The Lied Center for Performing Arts presents

dan
March 9, 2013

TRADITIONAL MUSIC OF IRELAND Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh Benny McCarthy Oisin McAuley Eamon Doorley Donal Clancy Martin ONeill Lead Vocals, Flute & Whistles Button Accordion Fiddle and Backing Vocals The Irish Bouzouki Guitar, Lead and Backing Vocals Bodhran (Irish Drum)

Repertoire will be selected from the following and announced from the stage: Clancys Farewell to Whiskey/An Dro des Petits Bateaux (Instrumental) Donal Clancy / Traditional / Arranged by Dan The Highest Hill in Sligo (Instrumental) Traditional / Arranged by Dan Cailn na nrla Donn (Song) Traditional/Arranged by Dan Murphys Hornpipe, Lord Gordons Reel (Instrumental) Traditional / Arranged by Dan The Glen Cottage, John Brosnans, Peata an Mhaoir (Instrumental) Traditional / Arranged by Dan The County Down (Song) Tommy Sands / Arranged by Dan Barndance Set/John Doherty's/Round The House (Instrumental) Traditional / Arranged by Dan *Program is subject to change* ~There will be an intermission~

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program notes
Clancys Farewell to Whiskey/An Dro des Petits Bateaux The first tune of this piece was composed by Donal Clancy, the bands guitarist. The second is a beautiful Breton Dance tune that we arranged as a lullaby. We got this from a great musician called Ronan Pellen from Brittany in France. Brittany is a Celtic region also. The Highest Hill in Sligo The first reel comes from Sligo and the second reel is a composition of Oisin McAuley. We finish the set with a tune called Reichwalls Forest, a tune we learned from Jerry Holland who lives in Cape Breton in Canada. Cailn na nrla Donn Learned from Seosaimhn N Bheaglaoch, it is a macaronic song which means the lyrics are in two languages, in this case, Irish and English. It is often heard in South Kerry. Murphys Hornpipe, Lord Gordons Reel We have been performing both this hornpipe and reel for many years. Lord Gordons Reel is a tune often associated with the playing of the great Sligo fiddler, Michael Coleman, who recorded it in New York in 1934. The Glen Cottage, John Brosnans, Peata an Mhaoir Irish Polkas are mostly associated with the Munster region in Southern Ireland. The County Down The County Down was written by Tommy Sands from Rostrevor in Country Down. This song was voted "Best Song" at the 2004 BBC Folk Awards. Barndance Set/John Dohertys/Round The House (Instrumental) This is great collection of different types of dance tunes; a barn dance, into a pipe march and finish on a great reel. These have been favourites of the band for a number of years.

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about dan
Hailing from historic County Waterford, Dan is one of the leading traditional Irish ensembles of today. Their standing room only concerts throughout Ireland are true events featuring high-energy performances and a glorious mix of ancient Irish music and new repertoire. For over a decade, Dans virtuosi players on flute, tin whistle, fiddle, button accordion, bouzouki, and vocals (Irish and English), have performed around the globe and recorded seven critically acclaimed albums. Their live DVD, One Night Stand, was filmed at Vicar St., Dublin. Winners of numerous awards from the BBC and Irish Music Magazine, Dan has toured throughout Europe, the Middle East, and North America with stops at The Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, Symphony Space in New York City, and major concert engagements in the United Kingdom, India, Israel and across Europe. Dan takes its audiences on a musical journey to their native Ireland, offering a moving and memorable experience. Dans popular recordings are available on the Shanachie label and live performances are often broadcast on NPR, the CBC, and the BBC. Dan has 7 CDs and a DVD, available in stores or online. Dan Debut (CD) 1997 Think Before You Think (CD) 2000 All Things Considered (CD) 2002 The Road Less Traveled (CD) 2003 Up In The Air (CD) 2004 When All Is Said And Done (CD) 2005 One Night Stand (DVD) 2005 Seanchas (CD) 2010 www.danu.net or www.myspace.com/danuband

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angels theatre company and the lied center for performing arts present:

what the wind taught me

March 1523, 2013

This presentation is made possible in part with generous support from the Nebraska Citizens Corps, Farmers Mutual of Nebraska, the Lincoln Children's Museum, the Nebraska Art Council and In memory of Dr. Wallace C. Peterson.

NEBRASKA CITIZENS CORPS

what the wind taught me

By Becky Key Boesen
This play is dedicated to the memory of David Bosle

CAST
Evan Davis Audrey Davis Mom The Teacher Chip Chalooley Chase Briggs Awesome Doak Dad Carter Yost Madeleine Miller Sasha Dobson Melissa Lewis Jeff Luby Ian McKercher Nick Korta Andy Dillehay

TIME: The present, past and future PLACE: Various locations in a town a lot like Lincoln. This is a 75 minute play with no intermission.

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Director/Dramaturge Scenic Designer Lighting Designer Sound Designer Costume Designer Stage Manager Technical Director Graphic Artists Judith K. Hart Keith Hart Aja Jackson John Gibilisco Kim Clark-Kaczmarek Erica Weatherwax Kyle T. Lorenz Meghan Stratman Kate DeCoste Becky Key Boesen Alexander Jeffery Brian Watt Andy Dillehay Becky Key Boesen

Director of Photography Assistant to the Director Producer

film cast
Carter Yost Nick Korta Madeleine Miller Sasha Dobson Quinn Boesen Andy Dillehay Jeff Luby Christopher Dobson Rachelle Brown Rachele Merliss Joe Anderson Audrey Johnson Alex Enersen Steve Enersen Melissa Epp Angeline Dai Emily Jobson Erin Mills Brad Boesen Dylan Relue Carl Santiago Ian McKercher Colin Mack Josephine Dobson

The Nebraska Arts Council, a state agency, has supported this arts event through its matching grants program funded by the Nebraska Legislature, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment. Visit www.nebraskaartscouncil.org for information on how the Nebraska Arts Council can assist your organization, or how you can support the Nebraska Cultural Endowment.

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cast & crew biographies

Sasha Dobson (Mom) is a Lincoln native who received her BFA in Acting from Ithaca College in NY and her MFA in Acting from UNL. After graduate school, Sasha moved to England for five years where she was fortunate to find work as an actress with the touring company Shakespeare To Go. Since Sasha has returned to Lincoln she has worked extensively as an actor, director, acting/voice/dialect coach, University educator and producer. She teaches theatre and acting classes at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is also the Outreach Coordinator for the Lied Center for Performing Arts. Sasha serves on the board for two local theatre companies: The Angels Theatre Company and Flatwater Shakespeare Company. By far, the most rewarding roles Sasha has ever and will ever play is that of mother to her two wonderful children, Josephine and Chase and wife to her amazing husband Chris! Judy Hart (Director/Dramaturge) lives her life as a performing artist, director, producer, entrepreneur, seamstress and coach. She is a proud member of AEA & SAG/AFTRA. What the Wind Taught Me is her second dramaturgical/directorial collaboration with Becky Boesen the first was In My Daughter's Name, a very personal play about love and loss. Judy taught at Nebraska Wesleyan, Doane College, UNL, and 15 years with Arts Are Basic. In the summer she teaches at Belvoir Terrace Summer Arts Camp for Girls in Lenox, MA. Judy directed a play a year for the last 14 years at the Omaha Community Playhouse and appeared at regional theaters in Pittsburgh, PA, Milwaukee, WI, Albany and Buffalo, NY as well as many years at the George Street Playhouse, Crossroads Theatre Company and McCarter Theaters in NJ. Judy succeeds with the love of her familyhusband Dan and daughters Meghan and Katy. Ian McKercher (Chase Briggs) was born in New York City and currently lives in Crete, NE where he graduated from Doane College in 2012. During his years as a theater major, he acted in four plays: Three Sisters, The Odyssey, Spinning into Butter and Cyrano (for which he received an Irene Ryan nomination). Hes also directed three short films and is an aspiring screenwriter. He plans on pursuing a career in writing and acting because he has always had a strong passion for artistic storytelling through film, television, theater. He is incredibly happy to have a role in What the Wind Taught Me and he hopes to work with these amazing people again in the future! Andy Dillehay (Dad) is an actor/ writer/teaching artist. He spends his days as the Education Director at the Lincoln Community Playhouse, and his evenings rehearsing, crafting, or clanking around on his 1967 Smith-Corona typewriter. Andy feels very fortunate to be a part of this experience, especially after visiting Joplin, MO with Becky Key Boesen, one year after the devastating tornado. "Sometimes we have to endure a storm to fully appreciate how beautiful life is." Carter Yost (Evan Davis) is a twelve year old, 6th grade student at Pound Middle School. His first acting role was as a cow in the neighborhood nativity play at the age of three. Carter was thrilled to be selected as the Head

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Knight of Ni in the debut youth theater production of Spamalot and declared each night of the show to be the best night of his life. Carter has been in multiple productions at the Haymarket Theatre and has studied tap and hip-hop for several years. Originating the role of Evan in What the Wind Taught Me has been an incredible experience and Carter is exhilarated to be here. He is in awe of the talent of the entire cast and crew. I just want to say how happy I am to join this experience Carter Yost Jeff Luby (Chip Chalooley) graduated from UNL in 1997 with a Bachelors of Arts in Theater. After 15 years of living in New York and New Jersey, Jeff has moved back to Omaha to raise his two kids with his wife Faith. While Jeff never fully pursued a career in the arts, the love of it never left his soul. Jeff feels very privileged to be able to return to the creative process with What the Wind Taught Me. Jeff would like to thank Becky and Judy for this wonderful opportunity and his wife and family for their support. Aja Jackson (Lighting Designer) is currently a senior at the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film. She recently completed Candide as Assistant Lighting Designer as well as The Student Dance Project as Lighting Designer for the past three years. Other credits for design include Agravio, Once on This Island and Bright Ideas. Keith Hart (Scenic Designer) is a freelance designer and music director living in Omaha. Area productions include Mr. Roberts, Crowns, The Crucible, Violet, The Underpants (Omaha Community Playhouse), Arcadia, Six Degrees of Separation (Blue Barn), The Foreigner (Lincoln Community Playhouse), as well as designs for the Bellevue Little Theatre,

Nebraska Theatre Caravan, and Nebraska Shakespeare Festival. Keith holds a Bachelors degree in music education and a Master of Fine Arts degree in scene design for the theatre. He is currently Business/Grant Manager for THE ARTERY, a local nonprofit that brings arts programming into area schools. Melissa Lewis (The Teacher) has a career that has carried her throughout the United States, and includes work for over a decade in Los Angeles and Chicago in film, television, and theatre. Notable performances here in the capital city include Antony and Cleopatra, The Homecoming and The Taming of the Shrew with the Flatwater Shakespeare Company, several seasons with the Nebraska Repertory Theatre in The 39 Steps, Vino Veritas, Metamorphosis and The Last 5 Years, Into the Woods at the Lincoln Community Playhouse, Beehive and Company with TADA Productions, and Pride and Prejudice and Yoko Onos New York Rock at the Haymarket Theatre. Angels Theatre patrons most recently saw Melissa as "Bessie", in last years production of Marvins Room. Melissa is humbled to be a part of What the Wind Taught Me and the magic that has surrounded this production. Nick Korta (Awesome Doak) Nick started acting as a lad at the young age of ten, and has stuck with it ever since. He has been in many plays, mainly from the group S.T.A.G.E. He is now a freshman at Pius X High School, where he performed in the school's fall musical, Godspell. In What the Wind Taught Me, he plays bully Awesome Doak and says As the oldest of two sisters and a brother, I have had plenty of opportunities to practice my part. He likes long walks on the beach and apparently kittens, too. I hope you enjoy the show!

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Kim Clark-Kaczmarek (Costume Designer) possesses a B.A. in theatre from Nebraska Wesleyan University and a Masters in Theatre from the University of NebraskaOmaha. She is very involved in the Omaha and Lincoln theatre community including working with the Living Picture Project, Nebraska Shakespeare Festival, Omaha Theatre Company for Young People, Omaha Community Playhouse, Nebraska Repertory Theatre and the Great Plains Theatre Conference. Kim is on the artist roster for the Nebraska Arts Council Artists in Schools program, teaches acting with Performers Edge and a variety of other organizations. She has costume designed for a variety of theatres and schools in Omaha and is honored to be a part of this Angels Theatre project. John Gibilisco (Sound Designer) an Omaha native, has designed sound and lights for the Omaha Playhouse for the past 25 years and is thrilled for the opportunity to experience an Angels Theater Company production. John has a secret crush on Judy Hart. Becky Key Boesen (Playwright/ Producer) is a playwright, actor and director. She makes her creative home in the Angels Theatre Company, teaches acting and playwriting at Doane College and also freelances as a theatre artist. This summer she looks forward to directing Much Ado About Nothing for Flatwater Shakespeare. Becky thanks the Lied Center for Performing Arts for this opportunity. Thanks also to the team of theatre professionals behind What the Wind Taught Me, especially to Judy Hart, Petra Wahlqvist and Alexander Jeffery. Becky would also like to thank Jim and Donna Key who, when the wind picks

up, remind her where she comes from and who she really is. Becky is married to Brad Boesen and is mom to 8 year-old Evan and 3 year-old Quinn. Together, they spend a lot of time gazing at the stars and talking about possibilities. Alexander Jeffery (Filmmaker) makes a delicious macaroni and cheese. He is also totally humble. Recipient of the "Rising Star Award in Filmmaking" from the Canada Int'l Film Festival, Alexander loves storytelling in its simplest form and is incredibly fortunate to have the opportunity to work with an immensely talented group of people on this show. Past film work includes Love, At Last and One Way. Enjoy the show, and remember: anything is possible! Kyle T. Lorenz (Technical Director) is a freelance technician who has a great amount of experience both onstage and backstage. As a technician, Kyle has built the scenery for King of the Moon, The Producers, Working, Into the Woods, 13, Rehab and a host of other local productions. Nationally, he toured as an electrician with The Wedding Singer and Sweeney Todd. He has served as the Technical Director and Master Carpenter for the Lincoln Community Playhouse, YAAL, and the Nebraska Repertory Theatre. Kyle also enjoys performing- he is a member of Lincoln's Premiere Improv Comedy Troupe, Lyp Schtick. He has been seen around the country in many productions, such as Halfway There, The Producers, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, The Mousetrap, Cannibal the Musical, and others. Kyle recently performed the title role in Pippin with Omniarts productions. Erica Weatherwax (Stage Manager) graduated from Doane College with her Bachelor of Arts Degree in

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Theatre in 2010. She currently works at FACTS Management Company as an Assistant Account Manager. Ericas most recent theatre involvement was being the Assistant Stage Manager for the musical Rehab- A Musical Journey. Erica has also worked with the Beatrice Community Playhouse stage managing for The Cemetery Club and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Erica has enjoyed

working with the cast and crew for What the Wind Taught Me and hopes everyone will enjoy the show! Madeleine Miller (Audrey Davis) is a junior at Lincoln High School. She does the International Baccalaureate program. She is a member of Nebraska Girls Shakespeare Company. She enjoys theater, chocolate, and Disney princesses.

a note from the playwright

My parents live in a small retirement community on a lake in Grove, Oklahoma, about forty miles south of Joplin, Missouri. On the late afternoon of May 22, 2011, my mom called me to tell me about a storm system brewing there. Thirty minutes later an EF-5 tornado hit Joplin and devastated that community, forever changing the landscape and killing 161 people. Im from Missouri and know Joplin well. Its not unlike Lincoln, similar in size and population. From so far away, I couldnt imagine the impact of a 300 mile per hour wind. I couldnt wrap my head around it. I was glued to the weather channel and internet, looking for updates about Joplin, following the stories of the people there. A high school senior had been sucked out of the sun roof of his vehicle and his family was still looking for him. A toddler had been ripped out of his mothers arms and his lifeless body was found in a neighboring field. A manager at Pizza Hut died saving customers by guiding them to a walk-in freezer and wedging himself against the door. The stories of these people haunted me. Two days later, I decided to go to Joplin. As I arrived with my two small children (Evan and Quinn, who were six and one at the time) I was struck with a feeling of fear and helplessness. What were the children of Joplin experiencing? How, as a parent, do you comfort your children when you cant control whats happening? How do you go forward after a tragedy of that magnitude . . . with hope? From this visit, the idea for a play was born. Shortly after that, I had the opportunity to meet with William Stephan, Petra Wahlqvist and Ann Chang at the Lied Center for Performing Arts and Judy Hart from the Angels Company.

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The result was the commission of What the Wind Taught Me. There was no script at that time, and since then, there have been over a dozen incarnations. Its been a remarkable adventure. Ive taken friends to Joplin. Ive seen the city rebuild. Ive learned firsthand to believe in the power of the human spirit. Thats what I hope to share. A new play is fragile. This play was written very quickly and has changed at what sometimes feels like the speed of light! (At one time, Nebraska historical figure Minnie Mae Freeman made an appearance in the play and there was a poet who had lost his voice!) Having a remarkable creative team in place and the support of the Lied Center has kept the project moving forward and allowed us to present this new work to you. While the story has changed, the message remains the same: Fight for what you love. Dont give up in the face of a storm. Never forget where you came from. Anything is possible. Thank you and enjoy the show. Becky Key Boesen

a note from the filmmaker

I had the fortune of being a part of the process of What the Wind Taught Me, from reading the first draft to hearing the final draft read by the cast in front of the production team. It has been a very rewarding journey. Not only did the script change over the course of pre-production, but so did the film. The film became more integrated into the show with each draft of the script, and it is so rewarding to see my two greatest passions, theatre and film, brought together in such a cohesive way by playwright Becky Key Boesen. I have become very close to the script and these characters, and I think the story relays a wonderful message of hope and over-coming fear. It's an adventure story, but it's mostly about a boy who wants to know more about his father . . . and that's very human. Amidst the chaos of time travel and EF-5 tornadoes, this play is grounded in simple human needs and truths. Most importantly, our young hero teaches us a very important lesson: anything is possible. Alexander Jeffery

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About Spring Creek Audubon Prairie

Much of the What the Wind Taught Me film was shot at the Spring Creek Audubon Prairie, located in Denton, Nebraska. Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center fosters the understanding, appreciation, and conservation of Nebraskas tallgrass prairie ecosystem by engaging people in the sites natural and cultural resources. Audubon established Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center in 1998 on the site of the former OBrien ranch approximately 20 minutes southwest of Lincoln, Nebraska. This now 808-acre tallgrass prairie nature preserve offers over three miles of walking trails, wetlands, wildflowers, and grasses. In its midst more than 210 species of birds, 370 species of plants, and other wildlife dwell side-by-side with historic 19th-century wagon ruts in the lovely prairie vista. Family nature programs, school field trips, special events, and burgeoning attendance resulted in the construction of our education building, which opened in 2006. Through educating the public about the value of tallgrass prairie while introducing thousands to its beauty and diversity, we are helping preserve this singular and very threatened portion of the plains. The education building blends into the natural setting of Spring Creek Prairie. From its green design to the way its aesthetically understated appearance mirrors nature, the facility brings equal attention to both form and function and proves that understanding is indeed the first step toward caring responsibly for our native land and all its resources. Find out more at http://springcreekprairie.audubon.org/

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special thanks
Ryan Lowry, Doug Alberg and Lancaster County Emergency Management Systems, Caril Stark and the Joplin Globe, Diane Gonzales, Rebuild Joplin, Brad Boesen, Dan Stratman, Tyler Hale, UNLs Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film, Michaella Kumke, Emily Nash and Paul Durban at Lincoln Childrens Museum, Gary Kudym, Jeff Korbelik and Erin Andersen at the Lincoln Journal Star, William Stibor and Friday Live, Robert Rook and Rooks Round-Up, Deborah Tuff and the Star City Buzz, the Daily Nebraskan, Lincoln Community Playhouse, Omaha Community Playhouse, Ania Szary, Keith Larson and 55 Plus, Ace Rent to Own, Lincoln Public Schools, Brian Watt, Heather Kuhlman, Cindy Yost, Robin McKercher, Doane College Crete Campus, Chris Lofgreen, Daniel Holecheck, David M. Holecheck, Marian Langan and the staff at Spring Creek Audubon Prairie, Lincoln Parks and Recreation, Deb Weber, Doug Smith, Graham Little and the Lincoln Arts Council, Ivanna Cone, Jim and Donna Key, Stephen Griffith and St. Paul United Methodist Church, the family and friends of the cast and crew and anyone who assisted with this program after it went to print. More special thanks: Petra Wahlqvist, Bill Stephan, Ann Chang, Dan Stratman, Steve Pearson, Sasha Dobson, Nancy Engen-Wedin, Matthew Boring, Kira Geiger, Laura Hirschman and all of our friends at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. Thank you for collaborating with us on this project. Thank you also to brookE Stevens, Wayne Foster, Eileen Brewster, Larry Wathor and Jesse Snyder for always welcoming us and making this commission a memorable one.

upcoming angels events

Troika Strata One play, three views . . . May 14, 21, 28 at 6:30 pm at the Sheldon Museum of Art For more information visit www.angelscompany.org Thursday, May 16, 2013 is designated as GIVE TO LINCOLN DAY by the Lincoln Community Foundation. Please remember The Angels Theatre Company when you make a donation on May 16 to support the not-for-profit organizations in Lincoln, Nebraska. More information is available at www.lcf.org

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The Lied Center for Performing Arts presents

Susan werner
with special guest trina hamlin March 20 & 22, 2013

This presentation is made possible in part with generous support from Meier's Corkn Bottle as well as Patron Friend sponsors Wayne & Jeani Gill.

about susan werner

Called the empress of the unexpected by NPR, singer-songwriter Susan Werner turns another corner in her multifaceted musical career with her vibrant new album, Kicking the Beehive. Its an 11-song collection of provocative, poignant, lyrical originals that are infused with the rustic roots of American folk, blues and country music. Produced by Rodney Crowell, recorded in Nashville and featuring such all-star guests as Vince Gill, Keb Mo and Paul Franklin, Kicking the Beehive is a personal project where Werner intuitively explores the full impact of looking beyond the superficial and delving into soulful honesty. With pockets of humor, wit, heartbreak, incisive social commentary and kickass rowdiness, Kicking the Beehive is the strongest Werner recording to date. On it she passionately tells condensed short stories of characters who confront such issues as homelessness, addiction, social alienation and disappointment. A good song is a good window, Werner says. All these songs can let us see outside ourselves. And as a songwriter, the best moments come when I can hold the songs up like a mirror so that people can also see themselves. Kicking the Beehive is Werners followup to her 2009 recording, Classics, a compelling pop-meets-classical album of contemporary standards supported by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. That was a very conservatory project, Werner says. There were a lot of string arrangements, and I learned a great deal about arranging and songwriting. But after that, I wanted to do something different. (Classics was the third in an ear-opening series of innovatively themed projects, including 2008s agnostic gospel album The Gospel Truth that melded Werners own tunes written in the traditional gospel tradition and 2004s I Cant Be New where she channeled the cabaret standard songwriting of George Gershwin and Cole Porter.)

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aboard as the producer of her new In a return to her musical roots, Werner recording. In the Kicking the Beehive liner decided to embark on a more down-home notes, Werner thanks him and engineer recording, inspired by her blues pilgrimage Steve Marcantonio for making such a in the Mississippi Delta that started in beautiful album and salutes Crowell: Memphis, went through Clarksdale and Rodney, youre my hero. led to New Orleans. An Iowan native, she desired to follow the Mississippi River downstream from where she had grown up. Werner says that Crowell believed in the songs she sent him and brought to the It was perfect for me, says Werner, who is session and encouraged her to record the based in Chicago. I rented a car, brought album live in the studio with a core session a guitar, a pad and a ball point pen with me. band that comprised electric and acoustic I left my computer at home. I wanted to guitarist Steuart Smith, bassist Viktor keep it all basic. No high technology. I was thinking that I might have something to say. Krauss and drummer/percussionist Bryan Owings. However, Werner had her doubts. What if I screwed up on a song while Thats an understatement. singing and playing along with the best The simplicity of that pilgrimagefrom guys, she says. But Rodney sold me on it. going to juke joints to having encounters We recorded in the old-fashioned way. Ive with regional musiciansbore fruit. I worked with many great producers over had to go down that river, she says. the years, but Rodney was the best. Hes a And Im glad I went. I experienced legend and he lived up to it. the music that I love firsthand, and I Werner opens the album with the title participated in a tradition that spoke to track, an upbeat, straight-talking number me. One experience she had was going that humorously sets the tone of her to Clarksdale, Mississippi, the historical singer-songwriter role as, what she calls, a city that not only houses a fascinating troublemaker, an instigator, a provocateur. Delta blues museum but also actor In the tune she sings about how kicking Morgan Freemans Ground Zero Blues over the beehive and playing with matches Club, where Werner participated in an is the best way to feel alive again. The improvisation-steeped jam. Ive sat in a beehive metaphor came from the Dale million times in a million different settings, Carnegie saying, If you want to gather but this experience exceeded all my honey, dont kick over the beehive, that expectations, she says. She laughs and her longtime road manager used when adds, It was exciting and scary. advising her. Werner turns the adage on its Through a series of coincidences that head, promoting the notion of stirring up Werner attributes to a mojo bag that a trouble. She opens the tune in the key of A voodoo shopowner in New Orleans put and moves to G in the chorus. I got that together for her (I told her that I needed from listening to Rodney, she says. That a mojo bag because all the blues musicians makes the song have a very country-like, had one, says Werner), she found fertile Texas-like feel musically. Its a plain-spoken, new ground. That spell not only resulted nothing-fancy song. in an opportunity to sign on with legendary The blues tradition thematically informs Nashville manager Burt Stein, but it also some of Werners tunes on the album. For swung open the door to bring Crowell

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example, the heartfelt, acoustic-guitar, foottapping Doctor Doctor is about a dying partner. The experience of illness and mortality has always been a part of blues songs, says Werner. Thats when personal experiences show up. Keb Mo guests with a killer slide accompaniment. Werner toured with him for a month early in 2010 and was schooled in the blues acoustic guitar styling by him. I had been doing my blues homework listening to Otis Spann and Muddy Waters, and I learned how to play a bottleneck slide by listening to Bob Brozman, but to learn directly from Kevin was special, says Werner. Every day he would show me something new by telling me how to place my hands. Sharing this tradition with me in person made it true for me. The blues also plays a role in the deeply emotional song, My Different Son, written from a mothers point of view about an atypical child (schools and rules were never made for him). Its written in a Chicago style blues form that brings to mind classic laments from B.B. King and Muddy Waters. Werner adds, If women wrote the blues, they would sing about love, of course, but theyd also sing about family and children. And the determined character on the rocking I Know What I Want borrows much of her phrasing from field hollers Werner studied as part of her blues pilgrimage. Featuring lap steel legend Paul Franklin, The Last Words of Bonnie Parker is an intimate and moving piece about loving someone no matter the consequences. When I started writing this, I knew somehow this wasnt exactly me speaking, but who was it? Werner explains. And, almost like a painting, the song revealed

itself and the character revealed herself to be the legendary Bonnie from Bonnie and Clyde. I researched her a bit, found that she had been married before that was interesting to me - and that she wrote poetry, which gave me the courage to try to write for her and hopefully with her. And you know you got some of it right when you feel all your guy band mates leaning in and listening as you sing the track which is exactly what happened in the studio. Its probably the most gorgeous piece of music Ive ever recorded. Like many songwriters with a literary bent, Werner worries that much of pop music is a mile wide and an inch deep. But seems to me, the best songs are more like an inch wide and a mile deep, she says. That comes through in the poignant tune Manhattan, Kansas, the story of a single woman and a difficult decision to make. Ive always admired Jimmy Webbs songs, songs like Wichita Lineman and Galveston, songs with towns in the title and a story in the town, says Werner, And I may have stumbled on my own kind of tribute to him, with this. He himself has been encouraging of my songwriting, and hopefully Ive lived up to that. Other story songs include the smoky jazz waltz, Botanical Greenery Blues, flavored by Tony Harrells Hammond organ, about characters whose habit of getting high conceals all kinds of lows; the practical and discouraging details of homelessness in Sleeping on a Train; and the gospel-tinged final song On the Other Side about a light and a voice that Id surely like to see for myself. Of the latter Werner says, This is a song thats much less certain than songs Ive written even a few years ago. This isnt buttoned up, not at all. Maybe if you dont tie something up in a neat bow, its

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more real. And real life is messy, intense, uncertainthats what makes it human. Kicking the Beehive offers up some of Werners signature dry wit in the bass thumping, jazzy Irrelevance, which is a song that Werner says I just couldnt stop myself from writing, unfortunately. She adds, Its the unvarnished truth - there are no bumpers on this tune, nothing to soften the blow. Comes a time in your life where futility hits you straight on, and you either crumble beneath it or laugh your way through it. Rodney brought in this great jazz trumpeter and kept telling him to play worse imagine that, worse. So you hear him starting a fantastic phrase and then failing spectacularly. Good metaphor for ambition, seems to me. And Kicking the Beehive also delivers sexy fun in the hot country cooker Red Dress where such main guests as Gill and harmonica ace Trina Hamlin as well as Crowell on acoustic show up to join in on the rollicking ride. This was so much

fun to play, Werner says. I even got to do some honky-tonk piano myself. Its funny about this song people read different meanings into it. Is this a straight couple or two lesbians? Everyone brings their own experience to the songs. And the good news is, this song is equal opportunity fun. Werner credits part of the success of Kicking the Beehive to it being recorded in Nashville (Thats where the tradition of a character speaking in a song is really appreciated). But shes also frank about the fact that this album, unlike her last few efforts, was not based on a concept. I didnt set out to shape this album at all, she says. I didnt herd the songs into a corral. This is more about being out in a field someplace or on the plains. Its almost like a herd of bison roaming. That freedom gave me the opportunity to speak more directly without artifice. I had no intention of impressing anybody. Every song on this album is one hundred percent heartfelt and honest.

about trina hamlin

With a rich, powerful voice, Hamlin reveals a rare confluence of Midwestern innocence, contemplative focus, and raw passion while adding a disarmingly sharp wit in her stage banter. She seamlessly moves from guitar to piano with self accompaniment on harmonica leaving many who have seen her wondering what she cant do. Regarded as one of the best harmonica players around, she presents a driving, sensuous rhythm in her performance reawakening audiences to the art of the instrument. Trina tours full-time throughout the US and Europe. Additionally, she is a much

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sought after harmonica player and percussionist, accompanying numerous nationally recognized singer/songwriters in the studio and live on stage. Having earned a degree in professional music from Berklee College in Boston, she graduated to the club scene in New York City with the band Blue Leaves, and has gone on to write and coproduce five albums of her own. Trina was chosen as one of the most wanted new artists at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival and has performed to a sold out crowd at the Newport Folk Festival

in the company of Ani Di Franco, Dar Williams, and The Indigo Girls. Shes performed on The Late Show with Conan OBrien and has had her music chosen as a backdrop for the CBS TV movie Friends at Last, as well as the WBs series Dawsons Creek. Her songs have also been featured on Bravos Tale Lights, Lifetimes The Things We Do For Love, and MTVs Real World, as well as ABC Familys Beautiful People. In addition, Trina has shared the stage with Taj Majal, Charlie Musslewhite, John Hiatt and Ricki Lee Jones, to name a few.

about hans sturm, double bass

Double Bassist Hans Sturm has performed as soloist, chamber, orchestral, jazz and improvisational musician throughout Europe, Asia, South America, Africa, and the United States. Highlights of his appearances include the Beijing International Chamber Music Festival, the Faenza International Chamber Festival (Italy), the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Encontro de Instrumenistas (Brazil), a US State Department Tour of Morocco, BASS2008 (Paris), BASS2010 (Berlin), and BASS2012 (Copenhagen). He has appeared with a variety of artists across the spectrum of jazz including Eddie Daniels, Dick Hyman, Roscoe Mitchell, Stanley Jordan, Joseph Jarman, Alan Dawson, Bela Fleck and many others. Inspired by his work with international artist-teacher Franois Rabbath, Sturm developed, designed, and produced two state-of-the-art DVD projects, The Art of the Bow (05) and The Art of the Left Hand (10). Both DVDs employ the same advanced technology found in films such as Avatar and Lord of the Rings to create a pedagogical method incorporating 3D biomechanics animations with user-selectable camera

angles, live performances, interviews, and lecture demonstrations. He is a Past President of the International Society of Bassists. Married to jazz vocalist Jackie Allen, Sturm currently serves as Assistant Professor of Double Bass and Jazz Studies at the University of Nebraska Lincoln and is Professor Emeritus at Ball State University where he taught for 17 years.

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The Lied Center for Performing Arts and MONKEY BAA THEATRE COMPANY present

BASED ON THE NOVEL BY JACKIE FRENCH

hitler's daughter
April 2, 2013

This presentation is made possible in part by a grant from the Lincoln Community Foundation and with generous support from Chris & Art Zygielbaum and the Jewish Federation of Lincoln.

Photography by Heidrun Lohr

hitler's daughter
BASED ON THE NOVEL BY JACKIE FRENCH

CAST & Creatives

ADAPTED BY Eva Di Cesare Tim McGarry Sandra Eldridge Nathan Carter Gideon Cordover Mikaela Martin Kate Worsley Sandra Eldridge Imogen Ross Luiz Pampolha Jeremy Silver Kelly Ukena Sam Johnson Markus Weber

PERFORMED BY

DIRECTED BY DESIGNED BY LIGHTING DESIGN BY SOUND/MUSIC BY STAGE MANAGED BY VOICE OF HITLER

Thank you
Monkey Baa Theatre Company would like to thank Sydney Opera House Youth and Education Program for their assistance in the creative development of this production.

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director's note
This beautiful story was suggested to Tim, Eva and I by Noel Jordan from the Sydney Opera House. We, like all whove read Hitlers Daughter, were deeply affected by its themes and its characters. Marks journey and Heidis story the need for children to be heard, their frustrations to be answered. Marks questioning "Do kids have to like their parents?" Annas comment, "Do you believe something is right or wrong, just because your parents say?" For me the great question in the story is Marks How do we know we are doing the right thing? The question of racism, fascism and unaccountable horrors being allowed to take place from fear. Im ever the optimist with our species and I think that we do know, deep down we know. To all of the creative team, the cast, to all who have supported this project and to Jackie, Monkey Baa would like to give a BIG THANKS!!! In the times that we now live it takes courage and even humor to consciously look for the good, but its important. To place ourselves on the side of the caring, the kind, having empathy and compassion for others. By acknowledging our humanity we can embrace the past and thus enhance our future, not only as individuals but also as a race, the human race. I hope you enjoy the show. SANDRA ELDRIDGE Director

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cast & crew biographies

Kate Worsley (Tracey / Heidi) A graduate of Theatre Nepean, Kate has most recently performed in a number of new Australian works including The Splinter by Hilary Bell for Sydney Theatre Company and Lei Hideaway and The Grief Parlour with the newly formed, ensemblebased Clockfire Theatre Company. For Monkey Baa, Kate has performed in the national tour of Thursdays Child and the 2010 production of Hitlers Daughter. Other theatre includes As You Like It (Siren Theatre Co.), A Day In The Death of Joe Egg, The Stallion of Death, The Unscrupulous Murderer, Mademoiselle Fifi and Dont Stare Too Much (Darlinghurst Theatre). Kate has performed in a number of award-winning short films including Mama Always Told Him, Cockatoo and Y2GAY for which she won best female actor at Tropfest 2011. Kate is a proud member of MEAA. Nathan Carter (Ben / Dad / Frau Leib / Frau Mundt / Mrs Latter / Mr McDonald) Nathan is a graduate of the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). He has just completed three years in the Australian cast of Wicked (GFO), performing the role of Elphabas Father throughout Australia and Singapore, and taking over the role of Dr Dillamond in Seoul. Other theatre credits include Into the Woods (GFO), My Fair Lady (OA), Jolson (Jon Nichols), Hello Again (Darlinghurst Theatre), Falsettos (New Theatre) and the original workshop productions of The Hatpin and Every Single Saturday. Nathan is no stranger to theatre for young people having performed, directed and toured internationally for both Echelons Perform! Educational Musicals series and Walt Disney Special Events. His screen credits include Inside the Arena (Foxtel), Breakers (Nine Network), Carols in the Domain and the independent feature Elixir. Nathan is excited to be once again part of Hitlers Daughter after having been a member of the original Helpmann Award winning production that toured nationally in 2006. Nathan has been a proud MEAA member since 1998. Mikaela Martin (Anna / Mum / Fraulein Gelber) Mikaela Martin is a Theatre Nepean graduate. She has acted in theatre and film in Sydney, Melbourne, and New York. Theatre credits include; Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Richard II, Search and Destroy, Innocent Bystanders, Hating Alison Ashley, and Traitors. Mikaela was part of the original award-winning season of Hitlers Daughter in 2006. Her film credits include The Orbit, Academy, and Mahogany for the 2009 Istanbul Biennale. She has made a string of short films and narrated numerous talking books for Bolinda Audio. Her original solo piece Antidote earned her a 2008 Greenroom nomination for best actress

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and was further selected for the Sydney Theatre Companys 2010 Rough Drafts program. She received a scholarship to continue her studies at New Yorks oldest private acting studio, Michael Howard Studios. Still based in NYC, Mikaela is writing and producing her own films, and developing a childrens filmmaking program. Gideon Cordover (Mark / Soldier) A NIDA graduate, Gideon has won Best Actor at the Griffin Theatres 24 Hour Play Offs, performed in The Secret of the Seven Marbles at Bondi Pavilion and Stage Fright at the New Theatre. Most

recently, Gideon has performed and toured nationally in The Bugalugs Bum Thief for Monkey Baa. His television credits include the series 3 finale of Rescue Special Ops on Channel 9. At NIDA, Gideon worked with esteemed directors such as Ben Gratz, John Sheedy, Peter Kleinert, Darren Gilshenan, Patrick Nolan and Lee Lewis in productions of Gift, Hamlet, The Threepenny Opera, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other and After Dinner. Aside from acting, Gideon works as the Communications Coordinator for Dying with Dignity NSW, campaigning for the rights of the terminally ill. His story has been featured on Hack (Triple J), One Plus One (ABC 24), Stateline NSW (ABC), and Can of Worms (Channel 10). Gideon sits on the ABC Advisory Council and is a proud member of MEAA.

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SPONSOR STORY
Hitlers Daughter explores the obligations we have one to another and to our communities. The Jewish Federation of Lincoln proudly supports this play because mutual support and obligation define our mission. We are dedicated to tzedakaha Hebrew word meaning righteousness or justice, and encompassing the obligation we each have to support those in need. In Judaism, tzedakah is an obligation that cannot be forsaken. The mission of the Jewish Federation of Lincoln is to inspire generosity, to improve lives, and to strengthen our Jewish community, building upon the three-millennia-old framework of Jewish values. The welfare of those within and outside our community, and the cultural and educational advancement of our community define our goals. The Federation funds emergency relief and social services here at home and, in partnership with the Jewish Federations of North America, within and beyond the Jewish communities in Israel, the Former Soviet Union, Latin America, and elsewhere. The Federation also supports the Lincoln Jewish Community School and youth scholarships for summer camps, educational and service trips to Israel, and other youth activities. Please visit www.jewishlincoln.org for more information. Art and Chris Zygielbaum, co-sponsors of this event, are active supporters of the Federation and involved in many other civic and community organizations including the Lied Center for the Performing Arts, the University of Nebraska State Museum of Natural History, Nebraska Appleseed, and Lincoln Downtown Rotary. They were drawn to Lincoln from California in part by the commitment that Nebraskans make to their communities and the strong sense among Nebraskans that we must be ready to take care of each other. Hitlers Daughter is of especial interest to Art and Chris because Arts parents were Holocaust survivors. His father, Joseph, fought in the Jewish underground in Poland. His mother, Adele, was imprisoned from the ages of 16 to 19 in several slave labor and concentration camps. Only a few members of their families survived the Nazi death camps. As with most descendants of survivors, Art struggles with trying to understand how so many people could have perpetrated such cruelty and why so many stood by while the tragedy took place fitting questions for a historical perspective but, sadly, still relevant today. Art and Chris are proud to be part of the Lied Center family and the opportunity to present Hitlers Daughter.

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