ENDGAME MAY 12-28, 2022 - FRED ROGERS STUDIO, WQED - PICT Classic Theatre
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SAMUEL BECKETT
ENDGAME
MAY 12-28, 2022
FRED ROGERS STUDIO, WQED
THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON
Never underestimate the
power of a
great performance.
UPMC is proud to support
PICT Classic Theatre.
PRESENTS
SAMUEL BECKETT’S
ENDGAME
DIRECTED BY
ALAN STANFORD
COSTUME DESIGNER LIGHTING DESIGNER PROPERTIES DESIGNER
JOAN MARKERT NICOLE WHITE KATHERYN HESS
PRODUCTION & TECHNICAL STAGE MANAGER ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER
MANAGER CORY GODDARD* CHRISTEN KRASCH
CARLY TRIMBLE-LONG
SCENIC ARTIST WARDROBE
SOUND ENGINEER DOMENICO LAGAMBA DIANELA GIL
KRIS BUGGEY
MASTER CARPENTER COVID SAFETY SUPERVISORS
MASTER ELECTRICIAN STEVE HOLLIDAY CATHERINE KOLOS
PAIGE BORAK SHARON MCCUNE
MAY 12-28, 2022 AT THE FRED ROGERS STUDIO AT WQED
RUN TIME: APPROXIMATELY 100 MINUTES, NO INTERMISSION
*Member of the Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of
Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
ENDGAME is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals
on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. concordtheatricals.com
HEPATICA ESTD 1982
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1119 S. Braddock Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15218
CAST
Martin Giles*.................................... Hamm
James Fitzgerald*........................... Clov
Ken Bolden*..................................... Nagg
Karen Baum*……………………………… Nell
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors
and Stage Managers in the United States.
The 25th Anniversary Season is Generously Supported by:
The Heinz Endowments, Allegheny Regional Asset District (RAD), The Pittsburgh Foundation,
The Philip Chosky Educational & Charitable Foundation, The Allegheny Foundation,
Arts|Equity|Reimagined/PACE Fund, AEO Foundation, The Jack Buncher Foundation, The William
Talbott Hillman Foundation, The Buhl Foundation/Henry C. Frick Educational Fund, The James M.
and Lucy K. Schoonmaker Foundation, The Sophia Katsafanas Foundation, The Eugene & Saundra
O’Sullivan Family Charitable Fund, The Woffington Pittsburgh Theatre Fund, WQED Studios, Joan F.
Market, Robert Levin & Kerry Bron, and Dina J. Fulmer
PICT Classic Theatre receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania
Council for the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Opening Night Sponsorship for the 25th Anniversary Season provided by UPMC.
The use of any recording device, either audio or video, and the taking of
photographs, either with or without flash, is strictly prohibited. Please turn
off all electronic devices such as cellular phones, tablets, and watches.
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The Curtis Theatre Collection is the
home of the records of PICT as well
as many other local performing
arts organizations.
The Curtis Collection, a part of the
University of Pittsburgh Library System,
contains programs, photographs, scrapbooks,
and other materials that document the
history of performing arts in Pittsburgh
dating back to the 1840s.
For more information, please visit our website
pitt.libguides.com/curtiscollection
The Constant Couple by George Farquhar was PICT’s first
production in 1997. A digital version of the program can be
found on historicpittsburgh.org
jeanie clayton slater
graphic designer
412.310.4087
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FROM THE BOARD PRESIDENTS Dear Friends of PICT Classic Theatre, Welcome to our 25th Anniversary Season! We have reached this milestone thanks to your continued support and the dedication of everyone involved in PICT’s productions. We are thrilled to return to the beloved Fred Rogers Studio and to provide once again the best in live theatre! The past 18 months have been a challenge for everyone. During this time, PICT reviewed our mission and launched new endeavors including the streaming of educational webinars, Bloomsday readings, and two world- premiere Radio Dramas. Our version of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol was just voted 2nd Place Best Virtual Stage Production in City Paper’s 2021 Best of Pittsburgh Awards. Once again, your interest in and support for these ideas kept us moving forward along with funding from the foundations. What better opening to a celebratory season than William Shakespeare’s delightful comedy As You Like It! In February, we return to our Irish roots with Samuel Beckett’s Endgame. Closing our season in June is Mart Crowley’s The Boys in the Band, one of the most influential plays in the LGBTQIA+ canon. And new this year is our Expand the Canon Staged Reading series, a cycle of six free staged readings curated by Associate Producer Sharon McCune and focused on the perspectives and work of women and People of Color in the classic canon. These readings will occur throughout the year in the beautiful Atrium at Rodef Shalom; please check PICT’s website for subject matter and dates. We are delighted to be with you again, and thank you for your generosity and support. Our return to live theatre, and this 25th Anniversary Season, were made possible by you. So sit back, enjoy, and join us in celebrating the exciting reopening of PICT! Sincerely, Eileen E. Clancy Joseph N. Parsons Co-President Co-President PICT Board of Directors PICT Board of Directors PICT – ENDGAME 5
LAND
PICT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Annual Fund Donors
“We ask for a moment to acknowledge the traditional lands of those who came
before and celebrate those who are here today in what is known in the
present day as the Greater Pittsburgh Region:
The Erie; the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, comprised of the Mohawk, Oneida,
Onondaga, Seneca, Tuscarora, and Cayuga; the Kaskaskia; the Lenape; the
Massawomeck; the Mississauga, including the Mississauga of Lake Huron – the
Zisaugeghroanu; the Osage; the Shawanwaki (Shawnee); the Susquehannock; the
Wyandot; the Yuchi; and the pre-European contact cultures of the Adena, Hopewell,
Monongahela, and Calicua (believed to be a part of the Monongahela).”
What does that mean? How did we get here?
The questions are complicated ones and this simplest of gestures – acknowledgement
– is a step toward the beginning of a re-education, a pathway to correct the stories
and healing, and hopefully, forgiveness, by honoring the truth of those who occupied
these lands since time immemorial. To continue to ignore it, as our society evolves, as
Pittsburgh evolves, as I evolve, would be the continuation of the sustained systemat-
ic destruction and denial of a horrific trail stained through ink and blood; chronicled
through more than 500 years of bad faith through fraudulent government policies,
dishonored treaty after treaty after treaty, land theft, racism, disease, gender violence,
criminalization of Indigenous dissent, and the annihilation of Indigenous Culture and
language through American Indian Boarding Schools to force assimilation to white
American culture.
These are not stories from the ancient past.
Carlisle Indian Industrial School, in Carlisle,
Pennsylvania, the first prototype of its kind in
the United States and copied relentlessly hun-
dreds of times by the government and church-
es alike, whose slogan was “Kill the Indian,
Save the Man” was devised by Civil War veter-
an Lt. Col. Richard Henry Pratt, opened in 1879
and shuttered in 1918. Thomas Morgan, Indian
Commissioner of the Phoenix School said, “It’s
cheaper to educate Indians than to kill them.”
The Phoenix Indian School was ordered to be
closed in 1990. In June 2021, at the request of
their closest living relatives, the remains of 10
Native American and Alaskan Native children
who died between 1880 – 1910 while attend-
ing the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, were
scheduled, finally, to be returned home to the
Rosebud Sioux Tribe in South Dakota and Saint
Paul Island in the Bering Sea. More and more
bodies are unearthed every week.
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LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Kinzua Dam, nestled in Warren County, Pennsylvania, a project inspired by the St. Patrick’s Day flood in 1936 and completed in 1965 as part of a reservoir system on the Allegany and Monongahela rivers to prevent flooding downstream was and is current- ly managed by the Pittsburgh District of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. The building of Kinzua Dam broke the Canandaigua Treaty of 1794 made between a toddler United States (that’s President George Washington) and the Seneca Nation after fighting alongside Washington’s army against the British, outlining that these lands belonged to the Seneca Nation and the United States would never claim these lands. Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy said he would uphold this treaty as a war raged in court and in Congress. In 1961, now President Kennedy, discarding this promise to the people who helped in that fight for American’s freedom, said he was helpless in impeding the building of the dam, thereby sentencing the 10,000 acres of Seneca lands, burial sites, and displacement of 130 families for extermination. Within three years, the very same law - Public Law 88-533 – that issued resettlement funds, required the Seneca Nation to submit an outline for the termination of their tribe. Thankfully, using their resettlement funds, they were not. We all whether light, black, Indigenous, all peoples of color, all non-black, or non-Native people -we all - have a responsibility. To try. To actively participate, to talk, to listen; “to empathize rather than seeking to erase.” To quote Amber Starks (aka Melanin Mvskoke) from Envisioning Black Liberation and Indigenous Sovereignty: “Ultimately, we should want more for one another instead of seeking to replicate the evils of our oppressors, as we understand what it means to have to endure under such systems and should, therefore, want no person to ever share in such misery.” (9/22/21 usdac.us) This is the first step of many. Let’s take it together. Keep safe. Peace, Sharon McCune Associate Producer Curator of Expand the Canon Staged Reading Series Photo Credit: View of Wounded Yellow Robe (also known as Richard Yellow Robe), Chauncey Yellow Robe (also known as Timber Yellow Robe), and Henry Standing Bear, all wearing school uniforms. This photo was taken November 1886, three years after they entered the school. Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society also has a copy of this photo (PA-CH1-035b). According to their information, Chauncey Yellow robe is seated at left, Henry Standing Bear is standing in the middle, and Wounded Yellow Robe is seated at right. Photographer: John N. Choate, Carlisle, PA Courtesy of Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center PICT – ENDGAME 7
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The Printer Pittsburgh Trusts Since 1908LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Land Acknowledgements: List of Resources for Further Learning We encourage you to take time to explore the vast and beautiful history of the Indigenous People of America. Kinzua Dam https://sninews.org/ https://www.ehn.org/seneca-nation-kinzua-dam-2644943791.html https://americanindian.si.edu/nationtonation/treaty-of-canandaigua.html https://www.lakeofbetrayal.com/ - documentary film https://www.senecamuseum.org/portfolio/kinzua-dam/ https://www.senecamuseum.org/ Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian album by Johnny Cash song title “As Long As the Grass Shall Grow” Carlisle Indian Industrial School/Indian Boarding Schools https://carlisleindianschoolproject.com/ https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/12-images-carlisle-indian-industrial-school https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/a-century-of-trauma-at-boarding- schools-for-native-american-children-in-the-united-states https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/these-indigenous-children-died-far- away-more-than-a-century-ago-heres-how-they-finally-got-home https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/residential-school-survivors-reflect- on-brutal-legacy-that-could-have-been-me Land Acknowledgement https://native-land.ca/ https://usdac.us/ For more resources on Native American Culture http://www.cotraic.org/ https://nativenewsonline.net/ https://americanindian.si.edu/ https://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/meadowcroft/ Many thanks to the following whose guidance helped create these pages and the lobby display: Jordan Seaberry, Co-Director of U.S. Dept. of Arts and Culture; Amber Starks (aka Melanin Mvskoke); American Philosophical Society; Randy Reinholz and Jean Bruce Scott; Native Voices at the Autry; Dr. Nathan Sowry, National Museum of the American Indian Cultural Resources Center; Native-land.ca; Gil Cutruzzula (Elders Program Director), Rodney John (Employment and Training Counselor) both of Council of Three Rivers American Indian Center (COTRAIC); Andre Bouchard; Carlisle Indian School Project; Jim Gerencser, Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center, Dickinson College; Native News Online; Maria Diaz-Gonzales; Heinz History Center/Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village; National Geographic; Official Newsletter of the Seneca Nation (sninews.org); Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma PICT – ENDGAME 9
WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST MARTIN GILES* (Hamm) is in his twentieth season with PICT Classic Theatre as actor, director and writer. During the pandemic lockdown he performed in the audio-dramas The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and A Christmas Carol for PICT, adapted ten stories from Boccaccio’s The Decameron as 10 FOR 21 for Quantum Theatre, and wrote and performed a solo piece Whispers of Heavenly Death as part of City Theatre’s Spotlight series. His most recent stage work includes Corrin in As You Like It for PICT and Hercule Poirot in Murder on the Orient Express for Pittsburgh Public Theater. JAMES FITZGERALD* (Clov) has most recently appeared with PICT in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Woman in Black, The Heiress (Dr. Sloper), Waiting for Godot (Didi), Oedipus Rex (Tieresius), Sive (Thomasheen Sean Rua), The Merchant of Venice (Shylock), Sharon’s Grave (Dinzie), Oliver Twist (Fagin), as well as PICT radio dramas The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and A Christmas Carol and over 30 other PICT productions. Additional Pittsburgh credits include appearances with Kinetic Theater, City Theatre, Quantum Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Opera Theater Pittsburgh, and The REP. Regional credits: Marriot’s Lincolnshire Theater, Chicago’s Second City, ETC., The Royal George, Apple Tree, among other Chicago venues including sixteen seasons with Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Urbanite Theatre (Sarasota FL), Cape May Stage, Milwaukee Rep, the Nebraska Shakespeare Festival, North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, Baltimore Shakespeare Festival. Awards: Recipient of two Joseph Jefferson Awards (Best Supporting Actor), a Jeff Citation (Best Actor), Jeff nomination for Best Actor, and an OE Award Nomination (Best Supporting Actor). James is a resident company member of PICT and Featured Artist in 2014. He was also named Performer of the Year 2016 by the Pittsburgh Post- Gazette. 10 PICT – ENDGAME
WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST KAREN BAUM* (Nell) is grateful for her PICT stage return with such an inspiring team. A 2022 co-recipient of the DAGDA Award, previous PICT credits include: Jane Eyre, Shirley Valentine, Educating Rita, Woman and Scarecrow, Sive, The Heiress, R&J, Merchant of Venice, Sharon’s Grave, How the Other Half Loves, Oliver Twist, Lion in Winter, For the Tree to Drop, Oedipus, Macbeth, Don Juan Comes Back from the War, King Lear, Boston Marriage, The Old Curiosity Shop, Run the Rabbit Path, The Shaugraun, Woman in Black, along with the streaming audio of A Christmas Carol and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll. A Pittsburgh native, additional local credits include: The Pittsburgh Public (Noises Off, Merchant of Venice (virtual), Amadeus), St. Vincent Summer Theatre, Off the Wall, Playhouse REP, UnSeam’d Shakespeare, NoName Players, Squonk Opera, Bricolage, City Theatre, U of Pgh’s Shakespeare in the Schools, CMU Interactive. Regionally: Games for Change Conference, NYC, Public Theatre of KY, Theatre54 NYC, Arizona Shakespeare (virtual). Film/TV: Archive 81, American Rust, Sprung (Amazon Prime), Cabrini, Promised Land, The Outsiders, The Road, My Bloody Valentine 3D, KillPoint (Spike TV), The War that Made America (PBS), Ghosthunters PSI (pilot cast), The Magic Words, A Fancy Piece of Homicide. Karen also serves as the female utility reader for locally filmed television and film. A BFA grad (Conservatory of Performing Arts, Point Park U), she is a teaching artist for PICT, CLO Academy, PPT. Stay well, everyone! KEN BOLDEN* (Nagg) just completed shooting a short film written, directed and starring Lissa Brennan called LOVE’S BRIGHT WINGS. Ken has performed with PICT many times over the years. He was last seen at PICT as both Dukes in As You Like It and will appear in their next production of The Boys in the Band as Hank. Recently, he played Hitler in The Battle Not Begun for Punctuate 4 in Boston. You can tune into Audible’s streamed production of Paul Kruse’s new play, Daddies in which he plays Dad (Just don’t ask him how as he’s a Technopeasant of the first order). Over the years he has worked at The Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Quantum Theatre, Off the Wall, Bricolage, and City Theatre. Most recent screen credits include appearances in ARCHIVE 81 and THE CHAIR (Prof. Plum). PICT – ENDGAME 11
WHO’S WHO IN PRODUCTION
Alan Stanford………………………………………. Director, Scenic Designer
Carly Trimble-Long…………………………..….. Production & Technical Manager
Cory Goddard*…………..………………………… Stage Manager
Christen Krasch…………………………………… Assistant Stage Manager
Joan Markert………………………………………… Costume Designer
Nicole White………………………………………… Lighting Designer
Kris Buggey………………………………………… Sound Engineer
Dianela Gil…………………………………………… Wardrobe Supervisor
Domenico Lagamba…..………………………… Scenic Artist
Paige Borak…………….…………………………… Master Electrician
Steve Holliday……………………………………… Master Carpenter
Katheryn Hess……………………………………… Properties Designer
Catherine Kolos & Sharon Mccune………… Covid Safety Managers
Marsha Mayhak…………………………………….. House Managers
Helen Radkoff……………………………………… Box Office Manager
Rianne Lindsey………………………………………. Board Operator
Amy Hotovchin……………………………………… Stephen L. Guinn Design Fellow
Nathaniel Bethencourt……..…………………… Stephen L. Guinn Production Fellow
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association
COVID Safety Supervisors certified nationally through Health Education Services & Johns Hopkins University
SPECIAL THANKS:
WQED Studios
Rodef Shalom
Duquesne University
APG Lighting
Tucker Topel
Ash Buford
Forrest Trimble
12 PICT – ENDGAMEWHO’S
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ALAN STANFORD (Director) has over fifty years as a professional actor,
director and producer and writer. He has a memorable history with PICT
Classic Theatre over the past ten years, and nine years ago he became
the Artistic and Executive Director of the company. He has directed many
productions for the company including Salome, Pinter’s Betrayal and
Celebration, The Mask of Moriarty by Hugh Leonard, Shakespeare’s Macbeth,
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, and The Merchant of Venice. He
also directed both Educating Rita, Shirley Valentine, and the highly successful
Jacques Brel. As an actor Alan has appeared with PICT in roles ranging
from Lady Bracknell in The Importance of being Earnest to most recently as
Henry II in The Lion In Winter, as well as performances in The Pitmen Painters, Ivanov, Swansong. His
adaptations of Jane Eyre, Oliver Twist, and Oedipus Rex have also been presented by the company.
Alan initially trained for the theatre in London at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and has
had a long and renowned career in the Irish theatre. He was a founder and Producing Artistic Director
until 2012 of Ireland’s Second Age Theatre Company; a theatre, regularly funded by The Arts Council
of Ireland and dedicated to the presentation of classical works, including Shakespeare, and to the
development of a love and appreciation of theatre by younger audiences.
He was Administrator and Director of Theatre at the Project Arts Centre, Dublin. Following this,
he became a principal actor with the Irish National Touring Theatre, the ITC, playing such roles as
Aston in Tom Kilroys adaptation of The Seagull, Broadbent in Shaw’s John Bulls Other Island, Editor
Webb in Our Town and Malvolio in Twelfth Night. He also joined the Board of Management as Artists
representative.
For many years Alan has been a principal actor and director at Dublin’s renowned Gate Theatre. His
many productions there include Romeo & Juliet, Tartuffe, Present Laughter, Great Expectations, A
Tale of Two Cities, The Collection by Harold Pinter, (with Pinter in the role of Harry), The Weeping of
Angels starring Brenda Fricker, Cyrano de Bergerac, Arms and the Man, Blithe Spirit, Private Lives,
The Misanthrope, The Constant Wife and Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan, An Ideal Husband
and The Importance of Being Earnest. As a writer for the Gate Theatre he has co-adapted and directed
productions of Pride and Prejudice, The Picture of Dorian Gray and A Christmas Carol, as well as his
own adaptations of Oliver Twist, The Old Curiosity Shop and Jane Eyre.
Alan’s internationally acclaimed performance as Pozzo in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot - a part he toured
and performed all over the world for decades - is the definitive performance recorded for the Beckett
on Film production. He is generally considered to be one of Ireland’s leading theatre experts on the
works of Oscar Wilde, Beckett and Shakespeare. As a teacher, Alan is well known in Ireland as one of
the founders of both the Dublin Theatre School and the Drama course in Trinity College. He was the
first teacher of pure theatre ever to be engaged by an Irish university, and many of Ireland’s leading
actors have studied with him.
PICT – ENDGAME 13WHO’S WHO IN PRODUCTION KRIS BUGGEY (Sound Engineer) is proud to be working with PICT once again as Sound Engineer after having designed the season opener, As You Like It, and PICT’s Radio Dramas The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and A Christmas Carol. Kris also designed the staged productions of The Heiress, Run the Rabbit Path, Old Curiosity Shop, Jane Eyre, Romeo & Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, The Lion in Winter and Jacques Brel. Kris’ previous works include Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and A Soldier’s Heart for the Pittsburgh Playhouse, Yo Vikings! for Playhouse Jr, The LAB Project’s The Gospel Singer, and Bricolage’s BUS10 and BUS11 as well as Saint’s Tour. Kris has also worked regularly for G4’s Menopause the Musical! tour as Head Audio Engineer. Thank you to all the people who believe in what theatre is and what it does for everyone who is a part of it. CORY GODDARD* (Stage Manager) been working in Pittsburgh theatre for 17 years playing with PICT Classic Theatre, Quantum Theatre, Bricolage Production Company, The REP, Texture Contemporary Ballet, Kinetic Theatre, Kelly Strayhorn. They are a graduate of Baldwin Wallace College and a member of Actors’ Equity Association. When not making theatre they can usually be found listening to records, reading or tending to their plants. KATHERYN HESS (Properties Designer) Excited to be joining the PICT team once again. Previously worked as the Prop Designer on the PICT 2019-2020 productions of As You Like It, The Woman in Black and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She holds a degree in Theatre Arts from Duquesne University. Other theatre works include Production Assistant for the CLO Cabaret and 2021 CLO Summer Under the Stars Series, and Properties Intern for the Pittsburgh CLO 2019 Summer season. In addition, Katheryn has worked as a director for the Pittsburgh New Works Festival, choreographer for the Duquesne Red Masquers (Mamma Mia and All in This Together Cabaret), and as an actor for the Duquesne Red Masquers, The Summer Company, Greensburg Civic and Gemini Children’s Theater. She currently works as the Production Manager for the Gemini Children’s Theatre. Katheryn is also dance teacher for Janet Hayes Dance Company, CATHERINE KOLOS (General Operations Manager, PICT) is a multi-disciplinary artist & administrator based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She has spent over 15 years in the industry as an Actor, Director and Stage Manager, and is passionate about the mentorship of early-career artists. Prior to joining PICT’s Administrative staff, Ms. Kolos spent three years on their resident stage management team and brings over a decade of marketing, design, and management experience to the company. She has had the honor of collaborating regionally with Pittsburgh CLO, City Theatre, Quantum, Shakespeare in Litchfield Hills (CT), Interlakes Summer Theatre (NH), and RWS & Associates (NYC); and locally with Pittsburgh Musical Theatre, Prime Stage Theatre, The Strand, Pittsburgh New Works Festival and Pittsburgh Fringe. She is also a seasoned voice-over artist with multiple campaigns for Sheetz and Giant Eagle, and a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. Ms. Kolos is honored to serve Pittsburgh as a nationally certified COVID Safety Manager, aiding theatres through their reopening. 14 PICT – ENDGAME
WHO’S WHO IN PRODUCTION CHRISTEN KRASCH (Assistant Stage Manager) is grateful to be returning to the PICT family. A recent graduate of Point Park’s Conservatory, Christen is an actor and designer currently based in Pittsburgh. Recent credits include As You Like It (PICT), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Bridges Theatrical), Much Ado About Nothing (The Pittsburgh Playhouse) and How I Learned to Drive (Pinnacle Productions). Her recent design installations have included both an interactive walk-through ISPY experience, and a senior thesis gallery of original poetry, sketches, and paintings. Archival images of these exhibits can be found at c10kdesign.com. She would like to thank her family and the brilliant PICT company for their warmth and wisdom. JOAN MARKERT (Costume Designer) is celebrating her 14th season with PICT. Productions that have included her costumes include The Lion in Winter, Sive, The Mask of Moriarty, The Crucifer of Blood, Lady Windermere’s Fan, Blithe Spirit, For the Tree To Drop, Sharon’s Grave, Oliver Twist, Jane Eyre, The Old Curiosity Shop, The Heiress and The Woman in Black. For 39 years she was a member of the costume department at the Pittsburgh Playhouse of Point Park University where her designs were seen in productions for all four of the Playhouse companies. Her favorite projects include The School For Scandal, Carousel, Parade, Assassins, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Nine, Anything Goes (twice), Contact, Playboy of the Western World, The Drowsy Chaperone, and The Gift of the Magi with the Conservatory Theatre Company; Kira, the Young Hunter, Kenah-Turtle Island, Yo, Vikings!, and The Wind In the Willows (twice) with Playhouse Jr.; Counter Pulse, Twelve Dancing Princesses, The Little Mermaid, Cinderella (twice) and Romeo & Juliet (twice) with the Conservatory Dance Company; and All My Sons, On the Beach, Riddley Walker, Breaker Morant, The Threepenny Opera and Peer Gynt with The REP. Joan has also worked with various theatres in the Pittsburgh region including the Jewish Theatre of Pittsburgh and Prime Stage. In 2019 the Pittsburgh New Works Festival honored Joan with their Lifetime Achievement Award. She is a graduate of Grinnell College and has a Master of Fine Arts degree in Costume Design from Carnegie Mellon University. She has lived in Pittsburgh since 1978. In her spare time, she grows orchids, enjoys her cats, and is working on programs for inventorying and tracking costumes and props. PICT – ENDGAME 15
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SHARON McCUNE (Associate Producer) No stranger to the PICT stage, Ms. McCune has delighted
audiences as Titania/Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Three Ghosts in A Christmas Carol
(*voted 2nd in City Paper’s 2021 Best of Pittsburgh Awards), Webinar iterations of Gertrude and Lady
Macbeth; Lady Capulet in Romeo & Juliet, and Jocasta in Oedipus Rex. Her extensive experience
in the classic canon and passion for education led her to her role as PICT’s first Associate Producer
and Curator of the inaugural Expand the Canon series. Ms. McCune is a mainstay of Pittsburgh
theater, having performed most recently in Jay Ball’s World Premiere adaptation of An Odyssey for
Quantum; ZOOM productions of TJ Parker Young’s The Inseparables (a “loose” adaptation of Dumas’
classic The Three Musketeers) and Lysistrata with the Pittsburgh Public Theater’s PlayTime series;
Pittsburgh Public Theatre (*Artistic Director Marya Sea Kaminski’s all female The Tempest); Bricolage
Production Company, The REP, and Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks as Brutus in Julius Caesar
(the first all-female cast). Regionally, Ms. McCune has worked with Barter Theater, Ensemble Theater
of Cincinnati, First-Stage Milwaukee (World Premiere of Burgess Clark’s adaptation of Island of the
Blue Dolphins), Phoenix Theater (Twelfth Night directed by Sir John Barton), Stage One, New Harmony
Theater, American Players Theater, Native Voices at the Autry, Academy for New Musical Theater,
Theater Neo, and the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, where she is a co-founding company member.
Her educational experience includes teaching ESL to students of all ages in China; a member of the
Standardized Patient Program at the University of Pittsburgh, and an adjunct faculty member at Point
Park University, teaching…Shakespeare. She has a smattering of television/film credits including The
Last Witch Hunter, Downward Dog, and the board game, SpyQuest. You can find her audiobook,
Wicked Dangerous by Julie Kriss on Audible, guest narration for the SFWA’s Nebula Awards, narrating
news articles on Curio, and a climate fiction short story.
CARLY TRIMBLE-LONG (Production Manager) joined PICT as the Production Manager and staff
Technical Director in the 2021 season and has previously served as Technical Director for the 2019 &
2020 season (The Woman In Black & A Midsummer Night’s Dream). Carly is a graduate of Point Park
University and holds a BFA in Technical Design & Management. Previous to this position she was a
freelance artist who’s professional credits include Technical Director/ Scenic Designer of The White
Rose with Prime Stage Theatre, Technical Director/ Scenic Designer of Everybody at 12 Peers Theatre,
Staff Carpenter at Utah Shakespeare Festival and Scenic Technician at Carnegie Mellon University. She
has been Prime Stage Theater’s Properties Designer from 2019-2022.
NICOLE WHITE (Lighting Designer) graduated from Point Park University with a degree in stage
management and a focus in lighting design. She has gone on to design lights for musicals, concerts,
and events across the tri-state area. Her most recent designs include The Glass Menagerie at Gateway
High School and The Inseparables at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Her upcoming designs
include Newsies at East Allegheny High School and Duquesne Club Immersive through Bricolage.
*Member, Actors’ Equity Association, the union for professional Actors and Stage Managers in the
United States.
16 PICT – ENDGAMEDONOR RECOGNITION
2021-2022 Season support generously provided by:
The Heinz Endowments, Allegheny Regional Asset District (RAD), The Pittsburgh
Foundation, The Philip Chosky Educational & Charitable Foundation, The Allegheny
Foundation, Arts|Equity|Reimagined/PACE Fund, The Buhl Foundation/Henry C. Frick
Educational Fund, The James M. & Lucy K. Schoonmaker Foundation, The Sophia
Katsafanas Foundation, Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, The Eugene & Saun-
dra O’Sullivan Family Charitable Fund, The Woffington Pittsburgh Theatre Fund, WQED
Pittsburgh, Joan F. Market, Robert Levin & Kerry Bron, and Dina J. Fulmer.
PICT Classic Theatre receives state arts funding support through a grant from the
Pennsylvania Council for the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania.
Opening Night Sponsorship for the 25th Anniversary Season
provided by UPMC.
Contributions listed were received July 1, 2021 through May 1, 2022.
All contributions made following this time will be acknowledged in our upcoming
program book. For corrections or information about making a tax-deductible gift to
PICT or for information on the benefits of sponsorship, please call 412-561-6000 x
207 or email Catherine Kolos at ck¬olos@picttheatre.org. Don’t forget to see if your
employer has a gift matching program!
PICT Classic Theatre’s mission is to engage with, to entertain,
and to serve the Pittsburgh community by examining current
social issues through the lens of classic text. Our vision is to
produce professional, provocative, and challenging theatre
for the widest audience through innovative, minimalist
presentation. Learn more at picttheatre.org
PICT – ENDGAME 17DONOR RECOGNITION
PICT would like to dedicate the productions of our 25th Season to
the friends and family that left us during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
We extend our deepest appreciation to the following donors whose generous
support sustained us and made possible our 25th Anniversary Season:
PRODUCERS’ Gail Gerono Gail and Phil Jones
CIRCLE ($25,000+) Joan & Fred Gohh Collin Kavanaugh
In Memory of Stephen L. Guinn Arthur John Kerr Jr.
Allegheny Regional Asset District
Hepatica Margaret Lubawy
Arts|Equity|Reimagined Fund
Janet Kafka Anne McCafferty
Dina J. Fulmer
Jones Day Sharon McCune
The Heinz Endowments
PA Council on the Arts Charles & Karen Moellenberg
Philip Chosky Charitable &
Erika & Joseph Parsons Dolores Nypaver
Educational Fund
Colin Prensky Daniel Quilp
The Pittsburgh Foundation
Michael Ramsay Evelyn & Steven Silberman
Daniel & Lauren Resnick Stephanie Fulmer-Smentek
($10,000-$24,999) Schoenle Family Sara & John Henry Steelman
Allegheny Foundation Patricia Schroder Rachel & Lowell Swarts
The Bloomberg Foundation Sharon E. & Robert Sclabassi
Jewish Federation of Annette R. & Preston W. Shimer ($250-$499)
Greater Pittsburgh Susan & Peter Smerd Alan & Barbara Ackerman
Sophia Katsafanas Foundation Janet & Robert Squires Marilou & Barry Belknap
Robert Levin & Kerry Bron Timothy & Ani Sweetser Sarah McAuliffe-Bellin
Joan F. Markert Brian & Kathleen White Lauren Melfa Catanzarite
James M. & Lucy K. Schoonmaker Adam Zell Barry Chad
Foundation
Judith & Robert Cunningham
UPMC PATRONS’ CIRCLE Marion Damick
($500-$999) Josh Dopirak
($5,000-$9,999) Henry Driscoll
Catherine & Jason Adams
AEO Foundation Ramona Baker Lacee Ecker
Anonymous Donor Janet & Joe Bonk Gary Friedman
Buhl Foundation Laura Bunting Joanne & Gary Garvin
Eileen Clancy Helen Casey Joan and Stuart Gaul
Eugene & Saundra O’Sullivan Anne K. Curtis & Timothy F. Clark Audrey & Fred Heidenreich
Barbara M. DeRiso William “Bill” Henninger
($1,000-$4,999) Dr. Tor Richter & Karen Esch Leonie Heystek
D. Larry Brophy IMO David Figgins Priscilla Laughlin
Anne and Jim Burnham Laryn & Moses Finder Hazel Leroy
Dr. Verna A. Corey William Guy Sissy & Bill Lieberman
Susan B. Campbell & Patrick Curry Susan & Wilfred Hansen Carolyn Ludwig
Jamini Vincent Davies Janice Harrison Susan McIntosh
Theresa & Jeffrey Donato Grace Harrison Denetta Benjamin-Miller
Pearl Figgins Anita and Robert Hoehl Suzanne Quinn
Lauren Gailey Dennis Rea
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Annual
RECOGNITION
Fund Donors
Shelley B. Rudoy Lamar Cheston Nicole Glass
Mona Rush Michele Clarke Caren E. Glotfelty
Jolie Schroeder Sigrid Cleland Harold Goldwasser
Lorraine Starsky Ann & Robert Colle Lucia Lazzara-Goodrich
Betty Thomas Laurence Comden Dane and Judy Gordon
James R. Torquato Louis Conley Jayme Graham
Judge David Torrey Joyce O’ Connor Donna and Jerrold Green
Frank Vozza Carole & Norbert Connors Patricia L. Grieco
John & Irene Wall Kathleen Connors Hanna Gruen
Ray & Susan Werner John and Barbara Conroy Katherine and Penn Hackney
Margaret Van Wert Cynthia & William Cooley Leslie Hammond
Sally Wiggin Gabrielle Corson David Harmon
Cornelius and Joan Cosgrove Marlene Haus
(up to $249) Steven D. Cuden George G. Haw
Virginia Abuyuan Brian & Barbara Cynamon Joan and Thomas Hayden
Joan Ammon Daniele Dadou Pattie Hazen
Anonymous Donor Joseph M. Spirer & Ada Davis Amelia Heastings
Anonymous Donor Linda Davoli Nancy Heastings
Ancient Order of Hibernians Div 32 Andrew DeStefano Jean A. Ver Hoeven
Phil Anthony Delia & Victor J. DiCarlo Marilyn S. & Charles A. Honigsberg
Louanne Baily Joann DiLorenzo David Hope
Thomas Bajorek Stephen Doerfler Debra Hotovchin
Maureen McHugh & Fran Barret Phyllis Dreyfuss Lynette Asson & Yvonne Hudson
Jay Barry Joyce M. Rothermel & Alison Huetter
Melissa & Marty Becker Michael Drohan Michael Ingram
Fred Beery Kerry Drombosky Lynne & Blair Jacobson
Bonnie Beran Kathleen Gavigan, Esq. & Janet James
Perry Bergman William B. Dixon, Esq. Lonnie Jantsch
Stephanie G. & Jacob G. Birnberg Kathy Fabrizio Melissa Dubois Jenkins
Bonnie & Arthur Bishop Fred Fargotstein Marilyn A. Jenkins
Thomas G. Black AnneLouise Feeny Brenda Jordan
Max Blair Janet K. Felmeth Barbara Jucha
Steven & Deborah Boisvert Heidi B. Fenton David Kachmar
Ken Bolden Peggy Ferber Mary Jane Kanyok
Deborah and Daniel Booker Thomas Ferguson Lynne Karg
Peter & Pamela Bower Caterina Provost and Rina Ferrarelli Ryan Kearney
Ann Boyd Kevin Hanes & Ryan Ferrebee Amy Kellman
Kathy & Walter Boykowycz Steele Filipek Jack Brunner & Patricia Kelly
Helene Brenner James FitzGerald Kathleen Kennedy
Jeffrey Brightshue Dr. James E. Fitzpatrick Jacqueline Apone & Tom Kennedy
Dorothy Brown Jean Fleischauer Patricia & Paul Kennedy
Joanne & David W. Brownlee Malgorzata Fort John Kenstowicz
Diane V. Byrnes Patti & Sandy Berman Foundation Marge & Dennis Kerr
Allison Cahill Christine and Dan Frezza Sharon Kimble
Michele Capuano Roz and Ed Friedman Peter Kissel
John Carson Therese & John Gallagher Laurie Klatscher
Christine Casey Esther & Harold Garfinkel Winifred A. Kredell
IMO Richard Cerilli Sharon Gaus Alexanndra Kreps
PICT – ENDGAME 19DONOR RECOGNITION Judith Kroll Maeve Nolan Carl Spadaro Richard Krug Sean Nolan Peter Staffel Vicki Kuftie Mary Patricia Nowalk Audra Stanton Kenneth Laeger Alan Olson Christine Starkowicz Susan McGregor-Laine Patricia Orlando Lee Stern Lucas Fedele & Zanny Laird Gohar Palanjian Denee Stevenson Rebecca Lampert Catherine Parham Carolyn Stewart Sharon Lang James M. Parsons Beverly R. Sullivan Vivian & Alan Lawsky David Passafiume Irene Surmik Jill Leahy Patricia Passeltiner Jill & Mike Sussman Cynthia Ledbetter Nancy & Dean Patterson Gregory Swiderski Robert Ledogar Timothy Perkey Margaret Tarpey Sean Lenhart David Phillips Susan Thibadeau Richard Lodi Dennis Pittman Todd Tomasic David Longstreet Diane Pittman Anne Trimble Barbara Love Mary Popeck Michael Trimm Jan Luksik Valerie & David Raitt Stuart Staley &Patricia Vergot James Lynch K. Oliver Rea Brice Vermeychuk Donna Macsuga James L. Reitz Christopher & Margaret Vincent Joanne Malenock Leila Richards Paul Vincent Mary Mannion Jo Ann Riley Jonathan Visser David March Sally Rock ‘Burgh Vivant Eric Marchbein Julie Rodakowski Dylan Wack Laura Marin Helen Faye Rosenblum George, Jana & Andrea Walczak Nancy & Jeffrey Martin Colleen Rumble Iris Walker Bernard McCrory Marigold Edwards & Blithe Runsdorf Claire Walker Carol & Fred McCullough Diane Runyan Thomas Wanko Brigid McDevitt Mary Lou Ruttle Kodie Warnell Tara McElfresh Tammy Ryan Ann Doris Weiss Patricia McElligott Jean Ryon Amy & Louis H. Weiss Kevin McKeegan Esther Sales Michael & Deborah West Sheila McKenna Karen Scansaroli West Virginia Wesleyan College Kathleen K. & David Meade Alton & Judith Schadt Mary Anne Clancy & David Whalen Thomas & Anne Medsger Judith and Alton Schadt Delia White Denise & Gerald Medwick Seymour Schafer Susanne Wilkinson Elizabeth Merril C Scheftic Laurie & David Williamson Ms. Marcia Metelsky Martin & Dolores Schultz Helen Wingertzahn Christine D. Michaels Urban G. Schuster Stanley & Mimi Winikoff Robert Mizwa Rose Scilla Jill Witherell Job Mogoba David Seitz Darlene Wood Stephen & Linda Moll Cynthia Sheehan Alma Worthington Bea Montague Jim Sheets Marissa Wycinsky Susan Monteverde Tricia Shepherd Natalie Zagari Laura Morgan Arthur L. Solomon Nancy Zionts Linda C. Murphy Florita Sonnenklar Neal Zweig Esther Nathanson Ingrid Sonnichsen Kyle Neumann James & Roberta Sosa 20 PICT – ENDGAME
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PICT Annual
LIBRARY
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NOTES
Read-a-likes for Endgame
by Samuel Beckett
Prepared by Joanne Dunmyre of the
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
If you’re looking for something to read that shares
themes with Endgame, consider one of these books.
They’re available to you free through the Carnegie
Library of Pittsburgh or any public library in Allegheny County.
Being and Nothingness: An Essay in Phenomenological Ontology by Jean-Paul Satre
Sartre explains the theory of existential psychoanalysis in this treatise on human reality.
This title is available in print.
Blindness by José Saramago
An epidemic which causes instant blindness ripples across the Earth, exposing the
precarious social contract of humanity. Available in print as well as a book on CD,
and an ebook and eaudio through Libby by Overdrive.
Jakarta by Rodrigo Márquez Tizano
Two people seek closure while plague and disaster brew around them and reality
becomes distorted. This title is available in print.
No Exit by Jean-Paul Satre
Two women and one man are locked up together for eternity in one hideous room in
hell. The windows are bricked up; there are no mirrors; the electric lights can never be
turned off; and there is no exit. The irony of this hell is that its torture is not of the rack
and fire, but of the burning humiliation of each soul as it is. This title is available
in print.
The Plague by Albert Camus
A haunting tale of human resilience and hope in the face of unrelieved horror. An
epidemic ravages the people of a North African coastal town. Camus reaches the
philosophical conclusion that life is random and absurd. Available in print as well
as a book on CD, and an ebook and eaudio through Libby by Overdrive.
Terminal Boredom: Stories by Izumi Suzuki
Bleak, thought-provoking stories explore themes of alienation, despair, isolation of
modern society, and blurred realities, in this collection of darkly playful and punky
stories. Available in print as well as an ebook and eaudio through Libby by Overdrive.
Need a library card? Go to www.carnegielibrary.org/services/get-a-library-card/
PICT – ENDGAME 21PICT BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Board Officers Dolores Nypaver Jessica Neiss
Eileen Clancy, Pauline Taylor-Raiff Kristen Olson
Co-President Mona D. Rush, EdD
Advisory Board
Joseph Parsons, Ben Scoville
Peter Smerd, Chair
Co-President Jennifer Trehar
Ashish Badjatia
Theresa Donato, Greg Voss
De’netta Benjamin-Miller
Treasurer Katheryn Wagner Bowe
Diane V. Byrnes
Carolyn Ludwig, Adam Zell
Eryn Correa
Secretary Steve Cuden Honorary Board
Directors Bri Fallahee Congressman
D. Larry Brophy Kevin Gieder Mike Doyle
Laura Bunting Naveen Kumar Charles Gray
Dr. Henry “Patrick” Kel Laeger Thomas Kilroy
Driscoll Jim Lamb Richard E. Rauh
Gail Gerono Karen & Chuck David Norris–Seanad
Pattie Hazen Moellenberg Eireann
PICT STAFF
Alan Stanford Catherine Kolos Sharon McCune
Artistic & Executive General Operations Associate Producer
Director Manager Rebecca McNeil
Carly Trimble-Long Nicole McClain Consulting CFO
Production Manager Grant Writer
PICT Classic Theatre
P.O. Box 8168, Pittsburgh, PA 15217 • 412-561-6000 • picttheatre.org
PICT’s Administrative offices are located at 4905 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
PICT is a Blue Star Theatre (for military personnel and their families),
and a member of BoardsWork!
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