate who the pitiful pirate kingdom calls Black Stache. We have our orphans, perpetually lost, though not quite yet Lost Boys. We have natives and mermaids and a perilously hungry crocodile.

A comfortable Palm Springs home turns into the battle ground for conservative against liberal, and that’s just for openers. As the sparring and jabs continue, the blows hit deeper and deeper opening up old wounds in this family’s past that contains a closely guarded secret. Brooke Wyeth is a middle age writer and the liberal daughter of prominent Republican parents who returns home after a six year absence. She throws the Christmastime reunion into turmoil when she announces her plans to publish a tell-all book that dredges up a pivotal and tragic event in the family’s history and would surely tarnish their political and social reputations. This searing comedy-drama by Jon Robin Baitz displays a family struggling to keep a fragile façade from shattering. In addition to the staunch mother and patriarch-actor turned politician – in this Palm Springs enclave, are the TV producer brother who’s just trying to keep the peace and an eccentric sharp tongued recovering alcoholic aunt who’s not afraid to jump into the fray. Brooks’ memoir was her catharsis while it is her parents’ nemesis.

Director Roger DeLaurier said the script is intriguing on a couple of levels, “I like the way the story unfolds as a mystery as we get to know and understand and like the characters. It is a complicated family with dark past secrets which effect their present lives. The other thing I like about the script is that even through long and deeply held assumptions, love and family trump over those powerful secrets.” DeLaurier says while there is a “mystery” element to the play that serves to keep the

relationships unfolding and deepening, the core is really a family drama with a lot of humor.

While the Hollywood connection to politics and the resulting circle of high society could be in jeopardy, which would be a huge blow late in life, DeLaurier says the greater potential for loss is the risk of the family losing each other as they try to get to the truth of their own history. “Like many families, they hit a point of crisis and must come to terms with it in order to move forward. I think audiences will relate to that and feel uplifted to see that, even late in the day, families can heal old wounds and unburden themselves of the past.”

Other Desert Cities opened in 2011 at the Lincoln Center Theatre and transferred to Broadway later the same year. It was named Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play by the Outer Critics Circle and was a 2012 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Drama. It also received five Tony nominations, including Best Play. The play was Baitz’ first Broadway production and featured Stockard Channing and Stacy Keach.

A playwright, screenwriter, television producer, and actor, Baitz is also an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award winner, a Guggenheim and NEA fellow, and the founding member and former artistic director of New York’s Naked Angels theatre company. His other plays include, Mizlansky/Zilinsky, The Substance of Fire, The Film Society, The End of

the Day, Three Hotels, Ten Unknowns, The Paris Letter, and the Pulitzer Prize finalist, A Fair Country. He is the creator of the ABC series Brothers & Sisters and writer and executive producer for the HBO mini-series Bush’s War. His PBS film version of Three Hotels won a Humanitas Award. He has also written episodes of West Wing and Alias.

This inspiring musical is presented as a play within a play. Miguel de Cervantes has just been imprisoned during the Spanish Inquisition. In the dungeon, the other prisoners hold a mock trial and Cervantes must defend himself to save a precious manuscript. He tells the court a fantastic story of an aging nobleman, and in doing

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the Madcap Prequel to Peter Pan

Show Advisory: Most appropriate for children 15 years of age and older due to the adult language.

Show Advisory: While appropriate for all ages, this Peter Pan prequel will be best

appreciated by children 8 and older.

Show Advisory: This classic musical is bestappreciated by children 12 years of age and older.

Dream the impossible Dream 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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By Jon robin Baitz

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overwhelming odds, being able to see the real beauty within, rather than the façade.” Herrier said that staging such a well-known work has a set of exciting challenges in filling an audience’s expectations while taking a fresh look and placing a personal stamp on the production. Herrier explained, “Balancing the true horror of that dungeon, while still getting musical theatre (even vaudevillian) laughs is another balancing act I hope to get right. We intend to have hope and inspiration arise out of the despair and filth of that environment, and I am excited about the potential to take the “story theatre” aspect of the production to a new level with a fluidity of movement, lights, and “magic” set pieces.” Herrier, who joined the Conservatory in 1972 right out of high school, sees the opportunity to direct at PCPA more as a homecoming than just another job. “After 40 years wandering the world on my own personal quest, I have finally come home. To return to the theatre that was my start and inspiration, which gave me the foundation to make all my wildest dreams come true, is for me, and quite simply, profound. Apparently, no dream is impossible!”

served as Director/Choreographer for Oklahoma!, Mary Poppins, Legally Blonde, Hairspray, West Side Story, and The Music Man. Michael has choreographed over 40 productions including My Fairy Tale, Peter Pan, Les Misérables, Anything Goes, Annie, Guys and Dolls and My Fair Lady. Some of his acting credits include Oklahoma!, Noises Off, Hamlet, Fiddler on the Roof, Spamalot, and Clybourne Park.

the film Porky’s and would return to appear in the trilogy. Upon the film’s completion, he returned to New York and was among the original cast of Sister Mary Ignatious. When Porky’s opened, it became the number one movie, while at the same time, Mark was in the number one show in New York. His TV/Film credits include MASH, Freddy’s Nightmares, Paradise, Murder She Wrote, The Practice, Gideon’s Crossing, Tank, Popcorn. Mark is also president of the Lompoc Theatre Project, a group that plans to restore the 90 year old theatre in downtown Lompoc.

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Really Trying, To Kill A Mockingbird, HMS Pinafore, Camelot, 1776, Damn Yankees, The Pirates of Penzance, South Pacific, Oklahoma, Cinderella and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Elsewhere, Brad has worked at the Gielgud Theatre London, Theatre Royal Plymouth, Walt Disney Entertainment International, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Utah Festival Opera, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Phoenix Theater, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, and Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival among others. Brad graduated the conservatory in 1977.

PETER anD THE STaRCaTCHERDirector Brad Carroll has been involved in over 85 production at PCPA since 1985. He’s served as Director, Musical Director, Choreographer,

Composer and Actor. He was co-creator of this season’s world premiere Christmas Is Here Again. Other PCPA credits include Caroline, Or Change, The Music Man, The Hot Mikado, 1940’s Radio Hour, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Once Upon A Mattress, How To Succeed In Business Without

Other credits include Hamlet, Fiddler on the Roof, Cyrano de Bergerac, Three Sisters, Pride and Prejudice, Curtains, Les Misérables, and The Sound of Music. He has also worked at Utah Shakespearean Festival, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, California Shakespeare Festival, and Shakespeare Festival of Dallas. Roger is PCPA’s Conservatory Director/Acting and Associate Artistic Director.

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The nameless boy at the center of our story ironically learns what it is to be a man over the course of our play, when he’s destined to stay a boy forever. Molly is a starcatcher apprentice on a parallel secret mission with her father, Lord Aster, who is taking one ship to a location to dispose of the precious starstuff to keep it out of the hands of evil forces. Molly is on a safer, slower ship to the same destination. Starstuff is powerful stuff and has transformative powers that can alter a person for good or bad, depending on their deep desire.

A band of pirates believes Lord Aster is actually transporting jewels and other riches for the queen. But a switch of identical trunks on the dock placed the precious cargo on the ship which Molly is now sailing. Prepare for a swashbuckling adventure on the high seas as pirates search for “the treasure” with ensuing mayhem and a crate of magic.

Peter and the Starcatcher, written by Rick Elice, is based on the 2004 children’s novel of a similar name, which was co-written by humorist Dave Barry and suspense writer Ridley Pearson. It received the Tony Award, Lortel Award, Tina Award, and Drama League Award for Outstanding Play, and was nominated for Best New Play in the very first year of the Off-Broadway Alliance Awards.

“When I was a boy, I wished I could fly,” says Director Brad Carroll. He remembers not only wishing, but actually trying to fly. “I’d sail out of a swing with a towel tied around my neck, believing I was Superman! It’s a wonder I survived! And

yet pretending and believing was what it was all about. Curiosity. Imagination. Belief. Ah, the magic of being a child!” It is that same magic that makes Peter and the Starcatcher

“A wildly funny and endlessly inventive adventure that rockets along at a breakneck pace.” –The Tribune

“A great night of entertainment.” –Santa Maria Times

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“Mr. Baitz’s play is built with gleaming dialogue, tantalizing hints of a dangerous mystery and structural care... a witty, deeply enjoyable family drama.” –New York Times

“Grippingly entertaining, intelligent, and utterly timely!” –Los Angeles Times

so, he transforms himself into knight-errant Don Quixote de la Mancha. Don Quixote duels windmill monsters and defends the lady of his dreams,

Dulcinea, who is actually a peasant “kitchen wench” named Aldonza. Our “mad knight” has a heart of gold and sees what others cannot.

His quest is to right all the wrongs in the world; he knows neither defeat or failure. His vision of hope and possibilities

inspires goodness in others, even the prisoners’ court. And in the end, we are confident Cervantes/Don Quixote will be triumphant in his next adventure. The Man of La Mancha resonates with chivalry, courage, and romance; and it dares us to dream “The Impossible Dream.”

“Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be.” –Cervantes

Director and PCPA alumnus, Mark Herrier says the novel by Cervantes– the source material for the musical–is regarded by many as the greatest novel ever written and for several reasons it resonates today. “Finding hope amid cynicism, finding courage against

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“...no dream is impossible!” –Mark Herrier, Director

Billy Breed has recently returned from The Oregon Cabaret where he “stole the show” according to one reviewer in Anything Goes. Billy will be

appearing in the summer productions of My Fair Lady and Man of La Mancha. Billy recently played the sinister Krad in PCPA’s world premiere production of Christmas Is Here Again. Other PCPA productions included Oklahoma!, Spamalot, Fiddler on the Roof, Cyrano De Bergerac, Legally Blonde and Caroline or Change. Billy has played The Great American Melodrama, and Theatre at the Center.

Former Acting Intern Lucas Blair who appeared in productions of Oklahoma!, Spring Awakening and Mary Poppins will join the casts of My Fair

Lady and Man of La Mancha. Other PCPA credits include Fiddler on the Roof, Noises Off, Legally Blonde, Spamalot and Cyrano de Bergerac. Other regional credits include Oregon Cabaret Theatre, Dames at Sea; Artistic Differences, Bare: a pop opera (CA premiere); 1940’s Radio Hour; Hair concert; Phoenix Theatre: Mary Poppins.

Jacqueline Hildebrand who played the Headless Witch and Queen in My Fairytale and Lucy in The Rivals will be returning as Mrs. Eynsford-Hill in My

Fair Lady and Ensemble in Man of La Mancha. Other PCPA credits include Oklahoma!, Cyrano de Bergerac, Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and Sweeney Todd. Jacqueline was also on two national tours: Sunday in the Park with George, and Carnival. Regional credits include Oregon Cabaret Theatre, Black Hills Playhouse, Barn Theatre, Red Barn Theatre, Foothills Theatre, The Great American

David Studwell* (Don Quixote) is delighted to be returning to PCPA after many years away. As a resident artist here between 2000 and 2007, he appeared in

over 35 productions including Sweeney Todd, Fiddler on the Roof and Oliver! His most recent West Coast appearance was in the title role of Sweeney Todd at TheatreWorks in Silicon Valley. David played off-Broadway in the New York City Center’s Encores! Applause! (Bert), in 2008, he appeared in the film Dave Barry’s Guide to Guys and the TV series Crime Story on NBC, and recently directed a production of This Stained Dawn: The Voices of Partition Project with the Theatre Wallay company in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Jessica powell* will be playing Polly Wyeth, the mother in Other Desert Cities. She returns to PCPA after several years absence. She previously appeared in

the 2001 summer season productions of On Golden Pond and My Fair Lady playing Ethel Thayer and Mrs. Higgins respectively. Her extensive list of credits includes All My Sons and King Lear at Sierra Repertory Theatre, at Marin Shakespeare Company she played Isabella in the Spanish Tragedy, Aemilia in A Comedy of Errors and Countess in All’s Well That Ends Well. Other theaters include 42nd Street Moon, Pacific Repertory Theatre, San Francisco Shakespeare, Cinnabar Theater and Symmetry Theatre Company.

The father of the Lyman clan, Lyman Wyeth in Other Desert Cities, will be played by Dan kremer* whose 14 seasons at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival

include Prospero, The Tempest; Jaques, As You Like It; Duke, Measure for Measure; and Oberon, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; deMedici, The White Devil; Undershaft, Major Barbara; Elomire, La Bête; Lambert LeRoux, Pravda; John, Oleanna; and the premiers of The Majestic Kid and Emma’s Child. For Shakespeare Theatre Company: Caesar, Julius Caesar;

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Tiffany Little Canfield, class of 1997, appeared in Grapes of Wrath, Oliver, and The Miracle Worker. She’s lived in New York since 2001 and is casting director at Telsey + Company. She recently cast the feature film Into the Woods for Disney, Focus for Warner Bros and this spring was casting Four Ten Four starring Tina Fey, Martin Freeman, and Margot Robbie. “We are also looking forward to our mini-series on the Starz network, Flesh and Bone. We saw over 1,000 ballet dancers for this series. While I mainly work in feature film and television, I still do get my hands on theater and enjoyed

casting Threepenny Opera directed by Martha Clarke at the Atlantic Theater Company and Anna Nicole-The Opera, which was a co-production with BAM and New York City Opera.” kim Wheetley worked at the theatre in Santa Maria the summers of 1969 and 1970 as assistant company manager, assistant director, and stage manager. He returned the summer of 1974 as administrator of the new outdoor theatre being built in Solvang. He stayed on for the next fall and spring working as vocal class accompanist, pianist for Godspell, actor in 1776, and children’s theatre director of Yin

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Capulet, Romeo & Juliet; Enobarbus, Antony & Cleopatra; Pearl Theatre: Gaunt, Richard II. He’s also appeared at Utah Shakespeare Festival, American Conservatory Theatre, Clarence Brown, Geva Theatre, McCarter, Portland Center Stage, Seattle Shakespeare Company and the Merrimack, Milwaukee, Missouri, Seattle and Yale

Repertory Theatres. Melinda parrett* will play the long absent daughter Brooke Wyeth in Other Desert Cities. Melinda has been seen in past PCPA

productions of Songs for a New World, Curtains, The Sound of Music, Dames at Sea, Crazy for You, 42nd Street, Light Up the Sky, and A Little Night Music. Elsewhere her work with Utah Shakespeare Festival has included Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes directed by Brad Carroll, Ariel in The Tempest, Belinda in Noises Off, Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet, Kate in The Taming of the Shrew and Maria in Lend Me a Tenor: The Musical. Other theatres include Denver Center, Geva Theatre, Capital Stage Company and B Street

Theatre.Aldonza, the kitchen wench who Don Quixote believes to be the fair and virtuous Dulcinea in Man of La Mancha, will be played by

Julie Garnyé*. Julie was at PCPA for a summer season 20 years ago and appeared in The Music Man and Pirates of Penzance. She has appeared in Les Misérables and Chicago at the Hollywood Bowl and in concert with Liza Minnelli in New York and Los Angeles. On Broadway she played in Hair, Chess, Children of Eden and Broadway by the Year 1978. She was also in the national tour of Cats. Regional credits include Rockwell Table & Stage and South Coast Rep. She is the voice of Lyria in Disney’s Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure with other film/TV credits of The Closer, The Little Richard Story and Debris.

and Yang and Alice in Wonderland: What’s A Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like this? Professor Emeritus Kim Wheetley was honored in March 2015 by the Southeastern Theatre Conference during its’ convention in Chattanooga. He received the Sarah Spencer Child Drama Award, which recognizes an individual or organization for dynamic and engaging work for young people. This lifetime achievement award honored Kim’s 50-year career in several venues. Kim said, “ I had a fantastic time at the reunion last summer!”Chris Sadler was a stage management intern for the summers of 1990 and ‘91 and then from 1992-1994 working such shows as Two Rooms, Great Expectations, Alice in Wonderland, South Pacific, and Death of a Salesman. Chris is finishing his 10th year heading up the stage management BFA program at the University of Oklahoma where he’s an Associate Professor.” I spent last summer at the Great River Shakespeare Festival, and will be returning there for my third year as stage manager, working with numerous PCPA alums.” Wesley Mann appeared in PCPA productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Greater Tuna, and The Foreigner, among others. Last fall he appeared as Horace Gilmer and Nathan Radley in To Kill A Mockingbird at The Arts Center of Coastal Carolina in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. He was in Las Vegas this past spring playing Vice Principle Panch in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at The Nevada Conservatory Theatre. Wes also conducted workshops on Elements of Comedy while at the Nevada Conservatory.

Melodrama and Sierra Repertory Theatre. She is a founding member of the California Cabaret Theatre and the Alaska Shakespeare Festival.

Mike Fiore, who graduated the conservatory in 2011, will join the ensemble in My Fair Lady, play Jose in Man of La Mancha and reprise his role of

Prentiss in Peter and the Starcatcher. Between PCPA stints, Mike has worked at the Great American Melodrama and appeared in Oklahoma! and Les Misérables with Sierra Repertory Theatre. Mike’s other credits include Joseph in PCPA’s world premiere production of The San Patricios, as well as roles in Peter Pan and Curtains.

Dancer, actor, choreographer katie Wackowski will join the ensemble of My Fair Lady after assistant choreographing the show with Michael

Jenkinson. She’ll also appear as Germina in Man of La Mancha. Last summer Katie was a featured dancer in the dream ballet as Dream Laurey in Oklahoma!, and her previous credits include The Stage Manager, Our Town (Conservatory Repertory); Laker Girl, Spamalot; Cyrano de Bergerac and Wizard of Oz. She was choreographer for last summer’s Forever Plaid and was assistant choreographer for Oklahoma!, Mary Poppins, Fiddler on the Roof, Spamalot. Katie graduated from the conservatory in 2013 and did an acting internship this past season.

paul Henry, class of 2012, returns to play Juan in Man of La Mancha and is the percussionist in Peter and the Starcatcher orchestra. PCPA credits include 36

Views, Noises Off, The San Patricios, Hamlet, Mary Poppins, Spamalot, The Rivals, Romeo and Juliet, Pride and Prejudice, and Three Sisters. He’s worked at Berkeley Rep, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Pacific Coast Repertory Theatre, Sacramento Theatre and Missouri Street Theatre.

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Laura Relm (pronge), graduated class of 2010, moved to LA shortly after to begin doing film work and studied improvisation at The Groundlings School. She’s done commercials for Amazon and Just For Men, appeared in music videos for Steve Angelo and Terri Clark and recently produced her first feature film with husband Mike Relm. Laura also works with the Young Storytellers Foundation teaching grade school kids how to write their own screen plays. Marcus Boardman, class of 2008 appeared in Ragtime and Godspell. After graduating he returned home to Santa Cruz and works for an eco-friendly lunchbox company where he’s now operations manager. Theater is still part of his life. For Cabrillo stage he did Lunch and Urinetown. He’s done some teaching and directing. “Performance has remained a constant in my life and the skill and professionalism that I gained at PCPA have been the cornerstone of my continued growth and accomplishment.Sam Zeller Les Misérables, Hairspray, My Fairytale – surpassed the 200 performance milestone on his Kinky Boots national tour. He says the show has already been rebooked for L.A., San Francisco, Charlotte, and Houston. The show has unofficial dates listed into 2018. pippa Winslow-Rolandellie was with PCPA for the summers of 1988 and 1989. Still living and working in England, she has played Velma in two productions of Hairspray this last year, one at the Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage and one in Macau as part of it’s International Festival of Music. She has filmed two projects for Investigation Discovery, one a series currently titled Suspicious Minds and one a feature film currently titled Serial Killer both to be released later this year, as well as one episode in the new series starring Rob Lowe for Sky1 entitled Apocalypse Slough.

Sam Zeller, Kinky Boots

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Wesley Mann as Horace Gilmer & Nathan Radley,

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Heidi Hoffer provided the scenic design for Peter and the Starcatcher. She’s guest designed since 2003 for such shows as The Rivals, A Flea in Her Ear, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, The Real Thing, Urinetown, Ragtime and The Imaginary Invalid. As a Fulbright Scholar she did several productions and workshops in South Africa including Saturday Night at the Palace and Sexcetera. For

Oklahoma State University she designed Urinetown, Drowsy Chaperone, Julius Caesar and Noises Off. Peter and the Starcatcher costume designer is Cathie McClellan. For PCPA Cathie has designed Peter Pan, A Winter’s Tale, The Last Night of Ballyhoo and A Servant of Two Masters. She’s worked for Livermore Shakespeare Festival, Livermore Valley Opera, Tuacahn Center for the Arts,

Utah Shakespeare Festival and the Theatre Arts and Conservatory of Music at University of the Pacific. TV/Film credits include The Donny and Marie Show and Windwalker. Cathie is Associate Professor at University of the Pacific.Matthew R. Meckes is musical directing Peter and the Starcatcher and Man of La Mancha while assistant musical directing for My Fair Lady. Matthew

was musical director for the world premiere The San Patricios and last year’s Conservatory Repertory production of Ruthless. He was assistant musical director for Christmas Is Here Again, Forever Plaid, Oklahoma!, Mary Poppins and Spring Awakening, and at Post Playhouse he was musical director for Grease, A Year With Frog & Toad, Seussical and Always…Patsy Cline.

Pippa Winslow-Rolandellie as Polly, Other Desert Cities

Marcus Boardman as Mr. McQueen, Urinetown

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saMaNtha arMitageAs Assistant Designer,Samantha contributed to the gorgeous costumes for Romeo & Juliet. She now creates for theatres in the Seattle area.

iaN corcoraNWhile a Properties Intern, Ian helped build the lavish sets for Romeo & Juliet. He recently returned to PCPA as Lead Carpenter.

For over five years, Beverly Tracy has been supporting exemplary students in the

conservatory training program. Wishing to broaden her impact, this year Bev decided to extend her support to championing the 2015 Scholarship Appeal.

During the winter holidays, she issued a challenge. If PCPA could raise half of the $100,000 goal by the end of March, she would make an additional gift above and beyond her already astonishing giving.

Setting to work to attract like-minded individuals, she spearheaded ‘a campaign within a campaign’. Special invitations where sent out describing the challenge and thanks to fifteen very special individuals the challenge was met and Bev made her additional gift.

Thanks to Bev, as we go to press, we are now over 80% of our way to success. Follow her lead and Make your Gift Today!

With your help and generosity, we can raise the remaining funds needed for the 2015 Scholarship Appeal.

This year is the 20th Anniversary of the PCPA Foundation! It has certainly come a long way since its formation in 1995 and for the past two decades, PCPA Foundation has been fully committed to ensuring the future of PCPA. With a mission of providing long term financial support to PCPA – Pacific Conservatory Theatre, principally through the management and growth of its Endowment Fund (now at $2.5 million),

the Foundation additionally spearheads all the other the fundraising efforts, which includes grant writing, holding special events, managing the campaigns and appeals and promoting the planned giving program. Please always remember that a gift to the Foundation is a gift to PCPA and for each and every one of those gifts, we thank you for your continued generosity.

Ron Nanning President, PCPA Foundation

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BoarD of DirectorsRon Nanning PresidentDee Ringstead Vice PresidentDr. Daniel Ng SecretaryRichard Ballantine TreasurerNancy K. Johnson Past PresidentJudge Royce R. Lewellen Past PresidentMaryellen Russell Simkins Past President

Alan FosterJudy FrostDiedra FussJudy HearnBrad HindsBilly HurbaughDr. Suzanne LevyCatherine PepeSusan Rees

Directors eMeritUsPat Hitchcock O’Connell Bob JurgensenCatherine Luckett Maren Thomas

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Michael Black PCPA Managing Director

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george WaLkerAfter graduating from the conservatory training program, George spent ten years performing in regional theater before

returning to PCPA on scholarship for his role of Bernardo in West Side Story.

Now as a PCPA Resident Artist and member of the faculty, George both teaches and acts, most recently appearing as Bert in Mary Poppins, Caliban in The Tempest, Curly in Oklahoma! and Buster the Fox in Christmas Is Here Again.

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SAVE THE DATE!Gala Performance of Saturday NOVEMBER 14, 2015 MARIAN THEATRE, SANTA MARIA Single tickets: $150/$125 Sponsorship packages available.

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Once upon a time... Getting everyone “all aboard” for the 2015 Scholarship Appeal,

Franca Bongi Lockard & Nancy K. Johnson were special

guests of Beverly Tracy.

tracY chaLLeNge raises first $50,000 for 2015 schoLarshiP aPPeaL

At Pacific Conservatory Theatre, the work is both immersive and intensive. Using the Master/Apprentice model, training in the studios, shops and on the stages is fully integrated with the work of the professional company.

Interns work 40 to 48 hours per week and with no time to keep an outside job, scholarship dollars greatly contribute to basic needs and educational expenses.

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Support for PCPA scholarships come from many sources… ongoing support from Allan

Hancock College, revenue from the box office and funds we earn and raise in other ways (it even helps when you enjoy a Cowboy Cookie at intermission!)

When you support scholarship, it is an investment in an artist’s development. It also enriches, inspires and transforms our Central Coast community – today, tomorrow and beyond.

Please put your convictions into action and make a generous gift to the 2015 Scholarship Appeal; make that gift today.

Mark Booher,

Artistic Director

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From June to September, artists from around the nation and all levels of the profession, converge at PCPA to advance in their chosen craft.

From recent graduate to seasoned artist, all work and perform alongside each other as part of the unique summer ensemble.

The days at PCPA are an intense effort of rehearsal and design, with the nights filled with the excitement of live performance!

call (805) 349-9135 to ask how you can participate in exciting events like these!

Annual Gala guests Judge Jed Q. & Diane Beebe enjoy the opening of the PCPA season.

Helping to bring My Fair Lady to the stage, Judy Hearn with Foundation Executive Director Gillian Cole-Andrews at the show sponsor tea.

Examining a set model for an upcoming show, Caroline Woods during recent

tour of the PCPA design studio.

Alex Stewart,Katie Wackowski,Oklahoma, 2014

Concordia College Theatre, a resident at Trollwood Performing Arts School, Honolulu Theatre for Youth, and Hawaii Performing Arts Company. Also, Costume Shop Manager Robin newell will be putting her designer hat on when she creates costumes for Other Desert Cities. Robin has been PCPA’s Costume Shop Manager since 2013 and designed for 36 Views, Spring Awakening and Clybourne Park. Her TV/Film work includes Zoolander, The Drew Carey Show and Cybill.

Creating the scenic environments for My Fair Lady and Man of La Mancha is new PCPA resident Scenic Designer Jason Bolen. Jason has designed for such shows as Les Misérables, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Brownsville Bred, Neurosis: A New Musical and the film Disposophobia. Properties

Director Tim Hogan will design the set for Other Desert Cities. While Tim has done props for hundreds of productions, his scenic designs for

All of PCPA’s Resident Artists will be working on the full slate of summer productions this year. kitty Balay* will play Mrs. Higgins in My Fair Lady, Maria in Man of La Mancha, and Silda Grauman in Other Desert Cities.

Education and Outreach Director Leo Cortez returns to the stage this summer as Don Quixote’s faithful squire Sancho Panza in Man of La Mancha and Fighting Prawn in Peter and the Starcatcher.

peter S. Hadres* will appear as Colonel Pickering – Henry Higgins’ wagering partner – in My Fair Lady, Captain of the Inquisition in Man of La Mancha, and will reprise his role as Captain Scott in the remount of Peter and the Starcatcher.

karin Hendricks gets a lesson in social graces as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady then plays Don Quixote’s “concerned” niece Antonia in Man of La Mancha.

In addition to directing and choreographing My Fair Lady, Michael Jenkinson* is understudying Professor Higgins. He’s also playing the Padre in Man of La Mancha and reprising his role as Smee in Peter and the Starcatcher.

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Our Resident Designers will likewise be busy – though behind the scenes – making sure the shows look and run magnificently.

Production Stage Manager Jahana azodi* who just joined us last year to take the reins of back-to-back world premieres, The San Patricios and Christmas Is Here Again, will be overseeing and calling the cues for My Fair Lady and Peter and the Starcatcher. She comes to us from College-Conservatory of Music. Also in the booth this summer is our newest stage manager, ellen Beltramo who will run Man of La Mancha and Other Desert Cities. Ellen has worked for The Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company and Cincinnati Ballet Company.

Creating original costume designs this summer for My Fair Lady and Man of La Mancha is eddy L. Barrows. Before coming to PCPA Eddy was Senior Designer at

Matt koenig falls head-over-heals for Eliza when he plays Freddy Eynsford-Hill in My Fair Lady. He’ll also play Anselmo in Man of La Mancha, returns to the role of Black Stache in Peter and the Starcatcher, and Trip Wyeth in Other Desert Cities.

andrew philpot* will play phonetics expert Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, Dr. Carrasco/The Duke in Man of La Mancha, and returns as Lord Aster – who speaks such exotic languages as Dodo and porpoise – in Peter and the Starcatcher.

erik Stein* will be playing Eliza’s father, Alfred P. Doolittle in My Fair Lady and The Inn Keeper/The Governor in Man of La Mancha.

elizabeth Stuart* joins the My Fair Lady and Man of La Mancha casts as Mrs. Pearce and Housekeeper, respectively.

George Walker is playing Jaimie in My Fair Lady, Pedro in Man of La Mancha, and reprising his role as Slank/Hawking Clam in Peter and the Starcatcher.

PCPA are also quite numerous and include Barrymore, Our Town, Quilters, Skylight, Greater Tuna, The Daly News and Steel Magnolias.

Iluminating the actors in Man of La Mancha and Peter and the Starcatcher is resident Lighting Designer Jennifer “Z” Zornow. Z has been with the company since 2008 and Starcatcher marked her 45th design here. Her designs have also been seen in Christmas Is Here Again, The San Patricios, Forever Plaid, Mary Poppins, Spring Awakening, Fiddler on the Roof, and Spamalot. Also bringing the actors into focus is Master Electrician/Lighting Designer Michael p. Frohling. Michael will be lighting My Fair Lady and Other Desert Cities this summer. His designs have included The Penelopiad, Oklahoma! and Sylvia.

Keeping the music in perfect pitch is resident Musical Director Callum Morris who will work on the big classical musical My Fair Lady. Callum has waved the baton for past productions

of Christmas Is Here Again, Oklahoma!, Mary Poppins, Spring Awakening, Fiddler on the Roof, Spamalot, The Wizard of Oz, Legally Blonde, Hairspray and My Fairytale.

Resident Sound Designer elisabeth Rebel will be creating the audible environment for My Fair Lady and Man of La Mancha. Since 2009 she has designed sound for Christmas Is Here Again, The Penelopiad, Oklahoma!; Mary Poppins, Spring Awakening, Fiddler on the Roof, Spamalot, Always...Patsy Cline, The Wizard of Oz, Little Women and Legally Blonde.

andrew Mark Wilhelm will be engineering My Fair Lady and Man of La Mancha and also designing for Peter and the Starcatcher and Other Desert Cities. Since 2013 Andrew has sound engineered Christmas Is Here Again, Oklahoma!, Spring Awakening and Mary Poppins and has designed Noises Off and 36 Views.

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In 1974 a group of Santa Ynez Valley citizens started a grassroots campaign to raise money to build a 700-seat outdoor theater in Solvang. Along with local tradesmen and community volunteers, their hard work and impressive commitment created a unique and charming venue, Solvang Festival Theater, where PCPA could present live theatrical productions during the summer season. After just 58 days of construction, the first performance of Once Upon a Mattress was presented to a sold out crowd. Granted, there was no roof, no dressing rooms backstage (actors used the restroom to change), and the audience sat on plastic cafeteria chairs borrowed from Allan Hancock College, but there was theater!

Solvang Festival Theater is proud to provide a summer home for PCPA’s high quality productions. The art that PCPA brings to the Valley not only enriches our lives but encourages us to look beyond our beautiful valley. For 40 years we have been impressed with the high caliber talent they bring to the stage each year.

Solvang Theaterfest, which owns and operates the theater, is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization.

For information on renting the theater and surrounding gardens, please contact our business office at (805) 686-1789, or visit our website at www.solvangfestivaltheater.org.

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