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McGuire Proscenium Stage / Dec 10, 2022 – Feb 5, 2023 Cummins and Scoullar’s The Little Prince drama by RICK CUMMINS and JOHN SCOULLAR based on the book by ANTOINE de SAINT-EXUPÉRY
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Inside IN PICTURES The Future Is Bright • 4 WELCOME From Artistic Director Joseph Haj • 5 GUTHRIE SPOTLIGHT Health, Safety and Security • 6 GUTHRIE SPOTLIGHT Q&A With Anthony Pangal • 6 THE LITTLE PRINCE Cast and Creative Team • 9 Biographies • 10 PLAY FEATURES From Director Dominique Serrand • 15 A Life in the Sky • 16 Dressed to Thrill • 18 PLAY FEATURE Backstory • 20 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry • 16 SUPPORTERS Annual Fund Contributors • 22 Corporate, Foundation and Public Support • 25 WHO WE ARE Board of Directors and Guthrie Staff • 28 GOOD TO KNOW Theater Information and Policies • 30 PLAY FEATURE Costume Inspiration and Creation • 18 Guthrie Theater Program 818 South 2nd Street, Minneapolis, MN 55415 Volume 60, Issue 4 • Copyright 2022 ADMINISTRATION 612.225.6000 EDITOR Johanna Buch BOX OFFICE 612.377.2224 or 1.877.447.8243 (toll-free) GRAPHIC DESIGNER Brian Bressler guthrietheater.org • Joseph Haj, Artistic Director CONTRIBUTORS Olivera Gajic, Joseph Haj, Anthony Pangal, Amy Schmidt, Dominique Serrand, Carla Steen 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 The Guthrie program is published by the Guthrie Theater. people who have stewarded it throughout the generations, including the To advertise in the program, call 612.225.6193. Ojibwe and other Indigenous nations. GUTHRIE THEATER \ 3
IN PICTURES PHOTOS: THIS PAGE: AARON THOMAS; MARK HARTMAN; OPPOSITE PAGE: JOSEPH HAJ (T CHARLES ERICKSON) The Future Is Bright Something special happens when our young actors start rehearsing for A Christmas Carol. Whether they’re playing the Cratchit siblings or singing carols with gusto, they bring endless joy to the story — and then to everyone in the audience. These rising stars have big things ahead, and we’re grateful to be a stop on their way to whatever comes next. Bravo! 4 \ GUTHRIE THEATER
WELCOME From Artistic Director Joseph Haj 2022–2023 SEASON Vietgone Dear Friends, Sept 10 – Oct 16, 2022 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince has been beloved by Wurtele Thrust Stage readers since the fable was published in 1943. Although the novella is a children’s story, I first experienced it as an adult, which was timely Sally & Tom considering many of its lessons are for grown-ups. Through a sweeping Oct 1 – Nov 6, 2022 journey that spans the vastness of the desert, the galaxy and one’s own McGuire Proscenium Stage imagination, Saint-Exupéry explores themes of friendship, loneliness, creativity, death, love and what it means to grow up — and what is lost A Christmas Carol Nov 12 – Dec 31, 2022 or gained when we do. Wurtele Thrust Stage I’ve dreamed about staging The Little Prince at the Guthrie for years, The Little Prince and the only person I could imagine directing it was Dominique Serrand, Dec 10, 2022 – Feb 5, 2023 McGuire Proscenium Stage the former Co-Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Theatre de la Jeune Lune, which was a shining star in the Twin Cities theater community Blues for an from 1978 to 2008. I was thrilled when Dominique agreed to direct Alabama Sky The Little Prince during our 2020–2021 Season and then beyond Jan 28 – March 12, 2023 Wurtele Thrust Stage disappointed when it was canceled due to the pandemic. Thankfully, the dream of producing The Little Prince endured, just like the story itself. Born With Teeth We’ve collected a group of gifted artists I deeply admire to make this March 4 – April 2, 2023 play, and I’m grateful to finally bring this moving tale to our audiences. McGuire Proscenium Stage Hamlet The idea for The Little Prince first came to Saint-Exupéry while he was April 8 – May 21, 2023 sketching on a blank page. He drew a petite character that was so Wurtele Thrust Stage charming, it became a permanent figment in Saint-Exupéry’s mind (and eventually his writing). As the whimsical world of this play unfolds, I Murder on the invite you to be open to every possibility and discover the wondrous Orient Express May 13 – July 2, 2023 places your imagination will take you. McGuire Proscenium Stage Enjoy the show, Into the Woods June 17 – Aug 13, 2023 Wurtele Thrust Stage Shane July 15 – Aug 27, 2023 McGuire Proscenium Stage For tickets and information, call the Box Office at 612.377.2224 or 1.877.447.8243 (toll-free) or visit guthrietheater.org. GUTHRIE THEATER \ 5
GUTHRIE SPOTLIGHT Q&A With Anthony Pangal Before becoming our Health, Safety and Security Manager, Anthony Pangal spent decades in public service. Find out why this military veteran, former police chief and Medal of Valor recipient took on this multifaceted role and how he plans to help ensure the Guthrie is a safe place for everyone in the community. How did you get into this line of work, and what led you to the Guthrie? Right out of high school, I started training in food service, but I didn’t want to do that for the rest of my life. Needing some direction, I the City of Saint Paul. Eventually, I It was a great experience, but joined the U.S. Marine Corps and became the police chief for three the commute was rough. When actively served for four years. Minnesota cities — Eagle Bend, my wife saw this opportunity When I returned to the Twin Cities, Chatfield (a suburb of Rochester) at the Guthrie, she encouraged I took a temporary position at and Wyoming — and greatly me to apply, and I’ve been here Ramsey County Detox Center enjoyed building teams, working since October. where I engaged with clients, with the community and interacting police officers and members of with schools. Then I returned to Your work experience seems to the community. I enjoyed that health care security, taking on align well with your current role experience and learned so much different supervisory roles at local at the Guthrie. How would you PHOTO: ANTHONY PANGAL (AARON THOMAS) in those 15 months. From there, hospitals. I even considered going describe what you do here? I held various security positions, back to school for nursing. I work to ensure the safety of all including a health care security job Guthrie employees and guests. I at Abbott Northwestern Hospital. Most recently, I served as Director also work to ensure our excellent of Safety and Security for Inver safety and security team has In 1994, I completed my police Hills Community College and the training and tools they need training and became an officer for Dakota County Technical College. to be successful. 6 \ GUTHRIE THEATER
What does an average day look keep our skills current so we can if we have regular training. When like for you? provide immediate medical care everyone understands their role From responding to calls to being when needed. during a critical incident, we can present during performances, reach a safe conclusion together. A there’s so much variety. That’s Safety covers everything from significant part of my role moving what brings me back each day. No OSHA compliance and reporting forward will also include becoming matter what or whom I encounter, to various inspections to a certified CPR Instructor and I try to be polite, introduce myself, implementing organization-wide training various Guthrie staff in meet people where they’re at and policies. CPR and first aid. treat everyone with dignity and respect. Because I’m new, much Security is about addressing onsite What have you enjoyed most of my time is spent in meetings challenges and concerns. Right about working at the Guthrie? with key stakeholders. I also chair now, we’re looking at expanding Everyone is welcome at the the Guthrie’s Safety Committee, and upgrading the lighting on Guthrie, which is something I where I receive feedback and the building’s exterior to increase greatly appreciate. Whether you’re discuss concerns from other visibility and discourage unwanted attending a performance or taking departments. Sometimes my work activity. It’s also about responding in the beauty of this building, we is as simple as stocking a first- to the calls and concerns our team encourage the community to come aid kit; other times I’m working receives and being respectful and and visit our spaces. You can go up to solve complex challenges mindful in any given situation. to Level Nine or walk the Endless with my team. Bridge and look out over the whole Looking ahead, what is your vision city. What better view is there? Let’s break down the three parts for health, safety and security at of your job title: health, safety and the Guthrie? You probably know every inch of security. How are they different, First, I’d like to focus on training the building by now. Do you have and why are they important? my team so everyone feels a favorite spot? Health is about having the confident and comfortable when At first, I was overwhelmed by appropriate equipment available responding to situations. Safety the size of the Guthrie. There are during a medical emergency and and security procedures have so many nooks and crannies and ensuring our team is trained to vastly changed over the years. doors — I’m still learning what’s respond. I’ve been a certified They used to be more hands-on, behind all the doors! [laughs] But emergency medical technician but now they focus on using staff my favorite spot is the Amber Box since 1993, and I’m working presence and verbal de-escalation on Level Nine. to ensure everyone on my skills to safely resolve a stressful team is a certified emergency situation. I believe we need to do Anything else you’d like to share? medical responder so we can our best to de-escalate situations The Guthrie was built to be confidently assess situations first and rely on police involvement enjoyed, so come out and see us! and give proper care. This level as a last resort. I’d also like to I still pinch myself that I work at of training is critical. You hope conduct more evacuation and one of the neatest buildings in a medical emergency doesn’t safety drills because we’ll only be the Twin Cities. It’s a shining star happen, but it’s important to successful during an actual event in the community. PLAN AHEAD REQUEST AN ESCORT Things like planning where to park or A Guthrie security guard is happy to carpooling so you walk to the theater as a escort you at any time. We are onsite group can help increase your safety. 24/7 — just call us at 612.225.6014. PARK ACROSS THE STREET BE AWARE OF YOUR SURROUNDINGS Anthony’s I suggest parking in the Riverfront Stay alert and report any suspicious Safety Ramp directly across from the Guthrie. It’s convenient, it’s well lit and we work activity or safety issues to my team so we can address the situation and help keep Tips closely with their management team. everyone at the Guthrie safe. GUTHRIE THEATER \ 7
Cummins and Scoullar’s The Little Prince drama by Rick Cummins and John Scoullar based on the book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Scenic design sponsored by Cast in alphabetical order AVIATOR Steven Epp* KING/SNAKE/FOX Nathan Keepers* The Guthrie gratefully recognizes LITTLE PRINCE Reed Northrup* Ann Rainhart & Jason Digman as Associate Producers. CONCEITED MAN/LAMPLIGHTER/ Wariboko Semenitari* PUPPETEER Setting A thousand miles from any ROSE/BUSINESSMAN/ Catherine Young* human habitation. GEOGRAPHER/PUPPETEER Run Time Approximately 1 hour, 45 minutes Creative Team (no intermission) Understudies DIRECTOR Dominique Serrand Jim Lichtscheidl* (S. Epp, N. Keepers); Sophina Saggau (R. Northrup, C. Young); SCENIC DESIGNER Rachel Hauck Mikell Sapp* (W. Semenitari) Understudies never substitute for performers COSTUME AND PUPPET DESIGNER Olivera Gajic unless announced prior to the performance. LIGHTING DESIGNER Yi Zhao Acknowledgments The Little Prince is produced by special SOUND DESIGNER/COMPOSER Sinan Refik Zafar arrangement with Dramatic Publishing in Woodstock, Illinois. RESIDENT DRAMATURG Carla Steen VOCAL COACH Mira Kehoe MOVEMENT DIRECTOR Kimberly Richardson FIGHT DIRECTOR Aaron Preusse RESIDENT CASTING DIRECTOR Jennifer Liestman STAGE MANAGER Lori Lundquist* ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER Laura Topham* ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Cara Phipps NYC CASTING CONSULTANT McCorkle Casting, Ltd. *Member of Actors’ Equity Association GUTHRIE THEATER \ 9
Biographies Wariboko Semenitari Conceited Man/Lamplighter/ Puppeteer GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Theater Latté Da: Merrily We Roll Along (u/s), NEXT Festival, Twelve Angry Men: A New Musical (world premiere); Great River Shakespeare Festival: Romeo and Juliet, Great Expectations (u/s); Underdog Theatre/Mixed Blood Theatre: How It’s Gon’ Be (world premiere); Gremlin Theatre: Samuel J. & K. (regional Cast premiere); University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater B.F.A. Acting Program: The School for Lies, Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train, Junk, The Merchant of Venice, Kin, Sueño; Playwriting: Naija Is Alive, Healing Play. CHOREOGRAPHY University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater B.F.A. Steven Epp Acting Program: The School for Lies, Dance Nation. TEACHING Guthrie Aviator Theater Teaching Artist. TRAINING University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater B.F.A. Acting Program GUTHRIE Metamorphoses, Indecent, Refugia, The Servant of Two Masters, A Christmas Carol, The Caretaker, To Fool Catherine Young the Eye. THEATER Off-Broadway: Hamlet Rose/Businessman/Geographer/ (New Victory Theater); The Servant Puppeteer of Two Masters (Theatre for a New Audience); Regional: Theatre de la Jeune GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Purchase Lune (1983–2008); The Moving Company Repertory Theatre: As You Like It, (2009 to present); Berkeley Rep; A.R.T.; Alley Theatre; La Jolla A Bright Room Called Day (Revisited), Playhouse; Spoleto Festival; Baltimore Center Stage; Shakespeare The Misanthrope, The Possibilities; Theatre Company; Seattle Repertory Theatre; Yale Repertory Theatre; Walden Alumni Company: Dry Land, South Coast Repertory; The Old Globe. AWARDS Fox Fellow; McKnight Bowling for Beginners. TRAINING Purchase Fellow; Helen Hayes Award; Elliot Norton Award; Ivey Award; Bay College, State University of New York Area Theatre Critics Circle Award; Outer Critics Circle Award. TRAINING B.A., Theatre and History, Gustavus Adolphus College. www.themovingco.org Nathan Keepers Creative Team King/Snake/Fox GUTHRIE Noises Off, Refugia, King Lear, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The Comedy of Errors. THEATER The Author Moving Company (Producing Artistic Director, selected): Anamnesis; What If; A French aviator, poet and author, Antoine Speechless; Liberty Falls, 54321; Love’s de Saint-Exupéry became enamored with Labour’s Lost; Out of the Pan Into the aviation while still a boy in France and Fire; Werther and Lotte; Come Hell and learned to fly as an air force officer, later High Water; Theatre de la Jeune Lune transitioning to commercial flights in 1926. (selected): Fishtank, The Miser, The Little Prince, Tartuffe; Actors Aviation is a theme throughout much of Theatre of Louisville: The Santaland Diaries, The 39 Steps (Director), Saint-Exupéry’s work, including Southern Peter and the Starcatcher, Noises Off, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Mail (1929), Night Flight (1931), Wind, Berkeley Rep: Tartuffe, The Miser; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Sand and Stars (1939) and Flight to Arras (1942). After France was Tartuffe; Folger Theatre: The Comedy of Errors; Jungle Theater: invaded by Germany in World War II, Saint-Exupéry left Europe for the Waiting for Godot, The Swan, Fully Committed; Ten Thousand Things: U.S. where he wrote and illustrated The Little Prince as a philosophical Il Campiello. TRAINING Burlesk Center (with Pierre Byland); École fable for children in 1942. He returned to his squadron in North Africa Philippe Gaulier; Théâtre du Soleil and disappeared while on a reconnaissance flight over southern France in 1944, likely shot down by a German fighter. Reed Northrup Little Prince GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Ars Nova: Auntie Vanya; Yale Cabaret: Constellations; The Flea Theater: Locked Up Bitches; Yale School of Drama: Twelfth Night. FILM/ TELEVISION High Maintenance; Voice of Javi on “Teenage Euthanasia” (Adult Swim). AWARDS 2022 Pierre-André Salim Prize. TRAINING M.F.A., Acting, Yale School of Drama; B.A., Sarah Lawrence College. @reednorthrup (IG) 10 \ GUTHRIE THEATER
Rick Cummins Dominique Serrand Adapter Director Rick Cummins is an author and composer GUTHRIE Refugia, The Comedy of Errors, originally from western Pennsylvania. He Triumph of Love, A Party for Two (tour). went to Philadelphia for formal education, THEATER Co-Artistic Director, The Moving earning his B.S. and M.D. degrees at the Company (selected): Come Hell and University of Pennsylvania. He has lived High Water, Refugia, Anamnesis; Former in Marshalls Creek, Pennsylvania, and on Co-Artistic Director and Co-Founder of the Upper West Side of Manhattan since Theatre de la Jeune Lune, 1978–2008 1975. He is a member of ASCAP and the (selected directing credits): The Kitchen, Dramatists Guild. Cummins’ favorite work, Half the Sky: True Stories Lulu, The Bourgeois Gentleman, Romeo and Juliet, Children of of Women Around the World, is based on the Chinese quote “Women Paradise: Shooting a Dream, The Three Musketeers, Queen Elizabeth, hold up half the sky.” This unusual theater piece is a compilation of Tartuffe, Gulliver, The Seagull, The Miser. OPERA The Magic Flute, true stories from various news media around the world, documenting Così Fan Tutte, Don Giovanni, Figaro, Carmen, María de Buenos Aires, shocking gender bias still in practice today through song, dance, Mefistofele. AWARDS 2005 Regional Theatre Tony Award (Theatre humor and pathos. This project was chosen to headline the Festival de la Jeune Lune); American Theatre Critics Association New Play of New Musicals at Theatre Building Chicago. As a longtime member Award and Pulitzer Prize nomination (Children of Paradise: Shooting a of New York’s BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, Dream); Knighted by the French government in the Order of Arts and Cummins had the opportunity to develop his theater craft under the Letters in 2003. TRAINING École Jacques Lecoq, Paris leadership of its founder, Lehman Engel. His music, lyrics and librettos are represented in productions of The Little Prince (New Victory Theater), That’s Life! (Outer Critics Circle Award nominee), Sherlock Rachel Hauck Holmes and the Red-Headed League (Promenade Theater, published Scenic Designer by Samuel French), Amos & Olga (Playhouse by the River), Tiny Tim’s Christmas Carol (BAM) and Pets! (Theatre East, published by GUTHRIE What the Constitution Means Dramatic Publishing). Cummins has written incidental music for many to Me, Clybourne Park, Cat on a Hot Shakespeare plays and American classics performed at theaters Tin Roof. THEATER Broadway: How I across the U.S., Canada and Europe. He has written television scripts, Learned to Drive, Hadestown, What the movie theme songs, children’s songs and cabarets. Constitution Means to Me, Latin History for Morons; Recent work: Good Night, Oscar (Goodman Theatre); Sandra John Scoullar (Vineyard Theatre); F*ck7thGrade (Wild Adapter Project); Confederates (Signature Theatre); Swept Away (Berkeley Rep); The Wrong Man (MCC Theater); The Garden (Baltimore Center John Scoullar grew up in Providence, Stage/La Jolla Playhouse); 72 Miles To Go… (Roundabout Theatre Rhode Island, and began a performing Company); Hurricane Diane (NYTW); Othello, Twelfth Night (The career at age 12, touring with the Bolshoi Public Theater/Shakespeare in the Park); The Lucky Ones (Ars Nova); Ballet in the U.S. He eventually entered You’ll Still Call Me By Name (Sonya Tayeh/Jacob’s Pillow). AWARDS seminary but left to pursue acting and Princess Grace Award; Lilly Award; Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel dance. Moving to New York City in the Award nominations; Jeff Award (Good Night, Oscar); Obie Award for early 1970s, he appeared in several Sustained Excellence; Tony Award (Hadestown) original off-Broadway casts (The Hot L Baltimore, The Crazy Locomotive and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater) as well as on Broadway (Candide, Over Here! and King of Hearts). Olivera Gajic He then turned to playwriting and penned Old Fashioned Bargain Costume and Puppet Designer Days (Playwrights Horizons), Fitzy and Bucko and Canticle (Hartman Conservatory Theatre). With Rick Cummins, he wrote the various GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Jedermann stage adaptations of The Little Prince, many television scripts, cabaret (Salzburg Festival, Austria); Off- songs and a musical about reincarnation titled Sojourn. At the time Broadway/Regional: God’s Ear (Vineyard of his death in 2011, he was working with Joseph Kavanaugh on The Theatre); Ocean Filibuster (A.R.T.); Pig Legend of Finn McCool and Hello, Dears, in which he played an Iron Theatre Company; Talking Band; endearing waitress at a Manhattan diner. After moving to New York PearlDamour; Restless Productions; The City, Scoullar married his sweetheart, actor Linda Robbins, who in 1981 Lake Lucille Project (14 seasons); The appeared on Broadway in Amadeus. Months later, their son, Nicholas, Juilliard School (15 seasons); Company was born and given the middle name Amadeus. Nicholas (joined by XIV (seven seasons); Arden Theatre Company (10 seasons); Trinity his wife, Faryl) continues in Scoullar’s footsteps as a screenwriter Rep (10 seasons); Berkshire Theatre Festival (14 seasons); Long Wharf under the name Nick Amadeus. Theatre; Two River Theater; PlayMakers Repertory Company; Cal Shakes; Santa Cruz Shakespeare; Folger Theatre; Huntington Theatre Company; Shakespeare Theatre Company; Cleveland Play House; Barrington Stage Company; Chautauqua Theater Company. FILM/ TELEVISION I Am a Seagull (The Chekhov Project). OTHER Member of Local USA 829; U.S. National Exhibit at the Prague Quadrennial; Curtain Call: Celebrating a Century of Women Designing for Live Performance; Costume at the Turn of the Century; Vesuario a Scena; SENA-OISTAT (Morocco). AWARDS NEA/TCG Career Development Program; TDF/Irene Sharaff Young Master Award; IT Award; Barrymore Award; Bessie Award for Outstanding Costume Design. TRAINING Academy of Applied Arts (Belgrade, Serbia); University of Connecticut. www.oliveragajic.com GUTHRIE THEATER \ 11
Yi Zhao Mira Kehoe Lighting Designer Vocal Coach GUTHRIE A Christmas Carol, Twelfth Night, GUTHRIE Refugia, The Parchman Hour The Bluest Eye. THEATER Broadway: and more than 80 productions since the The Skin of Our Teeth (Tony Award 1990–1991 Season. THEATER Voice, Text nomination); New York: Greater Clements, and Dialect Coach: Next Wave Festival Pipeline (Lincoln Center Theater); (BAM); Theatre de la Jeune Lune; Jungle Fabulation, In the Blood, The Death of the Theater; Theater Mu; Children’s Theatre Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World Company; Minnesota Opera; North Star (Signature Theatre); Dreaming Zenzile, Opera; Numerous productions at area The House That Will Not Stand, Red Speedo (NYTW); Thunderbodies, colleges; Multimedia theater pieces: Co-Director, Composer and Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again., FUTURITY (Soho Rep); Actually Performer: Labyrinth (Space-Space); Circling (Guthrie Lab). FILM/ (Manhattan Theatre Club); Regional: Yale Repertory Theatre; Oregon TELEVISION Dialect Consultant: Sugar & Spice, The Naked Man, The Shakespeare Festival; Mark Taper Forum; Dallas Theater Center; Wilma Parent Trap, The Mighty Ducks. OTHER Several recordings, numerous Theater; A.C.T.; Berkeley Rep; Huntington Theatre Company; McCarter concerts and workshops throughout the U.S. and Brazil; Co-Director, Theatre Center; International: Theaternatur Festival (Germany). OPERA Arts on Lafond. TEACHING University of Minnesota; Hamline University; Norwegian National Opera; Detroit Opera; Opera Omaha; ArtsEmerson; The University of Utah; Guthrie Theater; Private studio teaching for Curtis Institute of Music; Prototype Festival; Hong Kong Arts Festival. voice, dialects, text and acting DANCE Sasha Waltz & Guests (Germany); Ballet de Lorraine (France). UPCOMING Lyric Opera of Chicago; Opera Philadelphia; Opera Colorado. AWARDS 2019 Henry Hewes Design Award; 2016 Vilcek Prize for Kimberly Richardson Creative Promise in Theatre. www.yi-zhao.com Movement Director GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Open Eye Sinan Refik Zafar Theatre: The Red Shoes, To the Moon, My Sound Designer/Composer Life as a Fairytale; Ten Thousand Things: Artist Core member since 2008; Selected GUTHRIE What the Constitution Means productions: Dirt Sticks, My Fair Lady, to Me, Noura. THEATER Broadway: What As You Like It, Othello; Illusion Theater: the Constitution Means to Me; National A Play by Barb and Carl; Children’s Tours: What the Constitution Means to Theatre Company: Cinderella; Sod Me, What To Send Up When It Goes House Theater: The Hoopla Train; Jungle Theater: Noises Off; History Down; Off-Broadway: Which Way to Theatre: Stewardess!; Live Action Set: Please Don’t Blow Up Mr. Boban. the Stage, To All the Natalie Portmans CHOREOGRAPHY TigerLion Arts: Nature (national tour); Ten Thousand (MCC Theater); Cullud Wattah, The Things: The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Dear World, Park and Lake; Sod Vagrant Trilogy (The Public Theater); English, Shhhh (Atlantic Theater House Theater: Table. FILM/TELEVISION E.G. Bailey’s New Neighbors Company); Wish You Were Here, What To Send Up... (Playwrights (Sundance Film Festival). TEACHING University of Minnesota/Guthrie Horizons); To My Girls (Second Stage Theater); Montag (Soho Rep); Theater B.F.A. Acting Program; Upstream Arts. AWARDS Sage Award Letters From Max (Signature Theatre); What the Constitution Means to for Dance Performance; McKnight Theater Artist Fellowship. TRAINING Me (NYTW/Clubbed Thumb); Novenas for a Lost Hospital (Rattlestick B.F.A., Modern Dance, The University of Utah Playwrights Theater); What To Send Up…, And She Would Stand Like This (The Movement Theatre Company); Hamlet (Waterwell); Intelligence (Next Door at NYTW); Richard in 9 Poses (Clubbed Aaron Preusse Thumb); Regional: The Kennedy Center; Yale Repertory Theatre; Fight Director Berkeley Rep; Williamstown Theatre Festival; Mark Taper Forum; Geva Theatre Center; TheatreWorks Silicon Valley; PlayMakers Repertory GUTHRIE Vietgone, Sweat, Emma, Company; Weston Playhouse; Dorset Theatre Festival; Two River Twelfth Night, Noura, Floyd’s, Guys and Theater; TheatreSquared. TRAINING M.F.A., Yale School of Drama. Dolls, Metamorphoses, As You Like It, www.sinanzafar.com Noises Off, Frankenstein – Playing With Fire, Indecent, Watch on the Rhine, Native Gardens, Refugia, The Bluest Carla Steen Eye, The Royal Family, The Parchman Resident Dramaturg Hour. THEATER Ordway: Jesus Christ Superstar, The Pirates of Penzance; Minnesota Opera: Carmen; Park GUTHRIE More than 75 productions since Square Theatre: Hamlet; Commonweal Theatre Company: The Three 1996, including A Christmas Carol, Sally & Musketeers; St. Paul Ballet: Carmen; Red Bird Theatre: A Bright Tom, Sweat, The Tempest, Noura, Cyrano Room Called Day, Buried Child, Time To Burn; Gremlin Theatre: Dial de Bergerac, As You Like It, Frankenstein M for Murder; Theatre Pro Rata: The Illusion, Henry V; Lyric Arts: – Playing With Fire, West Side Story, Superior Donuts, Leading Ladies; Theatre in the Round: The Three Familiar, Sunday in the Park With Musketeers; Old Log Theatre: The Play That Goes Wrong. TRAINING George, King Lear, The Lion in Winter, Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre; London Academy Disgraced, The 39 Steps, Peer Gynt, His of Music and Dramatic Art; Society of American Fight Directors. Girl Friday and Sweeney Todd. THEATER Dramaturgy for The Acting www.fakefighting.com 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 12 \ GUTHRIE THEATER
Jennifer Liestman Resident Casting Director GUTHRIE Member of the Artistic Team since 2003; More than 60 productions, workshops and readings since 2015, including Sally & Tom, Vietgone, Sweat, Emma, A Raisin in the Sun, The THE NAIL BITING THRILLER ABOUT A Tempest, A Christmas Carol, History Plays Workshop, Dickens’ FAMOUS NOVELIST AND HIS #1 FAN! 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 Lori Lundquist Stage Manager GUTHRIE Stage Manager: Vietgone, Guys and Dolls; Assistant Stage Manager: A Raisin in the Sun. THEATER Broadway: Fosse, The Best Man, Holiday; Off-Broadway: Head of Passes with Phylicia Rashad (The Public Theater); Julie Taymor’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theatre for a New Audience); The Legend of Georgia McBride (MCC Theater); Gloria (Vineyard Theatre); Incident at Vichy, Big Love (Signature Theatre); Into the Woods, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Shakespeare in the BY Park); Fiction, Talley’s Folly (Roundabout Theatre Company); The Shaggs, The Burnt Part WILLIAM GOLDMAN Boys (Playwrights Horizons); The Good Times Are Killing Me (Second Stage Theater/Minetta Lane Theatre); A Civil War Christmas (NYTW/Long Wharf Theatre); The Wolves (New York Stage and Film/The Playwrights Realm); Regional: The Age of Innocence (Hartford Stage/ FEBRUARY 24 - McCarter Theatre Center); Sousatzka (Toronto); Joseph… (Ordway); Alley Theatre; Trinity MARCH 26 Rep; Kansas City Repertory Theatre. OPERA Minnesota Opera; Indianapolis Opera; Opera Memphis; New York City Opera (two seasons). TRAINING B.A./B.S., Bemidji State University Laura Topham LADY DAY Assistant Stage Manager GUTHRIE Stage Manager: A Raisin in the Sun. THEATER Park Square Theatre: More than 20 productions, including Holmes and Watson, The Rocky Horror Show, Jefferson Township Sparkling Junior Talent Pageant, Baskerville: A Sherlock EMERSON’S Holmes Mystery, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Diary BAR & GRILL of Anne Frank; Yellow Tree Theatre: A Streetcar Named Desire, Another Miracle on Christmas Lake, Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood; History Theatre: Parks: A Portrait of a Young Artist, Not for Sale; Collide Theatrical Dance Company: Romeo and Juliet; Theater Latté Da: Candide, Beautiful Thing; Artistry: Follies. TRAINING B.A., Theatre Arts, University of Minnesota McCorkle Casting, Ltd. Pat McCorkle, C.S.A. NYC Casting Consultant for 2022–2023 Season BY GUTHRIE More than 100 productions since 1998. THEATER Broadway: More than 50 productions, including On the LANIE ROBERTSON Town, Amazing Grace, End of the Rainbow and A Few Good Men; Off-Broadway: More than 60 productions, including APRIL 21- Highlights; Our Town (Barrow Street Theatre); Freud’s Last Session; Toxic Avenger; Almost, Maine; and Driving Miss Daisy; MAY 21 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 Affair, 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 GUTHRIE THEATER \ 13
A celebratory season Blues for an Alabama Sky Born With Teeth Hamlet by PEARL CLEAGE by LIZ DUFFY ADAMS by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE directed by NICOLE A. WATSON directed by ROB MELROSE directed by JOSEPH HAJ January 28 – March 12 March 4 – April 2 April 8 – May 21 WO R L D P R E MI E R E Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Into the Woods Shane Orient Express music and lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIM by KAREN ZACARÍAS adapted for the stage by KEN LUDWIG book by JAMES LAPINE based on the novel by JACK SCHAEFER directed by RISA BRAININ directed by SARNA LAPINE directed by BLAKE ROBISON May 13 – July 2 June 17 – August 13 July 15 – August 27 Subscriptions are on sale now! Season sponsors Our milestone 2022–2023 Season seeks to examine where we’ve been This activity is made possible by and where we’re going — as a theater and as a society. The Guthrie the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board was built by and for the community, and we hope you’ll join us as we Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the celebrate 60 years of artistic excellence together. arts and cultural heritage fund. To subscribe, call 612.225.6238 or visit guthrietheater.org.
PLAY FEATURE From Director Dominique Serrand The world of imagination is infinite, and in the Prince’s mind, the possible exists. “What makes the desert so beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.” In dreaming about the stage and how to set the Prince’s world, we immediately saw the desert, as in the book, as a place of infinite horizon, a thousand miles from any human habitation. How about a dune with an infinite reflection in back? This magical place was indeed perfect for our story, in which we could stage characters appearing over the top of the dune, tumbling down and disappearing over its edge. As we were tilling further the grounds for our production, we asked instead, what if we could create an imaginary studio, Saint- Exupéry’s studio — the one he never had? What if, in that environment, we could witness the creation of the character of the Prince born out of Saint-Exupéry’s hand? What if the Prince, having emerged from Saint- Exupéry’s pen, roams around the studio making his journey and his encounters come to life, right there? What if together, the author and his creation question one another, sometimes by proxy, to form a long and transparent friendship? And what if we could create a place where mirages do not disappear and instead reveal unexpected potentials? In 1942, Saint-Exupéry, in exile in New York City, wrote The Little Prince, illustrating the pages himself. When asked how the little prince was born, he answered that as he was sitting and working on what he thought was a blank page, he saw a tiny figure: “I asked him who he was. ‘I am the little Prince,’ the figure responded.” Saint-Exupéry exalts our imagination and poetically reminds us that by drawing a box, we not only create a habitat but also its inhabitant. Our production ventures into these fragile territories, in the Prince’s mind and into Saint-Exupéry’s studio, a large room with a wall of infinite reflection. It’s as if the desert and the dunes have made their way into the room after all. In the end, The Little Prince is a celebration of innocence and proximity. And Saint-Exupéry reminds us that all grown-ups were once children, but only a few of them remember it. We invite the child in you to this wondrous country in which cynicism is not yet born. As Saint-Exupéry said: “To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.” GUTHRIE THEATER \ 15
PLAY FEATURE A Life in the Sky By Carla Steen Resident Dramaturg In his adventure-packed 44 years, French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry lived multiple lives. But his most enduring legacy is The Little Prince — a poetic, allegorical, philosophical little book not entirely (or at least not exclusively) for children about love, loneliness and friendship. As charming as The Little Prince is, the story of its author is no less captivating. Saint-Exupéry was born in Lyon, biographers suggest), and in 1921, (He received the French Legion of France, on June 29, 1900, as the he began his mandatory military Honor Award for negotiating peace third of five children. His father service with an aviation regiment between Spaniards and Moors died when he was nearly 4, and the in Strasbourg, France. He was while stationed there.) He was a family then relied on the kindness assigned to the ground ranks, but long-distance airmail pilot in South of his mother Marie’s godmother. through charm and determination, America, where he helped establish Antoine’s education was a mix of he earned a civilian pilot’s license, Aéropostale’s route between PHOTO: COURTESY OF THIS DAY IN AVIATION (JOHN PHILLIPS) homeschooling, Jesuit education, with which he entered the student Brazil and Patagonia. During this boarding school in Switzerland and pilot ranks in the aviation corps to time, he met Consuelo Suncín finally two naval prep academies. complete his service. in Argentina, whom he would His passion for aviation — then marry in 1931 and with whom he in its earliest days — developed Saint-Exupéry spent much of would share 12 tumultuous years. during childhood and solidified the 1920s in the air. He flew as a (She is the model for the Rose in with his first airplane ride at age 12. commercial pilot between France The Little Prince.) and West Africa, including as He failed his naval academy commander of the Cape Juby His experience as a pilot led to his entrance exam (on purpose, some airport in Morocco in 1927–1928. success as a writer; his ability to 16 \ GUTHRIE THEATER
For years, Saint-Exupéry had doodled a little character he called his petit bonhomme (little man) — “just a little fellow I carry around in my heart” — and eventually, either a friend or his publisher (accounts differ) encouraged him to draw more sketches and write a children’s book. During summer 1942, he settled down with his watercolors and his pen to write and illustrate The Little Prince. capture the exhilaration of flying of writing at his sister’s house, overweight, stiff and in pain led to a new genre: the aerial he decided to leave for the U.S., from injuries sustained during adventure. He fictionalized his though not without misgivings various flying accidents. The exploits in Africa for the novel about leaving his country in French were now allied with Southern Mail, published in 1929, its hour of need. He hoped to American forces, the planes were and, two years later, his dangerous advocate for the Americans to join more advanced and the flight flights in South America were the the fight for France and that his instruments and instructions were inspiration for Night Flight. Saint- American publishers could help in English (a language he resisted Exupéry was known to read and him financially. learning). But Saint-Exupéry was write in the cockpit while in flight. determined to fly. After some When Saint-Exupéry arrived in months, he was allowed to rejoin In 1935, he and his mechanic New York City, publishers Reynal his old squadron and participate attempted to break a flight speed & Hitchcock welcomed him and in pilot reconnaissance flights record between Paris and Saigon found him an apartment. An in the American P-38 planes. when their plane went down in the intended four-week stay grew From the Sardinia and Corsica Libyan desert. A Bedouin caravan to more than two years, during islands, he flew missions to map rescued them after four days, and which time Consuelo joined him. southern France for an eventual the experience would later make He wrote, lectured and tried Allied landing. its way into The Little Prince. The to stay above politics (he liked plane crash is also described in neither the German-collaborating On the morning of July 31, 1944, Wind, Sand and Stars, published Vichy government nor Charles Saint-Exupéry took off, didn’t in 1939, for which the Académie de Gaulle, whom he thought return and was assumed lost. Française awarded him the Grand was opportunistic) while also What happened on that fateful Prix. In the 1930s, while working endorsing U.S. involvement in the flight remained unknown for as a foreign correspondent, he war and calling on the French to years: Did he lose control and witnessed the horrors of fascism resist Hitlerism. crash? Was he shot down? Did he during visits to Spain and Germany. crash intentionally? For years, Saint-Exupéry had When World War II began in 1939, doodled a little character he called More than 50 years later, a Saint-Exupéry rejoined the air force his petit bonhomme (little man) — Marseille fisherman found a and flew reconnaissance missions “just a little fellow I carry around bracelet inscribed with “Saint-Ex.” in northeastern France to note the in my heart” — and eventually, In 2004, the French government locations of the invading Germany either a friend or his publisher announced that a salvage team army. Flight to Arras, a harrowing (accounts differ) encouraged him had located Saint-Exupéry’s P-38 description of aerial warfare, to draw more sketches and write plane. More answers have come depicts these flights, which earned a children’s book. During summer from Horst Rippert, a member of him the Croix de Guerre military 1942, he settled down with his a German squadron stationed in honor for bravery. watercolors and his pen to write southern France. He is convinced and illustrate The Little Prince. In that the P-38 with French colors he When France’s government fell 1943, the novella was published in shot down near Marseille in 1944, to Germany in June 1940, Saint- English by Reynal & Hitchcock and days before he learned of Saint- Exupéry’s squadron proceeded first appeared in French in 1946. Exupéry’s disappearance, was that south, as did thousands of other of the writer. He said if he’d known refugees from the invading forces. Also in 1943, Saint-Exupéry the pilot was Saint-Exupéry, he He arranged for Consuelo to leave returned to the war, joining wouldn’t have shot him down. Like Paris as well. He was demobilized the resistance forces in North so many readers, he, too, was a fan on July 31, and after a summer Africa. By this time, he was 43, of the Frenchman’s writing. GUTHRIE THEATER \ 17
PLAY FEATURE Dressed to Thrill Inspiration Little Prince Aviator Notes from Costume Our Little Prince is not the quintessential The black, gray and patina colors and Puppet Designer image we know from the book. The colors of this costume were inspired Olivera Gajic are similar, but the costume itself is different. by black-and-white photos I journeyed virtually around the world of pilots in the 1940s. I even through images of princes and princesses to found a photo of Antoine de discover what unified them and made them Saint-Exupéry in his flight suit. unique, and a common characteristic was the Although this costume looks gender-neutral tunic. I chose a bluish-green, more traditional, there is space transparent silk organza for the Little Prince’s for magic and transformation tunic so he feels ethereal, untouchable and as the character becomes more from a different realm. The gentle and delayed childlike throughout the story. movement of the fabric helps communicate his weightlessness and otherworldliness. IMAGES: COSTUME DESIGN AND SKETCHES BY OLIVERA GAJIC Creation One of the great technical challenges with We pulled most of the Notes from the this costume was making the delicate design pieces for the Aviator Guthrie costume shop durable enough to withstand the rigors costume from the Guthrie’s of the staging while remaining ethereal costume collection. and otherworldly. 18 \ GUTHRIE THEATER
A magical story like The Little Prince calls for just-as-magical costumes. Each of these stunning onstage looks began with Costume and Puppet Designer Olivera Gajic, who was inspired by everything from surrealist ceramic sculptures to global dance troupes. Once in sketch form, she handed her ideas off to the talented artists in our costume shop who built each look with precision (and a little magic up each sleeve). Explore the whimsical world of the play through these five fashion moments. Rose Businessman Snake The Little Prince calls his very Surrealist paintings and This costume is highly special Rose a “most beautiful photography were my stylized and inspired by the flower,” and she is as beautiful inspiration for this costume, Sankai Juku butoh dance as the roses are! But this rose including photos of troupe known for their use speaks, moves and has a businessmen walking busily of slow choreography and personality, so I designed the down the street. Like a self- white makeup. I chose a costume to show her growing operated marionette, the silk fabric to resemble the from a little seedling to a character appears to be elegant, sleek and hypnotic magnificent flower. I used silk swallowed by a suit and looks movements of a snake. charmeuse to mimic the shine as absurd as the business and softness of rose petals. he is conducting. The challenge and magic of We collaborated with the prop The Snake costume is half- the Rose costume was crafting shop to build an interior structure human and half-puppet. Part it to “bloom” in various stages that supports the oversized of the ensemble is worn by the and transition to a full-bloom shoulders on the costume. actor; the midsection and tail are Cinderella moment. operated by two puppeteers. GUTHRIE THEATER \ 19
PLAY FEATURE Backstory SYNOPSIS As a child, an Aviator became disillusioned with the lack of imagination in grown-up life. He now prefers to keep his own company, which he does until his plane goes down in the Sahara desert. Miles from human habitation, he is surprised to encounter a Little Prince who claims to be from another planet. The Little Prince appears each day at sunset and describes life on his planet and the reason he set out on his journey: a confusing relationship with a Rose. As the Little Prince recounts his travels and the people he encountered, the Aviator’s own situation becomes more dire, with dwindling provisions, hallucinations and a damaged plane. Perhaps among the Little Prince’s story and lessons will be the key to the Aviator’s survival and a renewal of his own imaginative possibilities. A GIANT TOY BOX to play and for the characters character distinct. Using portions On the first day of rehearsal, Scenic to expand their imaginations. of the script that featured the Little Designer Rachel Hauck described Together, we learned how to utilize Prince and one other character, the sparse, artist studio-inspired the space and make it do things he asked the actors to embody set as a “giant toy box” that could that shouldn’t be possible.” both roles, plus create movements create illusions and hold endless that aligned with a classical text creative opportunities. The shapes AUDITIONS WITH A TWIST or poem of their choice — a in the studio are draped with a During a typical audition process, unique approach that helped parachute-like fabric to look like actors are required to perform a him select our five outstanding sand dunes and, with some help portion of the script with a hired cast members. IMAGE: SCENIC DESIGN BY RACHEL HAUCK from the lighting design, evoke reader, who plays any number of a desert landscape. “I wanted to roles opposite the actor. For The create a set that could quickly Little Prince, Director Dominique EXPLORE MORE shift worlds and perspectives just Serrand envisioned a different Scan the code or visit like the play, which is exquisite process, knowing that three actors guthrietheater.org to and episodic,” says Hauck. “The would play multiple roles and need read our play guide. set creates pockets for the actors to make choices to keep each 20 \ GUTHRIE THEATER
A bold character drama 612.377.2224 / guthrietheater.org Blues for an Alabama Sky by PEARL CLEAGE directed by NICOLE A. WATSON January 28 – March 12 In a Depression-era Harlem apartment building, a close-knit group of friends has become a chosen family. New roommates Angel and Guy — a blues singer and a costume designer with Paris in his sights — live across the hall from Delia, a social worker who sparks a relationship with the hardworking doctor Sam. But their lives are upturned when Southern newcomer Leland arrives and shifts the trajectory of everyone’s futures and long-held dreams.
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