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By Samuel D. Hunter Directed by Davis McCallum

LEWISTON/CLARKSTON BY SAMUEL D. HUNTER DIRECTED BY DAVIS MCCALLUM

LEWISTON CAST CLARKSTON CAST Arnie Burton Heidi Armbruster Kristin Griffith Edmund Donovan Leah Karpel Noah Robbins

PRODUCTION TEAM Set Design by Dane Laffrey Assistant Lighting Designer: Tyler D. Dubuc Costume Design by Jessica Wegener Shay Assistant Sound Designer: Michael Costagliola Lighting Design by Stacey Derosier Properties Designers: Alyssa Tryon & Antonia Sound Design by Fitz Patton Howard Casting by Calleri Casting Assistant Properties: Natalie Reichman Production Stage Managers: Joanne Pan & Katie Master Electrician: Joe D'Emilio Young Sound Supervisor: Tyler Keiffer Dramaturg: John M. Baker Lighting Programmer/Sound Board Assistant Stage Managers: Rachel Kaplow & Operator/Show Technician: David Orlando Samantha McCann Wardrobe Supervisor: Ryan Ginter Production Manager: Jenny Beth Snyder Substitute Wardrobe Supervisor: Emily Naylor Technical Director: Aaron Gonzalez Substitute Wardrobe Supervisor: Megan Hayes Associate Directors: Shadi Ghaheri & Lillian Press Representative: Matt Ross Public Relations Meredith Videographer: Zanni Productions / Jonathan Associate Scenic Designer: Matt Iacozza Burklund Assistant Costume Designer: Danica Martino Playwriting Intern: Jack T. Calk

This production is supported by the Venturous Theater Fund of the Tides Foundation and The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation with additional support by Douglas Nevin, R. Lee Stump and Abigail Roth.

World Premiere of CLARKSTON was produced by Theater Center Kevin Moriarty, Artistic Director Jeffrey Woodward, Managing Director

Developed as part of a 2013 Residency with at the Mead Center for American Theater

World Premiere Production of LEWISTON was presented by Long Wharf Theatre, April 13, 2016 Gordon Edelstein, Artistic Director Joshua Borenstein, Managing Director

LEWISTON was developed by Marin Theatre Company, Mill Valley, California. Jasson Minadakis, Artistic Director, Michael Barker, Managing Director, Margot Melcon, Director of New Play Development

Developed as part of a 2013 Residency with Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater

LEWISTON and CLARKSTON were developed during a residency with the Baltic Playwrights Conference in collaboration with the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center Wendy C. Goldberg, Artistic Director / Preston Whiteway, Executive Director

LEWISTON and CLARKSTON were written with support from SPACE on Ryder Farm

LEWISTON/CLARKSTON will be presented at Boise Contemporary Theater in Spring 2019. LEWISTON CAST

ARNIE BURTON (Connor in LEWISTON) Broadway: The 39 Steps, Peter and the Starcatcher, Machinal, A Free Man of Color, Amadeus, also The New Yorkers for Encores. Off Broadway highlights: The Government Inspector (Callaway Award), The Temperamentals (), The Mystery of Irma Vep (Drama League nomination), Lonely Planet, The Winter’s Tale, The Explorers Club, The Jew of Malta/The Merchant of Venice, Lives of the Saints, Mere Mortals, The Last Sunday in June. Great Britain: The Merchant of Venice at the RSC. Film and TV includes: “Murphy Brown”, The Greatest Showman, The Invention of Lying, Igby Goes Down, The Good Fight, “The Blacklist”, “Blue Bloods”, “Jessica Jones”, “Elementary”, “Flesh and Bone”, “Frasier”, “White Collar”, “Law & Order”, “Law & Order: Criminal Intent”, “Sister, Sister”. This is for George Harlow Burton, my Dad, a butcher from Idaho.

KRISTIN GRIFFITH (Alice in LEWISTON) Theatre: Atlantic: Animal, Jody’s Mother, Perry Street and Bottom of the World. The Mint: The Fatal Weakness (Drama Desk Nom. Best Actress), Mary Broome, The Charity That Begins at Home, and Mr. Pim Passes By. Irish Rep: Da, The Master Builder, It’s A Wonderful Life and Ernest In Love. The Womens Project: Bethany and The Most Deserving. New Georges: Stretch: A Fantasia. A member of Ensemble Studio Theatre since the 70’s, happily appearing in many marathons. TV: HBO’s “Succession” (Mrs. Wamsgams), “Big Dogs” (Renny’s mom), “Law & Order” (all Franchises), “Blue Bloods,” “New Amsterdam”, “Ed”, “Wonderland”, “Third Watch”. Film: Ben is Back (upcoming, dir. Peter Hedges), I Smile Back w/ Sarah Silverman, other films include Woody Allen’s Interiors, Steven Soderbergh’s King of The Hill, Merchant/Ivory’s The Europeans. AEA SAG/AFTRA

LEAH KARPEL (Marnie in LEWISTON) Off-Broadway: The Harvest (LCT3); Pocatello (); Porto (Women’s Project). Regional: Miller, Mississippi (Dallas Theatre Center); Residence (Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival); Appropriate, The Whale, We Are Proud to Present…(Victory Gardens Theatre); Buena Vista, , The (Steppenwolf Theatre); The Diary Of Anne Frank (Writers Theatre); The Commons of Pensacola (Northlight Theatre); (Long Wharf Theatre); Punk Rock (Griffin Theatre); Ten Chimneys (Milwaukee Repertory). Film/TV: Chicago Med; Patriot; Olympia.

CLARKSTON CAST

HEIDI ARMBRUSTER (Trisha in CLARKSTON) Broadway: Time Stands Still Theater Off-Broadway: Lincoln Center: ; Primary Stages: Poor Behavior; : Sea of Tranquility; Keen Company: Boy, Tea and Sympathy, Good Morning Bill; Mint Theater Company: Love Goes to Press, The Fifth Column, Susan and God; New Georges: Hillary; Playwright’s Realm: Dov and Ali. Select Regional: The Guthrie: Blithe Spirit, The Importance of Being Ernest, The Great Gatsby; : At The Old Place; Dallas Theater Center: Clarkston; Hartford Stage: Queens For A Year. Film/Television: "Younger," “Daredevil,” "Divorce," “The Deuce,” "Elementary," "Louie," "30 Rock," "Blacklist," "SVU," Michael Clayton, My Man Is A Loser, The Smurfs, Poor Behavior, Revolutionary Road, The Northern Kingdom. Awards: Drama League nomination for Tea and Sympathy. Training: American Conservatory Theater.

EDMUND DONOVAN (Chris in CLARKSTON) Broadway: The Snow Geese (MTC) New York: Xander Xyst, Dragon: 1 (, ANT Fest) Hot Fun in the Summertime (Cherry Lane) Regional: Chautauqua, Yale Rep, Shakespeare & Company. TV/Film: “Orange is the New Black,” “Unforgettable,” Akron. Training: BU; LAMDA, Yale School of Drama

NOAH ROBBINS (Jake in CLARKSTON) Broadway: (Outer Critics Circle nomination), Arcadia. Off-Broadway: “Master Harold”… And the Boys (Signature Theater), Punk Rock (MCC Theater), The Vandal (Flea Theater), The Twenty-Seventh Man (Public Theater), Secrets of the Trade (Primary Stages) (Clive Barnes Award nomination). Regional: several shows at the Kennedy Center with director/choreographer Debbie Allen. Film: Miss Sloane, The Week Of, Indignation, Villains, Set It Up, Aardvark, Cruise, Fatal Crossing, The Outcasts, Aftermath, Newsworthy (Best Actor Award, L.A. Comedy Festival). TV: “Forever” (opposite Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen), “Grease: Live,” “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” “Masters of Sex,” “Younger,” “Orange Is The New Black,” “Gotham,” “The Good Wife,” “Blue Bloods,” “The Slap.” He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from Columbia University, where he majored in Philosophy.

PRODUCTION TEAM

SAMUEL D. HUNTER (Playwright) plays include The Whale (Drama Desk Award, Award for Outstanding Play, GLAAD Media Award, Drama League and Outer Critics Circle nominations for Best Play), A Bright New Boise (, Drama Desk nomination for Best Play), The Few, A Great Wilderness, Rest, Pocatello, The Healing, The Harvest, Lewiston, Clarkston, and most recently, Greater Clements. He is the recipient of a 2014 MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship, a 2012 Whiting Writers Award, the 2013 Otis Guernsey New Voices Award, the 2011 Sky Cooper Prize, the 2008 PONY/Lark Fellowship, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Idaho. His plays have been produced in New York at Playwrights Horizons, LCT3, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Clubbed Thumb and Page 73, and at such theaters as Seattle Rep, Theatre Royal Bath, South Coast Rep, Victory Gardens, Williamstown Theater Festival, The Old Globe, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Denver Center Theatre Company, the Dallas Theater Center, Long Wharf Theatre, and elsewhere. His work has been developed at the O’Neill Playwrights Conference, the Ojai Playwrights Conference, Seven Devils, and PlayPenn. Two published anthologies of his work are available from TCG books. He is a member of New Dramatists, an Ensemble Playwright at Victory Gardens, and was a 2013 Resident Playwright at Arena Stage. A native of northern Idaho, Sam lives in NYC. He holds degrees in playwriting from NYU, The Iowa Playwrights Workshop, and Juilliard.

DAVIS MCCALLUM (Director) New York credits include The Harvest (Lincoln Center), Stupid F***ing Bird (The Pearl), Fashions for Men (Mint Theater; Drama Desk and Lortel Nominations for Best Revival); Pocatello (Playwrights Horizons), The Whale (Playwrights Horizons; Lortel Award for Best Play; Calloway Nomination for Best Director), Water by the Spoonful (Second Stage; ); February House (Public Theater); and London Wall (Mint Theater; Drama Desk and Lortel Nominations for Best Revival). Regional credits include the Denver Center, Dallas Theater Center, Old Globe, Guthrie, OSF, the Alliance Theater, the O’Neill, Williamstown, Humana Festival, others. He is the Artistic Director of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival in Garrison NY, and recently directed Richard II, The Winter’s Tale, Measure for Measure, as as the world premiere of Lauren Gunderson’s The Book of Will for the company.

JOHN M. BAKER (Dramaturgy) is the Director of Artistic Programs at SPACE on Ryder Farm. As a dramaturg, he has developed new work at Clubbed Thumb, Dallas Theatre Center, The Lark, Ma-Yi, New Harmony Project, Ojai Playwrights Conference, The O'Neill National Playwright's Conference, Page 73, PlayPenn, Seattle Rep, Seven Devils, and South Coast Rep. He was a recipient of a Leadership U: One-on- One Fellowship, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by TCG. BA: Boston University; MFA: The University of Iowa.

PAUL DAVIS & JAMES CALLERI, CALLERI CASTING (Casting) Paul and James cast for film, theater and television with their partner Erica Jensen. Recent Broadway: Hedwig & The Angry Inch, Hughie, Fool for Love, The Elephant Man, Living on Love, The Visit, . Off Broadway & Regional Theater: Actors Theatre of Louisville, , Berkeley Rep, Keen Company, Long Wharf Theatre, The Flea, McCarter, Playwrights Horizons (10 seasons) The Playwrights Realm, Two River Theater, Williamston Theater Festival (4 Seasons). TV: “Dickinson” (upcoming), “The Path”, “Lipstick Jungle”, “Army Wives”, “Hope & Faith” Film: I Origins, Another Earth, That’s What She Said, Saint Janet, Emoticon. 14 Artios Awards for Outstanding Casting Achievement. Member CSA. www.callericasting.com

STACEY DEROSIER (Lighting Design) is a NYC based lighting designer. Her credits include: The Revolving Cycles Truly & Steadily Roll’d (Playwright’s Realm), 1969: The Second Man (3rd Place Projects) as co- lighting designer, Came Tumbling After (The National Theater of Uptown), Don Juan Comes Back from the War (Columbia University), Thyestes (NYU Graduate Acting). She also has worked as production designer on short films Baggage (dir. Stacey Maitlin) and Will You Be My Twin? (dir. Anna Alekhina).

SHADI GHAHERI (Associate Director, CLARKSTON) is a New York based director and choreographer from Tehran, Iran. She has directed The Girl is Chained, Death of Yazdgerd, Titus Andronicus, and Wrong River, and choreographed Passion (Yale School of Drama). Other Credits, The Slow Sound of Snow, The Trojan Women, and Lear (Yale Cabaret), Art and A Stranger Walking... (Tehran, Shahid Beheshti University) Shadi is a 2016 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow and currently the directing fellow at Rattlestick Playwright Theatre. Shadi’s production of Last Days of Judas Iscario will be presented at Williams College in March 2017. shadighaheri.com

AARON GONZALEZ (Technical Director) is a Director, Actor, Designer, Stage Manager and graduate of UNCSA. Projection Design: GHETTO KLOWN (Lyceum), Resident Director/ASM: BILLY ELLIOT National Tour. Associate Director/Ensemble BILLY ELLIOT (MUNY, Music Theatre Wichita, Gateway Playhouse) SM: THE LION KING (Minskoff), TIME STANDS STILL (MTC & The Cort), LATIN HISTORY FOR MORONS (Studio 54 & Public Theatre). PM: GHETTO KLOWN (International Tour), AN EVENING WITH NOEL FIELDING (US Tour). TD: SUMMERWORKS (Clubbed Thumb) Rrred/Neurosis (DR2). Winner of Innovative Lighting Design (2016 I.T. Awards) ACTOR: “Bull” on CBS. aarongonzalez.info

ANTONIA HOWARD (Properties Designer, CLARKSTON) Originally from Colorado, Antonia Howard can now usually be found covered in paint and diving into some upholstery at or Signature Theater Company.

DANE LAFFREY (Set Design) Broadway: on This Island (Tony, Drama Desk nominations), Spring Awakening, Fool For Love. Recent off-Broadway work at , Roundabout, MCC, Lincoln Center Theatre, Second Stage, Atlantic, Playwrights Horizons, Vineyard, New Group, B.A.M. Harvey. Regional work at , Arena Stage, Geffen Playhouse, The Old Globe, Huntington, Williamstown among many others. 2017 OBIE Award for sustained excellence in set and costume design; 7 American Theatre Wing Henry Hewes nominations.

SAMANTHA MCCANN (Assistant Stage Manager, LEWISTON) NYC: Cute Activist (Bushwick Starr), Katya Kabanova (The Juilliard School), Appropriate (The Juilliard School), The Marriage of Bette and Boo (The Juilliard School). Regional/Tour: Bed (Echo Theater Company), A Small Fire (Echo Theater Company), Fugue (Echo Theater Company), Better (Echo Theater Company), Stinky Cheese Man (), Rest (South Coast Repertory), James and the Giant Peach (South Coast Repertory), The Winter’s Tale (MaineStage Shakespeare), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (MaineStage Shakespeare).

LILLIAN MEREDITH (Associate Director, LEWISTON) is a theater artist from . Recent credits include productions at The Public, Theatre for a New Audience, Soho Rep, Ars Nova, and Actors Theatre of Louisville, among others. Artistic Director of The Motor Company; founding member of the female devising group The Living Room; member of the LCT Directors Lab, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, and Clubbed Thumb Director's Fellowship; director of the West Kortright Centre's Shakespeare in the Valley teen theater program. Currently pursuing an MFA in Directing from Brooklyn College. Proud alumna: Vassar College, National Theater Institute. www.lillianmeredith.com

JOANNE PAN (Stage Manager, LEWISTON) NYC: Moulin Rouge! The Musical (Foresight Theatrical), Songs for a New World, Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope (Encores! Off Center), Old Hats (Signature Theatre Company). Regional/National Tour: (), A Christmas Story, the Musical (Big League Productions), , , Measure for Measure, , and So Please You (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival). BFA: Rutgers University.

FITZ PATTON (Sound Design) (Sound Design). Upcoming Broadway: Choir Boy. Current Broadway: Bernhart/ (The American Airlines). Broadway: (The Walter Kerr) Meteor Shower (The Booth), Present Laughter (The St. James), The Little Foxes (The Friedman), (The Schoenfeld - Drama Desk Award), Our Mother’s Brief Affair (The Friedman), (The Belasco), The Father (The Friedman), An Act of God (The Booth), It’s Only a Play (The St. James), Airline Highway (The Friedman), The Other Place (The Friedman), I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers (The Booth), OutsideMullingar (The Friedman), Casa Valentina (The Friedman), (The Broadhurst), Brighton Beach Memoirs(The Nederlander), and (The Nederlander). Off-Broadway: Torch Song; Napoli, Brooklyn; Yen; Prodigal Son; The Other Place (Drama Desk nomination); and When the Rain Stops Falling (Drama Desk; ). He is the founding editor of Chance Magazine, a serialized art book on performance and design.

JESSICA WEGENER SHAY (Costume Design) Broadway: The Performers Off-Broadway/New York: A Kid Like Jake, All-American (LCT3); Outside People (Vineyard/Naked Angels); Suicide, Inc., The Dream of the Burning Boy (Roundabout Underground); Oliver Parker!, The Gingerbread House (StageFARM); OohRah! (Atlantic); Next Fall, Armed & Naked in America, The Mistakes Madeline Made (Naked Angels); Germ Project (New Georges); H.M.S. Pinafore (Vortex); 7 seasons as Resident Designer (Vampire Cowboys). Regional: The Sea Maid’s Music, Loves Labours Lost, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival); Out of the City (Merrimack Repertory); Agnes Under the Big Top, Bad Dates, Shipwrecked!, Underneath the Lintel (Long Wharf); The Last Smoker in America (CATCO); Complete Works of (Abridged) (Weston Playhouse). Awards: Recipient of NY Innovative Theatre Award for Costume Design.

JENNY BETH SNYDER (Production Manager) is a director/PM & co-founder FGP NYC. Recent: FGP FESTIVAL! (New Ohio, Creative Director); FOLK WANDERING (Art NY, PM); PORTO (WP Theater, PM); OH MY SWEET LAND (PlayCo, PM); 12 ANGRY MEN & MOTHER FUCKER WITH THE HAT (Lee Strasberg Institute, Dir.); SUMMERWORKS 2017 & 2018 (Clubbed Thumb, PM); YOU DO NOT LOOK, (Signature Theater, Dir.); BEARDO (Pipeline Theatre Co, PM); THE RED ROOM, (The Shelter, Dir.); IT’S LATER THAN I THINK (United Solo Festival, Dir); TAKE ME HOME (Other Forces Festival, AD); IDEAL (59 E 59th, Dir). BFA, NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Member of the Lincoln Center Theater Director’s Lab 2013.

ALYSSA TRYON (Properties Designer, LEWISTON) is a properties designer and artisan who graduated from Marymount Manhattan College in 2018. Most recently she worked at the Santa Fe Opera in the Properties Crafts department on their 2018 summer season. Previous credits include: Ten out of 12, The Servant of Two Masters, Machinal, and Punk Rock at Marymount Manhattan College. Upcoming projects include: Blues for Mister Charlie at Marymount Manhattan College. Thank you to Mom, MacKenzie, Jojo and Dan for your endless love and support.

KATIE YOUNG (Production Stage Manager, CLARKSTON) Broadway/Tour: The King and I, , Something Rotten, Once; Off-Broadway/Regional: What We’re Up Against, Vanity Fair, Stupid F*cking Bird, Blueprint Specials, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Playwrights Horizons, School of Rock, Amazing Grace, Rattlestick, many productions with BEDLAM, , Women of Will, The Best of Everything. As Director: Loyalty (Without A Net Productions), (Pocket Universe). Thanks TLCCGGx5 & Henry. www.KatieYoungTheater.com

The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

ABOUT RATTLESTICK

Founded in 1994, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater is an Obie-Award winning theater that has developed and produced over 100 World Premieres in the past 23 seasons. Our mission is to present diverse, challenging and provocative plays that might not otherwise be produced and to foster the future voices of the American theater. We have produced the first plays and unique works of some of today’s leading voices, including (), Sheila Callaghan (That Pretty, Pretty), Jesse Eisenberg (The Revisionist), Samuel D. Hunter (The Few), (Ode to Joy), (Ironbound), Diana Oh's (mylingerieplay), Dael Orlandersmith (Until the Flood), Adam Rapp (The Hallway Trilogy), Daniel Talbott (Slipping), Lucy Thurber (The Hilltown Plays), Jonathan Tolins (Buyer and Cellar) and Craig Wright (The Pavilion). We produce theater to inspire empathy and provoke conversations in response to the complexities of our culture. Visit www.rattlestick.org for more information.

We acknowledge our theater is on the traditional land of the Lenape Nation People in Manahatta (Island of Many Hills) or Manhattan.

PARTNERSHIPS

Rattlestick is proud to partner with St John’s in the Village. LEWISTON/CLARKSTON is part of the Autumn- Winter Arts Series. For complete listings see St John’s website (stjvny.org) under Arts at St John’s.

We are proud to partner with for our catered dinners and snacks.

We are proud to partner with for food consumed during performance.

We are proud to partner with for coffee throughout the production.

We are proud to partner with for rehearsal space.

Rattlestick gratefully acknowledges for its support of this production.

This production was made possible with support from

RATTLESTICK SUPPORTERS

PARTNERS ($10,000+) The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Vincent Alfieri, Sonja Berggren & Patrick Seaver, Daryl & Joe Boren, Raymond & Pamela Brunt, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc., Frederic R. Coudert Foundation, The Howard Gilman Foundation, Matt & Vanessa Ginzton, The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, The Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon Family Foundation, Laurents / Hatcher Foundation, Robert Lomison, Rosalee & Bruce Lovett, Douglas Nevin, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, Rosalind Productions Inc., The Shubert Foundation, Inc., The Still Point Fund, Ted Snowdon Productions, Jeff Thamkittikasem, The Tow Foundation, The Time Warner Foundation, Wendy vanden Heuvel, The Venturous Theater Fund of the Tides Foundation, Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation

CHAMPIONS ($5,000 - $9,999) Peter Emch, Vered Hankin & Jeremy Kaufman, Rolin Jones, Zachary Quinto, Jack Sharkey, Susan A. Strickler & Richard P. Kaye, R. Lee Stump & Abigail Roth, Zohar Tirosh-Polk & Andrew Polk

LEADERS ($1,000 - $4,999) Nora Abousteit & Joshua Cooper Ramo, Anonymous (4), ART/NY Creative Space Grant, Axe-Houghton Foundation, Horace Barker & Christine Govan, Barnes/D’Agata Foundation, Jason & Melissa Burnett, , Jill Dolan & Stacy Wolf, Dorothy Strelsin Foundation, The Dramatists Guild Fund, Inc., Jody Falco & Jeffrey Steinman, Angelina Fiordellisi & Matt Williams, The John Golden Fund, Inc., The John N. Blackman Sr. Foundation, Keith Fox, Philip Gelston, Stephen & Myrna Greenberg, Laura Rebell Gross & Jonathan Gross, Willy Holtzman, Kathleen & Richard Levin, Lucille Lortel Foundation, Tarell A. McCraney, Diane McGarry, Tom & Louise Middleton, Jim & Suzie Perakis, Tom & Sera Reycraft, Jolie Schwab & David Hodes, Richard Seeger, Dan Shaheen, Adam Sheer, Michael Skipper & Amber Womack, Trust for Mutual Understanding, Lisa Van Curen, Alana Weiss, Peter T. Wilderotter, Pia & James Zankel

SPONSORS ($500 - $999) Actors’ Equity Foundation, Anonymous, Charles Blasius, The Block Cogan Tzedakah Fund, Allen & Susan Funk, John Clinton Eisner & Jennifer Dorr White, Phyllis & Alvin Goldman, Lisa & Richard Hoffman, , Steven & Susan Jacobson, Geoffrey Jackson Scott, Robin Jones, Laurence Klurfeld, Bernard & Wendie Kroll, Brian MacDevitt, Jill Matichak, Terrence McNally, NYU Community Fund, Off-Broadway Green Alliance, Ron Rafay, Paul & Tina Rotstein, Margo Somma & John Hamilton, Carolyn & Richard Ziegler

ENTHUSIASTS ($150 - $499) Anonymous, Andrew Aurbach, John Robin Baitz, Jodi & Craig Balsam, Greenwich Village Block Associations, David Blum, Olivia Baseman, Mackenzie Cadenhead & Daniel J. Buckley, Jennifer Callaghan, Tom Cole, Bryan Colley, Bill Common, Community Foundation of the Hudson Valley, Susan & Andrew Dalsimer, Nina Darnton, Valerie Di Maria, Alisa & Ronald Emanuel, Philip E. Fine & Genevieve Bazelmans, Sandra Farkas, Renee Frost, Allen &Susan Funk, Hope Goldstein, Victor & Phyllis Grann, Martin Grant, Ellen & Robert Grimes, Lisa Gross, Heather Guardado, Justin Hagan & Miriam Shor, Libby & Tom Hollahan, Kathy & Ken Henderson, Scott Johnson, Margot Kenly, Michael Koskoff, Lambs Foundation, Joseph Lelyveld, Joshua Malkin, Dan Markley & Alison Sheehy, Michael Masukawa, Jeffrey Matchen, Matthew M. McClanahan, Mark McKracken, Rachel & Robert McQueen, Lewis & Sharon Miller, Susan Moldovan, New Harmony Project, Hal Harker Newell III & Tara Newell, Milton R Newman & Ellen Hay, Mark Risk P.C., Robin Roger & Kenny Clemons, The Rooney Family, Cindy & Steve Scheinfeld, Rachel Simmons, Nancy Schwartz Sternoff, Marlene Stimell, Phyllis & James Somma, Steven Swain, Becca Topol, Nela Wagman & Steven Wein, Barbara Zimmerman

FRIENDS ($1 - $149) Tyler Adams, May Adrales, Elana Alexander, Steven Alexopoulos, Anonymous (2), Bella August, Arlene Avakian, Sophia Bannister, Matthew Berdon, Marla Berg, Joyce Bialik, Jeremy Blocker, Michael Bonasio, Corinna Bordewieck, John Breen, Joyelle Cabato, Cassandra Campbell, Sara Chaganti, Kristian Charbonier, Deepak Chiminyan, Chloe Citron, Nell Cohen, Zachary Cohn, Doug Colbert, Sharon Cooper, Jorge Ignacio Cortinas, Erin Courtney, John Cunningham, Rebecca Dalton, Suprita Datta, Steven David, Bill de Blasio, Rediate Derebe, Liz Diamond, Stephanie Diu, Eileen Dunn, Madeleine Durante, Emily Eckert, Phyllis Eckhaus, Kathy Evans, Marianne Faivre, Lisa Feldman, Taylor Field, Ruth Fosuaa, Sharisse Francisco, Michele Frettoli, Susan Funk, Eugenia Furneaux, Alan Gambrell, Leslie Garis, Emil Goldsmith Olesen, Taralyn Hardwell Gonzalez, Julia Grabowska, Sharon Green, Addie Guidry, Yididiyia Haileselassie, Lauren Hargraves, Mary Havey, Clif Hubby, Abby Huffstetler, Christina Jackson, Melissa Jaehnig, Kathy Jaget, Nooreen Javid, Erik Johnsen, Lee Kaplan, Joan Kedziora, Virginia Keary, Isabel Krugmen, Michael Kingsbaker, Sarah Krasnow, George & Mary Anne LaFountain, Amy Leland, Kayla Lemus, Sonya Levine, Erin Lilli, Kate Lindsay, Valerie Livingston, Kate Mailer, Elizabeth Maley, Beatrice Maloney, John Manolis, Katherine Maxwell, John McDermott, Paul McIsaac, Molly McEneny, Erin McNaughton, Mollie Meikle, Jose Louise Middleton, Denver Milord, Alex Mitchell, Charles Migliaccio, Raymond Morales, Hallie Newton, Geoffrey Nixon & Anne McCool, Jeremy O’Brian, John Olsen, Arthur Orduna, Amy Oshinsky, Lisa Ozag, Frances Pantaleo, Jiehae Park, Erika Perez, Jessica Polish, Norman Reisman, Tami Reiss, Erika Renstrom, Sarah Rhodes, Michael Robertson, J.T. Rogers, Lynn Marie Rosenberg, Felice Rosser, Alex Salerno, Kacie Schlussel, Chad Schiro, Roberto Sanabria, Sasha Sharova, Michael Shayan, Tylie Shider, Masako Shiono, Ryan Shuler, Stuart Sia, Bridget Siegel, , Joseph Sims, Brian Sloan, Greg Smith, Dave & Kim Smittle, Rachel Sobelsohn, Haleh Stilwell, Terrence Stoeckert, Sarah Storm, James Suskin, Renee Sweet, Aya Tasaki, Genie Taylor, Roland Tec, Carole Teller, Cori Thomas, Claire Townsend, Daniele Valensi, Joyce Wallace, Sasha Warner-Berry, Sheena Weeks, Lin Wei, Pamela Weinzatl, Susan Werner, Curry Whitmire, David Willson, Lauren Winckler, Regina Woiler, Neil Woodgate, Casimir Yanish, Yi Peng Yap, Susan Yavin, Carole Yost, Anna Ziegler & Will Miller

MATCHING FUNDS Alliance Bernstein L.P., Benevity, Dun & Bradstreet, Morgan Stanley

This listing is current as of July 19, 2018. If you would prefer to be listed in a different way, or if you notice an error in our donor listing, please contact Zsazsa at [email protected].

RATTLESTICK BOARD Vincent Alfieri, Horace Barker, Daryl Boren, Ray Brunt, Nina Darnton, Vered Hankin, Robert Lomison, Rosalee Lovett, Zachary Quinto, Geoffrey Jackson Scott, Mike Skipper, Susan Strickler, Jeff Thamkittikasem, Zohar Tirosh-Polk, Daniella Topol, Alana Weiss, Peter T. Wilderotter

ADVISORY BOARD Nadia Alia, Anastasia Barzee, Kathleen Chalfant, Ty Defoe, Sandra Coudert Graham, Trip Cullman, Kathryn Erbe, Adrienne Feiger, Phyllis Goldman, Michael Hirschhorn, Willy Holtzman, Barbara Janowitz, Lisa Kron, Brian MacDevitt, Dan Markley, Andrew Polk, Adam Rapp, Laura Rebell Gross, Alysia Reiner, Amy Ryan, Jolie Schwab, Kyra Sedgwick, Adam Sheer, Leigh Silverman, Molly Smith, Justin Townsend, Wendy Vanden Heuvel, Orin Wolf, Anna Ziegler

RATTLESTICK TEAM

Core Team: nicHi douglas, Kevin Hourigan, Annie Middleton, Zsazsa Pandji and Daniella Topol Lit Team: Ngozi Anyanwu, Jessi D. Hill (Manager), Kevin Hourigan, Vered Hankin, David Mendizábal, Daniel Talbott, Cori Thomas Directing Fellow: Shadi Ghaheri New Voices/New Works Partner: Rosalind Productions, Inc. Accountants: Richard E. Cohen, CPA; Blitzer Gelfand & Cohen, PC Management Services: Lucille Lortel Foundation Development Consultant: Jennie Greer Organization Consultant: Nello McDaniel, Arts Action Research General Press Representative: Matt Ross Public Relations Website Designer: Tara O’Con Associate Producer for LEWISTON/CLARKSTON: Rachel Shuey Management Intern: Brooke Bazarian Community Engagement + Social Media Fellow: Praycious Wilson-Gay Development Fellow: Toby Singer

The Team at Rattlestick would especially like to thank Jennifer Simpson (Senior Manager of Advocacy and Youth Programs for the Huntington's Disease Society of America)

UP NEXT AT RATTLESTICK:

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In Dickey’s new play, a group of women go on a retreat to live like nuns in the Middle Ages and are baptized with 80s pop, female mysticism, hallucinogens and sex. The Convent is a toothy dark comedy about desire, devotion and the mystery of intrinsic divinity.

LOCKDOWN APRIL 17 – MAY 20 2019 Written by CORI THOMAS Directed by KENT GASH Produced in association with ShadowCatcher Entertainment Lockdown will partner with The Fortune Society on post-show conversations

Inspired by playwright Cori Thomas's time working with inmates at San Quentin Prison, Lockdown follows a professional writer who agrees to help an inmate craft a statement for his parole hearing and unknowingly embarks on a painful and rewarding journey to confront her own grief. Lockdown takes a thoughtful look at the impact of long-term incarceration on a person’s humanity, and juxtaposes that confinement with the emotional imprisonment of a grieving widow.

For ticket announcements and other production updates, please visit www.rattlestick.org