McGuire

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Dick Enberg (Playwright) is enjoying his second 50 years of sports broadcasting. He first began his broadcasting career in 1956 by applying for a custodial job at a radio station in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, while still a student at Central Michigan University. Following this stint Dick attended graduate school at Indiana University (1957-61), earning his Master's and Doctoral degrees in Health Education, and while there served as the first-ever play-by-play talent for the I.U. Sports Network. From 1961-65 he served as Assistant Professor and Assistant Baseball Coach at California State Northridge. In 1965 legendary radio and television cowboy Gene Autry hired Dick as a full-time announcer at Autry's Los Angeles radio and television stations, KTLA and KMPC. It was here that Dick became the voice of the Los Angeles Rams, California Angel s and UCLA basketball. Dick claims to have ridden the John Wooden wave at UCLA, as the Bruins won eight National Championships in his nine years as their announcer. In 1975 Dick signed with NBC as the play-by-play voice of the "Basketball Game of the Week." Dick and Billy Packer would be joined by Al McGuire in the 1977-78 basketball season, forming what has been heralded as the best basketball announcer team in television history, More importantly, it was here that the longstanding Enberg-McGuire friendship was forged.

While announcing everything from the Olympics to Wimbledon, NCAA basketball to U.S. Open golf, Dick has earned a series of national broadcasting honors, including 14 Emmy Awards, nine Sportscaster of the Year Awards, and the 2005 Victor Award as the top sportscaster of the past 40 years. His versatility is reflected in the fact that he is the only person to win a national Emmy Award as a sportscaster, producer and writer. In 2000 he was awarded the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences' Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award. He has received the Curt Gowdy Award (Basketball Hall of Fame) and the Pete Rozelle Award (Pro Football Hall of Fame) and has been inducted in the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame. In 1998 he became only the fourth sportscaster to be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Dick has received honorary doctorates from Central Michigan University, Indiana University, and Marquette University, having delivered the commencement address at each school. For more than 20 years Dick has served as the National Spokesperson for the Academic All-America Hall of Fame. An annual Dick Enberg Award is given to an individual that exhibits Dick's passion and support for academics and athletics, among the recipients, President Gerald Ford, Dean Smith, Bill Russell, Tom Osborne, and Donna Shalala. Dick has authored two best-selling books, Dick Engerg's Humourous Quotes for All Occasions, and his biography, Oh My. Dick Enberg's McGuire is his first turn as a playwright.

Dick lives in La Jolla, California, with his wife, Barbara, and three of his six children. He enjoys tennis, classical music, travel, and tending to his cellar of fine wines.

COTTER SMITH (Actor) is pleased to be spending some time again with the amazing Al McGuire, after originally performing this play in the 2005 premiere production at Marquette University in Milwaukee, where Al created such a lasting legacy. Since then he has had the honor of returning Al to the NCAA Final Four in Atlanta on the 30th anniversary of his national championship there, to Long Island near the neighborhoods where he grew up, as well as to San Diego, Las Vegas, and Chicago, with other cities planned for the future. 

Cotter's New York theatre credits include the Broadway productions of Wendy Wasserstein's An American Daughter and Lanford Wilson's Burn This, as well as the Pulitzer Prize winning How I learned to Drive by Paula Vogel. He just completed a run of the new play, The Gospel According to Adam by Geoffrey Nauffts, with the Naked Angels Theatre Company. He was also a member of the Circle Repertory Company in Los Angeles. Along with his wife, Heidi Muller Smith, he was a founder and Artistic Director of the Cornerstone Theatre Company in Milwaukee. His television and film work ranges from his debut as Robert Kennedy in the miniseries Blood Feud twenty-five years ago to his more recent role as the President of the United States in the 20th Century Fox film X2: X-Men United. He recently completed work on the film Lunatics, Lovers, and Poets, for which he received a Best Supporting Actor nomination from the MethodFest Independent Film Festival. He has appeared in over fifty television shows along the way. 

Special thanks to his inspiring children who bring joy and wonder into his life, and to Heidi, his own personal cornerstone. And finally, thanks to Dick Enberg for trusting him with this tribute to Al and so movingly sharing with all of us his memories of this memorable man.

Heidi Mueller Smith (Director) is so happy to be bringing the McGuire Show to Portland. Heidi has had the honor of collaborating with her husband Cotter and friend Dick Enberg on this homage to a man she admired growing up in Milwaukee during the "golden years" of the Marquette Warriors. 

In addition to McGuire, Heidi has directed and acted in several plays at Cornerstone Theatre in Milwaukee, a company co-founded by she and Cotter, as well as other venues in Milwaukee, including ComedySportz. In addition to this work, Heidi is an educator at Marquette in the theatre department, and works for Express Yourself Milwaukee, bringing arts education to at risk youth in the community. 

It is a pleasure to be able to not only work with her fabulously talented husband Cotter, but also to have the technical and organizational support of her talented daughter Brianne along on this exciting adventure around the country. Thanks to Portland Stage for bringing us here, Mr. Enberg, and Phylis Ravel at Marquette, without whom none of this would have happened in the curiously wonderful way it has.

Brianne Mueller (Stage Manager) is a graduate of Lawrence University with a B.A. in Theatre Performance and Psychology minor. Born and raised in Wisconsin, she is currently working as a Production Coordinator at Express Yourself Milwaukee and thrilled to be working on McGuire. Brianne worked as student intern at the Theatre Departments at Lawrence University, in addition to two years as a stage manager in their nationally-recognized Music Conservatory. Most recently, she has stage managed the New York premiere of Leslie Caveney's Love of a Pig on off-off-Broadway and was employed as Production Assistant at Blind Visual Propaganda in New York City. 

Production highlights include The Winter's Tale, The First Lady, The Vagina Monologues, Brad Does Beckett, Boomtown, Counting the Ways (Lawrence University), Day of Grace (Cornerstone Theatre), A Shot in the Dark (Attic Theatre), Love of a Pig (Cardinal Group Productions), Midnight Madness (Evil Eye Productions) and her internship at Shared Experience in London. She would like to thank Heidi, Cotter, Dick and Stephen for bringing her on board, Nicole for her help, as well as Dave, Kathy, Tim, Annette and Rich for teaching her everything she knows.