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)

SDG~•••••fA ~ Sempra Energy utility'

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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