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A Christmas Carol
A Ghost Story of Christmas
by Charles Dickens
adapted and performed
by Paul Morella
This production is made possible in part by
contributions from Production Sponsors
James A. Pape and Nancy Newman-Pape
A NOTE FROM JASON AND DEBBIE
Dear Friend of Olney Theatre Center,
The most wonderful thing about the holiday season is its focus on traditions: no
matter our differences, traditions unite us, and allow us to celebrate the best of
ourselves and our community. That’s why we work hard at Olney Theatre Center
to embrace tradition all over campus at this time of year. Whether you’re in the
Mainstage experiencing the magical “under the sea” The Little Mermaid; enjoying
The Nutcracker ballet in the Historic Stage, or here in the Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre
Lab for A Christmas Carol, you’re celebrating the season with extraordinary
performances of our culture’s most meaningful stories.
And A Christmas Carol is the season’s uber-classic, isn’t it? Dickens’ dynamic tale of
greed transformed to generosity pointedly reminds us what the season is about: not
the Black Friday sales, not the rushing from party to party, but a simple act of grace,
and the possibility within all of us that we can change for the better.
We know there are many theatre options for you to choose, especially during this
time of year, but we think you’ve made a vivid and engaging choice by coming
to Olney to see A Christmas Carol… because our production ignites your imagination in the most remarkable way. Paul
Morella, one of our theater’s (and the region’s) best-loved performers, takes on every role, from the Ghost of Christmas Past
right down to Tiny Tim, and weaves his tale with an effortless magic. It’s a thrill to behold. Imagine Charles Dickens himself
is reading his novella to you by the quiet, haunting crackle of a fire in his Victorian parlor, while a light snow falls on the
gas-lit streets of London.
We hope you love Paul’s virtuoso performance, and that you’re celebrating this classic with those closest to you. What better
way to enjoy the holidays? Let us know what you think at [email protected] or [email protected]; Keep
the family together and come back to check out The Little Mermaid on the other side of our campus, or Olney Ballet Theatre’s
The Nutcracker in the Historic… we want Olney Theatre Center to be your home for the holidays. Thanks for being a big
part of our tradition!
With great good wishes for a wonderful season,
Jason Loewith
Artistic Director
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Opening Night: December 6, 2014
Jason Loewith,
Debbie Ellinghaus,
Artistic Director
Managing Director
presents
A Christmas Carol
A Ghost Story of Christmas
Adapted by Paul Morella from the novella by Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol - A Ghost Story of Christmas was first produced in partnership with the
City of Gaithersburg at the Arts Barn Theatre on December 3, 2009
featuring
Paul Morella*
Lighting Designer
Sonya Dowhaluk
Production Consultant
Jeffery Westlake
Sound Designer
Production Stage Manager
Director of Production
Associate Artistic Director/
Director of Education
Edward Moser
Dennis A. Blackledge
Trevor A. Riley*
Jason King Jones
*Members of Actors’ Equity Association
This production is made possible in part by contributions from
Production Sponsors James A. Pape and Nancy Newman-Pape
and Artist Sponsor Jane Larsen
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WHO’S WHO
Paul Morella (Adapter/Performer) is a multiple Helen Hayes Award nominee, and has previously
appeared at Olney Theatre in Awake and Sing!, The Tempest, A Christmas Carol, Rancho Mirage, Over
the Tavern, Witness for the Prosecution, Opus, Dinner With Friends, A Passion For Justice, The Millionairess, Rabbit Hole, Brooklyn Boy, Sight Unseen, The Mousetrap, Private Lives, ‘Art’, Coffee with Richelieu,
The Laramie Project, The Rivals, Becket, Broken Glass, M. Butterfly, Monster, Night Must Fall and The
Time of Your Life. Other regional appearances include leading roles at Folger Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Arena Stage, Signature Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, The Studio
Theatre, Round House Theatre, Potomac Theatre Project, Theater J, Everyman Theatre, Rep Stage,
The Delaware Theatre Company, Two River Theatre and The Kennedy Center. He has also starred opposite Julie Harris and James Farentino in All My Sons, and Marsha Mason and Fred Thompson in The
Best Man, both for LA Theatre Works. Mr. Morella is generously sponsored by Jane Larsen.
Sonya Dowhaluk (Lighting Design) is delighted to be returning to Olney Theatre and this production, having first worked at Olney
as an electrics apprentice in 1999. Past lighting designs at Olney Theatre include National Players Tour 63, The Tempest, and Grease
(co-design). Sonya has also worked as an assistant lighting designer at The Shakespeare Theatre, Centerstage, and The Santa Fe
Opera. Sonya holds a BA from The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and an MFA from The University of Maryland. Upcoming
designs include Godspell on the Mainstage in February 2015.
Edward Moser (Sound Designer) Recent designs include The Dead for the Quotidian Theatre; the Kennedy Center’s Page-to-Stage
reading of Amelia, the American Century Theater’s Country Girl, Little Murders and Visit to a Small Planet, and at Olney Theater Center
Paul Morella’s A Christmas Carol. His favorite musical credits include Señor Discretion Himself at Arena Stage, Urinetown at the University of Maryland, David in Shadow and Light at Theatre J, Hairspray at the Madeira School and Godspell at Olney Theatre Center.
Trevor A. Riley (Production Stage Manager) is excited to return to Olney Theatre Center. Previous Olney credits include
A Christmas Carol, Farragut North, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor®Dreamcoat, and Annie. DC AREA: Arena Stage: Our
War; Woolly Mammoth Theatre: Just The Two of Each of Us, Appropriate, Detroit, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Diety; Studio
Theatre: Pas De Deux; Taffety Punk: RuleBreaker Rep, Twelfth Night. Trevor holds a BFA in Stage Management from Virginia
Commonwealth University.
Jeffery Westlake (Production Consultant) was the Artistic Director of the Arts Barn Theatre Series when he commissioned
this production of A Christmas Carol in 2009. Past producing credits include: Producing Artistic Director of NOVA SummerStage
and as the Associate Producer of High Tor Summer Theater - at the time, one of the last of the classic summer stock theaters
in New England.
Jason Loewith (Artistic Director) directed the NNPN Rolling World Premiere of Steven Dietz’s Rancho Mirage for Olney
Theatre Center last season as well as this season’s productions of Avenue Q and How to Succeed in Business Without Really
Trying. Mr. Loewith won Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle, and Jeff Awards for Best New Musical for Adding Machine: A Musical,
which he co-wrote with composer Joshua Schmidt (off-Broadway, 2008). His latest musical is Big Nate: The Musical which
premiered in 2013 at Adventure Theatre-MTC, co-written with Olney’s Associate Artistic Director Christopher Youstra. Recent
regional work as a director includes the world premiere of Broke (Alliance Theatre, Atlanta), Time Stands Still (Everyman,
Baltimore), Crime and Punishment, and Working It Out (Center Stage, Baltimore), Adding Machine: A Musical (Studio Theatre,
DC), and a dozen plays for Chicago’s Next Theatre Company, where he served as Artistic Director from 2002-08. Those credits
include the Chicago area premieres of Dying City, Defiance, The Long Christmas Ride Home, and Fabulation. He conceived and
directed the world premiere of The American Dream Songbook, wrote and directed the world premiere of War With the Newts,
and produced Chicago premieres by Caryl Churchill, Suzan-Lori Parks, Carson Kreitzer, Sam Shepard, Dael Orlandersmith, and
many more. He is a three-time grantee from the NEA for Artistic Excellence, a recipient of support from the Rockefeller MAP
Fund and MacArthur’s International Connections Fund, and a TCG New Generations Future Leaders grant. Jason joined Olney as
Artistic Director in 2013 after serving four years as Executive Director of the National New Play Network.
Debbie Ellinghaus (Managing Director) joined Olney Theatre Center in August 2014. Prior to her appointment at OTC, she
was Director of Development for the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she
closed significant gifts that helped to advance student scholarship and academic programming. From 2005-11, Ms. Ellinghaus
was the Senior Associate Director of Development at Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, CT. At Yale,
she was part of a university-wide campaign that raised more than $3.8 billion and included transformational gifts for Yale
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WHO’S WHO
Rep from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Robina Foundation, which established the Binger Center for New Theatre.
Additionally, she raised funds for scholarship, theatrical productions, and facilities. In her role at Yale, Ms. Ellinghaus provided
mentorship to MFA candidates, many of who are now leading major theaters across the country. Previously, Ms. Ellinghaus was
Director of Development at Off-Broadway’s Jean Cocteau Repertory Theatre. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Speech
Communication from the University of Maryland, College Park, and is a graduate of New Actors Workshop, a professional
theater training conservatory founded and led by Mike Nichols, George Morrison and Paul Sills. Ms. Ellinghaus currently chairs
the Downtown Arts and Culture Commission in Columbia, MD, an organization that works closely with Merriweather Post
Pavilion. She is a member of the Howard County Board of Health. Her favorite job is mommy to Maddie and Griffin.
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OLNEY THEATRE CENTER STAFF
ARTISTIC
ADMINISTRATION
Artistic Director
Associate Artistic Director/
Director of Music Theater
Associate Artistic Director/
Director of Education
Artistic Apprentice
Jason Loewith
Christopher Youstra
Jason King Jones
Clare Shaffer
PRODUCTION
Director of Production
Company Manager/
Associate Production Manager
Technical Director
Assistant Technical Director
Resident Scenic Artist
Costume Shop Supervisor
Assistant Costume
Shop Supervisor
Master Electrician
Properties Master
Resident Sound Engineer/
Projections Supervisor
Production Management
Apprentice
Company Management
Apprentice
Production Apprentices
Dennis A. Blackledge
Fred T. Paul
Stephen M. Greene
David Ash
Fred Via
Jeanne Bland
Seth Gilbert
Samantha Campbell
Rachael Erichsen
Robert Garner
Liz Tuxbury
Corinne Jacob
Jessica Bittorf, Daniel Espy,
Rachel Hamilton, Chris Tebo Hardin,
Jordan Michaud, Joseph Musgrove,
Alex Stone, Ashley Wagoner,
Kelsey Willis
Debbie Ellinghaus
Valerie Campbell
Elvin J. Crespo
Michael Plater
FINANCE
Director of Accounting
and Financial Services
Senior Accountant
Business Manager
Nene Keita
Chyeslan Buso
Kynda Reid
COMMUNICATIONS
Sales Director
Marketing and Public
Relations Manager
Brand Director/
Graphic Designer
Patron Services Manager
Box Office Manager
Box Office Supervisors
House Managers
Box Office Associates
Weldon C. Brown
Heather Andrews
JJ Kaczynski
R. Wesley Meekins
Henriette Mendo
Shanna Chuenyane, Kara Fannon
Lucirae Cooley, Kelly Craig, Lina Al Dajani,
Ricardo Jose Melendez, Barbara Scanlan,
Khris-Ann Small, Desiree Ward
Judy Abrams, Arash Bahari,
Vince Constantino, Rachel Spory-Harper,
Nicole Jennings, Leah Keilsohn,
Andrew Majors, Chisomo Maluwa
Emily Townsend
DEVELOPMENT
SHOW STAFF
Production Manager
Assistant Stage Manager
Additional Lighting
Additional Carpenters
Managing Director
General Manager
IT Manager
Facilities Manager
Liz Tuxbury
Ruth Anne Watkins
Laurie Bautista, Patrick Gillespie
Joseph Caverly, Brendan Gregg,
James Hesse
Olney Theatre Center for the Arts is a professional theater employing
members of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors
and stage managers in the United States.
Development Assistant
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Development Apprentice
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Lacey Burbage
Kristina Erwin
EDUCATION
National Players
General Manager
Dramaturgy Apprentice
Education Apprentice
Kevin Hasser
Susanna Pretzer
Andy Germuga
Actors’ Equity Association, founded in 1913, represents more than
45,000 actors and stage managers in the U.S. Equity negotiates wages
and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including
health and pension plans. Equity seeks to foster the art of live theatre
as an essential component of our society.
OLNEY THEATRE CORPORATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Board Members
President..................................Jennifer L. Kneeland
Board Chair...............................Susan Finkelstein
Vice President...........................Megan Davey Limarzi
Treasurer..................................Patricia Woodbury
Secretary..................................Robert Mitchell
President Emeritus.....................Gene Counihan
Phyllis Bottegal
Debbie Ellinghaus
W. E. Gregory
Robert E. Hebda
Arthur Holmes
Clifford Johnson
Stephen Kaufman
Stephen Klein
Jason Loewith
Helen Marshall
Anthony Morella
Nancy Nelson Ortiz
Sandeep Saggar
Rossana Salvadori
Alan Wade
William H. Graham, Sr. (in memoriam)
NOW PLAYING
on the Mainstage
The Enchanting “Under the Sea”
Musical Extravaganza!
Music by Alan Menken • Lyrics by Howard Ashman & Glenn Slater • Book by Doug Wright
Based on the Hans Christian Andersen story and the Disney film produced by
Howard Ashman & John Musker and written & directed by John Musker and Ron Clements
Originally produced by Disney Theatrical Productions
Choreographed
Choreographed by
by
Tara Jeanne Vallee
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Directed
Directed by
by
Mark Waldrop
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This production is sponsored by
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OLN EY T H E AT RE C E NTE R
2015 SEASON
AT A GLANCE
The Olney Theatre Center 2015 Season has something for everyone Classic comedies and dramas, cutting-edge Contemporary offerings,
and shows that are fun for the whole family!
February 4 - March 1
Mainstage
Classic/Family
February 25 - March 22
Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab
Contemporary
April 15 - May 10
Mainstage
Classic
May 13 - June 21
Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab
Classic
June 24 - July 26
Mainstage
Contemporary
Nöel Coward’s
September 2 - 27
Mainstage
Classic
September 30 - October 25
Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab
Contemporary
November 11 - December 27
Mainstage
Classic/Family