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Christopher AshleyArtistic Director
Michael S. Rosenberg
Managing Director
A Co-Production with Kansas City Repertory Theatre
BY
HENRIK IBSEN
ADAPTED AND DIRECTED BY
DAVID SCHWEIZER
Featuring
Danny Gavigan*, Birgit Huppuch*, Luis Moreno*,
Kate Cullen Roberts*, Evan Zes*
Scenic Designer David ZinnCostume Designer Christina Wright
Lighting/Projection Designer Darrel MaloneyComposer/Sound Designer Ryan Rumery
Stage Manager Mary R. Honour*Assistant Stage Manager Tarin Hurstell*
Dramaturg Shirley FishmanCasting Stephanie Klapper
Associate Producer Dana I. Harrel
Production Manager Linda S. Cooper
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in alphabetical order
Peer Gynt, Buttonmoulder and others Danny Gavigan*
Ase, Solveig and others Birg it Hup p u c h*
Peer Gynt, Troll King and others Luis Moreno*
Ingrid, Anitra and others Kate Cullen Roberts*
Peer Gynt, Mads Moen and others Evan Zes*
Assistant Sound Designer
Lighting Design Assistant
Projection Design AssistantProduction Assistant
Stage Management Intern
Marshall Simons
Seif Allah CristobalBrandon ClarkSarah Kolman
Rachael Albert
Peer Gynt is performed with a 15-minute intermission.
Understudy: Nick Cagle*Understudies are never substituted for listed roles unless a specific announcement or
notice is made at the time of the performance.
* Members of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. This theatre operates under an agreement between
the League of Resident Theatres and Actors' Equity Association.
This Theatre operates under an agreement between the
League of Resident Theatres and the Stage Directors and
Choreographers Society, an independent national labor
union. SIX
PATRON SERVICES is located in the lobby area of each
theatre. A representative is available to answer questions
and hand out assisted listening devices, restaurant
guides, performance schedules and subscriptioninformation.
BARS AND CONCESSIONS are open one hour prior
to curtain and during intermissions. To avoid the rush,
intermission beverages can be ordered before the show.IConcessions by J!3-1M
CAMERAS AND RECORDING DEVICES are strictly
prohibited in the theatre. Please check these items with
the House Manager and turn off your camera phone.
PARKING is free for subscribers; $2 for the general public
on weekdays (free on weekends). Upon arrival to campus,
please enter your parking space number and pay the
automated paystations located by the information kiosk.
Spaces that are not paid for are subject to ticketing by UC
San Diego Campus Police.
DOCTORS AND PARENTS expecting calls during the
performance should leave their names and seat numbers
with the House Manager before the show. Leave the
following number with your service:
(858) 550-1030.
This Theatre operates under an agreement between
the League of Resident Theatres and United Scenic
Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE _
Patron Services
ACCESSIBILITY
~IZIIIJ~La Jolla Playhouse provides wheelchair-accessible seating
and parking. Wheelchair seat locations are available for
wheelchair users and a companion at all performances;
be sure to advise the reservationist that you require a
wheelchair location. Additionally, a golf cart is available
to assist patrons with accessibility needs to and from
the parking lot. Please notify the Box Office prior to your
performance if you are in need of this service; additionally,
you may pull into the five minute parking in front of the
theatre, and a friendly La Jolla Playhouse greeter will
assist you.The Playhouse also provides assisted listening
devices for patrons who are hard of hearing. Devices are
available, free of charge, at the Patron Services Center
prior to performances (subject to availability).
listening Devices Provided in Part by
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One performance of each production is designated as
an ACCESS performance. These performances feature
American Sign Language interpretations for the deaf and
hard of hearing and live audio description for blind/low
vision audience members. Pre-show sensory tours provide
design information to enhance the production experience
for blind/low-vision patrons as well.
La Jolla Playhouse is a member of the League of Resident
Theatres (LORT) and a constituent of Theatre Communications
Group (TCG), the national service organization for the nonprofit
professional theatre.
BABES IN ARMS
Out of respect for fellow audience members and the
performers, babes in arms are not permitted in the theatre
during performances.
LATECOMERS or PATRONS WHO LEAVE
THEIR SEAT DURING THE PERFORMANCE
will be admitted to the standing room section of the
theatre at the discretion of the House Manager. They
may take their assigned seats at intermission. La Jolla
Playhouse accepts no responsibility for inconvenience tolatecomers.
PLEASE SILENCE all electronic devices including cellular
phones, watches and pagers before the performance.
SAFETY IN THE THEATRE DISTRICT
La Jolla Playhouse is constantly working with the
UC San Diego Police Department and UC San Diego
Transportation and Parking Services, which operates the
parking lot and security system, to maintain and improve
security conditions for patrons and staff members.
Additionally, patrons and staff are welcome to use UC San
Diego Community Service Officers (CSOs)for an escort
to their cars by calling (858) 534-WALK (9255). Further
questions regarding security may be addressed to UC San
Diego Police at (858) 534-HELP (4357).
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DAVID SCHWEIZER
(Adaptor/Director)
is delighted to return to La Jolla Playhouse,where he directed Tobacco Road. He has
been developing and staging original theatre,
performance, and opera for over 30 years
nationally and internationally, beginning withhis radical version of Troilus and Cressida at
Lincoln Center and returning there recently
with Sir Richard Rodney Bennett's Mines ofSulphurfor New York City Opera. SouthernCalifornia audiences will remember his
substantial body of work while based in L.A.,including Lisa Loomer's The Waiting Room
(Mark Taper Forum), Philip Littell's adaptation
of Feydeau's He Hunts, Sandra Tsing Loh's
Sugar Plum Fairy (Geffen Playhouse), Oscar
Wilde's Salome (Actors' Gang), MarlaneMeyer's Kingfish (LATC) and Michael Sargent's
Tarantula (CAST). Notable Off-Broadway
productions include Charles Mee's Wintertime(Second Stage), William Hamilton's White
Chocolate (Century Center), Mark Campbell's
Songs from an Unmade Bed (NYTW) and his
OBIE Award-winning And God Created Great
Whales (The Culture Project), which alsotoured and played at London's Barbican Centre.International residencies include Lisbon,
Sarajevo, Prague, Toga Village-Japan andWarsaw where he created an earlier version of
Peer Gynt. Regionally he has staged works at
Trinity Rep, Arena Stage, Centerstage, SeattleRep and McCarter Theatre. Collaborations
with experimental companies include GregMehrten's It's a Man's World(Mabou Mines),
A History of Sexuality (Theatre X) and Plato's
Symposium with his own Modern Artists
Company. Selected work with solo theatre
artists: Ann Magnuson's Rave Mom and You
Could Be Home Now and Marga Gomez' Los
Big Names. He directed Benjamin Britten's
Albert Herring at Gotham Chamber Opera and
the world premiere of Stephen Hartke's TheGreater Good at Glimmerglass Opera. He is
currently preparing Tennessee Williams' lastfull-length play, Of Masks Outrageous and
Austere, for its world premiere on Broadway
next season, and he will open the Centerstageseason this fall with Sheridan's The Rivals.
DAVID ZINN
(Scenic Designer)
Previous credits at La Jolla Playhouse includecostumes for Surf Report, Xanadu and Mother
Courage, set design for A Dram of Drummhicit
and Notes from Underground, and the set and
costume design for Tobacco Road. He also
recently designed the set for August: Osage
County at The Old Globe. New York creditsinclude costumes for the Broadway productions
of Good People, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad
Zoo, In the Next Room (Tony Award and DramaDesk nomination), A Tale of Two Cities and
Xanadu. Off-Broadway, his recent costume
and set design credits include Other DesertCities and A Minister's Wife (Lincoln Center
Theater); Kin and Circle Mirror Transformation
(Playwrights Horizons); Middletown (Vineyard
EVAN ZES
(Peer Gynt/Mads Moen/others)
Off-Broadway: White WomanStreet, Around the World
in 80 Days (Irish RepertoryTheatre); American Dreams,
As You Like It (The Acting
Company); The Cherry Orchard (BeckettTheater); Romeo and Juliet (Lucille Lortel
Theatre); Time to Burn (Manhattan Ensemble
Theater). International: King Stag (The
Barbican, London); Dream Play (The Moscow
Art Theatre). Regional: Peer Gynt(Kansas City
Repertory Theatre); Arabian Nights (KC Rep,
Arena Stage, Berkeley Repertory Theatre,
Lookingglass Theatre); Victoria Musica(Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Around the
World in 80 Days (Westport Country Playhouse);The 39 Steps (City Theatre); The Comedy of
Errors (Shakespeare on the Sound); The Comedyof Errors, Macbeth, The Winter's Tale (TheOld Globe); Full Circle, Ivanov, The Merchant
of Venice (A.R.T); Othello (Pioneer Theatre
Company); Pericles (Goodman, Shakespeare
Theatre, DC). TV & Film: All My Children,
Last Night at Angelo's, The Street, FrenchFries. Awards: Acclaim Award (Outstanding
Performance, Around the World in 80 Days).Education: M.F.A., ART/Moscow Art TheatreSchool at Harvard.
NICK CAGLE
(Understudy)
is thrilled to be a part ofPeer Gynt. He trained at The
London Academy of Musicand Dramatic Art. Favorite
credits: Frank Sinatra in Louis
and Keely Live at the Sahara
(Geffen Playhouse, directed by Taylor Hackford);
Oswald in King Lear(Anteaus Company,directed by Bart DeLorenzo); Raymond in
Miss Nelson's Missing (MainStreet TheaterCompany, directed by Mark Rucker). Much loveto his fiance Michele.
KATE CULLEN ROBERTS
(Ingrid/ Anitra/others)
Broadway: Bloody BloodyAndrew Jackson. Off
Broadway: Bloody BloodyAndrew Jackson (The PublicTheater). Other New York:Seven Minutes in Heaven
(Ars Nova/Colt Coeur); Fit(59E59), The
Confidence Man (Woodshed Collective); Joe's
Pub. Regional: Peer Gynt(Kansas City Repertory
Theatre); Party Come Here (Christopher Ashley,
director); The Witching Hour, Wing It and
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, premiere(Williamstown Theatre Festival). TV & Film:
Law & Order: CI, Totally for Teens, TheRebound, Melvin. Education: B.A., Wake Forest
University; M.F.A., University of Texas at Austin.
LUIS MORENO
(Peer Gynt/Troll King/others)New York: Fetes de la
Nuit(The Ohio); The Ageof Iron, Tartuffe (Classic
Stage Company); ThreeSisters (Nature Theater
of Oklahoma); Food for
Fish (Kraine); Into the Hazard - Henry 5(Walkerspace); Auto Da Fe (International
WOW); Uncivil Wars (Baryshnikov Arts Center);
Uncle Vanya (13th St. Theatre); Straight Up
Vampire (Ars Nova/Joe's Pub). Regional:
Peer Gynt(Kansas City Repertory Theatre);
The Arabian Nights (Arena Stage, Berkeley
Rep); Anna in the Tropics (Capital Rep); Moby
Dick Rehearsed, The Tempest (The Acting
Company). Recorded books narrator: works byCarlos Castaneda, Justice Steven Breyer, Oscar
Casares, Carol Wallace and Arthur Phillips.
Education: B.A., Bard College; M.F.A., Columbia
University. Member of AEA, SAG, AFTRA.
DANNY GAVIGAN
(Peer Gynt/Buttonmoulder/others)
Regional: Peer Gynt(Kansas
City Repertory Theatre);
Snow Falling on Cedars
(Centerstage); Mojo, AllThat I Will Ever Be (Studio
Theatre); Mauritius (Bay Theatre Company);
Lennie in Of Mice and Men (Keegan Theatre,
Ireland National Tour); Dead City, References
to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot, Rough Magic
(Rorschach Theatre); Five Flights (TheaterAlliance); Marat/Sade (Marat, Forum Theatre);
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (MarylandShakespeare Festival). Other credits: Cat's
Cradle, It's Lonely Out in Space, The Ramayana,
The Waverly Gallery, Made in China. TV & Film:America's Most Wanted, Psychic Detectives,The Invasion, Ladder 49.
BIRGIT HUPPUCH
(Ase/Solveig/others)
Regional: Peer Gynt(Kansas City Repertory
Theatre); Neighbors (The
Public Theater); Telephone
(Foundry Theatre); MissSt. 's Hieroglyphic Suffering
(Guggenheim); Telethon and Dot(ClubbedThumb); What the Public Wants (Mint Theatre);
Ether Steeds (NY Fringe, Outstanding Ensemble
Award); The Furniture Fire and Sprinkler
(Drama League Director Fest); Sa Ka La
(Oslo Elsewhere); Woman of Trachis (Target
Margin); Beowulf(Banana, Bag & BodiceILES);
Haymarket (Alchemy Theatre Company); Mourn
the Living Hector (NY Fringe/PL 115); Scapin(NY Classical Theatre); Isabella and Pay Up (Pig
Iron Theatre Company); Doe 2.0 (workshop,
Tokyo, Japan); Love Song (WHAT); Bogwog(workshop, O'Neill). Film: The Understudy,
Watchers and See: They Have Sight. Awards:2009 OBIE for Performance in Telephone.
Upcoming: Twelfth Night (Olivia, Pig Iron
Theatre Company). Education: B.A. Williams
College.
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Theater); The Pride (MCC); The Four of Us
(Manhattan Theatre Club) and The Sound and
the Fury (ERS/NYTW). He recently designed
sets and costumes for the world premiere of
Elevator Repair Service's adaptation of The
Sun Also Rises at the Edinburgh InternationalFestival, and his other regional credits includesets and/or costumes at the American
Repertory Theater, Yale Rep, Guthrie, Alliance
Theatre, Spoleto Festival, Mark Taper Forum,
Intiman Theatre, Seattle Rep and Centerstage,among many others. Mr. Zinn's set and
costume designs for opera have been seen at
the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Santa Fe Opera,
Glimmerglass, New York City Opera and others.
CHRISTINA WRIGHT
(Costume Designer)
Regional: Peer Gynt(Kansas City RepertoryTheatre); Robert Wilson and Philip Glass' operaMonsters of Grace; Bill Viola's Ouintet of the
Astonished and Memoria; Tim Robbins' Break
the Whip (Actor's Gang); Carrie Fisher's Wishful
Drinking (Berkeley Rep); The Illusion, The Devil
with Boobs (The Open Fist Theatre Company);Transformations (The Cast); The Mystery
of Irma Vep (Tiffany Theatre); Notes: On
Performance (The Wallenboyd Theatre). Clients:
BRC Imagination Arts, Artistry Entertainment,
The J. Paul Getty Museum and Paramount's
Magic of the Movies. Awards: LA Weekly 2009(The Illusion) and 2010 (The Good Woman ofSetzuan); 2007 First Americans in the Arts
Trustee Award (Native Voices at the Autry);1998 L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award (The
Mystery of Irma Vep).http://christinacostu me .com.
DARREL MALONEY
(Lighting and Projection Designer)
Broadway production and video designs:American Idiot(St. James Theatre); EverydayRapture (American Airlines Theatre,
Roundabout). Regional projection designs:
SCKBSTD (Virginia Stage); The Elephant Man
(Minnesota Opera). Regional set and/or lightingdesign: Deliverance (Institute for ContemporaryArts London); Four Scenes in a Harsh Life
(Los Angeles Theatre Center); Richard III
(Hartford Stage). Mr. Maloney has designed forbroadcast, commercials, film and theatre.
www.darrelmaloney.com.
RYAN RUMERY
(Composer/Sound Designer)
Broadway: Thurgood. Off-Broadway scores:
Three Sisters, Orlando, The Forest, Uncle Vanya
(CSC); A Bright New Boise (Wild Project); NowCirca Then (Ars Nova); The Emperor Jones (IrishRepertory Theatre); Precious Little (Clubbed
Thumb); End Days (Ensemble Studio Theatre).
Sound design: Blind (Rattlestick Theatre); Urge
for Going and Neighbors (The Public); Gruesome
Playground Injuries and Let Me Down Easy
(Second Stage); Back Back Back and Based
on a Totally True Story (Manhattan TheatreClub); Beauty on the Vine (Epic Theatre Center).
Regional theatre credits include Arena Stage,Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Actors Theatre
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of Louisville, Centerstage, Kennedy Center,
Long Wharf Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre,
Hartford Stage, Westport Country Playhouse,
Philadelphia Theatre Company, Alley Theatre,
Trinity Rep, Geffen Playhouse and Eugene
O'Neill Theater Center. Film: SyncroNYCity.www.ryanrumery.com .
MARY R. HONOUR
(Production Stage Manager)
Kansas City Reperfory'Theatre stagemanagement: Circle Mirror Transformation,
Harriet Jacobs, Bus Stop, A Flea in Her Ear,
Winesburg, Ohio, The Glass Menagerie, Radio
Golf, The Drawer Boy, A Marvelous Party!,A Christmas Carol, Doubt, Two Pianos, Four
Hands, The Syringa Tree, Love, Janis, Jitney,
The Trip to Bountiful, Man and Superman, TheVoysey Inheritance, Little Women, The Front
Page, Incognito. Assistant stage management:Hank Williams: Lost Highway, The Pirates
of Penzance, Liliom, Metamorphoses, IndianInk, Saint Joan, Joe Turner's Come and
Gone. Additional local and regional credits:
Starlight Theatre, Lyric Opera of Kansas City,Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Arizona Theatre
Company, Light Opera Works in Chicago andNorthwestern University.
TARIN HURSTELL
(Assistant Stage Manager)
Ms. Hurstell's favorite work experiences have
been Little Miss Sunshine and Surf Report (LaJolla Playhouse); The Tempest and A Christmas
Carol (North Coast Rep); To Kill a Mockingbird
and Rabbit Hole (Indiana Repertory Theatre).
She has also worked in stage management forMoonlight Stage Productions, Marin Theatre
Company, PCPA Theaterfest, Utah Festival
Opera and Illinois Shakespeare Festival.Education: B.A. in Theatre from James Madison
University.
SHIRLEY FISHMAN
(DramaturglDirector of Play Development)Now in her 11th season atthe Playho-use,
Ms. Fishman recently served as dramaturg on
Ruined, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Surf
Report, Bonnie & Clyde, Creditors, Herringbone,
Unusual Acts of Devotion, the Playhouse's
production of Xanadu and UC San Diego's The
Revenger's Tragedy, directed by ChristopherAshley. At the Joseph Papp Public Theater,
she dramaturged such projects as Jessica
Hagedorn's Dogeaters, Two Sisters and a Piano
by Nilo Cruz, Tina Landau's Space, among
others. She serves as a Playwright's Dramaturg
for UC San Diego's Baldwin New Play Festival.
She has been a Creative Advisor/Dramaturg
at the Sundance Theatre Lab, Ojai PlaywrightsConference, Native Voices, Playwrights
Project. She is an MJ.A. graduate of Columbia
University's Theatre Theory/Criticism/
Dramaturgy program.
STEPHANIE KLAPPER
(f;qsting)
Klapper's casting work has been seen
on Broadway, Off-Broadway, regionally,internationally, on television, internet and film.
Selected recent Broadway and Off-Broadway:
Dividing the Estate (2009 Tony nomination); The
Temperamentals; A Lifetime Burning; King Lear;
Incident at Vichy; A Dangerous Personality;King of Shadows; an oak tree (Artios Award
winner); Indoor/Outdoor. Resident castingdirector for Primary Stages. NY casting for
Eric Rosen's Winesburg, Ohio (Kansas CityRepertory Theatre); Mary Zimmerman's The
Arabian Nights (Kansas City Repertory Theatreand Berkeley Rep), The Sound of Music (The
New Theatre); The Picture of Dorian Gray(Round House Theatre); A Streetcar Named
Desire (English Theatre of Frankfurt); NewYork, U.S. and international tours of In the
Continuum. She has ongoing projects in NYC,
and with many regional theatres around the
country as well as numerous independent films.
Member: Casting Society of America, League ofProfessional Theatre Women.
KANSASGCiTY REPERTORY THEATRE
(Co-Producerl
f'fow-i'nits 46th year, Kansas City Repertory
Theatre is one of the nation's leading
professional theatres and a member of the
League of Resident Theatres. The Rep produces
a full season of plays and events at SpencerTheatre on the UMKC campus, where the
Rep is the professional theatre in residence,
and at its downtown theatre, Copaken Stage.
Under the leadership of Eric Rosen, KansasCity Rep's artistic vision supports new works,musicals and classics of literature that are
diverse, literate and timely. The Rep also
provides comprehensive education programs
that engage more than 8,500 students who
attend special matinee performances, and more·
than 1,200 students who experience the Rep's
classroom programming and workshops. The2010-11 season includes Saved. directed by
Gary Griffin; Harriet Jacobs, directed by Jessica
Thebus; Another American: Asking and Telling,
written, directed and performed by Marc Wolf;
Circle Mirror Transformation, directed by the
Rep's Associate Director Kyle Hatley; Kanderand Ebb's Cabaret, directed by Rep Artistic
Director Eric Rosen; Peer Gynt, adapted and
directed by David Schweizer and the 30th
anniversary production of A Christmas Carol,
directed by Kyle Hatley.
CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY
(Artistic Director)hasservecfas fa'Jolia
Playhouse's Artistic Director
since October, 2007. Duringhis tenure, he has helmed
the Playhouse's productionsof A Dram of Drummhicit, A
Midsummer Night's Dream, Restoration and theacclaimed musicals Xanadu and Memphis,
which won four 2010 Tony Awards includingBest Musical. Prior to joining 'the Playhouse, he
directed the Broadway productions of Xanadu(Drama Desk nomination), All Shook Up and The
Rocky Horror Show (Tony, Drama Desk andOuter Critics Circle Award nominations), as well
as the Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration
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productions of Sweenev Todd and Merrily We
Roll Along. Other New York credits include:
Blown Sideways Through Life, Jeffrey (LucilleLortel and Obie Awards), The Most Fabulous
Story Ever Told, Valhalla, Regrets Only, Wonder
of the World, Communicating Doors, Bunny
Bunny, The Night Hank Williams Died, Fires in
the Mirror (Lucille Lortel Award), among others.Mr. Ashley also directed the feature film Jeffrey
and the American Playhouse production of
Blown Sideways Through Life for PBS. Mr.Ashley is the recipient of the Princess Grace
Award, the Drama League Director Fellowshipand an NEA/TCG Director Fellowship.
MICHAEL S. ROSENBERG
(Managing Director)
was appointed Managing Director of La Jolla
Playhouse in April, 2009. During his first twoyears, he worked in partnership with Artistic
Director Christopher Ashley to produceseven world premieres, seven Playhousecommissions and the hit musicals Bonnie &
Clyde, Limelight and Little Miss Sunshine. He
was also instrumental in bringing the Page To
Stage workshop of John Leguizamo's Diary of a
Madman to the Playhouse (now on Broadway).
Additionally, he fostered the growth of the
Playhouse's award-winning Performance
PERFORMANCE OUTREACH PROGRAM
(POP) TOUR
Every school year, the Playhouse commissions a
new play that addresses real concerns of today's
youth and brings a professional production
to schools and community centers in diverse
communities across San Diego county. School
performances are also integrated into the classroom
curriculum through pre-performance visits by
Playhouse Teaching Artists.
IN-SCHOOL RESIDENCIES
In partnership with San Diego County and City
Visual and Performing Arts Departments, Playhouse
Teaching Artists teach theatre skills in classrooms
across the county, ensuring theatre becomes an
integral part of the education of all San Diego
children while fostering a relationship with the
Playhouse that will continue as these young people
grow into adulthood. For more information, call (858)
550-1070 xl 01.
YOUNG PERFORMERS' WORKSHOP
Creative exploration of theatre arts in a summer
program for students entering into grades 2-12.
CONSERVATORY
Six-week summer intensive training in acting, voice,
movement and text for grades 10-12. By audition
only.
Supported in part by
Sidney E. Frank Foundation
Outreach Program (POP) tour, achieving
the most performances at local schools in
Playhouse history. Previously, Rosenberg wasCo-Founder and Executive Director of Drama
Dept., a New York non-profit theatre company,where he produced new works by the likes of
Douglas Carter Beane, Warren Leight, IsaacMizrahi, Paul Rudnick and David and Amy
Sedaris. He has been a part of the producing
teams for the Broadway productions of GreyGardens and American Buffalo and the national
tour of Little House on the Prairie.
DEBBY BUCHHOLZ
(General Manager)hasservedas gen-eral manager of La Jolla
Playhouse since 2002. She is a member of
the Executive Committee and of the Leagueof Resident Theaters (LORT). In 2009, she
received a San Diego Women Who Mean
Business Award from The San Diego Business
Journal. Previously she served as Counsel tothe John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing
Arts and the National Symphony Orchestra in
Washington, D.C. She was a faculty member ofthe Smithsonian Institution's program on LegalProblems of Museum Administration. Prior to
the Kennedy Center, she served as a corporate
attorney in New York City and Washington, DC.
Education & Ou~reach Programs
ILLUMINATING AUDIENCE EVENTS
La Jolla Playhouse offers unique opportunities for
audience members to delve deeper into
Peer Gyntwith these special performance series
options:
Talkback Tuesday: Join cast and crew for a
discussion following the performance.
• Tue., July 12 and July 19
Sponsored in Part by
AUianz (ill)Global Investors
Insider: Meet with a Playhouse staff member 45
minutes prior to the performance for an insider's
discussion about the play you are going to see.
• Thu., July 14 at 7:30 pm
• Sat., July 16 at 1:15 pm
• Wed., July 20 at 6:45 pm
• Fri., July 22 at 7:30 pm
• Sat., July 23 at 7:30 pm
Reaction: A special post-show discussion
facilitated by Playhouse staff.Sponsored in Part by
°ii:I~;o,""" r:e-1 4.h~
• Sat., July 9 following the 2 pm performance
• Sun., July 10 following the 2 pm performance
• Sat., July 16 following the 2 pm performance
• Sun., July 17 following the 2 pm performance
• Sat., July 23 following the 2 pm performance
She is a graduate of UC San Diego and HarvardLaw School. Ms. Buchholz and her husband,
noted author and White House economic policyadvisor Todd Buchholz, live in Solana Beach and
are the proud parents of Victoria, Katherine andAlexia.
DES McANUFF
(Director Emeritus)
served as La Jolla Playhouse's Artistic Director
from 1983 through 1994, and from 2001 through
April, 2007. Under his leadership, the Playhouse
garnered more than 300 awards, including theTony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre.
Playhouse to Broadway credits: Jersey Boys(four Tony Awards); Billy Crystal's 700 Sundays
(Tony Award); How to Succeed in Business
Without Really Trying (five Tony nominations);director and co-author with Pete Townshend
on The Whos Tommy (Tony and Olivier Awards
for Best Director) and Big River (seven Tony
Awards), among others. Film credits: Quills, The
Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, The Iron
Giant (9 Animation Society awards) and CousinBette. Recipient of the Drama League's 2006
Julia Hansen Award, Mr. McAnuff currentlyserves as Artistic Director at Canada's Stratford
Festiva I.
Discovery Sunday: Join special guest speakers
after the performance as they explore the themes of
the production.
• Sun., July 24 (matinee)
Sponsored in Part by
-. KPDS'
THEATRE TOURS
Tour the stages and production shops of the
Playhouse facilities and learn more about the history
of La Jolla Playhouse and.the role that it plays in
the community. Tours are available to groups for a
nominal fee. To schedule a tour, call (858) 550-1070
xl0l.
ACCESS PERFORMANCE SERIES
La Jolla Playhouse provides American Sign
Language interpretation for audience members
who are deaf or hard of hearing and live audio
description for audience members who are blind
or have low vision. Pre-show sensory tours provide
design information to enhance the experience.
• Sat., July 9 (matinee)
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For more information on Education & Outreach
programs at La Jolla Playhouse, please contact
Stephen McCormick at (858) 550-1070 xl 02.
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