2016 Season

Hedda Gabler

Drama March 3-26, 2016 PG-13

Hedda Gabler

by Henrik Ibsen, translated and adapted by Aaron Lamb

directed by Aaron Lamb

Drama March 3-26, 2016 PG-13

Beautiful and self-possessed, haunted and hopelessly bored, Hedda is a fascinating, paradoxical portrait of a woman slipping into despair as her options narrow in an expanding world. A fresh new translation and a contemporary adaptation thrust Hedda’s classical struggle squarely into the modern age. Clawing at the world around her as she reluctantly descends from the 1% into a convenient but unremarkable marriage, Hedda’s unraveling is brash and shocking. This is a post-punk, euro-pop classic that – we can assure you – you haven’t seen before.

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Cast & Creative

Director Aaron Lamb

Aaron Lamb

Aaron has worked in Seattle for Village Theatre, Taproot Theatre, Book-It Repertory Theatre, and Seattle Shakespeare Company and has worked regionally throughout the country. Aaron was awarded a Seattle Critics (Footlight) Award for his work as Lord Goring in An Ideal Husband at Taproot Theatre, the Memphis Critics (Ostrander) Award for Best Actor for his work as Jerry in The Full Monty at Playhouse on the Square, a Kennedy Center award for Best Actor for his work as Samuel Coleridge in Grasmere, and an OC Weekly Award for his work as Peck in How I Learned to Drive. Aaron holds an MFA in acting from California State University, Fullerton, and a BA from Washington State University.

In 15 seasons and 40 shows at Harlequin:

A Bright Room Called Day (Gottfried Swetts, Director, Sound Design) A Christmas Carol (Player 6 (Fred, others), Director, Player 4) A Doll's House (Director) August: Osage County (Director) Cabaret (Director) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Brick) Deathtrap (Director) Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Dr. Jekyll) Enchanted April (Mellersh Wilson) Every Brilliant Thing (Director) Falsettos (Musical Director, Piano and Synth) Five Women Wearing the Same Dress (Director) Hedda Gabler (Director) Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Director) Hundred Days (Director) I Am My Own Wife (Director) Love and Information (Director) Man of La Mancha (Director) Mating Dance of the Werewolf (Ken) Middletown (Director) Noises Off (Frederick Fellowes) Philadelphia Story (Macaulay Connor) Present Laughter (Garry Essendine) Ruthless (Director / Music Director, Piano 1) Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol (Director) Sweeney Todd (Director) The 1940s Radio Hour (Director / Music Director, Piano) The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay) The Highest Tide (Director) The Language Archive (George) The Last Five Years (Jamie Wellerstein / Piano, Musical Director) This Flat Earth (Director) Three Days of Rain (Director) Time Stands Still (Director) To Kill a Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)

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 10 seasons and 37 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) 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) 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 Keith Jewell

Keith Jewell

In 21 seasons and 75 shows at Harlequin:

Properties Designer Jeff Leigh

Jeff Leigh

In 7 seasons and 31 shows at Harlequin:

A Christmas Survival Guide (Properties Designer) August: Osage County (Properties Design) Clybourne Park (Properties Designer) Dry Powder (Properties Designer) First Date (Properties Design) Five Women Wearing the Same Dress (Properties Designer) Gloucester Blue (Properties Designer) Hedda Gabler (Properties Designer) Henry V (Properties Master) I Am My Own Wife (Properties Design) Jesus Christ Superstar (Properties Designer) Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Properties Designer) My Name is Rachel Corrie (Properties Design) Or, (Properties Master) Philadelphia Story (Properties Designer) Present Laughter (Properties Design) Recent Tragic Events (Properties Designer) Ruthless (Properties Designer) The 39 Steps (Properties Designer) The Language Archive (Properties Designer) The Last Schwartz (Properties Designer) The Stardust Christmas Blizzard (Properties Designer) The Stardust Christmas Dazzle (Properties Designer) The Stardust Christmas Enchantment (Properties Design) The Stardust Christmas Fandango (Properties Design) The Understudy (Properties Design) Three Days of Rain (Properties Design) Time Stands Still (Properties Designer) To Kill a Mockingbird (Properties Designer) Two Gentlemen of Verona (Properties Designer) Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike (Properties Designer)

Properties Designer Michelle Page

Michelle Page

In 3 seasons and 9 shows at Harlequin:

A Rock N' Roll Twelfth Night (Asst. Stage Manager) Clybourne Park (Stage Manager) Hedda Gabler (Properties Designer) Middletown (Asst. Stage Manager) Recent Tragic Events (Stage Manager) The 39 Steps (Stage Manager) The Stardust Christmas Commotion (Properties Designer) The Stardust Christmas Dazzle (Properties Designer) Two Gentlemen of Verona (Stage Manager)

Dramaturg Sonja Lowe

Sonja Lowe

In 1 season and 1 show at Harlequin:

Hedda Gabler (Dramaturg)

Stage Manager Gina Salerno

Gina Salerno

In 21 seasons and 92 shows at Harlequin:

A Christmas Carol (Co-Sound Design, Stage Manager) 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) 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 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)

Emily Fortuna Thea Elvsted

Emily Fortuna

Recent Seattle area stage credits include Jenny Sunshine in Truth Like the Sun (Book-It Repertory Theatre), Prometheus in Close Enough (Stone Soup Theatre), Margot in The Diary of Anne Frank (Renton Civic), and Nina Sheinberg in LAPD, Serious Murders Unit (Ghost Light). When not playing Thea Elvsted, her all-time favorite role is The Shrink in Hello, Hamlet, a musical based on that well known hit comedy written by Mr. Shakespeare himself.

In 1 season and 1 show at Harlequin:

Hedda Gabler (Thea Elvsted)

Helen Harvester Hedda Tesman

Helen Harvester

Selected Seattle credits: Romaine in Witness for the Prosecution (Centerstage), Janet in The Realization of Emily Linder (Taproot), The Governess in The Turn of the Screw (Centerstage), Diana in Diana of Dobson’s (Taproot), Madeline Rousseau in Border Songs (Book-It), Tracy Lord in The Philadelphia Story (BPA). A former Fulbright Scholar, Ms. Harvester holds a B.A. in Drama from Vassar College and an M.A. from the Boris Shchukin State Theater Institute in Moscow, Russia.

In 13 seasons and 18 shows at Harlequin:

A Bright Room Called Day (Paulinka Erdnuss) A Christmas Carol (Belle/Ensemble, Understudy - Christmas Past, Belle, Choreographer) Building Madness (Gwen Gladwell) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Maggie) Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Elizabeth) Dry Powder (Jenny) Enchanted April (Lotty Wilson) Hedda Gabler (Hedda Tesman) Mating Dance of the Werewolf (Abby) Noises Off (Belinda Blair) Philadelphia Story (Tracy Lord) Present Laughter (Joanna Lyppiatt) Six Hotels (Ensemble) The Revolutionists (Marie-Antoinette) Time Stands Still (Mandy Bloom) To Kill a Mockingbird (Mayella Ewell)

Cat Hayes Berte

Cat Hayes

Cat arrived from Maui in 2013 and has spent four decades on stages across the country from Florida to Hawaii and many states in between. Credits include Pride and Prejudice, Hollywood Arms, Putnam Spelling Bee, Full Monty, Once on This Island, Dames at Sea, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, and Company, to name about a fifth of her shows. Cat performs regularly with the Murder Mystery Company and is lead vocalist for Indigo Jazz Big Band.

In 1 season and 1 show at Harlequin:

Hedda Gabler (Berte)

Josh Krupke Jörgen Tesman

Josh Krupke

Josh has also appeared locally at Capital Playhouse, Olympia Little Theatre, and Drew Harvey Theatre. In Seattle, favorites include The Lion in Winter, A Little Night Music, Much Ado About Nothing (SecondStory Rep), Big River, Jesus Christ Superstar (Village Theatre) and many more productions with Taproot Theatre, GreenStage, Ghostlight Theatricals, and others. Josh would like to say a special thank you to his parents for all their encouragement and support (as well as for allowing him to crash at their place when performing in Olympia). Love and thanks to God, Lorrie and Poppy!

In 4 seasons and 5 shows at Harlequin:

A Rock N' Roll Twelfth Night (Malvolio) As You Like It (Amiens/Dennis) Hedda Gabler (Jörgen Tesman) Jesus Christ Superstar (Pontius Pilate) Middletown (Ensemble)

John Serembe Mr. Brack

John Serembe

Other local productions include: O’Brien in 1984 and a monstrosity in The Head That Wouldn’t Die, both for TAO. In Los Angeles, he played Larry in the LA premiere of Inspecting Carol, Walter Pangbourne in Move Over Mrs. Markham at the Mukenthaller, Argan in The Imaginary Invalid and Tartuffe in Tartuffe at Arroyo Repertory, and Bunthorne in Patience at the Occidental Theatre Festival among others. He performed standup at The Comedy Store in Hollywood and the Ice House in Pasadena. He has appeared around the country, including ten years at Nevada Shakespeare. His favorites there include: Claudius in Hamlet, Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Capulet in Romeo and Juliet, Prospero in The Tempest, Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing, Toby Belch in Twelfth Night and Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He has appeared on TV in Cheers, Scrubs, The Young and the Restless, and others. John studied with Sanford Meisner, Charles Marowitz and Larry Moss.

In 10 seasons and 18 shows at Harlequin:

A Christmas Carol (Video Design) Baskerville (Player, Projection Design) Hedda Gabler (Mr. Brack) Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Video Design) Hundred Days (Projection Design) Little Shop of Horrors (Mr. Mushnik) Love and Information (Video Design) Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol (Video Design) The 39 Steps (Clown) The Art of Racing in the Rain (Maxwell/Ensemble) The Highest Tide (Judge/Ensemble) The Stardust Christmas Dazzle (Lord Benedict Manderson) The Stardust Christmas Enchantment (Giovanni Zabatino) Until the Flood (Video Design)

Walayn Sharples Juliana Tesman

Walayn Sharples

Walayn has performed on many Seattle stages including Intiman, ACT, Book-It, Greenstage, Seattle Musical Theater, Lyric Light Opera, ReAct, and Second Story Rep, among others. Some favorite roles include Ann in Well (Footlight Award), Daisy in Driving Miss Daisy, Sonya in Sixteen Wounded, Blanch in Mother in Another Language, Madam Arcati in Blithe Spirit, Nat in Rabbit Hole, and Dottie in Noises Off. A retired teacher, she now works as a standardized patient at the UW, melding her teaching and acting skills to provide students with “real life,” practical experiences.

In 5 seasons and 5 shows at Harlequin:

Enchanted April (Mrs. Graves) Hedda Gabler (Juliana Tesman) Middletown (Librarian) To Kill a Mockingbird (Mrs. Dubose, Clerk) Unexpected Tenderness (Haddie Stern)

Chris Shea Ejlert Løvborg

Chris Shea

Chris is a multi-faceted theatre artist from Dayton, Ohio (go Flyers!) who has worked with companies across the nation on both sides of the table. He was the founder of Free Shakespeare!, an organization devoted to liberating the Bard from the tyranny of uninspired English teachers and is a company member with Seattle’s Theatre22 (theatre22.org).

In 1 season and 1 show at Harlequin:

Hedda Gabler (Ejlert Løvborg)

John Serembe is a member of the Actors' Equity Association.