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Director: Dr. Caitlin A. Kane

Lighting Designer: Kylee Dennis

Properties Manager: David McKain

Sound Designer: Scott Carver

Costume Designer: Alice Forgét 

Properties Manager: Jenica “Bug” Jenick

Scenic Designer: Roman Hulver

Technical Director: Shane Gallo

Stage Manager: Rebecca Rentfrow

School Director and Producer: Tony Hardin

Content Notes: homophobia, profanity, physical violence. 
Photography, videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited.

In 1957, an astrophysicist named Frank Kameny was fired from the Army Map Service not because of the quality of his work or his qualifications but because he was gay. Far from an outlier, Kameny was one of thousands of gay and lesbian federal employees who were fired and blacklisted by the government during the Lavender Scare.

Unlike many of his contemporaries, however, Kameny refused to stay silent. Instead, he sued the Secretary of the Army for wrongful termination. When that lawsuit failed, he co-founded the Washington D.C. branch of the Mattachine Society, which diverged significantly in aims and tactics from its West Coast predecessors. The members of the D.C. Mattachine Society were invested in a militant form of gay activism that rejected popular understandings of homosexuality as immoral and a form of mental illness. Instead, they described themselves as joining other minoritized groups in a fight for civil rights and human decency.

Set in 1950, Topher Payne’s “Perfect Arrangement” fictionalizes the stories of the gay and lesbian federal workers, like Frank Kameny, who lost their careers to the Lavender Scare but found in one another the courage and power to live their lives openly. As we move through an era that many have described as a new Lavender Scare, I hope that we, too, can find the courage to turn toward one another and demand more just and livable futures for all.

Lavender Cast 

(Thursday & Saturday Performances)

Millie Martindale: Clare Bohan

Bob Martindale: Brad Motyer

Norma Baxter: Dahlia Jacobs

Jim Baxter: Kristopher Washington

Kitty Sunderson: Lucia Lazzara-Goodrich

Theodore Sunderson: Joe Raizis

Barbara Grant: Cherish Foster

Green Carnation Cast 

(Friday & Sunday Performances)    

Millie Martindale: Aubrey Christie

Bob Martindale: Savon Harris

Norma Baxter: Tessa Sobolewski

Jim Baxter: Cole Stellato

Kitty Sunderson: Lilly Smart

Theodore Sunderson: Rob Rudavetz

Barbara Grant: Grace Bohan

Director: Caitlin Kane

Assistant Directors: Isabella Fitzpatrick

Costume Designer: Alice Forgét

Lighting Designer: Kylee Dennis

Sound Designer: Scott Carver

Scenic Designer: Roman Hulver

Properties Manager: Jenica “Bug” Jenick

Technical Director: Shane Gallo

Stage Manager: Rebecca Rentfrow

Assistant Stage Managers: Calvin Burlinghaus, Floyd Robinson Jr.

Stage Management Faculty Advisor: Tom Humes

Assistant Technical Directors: Maddie Martin, Alex Sweat

Technical Director Faculty Advisor: Steve Pauna

Assistant Costume Designer/ Wardrobe Supervisor: Sarah D’Anella

Assistant Costume Designer: Lilly Agneta

Drapers: Grace Cochran Keenan, Rowan Rexroad

Costume Design Faculty Advisor: Michelle Hunt Souza

Costume Production Faculty Advisor: Grace Cochran Keenan

Costume Shop Supervisor: Aimee Johnson

Wardrobe Crew: Amelia Dobay, Mat McClane, Api Neupane, Leah Thompkins

Assistant Sound Designer: Jamey Ambrosio

Sound Board Operator: Sean Riley

Sound Design Faculty Advisor: Jeff Polunas

Head Electrician/Programmer: Joe Bartlett

Light Board Operator: Ivan Akiri

Lighting Design Faculty Advisor/Associate School Director: Jakyung C. Seo

Lighting and Sound Supervisor: Bethy Winters

Associate Scenic Designer: Olivia Winters

Scenic Charge Artist: Cady McLaughlin

Interim Scenic Faculty Advisor: Larry Heyman

Scene Shop Supervisor: Jason Gates

Assistant Prop Managers: Ian Barter

Paint and Properties Supervisor: Frankie Teuber

Fight Consultant: Courtney Brown

Intimacy Choreographers: Hailey Strnad, Ian Williams

Run Crew: Ayanna Bennett, Sara Lewellen, Lennox Ratcliff

School of Theatre and Dance Director/Producer: Tony Hardin

Performing Arts Box Office Manager: Aimee Miller

Marketing, Communications and PR Director: Jen Crabtree

Marketing and Communications Specialist: Madi Getz