Sally & Tom | Guthrie Theater

McGuire Proscenium Stage / Oct 1 – Nov 6, 2022

by SUZAN-LORI PARKS

Sally & Tom

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IN PICTURES

For the People Workshop

• 4

WELCOME

From Artistic Director Joseph Haj • 5

GUTHRIE SPOTLIGHT

A Legacy 60 Years in the Making

• 6

SALLY & TOM

Cast and Creative Team • 9

Biographies • 10

PLAY FEATURES

History Is Now • 16

From Director Steve H. Broadnax III • 19

A Singular Imagination Meets a Collective Story • 20

Backstory • 22

SUPPORTERS

Annual Fund Contributors • 24

Corporate, Foundation and Public Support • 27

WHO WE ARE

Board of Directors and Guthrie Sta • 28

GOOD TO KNOW

Theater Information and Policies • 30

Guthrie Theater Program

EDITOR Johanna Buch

GRAPHIC DESIGNER Brian Bressler

CONTRIBUTORS Steve H. Broadnax III, Joseph Haj,

Jasmine McBride, Suzan-Lori Parks, Carla Steen.

Special thanks to BLCK Press.

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The Guthrie would like to acknowledge that we gather on the traditional

land of the Dakota People and honor with gratitude the land itself and the

people who have stewarded it throughout the generations, including the

Ojibwe and other Indigenous nations.

PLAY FEATURE

Interview With Suzan-Lori Parks • 16

GUTHRIE SPOTLIGHT

Celebrating Six Decades of Theater • 6

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IN PICTURES

In August, the For the People company gathered in the Dowling Studio for a three-day

workshop to further reﬁne this exciting new play commissioned by the Guthrie with

support from The Joyce Foundation. Inspired by story circles from community members

who work and live on Franklin Avenue, the comedy follows a young Dakota woman who

runs into complications when she tries to open a wellness center in the urban Native heart

of Minneapolis.

We’re thrilled to be part of this play’s journey — and congrats to the cast and creative team

for all their great work so far.

For the People Workshop

PHOTOS: THIS PAGE: TREE O’HALLORAN; OPPOSITE PAGE: JOSEPH HAJ (T CHARLES ERICKSON)

Back: Michael John Garcés, Sheri Foster Blake, Justin Gauthier, Larissa FastHorse, Ernest Briggs, Nathaniel TwoBears,

Adrienne Zimiga-January; Front: Katie “KJ” Johns, Wotko Long, Oogie Push, Ty Defoe, Adelin Phelps

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WELCOME

To produce a play by Suzan-Lori Parks, one of the most proliﬁc and

acclaimed playwrights in American drama today, is an honor. To produce

a world premiere by such an artist — and to have her with us at the

Guthrie during the rehearsal process — is a gift that reminds us why we

love theater and believe in its transformative power.

Since 1963, the Guthrie has consistently included contemporary plays

alongside enduring texts. Throughout the decades, many of these

modern works have become classics of their own in the American

theater canon. So I was honored to hear from Parks’ team in March 2021

and enter into collaboration with The Public Theater — Parks’ artistic

home and an institution I deeply admire — to help nurture a future

classic like Sally & Tom to the stage.

From the moment I began reading the script, I was thrilled by it: I love

what Parks is chasing and how she’s approaching it through a dual

lens of history and theater. Our colleagues at The Public, led by Artistic

Director Oskar Eustis, co-hosted two exceptional workshops for Sally &

Tom in New York City over the past year where Parks and Director Steve

H. Broadnax III kept asking the hard questions of character, theme, plot

and circumstance, continually mining for deeper truths.

At ﬁrst rehearsal, Parks said that she doesn’t write because she

has something to say. Rather, she is a servant of the creative spirit,

dedicated to stewarding what she’s been given and passing it on to the

world. I hope you enjoy being one of the lucky recipients.

With gratitude,

From Artistic Director

Joseph Haj

Dear Friends,

PHOTOS: THIS PAGE: TREE O’HALLORAN; OPPOSITE PAGE: JOSEPH HAJ (T CHARLES ERICKSON)

2022–2023 SEASON

Vietgone

Sept 10 – Oct 16, 2022

Wurtele Thrust Stage

Sally & Tom

Oct 1 – Nov 6, 2022

McGuire Proscenium Stage

A Christmas Carol

Nov 12 – Dec 31, 2022

Wurtele Thrust Stage

The Little Prince

Dec 10, 2022 – Feb 5, 2023

McGuire Proscenium Stage

Blues for an

Alabama Sky

Jan 28 – March 12, 2023

Wurtele Thrust Stage

Born With Teeth

March 4 – April 2, 2023

McGuire Proscenium Stage

Hamlet

April 8 – May 21, 2023

Wurtele Thrust Stage

Murder on the

Orient Express

May 13 – July 2, 2023

McGuire Proscenium Stage

Into the Woods

June 17 – Aug 20, 2023

Wurtele Thrust Stage

Shane

July 15 – Aug 27, 2023

McGuire Proscenium Stage

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GUTHRIE SPOTLIGHT

A Legacy 60 Years

in the Making

The 2022–2023 Season is a special one for the Guthrie:

In addition to resuming a 10-play lineup, we’ll celebrate

our 60th anniversary on May 7, 2023. Thanks to the

theater-loving people of Minnesota, our stages have been

illuminated by moving and memorable performances for

the past six decades. It’s been an honor to be part of and

grow with the exceptional Twin Cities arts community,

and we can’t wait to see what’s next. Diamonds are the

traditional gift for a 60-year celebration, so here are a few

gems about the Guthrie, from us to you.

The Guthrie was made

in Minnesota.

Founder Sir Tyrone Guthrie

introduced his groundbreaking

idea for a major regional theater

in a tiny paragraph in the The

New York Times on September

30, 1959, which invited cities to

indicate interest in his vision. Seven

responded, including an eager

reply from the Twin Cities. Guthrie

and his colleagues were won over

by their enthusiasm for the project

and the vitality of the cultural

community. A massive, statewide

fundraising eort followed, and

Minnesotans donated $2.2 million

to help make their dream a reality.

PHOTOS: ROLAND HALBE; DAN NORMAN

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We’re dedicated to both classic

and contemporary works.

The Guthrie’s debut season in 1963

featured four plays: Hamlet by

William Shakespeare, The Miser by

Molière, The Three Sisters by Anton

Chekhov and Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller — a relatively new

title at the time. This set the stage

for the seasons that followed,

which have consistently revisited

canonical texts and welcomed

new voices.

The theater’s history (literally)

lives in the walls.

Look carefully and you’ll spy

photos from past productions on

our walls and ceilings that create

a theatrical narrative throughout

the building. Although they appear

to be projections, they are images

printed on more than 7,000 panels

of thin, onionskin paper. Photos

also line the lobby walls near our

stages and can be seen on the

building’s exterior at dusk.

A Christmas Carol became our

holiday tradition in 1975.

The set, costumes and props may

have changed throughout the

years, but one thing has stayed

the same: We never grow tired of

telling Scrooge’s magical story

of transformation. In 2021, we

completely reimagined the tale

with a fresh adaptation and all-new

design elements, and we’re thrilled

to share our 48th production of

this beloved classic with Guthrie

audiences this holiday season.

The Guthrie was built for the public.

When we moved into our current

riverfront facility on June 25, 2006,

it was intended to be enjoyed by the

public year-round. The building’s

innovative design includes spaces

beyond the three stages where

people can visit and gather — with

or without a ticket. Whether you

walk the Endless Bridge, take in the

top-ﬂoor views from the Amber Box

or meet up with friends before a

show, there is much to discover.

Making theater accessible is part

of our mission.

The Guthrie strives to ensure that

live theater can be enjoyed by

patrons of all abilities by oering

a variety of accessibility services,

including ASL-interpreted, audio-

described, open-captioned and

relaxed performances. Additional

resources such as large-print and

Braille programs, high-magniﬁcation

glasses and assistive listening

systems are available through Guest

Services. We also seek to remove

ﬁnancial barriers through ticket

discount programs — just call the

Box Oce for details.

We’re focused on the future.

Our 60-year milestone certainly

has us looking to the past, but

our sights are ﬁrmly set on what’s

next. With the help of a supportive

community ﬁlled with amazing

people and artists, we’ve built a

strong foundation. We’ll continue

to lead with our mission, vision

and core values while striving to

reﬂect and celebrate the cultural

diversity of the Twin Cities, Greater

Minnesota, the U.S. and the world

in the work we do on and o the

stage. Whether you’ve joined us for

years or this is your ﬁrst visit, we’re

so glad you’re here. Cheers to you

and the next 60 years!

PHOTOS: ROLAND HALBE; DAN NORMAN

Far left top: Original Guthrie

building on Vineland Place;

Far left bottom: 1975

company of A Christmas

Carol; Left: Advertisement

for the Guthrie’s ﬁrst season;

Above: Endless Bridge;

Right: Production images on

the lobby walls

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LUCE/SALLY

KWAME/JAMES

SCOUT/POLLY

MAGGIE/MARY

DEVON/NATHAN

GINGER/PATSY

GEOFF/COOPER/CAREY/TOBIAS

MIKE/TOM

DIRECTOR

SCENIC DESIGNER

COSTUME DESIGNER

LIGHTING DESIGNER

SOUND DESIGNER

RESIDENT DRAMATURG

VOCAL COACH

MOVEMENT DIRECTOR

FIGHT DIRECTOR

INTIMACY BY

RESIDENT CASTING DIRECTOR

STAGE MANAGER

ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

NYC CASTING CONSULTANT

FIGHT CAPTAIN

DANCE CAPTAIN

Kristen Ariza*

Amari Cheatom*

Sun Mee Chomet*

Gillian Glasco*

Kadeem Ali Harris*

Kate Nowlin*

Daniel Petzold*

Luke Robertson*

Steve H. Broadnax III

Riccardo Hernández

Emilio Sosa

Alan C. Edwards

Curtis Craig

Carla Steen

Keely Wolter

Maija García

Mike Rossmy

Kelsey Rainwater

Jennifer Liestman

Karl Alphonso*

Olivia Louise Tree Plath*

Lester Mayers

McCorkle Casting, Ltd.

Luke Robertson*

Daniel Petzold*

Cast

in alphabetical order

The Guthrie Theater, in association with

The Public Theater, presents

Sally & Tom

by Suzan-Lori Parks

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association

Creative Team

The Guthrie gratefully recognizes the

David & Leni Moore Distinguished

Artist Fund as Leading Producer and

Margaret Grieve as Associate Producer.

Setting

1790 Monticello and present day.

Run Time

Approximately 2 hours, 45 minutes

(including intermission)

Understudies

Lily Tung Crystal* (S. Chomet);

Peter Christian Hansen* (D. Petzold,

L. Robertson); Lamar Jeerson*

(A. Cheatom, K. Harris); Michelle O’Neill*

(K. Nowlin); Myxolydia Tyler* (K. Ariza,

G. Glasco)

Understudies never substitute for performers

unless announced prior to the performance.

Acknowledgments

Sally & Tom is presented in association

with The Public Theater (Oskar Eustis,

Artistic Director; Patrick Willingham,

Executive Director) in New York City.

Title song from Sally & Tom by

Suzan-Lori Parks.

The Guthrie wishes to acknowledge

Heidi Griths, C.S.A., and Jordan

Thaler, C.S.A., for their casting work

on the Sally & Tom workshops at

The Public Theater.

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Cast

Kristen Ariza

Luce/Sally

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER O-Broadway:

Measure for Measure (American Globe

Theatre); Regional: Diana of Dobson’s

(Antaeus Theatre Company); Good

People, A Christmas Carol, A Woman

Called Truth; (Alliance Theatre); Macbeth,

Henry IV, Part I (Georgia Shakespeare

Festival); Shrew! The Holiday Musical,

Five Women Wearing the Same Dress (Willie Aggie Theater); It’s Just

Sex (Two Roads Theater). FILM/TELEVISION Dozens of commercials,

ﬁlms and television shows, including “Conﬁrmation” (HBO), Tamara

Dacey in “StartUp” (Netﬂix), “Bosch” (Amazon Prime Video),

“American Horror Story” (FX), “The Fosters” (Freeform) and “Grey’s

Anatomy” (ABC). UPCOMING “All Rise” (OWN), “Big Shot” (Disney+)

and the feature ﬁlms Give Me an A, Hiding Spaces, Resurrection

and The Blonde Experiment. TRAINING School of Theatre, Florida

State University; Alliance Theatre Acting Internship Program.

@kristenariza (IG), www.kristenariza.com

Amari Cheatom

Kwame/James

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER O-Broadway:

The Book of Grace (The Public Theater);

Zooman and the Sign (Signature Theatre);

National Tour: Jitney directed by Ruben

Santiago-Hudson (Manhattan Theatre

Club); Regional: Red Velvet (Shakespeare

Theatre Company); Skeleton Crew

(Geen Playhouse/The Old Globe);

Detroit ’67 (Baltimore Center Stage/Detroit Public Theatre); The

Ballad of Klook and Vinette (Horizon Theatre Company); The Temple

Bombing (Alliance Theatre); Fetch Clay Make Man (True Colors

Theatre). FILM/TELEVISION Judas and the Black Messiah, Roman J.

Israel, Esq., Moths & Butterﬂies, Django Unchained, Love Under New

Management: The Miki Howard Story. TRAINING The Juilliard School;

Freddie Hendricks Youth Ensemble of Atlanta; Tri-Cities High School

of Visual and Performing Arts

Sun Mee Chomet

Scout/Polly

GUTHRIE Emma, Twelfth Night, As You

Like It, King Lear, Harvey, Othello,

The Burial at Thebes, Macbeth, The

Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide…, The Two

Gentlemen of Verona, After a Hundred

Years. THEATER Lincoln Center Theater/

LCT3: brownsville song (b-side for tray);

Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses

(Broadway tour); Alliance Theatre; American Players Theatre; Syracuse

Stage; Ten Thousand Things; Penumbra Theatre; Mixed Blood Theatre;

Theater Mu; Jungle Theater; among others. UPCOMING Jungle Theater:

Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley. AWARDS 2019 Decade

Awards for Vietgone and Two Mile Hollow (Star Tribune, City Pages);

2019 Playwrights’ Center McKnight Theater Artist Fellowship; 2018

MN Theater Awards for Two Mile Hollow and ≈ [Almost Equal To]; 2017

Ivey Awards for Vietgone and The Two Kids That Blow Shit Up; 2015

Lucille Lortel Award nomination for brownsville song (b-side for tray);

2012 “Best of” lists for How To Be a Korean Woman (Star Tribune,

Lavender); 2008 City Pages Artist of the Year. TRAINING M.F.A., Acting,

NYU Tisch School of the Arts

Gillian Glasco

Maggie/Mary

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER New York:

Knock Me a Kiss (New Federal Theatre/

Crossroads Theatre Company); Ain’t

Supposed To Die a Natural Death (The

Classical Theatre of Harlem); Court Martial

at Fort Devens (New Federal Theatre);

The Waiting Room (The Billie Holiday

Theatre); Regional: Mud Row (People’s

Light); Pipeline (American Stage Theatre Company); Disgraced

(Syracuse Stage); Doubt (Hangar Theatre); Sunset Baby (Kitchen

Theatre Company). FILM/TELEVISION Men in Black: International, Going

in Style, Hannah Has a Ho-Phase, Tough, Moths & Butterﬂies; “City on

a Hill,” “Bull,” “FBI: Most Wanted,” “Blue Bloods,” “Jessica Jones,” “Law

& Order: SVU,” “The Blacklist,” “Madam Secretary,” “The Good Fight,”

“Maniac,” “The Following,” “Louie,” “Taxi: Brooklyn South.” TRAINING

B.F.A., Acting, Ithaca College. @glasco.gillian (IG)

Kadeem Ali Harris

Devon/Nathan

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Broadway:

Thoughts of a Colored Man; Regional:

Pipeline (Cleveland Play House); Sweat,

Father Comes Home From the Wars

(A.C.T.); Fences (Cal Shakes); Macbeth

(Lanes Coven). FILM/TELEVISION “Harlem”

(Amazon Prime Video), “City on a Hill”

(Showtime). TEACHING Teaching artist

at Roundabout Theatre Company and A.C.T. TRAINING M.F.A., A.C.T.

@kadeemaliharris (IG)

Kate Nowlin

Ginger/Patsy

GUTHRIE King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra.

THEATER O-Broadway: Lynn Nottage’s

Sweat (The Public Theater’s Mobile Unit);

Rattlestick Theater; Atlantic Theater

Company; Second Stage Theater;

Regional: Westport Country Playhouse;

Shakespeare Theatre Company;

Huntington Theatre Company; Dallas

Theater Center; Yale Repertory Theatre. FILM/TELEVISION Lemon

Shark (writer/director), The Hunt (Blumouse/Universal), Young Adult

(Paramount), The Adjustment Bureau (Universal), Blood Stripe (co-

writer/co-producer); “One Dollar” (CBS), “New Amsterdam” (NBC),

“Outsiders,” “Ironside” (NBC/Universal), “The Carrie Diaries” (WGN),

“Mercy” (NBC), “Rubicon” (AMC), “Law & Order” (NBC). AWARDS

Audience Award, Twin Cities Film Fest (Lemon Shark); U.S. Fiction

Jury Award, LA Film Festival (Blood Stripe); Audience and Breakout

Performance Award, Twin Cities Film Fest (Blood Stripe); Audience

Award, Austin Film Festival (Blood Stripe); Helen Hayes Award

nomination; Greer Garson Acting Award; Herschel Williams Acting

Award; 2017 Knight Foundation Grant. TRAINING Yale School of Drama;

Southern Methodist University. www.katenowlin.com

Biographies

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Daniel Petzold

Geo/Cooper/Carey/Tobias

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER O-Broadway:

Switzerland (59E59 Theaters); Pushkin

(the american vicarious); Regional:

Airness, Holmes and Watson (Park Square

Theatre); American Son (Florida Studio

Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Cincinnati

Playhouse in the Park); Macbeth, Twelfth

Night, Love’s Labour’s Lost (The Old

Globe); Three Sisters (Berkeley Rep); A Bright New Boise (Aurora

Theatre); Another Way Home, Any Given Day (Magic Theatre); The

Coast of Utopia (Shotgun Players). FILM/TELEVISION “FBI” (CBS).

TRAINING M.F.A., The Old Globe/University of San Diego; B.A.,

University of California, Berkeley. @_danielpetzold (IG)

Luke Robertson

Mike/Tom

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Jackie Sibblies

Drury’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play

Fairview at Soho Rep (originated the

role of Jimbo); The Public Theater;

Atlantic Theater Company; New Ohio

Theatre (New York City). FILM/TELEVISION

Recurring television roles on “The

Americans,” “Mr. Robot,” “The Blacklist”

and “Third Watch.” TRAINING Yale School of Drama

Creative Team

Suzan-Lori Parks

Playwright

THEATER First African American woman

to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama

(Topdog/Underdog in 2002); 20th

anniversary Broadway revival of Topdog/

Underdog directed by Kenny Leon

(2022); Three world premieres during the

2022–2023 theater season: Sally & Tom

(Guthrie Theater/The Public Theater),

Plays for the Plague Year (Joe’s Pub) and a musical adaptation of the

1972 ﬁlm The Harder They Come (The Public Theater); The Gershwins’

Porgy and Bess (2012 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical);

Other works include The Book of Grace, Unchain My Heart: The Ray

Charles Musical, In the Blood, The Death of the Last Black Man in the

Whole Entire World, The America Play, Fucking A and 365 Days/365

Plays, which was produced in over 700 theaters worldwide. GUTHRIE

In the Blood (Guthrie Lab). FILM/TELEVISION Girl 6 (directed by Spike

Lee), Their Eyes Were Watching God (produced by Oprah Winfrey),

Native Son (HBO), The United States vs. Billie Holiday (screenwriter);

“Genius: Aretha” (showrunner/executive producer/head writer).

OTHER Novel: Getting Mother’s Body (Random House); songwriter and

frontwoman for her band Sula & The Noise. AWARDS Theater Hall of

Fame (November 2022); MacArthur Genius Fellow; Time magazine’s

100 Innovators for the Next Wave; Gish Prize; National Endowment

for the Arts; The Rockefeller Foundation; Ford Foundation; New

York State Council on the Arts; New York Foundation for the Arts;

Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Award; CalArts/Herb Alpert Award in

the Arts; Guggenheim Foundation Grant. TRAINING Mount Holyoke

College. Parks is a former writing student of James Baldwin.

www.suzanloriparks.com

Steve H. Broadnax III

Director

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Associate

Artistic Director at People’s Light;

Thoughts of a Colored Man on Broadway;

Katori Hall’s 2021 Pulitzer Prize-

winning The Hot Wing King (Signature

Theatre, world premiere); Lee Edward

Colston’s The First Deep Breath (Victory

Gardens Theater, world premiere

and 2020 Je Award for Best New Work); Dominique Morisseau’s

Blood at the Root (National Black Theatre, winner of The Kennedy

Center’s Hip Hop Theater Creator Award); William Jackson Harper’s

Travisville (Ensemble Studio Theatre, world premiere); Member

of Ensemble Studio Theatre. TEACHING Professor of Theatre and

Co-Head of the M.F.A. Directing program, Penn State University.

www.stevebroadnax.com

Riccardo Hernández

Scenic Designer

GUTHRIE Refugia, A Midsummer Night’s

Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, The

Two Gentlemen of Verona, Edgardo

Mine, The Merchant of Venice, Oedipus.

THEATER Broadway (selected): Jagged

Little Pill (Tony Award nomination);

Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune;

Indecent; The Gin Game; The Gershwins’

Porgy and Bess; Caroline, or Change (also Royal National Theatre);

Topdog/Underdog; Elaine Stritch at Liberty (also The Old Vic); Parade

(Tony Award nomination); Bring In ’Da Noise, Bring In ’Da Funk; The

Tempest; Recent: Lempicka (La Jolla Playhouse); Regional: More

than 250 productions across the U.S. and internationally, including

collaborations with George C. Wolfe, Diane Paulus, Arin Arbus,

Arthur Nauzyciel, Mary Zimmerman, Daniel Sullivan, János Szász,

Robert Woodru and Kathleen Marshall. OPERA Selected: Philip

Glass’ Appomattox (San Francisco Opera); Don Giovanni (Santa Fe

Opera); La Traviata (Canadian Opera Company); Amistad (Lyric Opera

of Chicago); Festival d’Automne, La Colline Theatre National, Cour

d’Honneur, Palais des Papes – Avignon Festival (France); Teatro Real

(Madrid); Moscow Art Theatre; Theater an der Wien (Austria); Oslo

National Theatre (Norway); Young Vic (London); The Estates Theatre

(Prague). AWARDS Selected: Obie Award; Henry Hewes Design Award;

Princess Grace Statue Award. TEACHING Co-Chair and Associate

Professor, Yale School of Drama. www.riccardohernandez.com

Emilio Sosa

Costume Designer

GUTHRIE Othello. THEATER Broadway: Motown, Porgy and Bess (Tony

Award nomination), Topdog/Underdog; O-Broadway: Water by the

Spoonful; By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (Lucille Lortel Award); Trust,

Crowns (Second Stage Theater); The Break of Noon (MCC Theater/

Geen Playhouse); The Capeman (The Delacorte Theater); Juan and

John, Father Comes Home From the Wars, Romeo and Juliet (The

Public Theater); The Misanthrope, All That I Will Ever Be (NYTW);

Regional: American Night (La Jolla Playhouse/Center Theatre Group);

Ruined, Señor Discretion Himself (Helen Hayes Award nomination),

Cuttin’ Up (Arena Stage); Twist (Pasadena Playhouse, 2011 Ovation

Award); Witness Uganda, Best of Both Worlds (A.R.T.); Big Maybelle:

Soul of the Blues, Turandot: The Rumble for the Ring, Ain’t Misbehavin’

(Bay Street Theater); Alliance Theatre; Geva Theatre Center; Berkeley

Rep; Williamstown Theatre Festival; Denver Center

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Alan C. Edwards

Lighting Designer

GUTHRIE Sweat, A Raisin in the Sun,

We Are Proud To Present… THEATER

Broadway: Associate to Jennifer

Tipton on The Testament of Mary;

O-Broadway: Twilight: Los Angeles,

1992; The Hot Wing King; Fires in the

Mirror (Signature Theatre); Harry Clarke

(Vineyard Theatre, Lucille Lortel Award);

Kill Move Paradise (National Black Theatre, world premiere, Drama

Desk Award nomination); Regional: Pipeline, Skeleton Crew (Actors

Theatre of Louisville); Detroit ’67 (Chautauqua Theater Company);

Twisted Melodies (Baltimore Center Stage); Paradise Blue, Lights

Out: Nat “King” Cole (Geen Playhouse); Baldwin and Buckley at

Cambridge (Elevator Repair Service); Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992

(Syracuse Stage); American Moor (Red Bull Theater); Native Son (The

Acting Company); Bluebird Memories featuring rap artist Common

(Audible); Seize the King, Dutchman, Antigone, Macbeth (The Classical

Theatre of Harlem); Where We Dwell, Chasing Magic (Ayodele Casel).

TEACHING Design Faculty, Yale School of Drama. TRAINING Yale School

of Drama. www.alancedwards.com

Curtis Craig

Sound Designer

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Signature

Theatre: Dominique Morisseau’s

Confederates (world premiere); People’s

Light: Steve H. Broadnax III’s Bayard

Rustin: Inside Ashland (world premiere),

Mud Row (world premiere); Cleveland

Play House: The Three Musketeers

(composer/designer); Denver Center:

Lauren Yee’s The Great Leap (world premiere); Studio Theatre;

The Classical Theatre of Harlem; Syracuse Stage; Lantern Theater

Company; Baltimore Center Stage; Philadelphia Theatre Company;

Actors Theatre of Louisville; Seattle Rep; Detroit Public Theatre;

Chautauqua Theater Company; Dallas Theater Center; New York

International Fringe Festival. AWARDS Three-time medalist in the

World Stage Design exposition (Seoul, Taipei, Calgary), most recently

the Gold Medal for composition and sound design on the American

premiere of Frankenstein. TEACHING Associate Professor of Sound

Design, Penn State. www.curtiscraig.com

Carla Steen

Resident Dramaturg

GUTHRIE More than 75 productions since

1996, including Sweat, The Tempest,

A Christmas Carol, Noura, Cyrano de

Bergerac, As You Like It, Frankenstein

– Playing With Fire, West Side Story,

Familiar, Sunday in the Park With

George, King Lear, The Lion in Winter,

Disgraced, The 39 Steps, Peer Gynt, His

Girl Friday and Sweeney Todd. THEATER Dramaturgy for The Acting

Company (The Comedy of Errors, Henry V); University of Minnesota/

Guthrie Theater B.F.A. Acting Program; Hammerstein Center; NYU

Tisch School of the Arts; Augsburg University (Cymbeline directed

by Darcey Engen). PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Member of Literary

Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA). TRAINING M.F.A.,

Columbia University; B.A., Augsburg University

Keely Wolter

Vocal Coach

GUTHRIE Vietgone, Sweat, Noura, The

Great Leap. THEATER Theater Latté Da:

Chicago, Hedwig and the Angry Inch,

Five Points, Assassins, Man of La Mancha,

Six Degrees of Separation, Peter and the

Starcatcher, Ragtime, Lullaby, Sweeney

Todd, All Is Calm; Park Square Theatre:

Rule of Thumb, Romeo and Juliet, Ken

Ludwig’s Baskerville, Amy’s View, Calendar Girls; Jungle Theater: Is

Edward Snowden Single?, Small Mouth Sounds, Ride the Cyclone, The

Wickhams, Miss Bennet, Lone Star Spirits, Le Switch, Constellations;

Penumbra Theatre: benevolence, Wedding Band; Minnesota Opera:

The Fix. TEACHING Aliate Faculty, University of Minnesota/

Guthrie Theater B.F.A. Acting Program; Saint Paul Conservatory for

Performing Artists. TRAINING Royal Central School of Speech and

Drama; Viterbo University

Maija García

Movement Director

GUTHRIE Director of Education and

Professional Training; Valor (Director),

The Tempest (Movement Director), West

Side Story (Choreographer). THEATER

DIRECTION FELA! (world tour); Salsa,

Mambo, Cha Cha Cha (Havana, Cuba);

BAM Fisher: The Legend of Yauna; El

Museo del Barrio: I Am New York: Juan

Rodriguez; Organic Magnetics: Ghosts of Manhattan: 1512–2012, an

interactive history. CHOREOGRAPHY Berkeley Rep/La Jolla Playhouse:

Kiss My Aztec!; Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Snow in Midsummer;

Artists Repertory Theatre: Cuba Libre; Montclair Peak Performances:

Hatuey: Memory of Fire; Goodman Theatre: Another Word for Beauty;

The Kennedy Center: Fats Waller Dance Party; Broadway/National

Theatre of London: FELA!; The Public Theater: Neighbors. FILM/

TELEVISION Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman, Chi-Raq (Amazon Prime

Video) and “She’s Gotta Have It” (Netﬂix). PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Member of SDC and Tony Awards Nominating Committee.

TEACHING NYU Graduate Acting; The City College of New York.

www.maijagarcia.com

Mike Rossmy

Fight Director

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Broadway:

A Tale of Two Cities, Superior Donuts,

Cymbeline; O-Broadway: White Noise,

Measure for Measure, The Vagrant Trilogy,

Troilus and Cressida (The Public Theater);

…what the end will be (Roundabout

Theatre Company); Blues for an Alabama

Sky, This Space Between Us (Keen

Company); Peerless (Primary Stages); Regional (selected): Yale

Repertory Theatre; Westport Country Playhouse; Goodspeed Musicals;

Paper Mill Playhouse; Asolo Repertory Theatre; The Old Globe;

TheaterWorks; Princeton University; The Acting Company; Soho Rep;

Geen Playhouse; Long Wharf Theatre; McCarter Theatre Center;

Carnegie Mellon University; Resident Fight and Intimacy Director at

Yale Repertory Theatre. AWARDS 2017 Drama Desk Award nomination

(Troilus and Cressida at The Public Theater). TEACHING Lecturer,

Acting, David Geen School of Drama at Yale University; Combat and

Intimacy Supervisor, Yale College

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Kelsey Rainwater

Intimacy

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER O-Broadway:

White Noise, Measure for Measure (The

Public Theater); Blues for an Alabama

Sky (Keen Company); Regional: Yale

Repertory Theatre; Rattlestick Theater;

Chester Theatre Company; Resident Fight

and Intimacy Director at Yale Repertory

Theatre. FILM/TELEVISION Baby Ruby

(Bess Wohl), The Green Veil (Aram Rappaport). TRAINING M.F.A.,

Acting, Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University

Jennifer Liestman

Resident Casting Director

GUTHRIE Member of the Artistic Team

since 2003; More than 60 productions,

workshops and readings since 2015,

including Vietgone, Sweat, Emma,

A Raisin in the Sun, The Tempest, A

Christmas Carol, History Plays Workshop,

Dickens’ Holiday Classic, Twelfth Night,

Noura, Floyd’s, West Side Story, BAD

NEWS! i was there…, Familiar (with Seattle Rep), Watch on the

Rhine (with Berkeley Rep), Native Gardens (with Arena Stage) and

Disgraced (with McCarter Theatre Center/Milwaukee Rep). FILM/

TELEVISION Master Servant (Casting Consultant). TEACHING Audition

master classes for the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater

B.F.A. Acting Program; Macalester College; SMU; Other universities

in Minnesota and the U.S. TRAINING B.A., Theatre, Minnesota State

University Moorhead

Karl Alphonso

Stage Manager

GUTHRIE Sweat. THEATER Oregon

Shakespeare Festival (14 seasons,

selected): Stage Manager: Mother Road,

The Book of Will, Manahatta, UniSon,

Vietgone, The Happiest Song Plays Last;

Assistant Stage Manager: A Midsummer

Night’s Dream, Shakespeare in Love,

Fingersmith, The Liquid Plain, Party

People, The Pirates of Penzance, American Night, The White Snake;

Iowa Summer Rep (2006–2007); QTP India (2001–2005). TRAINING

M.F.A., Theatre, The University of Iowa; M.A., University of Mumbai

Olivia Louise Tree Plath

Assistant Stage Manager

GUTHRIE Sweat, Noura. THEATER Cleveland

Play House; Dorset Theatre Festival;

Rude Mechs: Not Every Mountain; Yale

Repertory Theatre. FILM/TELEVISION The

Hepburn Girls, No Lost Cause. AWARDS

Dexter Wood Luke Memorial Prize.

TRAINING M.F.A., Stage Management,

David Geen School of Drama at

Yale University

McCorkle Casting, Ltd.

Pat McCorkle, C.S.A.

NYC Casting Consultant for

2022–2023 Season

GUTHRIE More than 100 productions since

1998. THEATER Broadway: More than 50

productions, including On the Town,

Amazing Grace, End of the Rainbow

and A Few Good Men; O-Broadway:

More than 60 productions, including

Highlights; Our Town (Barrow Street Theatre); Freud’s Last Session;

Toxic Avenger; Almost, Maine; and Driving Miss Daisy; Regional

(selected): Barrington Stage Company; George Street Playhouse;

Connecticut Repertory Theatre. FILM/TELEVISION Recent projects:

Two ﬁlms for Hallmark, Eternal Buzz, Potato Dreams; Past projects:

Premium Rush, Ghost Town, The Thomas Crown Aair, Die Hard

With a Vengeance, School Ties; “Twisted,” “Sesame Street,” “Hack”

(CBS), “Californication” (Emmy Award nomination), “The Education

of Max Bickford” (CBS), “Chappelle’s Show,” “Strangers With Candy.”

www.mccorklecasting.com

The Public Theater

The Public Theater is a civically engaged

theater that believes theater is a force

for change and ﬁrst opened its doors in

the East Village in 1967 with the musical

Hair. Most recently, Fun Home and

Hamilton won Best Musical Tony Awards

in consecutive years. The wide range of

programming includes new work at its

ﬂagship home and on Broadway, national

and international productions, and Free Shakespeare in the Park. The

Public has received 60 Tony Awards, 184 Obie Awards, 56 Drama Desk

Awards, 59 Lortel Awards, 34 Outer Critics Circle Awards, 13 New

York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards, 58 AUDELCO Awards, 6 Antonyo

Awards and 6 Pulitzer Prizes. www.publictheater.org

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Our bold 2022–2023 Season seeks

to examine where we’ve been and

where we’re going — as a theater

and as a society. We’ll go back

in time to explore the past. We’ll

stand squarely in the present

to measure what we’ve learned.

Most importantly, we’ll look to the

future with hopeful hearts. And in

a special homage to the Guthrie’s

beginnings, Hamlet will be playing

on the thrust stage in May 2023.

The Guthrie has always been

a theater built by and for

the community. May you be

entertained, challenged and

inspired as we celebrate 60 years

of artistic excellence together.

New season subscriptions

are on sale now and start

at $90. Learn more at

www.guthrietheater.org/subscribe.

by QUI NGUYEN

original music by SHANE RETTIG

directed by MINA MORITA

September 10 – October 16, 2022

Wurtele Thrust Stage

VIETGONE

by SUZAN-LORI PARKS

directed by STEVE H. BROADNAX III

October 1 – November 6, 2022

McGuire Proscenium Stage

by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

directed by JOSEPH HAJ

April 8 – May 21, 2023

Wurtele Thrust Stage

HAMLET

Season sponsors

The Guthrie Theater, in association with

The Public Theater, presents

by LIZ DUFFY ADAMS

directed by ROB MELROSE

March 4 – April 2, 2023

McGuire Proscenium Stage

The Guthrie Theater presents

an Alley Theatre production of

This activity is made possible

by the voters of Minnesota

through a Minnesota State

Arts Board Operating Support

grant, thanks to a legislative

appropriation from the arts

and cultural heritage fund.

BORN

WITH

TEETH

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A Celebratory New Season

On May 7, 1963, the Guthrie Theater opened its inaugural season with a rousing

production of Hamlet on its now-iconic thrust stage. For the past six decades, we’ve

continued to uphold Sir Tyrone Guthrie’s founding mission: to engage exceptional

theater artists in the exploration of both classic and contemporary plays, connecting

the community we serve to one another and to the world.

drama by RICK CUMMINS and JOHN SCOULLAR

based on the book by

ANTOINE de SAINT-EXUPÉRY

directed by DOMINIQUE SERRAND

December 10, 2022 – February 5, 2023

McGuire Proscenium Stage

LITTLE

PRINCE

THE

CUMMINS AND SCOULLAR’S

by PEARL CLEAGE

directed by NICOLE A. WATSON

January 28 – March 12, 2023

Wurtele Thrust Stage

BLUES

ALABAMA SKY

FOR

adapted for the stage by KEN LUDWIG

directed by RISA BRAININ

May 13 – July 2, 2023

McGuire Proscenium Stage

music and lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIM

book by JAMES LAPINE

directed by SARNA LAPINE

June 17 – August 20, 2023

Wurtele Thrust Stage

ORIENT EXPRESS

INTO

WOODS

THE

AGATHA

CHRISTIE’S

THE

MURDER

by KAREN ZACARÍAS

based on the novel by JACK SCHAEFER

directed by BLAKE ROBISON

July 15 – August 27, 2023

McGuire Proscenium Stage

SHANE

by CHARLES DICKENS

adapted by LAVINA JADHWANI

directed by JOSEPH HAJ

November 12 – December 31, 2022

Wurtele Thrust Stage

A CHRISTMAS

CAROL

The Guthrie Theater, in co-production with

Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, presents

GUTHRIE THEATER \ 15

PLAY FEATURE

In a recent conversation around her

new work Sally & Tom premiering here

at the Guthrie, Playwright Suzan-Lori

Parks contextualizes the idea of “being

human.” Human, as in the vastness often

reduced into singularity in the face of art

and identity in society. Parks’ process

with Sally & Tom reﬂects the power of

stepping into the story of others’ lives

and embodying a collective experience

beyond politics — acknowledging

the universal web in which we

are all spun, regardless of

the emotional depths.

With Sally & Tom, Parks

addresses an underdog

truth: universal

polarization. The

ability to be all and

nothing, traumatized

yet healed, dierent

yet connected.

JASMINE McBRIDE:

How does Sally & Tom

compare to some of

your earlier pieces?

Can you speak to how

you’ve evolved in your

voice as an artist?

SUZAN-LORI PARKS:

Some people go,

“Suzan-Lori Parks

used to write poetic

or beautiful stu. Now

she’s writing this stu

that looks like real

History Is Now

By Jasmine McBride

PHOTO: SUZAN-LORI PARKS (TAM SHELL)

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life.” I think we’re embracing the

concept that people can grow and

change in all kinds of ways. I would

hope that people can be open to

artists who also grow and change.

I’m very much everything I write,

whether it’s a novel, a play, a song.

I am not beholden to people who

loved my work in 1990. I answer

to the Spirit. I’ve got to be free —

because that’s what my people

fought and died for. Freedom.

JM: Racism is still very prevalent

today. How would you say

the experience conveyed

between Sally and Tom reﬂects

modern times?

SLP: History is now. What is

happening, was happening; what

was happening, is happening.

1790 was the year that Thomas

Jeerson came back from France

after being away for several years.

America had already started

being established. 1776 was in

the rearview mirror. And so, these

American ideals were very strong

and very present. You could still

smell the gunpowder from the

American Revolution. The question

of freedom was still a real thing.

America just won her freedom.

What I love about Sally & Tom is

that every character in the play is a

person. As a writer, I really work to

walk in the shoes of the character

as much as I can, whether they’re a

white guy like Thomas Jeerson or

a Black person like Sally Hemings.

I step out of myself as I present

in this incarnation; I step into

the shoes, embrace the heart,

wrap myself around the guts of

whichever character I’m writing.

JM: Was it an emotional process

writing Sally & Tom? Was it

dicult, especially as a Black

woman? Was it liberating?

SLP: These days, we’re often

encouraged to shy away from

trauma-based stu. “Don’t write

about that.” Someone like me,

someone like you — we can only

write about joyous things where

everything’s great. There’s a lot of

diculty in the world. We want

to hear something that’s gonna

make us feel good. There’s nothing

wrong with feeling good. There’s

nothing wrong with wanting to be

entertained. And: Art can entertain

and take you places that you can’t

go alone.

For us to shy away from the

dicult stu because we just

want to feel good is a disservice

to every person who came before

us, regardless of the color of our

skin or religion or faith or whatever.

It’s a disservice to those people

who paved the road for us. They

are counting on us to help sing

the song. Writing something like

Sally & Tom — yeah, it was hard.

But there is joy in the diculty.

One thing I know is that at the end

of my time on this planet, I will be

able to say to the Creator, I did

my job. It was hard, many tears,

struggling with stu. I mean, that

speech Thomas Jeerson says,

that was hard to write. That speech

Sally Hemings delivers, that was

hard to write. James’ speech …

[pauses] We had to look face to

face. That heaviness is made light,

is made bearable, when we are

walking the path that we should

walk and not shying away from it

or covering it up with something

that will only entertain us.

JM: You mentioned the importance

of doing what our people have

fought for. Was there a speciﬁc

time in your life when doing the

work of the ancestors became

very important to you? Or was

it always part of who you are

in your artistry?

SLP: My dad was in the service, so

we moved all around the world.

There were a lot of people in the

places where we lived who had

never seen an actual, living Black

person, so it was weird. My parents

would say “You’re the ambassador

of your race” because sometimes

I was — or my brother or my sister

were — the ﬁrst Black people they

saw. We had to represent very

early on. It was clear that was part

of our purpose, part of our calling.

Never had a problem with it. Don’t

have a problem with it now. But

it’s expanded. My connection

with other people is much more

expansive than people who might

have just lived in one town. So

I listen to the Spirit; the Spirit

is singing.

JM: What keeps you pushing

through those politics of “Hey, this

is uncomfortable”? What keeps

you committed to amplifying

that voice?

SLP: I am being called. If you’re a

writer, if you’re a creative person,

if you’re human, if you’re alive, if

you’re a rock, if you’re a drop of

water in the ocean, you have been

called to join in this dance in your

special way. I’m doing what I’ve

been called to do. And that’s the

loudest voice I can hear.

Jasmine McBride is a reporter for

BLCK Press, a newsroom dedicated

to creating opportunities for

early career journalists of color,

empowering them to tell authentic

stories that transform the racial

narrative. She lives in Minneapolis.

www.blckpress.com

PHOTO: SUZAN-LORI PARKS (TAM SHELL)

GUTHRIE THEATER \ 17

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to remember.

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60 years of artistic excellence

on our stages. Celebrate by

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of a

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and revealing

her tragic story of injustice

libretto

music

narratives

based on her novel

Ballad of Frankie Silver

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phone: 651-638-6333

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PLAY FEATURE

From

Director

Steve H.

Broadnax III

As a young artist, I grew up

reading about Suzan-Lori

Parks and poring over her

plays. She’s worked with

giants like George C. Wolfe

and Kenny Leon. She’s

spent her career in theater

and brings decades of

knowledge to the table.

On the Guthrie building, there are

images of playwrights like August

Wilson, Lorraine Hansberry and

Tennessee Williams — great writers

who have inﬂuenced and shaped

contemporary American theater.

Suzan-Lori Parks holds a place

among them, so to be directing

one of her world premieres at

America’s founding regional

theater is a dream come true.

During my ﬁrst meeting with

Suzan-Lori, our spirits connected

and we hit it o. The two

workshops we held for Sally & Tom

at The Public Theater were glorious.

We all brought our experiences,

histories, ideas and backgrounds

together. We looked at each other

eye to eye. That’s how Suzan-Lori

sits with you — human to human.

Having a living playwright in the

room is amazing because you don’t

have to guess at anything. You

can’t ask Shakespeare. You can’t

ask Lorraine Hansberry. But I can

ask Suzan-Lori, who’s right there, to

help guide, specify and clarify.

We’ve talked about making Sally

& Tom with respect: “re” meaning

“again” and “spect” meaning “see.”

In this play, we are invited to see

again. To look again. To examine

our history beyond the binary ideas

or miseducation we’ve received.

Through the power of theater,

we’re able to bear witness to our

humanity and our history. I think

about what happened to George

Floyd here in Minneapolis: He

wasn’t the ﬁrst person of color to

experience trauma, injustice and

police violence. The dierence

was that we were able to bear

witness and see the inhumanity

for ourselves. And it changed

the world. It made us question

everything. That’s what Suzan-

Lori is doing in Sally & Tom. She’s

inviting us to look beyond the

history we’ve been told and dig

deeper into the humanity that

connects us all.

There’s a moment in the play

where a character says, “My

speech was the heart of the play.”

Another character responds, “This

play has many hearts.” Humans are

complex. No one is exempt from

making good or bad choices when

put in certain circumstances. It’s

hard to look at American history

and see enslaved people. It’s hard

to humanize the slave owner.

But Suzan-Lori gives everyone a

voice in Sally & Tom: the enslaved

at Monticello, Sally Hemings,

Thomas Jeerson, his daughters.

When we humanize each other,

it creates empathy that allows us

to move forward.

To me, directing is a service job.

Everything I do is in service to

the playwright, the artists and

the community. I hope you will

reexamine the beginnings of

America. I hope you will see where

we’ve been and where we stand

today. And I hope you will strive

toward empathy and joy. Suzan-

Lori often says that Sally & Tom

was woven in love. I’m grateful to

be a vessel and transfer that love

from her to you.

PHOTO: AARON THOMAS

Steve H. Broadnax III

with Suzan-Lori Parks

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PLAY FEATURE

A Singular Imagination

Meets a Collective Story

With this new play, I’m embracing two institutions I hold dear —

America and theater — and putting them together in an incisive

and joyous atomic super-collider.

Suzan-Lori Parks

Humans love stories. For millennia,

as tribes, as city-states, as

countries and as cultures, we have

collected stories to deﬁne who we

are to ourselves and to others, to

connect us to our past and to give

meaning to shared events. Some

of those collective stories we call

myths, some legends, some history.

For more than 2,400 years in the

Western theater, playwrights have

used collective stories to inspire

their individual artistry. Because

it’s a story owned by the collective,

there’s a special power in a person

telling that story anew. Playwright

Suzan-Lori Parks follows an

estimable line of playwrights

who take a familiar collective

story and re-present it to oer a

new perspective.

MYTH

It’s probably not a surprise that

Ancient Greece — where Western

theater began — also had a robust

mythology. (While in current

parlance “myth” may often be

used to mean “falsehood,” in a

literary and historical context,

mythology is a way we explain

ourselves to ourselves.) Those

great tragedians Aeschylus,

Sophocles and Euripides used their

culture’s myths as the basis for

early dramatic literature. With a

deliberate point of view, structure

and cast of characters, they

crafted those myths for their own

speciﬁc purposes. Think you can

avoid Fate? See what happened to

Oedipus. Want to dump your old

wife for a new one? Meet Medea.

Turn your back on a god? The

Bacchae provides a harrowing

possible outcome. That these plays

were presented as part of civic

festivals only solidiﬁed their status

as artistic glue to bind people

within the Greek community.

Only a fraction of plays written

during the ﬁfth century B.C.E. on

the rocky isles of Greece have

come down to us. The surviving

plays became cornerstones of

Western theater and continued

to inspire later playwrights.

Witness most of Roman theater,

Racine’s Phèdre of the 17th century

and Eugene O’Neill’s Mourning

Becomes Electra of the 20th.

LEGEND

A cousin to the myth is the

legend — a story or character that’s

not quite historical yet is rooted

in a little kernel of truth. In Spain,

the legend of Don Juan became a

literary character during its Golden

Age, when Tirso de Molina wrote

The Trickster of Seville in 1630.

How we think of Don Juan (or a

Don Juan) today — as a slippery

lothario — is due in large part to

Molina’s play.

Within a generation, another

playwright, Ana Caro, subverted

this legend in her own work,

which features Leonor, one of Don

Juan’s deserted conquests, as the

heroine who ﬁghts for and reclaims

By Carla Steen

Resident Dramaturg

PHOTOS: LEFT: THE CAST OF OEDIPUS (T CHARLES ERICKSON); MIDDLE: ERIC RILEY AND LOVETTE GEORGE (MICHAL DANIEL); RIGHT: LAILA ROBINS AND KEVYN MORROW (HEIDI BOHNENKAMP)

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her own honor while bringing

Don Juan to heel. (If this sounds

familiar, Caro’s Valor was recently

presented in the Dowling Studio by

A Guthrie Experience.)

Alas, Caro’s play was one of

many by female playwrights that

were buried by time, so Leonor

hasn’t taken her place in legend

or literature beside Don Juan. But

imagine the surprise and delight

of Caro’s original 17th-century

audience who watched the Spanish

libertine receive his comeuppance

through Caro’s imagination.

Other legends have inspired stage

plays as well. Doctor Faustus

notably headlined a play in the

16th century by Christopher

Marlowe, who put a tragic spin on

the tale, and in the 18th century

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,

whose version of the character

reﬂected his own philosophical

musings. People selling their souls

for knowledge or talent is an oft-

repeated story; the similar (though

later) legend of bluesman Robert

Johnson at the crossroads inspired

Keith Glover’s Thunder Knocking

on the Door in the 1990s.

HISTORY

A third form of collective story

is history, also not surprisingly

invented by the Greeks (thank

you, Herodotus). Because history

comes with the burden of Truth

and Reality, it can be the most

complicated of the collective

stories for a playwright to tackle.

But one need only look to William

Shakespeare to see a master of his

art succeed at the task.

He wrote two sweeping cycles of

four plays, which together enact

events of English history during

1399–1485. A century after the

last of those events, Shakespeare

used his country’s history to hold

a mirror to his own time and

investigate leadership, legitimacy,

patriotism and dissent. Unlike his

previously mentioned predecessors,

who needn’t worry about the

descendants of Oedipus or Faustus

crying foul, Shakespeare had to

carefully thread a needle of political

and dramatic needs because among

his potential audience was no less

than Elizabeth I, the granddaughter

of Henry VII, the king who

succeeded Richard III and ended

the War of the Roses.

Historically, Richard was likely a

mediocre king at worst, but to

serve both a dramatic narrative

and a queen’s legacy, Shakespeare

shaped Richard into one of the

great stage villains, thus making

Henry heroic. More recently,

playwrights from Arthur Miller

(The Crucible) to James Goldman

(The Lion in Winter) to Sophie

Treadwell (Machinal) have found

inspiration in history to examine

issues in their own time.

Which brings us to the play you’re

here to see: Sally & Tom. Hundreds

of books have been written about

Thomas Jeerson or people and

events connected to him. We’ve

learned his story, often in school,

through the lens of history.

Parks, however, didn’t adapt a

history book, and Sally & Tom

is not history. It’s arguably

something equally important in our

examination of human behavior, of

what we mean to each other and

how we understand love and the

yearning for freedom.

In this production, a playwright’s

imagination and skill bring

new patterns, meanings and

understanding to a story we have

collectively inherited.

More recently, playwrights

from Arthur Miller

(The Crucible) to James

Goldman (The Lion in Winter)

to Sophie Treadwell (Machinal)

have found inspiration in

history to examine issues in

their own time.

Myth: Oedipus Legend: Thunder Knocking on the Door History: The Lion in Winter

PHOTOS: LEFT: THE CAST OF OEDIPUS (T CHARLES ERICKSON); MIDDLE: ERIC RILEY AND LOVETTE GEORGE (MICHAL DANIEL); RIGHT: LAILA ROBINS AND KEVYN MORROW (HEIDI BOHNENKAMP)

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PLAY FEATURE

Backstory

ABOUT THE

PRODUCTION

After spending three years

in Paris, founding father

Thomas Jeerson returns

to his Monticello plantation

in rural Virginia where the

complexities of his relationship

with Sally Hemings, the

teenage sister of his enslaved

valet and chef, begin to

unfold. Monticello is not

Paris, and everything — yet

nothing — feels the same.

In this clever collision of

American history and

theater, acclaimed playwright

and Pulitzer Prize winner

Suzan-Lori Parks spotlights

the unexpected parallels

between 1790 and today

while taking the audience on

a journey through the past

that inevitably catches up

with the present.

ONE FROM MANY

“In God We Trust” is the ocial

motto of the U.S., but other familiar

phrases could be apt choices: “We

the People” or “Life, Liberty and

the Pursuit of Happiness.” One that

didn’t make the cut but is equally

steeped in history is the Latin

phrase “E Pluribus Unum” usually

translated “Out of Many, One.”

Almost immediately after issuing

the Declaration of Independence

in July 1776, the Continental

Congress recognized that this

new nation would need a seal

for its ocial documents. A

committee that included Benjamin

Franklin, John Adams and Thomas

Jeerson set about designing

one. The phrase was the only

part of the original design that

survived the editing process. A

few iterations and six years later,

the Great Seal was adopted by the

Continental Congress.

The seal is axed to thousands

of documents annually; it can be

seen on the $1 bill and military

uniform buttons, and it serves

as the country’s coat of arms.

“E Pluribus Unum” signaled to the

world that Many colonies would

come together to create a united

One, but as with any provocative

bit of language, the phrase can be

interpreted in several ways. In Sally

& Tom, Thomas Jeerson invokes

the phrase to his own ends. During

the design process, the creative

team felt it deserved a place of

prominence, so it became a focal

point in the scenic design.

PHOTOS: ABOVE: AARON THOMAS; RIGHT: THE CAST OF EMMA (DAN NORMAN); DAME JASMINE HUGHES AND REZA SALAZAR IN FLOYD’S (T CHARLES ERICKSON)

Sun Mee Chomet, Kate Nowlin,

Kristen Ariza, Kadeem Ali Harris

and Daniel Petzold

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WHAT MAKES A WORLD

PREMIERE — AND WHY

IT MATTERS

The Guthrie was founded with a

program rooted in classic work,

yet we’ve also introduced new

plays to our audiences since our

debut season in 1963. But there

are new plays and there are brand

new plays. Suzan-Lori Parks’ Sally

& Tom is the latter, meaning this

is the ﬁrst time the play has been

brought to life onstage, thus

earning the distinction of being its

world premiere.

Last season, the Guthrie launched

the world premieres of Emma,

adapted from Jane Austen by

Kate Hamill, and A Christmas Carol,

adapted from Charles Dickens by

Lavina Jadhwani. Unlike Sally &

Tom, however, those stories weren’t

new — they’ve been expressed

in novel, stage and ﬁlm versions

for generations.

Sally & Tom is akin to Lynn

Nottage’s Floyd’s (now Clyde’s),

which had its world premiere on

this stage in 2019. Like that play,

Sally & Tom springs fresh from

the mind of a brilliant playwright

who is sharing her characters,

her insight and a whole world

with an audience for the ﬁrst

time. This creative birthing

process is not easy and rarely

simple. Since the Guthrie became

involved as a producer, the play

has had two workshops to help

Parks hone the script. She was

also involved throughout the

rehearsal process, collaborating

closely with Director Steve H.

Broadnax III and the gifted

cast as she continued to reﬁne

the script.

As comforting as it can be to

revisit old friends like Emma

Woodhouse and Ebenezer Scrooge

in new forms, the excitement that

comes from meeting brand new

friends and wondering what your

future together will bring can

be priceless.

Emma Floyd’s

PHOTOS: ABOVE: AARON THOMAS; RIGHT: THE CAST OF EMMA (DAN NORMAN); DAME JASMINE HUGHES AND REZA SALAZAR IN FLOYD’S (T CHARLES ERICKSON)

Luke Robertson

Steve H. Broadnax III

and Suzan-Lori Parks

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We gratefully acknowledge the generosity of our donors whose annual support enables the Guthrie to remain a

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From the Board Chair

When the Guthrie ﬁrst opened on May 7, 1963,

it was a monumental moment for the American

theater. Lights went up on our iconic thrust stage

for a packed house of enthusiastic Minnesotans who

helped make the dream of this ﬂagship resident

theater a reality.

The Twin Cities community has wholeheartedly

supported us from the beginning, and it is an honor to

celebrate 60 years of artistic excellence at the Guthrie

with you during this special commemorative season.

We return to the stage with a robust lineup of 10 plays,

beginning with Vietgone, Qui Nguyen’s acclaimed

memoir play, and the stunning world premiere of Sally

& Tom by the illustrious Suzan-Lori Parks.

On behalf of the board, I’d like to extend my

continued thanks to each and every one of you for

being part of this theater’s extraordinary legacy and,

most importantly, its future. I look forward to seeing

what we will create together in the years to come.

Yours in service,

John Junek

CHAIR, GUTHRIE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

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HONOR AND MEMORIAL GIFTS

August 16 – September 12, 2022

In honor of Maija García

The Ekdahl Hutchinson Family

Fund of The Saint Paul and MN

Foundation

In memory of Christina D. Huck

Mike Huck

In honor of Faye Laerty Owens

Laura J. Trombino

In memory of Allan Lotsberg

Jackie Lotsberg

In honor of Edwards Summers

David Wheeler

GUTHRIE CORPORATE COUNCIL

The next generation of Twin Cities

philanthropic leaders.

Nathan George, Bind Health

Anne L. Haslerud, Anity Empowering

Kate Johansen, Mayo Clinic

Ryan S. Johnson,

Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.

Paul Kaefer, Unite Us

Nathan Pommeranz, Thrivent

Pleasant A. Radford Jr., UCare

Michael Schmaltz, Slalom

Ryan Warshaw, Best Buy

*In remembrance

AS OF SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

We do our best to ensure that all donor

listings are current and correct. To

update your listing, please contact us at

612.225.6200 or give@guthrietheater.org.

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Corporate, Foundation and Public Support

Vital support from our corporate, foundation and government partners allows community members of all ages

and abilities to access internationally renowned theater and celebrated artists. Grants from state and federal

agencies and local and national foundations provide crucial operating support as well as key funding for new

and ongoing programs. To learn more, contact the Development Team at 612.225.6166. For information about

sponsorship opportunities and corporate beneﬁts, contact us at corporatecircle@guthrietheater.org.

This activity is made possible by

the voters of Minnesota through a

Minnesota State Arts Board Operating

Support grant, thanks to a legislative

appropriation from the arts and

cultural heritage fund.

Fred C. & Katherine B. Andersen Foundation; WEM Foundation

$250,000 and above

$100,000 – $249,999

$50,000 – $99,999

$25,000 – $49,999

$15,000 – $24,999

Boss Foundation; The Carlson Family Foundation; Christensen Insurance Group; Cyber Advisors; Lathrop GPM; Meristem l Cresset; Sam Miller Foundation;

National Endowment for the Arts; The Elizabeth C. Quinlan Foundation; Rahr Corporation & Bushel Boy Farms; Margaret Rivers Fund; Robins Kaplan LLP;

Sit Investment Associates Foundation; Tennant Foundation; Xcel Energy; The Thomas & Julianne Youngren Foundation

$5,000 – $14,999

Dellwood Foundation; Hunt Electric Corporation;

Jeerson Lines; McGough Construction Co.;

Palisade Asset Management

$2,500 – $4,999

Alliiance; Bachman’s Inc.; Blueprint Advancement; Federated Insurance; Fredrikson & Byron Foundation; High Point Networks;

Art & Martha Kaemmer Fund of HRK Foundation; National Checking Co.; Northland Aluminum Products, Inc. (Nordic Ware); Quality Furniture Rental

$1,000 – $2,499

David & Janis Larson

Foundation

Hugh J. Andersen Foundation; The Edward R. Bazinet Foundation

Laurents/Hatcher

Foundation

GUTHRIE THEATER \ 27

Board of

Directors

Chair

John Junek

Vice Chair

Jennifer Reedstrom Bishop

Director

Joseph Haj

Treasurer

Audrey Lucas

Secretary

Wendy Unglaub

Directors

Martha Goldberg Aronson, Y. Marc

Belton, Abdhish Bhavsar, James L.

Chosy, David Dines, Amy Fiterman,

Darrel German, Todd Hartman,

Diane Hofstede, Timothy A.

Huebsch, David Hurrell, Garry W.

Jenkins, Christine Kucera Kalla, Lisa

Johnson Kelly, Jay Kiedrowski, David

M. Lilly, Jr., Kristen Ludgate, Michael

McCormick, W. Thomas McEnery,

Munir Meghjee, Jennifer Melin Miller,

Renee Montz, David Moore, Jr.,

Lynn Myhran, Wendy Nelson, Todd

Noteboom, Anne Paape, Lisa Saul

Paylor, Brian Pietsch, Irene Quarshie,

Ann Rainhart, ReBecca Koenig

Rolo, Robert A. Rosenbaum, Lee

Skold, Kenneth F. Spence, Kweli P.

Thompson, Steven J. Thompson,

Dan Torbenson, Steven C. Webster,

Todd Zaun

Lifetime Directors

Martha Atwater, Karen Bachman,

David C. Cox. William George,

Pierson M. Grieve, Polly Grose,

Stephen W. Sanger, Douglas M.

Steenland, Mary W. Vaughan,

Irving Weiser, Margaret Wurtele,

Charles A. Zelle

Guthrie

Sta

ARTISTIC

Artistic Director

Joseph Haj*

Executive Assistant to the Director

Alise Hansen

Interim Senior Artistic Producer

Christopher Hibma*

Associate Producer, Mainstage

Addie Gorlin-Han

Director of Education and

Professional Training

Maija García

Education Program Manager

Vanessa Brooke Agnes

Professional Training Program

Administrator

Jeremy Jones

Artistic Associate/

Resident Casting Director

Jennifer Liestman

Resident Dramaturg

Carla Steen

Director of Community Engagement

Rebecca Noon

Community Engagement Associate

Junior Avalos

Artistic Administrative Assistant

Cody Kour

DEVELOPMENT

Director of Development

Mollie Alexander Hogan*

Director of

Institutional Partnerships

Emily Essert

Director of Individual Giving

Sarah Stout Miller

Development Operations and

Events Manager

Elton Turnage-Manuel

Development Communications and

Grants Manager

Emily Rojer Hurley

Individual Giving Manager

Kristina Sorum

Annual Giving Ocer

Tsiang Belgrove

Development Database Specialist

Sara Wabrowetz

Development Events Associate

Sophie Bassat

Kitchak Lounge Hosts

Richard Giovinazzo, Carole LeVoir,

Nandini Schneider

Campaign Director

Jennifer Baumgartner

Campaign Coordinator

Laura LeVoir

MANAGEMENT

Managing Director

James Haskins*

Assistant to the Managing Director

Kurt Engh

General Manager

Diana A. Brown*

Company Manager

Carolyne Hall

Assistant Company Manager

Kaleigh Chelberg Knights

COVID Safety Manager

Jodi M. Metz, PA-C

COVID Safety Coordinators

Diane Curley, Sam Diekman,

Jenny Kluznik, Holly Levine

Director of Finance

Janet E. Balej*

Accounting Manager

Rose Block

Accounting Specialist

Kristin Ostebee

Accounts Payable Specialist

Andrew Buckholtz

Accounts Receivable Associate

Bill Bertram

Director of Facilities

Bryce Wasiloski

Building Engineer Manager

Brian Oberholtzer

Building Engineer

Michael Flaherty

Facilities Assistants

Austin Anderson, Dylan Brunetti

Environmental Services Manager

Marcus Young

Housekeeping Supervisor

Maria Arriola

Housekeepers

Thaddeus Jameson, Eva Nereson,

Greg Paape

Lead Security Guard

Joy Showalter

Security Guard and Facilities

Administrative Assistant

Francis Sieg

Security Guards

Derek Dixon, David Duerre,

Shaun Johnson, Stuart Levesque,

Jules Pivec, Kristen Reinke,

Jodi Stoel

Director of Information Technology

Bill Schneider

Database Administrator

Chris Jensen

Senior Information Technology

Generalist

Max Weis

Information Technology Generalist

Amy Van Patten

Interim Director of

Human Resources

Marie Carlson

Human Resources Generalists

Kelli Mangan, Judi Orland

Human Resources Recruiter

Eve Her

Volunteer Development Manager

Meagan LeMay

Human Resources

Recruiting Specialist

Armando Corona Armenta

Human Resources Assistant

Ava Skrade

Director of Marketing and

Communications

Trisha Kirk*

Associate Director of Marketing

Elizabeth Deacon

Communications Manager

J’Kalein Madison

Marketing Coordinator

Allie McCurnin

Marketing Manager

Joshua Cummins

Digital Marketing Associate

Vivian Gonzalez

Writer and Creative Services Manager

Johanna Buch

Senior Graphic Designer

Brian Bressler

Video and Photo Content Creator

Aaron Thomas

Graphic Designer

Sierra Ross

Director of Guest Services

Hunter Gullickson

Guest Services Manager

Caitlin Childe-Archuleta

Guest Services Generalists

Kevin Drew, Ellie Lockman

Lead Guest Services Specialist

Myles Bowen

Guest Services Specialists

Donna Cerkvenik, Zavion Dillard,

Hunter Goldsmith, Cathy Hanson,

Jillian Holstad, Landon Kuhlmann,

Lauren LaFond, Conor McDonald,

Eileen Merrigan, Em Rode,

James Sachs, Erin Sandell

Accessibility Coordinator

Robyn DeCourcy

Lead Stage Door Attendant

Anna Tift

Director of Audience Services

PattiJo Verdeja

Audience Services Supervisors

Abigail Schmidt, Dawn Tessmer

Season Ticket and

Group Sales Manager

Kemi Ojelade

Box Oce Supervisors

Josée Axberg, Jon-Paul Schaut,

Cassandra Velcko

Box Oce Generalist

Noelle Awada

Box Oce Specialists

Forrest Benson, Garrett Blackburn,

J. Corey Buckner, Daniel Collette,

Corey Collins, Margaret Esposito,

Matthew Everett, Taylor Gaines,

Alaster Gill, Marian Hughes,

Kyle Kepulis, Dyane Ocampo-

Avila, Karen Prince, Caliyah Rush,

Steven Schroer, Abraham Swee,

Brian Thurn, Wesley Tilford,

Becky Welander, Gabe Woodard

Tessitura Marketing Specialist

Maury Steinman

Associate House Manager

Victor Garcia Benitez

Lead Ushers

Sharon Hanson, Sean Lynch,

Jerey McAlpin

Ushers

Elliot Allen, Patricia Arnold, Adam

Bjoraker, Jon Bushee, Abbey Chung,

Eli Coats, Pat Collins, Renee Craig-

Ethen, Mary Kay Crawford-Lorﬁnk,

Jace Cruz, Rachael Dee, Cooper

Devereux, Trina Fernandez, Anna

Gaudio, Marion Graham, Patty

Graham, Soﬁa Gravatt, Sara Gurrola,

Sophia Harley, Patrick Harrington,

Kate Hedlund, Kylie Heider, Baylie

Heims, Ella Hendrickson, Ann Hite,

Mary Holm, Harry Itie, Mick Johnson,

Travis Johnson, Aaron Kogle, Alex

Kouhi, Winter LaBeau, Raymond Lee,

Tim Lenz, Jason Litzinger, Kevan

McClaﬂin, Deborah Moore, Hanna

Olson, Max Ozel, AP Paulson, Sharon

Peterson, Eli Prasch, Justin Rimbo,

Jakob Robinson, James Rubendall,

Helen Rubenstein, NeVaeh Sanders-

McCoy, Cole Seager, Kira Severy-

Hoven, Anikka Shoholm, Foster

Smith, Pamela Sorenson, Lisa

Torrez, Tina Weitzel, Joani Werner,

Savannah Whisenhunt, Tristan

Wilkes, Alexis Willcox, Thomas Wille,

Damon Ziebarth

Director of Retail and Merchandising

Kay McGuire

Retail Sales Associates

Mon Cherie Chandler, Delta Keating,

Christina Peterson, Esau Sponslier

PRODUCTION

Interim Director of Production

Sarah Gullickson

Assistant Production Manager

Sara L’Heureux

Production Stage Manager

Karl Alphonso

Events Production Manager

Mitch Baird

Associate Technical Director

Dani Mader

Assistant Technical Director

Jon Woelfer

Scene Shop Coordinator

Jesse Delaney

Scene Shop Shopper/Buyer

Matthew A. Gilbertson

Production Carpenter

Christopher Sibilia

Production Automation Technician

Brendan King

WHO WE ARE

PHOTO: ROLAND HALBE

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SALLY & TOM DESIGN

ASSOCIATES AND

ASSISTANTS

Jungah Han (Scenic)

Elivia Bovenzi Blitz (Costumes)

Nic Vincent (Lighting)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Many volunteers give their

time and talents in support of

the Guthrie’s activities.

The Guthrie is a constituent of

Theatre Communications Group

and a member of the League

of Resident Theatres and

Minnesota Theater Alliance.

The Guthrie is a member of

the American Arts Alliance

and Minnesota Citizens for the

Arts, government advocacy

groups at the federal and state

levels, respectively.

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 U.S.

Directors and choreographers

are members of the Stage

Directors and Choreographers

Society, a national theatrical

labor union.

The scenic, costume, lighting

and sound designers in LORT

theaters are represented by

United Scenic Artists, Local

USA 829 of the International

Alliance of Theatrical Stage

Employees.

Guthrie costume and wardrobe

employees, stagehands and

craftspersons are represented

by IATSE Local 13.

All scenery, props and costumes

are designed speciﬁcally for

Guthrie productions and built in

the theater’s shops.

Lead Carpenter

Madi Scott Smith

Carpenters

Will Bankhead, Bridget Gustafson

Head of Scenic Art

Michael Hoover

Costume Director

Amy Schmidt

Costume Workroom Manager

T. Tyler Stumpf

Costume Design Assistant

Jacourtney Mountain-Bluhm

Drapers/Tailors

Juliann Benson, dj gramann ii,

Annie Rupprecht, Dana Shepard

First Hands

Denee Anderson, Clare Brauch,

Teresa Davich, Jeanie Jordan

Stitcher

Mary Linda

Costume Craftsperson

Vanessa J. Lopez

Wardrobe Supervisor

Lauren E. Noyes

Wardrobe Assistants

Deborah Murphy, Meghan Otenbaker

Wig and Wardrobe Technicians

Madison Blotz, Molly Fox,

Jenny Gants-Moen, Zamora

Simmons-Stiles

Production Wig, Hair and

Makeup Artists

Andrea L. Moriarity, Jessica Rau

Head of Lighting and Projection

Tom Mays

OUR MISSION

The Guthrie Theater engages exceptional theater artists in the exploration of both classic and

contemporary plays connecting the community we serve to one another and to the world. Through its

extraordinary artists, sta and facility, the Guthrie is committed to the people of Minnesota and, from its

place rooted deeply in the Twin Cities, inﬂuences the ﬁeld as a leading 21st-century arts organization.

OUR VISION

The Guthrie creates transformative theater experiences that ignite the imagination, stir the heart, open

the mind and build community through the illumination of our common humanity.

OUR CORE VALUES

Associate Head of Lighting

and Projection

Alice Trent

Production Electrician

Andrew Sullivan

Lead Electrician

Megan Winter

Lead Light Board Operator

Angelina Vyushkova

Light Board Operator

Micayla Thebault-Spieker

Head of Props

Karin Rabe Vance

Associate Head of Props

Abbee Warmboe

Prop Shop Coordinator

Dan Fritsche

Props Shopper/Buyer

Rebecca Jo Malmström

Props Artisan

Erin Brandt

Head of Sound

Reid Rejsa

Production Sound Engineers

Paul Estby, Grace Heatherington-Tilka

Lead Sound Board Operator

Brandon Smith

Sound Board Operator

Matthew Koch

Production Stagehand

Craig Rognholt

Stagehands

Peter Artley, Vivian Santana

Props Liaison

Matt Dawson

PRODUCTION OVERHIRES

Carpenters

Lillian Crawford, Hal Eckhart,

Michael Hall

Scenic Artists

Georey Bruick, Kathleen Carlson,

Lydia Francis, Anne Henly,

Robin Lentine, Dietrich Poppen,

Erika Soukup

Costume Design Assistant

Abbie Kenyon

Stitchers

Julia Acton, Megz Burton, Heidi Keil,

Tina Robinson, Holly Walter

Wardrobe Assistant

Emily Gunyou Halaas

Wardrobe Technicians

Laura Jones, Amanda Levens,

Samantha Haddow

Wig Technician

Emma Gustafson

Electricians

Jonathan Kirchhofer,

Mary Shabatura, Kurt Yung

Props Artisan

Joe Cruz

Sound Associate

Katharine Horowitz

Sound Technician

Zaneta Ogar

Stagehands

John Kirk, Juanita Prestegaard,

Jaimi Salone

AS OF SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

*Member of the Senior Management Team

Artistic

Excellence

Community

Equity, Diversity

and Inclusion

Fiscal

Responsibility

PHOTO: ROLAND HALBE

GUTHRIE THEATER \ 29

GOOD TO KNOW

PHOTO: KEMI OJELADE (LAUREN MUELLER)

RESTROOMS

Public restrooms are located in the

lobbies on Levels Four and Five.

During performances, four

universal, ADA-accessible restrooms

that lock and provide privacy are

available to patrons of any gender

identity and expression on Levels

Three and Four.

LEVEL THREE One all-gender

restroom is accessible from the

McGuire Proscenium Stage. Where

Aisle 2 ends at the stage, pass

through the door on the right.

LEVEL FOUR One all-gender restroom

is located in the main lobby next to

the men’s restroom, and two all-

gender restrooms are located at the

end of the Von Blon Lobby, which

is past the main entrance to the

Wurtele Thrust Stage.

EMERGENCY PROCEDURES

MEDICAL Please contact the

nearest usher, either inside or

outside the theater.

FIRE The proscenium stage has

two lower emergency exits, two

upper lobby exits on the orchestra

level and two exits in each balcony

that lead down and out to the

Level Four lobby. Please exit to the

lobby, where ushers will direct you

to one of six ﬁre exits that will take

you outside the building on street

level. Anyone with disabilities

should proceed to the lobby

elevators and wait for emergency

personnel for evacuation.

GOOD TO KNOW

POLICIES

PROHIBITED ITEMS Food, recording

devices and laser pointers are

prohibited inside the theaters.

The Guthrie bans ﬁrearms on

its premises. Please turn o phones

and electronic devices prior to

the performance. Texting is not

allowed during the performance.

NO SMOKING In accordance with

the Minnesota Clean Indoor Air

Act, smoking is prohibited in

the theaters and lobbies. Some

productions may use prop

cigarettes onstage.

LEAVING DURING A PERFORMANCE

Please let the ﬁrst set of doors fully

close behind you before opening

the second set to prevent light

from entering the theater.

PHOTO AND VIDEO Photos of the

set are allowed before or after

the show and during intermission

but not when artists are onstage.

Video or audio capture of any

performance is strictly prohibited.

DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR We reserve

the right to escort disruptive

patrons or patrons who do not

comply with our health and

safety policies from the theater

at any time.

TICKET INFORMATION

SINGLE TICKETS Tickets

may be purchased online at

guthrietheater.org, by phone at

612.377.2224 or 1.877.447.8243 (toll-

free) or in person at the Box Oce.

SEASON TICKETS Subscription

packages for the 2022–2023

Season are on sale now. Call

612.225.6238 or 1.877.997.3276

(toll-free), visit guthrietheater.org

or stop by the Box Oce.

GROUP TICKETS Groups of 15 or

more receive discounts on tickets

to Guthrie productions. Call

612.225.6244 or 1.877.225.6211

(toll-free) to learn more.

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PHOTO: KEMI OJELADE (LAUREN MUELLER)

Sip a specialty

cocktail at

W XYZ Bar

before or after

the show, located

1 block from the

Guthrie Theater.

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Fun for the whole family

612.377.2224 / guthrietheater.org

by CHARLES DICKENS

adapted by LAVINA JADHWANI

directed by JOSEPH HAJ

Nov 12 – Dec 31

A Christmas Carol

drama by RICK CUMMINS and JOHN SCOULLAR

based on the book by ANTOINE de SAINT-EXUPÉRY

directed by DOMINIQUE SERRAND

Dec 10 – Feb 5

The Little Prince

Cummins and Scoullar’s

GUTHRIE THEATER \ 31

1968–1969 The Guthrie becomes the ﬁrst resident theater to undertake a national tour, sending its 1967

production of The House of Atreus, directed by Tyrone Guthrie, to the Billy Rose Theatre in New York City

and the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.

PHOTO: ROBIN GAMMELL AS CASSANDRA AND LEE RICHARDSON AS KING AGAMEMNON (GERALD BRIMACOMBE)