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Q totally. epic.
By Jay Ball
Directed by Jed Allen Harris
August 13-September 5, 2021
We are
Proud to Support
Quantum theatre’s
Premiere of
An Odyssey
Aug 13 - Sept 5, 2021
DE ♦ DC ♦ KY ♦ MD ♦ NY ♦ PA ♦ VA
Quantum Theatre
Presents
By Jay Ball
Directed by Jed Allen Harris
CAST
in order of appearance
Erika Strasburg*………................... Nausicaa
Shammen McCune*….................... Actea, Gryllus, Siren
Grace Vensel ………......................... Adraste, Polites, Anticlea
Nancy McNulty*………................... Alcippe, Kratos, Tiresias, Siren
Sam Turich*………........................ Odysseus
Catherine Gowl*……….................. Penelope, Circe
Sam Lothard………....................... Polyphemus, Hermes, King Alcinous
Scenic Design: Narelle Sissons • Lighting Design: C. Todd Brown
Costume Design: Mindy Eshelman • Sound Design: Joe Pino
Director of Production: Michelle Engleman • Technical Director: Cubbie McCrory
Fight Director: Randy Kovitz
Installation Artists: Mindy Eshelman and ROY
Production Stage Manager: Cory F. Goddard*
ASM and Health and Safety Supervisor: Piper Clement
Audio Engineer and Technical Specialist: Peter Brucker
Wardrobe Supervisor: Miranda Boodheshwar
Production Assistant: Noah Glaister
Sound Design Assistant: Sebastian Gutierrez
Lighting Design Assistant: Sasha Finley
Fight Assistant: Michael R. Petyak
*Appearing through an agreement between Quantum Theatre and Actors’ Equity
Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
The work of the design and production artists is supported by the
Philip Chosky Design and Production Fund.
THE PERFORMANCE WILL LAST APPROXIMATELY 100 MINUTES
WITH NO INTERMISSION.
A lthough credited to a single author, Homer’s The Odyssey is a weave of
tales emerging from centuries of oral tradition dating back to 8th-century
BCE Greece. By the time of Periclean Athens (495 - 429 BCE), The Odyssey
had achieved a somewhat fixed form. It served as text for rhapsodes (professional
performers of epic poetry) and dramatists, who adapted it for their own
tragedies and satyr plays. The first English translation appeared in 1614, and
2021 finds over a dozen readable-to-respectable versions still in print. While
creating this adaptation, I consulted the major translations — all of which happen
to be written by well-educated white men like me. Their consensus seems to
be that this ancient story’s central character — a serial liar, cheat, thief, and
killer — serves as a master surrogate for the human condition. He is a hero,
overcoming the challenges of life.
In the summer of 2019, when Jed Allen Harris asked me to collaborate with
him on this project, I wasn’t buying it. I wasn’t buying Odysseus. I said so, in no
uncertain terms, to both Jed and Karla Boos, Quantum Theatre’s Artistic Director.
Karla suggested I read a brand-new translation of The Odyssey by Emily Wilson,
starting with the premise that the text should be regarded as a problem for modern
readers, not an answer. Wilson described her feeling of repeatedly translating
Homeric misogyny and brutality toward ‘Others’ as one of “intimate alienation.”
While Wilson’s beautifully stark verse is absent from my adaptation, her role as a
resisting reader of Homer served as a constant guardrail for my own efforts.
But something more was needed.
Even if The Odyssey has a cracked moral foundation, time and again it has
inspired alternative visions of itself — some more beautiful and noble than
its historically accurate intent. One translator belonging in this category
is English satirist and critic Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902). More than his
serviceable prose translations of Homer’s epics, Butler is probably most
infamous among classicists for The Authoress of the Odyssey (1897). Butler’s claim?
That a woman must have been the first rhapsode to sing of Odysseus, and
that she cryptically reveals her presence in the peripheral character Princess
Nausicaa. What would a ‘modern’ Nausicaa make of Odysseus’ journey?
Or Penelope or Circe, for that matter? With leave to freely adapt the story,
these questions became central to this production.
– Jay Ball
A
teacher of mine used to say that there’s a difference between a notion
and an idea and that the theatre was filled with too many notions and
not enough ideas. Many years ago, I had the notion that it would be “cool” to
stage an adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey in a park where the audience could
move from “island to island” along with Odysseus. Years later, I brought up
my notion to Karla Boos, and when she expressed great interest in the project,
it became my task to turn the notion into an idea. I immediately turned to
Jay Ball, my longtime collaborator, who worked on Quantum’s production of
The Task as dramaturg and Pantagleize as adapter/playwright to help. I also started
asking random friends and acquaintances what they remembered of the story.
Almost everyone mentioned “the Cyclops” first, with “Circe” the sorceress and
“the Sirens” coming after. Some would also mention his wife Penelope weaving
during the day and unraveling her work at night to stave off the suitors that
demanded she pick one of them to become her new husband. While there are
many other events in the narrative, it is these parts of the story, with their
necessary attendant backstories, that we have chosen to explore from a more
modern perspective with the hope of finding some ideas worth pondering.
While practicality necessitated letting go of having the audience move to a
different place with each scene, we ask that you join Odysseus for the final leg
of his journey home.
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– Jed Allen Harris
love these guys. I’ve known Jed longer than Jay, but I consider them both
artists from formative years and ones with whom I’ve gone into major artistic
trenches. It’s funny that our current project is about perspective applied to the
art of storytelling, holding the teller accountable, considering the time, the
audience, the shared narrative of those hearing the story … and questioning
all of it as we must, we who pass the story on. This is funny when I read their
program notes, because … I never sent Jay to Emily Wilson’s translation,
but thanks Jay for attributing that to me, she is brilliant! I didn’t jump on
the bandwagon of The Odyssey from Jed’s notion … I would do any project you
suggest, my friend, as a collaboration with Jay. (The Task remains among my
favorite projects of all time, and I dearly loved Pantagleize.) So I’m correcting
the narrative here.
Having artists in long relationships with each other is a fertile thing to be
cherished. In this project they extend in every direction – into the designers,
actors, and crew. Our love for each other and our collective art has brought us to
this pass, engaging with the great, original storyteller. We welcome the young and
the newcomers (happily there too) to our midst. We see you as our tribe.
Oh, be not alarmed by my choice of that word, friends, the tribe is very big,
ever-expanding, hospitable to guests, and of some humility. It encompasses
you too, out there in the seats, under the skies, of our community (from the
Latin, that word! Jay, did they get it from the Greeks??)
– Karla Boos
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that bind and divide human beings.” –
Daisaku Ikeda
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BIOGRAPHIES
Jay Ball (Playwright) holds a Ph.D. in Theatre History and
Performance Studies from the University of Pittsburgh
and has taught at the Carnegie Mellon University School of
Drama, Texas Tech University, the College of Charleston, and
Central Washington University. His previous collaborations
with director Jed Allen Harris include adaptations of
Aristophanes’ Lysistrata (with Michael M. Chemers) and
Aeschylus’ Eumenides for Carnegie Mellon University, and
Heiner Müller’s The Task and Michel de Ghelderode’s Pantagleize for Quantum
Theatre. Since 2018, he has been focused on his second career with the National
Park Service. Jay lives with his wife Stephanie in northern New Mexico.
Jed Allen Harris (Director) first came to Pittsburgh in 1976
as a member of Theatre Express, a young company dedicated
to new and unusual theatrical experiences. After the demise of
Theatre Express, he started a long-term relationship with City
Theatre Company where he directed over 20 productions
between 1981 and 2001. In the Pittsburgh area, he has also
directed at The Pittsburgh Lab Theatre, The Three Rivers
Shakespeare Festival, The University of Pittsburgh, Bricolage
Production Company, Quantum Theatre, and Carnegie Mellon University where
he taught in the directing program for 30 years and received the Hornbostel
Award for Excellence in Fine Arts Teaching. Significant productions in Pittsburgh
include Endgame, Pre-Paradise Sorry Now, The Marquis De Sade’s Justine, The Curse of the Starving
Class, The Danube, Glengarry Glen Ross, Seventy Scenes of Halloween, Night of the Living Dead-The
Opera, The Task, Collaborators, Nicholas Nickleby, Balm in Gilead, Mad Forest, Angels in America-
Millennium Approaches, and The Oresteia Project. Much thanks to Marc Masterson of City
Theatre Company, Karla Boos of Quantum Theatre, and Carnegie Mellon for
providing artistic homes over the years.
CAST
Catherine Gowl (Penelope, Circe) is an actor, puppeteer,
and educator. Her Pittsburgh credits include Chrysothemis
in Electra at Pittsburgh Public Theater and Gwendolyn in
The Importance of Being Earnest for their Playtime Series, Anne
in The Father with Kinetic Theatre, Cordelia in King Lear with
Quantum Theatre, Project Amelia with Bricolage Production
Company, and a stop at the Benedum Center with the North
American tour of War Horse. Selected regional: In The Eruptive
Mode (Sabab Theater at Arts Emerson), Six Degrees of Separation, King Lear, Coriolanus, The
Women (The Old Globe), Private Lives (Riverside Theatre), Taming of the Shrew, Othello
(Virginia Shakespeare Festival), and Demolishing Everything With Amazing Speed (Bard
SummerScape). New York: The Merchant of Venice (Theater for a New Audience),
Hagoromo (Brooklyn Academy of Music), CasablancaBox (HERE Arts Center), Oh The
Humanity and Other Exclamations (The Flea Theater), and many new works. Training:
B.A. Harvard, MFA The Old Globe/USD.
Sam Lothard (Polyphemus, Hermes, King Alcinous) was born in
Youngstown, Ohio, and is now a proud Pittsburgher. He is
blessed to be part of this show and working with Quantum
Theatre for the first time. You may have seen Sam as David
in the Mark Clayton Southers’ film Cyril. Some of his favorite
productions include: Project Amelia with Bricolage Production
Company, August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and King
Hedley II, Dr. Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,
Mike Jones’ Hercules Didn’t Wade in the Water, Monteze Freeland’s Kalopsia; Mark Clayton
Southers’ Savior Samuel, and John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. Always blessed to be a
part of such a talented group of performers. Sam would also like to say thank you
for this opportunity and lives by the creed: “Put God first. Shoot your shot.
Chase your dreams.”
Shammen McCune (Actea, Gryllus, Siren) has performed
recently with Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Quantum Theatre,
PICT Classic Theatre, Bricolage Production Company, The
REP, and Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks. Regionally,
Ms. McCune has worked with Barter Theater, Ensemble
Theater Cincinnati, First Stage in Milwaukee, Phoenix
Theater Company, StageOne, New Harmony Theatre,
American Players Theatre, Native Voices at the Autry,
Academy for New Musical Theatre, Theater Neo, and the Cincinnati Shakespeare
Company, where she is a cofounding company member. Shammen has also
dabbled in film and TV in The Last Witch Hunter and Downward Dog; an interactive
video-board game, SpyQuest; and audio for Audible, Curio, and an eager member
of the narration team for SFWA’s 2021 Nebula Awards. She has joined the artistic
staff of PICT Classic Theatre as Associate Producer.
Nancy McNulty (Alcippe, Kratos, Tiresias, Siren) is happy
to return to Quantum Theatre, where she has previously
appeared in Collaborators and in the livestream of Caryl
Churchill’s Love and Information. Nancy has worked at barebones
productions, Bricolage Production Company, Pittsburgh
Civic Light Opera, Pittsburgh Public Theater, West Virginia
Public Theater, People’s Light, New York Stage and Film,
Williamstown Theatre Festival, Sundance Theatre Lab, and
more. TV and film credits include Where’d You Go, Bernadette?, and Showtime’s
American Rust. She coaches dialects and teaches 4th grade Social Studies and Drama.
Nancy earned her MFA at The New School and is a lifetime member of The
Actors Studio.
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Erika Strasburg (Nausicaa) is so grateful to be back and
sharing a live stage with a healthy and wonderful bunch,
especially after this last year. Local theater credits include:
Pittsburgh Public Theater, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera,
City Theatre Company, Quantum Theatre, barebones
productions, St. Vincent Summer Theatre, Mountain
Playhouse, Kinetic Theatre, and Lincoln Park Performing
Arts Center. Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama
graduate; Institute for Integrative Nutrition graduate. Erika is also the proud
owner of Esteem Wellness, a holistic health and wellness business helping people
feel calm and strong in mind and body. She dedicates this performance to her
resilient community. @airekuh/ @esteemwellness
Sam Turich (Odysseus) is thrilled to be back on stage with
Quantum Theatre after directing two of their recent innovative
remote projects: Constellations and Wild. His acting credits
include feature film and network television roles and work at
theaters in New York and Pittsburgh. Sam creates original plays
and films and immersive works including Daylighting the Stream on
Governors Island in New York City. He was co-creator and co-
director for large-scale immersives with Bricolage Production
Company: STRATA, OjO, and DODO. His theater directing credits include the world
premieres of Gab Cody’s Inside Passage and Fat Beckett with Quantum Theatre. He wrote
and directed the short film Mombies and the feature Progression, and directed live action
sequences for the Emmy Award-winning PBS Kids series Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood.
Sam is a graduate of Columbia University and the British American Drama
Academy, and holds an MFA from Chatham University. He’s the Head of Education
for Bricolage Production Company.
Grace Vensel (Adraste, Polites, Anticlea) is excited to return
to Quantum Theatre. She is a junior at Lincoln Park
Performing Arts Charter School. Regional credits include
Carnegie Mellon University’s Ragtime (Little Girl), Quantum
Theatre’s The Hard Problem (Cathy), and Prime Stage Studio’s
To Kill a Mockingbird (Scout) and The Giver (Fiona). Lincoln Park
Performing Arts Center credits include: Mary Poppins (Jane),
The Sound of Music (Marta Von Tapp), and Frozen Jr. (Elsa).
Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera credits include A Musical Christmas Carol, Gypsy, Brigadoon,
and Grease. Film credits include A New Normal, Flatwoods, and My Boyfriend’s Daughter.
Grace is in her 10th year of study at the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera Academy.
She is a 2021 Young Arts Winner in the category of Theatre and 2020 Pittsburgh
Shakespeare Monologue and Scene contest winner.
“If all the world’s a stage, then
all of Pittsburgh is Quantum’s.”
BRANDING • ADVERTISING • DESIGN boompgh.comTEAM
C. Todd Brown (Lighting Design) has designed the lighting
for many Quantum Theatre productions, including The Gun
Show (Can we talk about this?), Chatterton, Red Hills, Collaborators, The
Winter’s Tale, Brahman/i, TAMARA, Pantagleize, Mnemonic, The Golden
Dragon, The Electric Baby, Maria de Buenos Aires, Indian Ink, Kafka’s
Chimp, Dog Face, The Voluptuous Tango, The Collected Works of Billy
the Kid, and The Task. His lighting has also been seen locally
at The Pittsburgh Playhouse, City Theatre Company, and
West Virginia Public Theatre. Other design work includes productions at La Jolla
Playhouse, Contemporary American Theatre Company, Lamb’s Players Theatre,
and Virginia Ballet Theatre. Todd is an Associate Professor of Lighting in the
Carnegie Mellon School of Drama.
Mindy Eshelman (Costume Design, Installation Artist) is a
versatile designer who continues to work in many formats
throughout her career. She has designed for film and
television throughout the United States and internationally.
She began working in indie projects with directors Abel
Ferrara and Quentin Tarantino and then designed such
films as Office Space and Where the Heart Is. Her latest film,
Dear Zoe, will be released this fall. She has collaborated in
many genres of television and cable, designing with directors George Clooney,
Todd Field, Mike Judge, and Bob Rafelson, among others. Her work appears
in hundreds of commercials including award-winning campaigns for Adidas
(Ali vs Laila) and Volkswagen (The Force). Coca-Cola, Nike, Visa, Apple, and
NBA are a few of her many clients. Her designs for the stage have been seen in
Los Angeles, New York City, and locally where she is delighted to be making her
debut with Quantum Theatre. She is an Associate Professor of Costume Design
at Carnegie Mellon University and is always and ever grateful to her daughters,
Sophia and Rena ... TPAB.
Randy Kovitz (Fight Director) has been staging fights
for over four decades, working on and off Broadway and
in regional theater, film, and TV. His credits include
Pulitzer Prize-winning Mark Taper Forum/Center Theatre
Group productions of Angels in America and The Kentucky Cycle,
among hundreds of other projects. Recent fight direction
includes King Lear at Quantum Theatre, True West at barebones
productions, A Few Good Men and Hamlet at the Pittsburgh Public
Theater, Oklahoma at the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, The Valkyrie at Pittsburgh
Festival Opera, the world premieres of Nomad Hotel at City Theatre Company, and
Up and Away at the Civic Light Opera Cabaret, and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and King
Hedly II for Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company. Past credits include Sir Peter
Hall’s Midsummer Night’s Dream and four seasons at the Tony Award-winning Utah
Shakespeare Festival. Film fight credits include The Ballad of the Sad Café with Vanessa
Redgrave and Keith Carradine, The Addams Family (fencing double for Raul Julia),
and Racing Daylight with David Strathairn. Randy is also an actor.
www.randykovitz.comJoe Pino (Sound Design) is a Pittsburgh-based sound designer
and a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He has been
designing sound for theater since 1981. For a time in the
late 1980’s, he was a mixer for a wide range of jazz artists
including Sarah Vaughan, Dizzy Gillespie, and Sun Ra. He
has previously designed several shows for Quantum Theatre
including Collaborators, The Golden Dragon, The Task, Mnemonic, The
End Of The Affair, and Dream Of Autumn. Joe curated sound exhibits
for the Prague Quadrennial in 2007, 2011, and 2015, as well as creating the sound
programs at World Stage Design 2017 and Prague Quadrennial 2019. Professional
memberships include the Sound Design Commission for the United States Institute
of Theater Technology, United Scenic Artists 829, Theatrical Composers and
Sound Designers Association, and the Association of Sound Designers.
Narelle Sissons (Scenic Design) Previously for Quantum
Theatre: The Task, Dream of Autumn, All The Names, and Collaborators.
Broadway: All My Son’s at The Roundabout Theatre Company.
Off Broadway: How I Learned To Drive (original production)
and Stop Kiss (original production), In The Blood (original
production), Kit Marlowe (original production), Julius Caesar,
and Little Flower of East Orange (original production) at the
Joseph Papp Public Theatre. Also in New York City, many
productions with: Mabou Mines, LAByrinth Theatre Company (co-member),
Playwrights Horizons, WPP, and New York Theatre Workshop. Grants,
Nominations, and Exhibitions: Fulbright Specialists, Drama Desk nomination,
Helen Hayes nomination, Elliot Norton nomination, Kevin Kline award
nomination, amongst others; and exhibitor at Prague Quadrennial 2007 and 2011.
Ms. Sissons teaches design at Carnegie Mellon University in School of Drama.
Karla Boos (Artistic Director) founded Quantum Theatre
in 1990. She often directs for the company and Quantum
Theatre has produced many of her original texts, like Chatterton
(adapted from Peter Ackroyd), All the Names (adapted from José
Saramago), and her libretto for The Winter’s Tale, created as a
Baroque pastiche opera. Quantum Theatre’s work has been
featured in national publications like American Theatre, Live Design,
and Stage Directions Magazines, frequently earns distinction in local
publications, and has toured internationally. Boos has won awards locally, including
the Carol R. Brown Award and a Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Creative Achievement
Award. She is a member of the National Theatre Conference and the International
Women’s Forum and served as Guest Curator for the 2018 Pittsburgh International
Q
Festival of Firsts of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. She looks forward to directing
Chimerica, delayed by the pandemic and now opening November 27.
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Peter Brucker (Audio Engineer/Technical Specialist) is ecstatic
to helm the sound board once again for Quantum Theatre.
Peter is a Pittsburgh native sound and video designer, music
producer, and audio engineer at Lincoln Park Performing
Arts Center. Peter has mixed the sound for Quantum
Theatre production’s of The Current War (2021) and King Lear
(2019). Peter’s selected credits include Santaland Diaries (2019,
City Theatre Company), Seahorse (Technicolor Rodeo, 2019),
and Ordinary Days (Pittsburgh Playhouse, 2020).
Piper Clement (ASM and Health and Safety Supervisor) is a graduate
of Point Park University’s Conservatory of Performing Arts.
Production credits include Bricolage Production Company:
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as Lighting Designer, Project Amelia
as Master Electrician, and The Forest of Everywhere as Master
Electrician; Quantum Theatre: King Lear as Carpenter, Looking
for Violeta as Technical Specialist, Wild as Stage Manager, and
Far Away as Stage Manager; Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company: Savior Samuel as
Master Electrician, In The Heat of the Night as Lighting Designer, and The Ray Werner Festival
as Lighting Designer; Rennie Harris Puremovement: Nothin’ but a Word as Lighting
Director; and The REP: The Scottsboro Boys as Assistant Lighting Designer.
Michelle Engleman (Director of Production) is happy to join
Quantum Theatre after having worked as Stage Manager
with the company during the past decade. Most recently at
Quantum Theatre, she was the Production Manager for King
Lear and Stage Manager for the world premiere of Looking for
Violeta. For the past two years, Michelle held the staff position
of Production Manager, as well as Stage Manager, at Opera
Orlando. Memorable credits include: Die Fledermaus, first
indoor opera production in America during the pandemic; original production
of Carmen set in 1960’s Haiti; The Girl of the Golden West, a site-specific production;
and the Florida premiere of All is Calm. Michelle has a multidisciplinary career with
Bricolage Production Company, New Hazlett Theater, Opera Steamboat, Ballet
San Antonio, and Pittsburgh Festival of New Music, among others.
Cory F. Goddard (Stage Manager) is a graduate of Baldwin
Wallace University. Cory’s been working in Pittsburgh theater
for 16 years, playing with Quantum Theatre, Bricolage
Production Company, The REP, Texture Contemporary
Ballet, Kinetic Theatre, Kelly Strayhorn Theater, and PICT
Classic Theatre. When not working, they can usually be found
listening to records or tending to their plants. They’d like to
thank Kristin, Karen, Fred, and as always, George.James “Cubbie” McCrory (Technical Director) is thrilled
to be joining Quantum Theatre to cultivate and collaborate
on unique and adventurous theater back in his hometown of
Pittsburgh. A native of Washington County, Cubbie is a Point
Park University alumnus where he completed undergraduate
work in Technical Theatre. Cubbie spent a decade on the
road as a technician with National Tours. He worked with Big
League Productions, NETworks, and Prather Entertainment
Group on shows such as Memphis, Fiddler on the Roof, Blast, All Shook Up, Wedding Singer,
and 42nd Street, and was the Production Manager on the 10th anniversary tour of
Footloose. After 10 years of traveling, he went back to school to complete an MFA in
Production Design and Technology from Ohio University.
VOLUNTEERS
Margot Allison Elaine Gelb Janet Lipchak Debbie Rosen
Joseph Ashenden Tripta Goyal Abigail Lis Perlis Patricia Sabolsky
Lynette Asson Sally Graubarth Eric Marchbein Rose Scilla
Luann Barron Donna Green Shelley Mayhak Bonnie Siefers
David Bennett Teresa Hammond Kristin McCrory Marlene Smith
Paige Borak Debbie Hardin Michelle Meged Susan M. Smith
Kerry Brallier Kim Hardin Stephanie Mihalik Jane Spector
Becky Casne Kiah Harrington-Wymer Anthony Mongelluzzo Christen Stroh
Virginia Cassiano Karen Hill Susan Mucha Mathias Vitullo
Lourdes Castellanos Elena Houlihan Libby Murphy Donald Vukmanic
Rosemary Coffey Patrick Hughes Aneesa Neibauer George Walczak
Nancy Collins Theresa Hune Wolf Catie Newell Carol West
Kristin Conrad Lois Hurt Sean Nolan Robin White
Judith Cunningham Dennis Jerz Geraldine O’Connor Polly Whitehorn
Barbara Currier Will Johnson Marilyn Painter Kim Wiesmann
Sharon Davis Barbara Kelly Shelley Parkerson Alexa Wildenberg
Dana Demsko Hellen Kim Wendy Parkulo E. Philip Wilson
Lois DeSilva Mary King Joe Paski Theresa Wolf
Ronald Engel Anne Kolesar Nicki Perfetti Pamela Wolff
Susan Englert Eileen Kraus-Dobratz Sarah Perry Alma Worthington
Mary Felix Heather Kropf Linda Petrilli Zev Woskoff
Jaent Felmeth Linda Kubiczki Jeff Pollock Patricia Yeager
Betty Fisher Fisher Theresa Lalak Joan Reefer TJ Young
Karen Ford William Lefler Betty Rieley
Naomi Frenkel Deb Letterle Laura Ristau
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Quantum Theatre is a company of progressive, professional artists
dedicated to producing intimate and sophisticated theatrical
experiences in uncommon settings, exploring universal themes
of truth, beauty, and human relationships in unexpected ways.
Founded 1990.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Carole King, President
Jack Brice • R. Mark Cox • Bruce I. Crocker • Waverly Duck, Ph.D.
Philip Ferland • Scott M. Hare • Stephany L. Hartstirn
Anna Hollis • Tracy Mahood • Patrice Matamoros • Shelly R. Pagac
Luke Sizemore • Susan Smerd • Susan Harris Smith
Erica Snyder • Heather Terrell • Helene Weinraub
STA F F
Karla Boos, Artistic Director
Stewart Urist, Executive Director
Michelle Engleman, Director of Production
Cubbie McCrory, Technical Director
Yvonne Hudson, Development Manager
Jalina McClarin, Community Engagement Manager
Ariel Cianfarano, Marketing and Communications Assistant
Beth Koehler, Bookkeeper
Jennifer Tober, Director of Education
Kelsey Robinson, Teaching Artist
Sophia Marshall, House Manager
Zev Woskoff, House Manager
Quantum Theatre is a member of Theatre Communications Group (TCG),
the national organization for American theatre.
quantumtheatre.comQUANTUM THEATRE GRATEFULLY THANKS
Allegheny Regional Asset District,
The Benter Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies,
Jack Buncher Foundation, The Burke Foundation,
The Byham Charitable Foundation,
Philip Chosky Charitable & Educational Foundation,
Desmone Architects, Eden Hall Foundation,
The Fine Foundation, Flaherty & O’Hara P.C.,
The Giant Eagle Foundation, The Grable Foundation,
The Henry C. Frick Educational Fund of the Buhl Foundation,
The Heinz Endowments, Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield,
Hunter Associates sponsorship made possible through the
generosity of the Clark Hunter Foundation, Maher Duessel,
Meyer Unkovic and Scott LLP, The Mosites Company,
McGuireWoods LLP, The McKinney Charitable Foundation
through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee,
The Fayette S. Olmsted Foundation through the PNC Charitable
Trusts Grant Review Committee, The National Endowment for
the Arts, Opportunity Fund, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
– a state agency, Reed Smith LLP, The Richard King Mellon
Foundation, The Rubinoff Company, The Shubert Foundation,
UPMC and UPMC Health Plan
SPECIAL PRODUCTION THANKS TO
Thank you to all our friends at Citiparks
who made An Odyssey possible,
especially Mirella Ranallo and Ross Chapman.
Thank you to all our friends
who donated sheets, rope, and yarn to make our set possible.
Robert Snapp Linda Daum
CMU Drama: The Glaister Family
Kristin Ward and Todd Kulik Pittsburgh Public Works Forestry
City Theatre Company Department: Mike, Mike, and Jim
Stephanie Schneider Lisa Ceoffe
James Stamps Jana and George Walczak
UPMCCONTRIBUTIONS
Quantum Theatre gratefully thanks individual donors who made gifts
June 1, 2020 through August 3, 2021
THE CREATORS’ CIRCLE
Extraordinary supporters who enable Quantum’s most ambitious projects
$5,000 and above
Vivian and Bill Benter David J. March Suzanne Quinn and
Mrs. Patricia G. Burke+ Morby Family Michael Weeks
Carole King and Charitable Foundation The Juliet Lea Hillman
Charles R. Burke, Jr. Mary W. Murrin Simonds Foundation
Bruce I. Crocker in honor of Karla Boos Susan Harris Smith and
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Marian Finegold
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Norbert Connors Ruthann Molloy Jewish Federation of
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Scott M. Hare and Gail and Steve Mosites, Jr. Erica and Jason Snyder
Stacey Dowden Dee Jay Oshry and Heather and James Terrell
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of The Pittsburgh Shelly R. Pagac and in honor of Stewart Urist
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Yvonne Campos for Jewish Community Foundation Patricia Schroder
Ann and James Dugan of Greater Pittsburgh Christine and Duane Seppi
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in honor of Karla Boos Pam and Kenneth McCrory Susan Small and Ken Joseph
Joyce and Henry Harris Barbara Minges and John Shepard Richard J. Smethurst
in honor of Slu and Phil Smith Ruthann Molloy Elizabeth Trocchio
Donna Harsch and in honor of Michael Mitnick’s play Hilary Tyson and Charles Porter
George Loewenstein Kathleen Musante and Robert Hoover Cate and Jerry Vockley
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Anna E. Hollis and Gregg Kander Lauren and Daniel Resnick
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Jorunn Allersma Lynette Brooks Ann Thompson
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Carol R. Brown Clareann Bunker and William Lindgren Judy Wertheimer and Michael Boninger
Helen and Stephen Casey Jean and Steve Carr Michael White and Rick Lebeau
Castagnari Family Charitable Fund Kristen Clendaniel Clark Jeffrey L. Wigton
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Lori and Tom Dowling Mary Duquin and Jack Patzer of Westmoreland County
Jeanne and Robert Drennan Michele Fabrizi
Waverly Duck Ed Feinstein FAMILY
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Paula and Howard Harris Chrys Gabrich and Jim Aiello Catherine and Jason Adams
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Arthur J. Kerr, Jr. in memory of Arlyn Gilboa Joan F. Adibi
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Joël Le Gall Janice Harrison Susan Ardisson and Joe Decker
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in honor of Karla Boos Geeta Kothari and Mark Kemp Joyce and Lucien Bromberger
Teri and Antonio Pyle Hazel Carr Leroy in honor of Judith Starr
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Loretta Stanish and Rick Russell Janet and Ron Lunde Anne and James Burnham
Daniel Suders Carol and Douglas MacPhail Jackie Campbell
Katia Sycara and Michael Lewis Antonia and Trevor Macpherson Paula and Marco Cardamone
Mary and Ronald Tambellini Laura and Robert Marin Russellyn Carruth and
Martha Ann Terry Hadassah Max and Jonathan Arnold Bernard D. Goldstein
Arlene and Robert Weiner Susan McGregor-Laine Patricia and Randy Cellone
Roye Werner and George Reid Andrews Nancy McNary-Smith and Stewart Smith Anne Chen
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Becky Mingo and Dutch McDonald and present
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Quantum Theatre acknowledges that our productions take place in Dionde:gâ,
the Seneca language name for the Pittsburgh region.
We work and create art on the unceded, ancestral lands of many Indigenous peoples
including the Seneca Nation members of the Haudenosaunee (hoe-dee-no-SHOW-
nee) Confederacy, the Lenape (or Delaware), the Shawnee, and the earlier Adena,
Hopewell, Monongahela and others. We are mindful that our work here is possible
because the land and lives of people native to this place were stolen.
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Indian Center to learn more and support their work: http://www.cotraic.org/
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