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July 2017 About TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Volume 49, No. 1 Welcome to TheatreWorks Silicon Valley and our 48th season of award-winning theatre! Led by Founding Artistic Director Robert Kelley and Managing Director Phil Santora, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley presents a wide range of productions and programming throughout the region. Founded in 1970, we continue to celebrate the human spirit and the diversity of our community, presenting contemporary plays and musicals, revitalizing Paul Heppner Publisher great works of the past, championing arts education, and nurturing new works for the American theatre. TheatreWorks has produced 66 world premieres Susan Peterson and over 160 US and regional premieres. In the 2017/18 season, we add the Design & Production Director world premieres of The Four Immigrants: An American Musical Manga and Ana Alvira, Robin Kessler, The Prince of Egypt and four more regional premieres to our résumé. Shaun Swick, Stevie VanBronkhorst Production Artists and Graphic Design TheatreWorks’ 2016/17 season included the world premiere of Confederates, as well as regional premieres of The Life of the Party, Calligraphy, and Hershey Mike Hathaway Sales Director Felder, Beethoven, which broke all our box office records, becoming the high- est-grossing show in TheatreWorks’ history. In the course of the year, shows Amelia Heppner, Marilyn Kallins, Terri Reed that debuted here were produced at theatres around the world. San Francisco/Bay Area Account Executives With an annual operating budget of $8 million, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Brieanna Bright, Joey Chapman, Ann Manning produces eight mainstage productions at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto Seattle Area Account Executives and the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, and a special add-on holiday production at the Lohman Theatre on the campus of Foothill College Carol Yip in Los Altos. Seventeen years ago, we launched the New Works Initiative, Sales Coordinator dedicating ourselves to the development of new plays and musicals. The ENCORE Initiative has since supported over 160 new works through retreats, workshops, staged readings, developmental productions, and the annual New Works Festival, inspiring The Mercury News to call us “a premiere breeding ground for new musicals, which has put the company on the national map.” TheatreWorks Silicon Valley believes in making theatre accessible to the entire Silicon Valley community. Our Education Department reaches on average Paul Heppner P H O T S B Y K E V I N R 25,000 students from 70 schools in 7 counties annually. It sponsors outreach / President Children’s Healing Project programs that include the at Lucile Packard Mike Hathaway Children’s Hospital, the Young Playwrights Initiative, specially-priced student Vice President matinees, extensive school tours, post-show discussions, and theatre camps, Andy Fife classes, and conservatories for youth. Chief Strategy Officer I N T H E F O U R M G A S For more information on our 2017/18 season, New Works Festival, and Genay Genereux Education programs, please visit theatreworks.org or call 650.463.1960. Accounting & Office Manager

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2 THEATREWORKS EAP full-page template.indd 1 6/6/17 10:18 AM In this Issue From the Board Chair It’s a great pleasure to welcome you to TheatreWorks’ 48th season! 2 About TheatreWorks Our 47th season, completed in June, was one of our best. Although Silicon Valley it seems like an eternity ago, the timely world premiere last July of Confederates, which portrayed the press in pursuit of a Presidential 6 2017/18 SEASON candidate’s daughter, was a big success. Outside Mullingar, the regional premiere of a riotous Irish love story, and Rags, a musical 8 From the Artistic Director saga of America’s rich immigrant history, were both audience favorites. The season concluded with the runaway hit Hershey Felder, Beethoven, 9 Director’s Notes another amazing portrayal of a musical genius by a brilliant musical talent. The 15th New Works Festival was one of the highlights of last season. The Festival featured six productions in early development and gave us a wide range of experiences. Today’s world premiere of The Four Immigrants: An American Musical Manga was a Festival favorite. Playwright-composer Min Kahng has worked over the last year with TheatreWorks’ Associate Artistic Director Leslie Martinson to polish this production. Another Festival hit, Rajiv Joseph’s Archduke, recently had its world premiere at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. And a much-loved musical from our 2009 Festival, Ernest Shackleton Loves Me, opened Off-Broadway in April. In the same way that new product development is an important part of the success of Silicon Valley, the development of new works like these makes an important contribution to the canon of American theatre and is a proud part of TheatreWorks’ culture. Playwright Min Kahng Featuring another groundbreaking New Works Festival, two world premieres, and four regional premier es, our 48th season promises to be even more exciting, entertaining us with powerful music, thought-provoking drama, and soaring romance. Conversation with Min Kahng 10 Many of you have heard that Robert Kelley, TheatreWorks’ founding Artistic Director, and Leslie Martinson has announced his retirement effective at the end of the 50th Anniversary Season in 2020. Kelley is a dear friend and one of the finest people I have ever known. The 12 A Historical Timeline TheatreWorks B oard has announced a national search for a successor to be in place when Kelley’s final season begins. 13 Agriculture and Immigration in California Finally, I want to express my thanks to you, our audience, who continue to support TheatreWorks. Your commitment enables us to bring you the best theatre in Silicon 14 The Art of Henry Kiyama Valley and beyond. Keep coming and bring your friends! 15 TheatreWorks Silicon Valley The Four Immigrants: presents Mike Kahn An American Musical Manga

17 Who’s Who BOARD OF TRUSTEES Mike Kahn, Chair 2017 New Works Festival 22 Jayne Booker Roy Johnson Debra Summers Cabell Chinnis Derry Kabcenell Lynn Szekely-Goode 24 Preview: The Shangri-Las Bill Coughran Julie Kaufman Ewart Thomas Sarah Donaldson Robert Kelley Tzipor Ulman 26 Contributors Peggy Woodford Forbes Ellice Papp Kristina Vetter Ciro Giammona Phil Santora Holly Ward 30 TWSV Staff Anne Hambly Loren Saxe Lisa Webster Judy Heyboer Barbara Shapiro Jane Weston 31 Oskar Teaches Empathy Larry Horton Nancy Ginsburg Stern Gayla Lorthridge Wood Charlotte Jacobs 31 TWSV General Information BOARD EMERITUS Nancy Meyer, Founder • William F. Adler • Edward T. Anderson, MD • Doug Barry • Lauren Berman • Chuck Bernstein • Sharon Anthony Bower • Michael Braun • Polly W. Bredt • Bruce C. Cozadd • Continue the conversation online! Jeff Crowe • Peggy Dalal • Yogen Dalal • Jenny Dearborn • Susan Fairbrook • Michael R. Flicker • Dan Garber • Doug Garland • Aaron Gershenberg • Marcia Goldman • Emeri Handler • Susan M. Huch • Perry A. Irvine • Nancy Lee Jalonen • Lisa Jones • Gina Jorasch • Roberta R. Katz • Tom Kelley • Robin Kennedy • Michael Kwatinetz • Dick Maltzman • Suzanne Martin • Patti McClung • Don McDougall • Bruce McLeod • Cynthia S. Miller • Leslie Murphy-Chutorian • Eileen Nelson • Karen Nierenberg • Carrie Perzow • Carey Pickus • Margot Mailliard Rawlins • John Reis • Eddie @TheatreWorksSV Reynolds • Sandi Risser • Lynn Wilson Roberts • Ray A. Rothrock • Adam Samuels • Denise Stanford #4ImmigrantsMusical • Rosina Lo Sun • James Sweeney • Cathie Thermond • Helaina Titus • Robert J. Van der Leest, MD • Mark Vershel • Ronni Watson • Elissa Wellikson • Gayla Lorthridge Wood

4 THEATREWORKS In this Issue From the Board Chair It’s a great pleasure to welcome you to TheatreWorks’ 48th season! 2 About TheatreWorks Our 47th season, completed in June, was one of our best. Although Silicon Valley it seems like an eternity ago, the timely world premiere last July of Confederates, which portrayed the press in pursuit of a Presidential 6 2017/18 SEASON candidate’s daughter, was a big success. Outside Mullingar, the regional premiere of a riotous Irish love story, and Rags, a musical 8 From the Artistic Director saga of America’s rich immigrant history, were both audience favorites. The season concluded with the runaway hit Hershey Felder, Beethoven, 9 Director’s Notes another amazing portrayal of a musical genius by a brilliant musical talent. The 15th New Works Festival was one of the highlights of last season. The Festival featured six productions in early development and gave us a wide range of experiences. Today’s world premiere of The Four Immigrants: An American Musical Manga was a Festival favorite. Playwright-composer Min Kahng has worked over the last year with TheatreWorks’ Associate Artistic Director Leslie Martinson to polish this production. Another Festival hit, Rajiv Joseph’s Archduke, recently had its world premiere at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. And a much-loved musical from our 2009 Festival, Ernest Shackleton Loves Me, opened Off-Broadway in April. In the same way that new product development is an important part of the success of Silicon Valley, the development of new works like these makes an important contribution to the canon of American theatre and is a proud part of TheatreWorks’ culture. Playwright Min Kahng Featuring another ground breaking New Works Festival, two world premieres, and four regional premieres, our 48th season promises to be even more exciting, entertaining us with powerful music, thought-provoking drama, and soaring romance. Conversation with Min Kahng 10 Many of you have heard that Robert Kelley, TheatreWorks’ founding Artistic Director, and Leslie Martinson has announced his retirement effective at the end of the 50th Anniversary Season in 2020. Kelley is a dea r friend and one of the finest people I have ever known. The 12 A Historical Timeline TheatreWorks Board has announced a national search for a successor to be in place when Kelley’s final season begins. 13 Agriculture and Immigration in California Finally, I want to express my thanks to you, our audience, who continue to support TheatreWorks. Your commitment enables us to bring you the best theatre in Silicon 14 The Art of Henry Kiyama Valley and beyond. Keep coming and bring your friends! 15 TheatreWorks Silicon Valley The Four Immigrants: presents Mik e Kahn An American Musical Manga

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A CONTEMPORARY ROMANTIC DRAMA A HILARIOUS HOLIDAY ROMP A BOLD AMERICAN DRAMA A PLAY FOR THEN AND NOW Constellations Around the World Skeleton Crew FINKS By Nick Payne in 80 Days By Dominique Morisseau By Joe Gilford Directed by Giovanna Sardelli Directed by Robert Kelley Adapted by Mark Brown Directed by Giovanna Sardelli A Coproduction with Marin Theatre London Evening Standard Award From the Novel by Jules Verne Drama Desk Award Best Play Nominee Company Best Play 2012 Directed by Robert Kelley CALIFORNIA PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE Stampeding elephants! Raging typhoons! With the 1950s Red Scare in full A time-bending romantic drama spun A makeshift family of autoworkers navi- swing, the House Un-American Activities Runaway trains! Join fearless adventurer gates the recession in this funny, tough, out of string theory, this unconventional Phileas Fogg and his faithful valet in the Committee attacks ”subversion” in Broadway and West End sensation and tender American drama. Will their the arts. When a romance blossoms original ”Great Race,” circling the globe Detroit plant survive? Ambitious dreams explores the infinite possibilities of ”boy in an 1870s alive with danger, romance, between a rising comic and a firebrand meets girl” with intelligence, heart, and and corporate deception interweave, actress, they face being blacklisted and comic surprises at every turn. In the hilariously theatrical style of pushing friendships to the limit. When the line between blue collar humor. A charming beekeeper and a Cambridge cosmologist are The 39 Steps, five actors portray dozens of characters in a thrilling along with their friends and fellow artists. Will they lose their nerds in love, for better and for worse, their relationship an ever- and white begins to blur, how far over the lines is each of them willing careers or betray each other and be branded forever as ”finks”? race against time and treachery. Grab your family, and your pass- to step? Don’t miss this riveting new drama from one of America’s changing mystery of ”what ifs.” Who knew that honey and higher port, for an ingenious, imaginative expedition around the world! Based on the true story of comedian/actor Jack Gilford, this physics could be so touching—or so sexy? hottest young writers. stunning comic drama is written by his son. ”Action and hilarity to spare!” The Boston Globe Contains mature language. Contains mature language. Contains mature language. Nov 29–Dec 23, 2017 Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto ”Warm-blooded, astute. A deeply American play!” The NY Times ”Truly stellar. Five stars!” London Evening Standard ”A testament to an indomitable spirit.” The Huffington Post Aug 23–Sept 17, 2017 Mtn View Center for the Performing Arts Mar 7–Apr 1, 2018 Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto Jun 6–Jul 1, 2018 Mtn View Center for the Performing Arts

A TIMELESS MUSICAL JOURNEY A TIMELESS MUSICAL JOURNEY A SOARING MUSICAL ROMANCE A HOLIDAY ADD-ON The Prince of Egypt Hershey Felder The Bridges of The Santaland Music and Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz Our Great Madison County Book by Philip LaZebnik Book by Marsha Norman Diaries Directed by Scott Schwartz Tchaikovsky Music and Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown By David Sedaris Music by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky WORLD PREMIERE in collaboration with Based on the novel by Robert James Adapted by Joe Mantello Fredericia Teater, Denmark Written and Performed by Hershey Felder Waller Directed by Jeffrey Lo Join TheatreWorks as this inspiring world Directed by Trevor Hay Directed by Robert Kelley premiere musical begins its international When an unemployed slacker signs on REGIONAL PREMIERE 2014 Tony Award Best Score as a Yuletide elf at Macy’s, a village of journey towards a 2018 debut in Brilliant composer Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky This sweeping musical romance about candy-caned kids and cynical Santas Denmark. A soaring celebration of the springs to life through the hands and the roads we travel and the bridges we springs to hilarious, if humiliating, life. human spirit, The Prince of Egypt fea- insight of piano virtuoso Hershey Felder, dare to cross recalls the unexpected affair of a devoted Italian-born This rollicking one-man cure for an tures a dazzling, multi-ethnic cast in one of the greatest stories ever whose time-traveling tale of culture and repression explores the housewife and a roving National Geographic photographer—four overdose of holiday hype will have you told: the saga of Moses and Ramses, his Pharaoh brother, and the mystery surrounding some of the greatest music ever written. From sensual, heart-stirring days that would never be forgotten. Set ho-ho-hoing till the red-nosed reindeer comes home! indomitable people who changed them both forever. Inspired by the the unforgettable ballets Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and The amidst the cornfields of Iowa in 1965, it is an intimate remembrance beloved DreamWorks Animation film and featuring a score that Nutcracker, to the outrageous 1812 Overture and the brilliant “A sardonic, merrily subversive tale worth more than a photo of love both lost and found, brilliantly adapted by a Pulitzer Prize includes the Academy Award-winning ”When You Believe” by the symphonic works, this powerful musical tribute travels to Czarist album full of Santas!” Newsday playwright and Tony Award composer from one of America’s favorite composer and lyricist of Wicked, this breathtaking journey of faith times to ponder the inevitable enigma of genius. From the creator Dec 5–23, 2017 Lohman Theatre at Foothill College novels. and family is the must-see event of the season. and performer of Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin and Beethoven. ”A breathtaking sweep of feelings.” The NY Times Oct 6–Nov 5, 2017 Mtn View Center for the Performing Arts ”Stunning! Potent! 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Theatre Bay Area Playwrights Showcase at our New Oona, our dramaturg, has been amazing. Min has POST-SHOW DISCUSSIONS belonged at TheatreWorks, it embodied every core value Works Festival. Luckily in time to see the stand-out, Min just finished Act II, and crafted a new, multi-layered Question and answer with the that had guided the company for 47 years: embracing diversity, fostering Kahng. His presentation had wit and grace, and took us song for Henry called “Funny Pages.” In rehearsals innovation, advocating new work, exploring the confluence of music and cast and staff following the on an unexpected journey in just one song. Looking we’ve been puzzling through the relationship between drama, and celebrating the human spirit. The musical was both humorous performance forward to meeting him. Charlie and Henry. Since Henry Kiyama kept himself and profound, structurally unique yet entirely engaging—and it was about out of the story for the most part, we’re finding there us. Set primarily in San Francisco, it explored the potential and the prejudice are a lot of choices still to make. We’ve tried several that faced immigrants in our own community a century ago; perhaps more approaches to the ending. And of course, with new Min and I have been partnered, now that he has been importantly, it asked us to consider all that has and hasn’t changed for actors, we see new ideas. awarded a TITAN grant. Got together this afternoon to immigrants since then. What better way to launch Season 48 than with the look at his career plans, and hear what new projects I sat at the side, so I could peek at the audience. world premiere of The Four Immigrants? he’s got going. Several interesting ideas in the works, Many, many people in tears during the difficulties the Reflecting the vast waves of immigration that reached American shores in especially a musical based on a Japanese comic which Japanese characters face in Act II. It’s gratifying that the late 19th and early 20th century, The Four Immigrants is a West Coast takes place in San Francisco starting in 1904. the show can be both entertaining and moving. Lucie Stern Theatre companion piece to Rags, our recent saga of immigration to the East Coast 8/11–20 from Eastern Europe. Though set in the same era, each offers a different 16TH ANNUAL perspective on the immigration experience: while European immigrants I loved setting up our annual Writers’ Retreat this year. We will look back on today as a crucial turning point in NEW WORKS FESTIVAL were often marginalized because of their poverty, religion, or country of Such a rare opportunity to give creative teams some the development of this show. Last night was our first A nationally-acclaimed incubator origin, immigrants from Asia were discriminated against because of their “no strings” support. Today I sat in on Min’s vaudeville reading in the New Works Festival. Oona, Min, and I workshop, to hear what he’s working on with Four each came to today’s meeting prepared to urge the for new works, includes race. But despite such obstacles, both sides of the country offered newcomers a compelling enticement—a chance to realize the American dream Immigrants Manga. He thinks he’ll have the opening other two to be brave. And we were. Min has gone to “script-in-hand” debuts of five of freedom, security, and success in a brand new world. number and first scene ready by the Sunday showcase. the conference room to rewrite Act I without the new musicals and plays, Meet framing device of the vaudeville performers. We have The Four Immigrants New Works Initiative the Festival Artists Panel, and is a persuasive validation of our , learned that the story and characters can stand on which has brought 23 world premieres to TheatreWorks since its inception their own. We’ll rehearse it tomorrow, while he works Special Extras Tonight we participated in a showcase hosted by in 2001, many from our New Works Festival. We created a model of vertical on Act II. Musical Café. We were able to rehearse and present an Lucie Stern Theatre The Four Immigrants integration for new play development, and epitomizes The Four Immigrants Palo Alto excerpt of , now with the subtitle its success. Playwright and composer Min Kahng brought it to our Associate “An American Musical Manga.” Only 30 minutes of the Artistic Director Leslie Martinson as little more than an idea: a musical show is written, so we are pretty happy to be held to a Today we start rehearsals for the world premiere 8/26 @ 8:00pm based on a unique 1920s graphic novel that chronicled the experiences of 20 minute limit. production. So inspiring to add the design elements. OPENING NIGHT OF four Japanese immigrants at the turn of the last century. It had preliminary Here we go! Since the original comic was published with about 80% development in our New Works Retreat, a partial reading at the Bay Area’s CONSTELLATIONS of the text in Japanese and 20% in English, I was Musical Café, a rehearsed reading of the full script in TheatreWorks’ Post-show celebration with thrilled tonight to meet Frederik Schodt, the translator. rehearsal hall, a staged reading in our New Works Festival, and a final pre- cast and crew Frederik is a friend of the Kiyama family, and his support rehearsal reading at San Francisco’s Playwrights Foundation. It attracted and enthusiasm mean a lot to us. Mountain View Center financial support along the way, with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, and the Edgerton The vaudeville framing device let us switch quickly from scene to scene and style to style. Ending with the San 8/30, 9/6, 9/13 Foundation New Play Awards complimenting the backing of our Inner Circle Francisco Earthquake of 1906 certainly put a button on CONSTELLATIONS donors and a team of generous TheatreWorks Producers. Nurturing a new the scene; just makes me wonder how we’ll top that? musical from inception to opening night is an exceptionally daunting but POST-SHOW DISCUSSIONS These actors are having a lot of fun with the piece. inevitably exhilarating labor of many. It is also, always, a labor of love. Question and answer with the cast and staff following the I began my introduction tonight by telling the audience performance of TheatreWorks donors they are going to be able to Mountain View Center Robert Kelley say “I was there!” for the first full-length reading of this

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remarkable new musical. Thanks to grants from Theatre Running late this morning, but made it for most of the Bay Area and NAMT, we’ve made significant progress. Theatre Bay Area Playwrights Showcase at our New Oona, our dramaturg, has been amazing. Min has Works Festival. Luckily in time to see the stand-out, Min just finished Act II, and crafted a new, multi-layered Kahng. His presentation had wit and grace, and took us song for Henry called “Funny Pages.” In rehearsals on an unexpected journey in just one song. Looking we’ve been puzzling through the relationship between forward to meeting him. Charlie and Henry. Since Henry Kiyama kept himself out of the story for the most part, we’re finding there are a lot of choices still to make. We’ve tried several approaches to the ending. And of course, with new Min and I have been partnered, now that he has been actors, we see new ideas. awarded a TITAN grant. Got together this afternoon to look at his career plans, and hear what new projects I sat at the side, so I could peek at the audience. he’s got going. Several interesting ideas in the works, Many, many people in tears during the difficulties the especially a musical based on a Japanese comic which Japanese characters face in Act II. It’s gratifying that takes place in San Francisco starting in 1904. the show can be both entertaining and moving.

I loved setting up our annual Writers’ Retreat this year. We will look back on today as a crucial turning point in Such a rare opportunity to give creative teams some the development of this show. Last night was our first “no strings” support. Today I sat in on Min’s vaudeville reading in the New Works Festival. Oona, Min, and I workshop, to hear what he’s working on with Four each came to today’s meeting prepared to urge the Immigrants Manga. He thinks he’ll have the opening other two to be brave. And we were. Min has gone to number and first scene ready by the Sunday showcase. the conference room to rewrite Act I without the framing device of the vaudeville performers. We have learned that the story and characters can stand on their own. We’ll rehearse it tomorrow, while he works Tonight we participated in a showcase hosted by on Act II. Musical Café. We were able to rehearse and present an excerpt of The Four Immigrants, now with the subtitle “An American Musical Manga.” Only 30 minutes of the show is written, so we are pretty happy to be held to a Today we start rehearsals for the world premiere 20 minute limit. production. So inspiring to add the design elements. Here we go! Since the original comic was published with about 80% of the text in Japanese and 20% in English, I was thrilled tonight to meet Frederik Schodt, the translator. Frederik is a friend of the Kiyama family, and his support and enthusiasm mean a lot to us. The vaudeville framing device let us switch quickly from scene to scene and style to style. Ending with the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 certainly put a button on the scene; just makes me wonder how we’ll top that? These actors are having a lot of fun with the piece.

I began my introduction tonight by telling the audience of TheatreWorks donors they are going to be able to say “I was there!” for the first full-length reading of this

encoreartsprograms.com 9 A Conversation with Playwright/Composer Min Kahng and Director Leslie Martinson

How did the idea for The Four Immigrants: worked,” that would have been totally fine. It’s all still Min: There are important female characters in the An American Musical Manga take shape for you? valuable. book, but they come much later, and I didn’t want the show to feel like it was all men until Act 2. So Min: It started in 2012. I went to a used bookstore How did the rest of it develop between then and to balance out the four male leads, we have four in downtown Berkeley, and was browsing the graphic the time you brought it back to the Festival? women, who play every other role in the show. novel section. The spine of a book caught my Min: Between then and the Festival, I was able to do It’s also another way to signal to the audience that attention: The Four Immigrants Manga. When I two more readings—one was 30 minutes long this is a contemporary piece. Both American and pulled it out I saw that the book was from the early [January 2015], and then a full-length reading at TW Japanese dramatic history have a tradition of men 20th century and that it was written by a Japanese in December 2015. By that December reading I had playing all the roles, so this is turning that on its artist, but the drawings didn’t have stereotypical a full first draft…that I knew wasn’t done. head. Asian portrayals of their characters—no slanted eyes, no buck teeth—which would have been the norm for Leslie: When did you meet with Frederik? Leslie: It’s pretty unusual for a female Asian actor a cartoon artist of that day. But this was a Japanese to be asked to break out of that extremely narrow Min: I got in touch with the translator of the piece, Playwright Min Kahng and Director Leslie Martinson artist, so he wasn’t using those stereotypes. Plus, the range of ingénue to tragic ingénue. In this piece Frederik Schodt, who is local. He took me around to story took place in the Bay Area. I found it all very they get to play judges, firemen, different ethnici- see the different sites that appear in the book, the intriguing. think of the immigrant story, we think of how hard ties—it’s subversive and it’s delightful. Ferry Building, and parts of the 1915 Panama-Pacific their lives must have been in these other countries. How much of the piece was written when you International Expo. It was really insightful to see what But the emphasis here is that these four immigrants Min: I’m a big fan of celebrating the fact that brought it to TheatreWorks’ Writers’ Retreat those historical sites are today. I was also doing a were coming as pioneers. They weren’t fleeing a war women are funny. The women are a source of a lot [in April 2014]? heavy amount of research, reading books on the Issei or any kind of grave situation. They were coming to of humor in the show. [first-generation Japanese immigrants], books about Min: (laughs) None! It was actually not yet written. All learn English, to study, to learn Western commerce. Is there anything else you’d like to share? art, about cartoons. It was the 100-year anniversary I knew after reading the comic book was that there They were coming with ambition, with hope. of the Expo, which plays a big role in the middle of Leslie: Min, can you talk about your response when was enough of an emotional journey that it could be the book and show, and pretty much every historical Leslie: The Japanese title is actually closer to “The you got to the end of the book? adapted into a musical. The Retreat was where I museum in the Bay Area had some kind of exhibit Four Students,” not “The Four Immigrants.” Min, wrote the first song and the first scene. The point Min: The first part of the book spends a lot of related to the World’s Fair. So I was going around, have you talked to Fred about why he chose the of the Retreat for me was to nail down the style, to time following expected American comic strip taking it all in. word “Immigrants”? see if I could translate what was on the page into a conventions: a character is setting out to do some- musical theatre format. Do you usually do this much research on your shows? Min: “Four students” wouldn’t have the same thing, then tragedy hits, but in a jovial way, and impact, if an American were to read that title. The then a punchline. Leslie: Describe the style you found at the retreat. Min: This has been the most research I’ve done, Japanese word is “shosei.”Kiyama was referring to because of the historical context. And also because Toward the end, however, Henry Kiyama switches Min: Basically, I was searching for an analogous someone in the schoolboy situation: a house servant it deals with portrayals of one ethnic group in the tone up. You start getting strips that are less theatrical style to the comic strip style, in other words, who takes classes in the evenings. But we don’t have particular, as well as relationships between different zany. One strip in particular has the character Fred early 20th century cartoonish. Immediately, vaudeville a word that would mean that. Fred had to choose groups. I wanted to make sure that my artistic choices and his wife Kimiko sitting on the couch talking popped into my mind. Of course, vaudeville is very something that Americans would understand. were informed. I went with Oona [Hatton, dramaturg], about the new anti-immigration laws. It’s punctuated broad, but you think of highly stylized acting, songs and facilitated focus groups with Japanese seniors, And there is no one “immigrant story.” The immi- with a little punchline, so the humor is still there, that are catchy and crowd-pleasing, and jokes that who are a generation after the Issei, just to get their grant story is different for every individual. That was but you don’t have characters bumbling around, depend on bantering back and forth. At the Retreat, take on the story. I didn’t have a whole lot of material important to Henry Kiyama, and all four men go trying things and looking stupid. You have a the first thing we did was take old vaudeville scripts, yet—this was early 2015. I gave them the comic strip through very different experiences in the States. I husband and wife speaking frankly about how they and had the actors perform them. I tried to put the and had them comment on what felt true to what wanted to capture that and unpack the word feel. I wanted that to be clear too, in the show— actors in that older style of movement and speech. they remembered of their parents, if anything was off- “immigrants” so that any singular impression of the we start with these four bright-eyed, hopeful, And then we took strips from the comics, and acted putting or offensive. Because this story of Japanese word is challenged by or augmented by other ways cartoonish young men, who by the end of the show it out in that style. immigrants is filtered through a cartoon, there’s a lot of interpreting that word. are much more fleshed out as real human beings Leslie: That’s the beauty of what the Retreat can do. of room for it to be oversimplified, and not really What about your decisions regarding the women with real perspectives on America. – Syche Phillips It’s exploratory time. And if we had gotten to the getting at the truth of the experience. in the cast? end of that week and said, “Okay, none of that I think it’s important to note that usually, when we

10 THEATREWORKS A Conversation with Playwright/Composer Min Kahng and Director Leslie Martinson

encoreartsprograms.com 11 Japanese Immigration and Settlement in the US (1854–1924) Agriculture and Immigration in California

1854 Japan enters into formal diplomatic relations with 1907 Japan and the US enter a “Gentleman’s Agreement,” immigration was restricted, Sikhs the US. whereby Japan agrees to stop issuing new (erroneously referred to as passports to those wishing to work in the US and “Hindus”) were imported from 1858 Hikozō Hamada (Joseph Heco) becomes the first the US agrees to not pass formal legislation present-day India and Pakistan. naturalized US citizen born in Japan. prohibiting Japanese immigration or segregating When the 1917 Immigration Act schools. Landowners and family members (includ- 1860 Japan dispatches first diplomatic envoy to the US. imposed additional restrictions on ing picture brides) are allowed to enter the US. all newcomers, California farmers 1868 Japanese immigrants begin to arrive in the Kingdom Japan continues to issue passports to the territory received permission to employ of Hawaii to work in the sugarcane industry. of Hawaii. temporary workers from Mexico 1869 Japanese immigrants begin to arrive in California. (San Francisco) The Japanese and Korean Exclusion (green card holders) without League is renamed The Asiatic Exclusion League, meeting the new requirements. Fukuinkai 1877 (San Francisco) Japanese Christians start expanding to exclude individuals from India. In the 1970s, “illegal” workers (The Gospel Society). It is the first immigrant joined US citizens and documented association founded by Japanese in the US. 1910 (San Francisco) Angel Island established as an laborers in the fields. immigration station. Until its close in 1940, 1882 Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act, the approximately one million Asian immigrants are California’s immigrant farm first immigration law to target based on race or processed here. nation of origin. The law stops Chinese workers workers share a history of from entering the US; immigration of Japanese 1913 California passes The Alien Land Law, preventing exploitative working conditions, workers increases. those ineligible for citizenship from owning land. as well as a rich legacy of labor Three-year leases of land are still permitted. organizing. One of the earliest 1892 Congress passes the Geary Act, extending the examples is an inspiring instance Chinese Exclusion Act for another ten years and 1920 In response to complaints from the US, Japan Izumizaki family in strawberry field with orchard, Pajaro Valley, California of intercultural cooperation and ca. 1900. Source: Watsonville Public Library requiring Chinese residents to register and carry stops issuing passports for picture brides. solidarity. In 1903, sugar beet residence permits. workers in Oxnard, CA used The Alien Land Law is amended to prohibit the Henry Kiyama’s book includes an extended episode in translators to form the Japanese- 1898 (San Francisco) Bukkyo Seinekai—The Young Men’s leasing of land, as well as forbidding aliens from Buddhist Association—is the first Japanese holding stock in companies that acquired agricul- which Charlie and Frank try their hand as farmworkers Mexican Labor Association, which Buddhist organization founded in the US. tural land. went on to hold a successful in Stockton. The friends quickly opt for city life over strike of over one thousand Hawaii is annexed and becomes a US territory. 1921 (Turlock) Armed white vigilantes deport 58 the miserable living conditions and backbreaking work workers. – Oona Hatton Japanese laborers out of town on trucks and The American Diary of 1902 Yonejirō Noguchi publishes warn them not to return. in the fields and orchards, but the comic highlights a a Japanese Girl, the first English language novel by –––––––––––––––––––– a Japanese writer. 1922 Supreme Court upholds prohibition against near-universal aspect of the immigrant experience in Sources: “The Evolution of California Japanese immigrants becoming naturalized citizens. Chinese Exclusion Act extended for another 10 years. California: agricultural labor. Agriculture 1850–2000” (Olmstead and Rhode); Long Road to Delano (Kushner); 1924 Congress passes the Immigration Act, which “Agriculture, Immigration, and Integration 1905 (San Francisco) The Japan Society is founded “to includes a ban on immigrants from the “Asiatic In contrast to the smaller, family Throughout the state’s history, in the San Joaquin Valley” (Martin); spread knowledge of Japanese language, arts, Barred Zone.” The Zone extended from Turkey run farms of the Midwest, government-sanctioned recruit- industry, history, folklore, and customs, and to National Farm Work Ministry (nfwm.org); and Saudi Arabia in the west to the Polynesian California has operated large- ment of immigrant farm workers densho.org. promote U.S.-Japan cooperation.” Islands in the east, including Asia, the Pacific scale farms since its ratification, has been fostered or discouraged (California) The Civil Code is amended to add Islands, Afghanistan, the Arabian Peninsula, India, and it has historically relied on based on perceived demand for “Mongolian” to the list of groups prohibited from Malaysia, and Myanmar. Not included in the ban imported labor to work those labor. The first seasonal farm marrying whites (joining “Negroes” and mulattos). were Chinese, already banned under the Chinese farms. The history of agriculture workers were Chinese, former Exclusion Act, and Japanese, whose immigration in California can be told from railroad workers who were (San Francisco) The Japanese and Korean Exclusion was voluntarily limited by the Gentleman’s many perspectives; one of the barred from taking other jobs. League is founded. Goals include prohibiting Agreement. Filipinos were not banned, being most complex is a chronicle of Once Chinese immigration was immigration, limiting employment opportunities, considered US nationals but not citizens. (After the inextricable connection prohibited, buranke katsugi and instituting segregation in schools (Chinese the Philippine Independence Act of 1934 strict between farming practices and (blanket carriers) from Japan students are already segregated.) limits were placed on Filipino immigration.) immigration policy. worked the fields. When Japanese – Oona Hatton

12 THEATREWORKS Japanese Immigration and Settlement in the US (1854–1924) Agriculture and Immigration in California

encoreartsprograms.com 13 The Art of Henry Yoshitaka Kiyama

Japanese-born artist Henry Yoshitaka Kiyama is best known for The Four Immigrants Manga, thought to be the first-ever comic book made up of original material. His body of work, however, is not limited to cartoons. Kiyama studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, and was among the first Japanese artists to master Western styles. The works included here demonstrate Kiyama’s range as an artist, influenced by both Eastern and Western traditions.

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The Art of Henry Yoshitaka Kiyama TheatreWorks Japanese-born artist Henry Yoshitaka Kiyama is best known for The Four Immigrants Manga, thought to be the first-ever comic book made up of original material. His body of work, however, is not limited to cartoons. S I L I C O N V A L L E Y Kiyama studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, and was among the first Japanese artists to presents master Western styles. The works included here demonstrate Kiyama’s range as an artist, influenced by both Eastern and Western traditions. A WORLD PREMIERE THE FOUR IMMIGRANTS An American Musical Manga

Book, Music, & Lyrics by Min Kahng Based on Manga Yonin Shosei by Henry Yoshitaka Kiyama Translated as The Four Immigrants Manga: A Japanese Exp erience in Sa n Francisco, 1904–1924

by Frederik L. Schodt, published by Stone Bridge P res s Y D L A M I L Directed by Leslie Martinson

A M F M Music al Directo r / Orchestrator William Liberatore Choreographer Dottie Lester-White

T E S Y O F H K I Scenic Designer Andrew Boyce C O U R Costume Designer Noah Marin (Left) Henry Yoshitaka Kiyama, newly arrived in San Lighting Designer Steven B. Mannshardt Francisco circa 1920. (Center) What is believed to be a Projections Designer Katherine Freer self-portrait. Sound Designer Jeff Mockus Dramaturg Oona Hatton Casting Director Leslie Martinson New York Casting Director Alan Filderman Los Angeles Casting Director Julia Flores Stage Manager Marcy Victoria Reed* Assistant Stage Manager Christina Larson*

VISIONARY PRODUCERS TheatreWorks Board Emeritus PRODUCERS Steven & Karin Chase Dorothy Lazier SEASON SPONSORS Garden Court Hotel • J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines • The Mercury News • Sobrato Philanthropies

The Four Immigrants: An American Musical Manga was developed at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley as part of its New Works Initiative. The Four Immigrants: An American Musical Manga is a recipient of the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award. Supported in part by the National Fund for New Musicals, a program of National Alliance for Musical Theatre– www.namt.org The Four Immigrants: An American Musical Manga plays July 12–August 6, 2017 THE VIDEOTAPING OR OTHER VIDEO OR AUDIO RECORDING OF THIS PRODUCTION IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED.

encoreartsprograms.com 15 THE CAST Who’s Who (In order of appearance)

Charlie Hansel Tan* RINABETH Passion, The World Goes ’Round, A TheatreWorks. New York City theatre Fred Sean Fenton* APOSTOL Funny Thing… (Domina), Follies credits include World Premiere Frank Phil Wong (Woman 1) returns (Heidi Schiller), and Merrily We Roll National Tour of The Magic School Henry James Seol* to TheatreWorks Along (Gussie). TV: General Bus (Wanda) with Maximum Woman 1 (Elder, Scared Bride, & Others) Rinabeth Apostol* after last summer’s Hospital. Ms. Carnahan is a Los Entertainment Productions and Woman 2 (Bakkapei Bao, Kimiko, & Others) Kerry K. Carnahan* New Works Festival Angeles-based actor/vocalist and Alice on Edge (Alice) with Marcus Woman 3 (Mailman, Anti-Asiatic Leader, & Others) Catherine Gloria* and Red. Recent has performed the National Anthem Ticotin and Kierstead Productions, Woman 4 (Hana, Fan Tan Dealer, & Others) Lindsay Hirata projects include the West Coast for the LA Dodgers, LA Clippers, Inc. Regional credits include Les *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States premiere of peerless (MTC), A and Anaheim Angels. She earned Misérables (Eponine) and Flower Thousand Splendid Suns and The her BFA/Dance at UC Irvine. A Drum Song (Mei Li) with PLACE & TIME Hard Problem (both at ACT), and proud mother to twins, Jackson and Woodminster, Miss Saigon (Kim) San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Valley, 1904-1924. Dogeaters (Magic). She also Carson, she thanks God, Dan, and with Broadway By the Bay, and Monstress Avenue Q THERE WILL BE ONE 15-MINUTE INTERMISSION. originated roles in (ACT), Mommy, her heroes. (Christmas Eve) with The Kite Runner (SJ Rep/Arizona Berkeley Playhouse. She recently THE ORCHESTRA Theatre Company), The Cable Car SEAN FENTON filmed a Philip Stein commercial Nymphomaniac (FOGG Theatre), (Fred) has performed with Broadway Barkada and per- Conductor/Piano William Liberatore Fire Work (TheatreFIRST) and with TheatreWorks formed at the Ma-Yi Theater Violin Carol Kutsch Imelda: A New Musical in A Little Night Company gala in New York City. She Cello Kris Yenney (East West Music Reeds Steve Parker Players). Select credits include (Ensemble/ works with Ma-Yi Theater Company, Othello Aliens with Trombone Michael Cushing (MTC), Frid understudy) Bingham Camp Theatre Retreat, Extraordinary Skills Of Percussion Artie Storch (B Street), and in the 2014 and is a member of Broadway Mice and Men Avenue Q Orchestra Personnel Manager Diane Ryan (SJ Rep), Writers’ Retreat, 2016 New Works Barkada. Proud member of AEA. All musicians are members of the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada. (San Jose Stage) and collaborations Festival, and Young Playwrights with Berkeley Rep, Playwrights Project. Other credits include: LINDSAY HIRATA MUSICAL NUMBERS Foundation, Crowded Fire, NYU James and the Giant Peach (Woman 4) is thrilled Skirball Center for the Performing (Ladahlord) for Bay Area Children’s to be making her ACT ONE Arts, and The Groundlings (Los Theatre and Shanghai Children’s Art TheatreWorks debut Opening...... Company Angeles), among others. Ms. Apostol Theatre; M Butterfly (Song Liling) with a show that is Go Home...... Company works extensively in commercials, for Custom Made Theatre Co.; so near and dear to Fred’s Plan...... Fred voiceover, TV, and film, and is a You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown her heart! Favorite Letter from Charlie’s Father...... Charlie’s Father member of PlayGround, Ferocious (Linus) for Willows Theatre Company; credits include The 25th Annual Optimism...... Charlie & Company The Song of the Nightingale Putnam County Spelling Bee The Funny Pages ...... Henry Lotus, and SAG-AFTRA. (Xiao Blood Brothers The Song of the Frank’s Dream ...... Frank & Company Hai) and (Sammy) (Center Rep) and Bakkapei Bao ...... Bakkapei Bao & his Dancers KERRY K. for Altarena Playhouse; and Where Nightingale (Altarena Playhouse). Sorry, Father...... Henry, Charlie CARNAHAN the Mountain Meets the Moon (Old She received her degree in Music Optimism / World’s Fair Transition...... Henry, Frank, Charlie (Woman 2) is Man of the Moon) for Bay Area Therapy from Loyola University in One of Us...... Anti-Asiatic Leaguer & Entourage thrilled to be Children’s Theatre, for which he won New Orleans and currently works as ACT TWO making her a Theatre Bay Area Award. Mr. a music therapist in the Bay Area. Money Ain’t So Bad ...... Fred & Company TheatreWorks Fenton earned his BA from Stanford Girl From Back Home...... Charlie, Frank, Fred, Henry debut. Favorite University and is currently a board JAMES SEOL Remarkable...... Henry regional credits include The First member for Crowded Fire Theater (Henry) was last Honolulu Hula ...... Fred, Frank Picture Show (Newscaster/Marion E. in San Francisco. seen in tokyo fish The Song of the Picture Brides ...... The Picture Brides Wong), The King & I (Lady Thiang), story at Frank’s Dream (Reprise)...... Frank A Chorus Line (Connie Wong), Land CATHERINE TheatreWorks. Optimism (Reprise) ...... Charlie of Smiles (Soon Nu/ Mama X), GLORIA (Woman 3) On Broadway he Charlie & Henry...... Charlie, Henry Cinnamon Girl (Praveena), Grateful is thrilled to reprise appeared in Richard One True Love...... Fred, Kimiko, & Family Crane Ensemble’s Nihonmachi: The the role of Anti- Greenberg’s A Naked Girl on the Turlock ...... Frank Place to Be (Joyce), East West Asiatic Leader in Appian Way, directed by Doug Furusato...... Hana, Kimiko, & Company Players’ A Little Night Music (Mrs. The Four Immigrants Hughes for Roundabout Theatre Finale...... Company Nordstrom), Sweeney Todd, Manga with Company. Recent regional credits

16 THEATREWORKS THE CAST Who’s Who (In order of appearance)

encoreartsprograms.com 17 Who’s Who Who’s Who include Thoroughly Modern Millie PHIL WONG LESLIE MARTINSON (Director) is Professor in the Northwestern State University. She is a member WILLIAM LIBERATORE at Goodspeed Musicals; Robert (Frank) is a local TheatreWorks’ Associate Artistic University Theater Department. of LMDA and has been honored to (Musical Director/Orchestrator) is O’Hara’s Zombie: the American at actor, musician, Director and Casting Director. Her www.andrewboycedesign.com be part of this incredible project TheatreWorks’ Resident Musical Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; comedian, and many TheatreWorks directing since its early stages. She would Director and has conducted over 35 Hamlet directed by Darko Tresnjak teaching artist from credits include Calligraphy, Proof, KATHERINE FREER (Projections like to thank Min and Leslie for shows, including Rags, The Life of at Hartford Stage; and The Orphan Oakland, California. the regional premiere of Water by Design) is a multimedia designer being peerless collaborators and the Party, Jane Austen’s EMMA, of Zhao, directed by Carey Perloff He recently the Spoonful, and the West Coast working in theater, events, and the Kerseys and Hattons for hours Sweeney Todd, Once on This Island at American Conservatory Theater performed with TheatreWorks as premieres of The Pitmen Painters installation. Frequent collaborators of listening, love, and free childcare. (2014 TBA Award), Little Women, (and La Jolla Playhouse). Off- the title role in their Oskar School and Superior Donuts. A graduate of include Tim Bond, Liz Lerman, Ping The Secret Garden, A Christmas Broadway, Mr. Seol appeared in Tour. Previous theatre credits Occidental College, she has been a Chong, Kamilah Forbes, and Talvin CHRISTINA LARSON (Assistant Memory, Crowns, Jane Eyre, Ragtime, Small Mouth Sounds directed by include work with The San Francisco Watson Fellow in political theatre, a Wilks. Recent designs include: Stage Manager) is excited to work and Pacific Overtures. He was Rachel Chavkin and Around the Shakespeare Festival, Word for member of Lincoln Center Director’s Alaxsxa | Alaska (Lincoln Center on her first show at TheatreWorks. Musical Director at American Musical World in 80 Days at the Davenport Word, Palo Alto Players, Bay Area Lab, a member of the La MaMa Education, dir. Ping Chong), Dial M A few favorite shows she has worked Theatre of San Jose, conducting Theatre; he has also worked with Children’s Theatre, Quantum International Directing Symposium, For Murder (Indiana Repertory as ASM or PA on around the Bay over 30 shows including Flower New York Theatre Workshop, New Dragon Theatre, The Free Theatre, and has served on Theatre Bay Theater, dir. James Still), Crane: On Area include: John (ACT), Sister Drum Song, Gypsy, A Chorus Line, Dramatists, and B-Side Productions. EXIT Theatre, Overcast Theatre, Area’s Theatre Services Committee Earth, In Sky (Lied Center, dir. Maija Play (Magic Theater), A Midsummer 42nd Street, Follies, and Children of He is a graduate of the Juilliard The Breadbox, Boxcar Theatre, since 2002. Silicon Valley Creates Garcia), Mary Poppins (Syracuse Night’s Dream (California Eden. He has won Bay Area Theatre School and University of Virginia. The Lamplighters, Los Altos Stage named her an Arts Laureate for artis- Stage, dir. Peter Amster), Macbeth Shakespeare Theatre), Tribes Critics Circle Awards for A Little Company, and The Bonfire Makers. tic achievement and community (Richard Rodgers Amphitheater, dir. (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), and Night Music, South Pacific, and Damn HANSEL TAN His film appearances include The impact. She is a Performance Coach Carl Cofield), The Wholehearted (Z Where the Mountain Meets the Yankees (AMTSJ), and Bat Boy: The (Charlie) originally Incredibles and Spike Lee’s Sucker in leadership communication training space, dir. Suli Holum and Deborah Moon (Bay Area Children’s Theatre). Musical; Into the Woods; Emma; hails from the sunny Free City. Mr. Wong is a Resident with Stand and Deliver Group. Stein), Poster Boy (Williamstown Caroline, or Change; and The Light isle of Singapore, Artist with SF Shakes, a graduate of Theater Festival, dir. Stafford Arima), DOTTIE LESTER-WHITE in the Piazza (TheatreWorks). He is and is honored to Oberlin College, and received his ANDREW BOYCE (Scenic Design) The Great Gatsby (Indiana Repertory (Choreographer) choreographed also the director of the award- be making his physical theatre training at the designed TW’s The Velocity of Theater, dir. Peter Amster), Stet (The TheatreWorks’ Rags and Peter and winning Gunn High School Choirs. TheatreWorks Accademia dell’ Arte in Arezzo, Autumn and Confederates. He is a Abingdon, dir. Tony Speciale), The the Starcatcher, and contributed to debut! NYC: Ping Pong (The Public Italy. He can be seen next as Jimmy Chicago and NYC based designer Christians (The Wilma, dir. Tim Bond), Marry Me a Little. She performed STEVEN B. MANNSHARDT Theater), I Am Harvey Milk (Avery Harper in Ray of Light Theatre’s working in Theatre, Opera, and Collidescope 2.0 (UMASS Amherst, on Broadway in Katharine (Lighting Designer) has been the Fisher Hall), Unlock’d (Prospect production of Reefer Madness. Film/TV. NY credits: Lincoln Center dir. Ping Chong and Talvin Wilks), Hepburn’s Coco, Ruby Keeler’s No lighting designer for over 70 Theater), The Ohmies (Daryl Roth Theater, Roundabout Theater and The Glass Menagerie (Syracuse No Nanette, and New York City productions at TheatreWorks, Theater), Future Anxiety (The Flea), MIN KAHNG (Book, Music, & Company, Atlantic Theater Company, Stage, dir. Tim Bond). Katherine is a Center’s production of Carnival. having won numerous Bay Area NO-NO Boy (Pan-Asian Repertory), Lyrics) is a Bay Area playwright and Primary Stages, Rattlestick, Play Helen Hayes nominee and an National Tours include Hello Dolly, Theatre Critics Circle, Theatre Bay Easter Mysteries (St Clements), composer whose world premiere Company, Playwrights Realm, Innovative Theater Award nominee. Cabaret, and No, No, Nanette. Area and Dean Goodman Choice The Great Wall (NAMT), To Hell works include The Song of the Cherry Lane, etc. Regional credits Ms. Lester-White has also choreo- Awards for his work. His regional and Back (NYMF). REGIONAL: Nightingale (Altarena Playhouse); with: A.C.T. (SF), Actors Theatre of OONA HATTON (Dramaturg) was graphed productions for American design credits include Long Wharf Made in China (O’Neill Theater Where the Mountain Meets the Louisville, Alliance, American dramaturg for Bay Area Children’s Musical Theatre of San Jose (Singin’ Theatre; A Contemporary Theatre, Center), The King and I (Harbor Moon, Bad Kitty On Stage!, and Players, Asolo Rep, California Theatre (Tales of Olympus, Ivy and in the Rain, The Sound of Music, Seattle; American Repertory Lights), Miss Saigon (North Shore Tales of Olympus (Bay Area Children’s Shakespeare Theater, Curtis Opera, Bean, Where the Mountain Meets The Phantom of the Opera, Music Theater, Cambridge; Studio Arena Music Theatre & Flat Rock Theatre). Mr. Kahng also wrote the Dallas Theater Center, Des Moines the Moon), FURYFactory (foolsFURY), Man, Fiddler on the Roof, Children Theatre; Magic Theatre; Pasadena Playhouse), The Costs of Living NEA-funded project Story Explorers, Metro Opera, The Geffen, George TheatreFIRST (Beneath the Tall Tree), of Eden, and the American Playhouse; The Weston Playhouse (Village Theatre), Call It Courage an original musical for young Street Playhouse, Goodman, Kirk and UC Davis (Nam War Raw Man). premiere of 3hree Musketeers); San Theatre Company; Vancouver (Bingham Camp Theatre Retreat), audiences with autism. Mr. Kahng Douglas, Long Wharf, Magic Theater In Chicago, she dramaturged nine Jose Stage Company (Ug The Playhouse Theatre Company; and Romeo and Juliet (Wild Rice). FILM/ received the 2014 Titan Award for (SF), Mark Taper Forum, Milwaukee productions for The Hypocrites and Musical, Urinetown, Beehive, Altar Olympia Theatre, Dublin, Ireland. TV: The Blacklist: Redemption (NBC), Playwrights and was recognized in Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, served as Literary Manager for Boyz, and The Great American He previously taught lighting Madam Secretary (CBS), Complete American Theatre magazine as one Portland Center Stage, Syracuse Strawdog Theatre Company. Trailer Park Musical); and Prather design at Santa Rosa Junior College Unknown (Amazon), In Game: The of “9 Musical Theatre Writers You Stage, Westport Playhouse, & Yale Dr. Hatton holds a PhD in Theatre Entertainment Group (South Pacific, for 14 years and now runs an Webseries (Man Powered Films). He Should Know.” He is a Resident Rep among others. Mr. Boyce is a from Northwestern University and is Showboat, Will Rogers Follies, organization dedicated to improving dedicates this performance to his Playwright at Playwrights Foundation member of Wingspace, is a Assistant Professor of Performance Funny Girl, Hello Dolly, Miss Saigon, the education system for both grandparents and their pioneering and proud member of the Dramatists graduate of Yale School of Drama, Studies in the Department of My Fair Lady, Oliver, A Christmas children and adults in Nepal. migratory spirit. Guild. www.minkahng.com and is currently an Assistant Communication Studies at San José Carol, and Guys & Dolls). www.nepal.wwep.org

18 THEATREWORKS Who’s Who Who’s Who include Thoroughly Modern Millie PHIL WONG LESLIE MARTINSON (Director) is Professor in the Northwestern State University. She is a member WILLIAM LIBERATORE at Goodspeed Musicals; Robert (Frank) is a local TheatreWorks’ Associate Artistic University Theater Department. of LMDA and has been honored to (Musical Director/Orchestrator) is O’Hara’s Zombie: the American at actor, musician, Director and Casting Director. Her www.andrewboycedesign.com be part of this incredible project TheatreWorks’ Resident Musical Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; comedian, and many TheatreWorks directing since its early stages. She would Director and has conducted over 35 Hamlet directed by Darko Tresnjak teaching artist from credits include Calligraphy, Proof, KATHERINE FREER (Projections like to thank Min and Leslie for shows, including Rags, The Life of at Hartford Stage; and The Orphan Oakland, California. the regional premiere of Water by Design) is a multimedia designer being peerless collaborators and the Party, Jane Austen’s EMMA, of Zhao, directed by Carey Perloff He recently the Spoonful, and the West Coast working in theater, events, and the Kerseys and Hattons for hours Sweeney Todd, Once on This Island at American Conservatory Theater performed with TheatreWorks as premieres of The Pitmen Painters installation. Frequent collaborators of listening, love, and free childcare. (2014 TBA Award), Little Women, (and La Jolla Playhouse). Off- the title role in their Oskar School and Superior Donuts. A graduate of include Tim Bond, Liz Lerman, Ping The Secret Garden, A Christmas Broadway, Mr. Seol appeared in Tour. Previous theatre credits Occidental College, she has been a Chong, Kamilah Forbes, and Talvin CHRISTINA LARSON (Assistant Memory, Crowns, Jane Eyre, Ragtime, Small Mouth Sounds directed by include work with The San Francisco Watson Fellow in political theatre, a Wilks. Recent designs include: Stage Manager) is excited to work and Pacific Overtures. He was Rachel Chavkin and Around the Shakespeare Festival, Word for member of Lincoln Center Director’s Alaxsxa | Alaska (Lincoln Center on her first show at TheatreWorks. Musical Director at American Musical World in 80 Days at the Davenport Word, Palo Alto Players, Bay Area Lab, a member of the La MaMa Education, dir. Ping Chong), Dial M A few favorite shows she has worked Theatre of San Jose, conducting Theatre; he has also worked with Children’s Theatre, Quantum International Directing Symposium, For Murder (Indiana Repertory as ASM or PA on around the Bay over 30 shows including Flower New York Theatre Workshop, New Dragon Theatre, The Free Theatre, and has served on Theatre Bay Theater, dir. James Still), Crane: On Area include: John (ACT), Sister Drum Song, Gypsy, A Chorus Line, Dramatists, and B-Side Productions. EXIT Theatre, Overcast Theatre, Area’s Theatre Services Committee Earth, In Sky (Lied Center, dir. Maija Play (Magic Theater), A Midsummer 42nd Street, Follies, and Children of He is a graduate of the Juilliard The Breadbox, Boxcar Theatre, since 2002. Silicon Valley Creates Garcia), Mary Poppins (Syracuse Night’s Dream (California Eden. He has won Bay Area Theatre School and University of Virginia. The Lamplighters, Los Altos Stage named her an Arts Laureate for artis- Stage, dir. Peter Amster), Macbeth Shakespeare Theatre), Tribes Critics Circle Awards for A Little Company, and The Bonfire Makers. tic achievement and community (Richard Rodgers Amphitheater, dir. (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), and Night Music, South Pacific, and Damn HANSEL TAN His film appearances include The impact. She is a Performance Coach Carl Cofield), The Wholehearted (Z Where the Mountain Meets the Yankees (AMTSJ), and Bat Boy: The (Charlie) originally Incredibles and Spike Lee’s Sucker in leadership communication training space, dir. Suli Holum and Deborah Moon (Bay Area Children’s Theatre). Musical; Into the Woods; Emma; hails from the sunny Free City. Mr. Wong is a Resident with Stand and Deliver Group. Stein), Poster Boy (Williamstown Caroline, or Change; and The Light isle of Singapore, Artist with SF Shakes, a graduate of Theater Festival, dir. Stafford Arima), DOTTIE LESTER-WHITE in the Piazza (TheatreWorks). He is and is honored to Oberlin College, and received his ANDREW BOYCE (Scenic Design) The Great Gatsby (Indiana Repertory (Choreographer) choreographed also the director of the award- be making his physical theatre training at the designed TW’s The Velocity of Theater, dir. Peter Amster), Stet (The TheatreWorks’ Rags and Peter and winning Gunn High School Choirs. TheatreWorks Accademia dell’ Arte in Arezzo, Autumn and Confederates. He is a Abingdon, dir. Tony Speciale), The the Starcatcher, and contributed to debut! NYC: Ping Pong (The Public Italy. He can be seen next as Jimmy Chicago and NYC based designer Christians (The Wilma, dir. Tim Bond), Marry Me a Little. She performed STEVEN B. MANNSHARDT Theater), I Am Harvey Milk (Avery Harper in Ray of Light Theatre’s working in Theatre, Opera, and Collidescope 2.0 (UMASS Amherst, on Broadway in Katharine (Lighting Designer) has been the Fisher Hall), Unlock’d (Prospect production of Reefer Madness. Film/TV. NY credits: Lincoln Center dir. Ping Chong and Talvin Wilks), Hepburn’s Coco, Ruby Keeler’s No lighting designer for over 70 Theater), The Ohmies (Daryl Roth Theater, Roundabout Theater and The Glass Menagerie (Syracuse No Nanette, and New York City productions at TheatreWorks, Theater), Future Anxiety (The Flea), MIN KAHNG (Book, Music, & Company, Atlantic Theater Company, Stage, dir. Tim Bond). Katherine is a Center’s production of Carnival. having won numerous Bay Area NO-NO Boy (Pan-Asian Repertory), Lyrics) is a Bay Area playwright and Primary Stages, Rattlestick, Play Helen Hayes nominee and an National Tours include Hello Dolly, Theatre Critics Circle, Theatre Bay Easter Mysteries (St Clements), composer whose world premiere Company, Playwrights Realm, Innovative Theater Award nominee. Cabaret, and No, No, Nanette. Area and Dean Goodman Choice The Great Wall (NAMT), To Hell works include The Song of the Cherry Lane, etc. Regional credits Ms. Lester-White has also choreo- Awards for his work. His regional and Back (NYMF). REGIONAL: Nightingale (Altarena Playhouse); with: A.C.T. (SF), Actors Theatre of OONA HATTON (Dramaturg) was graphed productions for American design credits include Long Wharf Made in China (O’Neill Theater Where the Mountain Meets the Louisville, Alliance, American dramaturg for Bay Area Children’s Musical Theatre of San Jose (Singin’ Theatre; A Contemporary Theatre, Center), The King and I (Harbor Moon, Bad Kitty On Stage!, and Players, Asolo Rep, California Theatre (Tales of Olympus, Ivy and in the Rain, The Sound of Music, Seattle; American Repertory Lights), Miss Saigon (North Shore Tales of Olympus (Bay Area Children’s Shakespeare Theater, Curtis Opera, Bean, Where the Mountain Meets The Phantom of the Opera, Music Theater, Cambridge; Studio Arena Music Theatre & Flat Rock Theatre). Mr. Kahng also wrote the Dallas Theater Center, Des Moines the Moon), FURYFactory (foolsFURY), Man, Fiddler on the Roof, Children Theatre; Magic Theatre; Pasadena Playhouse), The Costs of Living NEA-funded project Story Explorers, Metro Opera, The Geffen, George TheatreFIRST (Beneath the Tall Tree), of Eden, and the American Playhouse; The Weston Playhouse (Village Theatre), Call It Courage an original musical for young Street Playhouse, Goodman, Kirk and UC Davis (Nam War Raw Man). premiere of 3hree Musketeers); San Theatre Company; Vancouver (Bingham Camp Theatre Retreat), audiences with autism. Mr. Kahng Douglas, Long Wharf, Magic Theater In Chicago, she dramaturged nine Jose Stage Company (Ug The Playhouse Theatre Company; and Romeo and Juliet (Wild Rice). FILM/ received the 2014 Titan Award for (SF), Mark Taper Forum, Milwaukee productions for The Hypocrites and Musical, Urinetown, Beehive, Altar Olympia Theatre, Dublin, Ireland. TV: The Blacklist: Redemption (NBC), Playwrights and was recognized in Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, served as Literary Manager for Boyz, and The Great American He previously taught lighting Madam Secretary (CBS), Complete American Theatre magazine as one Portland Center Stage, Syracuse Strawdog Theatre Company. Trailer Park Musical); and Prather design at Santa Rosa Junior College Unknown (Amazon), In Game: The of “9 Musical Theatre Writers You Stage, Westport Playhouse, & Yale Dr. Hatton holds a PhD in Theatre Entertainment Group (South Pacific, for 14 years and now runs an Webseries (Man Powered Films). He Should Know.” He is a Resident Rep among others. Mr. Boyce is a from Northwestern University and is Showboat, Will Rogers Follies, organization dedicated to improving dedicates this performance to his Playwright at Playwrights Foundation member of Wingspace, is a Assistant Professor of Performance Funny Girl, Hello Dolly, Miss Saigon, the education system for both grandparents and their pioneering and proud member of the Dramatists graduate of Yale School of Drama, Studies in the Department of My Fair Lady, Oliver, A Christmas children and adults in Nepal. migratory spirit. Guild. www.minkahng.com and is currently an Assistant Communication Studies at San José Carol, and Guys & Dolls). www.nepal.wwep.org

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NOAH MARIN (Costume Designer) Theatre, Utah Shakespearean Woods; Pacific Overtures; Rags; COMING NEXT AT THEATREWORKS—GET TICKETS TODAY! has designed costumes for Festival, and Oregon Shakespeare Sweeney Todd; Another Midsummer Confederates, 2 Pianos 4 Hands, Festival. Night; Sunday in the Park with Warrior Class, and Proof, and is George; Jane Eyre; and Caroline, A STORY OF LOVE IN INFINITE DIMENSIONS TheatreWorks’ Assistant Costumer. MARCY VICTORIA REED (Stage or Change; and Back Stage West He has assisted on many TheatreWorks Manager), a Stage Manager and Garland Awards for his direction of productions, including Wheelhouse, Live Events Producer, is pleased to Side Show and Sunday in the Park Of Mice and Men, Now Circa Then, return to TheatreWorks after with George. He recently directed CONSTELLATIONS The Pitmen Painters, The Secret previously stage managing Rags, Daddy Long Legs, Outside Garden, Clementine in the Lower 9, Sweeney Todd and the New Works Mullingar, Cyrano, Jane Austen’s By Nick Payne and Sense and Sensibility. He also Festival reading of The Four EMMA, The Country House, Fallen assisted on Broadway productions of Immigrants. Other credits include: Angels, Peter and the Starcatcher, Directed by Robert Kelley HHHHH Ragtime and Blithe Spirit. Other Old Globe (Fiasco’s adaptation of Sweeney Todd, Marry Me a Little, REGIONAL PREMIERE London Evening Standard assistant design credits include Into the Woods), McCarter Theatre and Once on This Island. Westport Playhouse (She Loves Me), Center (Into The Woods, Are You Aug 23–Sept 17 Berkeley Repertory Theatre (Three There McPhee?, The Convert, PHIL SANTORA (Managing Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts Sisters), California Shakespeare Sleeping Beauty Wakes, A Director) joined TheatreWorks in Theater (Titus Andronicus), Marin Christmas Carol, The How and the 2007. He has served as Managing theatreworks.org 650.463.1960 Theatre Company (Seagull), and Why, An Iliad), ACT (Martin Moran Director of Northlight Theatre Magic Theatre (Why We Have a at the Strand), San Jose Repertory (Chicago) and Georgia Shakespeare Body). His film credits include Theatre (Crime and Punishment, Festival (Atlanta), as well as Disney’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Big Meal), New York Theatre Development Director for Great He earned his MFA from Brandeis in Workshop (An Iliad, Belleville), Lakes Theatre Festival (Cleveland) A TIMELESS MUSICAL JOURNEY Boston and BFA from San Francisco Milwaukee Repertory Theatre (The and George Street Playhouse State, both in Costume Design. Whipping Man), La Jolla Playhouse (New Brunswick). He holds an (Sleeping Beauty Wakes, An Iliad), MFA in Theatre Administration JEFF MOCKUS (Sound Designer) Transcendence Theatre Company from the Yale School of Drama designed TheatreWorks’ Rags, (Broadway Under the Stars and a BA in Drama from Duke Crimes of the Heart, Daddy Long 2013/2014), and 24 Hour Musicals University. He is Vice President of Legs, tokyo fish story, Jane Austen’s on Broadway 2010–13. She is a the National Alliance for Musical EMMA, Sweeney Todd, Once on graduate of the University of Theatre Board. Prior board This Island, Silent Sky, Little Women, Wisconsin–Whitewater and holds a service includes the League of Being Earnest, Big River, Of Mice BFA in Stage Management. Chicago Theatres, Atlanta Coalition and Men, The Secret Garden, Fly of Theatres, and the executive By Night, Superior Donuts, and [title ROBERT KELLEY (Artistic Director) committee of the League of of show]. His recent work includes is a Bay Area native and Stanford Resident Theatres (LORT). He Music and Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz The Western Stage’s Bloody Bloody University graduate. He founded was named 2000’s Best Arts Book by Philip LaZebnik Andrew Jackson, and Center TheatreWorks in 1970 and has Administrator by Atlanta Magazine REPertory Company’s Women In directed over 175 TheatreWorks and received the Atlanta Arts and Directed by Scott Schwartz Jeopardy. Mr. Mockus served as productions, including many world Business Council’s 1998 ABBY WORLD PREMIERE Resident Sound Designer for San and regional premieres. He has Award for Arts Administrator. in collaboration with Fredericia Teater, Denmark Jose Repertory Theatre on over 70 received the Silicon Valley Arts productions. He has credits with Council’s Legacy Laureate Award; ACT, Berkeley Rep, Cal Shakes, the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Oct 6–Nov 5, 2017 Marin Theatre Company, Asian Paine Knickerbocker Award and Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts American Theater Company, Jerry Friedman Award for Lifetime theatreworks.org 650.463.1960 Sledgehammer Theatre, San Diego Achievement; BATCC Awards for Rep, PCPA Theaterfest, A Outstanding Direction for The Contemporary Theatre, Huntington Hound of the Baskervilles; Into the

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encoreartsprograms.com 21 A BOMBASTIC HOLLYWOOD COMEDY A FAUST FOR NOW 3 FARIDS DEAL WITH THE TheatreWorks By Ramiz Monsef S I L I C O N V A L L E Y Directed by Pirronne Yousefzadeh DRAGON From comic casting calls to explosive movie shoots Written & Performed by Kevin Rolston and glittering opening nights, Hollywood’s clueless Developed with & Directed by mystique confronts a trio of Arab American actors M. Graham Smith David Stenn The Shangri-Las Ramiz Monsef Kevin Rolston trying to surmount the stereotypes of Tinsel Town. This modern look at the bargains we strike to Bold physical comedy highlights this journey to the LEADERS OF THE PACK survive is both a grown-up fairy tale laced with terror and a darkly hilarious but intractable Land of La. Contains mature language. camp comedy. Wittily blending and subverting a coming-out PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE: The Shangri-Las RAMIZ MONSEF is co-author of the musical The Unfortunates, which was story, ancient fable, and sordid confessional, it is a big-themed and By David Stenn Featuring the songs of the Shangri-Las produced at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and ACT in San Francisco. sophisticated solo show for mature audiences. Directed by Lisa Peterson 3 Farids was part of The Bushwick Starr reading series in NYC. Ramiz is an “Sly, shocking, and won’t let you go.” – KQED Arts actor as well, and has appeared on TV and in theatres across the country. Groundbreaking 1960s “bad girl” group The Shangri-Las charted the heart- KEVIN ROLSTON is thrilled to return to TheatreWorks as a playwright, break of teenhood. After gigs with the Beatles and the Stones, their 8/18 @ 7:30pm • 8/20 @ 3pm after performing as an actor in Opus and Snow Falling on Cedars on mysterious end is solved for the first time in this American musical journey. the mainstage, and in How to Write a New Book for the Bible and Up DAVID STENN’s television credits span from Hill Street Blues to Boardwalk North in the New Works Festival. Deal with the Dragon is his first one- Empire. He is the author of two biographies, Clara Bow: Runnin’ Wild and A BREAKTHROUGH PLAY FOR OUR TIMES man play. Bombshell: The Life and Death of Jean Harlow , both edited by Jacqueline Onassis. 8/13 @ 3:00pm • 8/19 @ 12 noon His documentary Girl 27 exposed Hollywood’s best-suppressed scandal. TINY HOUSES By Stefanie Zadravec 8/13 @ 7pm • 8/17 @ 8pm • 8/20 @ 7pm Directed by Giovanna Sardelli Malaysian Airlines Flight MH-17 was shot down over Ukraine in July 2014. In the days and weeks that MEET THE FESTIVAL ARTISTS Stefanie Zadravec followed, in tiny houses around the globe, this intriguing, tense, often funny drama explores the The Festival’s featured playwrights and composers share their lives touched—and changed—by one of the defining anecdotes and insights into creating brave new works for the events of our times. Contains mature language American Theatre. Bring your questions and be a part of the STEFANIE ZADRAVEC’s work has been produced/developed at Two River conversation with writers who are shaping the theatre landscape Theatre, Theatre@Boston Court, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, JAWfest, of tomorrow. Irene Sankoff & David Hein Play Penn, The Lark, SF Playhouse, Working Theater, NY Stage & Film, 8/20 @ 12 noon SPACE on Ryder Farm, Keen Company, and Women’s Project Theater, AN UNEXPECTED MUSICAL BASED ON A TRUE STORY among others. Stefanie is a New Dramatists Resident and recipient of a MY MOTHER’S LESBIAN JEWISH Helen Merrill Emerging Writer Award, the Francesca Primus Prize, and a Helen Hayes Award. WICCAN WEDDING 8/15 @ 8pm • 8/19 @ 4pm Book & Music by David Hein & Irene Sankoff Directed by David Leon Lowenstein From the acclaimed, Tony-nominated and Drama Desk-winning authors of Come from Away, Broadway’s latest runaway hit, this comic & touching love story is based on David’s mother’s true story. It is a musical valentine to a woman who changed everything in her life, and her family along with it. Jen Jamula & Allison Goldberg IRENE SANKOFF & DAVID HEIN (Book, Music, & Lyrics) are a Canadian married writing team. Their show Come From Away was nominated for seven August11– 20 Tony Awards this year, including Best Musical. @sankoffandhein N E X T G E N E R AT I O N E V E N T L AT E - N I G H T S P E C I A L E V E N T Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto 8/12 @ 8pm • 8/16 @ 8pm • 8/19 @ 8pm OPEN REHEARSAL of a BLOGOLOGUES New Play in Progress BAY AREA PREMIERE Our Festival, a nationally-acclaimed incubator Created & Performed by Jen Jamula & Allison Goldberg for new works, includes “script-in-hand” Waiting for Next S P E C I A L E X T R A One of New York’s most acclaimed comedy shows, Blogologues is debuts of five new musicals and plays, Meet By Jeffrey Lo a bold, Internet-inspired, sketch-based extravaganza that brings Jeffrey Lo Directed by Leslie Martinson the Festival Artists Panel, and Special Extras. KEYNOTE ADDRESS with Tinder messages, Amazon reviews, fake news, astonishing tweets, Ever wonder how a “play in progress” actually pro- and much more to life on stage completely verbatim. Don’t miss See all five readings and the Artists Panel for Cirque du Soleil Star Jeff Raz gresses? Join TheatreWorks’ Associate Artistic Director Leslie Martinson and this goldmine of NSFW online laughter. one low price with a FESTIVAL PASS: “The Secret Life of Clowns” Playwright Jeffrey Lo as they guide their cast through multiple versions of ALLISON GOLDBERG & JEN JAMULA are performers whose work has $49 $65 key scenes in a new dramatic comedy about fate, friendship, and growing Subscribers Non-Subscribers More than one million people saw Cirque du Soleil’s been recognized by Good Morning America, NPR, Newsweek, Forbes, up. Version 1 is the latest draft. Version 2 will be a revision hot off the press. Corteo with Jeff Raz in the starring role. Every night after WIRED, and more. The duo also created How To Break Up By Text, a Single tickets for Readings, Panel $20 each Jeff Raz And yet-to-come Version 3 will only be written after we hear from you! the show, Raz rushed to keep up with his “day job” as the comedy/therapy show which airs and analyzes audience text breakups $15 each Single tickets for BLOGOLOGUES director of the only school for professional clowns in the United States. Now the JEFFREY LO is a Filipino-American playwright and director. He is the on the spot. The pair was featured on the cover of Time Out New York Single tickets for Keynote and author of a new book The Secret Life of Clowns, the acclaimed actor/director recipient of the Leigh Weimers Emerging Artist Award, the Emerging Artist as two of the “top ten funniest women in NYC.” They graduated from Open Rehearsal $10 each will share a behind-the-scenes peek at the world of big-time circus and insights Laureate by Arts Council Silicon Valley, and Theatre Bay Area’s TITAN Yale University. into his ongoing celebration of all that is different, and odd, about each of us. Award. 8/18 @ 10pm theatreworks.org 650.463.1960 8/11 @ 8pm 8/12 @ 4:30pm

22 THEATREWORKS A BOMBASTIC HOLLYWOOD COMEDY A FAUST FOR NOW 3 FARIDS DEAL WITH THE TheatreWorks By Ramiz Monsef S I L I C O N V A L L E Y Directed by Pirronne Yousefzadeh DRAGON From comic casting calls to explosive movie shoots Written & Performed by Kevin Rolston and glittering opening nights, Hollywood’s clueless Developed with & Directed by mystique confronts a trio of Arab American actors M. Graham Smith David Stenn The Shangri-Las Ramiz Monsef Kevin Rolston trying to surmount the stereotypes of Tinsel Town. This modern look at the bargains we strike to Bold physical comedy highlights this journey to the LEADERS OF THE PACK survive is both a grown-up fairy tale laced with terror and a darkly hilarious but intractable Land of La. Contains mature language. camp comedy. Wittily blending and subverting a coming-out PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE: The Shangri-Las RAMIZ MONSEF is co-author of the musical The Unfortunates, which was story, ancient fable, and sordid confessional, it is a big-themed and By David Stenn Featuring the songs of the Shangri-Las produced at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and ACT in San Francisco. sophisticated solo show for mature audiences. Directed by Lisa Peterson 3 Farids was part of The Bushwick Starr reading series in NYC. Ramiz is an “Sly, shocking, and won’t let you go.” – KQED Arts actor as well, and has appeared on TV and in theatres across the country. Groundbreaking 1960s “bad girl” group The Shangri-Las charted the heart- KEVIN ROLSTON is thrilled to return to TheatreWorks as a playwright, break of teenhood. After gigs with the Beatles and the Stones, their 8/18 @ 7:30pm • 8/20 @ 3pm after performing as an actor in Opus and Snow Falling on Cedars on mysterious end is solved for the first time in this American musical journey. the mainstage, and in How to Write a New Book for the Bible and Up DAVID STENN’s television credits span from Hill Street Blues to Boardwalk North in the New Works Festival. Deal with the Dragon is his first one- Empire. He is the author of two biographies, Clara Bow: Runnin’ Wild and A BREAKTHROUGH PLAY FOR OUR TIMES man play. Bombshell: The Life and Death of Jean Harlow , both edited by Jacqueline Onassis. 8/13 @ 3:00pm • 8/19 @ 12 noon His documentary Girl 27 exposed Hollywood’s best-suppressed scandal. TINY HOUSES By Stefanie Zadravec 8/13 @ 7pm • 8/17 @ 8pm • 8/20 @ 7pm Directed by Giovanna Sardelli Malaysian Airlines Flight MH-17 was shot down over Ukraine in July 2014. In the days and weeks that MEET THE FESTIVAL ARTISTS Stefanie Zadravec followed, in tiny houses around the globe, this intriguing, tense, often funny drama explores the The Festival’s featured playwrights and composers share their lives touched—and changed—by one of the defining anecdotes and insights into creating brave new works for the events of our times. Contains mature language American Theatre. Bring your questions and be a part of the STEFANIE ZADRAVEC’s work has been produced/developed at Two River conversation with writers who are shaping the theatre landscape Theatre, Theatre@Boston Court, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, JAWfest, of tomorrow. Irene Sankoff & David Hein Play Penn, The Lark, SF Playhouse, Working Theater, NY Stage & Film, 8/20 @ 12 noon SPACE on Ryder Farm, Keen Company, and Women’s Project Theater, AN UNEXPECTED MUSICAL BASED ON A TRUE STORY among others. Stefanie is a New Dramatists Resident and recipient of a MY MOTHER’S LESBIAN JEWISH Helen Merrill Emerging Writer Award, the Francesca Primus Prize, and a Helen Hayes Award. WICCAN WEDDING 8/15 @ 8pm • 8/19 @ 4pm Book & Music by David Hein & Irene Sankoff Directed by David Leon Lowenstein From the acclaimed, Tony-nominated and Drama Desk-winning authors of Come from Away, Broadway’s latest runaway hit, this comic & touching love story is based on David’s mother’s true story. It is a musical valentine to a woman who changed everything in her life, and her family along with it. Jen Jamula & Allison Goldberg IRENE SANKOFF & DAVID HEIN (Book, Music, & Lyrics) are a Canadian married writing team. Their show Come From Away was nominated for seven August11– 20 Tony Awards this year, including Best Musical. @sankoffandhein N E X T G E N E R AT I O N E V E N T L AT E - N I G H T S P E C I A L E V E N T Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto 8/12 @ 8pm • 8/16 @ 8pm • 8/19 @ 8pm OPEN REHEARSAL of a BLOGOLOGUES New Play in Progress BAY AREA PREMIERE Our Festival, a nationally-acclaimed incubator Created & Performed by Jen Jamula & Allison Goldberg for new works, includes “script-in-hand” Waiting for Next S P E C I A L E X T R A One of New York’s most acclaimed comedy shows, Blogologues is debuts of five new musicals and plays, Meet By Jeffrey Lo a bold, Internet-inspired, sketch-based extravaganza that brings Jeffrey Lo Directed by Leslie Martinson the Festival Artists Panel, and Special Extras. KEYNOTE ADDRESS with Tinder messages, Amazon reviews, fake news, astonishing tweets, Ever wonder how a “play in progress” actually pro- and much more to life on stage completely verbatim. Don’t miss See all five readings and the Artists Panel for Cirque du Soleil Star Jeff Raz gresses? Join TheatreWorks’ Associate Artistic Director Leslie Martinson and this goldmine of NSFW online laughter. one low price with a FESTIVAL PASS: “The Secret Life of Clowns” Playwright Jeffrey Lo as they guide their cast through multiple versions of ALLISON GOLDBERG & JEN JAMULA are performers whose work has $49 $65 key scenes in a new dramatic comedy about fate, friendship, and growing Subscribers Non-Subscribers More than one million people saw Cirque du Soleil’s been recognized by Good Morning America, NPR, Newsweek, Forbes, up. Version 1 is the latest draft. Version 2 will be a revision hot off the press. Corteo with Jeff Raz in the starring role. Every night after WIRED, and more. The duo also created How To Break Up By Text, a Single tickets for Readings, Panel $20 each Jeff Raz And yet-to-come Version 3 will only be written after we hear from you! the show, Raz rushed to keep up with his “day job” as the comedy/therapy show which airs and analyzes audience text breakups $15 each Single tickets for BLOGOLOGUES director of the only school for professional clowns in the United States. Now the JEFFREY LO is a Filipino-American playwright and director. He is the on the spot. The pair was featured on the cover of Time Out New York Single tickets for Keynote and author of a new book The Secret Life of Clowns, the acclaimed actor/director recipient of the Leigh Weimers Emerging Artist Award, the Emerging Artist as two of the “top ten funniest women in NYC.” They graduated from Open Rehearsal $10 each will share a behind-the-scenes peek at the world of big-time circus and insights Laureate by Arts Council Silicon Valley, and Theatre Bay Area’s TITAN Yale University. into his ongoing celebration of all that is different, and odd, about each of us. Award. 8/18 @ 10pm theatreworks.org 650.463.1960 8/11 @ 8pm 8/12 @ 4:30pm

encoreartsprograms.com 23 New Works Festival Schedule at a Glance

FRIDAY 8:00pm KEYNOTE ADDRESS with Cirque du Soleil Star JEFF RAZ 8/11 “The Secret Life of Clowns”

SATURDAY 4:30pm 8:00pm OPEN REHEARSAL OF A NEW WORK MY MOTHER’S LESBIAN 8/12 IN PROGRESS JEWISH WICCAN WEDDING

SUNDAY 3:00pm 7:00pm DEAL WITH THE DRAGON PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE: 8/13 THE SHANGRI-LAS

Monday 8/14 OFF

TUESDAY 8:00pm TINY HOUSES New Works Festival Preview 8/15

WEDNESDAY 8:00pm MY MOTHER’S LESBIAN The Shangri--Las 8/16 JEWISH WICCAN WEDDING Whether or not you remember the 1960s, there’s a “tough girl” image set them apart from their contem- good chance you’re familiar with the music of the poraries. In addition, their songs dealt directly with THURSDAY 8:00pm Shangri-Las, which will highlight TheatreWorks’ New tragedy and alienation, a stark contrast to the cheerful PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE: Works Festival this August. The quartet was made up love songs otherwise crowding the airwaves. Teenage 8/17 THE SHANGRI-LAS of sisters Mary and Betty Weiss and identical twins rebellion and angst found a voice in the Shangri-Las. Mary Ann and Marge Ganser. The group shot to Over the next few years the group continued recording stardom just one year after forming at Andrew Jackson and performing, though not always all four together. FRIDAY 7:30pm 10:00pm High School in Cambria Heights, a neighborhood in In 1968 the Shangri-Las stepped out of the spotlight. 3 FARIDS Late Night Special Event Queens, New York City. 8/18 BLOGOLOGUES Mary Ann Ganser died in 1970. The remaining members After performing locally and recording a few singles began recording a new album in 1977, but were not with smaller labels, the Shangri-Las’ careers took off satisfied with the new work and it was never released. in 1964 when they signed with Red Bird Records. Or SATURDAY 12:00pm 4:00pm 8:00pm The group gave one final performance, then disbanded. rather, their parents signed—the girls were still minors, DEAL WITH TINY HOUSES MY MOTHER’S Marge Ganser died in 1996. Mary Weiss, the group’s ages ranging from 15–17 years old. LESBIAN JEWISH lead vocalist and the only member to return to the 8/19 THE DRAGON Their first hit, “Remember (Walking in the Sand),” music world, released a solo album called Dangerous WICCAN WEDDING reached #5 on the charts in 1964; that same year, Game in 2007. “Leader of the Pack” reached #1. The hits kept This August, TheatreWorks’ New Works Festival 12:00pm 3:00pm 7:00pm coming, and before long they were performing with SUNDAY audiences will be the first to witness a new take on the the likes of the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and ARTIST’S PANEL 3 FARIDS PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE: Shangri-Las’ story. Past, Present, Future, a new musical James Brown. 8/20 with 1440 Countdown THE SHANGRI-LAS by David Stenn named for one of the group’s last special presentation Though there was no shortage of girl-groups vying for songs, tells the story of the extraordinary Shangri-Las. the spotlight, the Shangri-Las stood out from the – Katie Dai crowd. Their vocal harmonies were impeccable, and a The J. LOHR LOUNGE will be open one hour prior to each Festival performance for members of The Inner Circle, donors of $1,500 and above. For more information: 650.463.7112.

24 THEATREWORKS New Works Festival Schedule at a Glance

FRIDAY 8:00pm KEYNOTE ADDRESS with Cirque du Soleil Star JEFF RAZ 8/11 “The Secret Life of Clowns”

SATURDAY 4:30pm 8:00pm OPEN REHEARSAL OF A NEW WORK MY MOTHER’S LESBIAN 8/12 IN PROGRESS JEWISH WICCAN WEDDING

SUNDAY 3:00pm 7:00pm DEAL WITH THE DRAGON PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE: 8/13 THE SHANGRI-LAS

Monday 8/14 OFF

TUESDAY 8:00pm TINY HOUSES New Works Festival Preview 8/15

encoreartsprograms.com 25 TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Contributors John & Catharine Kristian Neil & Karen Bonke Jane Hamlin & Steven Schow Carrie Perzow & Von Leirer Bill & Terry Krivan Bob & Martha Bowden Helen Helson Ronnie Plasters THE PRODUCER CIRCLE Arlene & Jack Leslie Lauren & Darrell Boyle David & Noreen Henig John & Valerie Poggi TheatreWorks Producers have made a gift of $10,000 or more. They are invited to exclusive events with visiting artists, and on special theatre trips. Producers may select Janet Littlefield & Michael & Leslie Braun Craig & Deborah Hoffman Diane Posnak a production to follow from ”page to stage” by attending the design presentation, rehearsals, and opening nights. Producers also receive all Inner Circle benefits. William Coggshall Kathy Bridgman Anne & Emma Grace Holmes Susan Rabin & David Buchanan Contact Ronnie Plasters at 650.463.7135 or [email protected] for more information Malcolm MacNaughton Ellen & Marc Brown Susan M. Huch Karen & John Reis Suzanne Martin & John Doyle Marda Buchholz & Marcie Brown Perry A. Irvine & Eddie Reynolds & Ed Jones Visionary Producers Rick Stern & Gordon & Carolyn Davidson Sue & Dick Levy The Merrimac Fund Eric Butler MD & Linda Romley-Irvine Edward & Verne Rice ($50,000 and above) Nancy Ginsburg Stern Ranae DeSantis Mark Lewis & Barbara Shapiro Buff & Cindy Miller Suzanne Rocca-Butler Sudhanshu & Lori Jain Bob Rodert & Bev Kiltz Ann S. Bowers Janet Strauss & Jeff Hawkins John & Susan Diekman Marks Family Foundation Myrna & Hy Mitchner, PhD Jeff & Deborah Byron Tom & Sally Logothetti Alicia Rojas & Howard Lyons Dr. & Mrs. W. M. Coughran, Jr. Lynn Szekely-Goode & Susan Fairbrook The Marmor Foundation/Drs. Eileen Nelson & Hugh Franks Calvin & Jennifer Carr Mary Louise Johnson Robert & Suzanne Rubenstein Anne & Larry Hambly Dr. Richard Goode Dan & Catharine Garber Michael & Jane Marmor Joe, Nancy, Sam & Sara Ragey Ron & Sally Carter Hilary Jones* Alan Russell & Fred Thiemann The Dirk & Charlene Kabcenell Mark & Teri Vershel Sylvia & Ron Gerst Gillian & Tom Moran Margo & Roy Ogus Rowland & Dawn Chase Craig & Gina Jorasch Family Fund Ellen & Jerry Saliman Foundation Lisa Webster & Ted Semple Emeri & Brad Handler Leslie & Douglas Murphy-Chutorian In memory of Pearl Reimer Josephine Chien & Mr. & Mrs. Abdo Kadifa Joseph & Sandy Santandrea Ray & Meredith Rothrock Gayla Lorthridge Wood & Judy Heyboer & Brian Shally Yvonne & Mike Nevens Orli & Zack Rinat Stephen Johnson Thomas Kailath & Anu Maitra Charles G. Schulz & TheatreWorks Board Emeritus Walt Wood William J. Higgs Richard Partridge Tom Rindfleisch & Carli Scott Lee & Amy Christel Ruth Ann & David Keefer Claire E. Taylor Larry Horton & George Wilson Adam Samuels Paul & Sheri Robbins Larry & Sara Condit Cynthia & Bert Keely Carolyn Schutz* Executive Producers Producers Edward Hunter & Philip Santora & Cristian Asher Edward & Jane Seaman Jodi Corwin & Irv Duchowny in Arthur Keller Perry Segal ($25,000 to $49,999) ($10,000 to $24,999) Michelle Garcia Dorothy Saxe Bart Sears memory of Milt, Michael, & Jack Liz & Rick Kniss Pamela & Rick Shames Bruce Cozadd Anonymous (3) Charlotte Jacobs & Loren & Shelley Saxe Ron & Ellen Shulman Jeff & Amy Crowe Woof Kurtzman & Liz Hertz Jack Shannahan Yogen & Peggy Dalal Marsha & Bill Adler Roderick Young Martha Seaver & Scott Walecka Joyce Reynolds Sinclair & Richard & Anita Davis Jim & Marilyn Lattin Sarah Shema & Neyssa Marina Frances Escherich Lois & Dr. Edward Anderson Leigh & Roy Johnson Leonard Shustek & Donna Dubinsky Dr. Gerald M. Sinclair Scott & Edie DeVine Henry Lawson & Marge & Jim Shively The John & Marcia Goldman Elaine Baskin & Ken Krechmer Mike & Martha Kahn Mark Stevens & Mary Murphy Ellen & Ed Smith Douglas Dexter Marcia Wells-Lawson Carolyn & Rick Silberman Foundation Lucy Berlin & Glenn Trewitt Julie Kaufman & Doug Klein Debra Summers & John Baker Sheri Sobrato Dennis & Cindy Dillon Elizabeth Leep Gerry Sipes Phil Kurjan & Noel Butler Jayne Booker Robert Kelley & Ev Shiro Watkins Family Charitable Fund Lisa & Matthew Sonsini Monica Donovan Linda Lester Mariangela Smania & Pierre Cintra Michelle & Michael Kwatinetz Bredt Family Fund at Truckee Tom & Sharon Kelley Carol Watts Jerry Strom & Marilyn Austin Pamela Dougherty Janet & Phil Levine Pamela Smith Mendelsohn Family Fund Tahoe Community Foundation Robin & Don Kennedy Harriet & Frank Weiss Catherine & Jeff Thermond Jack & Marcia Edelstein Donald & Rachel Levy Todd Smith Morgan Family Foundation Steve & Gayle Brugler Dick & Cathy Lampman Bart & Nancy Westcott Odette & Ewart Thomas Mr. & Mrs. Robert English Stephen & Nancy Levy Art Stamness Cynthia Sears Steven & Karin Chase Dorothy Lazier Jane Weston & J. Horn Brent & Michèle Townshend Sue & Jeff Epstein Robert J. Lipshutz & Jim Stephens & Abraham Brown George & Susan Crow Debra Leslie Bill & Janne Wissel Tzipor Ulman & Dan Rubinstein Patrick Farris Nancy Wong, MD The Sher-Right Fund Holly Ward & Scott Spector Sheldon Finkelstein & Drs. John & Penny Loeb Jan Thomson & Roy Levin Griff & Lynne Weber Beatriz V. Infante Nancy Madison & Michael Price Helaina Titus THE INNER CIRCLE Jayne Booker, Chair Mark & Sheila Wolfson Kathleen Fitts Richard & Charlene Maltzman in Ted & Betty Ullman Members of The Inner Circle contribute a minimum of $1,500 each season and enjoy Peggy Woodford Forbes & memory of Carol Adler Les & Judy Vadasz a variety of benefits including priority subscription seating, VIP ticket purchases and Players Harry Bremond Marilyn Manning & Lorraine VanDeGraaf-Rodriguez exchanges, access to house seats on Broadway, and invitations to Meet-the-Artists ($1,500 to $2,999) Diane & Bob Frankle Richard Lonergan & Fred C. Rodriguez events. Contact Hans Cardenas at 650.463.7155 or [email protected] for more 45 for 45Circle Anonymous (5) Barbara Franklin & Bernie Loth Anne B. McCarthy Robert J. Van der Leest, MD information. TheatreWorks 45 for 45 Circle members have made a multi-year Marc & Sophia Abramson Francis Franklin Patricia McClung & Allen Morgan Mimi & Jim Van Horne pledge of $45,000 or more to honor Robert Kelley and Associate Producers The BelleJAR Foundation Douglas & Loretta Allred Jay & Joyce Friedrichs Kevin McCoy Thomas Vogelsang TW’s 45th Anniversary. Contact Ronnie Plasters at 650.463.7135 or ($6,000 to $9,999) Steven & Michele Boal Mary Ann Anthony & Ken Fowkes Markus Fromherz & Heike Schmitz Dave & Carolyn McLoughlin Margaret & Curt Weil [email protected] for more information. Anonymous Marah & Gene Brehaut Shirley Bailey Marilee Gardner Rani Menon & Keith Amidon Paul & Barbara Weiss Paul Asente & Ron Jenks Bruce & Gail Chizen Doug & Marie Barry Nancy & Charles Geschke Shauna Mika & Rick Callison Elissa Wellikson & Tim Shroyer Katherine Bazak & John Dohner Dean & Wilma Chu Pat Bashaw & Gene Segre Ciro & Eileen Giammona Sondra Murphy & Jeremy Platt Arlene & Bruce S. White Elaine Baskin & Ken Krechmer Suzanne Martin & John Doyle Dr. Barbara L. Bessey in memory Nancy Mahoney Cohen Jane Baxter & Steve Beck Kenneth & Susan Greathouse Melinda Nasif & Michael Scruggs Karen Carlson White Ann S. Bowers Mendelsohn Family Fund of Dr. Kevin J. Gilmartin Diane & Howard Crittenden Mr. & Mrs. David W. Beach Renee & Mark Greenstein James Niemasik Ken & Ruth Wilcox Gayle & Steve Brugler Rebecca & James Morgan David & Ann Crockett Randy Curry & Kay Simon Betsy & George Bechtel Mary Ann & John Grilli Lynn & Susan Orr Bruce & Elinor Wilner Bruce Cozadd Cynthia Sears John & Wynne Dobyns Redwood Serenity Fund Don & Deborah Bennett Barbara Gunther Ellice & Jim Papp Lynn Wilson & Howard Roberts Richard & Josephine Ferrie Gordon & Carolyn Davidson Barbara Shapiro & Mark Lewis David E. Gold & Irene Blumenkranz Caroline Beverstock Jim & Linda Hagan David Pasta in memory of Gloria Neil & Ann Wolff Ronald Hayden Gayle Flanagan Sylvia & Ron Gerst Rick Stern & Charlotte & David Biegelsen Kovin Hagan J.A. Guth Bill & Sue Worthington Linda M. Hinton & Vince Foecke Lynda & Steve Fox Robert & Letty Block Russell & Debbie Hall Beth & Charlie Perrell Linda and Joel Zizmor Anne & Larry Hambly Nancy Ginsburg Stern Lisa & Marc Jones Peter & Rose Friedland Judy Heyboer & Brian Shally Mark & Teri Vershel Rob & Ann Marangell Terry & Carolyn Gannon in honor of Julie Kaufman Lisa Webster Richard Niblock Robert Kelley Benefactors Tom & Sharon Kelley Watkins Family Charitable Bill & Janet Nicholls Peter & Laura Haas ($750 to $1,499) Jerre & Nancy Hitz Phil Kurjan & Noel Butler Trust Ron & Lila Schmidt Anonymous • Sally Abel • Brigid Barton • Fumiko & Carl Bielefeldt • Sharon & John Brauman • James B. Brennock • Marni Brown & Gabe Garcia • H. Hans Cardenas • Susanne Stevens & Monte Mansir D & J Hodgson Family Foundation Michelle & Michael Kwatinetz Carol Watts David Cohan • Robert A. Cook • Ron & Marion Dickel • Suzanne & Allan Epstein • Wesley & Dianne Gardiner • Joseph & Sondra Glider • Jack & Joan Gorham • Sue & Barbara Jones Bill Gould • James Heeger & Daryl Messinger • Susan Heller • Mitzi Henderson • Nancy Lee Jalonen • Laurie T Jarrett • Dean & Patricia Johnson • Carl Jukkola & Dorothy Lazier Janne & Bill Wissel Directors Claiborne S. Jones in memory of Desmond Lee • David & Joyce Kim • Michael & Ina Korek • Allan & Linda Kramer • George & Ann Limbach • Alexander & Anne Long • Anders & Juneko Martinson • Mark & Debra Leslie ($3,000 to $5,999) Jane Chai Katherine Mason • Sharon & Harris Meyers • Gus Meyner in memory of Miriam • William & Sue Miklos • Annie Nunan* • Susan Rinne • Zeljko Ivanek in memory of Bridget Ross • Tom & Nan Ryan • Nancy & Magnus Ryde • Jill Sagner & Steve Lipman • Emil & Barbara Sarpa • David & Harriet Schnur • Ursula Shultz • Denise & Jim Stanford Carole & Michael Marks Carol Bacchetti Jack Jorgenson • Peter & Anne Steiner • Polly Taylor in memory of Ted Taylor • Marilyn Tinderholt • Gary & Cathy Walz Paul & Debbie Baker Louise Karr Joel & Wendy Bartlett Chris Kenrick Contributions listed were received between 05/19/2016 and 05/19/2017. Program deadlines and space limitations prevent us from listing all of our greatly appreciated patrons. For corrections, or to make a contribution, please contact Sarah Benjamin at 650.463.7132 or [email protected]. Jim Bassett & Lily Hurlimann Hal & Iris Korol * Indicates donors whose gifts include in-kind goods or services. + Indicates members of the Encore Club, who make ongoing monthly or quarterly gifts.

26 THEATREWORKS TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Contributors John & Catharine Kristian Neil & Karen Bonke Jane Hamlin & Steven Schow Carrie Perzow & Von Leirer Bill & Terry Krivan Bob & Martha Bowden Helen Helson Ronnie Plasters THE PRODUCER CIRCLE Arlene & Jack Leslie Lauren & Darrell Boyle David & Noreen Henig John & Valerie Poggi TheatreWorks Producers have made a gift of $10,000 or more. They are invited to exclusive events with visiting artists, and on special theatre trips. Producers may select Janet Littlefield & Michael & Leslie Braun Craig & Deborah Hoffman Diane Posnak a production to follow from ”page to stage” by attending the design presentation, rehearsals, and opening nights. Producers also receive all Inner Circle benefits. William Coggshall Kathy Bridgman Anne & Emma Grace Holmes Susan Rabin & David Buchanan Contact Ronnie Plasters at 650.463.7135 or [email protected] for more information Malcolm MacNaughton Ellen & Marc Brown Susan M. Huch Karen & John Reis Suzanne Martin & John Doyle Marda Buchholz & Marcie Brown Perry A. Irvine & Eddie Reynolds & Ed Jones Visionary Producers Rick Stern & Gordon & Carolyn Davidson Sue & Dick Levy The Merrimac Fund Eric Butler MD & Linda Romley-Irvine Edward & Verne Rice ($50,000 and above) Nancy Ginsburg Stern Ranae DeSantis Mark Lewis & Barbara Shapiro Buff & Cindy Miller Suzanne Rocca-Butler Sudhanshu & Lori Jain Bob Rodert & Bev Kiltz Ann S. Bowers Janet Strauss & Jeff Hawkins John & Susan Diekman Marks Family Foundation Myrna & Hy Mitchner, PhD Jeff & Deborah Byron Tom & Sally Logothetti Alicia Rojas & Howard Lyons Dr. & Mrs. W. M. Coughran, Jr. Lynn Szekely-Goode & Susan Fairbrook The Marmor Foundation/Drs. Eileen Nelson & Hugh Franks Calvin & Jennifer Carr Mary Louise Johnson Robert & Suzanne Rubenstein Anne & Larry Hambly Dr. Richard Goode Dan & Catharine Garber Michael & Jane Marmor Joe, Nancy, Sam & Sara Ragey Ron & Sally Carter Hilary Jones* Alan Russell & Fred Thiemann The Dirk & Charlene Kabcenell Mark & Teri Vershel Sylvia & Ron Gerst Gillian & Tom Moran Margo & Roy Ogus Rowland & Dawn Chase Craig & Gina Jorasch Family Fund Ellen & Jerry Saliman Foundation Lisa Webster & Ted Semple Emeri & Brad Handler Leslie & Douglas Murphy-Chutorian In memory of Pearl Reimer Josephine Chien & Mr. & Mrs. Abdo Kadifa Joseph & Sandy Santandrea Ray & Meredith Rothrock Gayla Lorthridge Wood & Judy Heyboer & Brian Shally Yvonne & Mike Nevens Orli & Zack Rinat Stephen Johnson Thomas Kailath & Anu Maitra Charles G. Schulz & TheatreWorks Board Emeritus Walt Wood William J. Higgs Richard Partridge Tom Rindfleisch & Carli Scott Lee & Amy Christel Ruth Ann & David Keefer Claire E. Taylor Larry Horton & George Wilson Adam Samuels Paul & Sheri Robbins Larry & Sara Condit Cynthia & Bert Keely Carolyn Schutz* Executive Producers Producers Edward Hunter & Philip Santora & Cristian Asher Edward & Jane Seaman Jodi Corwin & Irv Duchowny in Arthur Keller Perry Segal ($25,000 to $49,999) ($10,000 to $24,999) Michelle Garcia Dorothy Saxe Bart Sears memory of Milt, Michael, & Jack Liz & Rick Kniss Pamela & Rick Shames Bruce Cozadd Anonymous (3) Charlotte Jacobs & Loren & Shelley Saxe Ron & Ellen Shulman Jeff & Amy Crowe Woof Kurtzman & Liz Hertz Jack Shannahan Yogen & Peggy Dalal Marsha & Bill Adler Roderick Young Martha Seaver & Scott Walecka Joyce Reynolds Sinclair & Richard & Anita Davis Jim & Marilyn Lattin Sarah Shema & Neyssa Marina Frances Escherich Lois & Dr. Edward Anderson Leigh & Roy Johnson Leonard Shustek & Donna Dubinsky Dr. Gerald M. Sinclair Scott & Edie DeVine Henry Lawson & Marge & Jim Shively The John & Marcia Goldman Elaine Baskin & Ken Krechmer Mike & Martha Kahn Mark Stevens & Mary Murphy Ellen & Ed Smith Douglas Dexter Marcia Wells-Lawson Carolyn & Rick Silberman Foundation Lucy Berlin & Glenn Trewitt Julie Kaufman & Doug Klein Debra Summers & John Baker Sheri Sobrato Dennis & Cindy Dillon Elizabeth Leep Gerry Sipes Phil Kurjan & Noel Butler Jayne Booker Robert Kelley & Ev Shiro Watkins Family Charitable Fund Lisa & Matthew Sonsini Monica Donovan Linda Lester Mariangela Smania & Pierre Cintra Michelle & Michael Kwatinetz Bredt Family Fund at Truckee Tom & Sharon Kelley Carol Watts Jerry Strom & Marilyn Austin Pamela Dougherty Janet & Phil Levine Pamela Smith Mendelsohn Family Fund Tahoe Community Foundation Robin & Don Kennedy Harriet & Frank Weiss Catherine & Jeff Thermond Jack & Marcia Edelstein Donald & Rachel Levy Todd Smith Morgan Family Foundation Steve & Gayle Brugler Dick & Cathy Lampman Bart & Nancy Westcott Odette & Ewart Thomas Mr. & Mrs. Robert English Stephen & Nancy Levy Art Stamness Cynthia Sears Steven & Karin Chase Dorothy Lazier Jane Weston & J. Horn Brent & Michèle Townshend Sue & Jeff Epstein Robert J. Lipshutz & Jim Stephens & Abraham Brown George & Susan Crow Debra Leslie Bill & Janne Wissel Tzipor Ulman & Dan Rubinstein Patrick Farris Nancy Wong, MD The Sher-Right Fund Holly Ward & Scott Spector Sheldon Finkelstein & Drs. John & Penny Loeb Jan Thomson & Roy Levin Griff & Lynne Weber Beatriz V. Infante Nancy Madison & Michael Price Helaina Titus THE INNER CIRCLE Jayne Booker, Chair Mark & Sheila Wolfson Kathleen Fitts Richard & Charlene Maltzman in Ted & Betty Ullman Members of The Inner Circle contribute a minimum of $1,500 each season and enjoy Peggy Woodford Forbes & memory of Carol Adler Les & Judy Vadasz a variety of benefits including priority subscription seating, VIP ticket purchases and Players Harry Bremond Marilyn Manning & Lorraine VanDeGraaf-Rodriguez exchanges, access to house seats on Broadway, and invitations to Meet-the-Artists ($1,500 to $2,999) Diane & Bob Frankle Richard Lonergan & Fred C. Rodriguez events. Contact Hans Cardenas at 650.463.7155 or [email protected] for more 45 for 45Circle Anonymous (5) Barbara Franklin & Bernie Loth Anne B. McCarthy Robert J. Van der Leest, MD information. TheatreWorks 45 for 45 Circle members have made a multi-year Marc & Sophia Abramson Francis Franklin Patricia McClung & Allen Morgan Mimi & Jim Van Horne pledge of $45,000 or more to honor Robert Kelley and Associate Producers The BelleJAR Foundation Douglas & Loretta Allred Jay & Joyce Friedrichs Kevin McCoy Thomas Vogelsang TW’s 45th Anniversary. Contact Ronnie Plasters at 650.463.7135 or ($6,000 to $9,999) Steven & Michele Boal Mary Ann Anthony & Ken Fowkes Markus Fromherz & Heike Schmitz Dave & Carolyn McLoughlin Margaret & Curt Weil [email protected] for more information. Anonymous Marah & Gene Brehaut Shirley Bailey Marilee Gardner Rani Menon & Keith Amidon Paul & Barbara Weiss Paul Asente & Ron Jenks Bruce & Gail Chizen Doug & Marie Barry Nancy & Charles Geschke Shauna Mika & Rick Callison Elissa Wellikson & Tim Shroyer Katherine Bazak & John Dohner Dean & Wilma Chu Pat Bashaw & Gene Segre Ciro & Eileen Giammona Sondra Murphy & Jeremy Platt Arlene & Bruce S. White Elaine Baskin & Ken Krechmer Suzanne Martin & John Doyle Dr. Barbara L. Bessey in memory Nancy Mahoney Cohen Jane Baxter & Steve Beck Kenneth & Susan Greathouse Melinda Nasif & Michael Scruggs Karen Carlson White Ann S. Bowers Mendelsohn Family Fund of Dr. Kevin J. Gilmartin Diane & Howard Crittenden Mr. & Mrs. David W. Beach Renee & Mark Greenstein James Niemasik Ken & Ruth Wilcox Gayle & Steve Brugler Rebecca & James Morgan David & Ann Crockett Randy Curry & Kay Simon Betsy & George Bechtel Mary Ann & John Grilli Lynn & Susan Orr Bruce & Elinor Wilner Bruce Cozadd Cynthia Sears John & Wynne Dobyns Redwood Serenity Fund Don & Deborah Bennett Barbara Gunther Ellice & Jim Papp Lynn Wilson & Howard Roberts Richard & Josephine Ferrie Gordon & Carolyn Davidson Barbara Shapiro & Mark Lewis David E. Gold & Irene Blumenkranz Caroline Beverstock Jim & Linda Hagan David Pasta in memory of Gloria Neil & Ann Wolff Ronald Hayden Gayle Flanagan Sylvia & Ron Gerst Rick Stern & Charlotte & David Biegelsen Kovin Hagan J.A. Guth Bill & Sue Worthington Linda M. Hinton & Vince Foecke Lynda & Steve Fox Robert & Letty Block Russell & Debbie Hall Beth & Charlie Perrell Linda and Joel Zizmor Anne & Larry Hambly Nancy Ginsburg Stern Lisa & Marc Jones Peter & Rose Friedland Judy Heyboer & Brian Shally Mark & Teri Vershel Rob & Ann Marangell Terry & Carolyn Gannon in honor of Julie Kaufman Lisa Webster Richard Niblock Robert Kelley Benefactors Tom & Sharon Kelley Watkins Family Charitable Bill & Janet Nicholls Peter & Laura Haas ($750 to $1,499) Jerre & Nancy Hitz Phil Kurjan & Noel Butler Trust Ron & Lila Schmidt Anonymous • Sally Abel • Brigid Barton • Fumiko & Carl Bielefeldt • Sharon & John Brauman • James B. Brennock • Marni Brown & Gabe Garcia • H. Hans Cardenas • Susanne Stevens & Monte Mansir D & J Hodgson Family Foundation Michelle & Michael Kwatinetz Carol Watts David Cohan • Robert A. Cook • Ron & Marion Dickel • Suzanne & Allan Epstein • Wesley & Dianne Gardiner • Joseph & Sondra Glider • Jack & Joan Gorham • Sue & Barbara Jones Bill Gould • James Heeger & Daryl Messinger • Susan Heller • Mitzi Henderson • Nancy Lee Jalonen • Laurie T Jarrett • Dean & Patricia Johnson • Carl Jukkola & Dorothy Lazier Janne & Bill Wissel Directors Claiborne S. Jones in memory of Desmond Lee • David & Joyce Kim • Michael & Ina Korek • Allan & Linda Kramer • George & Ann Limbach • Alexander & Anne Long • Anders & Juneko Martinson • Mark & Debra Leslie ($3,000 to $5,999) Jane Chai Katherine Mason • Sharon & Harris Meyers • Gus Meyner in memory of Miriam • William & Sue Miklos • Annie Nunan* • Susan Rinne • Zeljko Ivanek in memory of Bridget Ross • Tom & Nan Ryan • Nancy & Magnus Ryde • Jill Sagner & Steve Lipman • Emil & Barbara Sarpa • David & Harriet Schnur • Ursula Shultz • Denise & Jim Stanford Carole & Michael Marks Carol Bacchetti Jack Jorgenson • Peter & Anne Steiner • Polly Taylor in memory of Ted Taylor • Marilyn Tinderholt • Gary & Cathy Walz Paul & Debbie Baker Louise Karr Joel & Wendy Bartlett Chris Kenrick Contributions listed were received between 05/19/2016 and 05/19/2017. Program deadlines and space limitations prevent us from listing all of our greatly appreciated patrons. For corrections, or to make a contribution, please contact Sarah Benjamin at 650.463.7132 or [email protected]. Jim Bassett & Lily Hurlimann Hal & Iris Korol * Indicates donors whose gifts include in-kind goods or services. + Indicates members of the Encore Club, who make ongoing monthly or quarterly gifts.

encoreartsprograms.com 27 VISIONARY SPONSORS CORPORATE CIRCLE, FOUNDATION, & GOVERNMENT GIFTS Foundations and Corporate Circle members sponsor productions, support new works, and fund education programs for K–12 students. Sponsors may host events at the theatre, receive heightened community visibility, and enjoy other hospitality benefits. SAVE THE DATE—FALL GALA Inspire the future with Contact Ronnie Plasters at 650.463.7135 or [email protected] for more information. Visionary Sponsors Sponsors Friends ($50,000 and above) ($10,000 to $14,999) ($1,000 to $2,499) your legacy. The Garden Court Hotel* Adams Wine Group* Anonymous THEATREWORKS The William & Flora Hewlett Harrell Remodeling Applied Materials Excellence in the Foundation Heising-Simons Foundation Arts Grants, a program of Silicon J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines* Hengehold Motor Company* Valley Creates AROUN The Mercury News* ChaseVP* The David & Lucile Packard Benefactors The Dramatists Guild Fund Join FutureWorks Foundation ($5,000 to $9,999) International ProInsurance Services LLC THE WORL The Shubert Foundation Dodge & Cox Investment Nikon Precision, Inc. Sobrato Philanthropies* Managers Regarding Arts Ignite your imagination— today! Hurlbut-Johnson Charitable Presenting Sponsor Trusts Matching Gifts ($25,000 to $49,999) Palo Alto Rotary Club Many companies will double or triple their Join the adventure! Avant! Foundation Palo Alto Weekly Holiday employees’ contributions to nonprofits. It’s a great way to make your gift to National Endowment for the Arts Fund TheatreWorks go further at no extra cost. Sand Hill Foundation Call 650.463.7155 for more information. Saturday, November 4, 2017 Stephen Silver Fine Jewelry* Supporters Amazon Smile Foundation ($2,500 to $4,999) Adobe Systems Sharon Heights Golf and Country Club Supporting Sponsors Avidbank Agilent Technologies ($15,000 to $24,999) Cooley LLP* Menlo Park Avant! Foundation F U T U R E W O R K S Applied Materials Los Altos Community Apple Carla Befera Public Relations* Foundation ALL PROCEEDS BENEFIT THEATREWORKS Google The Legacy Society PRESENTING SPONSORS Edgerton Foundation S.H. Cowell Foundation Hewlett-Packard Company Fenwick & West LLP The Morrison & Foerster For ticket and sponsorship information, IBM The Leonard C. & Mildred F. Foundation Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies contact Events Manager Jodi Corwin Ferguson Foundation Palo Alto Weekly* Microsoft The Kimball Foundation Perkins Coie LLP [email protected] 650.463.7112 Netflix The Harold & Mimi Steinberg Synaptics Rambus Inc. Charitable Trust Wells Fargo * Indicates donors whose gifts include in-kind goods or services.

ENDOWMENT FUND TheatreWorks Silicon Valley thanks the following lead donors for their extraordinarily generous Endowment gifts. Marsha & Bill Adler • Marsha & Bill Adler • William C. Anderson • Ann S. Bowers • Polly & Tom Bredt • Bruce Cozadd & Sharon Hoffman • Peter & Melanie Cross • Yogen & Peggy Dalal • Carl H. Feldman • Kathryn Green • The John & Marcia Goldman Foundation • Emeri & Brad Handler • Hurlbut-Johnson Charitable Trusts • Charles SUPPORTING SPONSORS & Roberta Katz Family Foundation • Patricia McClung & Allen Morgan • The Rathmann Family Foundation • By including TheatreWorks in your estate plans, Eddie Reynolds • John & Diane Savage • Joyce Reynolds Sinclair • Lynn Szekely-Goode & Dr. Richard Goode you will ensure the show goes on for many generations to come, joining more than 125 FUTUREWORKS FutureWorks members have made an estate gift from a will or living trust, a beneficiary designation in an IRA, a gift of life friends who are already members. In addition, insurance, a gift that returns lifetime income, or another planned gift. Contact [email protected] for more information. celebrate with us at our annual FutureWorks Anonymous (6) • Marc Abramson • The Estate of William C. Anderson • Ray & Carol Bacchetti • Elaine Baskin & Ken Krechmer • Pauline Berkow & Ronald Kauffman • David & Lauren Berman • Jayne Booker • James & Diane luncheon, receive exclusive invites to events Bordoni • Ann S. Bowers • Steve & Gayle Brugler • Carol Buchser • The estate of Cathryn Z. Cannon • Eleanor with our artists, and enjoy premiere access to all W. Caughlan • Steven & Karin Chase • Jodi Corwin & Irv Duchowny • Bruce Cozadd • George & Susan Crow • SPONSORS John & Wynne Dobyns • John & Linda Elman • Frances Escherich • Susan Fairbrook • Harriett Ferziger • Gayle TheatreWorks productions. Flanagan • Carole & David Florian • Peter & Rose Friedland • Terry & Carolyn Gannon • Ed Glazier • Marcia & John Goldman • Kathryn Green • Lorie Griswold • Maureen Hoberg • Sharon Hoffman • Anne & Emma Grace Holmes • Kenny Hom • Sam & Elaine Housten • Susan M. Huch • Edward Hunter & Michelle Garcia • John W. & To learn more or to join FutureWorks, contact Nancy Lee Jalonen • Barry Lee Johnson • Stanley Earl Johnson • Claiborne S. Jones • Mike & Martha Kahn • Dr. Steve Kelem • Robert Kelley & Ev Shiro • Jane Kos • Bill & Terry Krivan • Phil Kurjan & Noel Butler • Woof Ronnie Plasters, Director of Development, at Kurtzman • Mr. & Mrs. Robert Mangelsdorf • Steve Mannshardt • Monte Mansir • Suzanne Martin & John Doyle or • Leigh Metzler & Jim McVey • Cynthia S. Miller • Tami & Craney Ogata • Doris Gottsegen-Reiner • Karen & John 650.463.7135 [email protected] Reis • Eddie Reynolds • Betsy Boardman Ross • Adam Samuels • Philip Santora & Cristian Asher • Dorothy Saxe • Loren & Shelley Saxe • Edward & Jane Seaman • Barbara Shapiro & Mark Lewis • Joyce Reynolds Sinclair • Gerry Sipes • Carol Snell & Mindy Rauch • Esther Sobel • Jim & Mary Southam • Cherrill M. Spencer • Rick Stern & Nancy Ginsburg Stern • Susanne Stevens • Mark Stevenson • Laurie Waldman • Carol Watts • Karen Carlson White • Renee & Herman Winick

28 THEATREWORKS VISIONARY SPONSORS CORPORATE CIRCLE, FOUNDATION, & GOVERNMENT GIFTS Foundations and Corporate Circle members sponsor productions, support new works, and fund education programs for K–12 students. Sponsors may host events at the theatre, receive heightened community visibility, and enjoy other hospitality benefits. SAVE THE DATE—FALL GALA Inspire the future with Contact Ronnie Plasters at 650.463.7135 or [email protected] for more information. Visionary Sponsors Sponsors Friends ($50,000 and above) ($10,000 to $14,999) ($1,000 to $2,499) your legacy. The Garden Court Hotel* Adams Wine Group* Anonymous THEATREWORKS The William & Flora Hewlett Harrell Remodeling Applied Materials Excellence in the Foundation Heising-Simons Foundation Arts Grants, a program of Silicon J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines* Hengehold Motor Company* Valley Creates AROUN The Mercury News* ChaseVP* The David & Lucile Packard Benefactors The Dramatists Guild Fund Join FutureWorks Foundation ($5,000 to $9,999) International ProInsurance Services LLC THE WORL The Shubert Foundation Dodge & Cox Investment Nikon Precision, Inc. Sobrato Philanthropies* Managers Regarding Arts Ignite your imagination— today! Hurlbut-Johnson Charitable Presenting Sponsor Trusts Matching Gifts ($25,000 to $49,999) Palo Alto Rotary Club Many companies will double or triple their Join the adventure! Avant! Foundation Palo Alto Weekly Holiday employees’ contributions to nonprofits. It’s a great way to make your gift to National Endowment for the Arts Fund TheatreWorks go further at no extra cost. Sand Hill Foundation Call 650.463.7155 for more information. Saturday, November 4, 2017 Stephen Silver Fine Jewelry* Supporters Amazon Smile Foundation ($2,500 to $4,999) Adobe Systems Sharon Heights Golf and Country Club Supporting Sponsors Avidbank Agilent Technologies ($15,000 to $24,999) Cooley LLP* Menlo Park Avant! Foundation F U T U R E W O R K S Applied Materials Los Altos Community Apple Carla Befera Public Relations* Foundation ALL PROCEEDS BENEFIT THEATREWORKS Google The Legacy Society PRESENTING SPONSORS Edgerton Foundation S.H. Cowell Foundation Hewlett-Packard Company Fenwick & West LLP The Morrison & Foerster For ticket and sponsorship information, IBM The Leonard C. & Mildred F. Foundation Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies contact Events Manager Jodi Corwin Ferguson Foundation Palo Alto Weekly* Microsoft The Kimball Foundation Perkins Coie LLP [email protected] 650.463.7112 Netflix The Harold & Mimi Steinberg Synaptics Rambus Inc. Charitable Trust Wells Fargo * Indicates donors whose gifts include in-kind goods or services.

encoreartsprograms.com 29 TheatreWorks SV Staff Artistic Director Robert Kelley Managing Director Phil Santora OSKAR Teaches Empathy and Strengthens Classroom Community

ARTISTIC SCENERY DEVELOPMENT MARKETING Supporting social and emotional learning around topics such as bullying and stress makes for safer schools. The OSKAR Associate Artistic Director Technical Director Director of Development Acting Marketing Director plays are a series of live theatre assemblies for ages K–5 that explore such topics through theatrical story- Leslie Martinson Frank Sarmiento Ronnie Plasters Syche Phillips telling. Studies show that students who watch live theatre not only have a deeper knowledge of the subject matter,

Director of New Works Lead Scenic Artist/Craftsman Associate Director of Art Director but have more tolerance and an improved ability to read the emotions of others. Don¹t miss your chance to have Giovanna Sardelli Tom Langguth Individual Giving Ev Shiro Oskar visit your school. Book an assembly today! H. Hans Cárdenas Company Manager/ Master Carpenter Box Office Manager Casting Associate Bill Roberts Grants & Communication Manager Alix Josefski Jeffrey Lo Ginnie Redmond Carpenters Marketing & Communications FutureWorks Fellow Esteban Calvillo Events Manager Manager Akemi Okamura Rodrigo Frausto Jodi Corwin Heather Orth Patrick McKenna Resident Musical Director Development Operations Manager Digital Media Manager William Liberatore Sarah Benjamin Jennifer Gosk New Works Reading Committee PROPERTIES Telefunding/Telesales Systems Analyst Bill Adler, Cristian Asher, Properties Master Constance Gannon Andrew Skelton Elaine Baskin, Doug Brook, Christopher Fitzer Sue Krumbein, Shareen Development Interns Ticket Services Supervisor Merriam, Phil Wong, Caitlin Evenson, Jed Parsaro Jed Parsaro, Soren Santos, Elissa Beth Stebbins Patty Reinhart, Cindi Sears, Properties Stock Manager Madeleine Dile, Kate Lincoln Michelle Skinner Alfred Rudolph Scott Walecka Patron Services Coordinator Oskar and the Big Bully Battle Oskar and the Last Straw Artistic Staff Assistant EDUCATION Tracy Hayden By Prince Gomolvilas By Prince Gomolvilas Jessia Hoffman COSTUMES Ticket Services Representatives Director of Education Teaches students to deal with bullying Teaches students to cope with stressors Andrée Beals, Laura Henricksen, New Works Festival Intern Costume Director Amy Cole-Farrell Margaret Purdy Holly Dayton Jill Bowers Associate Education Director Graphics Assistant Shows Tour February 26–April 6, 2018 Company Management Interns Assistant Costumer Katie Bartholomew 25% district discount available for districts with 4 or more participating schools. Pyper Hayden, Benjamin Wong Noah Marin Katie Dai Education Associate/ Public Relations & Advertising Lead Cutter/Draper Master Teaching Artist For more information, visit theatreworks.org/youth-programs or contact Katie Bartholomew, Carla Befera & Co. PRODUCTION, Yen La Wong Meghan C. Hakes Associate Director of Education, at [email protected] or 650.463.7154. Carla Befera, Courtney Heimbuck LIGHTING, & SOUND Costume Rentals Manager Master Teaching Artist Company Photographers Production Manager Conni Edwards Piper LaGrelius Kevin Berne, Alessandra Mello David A. Milligan Wardrobe Manager Teaching Artists Marketing Intern TheatreWorks SV General Information Assistant Production Manager Sarah Hatton Jake Arky Kaede Komatsuzaki Elizar Ivanov Assistant Cutter/First Hand Lauren Berman Brittany Caine CONTACT US GROUP SAVINGS LOST AND FOUND Operations Manager/ Michelle Earney Jennifer Debevec Mailing Address: Savings are available for groups of 8 or more. For Mountain View Center for the Performing Master Electrician Stitchers ADMINISTRATIVE Caitlin Evenson PO Box 50458, Palo Alto, CA 94303-0458 For more information, call Michelle Skinner at Arts lost and found, please call 650.903.6568. Steven B. Mannshardt Son Pham Phone: 650.463.1950 Fax: 650.463.1963 650.463.7115 or email [email protected]. For Lucie Stern Theatre lost and found, please Mary Kalita General Manager Email: [email protected] call 650.463.1960. Resident Lighting Designer Resident Wigmaster Fredrika Keefer Scott DeVine WHEELCHAIR SEATING Steven B. Mannshardt Sharon Ridge TICKET SERVICES Josh Marx Database Administrator Seating is available for wheelchair patrons. Please PLEASE REMEMBER Tickets to all Theatr Production Coordinator Hair Stylist Lauren Mayer Ken Maitz eWorks Silicon Valley telephone the Ticket Office in advance so that There is no smoking in the theatres or lobbies. Karen Szpaller Jennifer Mitchell performances are sold through the TheatreWorks special arrangements may be made. Cameras and recording devices of any kind Jeanne Naritomi Silicon Valley Box Office Michileen Oberst Business Manager LISTENING SYSTEMS are strictly prohibited. Neither food nor drink Electricians Costume Interns Jason Hyde Hours: Monday–Friday, 11am–6pm; is permitted in the theatres. Please ensure that Jed Pasario Saturday-Sunday, 12pm-6pm Both theatres are equipped with listening Kat Arguello, Danny Beall, Nika Cassaro, Molly Dagnelie all electronic devices are set to the ”off” Kelly Rinehart Phone: 650.463.1960 Steven Fetter, Carolyn Guggemos, Staff Accountant systems for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. position while you are in the theatre. Martin Rojas Dietrich Barbara Sloss Tickets may also be obtained Please see the house manager for details. A.C. Hay, Cosmo Hom, through the Children 5 and under are not permitted in Cassie Rosenbrock Mountain View Center Ticket Office Dan Kaminski, Sean Kramer, AUDIO-CAPTIONING the theatre. Persons 14 and under must be STAGE MANAGEMENT Front Desk Volunteers Hours: Wednesday–Saturday Elissa Stebbins , noon–6pm accompanied by an adult. Every person, Nick Kumamoto, Evan Lola, Joan Doherty, Cindi Sears Phone: 650.903.6000 Audio captioning for the visually impaired is Resident Stage Manager Amanda Wallace regardless of age, must have a ticket. Harris Meyers, Gary Nelson, available at certain performances. Please call Randall K. Lum Maryssa And thanks to our fabulous Jeff Spackman, Jarku Virtanen Wanlass WALK-UP TICKET SERVICES 650.463.1960 for details. Schedules, shows, casts, and ticket prices are TheatreWorkers! subject to change. Education Intern The walk-up ticket office will open one hour Load-in/Strike Volunteers OPEN-CAPTIONED PERFORMANCES prior to each performance. Single ticket purchases are non-refundable, but Alara Slonaker Open-captioned performances for Rick Amerson, Deborah Bennett, are exchangeable for $15 per ticket. PERFORMANCE TIMES The Four Immigrants: 7/30 at 2pm & 7pm, Ed Hunter Some restrictions apply. Wed, Thur, Fri Previews 8pm 8/2 at 2pm Lighting Intern THE FOUR IMMIGRANTS ADDITIONAL STAFF Tuesday & Wednesday Eve 7:30pm Constellations: 9/3 at 2pm, 9/10 at 7pm, Jacob Bers Thursday–Saturday Eve 8:00pm 9/13 at 2pm Visit theatreworks.org Assistant Director Jeffrey Lo Light Board Operator Justin Buchs Properties Runner Alison Froke Sunday Eve 7:00pm For more information about open captioning, for detailed information or to purchase tickets. Assistant Musical Dir Follow Spot Operators Deck Crew Mikaela Rangel, ector Wednesday, Saturday, & Sunday Matinee 2:00pm please contact the box office at 650.463.1960 Jonathan Erman Samantha Schroeter, Darrell Hubbard Marissa Mendoza INDIVIDUAL TICKET PRICES or [email protected]. Assistant Projections Designer Sound Engineer Quinn Pierron Dresser Anna Chalmers LATE ARRIVALS Jyles Rodgers Backstage Sound Briana Billups Open Captioning Michelle Skinner Starting at $32 (balcony). Discounts available for Seniors, Educators, and Show Carpenter Megan Hall Latecomers will not be seated until appropriate Patrons 35 & Under. For pricing, call intervals, and may not be seated in their exact seat 650.463.1960 or visit theatreworks.org. locations until intermission.

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