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Home , Robert Schenkkan, Stephen Sachs, Sweet Nothing in My Ear, The Fountain Theatre, Tracy Middendorf

Producing Artistic Director Deborah Lawlor Co-Artistic Director Producing Director Simon Levy Associate Producer James Bennett

Executive Producers for Building the Wall Karen Kondazian Barbara Herman Susan Stockel

present the National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere of

by Robert Schenkkan

starring Bo Foxworth and Judith Moreland

set design Se Oh lighting design Elizabeth Harper costume design Naila Aladdin Sanders composer/sound design John Nobori production stage manager Miranda Stewart technical director Scott Tuomey publicist Lucy Pollak

produced by Simon Levy, Deborah Lawlor and Stephen Sachs

directed by Michael Michetti

BUILDING THE WALL is produced at THE FOUNTAIN as a part of a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere. Other partnering theaters are CURIOUS THEATRE (DENVER, CO), FORUM THEATRE (WASHINGTON, D.C.), BORDERLANDS THEATER (TUCSON, AZ), and CITY THEATRE (MIAMI, FL), with support from Paul Prokop. For more information please visit www.nnpn.org

Building the Wall was developed at The Lark, .

www.buildingthewallplay.com "Broadway Caliber! One of LA’s most indispensable venues’’ Times

The Fountain Theatre is a non-profit producing organization established in 1990 by co-Artistic Directors Deborah Lawlor and Stephen Sachs dedicated to providing a nurturing, creative home for multi-ethnic theatre and dance artists. The Fountain offers a safe, supportive haven for artists of varied backgrounds to gather, interact and inspire each other toward the creation of work that will ignite and illuminate the community from which it’s drawn and give creative voice to those who may not otherwise be heard.

Now in its 27th year, The Fountain has grown into one of the most highly regarded in Los Angeles. 's activities include a year-round season of fully produced new and established plays (36 world premieres and 47 U.S./West Coast/Southern California/Los Angeles premieres), a full season of Flamenco and multi-ethnic dance, a New Plays developmental series, and educational outreach programs.

The Fountain has won over 260 awards, and Fountain projects have been seen across the U.S. and internationally (including London and Off-Broadway), and around the world, and have been made into a CBS Movie-for-Television and a BBC Radio Drama. New plays developed at the Fountain Theatre have received the PEN USA Literary Award for Drama, the Elliot Norton Award for Best New Play, multiple LA Drama Critics Circle and OVATION Awards, the Edinburgh Fringe First Award, the Adelaide Fringe First Award, the California Governor’s Media Access Award, PEN Award Finalists 3 times, and many other honors.

Recent highlights include being honored for our acclaimed 25th Anniversary Season in 2015 by Mayor Eric Garcetti and the Los Angeles City Council; the 2014 Ovation Award for Best Season and the 2014 BEST Award for overall excellence from the Biller Foundation; the inclusion of the Fountain’s Citizen: An American Lyric in Center Theatre Group’s 2017 Block Party at the Kirk Douglas Theatre; and the naming of seven Fountain productions in a row as “Critic's Choice” in the Los Angeles Times.

Under the guidance of Producing Artistic Director Deborah Lawlor, the Fountain is also the premier venue for Flamenco music and dance in Los Angeles. Since 1990 it has produced over 600 world-class Flamenco concerts on its intimate stage and ten seasons at the 1200- seat Ford Amphitheater. The Fountain has also toured Flamenco projects throughout the Western . The Fountain's Forever Flamenco is in its 16th year.

Playwright’s Note on

Robert Schenkkan “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” - Edmund Burke

Several years ago I stumbled across “Into That Darkness” by Gitta Sereny. It is an attempt to understand the bleakest of the Nazi horrors by focusing on one ordinary man who for a brief moment, found himself with unlimited power. The past is often the future and in this play I have imagined a not so distant time to come in which President Trump’s rhetoric has found its full expression. While the current political crisis is extraordinary it is not new, the authoritarian play book is well established. Create a constant state of crisis which only a “strong” leader can solve. Encourage fear, divide the populace, and scapegoat minorities with appeals to nationalism, racism, and isolationism. Smear your opponents as unpatriotic and tell the press to “just shut up and listen.” The question, of course, is not so much what the Authorities will do but how we, the citizens, will respond. Sickened by the hate, by the constant assault, will we succumb to our fears, avert our gaze, and look after our own interests? Or will we enthusiastically put our shoulders to their dark wheel? Or will we resist. To those who say that could never happen here in this country, I reply, maybe so, but that of course will depend entirely on what you do. – Robert Schenkkan

National New Play Network (NNPN) is the country’s alliance of non- profit professional theaters dedicated to the development, production, and continued life of new plays. Since its founding in 1998, NNPN has supported more than 225 productions nationwide through its innovative National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere program, which provides playwright and production support for new works at its Member theaters. Additional programs - its annual National Conference, National Showcase of New Plays, and MFA Playwrights Workshop; the NNPN Annual and Smith Prize commissions; its residencies for playwrights, producers and directors; and the organization’s member accessed Collaboration, Festival, and Travel banks and online information sessions - have helped cement the Network’s position as a vital force in the new play landscape. NNPN also strives to pioneer, implement, and disseminate ideas and programs that revolutionize the way theaters collaborate to support new plays and playwrights. Its most recent project, the New Play Exchange, is changing the way playwrights share their work and others discover it by providing immediate access to information on more than 9,500 new plays by living writers. NNPN’s 30 Core and more than 75 Associate Members - along with the more than 200 affiliated artists who are its alumni, the thousands of artists and artisans employed annually by its member theaters, and the hundreds of thousands of audience members who see its supported works each year - are creating the new American theater. nnpn.org

Karen Kondazian Barbara Herman and Susan Stockel

The Fountain Theatre is deeply grateful to three extraordinary women who are generously supporting our world premiere of Building the Wall and serving as Executive Producers.

Karen Kondazian is an award-winning actor, author and producer. She has starred in many productions at the Fountain, has guest starred in over 50 television shows and is a lifetime member of The Actors Studio. Her novel The Whip has received several awards including best historical fiction.

“I wasn’t able to join the Women's March,“ explains Karen. “So I protest by supporting extraordinary Art. Robert Schenkkan's Building the Wall is precisely that. He reveals brilliantly and artfully the nightmare of what might be, then peels away layers until we understand the nightmare of what actually will be, if we do not heed the warning.”

Barbara Herman was born and educated in Los Angeles. She is actively involved in the successful business established with her late husband. Barbara is an enthusiastic supporter of local culture, including the Fountain Theatre, the Broad Stage, and the Women’s Guild at Cedars Sinai.

“The Fountain Theatre stands out,” she says, “for its innovative approach to offering fresh, socially relevant plays. Building the Wall is a most timely effort to help illuminate what we, the public, are facing in today’s political climate. I am honored to support the Fountain Theatre’s world premiere production of this play.”

Susan Stockel was born in New York. She raised her family in California and practiced law. She is now a community activist, world traveler, and lover of the spoken word.

“I am a theatre addict,” she admits. “Good theatre is about telling stories. A strong, well-written and well-acted story binds us to one another and can provide the connection that leads to action. I knew I would support Building the Wall as soon as I read it. This play must be produced now and staged across the country. As Robert Schenkkan has said, ‘We cannot hope to be useful if we can’t respond until 18 months after the fact.’ Yes, we need to move fast. And we have. I am proud to help.”

CAST

Gloria Judith Moreland* Rick Bo Foxworth*

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

Setting: A Prison Meeting Room. 2019.

80 minutes. No intermission.

Who’s Who

JUDITH MORELAND (Gloria) has performed both on and Off- Broadway and has worked with many theater companies including the New York Shakespeare Festival, Playwrights Horizons, Ensemble Studio Theater/Los Angeles and Shakespeare Festival/LA. She was also a company member of ’s American Conservatory Theater for many years. Ms. Moreland won an Ovation Award for her performance in the Fountain Theatre’s production of Miss Julie and a Bay Area Theater Critics Award for her performance in American Conservatory Theater’s production of Miss Evers’ Boys. and television credits include Dark Skies, Eagle Eye, Blackish, Animal Kingdom, How to Get Away with Murder, Grey’s Anatomy, Parks and Recreation, General Hospital, The Big Bang Theory and CSI Cyber. She currently teaches acting at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

BO FOXWORTH (Rick) most recently could be seen in Mr. Schenkkan’s play and Amadeus at South Coast Rep. Cloud 9 directed by Casey Stangl with The Antaeus Theater Company for which he received an LA Drama Critics Circle Nomination for Best Featured Actor. Also with Antaeus: Henry IV, The Liar, The Crucible (Ovation nomination for Best Lead Actor in 2013), the title role in Macbeth, The Seagull and The Malcontent. Bo has also worked with Shakespeare Orange County, The Skylight Theatre, Ensemble Theater Company, La Mirada, Laguna Playhouse, The Geffen, Disney Hall, LATheatreWorks, Theater @Boston Court, The Hollywood Bowl and A Noise Within where he received two Ovation nominations. New York and Regional theaters include: The Off-Broadway hit, As Bees in Honey Drown at The Lucile Lortel, The Century Theater, HERE, The Pearl Theater; The Shakespeare Theater in Washington D.C., Vienna’s English Theater in Vienna, Austria, The Long Wharf, Baltimore Center Stage, Playmakers Rep, The Old Globe, The Yale Rep and many others. He has numerous film and television credits including the upcoming season of Veep and the role of Robert McNamara in the HBO movie All The Way starring . He is a graduate of UCLA and received his Masters at Yale School of Drama.

ROBERT SCHENKKAN (Playwright) Pulitzer Prize, Tony, WGA Award and Humanitas Prize winner, and three-time Emmy nominated writer. Author of Sixteen plays: All the Way, The Great Society, Hanussen, Shadowplay, By the Waters of Babylon, Handler, A Single Shard, Devil and Daniel Webster, Lewis and Clark Reach the Euphrates, Final Passages, The Marriage of Miss Hollywood and King Neptune, Heaven on Earth, Tachinoki, The Dream Thief, and (Pulitzer prize, Tony and Drama Desk nominations), a collection of one-acts, Conversations with the Spanish Lady, and a musical, The Twelve, winner of the 2015 Henry Award. The 2014 Bway production of All The Way swept the Awards season winning the Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Drama League, and TONY@ Awards, and set two box office records. His adaptation for HBO, with Steven Spielberg producing, directed by Jay Roach, was nominated for eight Emmys and the Humanitas Award. The sequel, The Great Society, will come to NYC in 2018. : Hacksaw Ridge (six Oscar nominations). The Quiet American. TV: (HBO miniseries – WGA Award, two Emmy and Humanitas Award noms), The Andromeda Strain, Crazy Horse, Spartacus. Currently, Robert is writing a movie about the Manhattan Project for Robert Redford, and another film about the Klan for Joseph Gordon Levitt and Amazon.

MICHAEL MICHETTI (Director) Co-Artistic Director of The Theatre @ Boston Court in Pasadena where his many directing credits include Aaron Posner’s Stupid F**king Bird, plus world premieres of Eric Whitacre’s Paradise Lost: Shadows & Wings, his own adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s A Picture of Dorian Gray, and Tom Jacobson’s The Twentieth-Century Way, which went on to have an acclaimed run at New York’s Rattlestick Playwright’s Theatre. Other directing credits include: Aaron Posner’s District Merchants at South Coast Rep; Figaro, The Grapes of Wrath, Hamlet, Don Juan and As You Like It at A Noise Within; Brecht’s Edward II for Circle X; world premieres of Tom Jacobson’s Captain of the Bible Quiz Team (Rogue Machine), House of the Rising Son (EST-LA), and Ouroboros (The Road); David Hare’s Amy’s View starring Carol Lawrence at Florida Rep; Michael Frayn’s Noises Off at PlayMakers Repertory Theatre; ’s A Life in the Theatre starring Hal Holbrook at Pasadena Playhouse; Kiss Me, Kate, Carousel, and Man of La Mancha at Reprise. He has received many Los Angeles area theatre awards including two Ovation Awards, and five Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards for his direction.

SE OH (Set Design) would like to thank Fountain Theatre for the opportunity to work on the world premiere of Building the Wall. He is born in Seoul, Korea and lives and works in the US for theatre and architecture. His upcoming scenic design projects are A Doll's House Pt. 2 at South Coast Repertory (opens on April 14th), Yoga Play at South Coast Repertory (opens on April 21st). Recent scenic design credits include Two Kids that Blow Shit Up (Artists At Play/ Lounge Theatre); Office Hour (South Coast Repertory); Hedda Gabler (Antaeus Theatre); BED (Echo Theatre Company); Another Sun (Associate Design, Hyundai Theatre Group); A Midsummer Night's Dream (Associate Design, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma); and Le Roi Malgre Lui (Associate Design, Bard SummerScape). He holds an MFA in Theatre Design from Northwestern University. www.sehyunoh.com

ELIZABETH HARPER (Lighting Design) Designs include District Merchants, Office Hour, Venus in Fur, tokyo fish story and Reunion (South Coast Rep). Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Immediate Family (); A Raisin in the Sun, Woman Laughing Alone with Salad and Throw Me on the Burnpile and Light Me Up (Kirk Douglas Theatre); Play Dead, Wait Until Dark, Bad Jews, Long Day’s Journey into Night and Good People (Geffen Playhouse); The Golden Dragon (The Theatre @ Boston Court, Ovation award winner); and Crescent City (The Industry). She served as a technical consultant for installations at Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Greene Naftali. Her industrial lighting projects include events for Microsoft, Under Armour, Ubisoft and Universal Studios. Harper holds an MFA in design for stage and film from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She is a guest lighting design instructor and lecturer at CalArts.

JOHN NOBORI (Composer/Sound Design) is a California-based sound designer and composer. His work has been heard in plays produced by such organizations as Cornerstone Theater Company, The Getty Villa, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Other recent credits include The Lewis Family Playhouse’s production of The Secret Garden and Native Voices’ production of They Don’t Talk Back. He has been nominated for several awards for excellence in sound design, and is the recent recipient of an Ovation Award for his work on The Golden Dragon at The Theatre @ Boston Court. BA University of California, Irvine.

NAILA ALADDIN SANDERS (Costume Design) Some of Naila’s credits include Neighbors, for the Matrix Theatre; The Brother’s Size, In the Red & Brown Water, The Ballad of Emmett Till, Gem of the Ocean, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, The Scottsboro Boys, for the Fountain Theatre; The Color Purple, The Women of Brewster Place, the Musical , and Bash’d; the Gay Opera, for the Celebration Theatre; The Many Mistresses of Martin Luther King for Ensemble Studio Theatre, and Good Bobby for the Greenway Court Alliance and the 59th Street Theatre in NY. Naila also designed the costumes for HAIR: the Musical at Cal State LA, and worked with the Latino Theatre Company for The Road Weeps & the Well Runs Dry, Premeditation and La Olla. The Magnificent Dunbar Hotel, Ana Lucasta, Bronzeville, The River Niger, A House With No Walls, Permanent Collection, as well as all three parts of The Haitian Trilogy were designed by Naila for The Robey Theatre Co.

ROSE MALONE (Associate Lighting Designer) recently designed three shows at the Edinburg Film Festival. Previously she had assisted with Deaf West Theatre’s production of Spring Awakening in NYC. Some productions from her new-found California lighting career include designing Rachel Calof at the Pico Union Project, Paradise by Design at CalArts, and assisting on The House is Black at UCLA’s Royce Hall. Previously from Phoenix, she designed for Ethington Theatre with productions including Into the Woods; Twelfth Night; The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; Beauty and the Beast; H.M.S. Pinafore, Much Ado About Nothing, and Twelfth Night.

KATHERINE “KAT” HOEVERS (Assistant Director) will be directing the world premier of Bobby Lester’s Only the Beginning at The Hollywood Fringe Festival this summer. Her latest work includes La Adelita Americana at the United Solo Festival (Director), Rose and the Rime at Sacred Fools (PSM), Four Chords and a Gun, The Stand- in and The Second Woman at Bootleg Theater (PSM), Stupid F*cking Bird (AD) and The Golden Dragon (ASM) at The Theatre at Boston Court, A Walk in the Woods at International City Theatre (AD), and The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane at South Coast Repertory (AD).

MIRANDA STEWART (Production Stage Manager) is so pleased to be back at the Fountain, after helping with stage management on Baby Doll. She has directed for the Rapid Development Series at the Fountain, bringing Troy and Before and After to victory and full staged readings. Last fall, she produced Macbeth for The Vagrancy. Her directing credits include The Chocolate Affair (Scribe Stages), Raise Your Hand (Acting Out INK Fest), Vital Records (GLO), Eleemosynary (Hollywood Fringe Festival), Catalyst (Loft Ensemble), ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Archway Theatre), A Part and Funeral Party (Hollywood Fringe Festival), Old Times (Occidental College), Little Shop of Horrors, and Metamorphoses (both at Caltech). She has also directed a feature film, Fishbowl.

FOUNTAIN THEATRE STAFF

DEBORAH LAWLOR (Producing Artistic Director) began as a dancer, choreographer and actor in New York's "Downtown" scene. After passing five years in South India where she was involved in the initial development of the international township of Auroville, she created two full-length outdoor dance/theatre pieces celebrating the community. She spent the next 10 years in Australia and France studying ancient cultures of India and Egypt and translating several books in these fields from French into English. Returning to the US in 1986, she became deeply involved in the intimate theatre scene and, in 1990, she and Stephen Sachs co- founded the Fountain Theatre, which is now in its 25th year of theatrical and dance events. Deborah is responsible for the Fountain's extensive dance involvement. The 1995 season included, The Women of Guernica, Deborah’s flamenco-based adaptation of Euripides' The Trojan Women, which she also directed. She directed two one-act plays by and created and directed three full-evening Dance-Theatre pieces for the Fountain, Declarations: Love Letters of the Great Romantics, The Path of Love, and directed the “dance opera,” The Song of Songs, with music by Al Carmines. She directed a production of The Path of Love in South India, as well as The Great Secret by Mira Alfasa. She next directed Yussef El Guindi's Acts of Desire at the Fountain to considerable acclaim. In 2006 she directed the delightful Taxi to Jannah by Mark Sickman. And, as a producer of Flamenco, her Forever Flamenco series, now in its 14th year, continues to play to enthusiastic crowds. Actor’s Equity Association honored Ms. Lawlor with its Diversity Award, for her dedication to presenting work at the Fountain that is culturally diverse. In 2013, at Forever Flamenco at the Ford, she received special commendations from the City of Los Angeles and the Spanish Consulate for her contributions to the art of Flamenco. She’s writing a new play, Freddie, which is being developed at the Fountain and will be performed this winter.

STEPHEN SACHS (Co-Artistic Director) is an award-winning playwright, director and the co-Artistic Director of the Fountain Theatre, which he co-founded with Deborah Lawlor in 1990. He is the author of thirteen produced plays, including Dream Catcher, Citizen: An American Lyric (Adaptor, Stage Raw Award) reopening at the Kirk Douglas Theatre this Spring as part of CTG’s Block Party, Heart Song, Cyrano (LA Drama Critics Circle Award) Bakersfield Mist (2012 Elliot Norton Award) which enjoyed a 3-month run on London’s West End starring Kathleen Turner and Ian McDiarmid and is now being produced in regional theatres across the country and translated into other languages and performed worldwide, Miss Julie: Freedom Summer, Gilgamesh, Open Window (Media Access Award), Central Avenue (PEN USA Literary Award Finalist), (PEN USA Literary Award Finalist, Media Access Award), Mother’s Day, The Golden Gate (Dramalogue Award), and The Baron in the Trees. He wrote the teleplay for Sweet Nothing in my Ear for Hallmark Hall of Fame which aired on CBS starring Marlee Matlin and . Directing credits include the West Coast Premiere of Broomstick, the Los Angeles Premiere of My Name is Asher Lev, the US Premiere of ’s The Blue Iris, Bakersfield Mist (World Premiere), Completeness by Itamar Moses starring Jason Ritter; Warren Leight’s Side Man starring and Frank Wood; a 3-city China tour of Top Secret (LA Theatre Works), The Train Driver by Athol Fugard (US Premiere), Conor McPherson’s Shining City (LA Premiere), Athol Fugard’s Coming Home (LA Weekly Award), the U.S. Premiere of Athol Fugard’s Victory (NAACP Award); Miss Julie:Freedom Summer Canadian Stage Company in Toronto and the Vancouver Playhouse; the world premiere of Fugard’s Exits and Entrances at the Fountain (Ovation Award and LA Drama Critics Circle Award) and Off-Broadway at Primary Stages in New York, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, the LA premiere of Fugard’s The Road to Mecca, ’s After the Fall (Ovation Award), Sweet Nothing in my Ear, Hippolytos inaugurating the Outdoor Classical Theater at the Getty Villa in Malibu, and many others. Sachs has twice been nominated for the SDC Zelda Fichandler Award, recognizing an outstanding director who is making a unique and exceptional contribution to theatre in their region. Sachs was recently honored with a Certificate of Commendation from the Los Angeles City Council for “his visionary contributions to the cultural life of Los Angeles.”

SIMON LEVY (Producer/Producing Director) has been the Producing Director of the Fountain Theatre since 1993. The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle honored him with the Milton Katselas Award for Lifetime Achievement in Directing; and he was nominated for the 2015 Zelda Fichandler Award in Directing. In 2016 he directed the critically- acclaimed West Coast premiere of Tennessee Williams’ Baby Doll. Other critical successes for the Fountain include: the West Coast premieres of The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek and Reborning in 2015; The Normal Heart in 2013/2014; the world premiere deaf/hearing production of Cyrano in 2012; Tennessee Williams’ rarely-produced A House Not Meant to Stand in 2011; the L.A. premiere of Opus by Michael Hollinger in 2010; and the West Coast premiere of Anna Ziegler’s Photograph 51 in 2009 - all of which received numerous awards and nominations and Critic’s Choices. He has directed over 80 productions (20 for the Fountain) that have won hundreds of awards. His stage adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (Finalist for the PEN Literary Award in Drama) inaugurated the new Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, was subsequently produced at Repertory Theatre, and is being produced widely across North America and internationally. It is the only stage adaptation authorized by the Fitzgerald Estate, and is published by , along with his adaptations of Tender is the Night (winner of the PEN Literary Award in Drama) and The Last Tycoon. He has been the producer of many productions at the Fountain, including the world premiere of Citizen: An American Lyric, Bakersfield Mist, and all the Athol Fugard premieres. What I Heard About Iraq, which he wrote and directed, was produced worldwide: including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where it won the Fringe First Award; the Adelaide Fringe Festival where it won the Fringe Award; for radio by the BBC; and received a 30-city UK tour culminating in London. His other directing credits at the Fountain include: The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore; The Gimmick with Dael Orlandersmith (winner Ovation Award Solo Performance); Master Class (winner Ovation Award for Best Production); Daisy in the Dreamtime; Going to St. Ives, which went to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival; The Night of the Iguana; Summer & Smoke (winner of the Ovation Award for Best Production); The Last Tycoon, which he wrote and directed, (5 Back Stage West awards, including Best Adaptation and Direction); and Orpheus Descending, (6 Drama-Logue awards, including Best Production and Direction), among many others. He’s currently writing two new plays, including a contemporary translation/adaptation of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People: A New Version for the 21st Century. Prior to coming to Los Angeles he lived in San Francisco where he was the General Manager of Beach Blanket Babylon, Artistic Director of The One Act Theatre Company, and Executive Director of Theatre Bay Area. He belongs to many theatre, human rights, and political advocacy groups. www.simonlevy.com

JAMES BENNETT (Associate Producer) joined the Fountain team in 2009 and has smiled and whistled, much to the irritation of everyone else, every day ever since. James enjoys chatting, hobnobbing, and wine sipping with all the theatre's many fine friends, family, and patrons. For work, he can be found running the whole stack of theatre activities, whether that's toiling on a pile of paperwork, coiled into a pretzel in the tech booth, or producing fabulous Flamenco shows. He's enjoyed co-producing the Fountain's Rapid Development Series for 2 seasons so far, and is looking forward to many more scrumptious seasons to come. If you see him bouncing, skipping, or galloping about it's safe to assume he’s having a blast. He's compelled to the theatre by its immediacy, its intimacy – the visceral impact of being so close to real humans with real sweat and real spit. In a world that's increasingly disjointed, behind glass, and far away – theatre becomes more powerful than ever.

BARBARA GOODHILL (Director of Development) is a seasoned marketing and development professional. Before joining The Fountain Theatre’s staff, Barbara served as Director of Advancement at Inside Out Community Arts, a nationally honored nonprofit that empowers under-served youth through theater-arts based programs. Prior senior staff positions include Sinai Akiba Academy and PS#1 Elementary School. Barbara brings a wealth of experience, sincere dedication and innovative thinking to every project. Also active as a volunteer on Boards of Directors, Barbara has a keen understanding of the non-profit sector. Barbara received her B.A. from UC Berkeley in English and History and attended UCLA’s Masters program in Theatre Arts.

SCOTT TUOMEY (Technical Director) has been Technical Director at the Fountain since its inaugural production of Winter Crane in 1990. He has overseen virtually every Fountain production, on and off site, including their numerous flamenco shows, and has appeared here on our stage in Declarations: Love Letters of the Great Romantics, and the Fountain’s hit productions of Master Class and Joe Turners’ Come and Gone. Scott's talents as actor-singer-guitarist were also seen in the Shakespeare Festival L.A. productions of As You Like It and Twelfth Night at the Globe Theatre in West Hollywood and in the film A Day in the Life of Sunny Paradise.

LUCY POLLAK (Publicist) has been providing publicity services to the Los Angeles arts community for the past 22 years, for theater, dance and music productions as well as for large events and festivals such as the annual L.A. County Holiday Celebration at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and the NoHo Scene. From 1981 to 1990, she was production manager/staff producer at the Odyssey Theatre, where she co-produced over 100 productions with artistic director Ron Sossi. For the 1993 Los Angeles Festival, she line produced Reza Abdoh’s controversial Quotations From A Ruined City. She is the recipient of a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award (Master Class), an LA Weekly Award (Mary Barnes), four Drama-Logue Awards (Mary Barnes, Idioglossia, Accidental Death of An Anarchist, It’s A Girl!), and a Women in Theatre Recognition Award. She has served on the boards of directors of the Los Angeles Theatre Alliance (now L.A. Stage Alliance), Women in Theatre and P.A.T.H. (Performing Arts Theatre for the Handicapped).

Staff for THE FOUNTAIN THEATRE Staff for BUILDING THE WALL Deborah Lawlor/Producing Artistic Director Simon Levy/Producer Stephen Sachs/Co-Artistic Director Deborah Lawlor/Producer Simon Levy/Producing Director Stephen Sachs/Producer James Bennett/Associate Producer James Bennett/Associate Producer Scott Tuomey/Technical Director Robert Schenkkan/Playwright Barbara Goodhill/Director of Development Michael Michetti/Director Lucy Pollak/Public Relations Katherine Hoevers/Asst. Director Elizabeth Tractenberg/Accountant Se Oh/Set Design Licia Jaccard/Bookkeeper Elizabeth Harper/Lighting Design Marisela Hughes/Box Office & Subscriptions Rose Malone/Assoc. Lighting Designer Baltazar Gaytan/Cafe Naila Aladdin Sanders/Costume Design Jose Lomeli/Parking Attendant Natalie Shahinyan /Costume Asst. Ed Krieger/Photographer John Nobori/Composer/Sound Design Miranda Stewart/Production Stage Manager The Fountain Theatre William Sachs/House Manager 5060 Fountain Ave, LA 90029 Marisela Hughes/Box Office & Subscriptions Production Office: (323) 663-2235 Nora King/Outreach Coordinator Box Office: (323) 663-1525

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The Fountain Theatre is a member of The Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the American Theatre, the National New Play Network, the L.A. Stage Alliance, and the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. This performance is made possible in part through the sponsorship of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Dept., and the National New Play Network. The Fountain Theatre is a 501(c) (3), non-profit corporation, chartered in the State of California, and receives funding from numerous donors, as well as our many generous Friends and Associates, all of whom we graciously thank. The Fountain Theatre especially thanks our Executive Producers for this show, the Shubert Foundation, the Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation, The Annenberg Foundation, The Los Angeles Philanthropic Committee for the Arts, and The Fullen-Smith Foundation for their support.

Board of Directors Oscar Arslanian · Barbara Goodhill · Karen Kondazian · Deborah Lawlor · Dick Motika · Stephen Sachs · Jerrie Whitfield · Dorothy Wolpert · Don Zachary Artistic Associates and Advisors Jane Anderson · Lee Blessing · Tim Cummings · Shirley Jo Finney · Athol Fugard Israel Horovitz · Ed Harris · Karen Kondazian Tarell Alvin McCraney · · Jenny O’Hara · Dael Orlandersmith Lisa Pelikan · Priscilla Pointer · Jacqueline Schultz · Adolphus Ward Flamenco Advisors Roberto Amaral · Maria Bermudez · Bruce Bisenz · Antonio Triana

The Fountain Fund We gratefully acknowledge our wonderful donors. The following represent donations made to The Fountain Fund from January 2016 - January 2017

Angel’s Circle ($5,000+) Angele Caron Jonathan Mersel Linda Dozier Marlene F. Mills Bill Bordy in memory of Evelyn Duboff Roxanne Morse Pearl Bordy Lois Fishman Tamarr Murachanian Daniel Greenberg, Susan Christine Frederickson Merle & Ronald Mardigian Steinhauser & The Roslyn & Abner Goldstine Janeice McConnell Greenberg Foundation Cecile & Kevork Keshishian Dale McIntire Barbara Herman Susan & Joel Klevens Douglas & Edith Merrifield Karen Kondazian Helene & Jay Lederman Michael J. Napoli Deborah Lawlor Myron Meisel Arianne Neumark Alan Mandell & Rochelle & Larry Miller Jenny O’Hara & Nick Ullett The Clarence E. Heller Patricia Oliansky & Henry Ong Charitable Fdn. Peter Barna Christine Pajak & Mark National New Play Network Sally & Brian Rivera Duttweiler Lillian and Varnum Paul Edwin Robinson Ray Paolontonio The Shubert Foundation Marleen & Hugh Scheffy Samuel Parnell Susan Stockel Sandy Schuckett Rod & Melanie Patterson Jerrie Whitfield & Ethel Seid Lisa Pelikan Richard Motika Alexis & Pierce Selwood Lenny Potash Dorothy & Stanley Wolpert Laurie & Robert Silton Ron Rector Suzanne & Don Zachary Jeffrey M. Smith Joan Redlich Janet Staples-Edwards Linda Reiss Leadership Circle ($2,500+) Susan White Francine Ringold Laura Worchell Douglas J. Roger Supporter’s Circle ($100+) Robert Rosen Producer’s Circle ($1,500+) Carolyn & Barry Sax Jane & Richard Abrams Lorraine Schield Mrs. Victoria and Jeff Alan-Lee Harold Shabo Dr. Ejike Ndefo Selma Anderson Dr. Neil & Muriel Fine Lily Artenstein Sherman Stephanie Barron Director’s Circle ($1,000+) Toni Sherman James Bennett Barbara Shipnuck Charles & Roelina Berst Ruth Simon Bruce Bisenz Jay Bevan Diana Buckhantz Velma Blue Carole & Henry Slucki Victor Cole & Patricia Green Sarah P. Smizer Jim Boulter Annette Sneidmiller Bret Israel Don & Judith Broder Alan Mandell Janet B. Brandenburg Judith Spence Jonathan Neustadter John Suarez Maggie Bryant Marjorie Throne Patty Ann Paul Natasha Carr Lois Tandy Judy & Mark Taylor Andrew Carrollman Rudy & Dolly Tidalgo Marianne Weil Judy Daitch Judy Sobel Wagner Joyce A. Davis Patron’s Circle ($500+) Beverly Ware Marie M. De Varennes Carol Watson Carol Ardura Andre de Toledo Krista Wasserman Jenna Blaustein & Lenore Dowling Tom Wolfe Robert Leventer Sheri & Richard Drobnick Ruth Wolpert Cate Caplin & Mark Drooks Richard Yaffe The Caplin Foundation Elaine DuRoff Barbara Cohn Selwyn Enzer & Friends’ Circle ($50+) Paul Crost Adrienne Adan Elaine & Warren Deutsch H. Allen Evans Anonymous Phyllis & Bryan Ellickson Lorraine Evanoff Judy Altman Debra Grieb & John Mickus Bruce Favish Anthony & Gunde Barnard Carolyn & Bernard Hamilton Edith Fields Randy Beckwith Jeff Heglin & Randy Sheriff Irma Fitzgibbons Irina & Yuriy Bezpalko Sue & Rabbi Jim Kaufman Linda & Bob Fleischman Gary Booher Shari Leinwand John Flynn & Ann Bronston Olga Adderley-Chandler Anita Lorber Pam Ford Carlos Cuevas Andrea Nelson James Freed Wallace Jean Diskin Richard & Lisa Polak Diane Gabe Fred Eckfeld Gloria & Richard Pink Irvin Godovsky Diane Flores Kagan Magda Waingrow Barbara Goodhill Maureen Gilchrist Christa & William Wilk Barbara & Rolf Gross Tracy Gore Helen Grusd Phyllis & Dr. Fred Gottlieb Backer’s Circle ($250+) Barbara & Douglas Hadsell David Greenwalt Joan & Robert Herzberg Billie Greer Mi Ahn Jan Hines Bernice & Leonard Haber Amy Balchum Eleanor & Jack Jaye Doris Haims Sandy Baldonado Jerald Johnson Joan & Robert Herzberg Miles & Joanne Benickes Marilyn & Robert Johnson Rodney Hobbs Toby & Daniel Bernstein Helen & Sidney Katz Diane Hunsaker Carole Black Alan Lamson Janice & Dr. Lloyd Hunter Roberta Bloom Mark Miller Deborah Swearngin Anita & Joel Boxer Penni Montalbano Janice & Jill Tarr Charitable Kate Moxham Ani Terrain Rabbi Anne Brener Michael Oppenheim Cooper Thornton Lynn Mally & Robert Moeller Peter Parra Patricia Foley Vick Drs. Carol & Bruce Marcus Linda Pfaucht Jeanette Volpin Dena Marienthal Peter Pritchard Laurie & Stan Whitcomb Dale McIntire Christopher Racster Bonnie & Stuart Wolpert Kenneth Johnson Rick Scarry Renee & Charles Pamela L. Jones Roberta & Robert Schaffer Weisenberg Jacqueline & Robert Knell Katie & David Soroko Rosalie Lazarus Beatrice Knudsen Duncan Stanley Kristin Leuschner Martha Koplin Roger Stewart Barbara & Isaac Levy Tom Long Francine Swain IBM International Foundation Cecilia & Morris Magid Toni Marsnik Deborah McDermot Gerald McIntyre

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