2007-2008 Season

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  • Lend Me a Tenor
  • Comic Potential
  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• 2008-2009
  • Fiction
  • You Can't Take
    it With You
  • The Movie Game
  • Messiah on the
    Frigidaire
• 2007-2008
  • The House of
    Frankenstein
  • Picasso at the
    Lapin Agile
  • Inherit the Wind
• 2006-2007
  • Mrs. Bob Cratchit's
    Wild Christmas Binge
  • Communicating Doors
  • Defying Gravity
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  • Swing!
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  • Proof
  • Kimberly Akimbo
• 2004-2005
  • Deliver Us Not/
    Epic Proportions
  • Doin' Time at the Alamo
• 2003-2004
  • Morning's at Seven
  • Inspecting Carol
  • Belles
• 2002-2003
  • Over the River and
    Through the Woods
  • Baby
  • The Boys Next Door
  • The Children's Hour
• 2001-2002
  • A Party to Murder
  • The Price
  • A Piece of My Heart
  • Plaza Suite
• 2000-2001
  • Our Town
  • Crossing Delancey
  • Pride's Crossing

Cast & Crew | Photos

by Jerome Lawrence and
Robert E. Lee

Directed by Tom Durkin
Produced by Elaine Volker

Friday, May 2, 2008 8:00 PM
Saturday, May 3, 2008 8:00 PM
Sunday, May 4, 2008 3:00 PM

Thursday, May 8, 2008 8:00 PM
Friday, May 9, 2008 8:00 PM
Saturday, May 10, 2008 8:00 PM

Based on the famous Scopes "monkey" trial, this drama focuses on the trial of a young schoolteacher charged with illegally teaching the theory of evolution in the heavily fundamentalist South of the 1920s. Two former friends – agnostic Henry Drummond and true believer Matthew Harrison Brady, a three-time Presidential nominee – square off as legal adversaries in a battle so ferocious that the accused and his crime pale by comparison. This work has been hailed as one of the great American plays of the 20th century, with its themes of religious belief, tolerance, and freedom of thought that resonates to the present day.

Produced by arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Cast
Matthew Harrison Brady	Wayne Kirsch *†‡ƒ
Henry Drummond	Burt McCollum *†‡ƒ
Rachel Brown	Rusty Lacy †‡
Bertram Cates	Carter Bratton †‡
E.K. Hornbeck	Michael Ireland *†‡
Rev. Jeremiah Brown	Thomas Van Brunt †
Meeker	Joe Ward †
Judge	Jim Waldfogle †‡
Mayor	Garry Hohnecker †‡
Tom Davenport	Jeff Smith †‡
Sarah Brady	Julie Jordan †‡
Howard	Alexander McCracken †
Melinda	Sophie Grant †
Timmy	Nick McDonough †
Bannister	Jim Burton †‡
Elijah	Larry Freeman †‡
Sillars	Tom Hix †
Dunlap	Mike Robb †‡
Mrs. Krebs	Vickie Greco †‡
Mrs. McLain	Lois McGuinness †
Mrs. Blair	Dee Dunn †‡
Mrs. Loomis	Lee Ann Waldfogle †‡
Ms. Cooper	Ann C. Maher †‡
Bollinger	Colin Roose †‡
Vendor	Nate Netzley †
Reporter	Steve McDonough †
Harry Y. Easterbrook	Tom Durkin †
Jury	Henry Farfsing †‡ Tom Fox †‡ Brian Moran † James Robb †‡
Scientists	Michael L. Morehead †‡

Crew
Director	Tom Durkin ƒ
Producer	Elaine Volker *
Stage Manager	Erin Durkin
Costumes	Elaine Volker ƒ Erin Durkin ƒ The Cast
Hair & Make-up	The Cast
Hospitality	Gretchen Roose
Light Design	Tom Fox
Light Crew	John Netzley, Matthew Steele
Light Execution	Matthew Steele, Tom Fox
Lobby Display	Michael Ireland * Wayne Kirsch *
Monkey Design	Ben Schultheis
Original Show Art	Michael Ireland *
Program	Michael Ireland *
Properties	Elaine Volker, Lois McGuiness
Publicity	Michael Ireland, Elaine Volker
Set Design	Tom Durkinƒ Ray Persingƒ
Master Carpenters	Bill Winkler, Ray Persing, Anne-Marie Murphy
Set Construction	Scott A. Baker, Michael Ireland, Carter Bratton, Wayne Kirsch, Joe Ward, Rich Bruegging, Burt McCollom, John Netzley, Nate Netzley, Jeff Smith, Jim Burton, Tom Hix, Steve McDonough, Nick McDonough, Rusty Lacy, Jim Waldfogle, Lee Anne Waldfogle, Michael L. Morehead, Elaine Volker, Vickie Greco, Larry Freeman, Erin Durkin, Tom Durkin, Lois McGuiness, Debbie Flaig, Sophia Flaig, Julie Jordan, Matthew Steele, Thomas Van Brunt, Ann C. Maher
Sound Design	Tom Durkin
Sound Execution	Erin Durkin
Technical Advisor	John Netzley
Tickets/Box Office	Gretchen Roose

* Orchid Award winner - ACT Cincinnati
† Orchid Award winner Excellence in Ensemble - ACT Cincinnati
‡ OCTA Excellence in Ensemeble - Southwest Regional
ƒ OCTA Award of Outstanding - Southwest Regional
ƒ OCTA Award of Excellence - Southwest Regional
ƒ OCTA Award of Merit - Southwest Regional