GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSE

2017 – 2018

Board of Trustees

Chairman: James N. Heston* President: Penelope Lattimer, Ph.D.* First Vice President: Lucy Hughes* Treasurer: David Fasanella* Secretary: Sharon Karmazin*

Ronald Bleich Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui, Ph.D. Kenneth M. Fisher Frances C. Stromsland, Ed.D. William R. Hagaman, Jr. Jocelyn Schwartzman Norman Politziner Janice Stolar Kelly Ryman* Lora Tremayne David Saint* Stephen M. Vajtay W. Burton “Tripp” Salisbury Alan W. Voorhees *Denotes Members of the Executive Committee

Trustees Emeritus

Robert L. Bramson Cody P. Eckert Clarence E. Lockett Al D’Augusta Peter Goldberg Anthony L. Marchetta George Wolansky, Jr.

Honorary Board of Trustees

Thomas H. Kean Eric Krebs

Honorary Memoriam

Maurice Aaron∆ ∆ Dr. Edward Bloustein∆ Richard Sellars∆ Dora Center∆∆ Barbara Voorhees∆∆ Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.∆ Edward K. Zuckerman∆ Milton Goldman∆ Adelaide M. Zagoren

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When I first saw Joanna Glass’ beautiful play Trying several years ago in starring my friend , I was fascinated by this - like story about Judge Francis Biddle and his last assistant, based on Ms. Glass’ own experience working for him.

David Saint Looking at the play in 2018, I find the resonance Artistic Director of this “exemplary” Attorney General‘s passionate belief in social justice newly inspiring.

In a more personal way, this story of learning from an older, opinionated and sometimes difficult mentor hit home with me regarding my own relationship with my mentor, the extraordinary Arthur Laurents.

I’m so pleased to have Jim Jack return to our main stage after the exquisite job he did directing My Name is Asher Lev.

I believe he has found two remarkable to bring this touching, delicate dance of a duet to life in Philip Goodwin and Carly Zien.

Together with their wonderful design team, they have mounted a production which will delight, enchant and ultimately move you as deeply as it does me.

Enjoy.

David Saint Artistic Director Productions sponsored by The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation (from top-left clockwise): as Lyndon Baines Johnson in All The Way; and in a scene from Theater’s production of ; Primary Stage production of Bronx Bombers; and Peter Gallagher, Kristin Chenoweth, , Michael McGrath and Mark Linn-Baker in On the Twentieth Century.

THE BLANCHE & IRVING LAURIE FOUNDATION GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSE David Saint, Artistic Director Kelly Ryman, Managing Director Presents Trying By Joanna McClelland Glass Directed by Jim Jack Set Design by Jason Simms Costume Design by Esther Arroyo Lighting Design by Christopher J. Bailey Composer/Sound Designer Scott Killian Production Manager Christopher J. Bailey Production Stage Manager Jane Pole* Casting by McCorkle Casting, Ltd.

March 13 – April 8, 2018

Trying is sponsored by The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation

Trying is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. Originally Produced at Victory Gardens Theater, , Illinois Dennis Zacek, Artistic Director Sandy Shinner, Production Director March 29, 2004

Originally Produced on the New York Stage by Michael Leavitt, Maidstone Productions, Libby Adler Mages, Mari Stuart, Tony D’Angelo, Steve Dahl, Maria Cozzi Sandy Shinner, Production Director October 14, 2004

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Sarah Carly Zien* Judge Biddle Philip Goodwin*

*- denotes member of Actors’ Equity Association. For 110 years, PARKER has been challenging, changing Trying is performed with one 15 minute intermission. and expanding what it means to grow older Understudies: Christina Comizio and Rachelle Legrand in America. We are discovering ways to make aging manageable, relatable and enriching for all. Join us in making aging part of life @Parkerlifeorg.

The actors and stage managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

The director is a member of The Stage The stage technicians of Directors and Choreographers Society, Inc., George Street Playhouse an independent national labor union. are proud members of IATSE Local 21.

The Scenic, Costume, Lighting and Sound Designers in LORT theatres are represented by 732-902-4200 United Scenic Artists Local USA-829, IATSE. www.Parkerlife.org The George Street Playhouse is published five times a year by George Street Playhouse, Inc., Locations: New Brunswick | Piscataway a not-for-profit corporation. Please send advertising inquiries to George Street Playhouse, P. O. Box 194, New Brunswick, NJ 08903-0194, attn: Playbill Advertising. Somerset | Monroe Township | Highland Park

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COMPANY bios.

Philip Goodwin school include Viola and Olivia in two (Judge Francis different productions of Twelfth Night, Biddle) Broadway: Lula in Dutchman, and Harper in Angels , The Diary of in America. Film and TV: A Woman, Anne Frank, and The A Part; The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel School for Scandal. Off- (Amazon); Nightcap (PopTV). MFA: Broadway: A Day by Yale School Of Drama. For my elders. the Sea, Mint Theatre; Celebration, Atlantic Theatre; Mud and Drowning, Joanna McClelland Glass (Playwright) Signature Theatre; Grace (with Lynn has had plays produced in many North Redgrave), MCC; and Henry VI (Drama American regional theatres, as well Desk Nomination), Theatre for a as in England, Ireland, Australia, and New Audience; King Lear (with Kevin Germany. Trying was first presented by Kline), Public Theatre. Regional: Two Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago in River Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre 2004 and won Chicago’s prestigious of NJ, Arizona Theatre , Jefferson Award for Best New Play. Cleveland Playhouse, Guthrie Theatre, Trying was then produced at The Intiman Theatre, Portland Stage, Promenade Theatre, NYC, in the fall/ Hartford Stage, and as Kenneth Tynan winter of 2004-2005. Ms. Glass has in Tynan, Studio Theatre DC. Film written two novels, Reflections on a and TV: The Pink Panther, The Pink Mountain Summer (published by Alfred Panther 2, Diary of a City Priest, Law & A. Knopf in 1975), and Woman Wanted Order, Law & Order: CI, (PBS). (published by St. Martin’s Press in Philip is an Associate Artist at the 1984). She adapted both novels into Shakespeare Theatre Company in screenplays. starred Washington, D.C., and an alumnus of in and directed a film version of Woman The Acting Company. Wanted — also starring Holly Hunter and — in 1998. Carly Zien (Sarah) is thrilled to be making Jim Jack (Director) returns to directing her George Street for GSP’s mainstage a second time, Playhouse debut. following his debut at the helm of Theater: One Slight the critically acclaimed production Hitch (Totem Pole of My Name is Asher Lev in spring Playhouse); Over the 2016. Directing credits for GSP’s River and Through the Woods (Flat Educational Tour and Community- Rock Playhouse); Buzzer (Cincinnati based programs include: Terra Playhouse); and Maggie in Cat on a Incognita, Now; Gabi Goes Hot Tin Roof (Chautauqua Theater Green!; Austin the Unstoppable; IRL: Company). Favorite roles from in real life; New Kid; Peacemaker; and NEXT AT GSP Order tickets now at www.GeorgeStreetPlayhouse.org or 732-246-7717

by Larry Shue directed by Kevin Cahoon

April 24 – May 20

Willum’s birthday party gets a jolt of hilarious excitement when Rick Steadman, a fellow ex-soldier who saved Willum’s life, stops by for a visit. When he realizes that Rick is socially inept and will overstay his welcome with a vengeance, Willum must put together an outrageous plan to rid himself of this wacky GI who came to dinner. A rollicking farce from the author of the award-winning comedy The Foreigner.

“The audience almost never stops laughing—handkerchiefs wiping away tears of merriment…” — Variety COMPANY bios.

Break the Chains. Additional New York Street Playhouse. Recent credits and regional credits include: The Road; include this season’s An Act of God Where is Home?; The Way It Was; K2 starring the legendary ; (Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Daddy Long Legs; Nureyev’s Eyes; Nora; Direction); Life and Limb; The Dumb The Fabulous Lipitones; Clever Little Lies Waiter; and The Zoo Story. Jim is the at George Street Playhouse, Guild Hall Director of Education and Outreach for and NYC’s Westside Theatre; One of George Street Playhouse. Jim wishes Your Biggest Fans; ; to thank David Saint, Kelly Ryman and The Subject Was Roses; and Come Back, the GSP staff, and Board of Trustees Come Back, Wherever You Are by Arthur for their support. Jim dedicates this Laurents. Bachelor’s degree in Theatre production to the memory of the man Arts, majoring in Costume Design, who helped him lace the skates and hit from . the ice, Dr. Homer Swander. Christopher Bailey (Lighting Designer/ Jason Simms (Set Designer) Production Manager) This season Productions at GSP include: American marks Mr. Bailey’s 20th at George Hero, American Son, Sex With Strangers, Street Playhouse and 14th as its Venus in Fur and The Whipping Production Manager, having Man. Other Regional Theaters previously served the Playhouse include: Philadelphia Theatre Co., as Technical Coordinator and Bristol Riverside Theatre (Bristol, Sound and Lighting Manager. He PA), People’s Light and Theatre, was recently Lighting Designer (Malvern, PA) Denver Center Theatre for GSP’s productions of American Co., TheatreWorks, Silicon Valley, Hero, Bad , Daddy Long Legs, Chautauqua Theatre Co. (Chautauqua, My Name is Asher Lev, Sex With NY), Berkshire Theatre Group, The Old Strangers, Nureyev’s Eyes and Clever Globe (San Diego), Two River Theatre Little Lies, which moved to the Guild Co. (Red Bank, NJ), Pioneer Theatre Hall Theatre in East Hampton and Co. (Salt Lake City), and many others. then off-Broadway to the Westside New York venues include: The Public, Theatre. He was Sound Designer The Cherry Lane, 2nd Stage Uptown, for GSP’s American Son and off- The Pearl Theatre Co., Ensemble Broadway productions of The Fourth Studio Theatre, Soho Playhouse, Wall at Primary Stages and Down The New Ohio, and more. MFA: NYU, the Garden Paths at the Minetta BFA: Cornish College of the Arts. Lane Theatre. His work includes 6 scenic designs and 9 sound designs Esther Arroyo (Costume Designer) for GSP’s Educational Touring is the resident Costume Designer productions and 26 lighting designs and Costume Director at George and 40 sound designs for GSP’s

COMPANY bios. mainstage productions. He has also Smith Dance, Alvin Ailey, Nikolais Louis designed for: French Institute Alliance Dance, and The Jose Limon Company. Française, The Pearl Theatre, Barrington Stage Company, Premiere Stages, The Jane Pole (Production Stage Manager) Bickford Theatre, Abingdon Theatre, Broadway: The Addams Family, Macbeth, Strand Theatre, The Berkshire Theatre Tartuffe. Off-Broadway includes: School Festival, Two River Theater Company, for Scandal, The 39 Steps, The Anthem, Ashlawn Highland Opera Festival, LKB Bill W & Dr Bob, Hurt Village, Play it Dance, Randy James Dance, The Rand Cool,On The Levee, What Once We Felt, Theater, The , Evil Dead The Musical. BAM: The Bridge Westport Country Playhouse, Long Project – The Cherry Orchard & Winter’s Wharf Theatre, Delaware Theatre Tale (& International Tour), Macbeth, Company, Jacob’s Pillow, and more. Happy Days, King Lear, The Seagull and Medea. Regional: A Connecticut Scott Killian (Composer/Sound Christmas Carol (Goodspeed), Guys & Designer) Trying marks Scott’s 22nd Dolls, Clue, Cake Off, Steel Magnolias, production at George Street, where Plaid Tidings, Meet Me In St. Louis, It’s some of his favorite productions A Wonderful Life, Barefoot in the Park include Outside Mullingar, Good People, (Bucks County Playhouse); Daddy Long Clever Little Lies, My Name is Asher Lev, Legs, Rich Girl, One Slight Hitch, The American Hero and The Seafarer. Off- 39 Steps (George Street Playhouse); Broadway: Sarah, Sarah; Five by Tenn; Intimate Apparel (Westport Country A Picasso (Lortel Award nomination), Playhouse). UK: Over 50 productions The Other Side ( Theatre for the RSC. Club); Volpone; The Duchess of Malfi; Edward the Second; Women Beware McCorkle Casting, Ltd. (Casting) Women (Red Bull Theater); Side Pat McCorkle (C.S.A.), Katja Zarolinski Effects (MCC); Steve and Idi; Miss Julie (CSA) have been the proud casting (Rattlestick Theater). Regional: Resident director of George Street Playhouse Composer/Sound Designer, Berkshire for over 20 years. Broadway: Over 50 Theatre Festival (35-plus productions); productions; Amazing Grace, On The Westport Country Playhouse; Town, End of the Rainbow, The Lieutenant American Conservatory Theatre; Of Inishmore, , Seattle Repertory Theatre; Cleveland Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, One Flew Over Playhouse; Cincinnati Playhouse; The Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus, She Shakespeare Theatre, DC; Shakespeare Loves Me, Blood Brothers, A Few Good & Company; Theatre Calgary and Men. Off Broadway: Over 60 original Playhouse. Music for dance productions; Clever Little Lies, Becoming includes Zvi Gotheiner (ZviDance), Dr. Ruth, Tribes, Our Town, Falling, Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance, Shapiro and Toxic Avenger, Freud’s Last Session,

COMPANY bios.

Almost Maine, Killer Joe, Driving Miss Clever Little Lies and It Shoulda Been Daisy. Feature film: Senior Moment, You. He has directed Clever Little Lies at Year by the Sea, Child of Grace, My Guild Hall in East Hampton, N.Y., and Man is a Loser, Ghost Town, Secret off-Broadway at Westside Theatre, as Window, Tony and Tina’s Wedding, well as the National Tour of West Side The Thomas Crown Affair, The 13th Story. In July 2016, he directed a two- Warrior, Madeline, Die Hard with a night concert performance of West Vengeance, School Ties, etc.,Television: Side Story at the legendary Hollywood Twisted (ABC Family) humans Bowl. He also has directed on for , Californication Broadway, off-Broadway and regionally (Emmy nomination), Hack (CBS), at , Manhattan The Education of Max Bickford (CBS), Theatre Club, Primary Stages, Chappelle’s Show, Strangers with Candy, McCarter, Williamstown, Seattle Barbershop (Comedy Central) and Rep, Pasadena Playhouse, series’ for Showtime, HBO, TMC. Public, Long Wharf and many others on premieres by writers such as Aaron David Saint (Artistic Director) Sorkin, Wendy Wasserstein, Peter is in his 21st season as Artistic Director Parnell, Jonathan Marc Sherman, Joe of George Street Playhouse. He has Di Pietro and Jonathan Larson. He is directed 39 mainstage productions the recipient of the Alan Schneider at GSP, having most recently helmed Award, Helen Hayes Award, L.A. this season’s American Hero; I Love Drama Critics Award, several Drama- You, You’re Perfect, Now Change; and Logue Awards and is the President of An Act of God starring the legendary The Laurents/Hatcher Foundation. Kathleen Turner. His time here has been marked by collaborations with Kelly Ryman (Managing Director) such artists as Keith Carradine, Tyne is now in her 18th season at George Daly, Rachel Dratch, Sandy Duncan, Street Playhouse. As Director of , A.R. Gurney, , Marketing and Public Relations from , Dan Lauria, Kathleen 2000 to 2013, Kelly spearheaded Marshall, , Anne Meara, promotional efforts resulting in the , , top 10-highest grossing productions in Paul Rudd, , the Playhouse’s history, including the , and hit musical It Shoulda Been You, which many others, including a remarkable ran on Broadway in early 2015. Off- partnership with Arthur Laurents. In Broadway, Kelly was a member of the addition, many new award-winning marketing team for The Toxic Avenger, works have begun their life here during which premiered at GSP and won the his tenure, such as The Toxic Avenger, 2009 Outer Critics’ Circle Award for , The Spitfire Grill, Joe DiPietro’s Best New Musical. She serves on the SAVE THE DATE

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Board of Directors of New Brunswick includes the 2017/2018 Drew Forum City Market. Prior to her tenure at – New Jersey’s most prestigious George Street Playhouse, Ms. Ryman ongoing speakers series; Lincoln worked at McCarter Theatre, and Center Theatre’s revival of My Fair The Wilma Theatre. She is an adjunct Lady; the public television series professor of Arts and Entertainment American Masters and the Film Society Business at Mercer County Community of Lincoln Center’s 55th Annual New College, and was recognized in 2012 York Film Festival. The Foundation by ArtPride NJ with their Jersey Arts was gratified to have been selected Marketers Leadership Award. as the Outstanding Foundation of 2016 by the New Jersey Chapter The Blanche & Irving Laurie of the Association of Fundraising Foundation (Production Sponsor) Professionals. It is proud to report was established in 1983 by New that the Foundation has provided Brunswick philanthropist Irving approximately $80,000,000 in Laurie. The Foundation supports grants to philanthropic endeavors, a variety of projects across broad addressing the Foundation’s interest issue areas. The 2017/2018 program in the arts, education, healthcare of cultural support currently and social services.

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GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSE THEATRE ACADEMY SUMMER 2018 Trying...to write: An Interview with Joanna McClleland Glass

Inset: The Honorable Francis Biddle via Wikipedia.

The following text is excerpted from an interview conducted in December 2003 by Emilie Syberg of the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago, Illinois.

Q: There’s a sense that much of your work is autobiographical. Can you talk about Trying in that way?

Joanna McClelland Glass: Trying is about the last year in a life of enormous accomplishment. Francis Biddle was first a Harvard-educated lawyer; later he became Attorney General under Roosevelt, and then Truman appointed him Chief Judge of the Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. But in the last year of his life the things that preoccupied him most were the fact that one of his sons had died young, and that he had never known his own father, who died when Biddle was six. I was young enough, when I worked for him, to be rather amazed at that. I was so impressed with all of his credentials, by the illustriousness of his Philadelphia family. But here was a sick old man who had a great deal of pride, who hated my knowing how difficult it was for him to make a phone call, how forgetful he was, and so on; and whose real psychic pain resided in the two great losses in his life. Those losses are what he was about in his final year. Q: Why did you write this story now, over 30 years after it happened?

JMG: Within a couple of years after working for Francis Biddle, I very badly wanted to write it all down, because it had a tremendous effect on me. I had a one-act play that was about forty minutes long. But I knew—again, innately— that it needed to be a full-length play. I think this particular play required me to have a deeper knowledge of one’s mortality. I tried to go back to it about ten years ago. I was living in at the time, and my partner, who has since died, had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. I stopped working on it while in the midst of that. So here I am, in my sixties, writing about 1967 and ‘68.

Q: Since the character Sarah is, in effect, you, did you find your older self commenting on the younger? Editing her?

JMG: I had to go back and try to become again that girl who was quite close to the Saskatchewan prairie, because I’m very far away from it now. And with the prairie signifying what it does for me, which is a great deal of sorrow and unhappiness, I’ve done that very human thing of shutting down on a lot of memories. You shut down because you have to function, you have to get up in the morning and get on with life. So I had to get in there and dig, and remember what a blank slate I was in the presence of Biddle; I had to remember the way his accomplishments and his ancestry led me into American history. Growing up in Canada we got much more British history than American (and a great deal of British literature).

Q: Can you tell us about the actual experience of working for Biddle?

JMG: Back then I was more dazzled by the enormous difference between his background and mine. Biddle’s family bought a great deal of what is now New Jersey in the late 1600s— from William Penn, actually. That’s a far cry from the way my mother’s family arrived in Saskatchewan. Every family has its own lore, and my mother’s lore was all about pioneering. My mother’s grandparents went to Saskatchewan to homestead; their wagons overshot and they ended up in Alberta where, luckily, they found some dinosaur bones they sold to give them the money to go back to their intended acres in Saskatchewan. My mother was illiterate all her life. Biddle was born in Paris; his father went to Yale, and (as is in the play) knew Benjamin Franklin’s great- granddaughter. It was this kind of introduction to American history that made me want to know about Philadelphia and the Declaration of Independence. Sometimes (this is not in the play) he loved to just educate me. And then there were other times when I would be very bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and I’d ask about something, and he was too preoccupied with the finality of his life, with what he knew to be his final year.

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Laura and Norm Baron Penelope Lattimer, PhD Mary and Patrick Callan Joy and Thomas McPartland Richard DeLisi, PhD Jocelyn Schwartzman Dina Elkins Vikki Schwartzman Suzanne B. Engel Rozann and George Shackleton Joann and Kenneth Fisher Lynn and Barry Sherman Judy and Jim Hancock Fran and Ken Stromsland James N. Heston Lexine and Cuyler Tremayne Lucy Hughes and Sean Devlin Lora and William Tremayne The Honorable Thomas H. Kean Marlene and Anthony Volpe

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George Street Playhouse is proud to commission and produce dynamic educational touring theatre for young audiences. Touring productions address themes such as respect, bullying, conflict resolution, and health and wellness.

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CORPORATIONS, FOUNDATIONS & GOVERNMENT CONTRIBUTORS

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS CONTRIBUTING PARTNER Merrill Lynch & Co. ($100,000 and Above) ($5,000 - $9,999) NJP Associates The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation Albert Garlatti Construction Inc. Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 9 The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey The Amboy Foundation Saint Peter’s University Hospital Johnson & Johnson Borden Perlman Salisbury & Kelly Auxiliary The Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Colgate-Palmolive Company Somerset Health Care Foundation Middlesex County Cultural and The George Link, Jr. Charitable Trust William Morris Endeavor Arts Trust Fund Investors Foundation New Jersey State Council on the Arts McCarter & English, LLP BACKERS Novo Nordisk, Inc. Merrill G. and Emita E. Hastings ($500 - $999) Foundation Actors Equity Foundation, Inc. PRODUCERS New Brunswick Development Corporation Franklin Mutual Insurance ($50,000 - $99,999) (DEVCO) Glenmede Trust Company The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Parker Home at Stonegate Hoagland, Longo, Moran, Dunst The Karma Foundation PSE&G & Doukas, LLP The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Robert Wood Johnson University I.A.T.S.E International Hospital Kelso & Bradshaw Sidney J. Harris Trust CO-PRODUCERS Foundation TD Bank ($20,000 - $49,999) New Brunswick Cultural Center, Inc. Bank of America New Brunswick Parking Authority GUARANTORS Bloomberg Philanthropies New Jersey Theatre Alliance ($2,500 - $4,999) Bristol-Myers Squibb RBC Wealth Management Anela Kolohe Foundation Middlesex County Cultural and Rutgers Office of Community Affairs Heritage Commission The Fred C. Rummel Foundation Schenck, Price, Smith, & King LLP New Jersey Council for the Humanities Mazars USA LLP The Provident Bank Foundation PATRONS Rutgers Community Health Foundation ($1,000 - $2,499) ANGELS RWJ Barnabas Health Boston Properties (Gifts Under $500) Union Foundation The Campbell Family Foundation AlphaGraphics Cushman & Wakefield Fox Stage Productions ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS EisnerAmper LLP Rutgers School of Dental Medicine ($10,000 - $19,999) Engel and Devlin, P.C. Siperstein’s Fords Paint Corporation E. J. Grassmann Trust Flemington Car & Truck Country Zimmerli Art Museum The Hyde and Watson Foundation Fox Rothschild LLP PNC Foundation Fund for the New Jersey Blind, Inc. GIFTS-IN-KIND Rita Allen Foundation Gilbane Building Company Beasely Media Group Robert Wood Johnson III Fund #2 of the Gordon and Llura Gund Foundation Brother Jimmy’s BBQ Princeton Area Community Foundation Grounds for Sculpture DI Group Wells Fargo Infineum USA, L.P. The Frog and The Peach WithumSmith+Brown International Brotherhood of Electrical The Heldrich Workers Local 456 Nassau Communications LCK Wealth Advisors Panico’s Lincoln Center Theatre Tumulty’s Pub Markowitz, Fenelon, & Bank LLP Wegmans

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INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS

PRODUCING DIRECTORS ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS PARTNERS ($20,000 - and Above) ($1,000 - $2,499) ($500 - $999) Joan and Robert Campbell Frank Barker Kathleen and Tom Carral Joann and Ken Fisher Regina Belowsky Laura Cahill and the Honorable James N. Heston Walter Bradhering and Daniel Kluchinski James Cahill The Family of Robert Wood Johnson, Jr. Joan and Robert Bramson Carol Condon Sharon Karmazin Mary and Patrick Callan Leo Devine The Honorable Thomas H. Kean, Carol and Joe Ciorciari Patrick J. Diegnan, Jr. in Honor of David Saint MaryLou and Alfred D’Augusta Nancy and Richard Engle Elizabeth and Arthur Roswell Richard DeLisi Rick Engler and Brad Caswell Marlene and Tony Volpe D’Maris and Joseph F. Dempsey David A. Feigley Lillian and Michael Dipiazza Ellen Frede and Steven Barnett EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Barbara and Paul Eggermann Bobbi and Barry Freedman ($10,000 - $19,999) Jane Engel Susan and Bryan Garruto Lucy Hughes and Sean Devlin Suzanne Engel Wilma and Arthur Gelfand Peter Jewell and Fred Eisinger Lyn and David Fasanella Julie and Robert Goldstein David Saint Jennie and John Fischer Midge Golin Susan Forman and Richard Lehne Beth and Martin Hammer PRODUCERS Marc Gonzer Elizabeth and James Hance ($5,000 - $9,999) Clara and John Grosso Nancy and Richard Hines Laura Z. Baron Mark Gruber Ellen and George Horowitz Isa and Michael Beck Lorraine and Robert Henry Susan and Jeffrey Hyman Elaine and Robert Ciatto Jean and Claude Heller Karen and Ronald Joho Dina Elkins and Paul Dooley Joyce and William Jonat William Engel Suzanne and Steve Kalafer Irene and Steven Lieberman David M. Greene Mindy Raso Kirstein and Phil Kirstein Barbara and Robert Martalus Mary and Edward Hartnett Charles T. Larsson Michael Mastro Lorraine Knapp Nancy L. and Arthur E. Lee Joan Barry and Richard L. McCormick Nancy and Duncan MacMillan Laura and Joel Leizer Doreen Molloy and John Manfredi Lisa Moro and Alan Voorhees Laura and Dean B. Livingston Maria and Abel Moreyra Dorothy and Norman Politziner Pamela and Andrew Lovasz Marlene and Michael Nissenblatt Jocelyn Schwartzman David Lumia Mary and Ted Petti Vikki Schwartzman Daphne and Steve Mishkin Mona and Barry Portnoy Margaret Styne Mark McMahon and Roberto Moreira Karen and Robert Predale Lexine and Cuyler Tremayne Joy and Thomas McPartland Julie and Rob Rafano Lora and William Tremayne Richard Patt Joan Raffe Ann and Robert Rafano Marie and Marshall Rosen CO-PRODUCERS Christine Renz and Noah R. Levy Karen and Henry Ross ($2,500 - $4,999) Adrienne and Andrew Ross Sue and Evan Schwartzman Edward S. Atwater Carole and Stephen Schneider Rozann and George Shackleton, Lois and Ronald Bleich Rozann and George Shackleton in Honor of Penelope Lattimer Nancy Boucher and W. John Bauer Lynn and Barry Sherman Barbara and Howard Sorkin William Hagaman Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui and Nickie and L. Richard Wolff Tillie and Bob Kahle Mark Trautman Penelope E. Lattimer, Ph.D. Fran and Ken Stromsland Barbara and Leonard Littmann Marlo Thomas Elizabeth Otterbein Renee Troiano Ellen Ozur and Stuart Brown Margaret Velden Rita Paszamant Bob Virgadamo Janice G.and Lewis Stolar Caroline S. and F. Helmut Weymar Gabriella and Stephen M. Vajtay Nancy and Edward Winant Michele and George Wolansky CONTRIBUTORS as of February 20, 2018

BACKERS ANGELS Chris Gatelli ($250 - $499) ($100 - $249) Joyce and Alvin Glasgold Marci and Martin Abschutz Beatrice Abrams Marilyn Glassner Michael Antoniades Carol Adelman Garry Goldberg Frank Arcaro Arda Agulian and Ron Russo Susan and Eric Goldman Ellen Berman Nancy and William Ainslie Joel Goldsmith Karen A. Beverly Beatrice and Ed Albaum Marjorie and Bruce Goldstein Jacqueline Brendel David Alberts Anne and Robert Gordon Mr. and Mrs. Terrill Brenner Jennifer Allen Marlene and Joel Gordon Adele and Jack Borrus Mr. and Mrs. Marc L. Alterman Elizabeth and Roy Gotta Christine and Benjamin Bucca Carol and Thomas F. Arnold Robert Grant Andrea and James Carroll Silvia Ascarelli Laura Graumann Scott Corbett Maryjane Austin Bruce Greenberg Lynnette Durko Linda Bachman Marcia Greenberg Dina and Peter Engler Barbara Baier Judy and Michael Greenwood Elaine and Bill Flynn Isabelle and John Baker Ed Grossman Mark Froelich and Doug Otrimski Peggy Barbella Brenda Hagan Boyd Gaines Nancy R. Baron James Hastings Stephen Garvey Jeanne and James F. Barrett, II Dorothy and George Heinze Willard Geller Shirley and Stuart Bauer Lucille Heller Paula and Jack Gentempo Kathi and Greg Baxter Ellen and Joel Henkin Nancy Greenberger Edythe Ben-Israel Deborah Herman and Shelby Wells Margaret Grove Dorothea Berkhout and Paul Breitman Blanche Hoffman Irwin Hametz Susan and Alan Blanchette Laura and James Holdsworth Robert Hartmann Karen and David Blivaiss Frederick Holt Evelyn Hartmann Nancy and Russell Block Ann and John Holt Valerie and Nathaniel Hartshorne Stephen Boguchwal Bernice and Robert Howatt Kenneth Kaufman Bill Braden Brian R. Humphrey Ruth B. Klein Jody and Phil Bramson Rachel and Jeff Humphrey Joseph Kosmo Shelley Brankner Pamela Imbimbo Susanne and Alexander Kucsma Eileen and John Bufe Edna Ingold Howard R. Levine Richard Bullock Jim Jack Nicky and Paige L’Hommedieu Joanne and James Bunce Marilyn Jeris Andrew Lippa Mr. & Mrs. Charles M. Carroll Janice and Sherry Johnson Lanny and Lee Livingston Linda and Theodore M. Choplick Dr. and Mrs. Frank Jones Rose and Anthony Lo Castro Carolyn and Maxine and Mark Kasdin Kathleen Mattingly Ellen and Ted Cohen Liz and Murray Katz Richard McAdams Sylvia and Howard Cohen John P. Khouri John McEwen Donald B. Cook Elisabeth and Donald King Mary Ann McLaughlin Sheila Cooper Gregory King John Mortenson Mark Corso David Klein Lilia and Roberto Muniz Elizabeth Counselman Pat and Roger Klein Barbara Nathan Ellen and Cliff Cramer Jackie Kreuger Brenda Overcash and Thomas West Robert Daly Evelyn and George Lander Cori and Jim Palmere Natalie Darwin Kathleen Larkin and Frank Sonnenberg Kimberly and Gregory Parris Nancy and Jeff Davis Ann and John Lech Marion and Michael Portnoy Madeline Detalvo Renee and Steve Levin Janet and Joseph Potenza Norman Diamond Mr. and Mrs. Michael Levine Bethany and Jonathan Rabinowitz Ellen and Richard Diamond Karen and David Levinsky Mary Reece Betty and Paul Dicker Rita and Philip Levy Stephen L. Ritz Susan and Merv Dickinson Marlaine Lockheed and Steven Frakt Alan Rothschild David Drinkwater and Jonathan Mills Kathleen Love Rita Seplowitz Saltz Katherine Dulan Carolyn and Frank Lumia Arline Schwartzman Sandi and Allan Ellis Mr. and Mrs. Robert Margolies Megan Shook Joseph Ercolino Ruth and Michael Margolin Patricia Sheehan Paulette Ewert Joanne M. and Tom Marino Jerry Stiller Sondra Fechtner Charles Martino Joel Studebaker Paula and Irwin Feifer Elaine and William McClure Bonnie and David Sudol David Feigley Pat McCorkle Gail and James Szeluga Gail and S. Ashby Foote Mary McDermott Blanquita B. Valenti Marie Foucher and Daniel D. Hyman Mary Ann McLaughlin Dan Vickery Bonnie and William Fox Susan and Jack Meola Joanne and Allan Williams Barbara and Sheldon Freidenreich Sharon and Vance Merolla Judith E. Gardner Marion Mezzetti Stacey and David Garfield Joan and Rabbi Bennett Miller THANK YOU for your support

Michele and Irwin Millinger Donald Thomas ARTHUR LAURENTS Linda and Hassan Minor James Tiesi MEMORIAL FUND DONORS: Karol and Wayne Morrison Bridget Troccoli Bruce Moskovitz and John Felllin Cecilia Tyler Lauren Bacall* Jim Mulroy Bonnie and Allan Warton Roger Berlind Judith S. Musicant Barbara Westergaard Lois and Ronald Bleich Suzanne S. Nacson Adam White Paddy Briglio Barbara and Kurt Nathan Caroline Willard Randi Neuman Jon Winer Joe DiPietro Debbie and Henry E. Newman Philip Witt Holly and Orlando Esposito Rochelle and Bruce D. Newman Anita H. Wolfson Freddie and Myrna Gershon Walter Newman J. Wood, in honor of Marc Vogt David M. Greene Dennis O’Dea David Hatcher Eugene F. O’Neill Marcia Hefter T. Oravetz GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSE Shirley Herz* Tracey O’Reggio GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES James N. Heston Anita and Harry Paborsky THE FOLLOWING GIFTS Winnie Holzman and Paul Dooley Virginia and Michael Palmer Betty Wold Johnson Glenn M. Parker GIVEN IN MEMORIAM: Sharon Karmazin Margaret and Harry Perrin The Honorable Thomas H. Kean Barbara and Jim Petrosini In Memory of Stephanie Bramson Jonathan Lomma Rosemary and Robert Polak, Janice, Lewis, and Landon Stolar Judith A. McDowell in Honor of Paul Charles Buckley Anne Meara* and Jerry Stiller In Memory of Joseph Ciorciari Gerald Pomper Karen S. Price Mary Botteon George F. Poppe III David Saint Nancy Catena Marcus Peter Porcelli Jocelyn Schwartzman Rick Engler and Brad Caswell Joan Pritchard Stephen Sondheim Denise and Ashley Ruikis Ellen O. Rebarber The Streisand Foundation Maureen and Frank Rees In Memory of Al Nacson Margaret Styne Susan Rivkind and Richard Zucker Margaret and Andrew Burke Lora and Bill Tremayne Ruth Robinson Annie and Andy Berger Ralph W. Voorhees* David Rogoff Barbara Day and Bob Strosnider * – deceased Naomi and Jerry Rose Sharon Grossman and Pat Crago David Rosen Winifred and Edward Haymes Buena Rosenbloom Sue and John Janssen Judith Rubin Megan and Rich Kacrinsky Karen Satterthwaite Phoebe Klein Barbara Schafer Carol Kumhall Lolly Schenck Daniel Levin Cory and Stanley Schneider Patricia Schneider and Roger Smith Dr. and Mrs. Ronald S. Schotland Kathy and Ken Schurzky MAXIMIZE THE IMPACT OF YOUR GIFT Susette Schwartz and Marvin Brauth Todd and Tara Schwartzman with a matching gift from your company! Lynn and John Semmlow Double or triple the impact of your gift to George Street Playhouse! Lurlee Shutkin and Donald White Include the name of your affiliation on your pledge form and your Marjorie Shakun Carolyn and Arthur Sherbin company’s matching gift form. GSP will credit the amount of your Victoria and Michael Shernicoff matching gift toward your gift total and include you in the higher level Pat Shiffner of benefits based on the combined gift total. Matching gifts play an Rachel and Michael Silverstein essential role in the financial support of George Street Playhouse. Harvey B. Singer Karen and Sheldon Singer Elaine and Gene Sletvold Current Matching Gift Companies Supporting the Playhouse Cecile Spector Patricia and Robert Spencer Bristol-Myers Squibb Merck Company Willa and Michael Spicer GE Foundation Merrill Lynch & Co Ronnie and Drew Staffenberg Natalie and Ernest Stein The Horizon Foundation Pfizer Susan Steinfeld for New Jersey Prudential Foundation Toni and Edward Stern Robert Stone IBM Corporation Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Beverly Teich Johnson & Johnson UBS Sheila and Raymond Testa Official Florist of George Street Playhouse The area’s most unique floral & gift accessory shop Weddings & Special Events Imported soaps - candles - home decor - gourmet and kosher baskets

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AUDIO-DESCRIBED PERFORMANCES IN CASE OF EMERGENCY The audio-described performances for patrons If necessary, patrons are asked to leave cell with visual impairments are at 8pm on: phones with the bartender or House Manager, Trying, Mar. 29 along with their seat location. The Nerd, May 10 FIRE NOTICE Please call the Box Office, 732-246-7717, The exit indicated by the red light and sign nearest for further information. Large print and Braille to the seat you occupy is the shortest route to brochures and programs are available upon the street. In the event of a fire or other emer- request. Audio-described performances are gency, please do not run, WALK TO THE EXIT. made possible by support from Fund for the New Jersey Blind, Inc. INCLEMENT WEATHER OPEN-CAPTIONED PERFORMANCES George Street Playhouse maintains a policy of not cancelling performances due to inclement The open-captioned performances for patrons weather, except in the event a State of Emergency with hearing impairments are at 2pm on: has been declared by the State or Local Government. Trying, March 31 The Nerd, May 12 LATE SEATING POLICY The theatre is open to the public one half-hour prior Please inform the Box Office that you wish to the performance. In consideration of all patrons, to use this service so that you may be seated latecomers will be seated at the discretion of House appropriately. Management. Late patrons will be seated in the best available seating at an appropriate break or interval George Street Playhouse’s accessible program- during the performance. ming is made possible in part by Fund for the New Jersey Blind, Inc., the Gordon and Llura Gund Foundation, the William G. and Helen RECORDING EQUIPMENT C. Hoffman Foundation, the Hyde and Watson Due to copyright and union regulations and Foundation, the Union Foundation, and the restrictions, still cameras, video cameras or any E.J. Grassmann Trust. type of recording equipment is not permitted at any time in the theatre and will be confiscated. ASSISTIVE LISTENING SYSTEM SMOKING For patrons who have a hearing impairment, light-weight, comfortable, padded earbuds The Playhouse is a smoke-free environment. and receivers are available. George Street There is no smoking in the building. If you Playhouse offers all people equal access and wish to smoke, you may do so outside where opportunities to participate in its services, there are ashtrays available. programs and activities. If any individual re- quires special assistance or assistive technology, please contact the Patron Services Manager at 732-246-7717 as far in advance of the program as possible. HURRY—GET YOUR TICKETS TODAY!

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ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENT Producing Associate Scott Goldman Director of Development Jacqueline Brendel Casting McCorkle Casting, Ltd. Development Associate, Events and Operations Caitlin Christensen EDUCATION Development Associate, Institutional Relations Cassidy Nogueira Director of Education and Outreach Jim Jack Development Associate, Donor Relations Megan Shook Assistant Director of Education Christa Cillaroto Manager of Tour and Academy Programs Diana Gundacker FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION Education Administrative Assistant Angela Peletier Director of Finance Karen Price Resident Teaching Artist/ Business Assistant Lynne Holton Project Coordinator Annie Rutherford Lutz 2017/18 – Touring Cast Christina Comizio PRODUCTION Evan Hart Rachelle Legrand Production Manager Christopher J. Bailey Joe Piserchio Company Manager/ Stage Manager Erica Leigh Assistant Production Manager Megan Cherry Teaching Artists Dustin Ballard SETS Laura Bozzone Heather Holmes Technical Director Marc Vogt Sam Leichter Assistant Technical Director Matthew Schmutz Annie Rutherford Lutz Master Carpenter Frank Giamella Rachel Matusewicz Carpenters Theodore Hoelter Angela Peletier Stone Coggins Lucas Pinner Scenic Charge James Hancocks Sandy Sainvil PROPERTIES Dave Seamon Jaime Ward Properties Master Helen Tewksbury Assistant Properties Master Maureen Hennessey MARKETING & PUBLIC RELATIONS Deck Hand Andre Penn Director of Marketing & Public Relations Rick Engler COSTUMES Marketing & Public Relations Associate Brian Kelley Costume Shop Manager Esther Arroyo Graphic Designer/Marketing Associate Mark Kieran Wardrobe Supervisor /Assistant to the Sales & Community Engagement Assoc. Erin Leder Costume Shop Manager Kelli Kardell Photographer T. Charles Erickson SOUND & ELECTRICS PATRON SERVICES & BOX OFFICE Master Electrician Tommy Williamson Patron Services Manager Shakera Blakney Sound Engineer Ted Crimy Jaci D’Ulisse Assistant Master Electrician and House Manager Megan Cherry Lighting Console Operator Marlon Lockhart Gerry Porcaro Lolly Schenck FOR THIS PRODUCTION Sales Associates Austin Brecht Production Assistant Heather Ber Cassidy Nogueira Assistant Lighting Designer Maximo Grano De Oro Christopher Paterson Dresser ElleryJane Ring Aaron Ratzan Dialect Coach Rebecca Simon Melissa Thompson Kether Tomkins the arts are the highest form of expression.

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