FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR It’s nearly autumn, which means a new season at Perseverance Theatre. Welcome! In Anchorage, it is our fifth year offering subscription seasons for you, and the thirty- seventh season since Perseverance’s founding in Juneau in 1978. As Perseverance “ ...we are just looks forward to the 40th anniversary season we can see how far the theatre has come, thanks to your warm welcome to Anchorage five years ago, and all who keep as excited about the seats full, purchase subscriptions, and make donations. Last season, Perseverance offered the theatre and theatre lovers throughout the state much to celebrate. Perseverance Theatre achieved a goal of 24,000 audience the work we are members statewide, and met the theatre’s million-dollar Fourth Decade Challenge on time. You, our subscribers, donors, and audience members, are the reason we are presenting as able to grow as we have. Thank you! This year, we have exciting new challenges and opportunities. Perseverance is we are about producing six plays on the mainstage, including Annapurna, and five of them will play in both Juneau and Anchorage. The theatre is continuing its process of investing more in Alaskan actors and artists: We now have two actors-in-residence and a full-time the process of production stage manager on our staff. One of the other changes we are happy to announce is a shift in our arrangement with Actor’s Equity Association. This year, Perseverance begins a trial transition to the “Small Professional Theatre” agreement creating it.” with Actor’s Equity, which allows the theatre to issue union contracts more easily and give Alaskan actors a way into union membership via their work with Perseverance Theatre. Of course, we are just as excited about the work we are presenting as we are about the process of creating it. This season is full of drama, literature, comedy, and delight with Annapurna; Othello; A Christmas Carol; Our Voices Will be Heard; In the Next Room, or the vibrator play; and Sweeney Todd. We are also in different stages of development of some groundbreaking new works. You may have had the opportunity to attend readings of Into the Wild, or House of Dreams this summer. We have more new Alaskan plays in the pipeline than ever. Just this summer, Perseverance was honored to become a core member of a national organization dedicated to the american playwright, National New Play Network. We are one of only 31 core member Theatres nationwide to receive core membership, a great testament to the theatre’s long commitment to new writers. Subscribing is the best way to know what’s happening first and have the opportunity to see more amazing theatre by and for Alaskans. As more of you in Anchorage subscribe, the theatre will continue to be able to support professional actors in Alaska, commission new plays about Alaska, and develop new audiences for Alaskan theatre. Information about subscriptions are in the lobby and online at PTalaska.org.

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2 Perseverance Theatre presents ANNAPURNA Art Rotch Artistic Director  Molly Smith Founder Bob Urata Board President Written by 914 Third StreetDouglas, Alaska 99824 907-364-2421 • fax 907-364-2603 Sharr White www.ptalaska.org Directed by Anchorage Run September 25 - October 3, 2015 Art Rotch Juneau Run May 6 - May 29, 2016 with Kevin T. Bennett & Rebecca George is made possible by support from

Scenic Designer Collaboration Costume Designer Colleen Alexis Metzger Lighting Designer Lauren MacKenzie Miller Composer/Sound Designer Lucy Peckham Stage Manager BJ Brooks WITH SEASON SUPPORT FROM Andrew W Mellon Foundation City & Borough of Juneau Production Manager Casting Production Stage Manager Juneau Arts & Humanities Council Kathleen Harper Shona Osterhout BJ Brooks Shubert Foundation Technical Director Juneau Sound Engineer Development Director Atwood Foundation Earnest Eckerson Betsy Sims Maggie Rabb 800 KINY – 630 KJNO – MIX 106 Juneau Master Electrician Playbill Marketing and Box Office TAKU 105 – 1330 KXJ Juneau Empire Todd Hunt Joshua Lowman Tom Robenolt Juneau Community Foundation Costume Shop Manager Prop Masters KTOO – KXLL – KRNN Colleen Alexis Metzger Kathleen Harper & Anne Szeliski Alaska State Council on the Arts Alaska Airlines Charlotte Martin Foundation ANNAPURNA was originally produced in New York City by The New Group: Scott Elliot, Artistic Director. National Endowment for the Arts ANNAPURNA received its world premiere on November 9, 2011 at Magic Theatre, San Francisco, CA Anchorage Press Loretta Greco, Producing Artistic Director The play was commissioned by South Coast Repertory Benito & Francis C. Gaguine Foundation David Emmes, Producing Artistic Director; Martin Benson, Artistic Director; Paula Tomei, Managing Alaska Public Media Director and was part of SCR’s Pacific Playwrights Festival 2011 Anchorage Dispatch News ANNAPURNA is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Seivice, Inc., New York Alpha Media Alaska Experience Theatre The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever are strictly prohibited. 3 4 DIRECTOR’S NOTE BUSINESS & A few years ago, Perseverance produced Of Mice and Men, after I discovered that ORGANIZATIONAL Bostin Christopher had never played Lennie. I expected him to have done the role at least once because he is such a big man and great actor. In addition to the time being FUNDERS right for Bostin to take on this demanding role, Of Mice and Men touched on themes 2015 - 2016 Season that are so resonant today: the values of physical work, of friendship between men, and the price men pay when life is purchased by the hour. The story explores what Grantors $50,000+ makes us human, expressing feelings such as loneliness and hunger, fear of want, and Andrew W Mellon Foundation our need for companionship. City & Borough of Juneau A few months later, Kevin T Bennet showed up at an Anchorage audition to read for the part of Lennie’s friend George. It was a terrific audition, and Kevin got the part. Juneau Arts & Humanities Council Sometimes, having an actor who is right for a challenging role and excited by the play, Shubert Foundation is a great reason to do something, and creates opportunities for others as well. Ulysses, the cowboy poet in Annapurna, is a challenge to cast because of his Leaders $25,000-$49,999 combination of physical decay, poetic eloquence, and an eclectic emotional range. Kevin seemed so perfect for the part, I was shared my excitement for it. Annapurna’s Atwood Foundation themes of mortality, regrets, and missed opportunities, all brought into focus by 800 KINY – 630 KJNO – MIX 106 – our own frailty and mortality, make it a deeply profound story that anyone who has TAKU 105 – 1330 KXJ considered the possibility of their own death, and wondered about second chances, can connect with. The Juneau Empire Juneau Community Foundation Perseverance is fortunate to work in Alaska where there are many talented theatre artists. We want to know as many of them as we can. Over the past four seasons, KTOO – KXLL – KRNN when Perseverance has produced plays in both Juneau and Anchorage, we have been getting to know theatre makers like Kevin across Alaska; we can now consider their Advocates $10,000-$24,999 skills and talents as we program. Joining Kevin onstage tonight is Alaskan Rebecca George, a member of Actors Equity who lives in Fairbanks and is a powerhouse Alaska Airlines performer with a tremendous emotional range and skill with text. Behind the scenes, Alaska State Council on the Arts the entire creative team- lighting, sound, costume and set designers, are all from Anchorage Dispatch News either Anchorage or Juneau and are well matched to their design assignments. This team would not have been possible to assemble for Perseverance five years ago. Alaska Experience Theatre Their collaboration tonight bodes well for continued growth of the Alaskan theatre Alaska Public Media community as we keep forming new relationships, despite the distances, and keep Anchorage Press learning from each other and you in the audience. Benito & Francis C. Gaguine Playwright Sharr White’s remarkable story captures some of these very ideas: The need for shared lives, the collaboration between the writer and editor, or parent and Foundation child, and the terrible cost when trust is betrayed. Enjoy this exciting and profound, Charlotte Martin Foundation funny and tender play so ably put together by some of your most talented neighbors National Endowment for the Arts in our beautiful state. MIX103.1 -KFQD / Alpha Media

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6 CAST BUSINESS & Kevin T. Bennett...... Ulysses ORGANIZATIONAL Rebecca George*...... Emma FUNDERS *Members of Actors Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers 2015 - 2016 Season ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION STAFF Sponsors $2,500-$4,999 Assistant Technical Director...... Kordel Thompson Alaskan Brewing Company Set Design Collaborators...... Rebecca George ...... Kevin T. Bennett Altman Rogers & Co ...... Art Rotch Alyeska Pipeline Service Company Dobro and Lap Steel...... Peter Dunlap-Shohl Avis Additional Audio Recording...... Michael Sakarias Driftwood Lodge Voice of Jennifer...... “Peat” Dworian ExxonMobile Appetite of Jennifer...... “Kronk” Busic Heidi Reifenstein Design Run crew provided by I.A.T.SE. local 918 The Historic Anchorage Hotel Holland America Line SPECIAL THANKS Prospector Hotel Northwest Med, Ross Blakeney, Jamie McLean, MaLane Harbour, & Carole Anderson The Skaggs Foundation KVNF Public Radio in Paonia - Mountain Grown Community Radio for Wester Valley Medical Care Coloradio - kvnf.org Ali Lightfoot, Program Director Wells Fargo Bank SETTING Sustainers $1,000-$2,499 Summer in a dilapidated mobile home in Paonia, Colorado. Alaska Laundry & Dry Cleaners Alaska State Employees Union DRAMATURGY Alaska USA Federal Credit Union The Boardroom Annapurna is a Sanskrit name meaning “Goddess of the Harvests.” She is “… the Coeur Alaska – Kensington Mine universal and timeless kitchen-goddess… the mother who feeds. Without her there is starvation, a universal fear: This makes Annapurna a universal goddess,” (Dr. Devdutt Elgee Rehfeld Mertz, LLC Pattanaik, mythologist). She is the Hindu goddess of nourishment, with “Anna” ENSTAR Natural Gas meaning “food” or “grains,” and “Purna” meaning “full, complete, and perfect.” First National Bank Alaska GCI Annapurna, located in Nepal, is the 10th highest mountain in the world. In 1950, it became the first 8,000m peak ever climbed. That expedition, led by Maurice Google Herzog and Louis Lachenal, resulted in Herzog losing his toes and most of his fingers. Haight & Associates As Ulysses describes it in this play, “This one thing he’s done, it’s… ruined him,” Juneau Emergency Medical (Annapurna, Sharr White). While recovering in a French hospital, Herzog wrote Associates Annapurna, a best-seller book about his expedition. This book ends with the now- Malia Hayward, State Farm Agent famous mountaineering quote, “There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.” Municipality of Anchorage Playwright Sharr White lives in Putnam County, New York. His plays have been Northland Audiology & Hearing developed and performed all across America and Europe. White originally studied Services acting at the American Conservatory Theatre before moving into writing. For a little Northrim Bank over 13 years he worked a day job in marketing and wrote plays in his free time. He NorthWind Architects, LLC got his regional theatre break in 2006, with the world premiere of his show Six Years Oscar Gill House at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. He debuted on Broadway in 2013 with his play The Rookery Café Other Place. Now he works as a writer full time. Royal Printing White’s Annapurna premiered at Magic Theatre in San Francisco in 2011. Later Sealaska Heritage Institute productions included The Odyssey Theatre in LA, and in New York at the Acorn Shattuck & Grummett Theatre and The New Group. 7 SevignyHandmade Studio Gifts & Art made locally….

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11 12 WHO WE ARE Perseverance Theatre believes theatre going creates shared experiences for our A PLACE communities, which fosters empathy, builds relationships, and cultivates skills at TO HANG communication, and in the process better equips us all to solve problems together and create more vital and just communities. YOUR HAT The mission of Perseverance Theatre is to create professional theatre by and for Alaskans. Perseverance values community engagement, cross-cultural collaboration, Perseverance Theatre’s visiting artists professional rigor, and regional voice. Alaska is full of stories and characters that aren’t have a place to call home thanks to found anywhere else in the world. Perseverance is committed to creating theatre these people, who have so generously that represents all that is great about Alaska, and to bringing great live theatre to our donated housing since July 1, 2015: Alaskan audiences. In 1979, Molly Smith founded Perseverance Theatre, following her dream of Kristin Garot starting a professional theatre company in her hometown. Over thirty seven years, James Houck Perseverance has grown to serve 24,000 audience members, in both Juneau and in Anchorage, employ over 150 artists, and engage 200 volunteers annually to produce Lynn Schooler a season of classical, contemporary, and world premiere productions on our stages. Bob and Christine Urata Perseverance believes that professional theatres play a vital role in training and Gwen and Gary Gervelis cultivating the next generation of artists and audiences. The theatre’s education Schatzie Schaeffers department produces extensive education and training programs including the new Joshua and Monica Lowman Drama School, Summer Theatre Arts Rendezvous, Theatre in the Wild, mainstage Kathleen Harper and Bo Anderson student matinees and internships. Perseverance is the resident theatre at the Sally Saddler and David Teal University of Alaska Southeast, where we develop curricula, provide teachers for the Mike Sakarias and Anne Fuller theatre minor program, and invite UAS students into the theatre to work and learn along-side theatre professionals from all over the world. Bud and Annie Carpeneti Cristina Della Rosa Perseverance has premiered over 70 new plays by Alaskan and national playwrights. Chuck and Kathryn Cohen Perseverance has a national profile and a grass roots style. We are committed to developing artists, volunteers, audiences, and programming reflective of the Alaskan Nan and David Tomasko community, and to delivering the finest professional theatre anywhere to our loyal, George Stransky local audience. Yeilyadi Olson Lucy Peckham LEADERSHIP Patricia Partnow Art Rotch (Executive Artistic Director) has worked in Alaskan theatre since 1988, and Bob and Mary Ellen Mitchell is in his eighth season as artistic director at Perseverance Theatre. He holds a BA in Carole Anderson history from Harvard and a MFA in theatre from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. His home is in Juneau with his wife, Akiko Nishijima, who is theatre designer, professor and scenic artist. As Artistic Director at Perseverance, Art has commissioned half a dozen plays, and produced the premieres of Battles of Fire and Water(performed in Russian, English and Tlingit) and Warriors by Dave Hunsaker, The Blue Bear by Luan Schooler and Leon Ingulsrud and Rush at Everlasting by Arlitia Jones. A set and lighting designer, Art has designed dozens of productions for Perseverance, Anchorage Opera and many more Alaskan producers; for regional theatres, including the People’s Light and Theatre Company, Sacramento Theatre Company, Aspen Opera Center; and, in New York City, Juilliard, The Manhattan School of Music. Art is a member of the National Theatre Conference (nationaltheatreconference.org), and is Escape to a graduate of the Foraker Group’s Catalyst for Non Profit Excellence program. Art was selected as one of 50 arts leaders from around the world by National Arts Strategies Whitehorse! to participate in their Chief Executive Program and completed the Foraker Group’s sundogretreat.com Catalyst for Non Profit Excellence program. Thank you for supporting Alaskan theatre. 13 www.alyeska-pipe.com

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AlAskA Business P Artner 2013–2014 15 16 BUILDING ACTORS-IN-RESIDENCE Back in 2012, supported by Theatre Communications Group’s Think It program, Perseverance’s Artistic Director Art Rotch and Artistic Associate Shona Osterhout Amazon Smile travelled to a dozen Alaskan communities, from Bethel to Ketchikan, to learn from Got plans for online shopping? Alaskan actors about acting in Alaska. We always asked: Do you support yourself Select Perseverance Theatre acting? Do you know anyone who does? Everywhere we went, talking to dozens of great, committed Alaskan actors, the answer was the same to both questions: None. when you login to Alaska can do better. smile.amazon.com and Amazon will donate to the Perseverance believes that Alaskan actors, given more time to focus on their craft, have a lot to offer our communities and the theatre field. Actors are great theatre every time you shop! communicators, often make fantastic teachers, and observe human behavior and relationships in fascinating ways. While most Alaskans will always choose to support themselves through more traditional work and act in the evenings and weekends, supporting a few exceptions whose primary focus is being an actor and bringing those BRING A GROUP skills to other parts of the theatre and community adds great value to Perseverance’s work and to Alaskans’ capacity to tell our own stories in our own ways. TO THE THEATRE In 2013, with the generous support of the Andrew W Mellon Foundation, Perseverance began a three-year experiment to explore supporting a small corps of If you have 9 friends, co- actors working at livable wages at the theatre. Over a three year period, the goal is to workers, or clients who would learn the best way for Perseverance to invest in and support professional actors, and like to join you for a night at how they could work on the stage and also behind the scenes as teachers, engage in Perseverance Theatre, then community outreach, and contribute to artistic projects that last longer than a twelve- we have a deal for you. Groups week contract. of 10 or more receive a 25% discount on tickets. Tours, The new Actor-in-Residence initiative will provide another tool to invest more in and other incentives may be artists, especially actors, living in our state. The first phase began two seasons ago available for large groups. Ask with hiring one of our most productive actors, Enrique Bravo, as the 2013-2014 your company to become an Artistic Company Lead and continued with the addition of James Sullivan. In the Alaska Business Partner to get new season, Bravo and Sullivan will transition from part-time to full-time positions. this deal every time you call. They will act on our stages, teach at UAS and the The Drama School at Perseverance, Contact Centertix at facilitate a monthly play-reading series, and help in other outreach opportunities. (907) 263-ARTS The new answer to how many actors in Alaska support themselves from their craft is ptalaska.org now: at least two. To share your thoughts about this project, or learn more about training and employment with Perseverance Theatre as an artist, contact us at [email protected]

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print design | web design | identity design | book design 17 18 ACTORS-IN-RESIDENCE PROFILES Enrique Bravo’s Perseverance credits include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Treasure Island, Announcing Oklahoma!, Seminar, Bigfoot and Other Lost Souls, A Perseverance Christmas Carol, O Lovely Glowworm, Yeast Nation, Theatre’s Equus, Tommy, and Hair. Enrique is an ensemble member of Generator Theater Company with whom Double Date he has performed in True West, Romeo and Juliet, We’re teaming up with Dying City, and [title of show]. Enrique is also a regular local restaurants to provide at The Colonial Theater, in Westerly, Rhode Island and you with discounts to all has performed in Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, mainstage plays and your pre- Two Gentlemen of Verona, and recently, The Tempest. or post-show dining. Enrique holds a B.F.A. in Regional Theatre from Webster Conservatory in St. Louis, MO and an M.F.A. in Acting How does it work? from the University of Texas at Austin. If you start at a participating James Sullivan’s past performances with Perseverance Theatre have been The restaurant, tell your server Odd Couple, Boeing Boeing, A Christmas Carol, God of Carnage, you’re doing the Double Date Oklahoma!, Animals Out Of Paper, Vashon, Tuesdays With and they’ll give you a sticker Morrie, and Circle Mirror Transformation. He has a BFA in Theatre for your receipt. Bring that from Syracuse University. James comes from Portland where he receipt when you buy your performed in Jaker’s production of Silence, Integrity’s production tickets to get 10% off your of Wonder of the World, in Public Playhouse’s The Nerd, Moonlight purchase. and Magnolias, and It’s a Wonderful Life. James also performed in Chicago If you start at a play, , including five years of long-form improvisation at Improv bring your ticket stub to a Olympic and several plays with Zeppo Productions. participating restaurant to get your dining discount. Don’t INTERNSHIPS forget to tell your server you’re doing the Double Date! Perseverance Theatre’s Internship program provides the only on-the-job theatre You can use your restaurant training in the state for a season-long experience in our artistic, production, or receipt to get a discount on administrative departments. Over the last 20 years, we’ve included 90 interns aged another mainstage show. 17-65 from rural and urban Alaska (e.g. Klukwan, Homer, Sitka, Cheva, Hooper Bay, Nome, Anchorage, Fairbanks, Tok) as well as from the Lower 48. Anne Szeliski (Production Intern) hails from Seattle and went to Whitman College Participating Restaurants where she graduated with a BA in Theatre with a focus in Stage (This list may grow, check the web Management. This past summer she interned at Chicago Shakespeare site often to see what restaurants Theater working in their Costume Crafts Department. She is very have joined.) excited to be working at Perseverance and thanks them for this wonderful opportunity. Cake Studio Sacks Cafe Lizzie Buchanan (Artistic Intern) graduated from Hamilton College Humpy’s Great Alaskan in 2015 with a double major in Theatre and Mathematics. In 2014 Ale House she studied at the London Dramatic Academy, a conservatory acting Flattop Pizza program in London. Lizzie has moved from the suburbs of Boston, MA Sub Zero Bistro & to join Perseverance Theatre for the 2015-16 season. Microlounge Marley Horner (Technical Intern) has been both on and behind the stage his entire Kinley’s Restraunt life in Alaska, between Haines, Sitka, Fairbanks and now Juneau. Having just finished Alaska Bagel Restraunt his BA in theatre at UAF, he is excited to be part of the Perseverance team as this years technical intern, as well as getting the chance to keep performing. His most recent productions have been as Amir in The Ash Girl, and his thesis role as Inspector Goole in An Inspector Calls. When he’s not acting, building sets or designing sound, you’d find him brewing beer, rafting rivers, or trying to find a way to do all of it at the same time. 19 UPCOMING ANCHORAGE SEASON

Othello Loyalty and trust crumble under the weight of a by William Shakespeare villain’s push for power. October 16 - November 1, 2015 The lieutenant Iago, Shakespeare’s most fascinating villain, orchestrates the demise of the Moorish General Othello after being passed up for a promotion given to the soldier, Cassio. As Iago seeks to ruin both men, he plants the seeds of doubt and mistrust by staging a token of affection—a handkerchief. Under the spell of the charismatic “Honest Iago,” Othello’s new bride Desdemona becomes a pawn in his plot of revenge. Every loyalty is questioned in a tragic world where true love and irrational jealousy collide. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens A family holiday favorite returns! Adapted by Arlitia Jones and Michael Haney December 18 - 28, 2015 This holiday season, witness Ebenezer Scrooge’s miraculous Christmas Eve transformation in a new adaptation by Arlitia Jones and Michael Haney. Ebenezer Scrooge is a greedy businessman, with no place in his life for kindness, compassion, or charity. When Scrooge is visited by four ghosts, he is warned to change his ways or face a miserable afterlife. Directed by Michael Haney, whose love of the story has lead him to directing the show at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park for over twenty years! Our Voices Will Be Heard A powerful mother-daughter journey with a by Vera Starbard fierce call for healing and forgiveness. February 19 - 28, 2016 A powerful mother-daughter journey that reveals how generations face the choice of continuing to perpetuate—or disrupt—family violence. Through the lens of fiction, and the palette of Alaska Native storytelling, the playwright tells the true story of her mother’s strength against impossible pressure. Our Voices Will Be Heard weaves together legend and truth in a fierce call for healing and forgiveness.

In The Next Room (or the vibrator play) The dawn of the age of electricity births a by Sarah Ruhl groundbreaking piece of technology. April 15-24, 2016 Come discover how psychology and technology intersect at the dawn of the electric age. Perfect gentleman and inventor, Dr. Givings has created a new device to treat “hysteria” in his patients by inducing “paroxysms,” that attract the attention of his wife, who hears the sounds of success through the walls of his operating theatre. Meanwhile, Mrs. Givings struggles with a new baby and her own urgent desires. In the Next Room, or the vibrator play is a modern comedy of manners full of exploration and fulfillment. Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Music by Stephen Sondheim A dark musical tale of love, London, Book by Hugh Wheeler vengeance and murder. From an adaptation by Christopher Bond May 20 – May 29, 2016 Benjamin Barker returns to London bent on revenge after fifteen years in an Australian penal colony serving time for a crime he did not commit. Armed with a sharp, straight razor, he sets up shop as one of the finest barbers in the city, calling himself Sweeney Todd. When he meets Mrs. Lovett, a local pie maker who will do anything for him, Todd’s plan for vengeance takes the shape of a savory pie filling, and the blood starts flowing. How far will the gruesome scheme go before anyone catches a whiff of it? Will Sweeney Todd become London’s most notorious killer? This Tony-award winning musical is one tasty piece of theatre that will leave you wanting more! 20 SUBSCRIBE TODAY AND SAVE! Subscriptions have many benefits, including: • Order early for the best seats! Subscribers have first pick of seats and renewing subscribers can keep their existing seats from year to year. • Free exchanges if your plans change -- Can’t make your scheduled night? Call the box office before your night for a free exchange into any equally priced night, or just pay the difference to upgrade to any night you choose, all for no added fees. • Lost Ticket Insurance – Lost or forgotten subscriber tickets can be reprinted at no charge. • Bring-A-Friend – Perseverance “Companion Fare” coupons with every package. Call the Box Office to redeem. • Exclusive Invitations -- You’ll receive special invitations to events throughout the season to meet the artists involved in making the theatre you love. • Additional Discounts and email notifications about selected special events at theatre.

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21 22 HOW PERSEVERANCE PLANS SEASONS Perseverance uses a group process to help select the plays you see here. Each year, a GET dozen or so people set goals for what the coming season programming can be, which RECOGNIZED are discussed with the staff for the practical issues, and board, artists and staff for big picture goals. The volunteer group spends a few weeks reading plays and each mem- ber makes a sample season line-up, and then we discuss each line up in detail consid- Do you love theatre? ering the goals. The group is picked to include a range of the kind of people involved Do you want everyone to with Perseverance, and includes actors, writers, other artists, board, staff, and audi- know it? Perseverance ence members. The goal is an ongoing thoughtful conversation about what makes a Theatre is less than 5% good season based on the goals we make together. The same group also reviews the away from reaching its comments you return to us in the audience response surveys, attendance, and our one million dollar goal to own impressions of the seasons, in order to learn from each season what worked support the Fourth Decade well and where we want to do better for you in the future. The 15-16 season planning Plan to expand audiences group is listed below, plus the goals we set for our work on the 2016-17 season selec- and reinvest in artists. tions, which will be announced this winter. If you’re interested in participating in the The theatre invites you to future, you are welcome to leave your name and contact with our house manager. make a special gift today to help us reach this goal! Enrique Bravo, Actor-in-Residence Jay Burns, Actor and Writer Donors giving $250 or Bostin Christopher, Actor and Artist more between now and Bryan Crowder, Actor and Student December 31, 2014 will Allison Holtkamp, Actor Arlitia Jones, Writer receive recognition in our Dana Owen, Audience Member programs through our Teresa K Pond, Director 40th anniversary season in James Sullivan, Actor-in-Residence 2018-2019. You can make Luan Schooler, Writer and Dramaturg an impact! Give today and Erin Tripp, Actor get recognized for many Hannah Jo Wolf, Director and Dramaturg years to come!

Summary of the goals we picked for 2016-17, which are similar to what was used for 2015-16: You can give online at 1. Serve Perseverance’s mission to make theatre for Alaskans. ptalaska.org 2. Reach an audience of a certain size. For more information, 3. Give subscribers a fun and varied line-up so seeing the whole season is rewarding. contact us at 4. Fill the calendar in Juneau and Anchorage. 907-364-2421 5. Be a good fit for the time of year the play runs. 6. Not exceed the theatre’s budget. 7. Include varied perspectives from diverse writers and roles for diverse actors. 8. Appeal to many diverse audiences with variety over the course of the year.

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23 1208055_12947 6.375x2 BW.indd 1 8/22/14 3:53 PM 24 PERSEVERANCE THEATRE SPOTLIGHT Many different kinds of people collaborate to create the experiences you enjoy at a Perseverance performance. The actors are supported by other creative team VOLUNTEERING members like directors, designers and stage mangers. The administrative team AT includes fundraisers, marketing, and outreach specialists, finance people and more. PERSEVERANCE The production staff includes painters, stitchers, carpenters, sound engineers, and stage lighting specialists. The education department brings teaching artists in all these Have you ever wanted to specialties together to share their knowledge with Alaskans of all ages. Each one of learn about directing, stage these hundreds of people has a story, and one of those stories is spotlighted here: managing, design and construction in the areas of scenery, costumes, lights, or Aaron Abella started working with Perseverance Theatre at the age of twelve. He spent sound? Do you have an hour two summers getting professional training with the Summer Theatre Arts Rendezvous or two to devote to working (STAR) program when he was in middle school. Through his work, he earned the roles in the office, costume shop, of Grandpa Joe in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, as well as Daddy Warbucks or scene shop? Would you in Annie. Aaron’s experiences with STAR sparked an ongoing interest in theatre. He enjoy finding and building continued to train through PT’s after-school program, Young Company, and participated props for a show? If so, in productions at Juneau-Douglas High School. please email us at Aaron says, “It was my goal to perform on the Perseverance Theatre mainstage, [email protected] because that’s the Broadway of Juneau.” He or spent time expanding his skills through vocal Call us at (907)364-2421 workshops and coaching with Perseverance for more information. Theatre company members. Aaron was excited to have so many opportunities to train. After he finished high school, he was offered a leading role as Jim Hawkins in the theatre’s mainstage production of Treasure Island. Through this production, working with professional actors, Aaron learned how demanding and rewarding working in theatre can be. From there, he worked with Fred Meyers Shona Osterhout, Director of Education, to expand on his vision, researching theatre Link your Fred Meyer rewards programs across the nation, and preparing card to Perseverance Theatre! audition materials. We’ll both get rewards! In the fall of 2014, Aaron earned a chorus role in Perseverance Theatre’s mainstage Visit fredmeyer.com or use the production of Chicago, the longest-running American musical on Broadway. This was QR Code here and enter a pivotal experience for him, combining song, choreography, and acting in such a large production that drew sold-out houses through its entire run. It was also an opportunity non-profit code #89385. for him to work on a production with his university acting instructor, PT Actor-in- Residence, Enrique Bravo. Reflecting on his experiences, he shared, “Perseverance Theatre is such a blessing for the Juneau community and all of Alaska. I love that the staff is so involved with the community, with STAR and Young Company. It really makes a difference… Everyone should be exposed to art.” Aaron is the twenty-year-old son of Filipino immigrants. He is chasing his dream today because of the opportunity to train and work in Juneau with theatre professionals. As a student, he received scholarships from PT to participate in STAR and vocal training. He developed a group of peers out of the theatre and believes in the arts as a way for young people to find their uniqueness, to relieve stress, to find out what makes them special. Before Chicago, Aaron’s parents were not thrilled about his passion for theatre. Today, they are behind him as he pursues his visions and his goals. Perseverance Theatre is proud to have talented, young people like Aaron Abella in the company. 25 MAJOR FUNDERS

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26 INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS THANK YOU FOR Original Founders RECEIVED 7/1/14 – 8/ 18/15 Benefactors YOUR SUPPORT Alascom $5,000-$9,999 Sometimes we make mistakes. If your Alaska Coastal Real Estate Nishijima Sachiko Julie North Sinclair name is missing, has been misspelled, or has been misplaced, please let us know. Alaska Ship Chandlers Bob & Chris Urata* Chevron Company U.S.A. Sponsors Contact Development Direct Bruce & Sharon Denton $2,500-$4,999 Maggie Rabb Don Abel Building Supply Joanne Alcantara & Boo Torres [email protected] James Bibb* First National Bank of Anchorage Terry Cramer Gross Alaska Theatres Dave Dierdorff & Madeleine Lefebvre Jeffrey Herrmann & Sara Waisanen Sara & John Raster Bob, Glenda & Ashley Hutton Juneau Travel Art & Akiko Rotch In Memory of Tom Linklater Miner Publishing Anthony & Amanda Mallott Sustainers Jill & John Matheson Kitty Mullins $1,000-$2,499 Mark & Esther Millea Pomtier, Duvernay & Horan Kate Bowns & Mike Peterson The Frances & David Rose Foundation* Annie & Rick Caulfield* Carl & Sue Schrader Rasmuson Foundation Sharon Gaiptman & Peter Freer Molly Smith & Suzanne Blue Star Boy SOHIO (BP Exploration) Kathleen Harper & Bo Anderson Moira Smith & James Metcalfe Tom & Sue Koester Sally Smith Larry Spencer & Carola Thompson Linda & Leah Kumin Miriah & Lance Twitchell* John Kuterbach & Vickie Williams Burton Vanderbilt Anya Maier & Hank Lentfer Robin Walz & Carol Prentice HOST AN Marjorie Menzi & Bill Heumann Two Anonymous Donors Mac & Ann Metcalfe* ARTIST Jennifer Miller* Donors Each year, Perseverance Theatre Rachel Stewart & Jay Nelson $250-$499 brings theatre artists to Alaska Julie & Peter Neyhart Sarah Asper-Smith* to perform, direct, design, Shona Osterhout Tom & Sheila Barrett inspire, and share skills. If you Kathy Kolkhorst Ruddy Anissa Berry love Juneau and want to share Elaine & Bob Schroeder Benjamin Brown your home, your car, a trail, or a Anne and Doug Standerwick Jack Cannon & Jamie McLean meal with a guest artist during James & Sarah Woods Sharon J. Clawson the mainstage season, we Karen Crane & Dan Fruits would love to connect you! Our Patrons Craig & Leslie Dahl local hosts make an incredible $500-$999 DeCherney Family difference in our artists’ Karen & Paul Dillon experiences. Charlie Anderson Memorial Joe & Vera Bedard* Merry Ellefson, Wayne Carnes, & Arnie Connect today! Joel Bennett & Ritchie Dorrier Anne Fuller & Michael Sakarias Marla Berg & John Greely Jane McMillan Ginter Contact Bud & Annie Carpeneti Hugh & Shari Grant Kathleen Harper, Codie & Brendan Costello* Philip Gutleben Production Manager, at Jim Cucurull Leesa Hall [email protected] Tor Daley Beverly Haywood Irene Gallion Joshua Hemsath Jeff Hedges Susan & Mark Hickey Amy O’Neill Houck * PT Board of Directors Lucy & Bill Hudson 27 INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS Jorden Nigro & Bret Connell Nora Dauenhauer Dana Owen & Joyce Thoresen Leslie & Hal Daugherty Does Your Virginia Palmer Sandra DeLong In Memory of Carolyn Hobbs Peterson Darin & Terri Fagerstrom Employer Timothy Peterson Peg Faithful & Bob Hume Tim & Luann Powers Gary Fournier & Kathleen Rhea Support Arthur & Irene Robinson Charlotte Fox & Michael Stinebaugh Linda & Paul Rosenthal Lynne Gallant & Chris Kennedy John Roxburgh Kathleen Gamble Perseverance Brad & April Sapp Mike & Berta Gardner Leon Shaul & Kathleen Jensen Kristin N. Garot Theatre? Judy Sherburne & Bob Lipchak Brenda Glaze Kirk & Liz Sherwood Daniel & Wendy Glidmann Gail and Jan Sieberts Carolyn Gould Alaska Business Stephen SueWing & Susan Jabal Tyler Gress & Shannon Bell Partners and Anne Sutton Karen & Charlie Griffin Sue Ellen Tatter Renee Guerin Production David & D.J. Thomson Shaadoo Gunaaxoo’Kwaan Sponsors get Tina Tomsen, M.D. In Memory of Jerry Harper employee Rebecca Van DeWater Joy & Ken Harper Laura Wallrath Sandra Harris & John W. Sivertsen discounts on all Lisa Weissler & Marshal Kendziorek Arland & Bina Harris tickets! Alex & Peggy Wertheimer Gary & Margaret Hedges Woy Bug Andy & Nancy Hemenway Jim & Katharine Heumann Supporters Morris & Lorrie Horning Contact Amy O’Neill Houck $100-$249 Khodayar Houshmand-Parsi 364-2421 ext. 230 or Ricci Adan William Todd Hunt & Kristin Mabry [email protected] Jayne Andreen & Patrick Sheppard Bev Ingram & Steve Wolf for more information Jeff Baird Sarah Isto & Gordon Harrison Kathy Balasko Rachael Johnson Olivia Barrow & Matthew West Lindy & Colleen Jones Vicki Bassett & Eric Olsen Corey Joseph Richard A. Benavides Gretchen Keiser & Bob Wild Dr. Lawrence Lee Oldaker & Linda May Lynne Gallant & Chris Kennedy Blefgen Doris Kirchhofer Ann Boochever & Scott Miller Donna Knight-Staton Donors Continued Tom & Eva Bornstein John & Dolly Kremers Dave Hunsaker & Annie Calkins Joan Brown Gordon & Micky Kruse Dr. Emily A. Kane Alison Browne Kathryn L. Kurtz Mary Knopf & Craig Rice Teresa Bruce Jeff Landvatter Linda Kruger & Jeff Gnass Marsha Buck Sheila Lankford & Joe Mathis In Honor of John Longenbaugh Constance M. Carnes Keith and Jan Levy Sharon Lowe L. Diane Casto Joshua & Monica Lowman Stan & Amy Lujan Bostin Christopher David & Janet McCabe Walter Majoros & Lori Brotherton Bill & Susan Clutton Kathryn & Mike McCormack Joe & Evelyn McCabe Barbara Sheinberg & Norm Cohen McDowell Group Martha McCullough Robert Cohen Mary McDowell Marcia & Craig McKenzie Cosgrove Family Alan McPherson Bonita Nelson & Ron Heintz Cristine Crooks & Dean Guaneli Robin Merritt 28 INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS Supporters Continued Melissa Beedle BUYING ADS Jason & Charlene Morrison Patricia & Steve Bower IN THE In Memory of Bill Overstreet Reed Stoops & Betsy Brenneman Kerry & Connie Ozer Kristi & Eric Buerger PERSEVERANCE Tom Paul & Janice Caulfield Sharon & Greg Busch PROGRAMS Lucy Peckham Laura Cameron Want to see you business Dr. Catherine Peimann Tresvant Causey Art Petersen & Tina Pasteris Judith Cavanaugh here? Your ad will be seen Jim & Judy Powell David Clausen by the more than 25,000 Michael & Catherine Price Emily Coate John & Margaret Pugh Karey Cooperrider & Joe Giefer local and visiting patrons Maggie & Ian Rabb Christopher & Amra Custer who will attend our Margaret Rea & Mark Riley Bobby Lee Daniels Bob & Karen Rehfeld Shirley Dean Mainstage Season. George & Deb Reifenstein Greg Burger & Mary DeSmet We have an ad size for Tom Robenolt Donald & Margaret Dorsey Jeff Rogers Steve Drake every budget! Natalee Rothaus & Mike Stanley Dennis & Sharon Early Sally & Frank Rue Anita Evans Contact Amy O’Neill Houck Saddler Teals Allison & Jack Fargnoli 364-2421 ext. 230 or Don & Sherry Shiesl Amanda Filori Amy Skilbred & Eric Jorgensen Tatiana Fletcher [email protected] Shelly Smith Michael Galginaitis Kim & Ethel Smith Law Office of Joe Geldhof Philip & Deborah Smith In Memory of Jane Holden Richard & Dolores Smith Kathryn Gerlek Steve Behnke & Larri Irene Spengler Don & Marion Gotschall Cassandra Stalzer Janice L. Gray Roman Motyka Sondra Stanway & Tom Lane Anne Grosshans Joel & Jill Bess Neimeyer Michael Stark & MJ Grande Barbara & Donald Hale Hadassah Nelson John Staub & Stephanie Hoag David & Maggie Hall Frederick J. Pellum, Jr. Austin Tagaban Susan Harney Peter Porco Brenda Taylor & Joe Roth Kathryn Harsch Jenny Pursell John and Barbara Thurston Eran Hood & Sonia Nagorski Brigitte Ressel Dianne Toebe James Houck Deborah Rudis Steve & Nila Treston Nancy L. Jones Ron & Nan Schonenbach Terri & Alan Ulrich Jessica Jones Carla B. Seibel Gary Vetesy Dr. William Kueffner Karen Sewell Tom & Sharon Warren Buck & Angela Lindekugel Jeff & Susan Sloss Bob & Dixie Weiss Margaret Mackinnon Jerry Smetzer Jetta Whittaker & Rob Steedle J. Allan & Margaret MacKinnon Mary Lou Spartz Greg Williams Rochelle Mahoney Margaret Stock In Memory of Kevin Wilson Teresa & Richard Marshall Virginia Stonkus Glen Wright & Lisa Kramer Pua Maunu & Leonard Johnson Jim & Mary Sutton Six Anonymous Donors Kathrin McCarthy Sherry & Robert Tamone Bruce & Wendy McDonough Theresa Tavel Contributors Scott & Denice McPherson Judy & Joseph Thomas $50-$99 Malcolm & Elaine Menzies Gail & Mack Thompson Aaron Abella James Metcalfe Laisne and Brad Waldron Nicholas Adamson John T. Miller Patty Ware & George Buhite Willie Anderson Stanton Moll Patricia Watt & William Dillon Patsy Bearden Sandra & Stephen Morris Two Anonymous Donations 29 at ACT OUT uas The University of Alaska Southeast partnership with Perseverance Theatre offers professional training and practical experience in mainstage productions. Receive university credit while studying acting, dramatic literature, playwriting and directing, or participate in a live theatre production!

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30 INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS Friends Kevin Madsen $25-$49 Jamie Marcus Amazon Smile Catherine Agnew Morgan Mitchell Dianne Anderson & Mark Vinsel Robina Moyer Got plans for online shopping? Paola Banchero Linda & Tony Newman Select Perseverance Theatre Vivian L. Bearden Joan O Keefe when you login to Megan Behnke Patricia Partnow Kristine Benson Barbara Pavitt smile.amazon.com and In Honor of Kenneth Burch Virginia Reed & Douglas Hanon Amazon will donate to the Ken Burch Linda Richards theatre every time you shop! Portia Carney Mary Riggen James Chapman William B. Rozell Susan & Jim Clark Donna Shaw Elizabeth Figus Elizabeth Clement Barbara Shepherd Jeanne Foy Bruce & Sue Conant Spencer Shroyer Jeannette Gann Marguerite Crawford Paul Skan Evgenia Golofeeva Rico Demientieff Worl Marilyn Smith Joe & Kristen Grieser Paul Dick Marnell Steiner Maren Haavig Ginny Eckert Lacie & Daniel Stevens Janice Hurley Martin & Machelle Eldred James, Maura, & Seamus Sullivan Anne Johnson Aran & Matthew Felix Francine Lastufka Taylor Joyce Levine Michael Flood Carla Thomas Julia Millar Joanne Gartenberg Pam Watts Justin Parish Rachel Greenberg Ardyne Womack Ray Pastorino John Hermle Jr. Three Anonymous Donors Julie Pierce Jan & Pete Huberth Jeff & Katy Rice Leslie Ishii Members Ira Rosen Virgina Jacobs $10-$24 Myria Shakespeare Deborah & Leroy Jeffery Deanne Adams Thomas Sikes Thomas Judson Mark Battaion Paula Smedley John A. Kelly Elizabeth Bishop Deborah Spencer Clay Kent Jennifer Buckscott Tiffany Stacey Joyce Landingham Christy Ciambor Terrence Thompson Aurele Legere Louise & Daniel Cornwall Pamela Tippets Derek Lofstrom Jodi DeBruyne Sheri Vidic Maureen Longworth, M.D. & Lin Davis Kelly Erickson Van Waggoner Haymes-MacNaughton Family John & Deb Etheridge Six Anonymous Donors

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31 FOURTH DECADE FUND In 2010, Perseverance Theatre’s thirty first season, the theatre launched its Fourth Decade Plan to secure a strong future for professional theatre in Alaska by expanding audiences and investing more in the Alaskan theatre artists we employ. The theatre set a goal of raising $1,000,000 in the first 4 years, above and beyond typical annual fundraising, is proud to have met this goal in December, 2014. Funds supported the theatre’s development of its actors-in-residence program, the expansion of Anchorage programming and our efforts to offer more livable wages to Alaskan artists. Going forward, the larger audience base secured through working in more of Alaska will ensure a strong and vital Perseverance out into the future. Thank you to all the donors who joined the Fourth Decade Fund by giving $250 or more, beyond their annual gifts. Business and Organizational Donors Leadership Gifts Andrew W. Mellon Foundation ENSTAR Natural Gas Rasmuson Foundation First National Bank Alaska Hecla Greens Creek Mining Co Major Gifts Heidi Reifenstein Design Atwood Foundation Historic Anchorage Hotel M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust Juneau Arts & Humanities Council Hearst Foundation Juneau Empire Juneau Community Foundation Juneau Radio Center KINY – KJNO – MIX – TAKU – KXJ Challenge Gifts KTOO – KXLL – KRNN Alaskan Brewing Company Lynden Transport Alaska Community Foundation Malia Hayward, State Farm Agent Alaska Experience Theatre Municipality of Anchorage Alaska Public Media Northland Audiology & Hearing Services Altman Rogers & Co Northrim Bank Alyeska Pipeline Service Company NorthWind Architects, LLC Anchorage Dispatch News Oscar Gill House Anchorage Media Group Princess Cruise Lines Anchorage Press Prospector Hotel Avis Rookery Café The Boardroom Royal Printing Charlotte Y. Martin Foundation Shattuck & Grummett The CIRI Foundation The Skaggs Foundation City & Borough of Juneau Un-Cruise Adventures Coeur Alaska – Kensington Mine Valley Medical Care Driftwood Lodge Westmark Hotel

32 FOURTH DECADE FUND Individual Donors Joanne Alcantara & Boo Torres Nancy & David Harbour Joan Pardes & Doug Sturm Torrie Allen Kathleen Harper & Bo Anderson Tim Pearson & Brian Chen In Memory of Charlie Anderson Kriss Hart Ira Perman & Virginia Rusch Todd Antioquia & Brendan Sullivan Jana Hayenga Timothy Peterson Jeff Baird Beverly Haywood John & Margaret Pugh Tom & Sheila Barrett Jeff Hedges Terrance J. Quinn II Joel Bennett & Ritchie Dorrier Andy & Nancy Hemenway Judy Rasmuson Marla Berg & John Greely Joshua Hemsath Sara & John Raster Anissa Berry Jeffrey Herrmann & Sara Waisanen Heidi Reifenstein James Bibb Amy O’Neill Houck The Frances & David Rose Foundation Kate Bowns & Mike Peterson Lucy & Bill Hudson Linda & Paul Rosenthal Benjamin Brown Patricia Hull Art & Akiko Rotch In Honor of George & Carolyn Brown Lindy & Colleen Jones John Roxburgh Jack Cannon & Jamie McLean Dr. Emily A. Kane Kathy Kolkhorst Ruddy Bud & Annie Carpeneti Diane Kaplan & Mel Sather Brad & April Sapp Rick & Annie Caulfield Marshal Kendziorek & Lisa Weissler Carl & Sue Schrader Codie & Brendan Costello Mary Knopf & Craig Rice Elaine & Bob Schroeder Terry Cramer Tom & Sue Koester Paul & Tina Seaton Karen Crane & Dan Fruits Linda & Leah Kumin Lynn Shaver & James T Stanley Jim Cucurull John Kuterbach & Vickie Williams Barbara Sheinberg & Norm Cohen Craig & Leslie Dahl Geoff & Marcy Larson Judy Sherburne & Bob Lipchak Tor Daley Jan & Keith Levy Gail & Jan Sieberts Geralyn Davis In Memory of Tom Linklater Julie & Edward Sinclair Dave Dierdorff & Madeleine Lefebvre Simon & Petra Lisiecki Moira Smith Christine Eagleson & William Lubke In Honor of John Longenbaugh Larry Spencer Memorial Fund Anita Evans Stan & Amy Lujan Anne & Doug Standerwick Lydia Fort Jill & John Matheson Christopher & Faye Stiehm Charlotte Fox & Michael Stinebaugh Joe & Evelyn McCabe Shona Strauser John B. Gaguine Martha McCullough Stephen SueWing & Susan Jabal Sharon Gaiptman & Peter Freer Dennis & Stephanie McMillian Timothy Sunday Lynne Gallant & Chris Kennedy Marjorie Menzi & Bill Heumann Sue Ellen Tatter Irene Gallion Mac & Ann Metcalfe Terry Tavel Paul & Cathy Gardner Jo & Peter Michalski Tina Tomsen, MD Mike & Berta Gardner Jennifer Miller Bob & Christine Urata Jane McMillan Ginter Lloyd & Joan Morris Burton Vanderbilt Maria Gladziszewski & Eric Kueffner Jo Ann & Rick Nelson Rebecca Van DeWater Nancy Gordon Julie & Peter Neyhart Laura Wallrath Hugh & Shari Grant Law Office of Debra O’Gara Robin Walz & Carol Prentice Philip Gutleben Dana Owen & Joyce Thoresen Alex & Peggy Wertheimer Jim & Susie Hackett Virginia Palmer Two Anonymous Donors Contact Development Director Maggie Rabb about how you can support Perseverance’s mission! 907-364-2421 or [email protected]