2009 Season

The Elephant Man

Drama March 19-April 11, 2009

The Elephant Man

by Bernard Pomerance

directed by Linda Whitney

Drama March 19-April 11, 2009

The true story of a young man in Victorian London disfigured beyond imagination by an unknown disease. When a brilliant doctor seeks to bring him into the world of so-called “normality,” he must redefine his own boundaries.

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19Mar - 11Apr 2009

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Cast & Creative

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)

Composer Bruce Whitney

Bruce Whitney

In 26 seasons and 60 shows at Harlequin:

A Christmas Survival Guide (Vocal Director / Additional Arrangements) A Long Day's Journey into Night (Composer) A Midsummer Night's Dream (Composer) A Rock 'n' Roll Twelfth Night (Musical Director/Composer, Keyboards/Guitar) A Rock N' Roll Twelfth Night (Music Director, Various) A Stardust Christmas Carol (Musical Director, Nikolai Feoderov / keyboards, Musical Designer, Nikolai Feodorov, Piano) A Stardust Homecoming (Musical Director, Nikolai Feyodorov (piano)) And a Nightingale Sang (George Stott) Antony & Cleopatra (Composer) As You Like It (Composer) Cymbeline (Composer, Sound Design) Cyrano de Bergerac (Composer) Dancin' in the Aisles (Musical Director, Band) Dancin' in the Streets (Musical Director, Keyboard/Conductor) Dracula (Composer) First Date (Musical Director, Keyboards / Guitar / Horns) Hamlet (Composer, Musician) Henry V (Composer / Sound Designer, Composer) Jesus Christ Superstar (Musical Director, Band Leader / Keyboards) Let the Good Times Roll! (Musical Director) Little Shop of Horrors (Keyboards) Macbeth (Composer) Magical Mystery Midsummer Musical (Musical Director, Keyboards / Guitar) Measure for Measure (Composer) Operation Stardust (Asst. Musical Director) Phantom of the Stardust (Musical Director, Nikolai, piano/conductor) Rock 'n' Roll Twelfth Night (Musical Director, Conductor/Piano) Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Sound Designer/Composer) Sixties Chicks (Musical Director, Conductor/Keyboard/Guitar) Sixties Chicks Too (Music Director, Guitar/Keys/Saxaphone) Sixties Kicks! (Musical Director, self) Soul on Fire! (Musical Director, Keyboards) Stardust for Christmas (Nikolai Feodorov, Music Director, Nikolai Feodorov, Piano) Stardust for Emily Jean (Musical Director, Nikolai Feodorov, piano) Stardust Radio Review (Musical Director, Nikolai Feodorov, piano) Stardust Serenade 1942 (Musical Director, Nikolai Feodorov , piano) Summer in the Sixties (Musical Director, Keyboard/Guitar) Swingtime Stardust (Musical Director, Nikolai Feodorov, piano) Tapestry - the Music of Carol King (Music Director, Keyboards/Conductor) The Elephant Man (Composer) The Misanthrope (Composer) The Rocky Horror Show (Musical Director, Keyboard, Music Director, Piano) The Stardust Christmas Blizzard (Musical Director) The Stardust Christmas Commotion (Music Director, Nikolai Feyoderov (Piano)) The Stardust Christmas Dazzle (Musical Director, Nicolai Feyoderov (Keys)) The Stardust Christmas Enchantment (Musical Director, Nikolai Feyodorov (Keys)) The Stardust Christmas Fandango (Musical Director, Nikolai Feyoderov (Keys, Saxophone, Guitar)) The Stardust Serenade 1942 (Musical Director, Nikolai Feodorov, piano/conductor) The Taming of the Shrew (Composer) The Tempest (Composer) The Twelfth Night of Stardust (Musical Director) The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Composer) The Winter's Tale (Composer/Sound Designer) Two Gentlemen of Verona (Sound Designer / Composer) Waiting for Godot (Composer)

Costume 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)

Sound Designer Gina Salerno

Gina Salerno

In 20 seasons and 91 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)

Stage Manager Melissa Harris

Melissa Harris

In 5 seasons and 13 shows at Harlequin:

Accomplice (Stage Manager) Antony & Cleopatra (Stage Manager) Dancin' in the Aisles (Stage Manager) Intimate Apparel (Stage Manager) Let the Good Times Roll! (Stage Manager) Measure for Measure (Prostitute, Asst. Stage Manager) Operation Stardust (Stage Manager) Psychopathia Sexualis (Stage Manager) Soul on Fire! (Stage Manager) Stardust for Christmas (Stage Manager) The American Pilot (Stage Manager) The Elephant Man (Stage Manager) The Rocky Horror Show (Stage Manager)

Scott Lendzion Frederick Treves

Scott Lendzion

In 5 seasons and 9 shows at Harlequin:

Hapgood (Merryweather) Stardust Radio Review (Tony Sullivan) The Elephant Man (Frederick Treves) The Glass Menagerie (Jim O'Connor) The Lady's Not for Burning (Richard) The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Mr. Victor Grinstead/Neville Landless) The Rainmaker (Jimmy Curry) The Tempest (Francisco/Master) The Winter's Tale (Florizel)

Jason Haws John Merrick

Jason Haws

Other local roles include Captain Hook in Peter Pan (OSD Players and CTE), Toad in The Wind in the Willows (OFT), Clov in Endgame (Calpurnia’s Dream), Richard in Fuddy Meers, and Adam in Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Centralia College). Jason has directed numerous shows for children and is going into his fifteenth season as the director of Creative Theatre Experience’s Showcase program. He currently teaches Drama and Social Studies at Thurgood Marshall Middle School here in Olympia. Jason owes everything to his beautiful family for their tremendous love and support. Cheers to my lovelies, Liz, Emma and Tess. You are my shining stars!

In 21 seasons and 33 shows at Harlequin:

A Bright Room Called Day (Emil Traum) A Christmas Carol (Bob Cratchit) A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bottom/Pyramus) And a Nightingale Sang (Andie Ryan) As You Like It (Touchstone) August: Osage County (Bill Fordham) Clybourne Park (Karl / Steve) Hapgood (Maggs) I Ought To Be In Pictures (Herb) Intimate Apparel (Mr. Marks) Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Max Prince) Murder in the Cathedral (4th Priest) My Old Lady (Mathias) Noises Off (Garry LeJeune) Phantom of the Stardust (Sam Gordon) Philadelphia Story (C.K. Dexter Haven) Rabbit Hole (Howie) Romeo and Juliet (Prince Escalus) Rough Crossing (Sandor Turai) The Constant Wife (Mortimer Durham) The Elephant Man (John Merrick) The Importance of Being Earnest (Lane/Moulton/Merriman/Gribsby) The Ladies of the Camellias (Ivan) The Misanthrope (Basque/Bicycle Messenger/Du Bois) The Rocky Horror Show (Simon Lock, The Narrator) The Seafarer (James "Sharky" Harkin) The Taming of the Shrew (Grumio) The Tempest (Andrian/Boatswain) The Understudy (Harry) The Weir (Brendan) The Winter's Tale (Time) Two Gentlemen of Verona (Launce / Outlaw #1) Unexpected Tenderness (Archie/Roddy Stern (the elder))

Amy Hill Pinhead/Sandwich/Countess

Amy Hill

In 5 seasons and 10 shows at Harlequin:

A Midsummer Night's Dream (Hermia) As You Like It (Celia) End Days (Rachel Stein) Enrico IV (Frida) Romeo and Juliet (Rosaline/Angelica) The American Pilot (Evie) The Elephant Man (Pinhead/Sandwich/Countess) The Ladies of the Camellias (Gabrielle Rejane) The Taming of the Shrew (Bianca) Under a Mantle of Stars (Daughter)

David Dear Ross/Bishop/Snork

David Dear

In 2 seasons and 2 shows at Harlequin:

Intimate Apparel (George Armstrong) The Elephant Man (Ross/Bishop/Snork)

Deya Ozburn Mrs. Kendall

Deya Ozburn

In 4 seasons and 4 shows at Harlequin:

Enchanted April (Lady Caroline Bramble) Intimate Apparel (Mrs. Van Buren) The Elephant Man (Mrs. Kendall) The Last Schwartz (Bonnie)

Dennis Rolly Gomm/Conductor

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)

Hanna Buschor Pinhead/Duchess

Hanna Buschor

In 2 seasons and 2 shows at Harlequin:

The Elephant Man (Pinhead/Duchess) The Rocky Horror Show (Transylvanian)

Russ Holm Pin Man/L. Police/Lord John/Porter/Will

Russ Holm

Favorite roles elsewhere include Edmund in King Lear, El Gallo in The Fantasticks (Electric City Theatre), Charlie in The Foreigner, Hines in The Pajama Game (Abbey Players), Kenickie in Grease, Arthur in Camelot (Summer Showcase), Jesus in Godspell (May Carol Theatre Productions), Mr. Peachum in The Threepenny Opera (Capitol Playhouse), Mr. Nobody and the Tooth Fairy in Good Night Moon, Geppetto in Pinocchio (Olympia Family Theater) and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice (Theater Artists Olympia).