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Utah’s annual online day of giving 

celebrates its 5th anniversary! 

Thursday, March 30 

12:01am-11:59pm 

planbtheatre.org 

Our goal is to raise $10,000 to help fund 

a half-time Education Coordinator. How? 

By matching the generosity of Vickie 

Venne, celebrating her 10th anniversary 

as a Plan-B subscriber with an incredibly 

generous gift of $5,000. If we match it with 

donations of $10 each from 500 unique 

donors, we’ll win an additional $5,000 and 

have 3/4 of the first year’s salary in hand! 

Gifts made beginning March 1 

count toward the total. One donation 

per person counts...so please give 

$10 and get your friends/family/ 

colleagues/acquaintances/strangers 

on the street to do the same! 

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written by Tim Slover 

directed by Jerry Rapier^ 

musically supervised by David Evanoff 

stage managed by Jennifer Freed* 

sound by Cheryl Cluff 

set by Thomas George 

costumes by Phillip R. Lowe 

lighting by Jesse Portillo** 

props by Arika Schockmel 

artwork by Aaron Swenson 

with Christy Summerhays* as Hildegard 

Jay Perry* as Cuno 

S.A. Rogers* as Volmar 

Emilie Starr as Richardis 

setting June of 1146, Monastery of St. Disibod 

running time 2 hours with one intermission 

artistic director Jerry Rapier 

managing director Cheryl Cluff 

president Jesse Nix 

vice president Tami Marquardt 

treasurer Brian Doughty 

secretary Kay Shean 

trustee Benjamin Brown 

trustee Rebecca Chavez-Houck 

trustee Rick Pollock 

VIRTUE is funded in part by the Arch & Bruce Brown 

Foundation, the George S. & Dolore Doré Eccles 

Foundation and the LGBT Community Endowment Fund 

at the Community Foundation of Utah. 

Plan-B, an Associate Member of the National New Play Network, 

thanks Kirt Bateman, Anne Louise Brings, Erica Carvalho, 

the University of Utah Department of Theatre and PYGmalion 

Productions. Playwright Tim Slover offers “sincere thanks to, 

in chronological order, Penn State School of Theatre (which 

commissioned the play), Jamie Rocha Alan and the Bush 

Theatre, Salt Lake Acting Company, Marc Robin and the 

Fulton Theatre, the Playwriting Task *AEA ^SDC **USA 

Force (you know who you are), 

John Terry at the University of Georgia 

and Jerry and everyone at Plan-B.” 


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Tim Slover (Playwright) makes his Plan-B 

debut. His writing includes the play JOYFUL 

NOISE (Samuel French), the novel THE 

CHRISTMAS CHRONICLES (Random House), the 

non-fiction work MESSIAH: THE LITTLE-KNOWN 

STORY OF HANDEL’S BELOVED ORATORIO 

(Silverleaf Press) and the screenplay A 

MORE PERFECT UNION (PBS). His plays 

have been produced off-Broadway and in 

regional theatres in the U.S., Canada and the 

U.K. His writing awards include the Hopwood 

Award for Drama, the Christopher Brian Wolk 

Award for Playwriting Excellence and the 

Freedoms Foundation of Valley Forge George 

Washington Honor Medal. He has been a 

writer-in-residence at Lamb’s Players Theatre, 

Cornell College, Penn State University and the 

Philadelphia Alumni Writers House at Franklin 

& Marshall College. Tim heads the playwriting 

program at the University of Utah, where his 

commission for Oregon Shakepeare Festival’s 

PLAY ON! Shakespeare Project, TWO NOBLE 

KINSMEN, premieres in April. 

Cheryl Cluff (Sound) co-founded Plan-B 

in 1991, has been Managing Director since 

1995 and has designed sound for nearly every 

production since 2001. Cheryl has directed 

every episode of RADIO HOUR as well as MESA 

VERDE, THE SCARLET LETTER, SUFFRAGE, 3, 

CHRISTMAS WITH MISFITS BASED ON A TRUE 

STORY and THE EDIBLE COMPLEX for Plan-B. 

David Evanoff (Musical Supervisor) has 

collaborated with Plan-B for many years. 

Most recently he composed original music 

for RADIO HOUR EPISODE 11: YULETIDE and 

musically directed ONE BIG UNION earlier 

this season and composed music and wrote 

additional lyrics for KINGDOM OF HEAVEN last 

season. For 25 years he has been owner/ 

operator of David Evanoff Sound Designs, a 

full-service recording studio, producing music 

and sound for television, film and special 

events. 

Jennifer Freed* (Stage Manager) is back 

for her 19th season, having stage managed all 

but four shows since 1998. “Here’s to comedy, 

WHO’S WHO 

tragedy and loads of amazing art!” 

Thomas George (Set) returns to Plan-B 

after designing BASED ON A TRUE STORY 

and KINGDOM OF HEAVEN last season. Other 

recent local designs include CLIMBING WITH 

TIGERS, STUPD F*CKING BIRD and DIARY OF 

A WORM, A SPIDER AND A FLY (SLAC) and 

SELMA 65, MOCKINGBIRD and MARY & MYRA 

(PYGmalion). He holds an MFA from UC San 

Diego and a BFA from the University of Utah, 

where he currently teaches. Thomas works on 

productions locally and around the world. 

Phillip R. Lowe (Costumes) has been 

collaborating with Plan-B since 2004’s 

production of ANIMAL FARM. Other 

highlights include BLOCK 8, SHE WAS MY 

BROTHER, WALLACE, THE THIRD CROSSING, 

BORDERLANDS, SUFFRAGE and BASED ON 

A TRUE STORY, to name a few. Phil received 

his MFA from Utah State University and was 

the Kennedy Center’s 2002 recipient of the 

National Barbizon Award in Costume Design 

for THE LION IN WINTER (OLRC). Phil now 

serves as Director of Costumes and Wardrobe 

for Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre and 

as a design respondent for ACTF Region 8. 

Jay Perry* (Cuno) has appeared in 

Plan-B’s ONE BIG UNION, CLEARING BOMBS, 

LADY MACBETH, SHE WAS MY BROTHER, 

GUTENBERG! THE MUSICAL!, FACING EAST in 

Salt Lake, San Francisco and Off-Broadway, 

THE ALIENATION EFFEKT, TRAGEDY: A 

TRAGEDY, the Script-In-Hand Series readings 

of THE NORMAL HEART, A DOLL HOUSE and 

8, the Free Elementary School Tour of PETER 

AND THE WOLF (with Gina Bachauer) and 

every episode of RADIO HOUR (with KUER’s 

RadioWest). You may have also seen him as 

part of the Play-By-Play Series reading of Tim 

Slover’s A MARCH TALE at PTC last season or 

in several SLAC productions. Jay is Program 

Coordinator for Youth Theatre at the U of U. 

*AEA ^SDC **USA 


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Jesse Portillo** (Lighting) has designed 

for Plan-B since 2007, most recently ONE BIG 

UNION. His favorite Plan-B productions include 

HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, BLOCK 8, 

EXPOSED, AMERIGO, ERIC(A) and SHE WAS 

MY BROTHER. Other local designs include 

PTC, SLAC and PYGmalion. Regional credits 

include LOOK Musical Theatre, Mobile Opera 

and Baylor & Millikin Universities. Proud 

member, USITT and USA Local 829. 

Jerry Rapier^ (Director) has been Plan- 

B’s Artistic Director since 2000. Twelve of the 

30+ Plan-B productions he has directed have 

been named Best Theatre Production by City 

Weekly. He is mostly known as Kirt’s husband 

and Oscar’s Papa, which is just fine with him. 

S.A. Rogers* (Volmar) makes his 

Plan-B debut. He has been seen locally in 

BLACKBERRY WINTER and WINTER (SLAC) and 

A FEW GOOD MEN, OF MICE AND MEN and the 

Play-By-Play Series reading of Tim Slover’s 

A MARCH TALE (PTC). Other regional credits 

include UNCLE VANYA and THE TRIUMPH OF 

LOVE (Classical Theatre Company, Houston) 

and CYRANO DE BERGERAC, RICHARD III 

and MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM (Oregon 

Shakespeare Festival). 

Arika Schockmel (Props) previously 

designed Plan-B’s BASED ON A TRUE STORY 

and CHRISTMAS WITH MISFITS and makeup for 

HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH. She is currently 

resident Prop Master for the University of 

Utah Department of Theatre. Her other recent 

projects include costume crafts at PTC and 

acting for OLRC. Other favorites design credits 

include RING OF FIRE (Set, Dark Horse), 

JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR and HAIR (Props, 

Egyptian), REEFER MADNESS (Props, Dark 

Horse). Arika holds a BFA from Utah State 

University. She and her husband Christopher 

Glade are parents to 6-year-old Charlotte 

Rose, who loves theatre, books and sealing 

wax almost as much as her mother does. 

Emilie Starr (Richardis) is thrilled to be 

making her Plan-B debut! As a successfully 

WHO’S WHO 

starving actress, she has performed all over 

Utah, including MR. PERFECT, R+J: STAR 

CROSS’D DEATH MATCH and THE DIARY OF 

A WORM, A SPIDER AND A FLY (SLAC), NEXT 

TO NORMAL (Ziegfeld), BARE (Utah Rep), 

COWBOY MOUTH (Good Company), CLOSER 

(Wasatch) and Intermountain Health Care’s 

LIVE WELL tour. In her spare time she works 

full time as part of SLAC’s marketing and 

audience development team and dreams 

of one day taking a vacation with her sweet 

boyfriend David. 

Christy Summerhays* (Hildegard) has 

had the privilege to be involved in many Plan-B 

productions as both actor (3, MESA VERDE, 

AMERIKA and Script-In-Hand Series readings 

of THE NORMAL HEART and GHOSTS) and 

director (Free Elementary School Tour of 

PETER AND THE WOLF (with Gina Bachauer), 

A/VERSION OF EVENTS and Script-In-Hand 

Series readings of MIASMA and CARAVAN). 

Other favorite acting credits include ANGELS 

IN AMERICA and GOD OF CARNAGE (SLAC) and 

THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (PTC). Christy’s 

latest passion project is writing and producing 

her short film “Silent Cricket.” 

Plan-B Theatre Company, founded in 

1991, develops and produces unique and 

socially conscious theatre created by Utah 

playwrights. We stage minimalist productions 

focused on language and ideas. We believe 

that all theatre must contain at least a 

semblance of the five Aristotelian elements 

but, beyond that, playwrights have the right— 

and obligation—to make their own rules and 

we are privileged and obligated to learn and 

follow them. Our nearly 100 world premieres 

include Utah’s first by an Asian American 

playwright and first by an African American 

playwright. Our most recent awards include 

Utah’s Governor’s Leadership Award in the 

Arts, Salt Lake City’s Mayor’s Artist Award for 

service to the arts by an Organization and the 

50/50 Applause Award from the International 

Centre for Women Playwrights for our work 

toward gender parity. 

*AEA ^SDC **USA 


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Donations of $100+ 

gratefully received 

1/1/16-1/10/17 

are listed below 

and online at 

planbtheatre.org/donors, 

where you may also make 

your contribution today! 

Planned Giving 

Jan Abramson 

Luana Chilelli 

Tom & Karen Duncan 

Jayne Luke 

Vicki Venne 

$25,000+ 

Jane & Tami Marquardt’s 

Peace & Possibility Project 

Salt Lake County’s Zoo, Arts 

& Parks Program 

$10,000+ 

B.W. Bastian Foundation 

Brian Johnson 

National Endowment 

for the Arts 

Shubert Foundation 

Utah Division of Arts 

& Museums 

$5,000+ 

George S. & Dolores Doré 

Eccles Foundation 

David Ross Fetzer Foundation 

for Emerging Artists 

Salt Lake City Arts Council 

George Speciale 

Donna & Michael Weinholtz 

$2,500+ 

Arch & Bruce Brown 

Foundation 

Dramatists Guild Fund 

Lee & Audrey Hollaar 

LGBT Community Endowment 

Fund at the Community 

Foundation of Utah 

George B. & Oma E. Wilcox 

and Gibbs M. & Catherine 

W. Smith Charitable 

Foundation 

$1,000+ 

435 Design (in-kind) 

Benjamin Brown 

& Steven Verno 

Rebecca Chavez-Houck 

& Martin Houck 

Fadel Law Firm 

David Felt & Lynda Wendel 

Randy Rasmussen (in-kind) 

Kay Shean 

Debora Threedy 

Veracart (in-kind) 

Vickie Venne 

$500+ 

Eric & Shellie Eide 

Kathryn Feigal 

Henrie’s Dry Cleaning (in-kind) 

Tina & Larry Howard 

Barbara Horwitz 

MaryBeth Jarvis Clark 

L3 Communications 

Sue Marquardt 

Jim Martin (in-kind) 

Jerry Rapier & Kirt Bateman 

Sarah Beth Coyote Foundation 

Stephanie Steele 

United Health Group 

Ned & Gail Weinshenker 

$200+ 

Jan Abramson 

Arleen Bedingfield 

Anne Cullimore Decker 

Deepika deSilva 

Jennifer Freed 

Kris & Tim Hallbom 

Elizabeth Hunter 

Christine Munson 

Julie Panushka 

Glenn Prestwich 

Becky Anderson Pickle 

Betsy Ross & Rick Anderson 

Christian Sorensen 

Jim Struve & Jeff Bell 

DONORS 

Diane & Frank Thomas 

Bonnie Walsh 

Tamara Young 

William Zwiebel 

$100+ 

Amazon Smile Foundation 

Doug Balli 

Barbara Bannon 

Sharon & Kent Bateman 

Karen Holt Bennion 

Jason Bowcutt 

Michelle & Gary Carr 

Luana Chilelli 

Kathy Davis 

Rebecca Davis 

Brett DelPotro 

Lisa Dennis 

Anne & Sandy Dolowitz 

John & Pamela Drake 

Dani Eyer 

Larry Fraga 

& Dwayne Atkinson 

Marilyn Holt 

Debra Hummel 

Stephanie Howell 

& Eric Petersen 

Carol & John Huffman 

Hilary Jacobs & Daniel Schelling 

Jeffrey Johnson 

Maxine & Bruce Johnson 

Vicky Larsen 

Melissa Leilani Larson 

Kathy & Elliott Merrill 

Nicola Nelson 

Claire Peterson 

John Saltas 

Lorraine & Evan Sanders 

Kathie Savage 

Kathie & Hugh Zumbro 

Patrick Zwick 

Donations of $1-$99 

gratefully received 

1/1/16- 1/10/17 

are listed online at 

planbtheatre.org/donors, 

where you may also make 

your contribution today! 


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