REGIONAL PREMIERE

The

by Bekah Brunstetter Directed by Chip Walton

SPREAD THE WORD!

September 1 – October 13, 2018

Season Sponsors Platinum Show Sponsors Gold Show Sponsor Silver Show Sponsors Diana and Mike Kinsey Isabelle Clark Barbara Bridges Rebecca Czarnecki & Nate Barker The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Les Crispelle & Glenn Tiedt Jon & Lynne Montague-Clouse Darin & Kristel Brown Charitable Trust Gary & Kathryn Dudley Rhonda Knop & Tim McManus Jay Seller, PhD & Paul Ferraresi Yone & Frank Wells THE MURAL You might have noticed something different when you walked into Curious today – something brighter, something Student Artists energizing, something Curious. The fabulous mural that now Laurie Adams Joyce Knight spans our South wall was designed and painted this summer Hadley Ambrose Carly Mckenna by The Mural Class at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Lorena Aranda Cliff Nalty Spencer Eudaly Laura Nelsen Throughout June, 18 students painted for four hours a Danielle Gyles Margaret Pollack day under the tutelage of their professor, Carlos Fresquez, Kerrie Hanlon-Delas Kristin Smith a celebrated local artist. The goal was to create a piece of Chris Jacobs Ramon Trujillo public art that embodied the spirit of Curious, merging Megan Keniston Matthew Yocom welcoming with challenging.

We hope you love this mural as much as we do. Thank you to the artists that made it possible!

WHAT'S NEXT?

In the summer of 2019, The Mural students will (hopefully) return to Curious to paint the peak and backside of our building, which faces Broadway. We need you to make that beautiful dream real! In order to keep the artists safe while they paint, we need secured scaffolding in addition to purchasing the actual paint. If you are moved by art, text PAINT to 1-844-544-7171 to give to this dedicated fund! A Note from the Producing Artistic Director

Welcome to our 21st Season here at Curious and to the I will be honest with you: I want to believe this, but I’m not Regional Premiere of Bekah Brunstetter’s timely new sure if I truly do right now, amidst the blatant falsehoods, play The Cake. This is the perfect way to launch our new prejudice, and xenophobia that continues to scroll across season: thoughtful, provocative, and (literally) ripped our screens on a daily basis. But pondering this question from the headlines! As we start our third decade producing is also a huge part of what has made collaborating on this contemporary theatre and sparking important conversations play with this wonderful group of artists so refreshing and in our community, we’re thrilled to continue our tradition challenging at the same time: can we really imagine this of bringing you the best new plays by the best American fellowship as a possibility? playwrights – plays that you’ve never seen before in the Rocky Mountain Region! The playwright Sarah Ruhl recently said, “The theater is one of the few places left in the bright and noisy world where This play makes me wonder:When was the last time you we sit in the quiet dark together, to be awake.” And that’s actually changed someone’s mind about something what we aspire to do here at Curious, through the art and important? Or better yet, the last time someone changed power of theatre: ask bravely the most difficult questions, your mind? I find this to be a particularly interesting and challenge us all to be better citizens and artists, and upset important question given the last few years in this country. our assumptions at every turn. And send you home We’ve all heard someone say it: this country hasn’t been this entertained, as well as thinking and talking for days! divided since the Civil War. It’s called “affective polarization,” and it is explained succinctly by a recent article in Scientific Stay curious. American: “U.S. liberals and conservatives not only disagree on policy issues: they are also increasingly unwilling to live near each other, be friends, or get married to members of the other group.” Chip Walton And yet, amidst all this noise coming from both sides of Producing Artistic Director the divide – this curious, brave, and heartfelt play suggests the possibility that unconditional love is actually NOT dead just yet. It’s a play about the people you respect most in your life upsetting your assumptions about the world, and it brazenly suggests that fellowship might still be possible amongst people with whom you fundamentally disagree, over a delicious piece of cake. And perhaps, most importantly, it is a play that audaciously reminds us that small acts of personal bravery do indeed still have the power to create positive change. SEASON 21 | 303-623-0524 | CURIOUSTHEATRE.ORG 3 Who is Curious?

Curious Theatre Company is Denver’s home for feisty, unapologetically progressive, professional theatre that you won’t see anywhere else in Colorado. Our mission is to

ENGAGE THE COMMUNITY IN IMPORTANT CONTEMPORARY ISSUES THROUGH PROVOCATIVE MODERN THEATRE and we take that seriously. We have the guts to make theatre We focus on plays with something to say, something to that can change the world. explore, something to make you curious. We focus on playwrights that have a unique point of view and thrilling storytelling, often introducing them to our region. Both onstage and off, we are committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion.

75% OF OUR PLAYS IN THE LAST 10 YEARS WERE WRITTEN BY WOMEN, LGBTQ+, OR PEOPLE OF COLOR.

We are deeply invested partners, allies, and leaders within the social justice community. We use theatre to launch conversation around topics that are challenging, uncomfortable, or sensitive, both within our theatre and throughout our community. Appropriate, 2017

4 CURIOUSTHEATRE.ORG | 303-623-0524 | SEASON 21 WE ARE A SOCIAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATION WHOSE PLATFORM IS THEATRE.

From our inception more than two decades ago, we committed to paying artists a living wage, joining the ranks of Actors’ Equity Association, the professional actors’ union. Our professional artists have been honored with hundreds of awards for their work.

IN 20 YEARS, CURIOUS HAS BEEN NAMED BEST THEATRE SEASON BY WESTWORD 8 TIMES.

As we launch our third decade here in Denver, we recognize the unique position we hold in this community and the unique impact this community has had on Curious. We stand as Revolutionaries linking arms with each of you – whether this is your first time in this old church or if you’ve made the pilgrimage for more than twenty years.

We are Curious. ‘67, 2018 And we hope you are too.

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presents

by Bekah Brunstetter Directed by Chip Walton

CAST PRODUCTION TEAM Jada Suzanne Dixon*, Macy Costume Design, Meghan Anderson Doyle Emma Messenger, Della Lighting Design, Richard Devin** Michael Morgan*, Tim Sound Design, Jason Ducat Alaina Beth Reel, Jen Props Design, Donna Kanne Stage Manager, A. Phoebe Sacks* SETTING Assistant Director, Tara Wolfe Now, North Carolina. A Bakery; A Home. Assistant Stage Manager, Elizabeth Porter Scenic Concept, Chip Walton Scenic Collaborators, Richard Devin and Nick Kargel SPECIAL THANKS Scenic Construction, You Want What? Productions, Kelly Gibson Michael Morgan, Evan Mues DCPA Education Scenic Change Artist, Sarah Talaba Schneck Matthews Board Operator, Nick Cozzo Run Crew, Brandi Glass, Paulina S. Koester

The Cake is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. THE CAKE was originally produced by The Echo Theater Company, Los Angeles, California Chris Fields, Artistic Director | Jesse Cannady, Producing Director THE CAKE received a developmental reading at The Alley Theatre Gregory Boyd, Artistic Director/Dean R. Gladden, Managing Director THE CAKE was developed at the Ojai Playwrights Conference Robert Egan, Artistic Director/Producer Bold = Curious Artistic Company Member *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. **Member of United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829 IATSE

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Jada Suzanne Dixon (Macy), outstanding acting three times and received seven nominations. is a Curious Artistic Company She is a three-time True West Award-winner and has been honored member and a two-time recipient multiple times by Westword including being awarded Best of the True West Award. Jada Season for an Actress. Voice over work includes Jane Eyre, Pride & is also an associate artist with Prejudice and Wuthering Heights as well as numerous video games Local Lab, last seen as Gaby in and commercials. She will appear next season at The Arvada Center The Firestorm. Curious credits in The Diary of Anne Frank, The Moors, and Sin Street Social Club. include: Chelle in Detroit ‘67, Shatique in White Guy on the Bus, Oba in Marcus; or the Secret Michael Morgan (Tim) is a of Sweet, Mama Mojo/Nia/Woman Who Reminds You in In Curious Company member and The and Brown Water, and Cadence in House with No Walls. Technical Coordinator. He was Other theatre credits: Metamorphoses (Nursemaid), The Color most recently seen at the Arvada Purple (Darlene), A Christmas Carol (Mrs. Crachit), and Crumbs Center as Virgil in Bus Stop and from the Table of Joy (Sister Lily Ann Green) Aurora Fox Arts Tartuffe inTartuffe , and as H in Center; Black Odyssey (Aunt Tina/Scylla/Alsendra/Sabine/Circe/ The Arsonists with Benchmark. Carib’dis/Calypso/understudy), (Rose/understudy),Gem Other credits include: Shag in of the Ocean (Black Mary/understudy) Denver Center Theatre Equivocation (Colorado Shakespeare Festival); Edward in 10 Myths Company; One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Nurse Ratchet), The on the Proper Application of Beauty Products (Buntport Theatre); Edge Theatre Company; Two Trains Runnin’ (Risa), Waitin’ 2 End James in Time Stands Still and Joey in The Lieutenant of Inishmore Hell (Diane), and Macbeth (Lady Macbeth), Shadow Theatre (Curious Theatre); Bryan inThe Few (Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company; Doubt (Mrs. Mueller), Off Square Theatre Company. Company); and Midas in Metamorphoses and Remnar in Escanaba www.jadasuzannedixon.com in da Moonlight (Aurora Fox). Michael was the recipient of the Denver Post's 2011 Ovation Award for Best Supporting Actor as Emma Messenger (Della), is Quango Twistleton in Curious’ Homebody/Kabul. excited to be making her Curious Theatre debut. Her Regional Alaina Beth Reel (Jen), is a Theater credits include All My Denver-based actor, musician, Sons and Sense & Sensibility at teacher, writer, and director The Arvada Center Black with a BA in Theatre Arts from Box Repertory; Mud Blue the University of Iowa. She is Sky, Misery, Exit Strategies, Who’s making her Curious mainstage Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, I’ll Eat You Last, and The Beauty debut in The Cake. She has been Queen of Leenane at The Edge Theater; Agnes of God, Stella & in the last three Denver Stories Lou, and ‘night, Mother at Vintage Theatre; The Lying Kind at at Curious, as well as many Curious New Voices productions. THEATREWORKS; The Women and The Birds Sing Too Loud at This year, she acted in the Colorado New Play Festival (Bruce Circus Theatricals (New American Theatre); and Twelfth Graham’s Sanctions, Curious Theatre Company), the Colorado Night, The Early Girl, Stage Blood, and So Long on Lonely Street at New Play Summit at DCPA (David Jacobi’s The Couches), and American Stage. Emma has won the CTG Henry Award for played the titular role in Wolff’s Orlando, by Sarah Ruhl (Trapeze

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Theatre/DCPA Master Class). Denver credits include Jo March in Yankee Tavern, , The Long Christmas Ride the Catamounts’ You On the Moors Now, Heidi in [title of show] in Home, and Aphrodisiac. He recently designed Disgraced, Fade, collaboration with the Fox Theatre, Alexi Darling in Rent at and The Christians for the Denver Center Theatre Company. Town Hall Arts Center, and many children’s theatre tours and Richard also worked with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival for shows. Miners Alley Theatre (Golden, CO) credits include 39 17 years as Producing Artistic Director, and 26 years as lighting Steps (Annabella/Margaret/Pamela) Cabaret (Fraulein Kost) Little designer. He has designed lighting for more than 250 productions Shop of Horrors (Ronette), 4000 Miles (Bec), and Rose Colored at 35 of America’s regional theatres, as well as designing Off- Glass (Peg). Alaina is a teacher at Miners Alley Children’s Theatre, Broadway and in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Cairo. He was and has adapted and directed Little Red Riding Hood and Sleeping Managing Director and Lighting Designer with Massachusetts’ Beauty. Alaina is represented by Radical Artists Agency in Denver, CO. Williamstown Theatre Festival for eight years and is past president of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology. Professor Bekah Brunstetter (playwright) hails from Winston-Salem, Devin taught for more than 40 years in the Theatre Departments North Carolina, and currently lives in Los Angeles. Plays include of Temple University, The University of Washington and The The Cake (Ojai Playwrights Conference), Going to a Place University of Colorado. He has served as theatre consultant on Where You Already Are (South Coast Repertory), The Oregon numerous new and renovated theatres. Recently, he was honored Trail (Portland Center Stage Fall 2016, O’Neill Playwrights to become a Fellow of the College of Fellows of the American Conference; Flying V) Cutie and Bear (Roundabout commission) Theatre. Dick received his BA in Drama from the University of A Long and Happy life (Naked Angels Commission), Be A Good Northern Iowa and an MFA from the Yale University School of Little Widow (Ars Nova, Collaboraction, The Old Globe),Oohrah! Drama. He is a Member of the United Scenic Artists of America. (The Atlantic Theater, Steppenwolf Garage, the Finborough Theater / London),Nothing is the End of the World (Except for Meghan Anderson Doyle (Costume Design) is pleased to be the End of the World) (Waterwell productions), House of Home returning to Curious where previous designs include The Brother (Williamstown Theater festival) andMiss Lilly Gets Boned (Ice Sister Plays, Good People, A Number, Up, and tempOdyssey. Other Factory Festival.) She is an alumni of the CTG Writers Group, select credits include American Mariachi, The Wild Party, An Act Primary Stages writers group, Ars Nova Play Group, The of God, DragOn, The Glass Menagerie, Sweet & Lucky (Denver Playwright’s Realm, and the Women’s Project Lab. She is currently Center for the Performing Arts); You Can’t Take It with You, a member of the Echo Theater’s Playwright’s group. She has Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Taming of the Shrew, The Comedy of previously written for MTV (Underemployed; I Just Want My Pants Errors (Colorado Shakespeare Festival); The Electric Baby, The Back) ABC Family’s Switched at Birth, and ’s series American Drowning Girls, and Waiting For Godot (Arvada Center for the Gods. She is currently a Co-Producer on NBC’s show, . Arts and Humanities). Meghan holds a B.A. from the University BA UNC Chapel Hill; MFA in Dramatic Writing from the New of Denver and an M.F.A. in costume design from the University School for Drama. of Florida. DoyleCostumeDesign.com

Richard Devin (Lighting Designer) has designed lighting Jason Ducat (Sound Design) is a company member at Curious for many Curious shows including Detroit ’67, Appropriate, the and has designed many shows at Curious including Your three-part Elliot Plays, The Flick, All the Rage, Good People, Rancho Best One, Detroit ’67, Appropriate, The Luckiest People, Venus Mirage, Maple and Vine, 9 Circles, Charles Ives Take Me Home, On in Fur, Good People, The Brothers Size, and Maple and an Average Day (Denver Post Ovation Award), A Number, Opus, Vine. Jason worked as a resident sound designer at Denver

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Center Theatre Company where he designed Glengarry Glen profit theatres across the country dedicated to the development Ross, When Tang Met Laika, The House of the Spirits, Lord of and production of new plays for the American theatre. Chip the Flies, Shadowlands, Reckless, Superior Donuts, Heartbreak was also selected in the inaugural class of the Bonfils-Stanton House, and Othello. Other designs include Henry IV, The Tempest, Foundation Livingston Fellows, recognizing exceptional non-profit I Hate Hamlet, Macbeth and Richard II (Colorado Shakespeare leaders with significant potential for contribution, change and Festival); Marat/Sade, The Winter’s Tale (Purdue University); Lab leadership in Colorado’s nonprofit sector; additionally, he served Coats on Clouds (Prague Quadrennial); Hedwig and the Angry on the Board of Directors of the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation as Inch (Elemental Theatre Company); Sideways Stories from Wayside their first Community Trustee. Chip has participated in the Visiting School (Hope Summer Repertory Theatre); and Tribulation and Professionals program at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, as the Demolition Squad (Chicago Dance Crash). Jason received his well as serving on the Leadership Group for Imagine 2020: Creating MFA in sound design from Purdue University. a Future for Denver’s Culture. He has directed in the National New Play Network Showcase of New Plays, the Kennedy Center’s Donna Kanne (Properties Design) is making her Curious debut. MFA Playwriting Festival in Washington, D.C., and accepted a Her other designs include The Spitfire Grill and The Oldest Boy for National Theatre Company Award in New York for Curious from Vintage Theatre. Donna received her BFA in Theatre from the the prestigious American Theatre Wing. Most recently, Chip was Metropolitan State University of Denver. honored to serve as a 2017 Aspen Ideas Festival Speaker.

A. Phoebe Sacks (Stage Manager) has been the stage manager Actors’ Equity Association (“AEA” or “Actors’ Equity”), founded in for The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide…, The Body of an 1913, represents more than 49,000 actors and stage managers in American, Appropriate, Hand to God, Constellations, The Luckiest the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the People, White Guy on the Bus, and Sex with Strangers. She previously art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity served as stage manager or assistant stage manager for more than negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range 30 productions at Denver Center Theatre Company. Favorites of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member include the world premieres of The Legend of Georgia McBride and of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international The Whale. Phoebe has also stage managed for Colorado Springs organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our Fine Arts Center, New Denver Civic Theatre and Lizard Head mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org Theatre Company. She holds a B.A. in Technical Theatre from the University of Northern Colorado and is a member of Actors’ Equity THE VIDEOTAPING OR MAKING OF Association, and is the Production Manager for Curious. ELECTRONIC OR OTHER AUDIO AND/OR VISUAL RECORDINGS OF THIS PRODUCTION Chip Walton (Producing Artistic Director) co-founded Curious Theatre Company in 1997 and has served as Producing Artistic OR DISTRIBUTING RECORDINGS ON ANY Director for the entire history of the organization. Named MEDIUM, INCLUDING THE INTERNET, IS Denver’s “2005 Theatre Person of the Year,” he has directed STRICTLY PROHIBITED, A VIOLATION OF 50 shows for Curious over the past 20 years and his work has THE AUTHOR’S RIGHTS AND ACTIONABLE garnered more than 100 local and national awards. In 2008, UNDER UNITED STATES COPYRIGHT LAW. Curious was honored with the Mayor’s Award for Excellence in FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT: the Arts. Chip has served as the President and Vice President of WWW.SAMUELFRENCH.COM/WHITEPAPER the National New Play Network, a network of professional, non- SEASON 21 | 303-623-0524 | CURIOUSTHEATRE.ORG 9 How it happened…

The real life story of David Mullins, Charlie Craig, Masterpiece Cakeshop, and the Supreme Court

JULY 2012

The engaged couple and Charlie’s mom go cake shopping DECEMBER 2010 at Masterpiece Cakeshop and are denied service David & Charlie meet at a party in Denver; Charlie was the emcee and David was in the band FEBRUARY 2012

David & Charlie get engaged!

They fall in LOVE

SEPTEMBER 2012

David & Charlie get married

10 CURIOUSTHEATRE.ORG | 303-623-0524 | SEASON 21 with a cake from another bakery. AUGUST 2015 DECEMBER 2013 Colorado Court of Appeals Judge Robert Spencer decides rules that the bakery’s refusal that Masterpiece had violated OCTOBER 2014 was discriminatory based on Colorado law that prohibits sexual orientation and that businesses refusing service on Same-sex marriage is religion can’t be used in refusal the basis of sexual orientation; recognized in Colorado Masterpiece appealed

2016 Supreme Court of Colorado refuses to hear the case – 2017 Supreme Court of the United States puts it on the docket JUNE 2018

MAY 2014 Supreme Court reversed the 2015 decision, siding with Colorado Civil Rights Masterpiece in a narrowly Commission decides defined ruling that the Colorado that Masterpiece Civil Rights Commission used violated the Colorado bias in its decision. Anti-Discrimination Act . >>>

Masterpiece was ordered to change its policies and offer go deeper: comprehensive staff training For more details on this case, the final ruling, and what it all means, visit our Go Deeper section online. CuriousTheatre.org/event/the-cake Bekah Brunstetter: Can she have her Cake and Eat it too?

Bekah Brunstetter’s career is moving faster than the timer conservative home-grown values and the loving people of her on The Great British Baking Show. With its humanity and youth, while sharing a more liberal point of view with her topicality, The Cake is being produced across the country. politically progressive friends in NYC and LA. "I hear the other In addition to a growing resume of plays, she’s also an in- point of view echoing in my head,” she told the LA Times, “I demand television writer for shows such as see myself getting split, ripped in half. On both sides, they're and is currently writing and producing for NBC’s This Is Us. forgetting the human being that's at the center of this." Raised in a conservative, Baptist church-going home in And that’s the place her writing springs from…the human Winston-Salem, NC, Bekah Brunstetter is an unlikely being. She’s a keen observer of people and in The Cake playwright. Her three brothers, homemaker mother, and she explores her ability to see the best in people despite lawyer-turned-(Republican)-politician father did not their shortcomings. have an affinity for the arts. She originally got involved in theatre as a way to make new friends in her public high “A lot of plays are more on the scathing side when it comes school after attending a private Christian middle school. to organized religion,” Bekah says in the Times article. “It was really important to me to start with a character who has Theatre exposed her to different people and new viewpoints. conservative values and make her the hero — start the play In an article for the Contemporary American Theatre with her and, hopefully, have an audience fall in love with her. Festival, she says, “Since high school, I’ve had many gay And then, after we get to know her, have her do something friends, and my support of them and their relationships has that, quote-unquote, ‘we’ — the liberal theater audience — always been a point of contention [in my family].” don’t agree with. And then we have to wrestle with how we feel about her, just like she's wrestling with her belief system.” When studying theatre at the University of North Carolina– Chapel Hill, she began writing plays. In part, to explore her “My hope with the feelings about her upbringing and her expanding sense of play is to show how its social justice. “My parents didn’t see anything that I wrote possible for two people for the first two or three years, because I was really writing to kind of take little steps about stuff that I couldn’t quite share with them yet,” she toward understanding told American Theatre writer Suzy Evans. each others points of view because they have In many interviews, Brunstetter talks about her ability to see to see each other as both sides of contentious issues. She fondly remembers the >>> human beings.” To learn more about Bekah, her fascinating duality, and to read excerpts from her blog (which she updates religiously every day), go to our Go Deeper section go deeper: on the Curious website: CuriousTheatre.org/event/the-cake. 12 CURIOUSTHEATRE.ORG | 303-623-0524 | SEASON 21 Discussion Questions & Resources

GET INVOLVED DENVER RESOURCES

Denver has amazing resources and organizations that are centered around social justice and equality, especially for LGBTQ+ people. Here are a few we have connected with around The Cake. Please check out their work!

Some of these questions include spoilers. One Colorado Read early at your own risk. Leading advocacy organization for Colorado’s LGBTQ+ people and their families. 1. When Macy and Della first meet, Macy is critical of www.one-colorado.org Della and diminishes her line of work off-hand while Della tries kindness; this sets the play up for a flip of the The Center narrative that played out during the Masterpiece Cake Support and resources for the LGBTQ+ Supreme Court Case. How did this interaction affect the community in Denver. way you watched the play? www.glbtcolorado.org 2. Macy makes the statement that “ambivalence is just as ACLU of Colorado evil as violence” in reference to being politically engaged; This organization works diligently to provide civil she later tells Jen that it is her responsibility to open rights for all people and were heavily involved in Della’s mind. Do you agree? Why or why not? Charlie and Dave's case. 3. A constant theme for Della is that you must follow the www.aclu-co.org instructions – a recipe for cake and the Bible for life – yet in the end, she questions whether the way the Bible Colorado LGBT Bar Association has been interpreted is correct. What do you think Della Voluntary professional association that provides truly wants the “answer” to be? LGBTQ+ presence to Colorado’s legal community. www.coloradolgbtbar.org 4. What do you believe Della’s daydreams of the baking show represent in her life? The Human Rights Campaign, Colorado The Human Rights Campaign fights for LGBTQ+ 5. Throughout the play, Jen struggles with reconciling her rights on various platforms. roots with her current self. Have you ever felt this internal www.hrc.org/local-issues/colorado tug-of-war? Did you find a balance or choose one over

the other? How did that affect your relationships? SEASON 21 | 303-623-0524 | CURIOUSTHEATRE.ORG 13 Board, Company & Staff

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Lisa Boehm, Finance Manager Brynn Starr Sater, Patron Development Associate Susan Tucker, President Valerie deGroot, Jeffrey Garland, Evan Gendreau, Susan France, Vice President Hattie Hodes, Lindsey Huntsman, Rebecca Lind, John Flanigan, Treasurer Philip Waller, Patron Services Team Brent Case, Secretary Elizabeth Steele, Immediate Past President COMPANY Nate Barker Lisa Boehm Toni Baruti Kevin Brainerd Peter R. Bornstein Ed Cord Darin Brown Dee Covington Tara Cleare Richard Devin Ann Corrigan Jada Suzanne Dixon Eric Fonacier Jason Ducat Scott Gannon Patton Brian Landis Folkins Roscoe Hill Kathryn Gray Carla Mestas William Hahn *Chip Walton, Producing Artistic Director Josh Hartwell *Erik Sandvold, Artistic Company Member Markas Henry *Jeremy Shamos, Lifetime Honorary President Jim Hunt *non-voting members John Jurcheck Cajardo Lindsey STAFF Kristin MacFarlane Artistic Shannon McKinney Chip Walton, Producing Artistic Director Michael McNeill Dee Covington, Education Director Christy Montour-Larson Marike Fitzgerald, Associate Producer Michael Morgan A. Phoebe Sacks, Production Manager Josh Robinson Michael Morgan, Technical Coordinator Erik Sandvold Karen Slack Administrative Chip Walton Katie Maltais, Managing Director Todd Webster Maggie Schlundt, Patron Development Manager Jeannene Bragg, Community Engagement Organizer Emily Whalen, Patron Services Manager

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