Top Girls
Written by: Caryl Churchill
Directed by: Cameron Watson
ADVISORY
Recommended for Ages 16+
Politics get personal in the go-getting 1980s of Margaret Thatcher’s England when Marlene, who has just been made managing director of the Top Girls Employment Agency, discovers that life above the glass ceiling is not all it’s cracked up to be. An insightful commentary on bourgeois feminism, this bold and ingenious work offers one of theater’s most honest portraits of what it means to be a woman in the modern world. Shoulder-pads may no longer be in fashion, but Churchill’s masterpiece continues to resonate.
PRODUCTION TEAM
Scenic Design: Stephen Gifford
Costume Design: Terri A. Lewis
Properties Design: Alyson Schultz
Production Stage Manager: Lara Nall
Lighting Design: Jared Sayeg
Sound Design/Original Compositions: Jeff Gardner & Ellen Mandell
Dialect Coach: Nike Doukas
Assistant Stage Manager: Kristin Weber
Production Electrician: Chris Osborne
Technical Director: R. Scott Thompson
Production Manager: Adam Meyer
Electricians: Tennyson Stead, Spencer Rowe, Michael Hyland
Set Construction: Red Colgrove & Colgrove Scenery
Assistant Directors: Maureen Lenker & Shaina Rosenthal
Scenic Painter: Orlando de la Paz
Costume Design: Terri A. Lewis
Properties Design: Alyson Schultz
Production Stage Manager: Lara Nall
Lighting Design: Jared Sayeg
Sound Design/Original Compositions: Jeff Gardner & Ellen Mandell
Dialect Coach: Nike Doukas
Assistant Stage Manager: Kristin Weber
Production Electrician: Chris Osborne
Technical Director: R. Scott Thompson
Production Manager: Adam Meyer
Electricians: Tennyson Stead, Spencer Rowe, Michael Hyland
Set Construction: Red Colgrove & Colgrove Scenery
Assistant Directors: Maureen Lenker & Shaina Rosenthal
Scenic Painter: Orlando de la Paz
Cast
Rhonda Aldrich*
POPE JOAN/LOUISE
Shannon Lee Clair*
PATIENT GRISELDA/NELL/JEANINE
Julia Davis*
WAITRESS/KIT/SHONA
Etta Devine
DULL GRET/ANGIE
Karianne Flaathen*
ISABELLA/JOYCE/MRS.KIDD
Kimiko Gelman
LADY NIJO/WIN
Alexandra Goodman
WAITRESS/KIT/SHONA
Sally Hughes*
MARLENE
Abigail Marks*
DULL GRET/ANGIE
Rebecca Mozo*
MARLENE
Elizabeth Swain
POPE JOAN/LOUISE
Jeanne Syquia*
PATIENT GRISELDA/NELL/JEANINE
Production Team
Cameron Watson
Director
Caryl Churchill
Playwright
*member, Actor’s Equity Association, the union of professional Actors and Stage Managers in the U.S. This production is presented under the auspices of the Actors’ Equity Los Angeles Membership Company Rule
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