2014 Season

Fighting Over Beverley

Comedy May 1-24, 2014

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by Israel Horowitz

directed by Scot Whitney

Comedy May 1-24, 2014

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Director Scot Whitney

Scot Whitney

In 26 seasons and 76 shows at Harlequin:

A Man for All Seasons (Director) A Midsummer Night's Dream (Director) A Rock 'n' Roll Twelfth Night (Director) A Rock N' Roll Twelfth Night (Director) American Buffalo (Director) Antony & Cleopatra (Director) As You Like It (Director) Baltimore Waltz (Director) Clybourne Park (Director) Cymbeline (Director) Cyrano de Bergerac (Director) Dancin' in the Aisles (Director) Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Director) Dracula (Director) Enrico IV (Director) Fighting Over Beverley (Director) Frozen (Director) Gloucester Blue (Director) Hamlet (Director) Hapgood (Director) Henry V (Director) Let the Good Times Roll! (Director) Letters from Waldo (Director) Macbeth (Director) Mating Dance of the Werewolf (Director) Measure for Measure (Director) Murder in the Cathedral (1st Tempter/1st Knight) My Old Lady (Director) Or, (Director) Orphans (Director) Recent Tragic Events (Director) Reckless (Director) Richard III (Director) Rock 'n' Roll Twelfth Night (Director) Romeo and Juliet (Director) Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Director) She Stoops to Conquer (Director) Shining City (Director) Sins of the Mother (Director) Six Hotels (Director) Sixteen Words for Water (Director) Soul on Fire! (Director) Talking With (Co-Director) Ten Seconds in the Life of Fenwick Green (Director) The 39 Steps (Director) The American Pilot (Director) The Dumbwaiter (Director) The Elsinore Diaries (Director) The Lady's Not for Burning (Director) The Language Archive (Director) The Life and Death of King John (Director) The Life and Times of Leonardo da Vinci (Director) The Lonesome West (Director) The Love List (Director) The Misanthrope (Director) The Real Thing (Director) The Rocky Horror Show (Director) The Seafarer (Director) The Taming of the Shrew (Director) The Tempest (Director) The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Director) The Understudy (Director) The Weir (Director) The Winter's Tale (Director) The Woman in Black (Director) Two Gentlemen of Verona (Director) Under a Mantle of Stars (Director) Unexpected Tenderness (Director) Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike (Director) Waiting for Godot (Co-Director) What I Did Last Summer (Lighting Designer)

Scenic Designer Jeannie Beirne

Jeannie Beirne

Jeannie Beirne is the Resident Scenic Designer for Harlequin Productions. She has also enjoyed working with The Olympia Family Theatre, Saint Martin’s University, and South Puget Sound Community College. In Missouri, she has designed Urinetown and The Music Man with Missouri Western State University, and The Drowsy Chaperone, She Loves Me, and Damn Yankees for Tent Theater. In Arizona, Jeannie designed Mama and Jack Carew and the world premiere of Suocera by Hal Corley at the Theatre Artists Studio and Big Love with Kim Weild at Arizona State University.

In 12 seasons and 40 shows at Harlequin:

A Christmas Carol (Scenic Design) A Doll's House (Scenic Design) August: Osage County (Scenic Design) Building Madness (Scenic Design) Cabaret (Scenic Design) Every Brilliant Thing (Scenic Design) Falsettos (Scenic Design) Fighting Over Beverley (Scenic Designer) First Date (Scenic Design) Fun Home (Scenic Design) Hedda Gabler (Scenic Designer) Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Scenic Design) Hundred Days (Scenic Design) I Ought To Be In Pictures (Scenic Designer) Is This a Room (Scenic Design) Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill (Scenic Design) Little Shop of Horrors (Scenic Designer) Love and Information (Scenic Design) Man of La Mancha (Scenic Design) Middletown (Scenic Designer) Noises Off (Scenic Design) POTUS (Set Design) Present Laughter (Scenic Design) Pride and Prejudice (Scenic Design) Ruthless (Scenic Designer) Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol (Scenic Design) Sweeney Todd (Scenic Design) Tenderly (Scenic Design) The 1940s Radio Hour (Scenic Designer) The 39 Steps (Scenic Designer) The Highest Tide (Scenic Design) The Language Archive (Scenic Designer / Video Designer) Three Days of Rain (Scenic Design) To Kill a Mockingbird (Scenic Designer) Until the Flood (Scenic Design)

Costume Designer Lucy Gentry

Lucy Gentry

In 12 seasons and 17 shows at Harlequin:

And a Nightingale Sang (Costume Co-Designer) Cyrano de Bergerac (Costume Designer) Enrico IV (Costume Designer) Fighting Over Beverley (Costume Designer) Forever Stardust (Costume Designer) Hedda Gabler (Costume Designer) Inspecting Carol (Costume Designer) Macbeth (Costume Designer) Rabbit Hole (Costume Designer) Recent Tragic Events (Costume Designer) Sins of the Mother (Costume Designer) Stardust for Christmas (Costume Designer) The 39 Steps (Costume Designer) The Art of Racing in the Rain (Costume Design) The Constant Wife (Asst. Costume Designer) The Misanthrope (Costume Designer) Three Days of Rain (Costume Design)

Lighting Designer Amy Chisman

Amy Chisman

In 6 seasons and 22 shows at Harlequin:

A Rock N' Roll Twelfth Night (Lighting Designer) August: Osage County (Lighting Design) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Lighting Designer) Clybourne Park (Lighting Designer) Cymbeline (Lighting Design) Fighting Over Beverley (Lighting Designer) Gloucester Blue (Lighting Designer) Hedda Gabler (Lighting Designer) Henry V (Lighting Designer) I Am My Own Wife (Video Design) Jesus Christ Superstar (Lighting Designer, Video Designer) Or, (Lighting Designer) Present Laughter (Lighting Design) Recent Tragic Events (Asst. Lighting Designer) Sixties Chicks Too (Lighting Designer) The 39 Steps (Lighting Designer) The Last Five Years (Video Designer) The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (Lighting Designer) The Stardust Christmas Commotion (Lighting Designer) To Kill a Mockingbird (Lighting Designer) Two Gentlemen of Verona (Lighting Designer) Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike (Lighting Designer)

Sound Designer Gina Salerno

Gina Salerno

In 22 seasons and 95 shows at Harlequin:

A Christmas Carol (Co-Sound Design, Stage Manager, Sound Design) A Christmas Survival Guide (Stage Manager) A Doll's House (Sound Design) A Midsummer Night's Dream (Asst. Stage Manager) A Rock N' Roll Twelfth Night (Stage Manager) A Stardust Christmas Carol (Asst. Stage Manager) And a Nightingale Sang (Asst. Stage Manager) Blackbird (Sound Design) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Stage Manager) Clybourne Park (Sound Designer) Dancin' in the Aisles (Asst. Stage Manager) Dry Powder (Sound Designer) Enchanted April (Stage Manager) Enrico IV (Sound Designer/Asst, Stage Manager) Fighting Over Beverley (Sound Designer) Five Women Wearing the Same Dress (Stage Manager) For Peter Pan On Her 70th Birthday (Sound Design) Gloucester Blue (Sound Designer) Hedda Gabler (Stage Manager) Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Stage Manager) I Am My Own Wife (Sound Design) I Ought To Be In Pictures (Sound Designer) Jesus Christ Superstar (Stage Manager) Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Stage Manager) Let the Good Times Roll! (Asst. Stage Manager) Little Shop of Horrors (Stage Manager) Love and Information (Stage Manager) Macbeth (Asst. Stage Manager) Man of La Mancha (Stage Manager) Mauritius (Sound Designer) Measure for Measure (Prostitute, Asst. Stage Manager) Middletown (Stage Manager) Ms. Holmes and Ms. Watson - Apt 2B (Sound Design) Murder for Two (Stage Manager) Murder on the Orient Express (Stage Manager) My Name is Rachel Corrie (Sound Design) My Old Lady (Sound Designer) Noises Off (Sound Design) Operation Stardust (Asst. Stage Manager) Or, (Sound Designer) Philadelphia Story (Stage Manager) Present Laughter (Sound Design) Pride and Prejudice (Sound Design) Psychopathia Sexualis (Sound Designer/Asst. Stage Manager) Rabbit Hole (Sound Designer) Recent Tragic Events (Sound Designer) Romeo & Juliet (Sound Design) Romeo and Juliet (Citizen/Party Guest) Ruthless (Stage Manager) Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol (Stage Manager) Shining City (Sound Designer) Sins of the Mother (Sound Designer) Six Hotels (Sound Designer) Sixties Chicks (Asst. Stage Manager) Sixties Chicks Too (Stage Manager) Soul on Fire! (Asst. Stage Manager) Sovereignty (Sound Design) Stardust for Christmas (Esther Bartoli, Asst. Stage Manager) Stardust Serenade 1942 (Stage Manager) Summer in the Sixties (Stage Manager) Sweeney Todd (Stage Manager) Tenderly (Stage Manager) The 1940s Radio Hour (Properties Designer / Stage Manager) The American Pilot (Sound Designer) The Americans Across the Street (Stage Manager) The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) (Sound Design) The Elephant Man (Sound Designer) The Elsinore Diaries (Stage Manager) The Highest Tide (Stage Manager) The Ladies of the Camellias (Sound Designer/Asst. Stage Manager) The Language Archive (Sound Designer) The Last Five Years (Stage Manager) The Last Schwartz (Sound Designer) The Life and Times of Leonardo da Vinci (Asst. Stage Manager) The Love List (Asst. Stage Manager) The Rocky Horror Show (Asst. Stage Manager) The Seafarer (Sound Designer) The Stardust Christmas Blizzard (Stage Manager) The Stardust Christmas Commotion (Stage Manager) The Stardust Christmas Dazzle (Stage Manager) The Twelfth Night of Stardust (Asst. Stage Manager) The Woman in Black (Asst. Stage Manager) The Women (Sound Design) This Flat Earth (Sound Design) Three Days of Rain (Sound Design) Time Stands Still (Sound Designer) To Kill a Mockingbird (Stage Manager) Under a Mantle of Stars (Sound Designer/Asst. Stage Manager) Unexpected Tenderness (Sound Designer) Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike (Sound Designer)

Fight Choreographer Robert MacDougall

Robert MacDougall

In 24 seasons and 59 shows at Harlequin:

A Midsummer Night's Dream (Fight Choreographer) A Rock N' Roll Twelfth Night (Fight Choreographer) Accomplice (Fight Director) American Buffalo (Fight Choreofrapher) Antony & Cleopatra (Fight Director) As You Like It (Fight Director) boom (Fight Director) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Fight Choreographer) Clybourne Park (Fight Choreographer) Cymbeline (Fight Choreographer) Cyrano de Bergerac (Fight Choreographer) Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Fight Director) Dracula (Fight Director) Enrico IV (Fight Director) Fighting Over Beverley (Fight Choreographer) Gloucester Blue (Fight Director) Hamlet (Fight Director, Fight Choreographer) Hapgood (Fight Director) Henry V (Fight Director) Inspecting Carol (Fight Choreographer) Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Fight Choreographer) Letters from Waldo (Fight Choreographer) Little Shop of Horrors (Fight Choreographer) Macbeth (Fight Director) Mating Dance of the Werewolf (Fight Choreographer) Mauritius (Fight Director) Measure for Measure (Fighter Director) My Old Lady (Fight Director) Or, (Fight Choreographer) Orphans (Fight Choreographer) Richard III (Fight Director) Romeo and Juliet (Fight Director) She Stoops to Conquer (Fight Choreographer) Sins of the Mother (Fight Director) Six Hotels (Fight Director) Stardust for Christmas (Fight Choreographer) Ten Seconds in the Life of Fenwick Green (Fight Choreographer) The American Pilot (Fight Director) The Dumbwaiter (Fight Choreographer) The Lady's Not for Burning (Fight Director) The Language Archive (Fight Choreographer) The Last Schwartz (Fight Director) The Life and Death of King John (Fight Director) The Lonesome West (Fight Director) The Love List (Fight Director) The Misanthrope (Fight Choreographer) The Real Thing (Fight Choreographer) The Taming of the Shrew (Fight Director) The Tempest (Fight Choreographer) The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Fight Choreographer) The Understudy (Fight Choreographer) The Zoo Story (Fight Choreographer) Time Stands Still (Fight Choreographer) To Kill a Mockingbird (Fight Choreographer) Unexpected Tenderness (Fight Director) Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike (Fight Choreographer) Waiting for Godot (Fight Choreographer)

Stage Manager Maggie Doyle

Maggie Doyle

Maggie has also worked with TAO, Lakewood Playhouse, Annex Theatre and the Indiana Repertory Theatre. She graduated from the University of Michigan with a BFA in Theatre Performance (Go Blue!). Love to Christian, who brings love, laughter and magic into her life.

In 10 seasons and 26 shows at Harlequin:

A Rock N' Roll Twelfth Night (Columbine/Officer) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Mae) Clybourne Park (Betsy / Lindsey) Dry Powder (Stage Manager) Enchanted April (Rose Arnott) Fighting Over Beverley (Stage Manager) Five Women Wearing the Same Dress (Meredith) Gloucester Blue (Stage Manager) Henry V (Ensemble) Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill (Stage Manager) Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Carol) Little Shop of Horrors (Audrey II (puppeteer)) Magical Mystery Midsummer Musical (Clown Troupe) Noises Off (Stage Manager) Philadelphia Story (Elizabeth Imbrie) Present Laughter (Miss Erickson, Lady Saltburn) Recent Tragic Events (Nancy) The 1940s Radio Hour (Assistant Director) The Highest Tide (Assistant Director) The Stardust Christmas Blizzard (Joy Higgsby) The Stardust Christmas Commotion (Joy Higgsby) The Stardust Christmas Dazzle (Joy Higgsby-McKellan) The Stardust Christmas Enchantment (Joy Higgsby-McKellan) The Stardust Christmas Fandango (Joy Higgsby-McKellan) To Kill a Mockingbird (Assistant Director) Two Gentlemen of Verona (Lucetta / Outlaw #3 / Host)

Asst. Stage Manager Aidan Finn Poteet

Aidan Finn Poteet

In 2 seasons and 4 shows at Harlequin:

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Asst. Stage Manager) Fighting Over Beverley (Asst. Stage Manager) Sixties Chicks Too (Asst. Stage Manager) The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (Costume Designer)

Ann Flannigan Cecily Shimma

Ann Flannigan

Ann has been lucky enough to be a part of the Harlequin family since back in the Washington Center days, appearing in more than 20 productions. She was most recently seen as Unknown Male in Is This A Room earlier this season. Some past favorite productions include: The Highest Tide; I Ought to Be in Pictures; August: Osage County; Present Laughter; To Kill a Mockingbird; Fighting Over Beverly; End Days; The Last Schwartz; Frozen; A Streetcar Named Desire, and Arcadia. On the other side of the stage at Harlequin, Ann directed Dry Powder and La Bete. She earned her bachelor’s degree in theater from Lewis & Clark College. It’s a delight to be a part of this grand production and creative ensemble.

In 20 seasons and 24 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) Is This a Room (Unknown Male) La Béte (Director) Macbeth (Lady Macduff/Witch) Murder on the Orient Express (Helen Hubbard) Philadelphia Story (Margaret Lord) Present Laughter (Monica Reed) The American Pilot (Sarah) The Americans Across the Street (Alexa) The Highest Tide (Mother/Ensemble) The Last Schwartz (Norma) The Misanthrope (Arsinoe) The Real Thing (Annie) To Kill a Mockingbird (Maudie Atkinson)

Karen Nelsen Beverley Shimma

Karen Nelsen

In 3 seasons and 4 shows at Harlequin:

Fighting Over Beverley (Beverley Shimma) My Old Lady (Mathilde) Richard III (Margaret) Under a Mantle of Stars (The Mistress)

Dennis Rolly Archie Bennett

Dennis Rolly

Dennis just loves playing Shakespeare. Since 1993, he has appeared on stages in Edmonds, Renton, Seattle, Federal Way, Gig Harbor, Tacoma, Lakewood, Lacey, Tumwater, Olympia and Centralia, but he considers the State Theater home.

In 15 seasons and 21 shows at Harlequin:

A Midsummer Night's Dream (Peter Quince/Egeus) Antony & Cleopatra (Lepidus / Euphronius / Soothsayer / Clown) As You Like It (Adam/Corin) Cymbeline (Belarius) Cyrano de Bergerac (Ligniere/Cadet/Bertrandou) Enrico IV (Giovanni) Fighting Over Beverley (Archie Bennett) Macbeth (Duncan/Doctor) Mauritius (Phillip) Measure for Measure (Escalus) Present Laughter (Fred) Richard III (Clarence) Romeo and Juliet (Lord Montague/Apothecary) Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Polonius) The Elephant Man (Gomm/Conductor) The Life and Death of King John (Pandulph/Chatillon) The Rainmaker (Sheriff Thomas) The Seafarer (Mr. Lockhart) The Taming of the Shrew (Baptista) The Tempest (Gonzalo) The Winter's Tale (Dion/Shepherd)

David Wright Zelly Shimma

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)

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