2014 Season

Clybourne Park

Comedy October 2-25, 2014

Clybourne Park

About

Cast & Creative

Gallery

by Bruce Norris

directed by Scot Whitney

Comedy October 2-25, 2014

Cast & Creative

Director Scot Whitney

Scot Whitney

In 26 seasons and 76 shows at Harlequin:

A Man for All Seasons (Director) A Midsummer Night's Dream (Director) A Rock 'n' Roll Twelfth Night (Director) A Rock N' Roll Twelfth Night (Director) American Buffalo (Director) Antony & Cleopatra (Director) As You Like It (Director) Baltimore Waltz (Director) Clybourne Park (Director) Cymbeline (Director) Cyrano de Bergerac (Director) Dancin' in the Aisles (Director) Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Director) Dracula (Director) Enrico IV (Director) Fighting Over Beverley (Director) Frozen (Director) Gloucester Blue (Director) Hamlet (Director) Hapgood (Director) Henry V (Director) Let the Good Times Roll! (Director) Letters from Waldo (Director) Macbeth (Director) Mating Dance of the Werewolf (Director) Measure for Measure (Director) Murder in the Cathedral (1st Tempter/1st Knight) My Old Lady (Director) Or, (Director) Orphans (Director) Recent Tragic Events (Director) Reckless (Director) Richard III (Director) Rock 'n' Roll Twelfth Night (Director) Romeo and Juliet (Director) Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Director) She Stoops to Conquer (Director) Shining City (Director) Sins of the Mother (Director) Six Hotels (Director) Sixteen Words for Water (Director) Soul on Fire! (Director) Talking With (Co-Director) Ten Seconds in the Life of Fenwick Green (Director) The 39 Steps (Director) The American Pilot (Director) The Dumbwaiter (Director) The Elsinore Diaries (Director) The Lady's Not for Burning (Director) The Language Archive (Director) The Life and Death of King John (Director) The Life and Times of Leonardo da Vinci (Director) The Lonesome West (Director) The Love List (Director) The Misanthrope (Director) The Real Thing (Director) The Rocky Horror Show (Director) The Seafarer (Director) The Taming of the Shrew (Director) The Tempest (Director) The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Director) The Understudy (Director) The Weir (Director) The Winter's Tale (Director) The Woman in Black (Director) Two Gentlemen of Verona (Director) Under a Mantle of Stars (Director) Unexpected Tenderness (Director) Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike (Director) Waiting for Godot (Co-Director) What I Did Last Summer (Lighting Designer)

Scenic Designer Linda Whitney

Linda Whitney

In 27 seasons and 109 shows at Harlequin:

A Christmas Survival Guide (Director / Scenic Designer) A Long Day's Journey into Night (Director) A Man for All Seasons (Scenic Designer) A Rock N' Roll Twelfth Night (Scenic Designer) A Stardust Christmas Carol (Director, Director/Scenic Designer) A Stardust Homecoming (Director) A Streetcar Named Desire (Director/Scenic Designer) American Buffalo (Set Designer) And a Nightingale Sang (Director/Scenic Designer) Antony & Cleopatra (Scenic Designer) Arcadia (Director) Art (Director/Scenic Designer/Costume Designer) As You Like It (Scenic Designer) Assassins (Director/Scenic Designer) Billy (Director/Scenic Designer) boom (Director) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Director / Scenic Designer) Clybourne Park (Scenic Designer) Dancin' in the Aisles (Scenic Designer) Dancin' in the Streets (Director/Scenic/Costume Designer) Dracula (Scenic Designer) Dry Powder (Scenic Designer) Enchanted April (Director & Set Designer) End Days (Director, Scenic Designer) First Date (Director) Five Women Wearing the Same Dress (Scenic Designer, Costume Designer) Forever Stardust (Director/Scenic Designer) Frozen (Costume Designer) Gloucester Blue (Scenic Designer) Hamlet (Costume Designer, Scenic Designer) Hapgood (Scenic Designer) Henry V (Scenic Designer) Holiday Broadcast of 1943 (Director/Scenic Designer) Intimate Apparel (Director/Scenic Designer) Jesus Christ Superstar (Director, Scenic Designer) Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Director/Scenic Designer) Letters from Waldo (Scenic/Costume Designer) Little Shop of Horrors (Director) Mad in Craft (Scenic Designer) Magical Mystery Midsummer Musical (Director / Scenic Designer) Mauritius (Scenic Designer) Murder in the Cathedral (Scenic Designer) My Old Lady (Scenic Designer) Operation Stardust (Director) Operation: Stardust (Director) Or, (Scenic Designer) Orphans (Scenic Designer) Phantom of the Stardust (Director/Scenic Designer) Philadelphia Story (Director / Scenic Designer) Present Laughter (Director) Recent Tragic Events (Scenic Designer) Reckless (Scenic Designer) Richard III (Scenic Designer) Romeo and Juliet (Costume Designer) Rough Crossing (Director) Shining City (Costume Designer) Sixteen Words for Water (Scenic Designer) Sixties Chicks (Director) Sixties Chicks Too (Director) Sixties Kicks! (Director) Soul on Fire! (Costume Designer) Stardust for Christmas (Director, Scenic Designer) Stardust for Emily Jean (Director/Scenic Designer) Stardust Radio Review (Director/Scenic Designer) Stardust Serenade 1942 (Director) Summer in the Sixties (Director, Scenic Designer) Swingtime Stardust (Director/Scenic Designer) Talking With (Co-Director/Scenic/Costume Designer) Tapestry - the Music of Carol King (Director/Scenic/Costume Designer) Ten Seconds in the Life of Fenwick Green (Scenic/Costume Designer) The 1940s Radio Hour (Director/Scenic/Costume Designer) The Americans Across the Street (Director, Scenic Designer) The Art of Racing in the Rain (Director, Scenic Design) The Constant Wife (Director/Scenic Designer) The Dumbwaiter (Scenic/Costume Designer) The Elephant Man (Director / Scenic Designer) The Glass Menagerie (Scenic Designer) The Importance of Being Earnest (Director/Scenic Designer) The Ladies of the Camellias (Director/Scenic Designer) The Last Five Years (Director / Scenic Designer / Costume Designer) The Last Schwartz (Director / Scenic Designer) The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Director) The Rainmaker (Scenic Designer) The Real Thing (Scenic Designer) The Seafarer (Set Designer) The Stardust Cavalcade 1943 (Director/Scenic/Costume Designer) The Stardust Christmas Blizzard (Director / Scenic Designer) The Stardust Christmas Commotion (Director/Scenic Designer) The Stardust Christmas Dazzle (Director / Scenic Designer) The Stardust Christmas Enchantment (Director, Scenic Design) The Stardust Christmas Fandango (Director, Scenic Design) The Stardust Club Christmas 1944 (Co-Director/Scenic Designer) The Stardust Serenade 1942 (Director/Scenic Designer) The Taming of the Shrew (Scenic Designer) The Twelfth Night of Stardust (Director) The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Scenic Designer) The Understudy (Scenic Design) The Winter's Tale (Scenic Designer) The Zoo Story (Scenic/Costume Designer) Time Stands Still (Scenic Designer) To Kill a Mockingbird (Director) Two Gentlemen of Verona (Scenic Designer) Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike (Scenic Designer) Waiting for Godot (Scenic Designer) What I Did Last Summer (Co-Director/Scenic Designer)

Costume Designer Jocelyne Fowler

Jocelyne Fowler

In 9 seasons and 16 shows at Harlequin:

A Christmas Survival Guide (Costume Designer) Blackbird (Costume Design) Clybourne Park (Costume Designer) Cymbeline (Costume Design) Dry Powder (Costume Designer) First Date (Costume Design) Gloucester Blue (Costume Designer) I Ought To Be In Pictures (Costume Designer) Jesus Christ Superstar (Costume Designer) Magical Mystery Midsummer Musical (Costume Design) Middletown (Costume Designer) Sixties Chicks Too (Costume Designer) The Americans Across the Street (Costume Designer) The Highest Tide (Costume Design) The Language Archive (Costume Designer) Two Gentlemen of Verona (Costume Designer)

Lighting Designer Amy Chisman

Amy Chisman

In 6 seasons and 22 shows at Harlequin:

A Rock N' Roll Twelfth Night (Lighting Designer) August: Osage County (Lighting Design) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Lighting Designer) Clybourne Park (Lighting Designer) Cymbeline (Lighting Design) Fighting Over Beverley (Lighting Designer) Gloucester Blue (Lighting Designer) Hedda Gabler (Lighting Designer) Henry V (Lighting Designer) I Am My Own Wife (Video Design) Jesus Christ Superstar (Lighting Designer, Video Designer) Or, (Lighting Designer) Present Laughter (Lighting Design) Recent Tragic Events (Asst. Lighting Designer) Sixties Chicks Too (Lighting Designer) The 39 Steps (Lighting Designer) The Last Five Years (Video Designer) The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (Lighting Designer) The Stardust Christmas Commotion (Lighting Designer) To Kill a Mockingbird (Lighting Designer) Two Gentlemen of Verona (Lighting Designer) Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike (Lighting Designer)

Sound Designer Gina Salerno

Gina Salerno

In 20 seasons and 90 shows at Harlequin:

A Christmas Carol (Co-Sound Design, Stage Manager) A Christmas Survival Guide (Stage Manager) A Doll's House (Sound Design) A Midsummer Night's Dream (Asst. Stage Manager) A Rock N' Roll Twelfth Night (Stage Manager) A Stardust Christmas Carol (Asst. Stage Manager) And a Nightingale Sang (Asst. Stage Manager) Blackbird (Sound Design) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Stage Manager) Clybourne Park (Sound Designer) Dancin' in the Aisles (Asst. Stage Manager) Dry Powder (Sound Designer) Enchanted April (Stage Manager) Enrico IV (Sound Designer/Asst, Stage Manager) Fighting Over Beverley (Sound Designer) Five Women Wearing the Same Dress (Stage Manager) For Peter Pan On Her 70th Birthday (Sound Design) Gloucester Blue (Sound Designer) Hedda Gabler (Stage Manager) Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Stage Manager) I Am My Own Wife (Sound Design) I Ought To Be In Pictures (Sound Designer) Jesus Christ Superstar (Stage Manager) Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Stage Manager) Let the Good Times Roll! (Asst. Stage Manager) Little Shop of Horrors (Stage Manager) Love and Information (Stage Manager) Macbeth (Asst. Stage Manager) Man of La Mancha (Stage Manager) Mauritius (Sound Designer) Measure for Measure (Prostitute, Asst. Stage Manager) Middletown (Stage Manager) Murder for Two (Stage Manager) My Name is Rachel Corrie (Sound Design) My Old Lady (Sound Designer) Noises Off (Sound Design) Operation Stardust (Asst. Stage Manager) Or, (Sound Designer) Philadelphia Story (Stage Manager) Present Laughter (Sound Design) Pride and Prejudice (Sound Design) Psychopathia Sexualis (Sound Designer/Asst. Stage Manager) Rabbit Hole (Sound Designer) Recent Tragic Events (Sound Designer) Romeo and Juliet (Citizen/Party Guest) Ruthless (Stage Manager) Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol (Stage Manager) Shining City (Sound Designer) Sins of the Mother (Sound Designer) Six Hotels (Sound Designer) Sixties Chicks (Asst. Stage Manager) Sixties Chicks Too (Stage Manager) Soul on Fire! (Asst. Stage Manager) Sovereignty (Sound Design) Stardust for Christmas (Esther Bartoli, Asst. Stage Manager) Stardust Serenade 1942 (Stage Manager) Summer in the Sixties (Stage Manager) Sweeney Todd (Stage Manager) Tenderly (Stage Manager) The 1940s Radio Hour (Properties Designer / Stage Manager) The American Pilot (Sound Designer) The Americans Across the Street (Stage Manager) The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) (Sound Design) The Elephant Man (Sound Designer) The Elsinore Diaries (Stage Manager) The Highest Tide (Stage Manager) The Ladies of the Camellias (Sound Designer/Asst. Stage Manager) The Language Archive (Sound Designer) The Last Five Years (Stage Manager) The Last Schwartz (Sound Designer) The Life and Times of Leonardo da Vinci (Asst. Stage Manager) The Love List (Asst. Stage Manager) The Rocky Horror Show (Asst. Stage Manager) The Seafarer (Sound Designer) The Stardust Christmas Blizzard (Stage Manager) The Stardust Christmas Commotion (Stage Manager) The Stardust Christmas Dazzle (Stage Manager) The Twelfth Night of Stardust (Asst. Stage Manager) The Woman in Black (Asst. Stage Manager) The Women (Sound Design) This Flat Earth (Sound Design) Three Days of Rain (Sound Design) Time Stands Still (Sound Designer) To Kill a Mockingbird (Stage Manager) Under a Mantle of Stars (Sound Designer/Asst. Stage Manager) Unexpected Tenderness (Sound Designer) Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike (Sound Designer)

Properties Designer Jeff Leigh

Jeff Leigh

In 7 seasons and 31 shows at Harlequin:

A Christmas Survival Guide (Properties Designer) August: Osage County (Properties Design) Clybourne Park (Properties Designer) Dry Powder (Properties Designer) First Date (Properties Design) Five Women Wearing the Same Dress (Properties Designer) Gloucester Blue (Properties Designer) Hedda Gabler (Properties Designer) Henry V (Properties Master) I Am My Own Wife (Properties Design) Jesus Christ Superstar (Properties Designer) Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Properties Designer) My Name is Rachel Corrie (Properties Design) Or, (Properties Master) Philadelphia Story (Properties Designer) Present Laughter (Properties Design) Recent Tragic Events (Properties Designer) Ruthless (Properties Designer) The 39 Steps (Properties Designer) The Language Archive (Properties Designer) The Last Schwartz (Properties Designer) The Stardust Christmas Blizzard (Properties Designer) The Stardust Christmas Dazzle (Properties Designer) The Stardust Christmas Enchantment (Properties Design) The Stardust Christmas Fandango (Properties Design) The Understudy (Properties Design) Three Days of Rain (Properties Design) Time Stands Still (Properties Designer) To Kill a Mockingbird (Properties Designer) Two Gentlemen of Verona (Properties Designer) Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike (Properties Designer)

Fight Choreographer Robert MacDougall

Robert MacDougall

In 24 seasons and 59 shows at Harlequin:

A Midsummer Night's Dream (Fight Choreographer) A Rock N' Roll Twelfth Night (Fight Choreographer) Accomplice (Fight Director) American Buffalo (Fight Choreofrapher) Antony & Cleopatra (Fight Director) As You Like It (Fight Director) boom (Fight Director) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Fight Choreographer) Clybourne Park (Fight Choreographer) Cymbeline (Fight Choreographer) Cyrano de Bergerac (Fight Choreographer) Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Fight Director) Dracula (Fight Director) Enrico IV (Fight Director) Fighting Over Beverley (Fight Choreographer) Gloucester Blue (Fight Director) Hamlet (Fight Director, Fight Choreographer) Hapgood (Fight Director) Henry V (Fight Director) Inspecting Carol (Fight Choreographer) Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Fight Choreographer) Letters from Waldo (Fight Choreographer) Little Shop of Horrors (Fight Choreographer) Macbeth (Fight Director) Mating Dance of the Werewolf (Fight Choreographer) Mauritius (Fight Director) Measure for Measure (Fighter Director) My Old Lady (Fight Director) Or, (Fight Choreographer) Orphans (Fight Choreographer) Richard III (Fight Director) Romeo and Juliet (Fight Director) She Stoops to Conquer (Fight Choreographer) Sins of the Mother (Fight Director) Six Hotels (Fight Director) Stardust for Christmas (Fight Choreographer) Ten Seconds in the Life of Fenwick Green (Fight Choreographer) The American Pilot (Fight Director) The Dumbwaiter (Fight Choreographer) The Lady's Not for Burning (Fight Director) The Language Archive (Fight Choreographer) The Last Schwartz (Fight Director) The Life and Death of King John (Fight Director) The Lonesome West (Fight Director) The Love List (Fight Director) The Misanthrope (Fight Choreographer) The Real Thing (Fight Choreographer) The Taming of the Shrew (Fight Director) The Tempest (Fight Choreographer) The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Fight Choreographer) The Understudy (Fight Choreographer) The Zoo Story (Fight Choreographer) Time Stands Still (Fight Choreographer) To Kill a Mockingbird (Fight Choreographer) Unexpected Tenderness (Fight Director) Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike (Fight Choreographer) Waiting for Godot (Fight Choreographer)

Stage Manager Michelle Page

Michelle Page

In 3 seasons and 9 shows at Harlequin:

A Rock N' Roll Twelfth Night (Asst. Stage Manager) Clybourne Park (Stage Manager) Hedda Gabler (Properties Designer) Middletown (Asst. Stage Manager) Recent Tragic Events (Stage Manager) The 39 Steps (Stage Manager) The Stardust Christmas Commotion (Properties Designer) The Stardust Christmas Dazzle (Properties Designer) Two Gentlemen of Verona (Stage Manager)

Mark Alford Jim / Tom / Kenneth

Mark Alford

In 3 seasons and 8 shows at Harlequin:

A Rock N' Roll Twelfth Night (Antonio) Clybourne Park (Jim / Tom / Kenneth) Jesus Christ Superstar (Apostle/Ensemble) Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Lucas) Philadelphia Story (Alexander Lord) Recent Tragic Events (Andrew) The Stardust Christmas Blizzard (Baxter Sterling) The Stardust Christmas Commotion (Baxter Sterling)

LaVon Hardison Francine / Lena

LaVon Hardison

In 6 seasons and 8 shows at Harlequin:

A Stardust Homecoming (Loretta Mae) Clybourne Park (Francine / Lena) Intimate Apparel (Esther Mills) Operation Stardust (Loretta Mae) Sixties Chicks (Ensemble) Sixties Chicks Too (Ensemble) Stardust for Christmas (Loretta Mae) The Twelfth Night of Stardust (Loretta Mae)

Jason Haws Karl / Steve

Jason Haws

Other local roles include Captain Hook in Peter Pan (OSD Players and CTE), Toad in The Wind in the Willows (OFT), Clov in Endgame (Calpurnia’s Dream), Richard in Fuddy Meers, and Adam in Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Centralia College). Jason has directed numerous shows for children and is going into his fifteenth season as the director of Creative Theatre Experience’s Showcase program. He currently teaches Drama and Social Studies at Thurgood Marshall Middle School here in Olympia. Jason owes everything to his beautiful family for their tremendous love and support. Cheers to my lovelies, Liz, Emma and Tess. You are my shining stars!

In 21 seasons and 33 shows at Harlequin:

A Bright Room Called Day (Emil Traum) A Christmas Carol (Bob Cratchit) A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bottom/Pyramus) And a Nightingale Sang (Andie Ryan) As You Like It (Touchstone) August: Osage County (Bill Fordham) Clybourne Park (Karl / Steve) Hapgood (Maggs) I Ought To Be In Pictures (Herb) Intimate Apparel (Mr. Marks) Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Max Prince) Murder in the Cathedral (4th Priest) My Old Lady (Mathias) Noises Off (Garry LeJeune) Phantom of the Stardust (Sam Gordon) Philadelphia Story (C.K. Dexter Haven) Rabbit Hole (Howie) Romeo and Juliet (Prince Escalus) Rough Crossing (Sandor Turai) The Constant Wife (Mortimer Durham) The Elephant Man (John Merrick) The Importance of Being Earnest (Lane/Moulton/Merriman/Gribsby) The Ladies of the Camellias (Ivan) The Misanthrope (Basque/Bicycle Messenger/Du Bois) The Rocky Horror Show (Simon Lock, The Narrator) The Seafarer (James "Sharky" Harkin) The Taming of the Shrew (Grumio) The Tempest (Andrian/Boatswain) The Understudy (Harry) The Weir (Brendan) The Winter's Tale (Time) Two Gentlemen of Verona (Launce / Outlaw #1) Unexpected Tenderness (Archie/Roddy Stern (the elder))

Robert Humes Albert / Kevin

Robert Humes

In 2 seasons and 4 shows at Harlequin:

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Thomas) Clybourne Park (Albert / Kevin) The Stardust Christmas Blizzard (Lucas Marin) To Kill a Mockingbird (Tom Robinson)

Phillip Keiman Dan / Russ

Phillip Keiman

In 1 season and 1 show at Harlequin:

Clybourne Park (Dan / Russ)

Maggie Doyle Betsy / Lindsey

Maggie Doyle

Maggie has also worked with TAO, Lakewood Playhouse, Annex Theatre and the Indiana Repertory Theatre. She graduated from the University of Michigan with a BFA in Theatre Performance (Go Blue!). Love to Christian, who brings love, laughter and magic into her life.

In 10 seasons and 26 shows at Harlequin:

A Rock N' Roll Twelfth Night (Columbine/Officer) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Mae) Clybourne Park (Betsy / Lindsey) Dry Powder (Stage Manager) Enchanted April (Rose Arnott) Fighting Over Beverley (Stage Manager) Five Women Wearing the Same Dress (Meredith) Gloucester Blue (Stage Manager) Henry V (Ensemble) Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill (Stage Manager) Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Carol) Little Shop of Horrors (Audrey II (puppeteer)) Magical Mystery Midsummer Musical (Clown Troupe) Noises Off (Stage Manager) Philadelphia Story (Elizabeth Imbrie) Present Laughter (Miss Erickson, Lady Saltburn) Recent Tragic Events (Nancy) The 1940s Radio Hour (Assistant Director) The Highest Tide (Assistant Director) The Stardust Christmas Blizzard (Joy Higgsby) The Stardust Christmas Commotion (Joy Higgsby) The Stardust Christmas Dazzle (Joy Higgsby-McKellan) The Stardust Christmas Enchantment (Joy Higgsby-McKellan) The Stardust Christmas Fandango (Joy Higgsby-McKellan) To Kill a Mockingbird (Assistant Director) Two Gentlemen of Verona (Lucetta / Outlaw #3 / Host)

Nikki Visel Bev / Kathy

Nikki Visel

Nikki is happy to be back at Harlequin having first appeared here as Bev/Kathy in the 2014 production of Clybourne Park. In recent years she has performed with Taproot Theatre Company, Seattle Shakespeare Company and Seattle Public Theater. Her original work has been seen at On the Boards. Nikki’s other passion is Path With Art where she teaches acting and personal storytelling. PWA’s mission is to foster healing from trauma through arts education and access (www.pathwithart.org). Next up for Nikki is Seattle Public Theater’s production of Pipeline by Dominique Morisseau. Special thanks to all the healthcare workers who have made our public health (both physical and mental) their priority during this difficult season.

In 2 seasons and 2 shows at Harlequin:

Clybourne Park (Bev / Kathy) Until the Flood (Connie)