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Ruthless

Drama, Musical August 16-September 15, 2018 2hrs 20mins PG

Ruthless

music by Marvin Laird • lyrics by Joel Paley

directed by Aaron Lamb

Drama, Musical August 16-September 15, 2018 2hrs 20mins PG

Eight-year-old Tina Denmark knows she was born to play Pippi Longstocking, and she will do anything to win the part in her school musical. Anything includes murdering the leading lady! This aggressively outrageous musical hit garnered rave reviews during its long Off-Broadway run.

“A spoof that has enough absurd plot twists and multiple identities to fill several old movies…The fun comes from the sheer brazenness!” – The New York Times.

“Hilarious…It is beyond praise!” – New York Daily News.

“A demented pleasure. Cheery, cheeky burlesque humor that evokes Your Show of Shows.” – New York Newsday.

“A wonderfully smart and funny send up of every Broadway brat from Gypsy to The Bad Seed…loaded with campy wit and charm.” – Variety.

Cast & Creative

Director / Music Director Aaron Lamb

Aaron Lamb

Aaron has worked in Seattle for Village Theatre, Taproot Theatre, Book-It Repertory Theatre, and Seattle Shakespeare Company and has worked regionally throughout the country. Aaron was awarded a Seattle Critics (Footlight) Award for his work as Lord Goring in An Ideal Husband at Taproot Theatre, the Memphis Critics (Ostrander) Award for Best Actor for his work as Jerry in The Full Monty at Playhouse on the Square, a Kennedy Center award for Best Actor for his work as Samuel Coleridge in Grasmere, and an OC Weekly Award for his work as Peck in How I Learned to Drive. Aaron holds an MFA in acting from California State University, Fullerton, and a BA from Washington State University.

In 15 seasons and 39 shows at Harlequin:

A Bright Room Called Day (Gottfried Swetts, Director, Sound Design) A Christmas Carol (Player 6 (Fred, others), Director, Player 4) A Doll's House (Director) August: Osage County (Director) Cabaret (Director) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Brick) Deathtrap (Director) Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Dr. Jekyll) Enchanted April (Mellersh Wilson) Every Brilliant Thing (Director) Falsettos (Musical Director, Piano and Synth) Five Women Wearing the Same Dress (Director) Hedda Gabler (Director) Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Director) Hundred Days (Director) I Am My Own Wife (Director) Love and Information (Director) Man of La Mancha (Director) Mating Dance of the Werewolf (Ken) Middletown (Director) Noises Off (Frederick Fellowes) Philadelphia Story (Macaulay Connor) Present Laughter (Garry Essendine) Ruthless (Director / Music Director, Piano 1) Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol (Director) Sweeney Todd (Director) The 1940s Radio Hour (Director / Music Director, Piano) The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay) The Highest Tide (Director) The Language Archive (George) The Last Five Years (Jamie Wellerstein / Piano, Musical Director) This Flat Earth (Director) Three Days of Rain (Director) Time Stands Still (Director) To Kill a Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)

Scenic Designer Jeannie Beirne

Jeannie Beirne

Jeannie Beirne is the Resident Scenic Designer for Harlequin Productions. She has also enjoyed working with The Olympia Family Theatre, Saint Martin’s University, and South Puget Sound Community College. In Missouri, she has designed Urinetown and The Music Man with Missouri Western State University, and The Drowsy Chaperone, She Loves Me, and Damn Yankees for Tent Theater. In Arizona, Jeannie designed Mama and Jack Carew and the world premiere of Suocera by Hal Corley at the Theatre Artists Studio and Big Love with Kim Weild at Arizona State University.

In 10 seasons and 36 shows at Harlequin:

A Christmas Carol (Scenic Design) A Doll's House (Scenic Design) August: Osage County (Scenic Design) Building Madness (Scenic Design) Cabaret (Scenic Design) Every Brilliant Thing (Scenic Design) Falsettos (Scenic Design) Fighting Over Beverley (Scenic Designer) First Date (Scenic Design) Fun Home (Scenic Design) Hedda Gabler (Scenic Designer) Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Scenic Design) Hundred Days (Scenic Design) I Ought To Be In Pictures (Scenic Designer) Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill (Scenic Design) Little Shop of Horrors (Scenic Designer) Love and Information (Scenic Design) Man of La Mancha (Scenic Design) Middletown (Scenic Designer) Noises Off (Scenic Design) Present Laughter (Scenic Design) Pride and Prejudice (Scenic Design) Ruthless (Scenic Designer) Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol (Scenic Design) Sweeney Todd (Scenic Design) Tenderly (Scenic Design) The 1940s Radio Hour (Scenic Designer) The 39 Steps (Scenic Designer) The Highest Tide (Scenic Design) The Language Archive (Scenic Designer / Video Designer) Three Days of Rain (Scenic Design) To Kill a Mockingbird (Scenic Designer) Until the Flood (Scenic Design)

Costume Designer / Hair and Wig Designer Darren Mills

Darren Mills

Darren Mills is the Resident Costume Designer for Harlequin Productions. Additional regional credits: La Cage Aux Folles and Angels In America (SPSCC), Equivocation (SMU), and Murder Ballad (Sidecountry Theater). NYC hairdressing credits: Broadway: Phantom, Mamma Mia!, The Music Man. Film: The Stepford Wives, War of the Worlds, Lonesome Jim, The Notorious Bettie Page. TV: The Sopranos.

In 26 seasons and 68 shows at Harlequin:

A Christmas Carol (Costume Design) A Doll's House (Costume Design) A Long Day's Journey into Night (Wig/Makeup Designer) A Rock 'n' Roll Twelfth Night (Hair & Wig Designer) A Rock N' Roll Twelfth Night (Costume Designer) A Streetcar Named Desire (Hair & Makeup Designer) And a Nightingale Sang (Costume Co-Designer) As You Like It (Costume Designer) Assassins (Costume Designer) August: Osage County (Costume Design) Cabaret (Costume, Wig, Hair and Makeup Design) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Costume Designer) Dancin' in the Aisles (Costume Designer) Deathtrap (Costume Design, Wig, Hair and Makeup Design) Enchanted April (Costume Designer) End Days (Costume Designer) Falsettos (Costume/Hair/Makeup Design) Forever Stardust (Costume Designer) Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Costume, Hair and Makeup Design) Henry V (Company Dresser) I Am My Own Wife (Costume Design) Intimate Apparel (Costume Designer) La Béte (Hair/Makeup Designer) Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill (Costume Design) Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Costume Designer) Little Shop of Horrors (Costume Designer) Love and Information (Costume Design) Man of La Mancha (Costume Design) Murder in the Cathedral (Costume Designer) My Old Lady (Costume Designer) Noises Off (Costume Design) Operation Stardust (Costume Designer) Philadelphia Story (Costume Designer) Present Laughter (Costume Design) Rock 'n' Roll Twelfth Night (Costume, Wig, Hair & Makeup Designer) Rough Crossing (Costume Designer) Ruthless (Costume Designer / Hair and Wig Designer) Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol (Costume Design) Six Hotels (Costume Designer) Stardust Radio Review (Costume Designer) Sweeney Todd (Costume Design, Wig, Hair and Makeup Design) Swingtime Stardust (Costume, Wig, Hair & Makeup Designer) Sylvia (Costume, Wig, Hair & Makeup Designer) Tenderly (Costume Design) The 39 Steps (Hair & Wig Designer) The Art of Racing in the Rain (Hair/Wig Design) The Constant Wife (Costume Designer) The Elephant Man (Costume Designer) The Glass Menagerie (Costume Designer) The Importance of Being Earnest (Costume Designer) The Ladies of the Camellias (Costume Designer) The Last Schwartz (Costume Designer) The Love List (Costume Designer) The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Costume Designer) The Real Thing (Costume, Hair & Makeup Designer) The Rocky Horror Show (Costume Designer) The Seafarer (Costume Designer) The Stardust Christmas Commotion (Costume Designer) The Stardust Christmas Enchantment (Costume Design) The Taming of the Shrew (Costume Designer) The Twelfth Night of Stardust (Costume Designer) The Understudy (Costume Design) The Women (Costume Design) To Kill a Mockingbird (Costume Designer) Unexpected Tenderness (Costume Designer) Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike (Costume Designer)

Lighting Designer Olivia Burlingame

Olivia Burlingame

Olivia (Cowlitz Indian Tribe) is the Resident Lighting Designer at Harlequin. Olivia graduated from Central Washington University with a BFA in Theater Design and Technology. She has also worked with Tacoma Opera, Theater Artists Olympia, Olympia Family Theater, Tacoma Arts Live, SMU, SPSCC, and Seattle Children’s Theater.

In 12 seasons and 33 shows at Harlequin:

A Christmas Carol (Lighting Design) A Christmas Survival Guide (Lighting Designer) Baskerville (Lighting Design) Every Brilliant Thing (Lighting Consultant) Five Women Wearing the Same Dress (Lighting Designer) Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Lighting Design) Hundred Days (Lighting Design) I Ought To Be In Pictures (Lighting Designer) Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Lighting Designer) Little Shop of Horrors (Lighting Designer) Magical Mystery Midsummer Musical (Lighting Design) Man of La Mancha (Lighting Design) Middletown (Lighting Designer) Philadelphia Story (Lighting Designer) Pride and Prejudice (Lighting Design) Ruthless (Lighting Designer) Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol (Lighting Design) Sovereignty (Lighting Design) Tenderly (Lighting Design) The Americans Across the Street (Lighting Designer) The Highest Tide (Lighting Design) The Revolutionists (Lighting Design) The Stardust Christmas Blizzard (Lighting Designer) The Stardust Christmas Dazzle (Lighting Designer) The Stardust Christmas Enchantment (Lighting Design) The Stardust Christmas Fandango (Lighting Design) The Understudy (Lighting Design) The Women (Lighting Design) Three Days of Rain (Lighting Design) Time Stands Still (Lighting Designer)

Sound Designer Keith Jewell

Keith Jewell

In 21 seasons and 74 shows at Harlequin:

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)

Stage Manager 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)

Gregory Conn Sylvia St. Croix

Gregory Conn

In 2 seasons and 2 shows at Harlequin:

Jesus Christ Superstar (Priest/Apostle) Ruthless (Sylvia St. Croix)

Charlotte Darling Judy Denmark

Charlotte Darling

In 3 seasons and 3 shows at Harlequin:

Ruthless (Judy Denmark) The Revolutionists (Costume Design) The Women (Crystal Allen)

Aubrey Thomas Tina Denmark

Aubrey Thomas

In 2 seasons and 2 shows at Harlequin:

Man of La Mancha (Antonia/Ensemble) Ruthless (Tina Denmark)

Eleise Moore Miss Thorne / Miss Block

Eleise Moore

Eleise is an Olympia native who is happy to return to the beautiful PNW and make it her home again. While not on stage, Eleise is a Civic Education Tour guide at the Capitol building. While not acting or giving civics lessons to school kids, Eleise likes to find incredible food and quiet campfires wherever she can. As a proud member of the Harlequin board, she would like to thank everyone for supporting theater and your Olympia community.

In 9 seasons and 12 shows at Harlequin:

A Bright Room Called Day (Zillah) Baskerville (Player) Every Brilliant Thing (self) First Date (Lauren / Woman #1) Fun Home (Medium Alison) Man of La Mancha (Assistant Director) Recent Tragic Events (Stage Manager) Ruthless (Miss Thorne / Miss Block) Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol (Inspector Lestrade/Ensemble) The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) (self) The Women (Miriam Aarons)

Martha Kathryn Smith Louise Lerman / Eve

Martha Kathryn Smith

In 1 season and 1 show at Harlequin:

Ruthless (Louise Lerman / Eve)

Janette Oswald Lita Encore

Janette Oswald

Janette has a BFA degree in acting from Baylor University. A recent transplant to Washington from Dallas, TX, some of her favorite roles include: Mistress Quickly, Merry Wives of Windsor (Bainbridge Performing Arts); Ginger, Becky’s New Car (Twelfth Night Productions); Lady Bracknell, The Importance of Being Earnest (Anderlin Arts); Princess Puffer, Drood (Stolen Shakespeare Guild); Sister Acacius, The Divine Sister (Uptown Players); Grandma Kurnitz, Lost in Yonkers (Richardson Theatre Centre).

In 2 seasons and 2 shows at Harlequin:

August: Osage County (Mattie Fae Aiken) Ruthless (Lita Encore)

Aaron Lamb Piano 1

Aaron Lamb

In 15 seasons and 39 shows at Harlequin:

David Lane Piano 2

David Lane

A veteran of more than 160 musical theater productions in the Puget Sound area, David is pleased to be back at Harlequin for a fourth run through Cabaret, having first done it in 1982. Previously he played in the bands for The Rocky Horror Picture Show, A Rock n Roll 12th Night, Midsummer Magical Mystery Musical, and Ruthless.