LASTS LISTS
A new musical based on Last Lists of my Mad Mother by Julie Jensen
Music by Ron Barnett, Lyrics by Julianne Homokay, Book by Julie Jensen
CREATIVE BIOS
Alexandra Harbold (she/her) | Director
Previous projects at Salt Lake Acting Company include acting in Sunny in the Dark and directing Western Minerals & Their Origins (Footpath Theatre Company, SLAC’s Making Space for Artists program), Death of a Driver, and The Wolves. Harbold is Resident Director for Footpath Theatre, the Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Flying Bobcat Theatrical Laborator,y and an Associate Professor with the University of Utah’s Department of Theatre, where she serves as the Theatre BA Area Head. She is a member of Actors’ Equity Association and LMDA and an Associate Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. Upcoming projects include serving as dramaturg for Come From Away (Pioneer Theatre Company) and directing Western Minerals & Their Origins (Footpath Theatre, Flying Bobcat, and UtahPresents) and Arcadia (University of Utah). AlexandraHarbold.com
Anne Puzey (she/her) | Music Director
Anne is a well-known music director, having directed for Hale Centre Theatre, The Grand Theatre, The Ruth, UVU Noorda Theatre, The Parker Theatre, West Valley Arts, Good Company Theatre, and SLAC, among others. She has worked with Merrill Osmond, Alex Brightman, Jessica Vosk, Lauren Molina, Rob McClure, Jeff McCarthy, Jill Santoriello, Will Swenson, Jason Robert Brown, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Maren Mazzie, Kate Baldwin, Ciera Renee, Seth Rudetsky, Betsy Wolfe, and Pacek & Paul. She graduated from BYU. She received a Lifetime Service Award from the Utah Theatre Association. She has been an audition accompanist for Big League Productions, Tuacahn Theatre, and the National Touring Company of Cats and Mamma Mia!, a pianist at Broadway Evolved in NYC, and a vocal coach for Utah Opera and Symphony. She played on the national tour of Motones and Jerseys. She is a member of The Maestra Directory and is part-owner of Audition Advantage.
Julie Jensen (she/her) | Playwright/Book
Julie Jensen has written more than 30 plays, all of them professionally produced and a dozen published. She has won three major national awards and has taught playwriting at six universities. Ten of her plays have been produced by Salt Lake Acting Company, including Last Lists of My Mad Mother, upon which Last Lists, the musical, is based. That play has had dozens of productions in this country and abroad. It remains one of her most produced plays. Recently she taught a playwriting class for people of color and directed play designed to be produced in people's living rooms. That project will run through the next year.
Ron Barnett (he/him) | Music
Ron is a composer living in Los Angeles, CA, where he is Director of Music and Sacred Arts at Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church, Glendale. Musical scores (representative): Reality Trip, book and lyrics by Richard Castle, When Butter Churns to Gold, book by Peter Welkin/lyrics by Randi Wolfe, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, book and lyrics by Greg Edwards, Around the World in 80 Days, book and lyrics by Julianne Homokay, A Christmas Carol, book by Barry Kornhauser, (Dramatic Publishing). Other works include scores and sound designs for the world premiere productions of Lightning Rod (Tim Slover), The French Lieutenant’s Woman (Mark Healy), Turn of the Screw (Doug Jones), and Cyrano (Barry Kornhauser). Ron has scored over two dozen shows for regional children’s theatre, some of which have toured nationally, been performed at the Producer’s Association of Children’s Theatre in New York, the Kennedy Center, and been nominated for TCG awards. He was, with lyricist Greg Edwards, a finalist for the 2010 and 2011 Fred Ebb Prize.
Julianne Homokay (she/her) | Lyricist
Julianne is a screenwriter, playwright, performer, director, and musician. She earned her MFA in Playwriting from UNLV and has gone on to write numerous full-length and one-act plays and musicals. She also spent seven years on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Julianne’s original stage play, All Saints in the Old Colony, was a 2015 semi-finalist at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center and received its world premiere at Playhouse-on-the-Square in Memphis in 2018. The film, based on the play All Saints Day, starring Don Swayze, is available on demand on Amazon, Apple TV, Fandango, etc. Additional credits as a writer include Mill Mountain Theatre, the Fulton Theatre, several Los Angeles theaters, the William Inge Playwrights’ Center, and theaters across the country and around the world that have produced a silly little play called The Wedding Story. Currently, she works as a journalist and editor at the Southern California newspaper The Alpine Mountaineer. She is still a little amazed and very grateful that her graduate school mentor, the unstoppable Julie Jensen, allowed her to musicalize this beautiful story!
Cynthia Fleming (she/her) | Executive Artistic Director
Cynthia has been an integral part of Salt Lake Acting Company since 1998 and was named Executive Artistic Director in 2015. Over the years, Cynthia has lovingly shaped Salt Lake Acting Company into what it is today–creating and implementing SLAC’s Arts Education Programs (Title I Arts Education Program, Professional Theatre Program), deepening SLAC’s commitment to New Play Development through the Playwrights’ Lab, establishing a culture of community through the Making Space for Artists Program, outreach, and partnerships with other organizations. Under Cynthia’s leadership, SLAC has continually set the standard for accessibility, equity, diversity, and inclusion; in 2020, SLAC launched The Amberlee Fund, a capital campaign to make SLAC’s historic building wheelchair accessible. To date, Cynthia has produced over 100 plays.
CAST BIOS
Tamara Howell (she/her) | Dot
Tamara is thrilled to revisit the role of Dot in Last Lists, which she played two years ago at Pygmalion Theatre Company. Other recent roles include Sugar in Tiny Beautiful Things (Pygmalion), Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd (The Grand), Harley in From June to August (Meanwhile Park), Martha Hughs Cannon in Mother, Mother, Bella Abzug in Bella Bella (Pygmalion), and Mrs. Stanton in Four Women Talking About the Man Under the Sheet here at SLAC. Tamara has acted in 5 other plays by the amazing Julie Jensen and may just be her very biggest fan! When not on stage, Tamara can be found golfing, directing, or teaching theatre to her incredible JR. high school students.
Marion Markham (she/her) | Ma
Marion is grateful to be part of SLAC’s reading of Last Lists. Recently, she made her Utah directing debut with Sunny in the Dark by Elaine Jarvik. At SLAC, she has appeared in You Will Get Sick and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City.
Her stage credits include Mme. Dindon in La Cage Aux Folles at Pioneer Theatre, Off-Broadway performances at New York Theatre Workshop, The Public Theater, Theatre 1010, and The Hudson Guild, and an international tour as Maria in West Side Story. She has performed numerous Shakespearean roles with The Colonial Theatre and has appeared regionally at TheatreZone, Goodspeed, American Musical Theatre, Ocean State Theatre, Ivoryton Playhouse, and the Fulton Opera House.
Television credits include Law & Order, Saturday Night Live, and All My Children. Marion has created and performed more than 50 cabaret shows nationwide.
Adrien Swenson (she/her) | Sis
Adrien has a degree in acting and directing from SUU and has performed across the country in musicals, plays, concerts, and in voiceover and film. She was recently seen as Meredith in SLAC’s Bat Boy, is currently assistant directing Lucky Stiff at WVC Arts, and is a vocal coach at Rich Music Studios. Some of Adrien’s favorite roles include Grizabella in Cats, Amneris in Aida, and Narrator in Joseph… at UFOMT, Madame Defarge in A Tale of Two Cities at HCTWV, HCT Sandy, and WVC Arts, Alice in Bright Star at Hale Orem, and Louise in Always, Patsy Cline. Adrien toured with Michael McLean for 9 seasons and in the recent film of The Forgotten Carols as Connie Lou and as Miss Bassett in the National Tour of Finding Neverland. Other career highlights include Fantine in Les Miserables, Judy in 9 to 5, Nancy in Oliver!, Lucille in Parade, and Kate McGowan in Titanic. “Thank you for having me back, SLAC, and as always, thanks to Matt for your constant love and support.”
