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The Pear Avenue Theatre & BootStrap Theater Foundationproudly presentHanging GeorgiaA Play with Musicby Sharmon J. Hilfingerand Joan McMillenDirectorJake MargolinMusical DirectorAlva HendersonStage ManagerJoan SommerfieldLighting DesignSelina YoungCostume DesignNick VaughanSet DesignMartin FlynnThis program is available online at www.thepear.org

. The EnsemblePaz Pardo ................................... Georgia O’KeeffeMichael Storm* ......................... Alfred StieglitzJuliet Strong ............................... Landlady, Dean’s Wife, Dorothy Norman,SingerMaryssa Wanlass ....................... Anita Pollitzer, Beck StrandRogelio Landaverde .................. Ted Reid, Dr. Lee StieglitzNick Allen .................................. Paul Strand, Peyote SingerClaire Slattery ............................. Leah Harris, Mabel DodgeMichael Barrett Austin* ........... Paul Rosenfeld, President’s Wife, Emile ZolerJoan McMillen ........................... Composer, PianistSandi Poindexter ....................... ViolinistTime: 1916 to 1934Place: Scenes take place in New York City; Canyon, Texas; San Antonio,Texas; Lake George, New York; and Taos, New MexicoThere will be a 10-minute intermission between Acts 1 and 2.The Production TeamDirector ........................................ Jake MargolinProducers ..................................... Sharmon J. Hilfinger & Diane TascaMusical Director ......................... Alva HendersonStage Manager ............................. Joan Sommerfield*Production Manager ................... Patricia TylerSet Designer ................................. Martin FlynnLighting Designer ....................... Selina YoungCostume Designer ...................... Nick VaughanLighting Assistant ....................... Will SchroeterPublicity Directors ...................... Jeanie K. Smith & Shannon StowePostcard Designer ....................... Patricia TylerProgram Consultant ................... Susan PetitWebsite Designer ........................ Ray Renati*Member, Actors’ Equity AssociationBootStrap Theater FoundationBootStrap Theater Foundation was founded in 1998 to help theatre artists“bootstrap” their way to visibility. Our mission is to create and produce newplays. We are proud to have nurtured ten world premiere productions frompage to stage, six of which premiered at the Pear Avenue Theatre.Donors to the BootStrap Theater Foundation$3,000+ DeAnne & Elielson Messias * Luis Trabb Pardo$1,000+ Jordan Moncharmont$500+ Patricia Burbank & Michael Kilgroe * Michelle E. Gordon * JeanHamilton * Ann & Karl Ludwig * Mikele & Doug Rauch * John Stockdale$300+ Shannon & Andrew Griscom Sr. * Jane Reece & Paul Ossa * Allegra Seale$200+ Susan & John Allen * Christina Buchmann * Denise & Barney CassidySusan & Harry Dennis * Barbara & Peter Sapienza * John & Molly ScullyJames Schuyler & Kathryn Goldman * Susan Willis$100+ Rachel Anderson-Rabern * Katherine Bazak * Sam & Linda BurbankGail Buschini * Bear Capron * Cristina Cantu Diaz * Susan Freier & StephenHarrison * Ann Lambrecht * Jessica Lee * Laurie LaRocca * David LischinskyClaudia Lohnes & Phil Damberg * Elyce Melmon * Leslie Murdock & KathleenHall * Margaret McAuliffe * Nancy Shelby * Ray Sliter * Jeanie SmithJacqueline & Blair Stewart$10 - $99 Lauren Z. Adleman * Beverly & Lee Altschuler * Blythe Austin * RobertLowe Barnett * Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone * Todd Brotz * Max BressmanBrian Cohen * Florrie & Tom Forrest * Lucy Gillespie * Pippin Griscom & RocioHerbert * Fiona Grune * Edna Hall * Bradley Heinz * Laura Vaughn Holcomb *Sharon Hourigan * Matthew Hubbs * Carey Jones * Lars K * Judy Kasle & TomMuthig * Ellen King * Jonah King Yevgeny Kolyakov * Jenny Koons * Alice Lee *Jake Margolin & Nick Vaughan * Christine Mathias * Alan McCornick * Joan McMillenKathleen Moore-Alpaugh * Alina Neganova * Stowe Nelson * Erik Nygren * ShellieOwens * Rosamund Palmer * Geoff Paulsen * Valerie Redd * Virginia Reed * Judy &David Rose * Shira Rubenstein * Dan Sack * Jeeyon Shim * Anita Singh * Lauren SlossBeverly Swanson * Diane Tasca * Keaton Tips * Roberta Tyska * Nancy vanKaneganBecky Vaughn * Carter Vaughn * Jenny Vaughn * Richard Vaughn * Steve VaughnMaryssa Wanlass * Margo Watson * Tanner Welsh * Joe Willens * Leslie Wu * RachaelWyant * Brad YuleAcknowledgmentsWe would like to thank the following individuals and organizations:TheatreFIRST, Dan Nitzan, Katherine Bazak, Charles McKeithan,Jean Hamilton, Don McMillen, Bear Capron, Beverly Altschuler

Major Figures in Hanging GeorgiaMabel Dodge (1879-1962) was an American heiress who hosted many writersand artists, including D. H. Lawrence and O’Keeffe, in her Taos compound.Dorothy Norman (1905-97), a wealthy social activist, photographer, andauthor, worked with the ACLU and Planned Parenthood, among others. Shefell under Stieglitz’s spell in 1927 and remained his lover until his death.Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago, theArt Students League in New York, the University of Virginia, and ColumbiaUniversity Teachers College, where she mastered traditional techniques. Shedeveloped her unique style while teaching in South Carolina. She becameStieglitz’s lover in 1918 and married him in 1924. From 1940 on, she livedprimarily in New Mexico.Anita Pollitzer (1894-1975), a fellow art student with O’Keeffe, worked to passthe 19 th Amendment and later chaired the National Women’s Party.Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) is known as the father of American photography.He promoted fine art photography in his New York galleries and magazines,notably Camera Work. To bolster the claim that photography is an art, hisgalleries displayed photographs alongside paintings and sculpture. His largestbody of work is nearly 30 years of photographs of O’Keeffe.Paul Strand’s (1890-1976) photographs, with their unusual composition andsurprising choice of subjects, were unprecedented in their evocation ofabstract art. His photographs and films promoted social consciousness.Georgia O’Keeffe’s Place in American ArtAlfred Stieglitz presented Georgia O’Keeffe as a nearly instinctive artist, butthat claim was far from the truth. She had not studied in Europe, but she hadstudied with teachers who had done so, including Arthur Wesley Dow, theauthor of Composition, the most influential art textbook at the time. He taught artas two-dimensional, rather than as an imitation of three-dimensional space,urged “less attention to subject, more to form,” and defined art as “visualmusic,” a concept that appealed strongly to O’Keeffe, a violinist. Dow’s ideaswere influenced by Japanese drawing and Art Nouveau, in which natural shapes,often taken from botany, were manipulated to fit a particular frame. Anotherinfluence was Wassily Kandinsky’s theories of art and music in The Art ofSpiritual Harmony, which O’Keeffe read eagerly in 1915. When living in NewYork in 1907-08 and 1914-15, she visited galleries (including Stieglitz’s 291)where she would have seen works by Whistler, Rodin, Picabia, Matisse, andother Modernists, and she read about them and saw their art in Stieglitz’smagazine Camera Work. At various times O’Keeffe’s work was influenced byCubism, Dada, Symbolism, Precisionism, and Surrealism, as well as primitiveand children’s art. She also used photographic effects and techniques includingcropping, close-ups, spatial distortion, and lighting manipulation. While nearlyall the other artists (mostly male) in New York art circles from 1910 to 1930 areremembered only by art history students, O’Keeffe remains an icon in thepopular imagination as well as a key figure in the birth of American Modernism.Did O’Keeffe paint as she did because she was a woman, as Stieglitzoften implied and as she sometimes seemed to agree? If so, was the differenceinherent in gender, or did it arise from the opportunities open at the time tomen but not women—opportunities which, ironically, may have discouragedcreativity? O’Keeffe said that she was “interested in the oppression of womenof all classes,” and because of her commitment to gender equality she resistedbeing put into the special category of “woman artist” and refused to conform togender stereotypes. Although she was for many years a model and muse forStieglitz, and although she loved him deeply, she was essentially and primarilyan artist—her calling and the source of her greatest satisfaction. –Susan PetitWho’s Who in This ProductionNick Allen (Paul Strand, Peyote Singer) is a Bay Area actor and director.Stanford Shakespeare Society credits include Brabantio in Othello,Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, Silvius in As You Like It, Feste in Twelfth Night,Richard III in Richard III, Sergeant/Doctor/Murderer in Macbeth, and directorfor Love’s Labour’s Lost. He also played Sir Nathaniel in Love’s Labour’s in a special projectwith The Public Theater. Stanford Summer Theater credits include performances inPinter’s The Collection and Night, Molière’s Don Juan (Sganarelle), and Amy Freed’sRestoration Comedy. He has appeared in both BootStrap productions of Tell It Slant and inthe original run of Hanging Georgia.Michael Barrett Austin* (Rosenfeld, Zoler, President’s Wife) happily returns tothe Pear, having previously appeared in Arcadia and Northanger Abbey. Michaelwas most recently seen in the world premiere of Manic Pixie Dream Girl (ACTCostume Shop) and Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (SF Playhouse). Other creditsinclude Dracula (Center Rep), The Grapes of Wrath (TheatreFIRST), and The Lieutenant ofInishmore (Berkeley Rep). He has also played locally with 42nd Street Moon, BerkeleyPlayhouse, BRAVA, TheatreWorks, CalShakes, SF Shakes, Pacific Repertory Theatre,and SJ Stage, among others. He is a member of Just Theater and PlayGround and lovesa woman named Emily. www.michaelbarrettaustin.com *Actors’ Equity AssociationRogelio Landaverde (Ted Reid, Dr. Lee Stieglitz) is glad you all could make itto the show. Comes from Downtown Oakland bringing crickets and magic.Has been blessed to work with the following theatre companies: Town Hall,Berkeley Playhouse, Impact, TheatreFIRST, Shotgun Players, Sleepwalkers,Bindlestiff Studios, and West Edge Opera. Peace.Paz Pardo (Georgia O’Keeffe) is an internationally produced playwright,director, and performer. Favorite performance credits: Demiurge in Tell ItSlant (BootStrap/the Pear) and Marela (U.S.)/Ensemble in Anna in the Tropics

(TheatreWorks). Film: Lead, Portable Storage. She has performed with The TEAM, theOdyssey Project, and FoolsFury, among others. Plays include Duct Tape Girl & FetishChick Conquer the World and Chewed Bread (with Nisa Ari). Her plays have been producedin New York, Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, Palo Alto, and Colorado Springs. Next up:performing Movimiento Perpetuo in Buenos Aires, which she wrote while in Argentina on aFulbright. Training: LAMDA, Stanford (BA, honors in drama).Claire Slattery (Leah Harris, Mabel Dodge) is a stage and screen actor,improviser, singer, teaching artist, and corporate improv trainer. Bay Areaacting credits include Boom (Renegade Theatre Experiment), Enron (Open TabProductions), The Odyssey on Angel Island (We Players) and Hanging Georgia(TheatreFIRST/BootStrap). Claire is a 2009 graduate of Stanford University (B.A. indrama, communication), where she was awarded the Evelyn M. Draper Prize forPerformance. Next, Claire will appear on stage as Thing 2 in the Bay Area Children’sTheatre production of The Cat in the Hat (June 24 – August 4) at Children’s Fairyland inOakland. www.claireslattery.comMichael Storm* (Alfred Stieglitz) has been the artistic director ofTheatreFIRST for over three years, overseeing the production of six plays,including a Bay Area premiere and a world premiere. He has been acting,directing, teaching and producing theatre for over 20 years. Onstage, his mostrecent appearances with TheatreFIRST include Hanging Georgia and Oleanna. He played avariety of Texans in Greater Tuna and A Tuna Christmas at Pacific Alliance; The Man inTurn of The Screw, and Williamson in Glengarry Glenn Ross for San Jose Stage, as well asback-to-back summers as Oberon/Theseus (Midsummer Night’s Dream) and Pericles(Pericles, Prince of Tyre) with the SF Shakespeare Festival. He has also performed with theAlabama Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Rep, Cal Shakes, Crowded Fire, and NapaValley Repertory Theatre, among others. *Actors’ Equity AssociationJuliet Strong (Landlady, Dean’s Wife, Dorothy Norman, Singer), an Oaklandnative, has a background in folk, classical, and jazz piano and voice, in additionto extensive theatrical training. She received her degree in vocal performancefrom the University of Oregon and trained in acting at the University ofOregon, Cal Shakes, and Berkeley Rep. Juliet has been seen onstage at the OregonFestival of American Music, Cal Shakes, Shotgun, The Jewish Theatre, and BootStrap,and in the Bracebridge Dinner at Yosemite. She has performed and recorded with BayArea and New York artists, and her vocal stylings were featured on the CartoonNetwork’s Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, a cult classic. She currently lives inBrooklyn.Maryssa Wanlass (Anita Pollitzer, Beck Strand) is pleased to be reunited withthe Hanging Georgia team for her Pear debut. Other local credits include SanJose Stage (Persuasion), Theatre Rhinoceros (Something Cloudy, Something Clear;Medea, The Musical!; All About Eve), Center REP (Enchanted April, Witness for theProsecution), Woman’s Will (Much Ado, Good Person of Szechuan), and Hapgood Theatre(Imaginary Love, Gaslight, How I Learned to Drive). She studied at Mills College and MoscowArt Theatre’s Stanislavsky Summer School. This summer you can catch her as LadyMacduff in SF Shakes’ Macbeth. Learn more: www.maryssa-wanlass.comJoan McMillen (Composer; Pianist) has been composing music for singers for almostthirty years. She is former resident of Menlo Park whose song cycles Journey of theRaindrop, Proffer Thy Candle to the Flame, and Winter Solstice Celebration have oftenbeen performed in the mid-Peninsula community, and her Remembering the Way hasaccompanied labyrinth celebrations around the world via CD. She has collaborated withSharmon Hilfinger for the past 13 years; their other works are Imaginal Disks, A Tale ofTransformation in 2001, got water? in 2003, and Tell It Slant in 2009.Sandi Poindexter (Violinist), born and raised in Oakland, received early training inclassical violin but has since expanded to jazz, flamenco, Cuban, and early mariachi. Shetoured nationally and internationally with the group John Handy with Class for over 15years, appearing at the Village Vanguard, the Monterey Jazz Festival, and San Francisco,San Mateo, and San Jose Jazz Festivals. She is currently a member of the Cuban groupOrquesta La Moderna Tradición, whose performance history includes the SummerFestival at Lincoln Center and the San Jose and San Francisco Jazz Festivals; they alsoappear regularly at Yoshi’s SF and other clubs. She teaches violin at Los CenzontlesMexican Cultural Center.Martin Flynn (Set Designer) is an Associate Artist with TheatreFIRST, where his designsinclude Hanging Georgia, Oleanna, The Drawer Boy, Grapes of Wrath, Anton in Show Business,and Welcome Home Jenny Sutter. He has also designed for Berkeley Playhouse (The Sound ofMusic, Lucky Duck, Annie), Bay Area Children’s Theatre (A Year With Frog and Toad, Ivyand Bean: The Musical), Douglas Morrisson Theatre (Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure),Town Hall Theatre (Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Pygmalion, Sly Fox, It’s A Wonderful Life), andShotgun Players (Precious Little, Truffaldino Says No, The Great Divide, Road to Hades).Alva Henderson (Musical Director) Alva Henderson’s operas Medea, The Last of theMohicans, West of Washington Square, The Last Leaf, and Nosferatu have receivedprofessional productions at the San Diego Opera, Opera Delaware, the Lake GeorgeOpera Festival, Opera San Jose, NYU, and Rimrock Opera. His cantatas The AncientOnes, Winter Requiem, and From Greater Light were performed by Schola Cantorum andthe Pacific Symphony. His Collected Songs were recently published (MagCloudPublications). For 10 years, he was music director at the Palo Alto Unitarian Church.Sharmon Hilfinger (Playwright, Producer) has been writing plays for 27 years and hasbeen produced by the Pear, TheatreFIRST, Heartland Theater, Menlo Players, andBootStrap Theater Foundation. Hanging Georgia is her seventh full-length play to beproduced, and three of her short plays have been included in Pear Slices. She is afounding member of the Pear Playwrights Guild. She studied playwriting with RickFoster, Ellen McLaughlin, and Oskar Eustis. Hanging Georgia is her fourth play withmusic written in collaboration with composer Joan McMillen. Sharmon is alsothe founder and Executive Director of BootStrap Theater Foundation.Jake Margolin (Director) is a New York based visual artist, performer, and director. As amember of the award- winning collaboratively devised theater company The TEAM,

Margolin has co-created and performed in five plays that toured throughout Europe andNorth America. With his husband Nick Vaughan, Margolin creates mixed mediainstallation art. Their large-scale performance/installation A Marriage: 1 (Suburbia)recently took over New York’s HERE Art Center, and A Marriage: 2 (West-er) willpremiere at Brooklyn’s Invisible Dog Art Center in 2014. He has collaboratedextensively with the choreographer/conceptual artist Yoshiko Chuma.Joan Sommerfield* (Stage Manager) received a BA from the University of Wisconsin,Madison, and a MA in theatre from SFSU. She has stage managed at TheatreWorks,San Jose Rep, Tahoe Shakespeare, SF Shakes and two previous BootStrap productions.She is delighted to be SM for Hanging Georgia at the Pear Avenue Theatre.*Member, Actors’ Equity AssociationSelina Young (Lighting Designer) is happy to be a part of this production, havingdesigned the lighting for the original Hanging Georgia with TheatreFIRST. She hasdesigned for SJ Rep, TheatreWorks, SJ Stage, Marin Theatre, and Alter TheaterEnsemble (ATE), where she is an Associate Artist. Some favorite shows: Cabaret, AvenueQ, Altar Boyz (SJSC); Aftermath (regional premiere); The Spitfire Grill (the Musical) (PAPlayers); and the world premieres of The Man, his Wife, and his Hat and American Whupass(ATE). Upcoming productions include Babes in Hollywood (Tabard) and The Grand Duke(Lyric). She is a member of Actors’ Equity (stagehands) and Theatre Bay Area.Nick Vaughan (Costume Designer) is a New York based artist and scenographer whosedesign work in opera, theatre and dance has been seen in Edinburgh, Dublin, Beijing,Perth, Hong Kong, Salzburg, Bucharest, London, New York, Toronto, Tokyo, Muscat,and across the US . . . in no particular order. He has been with the devised theatercompany The TEAM since 2006 and maintains ongoing visual arts collaboration withhis husband, Jake Margolin. 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