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    March 4 - 26, 2017 , Allen Theatre

    How I Learned to Drive

    Written by Paula Vogel
    Directed by Laura Kepley

    Run time: 1 hour, 30 minutes | No intermission
    Advisory: Adult and sexual situations

    Buckle up. It’s going to be a bumpy ride. Li’l Bit takes us on a no-holds-barred trip back in time to her adolescence in 1960s Maryland and her complicated relationship with an older man. A deeply compassionate look at how we are shaped by the people who hurt us, How I Learned to Drive masterfully veers in and out of personal memory and deftly traverses comedy, drama, and farce. CPH Artistic Director Laura Kepley steers Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning contemporary masterpiece.

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    From left to right: Michael Brusasco (Peck), Madeleine Lambert (Li'l Bit), Karis Danish (Female Greek Chorus), Nick LaMedica (Male Greek Chorus), and Remy Zaken (Teenage Greek Chorus). Photo Credit: Roger Mastroianni.

    From left to right: Remy Zaken (Teenage Greek Chorus), Madeleine Lambert (Li'l Bit), and Michael Brusasco (Peck). Photo Credit: Roger Mastroianni.

    From left to right: Nick LaMedica (Male Greek Chorus), Karis Danish (Female Greek Chorus), Madeleine Lambert (Li'l Bit), and Michael Brusasco (Peck). Photo Credit: Roger Mastroianni.

    From left to right: Remy Zaken (Teenage Greek Chorus), Nick LaMedica (Male Greek Chorus), Madeleine Lambert (Li'l Bit), and Karis Danish (Female Greek Chorus). Photo Credit: Roger Mastroianni.

    From left to right: Madeleine Lambert (Li'l Bit) and Michael Brusasco (Peck). Photo Credit: Roger Mastroianni.

    From left to right: Madeleine Lambert (Li'l Bit), Remy Zaken (Teenage Greek Chorus), and Karis Danish (Female Greek Chorus). Photo Credit: Roger Mastroianni.

    From left to right: Michael Brusasco (Peck) and Madeleine Lambert (Li'l Bit). Photo Credit: Roger Mastroianni.

    From left to right: Remy Zaken (Teenage Greek Chorus), Nick LaMedica (Male Greek Chorus), and Karis Danish (Female Greek Chorus). Photo Credit: Roger Mastroianni.

    From left to right: Nick LaMedica (Male Greek Chorus) and Madeleine Lambert (Li'l Bit). Photo Credit: Roger Mastroianni.

    Karis Danish (Female Greek Chorus). Photo Credit: Roger Mastroianni.

    From left to right: Madeleine Lambert (Li'l Bit) and Michael Brusasco (Peck). Photo Credit: Roger Mastroianni.

    From left to right: Karis Danish (Female Greek Chorus), Nick LaMedica (Male Greek Chorus), Remy Zaken (Teenage Greek Chorus), Madeleine Lambert (Li'l Bit), and Michael Brusasco (Peck). Photo Credit: Roger Mastroianni.

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    Michael Brusasco

    Michael Brusasco

    (Peck) is grateful to be back at CPH after appearing in Venus in Fur. This last year he has been with the Alley Theatre Company in Houston, Texas. Plays include A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hand to God, Agatha Christie’s Spider’s Web, Cleo, All The Way, and A Christmas Carol. more(Peck) is grateful to be back at CPH after appearing in Venus in Fur. This last year he has been with the Alley Theatre Company in Houston, Texas. Plays include A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hand to God, Agatha Christie’s Spider’s Web, Cleo, All The Way, and A Christmas Carol. In New York, he has appeared Off-Broadway in Misalliance, The Playboy of the Western World (Pearl Theatre), Intermission (Theatre Row), Philosophy for Gangsters (Theatre Row), and Electra in a One Piece (Good Company). Other New York Credits: A Crucible (Perfect Disgrace), Happy Sunshine Kung Fu Flower (Ars Nova), Of Monsters and Prodigies (Lincoln Center Festival). Regional: Deferred Action, All The Way (Dallas Theater Center), Twelfth Night (Folger Theatre), Private Lives (Pittsburgh Public Theater), See How They Run (Barrington Stage Company), Pride & Prejudice (Roundhouse Theatre), as well as seasons at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Great River Shakespeare Festival, A.C.T., Berkeley Repertory Theatre, California Shakespeare Theatre, Pioneer Theatre Company, and The Shakespeare Theatre in DC. Please visit michaelbrusasco.com for more.

    Karis Danish

    Karis Danish

    (Female Greek Chorus) recent New York credits: The Gold in the 2016 New York Musical Festival. Other New York credits include the Off-Broadway world premiere of Hit-Lit by Robert Wuhl and #MormonInChief as part of the New York Fringe Festival. Regionally she has performed in One Man Two Guvnors more(Female Greek Chorus) recent New York credits: The Gold in the 2016 New York Musical Festival. Other New York credits include the Off-Broadway world premiere of Hit-Lit by Robert Wuhl and #MormonInChief as part of the New York Fringe Festival. Regionally she has performed in One Man Two Guvnors at Repertory Theater of St. Louis (dir. Ed Stern), the world premiere of Tale of Two Cities (dir. Warren Carlyle), and Doubt (dir. Anne Kauffman) both at Asolo Repertory Theater. She has also worked at Pioneer Theater Company, Triad Stage, Cape May Stage, and The Houston Shakespeare Festival. Karis holds an M.F.A. from FSU. Thankful for this opportunity to tell stories, her remarkably supportive parents, and all those that have had to endure hours of practicing and rehearsing lines because they shared an apartment with her.

    Madeleine Lambert

    Madeleine Lambert

    (Li'l Bit) is thrilled to be making her Cleveland Play House debut. Credits include Steel Magnolias and A Christmas Carol (Trinity Repertory Company); The Children’s Hour, Marie Antoinette, Blackbird, and Anne Boleyn (The Gamm Theatre); Cock and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater); Uncle Jack more(Li'l Bit) is thrilled to be making her Cleveland Play House debut. Credits include Steel Magnolias and A Christmas Carol (Trinity Repertory Company); The Children’s Hour, Marie Antoinette, Blackbird, and Anne Boleyn (The Gamm Theatre); Cock and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater); Uncle Jack (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre); Grounded, Middletown, and At The Vanishing Point (Manbites Dog Theater Company). Television credit for Chicago PD. Madeleine holds a M.F.A. in Acting from Brown University/Trinity Rep and a B.A. from Duke University. She is a graduate of and a teaching associate at The School at Steppenwolf. Madeleine is adjunct faculty in the Theater Studies Department at Duke University. She is an award-winning audiobook narrator.

    Nick LaMedica

    Nick LaMedica

    (Male Greek Chorus) Recent favorite credits include Hand to God (City Theatre Company), War Horse (1st National Tour/Japan), As You Like It, Benediction (Denver Center), Much Ado About Nothing (Two River Theatre). He has appeared on television in Mysteries at the Museum and in various commercials for Hasbro, Microsoft, more(Male Greek Chorus) Recent favorite credits include Hand to God (City Theatre Company), War Horse (1st National Tour/Japan), As You Like It, Benediction (Denver Center), Much Ado About Nothing (Two River Theatre). He has appeared on television in Mysteries at the Museum and in various commercials for Hasbro, Microsoft, and Planned Parenthood. Nick is a graduate of Marymount Manhattan College’s BFA Acting and Musical Theatre programs. Proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. Thank you to my agent, Judy Boals; my wonderful parents, Susan & John; and my incredible wife, Lilly. www.NickLaMedica.com

    Remy Zaken

    Remy Zaken

    (Teenage Greek Chorus) was last seen in One Flea Spare Off-Broadway at The Sheen Center. Remy made her Broadway debut as Thea in the original cast of Spring Awakening. She has performed Off-Broadway in Dear Evan Hansen, Brooklynite, The Anthem, Freckleface Strawberry (as the title role), Spring Awakening, and more(Teenage Greek Chorus) was last seen in One Flea Spare Off-Broadway at The Sheen Center. Remy made her Broadway debut as Thea in the original cast of Spring Awakening. She has performed Off-Broadway in Dear Evan Hansen, Brooklynite, The Anthem, Freckleface Strawberry (as the title role), Spring Awakening, and Radiant Baby. Regional credits include playing Anne Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank at the Pittsburgh Public; A Tree Grows In Brooklyn at the Goodspeed Opera House, for which she won the Connecticut Critics Circle Award for Best Debut; and A Little Princess. Selected workshops include Bright Star and Some Lovers, the Burt Bacharach musical. Film credits include Pitching Tents, Things I Wish I Had Told You Before (short), and Sing Along (short). Television credits include Bull, Gossip Girl, Law and Order, and It Could Be Worse. Remy has a BA in psychology from Columbia University.

    Broken Chord

    (Sound Design) has Cleveland Play House credits that include Fairfield and How I Learned to Drive. Broadway credits are The Parisian Woman and Eclipsed. Selected off- Broadway credits include Toni Stone at Roundabout Theatre Company; The Lying Lesson, The Great Leap, The Jammer, and These Paper Bullets! at the more(Sound Design) has Cleveland Play House credits that include Fairfield and How I Learned to Drive. Broadway credits are The Parisian Woman and Eclipsed. Selected off- Broadway credits include Toni Stone at Roundabout Theatre Company; The Lying Lesson, The Great Leap, The Jammer, and These Paper Bullets! at the Atlantic; The Four of Us and When We Were Young and Unafraid at MTC; Bull in a China Shop at LCT3; Party People and Eclipsed at The Public; and The Winter’s Tale at TFANA. Selected regional credits are The Amen Corner, Hamlet, and Macbeth at Shakespeare Theater, D.C.; Angels in America at The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; Enemy of the People and As You Like It at the Guthrie Theatre; Ruined and Party People at Berkeley Repertory Theatre; Top Girls, A Raisin in the Sun, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, and Ruined at the Huntington Theatre; UniSon at OSF. Film credits include Fall to Rise. www.brokenchord.us

    Mary Louise Geiger

    (Lighting Designer) Cleveland: How I Learned to Drive, The Crucible (Cleveland Play House); The Mousetrap, Arsenic and Old Lace (Great Lakes Theater). Broadway: The Constant Wife (Roundabout Theatre Company and American Airlines Theatre). Recent NYC: The Liar (CSC); Nat Turner in Jerusalem, Forever (NYTW); The New York Idea (Atlantic more(Lighting Designer) Cleveland: How I Learned to Drive, The Crucible (Cleveland Play House); The Mousetrap, Arsenic and Old Lace (Great Lakes Theater). Broadway: The Constant Wife (Roundabout Theatre Company and American Airlines Theatre). Recent NYC: The Liar (CSC); Nat Turner in Jerusalem, Forever (NYTW); The New York Idea (Atlantic Theatre Company); Kindness, Blue Door, The Busy World is Hushed (Playwrights Horizons); Mabou Mines’ Dollhouse, Red Beads (Mabou Mines). Regional Theatre: Chimerica (Studio Theatre); The Sound of Music (5th Avenue Theatre); Native Gardens (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park), Trouble in Mind (Guthrie Theatre), ACT Theatre (Seattle), Huntington Theatre, Seattle Rep, Portland Center Stage, Virginia Stage Company, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Mark Taper Forum, Pioneer Theatre. Upcoming: X/Julius Ceaser (Acting Company Tour). Training: Yale School of Drama Faculty; NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

    John Godbout

    (Stage Manager) was Cleveland Play House's resident stage manager from 2001 to 2008 and returned to CPH in the fall of 2011. "Most recently, John stage managed A New Brain at Barrington Stage Company. John has also stage managed at North Shore Music Theatre, Capital Repertory Theatre, The more(Stage Manager) was Cleveland Play House's resident stage manager from 2001 to 2008 and returned to CPH in the fall of 2011. "Most recently, John stage managed A New Brain at Barrington Stage Company. John has also stage managed at North Shore Music Theatre, Capital Repertory Theatre, The Weston Playhouse, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Northern Stage, Seaside Music Theatre, and Porthouse Theatre.

    Caite Hevner

    (Projection Designer) Previously at CPH: My Mother Has 4 Noses (New Ground Theatre Festival). Broadway: In Transit. New York: Ars Nova, Cherry Lane Theatre, The Civilians, The Duke on 42nd Street, HERE Arts Center, Juilliard, La MaMa, Lynn Redgrave Theater, Roundabout Underground, Soho Playhouse, Studio 42. Regional: Alley Theatre, more(Projection Designer) Previously at CPH: My Mother Has 4 Noses (New Ground Theatre Festival). Broadway: In Transit. New York: Ars Nova, Cherry Lane Theatre, The Civilians, The Duke on 42nd Street, HERE Arts Center, Juilliard, La MaMa, Lynn Redgrave Theater, Roundabout Underground, Soho Playhouse, Studio 42. Regional: Alley Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Arena Stage, Barrington Stage Company, Bristol Riverside Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Guthrie Theater, Marin Theatre Company, Northern Stage, Pasadena Playhouse, People’s Light, Playmakers Repertory Company, Round House Theater, Seattle 5th Avenue, Theater J, Williamstown Theatre Festival. Member of Wingspace Theatrical Design. www.caitedesign.com

    Tom Humes

    (Assistant Stage Manager) serves as an Assistant Professor for the School of Theatre and Dance at Kent State University, where he teaches courses in Stage Management, Production Management, Theatre Management, and an intro course to computing software for the theatre practitioner. Tom has been a part of the more(Assistant Stage Manager) serves as an Assistant Professor for the School of Theatre and Dance at Kent State University, where he teaches courses in Stage Management, Production Management, Theatre Management, and an intro course to computing software for the theatre practitioner. Tom has been a part of the stage management teams with: Porthouse Theatre, Cain Park, Cleveland Play House, McCarter Theatre Center, Dobama Theatre, Beck Center for the Arts, Karamu House, Cleveland Orchestra and Opera Cleveland. He has been an assistant production manager, events production manager, and senior production manager/assistant to the general manager at Cain Park. He is also a member of the I.A.T.S.E. Tom is twice published, with a recent book review of Stage Management Theory as a Guide to Practice: Cultivating a Creative Approach featured in Theatre Topics and he contributed to the book, Off Headset: Essays on Stage Management Work, Life, and Career with his essay, “Maximum Flexibility”.

    Thom Jones

    (Dialect Coach) is the head of Voice and Speech for Brown University/Trinity Repertory Company's Master of Fine Arts in Acting and Directing and has coached voice, dialects, and text extensively in theatre, film, and television. Theatres where he has coached include: The Public Theater, Shakespeare in the Park, more(Dialect Coach) is the head of Voice and Speech for Brown University/Trinity Repertory Company's Master of Fine Arts in Acting and Directing and has coached voice, dialects, and text extensively in theatre, film, and television. Theatres where he has coached include: The Public Theater, Shakespeare in the Park, Noel Coward Theatre (London’s West End), Yale Repertory Company, Dallas Theater Center, McCarter Theatre, Cleveland Play House, The Huntington Theatre, Trinity Repertory Company, Hartford Stage, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, Syracuse Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Hangar Theatre. For Film and Television, he has voice, dialect and text coached numerous actors, including: Nicole Kidman, Ben Mendelsohn, Sissy Spacek, Alan Rickman, Vanessa Redgrave, Robin Williams, Emma Watson, Andra Day, Miles Teller, Jennifer Hudson, Bill Skarsgard, Lashana Lynch, Lakeith Stanfield, Aaron Eckhart, Katey Segal, Ciaran Hinds, David Oyelowo, Amy Adams, Lily Rabe, Mel Gibson, Olivia Cooke, Tye Sheridan, Simon Peg, Mark Rylance, Sherie Rene Scott, Sienna Miller, Brendan Gleeson, Melissa Leo, Emily Van Camp, Blythe Danner, Logan Lerman, Linda Emond, Ryan Reynolds, and others, as well as for directors Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorcese, Lee Daniels, Ridley Scott, Ben Younger, and others.

    Laura Kepley

    Laura Kepley

    (Director) (she/her) became Artistic Director of Cleveland Play House in 2013, and has directed numerous CPH mainstage productions, including The Crucible; Sweat; The Diary of Anne Frank; In the Next Room, or the vibrator play; Into the Breeches!; Every Brilliant Thing; and the world premieres of Tiny Houses, The more(Director) (she/her) became Artistic Director of Cleveland Play House in 2013, and has directed numerous CPH mainstage productions, including The Crucible; Sweat; The Diary of Anne Frank; In the Next Room, or the vibrator play; Into the Breeches!; Every Brilliant Thing; and the world premieres of Tiny Houses, The Good Peaches, Fairfield, and A Carol for Cleveland. She joined CPH in 2010, having arrived from Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island, where she was Resident Director and Artistic Associate for four seasons and Interim Director of the Brown/Trinity Rep M.F.A. in Directing Program for one. She has also at Playhouse Square clevelandplayhouse.com 25 directed for The Alliance Theatre, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Chautauqua Theater Company, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Syracuse Stage, Trinity Rep, and The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, among others. A native Ohioan, Laura received her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and her Master of Fine Arts from Brown University/Trinity Rep. She is a Drama League Fellow, a recipient of the 2009– 2011 National Endowment for the Arts/Theatre Communications Group Career Development Program for Directors, and a member of Leadership Cleveland’s Class of 2021. Locally, she has been recognized with multiple Outstanding Director commendations from The Cleveland Critics Circle, a Cuyahoga Community College Smart Business Smart Women Award, and a Crain’s Cleveland Woman of Note designation.

    Lex Liang

    (Costume Designer) is delighted to be back at CPH where he previously designed Shakespeare in Love (SD/CD), Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville (CD), The Three Musketeers (CD), The Little Foxes (SD/CD) and many others. Int’l/Nat’l Tours/NYC/Off-B’way: 100+ productions, including Judy Gold’s Yes, I Can Say That! currently playing at Primary Stages, more(Costume Designer) is delighted to be back at CPH where he previously designed Shakespeare in Love (SD/CD), Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville (CD), The Three Musketeers (CD), The Little Foxes (SD/CD) and many others. Int’l/Nat’l Tours/NYC/Off-B’way: 100+ productions, including Judy Gold’s Yes, I Can Say That! currently playing at Primary Stages, directed by BD Wong. Other recent work includes the world premieres of Emma, Mr. Holland’s Opus, The Tattooed Lady, and May We All. Other Regional: Actor’s Theatre Louisville, Alliance Theatre, Asolo, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Dallas Theatre Center, Denver Center, Geva, Guthrie, La Jolla, Long Wharf, Paper Mill Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, Playmaker’s Rep, Portland Center Stage, St. Louis Rep, Syracuse Stage, Woolly Mammoth, ... Lex is the founder and principal of LDC Design Associates, the experiential event design and production company in NYC. Recent projects/clients include Absolut Vodka, Operation Smile, Johnson & Johnson, Ubuntu Pathways, Invesco, The Tony Awards Gala, NYFW, NYWFF, William Hill, and others. www.LexLiang.com @Lex92

    Elissa Myers Casting, Paul Fouquet, CSA

    (Casting) credits include Poisoner’s Handbook, Becoming Helen Keller, and Mystery of Matter, PBS. Other PBS projects include The Abolitionists, Dolley Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John and Abigail Adams, Benjamin Franklin (Emmy Award), Liberty (Peabody Award), God in America, People vs. Leo Frank, Louisa May Alcott, Great Performances (Artios Award in more(Casting) credits include Poisoner’s Handbook, Becoming Helen Keller, and Mystery of Matter, PBS. Other PBS projects include The Abolitionists, Dolley Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John and Abigail Adams, Benjamin Franklin (Emmy Award), Liberty (Peabody Award), God in America, People vs. Leo Frank, Louisa May Alcott, Great Performances (Artios Award in Outstanding Achievement in Casting), and Murder Of A President for American Experience. Feature films include Hank and Asha (Audience Award at Slamdance 2013) and The Union. Theatre credits include seven Broadway shows, including Tony nominated Having Our Say, as well as 26 Off-Broadway shows. Regional theatre casting in the past two years includes Denver Center, Geva Theatre, Cleveland Play House, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Magic Theatre, Arena Stage, Alley Theatre, George Street Playhouse, and Arizona Theatre Company. The office has so far received 16 nominations and has won three Artios Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Casting.

    Collette Pollard

    (Scenic Designer) resides in Chicago designing scenery locally, regionally and internationally. Recent and upcoming Chicago credits include Between Riverside and Crazy, 1984, Head of Passes (Steppenwolf Theatre); Arcadia, Isaac’s Eye, Sweet Charity (Writers’ Theatre); One Man Two Guvnors, The Illusion (Court Theatre); The Happiest Song Plays List, Fish Men more(Scenic Designer) resides in Chicago designing scenery locally, regionally and internationally. Recent and upcoming Chicago credits include Between Riverside and Crazy, 1984, Head of Passes (Steppenwolf Theatre); Arcadia, Isaac’s Eye, Sweet Charity (Writers’ Theatre); One Man Two Guvnors, The Illusion (Court Theatre); The Happiest Song Plays List, Fish Men (Goodman Theatre). Recent and upcoming Regional credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet (Santa Cruz Shakespeare); Great Expectations (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); The Oldest Boy (Marin Theatre Company); Geller Girls, Good People, The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls (Alliance Theatre); A Minister’s Wife (San Jose Repertory Theatre); The Hammer Trinity, Rose & The Rime, The Donkey Show, Death & Harry Houdini, The Nutcracker, The Sparrow (Adrienne Arsht Center of Performing Arts Miami); A Streetcar Named Desire (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Harriet Jacobs, The Glass Menagerie (Kansas City Repertory Theatre). Last fall Collette was the Scenic Design Jeff Award recipient for In the Garden at Lookingglass Theatre. Recently she became an Artistic Associate at Timeline Theatre in Chicago. Collette is a Company Member at The House Theatre Company of Chicago and was the recipient of the Michael Merritt Maggio Emerging Designer Award in 2010. She received her MFA from Northwestern University where she currently co-teaches the Toy Theatre course.

    Paula Vogel

    (Playwright) Playwright, screenwriter, and professor Paula Vogel has headed Brown’s Playwriting Workshop since 1985. The Baltimore Waltz premiered at New York’s Circle Repertory Company, directed by Anne Bogart. It garnered the Obie for Best Play, 1992, and was awarded the AT&T New Play Award, as well as the Joseph more(Playwright) Playwright, screenwriter, and professor Paula Vogel has headed Brown’s Playwriting Workshop since 1985. The Baltimore Waltz premiered at New York’s Circle Repertory Company, directed by Anne Bogart. It garnered the Obie for Best Play, 1992, and was awarded the AT&T New Play Award, as well as the Joseph Calloway Award. And Baby Makes Seven was produced by New York’s Circle Repertory Company in spring of 1993, directed by Calvin Skaggs. The Oldest Profession, her screenplay, has been optioned, and she has written for television. Desdemona was done at the Bay Street Theater Festival, directed by Gloria Muzio, with Cherry Jones, J. Smith-Cameron, and Fran Brill in summer 1993. Hot’n Throbbing was produced by Robert Brustein and the American Repertory Theater in April 1994, directed by Anne Bogart. Ms. Vogel has also written How I Learned to Drive, a play about female sexuality and the American car and Travels Without Charley, a novel. Thrice a MacDowell Colony Fellow, Paula Vogel has also attended the Yaddo Colony and was the 1991-92 recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Playwriting Fellowship (her second NEA award). Among her awards are a 1992 summer residence at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Italy, the 1992-93 McKnight Fellow at the Playwrights Center, and a Bunting Fellowship from Radcliffe College. She was also the 1992 recipient of the Rhode Island Governor’s Arts Awards. Paula Vogel was a participant in the Warner Brothers Television Workshop in 1991 and has taught playwriting at Cornell University, the University of Alaska, The Writer’s Voice in New York, and Trinity Conservatory in Providence, Rhode Island. She was an artist in residence in June 1991 at Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada, and has directed plays and participated in workshops and panels at theaters and universities throughout the U.S. and Canada. Paula Vogel is a company member of Circle Repertory Company. Her work has been published in The Way We Live Now, The Best Plays by Women 1992, Dramatists Play Service, Fireside Theatre, and American Theatre Magazine.

    Wigs and Whiskers

    (Wig Master) owned and operated by Mary Schilling-Martin and Caitie Martin; provides wig, hair and specialty makeup services to performing arts organizations and educational institutions around the country. Their motto is: “To hair is human, to wig divine.” Local credits include Cleveland Play House, Great Lakes Theater, Dobama Theatre, more(Wig Master) owned and operated by Mary Schilling-Martin and Caitie Martin; provides wig, hair and specialty makeup services to performing arts organizations and educational institutions around the country. Their motto is: “To hair is human, to wig divine.” Local credits include Cleveland Play House, Great Lakes Theater, Dobama Theatre, Case Western Reserve University, Baldwin Wallace University, and Cleveland Opera Theatre. Regional credits include The Goodman Theatre, Old Globe Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Great Lakes Theater, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, Marriott Theatre, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Victory Gardens, Theatre at the Center, American Theatre Company, Chicago Theatre for Young Audiences, Lyric Opera Works, Northwestern University, Roosevelt University in Chicago, University of California at San Diego, San Diego State University, and Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines.

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