the PLAY

By L. Bloodworth Thomason

A WORLD PREMIERE play bringing the megahit television series to life for our current age. Teeming with raucous hilarity and channeling the series’ one-of-a-kind, trademark voice, Designing Women sets out to re-unite its audience—if nothing else—in laughter. It’s 2020, and Julia, Suzanne, Mary Jo, and Charlene are partners in the Atlanta-based interior design firm, Sugarbaker’s—but with the firm in crisis, they’re on the verge of a radical decision to sell the business and separate. A timely, whip-smart and deeply funny new Southern comedy set to take the theatre world by storm.

THE CAST

CAST AND TEAM

CAST

SARAH COLONNA Mary Jo Shively

CARMEN CUSACK* Julia Sugarbaker

R. WARD DUFFY* Wynn Dollarhyde

ELAINE HENDRIX* Charlene Frazier

KATHERINE LANASA Julia Sugarbaker (10/11–Close)

KIM MATULA Haley McFee

MATTHEW FLOYD MILLER* Caulder Tipton III

ELIZABETH OFODILE Alfie Bouvier

AMY PIETZ* Suzanne Sugarbaker

CARLA RENATA* Cleo Bouvier

TONJA WALKER* Charlene Frazier

(Select Performances 9/27–Close)

VOICEOVERS

BRYCE KEMPH, GABRIEL FRANCO-KULL, RILES NEWSOME

UNDERSTUDIES

DEBRA CAPPS (u/s Haley McFee); NA'TOSHA DE'VON (u/s Cleo

Bouvier); Lara Jo Hightower (u/s Mary Jo Shively); BRYCE KEMPH (u/s

Caulder Tipton III); MATTHEW FLOYD MILLER (u/s Wynn Dollarhyde);

TATIANA WATTS (u/s Alfie Bouvier)

CREATIVE

HARRY THOMASON Director

AMY HERZBERG Associate Director

KIMBERLY POWERS^ Scenic Designer

HELENE SIEBRITS^ Costume Designer

JASON LYNCH^ Lighting Designer

CHRIS RENFRO Sound Designer

BRODIE JASCH Properties Manager

EMELY ZEPEDA* Production Stage Manager

ELIZABETH BARNES# Casting

SETH CASKEY# Casting

ADDITIONAL CREATIVE

MICHELLE LEBLANC Movement Choreographer

BRUCE MILLER & JASON MILLER Original Compositions &

Arrangements

SCOTT RUSSELL Fight Choreographer

HEIDI DECALUWE Assistant Costume Designer

STEPHANIE COLLINS* 1st Assistant Stage Manager

ANA MUÑOZ 2nd Assistant Stage Manager