Superior Donuts Program

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From the producing director

WELCOME TO THE GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE

Tracy Letts has been very busy. After overwhelming success with his Pulitzer Prize winning play August: Osage County, Letts immediately went on to write Superior Donuts, a far more insular, intimate play about a changing Chicago neighborhood and its long time inhabitants. These plays are incredibly different in tone and scope, but what seems consistent in all of Letts’ work is the specificity with which he creates his characters, each of whom display wonderful idiosyncrasies that make them stand apart from each other. Superior Donuts is a world inhabited by funny, strange and ultimately very recognizable men and women whom we see all across America every day.

At the helm of this evocative piece is Geffen Artistic Director Randall Arney. His personal connection to Chicago — as a former resident — and to Letts himself, having worked with him at Steppenwolf, make this project exciting for Randy on both a personal and artistic level. As always, he has surrounded himself with a powerhouse team of designers including John Arnone (sets), Dan Ionazzi (lights) and Laura Bauer (costumes). They have worked together to create a setting that echoes the eccentricities of the characters within it. Richard Woodbury (composer) and Ned Mochel, who joins us as fight choreographer, round out the team.

It is always a pleasure to watch the work of my colleague and friend, Randy Arney. He is a gifted director who finds his way into plays through the eyes of an actor and allows for his cast to find the path with him as rehearsals progress. The outcome is always beautifully staged and incredibly organic, and he has once again struck that delicate balance with Superior Donuts. In line with what Letts hoped to achieve with this play, Randy has found a way to tell a specific story with a universal appeal — a story that questions what it means to live in an ever-changing America.

See you at the theater,

Gilbert Cates Producing Director

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As the geFFen playhouse’s 2010-2011 seAson drAws to A close, it is A pleasure to welcome you to the last show. On behalf of the Board of Directors, I want to thank you for your support and for being a part of our treasured Geffen Family.

This season the theater has experienced tremendous growth in our education and outreach programs:

The Geffen Playhouse Story Pirates program found a new home in Westwood. This award-winning, inspirational program has now been introduced to multiple LAUSD elementary schools, including two year-round creative writing programs we’re piloting.

We conducted interactive pre and post-show workshops with underserved high school students during our production of Ruined and developed new partnerships with high schools and other non-profit organizations that serve disadvantaged teens throughout Los Angeles.

Our original touring production, How Raven Stole Fire and Other Stories, enhanced our collaboration with UCLA and their teaching artists program by integrating their artists into a Geffen school tour.

These are only a few indications of the growth we have experienced over the past year. In addition, this year’s Backstage at the Geffen event raised over $880,000 for these programs, which made this a record year.

I look forward to next season with much anticipation. At the time this letter goes to print, we are excited to welcome Kathleen Turner to the Geffen Playhouse where she will play the role of Molly Ivins in Red Hot Patriot. In addition, we’re excited about the West Coast premiere of the highly acclaimed play, Next Fall and a world premiere of a stage adaptation of The Exorcist. We hope you will join us as subscribers for our 2011-2012 season.

Tonight our own artistic director, Randy Arney, directs Superior Donuts. We appreciate your support and look forward to seeing you at the theater. Sit back, relax and enjoy the show.

Respectfully yours,

Frank G. Mancuso Chairman, Geffen Playhouse

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Backstage at the Geffen May 2, 2011Thank you to our supporters, who helped make this a record-breaking event for the theater.

Backstage Committee Co-Chairs Jo Champa and Pamela Robinson Hollander walk

the red carpet

Chairman’s Circle members Howard & Jodi Tenenbaum

Kirsten Hansen and her guest enjoy the Audi A7 on display thanks to Presenting Sponsor

Audi of America

Geffen Playhouse Board member mary Ann Cloyd with her PricewaterhouseCoopers guests

Kathleen Peacock and mark & Jackie Crouse

Chairman’s Circle members Bill & Carole Haber with Geffen Playhouse Producing Director

Gil Cates

Geffen Playhouse Chairman of the Board Frank mancuso greets Russell Goldsmith, CEO of City National Bank, Presenting Sponsor of

Backstage at the Geffen 2011

Geffen Playhouse Producing Director Gil Cates with Distinction in Theater honoree,

Julie Andrews

Gil Cates with Geffen Playhouse Board member Ron meyer (Honorary Co-Chair of the event) and Bruce Ramer, Founding Chairman of the Board

Gil Cates with Creative Artists Agency’s David O’Connor and Geffen Playhouse Chairman

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SCENE AT THE GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE


DIRECTOR’S CHOICEBy Amy leVinson

AL: I recall you telling a story about the writing of Superior Donuts and how it came out of August: Osage County. Can you talk a bit about that?

RA: What I remember is that Tracy was writing and creating August: Osage County and it was moving from Chicago to New york. He had a feeling that it was going to be a defining moment for him as a playwright. He decided to begin writing something else, before any of the heat hit for August, because he was afraid that he wouldn’t know what to write next. He was afraid that he’d be tempted or swayed by the attention that August was getting to write a particular type

of follow-up play. So, he said he started writing Superior Donuts because he knew it was a very different kind of play with a different feel and he wanted to have a good head start before anyone began to comment on August: Osage County.

AL: In terms of the tone of the two plays, what would you say are the similarities and differences between August: Osage County and Superior Donuts?

RA: Superior Donuts is certainly lighter. I hesitate to refer to it that way, because it is certainly no less real. Tracy has written, in both cases, very real situations, but there is a sweetness in Superior Donuts; it has heart. I

normally avoid the word sentimentality because of the negative connotations, but it applies here. I think that Tracy, after writing the play about his home and where he grew up in Oklahoma, wanted to write a play about his adopted home, Chicago. So August is a play with deep familial Long Day’s Journey into Night kind of resonance while Superior Donuts is more about the place he chose to live as an adult. Also, Donuts really plays like a comedy. It’s so much lighter than August, but really delivers in its own way.

AL: In terms of balancing between being Artistic Director and a director on a particular play, do you find that you choose plays in a similar way? In other words, in selecting a season of plays, are the criteria the same for when you come across a play you want to direct?

RA: In terms of directing, I tend to be attracted to plays that tell a really good story with an ensemble of characters. This may be based on my upbringing at Steppenwolf (in Chicago). I often think of what Mamet says about plays: what keeps an audience in their seats is waiting to see what happens next, and so I tend to be attracted to really good stories. That’s my take as a director. As Artistic Director, we are often led to plays because of the story, or the company but often it’s a director who finds a play really exciting. I believe in following the lead of directors with whom we’ve worked and who we trust. But we are oftentimes in a position of reading plays, really liking them and knowing that they are the right plays for our audiences, but it still isn’t something that attracts me as a director. Because the art is subjective, we don’t automatically see a play as another director might see it. If someone like Dan Sullivan or David esbjornson says, “I have a vision for this play. I know what I want to do with it,” that can be a driving force in

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the selection process. We are always building a season that should have five very different colors on the main stage from dramas to comedies and everything on the line between, and there are always plays that each of us will like more than others.

AL: you were the Artistic Director at Steppenwolf for how many years?

RA: For eight years, although I have been an ensemble member since 1984 and was the Artistic Associate beginning in ’85 or ’86 under Gary Sinise. I became the Artistic Director in 1987.

AL: What do you find are the fundamental differences in being Artistic Director at an ensemble-based theater (Steppenwolf) and a non-ensemble-based theater (Geffen Playhouse)?

RA: I’ve often said that being the Artistic Director at Steppenwolf is really a unique experience because there is an ensemble there, an artistic body who are the founders, actually. Because it was an actor-based theater, I often felt that my job as Artistic Director was the care and feeding of that ensemble. Through that, we found our play choice. Many traditional Artistic Directors close their door and select plays on their own, for their season. At Steppenwolf, we were in constant touch with the artists asking what do you want to do and when do you want to do it? Oftentimes, we were led to plays that, were it not for the interest of specific ensemble members, we might never have considered them. Coming to work at the Geffen, it was initially a bit frightening because I didn’t have that vast dramaturgical pool of people telling me about plays they wanted to do and when they wanted to do them. But I quickly came to realize that it was very freeing as well. All of a sudden, I could consider plays for any number of reasons and it didn’t matter if it addressed the needs of certain actors.

So even though I am still attracted to those kinds of plays as a director, it’s liberating to be able to talk to directors and writers and choose material solely based on our desire to produce it.

AL: Do you feel particularly locked into this play since it’s set in Chicago, as opposed to when you direct a play that takes place in the Mississippi Delta, or Ireland, or Texas?

RA: I love that this play is set in Chicago and I feel that because I know Tracy and I know Chicago so well that I am tied into it in a distinct way. I know the street corner that he’s writing about in this play. By the same token though, this play is really incredibly universal and could have taken place anywhere. His themes of cities morphing and reinventing themselves — that could be any city. This idea of America stumbling towards its destiny of what it is to become, it’s taking place all over the country. But of course, my love, and Tracy’s love of Chicago have a lot to do with what draws me to the play.

AL: Can you talk a bit about how you and Tracy Letts met and when you initially worked together?

RA: Tracy Letts was a young actor in Chicago who co-founded a theater company called Famous Door Theater. It happened to be producing plays in the very space that Steppenwolf had vacated. So we would go over and see plays there, but at this point, Tracy was acting, he hadn’t written anything yet. Then, Phyllis Schuringa, who is now our Casting Director at the Geffen, cast Tracy in one of the educational outreach shows at Steppenwolf. I believe he played the role of Tom in The Glass menagerie for high school kids. I first cast him in a play when I was directing the world premiere of Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapine Agile. I cast him as Freddy the bartender. He played the role in Chicago and then

came out here to Los Angeles, and was in the production that was to be the final production of the Westwood Playhouse before this building became the Geffen Playhouse. It ran for ten months here, and it wasn’t until after the run of that show that Tracy went back to Chicago and was made a member of the Steppenwolf ensemble and started writing plays.

AL: I had heard you draw a parallel between this play as the last play of our season and Thurgood, the final play of last season – what was that parallel?

RA: I love the fact that last season at the Geffen and this season at the Geffen are going to end with the same line of dialogue: “America will be…” That was the last line of Thurgood and it’s the last line of Superior Donuts. It’s a line from a Langston Hughes poem and I’m struck that Tracy is wrestling with some of the very same issues that George Stevens, Jr. explored in Thurgood. The concept of America — this imperfect beast, struggling toward a more perfect idea of itself. This huge idea is encompassed on a street corner in Chicago. Our set design is such that it clearly used to be a diner, but now it’s a donut shop and over the course of our play it will continue to morph. And at the center of this play is a man who went to Canada to avoid vietnam. Tracy said the impetus for this play came from this generation of men who were forever changed by that conflict whether they chose to fight or to leave, it all speaks to “America will be.” I just love that these two plays, Thurgood and Superior Donuts, they couldn’t be more different but they seek to leave us with the same resonant idea. It cannot be an accident that this is such a prevalent idea with writers at this moment in time, and I am so pleased to be seizing upon it.


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THE GEFFEN PLAYHOUSEpresents

Directed by Randall Arney

Written by Tracy Letts

Production Stage Manager Mary Michele Miner

Assistant Stage Manager Susie Walsh

Fight Choreographer Ned Mochel

Sound Designer/Composer Richard Woodbury

Set Designer John Arnone

Costume Designer Laura Bauer

Lighting Designer Daniel Ionazzi

Dramaturg Amy Levinson

Casting Director Phyllis Schuringa

Gilbert Cates PRODUCING DIReCTOR Randall Arney ARTISTIC DIReCTOR Ken Novice MANAGING DIReCTOR

opening night: June 8, 2011

o p e n i n g n i g h t s p o n s o r e d B y :


Original Broadway production produced byJeffrey Richards Jean Doumanian Jerry Frankel

Awaken entertainment Debra Black Chase Mishkin Karmichelle Productions/Rober G. BartnerDena Hammerstein/Pam Pariseau Carole & Barry Kaye/Irv Weltzer Andrew Asnes

Rebecca Gold Kathleen K. Johnson George Kaufman Charlie McAteerTerry Schnuck Michael Gardner/David Jaroslowicz

Stewart F. Lane/Bonnie Comley Roy Gottlieb/Raise The Roof Two

The world premiere of Superior Donuts was presented at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago, ILMartha Lavey ARTISTIC DIReCTOR • David Hawkanson exeCUTIve DIReCTOR

Superior Donuts is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New york.

CAST oF CHARACTeRS (In order of appearance)

Max Tarasor .......................................................................................................................... Ron BottittaOfficer Randy Osteen ....................................................................................................... Mary Beth FisherOfficer James Bailey ......................................................................................................... Damon GuptonLady Boyle ............................................................................................................................. Kathryn JoostenArthur Przybyszewski ....................................................................................................... Gary ColeFranco Wicks ........................................................................................................................ edi GathegiKevin Magee ......................................................................................................................... Matt McTighe Luther Flynn.......................................................................................................................... Paul DillonKiril Ivakin............................................................................................................................... Brian Abraham

uNDeRSTuDIeSArthur and Max ................................................................................................................... David Alan NovakLady Boyle and Randy ...................................................................................................... Kathleen Mary CarthyFranco and James .............................................................................................................. Duain Richmond MartynKiril, Kevin and Luther ...................................................................................................... PJ Brown

The Geffen Playhouse gratefully acknowledges the following media sponsors for their generous support of Superior Donuts.

TIMe & PLACe The Present, Chicago

RuNNING TIMe Approximately 2 Hours

There will be a 15 minute intermission

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The Geffen Playhouse is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.

This project was also funded in part by the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles.

The Geffen Playhouse, a non-profit theater company, is proudly affiliated with the University of California at Los Angeles.

BRIAN ABRAHAM (Kiril Ivakin)Brian is thrilled to be making his debut at the Geffen Playhouse. He was most recently seen in Superior Donuts at the San Diego Repertory Theatre where he played the role of Kiril Ivakin. Brian is honored to reprise the role here at the Geffen. He has worked at many theaters throughout Southern California and New york City, including the San Diego Repertory Theatre, Moonlight Amphitheater, Ion Theatre Company, The Intrepid Shakespeare Company, New village Arts and many others. His favorite roles include Jacques in As You Like it, Pisanio in Cymbeline, The Prince of Morocco in merchant of Venice, Khalil in Back of the Throat and Freddy the bartender in Picasso at the Lapin Agile. Brian’s television credits include The Shield, As the World Turns, Drake and Josh and Deadline. Brian has a BFA in acting from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

RoN BoTTITTA (Max Tarasor)Ron recently completed a six month critically-acclaimed run of Cormac McCarthy’s The Sunset Limited at L.A.’s Rogue Machine Theatre. Other local credits include The Arsonists at The Odyssey, and Razorback, also at Rogue Machine, where he is a company member. Upcoming film credits include this summer’s Transformers: Dark of the moon and Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin. Past films include The Social Network, Hereafter, Going the Distance, A Christmas Carol, Chekhov and maria, mr. and mrs. Smith, The Hard Corps, and in Good Company. Ron has played a foreign legion of heroic losers on Tv, but is most celebrated by geeks for portraying “Crazy Lennie” who brought “the numbers” to Lost. He is the host of Rogue Machine’s ongoing spoken-word

series: Rant and Rave. Ron received his BA from UC Berkeley, his MFA from NyU, is a pilot, father and motorcyclist, and is married to actress Holly Fulger.

GARy CoLe (Arthur Przybyszewski)Gary Cole has been a member of Steppenwolf Theater Company since 1986. He last appeared in Tracy Letts’ August: Osage County at the National Theater in London, and also at the Sydney Theater Company Films include Hop, Pineapple Express, Talladega Nights, Dodgeball, The Brady Bunch movie, One Hour Photo, Breach, The Gift, A Simple Plan, and in the Line of Fire. Television includes Fatal Vision, midnight Caller, American Gothic, the West Wing, Desperate Housewives, Entourage, The Good Wife, True Blood, and Curb Your Enthusiasm.

PAuL DILLoN(Luther Flynn)Born and raised in Joliet, Illinois, Paul was busy on Chicago stages before moving to Los Angeles in 1994. He originated the role of Joe Cooper in the world premiere of Tracy Letts’ play Killer Joe at the Next Lab in evanston. In 1999, he first reprised Killer Joe off-Broadway at The Soho Playhouse, and then in the Ovation Award-winning, west coast premiere production at The Gardener Stages. He also played the Cabbie in 1995’s LA Weekly Award-winning production of Hellcab at the Tamarind Theatre. Recently Paul appeared in Threepenny Opera at the Odyssey, Rantoul and Die by Mark Roberts and The Event by John Clancy. He understudied and occasionally performed the role of the Tiger in CTG’s Taper production of Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. Paul also works in film and Tv. Notable The Pretender, Austin Powers, Fight Club, The Shield, and the upcoming On the Road.

MARy BeTH FISHeR (Officer Randy Osteen)Mary Beth most recently appeared in the Chicago premiere of God of Carnage at the Goodman Theatre. Other Chicago credits include: The Seagull, Rock ‘N’ Roll, the Clean House, Dinner With Friends, Heartbreak House, Spinning into Butter (Goodman Theatre); Dead man’s Cell Phone, The Dresser, The memory of Water (Steppenwolf); Three Tall Women, The Year of magical Thinking (Joseph Jefferson Award), The Wild Duck, What the Butler Saw, Arcadia, Travesties (Court); The Taming of the Shrew (Chicago Shakespeare); The Laramie Project: Epilogue, The Little Dog Laughed (About/Face). Ny credits include: Frank’s Home (Playwrights Horizons); Boy Gets Girl (Drama League Honoree, Drama Desk and Lucile Lortel nominations), The Radical mystique and By The Sea... (Manhattan Theatre Club); The Night of the iguana (Roundabout): Extremities (Westside Arts). Tv/Film: Chicago Code, State of Romance, Without a Trace, Numb3rs, Prison Break, NYPD Blue, Profiler, Early Edition, Formosa Betrayed, Dragonfly, and Trauma. Ms. Fisher received the 2010 Chicago’s Leading Lady Award from the Sarah Siddons Society and was named “Best Actress” in Chicago magazine’s “Best of Chicago” issue (August, 2010). She is a Lunt-Fontanne Fellow and a proud member of Actor’s equity Association.

eDI GATHeGI (Franco Wicks) edi Gathegi was a member of the ensemble in 2008’s theatrical box-office phenomenon, Twilight , playing vampire “Laurent,” and went on to reprise his role in the 2009 sequel, New moon. Gathegi stars in the filmed adaptation, Atlas Shrugged: Part i released in April, 2011 in addition to

the highly anticipated X-men: First Class opening wide June 3. Notable film credits include: Gone Baby Gone, Death Sentence, Crank and my Bloody Valentine 3D. Television credits include: House, CSi, CSi: miami, Nikita, Veronica mars and Life on mars. Theater resume includes regional stage work in productions of Twelfth Night, A maiden’s Prayer (Santa Barbara Independent Award), A Raisin in the Sun, Othello, A midsummer Night’s Dream, Cyrano and Two Trains Running at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego. Gathegi graduated from NyU’s MFA program.

DAMoN GuPToN (Officer James Bailey)Stage: inked Baby, The Story, meg’s New Friend, An American Daughter, True History and Real Adventures, Treason, Othello and eric Simonson’s Carter’s Way. Mr. Gupton received an AUDeLCO nomination for his work in the premiere of Bruce Norris’ Pulitzer Prize-winning Clybourne Park. Tv: Law and Order: Ci, Deadline, Conviction, The unusuals, Hack, Third Watch, Strange Brew and Peter Berg’s Prime Suspect. Film: unfaithful, The Loretta Claiborne Story, Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead, and The Last Airbender. Mr. Gupton is a graduate of the Juilliard School Drama Division and the University of Michigan School of Music. As an orchestra conductor, appearances include the Cleveland Orchestra, The Detroit Symphony, The Baltimore Symphony, The Houston Symphony, The Kansas City Symphony, The Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo.

KATHRyN JooSTeN (Lady Boyle)Ms. Joosten Began her career in Chicago at the Goodman Theatre in Front Page and The Government inspector. She was awarded an


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Ovation Award for her role in Ladies of the Corridor. The three time emmy nominated Kathryn Joosten is currently starring as Mrs. McClusky on Desperate Housewives. In 2005 and 2008, Joosten won an emmy for her portrayal of the crotchety, gossipy neighbor. In addition to her nominations, she recently was re-elected to the Board of Governors of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Joosten was nominated three times for a SAG Award (Desperate Housewives). Adding to her mantle, Joosten’s passionate work on behalf of lung cancer earned her a proclamation from the City of Los Angeles. Joosten herself is a long time lung cancer survivor. Prior to joining the Desperate Housewives cast, she was best known as Mrs. Landingham on the critically acclaimed and emmy Award winning NBC drama, The West Wing. Other Tv credits include: Dharma and Greg, monk, Joan of Arcadia, Las Vegas, The Closer, my Name is Earl, Grey’s Anatomy, Ally mcBeal, and Scrubs. Movies include Bedtime Stories, Wedding Crashers and Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeekquel.

MATT McTIGHe(Kevin Magee)Matt is a company member of the award winning Pacific Resident Theatre in venice, where he has played Tom in The Time of Your Life (LADCC nomination for “Best Revival”) and Hal in Proof. Previous theater credits include being a company member of the Tony Award winning Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Richard iii, Henry Vi p.2&3, Romeo & Juliet, Richard ii, Dr. Faustus, Napoli millionaria!, The Visit, among others. He was the KCACTF regional winner and national finalist at the Kennedy Center 2002 Irene Ryans. Television credits include guest stars or recurring on Friday Night Lights, Grey’s Anatomy, The Closer, 24, CSi: NY, CSi: miami, Bones, men of a Certain Age, Trust me, medium, Criminal minds, among others. Recent film includes the Oren Moverman directed Rampart starring Woody Harrelson. He is also the author of, Hella a Novel, just released by Two Harbors Press.

TRACy LeTTS (Playwright)A Steppenwolf ensemble member, Tracy Letts has appeared on stage in The Glass menagerie, Glengarry Glen Ross, Homebody/Kabul and as the title role in The Dresser. As a playwright, Tracy’s work includes Killer Joe, Bug and man From Nebraska, which was named a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. His play August: Osage County was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2008 Tony Award for Best Play. Tracy was also named as one of Time’s “Best of 2003.”

RANDALL ARNey (Director)Randall Arney is known to Geffen audiences for his direction of The Female of the Species by Joanna Murray-Smith; Speed the Plow by David Mamet; All my Sons by Arthur Miller, Richard Greenberg’s Take me Out, Stephen Jeffreys’ i Just Stopped by to See the man, Rebecca Gilman’s Boy Gets Girl, David Rambo’s God’s man in Texas and Conor McPherson’s The Weir and The Seafarer. He is an ensemble member and former Artistic Director of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre, where he directed The Seafarer; i Just Stopped by to See the man; The Beauty Queen of Leenane; Death and the maiden; Curse of the Starving Class; Bang; A Walk in the Woods; Killers and The Geography of Luck. In addition, he directed the world premiere of Picasso at the Lapin Agile at Steppenwolf, as well as the subsequent Los Angeles (Westwood Playhouse, Drama-Logue Critics’ Award), Off-Broadway, San Francisco, Washington D.C. and Tokyo productions. In Chicago, he oversaw the design, creation and completion of a new state-of-the-art theatre with a mainstage and studio. Broadway transfers under his leadership include The Rise and Fall of Little Voice; The Song of Jacob Zulu (six Tony Award nominations); and The Grapes of Wrath (1990 Tony Award, Best Play). Mr. Arney’s acting credits with Steppenwolf include Born Yesterday (opposite Glenne Headly); Ghost in the machine; The Homecoming; Frank’s Wild Years (with Tom Waits, directed by Gary Sinise); You Can’t Take it With You; Fool for Love; True West (directed by Gary Sinise); and Balm in Gilead and Coyote ugly

(both directed by John Malkovich). On film he has appeared in Normal and Weapons of mass Distraction (HBO); mystery, Alaska; The Out-of-Towners; Chain Reaction; The Color of money and miles from Home. Mr. Arney has an MFA degree in Acting and has taught acting and directing at Columbia College in Chicago and Illinois State University. He has also held master classes and workshops at Steppenwolf, around the U.S., and in Tokyo.

JoHN ARNoNe (Set Designer) Tony Award-winner, began his career designing critically acclaimed productions Off Broadway for which he received two Obie Awards. He designed more than 30 sets at New york’s Public Theater with legendary producer Joseph Papp, Lion Theater Company, Playwrights Horizons, and Circle Rep. He has worked with Garland Wright and Joe Dowling at the Guthrie Theater and Des McAnuff at La Jolla Playhouse. In 1993 The Who’s Tommy opened on Broadway, for which Mr. Arnone received a Tony, Dora Mavor Moore, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards. Other Broadway designs include How to Succeed in Business…, Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992; Sacrilege; Tommy Tune’s productions of The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public and Grease; Sex and Longing; The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?; Fortune’s Fool; The Full monty; marlene; The Deep Blue Sea; Lone Star/Pvt Wars; minnelli on minnelli; The Best man; The Ride Down mt. morgan; and Lennon: The musical. His work has been seen in Canada, London, vienna, Berlin, Japan, and Australia. Designs for the Geffen Playhouse: Nightmare Alley, Atlanta, i Just Stopped by to See the man, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Collected Stories, Cryptogram.

LAuRA BAueR (Costume Designer) Broadway credits include A Life in the Theatre, Speed the Plow, Glengarry Glen Ross, Talk Radio, Top Girls, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, November, and Frankie and Johnny at the Claire de Lune. She is a company member of The Atlantic Theater Company in New york and has worked extensively with the Steppenwolf Theater Company in Chicago. Last year she designed The Subject Was Roses at The Taper and Palomino at The Kirk Douglas theaters here in LA. She is happy to be back at The Geffen where she just designed The Escort. Her film designs include Woody Allen’s Sweet and Lowdown, and Stephen Frears’ High Fidelity.

DANIeL IoNAzzI (Lighting Designer)Daniel is Production Manager for the Geffen Playhouse. He is also a

member of the faculty of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and Director of Production for the Department of Theater. Mr. Ionazzi is the author of The Stage management Handbook and The Stagecraft Handbook. Design credits include: WWii - Beyond all Boundaries for the National World War II Museum. For Steppenwolf Theatre Company: The Seafarer. For South Coast Repertory Theater: in The Next Room. For the Geffen Playhouse: A Step in Time; Nightmare Alley, The Female of the Species, The Seafarer, Atlanta, Speed-the-Plow, A Picasso, Wishful Drinking; All my Sons; (Ovation nomination); Cat On A Hot Tin Roof; Paint Your Wagon, Take me Out, i Just Stopped By To See The man, Boy Gets Girl (Ovation nomination), under The Blue Sky, Oscar & Felix, God’s man in Texas, The unexpected man, The Weir, Defiled, merton of the movies and All in the Timing (Ovation nomination); for the Dance Company Diavolo: Catapult and Traajectorie; for the Denver Center Theatre Company: Henry iV Part i, The Three Sisters, The Night of the iguana, Antigone. Additional design credits: The Ahkmatova Project, Amelia Lives, Telling Time, Othello, Trojan Women, misalliance and Jenufa with Josef Svoboda.

RICHARD WooDBuRy (Sound Designer/Composer) Previous Geffen credits include sound design and/or original music for The Seafarer, All my Sons, Boy Gets Girl, i Just Stopped By to See the man, and others. Broadway credits include Desire under the Elms, August: Osage County, Talk Radio, Long Day’s Journey into Night, A moon for the misbegotten, Death of a Salesman and others. Credits at Chicago’s Goodman Theater include; Candide, The True History of the Johnstown Flood, Hughie, Krapp’s Last Tape, Animal Crackers, magnolia, Desire under The Elms, Rabbit Hole, King Lear, Frank’s Home, Dollhouse, Finishing the Picture, moonlight and magnolias, Lobby Hero, and many others. Steppenwolf Theater credits include: up, The Seafarer, August: Osage County, i Just Stopped By To See The man, Hysteria, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, and others. Richard’s work has also appeared at the Stratford Festival in Canada, London’s Lyric and National Theatres, in Paris, France and at regional theaters across the United States. He has received Joseph Jefferson and Helen Hayes Awards for outstanding sound design, and the Ruth Page award for Outstanding Collaborative Artist, as well as nominations for Drama Desk, and Ovation awards. He has composed numerous commissioned scores for dance and is an Associate Professor and “Distinguished Faculty Artist” at Columbia College Chicago where he serves as Music Director in the Dance Department.



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NeD MoCHeL (Fight Choreographer)Ned is pleased to be returning to Geffen after doing fight work for Ruined and Fat Pig. Ned was fight choreographer for both west coast premieres of the Tracy Letts plays Killer Joe and Bug. Recently Ned staged the fights for Big Bang Theory writer Mark Robert’s new play Rantoul and Die at the Lillian Theatre in LA. Among many other productions, Ned was fight choreographer for Steppenwolf’s The Song of Jacob Zulu in Chicago and on Broadway, and The Lyric Opera’s production of mcTeague, directed by Robert Altman. In 2009 Ned was awarded an LA Drama Theatre Critics’ award for fight choreography for the vS production of On An Average Day. Ned also received a special fight choreography Chicago Jeff Citation for his work in the pirate, sword-fighting epic, The Fair maid of the West.

MARy MICHeLe MINeR (Production Stage Manager)Previous credits at the Geffen include Nightmare Alley, Wrecks, By The Waters of Babylon, Some Girl(s), Heroes, Wishful Drinking, God Of Hell and Boston marriage. Recent credits include medea at UCLA Live and Back to Bacharach & David at the Music Box in Hollywood. Other L.A. credits include Stuff Happens, The Goat, The Talking Cure, Like Jazz, Living Out, Flower Drum Song, The Dinner Party and Putting it Together (among many others) at the Mark Taper; Romeo and Juliet, The midsummer Night’s Dream, measure For measure, The Heiress and Candide at the Ahmanson. She has also worked at the Doolittle, Pasadena Playhouse, Westwood Playhouse, Coronet, as well as some Civic Light Operas and many benefits. Regional theaters include La Jolla Playhouse, Magic Theatre, Kennedy Center, Guthrie, McCarter, Steppenwolf, Ny Public, Circle Repertory and the Montreal International Theatre Festival. Tours include Love, Sweet Love, around the Southwest, Jesus Christ, Superstar around the states and Terra Nova around Japan. In New york she has PSM’d both on and off Broadway. Proud member of Actors’ equity. Her husband, Paul Perri, and she have two children, Giacomo and Justine.

SuSIe WALSH (Assistant Stage Manager) Susie has worked in Los Angeles as a stage manager for 18 years during which time she has worked on over 100 shows, including stage managing Nightmare Alley, and Heroes at the Geffen. Other SM credits include 33 Variations, Flower Drum Song, Like Jazz, The Drowsy Chaperone, minsky’s, Parade and Leap of

Faith. Los Angeles theater credits include the Ahmanson Theatre, the Mark Taper Forum, Pasadena Playhouse, the Brentwood and Kodak Theatres. In New york, Susie was stage manager on Putting it Together which originated at the Mark Taper Forum. Go Braves.

PHyLLIS SCHuRINGA (Casting Director) Phyllis is in her ninth season as Casting Director at the Geffen Playhouse. Recent plays include: The Escort, Ruined (LA Casting), Equivocation, matthew modine Saves the Alpacas, Farragut North, The Seafarer, Time Stands Still, By the Waters of Babylon, The Quality of Life and Third. Prior to the Geffen, Phyllis served as casting director for the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago. Her favorites include Frank Galati’s adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath (also La Jolla Playhouse, National Theatre in London, and Broadway, where it received the Tony Award for Best Play), the original production of Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile (and subsequent productions including Westwood Playhouse and Briar Street Theater in Chicago), Austin Pendleton’s Orson’s Shadow and Charles L. Mee’s Time to Burn. Broadway transfers include One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Tony for Best Revival) and The Song of Jacob Zulu. She teaches auditioning at Steppenwolf West.

AMy LeVINSoN (Dramaturg)Amy Levinson is the Literary Manager and Dramaturg of the Geffen Playhouse. Her dramaturgy credits at the Geffen Playhouse include The Weir, Looking for Normal, Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks, under The Blue Sky, Rose and Walsh, Boy Gets Girl, i Just Stopped By To See The man, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Third, The Quality of Life and Equivocation among others. Also a translator of yiddish drama, she holds an MFA in Dramaturgy from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she taught until 1997. She has worked in literary offices at Hartford Stage and The Mark Taper Forum.

GILBeRT CATeS(Producing Director) Gilbert Cates is recognized as a leader in television, film and

theater. Currently presiding as the Producing Director of the Geffen Playhouse, he is dedicated to enriching the Los Angeles theatrical spectrum by presenting the finest in contemporary and classical theater. In November 1996, Cates was the recipient of the Jimmy Dolittle Award for Outstanding Contribution to Los Angeles Theater. He received the 1999 Ovation Award for best play for Collected Stories, starring Linda Lavin and Samantha Mathis, which he directed at the Geffen. The accolades for Cates expand into other areas of the entertainment industry. He produced and directed the 1970 film version of the Broadway hit i Never Sang for my Father, starring Melvyn Douglas, Gene Hackman and estelle Parsons. The movie earned three Academy Award nominations. Cates also directed Joanne Woodward and Sylvia Sidney in the 1973 film Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams, which received two Oscar nominations. Other film directing credits include: The Promise, One Summer Love, The Last married Couple in America, Oh! God Book ii and Backfire. He further distinguished himself as director and/or producer of a number of television dramatic specials. These include NBC’s 1972 emmy Award-winning To all my Friends on Shore, starring Bill Cosby, ABC’s 1974 The Affair starring Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner, NBC’s 1975 After the Fall starring Faye Dunaway and Christopher Plummer. Other credits include: Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye, The Kid from Nowhere, County Gold, Faerie Tale Theater’s Rapunzel and Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Hobson’s Choice, Burning Rage, Consenting Adults, Fatal Judgment, Do You Know the muffin man, Call me Anna, Absolute Strangers, in my Daughter’s Name, and Tom Clancy’s Netforce (Cates directed James Agee’s A Death in the Family for Masterpiece Theater’s American Collection of PBS and Donald Margulies’ Collected Stories for PBS Hollywood Presents). In September 2002, he directed David eldridge’s under the Blue Sky for The Geffen Playhouse and directed Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 2005, the inaugural production in the newly-renovated Geffen Playhouse. In February 2007 he directed Jeffrey Hatcher’s A Picasso in the Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater. He served two terms as President of the Directors Guild of America from 1983 to 1987. In 1989, he received the Guild’s Robert B. Aldrich Award for extraordinary service and, in 1991, he received the DGA’s Honorary Life Membership. He also served as Dean of the UCLA School of Theater Film and Television (which he founded) from 1990—1998. In 2008, Cates produced the 80th Annual Academy

Awards show for ABC, his 14th occasion producing the Awards, for which he has already garnered 84 nominations and 17 emmy Awards. Mr Cates was born in New york City and attended Syracuse University. Married to Dr. Judith Reichman, he has four children, two stepchildren and six grandchildren.

KeN NoVICe(Managing Director) Prior to joining Geffen Playhouse Novice served as Managing Director and Director of external Affairs at Pasadena Playhouse. Prior to that he was Director of Marketing and Public Relations for San Diego’s Tony Award-winning Old Globe Theatre developing marketing and public relations programs for Jack O’Brien’s revival of Damn Yankees, the Tony Award-nominated musical The Full monty, Henry iV starring John Goodman as well as the Tony-nominated hit Play On! among many others. Novice’s credits also include marketing and public relations with the Tony Award-winning Denver Center Theater Company and New york’s Circle Repertory Company. As Director of Programming for youthStream Media Networks he developed national marketing and public relations programs for major motion pictures from Columbia Pictures, DreamWorks S. K. G. , Buena vista Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Fox Broadcasting, 20th Century Fox, MGM, New Line Cinema and Warner Brothers Pictures. He also managed Ken Novice entertainment Marketing, working with such clients as The Salvation Army, Sephra Fountains LLC, and promotional partners including Warner Brothers, American express and Gelson’s among others. Novice served as Head of Theatre Management for the California State University Long Beach theatre management M. F. A. /M. B. A. degree program and has been a guest lecturer at San Diego State University and the University of California, San Diego. He holds a B. A. from the Pennsylvania State University and an M. B. A. from San Diego State University.


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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

PRODUCTION STAFF FOR SUPeRIOR DONUTS

Properties Supervisor Rich GillesDeck Supervisor dwayne barnesMaster electrician Darren RezowalliSound Master James GrabowskiWardrobe Supervisor Leah A LewisAssociate Set Designer Adam KaravatakisProduction Assistant Amanda-louise KriegerStage Crew juan lozano Assistant Lighting Designer Johnny GarofaloAssociate Set Designer Adam KaravatakisAssistant Costume Designer Steven HawleyAssistant Fight Choreographer Dawn Alden Haircuts mary kay holmes

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Set provided by scenic highlightsLighting equipment provided by Entertainment Lighting ServicesSound equipment provided by Jon Sound Inc.

SPECIAL THANKS

UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television Scene, Prop, Sound and Costume Shops, London Cleaners, Panorama Media’s Eugene Levin, Ariel Goldberg,eternal water, peet’s coffee and tea, stan’s donuts, kim anderson, michael miner

UCLA SCHOOL OF THEATER, FILM AND TELEVISION

The Geffen Playhouse is affiliated with the University of California at Los Angeles, specifically the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. The Geffen Playhouse values its role as an important educational resource by providing students with master classes, workshops and internships. Students are also able to work and learn from distinguished visiting Geffen artists such as Donald Margulies, Annette Bening, ed Harris, Neil LaBute, John Rando, Terrence McNally, Alan Ayckbourn, David Mamet, David Ives and Jon Robin Baitz in areas of directing, playwriting, acting, design, dramaturgy, management and production. The Geffen Playhouse also draws upon the distinguished experts in the university to enhance the theater’s programs and research.

The actors and stage managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ equity Association; The Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

The director is a member of the society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Inc., an independent national labor union.


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