STAGES REPERTORY THEATRE PRESENTS

by Marisela Treviño Orta January 23 – February 10, 2019

Presented with special support from The Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts

Sin Muros (Without Walls) January 31 – A Latinx Theatre Festival February 3, 2019 FREE PLAY READINGS Then They Forgot WET: About the Rest by Georgina Escobar A DACAmented February 1 at 8:00pm Journey City Without Altar by Alex Alpharaoh by Jasminne Mendez February 2 at 2:30pm The Corrido of the San Patricios January 31 February 2 February 3 by Beto O’Byrne at 7:30pm at 5pm at 2:30pm February 2 at 8:00pm COMING SOON Kenn McLaughlin Artistic Director Mark Folkes Managing Director

Directed by NSFW JERRY RUIZ STARRING ADONIS BAÑUELOS by Lucy Kirkwood PATRICIA DURAN* LUIS GALINDO* MELISSA MOLANO* JENNIFER PAREDES* LUIS QUINTERO* by Matthew Lombardo Properties Designer JODI BOBROVSKY Costume Designer TIFFANI FULLER BONDS Lighting Designer RENÉE BRODE Scenic Designer by Marisela Treviño Orta STEVEN C. KEMP Sound Designer/Composer JULIAN MESRI Assistant Sound Designer February 13 - March 3, 2019 ANTONIO LOPEZ January 23 – Assistant Director CESAR JAQUEZ February 10, 2019 Production Stage Manager CHRISTIAN RODRIGUEZ STAGES’ YEAGER THEATRE Money, sex, and Photoshop! After women objectify each other. NSFW is * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Sam loses his job at Doghouse, a a satirical look at the cut-throat media Stage Managers in the United States men’s magazine where the men always world where jobs are scarce, beauty behave badly, he interviews at Electra, standards are savage and personal “The River Bride” was developed in residency with AlterTheater Ensemble, San Rafael, California. a glossy women’s magazine where the integrity is a luxury. World premiere produced by Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Artistic Director Bill Rauch, Executive Director Cynthia Rider

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Stages is funded in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance. TICKETS START AT $25 713.527.0123 or stagestheatre.com FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Take a moment to think about love. Are you more likely to identify love as something hard-won through years of sacrifice and change or do you believe in love at first sight? And I do mean true love, at first sight. Millions of stories explore questions about love, but there’s a good chance that your earliest encounters with love stories were in fairy tales. There is a bounty of scholarship on fairy tales and folk tales. Scholars generally agree that ancient, oral traditions are the source for most of the tales known to us today. While the term “fairy tale” conjures images of fantastic creatures, magical happenings and mystical transformations, the term “folk tale” is more likely to inspire thoughts of cultural histories and community lore. Regardless of your greater affinity for the terms—either fairy tale or folk tale—it is likely that in hearing either term you understand that what you are about to experience has deep roots in human history and experience. What makes playwright Marisela Treviño Orta’s work so thrilling is her investigation of folk tales/fairy tales in a decidedly modern context. In The River Bride, the folk tale upon which the story is built is slowly revealed throughout the first third of the play (at least to those who don’t immediately recognize it). By that time, as an audience to the story, we have made a host of connections to the hopes and dreams of a small family about to celebrate a joyful wedding. The domestic squabbles, sibling rivalry and economic realities of their town are familiar and fascinating. Still, another story is being told—one of epic proportions which will soon overcome the family like a swell of the Amazon. It is in this collision of ancient folk tale with modern play that Orta maximizes the power of storytelling itself. The River Bride feels familiar and fresh, timeless and time-bound, epic and intimate because it flows naturally back and forth from ancient oral PROVIDING ENERGY. tradition to contemporary theatrical writing like an eternal poem. IMPROVING LIVES. I fell in love with this play the first time I read it. There are no heroes or villains—just fascinating people longing to be loved. The four lovers at the center of the play are all caught between obligation to family and community and their instinctual attractions. Given the time to learn Phillips 66 is committed to improving lives in the and grow, perhaps these lovers would find their way to great happiness. But this is a fairy tale, communities where we live and work. That’s why Phillips 66 after all, and as in so many fairy tales, time is short and choices must be made. The impending is proud to support Stages Repertory Theatre. wedding celebration, the constant flow of the Amazon, the wives’ tales in the village, the ticking clock—these are the forces that press our lovers relentlessly toward their destinies. In the end, they—like we—have to choose the path to true love. Can we believe in the love described in fairy tales? Should we ever? In asking the question, The River Bride ultimately finds a paradoxical magic. In the modern world, we all know that love is far more complex than fairy tales would have us believe. But what if we are wrong? What if the real problem with loving in the modern world is that we’ve lost our belief in fairy tales? Phillips66.com Much Peace, © 2017 Phillips 66 Company. All rights reserved. CM 17-0615

Kenn STAGES REPERTORY THEATRE FROM THE MANAGING DIRECTOR Now celebrating our 41st season, Stages Happy New Year! is a professional Equity theatre that produces new work, presents established As the clock turned to midnight on work in new ways, nurtures and develops December 31, I was struck by the talent, and cultivates and strengthens significance of what 2019 would bring for relationships with Houston audiences. Stages. This year, Stages will complete Characterized by courage, generosity, ingenuity and intimacy, Stages works to construction on our new home, The Gordy, advance theatre and enliven community that will officially open in January 2020. to make a more vibrant Houston. This $32 million venue will house three unique performance spaces ranging from 135 to 251 seats, not only preserving the intimacy that Stages artists and audiences have come to admire, but Stages presents a broad scope of plays and actually amplifying it, creating unparalleled theatrical experiences unique in our region. musicals in an intimate setting, generating critical acclaim and creating powerful connections between plays and people. Stages In the months ahead, the Board, staff and artists of this company will continue preparations to performs year-round, producing 13 shows in the 2018-2019 Season. All of Stages’ shows are fully embrace our new reality. We prepare for a future that preserves the culture and spirit that rehearsed and constructed on-site in Houston, brought to life by an exceptional community has lifted Stages to where we are today, but also leverages the new tools and resources we’ll of locally-based artists and craftspeople along with occasional guest directors, actors and have available to do our work to the fullest extent possible. We have dreamed about this moment designers from around the world. for many years. Thank you for being part of this transformation by being with us here today. Your Stages’ learning opportunities include performance and production internship programs for participation as audience members, subscribers, donors, volunteers and general all-around college students and a conservatory each summer for middle and high school students. For cheerleaders has catapulted us to new heights. more than a decade Stages has made a strong investment in nurturing young aspiring artists Nowhere is that more evident than in the work you’ll experience today. I’m inspired by what and craftspeople who have now become field leaders and working professionals. has come of Sin Muros: A Latinx Theatre Festival in the two short years since the inception Stages began life in the historic Magnolia Ballroom building in downtown Houston, led by of this important initiative. Congratulations to the Task Force that has curated a dynamic Founding Artistic Director Ted Swindley and building on the passion and commitment of program of Latinx stories for us to experience. Marisela Treviño Orta’s The River Bride is one a talented group of artists. In 1985, Stages moved to its current two-theatre facility in the of my favorite scripts this season, beautifully rendered by a supremely talented group of historic Star Engraving Building on Allen Parkway, and became Houston’s second Equity artists and designers. Our sincere thanks to The Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts for theatre in 1988. their leadership support of this production. Artistic Director Kenn McLaughlin joined the company in 2001, serving as managing director In February, Stages will host our annual fundraising gala, this year themed The Night Garden, for five years before becoming the theatre’s longest-tenured artistic leader. Managing honoring Glenda and Russell Gordy with the Theodore Award for Visionary Leadership Director Mark Folkes arrived in 2015, positioning the theatre for a new era of transformational celebrating their leadership gift to Stages capital campaign, Staging our Future: A growth. Transformational Campaign for Stages. The Gala is Stages’ most significant annual fundraiser In December 2014, Stages achieved a landmark goal when we purchased our longtime home providing critical funds that support our $4.1 million annual operating budget. We’re grateful from the City of Houston. Stages’ Allen Parkway facility includes our two intimate theatre for Chairs Judy and Jim Nicklos, Underwriting Chairs Brenda and Bradley Jones, and Auction spaces along with costume and scene shops, entertainment spaces and administrative Chair Alicia Gordy, for their leadership in making this year’s event a success. Join us on Friday, offices. Each theatre contains fewer than 220 seats, so no seat is ever more than 25 feet February 22nd at The Revaire. More information available at www.stagestheatre.com. from the stage. Stay tuned in the months ahead as we begin to share more about The Gordy. With steel up and The 2018-2019 Season marks Year Four of an ambitious five-year strategic plan outlining a concrete poured across the street at our new home, I’m more confident than ever that you’ll be bold vision for Stages’ future, including major investments in facility infrastructure, human thrilled with what this venue is able to do for this organization that we all hold so close to our hearts. resources, artistic programming and education and community engagement initiatives. Sincerely, With sustained investment from philanthropic and community partners, construction is now underway on The Gordy, a new three-theatre venue funded through Stages’ $32 million capital campaign and slated to open during the 2019-2020 Season. With a design unlike any other in our region, this unique campus is poised to bring audiences and artists closer to Mark D. A. Folkes each other than ever before. Managing Director FROM THE DIRECTOR Jerry Ruiz visual In her play The River Bride, Marisela Treviño Orta refashions a famous Brazilian folktale about Amazonian river dolphins, framing it as a love story. According to the original legend, these dolphins were tricksters with the ability to shapeshift and become men who would seduce, and then abandon, unwary young women. The story, at its root, serves as a virtual cautionary tale. In Orta’s beautifully poetic rendering of the story, however, the dolphin comes to symbolize profound, almost existential loneliness. The playwright cautions us not to let fear guide our decisions or prevent us from seeking fulfillment. Impulsiveness and impatience, meanwhile, can also stand in our way of getting what we truly desire. Additionally, Orta puts a feminist twist on the folktale, taking an unsentimental look at the limited options of two young women coming of age in a small, isolated Brazilian fishing village. While weaving a terrific tale interwoven with elements of magical realism environmental throughout, Orta writes with great insightfulness about the relationships at the core of human life – those with our parents and siblings, as well as with our romantic partners. The story she tells is beautifully simple, while the relationships are rich, nuanced and complex, making this work culturally vibrant and specific, while at the same time deeply universal.

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Marisela Treviño Orta STARRING Adonis Bañuelos . . . . Duarte The River Bride is part of a cycle of plays I call “grim Patricia Duran* . . . Sra. Costa Latinx fairy tales”— stand-alone tales for adults Luis Galindo* . . . . . Sr. Costa inspired by Latinx folklore/mythology and informed by the western fairy tale canon, especially the stories Melissa Molano* Belmira collected by the Brothers Grimm. Jennifer Paredes* . . . Helena Luis Quintero* Moises I grew up with fairy tales. With Cinderella, Red Riding Hood, and Rapunzel. However, it wasn’t until I was a * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the ADONIS BAÑUELOS (Duarte) Stages: Sin teenager that I realized the fairy tales I heard as a child United States Muros Songs for the Disappeared (Mario were largely sanitized versions of the stories collected Payan), Sam Houston State University: A by the Brothers Grimm—meaning the endings were Macbeth (Banquo), Tape (Vince), Cardenio happy and a lot of the violence had been tempered. PRODUCTION CREDITS (Will/Cardenio), This is Our Youth (Warren). Voice and Text Director For example, in the original version of Cinderella the step-sisters—in an effort to make Robert Ramirez their feet small enough to fit in the glass slipper—resort to cutting off their toes and heels. And at the end of the tale the step-sisters are blinded by birds for their wickedness. Dialect Consultant And “happily ever after” wasn’t always how a fairy tale would end. In Hans Christian Wanderson Rezende Andersen’s The Little Mermaid, the prince doesn’t marry the little mermaid. In the end she Show Control Programmer/ dies of a broken heart, turning into sea foam. Light Board Operator As you can see, the fairy tales of old were often dark and violent. The protagonists and Abbie Garrison** antagonists alike are eaten, dismembered, blinded, and cooked alive. These dark and Backstage Crew dangerous stories acted as cautionary tales for children living in a dark and dangerous Ryanne Fury** world—helping those children navigate the world they lived in. **Production Internship with Lorain County I think of the plays in my cycle as cautionary tales for adults—stories to help us navigate Community College PATRICIA DURAN* (Sra. Costa) Stages: our emotional lives. The plays in this cycle are a weaving of two cultural traditions. The Cook (Adria/Lourdes), Blood Wedding For The River Bride, I drew upon the European fairy tale canon’s familiar tropes to (Bride). Main Street Theater: Men On inform narrative structure and key plot points. But inspiration also came from the This production is dedicated to the Boats (William Dunn) Love and Information Amazon folklore that surrounds the boto—the freshwater river dolphins that inhabit memory of Eloy Herrera Treviño— (Various). Gravity Players: The Last Days the Amazon River. hijo, hermano, y tío. of Judas Iscariot (Saint Monica/Mother When I first learned about the boto I was in the middle of writing my first fairy tale play Teresa/Henrietta), The Motherf##ker With Wolf at the Door. In fact, The River Bride is what set me on the path to writing a cycle the Hat (Veronica). Mildred’s Umbrella of plays. I hadn’t intended on writing another fairy tale after Wolf at the Door, but the The River Bride will be performed Theater Company: Dracula (Lucy), The moment I read about the boto I knew instantly that I was going to write a play set in a with no intermission. Any taping, Drowning Girls (Bessie), Foxfinder (Judith). small fishing village along the banks of the Amazon where two sisters and two men filming, recording or broadcast of The Catastrophic Theatre: The Designated would struggle to navigate the dark emotional waters of their lives. this play is strictly prohibited. Please Mourner (Judy), Middletown (Mary turn off phones and other electronic Swanson), The Pine (Danelle). Alley All Welcome to the Amazon. Welcome to our play set once upon a time. devices as a courtesy to other New: Wife of a Salesman (Woman), Queen patrons and to the actors. of Basel (Christine) Alley Theatre: Our Lady of 121st Street (Norca), A Christmas Carol WHO’S WHO WHO’S WHO

(Various). Off Broadway: The Libertine You Like It (Jaques), Hamlet (Ghost,Player Theatre: Man of La Mancha (Antonia) In (Elizabeth Barry). Virginia Repertory Theatre: King, Gravedigger), A Winter’s Tale 2017 she was featured in Houston Press’ Legacy of Light (Olivia), Boleros For the (Polixines), A Midsummer Night’s Dream “7 Young, Talented Actors to Watch.” In Disenchanted (Dona Milla/Flora). Duran has (Oberon), Merry Wives of Windsor (Nim), 2016 she was a recipient of both a Houston voiced various anime. She teaches theatre Love’s Labour’s Lost (Ferdinand), Comedy Theatre Award for “Best Breakthrough at Westbury Christian School. of Errors (Duke), Othello (Lodovico), Much Performances” and a Laura Award from Ado About Nothing (Don Pedro), The Landing Theatre Company. She is both a Changeling (DeFlores). Luis is a founding SHSU Musical Theatre and TPAP alumna member of Gravity Players and is the and a proud member of Actor’s Equity. Author of two volumes of poetry: Electric Outside of her work on stage she is a voice Rats in a Neon Gutter and The Roaring actor for Sentai Filmworks. Dawn The Silent Mountain MFA University of Delaware. LUIS QUINTERO* (Moises Lira) Stages Debut! New York: Love’s Labour’s Lost (Don Armado) The Acting Company. Regional: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lysander/Quince) Triad Stage; Twelfth Night (Sebastian), Book of Will (Ensemble), LUIS GALINDO* (Sr. Costa) is thrilled to Kate Hamil’s Pride and Prejudice (Darcy be back at Stages Repertory Theatre. u/s) Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival; HOUSTON: Stages Repertory Theater: American Mariachi (Mateo) Denver Alma En Venta (Arcadio), The Book of Center Performing Arts/Old Globe San Maggie (Judas), The Elaborate Entrance Diego; A Midsummers Night’s Dream of Chad Deity (Mace), Marie Antoinette JENNIFER PAREDES* (Helena) Stages (Bottom) N.C Symphony. Theaterworks (Sheep), Wittenberg (Faustus). The debut. Off Broadway/New York: NY USA: The Lightning Thief (Mr. Brunner), Catastrophic Theatre: Curse of the Starving MELISSA MOLANO* (Belmira) is so Fringe: Blamed, An Established Fiction A Christmas Carol (Scrooge). Houston: Class (Weston), Snow White (Bill). Gravity excited to return to Stages where she (Ensemble). Regionally: Yale Repertory Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Our Players: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (El- was last seen in Luna Gale. She is a Theatre: El Huracán (Alicia, Dr. Kempler, Town at Generations, A Theater Company; Fayoumy), The Motherfucker With the Hat native Houstonian and has worked around Val). Denver Center for Performing Arts/ Around the World in 80 Days (Actor 1) A.D (Jackie). Classical Theatre Company: The town, most recently at the Alley Theatre Old Globe: American Mariachi (Lucha). Players. BFA: University of North Carolina Birds (Pisthitearus). Stark Naked Theatre: as Belle/Fred’s wife in their production The Old Globe: Twelfth Night (Viola); La School of the Arts Winter’s Tale (Polixines), A Midsummer of A Christmas Carol. Some of her other Jolla Playhouse: Froggy (Froggy), Waking MARISELA TREVIÑO ORTA (Playwright) Night’s Dream (Oberon), Stage Kiss (He). previous roles include: Alley Theatre: La Llorona (Dr. Moctezuma), OjO: The Next Born and raised in Lockhart, Texas, Alley Theatre: Othello (Senator), Our Lady Twelfth Night (Attendant), All New Festival Generation in Travel (Boarding Attendant). Marisela Treviño Orta is an award- of 121st Street (Edwin), The Play About Readings: Hilary Bettis’ Queen of Basel, San Diego Repertory Theatre: Manifest winning playwright, a graduate of the Iowa The Baby (Understudy), Gross Indecency: Claire Kiechel’s Pilgrims (Girl), Kenneth Destinitis (Angelica/Luisa), Into the Playwrights Workshop, a Playwrights’ The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (Parker), Lin’s adaptation of The Adventures of Beautiful North (Vampi), Rapture Blister Center Core Writer, and a member of the Comedy of Errors (Merchant), A Christmas Huckleberry Finn (Ensemble); Stages Burn (Avery). InnerMission Productions: 2019-2020 Goodman Theatre Playwrights Carol (Wilkins). NYC: Playwrights Horizons: Repertory Theatre: Luna Gale (Lourdes), Seven Spots on the Sun (Mónica). Unit. A poet for many years, Marisela found The Band’s Visit (Zelger). Ma-Yi Theatre I and You (Caroline), The Book of Maggie Diversionary Theatre: Ballast (Savannah). her way to playwriting while completing Co.: Project Balagniga (Mckinley). Intar: (Maggie), Rebecca Gilman’s Dollhouse Ion Theatre: Lydia (Ceci) Intrepid Theatre an MFA in Writing at the University of Hush (Ed). LOS ANGELES: Independent (Iris); Obsidian Theater: El Nogalar (Valeria); Co: Perfect Arrangement (Norma Baxter). San Francisco where she studied poetry. Shakespeare Company: Macbeth Rogue Productions/50 Playwrights Project: BA: University of San Diego. Connect with Marisela’s first playBraided Sorrow was (Macbeth), Taming of the Shrew Just Like Us (Yadira); Cone Man Running: me on Twitter and Instagram @miyao_mix. presented at the 2005 Bay Area Playwrights (Petruchio), Twelfth Night (Malvolio), As Cherry Muffins (Loreliar); Queensbury Jenniferparedesactor.com WHO’S WHO WHO’S WHO

Festival and the 2006 [Inside] the Ford and a Van Lier Directing Fellow at Second TIFFANI FULLER BONDS (Costume College Southwest. Some of her design Summer Reading Series. Braided Sorrow Stage, 2007-2009. Member of SDC. Designer) Stages Repertory Theatre: Panto work was exhibited at the American won the 2006 Chicano/Latino Literary Prize JODI BOBROVSKY (Properties Designer) Cinderella, Panto Wonderful Wizard, The Institute of Architecture. Tiffani teaches in Drama, received a 2008 world premiere As resident Properties Master at Stages Marvelous Wonderettes: Dream On, Panto costuming and stage make-up and at Su Teatro in Denver, and won the 2009 Repertory Theatre, and a freelance artist Snow Queen, Driving Miss Daisy, The freelances as a make-up artist for Pen Center USA Literary Award in Drama. and designer in Houston over the last 25 Spiritualist, Panto Rapunzel and Zombies, independent film. She is currently the Her other plays include: Alcira; American years, she has collaborated with a host Veronica’s Room, The Marvelous Costume Shop Manager at Stages Triage; Ghost Limb (2017 Brava Theater of regional arts organizations, designing Wonderettes: Caps and Gowns, Panto Repertory Theatre. Education: University of world premiere); Heart Shaped Nebula scenery, props, and costumes for: Main Mother Goose, Life Could Be A Dream, Houston, BA Theatre. (2015 Shotgun Players world premiere); Street Theater, Generations Theater, The Panto Red Riding Hood, Winter RENÉE BRODE (Lighting Designer) Stages: Shoe (2019 Kendeda Finalist); The River Ensemble Theatre, Infernal Bridegroom Wonderettes (2011, 2012), Yankee Tavern, The Great American Trailer Park Musical Bride (2016 Oregon Shakespeare Festival Productions, The Catastrophic Theatre, Panto Pinocchio, The Marvelous (2018), A Midnight Clear, I & You, Miss world premiere); Wolf at the Door (2018 Unity Theatre, Mildred’s Umbrella, 4th Wonderettes, Man From Nebraska, Panto Teen, Mack and Mabel, Stupid F**ing Bird, National New Play Network Rolling world Wall Theater, Houston Grand Opera, Sleeping Beauty, The Andrews Brothers, The Whipping Man. Florentine Opera: premiere); and Woman on Fire (2016 Houston Ballet, Moore’s School of Opera, Rabbit Hole, Panto Cinderella, Souvenir, I Prince of Players, Daniel’s Spectrum Camino Real Productions world premiere). and The University of Houston School Am My Own Wife. The Catastrophic Toronto: The Journey, Bspoke Productions, Marisela is an alumna of the Playwrights of Theatre. Her scenic designs include: Theatre: The Pine, There is a Happiness NYC: Beetlejuice (Lab Presentation), Asia Foundation’s Resident Playwright Initiative, Stages Repertory Theatre: The Man Who That Morning Is (2011, 2013), The United Society/Miller Outdoors: Tsuru, Houston a former member of Playground’s writers Shot Liberty Valance, The Whipping Man, States of Tamarie: An All-American Revue Grand Opera: Prince of Players, Studio pool, a founding member of the Bay Area which won a Best of Houston award for (Made in China), Paradise Hotel. Texas Showcase 2013, Shepherd School of Music, Latino Theatre Artists Network, and a Scenic Design, Yankee Tavern, A Picasso, Repertory Theatre: Hair Like the Sun, The Rice University: Trouble in Tahiti, Gianni member of the Latinx Theatre Commons’ An Infinite Ache, and Elizabeth Rex. Unity Complete Works of Shakespeare Schicchi, Barber of Seville, Return of national Steering Committee. Currently she Theatre: The Fantasticks, Scotland Road. (Abridged), The Foreigner, Boeing Boeing, Ulysses, HGO Co.: Bound, Watermark is working on adapting Charles Dickens’ Main Street Theater: The Coast of Utopia, The Nerd, Tribute, Beehive, Smokey Joe’s Theatre: A Moon For the Misbegotten, Dial Little Dorrit into a six-hour epic piece of The House of Spirits, Intimate Apparel, Café, Moon Over Buffalo, A Flea in Her Ear. ‘M’ For Murder, The Grand Theatre, London: theatre. She has also begun a new cycle of and The Weir which a Best of Houston Unity Theatre (Brenham): Piece of My Colours in the Storm, Wizard of Oz, A worst-case scenario plays—sci-fi thriller award for production design. For Houston Heart, I Hate Hamlet, The Fantasticks. Main Christmas Story, Shrek, Elf, The Hobbit, plays which include WMB (pronounced Ballet, properties design for the new Street Theater: Woof, Breakfast at Eight, Hair and many others, Globe Theatre, “womb”) and Nightfall. Stanton Welch ballet, The Nutcracker, in The Pie Dialogues. 4th Wall Theatre Regina: Shrek, The Little Mermaid, Ladies’ JERRY RUIZ (Director) Directing credits collaboration with international designer Company: Small Mouth Sounds, God of Foursome, Ring of Fire, Charlottetown include productions at Primary Stages, Timothy Goodchild. For The Ensemble Carnage. Main Street Youth Theater: Jackie Festival: Evangeline, Anne of Green Gables, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, the Theater, scenic designs include: Gee’s and Me, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (NEA Canada Rocks and many others, Neptune Old Globe, Second Stage Theatre, Rattlestick Bend and Sty of the Blind Pig, which won Tour), James and the Giant Peach, The BFG Theatre: Once, Rexy, Mary Poppins, West Playwrights Theater, Playmakers Repertory honors at the African American Theater (Big Friendly Giant), Town Center Theatre: Side Story, Romeo and Juliet and many Company, the Mint Theater Company, and Festival in Winston Salem. For Generations All in the Timing, Sylvia, Night and Her others, Obsidian Theatre/Canadian Stage: Clubbed Thumb. He has developed work Theater, the regional premieres of Spring Stars, Quilters. Rice University: All in the Intimate Apparel. Renée has also designed at the Public Theater, Atlantic Theater Awakening and Bloody, Bloody Andrew Timing. Unhinged Productions: (Loosely) at the Stratford Festival of Canada, Canadian Company, Oregon Shakespeare Festival Jackson. For Classical Theater Company, Lysistrata, Raised in Captivity. University of Opera Company and the Canadian Opera and the Playwright’s Realm. From 2011 to costume designs for: Ghosts, Tartuffe, and Houston: Fifth of July, Marvin’s Room, Company Ensemble. She was Associate 2015, he served as curator for the Crossing Antigone. Her scenic design models have Falsettos. Edward Albee New Playwrights Lighting Designer on the Broadway Borders festival of new plays at Two been exhibited at the American Institute of Workshop: Touching Leaves. She has also production of Farinelli and the King at the River Theater in New Jersey. He was a Architecture. She has been featured in The worked in various costuming positions for Belasco Theater. Renée was awarded the recipient of the 2009–2011 NEA/TCG Career Houston Press’s “Top 100 Creatives” blog. the Houston Ballet, the Alley Theatre, Houston Press Theatre Best Lighting Design Development for Theatre Directors Grant Houston Shakespeare Festival, Children’s Award for The Whipping Man. Theatre Festival, and Houston Community WHO’S WHO WHO’S WHO

STEVEN C. KEMP (Scenic Designer) and composer. He is the artistic director and ANTONIO LOPEZ (Assistant Sound through projects such as producing the first Stages: Souvenir. Off-Broadway/NYC: founder of Sans Comedia, a bilingual theatre Designer) is a sound designer and American regional theatre production of Keen Company: Ordinary Days, Tick, Tick.. company. Recent work with the company technician from Ohio. Sound designs Stephen Sondheim’s latest musical, Road Boom!, John and Jen, Marry Me a Little, includes Red, (Sanctuary Festival, HERE Arts include Carrie The Musical at Iconotheatrix Show; re-envisioning classics like Auntie Later Life, When It’s You, Travels With My Center), The Gauchos (Teatro Extranjero, as a well as All Shook Up at Memorial High Mame and Veronica’s Room with bold new Aunt, Middle of the Night, The Film Society, Buenos Aires) and the musical Bethlehem School. Assistant sound design for Kincaid productions; commissioning and developing The Old Boy. Mint Theater Company: Love (St Paul’s Theater, BAX Space Grant), Lisa High School production of Into the Woods. a series of Panto holiday musicals for family Goes To Press, Philip Goes Forth, The New and Her Things (The PIT, INTAR Theater), He also works overhire and run crew at audiences; and presenting the annual “Get Morality. Fellowship for Performing Arts: A Immersion (The Treehouse), and Oedipus Stages Repertory Theatre and The Alley. Talking” series showcasing the talents of Man For All Seasons.The Duke on 42nd Gol (Dixon Place). As a director, his work Previously worked at Stages Repertory America’s most fascinating contemporary Street: ¡Figaro!(90210). York Theatre: A has recently been produced at IATI Theater Theatre as an intern and apprentice. playwrights, including Aaron Posner, David (Los Columpios and Flor de Lirio) and Taste of Things to Come. The Cherry Lane CESAR JAQUEZ (Assistant Director) Adjmi, Will Eno, Sarah Ruhl, Yasmina Reza, Repertorio Español. His production of Lope Theatre: Extinction. Second Stage Theatre: Originally from El Paso TX, Cesar Jaquez just Michele Riml, Kristopher Diaz, Young Jean de Vega’s Fuenteovejuna at Repertorio Wildflower, The Playwrights Realm: Dov recently graduated from Sam Houston State Lee, Philip Dawkins, Matthew Lopez, Español won the 2013 Gilberto Saldivar and Ali. The Shop Theatre: Knives in Hens, University with a BFA in Theatre. Throughout Johnna Adams, Julia Cho and Rebecca Outstanding Production HOLA Award and Dark Vanilla Jungle, I am the Wind, Tender his time at SHSU, Cesar assistant directed Gilman. During his tenure at Stages, Kenn two ACE Award nominations for Classical Napalm. Regional: Pasadena Playhouse: The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol, has produced more than 100 productions, Theatre productions. He served as Artistic Shout, Sister Shout!. Asolo Repertory as well as directed The Shape of Things by including record-breaking hits like The Director for the 2013 PEN World Voices: Theatre: Ah, Wilderness!, All The Way, The Neil Labute his senior year. Cesar Was last Marvelous Wonderettes and Late Nite New Plays from Spain festival, bringing Great Society, Double Indemnity, What the seen in La Boheme at the Houston Grand Catechism series; The Great American together seven notable Spanish playwrights Butler Saw, The Turn of the Screw, Opera this past October. He is very grateful Trailer Park Musical (and its recent with contemporary New York City directors Theophilus North, Harbor. La Jolla to be a part of this show and humbled to be Christmas sequel!); and revivals of the and actors during a two day-festival at The Playhouse: Most Wanted. Bucks County surrounded by amazing artists on a daily theatre’s landmark original musical Martin Segal Theatre Center He is a Usual Playhouse: On Golden Pond. National basis. Always…Patsy Cline; as well as pivotal Tours: PJ Masks Live: Save The Day! and Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop, world and U.S. premieres such as Black Time to Be a Hero!, Ain’t Misbehavin’, where he was a 2012-2013 Emerging Artist CHRISTIAN RODRIGUEZ (Production Stage Pearl Sings, An American Brat, Elizabeth Dixie’s Tupperware Party. Norwegian of Color Fellow. As a member of Panorama Manager) Stages: Sin Muros Latinx Theatre Rex, seven original Panto-style musicals Cruise Line: Le Cirque Bijou, Burn the Floor, Sur, a collective of Hispanic-American Festival: Song for the Disappeared (Stage and The Great American Trailer Park Desire, Hit it Spin it Swing!. Steven has playwrights led by Alejandro Tantanian, his Manager). The Peterborough Players: 2017 Christmas Musical. He has directed over 30 designed for 27 American Opera companies work was showcased at the Buenos Aires & 2018 Summer Season (Stage Management shows for Stages and has written or co- including Arizona Opera, Hawaii Opera International Theater Festival in 2015. He Intern). 50 Playwrights Project (Staged written three. Kenn recenbly brought his Theater, Sarasota Opera, New Orleans was also the 2010-2011 Van Lier fellow at Readings): Angel of the People Mover American premiere production of De Kus to Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Opera Repertorio Español, where he directed (Stage Manager), Felon Known (Stage Houston in a co-production with Upstream Santa Barbara and 15 productions for Opera Rafael Spregelburd’s La estupidez in its Manager), Swimming While Drowning Theatre and directed the Regional Premiere San Jose. Over 100 credits as an associate New York premiere (ACE nominee, Best (Stage Manager). He attends the University of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. designer, including designs for The Direction) and Calderón de la Barca’s La of Houston for a BFA in Stage Management Beyond Houston, Kenn’s musical, I’ll Be Metropolitan Opera, Holland America Line dama duende. Other recent work includes a and is thrilled to be working at Stages Home for Christmas received its World and 10 Broadway productions including production of Mar Gomez Glez’s 39 Defaults, Repertory Theatre. Enjoy the show! Premiere production at the Arvada Center Cabaret, Jesus Christ Superstar, and and an adaptation of The Weavers with KENN MCLAUGHLIN (Artistic Director) The for the Arts and Humanities in Denver and Memphis. MFA: University of California San Pace University’s International Performance 2018-2019 season marks Kenn McLaughlin’s was nominated for a Henry Award for Best Diego. Ensemble, showcased in May 2014 at the thirteenth season as Stages’ artistic leader, New Play/Musical. Kenn recently directed Accidental Festival in the UK. He is an JULIAN MESRI (Sound Designer/ following five successful years as the The Three Penny Opera for The Santa Fe adjunct professor of Performing Arts at Composer) is a New York-based theatre’s Managing Director. Under Kenn’s University of Art and Design. Prior to his Pace University. Argentinean-American director, playwright, leadership, Stages has strengthened its arrival at Stages, Kenn spent eleven years commitment to sustainable innovation at Great Lakes Theater Festival in Cleveland. WHO’S WHO

At Great Lakes, Kenn helped to build the MARK FOLKES (Managing Director) Mark largest theatre-based education program Folkes joined Stages Repertory Theatre as for a performing arts institution in the state Managing Director in the 2015-2016 Living a long life is of Ohio. He directed the company’s award- Season, expanding the organization’s about looking forward, winning School Residency Program and executive leadership structure to increase commissioned several new theatre works artistic and administrative capacities and being happy… it’s all in including Brother Can You Spare a Dime: position the theatre for a new phase of the way you think. The Social Conscience of the American growth. Mark leads Stages’ administrative Musical, The Way You Look Tonight, functions with a focus on financial Straight on ‘til Morning, and a new management, fundraising, marketing and adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry’s To Be strategic planning. During the 2015-2016 Young, Gifted and Black. Kenn also co- Season, Stages implemented a new founded The Wallpaper Project, an annual five-year strategic plan,Staging our Future, oral history performance program in rural that seeks to transform our organization Ohio. Kenn was a three-time nominee for by strengthening infrastructure—facilities, the Ohio governor’s award for excellence in technology, human and financial resources. the arts; a two-time winner of Northern Ohio As part of the implementation of this plan, in Live’s award for community outreach; December 2017, Stages publicly announced winner of the Ohio Historical Society’s The Gordy, a $32 million new home for award for excellence in history education Stages that will open during the 2019-2020 and an arts educator of the year for Young Season. Prior to joining Stages Repertory Audiences of Greater Cleveland. Kenn has Theatre, Mark served as Senior Director, taught workshops for the Center for Development, for the Houston Symphony, Literature and Medicine and has twice where he was second-in-command of a LIVE MORE. presented workshops at the National department of 17 responsible for raising Here, your opportunities aren’t limited by your apartment’s Council of Teachers of English. In Houston, over $16 million annually in support of Kenn has taught classes in creativity at Rice operations, sustainability and endowment. square footage…and your life isn’t measured by your years, University and in directing at Sam Houston Mark has worked for a variety of performing but by the experiences you pack into them. State University, as well as teaching arts organizations including Canada’s diversity awareness to cadets at the National Arts Centre, the Toronto Symphony This is not retirement…it’s reinspirement. Houston Police Academy and serving as a Orchestra, the College-Conservatory of guest lecturer for Harris County’s Music at the University of Cincinnati, as Department of Education CASE program. He well as Houston Grand Opera. Mark is a is chair of the stewardship committee of Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) First Congregational Church of Houston and holds Master of Arts and Master of where he has also served on the long-range Business Administration degrees from the planning and education committees. Kenn University of Cincinnati. He studied theatre completed the Executive Non-Profit Leaders as an undergraduate at the University of program through the Graduate School of Waterloo and the Canadian College of Independent Living | Assisted Living | Memory Care Business at Stanford University and holds a Performing Arts. Skilled Nursing | Rehabilation BFA in acting from The Theatre School, DePaul University. 713.660.5000 • BrazosTowers.org 4141 S Braeswood Blvd, Houston, TX 77025

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January 31- Sin Muros February 3, 2019 Festival Schedule A Latinx Theatre Festival Thursday, January 31 Saturday, February 2 6:00pm Welcome Reception 11:00am Workshop: Casting in the New Era, 7:00pm Welcome words and led by Brian Eugenio Herrera From the Festival Coordinator Presentation of the Premio 1:00-8:00pm Inprint Poetry Buskers When Kenn McLaughlin asked me to take Puente (The Bridge Award) 2:00pm Poetry Reading on the role of Festival Coordinator for Sin 7:30pm WET: A DACAmented Journey 2:30pm Play Reading - City Without Altar 7:30pm The River Bride Muros, I knew this was an opportunity I 2:30pm The River Bride Friday, February 1 4:00pm Talkback with Festival Playwrights: couldn’t pass up. Since I moved to Houston Georgina Escobar, Jasminne Mendez, 8:00am-4:00pm Professional Development Day and Beto O’Byrne in 2012, I’ve been an advocate for Latinx for High School Teachers 5:00pm WET: A DACAmented Journey representation on local stages. Despite being 10:00am Student matinee performance home to over a million Latinx and Latin Americans, of The River Bride 7:30pm Poetry Reading Houston theatre largely doesn’t feature stories 5:00-8:00pm Tintero Projects 8:00pm Play Reading - The Corrido of the San Patricios speaking to these communities. Even so, several 7:30pm Poetry Reading local theatres have done important work in this regard with Stages leading the 8:00pm Play Reading - Then They 8:00pm The River Bride charge. There is no better example of this work than Sin Muros. Forgot About the Rest Sunday, February 3 Sin Muros represents Stages’ genuine investment in supporting Houston’s Latinx 8:00pm The River Bride 11:00am Workshop: Pop-Up Playwriting, community. The festival is not supported by any special grant or donation; rather, led by Nancy Garcia Loza and Isaac Gomez the festival is a normal part of the organization’s operating budget, demonstrating a 2:30pm WET: A DACAmented Journey true commitment to this work. This isn’t just an ancillary festival for Stages; it is an 2:30pm The River Bride important part of the fabric of the organization. *PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED This year’s festival is anchored by The River Bride by Texas playwright Marisela Treviño Orta. Orta’s play is a grim Latinx fairytale that transports audiences to a Brazilian fishing village where two sisters struggle to find their happily-ever-after. Joining The River Bride is a full production of Alex Alpharaoh’s one-man-show WET: Beto O’Byrne’s The Corrido of the San Patricios sheds light on an often-overlooked A DACAmented Journey, which has has been touring around the country over the part of history that saw collaborations within the Irish and Mexican communities. last few years. Telling his story of growing up undocumented in the United States, While these plays employ distinct aesthetics, styles, and themes, collectively they WET is one of the most powerful plays I’ve ever seen and is sure to be a highlight expand the idea of what a Latinx play can be. Moreover, they amplify Latinx identities for many. that are not always given mainstream exposure. In addition to the two full productions,Sin Muros features staged readings of City Working with the Stages community to produce this festival has been a dream. We Without Altar by Jasminne Mendez, Then They Forgot About the Rest by Georgina are excited to welcome audiences to Stages as we continue building a space for Escobar, and The Corrido of the San Patricios by Beto O’Byrne. These plays all local Latinx theatre artists and audiences to call home. In the end, this festival is for speak to different aspects of Latinx identity and issues facing the Latinx population everyone. It’s for Houston. Latinx stories aren’t just Latinx stories. They are Houston today, even if some of these works take place centuries ago. A staple of the Houston stories. Sin Muros isn’t just a Latinx theatre festival. It’s a theatre festival for all. literary scene, Jasminne Mendez’s City Without Altar infuses poetry to tell the story of a Dominican woman trying to unearth the violent past between the Dominican Trevor Boffone Republic and Haiti. Georgina Escobar’s Then They Forgot About the Rest uses the Sin Muros Festival Coordinator setting of a dystopian west to linger on notions of memory and the borderlands. SIN MUROS FREE PLAY READINGS WET: Then They Forgot About the Rest February 1 at 8:00pm by Georgina Escobar A DACAmented Journey directed by Rebecca Rivas by Alex Alpharaoh Starring Production Assistant MARISSA CASTILLO Sofia “Stags” RAUL ARITA CHRISTA RUIZ Roanna “Roe” Assistant Director KARA GREENBERG* Jean “Jeanei/Luna” OSMAR MARTINEZ WET: A DACAmented Journey is a true story of what it means Thursday, JOSH INOCENCIO ...... Sebastian “Sebs” Production Stage Manager to be an American in every sense of the word except one: January 31 at 7:30pm CHELSEA RYAN MCCURDY* Sybil/Young Lilly TABITHA BOUNDS on paper. Written and performed by Alex Alpharaoh, the show Saturday, EDWIN MENDOZA Wayfoot/Doctor chronicles his ongoing struggles and fight to remain in the only February 2 at 5pm NATALIA SILVANI ...... Julia “Jules” home he has ever known, the United States. WET captures one man’s relentless journey toward becoming a documented citizen. Sunday, February 3 at 2:30pm directed by Brisa Areli Muñoz GEORGINA ESCOBAR (Playwright) is a NYC based playwright and devised theatre director via Ciudad Juárez. Her plays have been called “Chic-Burton,” “Frontera Funk,” and “Beckettian. Production Stage Manager She seeks to define a novo Latinx/Wabi Sabi aesthetic and JESSICA CASANOVA often directs and devises her own work. Her plays have been seen and developed at INTAR, Dixon Place, The Flea, Lincoln ALEX ALPHARAOH (Anner Cividanis), Off Broadway/ New York: Center, Clubbed Thumb, Governor’s Island, Milagro Theatre, Lincoln Center Education: WET: A DACAmented Journey, Hi- Aurora Theatre, Duke City Rep, Marfa Live Arts, The Magic, Arts, NYC: WET: A DACAmented Journey, SummerStage, NYC: The Lensic, and others. Professional development includes the Handball (Producer), Vassar College/Powerhouse Festival: Djerassi Playwright’s Initiative, MacDowell Colony Fellowship Vile-let (Michael). Regionally: Hip-Hop Theatre Festival, (upcoming), the Fornés Writing Workshop, the Kennedy Kennedy Center, D.C.: WET: A DACAmented Journey, Destinos Center’s National Theatre for Young Audiences Award, The Lit Festival, Chicago, Il.: WET: National Tour, Yale Repertory Associate gig at the O’Neill, and more. She is the finalist for the Theatre: WET: National Tour, ArtsEmerson/Paramount 2016 National Latino Playwriting Award. Some of her plays include Bi-(be), The Beacons, Sweep, The Theatre: WET: National Tour, Cara Mia Theatre: WET: National Ruin, All Strings Considered, Death and the Tramp, The Unbearable Likeness of Jo, Semity, & Jones, Tour, Teatro Vivo, Austin: WET: National Tour. Los Angeles: Ash Tree, and The Circuz. Collaborations include A Ribbon About A Bomb, Quixote: On the Conquest of Skirball Auditorium: WET: A DACAmented Journey, EST/LA: Self, Firerock: Pass the Spark (formerly known as Coal). Georginaescobar.com WET: A DACAmented Journey, Encuentro 2017, LATC: WET: A DACAmented Journey, Los Angeles Theatre Center: Short Eyes REBECCA RIVAS (Director) is an Assistant Professor in UTEP’s st (Juan), The Victory Theatre Center: Our Lady of 121 Street (Balthazar), Casa0101 Theatre: Don’t Talk Department of Theatre and Dance, where she teaches Voice About It, SP!T About It (Gee), Greenway Court Theatre: The House on Mango Street (Papa), Hollywood and Movement, Acting, Dialects and Accents as well as Fringe: Obscuridad (Papa), Antaeus Company: Weed & Winchell’s (Pookey). Alpharaoh is a multi- Musical Theatre. Rebecca just finished directing this season’s disciplined artist from Los Angeles, CA with over a decade of performance and writing experience. production of The House on Mango Street and Old Scrooge Social Media Handles: FB/TW/IG: Alpharaoh. Dacamentedjourney.com [email protected] in the department’s holiday production of Humbug & Sugar BRISA ARELI MUÑOZ (Director) is a theatre director, facilitator Plum. She is a co-founder of the department’s annual Chican@/ and educator based out of Brooklyn, New York. She is a creative Latin@ Theatre Series, where her play Colitas de Rana was and strategic thinker with expertise in experiential learning, produced this May. Other directing credits include Labyrinth innovative problem-solving and liberatory education practices. of Desire, Esperanza Rising, The Arabian Nights, Electricidad Brisa is passionate about using art as a tool to motivate, & Alicia in Wonder Tierra. Her El Paso acting credits include activate & transform and is deeply committed to exploring the Frontera Repertory Theatre’s one-woman show Highway 47 ways arts-based strategies can provoke social consciousness, and Grace Note. When she is not teaching at UTEP, Rebecca community development and civic engagement. She has often works with the regional professional company, TheatreSquared, appearing as Carly in Reasons facilitated workshops across the country and internationally to be Pretty, The Ding Dong and in a wide array of roles in their annual New Play Fesitvals. She is a in Boston, Colorado, Tennessee, Texas, Chicago, New York native El Pasoan. She holds an MFA from the University of Arkansas. City, Iraq and Romania and currently serves as Manager of Community Partnerships at The Public Theater. SIN MUROS FREE PLAY READINGS SIN MUROS FREE PLAY READINGS City Without Altar February 2 at 2:30pm The Corrido of the San Patricios February 2 at 8:00pm by Jasminne Mendez by Beto O’Byrne directed by Alex Meda directed by Kinan Valdez developed in collaboration with Radical Evolution and El Teatro Campesino Starring LEO ROJAS DAVID AKINWADE Cameron Assistant Director Starring Musicians Production Assistant LUPE MENDEZ ...... Dominican Soldier/Machete ANGELA UTRERA ARIANNA BERMUDEZ CHAS CROSLIN SOPHIE MOBBS HANNAH HOLIDAY ...... Irelia Production Stage Manager JUAN SEBASTIAN CRUZ NOÉ YAOCOATL Production Stage Manager ANNA MARIA MORRIS ...... Socorro ALEX MONTOYA GABRIEL REGOJO LIDIA ROSALES Dramaturg CHRISTIAN L. SCOTT* Cenalia CAROLINA REYES MEROPI PEPONIDES TAMARA SILER ...... Madam Telsaint AARON RUIZ NASIR VILLANUEVA Angel BENITO VASQUEZ Production Assistant JORDI VISCARI

JASMINNE MENDEZ (Playwright) is an award winning BETO O’BYRNE (Playwright) is a writer and creative artist from author, performance poet, actress, and educator. Mendez has the pine forests of East Texas and the co-founder of Radical performed her poetry in venues all around Houston, including Evolution, a multi-ethnic, multi-disciplinary producing collective the MFAH, Rice and the Alley Theatre. She has shared the based in Brooklyn, NY. The author of 20 plays, screenplays, stage with respected writers and poets, notably, Sandra and original tv pilots, his works have been produced in San Cisneros and Natalie Diaz. Mendez has been published both Antonio, Austin, Los Angeles and New York City. His most nationally and internationally and her first multi-genre memoir recent theatrical production, Loving and Loving, was produced Island of Dreams (Floricanto Press, 2013) was awarded Best by Radical Evolution and the Harold Clurman Lab Theatre in Young Adult Latino Focused Book by the International Latino Summer 2017 in New York City. His commissions include works Book Awards in 2015. She also recently won the COG Poetry for 52nd St. Project, The Foundry Theatre, The Movement Prize for her poems “Run, Irelia, Run,” “Bounty,” and “Return Theatre Company, and Watts Village Theater Company, and to Water.” The judge, Major Jackson described Jasminne as a the Stella Adler School of Acting. O’Byrne has been a resident poet who “possesses a sense of the poem as sacrament and artist at numerous organizations, including New York Theatre language hammered into song. One feels a passionate search for lineage and the sensuous turning Workshop (2050 Fellowship), the Stella Adler School of Acting (playwright-in-residence), the Texas of thought and imagery that leads to sanctuaries of silence and reverence.” Her second book Night- Black and Latino Playwriting Festival, INTAR’s Maria Irene Fornes Hispanic Playwrights in Residence Blooming Jasminne: Personal Essays & Poems (Arte Publico Press) is forthcoming in April 2018. She Laboratory, Lincoln Center Theater’s Director’s Lab, and Tofte Lake Arts Center Emerging Artists is the Co-Founder and Program Director of the Houston based Latino literary arts organization Tintero Residency. Projects and a co-host to the poetry and writing podcast series InkWell a collaboration between Tintero Projects and Inprint Houston. KINAN VALDEZ (Director) is a 20-year ensemble member of El Teatro Campesino (ETC). Born and reared in the collective ALEXANDRA MEDA (Director) is a director/deviser, cultural milieu of the famed social justice theater company, Kinan producer, and artist-activist that currently serves as the Artistic currently serves as ETC’s Producing Artistic Director. His Director for Teatro Luna: America’s All Latina/All Women accomplishments as a leader of the 49 year-old company of Color Theatre Company. In 2014, in preparation for it 15th have been a three-fronted effort: Preserving ETC’s expansive anniversary season, Meda launched a west coast arm of theatrical traditions and methodologies for new generations; Teatro Luna based in Los Angeles as a start to an experiment developing the “Teatro Lab”­—an experimental new works in the field of ensemble practice: Can you build ensemble in a laboratory; and building an extensive educational theater national sense, in multiple sites with a variety of entry points for program that reaches the underserved and marginalized artists, and how can all of this be sustainable over time? This communities of rural central California. experiment is in its second year, and currently Luna incubates ensemble and new work in both Chicago and Los Angeles, offers year round educational programming to its varied communities, and tours internationally with performances and cultural programs. Luna is hoping to open a New York branch in 2018. Sin Muros Task Force Join the next generation of arts Trevor Boffone Claudia Soroka Josh Inocencio Bernardo Cubria Jasminne Mendez Phillip Boehm supporters and leaders! Lupe Mendez Leslie Swackhamer Ana Scuseria Laura Moreno

BRIAN EUGENIO HERRERA (Casting in the New Era Workshop) is Associate Professor of Theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. His work, both academic and artistic, examines the history of gender, sexuality and race within and through U.S. popular performance. He is the author of The Latina/o Theatre Commons 2013 National Convening: A Narrative Report (HowlRound, 2015) and his first book Latin Numbers: Playing Latino in Twentieth-Century U.S. Popular Performance (Michigan, 2015) was awarded the George Jean Nathan Prize for Dramatic Criticism. He is presently at work on Members of our new Young Patrons Circle represent the future of Stages two new book projects: Starring Miss Virginia Calhoun, a narrative portrait of a deservedly obscure early 20th century actress/writer/producer, and Casting - A History, a historical study of the material and get to know each other as well as other key supporters and Board members practices of casting in US popular performance. through special events throughout the year. Young Patrons are 45 and under and donate at least $1,000 each season to our Annual Fund. NANCY GARCIA LOZA (Pop-up Playwriting Workshop) is a pocha playwright rooted in Chicago & Jalisco. She co-launched and participates in ALTA Chicago’s El Semillero: Latinx Playwrights Circle Benefits include: since 2014. Her inaugural play, MACHA: a pocha sister story, was a 2017 finalist for the Theater on YOUNG PATRONS the Lake In The Works: New Play Commission and recently appeared on Steppenwolf’s The Mix list. Invitations for you and a guest to exclusive Young Her work has appeared in the Chicago Theatre Marathon, Peacebook Festival (Collaboraction & STEERING Patrons events, including happy hours, previews of COMMITTEE Goodman), Black Ensemble Theater (a Community Fighting the Ism’s), Joe’s Pub at The Public (NYC), Stages productions and behind-the-scenes experiences Encounter Festival (Collaboraction & Theater on the Lake), Paula Vogel’s National UBU Bake-Off with Stages artists Lauren Hagerich (Victory Gardens), New Works Lab Festival (Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble - CA), Theatre Chair Nuevo (St. Louis), ALTA El Semillero’s Public Reading Series of New Work (Victory Gardens), Broken Nose Theatre’s Bechdel Fest with Steppenwolf’s Lookout Series, Something Marvelous, Chicago Special Young Patrons pricing on season subscriptions Krish Arora and Gala tables / tickets Dramatists, and more. In 2018, she enjoyed residencies at: Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Black Swan Liz Cavenaugh Lab, SPACE on Ryder Farms (Brewster, NY), HBMG Foundation National Winter Playwrights Retreat (Creede, CO), SWARM Residency (Indiana), and the Fornés Playwriting Workshop (‘17, ‘18). She is a All the benefits of being an Impresario Bronze level Kristi Gollwitzer 2018-20 Chicago Dramatists Tutterow Fellow (commissioned for 19/20 season), an Artistic Associate donor (gifts of $1,500 or more) for a donation of $1,000 Martin Gollwitzer with 16th Street Theater, an Artistic Associate with Teatro Vista, and 16th Street Theater’s NNPN as a Young Patron: Producer In Residence for the upcoming season. Beyond playwriting, she serves as the Co-Creative Kaitlyn Merz Director of The Alliance of Latinx Theater Artists in Chicago (ALTA). In 2018, she was recognized in • Invitations to private receptions before each Opening TCG’s American Theatre Magazine Roll Call Series: 6 Theatre Workers You Should Know. She is the Night performance (show tickets not included) Cameron Springer recipient of ALTA Awards in: Outstanding Solo Performance, as well as, The Luis Alfaro Leadership • Invitation to join members of the Board of Directors Award. and other Stages supporters at our annual holiday celebration • Invitation to an exclusive annual season launch event • Invitation to Stages’ annual end-of-season celebration with the artists who make it all possible • Personal concierge for all ticketing and subscription needs • Print recognition in the program for every Stages production

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$15,000-$24,999 Additional Support Amegy Bank of Texas Vicky and Michael Richker Nancy and Mark Abendshein Kristi and Earle Martin Dominic Cellitti in memory of Judy Richker and Pamela Adger Heidi and David Massin Mark Folkes and Christopher Albert Pravda Patti and Daniel Altman Anne and Murray McAndrew Johnston Robin and Sandy Stuart Claire and Douglas Ankenmann Robert McMillan Bonner and George Ball Cathy and Bill McNamara Victoria and Alex Lazar Page and Phillip Vogelsang Claire and Greg Bassett Deborah McNulty and Dean Ruck Sandra Porter Margaret and Roger Blanchard Susu and Fred Meyer Jo Boardman Randy Mitchmore $10,000-$14,999 Geoffrey Bracken Betty Kyle Moore Jennifer Tuttle Arnold Sally Lancaster Brazelton Family Fannie and Peter Morris Melza and Ted Barr Harriet and Truett Latimer Claire and Dick Brooks Dr. Philip and Sandra Nauert Laura and Bob Bruce Yamelys Nava-Driessens Sarah and John Hastings, Jr. Michelle and Jack Matzer Marjorie and Walker Cain Gail and Franklin Olson Marianna and Michael Jayson Elizabeth and Schuyler Tilney Kaye and Thomas Carter Terri Drabik-O’Reilley Juan Sebastian Cruz Patti Richards $5,000-$9,999 Patricia and Mark Day Wilhelmina Robertson Gretchen and David Anderson Margaret Koudelka Sharon and Bill Dickson Ellen and David Ross Mary Sue Fairchild Leonard Rutan Edward H. Andrews Foundation Gary T. Leach and Renae Ken Schneider Cassam-Leach Cary Fico Donna and David Barr Lyn and Robert Forster Bill Schwaiger Beth W. and Kirk Bruce Pat and Roger Medors Linda and John Fosseen Diane Sheridan Cristina and Joe Camarata Richard Moiel, M.D. and Lawrence A. Friedman, M.D. Gail Stillwell Katherine Poeppel Larry Gana John and Allison Strawn Anne and Albert Chao Mary and Tyler Moore Paulette and Robert Gemignani Paul Teten and Virginia Holbrook Judy Chapman Amy and Zeph Moss Elva Godwin Bob Tucker Sara P. Dodd Lynne and Jim Haley Venture Assistance Stella and Richard Nelson Ann and Leslie Doggett Bunny Halvorson John Walsh Penny and Townes Pressler Cheryl and Jerry Fee Sandy and Bob Herrin Dixie Waters Ann Trammell Linda and Donald Jacobson Beth and Jim Wiggins Cindy and David Fitch Jerry and Bobby Wall Weezie and Peter Johnston Carrie and Ronald Woliver Kristi and Martin Gollwitzer Chris and Walter Kase Dow and Meredith Zabolio Michelle Watkins David Greiss and David Romero Kathleen F. Kern Cheryl Lynn Zane Nancy B. Willerson Independent Bank Margaret Lee Syma and Walt Zerkow Edith and Robert Zinn Thomas Lightsey Anonymous Jill and Dunham Jewett Anonymous Sandra and David Livney Nina Andrews Karohl and Vincent Maleche David Karohl STAGES CONTRIBUTORS STAGES CONTRIBUTORS $250,000+ $10,000 - $14,999 The Humphreys Foundation James Bell Carolyn J. Keating Brazos Towers at Bayou Manor Macy’s $100,000 - $249,999 Ralph Burch Pat and Roger Medors The Brown Foundation, Inc. City of Houston Hans Roth and Ingrid Cordon Houston Endowment, Inc. Sally and Philip Edmundson Elizabeth and Schuyler Tilney Hines Tony Mandola’s Gulf Coast Kitchen $75,000 - $99,999 Brenda and Bradley Jones Kerry and Charles Walker The Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts The Junior League of Houston, Inc. The Wortham Foundation, Inc. $5,000 - $9,999 Jennifer Tuttle Arnold Nicole and James Lassiter $50,000 - $74,999 Baker Botts LLP Harriet and Truett Latimer The City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance Bank of Texas Roland R. Maldonado, M.D. Phillips 66 Melza and Ted Barr Avalon Advisors, LLC Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd M. Bentsen, III Christiana and Luke McConn $25,000 - $49,999 BKD Wealth Advisors John P. McGovern Foundation Richard L. Danforth Cabrina and Steven Owsley Robert J. Card, M.D. and Mary and Tyler Moore C.C. and Duke Ensell / Isla and T.R. Reckling, III Karol Kreymer Norton Rose Fulbright Admiral Transfer & Rigging Jane and Dick Schmitt Dominic Cellitti Louise and Bob Parsley Lois Chiles and Richard Gilder Glenda and Russell Gordy The Shubert Foundation Patterson & Sheridan LLP Ann and Ben Clayton Cynthia and Ben Guill Judy and Charles Tate Carolyn and Tom Paul John Drewer and David Jaqua Sandra Porter Helen Dreyfus $15,000 - $24,999 Bunny and Perry Radoff / Holly and Tom Forney The Radoff Family BHP Billiton Marlene Marker / Marker Group Jo and Jim Furr Susan and Alan Rafte The City of Houston through the Elaine and Ray Messer Gensler Angela and David Ramm Miller Theatre Advisory Board Judy and Jim Nicklos Alicia and Garrett Gordy Vicky and Michael Richker Copy.com Nucleus Design Jan Harrell and Janet Guidry in memory of Judy Richker Debra and Mike Dishberger Stella Artois / Silver Eagle Distributors Susan and Neal Hirsch and Albert Pravda Stacy Feltham and Marc Cutler Texas Commission on the Arts Myrtle Jones Tara Simon K&L Gates Vivian Wise Mady and Ken Kades USI Southwest, Kevin Scroggins, George Lancaster Anonymous Bob Holloway and Kevin Pratt Cindy and Julian Langham Victoria and Alex Lazar Amy Sutton and Gary Chiles STAGES CONTRIBUTORS STAGES CONTRIBUTORS Page and Phillip Vogelsang Nancy B. Willerson Kathryn Crowder and Susan Zarate Beverly and Staman Ogilvie Walter P Moore Jo Dee and Cliff Wright Jaci Day Karen and Charlie Penland Brenda and Ed de Alba Leila Perrin $2,500-$4,999 Sandra and Mike Desguin Penny and Townes Pressler Nina Andrews Karohl and Michael Landrum Andrea and Andrew Diamond Lori Priess David Karohl Joseph Levitan and Cindy and Richard Edwards Floyd Robinson Pat and Richard Baker Nicolo Messana Roni Farabee Joyce and Steve Sandweiss Jack Blanton Cynthia and Richard Loewenstern Cheryl and Jerry Fee Nancy and Joseph Santamaria Gary Corn Cornelia and Meredith Long Linda and John Fosseen Helen and Jim Shaffer Miquel Ann Correll Marek Cece and Mack Fowler Shell Oil Company Foundation Marc de Louw Lisa Martignetti Jana Giammalva Elise Sheppard Jenny Elkins Matthew Masek Susanne and Melbern Glasscock, III Kimberly and David Spaw Mark Folkes and Michelle and Jack Matzer Lynne and Jim Haley Cameron Springer Christopher Johnston Marge O`Connor Suzie Harmon Carmen and John Steffes Trish Freeman and Bruce Patterson More Than You Can Imagine / Leisa Holland-Nelson Sterling Associates and Bebe Gow Mauri Oliver and Vicki Rizzo Iberia Bank Jennifer Arnold Lynn and Jeremy Greene Leonard Rutan Catha, Kim, Jack and Mark Ivy Robin and Sandy Stuart Lauren and Bob Hagerich Manuel Solis J. McLaughlin Laura and Mike Sweeney Joanna and Stephen Handel Andrea and Trent Tellepsen Gayle and Layne Kruse Thompson and Knight LLP The Albert & Ethel Herzstein Tootsies Danell and Matthew Landes Sheryl and Jose Vazquez Charitable Foundation Anita and Randy Vennekotter Gary T. Leach and Madelyn and Andrew Independent Bank Jane Wagner Renae Cassam-Leach Von Eschenbach Marianna and Michael Jayson Barb and Jim Waldron Claudette and James Lloyd Dixie Waters Kristi and Russell Johnson Jane and Frank Yonish Jackie and Malcolm Mazow Ben and Nancy Wells Sis and Hasty Johnson Randel Young and Patricia White Richard Moiel and Carole and D. Brent Wells Mary and Rodney Koenig Nina and Michael Zilkha Katherine Poeppel Vallette and Russell Windham Stella and Richard Nelson Shari and Gary Winston $1,500 - $2,499 Gail and Gerald O`Neill Debra and Sherman Yeang Priscilla and Jay Arnold Cristina and Joe Camarata Art Beane and Ruth Bonney Mary Kay Casey $1,000 - $1,499 Jack Bell Tina Cavaco-Wolf Bonner and George Ball Harry L. Bowles Anne Boss Mandi and Mark Cooper Maurice Bass Suzanne and Timothy Brown Kay Brazelton Bruce Susie and Sanford Criner John Ryan Bentsen Katy and Michael Casey Patricia Cain and Bob Macdonald Lynn and Bob Cronin Lise Bohn and Devlin Browning Liz and Matthew Cavenaugh STAGES CONTRIBUTORS STAGES CONTRIBUTORS Anne and Albert Chao Kenn McLaughlin and Brad Thien Joan and John Hunsicker Dr. Janis Smeal & Mill Aller Gayle Collins Charlene and Charles Nickson Dave Jacobs Beth and David Speck Laurel and Mike D’Antoni Robin Paige Jesse H. Jones, II and Lori Spilde John Deering John E. (Sandy) Parkerson Terry Wayne Jones Tina and Jonathan Stewart Dale Erickson Stacy and Trent Parten Julie and Mitch Juneau Carmela Stuckenborg Nanette B. Finger Gay Roane Patricia and Andrew Kant Drudy Sullivan Eugenia George Carol and Ian Sachs Juan Madera Ted Swindley Mariglyn and Stephen Glenn Bryan Scrivner Judy and Kenneth Margolis Kristen Torberson Dr. Dale G. Konicek Nancy Sympson Randi Martin Ann Trammell Bryan LeBlanc Target Robert McMillan Catherine Troisi and Richard Stoll Carolyn Levy Doni Wilson Cathy and Bill McNamara Diana and John Tully Macquarie Group Foundation Lynn and Oscar Wyatt Donna McRoberts Union Pacific Foundation Daniel Maxwell and Rev. Francene Young Rachel Miller Wanda Weatherford Steve Bretthauer Deanna Minor Carmen and Peter Weber James Nelson Sandra Weider Lynette Pebernat Blake Weisser $500 - $999 Patricia de Groot and Marc Puppo Michael Weller Krish Arora David R. David and Joy Soloway Alexis Rogers Susan T. Whitfield Anna and Kurt Autin Beverly Davis Merrill and Michael Rome Beth and Jim Wiggins Linda Backens Rose and Joseph Day, Jr. James Rowlands Jill and Chris Wilson June and Steve Barth Jacqueline Day Lynn and John Russell Dow and Meredith Zabolio Linda and Stephen Bickel Elaine Eslinger Frank Rynd Syma and Walt Zerkow David Black Patricia Farris Pat Sebastian Toni Blankmann and Robert Weiner Daniel Fordyce Cindy and Eddie Blazek Lyn and Robert Forster $250 - $499 Patricia and Eric Bodin Janet and Mike Fourticq Cynthia Albanese Roxi Cargill and Peter Weston Laurie and Sam Burtch Melissa and Bob Frazier Robert Andersen Nell and Russell Clingman John D. Carrara, Jr. William Fu Sandy and Russ Andorka Emily and Kenneth Cole Ms. Lee Nel Michael and Carol Gardner Ronald Archey Kathryn and Hank Coleman Janice and Jeff Clow Graves Mechanical, Inc. Wilma and Geoffrey Booth Joan Dale Caroline Cochran Karen and Jay Harberg Nancy Bradford Cissy Segall Davis Vivian Brockmann The Dawson Family Stephanie and Stephen Crain William Harris Claire and Dick Brooks Patricia and Mark Day Jai Dagget Sarah and John Hastings, Jr. Jared Carey and Tommy Dennison Raymond Derderian Marian Davenport Patricia P. Hubbard STAGES CONTRIBUTORS STAGES CONTRIBUTORS William Eastwood Lynn Morstead and Kip Krause $100 - $249 Joyce and Trey Evans Carol Novick Cynthia Adkins Nalani Callico Paige and Gregg Fajkus Joel Oppenheim Marilyn and Jay Albert V.K. Carhart Johnella Franklin Jennifer Pallanich Sue Ann and Brent Allen Celia Chipman Lorraine Gibson Ann Phillips James E. Allison III and Ann P. Watson Deanna Clark Elva Godwin Kathryn and Andy Principe Patti and Daniel Altman Gean Clark Kristi and Martin Gollwitzer Janet Redeker Anne and German Amador Jane Clark Joel Grossman Elaine and Steven Roach Leslie Amann Cindy Clifford Zahava Haenosh Hilary and Bob Rota Peggy Amante Teresa Coleman and Pam Parks Ivonne Hallard Kathy and Richard Rush Sheila Arnona James Connor Maria Hardegree Jana Schey Deanna Sharp and Peter Arnoudse Michael Contreras-Cheatwood Jon Harris Jay Seegers Rita and Jeffrey Aron Shirley Cook Jennifer Harrison Stuart A. Shapiro, M.D. and J Arredondo Susan Cooley Elsie and Leif Hatlen Richard Bezdek Rob Arroyave John Cooper William Hayes Regina and David Sheil Carolyn Ashton John Cornwell Louisa Hayward Diana Shelby Tamara and Bill Atkins Noel Cowart Richard Head Gillian Smart Deborah Barrash Joyce Cramer Jo and Wayne Hillin Elizabeth and Benjamin Smith Sandra Barrash Joffre Cross, II Andres Hirschfeld, Michael Zuraw, Dr. Farzad Soleimani Vernon Bartley Calvin Crossley and Wilma Janet and Jim Soller Robert G. Bening Emily and Holcombe Crosswell Amy Jaffe Mary Lou Strange Kay and Kenny Bergen Teresa Demchak Leticia Jaroski Leslie and Ten Eyck Swackhamer Shirley Blanton Patricia A. Denman and Jack Hanna Lovell Jones Linn Swartz Jo Boardman Chastity and Craig Devito Cris and Bill Jonson Nancy and Peter Thompson Philip Boehm Janet Diaz Brown Nathelyne Kennedy Darya Trapeznikova Donna Bohn John Dillon Paige and Daniel Lally Constance Turner Michele Bonilla Kirk Domer Andrew Lyth Kay Tyner Robert Booth Jerry Donaldson Lane Martin David Vavra Douglas Bosse Sharon D’Orsie Isabelle and Eric Mayer Melissa Veres Ann and Andre Boutte Anni Dunkier Tina McCarthy Evy Kay and Dick Washburne Bette Bowers Carol Duckworth Peggy and Alex McDonald Susan Brown and Bill Wasko Annette Brewster Christine Dunn Deirdre McDowell Michelle Watkins John D. Browning Glenda Dupuis Terence Mcmahon Susan and Carl Wedemeyer Jan and Duane Osterhaus Ann-Elise Eagleton Warren Burkholder Deborah Eakin Wendy Buskop and Evan Bauman Lenn Eason Judy Butler Patricia Eastridge STAGES CONTRIBUTORS STAGES CONTRIBUTORS Iveta and Indulis Eilands Michael Harris Marlene Kroll and David Drapeau Peggy O`Connor Gus Elizondo Terry Hausner Lacy Largent Ludmilla Orelup Clare Ellis Kate and Malcolm Hawk Robert & Rebecca Leblanc Barbara Ostdiek Katherine Engleman and Eric Schwartz Kathy and John Hawkins DeeDee and Nicholas Leschke Kathleen Packlick William Ensell Michele Hedderman Jane Levering Helena Hippard Jane Erskine Lee Heller Candace and Robert Levy Michael Paramore Ann Faget Pamela Henjum and Wendell Mendell Marylu and Bernard Levy Richard Pearce Marilyn Farr Hilda Herzfeld Dolores and Frank Lopez Jimmy and Steven Cary Fico Richard Heustess Kim Lowes Karen and Keith Pikett Stella Flannery Suzanne and Thomas A. Hill Andrea Lussier Elizabeth Plaster Mary Lou Fowler The Chris Hiller Real Estate Team Martha MacDonald David Pomerantz Robert Frahm Jane and Clarence Holland Kathie and Milton Magness Cassie Poulos Lawrence A. Friedman, M.D. Linda Holter Diane Martinez Venu and Elsie Rao Brandie Frye Janet Little Horton John C. Matejka Mike Reckles Heather and Randall Gallagher Susan Horton Jaqueline and Donald Maus Ann and John Redmon Andrew Gamson Susan Huff and Paul Menzel Alan May and Alex Lopez Robin Reed Larry Gana Madeleine Hussey Angela and Ron McCauley Eunice Reiter Regina and Ray Garcia Judy and Vance Hutchison Rebecca and R. Scott Mccay Debbie and Tom Rhodus Andrew Gardener Lauren and Wade Hyatt William and Molly McComas Patti Richards Karen Garrett Judy and Alejandro Inclan Betty Mcconnell Jan Rodwell Emily George Emily Jackson Jack McCoy Sonya Rojas Marysia and Colin Gillan Sharon Jacobs Mary Fae McKay, M.D. Mary Ann Ryerson Amy Gilmore Sam Jacobson and Carl Josehart Holly and Lawrence McTague Jay Rypma Kate Glywasky Terri Jeter-McAvoy Darlene and Jose Mendez Martha Schaffert Mary Frances Gonzalez Thomas Johnson Wanda Meyer Eddie and Nell Schell Letty Gonzalez Carolyn and Jim Johnson Mickey Meyers Julie Schweers Sue Gorman Sandra Johnston Ron Misrack Sandra Scurria W. Clarke Gormley Marilyn Karr Debbie Moffett Andrea Shannon Gail Graves Chris and Walter Kase Barbara Moore Dr. and Mrs. Julian Silverblatt Ms. Rachel Greene Hillery Keith Bonita Moore Joe Boyd and Bob Singleton Rita & Mike Grogan Jeff Kenworthy Kevin Mulvaney Jordan O’Hara Smith Lana Hadlock Kathleen F. Kern Kim and Andy Mytelka Michael Sparkman Katherine Hale Robin and Daniel Klaes Geoffrey Newton Steve Hanrahan and Susan Speert Julie and Fred Halperin Terry Knell Leslie and Lee Nirider Louise and William Spindler George Hamm Lucinda Kontos Arlene Novick Jackie and Ray St. Germain Karen Hardin Linda Koppenhaver Annette L. Novominsky The Rev. Stephen Stine STAGES CONTRIBUTORS STAGES BUSINESS COUNCIL Diane and David Stotz Jan Purzer Wallace The Business Council brings together business STEERING Mimi Swartz and John Wilburn Gail and Michael Walsh leaders, influencers and arts-lovers in a COMMITTEE Gaylene Taylor Ilene Warnke dynamic group that offers: Hans Roth, Chair Castine Theriot Leslye Lucas Weaver • engaging theatre experiences for corporate Executive Director, Joseph and Romaine Tierney Sheila Webber entertainment and personal enjoyment Russell Reynolds Associates Theresa Toerner Mary Beth Weikerth • opportunities to create and deepen professional Stacy Feltham Valerie and Davis Tolman Carolynne and Douglas White connections Managing Counsel, BHP Billiton Nancy Tusa Don Whittle • Unique behind-the-scenes interaction with David Uthe Joanne Wilton artists and Stages leaders Phillip Vogelsang Karen Valdez Barbara B. Winn Executive Director, Ernst & Young Allan Van Fleet Robert Wise Business Council member companies support Stages Jeffrey Wacaser Gary Wood annually at the $5,000 level or above and have the opportunity to designate one or more employees as Richard Walker Anonymous individual representatives on the Council.

This listing represents total operating support by season (July 1 - June 30). Ticket purchases are not included. Stages extends its sincere thanks to those contributors whose donations arrived after January 1, 2019. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of our lists. To request changes or corrections, or to make a tax-deductible contribution, please contact Lise Bohn at 346.701.8862

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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE DIRECTORS Kenn McLaughlin Mark Folkes Artistic Director Managing Director George Lancaster Kay Brazelton Bruce Alexander Lazar, MD / PhD Chairman Community Leader Professor, UT MD Anderson Lise Bohn Todd Molesky Senior Vice President of Cancer Center Development and Communications Director Operations Director Corporate Communications, Dominic Cellitti Hines Certified Financial Planner, Roland Maldonado, MD Joel Burkholder Josh Morrison Morgan Stanley Smith Principal, Midtown Family Production Manager/Technical Director Associate Artistic Director Steven Owsley Barney Medicine Mandi Hunsicker-Cooper Debra A. Yeang President Marketing and Sales Director Finance Director Partner, Owsley & Mike Dishberger Mary Moore Associates CEO & Co-Owner, Independent CPA Sandcastle Homes ARTISTIC Sally Edmundson Mauri Oliver Abbie Garrison Secretary Duke Ensell President, Advancing Joseph Blanchard Production Intern Actor President, Admiral Transfer Communications & Leaning, Master Carpenter and Rigging Inc. Jodi Bobrovsky Mitchell Greco Phillip Vogelsang Vice President, More Than Properties Master Artistic Associate Treasurer / Chair, Finance Stacy L. Feltham You Can Imagine, Inc. David Jezek Executive Director, Associate General Counsel, Trevor Boffone Costume Shop Associate Ernst & Young BHP Billiton Thomas Paul Sin Muros Festival Coordinator Of Counsel, Norton Rose Travis Doucett Xiao Shun Li Jo Furr Cynthia Guill Fulbright Master Electrician Production Intern Chair, Development Community Leader Tiffani Fuller Bonds John Moore Community Leader Angela Haraka Ramm Joanna Handel Costume Shop Manager Assistant Technical Director Community Leader Raymond Messer Sales, Tootsies Ryanne Fury Chair, Strategic Planning Hans Roth Neal Hirsch Production Intern Senior Principal, Managing Director, Walter P. Moore Managing Partner Richard, Russell Reynolds Associates ADMINISTRATIVE (Retired) Wayne and Roberts (Retired) Ted Swindley* Eboni Bell Analia McEnelly Jim Nicklos Founding Artistic Director Venue and Events Manager Patron Services Associate Chair, Audit Myrtle Jones Stages Ryan Bentsen Rachael Niederhauser President, Nicklos Drilling Senior Vice President, Tax, Administrative Coordinator Special Events and Company Halliburton Sheryl Tucker de Vazquez Registered Architect Irma M. Carrillo Stewardship Manager Jane Crowder Schmitt Cindy Sparkman Langham Adjunct Professor, University Patron Systems and Benefits Manager Rene Rodriguez Chair, Nominating & Head of Human Resources, of Houston David Greiss Associate Controller Governance Sheridan Patron Services Associate Christa Ruiz SVP, Human Resources, Charles Walker Harriet C. Latimer Audience Development Cameron International Head of IP Disputes, US, Dino Hall Principal, Harriet Latimer & Assistant Manager (Retired) Norton Rose Fulbright Facilities Operator Associates Jack Ivy Jordan O’Hara Smith Randel R. Young *ex officio Patron Services Assistant Manager Development Associate Member-at-Large Greg Warrington Partner, Practice Are Mark Ivy Patron Services Manager Leader Energy, I Patron Services Associate nfrastructure & Resources, In addition to the Board of Directors, Stages Repertory Theatre relies Elizabeth Keel Tevyn Washington on over 150 volunteers, who contribute over 3,000 hours annually, as Patron Services Associate K&L Gates an essential part of the theatre’s daily function. Patron Services Associate GOOD TO KNOW GOOD TO KNOW LISTENING SYSTEM CHILDREN TALK TO US Assisted listening devices are available upon We’re big fans of little people! In fact, we have We’re here to help, and we value your feedback! BOX OFFICE request and free of charge. 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Stages Repertory Theatre operates under an agreement with Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) was founded in 1913 as the first of the American actor unions. Equity’s mission is to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Today, Equity represents more than 40,000 actors, singers, dancers and stage managers working in hundreds of theatres across the United States. Equity members are dedicated to working in the theatre as a profession, upholding the highest artistic standards.

Equity negotiates wages and working conditions and provides a wide range of benefits including health and pension plans for its members. Through its agreement with Equity, this theatre has committed to the book and lyrics by Howard Ashman fair treatment of the actors and stage managers employed in this music by Alan Menken production.

AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an March 6 – April 28, 2019 international organization of performing arts unions.

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Murder for Two A New Musical Comedy Sex with book and music by Joe Kinosian book and lyrics by Kellen Blair Strangers April 24 - June 16, 2019

book and lyrics by Howard Ashman by Laura Eason music by Alan Menken May 22 - June 9, 2019 March 6 – April 28, 2019

PLAY READINGS Sin Muros The Corrido of the San Patricios WET: by Beto O’Byrne directed by Kinan Valdez A DACAmented Journey (Without Walls) Then They Forgot About the Rest by Georgina Escobar by Alex Alpharaoh A Latinx Theatre Festival directed by Rebecca Rivas January 31 – February 3, 2019 City Without Altar by Jasminne Mendez directed by Alex Meda January 31 at 7:30pm February 2 at 5:00pm February 3 at 2:30pm

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