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BJ Jones Timothy J. Evans ARTISTIC DIRECTOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR presents

BY MARTIN MCDONAGH

DIRECTED BY BJ JONES

Scenic Design Todd Rosenthal, USA Costume Design Theresa Ham, USA Lighting Design JR Lederle Sound Design Andre Pluess, USA Casting Director Lynn Baber, CSA Production Stage Manager Michelle Medvin, AEA

OPENING NIGHT: MARCH 23, 2018 at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie

The Beauty Queen of Leenane was first presented by The Druid Theatre Company/ at the Town Hall Theatre, , , on February 1, 1996. The Druid Theatre Company/Royal Court Theatre production was first presented in New York by on February 11, 1998 and subsequently on Broadway by Atlantic Theatre Company, Randall L. Wreghitt, Chase Mishkin, Steven M. Levy and Leonard Soloway in association with Julian Schlossberg and Norma Langworthy on April 14, 1998 at the Walter Kerr Theatre. The Beauty Queen of Leenane is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York COLOR COLOR

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PRODUCTION SPONSORS CAST (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE)

FREDDI GREENBERG AND DANIEL PINKERT Wendy Robie* ...... Mag Folan Kate Fry* ...... Maureen Folan CORPORATE & FOUNDATION PRODUCTION SPONSORS Casey Morris ...... Ray Dooley Nathan Hosner* ...... Pato Dooley

Understudies: Joe Fernandez (Pato), Sarah Hecht (Maureen), Donna McGough (Mag), Glenn Obrero (Ray) OPENING NIGHT SPONSORS Understudies will not substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the performance.

*Member of the Actors Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers.

Setting SEASON SPONSORS Leenane, a small town in , , Ireland. The Beauty Queen of Leenane will be performed with one 15 minute intermission.

ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION STAFF

Understudy Casting ...... Paskal Rudnicke Casting NORTHLIGHT THEATRE IS SUPPORTED IN PART BY: Fight Choreographer ...... Woolley Assistant Director ...... Nate Cohen Dialect Coach ...... Brigid Duffy Assistant Scenic Designer ...... Lauren Nigri THE DAVEE FOUNDATION Properties Master ...... Lydia Hanchett Production Assistant ...... Katy Garcia THE OFFIELD FAMILY THE SULLIVAN FAMILY Production Dramaturg ...... Lauren Shouse FOUNDATION FOUNDATION Assistant Dramaturgs ...... Kristen Osborn, Sophie Hamm, Rebekah Sigman Wig Design ...... Sam Umstead PRITZKER PUCKER FAMILY FOUNDATION SPECIAL THANKS

THE HAROLD AND MIMI STEINBERG MODESTUS BAUER CHARITABLE TRUST FOUNDATION Mark Roe and The Furniture Shop Edelman Leather

Chicago Foundation for Women || Lloyd A. Fry Foundation || National New Play Network || RATIO Architects || Kirkland & Ellis Foundation || Niles Township Corporate Fund || The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means Full Circle Foundation || Hagerty Consulting || Northern Trust Charitable Trust || whatsoever is strictly prohibited. Northwestern University || Room & Board || Sanborn Family Foundation || Dr. Scholl Foundation 2 | NORTHLIGHT THEATRE NORTHLIGHT THEATRE | 3 COLOR PROGRAM NOTES

FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Over the years I have been drawn to Martin McDonagh’s work for a number of reasons. I find his sense of humor When A Great Deal Matters, Shop Rob Paddor’s... adolescent and amusing; I love his ability to shock for shock’s sake, and I relate to his quirky characters built on a landscape of loneliness and isolation. From the fable-like Evanston Subaru period piece The Cripple of , through the Leenane trilogy, with a side trip to the gory Lieutenant of , he has remained true to his own stylistic voice. When thinking about what I wanted to direct this year, my attraction to The E Beauty Queen of Leenane was McDonagh’s style: theatrical fireworks that light up a dark landscape and reveal even darker crevices, much like the Burren region of western Ireland. So many of his works echo Synge, Beckett, and in more modern synchronicity Tarantino and even Letts. But as with all my work, it feels personal. Beauty Queen is about the relationship of two women, a mother, Mag, and daughter. Maureen, a spinster, 2018 SUBARU CROSSTREK spends her days taking care of her mother who abuses her in both subtle PACKED WITH and insidious ways. Maureen boils with a rage that spills over into shocking A violence. The isolation and desperation are coated with McDonagh’s trademark ALL TECHNOLOGY! comedy built on character tropes – it is both familiar and sorrowful. NE W Margaret Hickey was my aunt, and she lived downstairs from us with my DE SIGN grandmother Julia Griffin. These women, deeply connected to their Irish roots, helped my mom raise my brother and me, and they had a profound impact on my life. Margaret worked for a man for her entire career and she basically ran his business. In another era, her name would have been on the door, and she would have been financially rewarded. That injustice has stuck with me. 2018 SUBARU FORESTER Perhaps that is why there are so many women working here at Northlight on 0% on Every New 2018 Forester our staff and as artists. And why I’m drawn to stories about women like last season’s world premieres, Faceless and Miss Bennet. 2 Unlike Mag and Maureen, Margaret and Julia had a loving relationship, but 2018 Subaru Outback 2018 Subaru Legacy their sense of loneliness and isolation was clear to me. Margaret never married. ALL WHEEL DRIVE Engaged during WWII, to a soldier who would never return, she attended Friday night Novenas in hopes of his homecoming well into the 1960s. I attended with her sometimes, and she would reward me with Beatles albums after church. But the years wore on, and it became clear that this was her life. Maureen doesn’t bear her life sentence with the grace and quiet sufferance of my aunt. But in McDonagh’s characters I saw the theatricalized extreme that the existential loneliness of the West of Ireland can create. GET So with these gifted artists, Kate Fry and Wendy Robie, I take on this overdue F OR 63 MON THS date with McDonagh’s seminal masterpiece. I hope it moves you as it does me. % SAVE For Aunt Margaret... FNinanceO on apMprovedO credNit scoEre SYubjectD to vehOicle WinsuraNnce and availability. Monthly payment And her mother... Julia Griffin. of $ 15.8 7 per $ 1,000 borrowed. As low as 0% on select models. Ends April 30, 2018 0 BJ Jones, Artistic Director Evanst on S u baru in Skokie 3340 Oakton St. Skokie (at Oakton & McCormick) EEvanstonSubaru.com 847-8 69-5700 4 | NORTHLIGHT THEATRE 8

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For the residents of Leenane, there is a unique notion of right and wrong WELCOME TO LEENANE: that has settled over the entire town. Nastiness is common, sometimes A VISITOR’S GUIDE TO MARTIN MCDONAGH’S IRELAND simply a means of entertaining oneself until a better song comes on the BY MARGOT MELCON, COURTESY OF MARIN THEATRE radio. The characters are like adult children, without a clear sense of what is a reasonable response nor an understanding of ultimate consequences. Martin McDonagh, one of the most celebrated Irish Their actions are extreme, as if the entire town has opted in on a code of playwrights of all time, wasn’t born in Ireland. His social behavior that leads to meanness and violence. childhood was spent more in the South neighborhood where he was born and raised than In a 1998 New York Times profile, McDonagh’s plays are described as “a it ever was in the rural locations that have become darkly comic and violent world of misfits, grotesques and haunted lonely famous in his plays. The sharply drawn community people. Their very distinctive language is at once recognizably Irish and on Ireland’s rocky and wild west coast that is the yet hyperreal and unsentimental.” McDonagh’s characters behave so setting for The Beauty Queen of Leenane (as well cruelly to each other that the violence becomes humorous in the extreme as A Skull in Connemara and , as it exposes dormant tendencies toward brutality, especially toward the two other plays that complete his Leenane members of one’s own family. Trilogy) is McDonagh’s own invention. There is an incongruity between McDonagh’s Ireland and more His parents (mother from Sligo, father from picturesque, traditional views of Ireland, but he never set out to resurrect Galway) left Ireland in the 1960s for England a place that actually exists for his plays. All playwrights create the world seeking better opportunity, so McDonagh experienced Ireland for their characters to inhabit from the ground up, taking what they know secondhand, through stories told to him by family and friends and trips to to build a sense of authenticity but then letting their imaginations run to see relatives once or twice a year. The stories he tells of Ireland in his plays places that they have not or cannot visit. Instead of imagining yourself are a combination of reverence of Irish tradition and utter irreverence for in Ireland, think of yourself in a little corner of Martin McDonagh’s mind. accuracy or realism. Welcome to Leenane.

Fintan O’Toole, the journalist who chronicled McDonagh’s early and meteoric success as a writer, compared his writing to the music of the Irish folk-punk band The Pogues: rooted in the lyrical storytelling of Irish heritage but with an unromantic aggression inspired by London’s anti- establishment youth movement in the 1980s. McDonagh refused the role of documentarian – the location of the plays and their inhabitants are memories and family lore infused with cultural touchstones from his life outside of Ireland. His scripts echo the films of Martin Scorcese as much as they do the bloody Grand Guignol theater, but also the lighthearted patter of soap operas and sitcoms, as well as the uncompromising radical political groups McDonagh grew up watching on television in the 1980s and 90s. McDonagh’s stories and characters feel familiar drawn from situations similar to our own lives until they suddenly veer into a darkly comic and deeply sinister place.

His Leenane has been described not as a place to live, but a place to leave. In its depressed economy and isolated location, the inhabitants of Leenane live in a state of tense boredom, which can lead to dangerous diversions. His characters argue over their preference for one kind of biscuit or a particular brand of crisps, and these ordinary objects become points of serious contention. McDonagh says it is a place where “you can’t kick a cow without having someone bear a grudge for 20 years.” Over time, small events loom large and resentments build, held onto for decades or more, even passed down from generation to generation.

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MCDONAGH AT NORTHLIGHT The Beauty Queen of Leenane marks the fourth Martin McDonagh play in Northlight history, all directed by BJ Jones.

I find his sense of humor adolescent 1 and amusing; I love his ability to shock for shock’s sake, and I relate to his quirky characters built on a landscape of loneliness and isolation. -BJ Jones

2 ” 3 4 THE U.S. PREMIERE MARCH 7 - APRIL 15, 2018 5 Written by NOVID PARSI | Directed by CARIN SIKAITIS

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KATE FRY (Maureen CASEY MORRIS (Ray The World Mine. TV: Star Trek DS9, Any City to Shakespeare, BJ has directed Folan) is happy to be Dooley) is thrilled to Day Now, Party Of Five, Quantum Leap, Pitmen Painters (Jeff Nomination – back at Northlight, be making his Dark Skies, C-16, Baywatch, Prophet Of Best Director, TimeLine), A Number where she performed Northlight Theatre Evil, A Place For Annie, and two seasons (Next), 100 Saints You Should Know in Outside Mullingar debut! Last fall, you as “Nadine” in the original Twin Peaks. (), and The Dresser (Body and The Miser. Most may have seen Casey Proud member of Actors’ Equity (AEA) Politic). Regional: recently, she played in the role of Mike since 1985. (Suzie Bass Nominee – Best Director, Emily Dickinson in Danver in Janine Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre), Enchanted The Belle of Amherst at Court Theatre, Naber’s Welcome to Jesus at American BJ JONES (Director/Artistic Director) is April (Asolo Theatre), and productions where she has appeared in many Theater Company. Other Chicago in his 20th season as Artistic Director at NY, Galway productions over the years. Other theatre credits include: Ah, Wilderness! of Northlight where he commissioned Arts Festival, Baltimore Center Stage, Chicago credits include work with (Goodman Theatre, u/s), What of the and directed the world premieres of and Utah Shakespeare Festival. As Writers Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Night? (Stage Left & Cor Theatre), Faceless, Charm, White Guy on the Bus, a performer, Mr. Jones is a two-time Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, and Hand to God (Victory Gardens, u/s), Stella & Lou, The Outgoing Tide (Jeff Joseph Jefferson Award winner and Victory Gardens Theatre. She has also (The Gift Theatre), Nomination – Best Director), Better has appeared at Northlight, Goodman, worked with Center Theatre Group in EOM (Ignition Festival ‘16, Victory Late, and Rounding Third. Notably he Steppenwolf, Court, and other theatres LA, McCarter Theatre Center in Gardens), Voyage (Cock and Bull), The has directed productions of Outside throughout Chicago. Film/TV credits Princeton, Repertory Theatre of St. Revel (The House Theatre of Chicago, Mullingar, Grey Gardens, The Price (Jeff include The Fugitive, Body Double, Law Louis, and Lincoln Center. She is the u/s), Post Apocalypto (Sketchbook ’15, Nomination- Best Director), A Skull in and Order: Criminal Intent, Early Edition, recipient of three Joseph Jefferson Collaboraction), In a Little World of Our Connemara, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Cupid, and Turks, among others. awards, the local Sarah Siddons award, Own (Irish Theatre of Chicago, u/s), and The Lieutenant of Inishmore. As an After Dark award, and Chicago and Charlotte’s Web (Emerald City a producer he has guided the world MARTIN MCDONAGH (Playwright) Magazine’s actress of the year. Kate is Theatre). Casey received his MFA from premieres of Shining Lives, The Last is an award-winning writer/director. married to actor/teacher Timothy The Theatre School at DePaul Five Years, The Gamester, and Studs His latest film is Three Billboards Edward Kane, with whom she has two University and is represented by Terkel’s ‘The Good War’. From Second Outside of Ebbing, Missouri. Plays: The sons. Grossman & Jack Talent.

NATHAN HOSNER WENDY ROBIE (Mag (Pato Dooley) returns Folan) is delighted to to Northlight after be back in Chicago appearing in Discord. after an extended PAINT Chicago credits visit to the West include productions Coast to appear in with Lookingglass, David Lynch’s Twin Court, Writers, Peaks: The Return THE EYES Chicago Shakespeare, Goodman, (Showtime) reprising her role as Paramount, About Face, First Folio, “Nadine Hurley.” In Chicago, Robie has Shaw Chicago and Shakespeare Project appeared at Drury Lane, Chicago SOFTER: of Chicago. Other credits include: Peter Dramatists, Northlight, Chicago and the Starcatcher (first national tour) Shakespeare, Goodman Theatre, Remy MUMMY PORTRAITS and productions with American Players Bumppo, and Next Theatre. As a Theatre, New Theatre, Alabama Company Member for Stratford FROM ROMAN EGYPT Shakespeare Festival, Arkansas Shakespeare Festival, Ontario, Robie Shakespeare Theatre, BoarsHead played “Regan” in Brian Bedford’s King JANUARY 13–APRIL 22, 2018 Theater, Shakespeare Festival, Lear in 2007. Most recently in Seattle, and Door Shakespeare. Nathan is a Robie played “Volumnia” in the graduate of the Royal Academy of critically acclaimed all-female Dramatic Art, London. production of Coriolanus: Fight Like A Bitch. Film: Wes Craven’s The People Under The Stairs, Vampire In Brooklyn, Organized by the Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University in collaboration with the The Attic Expeditions, Lost Voyage, McCormick School of Engineering, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and Feinberg Devil In The Flesh, The Dentist II, Were School of Medicine.

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Beauty Queen of Leenane, A Skull in Carmen (Finger Lakes Opera). Her around the U.S., most frequently at the (Purple Rose Theatre). Mr Woolley is Connemara, The Lonesome West, The work has been seen at DePaul Opera Oregon and California Shakespeare co-creator and performs as Guido in Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Cripple of Theatre, Ryan Opera Center and Lyric Festivals, Berkeley Repertory, Arena Dirk & Guido: The Swordsmen!. He is Inishmaan, , A Behanding Opera Chicago, She is also an Artistic Stage, American Conservatory Theater, the recipient of two Joseph Jefferson in Spokane, . As writer/ Associate with Bohemian Theatre Seattle Repertory, Awards for fight direction, a professor director: Three Billboards Outside of Ensemble and Stage Left Theatre. and Center Theater Group. Choral at Columbia College Chicago and Ebbing, Missouri; ; In Upcoming: Once (Paramount). Ms. works include: Winesburg, Ohio, a member of the College of Fight ; Six Shooter (short film). Ham is an adjunct faculty member Eastland, Whitman and Undone (with Masters with the Society of American at Wilbur Wright College. She has Ben Sussman) and Paris By Night (with Fight Directors. TODD ROSENTHAL (Scenic Design) received two Joseph Jefferson Awards Amy Warren). has designed 28 productions for for Outstanding Costume Design. Ms. MICHELLE MEDVIN (Production Steppenwolf. Broadway credits Ham holds an MFA in Costume Design DAVID WOOLLEY (Fight Stage Manager) is excited to return include August: Osage County (Tony from Illinois State University. She lives Choreographer) returns to Northlight to Northlight after subbing on last Award), The Motherfucker with the in Beverly with her husband, Patrick where his last show was City on the season’s Miss Bennet. Michelle has Hat (Tony nomination), Who’s Afraid and their son, Cole. Make in 1985! Upcoming shows include: stage managed with Steppenwolf of Virginia Woolf?, The Gentleman Caller (Raven Theater) Theatre for many years, and favorite (Filmed by ), JR LEDERLE (Lighting Design) and The Adventure of the Elusive Ear credits there include two versions of This is Our Youth and Fish in the Dark. Northlight credits include The Legend (Purple Rose Theatre). Off Broadway: The Crucible, Tribes, , Upcoming Broadway: Straight White of Georgia McBride, Relativity, By The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity August: Osage County, The Pillowman, Men. Off-Broadway credits include the Water, Charm, Shining Lives, (Second Stage Theater), Edmond Purple Heart (also at Ireland’s Galway Red Light Winter (Barrow Street), Outside Mullingar, White Guy on the (Provincetown Playhouse). Regional: Arts Festival), Art and many others. Domesticated (Lincoln Center) and Bus, Detroit ’67, The Odd Couple, Three Musketeers and Henry V (Utah She has also worked with Victory Qualms (Playwrights Horizons). Ten Chimneys, Season’s Greetings, Shakespeare Festival); God of Carnage, Gardens Theater, Chicago Children’s Designer for six years for Big Apple A Life, Grey Gardens, The Retreat Norma and Wanda (Oakland Press Theatre, Hartford Stage, Dallas Theater Circus. International credits: August: From Moscow, Lady, Stella & Lou, Award) and Escanaba in da Moonlight Center and Portland Center Stage. Osage County (London & Australia), The Outgoing Tide, Better Late and The Beauty Queen of Leenane Chapatti (the last four also at the (Ireland), Nice Fish (London). Regional Galway International Arts Festival, credits include Goodman (artistic Ireland). Other work has been seen ENGAGE WITH AUDIENCE EVENTS partner), Guthrie, Berkeley Rep and at Lookingglass, Victory Gardens, many others. Museum exhibitions About Face, Remy Bumppo, Writers, include “Mythbusters: The Explosive Steppenwolf and Walkabout. JR Exhibition” and “The International designed lighting for seven years of the Exhibition of Sherlock Holmes.” Awards Steppenwolf TRAFFIC Series, and five include Olivier, , Ovation, Steppenwolf performances in Chicago’s Garland, Jefferson, Bay Area Outer Millennium Park. He has served as Critics Circle, and Michael Merritt. He is head of the Lighting Department at a professor at Northwestern University Steppenwolf since 1995.​ and a graduate of Yale Drama. ANDRE PLUESS (Sound Design) has From the acclaimed film Three Explore the social and literary THERESA HAM (Costume Design) is designed the Broadway productions Billboards... to the Tony Award- context of the play through a a Chicago-based Costume Designer. of Metamorphoses, I Am My Own winning Beauty Queen..., we will discussion and Q&A session with Previously at Northlight: A Civil War Wife and 33 Variations (Drama Desk discuss what makes McDonagh artists related to the production. Christmas. Off Broadway: Ride the Award nomination) as well as the world Cyclone (MCC Theatre). Recent premiere of The Clean House at Yale one of the most celebrated Chicago credits: Ragtime (Marriott); Repertory and Lincoln Center. Based writers of his time. Tuesday, April 17 The Little Mermaid, Sweeney Todd, and in Chicago, his work has appeared 2:00-3:00pm Jesus Christ Super Star (Paramount); on most of the city’s stages including Tuesday, April 3 Skokie Public Library 7:00pm Rock of Ages (Drury Lane); The Northlight (Shining Lives with Amanda 5215 Oakton Street, Skokie Irish American Heritage Center Dehnert), Goodman, Steppenwolf, RSVP requested: Audience (Timeline); Ride the Cyclone 4626 N Knox Avenue, Chicago (Chicago Shakespeare); and Assembled Court and Lookingglass, where he is skokielibrary.info/events Parties (Raven). Regionally: Something an associate artist. He has composed Wicked This Way Comes (DTC) and music and designed sound for theaters FREE and open to the public. 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PROFILES 4 young professionals. 7 advanced degrees. Infinite perspectives... Michelle currently serves as Production Series including a partnership with Manager and Adjunct Faculty for the Chicago Public Radio for subsequent Theatre and Performance Studies broadcasts. Tim founded Steppenwolf program at Governors State University. Films, of which he is still a partner with She is proud to be a member of Actors’ , and Jeff Perry, Equity, a graduate of Smith College, to develop film and television projects. Mary’s wife, and Elliott & Lena’s mama. He has served on the Board of Trustees of the League of Chicago Theatres and TIMOTHY J. EVANS (Executive Director) on the theater selection panel for the

leads Northlight Theatre’s overall Princess Grace Foundation Awards. strategic, management and long- He also serves on the USA selection range initiatives. Prior to his arrival at committee for The Eisenhower Fellows, Northlight, Tim spent over 20 years Philadelphia, PA. Previously, Tim served at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in on the board of Film management and producing positions. Project (IFP) and was a charter member He created, curated and produced of the Governor’s Task Force for Media Steppenwolf’s acclaimed TRAFFIC Development.

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BJ Jones Wilfredo Ramos Jr Julie Chernoff COMING SOON AT NORTHLIGHT Artistic Director Christopher Salveter Timothy J. Evans, Executive Vanessa Strahan Director Timothy J. Evans Alejandro Tey Mark Falcone Executive Director Emily Wills Karen Felix ADMINISTRATION J. Douglas Gray PRODUCTION General Manager BJ Jones. Artistic Director Janet Mullet Production Manager Susan Karol* Scott Miller Paul Lehner Director of Advancement Matthew J. Magnuson Kim Hoopingarner Technical Director Daryl Pauley Susie McMonagle Advancement Manager/Special Kathleen Okrent Master Electrician/ Light Board Events Dan Peterson* Sarah Mitchell Operator Rahul Roy Cory Drewry Evelyn Salk,* Trustee Emeritus Institutional Relations Manager Mark Tendam Morgan Ulyat Audio Visual Engineer/ Sound Board Operator James West Director of Marketing & Jennifer Udoni-Sharp Dr. Harvey Young Communications Alan M. Zunamon Mara Mihlfried Costume Supervisor/Wardrobe Michael Pauken, ex officio Robin Feltman Norman Rosen, ex officio Marketing Coordinator Francisco Lopez Floor Manager ADVISORY COUNCIL Victoria Fox Susan Karol, Chair Director of Finance Anne Berkeley Lisa Stern Scenic Charge Christine R.X. Bolles Steven J. Bernstein Associate General Manager/ Karl Berolzheimer Scenic Artist Gerhard Bette Company Manager Eileen Rozycki Victoria Martini-Rosowicz Margo Brown Carpenters Michael R. Callahan* Finance Administrator/Group Sales Alfredo Aguilar Joe Cappo Coordinator Evan Barr Josh Chernoff Michelle Blendermann James Hawkins Paul Finnegan* ARTISTIC Sam Kenney Gene Frett Artistic Associate & Literary Kevin Lynch Richard Gilbert Manager Arik Mendelevitz Craig Golden Lauren Shouse Julio Neijens Eleanor Hall Gerald Reynolds Tom Hazlett Artistic Assistant Wayne Smith Karen Hunt Kristen Osborn Emmy Weldon Diana King Paul Lehman* EDUCATION SERVICE PROVIDERS Director of Education & James Lytle Public Relations Marcia Mead Stillerman Community Engagement Cathy Taylor PR, INC. Mara Stern Steve Mullins* Graphic Design Phil Palmer Education & Community Bridget Schultz Nicki Pearson Engagement Manager Merril Prager Andrew Marikis Usher Coordinator Sandra Rosenbloom Vicki Weisberg, The Saints Toby Sachs Teaching Artists Kaiser Ahmed Insurance Esther Saks* Jessica Alldredge Robert Nichols Sara Schastok Kaylyn Carter Ralph Segall BOARD OF TRUSTEES Kelsey Chigas David Seidman* Thomas D. Stringer, Jazmín Corona Chair Jill Soderberg Bob Silverman, Charlotte Drover President Trimmy Stamell* Donna Frett, Matt Farabee Vice President Claire Sucsy Robert S. Silver, Jewel Hale Vice President Timothy P. Sullivan* Craig M. Smith, AIA An insightful comedy about the absurdities Amelia Hefferson , Vice Greg Taubeneck Jasmine Henri Jordan President Matthew Udoni Mark McCarville, and challenges of new parenthood. Kate Leslie Treasurer Susan Van Dusen Freddi Greenberg, Jenn Oswald Secretary Bernice Weissbourd Carole Cahill Tuesdai B. Perry Christy Callahan *Past President/Chairperson 847.673.6300 | NORTHLIGHT.ORG Will Quam MAY 10 - JUNE 17 16 | NORTHLIGHT THEATRE COLOR COLOR

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Rothschild Kamin the Arts Skidmore, Owings & Merrill February 20, 2018. Chinniah Keith and Ann Sarpolis Suzanne and Dan Kanter The Pauls Foundation LLP Leslie and Paul Lehner Horst & Sara Schastok Mel and Renee Katten Skokie Fine Arts NORTHLIGHT L. Klug and B. Farrelly Neal and Trimmy Stamell Carolyn and Michael Presenting Sponsors Commission VISIONARIES CIRCLE Joyce Chelberg Marcie and Avy Stein Laughlin $5,000-$9,999 Vi at the Glen David and Christine Brett Stein and Sarah Valerie Litchfield Chicago Foundation for Wintrust Financial Corp Producers Seidman Ghantous Roy and Pam Lobenhofer Women $25,000 and Above Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Segall Claire Sucsy Leslie and Chad Luning Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Under $1,000 Anonymous Louise A. Sunderland Bonnie and Jay Lytle Full Circle Foundation The Ann Barzel & Patrick Carol & Steve Mullins Mary and James West Richard P. and Brigid D. Hagerty Consulting Henry Arts Fund Thomas D. 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Marla Mogul and Harry Peggy Bagley and Rabbi Margaret and Alan Susan Comstock-Rolfes Bruce Ettelson P.C. and Phyllis and Eugene Jaffe Douglas Goldhamer Silberman and Marc Rolfes Missy Bundy Goldman Margaret Moses Doris Graber Craig Smith, RATIO Sally Connell Maurice and Ruth Ettleson Sally and Ralph Goren Ellen K. Munro Larry Green Architects Mary Alice and Peter J. Jamie and Sam Evins Henry Gould Bill Nelson and Sherry Mary Ann and David Shirley S. Solomon Costello Jessica T. Feldman John & Patsy Grady Graham Nelson Grumman Fredric and Nikki Will Stein Arlene and Harvey Edith Fessler John Green Mark Onuscheck and Juliet Guy and Joan Gunzberg Abby L. Strauss Coustan Susan Fine Rivia Greenberger Hart Katherine and Ray Haase Susan Barret-Kelly and David and Kate Cudnowski Paul L Fischer James & Lilli Greenebaum Marjorie Pelino Becky Harris Peter M. Kelly John Culbert Dr. and Mrs. William E. Roz and David Greenstein Catherine and Bart Rocca Tom and Jan Hazlett Thomas and Beverly Robert & Chie Curley Fishman Beth Hafter Pam and Paul Rolfes Mrs. Marilyn Heath Tabern Elisa harris & Ivo Daalder Karen and John Flood Doreen Hagerty Roberta and Howard Todd Hensley Elizabeth Tisdahl Bruce Davidson Susan Ford Jackie Haimes and Sean Rosell Kim & Kirk Hoopingarner Lisa and Randy White Barbara Davis Lori Fradin-Polster and Blitzstein Sue and Tim Salisbury Rhonda Hopps Bill Davis David Polster Susan Haimes Debby and Tim Schmid Karen and David Hughes Supporters Steve and Mary Jane Sidney and Jackie Sarah Handelman Dr. G. Stephen and Ellen Karen and Andy Jacobs $100 - $249 Dawson Freedman Bob Hariman Scholly Kathleen and Hal Jenkins Anonymous (11) Barbara and Peter Bryna and Edward P. Jeff & Jennifer Harris Susan and Brad Schulman Ann and Bernie Jennett Moreen Alexander DeBerge Gamson Lois and Donald Hartung Eugene L. Shepp Dr. Claudia Katz Michael and Joyce Altman Mary Anne Diehl and Elizabeth Ganitopoulos Pete and Jean Henderson Stephen Sickle Robert & Judy Kemp Judith and Trent Anderson James Kauffman Robert and Janet Gemmell Judy and Jay Heyman Don Huff and Jeanne Dennis and Barbara Frank and Kathy Ballantine Victoria Donati Jean Gershuny Joyce and Rich Hirsch Smith Kessler Mr. and Mrs. Lou Barnett John Donoghue Anneliese and Howard Allen and Nancy Janet Carl Smith and Mel Ryan Kettelkamp Margi and Roger Baron Brigid Duffy Gerace Glick Hirschfield Smith Diane and Barry Carole Bass Cynthia Dvorak Alexandra Goddard David and Liane Hodgman JWT Family Foundation Kirschenbaum Robert and Joan Linda and Mel Elbaum Ethel and Bill Gofen Al and Yetta Hoffman Ginny and Steven Towbin Steve Krug and Lori Beaubaire Jackie and Louis English Cindy Gold Mary Hojnacki Michael & Sarah Wagner Darling Kathleen M Bell Jerry and Ellen Esrick Joan and Roger Gold Elizabeth Holding Bernice Weissbourd Harry Lennix Lorie Berger Robert Willey Judith Levin Anne Berkeley Sherry & Mel Lopata Lois M. Berman Advocates Scott and Kristin Miller Patricia C. Birk $250 - $499 Neal Moglin & Mark Frances E. Bishop Anonymous (7) Tendam Larry and Mary Boeder Celebrate NORTHLIGHT’S OUTSTANDING Evelyn Alter Brian Montgomery and Don and Linda Bolte Mareon R. Arnold Laura Armstrong Mary Kay Bottorff &Support LEADERSHIP! Cindy Barbera-Brelle Montgomery Donald Bouseman Join us in celebrating BJ Jones’ 20th year as Artistic Director Jon & Shelley Benson Jamin & Phoebe Nixon Sheila and Ed Bradley th John Berg Jim Ossyra and Carol Deborah and Thomas & Tim Evans’ 10 as Executive Director Wally Bobkiewicz Remen Brejcha Steven and Phyllis Brody Talat Othman Roger and Carol Brice Ensure their vision for the future Margo and Paul Brown Terri and Brian Parker Rev. Daniel P. Buck Learn More at northlight.org/leadershipfund Ron & Mary Charles Paula Pelissero Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence M. Dennis & Franny Clarkson Sanford and Jody Perl Buescher Jack and Louise Costello Judith Perlman Ann and Dick Burnstine Anne Cotter Norman and Helene Raidl Brenda Bushala Judy and Bill Cottle Bob and Patty Reece Joseph and Mary Calandra Conway and Elinor Dahmer Ed and Susan Ritts Richard Campbell Philip Dawkins Howard A. Balikov and Lisa Rachel Cantor Jim and Joan Ducayet Rosenberg Scott Carter Malcolm D. Ewen Ira Rosenthal Richard Chessick Kate Feinstein Anthony Burt and Karin Paul & Jennifer Christensen Mark Fennell Reutzel Kenneth Clark Ms. Bonnie S. Forkosh and Fran Ruffalo Lynn & Robert Clark Dick Cohen Penelope and Toby Sachs Melanie and Robert Cody Thomas and Patricia Bruce Sagan and Bette Bradley and Jennifer Gahlon Cerf Hill Cohen Denise Michelle Gamble The Scherer Family Garrett and Myrna Cohn Neil and Marge Gambow Theresa and Rob Schumm Edwin and Marie Comiskey Joe Mazza by Photo David and Kimberly Shaw 20 | NORTHLIGHT THEATRE COLOR COLOR

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Judith Holleb Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Roche Schulfer and Mary IN KIND Good’s Fine Picture Richard Driehaus Museum Don Honchell and Susan Monahan Beth Fisher Anonymous Framing Room & Board Horn Kendra Morril and Brett Michael and Debbie Sear Accents Plus Gracie’s Russo Power Equipment Alysa and Barry Isaacson Johnson David Seidman Actors Gymnasium H2Vino Schaefer’s Anne Jacobson and Rick Martin W. Morris Ruth Sharps Avli Restaurant Heart Certified Auto Care Peter Silberman Kolsky John and Helen Moshak Jan and Art Sherman Backlot Coffee Kim & Kirk Hoopingarner Jill and Leif Soderberg Mary Lou Johns Susan Mullen Robert and Leslie Shook Bagel Art Cafe Jameson’s Original Chicago White Sox Ann and Tom Johnson John and Martha Muno Bruce and Sarane Siewerth The Joffrey Ballet Charhouse The Spice and Tea Doris J. Johnson Paula Muzik Nancy Silberman Ballroom Dance Chicago Jill Norton Photography Exchange Evanston Alice G. Jones Dennis and Linda Myers P.C Bob and Debbie Silverstein Bangers & Lace Koval Distillery The Spice House Dan and Michelle Jordan Willow Tree Awards Scott and Stacy Simpson Beam Suntory Inc. Lad and Lassie Starbucks Coffee Company Laurie Kabb Michael and Kathleen Nash Gerri Sizemore Daniel K. Biss Leonidas Steep Theatre Martin and Susanne Kanter Herb and Roberta Nechin Cindy Smith Boltwood Lettuce Entertain You Stella Evanston Barry J Kaplan Judy Newton Walter Soderstrom Bottle & Bottega Enterprises, Inc. Stuart-Rodgers Sono Fujii and Claudio Katz Tony and Andrea Maria Solomon The Bottle Shop The Lewis Family Photography Robert Kaul Nocchiero Betty Soren Jacklyn and Michael Lifeline Theatre Stumble & Relish Nancy Kellman Gladys Nutt Alvin and Kate Spector Brennan Lincoln Park Zoo Tag’s Bakery Carolyn Michelle and Ryan Wallace and Sarah Oliver Elyssa Joy Springer Chicago Zoological Lois & Company Temperance Beer Company S. Kilkenney Dr. and Mrs. Don Olson Alex and Mary Sproul Society, Brookfield Zoo Lyric Opera of Chicago First Folio Theatre Jacki and Shelly Kimel Tom and Cathy Omundson William & Ingrid Stafford Malcolm S. Brown McGaw YMCA Theo Ubique Cabaret Dorothy King Jennifer O’Neil John and Julie Stahl Josh and Julie Chernoff Marge McMonagle Theatre Allan and Tanya Klasser Jerry Oswald and Kathy Sylvia V. Stec Chicago Bears Timeline Theatre Dalia Kleinmuntz Fredricks Oswald Dr. Rhonda Stein & Dr. Ed Chicago Dance Megan Mullally and Nick Trattoria Demi John and Sue Klemmer Eleanor Pagano Smolevitz Chicago Shakespeare Offerman Lulu’s Dim Sum and Then Sandy and Saul Klibanow Michael and Diane Paley Ann B. Stevens Theater The Music Institute of Sum, Five & Dime, and Barbara B. Kreml Mitchell and Beverly Harriet C. Stone Chicago Symphony Chicago Taco Diablo Richard Kreutzfeldt Petersen Mary and Ken Sullivan Orchestra Music Theater Works Victory Gardens Theater Kristen DeNicolo and Steve Genevieve Phelps Dr. and Mrs. Arnold Sutker Museum of Contemporary MyEyeDr. Vin Chicago Zarch Laura Pils Gerard Swick Art Chicago Napolita Pizzeria & Wine WellSpring Integrative Mary S. Kurz Tim and Jane Pire Gail and Bernard Talbert Christine Cikowski and Bar Medicine Bill Lampkin Marlene Pochis Ann Taylor and Gil Sharon Josh Kulp Nick’s Neighborhood Bar Wilmette Wine Cellar Michael Landau Amit and Ratna Prachand Ms. Sharon Therieau Come From Away + Grill Wirtz Center for the Grace and Richard Lehner Sally Prager Betsy E. Tolstedt Steppenwolf Theatre The Noodle and Depot Performing Arts, Gregg and Carolyn Lemein Beverly Preiser George & Susan Van Dusen Company Nuevo Northwestern University Sue and Jim Lerner Carol Prieto Mary Ellen Van Ness Cupitol Coffee and Eatery North Shore Center for Writers Theatre Elaine and Steve Lev Judy and Ed Provost Mark and Therese Dance Center Evanston the Performing Arts in WXRT Seymour Levin Holly Raider VandeHey Design Green Landscapes Skokie YWCA Evanston/North Susan Levitt Evelyn Rainwaters Barbara Volin DMK Restaurants The Northwest Passage Shore Joan W. Levy Sandra Rau Melissa and John Vrdolyak Drury Lane Theatre Northwestern University Alan M. Zunamon & Nancy The Lewis Family Neal J. Reenan Joyce Anne Wainio and Escape Artistry Athletics Cunniff Thomas and Joan Lindsey Nancy Reinberg John Fulcher Timothy and Jane Evans Northwestern University/ Ted and Judy Lucas Sandi Riggs Mary and Gary Walther Evanston 1st Liquors Bienen School of Music HOSPITALITY PARTNERS David and Catherine Lynch Al Rigoni Tamara & Mel Waskin Evanston Art Center Nothing Bundt Cakes Charcoal Oven Restaurant Charles MacKelvie Susan and Richard Roman Howard Weiss Evanston Athletic Club Cindy Ondra Chipotle Mexican Grill Dr. Edward and Helen Joseph H. Romeo William and Barbara Welke Evanston Symphony The Paramount Theatre The DoubleTree Hotel Magid Norman Rosen Catherine Westphal Orchestra Piccolo Sogno Hearth Restaurant Matthew J. Magnuson Jill and Michael Rosenbaum Jon-Micheal and Stephanie Feast & Imbibe Catering Piece Brewery & Pizzeria Hecky’s Barbecue Carol Majka Richard Rosenberg Wheat Group Pilates Connection The Homestead William Mangold Beverly Rossman Diane & Sandy Whiteley FEW Spirits LLC Prairie Grass Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Holly and Edward Mann Colleen Hughes and Linda and Payson Wild Fitness Defined Pro Skin By Afsan Lounge Charlene Marcus Donald Rothschild Steve and Sue Wilson Frank Lloyd Wright Trust Ragdale Nothing Bundt Cakes James and Barbara Marran Susan B. Rubnitz Ann and Arnie Wolff Craig Golden and Michal Raven Theatre Oceanique Howard and Jean May William Runzel Mel Wolff Heifitz-Golden Redtwist Theatre Room & Board Arthur and Anne McGivern Norman and Patricia Sack Peggy Wolff Goodman Theatre Remy Bumppo Theatre Jim and Cass McHolland Jonathan and Ellie Salk Cheryl Wollin Company Mara and Bob Mihlfried Barbara Sue Schell Sarah Wood Lois Milburn William Schneider Michael Wright To Make Your Gift Today Robert and Judith Miller Marybeth Schroeder and Maureen “Moe” Yanes Contact Morgan Ulyat at 847.324.1613 or [email protected], Art Mollenhauer Charlie Vernon or donate online at northlight.org. 22 | NORTHLIGHT THEATRE NORTHLIGHT THEATRE | 23 COLOR

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