You Can't Take It With You
Artistic Team

Production Manager: Matthew Cavanaugh
Director: Christy Penney
Stage Manager: Meredith Taitz
  • Assistant Stage Manager:
Technical Director Mary Barrett
Sound Designer: Brian Girard
  • Assistant Sound Designer:
Lighting Designer: Val Grimm
  • Assistant Lighting Designer:
Scenic Designer: Jack Brady
Hair/Make-up Designers: Kelly Ristaino
Tamara Garabedian
Publicity Director: Joe Corso
  • Assistant Publicity Director:
Costume Designer: Dolores Brown
  • Assistant Costume Designer:
Properties: Kellie-Marie Leavitt
  • Assistant Properties:
Choreographer: Kristin Stewart
House Manager: Adam Seigel
Webmaster: Scott Hamill


Susan Abbott - Assistant Lighting Designer - This is Sue's first show with the Guild and she is psyched to have finally gotten her foot in the door. Sue is a sophomore undeclared major and is looking forward to being involved with the Guild in the future. She sends much love out to all her friends, her family in da Bronx, and special thanx to Mattie for giving her this opportunity.

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Mary H. Barrett - Technical Director - Again, Mary is insane. She would like to thank god for Jack - without him - big scary thoughts come to mind - along with a few nervous breakdowns. Go Jack. Yeah Jack. Sue still believes magic is essential part of life. BIG THANKS to everyone for their help and support. You guys are great.

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Gordon Bedford - Assistant Costume Designer - Gordon is still a Sophomore English Guy. This is his 4th involvement in a Guild Show. He bust up little Mike in Tommy, hung out with Ari in Angels in America, got lost in the Pit in The Wiz, and now he's going shopping with Dolores. Life is Good. What's up to the silly cast. Mattie's a fattie.

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Jack Brady - Scenic Designer - Jack is a graduating Theatre major concentrating in Scenic Design. This is his second design for the Guild. The reason for the long hiatus between Rumors and You Can't Take It With You, was due to a prison term for aggravated assault upon a squirrel. After rehabilitation he has been allowed back into the Guild. He claims to be completely rehabilitated and bears no malice towards small fuzzy animals.

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Dolores Brown - Costume designer - Dolores is continuing to pretend she is a UMass Student, and that she can sew. She is glad that Gordon is her slave, I mean partner and hopes everyone will tickle him and make him laugh like a girl. For real though, she'd like to thank the supafly cast & A-team for all the good times, and she'd especially like to thank John Kazlauskas for being funny, Matt Rosnov for his fine singing & latin dance, and Kristina Johnson for being black so I could work on the show.

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Matthew D. Cavanaugh - Production Manager Play - Mattie is a junior Theater Major and is at a loss for words to describe the amazing process that producing for the Theatre Guild has been. First , he would like to thank his family for without them nothing would be possible. Also he would like to thank the E-Board, the Cast & A Team of "You Can't Take It With You", Jenn, Dom, his boys for life, Bry-Bry, Petie, and Danny, Michael and David for shaping his life, Ari for knowing when to help and when to back off and for those people who make him smile.

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Joseph Corso - Publicity Director - This is Joseph's first show with the UMTG, and his first semester at college. Joseph would like to thank everyone in the UMTG for making him feel like on of the family. He would also like to thank the Cast and A-Team for everything, the support, the jokes, and of course the pinches on the ass.

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Tamara Garabedian - Co. Hair & Make-Up Designer - As a sophomore this is Tamara's 5th show with the UMTG. This makes her first debut on the artistic team and she is thrilled to be working with such a fabulous cast & crew. She would like to thank her Mom, Dad, Adrena, Lucin, Ames, Jef, & the girls of 2411 for all their unconditional love & support! Thanks, she loves you guys!

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Brian Girard - Sound Designer - This marks Brian's 7th design for the Guild... could it be the last? You last saw him in the land of Oz as a munchkin as well as Evilene's right hand man Lord High Underling. He encourages everybody to get involved with the UMTG because it is the single best organization on campus. Peace & Thanks to all the wonderful & talented people he's ever worked with . .see y'all in The Biz.

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Daniel Grady - Chairperson - Dan is a senior marketing major here at UMass. He will be graduating in the spring and is looking to move to Chicago or New York. He congratulates the entire cast and crew. Break - A - Leg

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Tricia Gransewicz - Treasurer - T-Dawg is a junior School of Management/Theatre major who loves stress more than life itself. She would like to let the cast know that she thinks they are all very phat. She would also like to wish Tara good luck in L.A. - I'll miss you my sexy little itchba! P.S. - I'll tell people to go over to the freezer more often.

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Val Grimm - Lighting Designer - Val is a sophomore English major with an Art and Technical Design minor at Mount Holyoke College. She has interned in Lighting & Electronics at the summer Theater at MHC where she designed The Heiress. She has worked with lights and sound at the Jab Theater during the academic year. She sends her thanks to Mr. Howard, Nathan Lowne- Smith all her STMHC buddies, the Johnson's, her folks, and all those in the Guild who have helped her.

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Scott Hamill- (Webmaster, Asst. Sound) - Sound design is Scott's hobby, and Web design is his PASSION. This junior Journalism major would like to express gratitude towards:

check out our webpage:

www.umass.edu/rso/guild

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Meredith W. Harper - Assistant Stage Manager - Meredith is a sophomore Psychology major with a track in neuroscience. Although this is her first production with the UMass Theater Guild, she has directed, acted, and worked backstage for a variety of productions including two professional children's theater pieces and an award-winning competition piece. Her other interests included volleyball, roller-skating , and listening to music. She has enjoyed working with the fun and talented cast & crew of "You Can't Take It With You" and looks forward to her next Theatre Guild production.

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Jana Michelle Jacobson - Secretary - This is Jana's 5th semester with the guild & is very glad to be secretary. Why, you may ask? Because she gets to make the general population of the guild do silly stupid things. Thanks to the cast, crew, A-team and E-board. Personal thanks to the staff of BCG, Mom & Dad, Friends & big "J" man.

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Kellie Marie Leavitt - Props Mistress - Kellie Marie is a sophomore at UMass and this is her 3rd semester with the Guild. She was last "seen" as a pit singer in "The Wiz." She also served as ASM for the Guild's Production of "Tommy" Kellie would like to thank the former ASMs from "Tommy" just for being there and Mark for making firecrackers, skyrockets, and watermelon.

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Timothy McKeon - Tim is secretly a Canadian.

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Mark Ostroff - Props Assistant - This is Mark's first production with the Guild. he is a freshman Astronomy major from Saugus, Massachusetts. In the past, mark has worked on the sets of David Foxton's "Rabbit," and Studs Terkel's musical "Working," as well as performed in them. Mark still considers himself new to the whole theatre scenic. However, he hopes to learn a lot from the Guild. He wants this production to be one of the many he hopes to work on with the Guild.

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Christy Penney - Artistic Director- This is Christy's first show with the Guild and is excited to have had the opportunity to direct. She is a Sophomore Theater major and plans to go into education. She would like to thank her parents because they never discouraged her, the incredible cast for making it so much fun, Steph for taking her messages, and Dave for making her laugh (rah-rah)

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Kelly Ristaino - Co-Hair & Make-up Designer - This marks Kelly's fourth production with the UMTG. She was last involved with The Wiz when she both Costume Designed and played Aunt Em. Kelly would like to thank everyone who has ever inspired her, supported her, or made her smile.

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Adam Seigel - House Manager - Oh HELL YEAH! He's gonna be givin' out programs, taking your tickets, and with the most electrifin' move in sports entertainment, The People's Elbow, He'll be rippin' your tickets in half! And for all you who ain't down with that, He's got two words for ya'. . . . . . . . . . . .

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Kristin M. Stewart - Choreographer - Kristin is thrilled to be back working on Guild show #4. She'd like to thank everyone who has kept her laughing along the path of insanity these past few months- esp. Sara, Jenn, Adam, Hieu, and her WONDERFUL family. Congrats to the cast, crew, and A-Team, Break a leg!

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Meredith J. Taitz - Stage Manager - Meredith is a junior marketing major working on her third Guild show. She wants everyone to know that she really is scared of this cast, but thinks they all did a great job anyway. Congratulations to the cast, crew, and A-team.

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Ari M. Teplitz - Production Manager - Musical - Ari would like to congratulate Mattie & the entire cast & crew of You Can't Take It With You for putting together an awesome show. Ari produced UMTG's fall musical, The Wiz, and has also produced Angels in America, and The Passion of Dracula with UMTG, both last year. Ari is very glad to be back with the e- board for a second year and would like to thank everyone who has helped with both productions.

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