Written by Christina Anderson Directed by Robbie McCauley December 8, 2020 - December 31, 2020

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1 ABOUT GEVA THEATRE CENTER

Geva Theatre Center is your not-for-profit theatre company dedicated to creating and producing professional theatre productions, programs and services of a national standard. As Rochester’s flagship professional theatre, Geva is the most attended regional theatre in State, and one of the 25 most subscribed in the country, serving up to 160,000 patrons annually, including 20,000 students. Founded in 1972 by William Selden and Cynthia Mason Selden, Geva was originally housed in the Rochester Business Institute building on South Clinton Avenue. In 1982, Geva purchased and converted its current space – formerly a NYS Arsenal designed by noted Rochester architect Andrew J Warner and built in 1868 – and opened its new home at the Richard Pine Theatre in March 1985. Geva operates two venues – the 516-seat Elaine P. Wilson Stage and the 180-seat Ron & Donna Fielding Stage. As one of the country’s leading theatre companies and a member of the national League of Resident Theatres, Geva produces a varied contemporary repertoire from musicals to world premieres celebrating the rich tapestry of our diverse community. We draw upon the talents of some of the country’s top actors, directors, designers and writers who are shaping the American Theatre scene. Geva’s education programs serve 20,000 students annually through student matinees, in-school workshops, theatre tours, career day, the acclaimed Summer Academy training program, and opportunities such as the Stage Door Project, which pairs a local school with a production in the Geva season giving students an exclusive look into the entire process of producing a show. Geva has presented approximately 360 play readings and workshops since its inception. Geva’s New Play Development Programming offers new and established writers a nurturing environment from which to take their work to the next level. Programs such as the Festival of New Theatre, Plays in Progress, and Regional and Young Writers Showcases offer writers to have their plays workshopped and performed before an audience in a reading setting. Nearly 70 Geva-developed plays have had subsequent productions around the country. Geva’s nationally- recognized and innovative “Hornets’ Nest” series of play readings uses theatre to facilitate community discussions on contemporary topics. An active member of the Rochester community, Geva offers a multitude of opportunities for our audience and community members to engage with live theatre and the country’s best artists. Since the breadth of Geva’s programming cannot be sustained on ticket sales alone, this contribution to the region’s cultural, social and economic vitality is recognized by grants and charitable contributions from federal, state and local government agencies, national and local foundations, and businesses and individuals from throughout the region. For more information: GevaTheatre.org

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Geva’s Acknowledgment We are gathered in the ancestral and unceded territory of the O-non-dowa-gah, (pronounced: oh-n’own-dough-wahgah or “the people of the Great Hill.” In English, they are known as Sen- eca people, “the keeper of the western door.” Together, with the Mohawk, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and Tuscarora, the Seneca make up the sovereign Haudenosaunee (ho-dee-no-SHO- nee) Confederacy. We pay respects to their elders, past and present. Please take a moment to consider the many legacies of violence, displacement, genocide and migration that bring us together here today. And please join us in uncovering such truths at any and all public events. To learn more about the Native people in our region and the Canandaigua Treaty of 1794, visit ganondagan.org. www.GevaTheatre.org 3 2020-2021 BOARD OF TRUSTEES

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Maggie Symington, Chair Kelly Shea, Treasurer and Chair, Finance Committee Stephanie Caffera, Secretary Philip L. Burke, Chair, Advancement Committee Margaret Busch, Co-chair, Education/Curtain Call Committee Dennis Bassett, At-Large, Immediate Past Chair and Chair, Committee on Trustees Faheem Masood, At Large Essie Calhoun-McDavid, At Large

TRUSTEES Pamela O’Connor-Chapman John F. Kraushaar* Dennis Bassett* Wolfgang Pfizenmaier Carol Love* Peggy Boucher Loren Ranaletta Peter Messner* Ted Boucher* Kelly M. Shea Michael B. Millard* Maggie Symington Barbara Bruning Emily Neece* Mimi Tilton Philip Burke Nannette Nocon Margaret Busch Wynndy Turner David Perlman Stephanie Caffera William Weir John C. Rasor* Essie Calhoun-McDavid Kathleen Whelehan Gloria Culver John Williams Joseph R. Rulison* Hope Drummond Robert Saltzman Suzanne Gouvernet HONORARY TRUSTEES Paul Seidel Richard Gray Helen H. Berkeley* Paul L. Smith Todd Green William A. Buckingham Mary Kay Taber Christina Gullo Barry B. Clements* John Tyler Jr. Sergio Esteban* Barbara LaVerdi Linda Cornell Weinstein* David L. Fiedler* Dawn Lipson Henry W. Williams Jr.* Faheem Masood Ronald H. Fielding Deborah Wilson Diane McCue Betsy T. Friedman* Steve Metzger Patrick Fulford* Dan Meyers Joanna Grosodonia* Suzanne Nasipak-Chapman A. Thomas Hildebrandt Michael Ninnie David L. Hoffberg* Frank Novak Maureen D. Holtzman

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THANK YOU Through the last nine months, all of us have been battered and bruised by this global pandemic and devastating national events. Almost all of us have either been directly affected or know someone who has been directly affected. To get through it we have relied upon friends and family for solace, encouragement and connectivity. What would we do if not for these lifelines? For Geva, you are our lifeline. Our relationship with you means everything to us, and as we try to navigate through these challenging and changing times we want to express our deepest gratitude to you for staying with us; for showing up. It’s not easy right now for anyone to make a commit- ment – who knows what the future will bring? – so by taking this leap into our reimagined season you’ve given us the confidence to keep the creative fires burning as we plan for an eventual return to in-person productions. A non-profit arts institution has a legal obligation to provide a public service. The pandemic shut- down has prohibited us from inviting audiences into our facility, but we have been of service to Rochesterians by having our lobby rest rooms available during peaceful protests, in coordination with the protest organizers. We believe in peaceful protests, and our stock-in-trade is empathy. We have also worked with the County Board of Elections to utilize Geva as a polling place on November 3rd. The theatre is a place of unity, and we are trying to do our civic part to make our community more equitable for all. No doubt that there will be more changes and challenges in the months ahead. The uncertainty of how the pandemic will continue to affect public health, and our financial viability, can be overwhelm- ing. Knowing that you are still with us, we will continue to work hard every day to make theatrical magic in whatever shape possible. If you’d like to make a donation to Geva, please click here. If you’d like to make a comment or ask us a question, you can use our community conversation email address: [email protected].

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6 2020-2021 Season Thank You This year, we’ve seen just how much Geva Theatre Center means to Rochester, and how much Rochester means to all of us.

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8 2020-2021 Season Artistic Director Executive Director MARK CUDDY CHRISTOPHER MANNELLI

Presents THE RESURRECTION OF MICHELLE MORGAN By CHRISTINA ANDERSON

Directed by ROBBIE MCCAULEY

Creative Producer Sound Designer Sound Engineer ESTHER WINTER LARRY FOWLER ANDREW MARK WILHELM

Dramaturg Rehearsal Coordinator PASCALE FLORESTAL DANIELLE TEAGUE-DANIELS

The Resurrection of Michelle Morgan received development and workshop support from Rites and Reason Theatre, Providence, RI. Elmo Terry-Morgan, Artistic Director and Karen Allen Baxter, Managing Director

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CHRISTINA ANDERSON

THE CAST Christina Anderson...... Christina

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS "Depression" by SassyBlack used with permission of the artist. For more information visit sassyblack.com. Additional music sourced from pelhamandjunior.com.

Program Cover: Photography by Adam Eaton, featuring Mysia Turner and Walta Leake.

*Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

The Director is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, an independent national labor union.

The scenic, costume, lighting and sound designers in LORT Theatres are represented by the United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE. Geva Theatre Center operates under agreements between the League of Resident Theatres (LORT), a consortium of regional theatres throughout the nation; Actors Equity Association (AEA), the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States; the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC), an independent national labor union; and United Scenic Artists (USA), a union of scenic, costume, lighting and sound designers. Geva Theatre Center is a member of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national service organization for the American Theatre. Geva Theatre Center is an associate member of the National New Play Network, an alliance of non-profit professional theatres dedicated to the development, production, and continued life of new plays.

This podcast was recorded under a SAG-AFTRA Collective Bargaining Agreement. Please note that the taking of photographs or use of recording devices during the performance is not permitted. Cell phones and all other electronic devices are strictly prohibited in the theatre.

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CHRISTINA ANDERSON (Playwright/ Rainbow is Enuf. McCauley’s innovative writing Christina) is a playwright, TV writer, educator, is widely anthologized, including Teenytown in and creative. Her plays have appeared at The collaboration with Laurie Carlos and Jessica Goodman Theatre, OSF, The Public Theatre, Hagedorn. Yale Repertory Theatre, Kansas City Rep, and ESTHER WINTER (Creative Producer) has other theatres in the United States and Canada. performed on the West End (Show Boat, Director Awards and honors include: 2020 United States Harold Prince, choreographer Susan Stroman); Artists Fellow, MacDowell Fellowship, Lily regionally at Geva Theatre Center (La Cage aux Awards Harper Lee Prize, Herb Alpert Award Folles), North Carolina Theatre (Dreamgirls), nomination, Barrymore Nomination, and New Maine State Music Theatre (Ain’t Misbehavin’), Dramatists Residency. Her work has appeared Sacramento Music Circus (The Wizard of Oz, multiple times on the annual Kilroy’s List, an The Music Man, Pirates of Penzance), and industry survey of excellent new works by female Westchester Broadway Theatre (Joseph… playwrights. She is also the winner of the Lucille Dreamcoat); and locally at JCC CenterStage Lortel Fellowship. Christina’s plays include: How (Caroline, or Change, My Mother’s Lesbian to Catch Creation; The Ripple, the Wave that Jewish Wiccan Wedding, Parade, The Hit Carried Me Home; Man in Love; Pen/Man/Ship; Factory 1&2, Church and State, Division Street) The Ashes Under Gait City; and Blacktop Sky. and Blackfriars Theatre (Nunsense, Avenue She taught playwriting at Wesleyan University, Q). Choreography/staging credits include JCC Rutgers University, and SUNY Purchase CenterStage (Ain’t Misbehavin, Hit Makers: And College, and served as the interim Head of the Beat Goes On). Directing credits include Playwriting at Brown University. Christina Hit Makers: Origins of Classic Rock (JCC recently worked as a television staff writer on the CenterStage); Level Up (Rochester Fringe CBS drama Tommy. Current projects include: Festival); For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday producing an album of instrumental hip hop (Blackfriars Hourglass Play Reading Series); music titled The Montage Flow and writing her Titanic, the Musical (co-director Ralph Meranto, first TV pilot, The Only Isaac. JCC CenterStage); and Hit Makers: And the ROBBIE MCCAULEY (Director)’s theatre Beat Goes On (co-director Ralph Meranto, JCC work expands several decades as an actor, CenterStage). Esther has been seen/heard playwright, and director. She directed a series in various regional commercials, radio spots, and print ads. She serves as an artist-educator of pieces in this country and abroad based on for Geva Theatre Center, associate producer dialogues between Black, white, and varieties of Blackfriars’ Play Reading Series, and is of people with cultural differences. At Penumbra the owner/center director of Canalside Music Theatre Company she directed plays by Shay Together in Pittsford, NY. BFA Musical Theatre, Youngblood and Adrienne Kennedy; she worked Syracuse University. with notable experimental Open Theater Director, Joseph Chaikin, originating a role in a Kennedy LARRY FOWLER (Sound Designer) is a play. An OBIE recipient for her play, Sally’s Rape, Philadelphia based theatre sound designer, radio she also has a 2012 Ford Foundation United imaging producer, and music producer whose States Artist Award and was recipient of Boston’s work spans 20+ years. Theatre companies 2013 Boston Theater Critics Association Larry has designed for include Arden Theatre, Award for her performance piece, Sugar. She Wilma Theater, Azuka Theatre, Interact Theatre, replaced Tony Award winner, Trazana Beverly, Theatre Horizon, People’s Light, New Paradise on Broadway in Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Laboratories, Simpatico Theatre, Theatre Exile, Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Lantern Theater, Denver Center, Trinity Rep,

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Eleone Dance Theatre, Danse4Nia, and Khaleah She has also directed several staged readings of London Dance. He is a 3-time Barrymore Award new plays by Michael Hisamoto, Marcus Gardley, nominee for his work on Blood Wedding (Wilma Obehi Janice, Phaedra Michelle Scott, Greg Lam, Theater, 2017), Peter and the Starcatcher and others. As an Assistant to the Director she has (Theater Horizon, 2018), and Hype Man (Interact worked with Kimberly Senior, Liesl Tommy, Billy Theater, 2018). In broadcast radio, Larry has Porter, Paul Daigneault, and M. Bevin O’Gara. been an in-studio producer and board operator Pascale recently worked as a dramaturg on Pass for Radio One, Inc. in Philadelphia and is Over by Antoinette Nwandu with SpeakEasy currently an imaging producer, voice-over artist, Stage, co-produced with The Front Porch Arts and content editor for HealthcareNOW Radio, Collective. She also serves as the Education an online radio station with a focus in healthcare Director for Front Porch Arts Collective where she technologies and logistics. Music production created the Summer Reading Series and The sees Larry‘s talents weave in and out of various Young Critics Program, an educational program genres with original compositions and remixes that strives to foster and incubate the next for local talent that goes back to the mid-1990’s generation of arts critics. As a teaching artist she with beginnings in the Philadelphia underground has worked with Huntington Theatre, Company Hip-Hop circuit with the group NAME. One, Boch Center, The Theater Offensive, and ANDREW MARK WILHELM (Sound Engineer) The Eugene O’Neill Theatre. She currently works is the current Sound Department Supervisor as the Massachusetts Municipal Arts Response for Geva Theatre Center, as well as a Sound Coordinator with the Barr Foundation and Designer. He most recently was the Sound Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture with the City of Designer for Once at Geva, as well as the Sound Boston. She is an Assistant Professor of Theater Designer for Revival: The Resurrection of Son at Boston Conservatory where she teaches House. Before Geva, he was a Sound Engineer Devised Theatre. and Resident Designer for PCPA in Santa Maria, DANIELLE TEAGUE-DANIELS (Rehearsal California. Hailing originally from the Detroit area, Coordinator) is excited to finally be part of with a BFA in Theatre Technology & Design from a Geva Theatre Production. For the past 18 Oakland University, Andrew is fortunate to have years, she has worked and reprised her role worked in theatres from Florida to California, as Stage Manager/Rehearsal Coordinator with before settling here in Rochester at Geva. many companies, including Actors Theatre PASCALE FLORESTAL (Dramaturg) is of Louisville, Clubbed Thumb, 3LD, Lee a director, educator, dramaturg, writer, and Strasberg Institute, LAByrinth Theater, Rising collaborator based in Boston, MA. Her recent Circle Theater Collective, Big Apple Circus, directing credits include: Back The Night by NYU Steinhardt, New Georges, Working Melinda Lopez (Boston College), We Are Proud Theater, Philadelphia Theatre Company, and to Present… by Jackie Sibblies Drury (Brandeis New Dramatists. She has also wrapped up University), Marie & Rosetta by George Brant Bello Mania at the New Victory Theater on (Greater Boston Stage Company), Code Listen 42nd Street. Additionally, she has worked on by Shaw Pong Liu (The Millenium Stage of two Broadway Bound workshops: The Donna The John F. Kennedy Performing Arts Center), Summer Project (La Jolla Playhouse) and Ain’t Shrek The Musical (Greater Boston Stage Too Proud (Berkeley Rep). Danielle also worked Company), and An Education in Prudence (Open on Michael Kors’ fashion show in Shanghai, Theatre Project). Pascale is a lover of new play China. Presently, Danielle has been the active development, working as the Boston Project Resident Stage Manager at Baltimore Center Coordinator with SpeakEasy Stage 2018-2019. Stage since Fall of 2018.

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MARK CUDDY (Artistic Director) is entering his and audience development initiatives that created 26th season as Artistic Director of Geva Theatre the theatre’s new business model. Chris oversaw Center. During his tenure he has worked alongside numerous award-winning productions, increased talented and dedicated staff, artists and trustees contributed income, and launched innovative to build Geva into a regional theatre powerhouse. membership and audience engagement Geva boasts one of the largest audiences of any initiatives. Prior to his work with Victory Gardens, professional regional theatre in the Northeast he served as Deputy Director at Chicago and has a reputation for excellence in education Shakespeare Theater, one of the largest nonprofit programming and new play production. Having theatres in Chicago. He oversaw operations and completed an eleven million dollar facility helped to produce the theatre’s “World Stage” renovation in 2016, including the purchase of international programming, including Chicago new housing for visiting artists, Geva has since Shakespeare’s first ever tour to the Edinburgh focused its future on engaging the Rochester Festival Fringe in Scotland. Before moving to region in meaningful theatrical experiences that Chicago, Chris was the Managing Director for unite and strengthen our community through the HotCity Theatre in St. Louis, Missouri. In this celebration of our shared humanity. Mr. Cuddy capacity, he was instrumental in the company’s has directed over fifty productions here, and in financial and programmatic growth, which 2018 acted in the world premiere of Heartland, included education programs, new play initiatives, and the musical La Cage Aux Folles in the fall and several collaborations with prominent arts of 2019. Mr. Cuddy is a founding member of organizations. He has served on the board of the Board of Directors for the Rochester Fringe directors of the League of Chicago Theatres, as Festival and served on the Board of Directors of a steering committee member for Enrich Chicago the national organization for non-profit theatres, (a group of arts organizations in Chicago working Theatre Communications Group. Mr. Cuddy has collectively to address racial equity), and as a also served as Artistic Director of Sacramento board member for the Lincoln Park Chamber of Theatre Company, Producing Director of the Commerce and the community board of Emerald Idaho Shakespeare Festival and on the directing City Theatre. In 2017 he was appointed to the staff of the Denver Center Theatre Company. New York State Council on the Arts’ Theatre He received his BA in Theatre/Honors from the Advisory Panel, where he served for two years. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he He has also served on the board of directors was a Commonwealth Scholar. He resides in the for the League of Resident Theatres (LORT), Highland Park neighborhood with his wife, theatre and the Washington Square Park Community and visual artist Christina Selian. Their older son, Association. He currently serves on the corporate Maximilian, is writing his doctoral dissertation in board for the Joseph A. Floreano Rochester Sociology at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Riverside Convention Center and the board of the Their younger son, Augustus, is an actor in New Rochester Downtown Development Corporation York City. (RDDC) as a member of the executive and nominating committees. Chris grew up on Long CHRISTOPHER MANNELLI (Executive Island and began his career as an actor and a Director) joined Geva in 2016 from Victory musician, touring nationally and internationally. Gardens Theater in Chicago, a Tony Award- He holds a BA in opera performance from the winning institution dedicated to new plays and SUNY Geneseo School of Performing Arts, an playwrights, where he has served as Managing MFA in Arts Leadership from DePaul University, Director. During his five-year tenure he led and an Executive Scholars Certificate in Nonprofit the reorganization of the institution and was Management from Northwestern University’s responsible for the strategic planning, fundraising, Kellogg School of Management.

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Author Octavia Butler

hen I read The Resurrection of Michelle Morgan by Christina Anderson, the first person Wthat came to mind was Audre Lorde. Next came Octavia Butler, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and Maya Angelou. These Black women have been considered some of the most important thinkers of our time but so many others have passed on and have had little to no recognition. I think about that a lot as an artist: what does it mean to create a body of work, inspire a group of people, create new systems and then be abruptly taken away from this earth without any chance of preserving that legacy? What happens to that work? What happens to that inspiration? Who remembers the ones that have passed on when no one heard or listened to them when they were living? So much of this play reminded me of the ancestors before us, and the way we continue to be inspired by their work. How we continue to learn from the past as we move further and further into a future we never anticipated. Anderson’s play, written in 2017, takes a look into the not-so-far future of 2040. She builds that future by summoning the many Black female writers before her who did the same. We hear nods to Lorde’s biomythography style—combining myth, history and biography—as Anderson takes us to her past, illuminating the impacts her childhood experience had on her adult self. Showing us how, so often, these small moments in our past become the most impactful to

14 2020-2021 Season Poet and Activist Audre Lorde our adulthood. We flow in and out of memory throughout the audio play, never knowing how much more we will learn about her past but knowing that what we do learn is all that we need to know. Anderson evokes the futuristic elements of writers like Butler as she predicts a collapse of the public school system. Constructing an entirely new educational system is not an easy feat yet Anderson beautifully creates an alternative eerily similar to the one we currently see unfolding in the pandemic. Parents moving their children out of schools and looking to alternatives like learning pods to keep their children safe and on track—sounds like the imminent collapse of a system to me. This prophecy of the future of education is another reminder of the gift so many Black female writers have, the ability of seeing an almost too real future that general society refuses to admit as achievable. Yet I can remember cartoons from my youth like The Jetsons and Jimmy Neutron telling me flying cars and living in space would be the world of 2020. How close are we to that world? Though the clocks have fast forwarded, the generational trauma faced by Black people— especially Black women—resumes as if unpausing your Netflix just as your bathroom break has ended. Reminding us that these systems and ideologies do not dissipate after one generation but continue to evolve in ways we could never know. Just as it did when slavery was abolished and the prison system took up the same racism cloaked under false ideals and policies meant to benefit the white men who created them. As a Black woman, this feeling was not new to me. For centuries Black scholars have been debunking the very systems we were conditioned to believe were made to save us but in reality had no interest in our survival. When I picked up for the first time this fall Audre Lorde’s “The Master’s tools will never dismantle the Master’s House,” I felt even more enraged to hear the truths Lorde had known even in

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the late 70s. I had been a fan of Lorde since college not really even knowing who she was then, another silenced Black female voice. A voice I had to seek out in order to learn the truth that so many had tried to cover up. As Anderson quotes in the play: “The world is full of Black women who have never really been heard from.” This phrase comes from the great Patricia J. Williams, an American Legal Scholar and professor who emphasizes critical race theory in the study of law. Before this piece, I didn’t know who Ms. Williams was and as a Black woman I felt robbed of this knowledge. Here I am, a twenty-nine-year-old college- educated Haitian American theatre artist who spends most of her work illuminating and Legal Scholar Patricia J. Williams supporting the African diaspora, and here is another example of another voice I have never heard of. This continued silence of great Black thinkers, especially Black women, angers me to my core. As we move into another month of this pandemic, I think about Octavia Butler’s book Parable of the Sower. When I first read the book, I couldn’t understand a world like the one Butler envisioned. Now it feels like we are living in the same world she created in 1993. It makes me wonder how different the world would be if we listened to Black women. What kind of world would we live in if Black women were heard and listened to? What if their ideas and theories were taken seriously? I think so often of the Afro-futuristic artists who have been creating futures of this idyllic world. Like the people of Wakanda in Black Panther, a fictional country in Africa that has harnessed technology and science, and is filled with all kinds of beautiful Black people. They live in a state of true community without the constant threat of white supremacy so many of us endure in this country. Or artists like Solange and Janelle Monáe redefining music and Black femininity. Of course as we see more and more of the possibilities of this future of Blackness, some trepidation lies beneath in co-opting the culture and not Novelist Toni Morrison valuing the people it comes from.

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Anderson says it best: “Folks will consume a Black product. But won’t invest in a Black maker.” Though the aspects of Blackness may be more mainstream now, we continue to see the Black body just as devalued as it always has been. George Floyd’s heinous and gruesome murder in May ignited a wake up call around the country. A deluge of white people felt it was finally time to understand the deep roots white supremacy and racism have in our systems and country. Within weeks bookstores were flooded with orders for books on White Fragility, Anti-Racist Theory, White Supremacy and countless others. In a matter of weeks every Audre Lorde book was sold out in almost every book store. Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower became a New York Times Bestseller almost twenty-seven years after its publication. There was a small part of me that felt a bit of relief, that maybe this would be a turn in the right direction. Though as a Black woman I knew I had to continue to keep my guard up even with some hope looming in the distance. One of Christina Anderson’s inspirations for this piece was an essay written by Myisha Priest entitled “Salvation is the Issue.” Priest speaks to the true enemy of the Black female voice: death. She states that “Death is becoming an occupational hazard of Black female intellectual life” and goes on to explain the all too real coincidence of so many great Black female writers, thinkers, scholars and activists who have passed much too early due to disease and cancer. In the 2008 essay she states the life expectancy average for Black women is 75. A 2016 CDC study stated the average life expectancy of a Black woman had risen to78, while a white women’s life expectancy was 81. Priest goes on to explain that the brutal excess of stress, isolation, fear and despair that Black women experience can lead them to disease and shorter life expectancy. As these great Black women’s lives are cut short so too is the longevity of their work. “When we lose Black women scholars, writers, and activists, we all pay the price in the weakening of our political power, the silencing of our spiritual voices, and the diminished possibility of our deliverance.” (Priest, “Salvation is the Issue”)

www.GevaTheatre.org 17 It’s true, we lose so much more when these voices are silenced and forgotten. We can not wait decades after their passing to finally acknowledge their importance and innovation to the world we live in today. We can not have a generation that doesn’t know the work of Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Zadie Smith, Christina Anderson and so many others. Their experiences, ideas and theories are instrumental to the liberation we all so desperately seek. As Priest urges in her essay: “To achieve that we must acknowledge their deaths as a call to arms, because the reality is that their lives are our own, and if we do not assume the responsibility for their salvation, then none of us - not our lives nor our work - will be saved.” For me, The Resurrection of Michelle Morgan is a call to arms, an entry point to salvation. It Scholar Myisha Priest is past time to invest in Black people, not just Blackness. So let us prioritize Black female voices, create space, opportunities and salvation for us because the world will be better for it. The work and legacy of Black women deserves salvation, so let us provide it in all that we do.

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STAFF LEADERSHIP COSTUMES STAGE MANAGEMENT MELISSA BOYACK CASEY McNAMARA DANA ANGELLIS Director of Marketing Costume Shop Manager DAN PARKER Stage Managers SKIP GREER JANICE FERGER Director of Education/Artist Draper MARKETING & ADVANCEMENT in Residence AMANDA RIEKSTINS KATHERINE McCARTHY Graphic Designer JENN LYONS First Hand Director of Production TYLER CASSIDY-HEACOCK NOEL O'DAY Manager of Annual Giving ALANA SANSONE Costume Craftsperson EMILY RHONE Director of Finance MICHAELA LINCOLN and Operations Manager of Special Events Stitcher AMANDA SERIANNI-DAVIS LAURA SADOWSKI WARDROBE & WIGS Director of Institutional Administrative Assistant KARIN ECKERT & Database Manager Advancement Supervisor AUDIENCE SERVICES JENNI WERNER LIGHTING Literary Director/ TIMOTHY INTILI DEREK A. MADONIA Director of Ticketing Resident Dramaturg Lighting Supervisor PIRRONNE JOHN HAMOLSKY CHRIS NIMICK YOUSEFZADEH Ticket Services Manager Electrician/ Board Operator Director of Engagement/ Associate Artistic Director KATHERINE KUHN MICHAEL REHOR Subscription Coordinator Electrician EDUCATION ANDREW GERMUGA LARA BIDUS RHYNER SOUND Associate Director of Education ASHLEY ROBB-CROCKETT ANDREW MARK WILHELM Box Office Associates Sound Supervisor DANNY HOSKINS JACK LANGERAK SCOTT FALKOWSKI JOHN WILCOX Guest Services Manager BRIGITT MARKUSFELD Audio Engineer JONATHAN NTHEKETHE KEITH BULLIS DELORES JACKSON RADNEY PROPERTIES MARCY SAVASTANO LAURA CHEKOW THERESA PIERCE KEN KOBAN TERRAN SCOTT Props Supervisor SHAWNDA URIE WENDY MANCARELLA MARGARET ESTHER WINTER ROUMPAPAS BUTCH KANE House Managers Artist/Educators Props Artisan LITERARY SARAH TRINE FRANCISCA DA SILVIERA SCENERY CONSTRUCTION Kitchen Supervisor Assistant Literary Director / ERIK BENSON Dramaturg Technical Director NANETTE FALCHI Gift Shop Coordinator JEAN GORDON RYON CHRIS DAKE Literary Associate/ Asst. Technical Director FINANCE & OPERATIONS Dramaturg FRANK DEL VECCHIO SARA STABLEY Associate Director of Finance ARTISTIC Stage Ops Carpenter ANGELA GIUSEPPETTI LAURIE MASOOD Company Manager MAYA SCHUETZ Finance Volunteer Carpenter CAITLIN MILIZIA ANNA BECK Management Associate Finance Assistant

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www.GevaTheatre.org 21 BUSINESS, FOUNDATION & GOVERNMENT PARTNERS Geva Theatre Center gratefully acknowledges the following businesses, foundations and government agencies for their generous support. (Donations listed are for the time period 11/1/2019 to 10/31/2020.)

2020-2021 SEASON SPONSOR Glover-Crask Charitable Trust* STAR ESL Federal Credit Union Gray Locey CPA, PC ($1,000 - $1,499) Hedonist Artisan Chocolates Actors’ Equity Foundation 2020-2021 HONORARY Hurlbut Care Communities Alstom Signaling, Inc. SEASON PRODUCER Julia K Caters Gallina Development Corporation Drs. Dawn & Jacques Lipson M&T Bank Iron Smoke Distillery Life Enhancing Fund Madeline’s Catering, LLC Kovalsky-Carr Electric Supply Co., Inc. at The Community Foundation National New Play Network , Inc. News 10 NBC Robinson & Gordon CPA, PC EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Nixon Peabody LLP The Vesper ($25,000+) Guido & Ellen Palma Foundation* City of Rochester Rubens Family Foundation* LEADING PERFORMER County of Monroe Vitality Grant in Arts & Culture ($500 - $999) William & Sheila Konar Foundation* from The Community Foundation All Season Property & Services MAP Fund Food Markets* 2strive Media, Inc. Mary S. Mulligan Charitable Trust** Fred & Floy Willmott Foundation* 55 Plus Magazine New York State Council on the Arts** Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP Applied Audio & Theater Supply The Shubert Foundation WDKX FM Exele Information Systems, Inc. WHAM 1180 Mardon Tool & Die Co. CO-PRODUCER WLGZ Legends Nocon & Associates*** ($10,000 - $24,999) WPXY FM Riedman Foundation Avangrid Foundation */*** The Drive FM ROC Brewing Co. Buckingham Properties, LLC State Farm Deborah Ham Whitt Agency COMIDA ASSISTANT PRODUCER The One Night Stand Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation* ($2,500 - $4,999) Louis S. & Molly B. Wolk Foundation Davenport-Hatch Foundation Max A. Adler Charitable Foundation Donald F. & Maxine B. Davison Foundation* Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust FEATURED PERFORMER DeCarolis Truck Rental in Memory of Henry Ames, ($250 - $499) Max & Marian Farash Charitable Foundation Semon Amzalak & Dan Amzalak* ABR Wholesalers, Inc. Joan and Harold Feinbloom Supporting Caldwell Manufacturing Co. Goat Factory Media Entertainment Foundation* Center for Adolescent & Young Adult Health Matthews & Fields Lumber Co., Inc. The Donna Fielding Memorial Fund Cobblestone Capital Advisors, LLP Flaum Management Company, Inc. Forté Capital, LLC MATCHING GIFTS PROGRAMS FOX Rochester Mark & Barbara Hargrave Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc. Harro East Athletic Club Hard of Hearing Clarity Fund Amica Companies Foundation Harter Secrest & Emery, LLP at The Community Foundation AXA Foundation Heveron & Company, CPAs, PLLC Hildebrandt Family Artistic Enhancement Bank of America KeyBank Fund Constellation Brands, Inc. News 8 WROC-TV immaginé Photography Dell Foundation Rochester Regional Health Konar Properties Diamond Packaging Rockcastle Florist Marshall Street Bar & Grill ExxonMobil Foundation St. John’s Monroe’s Restaurant Harris Corporation ServiceMaster Native Eatery and Bar IBM Joseph & Irene Skalny Charitable Trust* Rochester Riverside Convention Center Johnson & Johnson Tasteful Connections, Inc. Catering Johnson Controls Foundation John F. Wegman Fund* Theatre Development Fund OppenheimerFunds WARM 101.3 Radio – NSYCA/TDF TAP Plus 13WHAM TV Unter Biergarten WXXI Waldon Rise Foundation WYSL ASSOCIATE PRODUCER ($5,000 - $9,999) DIRECTOR All Occasions Catering & Events Planning ($1,500 - $2,499) Chase Goforth Electric, Inc. Cornell/Weinstein Family Foundation* Leo’s Bakery & Deli *Education Supporter Excellus BlueCross BlueShield* Polisseni Foundation **Literary, New Works or Hornets’ Nest Supporter The Joseph and Anna Gartner Foundation ***Home for the Holidays Supporter

LEO’S BAKERY & DELI ALL OCCASIONS CATERING ROCKCASTLE FLORIST MONROE’S RESTAURANT JULIA K CATERS The Official Florist of Geva Theatre Center NATIVE EATERY AND BAR MADELINE’S CATERING HEDONIST ARTISAN CHOCOLATES THE VESPER MARSHALL STREET BAR & GRILL IMMAGINÉ PHOTOGRAPHY IRON SMOKE DISTILLERY UNTER BIERGARTEN TASTEFUL CONNECTIONS CATERING ROC BREWING CO. Restaurant Partners Catering Partners In-Kind Sponsors

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Geva Theatre Center thanks the following individuals for their generous contributions. (Donations listed are for the time period 11/1/2019 through 10/31/2020.) PRODUCER’S CIRCLE DIRECTOR’S FORUM DIRECTOR’S FORUM (cont.)

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ASSISTANT PRODUCER Werner Schenk ($25,000+) ($2,500 - $4,999) Kelly & Kathleen Shea PS Anonymous Anonymous Gail Shoemaker Daniel & Elizabeth Abbas PS Richard & Sandy Stein Allen+ & Joyce Boucher PS PS Dr. Dawn Lipson Deanna G. Baker** Franceen Elias-Stein & Todd Stein David & Anna Marie Barclay PS James & Georgine StengerPS (Honorary Season Producer) John & Mary Bartholomew Bob & Gayle StilesPS The Gouvernet Arts Fund at The Carol & John Bennett PS Jim & Pam StoffelPS Community Foundation Barbara Berman John S. TrittenPS (Fielding Stage Season Sponsor) Nelson Adrian Blish PS Scott Turner & Mary Worboys-TurnerPS Robert & Diane Boni Patricia Ward-Baker CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Patrick & Gail Burke Skip & Karen Warren ($10,000-$24,999) Philip & Sharon BurkePS Philip & Anne Wehrheim Anonymous (2) David J. & Margaret M. Burns John WilliamsPS Ted & Peggy BoucherPS Margaret & Tim Busch Ms. Kathleen R. Whelehan Barbara & John BruningPS Stephanie Caffera Deborah Wilson PS David & Patricia Gardner Mary Allison Callaway Herb Winkelmann, Jr. Joanne Gianniny Center for Adolescent Helen A. Zamboni & Steven I. Rosen & Young Adult HealthPS Laurel Pace Essie Calhoun-McDavidPS DIRECTOR Eric & Elizabeth Rennert*PS PS Suzanne & Allan Chapman ($1,500 - $2,499) Stephen+ & Elise Rosenfeld Mary CowdenPS Abby & Doug Bennett Joan & Ken SlaterPS Gloria Culver & Joe AndersonPS Drs. Karen & Mark Blazey Matt Squires Ann Dozier & Guy Martin PS David L. Brooks Janet & John Tyler Hope & Lance DrummondPS William Buckingham Krestie Utech PS Peter Fackler & Kelly BarrettPS Ed & Sarah Bullard Charis & Rich WarshofPS Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Feingold John & Linda Buttrill Sherwin & Linda Richard & Joan Fenton*PS Jeanne Carlivati Cornell Weinstein*PS Barbara & Patrick Fulford Dr. John J. Condemi PS Joyce & William Weir PS Christina Gullo & John A. Mueller Mark Cuddy & Christina Selian Sue & Jim HaefnerPS Barbara de Leeuw Terry & Eileen HartmannPS Raymond Dreher & Dr. Elaine Tunaitis CO-PRODUCER Dr. Tomas C. Hernandez Peter & Suzanne Durant ($7,500-$9,999) PS & Dr. Keith S. Reas* Bill Eggers & Deborah McLean Joanna & Michael Grosodonia Nan & Tom HildebrandtPS Louise W. Epstein Norman HortonPS Gwendolyn & David HoffbergPS David Evans & Sheree Usiatynski Barbara LaVerdi & Bryan DonnellyPS Daniel & Barbara Hoffman James & Kathy Farrar Dr. Sidney & Barbara Sobel In Memory of Lisa Hoffman, Joan Feinbloom who loved her Geva Family Betsy T. Friedman & Ram W. Rapoport ASSOCIATE PRODUCER Lloyd A. HolmesPS Paul & Mary Fromm ($5,000-$7,499) Jean Horton Lindsay & John Garrett Dennis & Mary BassettPS Jack & Harriette Howitt Michelle & Lucas Grosodonia Maiola PS PS Ralph F. Jozefowicz, M.D. Nancy D. Hessler John & Betsy Carver PS Don & Janet Charles Harold & Christine Kurland Carol E. Hopkins Connie L. Leary Dan & Deena Hucko Dr. Eric M. Dreyfuss PS PS Dan & Nancy Loughran Cleve Killingsworth & Daren Chentow Dave & Nance Fiedler Carol & Nick LovePS Glenn & Nancy Koch Bob & Mary Anne Fox Dan & Kiki MaharPS Paul & Lynne Kroner Jack+ & Bonnie Garner Annabelle MartinPS Kathleen King & John Laing* Richard & Kim GrayPS Faheem & Laurie MasoodPS Diane & Stephen LaLonde Pamela & Ken HinesPS Pamela McGreevy Mary Ellen Lansing Jack & Barbara KraushaarPS Peter & Beth MessnerPS Jennifer Leonard & David Cay Johnston Diane & Jerry McCuePS Michael & Frances Millard Carol A. Lewis Dan & Jo-Ann O’Brien Michael & Mary Ninnie Edith M. Lord PS Don & Robin Pulver PS Frank Novak & Paul Muto Staffan & Lee Lundback Dr. Vivian PalladoroPS Wes & Mary Micket Kathy Purcell PS Vicki & Richard SchwartzPS Wolfgang Pfizenmaier Paul & Barbara Mitacek** Loren & Janet RanalettaPS James C. Moore Wolf & Elizabeth Seka Janet S. Reed & Geraldine Biddle Moore Maggie & Charlie SymingtonPS PS Averil & Michael Riley Emily Neece & Alan Ziegler Kim & Janet Tenreiro Dr. Gerald & Maxine RosenPS Nannette Nocon & Karl Wessendorf PS PS Mimi & Sam Tilton Raymond H. Ruby Family Fund Shree Pandya Dr. Stephen R. Webb Mr. John B. Rumsey David & Marjorie Perlman Carol J. Whitbeck Laura J. SadowskiPS Anne & Rob Quivey Eric I. Zeller Drs. Carl & OJ Sahler PS Phyllis C.+ & David A.+ Reynolds

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DIRECTOR’S FORUM (cont.) Judith & Richard Steinheider Meg & Bill Lloyd Sharon Stiller Barbara & John Lovenheim Dr. Ramon & Judith Ricker Joshua Stubbe & Katie Baynes Christopher & Susan Luedde Robert & Hedria Saltzman Jim & Linda Varner Dr. Thomas Madejski Gary B. Schaefer Mr. & Mrs. Justin L. Vigdor Swaminathan & Janice Madhu Dick Schieck & Joan Semrau Thomas & Ann Ward Mr. & Mrs. Michael Magee Sharon & Leal Smith David J. Welker Massie Family Fund Malcolm & Elaine Spaull Charlotte & Norman Wright at The Community Foundation Mr. David L. Williams James McBride & Rev. Nancy D. Stevens LEADING PERFORMER H. Winn McCray Mary Kay & Bill Taber ($500 – $999) Mrs. Jeanne B. McHugh Meg & Tom Therkildsen Anonymous Daniel M. Meyers Susan & Robert Touhsaent Anonymous*** Sanford & Jill Miller James True & Deborah McGrath Karen Abbas Jonathan Mink & Janet Cranshaw Gary & Marie VanGraafeiland David & Marca Anderson JoAnn Morreale Nina Walker Philip Andolina Don & Roxann Muller Tom & Marianne Walsh David & Jan Angus Helen Newman Pierce & Elizabeth Webb Gloria J. Baciewicz Marie & Donald Oakleaf Sandy Baldwin Peter Oddleifson & Kay Wallace STAR Betsy Ann Balzano Elizabeth Osta & George D. VanArsdale ($1,000 - $1,499) Bancroft-Tubbs Family Fund Lois & John Palomaki Anonymous Steven Barbash Dom & June Piazza Carol Adler Marcia & Bruce Bates Thomas & Nancy Poeth Allan C. Anderson Marcia & Eric Birken Patricia & Edward Polidor Frank & Catherine Angevine Jeff & Kathy Bowen Dr. Lee D. Pollan Michael & Susan Bargmann Dr. Donald L. & Mary C. Boyd Mary Jane Proschel Jeanne M. Beecher Jane Capellupo Ken & Sheila Reasoner Alan & Lisa Bloom Edward J. & Margaret Grady Cavalier Elizabeth & Larry Rice Brendan & Mary Brady Gary & Roxane Chadwick Nancy Robbins John & Johanna Brennan Victor Ciaraldi & Kathy Marchaesi Charles & Carolyn Ruffing Kate Callery & Michael Nazar Keith & Celeste Cleary David W. Ryon Natalie & J. Richard Ciccone Richard Coulombre Victor & Eileen Salerno CPLM Charitable Checking Account Katherine Cove Peggy W. Savlov Joan S. Dalberth Susan & Frank Crego Letty Gail Schacht Doug & Stephanie Dickman Alison & John Currie Francie & Larry Schenck Joel & Katy DiMarco Jackie Davidson Jim & Daria Shaw Janice B. Durfee Susan Davis Joseph E. Simpson Ms. Susanna Ferris Dan & Jody DiLoreto Robert & Norma Snyder Ann & Steve Fox Marjorie & Stephen Elder Jacqueline & Robert+ Sperandio Bob & Bobbie Freitag Joel & Dottie Elias Carol & Raymond Stark George & Helen Greer Advised Fund Judith A. Emmanuel Ann H. Stevens & William J. Shattuck at The Community Foundation Sherman & Anne Farnham Dr. Robert & Sally Stookey Klaus & Brigitte Gueldenpfennig Lynn & Neil Farrar Thomas & Linda Sullivan*** Elmer C. Hartman Elizabeth Fisher Thomas & Kelli Tarkowski The Buffalo Hoffmans Barbara L. Frank Benjamin & Saundra Wallace H. Larry & Dorothy C. Humm Marcia & David Gann Jean Carty Weaver Judy & Norm Karsten M. Lois Gauch Stephen Wershing Robert & Patricia Larson Philip C. & Beverly C. Gelsomino II & Gaelen McCormick Mr. Robert L. Lowenthal, Jr. Todd & Stephanie Green Susan & Paul Wilkens Patrick Macey & Jerry Casey Martin & Sherrie Handelman Henry Williams & Barbara Dimmick Nanci Malin & Abe Weiss Joe & Linda Hanna Kitty J. Wise Bruce & Eleanor McLear Marilyn & Dick Hare Peter Woods*** Ralph & Martha Meyer Brud & Molly Hedges Peg Wu*** Duane & Ida Miller Barb & Art Hirst Dr. Gary & Ruth Myers John & Barbara Holder FEATURED PERFORMER Kathy & Ted Nixon Dan & Sandy Hollands ($250 - $499) Dr. Alan Nye & Nancy BB Meyer-Nye Ned+ & Louise Holmes Anonymous (5) Dr. Avice O’Connell Mary M. Huth Nancy Gaede & Karl Abbott & Dr. Timothy O’Connell Douglas & MaryAnne Jones Don & Janet Anderson William J. O’Connor Jr. Ebets & Tom Judson Janet B. Anderson Jane Parker & Fran Cosentino Lori & Frank Karbel Betsy & Gerald Archibald Sandra Parker Karen Kehoe Bob & Dawn Auerhahn Elke Phillips, Phyllis A. Kemmerer Virginia Bacheler & Skip Battaglia in memory of James R. Phillips Mark & Mona Friedman Kolko Mr. Robert D. Baden William & Patricia Rahn Robert & Judy Kukol Ed & Joan Bangel Deborah Ronnen Terrie & Tom Lee Lon Baratz & Joseph Arena Daniel Ryan Nancy & Howard LeVant Michael Bellanca Sayre Family Incentive Fund Doris & Austin Leve John S. Beneway Schreiner Family Fund Amy Libenson & Brett Shulman Jon & Patricia Bertucci

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Linda Betstadt Lori Green Gentry & Maggie Politte Barbara Billingsley Benita Greenfield Rev. Okke & Kathy Postma Bette Blakeney & Jim Dulmage Richard Groth, RFG Associates, Inc. Jay & Margaret Rachfal John & Cindy Blawski Mr. & Mrs. Earl Gurell Josanne Reaves Nancy Bloom & Alan Cohen Michael & Megan Gurell James Reed Dennis & Amy Boike Douglas Hague, Dr. Meredith E. Reiniger Darlene M. Bradley In Memory of Ellen Hague Dale Renfer Patricia Bradley Karl & Diana Hamann Valerie & Stefan Reuss George E.D. & Sandra Brady Polly Hanna Nancy Rice Emily Breitkopf Mr. & Mrs. Lee Hasiuk Karen M. Rinefierd Bertha R. Brinkley Mary E. Haverfield Joseph & Lois Rixner James D. Brown Chris & Lisa Hayes Russell R. Roberts Josh Bruner Warren & Joyce Heilbronner Thomas & Elizabeth Ross Bruce & Marilyn Burkey Mr. & Mrs. Peter L. Hermann Lewis Rothberg Larry & Veronica Burling Linda & Dirk Hightower Remi Sandri Nancy Burns Grant Holcomb Margaret & Richard Schenkel Mary Ellen Burris Sheila Hollander Kenneth Schirmuhly Richard & Peggy Burton Audrey Holly David Schraver Lori Busch Don & Polly Hunsberger & Nancy Danforth Schraver Dr. Thomas & Mrs. Ann Caprio Gail & Howie Jehan Drs. David & Carolyn Schuler Jeffrey Carlson Ms. Mary Jo Karpenko Jon & Katherine Schumacher Harriet & Jeff Carter Rabbi Alan & Jan Katz Anthony & Gloria Sciolino Tomas Cassada Mr. & Mrs. Robert Kay Mrs. Carolyn Selbig Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Casselman William & Jean Keplinger William A. Shaw Cynthia Christy & Ralph Manchester Edward E. Klehr Marvin A. & Joan E. Shulman Jack & Barbara Clarcq Joe & Dale Klein Advised Fund E. A. Claypoole John Knop Norm & Jane Silverstein Janet & Nelson Cole Ellen & Charles Konar Judith & Michael Slade Dr. & Mrs. Patrick J. & Linda Z. Condry Thomas Krugh Greg & Karen Sloan Dennis & Sharon Conheady Robert & Sarah Kuehl Carolyn Smith Toby Cook Kim Kvocka & Brownlee Field Charles H. Speirs Carol & Stuart Cooper Kathleen & Alfred Laitenberger* Jean & Harold Stacey Tom & Linda Cribbs David & Andrea Lambert Fred & Mabel Stehler Charles & Mary Crockett Bob & Kathy Landon Howard & Nancy Stewart Dee & Bert Crofton John & Margaret Lausin* Mrs. Helga Strasser Joe & Judy Darweesh Dr. Paul A. Law Gina Suriano Jack Glickman & Jacqueline Davis John Lebens & Florence Higgins Thomas & Rose Swartz Bill & Linda Delaney Litt Family Fund Frank & Rose Swiskey Joseph DeRuyter Maxine Long & Bill McCleary Edward Tanner & Elizabeth Treiber Anthony D’Imperio Jenny Lloyd & Connie Gates Robert Thompson Ken & Linda Dingman Deborah Lydick Brad VanAuken & Stacey Miller Mary Dinnan Mr. H. Edwin Maier Wayne & Anne Vander Byl Lynette Dolby & Sandra McDonald & Ms. Barbara-Ann Mattle Charlene Varnis & James Vallino Dan & Mary Draper Christopher & Rita Mannelli Gerald & Beverly Verbridge Rose E. Dreher Ruth & Alfred Marchetti Susan B. Volpel Kevin & Marie Duhamel Becky & Joe Marinelli Patricia H. Wehle Patricia C. Dunn Dr. & Mrs. Sanford J. & Suzanne Mayer Ann D. Weintraub Dr. Frederick Dushay Gail Mazur Robert S. Westfall Carol & Dana Ebersole-Weiss Tom & Emily McCall Jamie & Sally Whitbeck Judith & Dean Ekberg Dr. George McVey Helen Wiley & Marian Payson Larry & Peggy Elliot Steve Metzger John & Laurie Witmeyer Trevor & Elizabeth Ewell Mary Lou Meyers, M.D. Susan & Larry Yovanoff David Fergusson & Joyce Nakada Hilda J. Milham Chelsea Zayas Clara Firth Annette Miller & Lauren Frank Charlie & Judy Zettek Neil & Sandra Frankel Deborah Mulford & David Szulgit Mary Lou & David Zimpfer Lisabeth Frarey & Michael Christie Sarah Nemetz, MD & Michel Berg, MD Benson & Mindy Zoghlin Bruce & Elizabeth Freeland Thomas & Ronnie Nescot Dr. David Gandell, M.D. James & Lois Norman PS Playwright’s Society & Rev. Dahn D. Gandell Jennie Oberholtzer (donors who have made a three-year Ellen Garfinkel Sally Olivier commitment to Geva’s Annual Fund) Andrew Germanow Philip Palumbo Richard & Joyce Gilbert Marty Palumbos *Education Supporter R.T. Gilman Family Charitable Gift Fund Eric & Penelope Pankow **Literary, New Works or Joy Goodman Cassandra Petsos Hornets’ Nest Suppporter William & Susan Gornall Thomas Petrillo & William Reamy Ray & Ellen Grabb Travis & Kathleen Piper ***Home for the Holidays Supporter Dr. & Mrs. William & Ruth Grace Richard & Susan Pixley + Deceased We have made every effort to ensure the accuracy of these donor lists. However, if you see an error or omission, please accept our apology, and kindly call the Advancement Office at (585) 420-2004.

www.GevaTheatre.org 25 TRIBUTESWHO'S WHO

Geva Theatre Center thanks the following individuals for their generous contributions. (Donations listed are for the time period 11/1/2019 through 10/31/2020.) IN MEMORY OF … Lisa Helen Hoffman George Tuck John & Jackie Borek Dr. Gerald & Maxine Rosen George F. Aberle The Buffalo Hoffmans Mary Martin Ronald & Beverly Michalski Margene Wagstaff & Lois Anderson Rotary Club of Rochester Southwest Marcy & Ray Kraus Werner J. Baum Anthony & Gloria Sciolino Dr. Roselyn Freedman-Baum Sharon Stiller Mike Wexler Judy Joy Weidenborner Dr. Gerald & Maxine Rosen Lauri Berns Dr. Gerald & Maxine Rosen Dorothy Jacobson Stan Zinn Dr. Gerald & Maxine Rosen Dr. Gerald & Maxine Rosen Allen Boucher Joanna & Michael Grosodonia Jane Johnson Laura J. Sadowski Catherine Fonte IN HONOR OF … Sherwin & Linda Cornell Weinstein Theresa Kacerguis Ben Barbash Katherine Carey Steven Barbash Dr. Gerald & Maxine Rosen Susan Davis Dennis & Mary Bassett Elaine Primavera Kraus Dr. Derek Chapman Frank Del Vecchio & Jonathan Andrade Jim Kraus Dr. Daniel S. Daniel Jeanne Ferrando & Fern Marlan Daniel Joanna & Michael Grosodonia Ronda Factor & Eric Schmittou Clarence W. Lambert Carol & Nick Love Ed & Terry Grissing Dr. Dawn Lipson George Del Vecchio Peter & Beth Messner Joanna & Michael Grosodonia Dr. Hobart Lerner Nannette Nocon & Karl Wessendorf Laura J. Sadowski Carol & Nick Love Laura J. Sadowski Matt & Alana Sansone Marinka Docheva Chuck Lundeen Pam & Neal Sherman Omar Anbari Joanna & Michael Grosodonia Mimi & Sam Tilton Carol & Nick Love Blake & Karen Webber June & Roger Emblidge Laura J. Sadowski Dr. Gerald & Maxine Rosen Ted & Peggy Boucher Saul Marsh Chris & Lisa Hayes David Flaum Dr. Gerald & Maxine Rosen Dr. Gerald & Maxine Rosen Frank Cavallo John L. Olivier Chris & Susan Bord Betty Frost Sally Olivier Barb & Tom Klein Mark Cuddy Lois Posner Anonymous (4) Jack Garner Dr. Gerald & Maxine Rosen Stewart & Barbara Agor Vicki & Roger Brown Betzy Ann Balzano Marjorie Relin Betsy & John Carver Pam Barrale & Libby Ford Dr. Gerald & Maxine Rosen Joanna & Michael Grosodonia Sara Berger & Ginny Tucker Nancy Blanda Terry & Eileen Hartmann Dr. William H. Saunders, Jr. Jeff & Kathy Bowen J. Ford Huffman Anonymous Carol & Nick Love Melissa Boyack Bill & Sharon Boyd Nannette Nocon & Karl Wessendorf June Shulman Maria Brandt Catherine Riley Dr. Gerald & Maxine Rosen Ileen Sadowski Debi & Ralph Brenner Laura J. Sadowski Klaus Siebert Leo Brideau Mimi & Sam Tilton Dr. Gerald & Maxine Rosen Patricia Brogan Nina Walker Mr. & Mrs. Peter O. Brown Helen Zamboni & Steven I. Rosen Murray Steinfink Josh Bruner Dr. Gerald & Maxine Rosen Melinda Buckley Dr. David Hanson Margaret & Tim Busch Dr. Gerald & Maxine Rosen Elliott Stern Kate Callery & Michael Nazar Dr. Gerald & Maxine Rosen Stuart & Carol Cooper Lisa Hoffman, Pat D. who loved her Geva Family Robert W. Sweeney Roger L. Easton, Jr. Daniel & Barbara Hoffman Gerald G. Estes Carolyn Ettinger

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Amy Ferris Shree Pandya Steve Georas, MD Joe Flaherty John & Sue Porubek Lisa Beck Kate Flynn Kathy Purcell Terry Hartmann Deborah Franco John Ricks Mairead Hartmann & Seun Lisabeth Frarey & Michael Christie Russ Roberts Oyesiku Peter & Nancy Gaess Steve Rosen Thelma Gliottone Jamal & Pam Rossi Yaj Hauser Jocelyn Goldberg-Schaible Jeanne B. Rowe Capt. Joe Bradley Pat Gray Dennis & Jeanne Roy Barbara Kraushaar Todd & Stephanie Green Bob Russell The Zurcher Family Benita Greenfield Laura J. Sadowski Emma Griffin Peggy Savlov Emily Neece Sara & Peter Hartman Suzanne & Michael Schnittman Tiffany Paine Terry & Eileen Hartmann Dahl Schultz & Barbara Howard Sue & Ray Hengelsberg Mary Scollan Nannette Nocon Charlotte & Raul Herrera Cheryl Shepherd Linda Epstein & Robin Benmergui Nancy Hessler Deborah Stendardi Daniel & Barbara Hoffman Georgine & Jim Stenger Peter & Margaret Grant Holcomb Jim & Pam Stoffel Ann Nelson Dan & Sandy Hollands Mary Sutherland James Holloway Mary Kay & Bill Taber Laura Sadowski Don & Polly Hunsberger Helen Tortorici Patricia Donoghue Marshall Jones, III Ken & Mollie Traub Suzanne & Jeffrey Teringo Lynne & Paul Kroner Edward Tanner & Elizabeth Treiber Alana Sansone Lori Sawchuck LaPier Janet & John Tyler High Island Oil Corp. Dr. Paul A. Law Krestie Utech Rebecca & Paul Leclair Brad VanAuken June Shulman Marie & Richard Leistman Lisa Vitale Dr. Gerald & Maxine Rosen Jenny Lloyd & Connie Gates Nina Walker Lee & Staffan Lundback Tom & Kathy Wetherell Virginia Skuse H. Edwin Maier & Barbara-Ann Mattle Sue Whan Trish & John Cadwallader Taimi Marple Kitty J. Wise Jennifer & Mark Keyloun James & Linda McCann Carol & Steven Yahoodik Richard & Nancy Skuse Daniel M. Meyers Robert & Roxanne Skuse James & Geraldine Biddle Moore Janice Ferger, Katie McCarthy Emily Neece & Alan Ziegler & Lara Rhyner Maggie Symington Jennie Oberholtzer Mary Tiballi Hoffman Thomas Huber Dr. Avice O’Connell & Dr. Timothy O’Connell Kate Garvey John Williams Elizabeth Osta & Dave VanArsdale Meghan Garvey Susan & Larry Yovanoff

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Geva Theatre Center gratefully acknowledges the generosity of the following friends of the theatre who have formalized their commitment to Geva in their estate plans:

Anonymous (2) Nancy D. Hessler Maggie & Charlie Symington Bruce B. Bates Norman Horton Kim & Janet Tenreiro Jeanne M. Beecher Jack & Barbara Kraushaar John R. Tyler, Jr. Helen H. Berkeley Dr. Hobart A.+ & Mrs. Elinor O. Lerner Brad VanAuken Beverly T. Bowen* Drs. Dawn & Jacques+ Lipson Elizabeth VanHorn* John & Betsy Carver Richard Malinich* Linda Cornell Weinstein Ernestine W. Murray Chandler* Emily Neece & Alan Ziegler Henry W. Williams, Jr. Derek & Janice Chapman* Dr. Ramon & Judith Ricker Catharine J. Wise Donna Fielding* William G. Ritz Robert B. Wolf Elizabeth Fisher Marie Roberts & Mary Alice Wolf* Bob & Mary Anne Fox Harry Rosen Helen A. Zamboni David & Linda Friedman Stephen I. Rosenfeld* Jay+ & Betsy T. Friedman Laura J. Sadowski Barbara & Patrick Fulford James G. Scanzaroli* * Gift has been realized Julia Grant Vicki & Richard Schwartz +Deceased Jean Edgcumb Groff* Joan & Ken Slater Richard & Marilyn Hare Ms. Rusty Smith

We would be delighted to know if you have included Geva in your estate plans, so that we may appropriately honor you. For information about the Legacy Society, please contact Laura Sadowski at (585) 420-2041 or [email protected].

We have made every effort to ensure the accuracy of these donor lists. However, if you see an error or omission, please accept our apology, and kindly call the Advancement Office at (585) 420-2004.

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28 2020-2021 Season CURTAIN CALL SUPPORTERS Geva Theatre Center thanks the following donors for their generous contributions to Curtain Call 2020, the theatre’s annual fundraising gala.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Center for Adolescent Kathy & Ted Nixon ESL Charitable Foundation & Young Adult Health Nannette Nocon & Karl Wessendorf Suzanne & Allan Chapman Dr. Alan Nye & Nancy BB Meyer-Nye ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS Barry Childs Dresden Engle Olcott Constellation Brands Inc. E. A. Claypoole Laurel Pace Nocon & Associates – Marc Cohen Shree Pandya A Private Wealth Advisory Carey & Janice Corea Peter & Alison Pellittieri Practice of Ameriprise Financial Mark Cuddy & Christina Selian Wolfgang Pfizenmaier Services, Inc. Thomas Cummings & Beverly Ludke Rev. Okke & Kathy Postma Barbara & John Bruning Barbara de Leeuw Loren & Janet Ranaletta Barbara LaVerdi & Bryan Donnelly Hope Drummond Laura Sadowski Peter Fackler & Kelly Barrett Matt & Alana Sansone ASSISTANT PRODUCERS Steve & Elizabeth Fantone Charlene & Hans Schoenenberger Dennis & Mary Bassett Blanche Fenster Olga Selioutski Philip & Sharon Burke Dave & Nance Fiedler Kelly & Kathleen Shea Bob & Mary Anne Fox Kara Finnigan Dr. Sidney & Barbara Sobel Pam Giambrone Susan Friedman & Robert Paine Deborah Stendardi Harter Secrest & Emery LLP Joan Gaylord Paul & Robin Suwijn Labella Associates, P.C. Suzanne Gouvernet The Sweeney Family Diane & Jerry McCue Gray Locey CPA Charlie & Maggie Symington Nixon Peabody LLP Todd & Stephanie Green Lois Taubman Kim & Janet Tenreiro Benita Greenfield Mimi & Sam Tilton Judie & Jay Griffin James True & Deborah McGrath IN-KIND SUPPORT Joanna & Michael Grosodonia Brad VanAuken & Stacey Miller Conolly Printing Christina Gullo & John A. Mueller Judy & Erik von Bucher Terry & Eileen Hartmann Dr. Stephen R. Webb ADDITIONAL SUPPORT Wendi Heinzelman Douglas & Judith Webster & AUCTION WINNERS Stephen & Mary Grace Herdemian Wegmans Food Markets (Donations of $250+) R. Andrew Herrala John Williams Anonymous (3) Pamela & Ken Hines Helen A. Zamboni & Steven I. Rosen Farhad & Maya Abtahian Sandra Holloway Jeff & Susan Verrett Allen Sarah Hurlbut AUCTION & WINE DONORS Dennis & Mary Bassett Sue Jenks Aerial Arts of Rochester Donna Beechey Ebets & Tom Judson Airigami Douglas & Jane Bennett John Kavanaugh Ape + Canary Marjorie Bergeson Harold & Christine Kurland BayCreek Paddling Center Nicholas Berno Jurij Kushner Black & Blue Steak & Crab Gretchen Lano Birbeck Greg & Alexia LaFortune Boot Cove LLC Robert & Diane Boni Christopher & Jackie Lee Nelson A. Blish Ted & Peggy Boucher Roman & Kathy Lesiv Bodymind Float Center Michael & Melissa Boyack Robert & Carole Lillis Ted & Peggy Boucher Eric Brandt & Carolyn Nussbaum Barbara Lobb Bristol Valley Theater Barbara & John Bruning Carol & Nick Love Margaret & Tim Busch Ed & Sarah Bullard Emily Marullo Century Liquor & Wines Margaret & Tim Busch Faheem & Laurie Masood Carey Corea Essie Calhoun-McDavid James & Jennifer Meyer David Cowles Canandaigua National Bank & Trust Thomas Mitchell Created By Us Pottery Betsy & John Carver Michael & Mary Ninnie Mark Cuddy & Christina Selian

GOVERNMENT SUPPORT Geva Theatre Center gratefully acknowledges the support of

The New York State Council on the Arts, The County of Monroe Empire State Development with the support of Governor Andrew and the County Executive – Division of Tourism – Cuomo and the New York State Legislature Adam Bello I LOVE NEW YORK

www.GevaTheatre.org 29 CURTAIN CALL SUPPORTERS

Francisca Da Silveira Lollypop Farm, Humane Society Southwest Airlines Dog Educated of Greater Rochester Statement Boutique Dogtown Jenn Lyons Stever’s Candies Hope & Lance Drummond MAE Beads The Strong Ethan Allen Furniture MansaWear Stuart’s Spices Eye Openers Optical Casey McNamara Sylvan Starlight Creations Fairport Brewing Company Linda McNamara Charlie & Maggie Symington Coffee Roasters Tantalo Fine Portraits Finger Lakes Opera Jeff Metzger Tasteful Connections, Inc. Jennifer Forrester Caitlin Milizia Kim & Janet Tenreiro Bob & Mary Anne Fox The MOST Three Brothers Wineries & Estates Jack+ & Bonnie Garner Susan Murray, eselem design Mimi & Sam Tilton Garth Fagan Dance Nazareth College Arts Center Nancy Ukshe Genesee Country Inn Bed & Breakfast Emily Neece & Alan Ziegler Brad VanAuken & Stacey Miller Genesee Country Village & Museum New York Kitchen Jenni Werner The Glimmerglass Festival Nannette Nocon & Karl Wessendorf Wickham Farms Skip Greer National Susan B. Anthony Museum The Wild Center Eric Grode & House Andrew Wilhelm Joanna & Michael Grosodonia Nulton Jewelers John Williams Christina Gullo & John A. Mueller Wolfgang Pfizenmaier Willsea-O’Brien Glass John Haldoupis Pitty Love Rescue Wind and Water Consulting LLC High Falls Women’s Film Festival The Rabbit Room WonderWorks at Destiny USA Sam Hoderlein The Red Fern Woodcliff Hotel & Spa Hong Wah Restaurant Richardson’s Canal House WXXI Hyatt Regency Rochester Roc City Ramen & Poke Sushi Pirronne Yousefzadeh Irondequoit Liquor Rochester Museum & Science Center Jazz90.1 FM Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra JetBlue Rochester Red Wings Barbara LaVerdi & Bryan Donnelly Laura Sadowski David Cay Johnston Amanda Serianni-Davis & Jonny Davis Christine Knoblauch Sonnenberg Gardens & Mansion Paul Knoblauch State Historic Site

We have made every effort to ensure the accuracy of these donor lists. However, if you see an error or omission, please accept our apology, and kindly call the Advancement Office at (585) 420-2004.

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