1997-1998 Season

A Streetcar Named Desire

Classic Drama September 18-October 4, 1997

by Tennessee Williams

directed by Linda Whitney

Classic Drama September 18-October 4, 1997

Cultured civilzation and vulgar barbarity clash in the sweltering heat of New Orleans as Harlequin Productions celebrates the golden anniversary of this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic. The play traces the emotional disintegtraation of Blanche DuBois, whose life has been undermined by her romantic illusions. Ignoring the reality of her own brtoken life, she seeks refuge with her sister, Stella, but finds a brutal brother in law, Stanley, standing between them.

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September/October 1997

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18Sep - 4Oct 1997

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Director/Scenic Designer Linda Whitney

Linda Whitney

In 27 seasons and 109 shows at Harlequin:

A Christmas Survival Guide (Director / Scenic Designer) A Long Day's Journey into Night (Director) A Man for All Seasons (Scenic Designer) A Rock N' Roll Twelfth Night (Scenic Designer) A Stardust Christmas Carol (Director, Director/Scenic Designer) A Stardust Homecoming (Director) A Streetcar Named Desire (Director/Scenic Designer) American Buffalo (Set Designer) And a Nightingale Sang (Director/Scenic Designer) Antony & Cleopatra (Scenic Designer) Arcadia (Director) Art (Director/Scenic Designer/Costume Designer) As You Like It (Scenic Designer) Assassins (Director/Scenic Designer) Billy (Director/Scenic Designer) boom (Director) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Director / Scenic Designer) Clybourne Park (Scenic Designer) Dancin' in the Aisles (Scenic Designer) Dancin' in the Streets (Director/Scenic/Costume Designer) Dracula (Scenic Designer) Dry Powder (Scenic Designer) Enchanted April (Director & Set Designer) End Days (Director, Scenic Designer) First Date (Director) Five Women Wearing the Same Dress (Scenic Designer, Costume Designer) Forever Stardust (Director/Scenic Designer) Frozen (Costume Designer) Gloucester Blue (Scenic Designer) Hamlet (Costume Designer, Scenic Designer) Hapgood (Scenic Designer) Henry V (Scenic Designer) Holiday Broadcast of 1943 (Director/Scenic Designer) Intimate Apparel (Director/Scenic Designer) Jesus Christ Superstar (Director, Scenic Designer) Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Director/Scenic Designer) Letters from Waldo (Scenic/Costume Designer) Little Shop of Horrors (Director) Mad in Craft (Scenic Designer) Magical Mystery Midsummer Musical (Director / Scenic Designer) Mauritius (Scenic Designer) Murder in the Cathedral (Scenic Designer) My Old Lady (Scenic Designer) Operation Stardust (Director) Operation: Stardust (Director) Or, (Scenic Designer) Orphans (Scenic Designer) Phantom of the Stardust (Director/Scenic Designer) Philadelphia Story (Director / Scenic Designer) Present Laughter (Director) Recent Tragic Events (Scenic Designer) Reckless (Scenic Designer) Richard III (Scenic Designer) Romeo and Juliet (Costume Designer) Rough Crossing (Director) Shining City (Costume Designer) Sixteen Words for Water (Scenic Designer) Sixties Chicks (Director) Sixties Chicks Too (Director) Sixties Kicks! (Director) Soul on Fire! (Costume Designer) Stardust for Christmas (Director, Scenic Designer) Stardust for Emily Jean (Director/Scenic Designer) Stardust Radio Review (Director/Scenic Designer) Stardust Serenade 1942 (Director) Summer in the Sixties (Director, Scenic Designer) Swingtime Stardust (Director/Scenic Designer) Talking With (Co-Director/Scenic/Costume Designer) Tapestry - the Music of Carol King (Director/Scenic/Costume Designer) Ten Seconds in the Life of Fenwick Green (Scenic/Costume Designer) The 1940s Radio Hour (Director/Scenic/Costume Designer) The Americans Across the Street (Director, Scenic Designer) The Art of Racing in the Rain (Director, Scenic Design) The Constant Wife (Director/Scenic Designer) The Dumbwaiter (Scenic/Costume Designer) The Elephant Man (Director / Scenic Designer) The Glass Menagerie (Scenic Designer) The Importance of Being Earnest (Director/Scenic Designer) The Ladies of the Camellias (Director/Scenic Designer) The Last Five Years (Director / Scenic Designer / Costume Designer) The Last Schwartz (Director / Scenic Designer) The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Director) The Rainmaker (Scenic Designer) The Real Thing (Scenic Designer) The Seafarer (Set Designer) The Stardust Cavalcade 1943 (Director/Scenic/Costume Designer) The Stardust Christmas Blizzard (Director / Scenic Designer) The Stardust Christmas Commotion (Director/Scenic Designer) The Stardust Christmas Dazzle (Director / Scenic Designer) The Stardust Christmas Enchantment (Director, Scenic Design) The Stardust Christmas Fandango (Director, Scenic Design) The Stardust Club Christmas 1944 (Co-Director/Scenic Designer) The Stardust Serenade 1942 (Director/Scenic Designer) The Taming of the Shrew (Scenic Designer) The Twelfth Night of Stardust (Director) The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Scenic Designer) The Understudy (Scenic Design) The Winter's Tale (Scenic Designer) The Zoo Story (Scenic/Costume Designer) Time Stands Still (Scenic Designer) To Kill a Mockingbird (Director) Two Gentlemen of Verona (Scenic Designer) Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike (Scenic Designer) Waiting for Godot (Scenic Designer) What I Did Last Summer (Co-Director/Scenic Designer)

Costume Designer Monique Anderson

Monique Anderson

In 19 seasons and 29 shows at Harlequin:

A Long Day's Journey into Night (Costume Designer) A Man for All Seasons (Costume Designer) A Midsummer Night's Dream (Costume Designer) A Rock 'n' Roll Twelfth Night (Co-Costume Designer) A Streetcar Named Desire (Costume Designer) Accomplice (Costume Designer) Antony & Cleopatra (Costume Designer) Arcadia (Costume Designer) boom (Costume Designer) Cymbeline (Robot Engineer, Costume Designer) Cyrano de Bergerac (Asst. Costume Designer) Dracula (Costume Designer) Henry V (Costume Designer) La Béte (Costume Designer) Macbeth (Asst. Costume Designer) Mad in Craft (Costume Designer) Mating Dance of the Werewolf ( Costume Designer) Or, (Costume Designer) Phantom of the Stardust (Costume Designer) She Stoops to Conquer (Costume Designer) The Life and Death of King John (Costume Designer) The Lonesome West (Costume Designer) The Rainmaker (Costume Designer) The Stardust Christmas Dazzle (Costume Designer) The Stardust Serenade 1942 (Costume Designer) The Tempest (Costumer Designer) The Weir (Costume Designer) Time Stands Still (Costume Designer)

Hair & Makeup Designer Darren Mills

Darren Mills

Darren Mills is the Resident Costume Designer for Harlequin Productions. Additional regional credits: La Cage Aux Folles and Angels In America (SPSCC), Equivocation (SMU), and Murder Ballad (Sidecountry Theater). NYC hairdressing credits: Broadway: Phantom, Mamma Mia!, The Music Man. Film: The Stepford Wives, War of the Worlds, Lonesome Jim, The Notorious Bettie Page. TV: The Sopranos.

In 26 seasons and 68 shows at Harlequin:

A Christmas Carol (Costume Design) A Doll's House (Costume Design) A Long Day's Journey into Night (Wig/Makeup Designer) A Rock 'n' Roll Twelfth Night (Hair & Wig Designer) A Rock N' Roll Twelfth Night (Costume Designer) A Streetcar Named Desire (Hair & Makeup Designer) And a Nightingale Sang (Costume Co-Designer) As You Like It (Costume Designer) Assassins (Costume Designer) August: Osage County (Costume Design) Cabaret (Costume, Wig, Hair and Makeup Design) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Costume Designer) Dancin' in the Aisles (Costume Designer) Deathtrap (Costume Design, Wig, Hair and Makeup Design) Enchanted April (Costume Designer) End Days (Costume Designer) Falsettos (Costume/Hair/Makeup Design) Forever Stardust (Costume Designer) Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Costume, Hair and Makeup Design) Henry V (Company Dresser) I Am My Own Wife (Costume Design) Intimate Apparel (Costume Designer) La Béte (Hair/Makeup Designer) Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill (Costume Design) Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Costume Designer) Little Shop of Horrors (Costume Designer) Love and Information (Costume Design) Man of La Mancha (Costume Design) Murder in the Cathedral (Costume Designer) My Old Lady (Costume Designer) Noises Off (Costume Design) Operation Stardust (Costume Designer) Philadelphia Story (Costume Designer) Present Laughter (Costume Design) Rock 'n' Roll Twelfth Night (Costume, Wig, Hair & Makeup Designer) Rough Crossing (Costume Designer) Ruthless (Costume Designer / Hair and Wig Designer) Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol (Costume Design) Six Hotels (Costume Designer) Stardust Radio Review (Costume Designer) Sweeney Todd (Costume Design, Wig, Hair and Makeup Design) Swingtime Stardust (Costume, Wig, Hair & Makeup Designer) Sylvia (Costume, Wig, Hair & Makeup Designer) Tenderly (Costume Design) The 39 Steps (Hair & Wig Designer) The Art of Racing in the Rain (Hair/Wig Design) The Constant Wife (Costume Designer) The Elephant Man (Costume Designer) The Glass Menagerie (Costume Designer) The Importance of Being Earnest (Costume Designer) The Ladies of the Camellias (Costume Designer) The Last Schwartz (Costume Designer) The Love List (Costume Designer) The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Costume Designer) The Real Thing (Costume, Hair & Makeup Designer) The Rocky Horror Show (Costume Designer) The Seafarer (Costume Designer) The Stardust Christmas Commotion (Costume Designer) The Stardust Christmas Enchantment (Costume Design) The Taming of the Shrew (Costume Designer) The Twelfth Night of Stardust (Costume Designer) The Understudy (Costume Design) The Women (Costume Design) To Kill a Mockingbird (Costume Designer) Unexpected Tenderness (Costume Designer) Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike (Costume Designer)

Lighting Designer Nick Shellman

Nick Shellman

In 7 seasons and 19 shows at Harlequin:

A Rock 'n' Roll Twelfth Night (Co-Lighting Designer) A Streetcar Named Desire (Lighting Designer) Arcadia (Lighting Designer) Assassins (Lighting Designer) Cyrano de Bergerac (Lighting Designer) Dracula (Lighting Designer) Forever Stardust (Lighting Designer) Hapgood (Lighting Designer) La Béte (Lighting Designer) Operation: Stardust (Lighting Designer) Rock 'n' Roll Twelfth Night (Lighting Designer) Rough Crossing (Lighting Designer) Sixteen Words for Water (Lighting Designer) Stardust Radio Review (Lighting Designer) Summer in the Sixties (Lighting Designer) Swingtime Stardust (Lighting Designer) The Misanthrope (Lighting Designer) The Real Thing (Lighting Designer) The Tempest (Lighting Designer)

Sound Designer/Composer Karl Welty

Karl Welty

In 11 seasons and 28 shows at Harlequin:

A Long Day's Journey into Night (Sound Designer) A Man for All Seasons (Sound Designer) A Rock 'n' Roll Twelfth Night (Sound Designer) A Rock N' Roll Twelfth Night (Guitar) A Streetcar Named Desire (Sound Designer/Composer) Arcadia (Sound Designer) Assassins (Sound Designer) Building Madness (Sound Design) Cymbeline (Sound Designer) Cyrano de Bergerac (Sound Designer) Dracula (Sound Designer) Forever Stardust (Sound Designer) Henry V (Sound Designer) Inspecting Carol (Sound Designer) La Béte (Sound Designer) Mad in Craft (Sound Designer) Murder for Two (Co-Sound Design) Operation: Stardust (Sound Designer) Rock 'n' Roll Twelfth Night (Sound Designer) She Stoops to Conquer (Sound Designer) Stardust for Emily Jean (Sound Designer) Stardust Radio Review (Sound Designer) The Misanthrope (Sound Designer) The Real Thing (Sound Designer) The Rocky Horror Show (Sound Designer) The Tempest (Sound Designer) The Weir (Sound Designer)

Fight Choreographer Andrew Heffernan

Andrew Heffernan

In 5 seasons and 6 shows at Harlequin:

A Streetcar Named Desire (Stanley, Fight Choreographer) Hamlet (Hamlet) Henry V (King Henry V) Macbeth (Macbeth) Mad in Craft (All roles) The Life and Death of King John (Philip the Bastard)

Stage Manager Misi

Misi

In 7 seasons and 16 shows at Harlequin:

A Man for All Seasons (Stage Manager) A Streetcar Named Desire (Stage Manager) American Buffalo (Stage Manager) Billy (Stage Manager) Cymbeline (Stage Manager) Dracula (Stage Manager) Hamlet (Stage Manager) Henry V (Stage Manager) La Béte (Asst. Stage Manager) Mad in Craft (Stage Manager) Operation: Stardust (Asst. Stage Manager) She Stoops to Conquer (Stage Manager) Talking With (Co-Stage Manager) The 1940s Radio Hour (Props Designer) The Real Thing (Stage Manager) The Rocky Horror Show (Stage Manager)

Dramaturge/Asst. Stage Manager Linda Morris

Linda Morris

In 9 seasons and 16 shows at Harlequin:

A Rock 'n' Roll Twelfth Night (Olivia) A Streetcar Named Desire (Dramaturge/Asst. Stage Manager) Billy (Chorus/Reporter/Young Woman/Woman) Cyrano de Bergerac (Roxanne) Forever Stardust (Nadine Owens) Hamlet (Palace Guard/Player/Priestess) Henry V (Pistol/Montjoy/Orleans/Grey/Isabella) Inspecting Carol (Betty Andrews) La Béte (Catherine De Brie) Operation: Stardust (Nadine Owens) Rock 'n' Roll Twelfth Night (Olivia) Stardust for Christmas (Nadine Owens) Stardust for Emily Jean (Nadine Owens) Swingtime Stardust (Nadine Owens) The Stardust Club Christmas 1944 (Doris Palocek) The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Sylvia)

Andrew Heffernan Stanley

Andrew Heffernan

In 5 seasons and 6 shows at Harlequin:

A Streetcar Named Desire (Stanley, Fight Choreographer) Hamlet (Hamlet) Henry V (King Henry V) Macbeth (Macbeth) Mad in Craft (All roles) The Life and Death of King John (Philip the Bastard)

Jana Tyrrell Blanche

Jana Tyrrell

In 15 seasons and 24 shows at Harlequin:

A Christmas Carol (Player 2 (Christmas Past, others), Player 2) A Long Day's Journey into Night (Mary Tyrone) A Streetcar Named Desire (Blanche) Assassins (Sara Jane Moore) Baltimore Waltz (Anna) Billy (Billy Tipton) Deathtrap (Myra Bruhl) For Peter Pan On Her 70th Birthday (Wendy) Forever Stardust (Frankie Malone, Choreographer) Pride and Prejudice (Mr. Bennet/Charlotte Lucas) Stardust for Christmas (Frankie Malone) Sweeney Todd (Beggar Woman) Sylvia (Kate) The 1940s Radio Hour (Ann) The Constant Wife (Mrs. Culver) The Glass Menagerie (Amanda) The Importance of Being Earnest (Lady Bracknell) The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Miss Angela Prysock/Princess Puffer) The Real Thing (Charlotte) The Stardust Club Christmas 1944 (Frankie Malone) The Tempest (Voice of Juno) The Winter's Tale (Hermione) The Women (Mrs. Morehead / Sadie)

Ann Flannigan Stella

Ann Flannigan

Ann studied theater at Lewis & Clark College and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

In 18 seasons and 21 shows at Harlequin:

A Man for All Seasons (Margaret More) A Streetcar Named Desire (Stella) Arcadia (Hanna Jarvis) August: Osage County (Barbara Fordham) Cymbeline (Queen) Dry Powder (Director) End Days (Sylvia Stein) Fighting Over Beverley (Cecily Shimma) Frozen (Agnetha) I Ought To Be In Pictures (Steffy) La Béte (Director) Macbeth (Lady Macduff/Witch) Philadelphia Story (Margaret Lord) Present Laughter (Monica Reed) The American Pilot (Sarah) The Americans Across the Street (Alexa) The Highest Tide (Mother/Ensemble) The Misanthrope (Arsinoe) The Real Thing (Annie) To Kill a Mockingbird (Maudie Atkinson)

Doug Flynn Mitch

Doug Flynn

In 4 seasons and 6 shows at Harlequin:

A Man for All Seasons (King Henry VIII) A Streetcar Named Desire (Mitch) Arcadia (Septimus Hodge) Cymbeline (Guiderius) She Stoops to Conquer (Hastings) The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Valentine)

Cecil Cheeka Pablo

Cecil Cheeka

In 1 season and 1 show at Harlequin:

A Streetcar Named Desire (Pablo)

Steve Senna Steve

Steve Senna

In 3 seasons and 3 shows at Harlequin:

A Streetcar Named Desire (Steve) The Misanthrope (Acaste) The Tempest (Antonio)

Charlene Richter Eunice

Charlene Richter

In 3 seasons and 4 shows at Harlequin:

A Streetcar Named Desire (Eunice) Inspecting Carol (Dorothy Tree-Hapgood) She Stoops to Conquer (Mrs. Hardcastle) Waiting for Godot (Stage Manager)

David Wright Doctor

David Wright

In 18 seasons and 36 shows at Harlequin:

A Long Day's Journey into Night (James Tyrone) A Man for All Seasons (Duke of Norfolk) A Streetcar Named Desire (Doctor) Arcadia (Richard Noakes) Art (Serge) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Reverend Tooker) Cymbeline (Cymbeline) Cyrano de Bergerac (Montfleury/Poet/Sentry) Dracula (Dr. Heinrich Van Helsing, Professor Van Helsing) Fighting Over Beverley (Zelly Shimma) Hamlet (Polonius/Grave Digger/Ambassador, Claudius) Hapgood (Paul Blair) Henry V (Chorus/Bardolph/French Governor/Burgundy/Constable/Ambassador) Inspecting Carol (Larry Vauxhall) La Béte (Bejart) Measure for Measure (Pompey/Friar) Murder in the Cathedral (Thomas Beckett, Archbishop of Canterbury) Orphans (Harold) Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence/Signior Placentio) Rough Crossing (Alex Gal) She Stoops to Conquer (Mr. Hardcastle) Sixteen Words for Water (Stage Manager) The Importance of Being Earnest (Rev. Canon Chasuble, D.D.) The Lady's Not for Burning (Matthew Skipps, Hebble Tyson) The Life and Death of King John (Hubert/the Citizen) The Love List (Bill) The Rocky Horror Show (Narrator) The Seafarer (Richard Harkin) The Tempest (Prospero) The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Antonio/Duke) The Weir (Jack) The Winter's Tale (The Shepherd) To Kill a Mockingbird (Judge Taylor, Walter Cunningham) Unexpected Tenderness (Jacob Stern)

Ryan Iverson Young Collector

Ryan Iverson

In 2 seasons and 2 shows at Harlequin:

A Streetcar Named Desire (Young Collector) Arcadia (Augustus Coverly/Gus Coverly)

Karen Naughton Rosa/Rose Vendor/Nurse

Karen Naughton

In 7 seasons and 9 shows at Harlequin:

A Rock 'n' Roll Twelfth Night (Curio/Fabian) A Streetcar Named Desire (Rosa/Rose Vendor/Nurse) Forever Stardust (Barbara Simms) Operation: Stardust (Barbara Simms) Rock 'n' Roll Twelfth Night (Fabian) Stardust for Emily Jean (Barbara Simms-Hamilton) Stardust Radio Review (Barbara Simmons Hamilton) Swingtime Stardust (Barbara Simms-Hamilton) The Constant Wife (Mrs. Bentley, Asst. Stage Manager)

A Christmas Carol

Ms. Holmes and Ms. Watson - Apt 2B

A Streetcar Named Desire

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September/October 1997

18Sep - 4Oct 1997

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