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by Tracy LettsAugust: 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 Dec. 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.

DirectorScenic Designer

Costume DesignerLighting Designer

Original MusicSound Designer

Wig & Makeup DesignerVocal Coach

Fight ChoreographerStage Manager

John Neville-AndrewsEli SchlatterLeslie BatesCharles MalottDavid SingerHenry ReynoldsDawn RivardAnnette MassonWayne David ParkerJenn Jacobs

August: Osage County will be performed with two brief intermissions.

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Beverly Weston .................................................................................... Matthew ProvenzaJohnna Monevata, a housekeeper ..............................................................Samantha RehrViolet Weston, Bev’s wife ................................................................................... Elly Jarvis Ivy Weston, Bev and Violet’s middle daughter ............................................... Regan MoroMattie Fae Aiken, Violet’s sister .............................................................. Emily ShimskeyCharlie Aiken, Mattie Fae’s husband ..............................................................Neal KelleyBarbara Fordham, Bev and Violet’s oldest daughter .................... Jacqueline Rose ToboniBill Fordham, Barbara’s husband ..............................................................Philip MaxwellJean Fordham, their daughter ............................................................Meredith StarkmanSheriff Deon Gilbeau ......................................................................................Lucas KaneKaren Weston, Bev and Violet’s youngest daughter .................................. Elana GantmanSteve Heidebrecht, her fiancé .....................................................................Ben ReitemeierLittle Charles Aiken, Charlie and Mattie Fae’s son ...................................Graham Techler

Setting: August 2007A large country home outside Pawhuska, Oklahoma, 60 miles northwest of Tulsa.

about the Playwright

traCy letts (Playwright) was born on July 4, 1965 in Tulsa, OK, to Dennis Letts, a college professor and actor, and best-selling author Billie Letts. Tracy is an ensemble member and Artistic Associate at Steppenwolf Theatre Company. As a playwright, he was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2008 Tony Award for Best Play for August: Osage County which premiered at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago in 2007. Other writing credits include Superior Donuts; Man from Nebraska, named one of “Time Magazine’s” Top Ten Plays of 2003 and a

finalist for a Pulitzer Prize; Killer Joe and Bug, both of which have been produced in Chicago, London and New York. His writing focuses on people struggling with moral and spiritual questions. In June 2012, he adapted Three Sisters for Steppenwolf.

As an actor, Letts played George in Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at Steppenwolf in 2010 and recently finished a five-month run of the show, with the original Steppenwolf cast, on Broadway on March 3, 2013. Additional Steppenwolf credits include Penelope, American Buffalo (also the McCarter), Betrayal, The Pillowman, The Pain And The Itch, The Dresser, Homebody/Kabul, The Dazzle, Glengarry Glen Ross (also in Dublin and Toronto), Three Days Of Rain, many others. Other acting credits include Yale Repertory Theatre, Next Lab, and Barrow Street Theatre. Film and television appearances include Guinevere, U.S. Marshal, Chicago Cab, The District, Profiler,The Drew Carey Show, Home Improvement, and Seinfeld. Letts made his directing debut at the Lookingglass Theatre with Glen Berger’s play Great Men of Science Nos. 21 & 22.

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aCknowledgments

The child comes home and the parent puts 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 that child sit in a chair for a couple of hours and 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 every much like diving into the octopus tank at the aquarium.

— Excerpt from All The King’s Men, quoted by Tracy Letts copyright 1946 and renewed 1974 by Robert Penn Warren,

reprinted by the permission of the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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leslie bates (Costume Designer) is a junior BFA design and production candidate in costume design.  U-M: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Beaux’ Stratagem, Our Country’s Good (Asst. Costume Designer); Senior Film Theses: Projections.  MUSKET: Cabaret (w/Katie Lantz). Regional Theatre: Great River Shakespeare Festival (costume intern 2011).

Jenn JaCobs (Stage Manger) is a junior BFA design and production candidate in lighting design and stage management. U-M: Almost Maine (LD), Chicago (Asst. LD), Dancelucent  (1st ASM), The Beaux’ Stratagem  (AME), The Full Monty  (1st ASM), The Crucible (ASM). MUSKET: Hairspray (SM). Basement Arts: Bare (Co-LD), Prelude to a Kiss (LD). U-M Educational Theatre Company (SM).

Charles malott (Lighting Designer) is a senior BSE Computer Science. U-M: Lighting Designer - Don Giovanni, The Rake’s Progress, Trumpets & Raspberries, Our Country’s Good; Asst. Lighting Designer - Much Ado About Nothing; Asst. Master Electrician - Gibson Fleck, Pentecost; Senior Thesis: Lighting Designer - Fat Men in Skirts; Basement Arts: Lighting Designer - Zombie Farm, Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe. Regional Theatre: Detroit Ballet Russe (Master Electrician, Gala 2011, Gala 2010).

annette masson (Vocal Coach) Associate Professor of Voice, Dept. of Theatre & Drama, has taught and coached actors and public speakers both nationally and abroad. She has worked on theatre productions at Harvard’s American Repertory Theater, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Huntington Theatre, Western Australia Academy, Drama Studio London, and The Purple Rose Theatre.  Her “public speaking techniques” have been used by political candidates, film, radio, and television personalities, as well as CEOs for Polaroid, GM, Lilly, and Pfizer.

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about the Cast elana gantman (Karen Weston) sophomore, BFA Perf., Forest Hills, NYelly Jarvis (Violet Weston) senior, BFA Perf., St. Cloud, MNluCas kane (Sheriff Deon Gilbeau) sophomore, BFA Perf., Katonah, NYneal kelley (Charlie Aiken) senior, BFA Perf., Ann Arbor, MIPhiliP maxwell (Bill Fordham) junior, BFA Perf., Kalamazoo, MIregan moro (Ivy Weston) first-year, BFA Perf., Ramsey, NJmatthew Provenza (Beverly Weston) first-year, BFA Perf., Farmington, MIsamantha rehr (Johnna Monevata) sophomore, BFA Perf., Weston, CTben reitemeier (Steve Heidebrecht) first-year, BFA Perf., Rockford, MIemily shimskey (Mattie Fae Aiken) sophomore, BFA Perf., West Bloomfield, MImeredith starkman (Jean Fordham) first-year, BFA Perf., Beverly Hills, MIgraham teChler (Little Charlie Aiken) first-year, BFA Perf., West Newton, MAJaCqueline rose toboni (Barbara Fordham) junior, BFA Perf., San Francisco, CA

about the artists John neville-andrews (Director) Professor and head of performance, Dept. of Theatre & Drama. U-M: Director: Noises Off, Uncommon Women and Others, Our Lady of 121st Street, She Stoops to Conquer, A Flea in Her Ear, In Arabia We’d All Be Kings, The Nutcracker, Don’t Dress for Dinner, The Secret Rapture, Measure for Measure. Acting: The Tempest, The Male Animal, Major Barbara. Regional Theatre: Former Artistic Producer, Michigan Shakespeare Festival, where he will direct King John this summer, and The Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, D.C.; he has also directed and acted for numerous other regional theatres. He is now the Co-Artistic Director of the American Shakespeare Collective.

wayne david Parker (Fight Choreographer) has been a fight choreographer and instructor for over 80 shows. He has taught at Wayne State University and Eastern Michigan University. As an actor, he has appeared in over 250 professional productions and 15 feature films, most notably as da Jimmer in both the original play and the movie version of Escanaba in da Moonlight.

henry reynolds (Sound Designer) is an Asst. Professor in the Dept. of Theatre & Drama and the sound engineer and information systems manager for Univ. Productions. U-M: Sound Designer: The Skin of Our Teeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Trumpets and Raspberries, Trafford Tanzi, Macbeth, Jonesin’, Pride and Prejudice, J.B., Playing for Time, The Laramie Project, The Rover, The Nutcracker, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Grapes of Wrath, To Kill a Mockingbird, Our Country’s Good, I Am A Man, Born in the R.S.A. Regional Theatre: Sound Design, Of Mice and Men, 2008 Fort Worth Opera Festival.

dawn rivard (Wig & Makeup Designer) World Premieres: Ragtime, Sunset Boulevard, Showboat, Rio de Sangre, Grammy Award-winning opera Elmer Gantry. International Theatre: Teatro Alla Scala, Rinaldo; Award winning productions of Cats and Die Schöne und Das Biest in Germany & Switzerland. TV/ Film: Emmy Award for Feast of All Saints, wig builder for Hairspray, Skinwalkers, and Mike Myers’ The Love Guru. Clients have included Jonathan Rhys Myers, Donald Sutherland, Jessica Biel, Aiden Turner, CCH Pounder, and Lily Collins.

eli sChlatter (Scenic Designer) is a senior BFA design and production candidate concentrating in scenic design. U-M: Almost Maine, Spring Awakening, The Beaux’ Stratagem (asst. design). Senior Directing Theses:  And Baby Makes Seven, The Diver.  Basement Arts:    Zombie Farm: An Original Musical, After Ashley, Frozen.  Regional Theatre: Cirque du Soleil’s KÁ (technical intern), The Moving Company (production intern), The Jungle Theater (production intern).

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DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE & DRAMAChair ...............................................................Priscilla LindsayDepartment Administrator ............................... Jennifer KnappStudent Services ...................... Tim Abbott, Becky SeauvageauAdministrative Asst ...................................Lindsay FrischmuthPerformance/Directing ............ Gillian Eaton, Priscilla Lindsay, Annette Masson, Janet Maylie, Nate Mitchell, John Neville-Andrews, Jerry Schwiebert, Malcolm TulipDesign/Production ................... Toni Y. Auletti, George Bacon, Mark Allen Berg, Gary Decker, Douglas Edwards, Jessica Hahn, Richard W. Lindsay, Jr., Vincent Mountain, Rob Murphy, Christianne Myers, Henry Reynolds, Arthur Ridley, Nancy UffnerTheatre Studies/Playwriting ...............Mbala Nkanga, OyamO, E.J. Westlake, Leigh WoodsArts Mgmt. ....... Jeffrey Kuras, Greg Poggi, Kerianne M. TupacInterarts...... Holly Hughes, Christianne Myers, Malcolm TulipProfessors Emeriti ....................... Jack E. Bender, Alan Billings, John Russell Brown, Peter W. Ferran, Erik Fredricksen, Zelma Weisfeld

UNIVERSITY PRODUCTIONSADMINISTRATIVE STAFFDirector ................................................................Jeffrey KurasDepartment Administrator ............................. Fatima AbdullahOffice Assistant III/Usher Coordinator .................Shelda SmithMarketing & Communications Dir. ........... Kerianne M. TupacGraphic Design ...............................................Don HammondPhotographer .................................... Peter Smith PhotographyInformation Systems Manager .........................Henry ReynoldsFacilities Manager ................................................Shannon RiceHouse Manager ............................................ Dianne WidzinskiSenior Backstage Operations Mgr. .........................Barry LaRueBackstage Operations Mgrs. ........Mark Gordon, David Pickell, Dane Racicot, Donald C. WatkinsAdministrative Office Assts. .........Allison Brown, Abrielle Case, Olivia Neinhouse, Taylor Norton, Hannah SparrowTheatre 386 ............Carly Baron, Beth Chimera, Joanna Miller, Stephen Risko, Erin Roulier, Eric Szkarlat, Bailey Vos PRODUCTION STAFFProduction Manager .....................................Amanda MengdenProduction Stage Manager...................................Nancy UffnerProduction Office Assts. ..................................Kelly Comastro, Amanda Jerzykowski, Lydia LopezTechnical Dir. (Power) ................................... Douglas EdwardsTechnical Dir. (Walgreen) ......................Richard W. Lindsay, Jr.Master Carpenter .................................................. Paul HunterCarpenter ........................................................... Russ Dunham

Charge Scenic Artist (Power) ..............................Toni Y. AulettiCharge Scenic Artist (Walgreen) .......................Beth SandmaierInterim Properties Master ....................................Patrick DroneInterim Asst. Properties Master ............................Sarah TannerProperties Artisan ............................................... Robert BrownMaster Electrician (on-leave) ...........................Mark Allen BergInterim Master Electrician ............................... Heather HunterSound Engineers .......................Roger Arnett, Henry ReynoldsCostume Shop Manager ......................................Laura BrinkerAssoc. Costume Shop Manager .......................... George BaconCutter/Drapers .... Corey Globke, Lea M. Morello, T J WilliamsonCrafts Artisan ...........................................Elizabeth GundersonCostume Stock Administrator .............................. Renae Skoog

PRODUCTION CREWFirst Asst. Stage Manager ................................Miriam MichaelsAsst. Stage Manager...................Scott Crandall, Rachel KaplowAsst. Director .......................................................Adam QuinnAsst. Sound Designers ....Jameson Eisele, William E. Wiltse, IIIDramaturg ....................................................Michael PopielarzMarketing & Communications Liaison ............... Joanna MillerScenery (Walgreen).............................Lucy Briggs, Elliot Cruz, CJ Eldred, Daniel Estrella, Liz Freed, Tyler J. Melnik, Rena Steed, Samantha Vettrus, students of Theatre 250 & 252Professional Painters .............................................Laura StrowePaint ............. Angela Alvarez, Michael Barbour, Carisa Bledsoe, Devin Eggert, Ryan Ernst, Austin Kozlowski, Katie Nadolny, Tanner Porter, Matthew Stzler, Stephanie Schoenhofer, Diana Sussman, students of Theatre 250 & 252Props ..................................Michael Barbour, Jessica Browning, Kerry Concannon, Jordan Miller, Josie-Lynn Patalon, Eli Schlatter, students of Theatre 250 & 252Professional Stitchers .......................................Patricia Branam, Laura Kantner, René Plante Costumes ........... Leslie Bates, Alyssa Battersby, Danielle Cohn, Aleah Douglas, Carrie Fisk, Laura Kemp, Kaitlin Lantz, Allyssa Powell, Tiffany Reynolds, Emily Shimskey, students of Theatre 250 & 252Lighting ..............Rachel Apsey, Colin Bianchi, Jennifer Jacobs, Annie Jacobson, Alexandra Jehle, AJ Klopach, Alyssa Loiacano, Charles Malott, Andrew Lott, Miriam Michaels, Tess Nugent, Clarissa Ortiz, Aaron Tacy, Andrew Wysocki, students of Theatre 250 & 252

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Gina Rattan ’08 Broadway: Resident Director, Billy Elliot; Director, Sweet Tooth, New York Fringe Festival 2012.

Christina Reynolds ’03 Assoc. Producer/Coordinator on reality TV episodes of America’s Next Top Model (international) and the National Geographic Channel.

Joey Richter ’11 Television: Glee (2013 recurring); Jessie (Officer Petey); Theatre: StarKid Productions.

Jonathan Rosen ‘03 Sports Broadcaster for Fox Sports West.

Becca Rothman ‘11 Stage Manager, 1776, The Asolo Repertory Theatre, FL.

Yuriy Sardarov ’10 Film: Argo; Television: Series regular, Chicago Fire.

Maureen Sebastian ’05 Film: Passing Harold Blumenthal; Television: Revolution, Hart of Dixie, Person of Interest. Off-Broadway: Lonely I’m Not, Second Stage.

Miriam Shor ‘93 Film: That’s What She Said; Television: The Good Wife, recurring role; Good Christian Belles, series regular.

Stephen Siercks ’07 Production Mgr. and Stage Mgr. for Universal Studios.

Joel Silver ’02 Assoc. Lighting Designer, National Tour: American Idiot.

Stephen Sposito ‘07: Broadway: Assoc. Director, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying; Asst. Director, Promises, Promises and Shrek The Musical.

Emily Stromberg ’12 Asst. Production Manager, The Araca Project.

Katie Thomas ’04 member of comedy group, The Katydids with SNL member Cecily Strong; webseries newly premiered by The Onion.

Katie Weidmaier ’12 Roxie in Chicago, Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock, NY

Erin Whipkey ’05 Production Mgr. and Production Stage Mgr. for Opera Memphis.

James Wolk ’07 Vanessa & Jan; Political Animals; CBS/Hallmark Hall of Fame’s Front of the Class; Lone Star.

U-M Friends of Theatre & Drama Annual Gifts from July 1, 2011 - March 13, 2013

Gifts provide scholarship support, funding for guest artists, and important performance opportunities for students.

GIFTS OF $50,000 & ABOVEEstate of Ralph Beebe GIFTS OF $5,000-$9,999AnonymousJoseph & Julie Learner GIFTS OF $1,000-$4,999Richard & Mona Alonzo Anne & James DuderstadtJames & Kathleen FiskEric Grandstaff & Alexis KaczynskiOra Hirsch PescovitzPriscilla Lindsay & Richard Ferguson-WagstaffePer & JoAnn OkeyGregory & Allison PoggiWilliam TaylorStephen Zuckerman & Darlene Kaplan GIFTS OF $500-$999H.D. CameronRandall & Ellen Frank Agusta GunnarsdottirJames HarrisGretchen & John JacksonDiane KirkpatrickAlan & Jean KrischRobert & Pearson MacekChandler & Mary MatthewsVirginia Morgan GIFTS OF $250-$499Henry & Harlene AppelmanFrank & Valerie BernackiWilliam & Ilene BirgePatrick ElkinsJanet & David FritschLarry HauptmanAl & Jolene Hermalin John Neville-Andrews & Pamela Lewis

Joseph PlacekJudith & Donald RumelhartStuart SacksIngrid & Clifford SheldonBrent WagnerJerry & John Weidenbach GIFTS OF $100-$249Lois AndersonLaurie AtwoodAlan BalakaJerry Balaka Mark BatellSarah BaumFrank & Gail BeaverShirley & Joel BergerEric & Doris BillesJoan A. Binkow Michael BrillKathleen ConlinClifford & Laura CraigGary Decker & Shelley MacMillan Peter & Grace DurenKaren & John FergusonSpencer Ford & Susan GoldsmithJanet & Erik FredricksenLeon & Marcia FriedmanThomas & Barbara GelehrterSteven & Joyce GerberJ. Martin GillespieSandra & Gerald GimelstobSusan GratchRobert & Irita GriersonDon Haefner & Cynthia StewartJessica HahnMarie & Thomas JarboeErich Jungwirth & Lauren WeigelCharles KellyJerold & Judith LaxBarbara Levine

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Kathryn LongLeslie & Susan LoomansEdwin & Catherine MarcusAnn Martin & Russell LarsonMargaret McKerrowWalter Mugdan & Vivienne LenkDonald MurrayColin & Nancy OatleyJames PattersonJames PiperRobert & Denise RichterJohn Romani & Barbara AndersonBonnie SchaferCharles SutherlandJill Chukerman Test & Thomas TestMargene WagstaffWynne WoodRobin WrightJames & Gladys Young GIFTS UNDER $100Nancy & John BabingtonMatthew BouseElise BryantTrudy & Jonathan BulkleyRichard & Ann BurkeJohn Cederquist & M. Kennedy ShawWilliam & Ellen ConlinJeffrey Cotnoir

Marylee Dalton & Lynn DrickamerLaura & Thomas DurkinBarbara Eisler-Campbell & Tim CampbellSuzy & Niels EnglebergPatricia & James FrounfelterJanice GeddesEdward & Mona GoldmanMary Sue GrantRobert Green & Martha Sullivan GreenKirk & Valerie HaasHansen Marketing Services Inc.I.A.T.S.E. Local 395Bonnie KerschbaumJeanne LottDaisy & Melvin ManisAnnette MassonMarjorie & David MastieN. Harris & Margaret McClamrochDouglas & Ruthette MillsPatricia PooleyDylan SaundersMaureen Schafer & David KlerkxAlida & Eugene SilvermanEllen & Jeoffrey StrossCharlotte B. Sundelson James & Kathleen TaylorVirginia VassLeigh Woods

For online giving, visit www.giving.umich.edu, e-mail Ellen Storch at estorch@umich.edu, or call 734-763-9769School of Music, Theatre & Dance • Development Office • 2005 Baits Drive • Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2075

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