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by jim lynch adapted by jane jones + kevin mckeon directed by jane jones april 23 - may 18 , 2014 UW MEDICINE | S TOR I E S A DEMANDING CAREER. A NEIGHBORHOOD CLINIC. A DANCER ON HER TOES. I STARTED DANCING ballet when I was 2 years old. Dance is everything to me — and it demands practically everything. It’s not only physically grueling, but between daily rehearsals, workouts and weekend performances, it demands a lot of my time as well. I think your primary care physician is the most important healthcare relationship you have, especially as a young dancer starting out in a new city. I came to Seattle to join the Pacific Northwest Ballet when I was only 17. Dr. Heinen (UW Physician, UW Neighborhood Clinics) knows me and the demands I put on my body, so I trust her. In addition to helping me manage my general health, she also helps track things critical to dancing like bone density and iron intake. She even accommodates my unpredictable schedule. 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Original art from contemporary Northwest artists Locally made jewelry and handcrafted gifts Uncommon objects | Art and design books SAM BOOKS, GALLERY & SHOP 1st Ave between Union and University 206.654.3120 visitsam.org/shops encore artsseattle.com 3 CONTENTS Truth Like the Sun A1 By Jim Lynch Adapted by Jane Jones and Kevin McKeon Directed by Jane Jones A-1 A-3 A-8 A-12 A-13 A-16 Welcome Credits Meet the Cast and Crew A Preview of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Thank You to Our Contributors Company Information by jim lynch adapted by jane jones + kevin mckeon directed by jane jones april 23 - may 18 , 2014 ES054 covers.indd 1 2/20/14 8:56 AM E N C O R E A RT S N E W S F RO M C I T Y A RT S M A G A Z I N E SPACES AND PLACES Prepare for an unusual journey down memory lane at Cougar Mountain’s Wildland Park, where a 15-minute walk leads visitors into the heart of the forest on a gravel path lined with ferns and moss-covered evergreens. A bend in the trail reveals a clearcut area and an unexpected patch of lanky alder trees, their mottled, pale-white bark in stark contrast to the artificially charcoal-blackened ground. The project—land artist Hans Baumann’s Black Forest (29,930,000 tons)— is inspired by the park’s 100-year history as a coal mine, which closed in 1963. As of March 1, an acre of land will be covered with biochar, an inky-black charcoal that removes carbon from the atmosphere. Baumann’s concept is to sequester the mine’s 29,930,000 tons of pollution. “There is so much history here,” Baumann says. “It’s showing it in an unconventional way that’ll maybe create a visual, atmospheric experience people have to reckon with.” Baumann’s project is part of 4Culture’s Site Specific Program. Founded in 2005, the program funds artistic work in unconventional settings around King County. Beginning last year, the program required projects to somehow connect with historic locations, among them Washington Hall, Rainier Beach’s Kubota Gardens and the Duwamish River. Last year 4Culture funded 15 of 36 proposals for works to be presented throughout 2014. “Artists are looking for stories and ways to connect to communities,” says Charlie Rathbun, arts program director for 4Culture. “This program is an opportunity for artists and audiences to engage in different contexts.” Jane Kaplan, co-owner of Belltown’s Rendezvous JewelBox Theater, is involved in two 2014 site-specific projects: video artist Stacie Bernstein’s documentary Enumclaw Decades: 100 Years, as well as her own project, The Box House, about Seattle’s legacy of underground, rowdy, liquor-fueled entertainment spots. “Nightlife has always played a large part in the politics of Seattle,” says Kaplan. “These stories are still our stories.” 4 ENCORE STAGES Black Forest rendering HANS BAUMANN 4Culture Program Pushes History She’s excited to dig into the University of Washington’s and Seattle Public Library’s archives and breathe life into true accounts of Seattle’s colorful, turn-of-the-20th century characters, gun shootouts and Perry Mason-esque court trials. The Box House will launch next fall at the JewelBox. For another project, the South King County Cultural Coalition (SoCo) is organizing an unprecedented project among the Federal Way, Highline, Kent and Tukwila Historical Societies to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Military Road, one of Washington’s oldest routes. Spanning from Fort Steilacoom to Seattle, Military Road established telegraph communication for early settlers. As part of the project, SoCo is partnering with the Seattle-Tacoma Chapter of the Morse Telegraph Club, which will set up stations where people can send telegraphs. “You get a sense of the technology through the clackety-clack of the [telegraph] keys. It engages your imagination,” says SoCo administrator Barbara McMichael. The majority of 4Culture’s site-specific projects are free to the public. Many are still in development, and projects will occur throughout the year, with a full schedule available in late March. 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Now it’s about to be unleashed on the rest of the world in high-profile BC fashion. In The Invoking, originally titled Sader Ridge, a young woman visits a property she’s inherited from a long-lost relative, awakening a flood of repressed memories and setting into motion a chain of events that put her and her best friends in jeopardy. Despite its cliché set-up, The Invoking eschews blood and sensationalism in favor of slow-burning unease and an unpredictable structure. It takes time and care in introducing its small cast of characters, an abject rarity in today’s horror films. “There’s a ton of horror being made right now,” says director Jeremy Berg, “but people like that The Invoking delves into the characters.” In 2011, Berg, screenwriter John Portanova and Berg’s San Diego-based childhood pal Matt Medisch formed their production company— The October People—specifically to make The Invoking. The movie shot in a single week on location in Red Bluff, Calif., with a mostly Seattlebased cast and crew. Following its success among fans and critics, the movie was acquired by Ruthless Pictures and debuted Feb. 18 on DVD and Video on Demand. “We heard about [Ruthless] while we were on the festival circuit, so we reached out to them, and they asked for a screener,” Portanova says. “They had a lot of experience with low-budget horror.” Portanova and Berg are talking about their debut feature over pizza and an Italian horror flick— Mario Bava’s Kill, Baby, Kill—and they’re certifiably stoked. Ruthless founder Jesse Baget, a horror film director himself, suggested re-titling the movie, but otherwise the film remains unchanged from its original 2012 final cut. “They were fine with what we delivered,” Portanova says. “Honestly, if it did come down to changing the movie in a big way, we wouldn’t have gone with the deal. We want to get the movie out to as wide an audience as possible, but we didn’t want to sacrifice our artistic vision just to sell it.” Image Entertainment, the company behind digital editions of classic horror films like Night of the Living Dead, is handling distribution for The Invoking. The high-profile distribution deal spells greater visibility for The October People’s future projects, which include Valley of the Sasquatch, a team-up with another upstart Seattle production 1/22/14 12:59company, PM Votiv Films. “It’s a siege film—Night of the Living Dead, but with Bigfoot,” Portanova says. TONY KAY 01 CHONA KASINGER F RO M C I T Y A RT S M A G A Z I N E Guests dig into a recent Pantry family dinner. How to Cook a Community BY GEMMA WILSON IT’S FREEZING OUTSIDE the front door of the Pantry at Delancey, situated up a wide, oasis-like garden path off of a quiet Ballard side street. But inside, the inviting warmth is overwhelming. Painted white walls and a low, beamed ceiling frame a massive farm table, surrounded by ocean blue metal bar chairs. On a recent Sunday night, 16 cooking students have gathered, wearing soft, off-white aprons and sipping wine before class gets started. It’s impossible not to feel welcome. After introductions around the table, the Pantry’s in-house chef Kim Cozzetto Maynard kicks off a class on Oaxacan mole. Soon everyone is hard at work—reaming limes, charring tomatoes, toasting nuts. Chatter fills the space as people share tips, ask questions, loosen up and get to know their neighbors. “Community building was definitely the thing,” says Pantry co-founder Brandi Henderson, sipping Prosecco next door at Essex, the cocktail bar attached to the Pantry’s namesake restaurant, Delancey. “I was trying to tap into what attracted me BIR 022414 truth 1_6v.pdf Nonhlanhla Kheswa in The Suit. Photo by Johan Persson The Pantry at Delancey breaks the mold on breaking bread. “Pretty close to perfect”—The New York Times SRT MARCH 19—APRIL 6, 2014 based on The Suit by Can Themba, Mothobi Mutloatse, and Barney Simon Peter Brook direction, adaptation, and music by , Marie-Hélène Estienne, and Franck Krawczyk The US tour of The Suit is produced by David Eden Productions, Ltd. 206–443–2222 seattlerep.org season sponsor producing partner NESHOLM FAMILY FOUNDATION producing associates ad proofs.indd 1 encore artsseattle.com 7 E N C O R E A RT S N E W S Culture UWCAS 013114 huskies 1_6h.pdf Special event INCITE•INSIGHT: CoNTEmporary arT afTEr THE STudIo pablo HElGuEra Mar. 27, 7 p.m. henry Auditorium A partnership with the henry Art Gallery theater/performance production THE SECrET GardEN Apr. 9-12 Book and lyrics by Marsha norman, music by Lucy simon directed by Timothy Mccuen Piggee, choreographed by dannul dailey and Tinka Gutrick-dailey, music direction by Joshua Zimmerman cornish Playhouse at seattle center corniSh muSic SerieS WomEN IN muSIC Apr. 13, 7 p.m. Mara Gearman, Paul Taub, valerie Muzzolini Gordon, oksana ezhokina and Matt Kocmieroski explore works for viola by female composers. Poncho hall dance CorNISH daNCE THEaTEr SprING 2014 CoNCErT Apr. 18 & 19 Broadway Performance hall choreography by iyun Ashani harrison, Jamie Karlovich, Zoe scofield & deborah Wolf. Tickets: cornish.edu/evenTs or call 800.838.3006 to food, which was the idea of people sitting down and breaking bread. I wanted to find how to capture that connection in a business model.” Henderson first came to Seattle in 2009 to celebrate a friend from architecture school who’d completed her first big project: a pizza restaurant called Delancey. She got to chatting with the restaurant’s owners, Brandon Pettit and Molly Wizenberg (of popular food blog Orangette), who were looking for a pastry chef. Henderson is one—she went to culinary school while working as an architect and switched professions while interning at San Francisco’s award-winning Tartine Bakery. Serendipity struck and five weeks later, Henderson and her fiancé (now husband) moved to Seattle. When a tenant in the space behind Delancey moved out in 2011, Henderson had a chance to bring to life an idea she had for a community-centric kitchen space. But what would the space be? Her interest in the craft food movement swayed her toward classes, but she also wanted to host family dinners, where people could just come together and eat. When the Pantry opened that summer, it offered six classes a month. Now it offers 32, priced around $75, and they sell quickly. Upcoming classes like winter risotto, birthday layer cakes, the curries of Asia, the whole crab and home brewery and are all well on their way to maxing out. “I think of it as an art show that I get to curate every quarter,” Henderson says. In addition to classes taught by staff (including Henderson’s ever-popular classes on pizza and pie), the Pantry has a lengthy roster of impressive guests. Russ Flint of Rain Shadow Meats has taught butchery and charcuterie. Lissa James from Hama Hama Seafood teaches “Oysters 101.” Anna Wallace from the Walrus and the Carpenter teaches cocktail classes. Sheri Lavigne from the Calf & Kid teaches cheese appreciation and pairing. Rob Tallon from Mighty Ramen taught a startto-finish ramen class—from boiling pig trotters for broth to rolling soba noodles. Classes are technique-based, instead of menu-focused; Henderson wants you to write your own recipes. Family dinners are also very much a part of the Pantry community fabric. Several times a month, 24 people come together to enjoy a five-course dinner, prepared by Pantry staff chefs. For $90, these high-concept menus (upcoming themes are “In Celebration of Tea” and “The South of France”) come complete with wine pairings and, often, new friends. Henderson also recently started offering a less formal alternative to the pricey family dinner: a potluck supper at which a cookbook is chosen, everyone signs up to cook a dish from the book, then sits down to Henderson’s favorite event—a big ol’ dinner party. n THE PANTRY AT DELANCEY 1417 NW 70th Street 8 ENCORE STAGES Director of Development Sally Brunette settling into her new office. give big to How long have you been coming to Book-It productions? I remember attending one of the original Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant productions presented at North Seattle Community College in the 1990s. Whether you’ve seen many shows, or this is your first one, you are in for a real treat today. Jim Lynch writes novels rooted in the Northwest and Truth Like the Sun promises to deliver another story filled with local history and lore. As the new director of development at Book-It Repertory Theatre, I’m so excited to share my passion of theatre and literature with Book-It’s many friends and supporters. For me, seeing a beloved book come to life on the stage is a thrill that never gets old. I look forward to meeting you in the coming year, watching a production together and talking about Book-It productions past, present, and future. I encourage you to become more involved with Book-It as a donor, a volunteer, or cheerleader in the community. We rely on your support to produce our mainstage productions, and to operate our Arts & Education program that exposes more than 100,000 students throughout the state to theatre, trains teachers to integrate theatre into their teaching, and offers student matinées of mainstage productions. We are working with educators, artists, and literacy experts to develop a literacy curriculum that integrates theatre with classroom instruction to increase literacy skills in young students, as well. book-it Currently, we are conducting our spring fundraising appeal and I encourage you to support Book-It financially one of two ways: On May 6, the Seattle Foundation will once again sponsor the one-day, online charitable giving event, GiveBig, which raised $11.1 million for local charities last year. Seattle Foundation matches a share of every contribution with funds from a $1 million “stretch” pool provided by corporate sponsors, local philanthropists and The Seattle Foundation so your contribution goes even farther. Last year Book-It raised more than $30,000 from 173 donors and we aim to increase those numbers this year. To help with this goal, go to Book-It’s website, www.book-it.org, on May 6, click on the GiveBig icon and make a donation online. Or, if you prefer, make a gift at your convenience online or mail a check to Book-It Repertory Theatre 305 Harrison St, Seattle, WA 98109. Sally Brunette Director of Development encore artsseattle.com A-1 WE A RE PROUD TO AN N OUNCE OU R Arts + Education Program’s 2014-15 TOU RI NG SEASON BRINGING Books Life TO DANG ER: BOOKS! LA MARIPOSA BY FRANCISCO JIMENEZ STAT: STANDING TALL AND TALENTED: HOME COURT BY AMAR’E STOUDEM I RE ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND BY LEWIS CARROLL FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT OUR PROGRAM: WWW.BOOK-IT.ORG/EDUCATION Truth Like the Sun by Jim Lynch Conceived by Jane Jones & Kevin McKeon | Adapted by Kevin McKeon | Directed by Jane Jones** cast Solomon Davis Chris Ensweiler* Emily Fortuna† Cynthia Geary Brian Gunter* Laura Hanson Joe Ivy Chad Kelderman* Jonah Kowal Kevin McKeon Nikki Mejia† Anthony Rosenthal Luke Sayler† Richard Nguyen Sloniker Jennifer Lee Taylor* Leslie Wisdom Susannah Butler* Jeremiah Givers Omar / Gance / Ensemble Roger Morgan Jenny Sunshine / Ensemble Birnbaum / Mrs. Morgan / Ensemble Charlie McDaniel / Yates / Dawkins / Ensemble Linda / Ensemble Denny Carmichael / Ensemble Bill Steele / Ensemble Elias / Ensemble Teddy Severson / Ensemble Annie / Ensemble Elias / Ensemble Reporter / Ensemble Malcolm Turner / Ensemble Helen Gulanos Meredith Stein / Ensemble Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Artistic Team Catherine Cornell Marnie Cummings Pete Rush Nathan Wade Joy Marzec Kathleen Le Coze Scenic Designer Lighting Designer Costume Designer Sound Designer Iconographer Properties Master * Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States **Member SDC Stage Directors and Choreographers Society † Book-It Acting Intern Season Support Media Support Seattle Office of Additional generous support is provided by individuals, and by Green Diamond Resource Company, The Ex Anima Fund, and The Williams Miller Family Foundation. Many thanks to all our supporters! encore artsseattle.com A-3 adapting truth like the sun A conversation between Truth Like the Sun Author Jim Lynch and Director Jane Jones: Jim Lynch: So Jane, why is it you keep adapting my novels to the stage? I’m flattered but there are so many books out there. Why mine? Jane Jones: Well…ok, gotta admit, I think you’re great. Great. And you write about our region and community from an insider’s perspective. You’re local for Pete’s sake, and your narrative really suits the Book-It Style. And Jim...what dialogue! An actor’s dream. You write people we either think we know or want to know. Killer. Why do you keep letting Book-It adapt your work? JL: I’ve had faith in Book-It ever since I met you in a coffee shop and you breathlessly asked for the rights to The Highest Tide. And I consider having you guys perform my first three books to be among my highest honors. I think Book-It is great at boiling novels down to their humor and emotion. (Huck Finn was a great example of that. The powerful way you built that Huck-Jim friendship.) And it’s humbling to see you attract such great actors to play people I invented. It amazes me how many readers have told me they’ve enjoyed my books on your stage. It’s a flattering and surreal experience for authors to have Book-It perform their books. I’ve heard similar raves from Tom Robbins, Wally Lamb, Stephanie Kallos, Jess Walter, Ivan Doig, Garth Stein, and others. Did you realize when you and Myra started this craziness that you were going to fulfill authors’ dreams of A-4 BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE Author Jim Lynch and Director Jane Jones having a performance that cuts so close to their words? Tell me about adapting Truth. What’s been challenging about it? What’s been fun about it? And are you satisfied that you’ve come up with a cool way to jump back and forth in time? JJ: Well…In the very beginning it was really an exercise. We never dreamed any of this. It was a way for us to find terrific material to present as theatre and within JJ: Putting the “Fair” on stage has probably a short time we settled on a mission been the trickiest. We have a cast of 15 that included “inspiring our audience to and are representing an event that drew read.” It was about two years before we 115,000 people a day at closing. But we ever had a “live” author attend any of our like challenges, and a lot of really smart performances. It’s an honor to be so highly regarded by the very impressive list of I’ve had faith in Book-It ever since ROCK STAR writers you just listed. I’m blushing. I met you in a coffee shop and you Speaking of “live breathlessly asked for the rights to authors,” are you secretly terrified we will leave out The Highest Tide. your favorite part of your own novel? Who are you looking the most forward to seeing on stage in Truth Like the Sun? (I hope we haven’t cut that artists are spending a lot of time making those impressions. And the really cool part! Yikes!) thing, of course, is we have your words. So far the most fun has been watching JL: I like not knowing what you’re going these characters walk off your page and to do. I have faith in your choice of into the rehearsal room. We really love scenes and material. And I’m well aware getting to know these guys. Lots of that I know very little about your art. laughs in the room. And Kevin McKeon, The beauty of it is that I know you will who gets full credit for the adapting (I nail plenty of scenes and surprise and am a co-conceiver), has a great touch, entertain me and hopefully others with so working on this with him has been a how they play out. My candid brother- blast. Plus, I kinda like him. Guess that’s in-law told me that he thought your why I married him. version of The Highest Tide was better The back-and-forth’s in time are than the book. ...As far as my hopes or inspired by you–something you suggested fears on the play, I hope the leads relish to me in another coffee shop when we their roles, that Roger is dazzling and first talked about Truth. Hope it works! mysterious and that Helen is a formidable Why did you decide to write about the and appealingly worthy adversary. I hope that the crowds immerse themselves in Fair? the iconic mojo of the 1962 World’s Fair. To have this book performed at Seattle JL: I wanted to write a novel that cut to the core of Seattle. And the World’s Fair Center seems perfect. Local* Authors & Book-It A complete list of the local authors Book-It has produced, including the year their work was on our stage. BERKELEY BREATHED Kellan Larson in The Highest Tide (2008). Photo by Erik Stuhaug. has always loomed in the recent past as this coming-out party for this young, ambitious city. The audacity of the fair is what struck me as quintessentially Seattle, that this little-known outpost could outmaneuver New York for the big show. So I wanted to mesh the fair with modern Seattle and see if I couldn’t come up with a storyline that could weave the two Seattles together into something illuminating. Hey, I’m glad Kevin’s working on the play. That sounds ideal—a talented theatre couple brainstorming on their pillows about how to best adapt my work. To be honest though, seeing you do my novels is awkward and nerve-wracking. I never get to see anybody but my wife read my books. So it’s a little uncomfortable listening to a couple hundred people respond to my words and story, even if it is in a completely different form and art. I catch myself laughing at my own jokes, which feels vain. And everybody always wants to know, “Do you like it do you like it do you like it?” I’m guessing it’s probably a bit awkward for you to have the author in the house as well, eh? remember the first day you came to The Highest Tide rehearsal, witnessing Book-It for the very first time, I will never forget it...all those characters walking straight out of your brain into flesh and blood; yeah, I was nervous for sure. I’m sorry you feel vain about your jokes though, ’cause you’re really funny. Really. We are cracking up in rehearsal. Do you miss your life as a journalist? We had three reporters from the P-I come talk to the actors, which was amazing! I see you differently now. Were you a “shoe leather” reporter? JL: I’m not sure what a shoe leather reporter is but I probably was one. I hurled myself into the work and loved it for a while, particularly stalking and describing big shots and politicians. And I bounced around to enough newsrooms to gather a lot of greatest hits about the business. So Truth is, in stome ways, a tribute to the newspaper business and the twilight of competitive newspaper towns. Do I miss it? I miss the camaraderie and adrenaline, but I’d rather make things up for a living. JJ: Well...it’s probably one of the most terrifying things I’ve ever done. I Red Ranger Came Calling (2003, 2004, 2010) IVAN DOIG Prairie Nocturne (2012) DAVID JAMES DUNCAN The River Why (2010) JAMIE FORD Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (2012) DAVID GUTERSON Snow Falling on Cedars (2007) DENIS JOHNSON Jesus’ Son (2013) STEPHANIE KALLOS Broken for You (2006) JIM LYNCH The Highest Tide (2008), Border Songs (2011), Truth Like the Sun (2014) JONATHAN RABAN Waxwings (2004) TOM ROBBINS Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (2008) GARTH STEIN The Art of Racing in the Rain (2012) JESS WALTER The Financial Lives of the Poets (2013) extra! extra! To read more about Book-It’s relationship with local authors, check out our featured article by Misha Berson in the April issue of American Theatre Magazine --> www.tcg.org ...and short stories by ALISON BAKER NICHOLSON BAKER RAYMOND CARVER TESS GALLAGHER W.P. KINSELLA ALEX WILBER *Washington, Montana, Oregon, Idaho encore artsseattle.com A-5 in truth like the sun, Roger Morgan goes undercover amid the nightlife of Seattle as a researcher from UW. In reality, sociology professor William J. Chambliss conducted a study of the gambling and organized crime in Seattle, interviewing everyone he could in an “informal, casual way.” He hung out in pinball halls and played in highstakes poker games, spoke to threatened cardroom owners, and befriended local bartenders, prostitutes, and thieves. These are some of his notes and observations on the time, with the rest being available in On The Take: From Petty Crooks to Presidents by William J. Chambliss. day: the business a tolerance policy It began with the “Tolerance Policy” in 1954. The city passed an ordinance that showed tolerance toward gambling, which permitted establishments to hold card games, allowing a maximum of one dollar bets. It also allowed bingo halls, pinball machines and panorama shows to be licensed by the city. However, this did not make gambling legal. The state laws still expressly forbid gambling. This created a situation in which legitimate businesses depended on illegitimate business to turn a profit. A restaurant owner might purchase a seeminlgly legitimate business, from a front man for a group that owned a number of businesses that specialized in high-stakes poker games, bookmaking, and prostitution. Then he would be told that his business could not function without the bookmaking and illegal gambling in the back. No one would come to a cardroom where they could only bet a dollar! With most businesses violating the state gambling law, the police could harass or close down whatever cardrooms they chose. The expression “pay to stay” became common. Owners had to pay the beat cops about $250 a month, with another $200 set aside for the upper brass. If these payments were refused, the least that could happen is that they would shut down your business. By taking bribes, individual officers were able to double their salaries, and joked that if someone “cleaned up the city,” they’d all be on welfare since no one could live on their original salary. The graft network extended beyond what anyone might have imagined. Money was passed up the chain of command to the Assistant Chief of Police, who built a grand house for himself and his son. The King County Prosecutor and Sheriff both lived in expensive houses, and the prosecutor even owned a fifty-foot yacht. He directed money to state and local politicians who were supporting this criminal network. day& night the truth about seattle 1945-1946 by kathryn stewart Further Reading: Chambliss, William J. On The Take: From Petty Crooks to Presidents (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1978) A-6 BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE “ one of the reasons we fail to understand crime is because we put crime into a category that is separate and distinct from normal business. much crime does not fit into a separate category. it is primarily a business activity.” —william j. chambliss night: the vices Vice flourished all over Seattle: down Pioneer Square and on 1st, up Capitol Hill, in the various ethnic ghettos. As mentioned in the play, the city was “wide open” for those with vices of all kinds. the Back cardroom Most establishments also held a back cardroom of some kind, to take advantage of that “tolerated” gambling. The players were usually regulars, mostly middle aged down-and-outers. Although betting more than a dollar, they played conservative cards, and there was a sense in the air that the players were all familiar. pinBall Pinball was one of the many ways to gamble in 1960s Seattle. The machines were rigged so that a player could insert multiple dimes, increasing the odds and amount they could win. There were still the unknowing who wandered in and played for fun. However, most players could be seen meandering over to the cash register after their games to collect their winnings. porno reels Dime-operated “panoramas” played two-minute reels of women undressing and couples engaged in various forms of sex. The inexperienced patron would rush in, spend their dime, and see 120 seconds of something interesting. However, some knew that the films, designed to encourage users to reinvest, became more and more explicit in their sexuality with each subsequent dime. These “initiated” customers knew that it took five dimes to move from undressing to finale, and waited patiently until the last reel was queued up before investing their money. high stakes poker games Usually held in fancier bridge clubs, as opposed to the dozens of back cardrooms in restaurants and bars, high stakes poker games often included members of “respectable” society: medical doctors, dentists, and lawyers, whose fees could be hidden from the IRS. One such player noted, “There may be better tax dodges than gambling, but no other way is half so much fun.”Many of the high stakes poker games had stakes bet in an evening that exceeded $100k. dens of sin Cardrooms, bridge clubs, chili parlors, and restaurants were also the scene of other illegal activity: drug distribution, illegal liquor sales, exchange of stolen merchandise, and the arranging of illegal, high-interest loans. encore artsseattle.com A-7 meet the Cast SoLomon DAviS Omar / Gance / Ensemble Solomon has performed in numerous plays for Taproot, Seattle Playwrights’ Collective, Unexpected Productions, Emerald City Scene, and tours around the country with his one-person show Remember Being Born?. He is currently the director of improvisational theatre at Taproot and a teacher at The Northwest School. This is his first production with Book-It Repertory Theatre. ChriS EnSwEiLEr* Roger Morgan Chris is honored to be making his BookIt Repertory Theatre debut. He most recently appeared as Mr. Pim in A.A. Milne’s Mr. Pim Passes By, directed by Karen Lund at Taproot. In Seattle, Chris has also performed with Seattle Repertory Theatre, Village Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company and their Wooden O Theatre, Balagan Theatre, The Hansberry Project at ACT Theatre, Endangered Species Project, and 14/48: The World’s Quickest Theatre Festival. Regional credits include Alliance Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Georgia Shakespeare, Tennessee Shakespeare Company, and The Human Race Theatre Company in Dayton, Ohio. EmiLy ForTunA† Jenny Sunshine / Ensemble Emily is thrilled to work with Book-It Repertory Theatre on Truth Like the Sun. Elsewhere around Seattle, she’s appeared in Close Enough with Stone Soup Theatre, The Diary of Anne Frank with Renton Civic Theatre, LAPDSMU with Ghost Light Theatricals, and The Long Christmas Dinner and The Fall of the House of Usher with The Driftwood Players. When not acting, she can often be found programming computers for a popular search engine company that starts with a “G.” * Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. † Book-It Intern A-8 BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE CynThiA GEAry Birnbaum / Mrs. Morgan / Ensemble Cynthia is happy to return to the BookIt stage, where she previously performed in Giant, The Awakening, and A Confederacy of Dunces. Her most recent theatre credits include Theatre 9/12’s productions of Blithe Spirit and The Equation. Cynthia is best known to TV audiences for her Emmynominated role, Shelley Tambo, on the series “Northern Exposure.” Some of her feature films include 8 Seconds, Smoke Signals, Expiration Date, Crimes of the Past, Ira Finkelstein’s Christmas, and the soon-to-bereleased Nothing Against Life. BriAn GunTEr* Charlie McDaniel / Yates / Dawkins / Ensemble Brian is happy to be living in Seattle and happy to be working with Book-It for the first time. Originally from Wichita, Kans., he has lived in Chicago, the Bay Area, and upstate New York, and has performed with many regional theatres across the country, including Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Stages Repertory Theatre in Houston, Florida Studio Theatre, Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Missouri Rep, Sierra Rep, Berkeley Rep, San Jose Rep, First Stage Milwaukee, and many more. He has also performed in Europe with Vienna’s English Theatre, touring in Austria, Italy, and the Czech Republic. In January he was in the world premiere of East Towards Home at Theatre for the New City in New York. LAurA hAnSon Linda / Ensemble Laura is extremely honored to make her Book-It debut in this wonderful adaptation of Jim Lynch’s amazing book, Truth Like the Sun. She has performed in many theatrical productions in the Puget Sound area. A few favorite roles include Chloe in My Old Lady with Harlequin Productions (where she had the opportunity to work with internationally acclaimed playwright Israel Horovitz), Doris in Same Time, Next Year, Edna in The Prisoner of Second Avenue, and two turns in Blithe Spirit as both Elvira and Ruth. In addition to theatre, Laura has appeared in numerous indie films, commercials, voice- overs, and corporate/industrial videos for such companies as Boeing, Microsoft, and Nordstrom. JoE ivy Denny Carmichael / Ensemble This is Joe’s second show with Book-It, previously appearing in Prairie Nocturne. Other Seattle theatre credits include Odin’s Horse with Mirror Stage Company, A Lie of the Mind at ACT Theatre, The New New News with Newswrights United, and Zastrozzi with Balagan Theatre. Regional theatre credits include Six Degrees of Separation, Conversations with My Father, and Angel Street with Portland Rep; Chekhov in Yalta and A Hatful of Rain with New Rose Theatre; and King Lear with Oregon Shakespeare Festival. A two-time winner of the best supporting actor award from Hollywood Drama-Logue and Portland Drama Critics, Joe’s film and TV work includes “Leverage,” “Silk Stalkings,” “Designing Women,” Conversations with God, Home Invasion, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Fifteen and Pregnant, and A Bit of Bad Luck. ChAD KELDErmAn* Bill Steele / Ensemble Chad was recently seen as The Cat in Cat in the Hat at Seattle Children’s Theatre. Locally, his credits include Wittenberg with Seattle Shakespeare Company; Animal Farm with Seattle Children’s Theatre; The Royal Family with Intiman; The Forest and Miss Lulu Bett with Endangered Species Project; The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Tacoma Actors Guild; and As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Great Expectations, and The Servant of Two Masters with The Bathhouse Theatre Company. Chicago credits include The Misanthrope, The Barber of Seville, and The Play’s the Thing with Court Theatre; Troilus and Cressida with Chicago Shakespeare; and Don Juan and Wuthering Heights with Bailiwick. Chad is a graduate of the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama. JonAh KowAL Elias / Ensemble Jonah is elated to make his professional debut at Book-It Repertory Theatre! He is a secondgrade homeschooler KEvin mCKEon Teddy Severson / Ensemble Kevin McKeon has performed locally at several Seattle theatres. Recent favorite roles include Fasch in Bach at Leipzig at Taproot, Arthur in Superior Donuts at Seattle Public Theater, Peter Quince in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Seattle Shakespeare Company, and several pieces at John Kazanjian and Mary Ewald’s The New City. For Book-It, Kevin was recently seen in Jesus’ Son, and over the years in A Confederacy of Dunces, Persuasion, Plainsong, Cowboys Are My Weakness, The Awakening, Double Indemnity, and Ethan Frome. niKKi mEJiA† Annie / Ensemble Nikki is excited to be making her professional theatre debut with Truth Like the Sun at Book-It Repertory Theatre. One of only two Latino theatre artists to be graduating in 2014 from Cornish College of the Arts, she feels honored to have received this internship as a stepping stone into the Seattle theatre community. Her theatre credits at Cornish include Ajax in Iraq, Sganarelle, or the Imaginary Cuckold, The Jealous Husband, Balm in Gilead, and many readings of her colleagues’ new works. AnThony roSEnThAL Elias / Ensemble Growing up, Anthony’s love of acting and musical theater began while playing all the male roles alongside his sister in the living room. At age five, he taught himself how to read because he wanted to read along with his beloved Beatles while watching them on YouTube. During a trip to NYC when he was eight, Newsies on Broadway inspired him a lot! Shortly after he and his family moved to Seattle, he enrolled in ballet at PNB, where he is still taking classes. He recently finished a run with The 5th Avenue Theatre in Oliver! an orphan and a pickpocket in Fagin’s gang. In his spare time he loves to write books and scripts and film stop-motion movies. LuKE SAyLEr† Reporter / Ensemble Luke has been working in theatre in the Pacific Northwest for more than ten years. In 2009 he graduated from Cornish College of the Arts with a BFA in theatre, original works. Luke is very happy to be working with Book-It and all these brilliant people he’s admired for years. Recently, he was seen on stage as Bottom in GreenStage’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Algernon in The Driftwood Player’s The Importance of Being Earnest, and The Red Knight of Day in Blood Ensemble’s A Saga of Baba Yaga at Ghost Light Theatrical’s Battle of the Bards. riChArD nGuyEn SLoniKEr Malcolm Turner / Ensemble Richard is happy to be back at Book-It, where he last appeared in The Financial Lives of the Poets. He recently appeared in 25 Saints and Red Light Winter with Azeotrope, a company he co-founded. He has performed at the Guthrie Theater, ACT Theatre, Intiman, Seattle Rep, Seattle Shakespeare Company, the Northwest Asian American Theatre, SIS Productions, Village Theatre, and Seattle Children’s Theatre. Richard holds an MFA from the University of Washington’s Professional Actor Training Program, and has a BS in cellular, molecular, developmental biology. He is married to Serin Ngai, and has a talented daughter, Viola. JEnniFEr LEE TAyLor* Helen Gulanos Jennifer’s previous Book-It roles include Lily Bart in The House of Mirth, Leslie Lynton in Giant, Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, and Widow Rance in In A Shallow Grave. Jen also adapted Persuasion and Sense and Sensibility for Book-It. She has performed with Seattle Shakespeare Company, ACT Theatre, Village Theatre, Intiman, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Portland Center Stage, and The Empty Space, and is a founding member of New Century Theatre Company. Jen works extensively as a voice actor in radio, television, audiobooks, and video. LESLiE wiSDom Meredith Stein / Ensemble Leslie is honored (ecstatic!) to make her Book-It debut. She has appeared in musical theater, plays, and children’s theater throughout the region since 2009. Favorite roles include Madelaine True in The Wild Party with Sound Theatre Company; Mrs. Eynsford-Hill in My Fair Lady at Mount Baker Theatre; Maud Dunlop in The Music Man and Camelot with Lyric Light Opera; and an evil queen in Rumpelstiltskin and Snow White and the Seven Dwarves at SecondStory Repertory (where she won the 2012 BroadwayWorld Seattle Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play/Local, for her role as Teresa Salieri in Amadeus.) She performs with The Inverse Opera and studies with Anne Allgood, Jadd Davis, and Paul Linnes. Next up is Funny Girl at Village Theatre. meet the who has taken acting classes and camps at both Studio East and Village Theatre. He especially enjoyed performing in ‘Twas the Night at Studio East two years in a row. In addition to acting, Jonah enjoys reading, film-making, and computer programming. Artistic staff KEvin mCKEon Adapter Kevin McKeon has adapted several novels for Book-It including Anne Tyler’s Breathing Lessons, Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities (with Jane Jones), Plainsong, The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears, and David Guterson’s Snow Falling on Cedars, which has had subsequent productions at Hartford Stage, Portland Center Stage, Theatreworks in Palo Alto, California, and Centerstage in Baltimore, among others. His adaptation of Anna Karenina was commissioned by Portland Center Stage, premiered there in 2012, and was subsequently performed at Book-It last season. JAnE JonES Director / Founder & Founding Co-Artistic Director Jane is the founder and founding co-artistic director of Book-It Repertory Theatre, with Myra Platt. In her 25 years of staging literature, she has performed, adapted, and directed works by such literary giants as Charles Dickens, Eudora Welty, Edith Wharton, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Pam Houston, Raymond Carver, Frank O’Connor, Ernest Hemingway, Colette, Amy Bloom, John Irving, John Steinbeck, Daphne du Maurier, and Jane Austen. A veteran actress of 30 years, she has played leading roles in many of encore artsseattle.com A-9 meet the Artistic staff America’s most prominent regional theatres. Most recently, she played the role of Miss Havisham in Book-It’s Great Expectations. Film and TV credits include The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Singles, Homeward Bound, “Twin Peaks,” and Rose Red. She co-directed with Tom Hulce at Seattle Rep, Peter Parnell’s adaptation of John Irving’s The Cider House Rules, Parts I and II, which enjoyed successful runs here in Seattle, at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles (Ovation Award, best director) and in New York (Drama Desk Nomination, best director). Jane directed Pride and Prejudice and Twelfth Night at Portland Center Stage which won the 2008 Drammy award for Best Direction and Production. For Book-It, she has directed Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Uncensored, The House of Mirth, The Highest Tide, Travels with Charley, Pride and Prejudice, Howard’s End, In a Shallow Grave, The Awakening, Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, A Tale of Two Cities, and The Cider House Rules, Parts I and II, winner of the 2010 and 2011 Gregory Awards for Outstanding Production. In 2008 she, Myra Platt, and Book-It were honored to be named by the Seattle Times among seven Unsung Heroes and Uncommon Genius for their 20-year contribution to life in the Puget Sound region. She is a recipient of the 2009 Women’s University Club of Seattle Brava Award, a 2010 Women of Influence award from Puget Sound Business Journal, and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation’s 20th Anniversary Founders Grant, and was a finalist for the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation’s 2012 Zelda Fichandler Award. mArniE CumminGS CAThErinE CornELL Sound Designer Scenic Designer Catherine has spent the last year and a half discovering what it means to be a Seattleite. Her local credits include West of Lenin’s Master Harold... and the boys, Annex Theatre’s Undo, and Azeotrope’s Red Light Winter and 25 Saints. She has enjoyed working with Book-It Repertory Theatre designing scenery for Jesus’ Son and touring shows in their Arts and Education Program and props for Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Uncensored, The Financial Lives of the Poets, and She’s Come Undone. Her preSeattle credits include working as a scenic artist on Oz: The Great and Powerful with Walt Disney Pictures, scenic designer for Cloud Nine with University of Michigan, and scenic designer for Cabaret with MUSKET. www.catcornell.com * Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. † Book-It Intern A-10 BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE Lighting Designer Marnie is very happy to be back working with Book-It after designing The Financial Lives of the Poets and Anna Karenina last year. Recent work includes The Rape of Lucretia at St. Mark’s Cathedral with Vespertine Opera Theater, The Barber of Seville with Tacoma Opera, and Le Bourgeois Gentihomme at the Cornish Playhouse. Marnie received her MFA from the University of Washington in 2012 and is thrilled to have been continually designing since. PETE ruSh Costume Designer Pete previously designed costumes for The Cider House Rules, Parts I and II, The Art of Racing in the Rain, and Night Flight for Book-It, along with scenery for Sense and Sensibility. Seattle designs include Hamlet, Electra, Antony & Cleopatra, A Doll’s House, The Merchant of Venice, and Cymbeline for Seattle Shakespeare Company; Rapture, Blister, Burn for ACT Theatre; RENT for The 5th Avenue Theatre; The Adding Machine for New Century Theatre Company; BedSnake, Sextet, and Tall Skinny Cruel Boys for Washington Ensemble Theatre; as well as productions at ArtsWest, SecondStory Repertory, and Seattle Public Theater. Regional credits include Hangar Theatre, George Street Playhouse, Berkshire Theatre Festival, and Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble. His work can currently be seen in Little Shop of Horrors at ACT Theatre / The 5th Avenue Theatre. nAThAn wADE Nathan is a local composer and sound designer who spends much of his time balancing music with fatherhood. As a long-time Book-It veteran, his musical and audio handiwork has been featured in stage adaptations of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, Jesus’ Son, Border Songs, MobyDick, or The Whale, and Don Quixote. www.nathanwademusic.com KAThLEEn LE CozE Properties Master Kathleen is Book-It’s properties master for the ‘13-14 season. She just finished working on Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus and Jesus’ Son, as well as working as props artisan for She’s Come Undone. Other credits include props master for Trust Me and The Little Mermaid Jr. with Village’s KIDSTAGE program in Issaquah, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo with Washington Ensemble Theatre, and properties artisan for Much Ado About Nothing and The Importance of Being Earnest with Seattle Shakespeare Company. You can continue to see her work with Book-It, Seattle Shakespeare Company, and other various projects at Village’s KIDSTAGE program. SuSAnnAh BuTLEr* Stage Manager Susy is very excited for the opportunity to work with Book-It on this production. Recent credits include High Society with Showtunes Theatre Company, Much Ado About Nothing with Seattle Shakespeare Company, Both Our Houses and Madwoman of Chaillot with Endangered Species Project, and Food of Love with Sandbox Radio. JErEmiAh GivErS Assistant Stage Manager Jeremiah is pleased to be working on Truth Like the Sun. He most recently completed an internship with Seattle Rep, where he assisted on an adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles and the new work A Great Wilderness. His next project will be with Freehold’s Engaged Theatre tour, which takes theatre into under-served populations in the Puget Sound region. He is a proud graduate of Cornish College of the Arts. myrA PLATT Founding Co-Artistic Director As co-founder, director, adapter, actor, and composer, Myra has helped Book-It produce over 100 world premieres. Most recently she adapted and directed The Financial Lives of the Poets, which received nominations in the 2013 Gregory Awards, including Outstanding Director and Outstanding Production. Her other adapting/directing credits include The River Why, Night Flight, Red Ranger Came Calling, The House of the Spirits, Giant, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Cowboys Are My Weakness, Roman Fever, A Little Cloud, A Telephone Call, and A Child’s Christmas in Wales. Directing credits include Persuasion, Plainsong, Cry, the Beloved Country, and Sweet Thursday. She adapted The Art of Racing in the Rain, co-adapted Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant with Jane Jones, and composed music for Prairie Nocturne, Night Flight (with Joshua Kohl), Red Ranger Came Calling (with Edd Key), The Awakening, Ethan Frome, Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, A Child’s Christmas in Wales, A Telephone Call, and I Am of Ireland. Her acting credits include Prairie Nocturne, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, The Awakening (West Los Angeles Garland Award), Howards End, and The Cider House Rules, Parts I and II (original production). She has performed at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Intiman, New City Theatre, and the Mark Taper Forum. Myra is the recipient, with Jane Jones, of the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Founders Award, the 2010 Women of Influence from production staff Puget Sound Business Journal, and was named by Seattle Times an Unsung Hero and Uncommon Genius for their 20-year contribution to life in the Puget Sound region. ChArLoTTE m. TiEnCKEn KAThryn STEwArT† Dramaturg / Assistant Director EmmA PihL† Stage Management Intern Managing Director DEvon BriGhT Charlotte is an administrator, director, producer, and educator who has been working in the producing and presenting fields for 30 years. Before moving back to the Seattle area in September 2003, she was general manager at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in Massachusetts. As president of her own consulting firm, Scarlet Productions, she has worked with companies across the country, including Chitresh Das Dance Company in San Francisco, Ben Munisteri Dance in New York, Seattle Theatre Group, EnJoy Productions in Seattle, and Westwind, in Oregon among many others. She has taught at Seattle Pacific University, the University of Washington, The Evergreen State College, and the University of Puget Sound. She has been an adjunct faculty member at Lesley University in Cambridge, Mass. for ten years. Charlotte is a member of SDC, the stage directors and choreographers society, and is past president of the Board of Arts Northwest. She has served on the Board of the Pat Graney Dance Company, on granting panels for the Washington State Arts Commission and 4 Culture, and was president of the Board of Theatre Puget Sound. Her most recent directing credits include Into the Woods for Vashon Drama Dock, Eugene Onegin for Vashon Opera, and Rashomon for Seattle Pacific University. She lives on Vashon Island with her husband Bill, three cats, and two dogs. Master Electrician affiliations ACTorS’ EquiTy ASSoCiATion This theatre operates under an agreement within AEA, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States. STAGE DirECTorS AnD ChorEoGrAPhErS SoCiETy ThEATrE PuGET SounD ThEATrE CommuniCATionS GrouP AnDErS BoLAnG Master Carpenter CArmEn roDriGuEz Charge Artist TrEvor CuShmAn Key Electrician / Light Board Operator JoSh BLAiSDELL Sound Engineer / Sound Board Operator AnnA BowEn Wardrobe LACEE hArT Costume Assistant † Book-It Intern special thanks to Tracy Robinson and The Seattle Center Foundation The Seattle Times and The Seattle Times Newsroom KUOW The Week in Review (All of you!) Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI) Seattle Post-Intelligencer Kathy Best Eileen Brady Joann Byrd Glenn Drosendahl Rita Hibbard Joy Marzec Steve Sher Marcie Sillman Thanks to everyone who joined us at Guilty Pleasures 2013! Thanks to everyone, we raised just north of $104,000 toward our programming. Help us thank our committee and supporters who made this marvelous mayhem possible: Guilty Pleasures Committee: Stuart Frank, Chair Rachel Alquist, Tina Baril, Pam Kendrick, Christine Mosere, Tom Oliver, Lynne Reynolds, Charlotte Tiencken, Kris Villiott Community Partners: Alaska Distributors Warehouse, Anonymous Donors (2), Karen Brandvick Baker & Ross Baker, Blue Highway Games, J. Bookwalter Winery, DeLille Cellars, Fox’s Gem Shop, Ted Jones, Margaret Kineke & Dennis West, Left Bank Food and Cake Company, Holly & Bill Marklyn, Poppy Restaurant, Queen Anne Olive Oil, Schilling Cider, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Seattle International Film Festival, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Seattle Theatre Group, Something Silver, Ten Mercer, Toulouse Petit Kitchen & Lounge, Turgeon-Raine Jewellers, UW World Series at Meany Hall, Virginia Mason, Woodhouse Wine Estates, Woodland Park Zoo And thank you to Seattle Theatre Group and the staff at the Neptune Theatre, to John Platt and St. Clouds Food & Spirits, Gerrie Goddard and Firesteed Winery, Vashon Community Care Center, and to Carol Dole and Rebecca Dietz from Well Done Events! encore artsseattle.com A-11 the amazing aDventures of DiD you know? Book-It brings you the Pulitzer Prize-winning THE AmAzINg ADvENTurES oF KAvAlIEr & ClAy by michael Chabon on stage JuNE 7 - July 13, 2014. It’s a tale of escape, transformation, magic, and moxie—and a one-of-a-kind EPIC theatrical event! The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (K&C) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001. kavalier &clay plan your amazing aDventure toDay... ...and was a finalist for the Pen/Faulkner award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Actor Benedict Cumberbatch has said his dream project would be a movie of K&C. But...stuck in development hell since the early 2000s, the movie is unlikely to happen anytime soon. The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist, published by Dark Horse Comics (with Chabon’s blessing), is a real-life comic inspired by K&C. It took Chabon “four years, four months and four days” to write K&C. Chabon writes a minimum of 1,000 words a day. Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel (creators of Superman) were partly the inspiration for the characters Joe Kavalier and Sammy Clay. A-12 BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE They naively sold their rights to Superman for next to nothing and lived in near-poverty for the rest of their lives. Trivia compiled by Lindsay Carpenter. honoring book-it contributors Book-It would like to thank the following for their generous support! in memory of gladys rubinstein It is with sadness that we acknowledge the death of long-time friend and patron, Gladys Rubinstein. Gladys had a big heart for Book-It. She and her husband, Sam, supported mainstage programming for many years. We will miss her. LiTErAry Legends $75,000+ The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Mary Piggott LiTErAry Champions $25,000+ ArtsFund The Boeing Company Charitable Trust The Hearst Foundations, Inc. Gladys Rubinstein+ LiTErAry hEroES $10,000+ 4Culture Ellen & John Hill Stellman Keehnel Lucky Seven Foundation N. Elizabeth McCaw & Yahn W. Bernier The Norcliffe Foundation Nordstrom Ann Ramsay-Jenkins The Seattle Foundation The Shubert Foundation Shirley & David Urdal Kris & Mike Villiott April J. Williamson Anonymous Literary Classics $5,000+ ArtsWA Joann Byrd Stuart Frank & Marty Hoiness Gretl Galgon Holly & Bill Marklyn Cheryl & Tom Oliver Michell & Larry Pihl PONCHO Seattle Office of Arts & Culture Drella & Garth Stein Anonymous Leadership Circle $2,500+ Monica Alquist Emily Anthony & David Maymudes Boeing Gift Matching Program Leadership Circle, cont. nobel Award Society, cont. 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Emily Davis Nora & Allan Davis Julie Edsforth & Jabez Blumenthal Firesteed Cellars* Mary Francis & Harold Hill Cande & Tom Grogan Hilliard Brewery* Heather Howard Judith Jesiolowski & David Thompson KeyBank Foundation Lea Knight Susan Leavitt & Bill Block Ellen & Stephen Lutz Melissa & Don Manning Marcia Mason Ellen Maxson Anne McDuffie & Tim Wood Microsoft Matching Gifts Program Minar and Northey LLP Lynn Murphy Whitney & Jerry Neufeld-Kaiser Colette Ogle John Pehrson Christiane Pein & Steven Bull Puget Sound Business Journal Lynne & Nick Reynolds Steve Schwartzman & Daniel Karches Martha Sidlo Mary Snapp Deborah Swets Pulitzer Award Society $500+ Ruth Bailey Bookwalter Winery* Judy Brandon & H. Randall Webb Don Brown The Carey Family Foundation Catherine Clark & Marc Jacques Nancy Cleveland Pamela Cowan & Steve Miller Deborah Cowley & Mark Dexter Emily & Tony Cox Dottie Delaney Beth L. Dubey Katie & Brent Enarson Jane & Stan Fields R. 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Stewart Ross Don & Marty Sands Donna Marie & Dr. Robert Saunders Schilling Cider* Seattle Shakespeare Company* Jill Slyvester Something Silver* Irene & Richard Strand LiAnn & Stephen Sundquist Gail Tanaka Cassandra & Eric Taylor Jennifer Lee Taylor Taproot Theatre* TV Land* Ruth Valine & Edward McNerney Colin Wagoner Jerry Watt & Vreni von Arx Watt Sandra Waugh Cathy & Blake Wilson WorldWise Jewelry* national Book Award Society $250+ Alderbrook Resort & Spa* Rachel Alquist* Sarah & Robert Alsdorf Christina Amante Kim Anderson Virginia L. Anderson Dan Atkinson Rex Barker Susan Bradley Elizabeth Braun Mary Anne Braund & Steve Pellegrin Carol Butterfield Linda & Peter Capell Sylvia & Craig Chambers Mala Chandra Christina Chang & Paul Stucki Wendy Cohen & John Chenault Samantha Cooper Gaylee & Jim Duncan Lori Eickelberg & Arni Litt Sara Elward Kim & Rob Entrop Joyce Erickson Liz Fitzhugh & Jim Feldman Elizabeth & Paul Fleming Flying House Productions* Fox’s Gem Shop* Jayn & Hugh Foy Alan Fritzberg Jamie Froebe Vicki & Gerrie Goddard Katharine Godman & Jerry Collum Terry Graham Diane Grover Pamela & Dr. Benson Harer Nicholas Hart Kat Hazzard Robert Hunter Ted Jones A-14 BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE Pen / Faulkner Award Circle $100+ ACT Theatre* • Doug Adams • Lynne & Shawn Aebi • Alaska Distributors* • Andrea Albers • John Aldaya • Rachel Allen • Chris Alston • Katherine Anderson & Robert Di Pietrae • Cinnimin Avena • Maxine Bailey • Jo Ann & Tom Bardeen • Susan Bennett • Lenore Bensinger • Kathy Best • Deb & Bill Bigelow • Richard P. 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Warman /bookitrep @book_it A-16 BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE bookitrep book-It Director Global Corporate Citzenship, NW Region, The Boeing Company E N C O R E A RT S N E W S F RO M C I T Y A RT S M A G A Z I N E ROOM TO GROW Love City Love is seizing a chance to keep culture alive on Capitol Hill. T BY JONATHAN ZWICKEL PHOTO BY AVI LOUD here’s no stage inside this former auto showroom on Capitol Hill, but the piano in the center of the room radiates enough gravity to keep the small crowd gathered in close orbit. The baby grand’s chipped white paint matching the elegant decay of the secondfloor space, white walls and rafters lit by strings of white café lights. Teasing the keys and leading the band is a lanky guy with graying hair under an orange knit cap. His eyes are locked on a diminutive dude to his right thumping a massive upright bass next to a young woman sizzling on a drum kit with minimalist precision, blond hair bobbing over her face. They volley a groove, jazz-ish, propulsive and wide open. The green scent of sage smoke spikes the air. From the semi-circle of about 50 people, a woman approaches the piano and grabs the microphone. A tiny infant papoosed to her chest sports oversized plastic headphones and appears to be sleeping. The woman bounces with the mike in her hand and begins a wordless chant. The crowd joins in call-and-response style, clapping in unison. encore artsseattle.com 9 E N C O R E A RT S N E W S This exhibition is organized by the Seattle Art Museum and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. The Seattle presentation of this exhibition is made possible with critical funding provided by SAM’s Fund for Special Exhibitions. Major Sponsors are Christie’s and the Seattle Art Museum Supporters (SAMS). Image: Woman, Bird and Star (Homage to Picasso), February 15, 1966 / April 3–8, 1973, Joan Miró, Spanish, 18931983, oil on canvas, 96 7/16 x 66 15/16 in., Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. © Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris 2014. 10 ENCORE STAGES She cedes the mike to a young woman who begins reciting a line from Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit,” recently revived via Kanye West: Blood on the leaves… Blood on the leaves… The crowd repeats it back. She turns over the mike to a tall African-American man with a long burgundy scarf draped around his neck. He raps a few bars in low tones, bows out and everyone cheers. A new drummer—a stocky 20-something guy in glasses—takes over, bursting into a rapid-fire breakbeat rhythm. A sax player sneaks in, blowing tentatively at first, then insistent and raw. The musicians adjust, but the music never stops. The whole room is dancing. Between performers, Hollis Wong-Wear— fresh off touring the world with Macklemore and Ryan Lewis—works the mike in casual-MC mode, singing and rapping and leading call-and-response. A guy joins her for an impromptu blues-hop version of “Hit the Road, Jack,” and between freestyle verses, everyone sings the chorus at full volume. I turn to the person next to me, a handsome, dark-skinned dude with deep-set eyes and long thin dreads. Judging by the hellos and hugs he’s been spreading among the crowd, he’s been here before. “This is incredible!” I say. “What’s this night called?” “They just call it Love City Love,” he says. Love City Love: It’s a name, a description, a slice of poetry. It’s a wellspring of unselfconscious spontaneity and intentional good vibes set in the middle of Seattle’s densest neighborhood. An urban cultural experiment in visible, participatory form. Along with these weekly sessions, it comprises an ongoing pop-up boutique that showcases local designers and various other events. In February it hosted a music video premiere party, a massive Valentine’s Day art show and an all-female photo exhibit. Events will continue through the end of February, possibly into March, and then the temporary lease runs out. After that, the 90-year-old Dunn Motors building, a piece of prime real estate at Pike and Summit, will be shuttered for retrofitting and development. If the stars align—which is to say, if investors and organizers can find common cause to maintain its existence—Love City Love will find a new home on Capitol Hill. Otherwise, like so much grassroots culture in this restless part of town, it will disappear completely. I f Seattle has a prevailing mood, it’s embedded in youth and newness. Seattle—the inexorable terminus of westward migration, period SAM 011014 mirothe2_3v.pdf to the run-on sentence that was Manifest Destiny—remains a mostly blank slate in F RO M C I T Y A RT S M A G A Z I N E SEATTLE—THE INEXORABLE TERMINUS OF WESTWARD MIGRATION, THE PERIOD TO THE RUN-ON SENTENCE THAT WAS MANIFEST DESTINY— REMAINS A MOSTLY BLANK SLATE IN ITS SOCIAL TEMPER. its social temper. Maybe coming of age with the rise of mass media—first television, then the Internet—unsettled our sense of self, swaddling a robust city in a permanent state of becoming. All this yearning and ambivalence and indecision, this blank-slate-ness—it’s a blessing. The rampant property development currently overtaking Seattle is rebuilding the city’s physical image, completely and indelibly. The skyline we knew five years ago is already a memory, the one we see now a mirage. In five years we’ll hardly recognize the city we now live in. Right now, Capitol Hill activists are racing to establish a foothold of alternative culture before heedless development establishes something else: potentially a generic corridor of ugly architecture and clueless newcomers with no ken of the neighborhood’s artistic bent. Every art gallery, black-box theatre and local-goods retailer, every preserved historic building counterbalances faceless construction and encroaching national chains. Opening a large urban environment to free form, street-level expression isn’t a new idea. Plenty of people imagine a creative sandbox set inside a beautiful old building in the heart of the city. These things rarely materialize. Space and resources are painfully hard to come by, and the gap between a pipe dream and a signed lease is vast. But the timing, scale and visibility of Love City Love are unprecedented and its execution has been flawless. It’s an of-the-moment reinvention— and it’s working. The space’s ground-floor storefront, previously home to Ed Murray’s campaign office, is a fishbowl, fully visible to the outside world through floor-to-ceiling windows. In late continued WUC APRIL 23 – JUNE 7, 2014 CO-CREATORS GEROME RAGNI AND JAMES RADO COMPOSER GALT MACDERMOT DIRECTED BY DAVID GASSNER MUSICAL DIRECTION BY ZACHARY ORTS 206-938-0339 www.ArtsWest.org 4711 CALIFORNIA AVE. SW, SEATTLE, WA 98116 SEASON SPONSORS SHOW SPONSOR encore artsseattle.com 11 E N C O R E A RT S N E W S December Love City Love’s organizers turned it into a gallery and boutique called Closed Circuit. The space is full of impeccably stylish local fashion—leather jackets, unisex jewelry, textile art and other inscrutable décor. This stuff represents the edgiest indie designers in the city, the essence of Seattle style and taste right now. But the second floor is the centerpiece. Industrial-sized neon radiates the words LOVE CITY LOVE from the corner window—a signpost as much as a directive. Along with the Wednesday night sessions, the space has hosted dance parties, rock bands and a 35-piece jazz orchestra. Several artists and clothing designers have set up shop there, producing the stuff that will be shown downstairs in Closed Circuit. It’s as much a venue as an engine, a room devoid of anything more remarkable than beautiful natural light and potential, fueled by creative intention. A UWSM 012714 handel 1_3s.pdf 12 ENCORE STAGES s an idea, Love City Love began years ago with a young artist named Lucien Pellegrin. Born in Indiana, raised in the Northwest and the San Francisco Bay Area, Pellegrin, 30, grew up surrounded by a lifestyle that could generously be called “bohemian.” His mother was absent and addicted to drugs, his father forever in search of the right partner and place and manner to raise his son. They lived in communal houses on Capitol Hill and in Green Lake, in a school bus in Olympia and an apartment in San Francisco’s Mission District. They traveled a lot. No TV, no junk food, but whatever music and art and literature Pellegrin could get his hands on. By his early 20s, Pellegrin was an itinerant skateboarder taking photos and making videos of his travels. He’d studied abroad in Holland, lived in Paris for a year and attended art school in Oakland. After finding his way back to Seattle, he dedicated himself to Arts Corps, a Seattle nonprofit that offers music and arts education to at-risk youth. He became a part-time teaching artist, leading classes in book arts and photography. He scraped rent together by working at coffee shops and restaurants on the side. All around him, he saw poverty—not just economic, but poverty of the mind and spirit. Life was struggle. He began to apply the name Love City Love to his projects because he couldn’t find love anywhere else. Spurred equally by frustration and wanderlust, Pellegrin tried to relocate—to New York, LA, Mexico City, places that boasted arts scenes more entrenched, diverse and activated than Seattle’s. But they were weak attempts, with little money and not much of a plan behind them. For better or worse, Seattle kept him moored to the Northwest. F RO M C I T Y A RT S M A G A Z I N E ALL AROUND HIM, HE SAW POVERTY—NOT JUST ECONOMIC, BUT POVERTY OF THE MIND AND SPIRIT. HE BEGAN TO APPLY LOVE CITY LOVE, THE WORD, TO HIS PROJECTS AS A WAY TO SURROUNDING THE PLACE HE LIVED IN WITH POSITIVITY. Through happenstance, good looks and a sort of guileless suavity, Pellegrin found a high-paying gig as a model for TCM, a local talent agency. He was placed in a Men’s Wearhouse commercial that went national. Paired with the finances he’d saved over the years—a childhood of instability bred in him an innate sense of frugality and responsibility—modeling money suddenly provided the means to invest in something he believed in. In early 2012, the corner of Pine and Melrose became the latest battleground in the ongoing campaign to bring urban density to Capitol Hill. Eastside developers announced plans to raze the decades-old Bauhaus building and replace it with a high-rise, mixed-use building, in turn eradicating the businesses housed there. One of those, the Warren Knapp Gallery, vacated the space it had occupied for years. In the empty gallery Pellegrin saw the opportunity he’d been waiting for. Sometime around the end of 2012, he slipped a hand-written note through the mail slot: I’ve seen this space has been available for some time. I’m an artist living in the neighborhood and would like to create a gallery here. The simplicity of the wording belied Pellegrin’s deeper intentions, but it got the job done. Two months later, he’d signed a six-month lease on the space at a deep, deep discount and opened it as Love City Love. He enlisted a slew of arts-world friends and began to host events. Friends from local menswear label Tarboo debuted their summer line and other designers showed theirs as well. The Wednesday night sessions launched with Amos Miller, a keyboardist and music producer Pellegrin knew from Arts Corps, as musical director. Word spread and artists and musicians from around the city made Wednesday night a regular stop. Throughout last summer, crowds spilled out the door and onto the sidewalk—and often the jam session did too. The summer of Love City Love culminated with “Vigil,” a group show of 100 artists organized by a group of Seattle’s sharpest young curators. It was billed as a wake for Old Capitol Hill, but the buzz inside the gallery that night in early September suggested more of a beginning than an end. The following week, the entire block was boarded with plywood, like a death shroud laid over a corpse. The success of the LCL’s initial run propelled Pellegrin into action. He resolved to email five developers a week seeking a new space. One of those was Jill Cronauer, an associate at Hunters Capital, the Capitol Hill investment firm that had recently purchased the Dunn Motors building, formerly the longtime home of CK Graphics, a printing company. Pellegrin sent her an email similar to the note he wrote the owners of Warren Knapp. Cronauer had attended Love City Love events over the summer and was familiar with their low-key atmosphere. She endorsed Pellegrin’s proposal to the owners of Hunters Capital, Mike and Barbara Malone. In turn, the Malones—philanthropists and preservationists who own the Sorrento Hotel, among other classic buildings on the Hill—invited Pellegrin in with a tremendous discount in rent. Love City Love opened in its current location in December of last year. Soon after the first events started upstairs, Jessica Carter joined the fold full-time. A San Francisco transplant, Carter had recently quit her job as a trend forecaster and package designer for Nordstrom. Like Pellegrin, she’s well traveled, with art world roots in Seattle and beyond, and her background in the fashion and retail industries adds a degree of credibility to Love City Love’s idealism. “We all have our own dreams that we want to accomplish, and we realized it would be easier if we did it together and housed it under one roof and worked together to create,” she says. Through her professional connections, she’s booked the second floor to the likes of Tempur-Pedic and American Eagle Outfitters for commercial photos shoots. The money those shoots have brought in has helped offset the cost of expenses. Carter, Pellegrin and the project’s manager are making a modest living from the operation, but really it’s generosity, savvy and dedication that keep Love City Love sustainable. continued We believe eyewear should be fun. At 4 Your Eyes Only, we delight in finding eyewear that is different, but still charming, beautiful and wearable. We are a small, local boutique dedicated to helping you find the perfect pair of glasses. 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Le Grand Chocolat. 2012. Ceramic. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Meyer riegger, Berlin. photo credit: katinka bock. HAG 020314 ES054 1_3s.pdf 14 ENCORE STAGES E N C O R E A RT S N E W S W e agree, and I think the community agrees, that art builds civilization,” says Barbara Malone. “It’s important.” Malone says she appreciates Pellegrin’s directness, focus and humility and is proud to give him a temporary platform. “He’s masterful in what he’s doing and how he’s bringing people together, creating conversation and introducing audiences to artists.” Pellegrin is quick to compliment the community work Hunters has done, the commitment to the arts the Malones have demonstrated. His mantra these days is “collaboration with gentrification.” He’d prefer to let the obvious speak for itself—art builds civilization—than to ask for funding for his idea, successful as it’s been. But that’s what he’s after. Imagine a curated space, free to all ages, featuring live music and street fashion and art, installed in every new building on Capitol Hill. “It’s about accessibility, man,” says Pellegrin. “If it’s Starbucks and a gym in your condo storefront, then you’re gonna grab a cappuccino and hop on the treadmill. But if there’s a Love City Love, then maybe you print out your photos from your Instagram and you have a photo show at Love City Love because you just bought this condo for 450K and moved here from DC and you make six figures and you’re like, I got this new condo and they have this cool thing called Love City Love and it’s this creative platform for people who live in the condo but also people that don’t live in the condo have access to it.” Ideally, the next space Love City Love occupies will be long-term. Not necessarily a preserved historic building, but certainly somewhere on Capitol Hill, close to the heart of the city. It will provide a livelihood for the artists who run it and a creative outlet for the artists who use it. Pellegrin admits to pipe-dreaming. He’s an artist, not an entrepreneur, which is why his passion is so contagious. For all his easygoing can-do, he’s plagued by questions. Why hasn’t this happened already? How do we pay for it? Who are we waiting for? The Malones? Paul Allen? The Mayor? All these exasperated mutterings bespeak the extreme urgency of the situation. Because regardless of specifics, Pellegrin’s vision is captivating and the stakes in this race are nothing short of the soul of the city. No single one of us can win it. It’s a collective effort. “With true leadership, you build something up and then you step away, and you trust that the community can hold it up,” 2/3/14 4:57 PM This Pellegrin says. “Everything is possible. stuff is worth more than money.” n “THE #1 MUSICAL OF THE YEAR! A DON’T MISS THEATRE EVENT!” MAGAZINE G N I N N I W – D R A W A Y N O ! 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