The Temperamentals by Jon Marans
Directed by Roy Arauz
The Temperamentals recounts the founding of The Mattachine Society, the first sustained gay rights organization in the United States, told through the love affair between Harry Hay and Rudi Gernreich. The Temperamentals takes place in the early 1950s
Audition time: Sunday, September 30, 2012, 5:00 pm
Location: Theatre Puget Sound (Seattle Center)
Callbacks immediately follow at 6:00 pm. Please be prepared to stay if called back.
All Roles Open:
Harry Hay:
39, pushy, gruff, blustery, and imperious
Rudi Gernreich:
29, interestingly handsome, wildly charming, speaks with a trace of a Viennese accent. Actor also plays a woman.
Three Men
- Various ages, each to play multiple roles.
- One man plays the ukulele
- One man plays the clarinet (ideally, but not absolutely mandatory)
- All three men play a woman
Rehearsals:
Rehearsals begin on April 1, 2013
Mon-Thu evenings, Saturday afternoons and/or Sunday evenings
Performances: May 10-25, 2013
Compensation: Arouet is a profit-sharing company. Once production costs are covered, the profits are shared with the cast and crew. The House of Bernarda Alba was our first production where we were able to make good on this goal.
Roy is a director, producer, and Artistic Director of Arouet. He has been thrilled about the project from the moment Danny brought the idea of “the marriage play” to the company, and is ecstatic to see it come to fruition with such a talented group of writers and actors. Most recently he directed Anna in the Tropics for Latino Theatre projects and produced and assistant-directed Arouet’s The House of Bernarda Alba. Next he’s directing The Music Man for Driftwood Players, the American premiere of The Hen Night Epiphany, a co-production of the Driftwood Players’ Theatre of Intriguing Possibilities and Arouet, and the Northwest premiere of The Temperamentals.
I am a Guatemalan born and raised, have lived permanently in the U.S.A. for 12 years, a business manager and owner who came into theater by chance, when given the opportunity to write and perform a short monologue for the 2011 Latino Community fund.
Greg is a writer, performance poet and cat fancier who lives in Seattle. He has competed in five consecutive Seattle Poetry Slam Grand Slams, three consecutive Individual World Poetry Slams and was a member of the 2009 Seattle Poetry Slam team competing against teams from across North America. Greg has featured on stages across the U.S.A. and Canada and is the author of two chapbooks called One Lap Around and A Cautionary Tale, both of which he loves like precious kittens. When not on stage, Greg writes relationship advice through his alter ego: 
Jeremy is thrilled to be a part of the Lawfully Wedded project. A Chicago native, Jeremy moved to Seattle in May 2011 to pursue a career as a teaching artist and actor. Currently, he works as a teaching artist for the Seattle Children’s Theatre. Previous Seattle credits include: Yellow Face (NWOAC, et al.) with ReAct Theatre; The Mormon Bird Play (Pipa) with Washington Ensemble Theatre; Trojan Women (Andromache) with quiet Productions. He also worked as properties designer for Bed Snake at Washington Ensemble Theatre. He would like to encourage everyone to vote “yes” on Referendum 74 this November in what will be a ground-breaking election, something Washingtonians should be proud of to say we are the first state to legally recognize marriage equality. Love to all his family and friends who have shown support in every decision he has made.
Alysha is honored to be working with Arouet for the first time. She was recently seen in Henry VIII with GreenStage, and in Amadeus and Tartuffe at SecondStory Rep. She can be seen next Spring performing in Stone Soup Theatre’s Festival of Tennessee Williams One-Act Plays. Alysha is enjoying her most exciting role to date: Bride-to-be! [Love to her fiancé, Geb.]
John is a recording artist. His work appears on many albums, compilations and DVDs as well as television, film and video games. When not making weird noises with synthesizers, Epperson designs sound for theatre. He has previously worked with Arouet, ArtsWest, Driftwood Players, Latino Theatre Projects, Redwood Theatre and Theatre 9/12. 
Bruce is pleased to once again be working with Roy, reunited together after his appearance in The Gene Pool for Arouet. Bruce has been most recently seen on the stage in Edmonds appearing in M*A*S*H 4077th, and Love, Sex and the IRS. He has appeared on stage in over 30 productions, up and down the I-5 corridor. “I am really pleased to be involved with this project. I believe keeping Marriage Equality front and center with help to educate and inform the voting public. It is important to stand up and be counted on such an important issue. I personally have been in a same-sex relationship going on 33 years.” Thank you to the cast and crew and eight little letters to Cliff and our son Noah!
Perry has been playing and writing since college. Grew up in the Midwest & is founding member of Beef Curtans, which last performed at RAGBRAI bicycle rally in Omaha as the first local band (via Seattle) to play Omaha’s largest casino. In Seattle he kept writing and playing with friends just for fun. After a long hiatus, he was persuaded to return to his music for Lawfully Wedded as a songwriter/musician.
Caitlin is delighted to be on the writing team for Lawfully Wedded. Productions include short plays J.D Salinger is My God, which won the audience favorite award at Stone Soup’s Outside the Box festival, and The Scottish Sketch, part of DramaQueen’s recent SWAN day performance. Full lengths include Pretty Girls (co-written with Opal Peachey and Elizabeth Tanner), and a staged reading of My Dear Miss Chancellor, with WET’s New Play Workshop. She is a graduate of Cornish College of the Arts, and a proud company member of Annex Theatre.
Addie is new to the Seattle theatre scene and is thrilled and grateful to be working with Arouet on Lawfully Wedded. She loves that she is able to pursue her passion of collaborative works of art with an amazing group of artists as well as delve into such a prevalent topic in our society today! Her previous experience includes the devised piece “US” with Western Washington U. and “The American Family” in conjunction with Tectonic Theatre Project. She also would like to thank her parents, her sister Katrina, and family and friends for their unlimited support and love in her creative endeavors.
Idalia is grateful to be part of this project, loves to work again with Roy, Morgan and Addie. An artistic spiral. She studied drama at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León in her native México, at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York and at Freehold Theatre in Seattle. Her recent projects (which she is very proud of) include: Anna in the Tropics and Timepieces. She also has participated on various projects with “eSe Teatro”, local commercials and independent movies. When not acting, Idalia enjoys contorting her body with yoga and old school roller skating. Idalia wants to thank the fabulous cast and crew for their support and trust.
Morgan is new to Seattle having moved here from San Francisco 2 years ago. His work was last seen at the Ethnic Cultural Center for the Seattle Playwrights’ Collective showcase Timepieces. Morgan founded Wily West Productions in 2008 and has produced more than 20 productions. Here in Seattle Morgan has founded the Pacific Play Company with Daniel Tarker which will be devoted to new plays by local writers. Morgan has had plays performed or read at the Eureka Theatre, the Phoenix Theatre, the Exit Theatre, Stage Werx, the Marsh in San Francisco, Berkeley Rep, Virago Theatre Company, Gaia Performing Arts Center in Berkeley, Ross Valley Players in Marin County, The Pegasus Theatre in Monte Rio, Theatre Works West, Center Stage and the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and at the Interborough Rep in New York City. Morgan’s play, Ruth and the Sea, was listed as one of the “top 10 Bay Area productions of 2010” by SF Bay Times and Bay Area Theatre Critics’ Circle chairman, Tom Kelly. His comedies, Nymph O’ Mania, Maidrid’s Bow and The Widow West have all received critical acclaim and played to sold-out houses in San Francisco. Morgan is a member of Theatre Bay Area, The Play Cafe, Theatre Puget Sound and The Dramatists Guild of America. He looks forward to seeing the Seattle premiere of Maidrid’s Bow in the spring of 2013!
Eric is proud to be a part of his first Arouet production. He’s previously worked with Arouet’s Artistic Director, Roy Arauz in These Walls Can Talk. Other local plays include Suddenly Last Summer, Everything in the Garden, and The Cherry Orchard — all at Theatre 9/12. He can also be seen in the upcoming film The Dregs. When not acting, Eric loves spending time with his beautiful wife Mary and rabidly supporting anything related to Washington State Cougar athletics.
Gabriel is excited to be a part of such an enlightening and profound play. He hopes this play will help change and open hearts and minds by allowing everyone to take a glimpse into the trials and tribulations of our fellow human beings. It is an honor for him to be part of what he feels is one of the best plays he has had the privilege of being a part of. A big thank you to a wonderful dichotomy of talented directors and actors and his ever constant support group made up of Sharon Lorenzen, his Uncle Greg and brother Joel. 
Kat is an actor, teacher and director. She is the Artistic Director of the new Australian youth theatre company Riot Stage. In 2011 Kat directed Prometheus Days for the Mackay Festival of Arts, and After 3 for the Anywhere Theatre Festival. She performed in the Two Hours Traffic’s production Sh*t and The Danger Ensemble’s Hamlet Apocalypse at LaBoite. In 2008-2009 she toured throughout Europe, America and Australia as part of The Danger Ensemble, performing with internationally acclaimed singer Amanda Palmer. Previous performance credits include Sub-Con Warrior Version 2.0 (2008), Zeitgeist (2008), Dracula (2007) and Romeo and Juliet (2005-2006).
Mary has recently been seen as Gratiana in Revenger’s Tragedy at Greenstage, Beatrix Potter in The Tale of Jemima Canard at Annex, and Olive Worthington in Book-it Repertory Theater’s award-winning Cider House Rules. In 2008 and 2009 Mary lived in Italy where she studied Commedia Dell’ Arte with Roberto Andrioli. Her B.A. in theater is from Reed College. She is thrilled to be part of Arouet’s The House of Bernarda Alba.
Colleen is totally delighted to be working with Roy and Charles again and to be working with such a stellar cast. She studied theater at Los Angeles County School for the Arts and at the North Carolina School for the Arts. Recent credits include: All Through the Night at ArtsWest; Bigfoot with Danny Bonaduce (for the Sci-Fi Channel); The Castle with Fathom Collective @ the Satori Loft; The Gene Pool with Arouet; Edmond with Balagan and Café Nordo. All my gratitude and love to my wonderful family, David & Aidan.
When Monica first read the gripping story of The House of Bernarda Alba in her freshman theatre class at Northwestern, she never dreamed that she would act in a production of the play. Thanks to Roy for encouraging her to audition, to Charles for his directorial insights (and stupendous powers of name recall), J.J. for her patience, and a grand cast of women for being amazing!
Jennifer is delighted to be participating in her first show with Arouet. She is a Washington native whose previous roles include Marge in The Whole Shebang at UPAC, Beth in Copious Love’s production of Sweet & Decent/Dark & Twisty, and Rosalind in As You Like It with Last Leaf Shakespeare in the Park.
Lorrie is very excited to be diving into the wonderful words of Federico Lorca. She was last seen as Jackie Coryton in Hay Fever with Bellevue Civic and Renton Civic Theater. Other favorite roles include Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing with SecondStory Rep, the Duchess in Wonderland: Alice Adventures with theater simple and half the residents of Verona in Greenstage’s Romeo and Juliet. Lorrie trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in the UK. LtJ.
Caitlin Gilman is delighted to be joining this important production. Previous roles include Barbara in Run for Your Wife, and Felicity in Farndale…Christmas Carol (Renton Civic Theater), Chloe in Arcadia (SITPL), Didi in The Cat’s Meow (Redwood Theater), and Claudia in The Butler Did It (VCP). Caitlin is a graduate of Cornish College of the Arts, and a proud company member of Annex Theatre.
Frances is thrilled to be a part of this production. Frances has an MFA from CalArts and a Master’s in Education (TESOL) from Seattle University. Some of her favorite roles have been Anna from Burn This, Irena from The Seagull, The Lover in An Unseen Energy Swallows Space, and the Lady in the Mirror from Wounds to the Face. She also loved working on the Vagina Monologues with Tyrone Brown at Stone Soup. She has just recently performed in a short film by TJ Mino – A Penny Earned, which showed at Sundance 2012. Last year she performed in a feature at SIFF titled, Marrow by Matt Wilkins.
Margaretta has most recently appeared as Summer, the beautiful bridezilla in ‘Till Death with the Murder Mystery Company. Favorite stage roles include Shitara the Jungle Woman in Jungle Woman of the Jungle (Unexpected Productions), Tiresias in Oedipus (Akropolis Performance Lab), Mata Hari in The True Life Fiction of Mata Hari (Cyberact Theatre, Paris). She has also appeared at the Vancouver Fringe Festival, the Penthouse Theatre, and at Le Maison Bleu with the Bilingual Acting Workshop in Paris.
Ruth is delighted to be working with Arouet. She was recently seen as Mme. Pernelle in Taproot Theatre’s production of Moliere’s Tartuffe. She has worked professionally in regional theatres in the east, and since 1982, in many Seattle area theatres. She works frequently with Theatre 9/12, playing Mrs. Toothe in Albee’s Everyrthing in the Garden and the older Medea in Barbara Lindsay’s Jason and Medea—a Love Story. In 1986, she helped found PLAYWORKS for which she is a teaching artist. She also performs for PLAYWORKS touring company in A. Miller’s I Can’t Remember Anything and Vesuvius at Home – which she co authored with Paul O’Connell.
Sarah is an honors graduate of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Most recently, she was seen as “The Sea Goddess” in the mythological aerial dance piece Tarhun by The Cabiri. She has performed with Theatre 9/12, the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, George Street Playhouse, Fulton Theatre, and many other companies. This performance is dedicated to Sarah’s wonderful mother who introduced her daughter to Lorca’s writing many years ago. 
As a shy little girl in the den of our home I operated my own private theater. With continuous runs to the LP sound track version of The Sound of Music and Bye Bye Birdie. It took a half century for me to step out of the den and into the world of the art of acting, playing all of the parts.
Madeline is honored to be joining Arouet for the first time in The House of Bernarda Alba. A recent graduate of the University of Idaho Moscow’s Fine Arts program in performance, Madeline was most recently seen with Seattle Opera as an ensemble actor in Attila after her Seattle debut with Ghostlight Theatricals’ LAPD SMU late-night performance. She has also worked backstage as Ghostlight’s properties designer for Freakstorm and the upcoming Last Days of Judas Escariot.
Devin grew up in New York but has been rattling around Seattle for the last decade. Devin has been in several films including the award winning Three Actresses Walked into a Bathroom, a fantastic interpretation of Hamlet (&@ Hamlet), and Things Left Behind — a short film set in the Mesolithic middle Stone Age period. Devin has worked with local theatre companies such as Annex, Gesamtkunstwerk! and Artattack. She so very grateful for the honor of working with this cast and crew as well as to have the opportunity to work on this gorgeous, painful play. Thank you for coming! (Terquazz, terquazz terquazz.)
Gina is excited to be making her Arouet debut! Most recently she played Hecuba in quiet’s Trojan Women and was part of Annex’s generative ensemble in c. 1993. Last summer she flit about parks as Ariel in GreenStage’s Tempest and spent the winter belting her face off as Lucy Brown with Seattle Shakes in Threepenny Opera. Favorite shows include Annex’s Money Changes Everything (Candy), GreenStage’s As You Like It (Audrey), Emerald City Scene’s Sister Cities (Carolina), Rough Play’s King Lear (Regan), and Into The Woods (The Witch) and The Who’s Tommy (Acid Queen) at UW.
Natalie is thrilled to be making her Seattle theatre debut at Arouet! Originally from Tempe, Arizona, she holds a B.A. Theatre from Arizona State University and has also studied at Canada’s National Voice Intensive. Past credits include The Mousetrap (Hale Centre Theatre), The Glass Menagerie / Colección de cristal (Teatro (D)e), Stories from the Conquest of the Kingdom of New Mexico (Firebird), Mourning Becomes Electra (Arizona State University), and Camino Real (Arizona State University).
Charles is a director, author and award winning playwright. Inspired by the New York theatre scene surrounding him since childhood, Waxberg’s early career earned him recognition as an educator at Carnegie-Mellon University, Instructor and Conservatory Director for the Roundabout Theatre Conservatory, a Script Analyst and Program Director for The Stella Adler Conservatory and an occasional director at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. At the request of Adler, Waxberg relocated to Los Angeles where he not only continued teaching at her Los Angeles Academy, but also became the founding Artistic Director for the UNITAS Theatre Company. Leaving the world of television and film to refocus on theatre, Waxberg relocated to Seattle where he became the founding Artistic Director of Seattle’s acclaimed Balagan theatre. He is currently the founding Artistic Director of Theatre 9/12, where he sometimes directs. His book, The Actor’s Script–Script Analysis for Performers was published by Heinemann Books in 1998 and is currently in its 13th printing. 
Jordan has Stage Managed and Assistant Stage Managed several shows for EDCC, Driftwood Players, Village Theater (Kidstage) and Seattle Musical Theater. Some of her favorites are The Laramie Project, Little Shop of Horrors, Cabaret, All My Sons, Barefoot in the Park, Jungle Book, Annie Get Your Gun, Love, Sex and I.R.S. Jordan would like to thank the company of Arouet, for letting her do another production with them.
Michael is photojournalist with over 20 years experience behind a camera. He combines his love of the stage with his passion for photography by shooting stills for a number of local theater companies. Michael is a member of the American Society of Media Photographers. You can enjoy more of his photography on his website at 
Evan is a Seattle based Actor/Musician, excited to graduate from Cornish College of the Arts in Spring 2012! He was recently seen in Prairie Nocturne at Book-It Repertory playing bass, mandolin, and guitar. He can currently be seen in ReAct theatre’s A Language Of Their Own performing his own original musical score. He plays bass/backup vocals for Loyal Kites, and more information can be found at 
Keith is a 20 year veteran of theater in the Puget Sound area. He has designed lighting for Evergreen Theatre, Civic Light Opera (now Seattle Musical Theatre), Driftwood Players, Tacoma Little Theater, Northwest Savoyards, Seattle Comic Opera, and Gaydar Productions. Also a scenic designer, master electrician, actor and playwright, his day job is running the front office for The Driftwood Players in Edmonds. When not in a theater, he spends his time with his two “guys”, Chazz and Dave.
Kim’s path to set design has meandered through several creative jobs, working at Sotheby’s in London for several years and then at David Hicks and John Stefanidis, to name a few stops which provided valuable influences. She has also designed her own fabrics and line of products, manufactured locally under the label: kimthings. She has a degree in Fine Art and Art History from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa and studied Textile Design at Central St Martin’s College of Art in London.
Kristina recently provided Set Design, Costuming, and Props for Arouet’s production of Frankie and Johnny. In film, she did Set Decoration and Production Design for Sister Billie’s Sinner Hour, which won best costuming in the 2010 48-Hour Film Festival; and she was the Production Designer for the film short Three Mothers. She is a licensed architect and studied fine art in France at the L’Ecole Des Beaux-Arts. 
