BY COLMAN DOMINGO DIRECTED BY CRAIG WALLACE ROUND ’S LEADERSHIP From

ITH A BOY AND HIS SOUL, ROUND HOUSE ENTERS A NEW We expect that there will be one more phase in our pandemic programming before WPHASE IN OUR PANDEMIC PROGRAMMING. we return to normality. At some point, we plan to welcome socially distanced, A year ago, when we first entered lockdown, we began production on Homebound, masked audiences to watch shows in person, and hope that we will be able to offer a our 10-episode web series about stay-at-home life in DC, which was shot entirely on digital version that is filmed in front of a live audience for those folks who don’t feel phones by the actors themselves in their own homes wearing their own clothes for comfortable returning in person yet. While we’d love to give you specific dates on costumes. This fall, we shot The Work of Adrienne Kennedy: Inspiration & Influence on when that phase will start and, more importantly, when it will end and we’ll return to our stage, but with no set, limited costumes (again, pulling mostly from actors’ normal attendance with no masks required, we simply can’t at this time. As we have closets), and actors using scripts. As with Homebound, each of the plays we filmed for throughout the pandemic, we will follow all Federal, State, and County guidelines, with the Adrienne Kennedy Festival were rehearsed and filmed in only a week. American your safety and that of our artists and staff as our number one priority. Dreams and The Catastrophist, both co-productions, were filmed elsewhere using Thank you for your and for engaging with our digital programming. We can’t similar means—American Dreams was broadcast live from the actors’ homes, and The say thank you enough—especially to our subscribers and donors whose continued Catastrophist was filmed on a bare stage in . support has truly made it possible for us to make it through this last year. Theatres With A Boy and His Soul, we return to the Round House stage for a full production were among the first businesses to close and will be among the last to return to for the first time since we closed our Teen Performance Company productions normal programming, but with your ongoing support, Round House will continue of Freak and How the Moon Would Talk on March 8, 2020. While we can’t yet invite to thrive. you as our audience into the theatre, this is the first time in a year that we’ve been able to fully rehearse a play and to stage it with a complete set and costumes on our stage. While we are filming instead of performing every night, unlike everything else we have done so far, this show was fully rehearsed, staged, and filmed while running straight through the show—just as you would see it live in the theatre! While this isn’t the full recovery that we had hoped for by this point, it’s a big step in the right RYAN RILETTE | ARTISTIC DIRECTOR ED ZAKRESKI | MANAGING DIRECTOR direction, and one that we hope you’ll celebrate with us.

1 ROUND HOUSE THEATRE EXTENDS ITS ROUND HOUSE THEATRE DEEP GRATITUDE TO ALL OF OUR RYAN RILETTE, Artistic Director, and SPONSORS FOR THE 2020-2021 VIRTUAL SEASON ED ZAKRESKI, Managing Director

PRESENT Round House Theatre’s 2020-2021 Reimagined Virtual Season is sponsored by MITCH & HEIDI DUPLER LINDA RAVDIN & DON SHAPERO THE ZICKLER FAMILY

BY COLMAN DOMINGO DIRECTED BY CRAIG WALLACE We have been thrilled and amazed time and time again at how Round House has created incredible art throughout these difficult times. We are pleased to help sponsor the reimagined 2020-2021 Season, which brings powerful stories into our homes in a way that is distinctively theatrical and uniquely Round House.” —Mitch and Heidi Dupler CREATIVE TEAM Scenic Designer...... PAIGE HATHAWAY We are so pleased to sponsor Round House's 2020- Costume Designer...... IVANIA STACK 2021 Season. This season's plays offer a valuable Lighting Designer ...... HAROLD F. BURGESS II opportunity to better understand ourselves through Sound Designer...... MATTHEW M. NIELSON the lives and stories of others. Round House Props Master ...... KASEY HENDRICKS continues to be innovative and resourceful in this Dramaturg ...... NAYSAN MOJGANI unique moment, and we're proud to help bring this Production Stage Manager...... CHE WERNSMAN* creativity to life." Director of Photography...... MABOUD EBRAHIMZADEH —Linda Ravdin and Don Shapero

We are proud to sponsor Round House’s reimagined Running Time approximately 70 minutes with no intermission. 2020-2021 Season, filled with intimate stories that connect us and offer a sense of community and catharsis after a year of physical separation. It has been a to see Round House meet the moment and *Actors’ Equity Association (“Equity”), founded in 1913, is the U.S. labor union that represents continue to adapt artistically through new approaches more than 51,000 professional Actors and Stage Managers. Equity fosters the art of live theatre as an essential component of society and advances the careers of its members by negotiating to storytelling until we are able to gather at the wages, improving working conditions and providing a wide range of benefits, including health theatre once more.” and pension plans. Actors’ Equity is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. #EquityWorks —Judy and Leo Zickler 2 CAST Jay...... RO BODDIE* DIRECTOR’S NOTE FROM CRAIG WALLACE PRODUCTION Location Audio ...... MATTHEW M. NIELSON When Ryan asked me to direct Colman Domingo’s A Boy and His Soul, I Camera Operators...... JOHN GROVE, NATE PESCE jumped at the chance. The play is funny, irreverent, and moving. It’s about Electrician / Black folks, Black love, and Black family. And most and best of all, it’s about Light Board Programmer . . . . . CASSANDRA SAULSKI Black music. Soul music. From the days before MTV and mp3s. When your Production Assistant...... THOMAS NAGATA local DJ was as important as the mayor. Songs by The Stylistics, The O’Jays, and and the Pips were shared by everyone in the household and brought whole communities together. We didn’t have equality, but we POST PRODUCTION did have Earth, Wind & Fire. Editor ...... MABOUD EBRAHIMZADEH Sound Editing & Mix ...... MATTHEW M. NIELSON If you know this music, come take a trip with us down memory lane. If you don’t know this music, come celebrate with us the redeeming, healing power of soul.

Enjoy.

Full staff listing on page 13

The Scenic, Costume, Lighting, and Sound Designers of this production are represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829 of the IATSE.

A Boy and His Soul was originally produced by , Douglas Aibel, Artistic Director, New York City.

Photos of Ro Boddie (Jay) in A Boy and His Soul by Harold F. Burgess II 3 In a 2009 essay for Broadway.com, Domingo offers an origin story KEEPING IT for A Boy and His Soul. He describes cleaning up after a closing shift as a bartender and singing Donny Hathaway’s “Someday We’ll All Be COMPLICATED, Free” with a regular who was lending him a hand, both of them finding in the song and the shared experience an articulation of the worries WITH COLMAN and pains of their day. But it wasn’t until months later, after the patron had gone through rehab and gotten long-needed medical care and DOMINGO reunited with his family, that Domingo began writing the play. The seed of A Boy and His Soul is in both ends of that arc—the pain and BY NAYSAN MOJGANI the recovery, the wound and the healing—and it’s the shared moment of music that bridges the two.

N AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SOLO SHOW ABOUT A YOUNG BLACK MAN coming to terms with his identity in the ‘70s and ‘80s and coming out A to his family as gay: that sounds like a setup for something heavy and depressing and painful. But in Colman Domingo’s hands, we instead get a buoyant story of love and and support and Black joy. This subversion of our expectations speaks volumes about Domingo as an artist, as as the need for a more honest range of Black stories in our culture. In a conversation between Domingo and Tessa Thompson for Interview Magazine from 2016, he explained that he “started writing because I saw such a huge lack of complex stories about the inner city. Anything I would see at the theatre, it’s all about poverty, drugs, abuse in the black home. I didn’t come from that home and I’m from the inner city. I grew up with people who went to Martha’s Vineyard as well as people who sold crack cocaine… I really try to set up my plays so that people are thinking, ‘Oh, you’re starting with a I like setting up stereotype.’ Have a loud, brash, street talking girl who’s just so colorful. I know that sister, she’s absolutely real. each archetype And then I smash that stereotype and we see the heart “and then just of this person as well… I like setting up each archetype punching sticks and then just punching sticks through them. ‘Oh, you through them. think it’s going to be this type of play? Gotcha!’” ‘Oh, you think It's in that impulse—to complicate, to make it messy— it’s going to be that the greatest art is so often found. Even in the roles Domingo picks as an actor, this impulse is clear: his this type of play? Broadway debut in , for instance, where Gotcha!” he bitterly comments as a closeted choir director that he and the main character are “just two brothers… passing for black folks;” or his work in The Scottsboro Boys , making audiences laugh and applaud a brutal miscarriage of justice, and then making them dwell in the discomfort of that experience; or the code-switching of his character Cutler in the recent Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Photos of Ro Boddie (Jay) in A Boy and His Soul by Harold F. Burgess II 4 BIOS CRAIG WALLACE (Director) is a Round House Theatre CAST Resident Artist making his Round House directorial debut. Craig’s past performances at Round House include A Doll’s House, Part 2; How I Learned to Drive; “Master Harold” …and RO BODDIE (Jay) returns to Round House, where he previously the Boys; Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3); appeared in "Master Harold"...and the Boys. Off-Broadway credits Stage Kiss; Permanent Collection; and The Little Prince. Local include Socrates at ; Appomattox at 59E59 credits include performances at Ford’s Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Theaters; and A Play is a Poem at Atlantic Theater Company. Folger Theatre, and others. Regionally, Craig has been on stages all over the country Select regional credits include Pipeline at Studio Theatre; A Play including Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, and is a Poem at the Mark Taper Forum; Blueprints to Freedom at . ; Skeleton Crew at The Old Globe; The Mountaintop at Cleveland Playhouse; Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom at Center Stage; and The Whipping PAIGE HATHAWAY (Scenic Designer) is a Round House Resident Artist, Man at Milwaukee Repertory Theatre. Television credits include The Good Wife, returning after designing The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; School Elementary, Person of Interest, and Unforgettable. Ro is an alumnus of University of Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play; A Doll’s House, Part 2; How I Learned to the North Carolina School of the Arts. Drive; The Book of Will; and Or, . Other DC credits include Right to be Forgotten at Arena Stage; Ain't Misbehavin', John, and The Gulf at Signature Theatre; the Queens Girl Rep at Everyman; South Pacific, Thurgood, and Godspell at Olney CREATIVE TEAM Theatre Center; and Familiar at Woolly Mammoth. Regionally, she designed Matilda, Cinderella, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, and A Chorus Line at the Muny; A COLMAN DOMINGO (Playwright) is a Tony, Olivier, Drama Midsummer Night’s Dream at Arden Theatre; and Sweat at Asolo Repertory Desk, and nominated actor, director, Theatre. Paige is a member of USA 829. She received her BFA from the University writer and producer. Colman has recently received his Honorary of Oklahoma and MFA from the University of Maryland. PaigeHathawayDesign.com Doctorate in Humane Letters from Ursinus College. He is a Instagram: @paigehathawaydesign Juilliard School Creative Associate and on faculty of the Yale School of Drama. He has starred in some of the most profound IVANIA STACK (Costume Designer) is delighted to return to Round House films in recent years such as George C. Wolfe’s Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Barry Theatre, where she is currently a Resident Artist. Her work has been seen at many Jenkins' If Beale Street Could Talk, Steven Spielbergs' Lincoln, Lee Daniel's The regional and DC area theatres including Arena Stage, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Butler, Ava DuVernay's Selma and Nate Parker's Birth of a Nation. He stars in Company (Company Member), Seattle Repertory Theatre, Ford’s Theatre, Kennedy the upcoming films, Jordan Peele's Candyman and Janicza Bravo's Zola. He stars Center Family Theatre, Center Stage, Everyman Theatre, The Second City, The on AMC's for seven seasons and guest stars on HBO's Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Signature Theatre, Imagination Stage, Euphoria as Ali. He recurred on Steven Soderbergh's series The Knick. As a writer, Olney Theatre Center (Associate Artist), Studio Theatre, Theater J, Constellation his plays and musicals include Dot (Samuel French), Wild with Happy (Dramatist Theatre, Andy’s Summer Playhouse, Pointless Theatre, Synetic Theatre, Forum Play Service) and A Boy and His Soul (Oberon Books), the Tony Award-nominated Theatre, Theatre Alliance, Rorschach Theatre, The Karski Project, Metro Stage, and Broadway musical Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, and Geffen Playhouse’s Gala Hispanic Theatre. She has an MFA in design from the University of Maryland, groundbreaking musical Light's Out: Nat King Cole. His plays have been produced by College Park. The Public Theater, Vineyard, La Jolla Playhouse, Humana Festival of New American Plays, New York Stage and Film, A.C.T, The Tricycle Theater in London, Brisbane HAROLD F. BURGESS II (Lighting Designer) returns to Round House, where Powerhouse in Australia, among others. He is the recipient of a Lucille Lortel, Obie, previous credits include Homebound; A Doll’s House, Part 2; and A Year with Frog Audelco, and GLAAD Award for his work. His production company, Edith Productions, and Toad. DC credits include Breath Boom and My Children! My Africa! at Studio has a first look deal with AMC Studios for which he is developing television, film, Theatre; Aubergine, Thurgood, and Grounded at Olney Theatre Center; Trayf , theatre, and animation projects. He is currently writing a new musical for The Young Glass, Another Way Home, and The Sisters Rosensweig at Theatre J; Big River at Vic in London/Concord Music and hosting Season 3 of his series, Bottomless Brunch Adventure Theatre; and Unexplored Interior at Mosaic Theatre Company. Regional at Colman's, across AMC platforms. credits include Be Here Now, Murder on the Orient Express, Radio Golf, Dinner With Friends, The Importance of Being Earnest, Sweat , Aubergine, Dot, and Death of A

5 Salesman at Everyman Theatre; and productions for Rep Stage, Imagination Stage, CHE WERNSMAN (Production Stage Manager) is so happy to back for her Northern Stage (VT), and several local universities. Harold is the recipient of a 2020 fifth season at Round House! Some of her favorite RHT credits include The Curious Maryland State Arts Council Independent Artist award. He holds an MFA from the Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls University of Maryland and is the Director of the College Park Scholars Arts program. Play; Handbagged (Off-Broadway, Bethesda); Oslo; Gem of the Ocean; Small Mouth Harold is a member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829. HaroldBurgessDesign. com Sounds; The Legend of Georgia McBride; Or, ; The Book of Will; and A Prayer for Owen Meany. Che has worked as an AEA Stage Manager in the DC/Baltimore MATTHEW M. NIELSON (Sound Designer) returns to Round House, where region for the past two decades, with shows at Imagination Stage, The National, design and composition credits include Homebound, Spring Awakening, The Legend The Kennedy Center, Folger Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Theatre J, of Georgia McBride, The Book of Will, Two Trains Running, Around the World in 80 Studio, Everyman, Rep Stage, Center Stage, and Olney Theatre Center. She earned a Days, and A Prayer for Owen Meany. DC-area credits include Arena Stage, Ford’s Bachelor of Science from Virginia Tech. Theatre, the Kennedy Center, Woolly Mammoth, Signature Theatre, Olney Theatre Center, Studio Theatre, Theatre Alliance, CATF, and The Smithsonian. Off-Broadway MABOUD EBRAHIMZADEH (Director of Photography) is a Round House credits include The Public Theatre, Lincoln Center, and 59e59. Regional credits Theatre Resident Artist, previously serving as Director of Photography for The Work include Denver Performing Arts Center, Cincinnati Playhouse, Milwaukee Rep, of Adrienne Kennedy: Inspiration & Influence and Homebound and previously seen Portland Center Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Theatre Company, in Homebound, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Oslo, Small and Barrington Stage Company. Film/TV credits include Those Who Wait, The Hero Mouth Sounds, The Book of Will, and Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. Other Effect, Elbow Grease, From Hell to Here, Discovery Channel, National Geographic, DC credits include The Price at Arena Stage; Oil and The Invisible Hand at Olney and Delivery.com. Matthew has won five Helen Hayes Awards and several regional Theatre Center; Mockingbird at the Kennedy Center; King John and Timon of theatre and film festival awards. CuriousMusic.com Athens at Folger Theatre; Water by the Spoonful and Edgar & Annabel at Studio Theatre; and The Pillowman at Forum Theatre. Regional credits include Murder on KASEY HENDRICKS (Props Master) is thrilled to be returning to Round House. the Orient Express at Hartford Stage and McCarter Theatre; Disgraced at McCarter Previously she has worked on A Doll’s House, Part 2; Oslo; Gem of the Ocean; Theatre and Milwaukee Rep; The Invisible Hand (Barrymore Award, Outstanding How I Learned to Drive; Small Mouth Sounds; The Legend of Georgia McBride; Lead Actor) at Theatre Exile; The Liar at Gulfshore Playhouse; and The Container at Handbagged; The Book of Will; Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley; Angels in Center Stage. Film and television credits include Jessica Jones, Imperium, and Sally America; Caroline, or Change; Or, ; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Seminar; Rapture, Blister, Pacholok. MaboudEbrahimzadeh.com Burn; and many more. During the summer season, she has worked as the Props Master at Wolf Trap ; some of her shows include ! , Madame Butterfly, La Traviata, , Carmen, and . She has also worked at many other theatres in the area, such as Synetic Theater (credits include Hamlet, , Much Ado About Nothing, Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty), Constellation Theater, Imagination Stage, and Olney Theatre.

NAYSAN MOJGANI (Dramaturg) has recently joined the staff of Round House Theatre as Associate Artist for Literary & New Plays, in which capacity he serves as in-house dramaturg and leads the theatre's new work program. As a theatre scholar, director, and dramaturg, Naysan has worked on new and classic work with theatres around the country, including La Jolla Playhouse, MOXIE, Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Theatre Squared, Malashock Dance, and Arena Stage (where he previously served as Literary Manager), and has taught at UC San Diego and George Mason University. Naysan holds a PhD in Theatre & Drama from UC San Diego, and a BA from Carleton College. He currently lives in Northern Virginia with his wife and their two children.

Photos of Ro Boddie (Jay) in A Boy and His Soul by Harold F. Burgess II 6 OUL MUSIC. SOUL FOOD. SOUL BROTHER. SOUL TRAIN. Beginning in the mid-twentieth century, the word “soul” became deeply S associated not just with the artifacts of Black culture, but with a sense of Blackness itself. In the music world, it began in the 50s as a term for an emerging genre of jazz, called soul due to the direct influence of the structures and rhythm “Now what is soul? It’s the last to be hired, the first to be of gospel music. From there it jumped and became solidly tied to gospel-inflected fired, brown all year-round, sit-in-the-back-of-the-bus rhythm and blues, which became one of the leading pop genres of the last 50 years. feeling. You’ve got to live with us or you don’t have it.” It also expanded to describe the traditional food of the Southern slave and freed —Nathaniel “Magnificient” Montague, Black, with Ebony writer Lerone Bennett Jr. noting in 1961 “Soul became to some Billboard, May 23, 1964 men a mystic quality connected in some tenuous way with ‘down-home’ food,” going on to caution that “soul is an extremely complex quality that cannot be associated in a one-to-one way with collard greens.” It even was used to describe Black facial hair—the soul patch originated with Black jazzmen, most notably Dizzy Gillespie. The common thread here is a connection to shared roots among a group of people deliberately cut off from those roots, and the construction of a community among a group all-too-often isolated and splintered.

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WHAT PUTS THE “SOUL”When one INlooks at soul SOUL? music through this lens, it falls directly in line with the history of African American music since the musical traditions of enslaved West Africans combined with Christian hymns under the brutal conditions of American fields and plantations to create the first African American form of music, the DIZZY GILLESPIE spiritual. The spiritual begat the blues, which begat jazz, which begat R&B, which begat soul, which begat funk, which begat hip-hop, and all of them are begat from a need to give voice to and provide a salve for the suffering of the African diaspora in America. One of the things that set soul apart from its forebears, however, was the level of “mainstream” (i.e., white) success the genre saw. Among the Black community, soul music was a shared vocabulary and a shared experience that brought Black folks together across the nation and across age groups, tuning in to their radio stations, to hear the voices and tunes of their people. But soul musicians were played on white radio stations too. Their successes were tracked on Billboard’s Soul chart, but also on the generic pop charts. Record labels such as Motown were owned and run by Blacks, and songwriters and producers were often racially integrated teams. Soul music—like so much of the best Black artistry, from August to Basquiat— represents both the depths of Black pain and the peaks of Black joy and success. And that full range of existence, everything that is being Black in America, that is Soul.

7 DETROIT, MI AMERICAN SOUL  Major label: Motown Records  Strong rhythm, borrowed call-and-response form BY REGION from gospel  Simple structure, but high production values During the height of the Soul era, the genre  Popularly-oriented, played on pop radio was dominated and defined by several  Commercially successful, especially in crossover appeal

major regional variations. The key cities  Examples: Jackson Five, the Supremes, , JACKSON 5 associated with these variations are , , Gladys Knight & the Pips marked on the map below, along with the associated record labels, distinguishing MEMPHIS, TN characteristics, and a few examples  Major labels: Stax Records, Hi Records of each. , New Orleans, and  Heavy use of horns also made noteworthy  Rooted in the church contributions to the development of  Stax notable for being integrated almost from the beginning the genre.  Examples: , Isaac Hayes, Al Green OTIS REDDING MUSCLE SHOALS, AL  While not necessarily associated with a style of soul, Muscle Shoals was one of the capital cities of the genre (if not the entire American music industry) due to its status as the home of FAME Studios, an iconic recording studio, as well as the slightly-less-significant Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, founded by former FAME session musicians. Artists who recorded hits in Muscle Shoals include Percy Sledge, , , Etta James, and many others.

NEW YORK, NY  Major label: Atlantic Records  Closely associated with Stax (Atlantic handled distribution for Stax until 1968) and with Muscle Shoals (many Atlantic artists recorded music at FAME)  Commercial juggernaut  Similar sound to Memphis Soul, including the reliance on horns and gospel motifs, but with more popular appeal  Examples: Aretha Franklin, Solomon Burke

PHILADELPHIA, PA  Major label: Philadelphia International Records  Extensive string and horn arrangements  Heavily influenced by doo-wop vocals and jazz structure  Very personal and emotional lyrics  Defined by the song-writing team of Gamble & Huff LOGO OF LOGO OF PHILADELPHIA INTERNATIONAL RECORDS  Examples: Patti LaBelle, Teddy Pendergrass, Lou Rawls

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Round House is a theatre for everyone . THEATRE FOR EVERYONE | EXECUTIVE We enrich our community through bold, ARTISTIC AMBITION | outstanding theatrical and educational LEADERSHIP COMMUNITY | EMPATHY | experiences that inspire empathy and INTEGRITY RYAN RILETTE (Artistic Director) is in his ninth season as Artistic Director demand conversation . of Round House Theatre. During his tenure, he has produced five of the best- READ MORE AT selling and highest-attended seasons in the theatre’s history. His productions RoundHouseTheatre.org/MissionValues have received 57 Helen Hayes Awards nominations and 13 Helen Hayes Awards, including Outstanding Original New Play or Musical, Outstanding Ensemble, and Outstanding Resident Musical. Ryan created the theatre’s Equal Play Commissioning program, Resident Artist program, Fair Play pay scale for artists, and Free Play ticketing program. For Round House, he has directed Homebound, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time , Oslo, Small ROUND HOUSE THEATRE LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT Mouth Sounds, “Master Harold”…and the Boys, The Book of Will, Angels In our ongoing efforts to learn more and strengthen our relationships with members in America: Perestroika, The Night Alive, Fool for Love, This, and How to of our local community, and to work towards dismantling the harmful effects of Write a New Book for the Bible. Prior to joining Round House, Ryan served white supremacy and colonization, Round House acknowledges that our theatre, as Producing Director of Marin Theatre Company, Producing Artistic administrative offices, education center, and production shop are located on the Director of Southern Rep Theatre, and co-founder and Artistic Director of unceded land of the Piscataway peoples. We acknowledge the Piscataway as the Rude Mechanicals Theatre Company. He is the former Board President original caretakers of this land. We pay our respects to the Piscataway community and of the National New Play Network, and currently serves on the boards of their elders both past and present, as well as future generations. theatreWashington and Maryland Citizens for the Arts. Ryan is a member We also acknowledge that, as the world experiences the COVID-19 pandemic, many of SDC, AEA, and SAG-AFTRA. of us are using the internet and other technologies that are not as readily available or accessible in present day indigenous communities. ED ZAKRESKI (Managing Director) is in his fifth season as Managing Director of Round House Theatre. He has produced the five best- We pledge to do the work necessary to build relationships with sovereign tribal nations, selling shows in Round House history, led the theatre’s $12+ million Full to ensure that Round House becomes a more inclusive space, and to never cease Circle campaign, and oversaw the complete renovation of its Bethesda ongoing learning. theatre. He has been an executive leader and fundraiser in DC area Learn more about the Piscataway tribe: nonprofit arts organizations for more than 25 years, raising more than Facebook.com/PiscatawayConoyTribe $120 million. Prior to joining Round House, Ed spent 12 years as Chief PiscatawayConoyTribe.com Development Officer at Shakespeare Theatre Company where he Support indigenous rights organizations on a national or global level: completed the $75 million capital campaign to build Sidney Harman Native American Rights Fund: NARF.org Hall and produced its $3 million opening gala. From 1998-2005, Ed Cultural Survival: CulturalSurvival.org worked in Development at the Kennedy Center, ultimately overseeing Indigenous Environmental Network: IENEarth.org a 22-member team raising more than $11 million annually. Ed holds a degree in Arts Management from American University and frequently presents and leads workshops about management and fundraising for nonprofit arts organizations. WHAT IS A LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT? A land acknowledgment is a formal statement that recognizes and respects Indigenous peoples as the traditional stewards of a given geographic area. We share ours as part of Round House’s ongoing efforts toward equity and anti-racism. 9 WE GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGE the following donors who support the work of our 2019- ROUND HOUSE 2020 and 2020-2021 Seasons. These tax-deductible gifts help Round House continue to be a home for outstanding theatrical and educational experiences that inspire empathy and demand conversation. ANNUAL DONORS To learn more about the ways to support Round House, donor benefits, or to make a gift, visit RoundHouseTheatre.org/ InnerCircle or call the Development Department at 240.641.5352. List is current as of February 16, 2021.

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