2014 Season

Middletown

Comedic Drama August 21-September 13, 2014

Middletown

by Will Eno

directed by Aaron Lamb

Comedic Drama August 21-September 13, 2014

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21Aug - 13Sep 2014

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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 39 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 36 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 Jocelyne Fowler

Jocelyne Fowler

In 9 seasons and 16 shows at Harlequin:

A Christmas Survival Guide (Costume Designer) Blackbird (Costume Design) Clybourne Park (Costume Designer) Cymbeline (Costume Design) Dry Powder (Costume Designer) First Date (Costume Design) Gloucester Blue (Costume Designer) I Ought To Be In Pictures (Costume Designer) Jesus Christ Superstar (Costume Designer) Magical Mystery Midsummer Musical (Costume Design) Middletown (Costume Designer) Sixties Chicks Too (Costume Designer) The Americans Across the Street (Costume Designer) The Highest Tide (Costume Design) The Language Archive (Costume Designer) Two Gentlemen of Verona (Costume Designer)

Lighting Designer Olivia Burlingame

Olivia Burlingame

Olivia (Cowlitz Indian Tribe) is the Resident Lighting Designer at Harlequin. Olivia graduated from Central Washington University with a BFA in Theater Design and Technology. She has also worked with Tacoma Opera, Theater Artists Olympia, Olympia Family Theater, Tacoma Arts Live, SMU, SPSCC, and Seattle Children’s Theater.

In 12 seasons and 33 shows at Harlequin:

A Christmas Carol (Lighting Design) A Christmas Survival Guide (Lighting Designer) Baskerville (Lighting Design) Every Brilliant Thing (Lighting Consultant) Five Women Wearing the Same Dress (Lighting Designer) Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Lighting Design) Hundred Days (Lighting Design) I Ought To Be In Pictures (Lighting Designer) Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Lighting Designer) Little Shop of Horrors (Lighting Designer) Magical Mystery Midsummer Musical (Lighting Design) Man of La Mancha (Lighting Design) Middletown (Lighting Designer) Philadelphia Story (Lighting Designer) Pride and Prejudice (Lighting Design) Ruthless (Lighting Designer) Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol (Lighting Design) Sovereignty (Lighting Design) Tenderly (Lighting Design) The Americans Across the Street (Lighting Designer) The Highest Tide (Lighting Design) The Revolutionists (Lighting Design) The Stardust Christmas Blizzard (Lighting Designer) The Stardust Christmas Dazzle (Lighting Designer) The Stardust Christmas Enchantment (Lighting Design) The Stardust Christmas Fandango (Lighting Design) The Understudy (Lighting Design) The Women (Lighting Design) Three Days of Rain (Lighting Design) Time Stands Still (Lighting Designer)

Sound Designer Keith Jewell

Keith Jewell

In 21 seasons and 74 shows at Harlequin:

Stage Manager Gina Salerno

Gina Salerno

In 20 seasons and 90 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) 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)

Asst. Stage Manager 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)

Scott C. Brown Cop

Scott C. Brown

Scott C. Brown is thrilled to return to Harlequin. He’s worked with most of the South Sound theatres, and favorite roles include Mark Rothko in Red (SecondStory Rep); Salieri in Amadeus, RP McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Lakewood Playhouse); Lennie in Of Mice And Men (Stagedoor Productions); Father Flynn in Doubt (Gold From Straw); Bobby in the world premiere of Sins of the Mother, and Sheriff Heck Tate in To Kill a Mockingbird (Harlequin Productions). Film work includes: Depth, The Hollow One, A Bit of Bad Luck, and Scrapper, and was in the final season of SyFy’s Z Nation. He has also been seen in local, regional and national commercials, and been heard in audio books, commercials, and other Voice Acting work. Scott received his theater degree from Western Oregon State College. My thanks to wonderful and talented cast, and also to crew/staff for all the support.

In 7 seasons and 9 shows at Harlequin:

A Christmas Carol (Player 4 (Jacob Marley, others)) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Gooper) End Days (Arthur Stein) Middletown (Cop) Sins of the Mother (Bobbie) Stardust Serenade 1942 (Hobson Bierce) The American Pilot (Farmer) The Last Schwartz (Herb) To Kill a Mockingbird (Heck Tate)

Mike Dooly Mechanic

Mike Dooly

In 2 seasons and 2 shows at Harlequin:

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Dr Lanyon, Drunkard, Hyde 3) Middletown (Mechanic)

Lorrie Fargo Ensemble

Lorrie Fargo

In 2 seasons and 2 shows at Harlequin:

Five Women Wearing the Same Dress (Georgeanne) Middletown (Ensemble)

Jenny Vaughn Hall Mrs. Swanson

Jenny Vaughn Hall

Jenny has enjoyed working at Taproot Theatre and having a good musical comedy romp with The Village Theatre.

In 6 seasons and 7 shows at Harlequin:

A Doll's House (Nora Helmer) August: Osage County (Ivy Weston) Man of La Mancha (Choreographer) Middletown (Mrs. Swanson) This Flat Earth (Lisa) Time Stands Still (Sarah Goodwin) What the Constitution Means to Me (Heidi)

Elex Hill Ensemble

Elex Hill

Elex is a graduate of the University of Washington and has participated in several Seattle area productions including Ludwig’s Baskerville as Actor 3 at Edmond’s Driftwood Players, Big Fish as Amos Calloway at UW Stagenotes, and Electra as Electra at UW UTS.

In 4 seasons and 6 shows at Harlequin:

I Ought To Be In Pictures (Libby) Jesus Christ Superstar (Ensemble) Magical Mystery Midsummer Musical (Clown Troupe) Middletown (Ensemble) Philadelphia Story (Dinah Lord) The Art of Racing in the Rain (Annika/Ensemble)

Josh Krupke Ensemble

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)

Walayn Sharples Librarian

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)

Rob Taylor Ensemble

Rob Taylor

In 6 seasons and 7 shows at Harlequin:

A Christmas Carol (Associate Lighting Design) Blackbird (Properties Design) Enchanted April (Antony Wilding) Every Brilliant Thing (Lighting Design) Middletown (Ensemble) Present Laughter (Asst. Properties Design) The Art of Racing in the Rain (Properties Design)