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Theatre Conservatory
presents the Summer Players in
’s
Theatre Conservatory
’s
presents the Summer Players in
Julianne Argyros Stage • August 9 & 10, 16 & 17 at 1 & 5 pm and August 15 at 7 pm
a musical based on the play by Sir James M. Barrie
CAROLYN LEIGHMorris "moose" charlap
Lyrics by
Music by
Additional Lyrics by
Additional Music by
Betty Comden AND ADOPH GREEN
Jule Styne
original Broadway production conceived, directed and choreograhed by Jerome Robbins
The cast of Peter Pan
Set and Costume Design
Lighting Design
Sara Ryung Clement
KARYN D. LAWRENCE
Choreography by
Production Manager
KELLY TODD
JACKIE S. HILL
Sound Design
JEFF POLUNAS
Stage Manager
KRISTEN CRUZ
Musical Direction by
Erin McNally
Directed by
Hisa Takakuwa
James Barrie left the copyright of PETER PAN to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London,
and thousands of children have benefited from his gift in the years since his death. The producers are proud
and happy that everyone who has bought a ticket for today's performance is helping a sick child get well.
Cast of Characters
(in order of appearance)
SHANE IVERSON�������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Wendy Darling
JADEN FOGEL��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� John Darling
NIKA NATALIE AYDIN���������������������������������������������������������������������� Michael Darling
KIRA WENDLAND����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Liza
KYRA GOFF������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Nana, Cecco
LINDSEY WIERCIOCH������������������������������������������������������������������Mrs. Darling, Jukes
NICK SLIMMER���������������������������������������������������������������� Mr. Darling, Captain Hook
CHRISTOPHER HUNTLEY�������������������������������������������������������������������������� Peter Pan
JASMINE O’HEA�����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Tinkerbell
GRAYSEN AIRTH������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Lion
SARAH COCROFT��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Kangeroo
LAUREN LYONS��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Ostrich
JAMIE OSTMANN�������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Slightly
BENJAMIN SUSSKIND��������������������������������������������������������������������������������First Twin
DOMINIC DANIEL BRACK �������������������������������������������������������������������Second Twin
SAUL RICHARDSON����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Curley
MITCHELL HUNTLEY�������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Tootles
KELSEY BRAY����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Nibs
JOSHUA MYRAN�����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Nemo
SEAN KATO���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Otis
MIKEY COSTA���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Noodler
BLAKE LASZLO��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Smee
CHRISTOPHER DELFINO�������������������������������������������������������������������������� Alan Herb
SAMMY LA SCALA������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Alf Mason
GRACE TOMBLIN MARCA���������������������������������������������������������������������Canary Robb
JULIA URONE������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Chay Turley
KATHERINE PARRISH������������������������������������������������������������������Morgan's Skylights
SYDNEY PARDO���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Mullins
ALLIE MGRUBLIAN������������������������������������������Starkey, Voice of the Mysterious Lady
ALLISON BAAYOUN������������������������������������������������������������������Crocodile, Lean Wolf
KAYLEE WAN�����������������������������������������������������������������������Crocodile, Shooting Star
RACHEL CHARNY�������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Tiger Lily
TATUM HARKAVY�������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Crooked Fire
LAUREN BOVA���������������������������������������������������������������������� Great Big Little Panther
EMME O’TOOLE����������������������������������������������������������������������� Little Loud Oak/Jane
MADDY NICKLESS�������������������������������������������������������������������Thundering Waterfall
TARA THOMPSON����������������������������������������������������������������������������� Turtle Blossom
KASEY JACQUES��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Wild Dove
PETER PAN
Is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.
421 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019 • Phone: 212-541-4684 Fax: 212-397-4684
www.MTIShows.com - See more at: http://www.mtishows.com/show_detail.
The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited.
Setting
The Darling Nursery and Neverland, circa 1905
Length
Two hours with one fifteen minute intermission
Staff
Fight Director....................................................................................... Richard Soto
Assistant Director.................................................................................. Sanaz Toossi
Assistant Musical Director���������������������������������������������������������������� Brianna Beach
Music Captain................................................................................... Allie Mgrublian
Assistant Costume Designer��������������������������������������������������������������� Kate Poppen
Costume Assistant .................................................................. Brianna Ellis-Mitchell
Assistant Stage Manager................................................................. Kathleen Barrett
Production Assistant.......................................................................... Jasmine O'Hea
Technical Director........................................................................... John Gaddis IV
Props Master........................................................................................ Byron Bacon
Lead Scenic Artist.................................................................................... Judy Allen
Costume Shop Manager........................................................................... Amy Hutto
Master Electrician.....................................................................................Lois Bryan
Sound/Video Supervisor�������������������������������������������������������������������������� Ian Burch
Wig and Makeup Supervisor.......................................................... Laura Caponera
Light Board Operator................................................................... Sumner Ellsworth
Sound Engineer....................................................................................... Sam Levey
Assistant Sound Engineer ............................................................... Kelsi Halverson
Deck Crew............................................................................................Emily Kettler
Special thanks to Robert Nafarrete, accompanist
About The Summer Players
Today’s performers are students in or recent graduates of SCR’s Theatre Conservatory. The
Summer Players have all completed at least one year in acting classes and range in age from
9 to 20. The Summer Players program is the only one in the Conservatory that combines so
many ages and levels of experience. In order to be chosen as a Player, students must have
strong recommendations from their SCR acting instructors and go through an audition and
interview process. They make a commitment to rehearse for 100 hours over five weeks and
are held to the highest standards. These actors represent some of the most talented and
committed students. The SCR Theatre Conservatory is a vital and wide-ranging program
offering classes to adults and kids at every level of experience. Please visit scr.org for more
information.
Media Partner
J.M. Barrie
S
cottish playwright and author James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) began his professional career as a journalist after graduating
from Edinburgh University in 1882. He published
his first novel, Better Dead, in 1887. Although the
book sold poorly, it marked the start of Barrie’s
ultimately successful literary career, which yielded
over 25 published novels and plays.
The character of Peter Pan first appeared in
Barrie’s 1902 novel, The Little White Bird. In 1904
Barrie’s play Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn’t
Grow Up premiered in London and quickly became
the hit of the season. The play’s popularity inspired
the author to write a novelization of the story, and
J.M. Barrie, circa 1898
in 1911 he published Peter and Wendy. Although
Barrie continued to write both plays and novels for the rest of his career, Peter Pan
remains his best-known work. Barrie died of pneumonia in 1937 and gave Peter Pan’s
copyright to a London children’s hospital as a part of his will.
The Boys Who Wouldn’t Grow Up
M
any historians claim that Peter Pan’s origins stem from an event in Barrie’s
own childhood. In 1867, Barrie’s older brother, David, died just a day before
his fourteenth birthday after he fell down and fractured his skull while iceskating. Barrie, just six years old at the time of the accident, spent years caring for his
grieving mother, who took comfort in knowing that her deceased son would stay a
carefree boy forever.
Barrie also drew inspiration for Peter Pan
and his Lost Boys from his relationship with the
young Llewelyn Davies brothers: George, John,
Peter, Michael and Nico. Barrie became close with
the family in the late 1890s and dreamt up the
stories of Peter Pan and his adventures to entertain
the boys. When the brothers’ parents, Arthur and
Sylvia, died just a few years apart, Barrie became
the Llewelyn Davies boys’ legal guardian.
Michael Llewelyn Davies,
Barrie’s favorite of the brothers, dressed as Peter Pan
Mary Martin as Peter Pan in the original 1954 Broadway production of the musical
Peter Pan’s Lasting Popularity
P
A statue of Peter Pan in England’s Kensington Gardens
eter Pan, Wendy, Tinker Bell and the Lost
Boys remain popular characters among
children and adults alike due to the many
adaptations of Peter Pan. Although Barrie’s play
was a holiday tradition in London for 50 years after
its debut, the original text is now rarely performed,
and modern audiences are more familiar with the
1953 animated Disney film and the 1954 musical
adaptation.
The musical boasts three Broadway revivals since its original production 60 years ago.
The role of Peter Pan was written for Broadway
star Mary Martin, who won a Tony Award for her
performance. Today, the musical remains a favorite
among families and is performed at theatres across
the country. It has also been filmed for television
three times, and in 2014 NBC plans to air another
live performance of the Peter Pan musical.
ACT ONE
Overture
Prologue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wendy, John, Michael, Mrs. Darling, Liza, Nana
Tender Shepherd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mrs. Darling, Wendy, John, Michael
I Gotta Crow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter
Neverland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter, Wendy
I’m Flying. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter, Wendy, John, Michael, Liza
Pirate March. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hook, Pirates
Hook’s Tango. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hook, Pirates
Indian Dance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tiger Lily, Indians, Neverland Beasts
Wendy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter, John, Michael, Lost Boys, Neverland Beasts
Hook’s Tarantella . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hook, Pirates
Liza’s Dance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Liza, Peter, Neverland Beasts
ACT TWO
Entr’acte
I Won’t Grow Up. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter, Lost Boys, Tiger Lily, Hook,
Pirates, Indians, Neverland Beasts, Liza
Oh, My Mysterious Lady. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hook, Peter, Mysterious Lady
Ugh-A-Wug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter,Tiger Lily, Indians, Lost Boys, Liza, Neverland Beasts
Distant Melody . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter, Wendy, Michael, John
Hook’s Waltz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hook, Pirates
Crow Reprise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter, Liza, Lost Boys, Indians
Nursery Music. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Darling Family, Lost Boys
Grow Up Reprise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Darling Family, Lost Boys
Finale Ultimo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter, Jane, Grown-up Wendy
Bows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Full Cast
Director’s Notes
“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
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Artist Biographies
Musical Numbers
- J. M. Barrie
n choosing a Players show Music Director, Erin McNally, and I look for a script that will
provide a challenging educational experience for our young student actors.We choose
material that demands the actors “fire on all cylinders”—testing their training of voice,
body, intellect, emotion, and imagination, requiring both individual bravery and generous
ensemble work. It is important that the story can be explored from their truth and shared in
their voice. Peter Pan is the most beloved of stories, touching on themes of family, independence, childhood, and the power of both storytelling and belief. Our Pan emerges from the
imaginations of the Darling children within the walls their nursery—a place where flying
is possible, fairies do exist, and Neverland is always just outside the window. Theatre is also
limitless; a place where a top hat can turn a young actor into an Edwardian father or a fake
moustache into a pirate captain. Theatre enables us all to fly—and realize that possibility is
only limited by our imagination. So together let us make believe that we can all fly and seek
to keep our hearts forever young. Erin and I thank the cast for their inspiring commitment
and open hearts, our incomparable artistic and production team and SCR’s incredible staff for
their caring work, limitless support and generosity.
—Hisa Takakuwa
Carolyn Leigh (lyrics) was born in New York City on August 21, 1926. After attending Queens College in New
York she worked as a copyrighter for radio stations and advertising agencies. Collaborating with composers such as
Cy Coleman and Moose Charlap, Leigh also wrote the Broadway stage scores for Peter Pan, Wildcat and Little Me.
Her catalog boasts some of the biggest standards to emerge from Broadway stage scores including “The Best is Yet To
Come,” “Young at Heart,” “How Little We Know,” “Westport,” “Spring in Maine,” “The Rules of the Road,” “Firefly,”
“Witchcraft,” “I’m Flying,” “I Gotta Crow,” “I Walk a Little Faster,” “you Fascinate Me So,” “hey, Look Me Over,” “Tall
Hopes,” “El Sombrero,” “One Day We Dance,” “It Amazes Me,” “The Other Side of the Tracks,” “Real Live Girl,” “I’ve
Got Your Number,” “Here’s to Us,” “a Doodlin’ Song,” “Stay With Me,” “On Second Thought,” “Pass Me By,” “When
In Rome” and “Ouzo.” Leigh also contributed to the film scores of The Cardinal and Father Goose. Late in her career
she also contributed to the scores for TV specials such as Heidi as well as the bicentennial show for Something to Do.
Carolyn Leigh died in New York on November 19, 1983.
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Morris (Moose) Charlap (music) was a Jewish-American Broadway composer. Born Morris Isaac
Charlip in Philadelphia, he was best known for Peter Pan (1954). The idea to do the show came from Jerome Robbins,
who planned to have a few songs by Charlap and Leigh. However, the show evolved into a full blown musical, with
additional songs by Jule Styne and Betty Comden and Adolph Green. It starred Mary Martin as Peter Pan and Cyril
Ritchard as Captain Hook. Moose Charlap is also listed as the composer for the movie musical Hans Brinker (lyrics
by Alvin Cooperman), which starred Eleanor Parker (her singing voice was that of Charlap's wife, Sandy Stewart),
Richard Basehart, John Gregson, Robin Askwith, Roberta Torey, Sheila Whitmill and Cyril Ritchard. It was based on
the novel by Mary Mapes Dodge. Charlap was married to singer Sandy Stewart, whose biggest hit was “My Coloring
Book” in 1962. They had one son—Bill Charlap, a well-known jazz pianist. Charlap had a daughter Anne Charlap
and son Tom Charlap, a bass player, from a previous marriage.
Betty Comden and Adolph Green (additional lyrics). The team of Betty Comden and Adolph
Green, 1991 recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors, and the longest running creative partnership in theatre history,
began writing and performing their own satirical comic material in a group called The Revuers, which included the
late Judy Holliday. They went on to collaborate with Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins on what was the first
show for all of them, On The Town. Also with Bernstein they collaborated on the score for Wonderful Town. With
Jule Styne they wrote the book and/or lyrics for Bells Are Ringing, Do Re Mi, Subways Are For Sleeping, Peter
Pan and others. They also wrote the book for Applause, the book and lyrics for On the Twenith Century and the
lyrics for The Will Rogers Follies, with Cy Coleman, and A Doll’s Life. Five of these, Applause, Hallelujah Baby,
Wonderful Town, On the Twentieth Century and The Will Rogers Follies won them six Tony Awards, and A Doll’s
Life, a Tony nomination. Their many film musicals include Singin’ in the Rain, The Band Wagon, On the Town,
Bells are Ringing, It’s Always Fair Weather, Good News and The Barkleys of Broadway. Their non-musicals
include Auntie Mame and What a Way To Go. Two of these musicals, The Band Wagon and It’s Always Fair
Weather, received Academy Award nominations and, along with On The Town, won the Screen Writers’ Guild award.
Singin’ in the Rain was voted one of the ten best American films ever made and, by a vote of international film critics
conducted by the prestigious magazine Sight and Sound, it was ranked third among the ten best films of all time. As
performers, Comden and Green appeared in On the Town and later did an evening at the Golden Theatre, A Party
With Betty Comden and Adolph Green, comprised of material from their own shows and movies, and from their act,
The Revuers. In 1977 they did a new version of A Party, and toured with it. A Party received an Obie Award when it
was first performed. They are both members of the Council of the Dramatists Guild, have been elected to the Theatre
Hall of Fame, and the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and have received the Mayor of New York’s Certificate of Excellence.
Comden received the Woman of the Year Award from the Alumni Association of New York University. She appeared in
the films Garbo Talks and Slaves of New York, and on the stage in the Playwrights’ Horizons production of Wendy
Wasserstein’s Isn’t It Romantic? Green appeared in the films Simon, My Favorite Year, Garbo Talks, Lily In Love
and I Want To Go Home. Some of their best-known songs include “Just In Time,” “The Party’s Over,” “Make Someone
Happy,” “New York, New York,” “Neverland,” “It’s Love,” “Lonely Town” and “Some Other Time.” Stars they have
written for in their musicals and films include Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Lauren Bacall, Rosalind Russell, Judy Holliday,
Mary Martin, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett and Nancy Walker.
Jule Styne (additional music) made Broadway sing for 50 years as composer of High Button Shoes; Gentlemen
Prefer Blondes; Two on the Aisle; Hazel Flagg; Gypsy; Peter Pan; Bells Are Ringing; Say Darling; Do Re Mi;
Subways Are for Sleeping; Funny Girl; Fade Out-Fade In; Arturo Ui (the dramatic score); Hallelujah, Baby!;
Red Shoes; Darling of the Day; Lorelei; and Sugar. His many film scores include Anchors Aweigh and My Sister
Eileen as well as the title song of Three Coins in the Fountain. His songbook includes the standards “All I Need Is
the Girl,” “I Don’t Want to Walk Without You,” “Just in Time,” “People,” “I Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out to Dry,”
“Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” “I Fall in Love Too Easily,” “Small World” and “Time After Time.” He is a member
of the Songwriter’s and Theatre Halls of Fame; a 1990 Kennedy Center Honoree; and the winner of two Grammys, an
Oscar for “Three Coins in the Fountain,” an Emmy, the Donaldson Award, and the Drama Critics Award as a producer.
The following lyric writers have collaborated with Styne: Frank Loesser, Sammy Cahn, Leo Robbin, Bob Hilliard, E. Y.
Harburg, Stephen Sondheim, Susan Birkenhead, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and Bob Merrill. Styne served on the
Dramatists Guild Council and has been a member of ASCAP for more than 50 years.
Hisa Takakuwa (director) is a classically trained actor, director and educator. She has worked at many
theatrical institutions around the country including Sundance Children’s Theatre, The Music Center on Tour and
Indiana Repertory Theatre. At SCR she appeared in The Man Who Came to Dinner and in 14 seasons of A Christmas
Carol and Education Touring Productions. She is the Director of SCR’s Theatre Conservatory and directed past Players
productions of Metamorphoses, Hard Times, Cinderella, Mansfield Park, Into the Woods, Snow Angel, Seussical,
Annie and Bliss. While a longtime resident artist at the classical repertory company A Noise Within, she appeared in
many productions including The Triumph of Love, The Comedy of Errors, The Misanthrope, Another Part of the
Forest, The Seagull and Our Town. She directed Henry V, Twelfth Night and Shooting Stars at the Actors Co-op
theatre in Hollywood. She holds a BA from Smith College and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts.
Erin McNally (music director) is an accomplished actor, vocalist and educator. She has been inspiring young
actors at SCR for over 11 years, including musical direction for the last eight Summer Players’ shows and the creation
of a musical theatre class for the advanced teen students and Summer Acting Workshop. Armed with a BA in acting and
musical theatre from CSU Fullerton, she has been a guest artist at the Hollywood Bowl for 13 years and has performed
with such greats as Patti LuPone and Kristen Chenoweth. Her concert and cabaret credits are extensive, including two
sold out solo concerts this season at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts. When she is not performing, McNally
also shares her passion for acting and voice with students at Tri-School Theatre, St. Juliana School and Disneyland,
where she is a teaching artist for Disney Performing Arts.
Southern Utah University, The New Swan Shakespeare Festival, Great River Shakespeare Festival, Breath of Fire Latina
Theater Ensemble, Teatro Jornaleros, The Wooden Floor, Sage Hill High School, Fugitive Kind and Sacred Fools. Her
work has also been seen in Italy, Poland, the Czech Republic and Romania. www.kdlightingdesign.com.
Jeff Polunas (sound design) is thrilled to be designing this production for the Summer Players after spending
the past two summers mixing. Polunas received his MFA in sound design at UC Irvine and is currently the production
sound engineer at CSU Fullerton. He has designed over 85 productions in his career. Credits include In the Red and
Brown Water, 25th Annual...Spelling Bee, (UCI); Ivy & Bean, Anastasia Krupnik, Between Us Chickens (South
Coast Repertory); The Full Monty, Peter Pan, The Wedding Singer, The Producers (Summer Repertory Theatre);
and Company, Much Ado About Nothing, The Importance of Being Earnest (PCPA Theaterfest). He has been
nominated four times for the KC/ACTF Regional Sound Design Award. He would like to thank his wife Valerie for her
love and support.
Kelly Todd (choreography), a UCLA theatre graduate, has directed, choreographed and performed in musicals
in Los Angeles and New York. She is a proud resident artist at the Chance Theater, where some of her favorite projects
have been West Side Story, for which she received the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle (LADCC) 2012 Special Award for
Fight Choreography, and Triassic Parq in 2013 and Jerry Springer: The Opera in 2011, both of which won the Ovation
Award for Best Musical in an Intimate Theatre and garnered her Ovation Award nominations for Best Choreography;
and the professional world premiere of The Girl, The Grouch, and The Goat by the Tony Award-winning composer
of Urinetown, Mark Hollman. She was named Southern California’s Choreographer of the Year in 2011 and 2012 by
StageSceneLA. Other credits include Ivy+Bean, The Musical, Absurd Person Singular and Seussical at SCR, The
Who’s Tommy at Segerstrom Center for the Arts and two world premieres, Keep Movin’ On, featuring the music of Sam
Cooke, and What’s Going On, featuring the music of Marvin Gaye.
Kristen Cruz (stage manager) is excited to be working on the Summer Players show for her fourth production.
She grew up dancing, singing and acting, so as her love for the arts and organizational talents aligned, she found her
passion: Stage Management. Her other theatre credits include Laguna Playhouse, Irvine Barclay Theatre, The Wooden
Floor, Little Fish Theatre, The Actor’s Fund, American Coast Theatre Company, Chance Theater and numerous dance
companies in Southern California. She holds a MFA in stage management from UCI and a BA in theatre arts and
minor in music from Vanguard University. Following this production, she will be joining Actor’s Equity and SCR’s stage
management team.
Sanaz Toossi (assistant director) is thrilled to be back at SCR, where she graduated from the conservatory and
last assisted in directing Bliss. She is a proud graduate of UC Santa Barbara. Her first Summer Players show was East of
the Sun, West of the Moon, in which she portrayed a villainous troll stepsister. Sanaz would like to thank Hisa and Erin
for their endless support and her parents for their endless patience.
Sara Ryung Clement (costume and set design) returns to SCR where her recent projects include costumes
for 4000 Miles and Bliss, sets and costumes for The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois and How the World Began (both
world premieres) and the set design for Absurd Person Singular. Additional regional and local design credits include
East West Players, Open Fist Theatre Company, TheatreWorks, Cornerstone Theater Company, Denver Center Theatre,
Yale Repertory Theatre, CenterStage, A Noise Within, Marin Theatre Company, SPF, Elephant Theatre Company and
Deaf West Theatre. She holds a MFA in design from the Yale School of Drama and received her AB from Princeton
University. sararyungclement.com
Brianna Beach (assistant music director) was the assistant music director for the Summer Players production
of Seussical and the assistant director for the Teen Players’ Alice vs Wonderland. A former Conservatory student, she
also appeared in several SCR productions, including A Christmas Carol, Into the Woods, The Secret Garden, Hard
Times and Peter Pan. She graduated from UC San Diego with a BA in theatre in 2012 and is currently pursuing her
K-8 teaching credential at CSU Long Beach (where she hopes to instill a love of theatre within all her students!). She'd
like to thank Hisa, Erin, Sanaz and Kristen for making the process incredibly fun, as well as the cast of Peter Pan for
always bringing their best selves.
Karyn D. Lawrence (lighting design) is a Los Angeles based lighting designer with a MFA in lighting design
from UC Irvine. Lawrence is proud to have worked with SCR’s Conservatory on past productions of Bliss, Jack and
the Giant Beanstalk, Annie, Alice Vs. Wonderland, Seussical and Snow Angel. Lawrence designs for companies
including Radiance Lightworks, Universal Studios Hollywood, UC Irvine, California State University of Los Angeles,
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