AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY premiered in June 2007 at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, IL, Martha Lavey, Artistic Director; David Hawkanson, Executive Director.

Steppenwolf ’s production of AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY opened on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre on December 4, 2007. It was produced by Jeffrey Richards, Jean Doumanian, Steve Traxler, Jerry Frankel, Ostar Productions, Jennifer Manocherian, The Weinstein Company, Debra Black/Daryl Roth, Ronald & Marc Frankel/Barbara Freitag, and Rick Steiner/Staton Bell Group.

Historic Arcade Theatre • Fort Myers River DistrictRobert Cacioppo, Producing Artistic Director

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RACHEL BURTTRAM*, MEGAN CARR, MARK CHAMBERS*, CHRIS CLAVELLI*JOHN-PATRICK DRISCOLL*, GREG LONGENHAGEN*, CARRIE LUND*, RAY McDAVITT*SARA MORSEY*, ASHLEY PRICE, STACEY SCOTTE*, DAVID SITLER*, JAN WIKSTROM*

SET DESIGNERJIM HUNTER***

LIGHTING DESIGNER DAVID M. UPTON***

COSTUME DESIGNERROBERTA MALCOLM

SOUND DESIGNERKATE SMITH

AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

2010-11 GRAND SEASON SPONSORS

This entire season sponsored in part by in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Florida Repertory Theatre is a fully professional non-profit LOA/LORT Theatre company on contract with the Actors’ Equity Association that proudly employs members of the national theatrical labor unions. *Member of Actors’ Equity Association. **Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. ***Member of United Scenic Artists.

STAGE MANAGERAMY L. MASSARI*

Arthur Zupko • John & Marjorie Madden • Cheryl & David CophamGholi & Georgia Darehshori • City of Fort Myers Public Art Committee

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DIALECT COACH/FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHERGREG LONGENHAGEN

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Beverly Weston ............................................................................................ Ray McDavitt*Violet Weston ............................................................................................... Sara Morsey*Barbara Fordham ....................................................................................... Jan Wikstrom*Bill Fordham .............................................................................................. Chris Clavelli*Jean Fordham ................................................................................................ Megan Carr*Ivy Weston ................................................................................................ Stacey Scotte*Karen Weston ........................................................................................ Rachel Burttram*Steve Heidebrecht ............................................................................. Greg Longenhagen*Mattie Fae Aiken ............................................................................................. Carrie Lund*Charlie Aiken .......................................................................................... Mark Chambers*Little Charles Aiken ......................................................................... John-Patrick Driscoll*Johnna Monevata ......................................................................................... Ashley Price*Sheriff Deon Gilbeau ...................................................................................... David Sitler*

*The Actors & Stage Manager employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) was founded in 1913 as the first of the American Actor unions. Equity’s mission is to advance, promote and foster the art of theatre as an essential component of our society. Today, Equity represents more than 40,000 actors, singers, dancers and stage managers working in hundreds of theatres across the United States. Equity members are dedicated to working in the theatre as a profession, upholding the highest artistic standards. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions and provides a wide range of benefits including health and pension plans for its members. Through its agreement with Equity, this theatre has committed to the

fair treatment of the actors and stage managers employed in this production. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. For more information, visit www.actorsequity.org.

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“The child comes home and the parents put the hooks in him. The old man, or the woman, as the case may be, hasn’t got anything to say to the child. All he wants is to have the child sit in a chair for a couple of hours then go off to bed under the same roof. It’s not love. I am not saying that there is not such a thing as love. I am merely pointing to something which is different from love but which sometimes goes by the name of love. It may well be that without this thing which I am talking about there would not be any love. But this thing in itself is not love. It is just something in the blood. It is a kind of blood greed, and it is the fate of a man. It is the thing which man has which distinguishes him from the happy brute creation. When you get born your father and mother lost something out of themselves, and they are going to bust a hame trying to get it back, and you are it. They know they can’t get it all back but they will get as big a chunk out of you as they can. And the good old family reunion, with picnic dinner under the maples, is very much like diving into the octopus tank at the aquarium.” —Robert Penn Warren, All the King’s Men

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RACHEL BURTTRAM (Karen Weston) is over the moon to be back at the Rep. You may remember Rachel from her job as an Associate Director, or from the numerous roles she has played here including: Gaslight, Trying, Dancing at Lughnasa, The Glass Menagerie, Doubt, Rabbit Hole, Proof, Amy’s View (opposite Carol Lawrence) and Mousetrap to name a few. Since her departure, Rachel has worked opposite Tony-nominated Daniel Sunjata at Actors’ Studio in NYC on the new play Pushkin. Israel Horovitz directed her in his new play Inconsolable at Gloucester Stage. She performed Almost, Maine at the oldest summer stock theatre in the nation, Barnstormers’

Theatre. Look for Rachel on a TV near you in USA’s Burn Notice, national Wal-Mart and HH Gregg commercials. She is a proud member of Equity and is eligible for the Screen Actor’s Guild. Thanks to my Florida Rep fam for all your love and support!

MEGAN CARR (Jean Fordham) is a recent graduate of Greensboro College in North Carolina with a BA in Acting and is jumpstarting her career through the acting internship at Florida Repertory Theatre. Megan can currently be seen with Florida Rep’s Children’s Touring Theatre as Jenny Jacobs (How I Became a Pirate), Amelia Earhart (Amelia Earhart), and Eva Geiringer Schloss (And Then They Came for Me). Some of her recent credits include Juliet (Romeo and Juliet), Marela (Anna in the Tropics), Colin (The Secret Garden), Betty (The Crucible), and Marcy (God Sees God). Her professional credits include Liesl (The Sound of Music) and Margaret (Much Ado about

Nothing) at Parkway Playhouse and Ensemble U/S Cara (The Einstein Project) at the Berkshire Theatre Festival. She is thrilled to be a member of the Florida Rep Family!

MARK CHAMBERS (Charlie Aiken) was last seen in the Rep’s “biggest hit of Season Twelve, Boeing-Boeing”. He has appeared in Enchanted April, The Rainmaker, Scapino, Sherlock Holmes and the West End Horror, his debut at the rep, Breaking Legs, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, and opposite Greg Longenhagen in Rounding Third. Mark may be seen in the movie Baby Jane?, which goes into distribution this March, and in I Want to Get Married which will make the festival circuit this spring/summer. www.mark-chambers.com

CHRIS CLAVELLI (Bill Fordham) is the Associate Artistic Director of Florida Repertory Theatre. Directing Credits: here at The Rep, Trying, The Santaland Diaries, Sideman, Almost Maine, Alone Together, Six Dance Lessons, Rounding Third, The Foreigner, Glass Menagerie, and Alone Together. Other credits: The Actors Studio, The NY Fringe, Virginia Stage Company, Two River Theatre, Chenango River Theatre, Symphony Space; New York City, The Depot Theatre and Solo Mio at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Chris collaborated with The South West Florida Symphony to create Star Crossed Lovers; a marriage of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet

suites with Shakespeare’s classic text. As an actor, Chris has worked Off- Broadway, and around the country. Here at The Rep: Born Yesterday, Stones in His Pockets, Art of Murder, You Can’t Take it With You, Dancing at Lughnasa, Indian Blood, Relatively Speaking and Opus. Other representative theatres: The Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Pioneer Theatre, The Kennedy Center, Florida Stage, The Hangar, The Paper Mill Playhouse,

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The Virginia Stage, Philadelphia Theatre Company, The Caldwell and The Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati. He is a recipient of both The Carbonell and Barrymore Awards. His one-man play, A Little More Than You Wanted to Spend is slated for a New York run this summer. TV: The Sopranos, Rescue Me and Law and Order. For Jess and Lee.

JOHN-PATRICK DRISCOLL (Little Charles Aiken) is thrilled to be back at Florida Rep avoiding the NY winter for his second show! He was last seen at The Rep in John Cariani’s Almost, Maine. Off-Broadway: The Velvet Gentleman (Cherry Lane Theatre); The Cherry Orchard Sequel, The System (La Mama); Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, The Recruiting Officer (New York Classical Theatre). Regional: What You Will (Bristol Riverside Theatre); Almost, Maine (Public Theatre Auburn, ME); Of Mice and Men (Texas Repertory Theatre); To Kill a Mockingbird (Virginia Stage Co.); A Christmas Carol (Milwaukee Rep); The Winter’s Tale (Milwaukee Shakes); Hamlet, Camelot,

1776, The Tragedy of Dr. Faustus, The Taming of the Shrew, Stones in His Pockets (Utah Shakespearean Festival). Film & TV: Violet Tendencies, Sinnerman, Number Nine, A Hollywood Love Story, As The World Turns, and The Onion Sports Network. This performance is dedicated to my wife, Sherin, who is currently finishing her master’s degree in making NYC a better place. SAG/AFTRA/AEA. Johnpatrickdriscoll.com

GREG LONGENHAGEN (Steve Heidebrecht) is thrilled to be back on stage at the Florida Repertory Theatre, where he’s appeared in numerous shows over the Reps thirteen remarkable seasons. Last seen by Rep audiences as Don in Rounding Third, his other credits include performances at The Charlotte Repertory Theatre, Riverside Theatre, Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre, Florida Stage, Pittsburgh Playhouse, Quantum Theatre, Trilogy Theatre, Pennsylvania Stage Company, The Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival, Philadelphia Shakespeare, The Pantages Theatre, The Fulton Theatre, Pittsburgh Musical Theatre, Opera Delaware, St.Vincent Theatre,

Theatre Row Theatre, and Stage Right. Greg appeared Off-Broadway as Miles in the acclaimed production of Driving Miles for Young Playwrights Inc. His Film & Television credits include Darrow with Kevin Spacey, Milk Money, Royal Faceoff, and As the World Turns. Greg holds an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh and certified S.A.F.D. at Carnegie Mellon University. He would like to send a very special “thank you” to his loving family and especially Liz, Liza Jayne and Baby Jack!

CARRIE LUND (Mattie Fae Aiken) has been the Associate Producer with Florida Rep since its inception, and has acted in over 90 productions in Southwest Florida. Selected credits include: Sylvia, Gaslight, Noises Off, Boeing-Boeing, You Can’t Take It With You, Relatively Speaking, The Last Romance, Alone Together, Dancing at Lughnasa, Enchanted April, Rabbit Hole, Indian Blood, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, All My Sons, I’m Not Rappaport, Deathtrap, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Same Time Next Year and Private Lives. Her work as a voiceover artist can be heard on NPR and industrial DVDs. In another lifetime she founded the Pirate Playhouse on

Sanibel Island in 1984, served as a theatre faculty at Florida Gulf Coast University, produced theatre companies in her hometown of Erie, PA & New York City, performed in regional theatres in NY, VT and NC, as well as the Three River Shakespeare Festival, Pittsburgh Playhouse and American Ibsen Theatre. In 1987, the Sanibel-Captiva Chamber of Commerce awarded her the Distinguished Citizen Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997. Her favorite role is mom to Matthew and Julia and wife to Robert.

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RAY McDAVITT (Beverly Weston) is most grateful for the privilege of playing with Florida Rep, particularly in this amazing play. Previous opportunities include: Dead End at the Huntington Theatre, Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V, and Julius Caesar with the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Premieres of I Coulda Been A Kennedy (New York International Fringe Festival) and Fair Game (Genesius Theatre Group, New York). Alfred Ill in Durenmott’s The Visit, Father Lux in Our Lady Of 121st Street, Walter in Book Of Days, appearances on 30 Rock and with the crazy people at The Onion on their web videos. Studied at Harvard University, HB Studios,

Endeavor Studios.

SARA MORSEY (Violet Weston) has appeared with Florida Repertory Theatre as Amanda in The Glass Menagerie and as Carol opposite David Howard in The Last Romance. A long-time associate artist with The Hippodrome Theatre, Sara has been a regional theatre actor for over twenty-five years. Other theatre affiliations include Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, American Stage, New Harmony Theatre, Kentucky Repertory Theatre (formerly Horse Cave Theatre), Playhouse on the Square, American Shakespeare Center and the Kentucky and Indiana Shakespeare Festivals. International: Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Mary Hausch’s An Enchanted Land (one woman show, pick

of the fringe), Ani Collier’s Sex/Female at the National Palace of Culture in Sofia, Bulgaria. Independent Film: The First of May with Julie Harris, The Votive Pit, Borderlines, Ashley Lynn. Professional Narrator, Library of Congress Talking Books. Master of Fine Arts in Acting, University of Louisville. Sara is a member of Actors’ Equity Association.

ASHLEY PRICE (Johnna Monevata) is thrilled to be making her professional debut at the Florida Repertory Theatre. The opportunity to work on such a great piece of theatre so early on in her career is a blessing. She recently graduated with a BFA in Acting from the University of Florida’s New World School of the Arts in Miami. Recent credits include Red Light Winter (Christina), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hippolyta), Pure As Porcelain -her Original One Woman Show (Andrea Yates), and this past summer the French-American film Villa Captive (Vanessa) in post-production. She sends lots of love and thanks to her family and friends!

STACEY SCOTTE (Ivy Weston) is thrilled to be returning to Florida Rep, having appeared here in Absurd Person Singular, Company and My Way. She just finished a successful run of I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change at Sarasota’s Florida Studio Theatre. New York credits include The Morning After/The Night Before (FringeNY), The House of Blue Leaves; Stormy Weather (with Leslie Uggams); Boobs!; Eat the Runt; Strictly Personal. Regional favorites: Hairspray; A Marriage Minuet; Ruthless! The Musical; An Ideal Husband; Oklahoma!; Carousel. Film/Television: Julie & Julia; Me & Will; Pretty Little Thing; Carnivore’s Revenge; 30 Rock; The Practice; Unsolved

Mysteries; Zoobilee Zoo; Gong Show.

DAVID SITLER (Sheriff Deon Gilbeau) is thrilled to be making his debut here at Florida Rep. He was last seen at the Hippodrome Theatre in End Days opposite Sara Morsey and before that, has worked on Broadway (An Inspector Calls), National tours (Frost/Nixon with Stacy Keach), and regionally from Maine to Utah, including here in Florida at American Stage, Hippodrome, Florida Studio, Gulfshore Playhouse, and Hollywood Hard Rock in roles from Atticus to Scrooge. TV credits include Law and Order- SVU and most of the defunct NYC soaps, as well as the award winning films

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Ghetto Dawg and Treeshade. More info at www.davidsitler.com. Thanks to all at Judy Boals, wife/actor Carolyn Popp, and all here at Florida Rep.

JAN WIKSTROM (Barbara Fordham) is thrilled to be returning to the Florida Rep stage, where she last appeared as Kate in Dancing at Lughnasa. Other favorite regional theatre appearances include Vivian Bearing in Wit, Vi in The Memory of Water, Nora in A Doll’s House, and Beatrice in Much Ado. New York appearances include Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Desdemona in Othello, and the title role in Candida. Jan, a recent MFA recipient, was honored to have studied with Uta Hagen. The production of which she is most proud, however, is that of her children: fellow artists Liz and John Wikstrom.

TRACY LETTS (Playwright) has been a Steppenwolf ensemble member since 2002. He was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play August: Osage County, which played on Broadway for over a year, following a sold-out run at Steppenwolf in 2007. August also enjoyed a sold-out engagement at London’s National Theatre and a U.S. National Tour in summer 2009. Other accolades include five Tony Awards (including Best Play), an Olivier Award and six Jeff Awards (including Best Play). Mr. Letts is also the author of Superior Donuts, Man from Nebraska, which was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize; Killer Joe, and Bug. Mr. Letts was also named as one of Time’s “Best of 2003.”

JIM HUNTER (Set Designer) is happy to return to Florida Rep this season! August: Osage County is Jim’s eleventh show at Florida Rep since he completed the lighting for The Last Night of Ballyhoo in 2000, both the set and lighting design for Boeing-Boeing, and most recently the lighting design for The 39 Steps (co-produced with the Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, in partnership with UCF). His scenic and lighting designs have been seen at theatres such as LaMama in NYC, Arkansas Rep, Charlotte Rep, Playhouse on the Square, Drury Lane Theatre, Theatre Virginia, the World Stage Exposition in Toronto, Heritage Rep, Flat Rock Playhouse, the “Veggie Tales Live!” National Tour, Wall Street Danceworks, and others. This summer, Jim went off to the North Carolina Outer Banks for his third season as lighting designer at The Lost Colony. Jim is a member of the national designers union, United Scenic Artist, Local 829 in scene and lighting design. He serves as the Chair and Artistic Director for the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of South Carolina. Recent national activities include the Commission for Accreditation with the National Association of Schools of Theatre and as a mentor for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s Leadership Institute.

ROBERTA MALCOLM (Resident Costume Designer) is excited to enter her seventh season in residence at the Rep and 31 years as a costumer. She has designed, drafted, constructed and dressed over 200 productions across the United States. A member of USITT and IATSE, it has been her privilege and pleasure to design/wardrobe for John Ritter, Florence Henderson, LeVar Burton, Dean Jones, Cloris Leachman, Conrad John Shuck, Tony Bennett, Patti LaBelle, Margaret O’Brien and a host of other stage and screen luminaries. Thanks to Robert Cacioppo, John Martin, and the board for their continuing commitment to quality in the regional visual arts. AMY L. MASSARI (Production Stage Manager) is delighted to be a member of the Florida Rep family as resident production stage manager. August: Osage County is Amy’s fourth production at the Rep, having previously stage managed this season’s productions of Sylvia and Noises Off, and last season’s Relatively Speaking. Amy would like to thank the brilliant artistic and technical staff here at Florida Rep for all their hard work, and for welcoming her into this wonderful family. Before moving to Florida she spent the past two seasons as the Resident Production Stage Manager for the Bristol Riverside Theatre in Bristol, PA. Amy has been a proud member of Actor’s Equity Association for over twenty years. It has been her privilege to work in some of the countries finest regional theatres: the Alley Theatre (Houston, TX), the Dallas Theatre

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Center, (Dallas, TX), Stage-West (Springfield, MA), The Pioneer Memorial Theatre, (Salt Lake City, UT), The Colorado Shakespeare Festival, (Boulder, CO), and Queen’s Theatre in the Park, (Queens, NYC, NY) for the twentieth anniversary production of Maltby and Shire’s Closer Than Ever. Amy is happily married to her husband of fourteen years, Michael. Michael is a supportive partner, a gifted artist and a wonderful father to their two children, Jesse Cheyenne and Caleb Dakota. “Mommy Loves You Both!”

KATE SMITH (Sound Designer) is happy to return for her second season at Florida Rep. She is a native of Pennsylvania and a graduate from Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). Kate has worked in many aspects of theater. She most recently served as the Sound and Lighting Designer for FL Rep’s production of The Santaland Diaries. Sound Design credits include Noises Off and Gaslight this season, and last season’s smash hits Boeing Boeing, Trying, and You Can’t Take It With You. Lighting design credits include; Picnic (2009 KC/ACTF Region II Barbizon Award in Lighting Design for IUP) and last year’s Santaland Diaries for Florida Rep. Kate has also worked for Brevard Music Center, NC as Master Electrician, and spent last summer as the light board operator at Flat Rock Playhouse, NC.

MARCIE SMITH (Assistant Stage Manager) is a native of Indianapolis, Indiana. This is her first season with Florida Repertory Theatre. She was involved in many productions both on stage and off at the Indianapolis Civic Theatre. She recently stage-managed the Diaghilev Tribute Ballet at Indiana University, where she completed her stage management degree.

DAVID M. UPTON (Lighting Designer) is happy to be returning to Florida Rep to design August: Osage County. Other designs include work for The Revenge of the Mummy Attraction at Universal Studios Singapore, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Orlando Rep, North Carolina Theatre, Northern Stage, Merrimack Rep, Orlando Shakespeare, Seaside Music Theater, Florida Studio Theatre, The Orlando Opera and The Orlando Ballet, among others. David is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829. Much love to Sarah for her endless support and encouragement. www.dmujrdesigns.com

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