ESCAPED ALONE Welcome to Our Escaped Alone Audio Play, Written by Caryl Churchill

ESCAPED

ALONEAN AUDIO PLAY

STREAMING ONLINE OCT NOV 19 15 WRITTEN BY CARYL CHURCHILL DIRECTED BY LORETTA GRECO from the desk of Sonia Fernandez ESCAPED ALONE Welcome to our Escaped Alone audio play, written by Caryl Churchill

We are thrilled to be able to share this audio play with you. In this time of frightening uncertainty, we hope directed by Loretta Greco CAST that you enjoy the linguistic virtuosity, dry humor and prescient genius that is Caryl Churchill. Over six Sally Elizabeth Benedict*+ decades after her first stage play, Churchill continues to explore and explode dramatic form, offering fresh + perspectives and capturing the playful and complex rhythms of life. We are pleased to rectify the oversight Season Producers Vi Anne Darragh* Clay Foundation West Lena Anne Hallinan of Magic having never produced Churchill’s work until now. Her limitless imagination and daring innovation + puts her right at home in the Magic family. Larry Goldfarb Mrs. Jarret Julia McNeal* Sandra Hess Escaped Alone was meant to be our final production of the 2019-20 season, which alongside many other Kathryn Kersey AUDIO PLAY CREATIVE TEAM theatre seasons across the country was prematurely cut short. When we originally planned the season, we John F. Marx and Nikki Beach had no idea how timely this play would feel in the present moment. Escaped Alone is a play that Churchill Toni Rembe and Arthur Rock Production Manager Jackie S. Hill premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in early 2016. And yet, Churchill’s language seems to be ripped from Sound Designer Jake Rodriguez** our current anxieties, and tilted through the lens of her fresh and audacious humor. Escaped Alone Producers and Engineer Dialect Coach Jessica Berman This production was also intended to mark the end of our intrepid leader of 12 years, Loretta Greco’s, tenure. Anonymous Eugene and Neil Barth Original Music by Jake Rodriguez**and I am so glad we are able to honor her work and that of the artistic team through this audio play. Many thanks Jason Stamberger to our indomitable cast who withstood several postponements and delayed their plans to make this happen. Rebecca Eisen A very special thanks to Jake Rodriguez, who originally signed on as our sound designer, with no way of Kathyrn Kersey Casting Sonia Fernandez knowing what an integral role he would play in manifesting this piece solely through the world of sound. Leigh Wolf ORIGINAL PRODUCTION CREATIVE TEAM ESCAPED ALONE was first presented by The English Churchill’s epigraph to the play “I only am escaped alone to tell thee” comes from the Book of Job and Set and Costume Andrew Boyce** Moby Dick and evokes a solitary journey of survival. We heard this play out loud in Magic’s lounge in the Stage Company at The Royal Court Theatre, London, on 28th January 2016. The US premier was summer of 2018. Amongst our listeners were a 20-year-old apprentice and a 70-year old board member. All Designer presented at BAM Harvey Theater, New York, on Lighting Designer Chris Lundahl of us laughed out loud and were deeply moved by the reading. Though the play offers a dark foreboding, 15th February 2017, directed by James MacDonald. what surprised us that afternoon was the paradox that while the content of the play is at times upsetting, Assistant Director Hannah Meyer absurd and apocalyptic, the feeling of the play is that of resilience, optimism and comfort in each other. It offers us a necessary reminder of our extraordinary human ability to persevere and find joy and song even in LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT the midst of catastrophe. Magic Theatre sits on the native lands of Ramaytush (Rah-my-toosh) and Ohlone (Oh-loh-nee) people. We affirm the Ohlone presence and revere their past, current and future generations. While we haven’t been able to hold live productions, we have been developing and implementing our Anti- racist action plan in response to the gift of the We See You, White American Theatre and Living Document First-people were cherishing and protecting this land centuries before colonizers displaced and erased their cultures. Occupants of native land, including Fort Mason, are not excused from perpetuating the Demands that offer us a roadmap. If you haven’t read our plan, please check it out on our website. It is just deception of indigenous people through violent action and legislation. We encourage our visitors to a first step, but we think its an important one. Black Lives Matter. engage in learning and dismantling the consequences of colonialism.

Thank you for joining us. We sincerely hope to share space with all of you again soon and have a season of Colonization is a global and ever-evolving process. As our activities, including this Audio Play, depend on the Internet, we recognize the colonization embedded within technology. Such advancements encompass astonishing world premiere plays planned for 2021. In the meantime, enjoy listening. Stay safe and please vote. unfair labor practices, occupation of native lands, disproportionate ecological impact, and unequal-accessibility.

Warmly, As you peruse this program and listen to this Audio Play, we encourage you to acknowledge, learn about and support the land which you currently occupy. For information on Indigenous Land please visit: https://native-land.ca/. Colonialism is not a relic of the past; neither is Indigenous justice. See the living-histories of Sonia Fernandez San Francisco Bay Region’s people: http://www.muwekma.org/ Interim Artistic Director https://www.nps.gov/prsf/learn/historyculture/indigenous-period.htm http://www.ramaytush.com *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers. **Member of United Scenic Artists local 829, which represents the designers and scenic painters for the American Theatre. The video and/or sound duplication of this recording by any means whatso- +Member of Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists ever are strictly prohibitted. †Member of Stage Directors and Choreographers (SDC) This recording was made possible by an agreement with SAG-AFTA. biographies twenty-six world premieres produced Long Wharf, La Jolla Playhouse, Golden Thread. She has been Marin Theatre Company, Porchlight here have gone on to have between Intiman Theatre, Williamstown, a semifinalist for the O’Neill ANNE Theatre, TheatreFirst, Center two and seventy-one productions Coconut Grove Playhouse, Reper- National Playwrights Conference + Reperatory Company, Pacific CARYL each throughout the country and tory Theatre of St Louis, Cincinnati twice – in 2008 with American DARRAGH* Alliance Theatre, Actors Theatre beyond. Magic directing credits Playhouse, and Playmakers Rep, Royals and 2013 with Rashomon VI of SF, First Person Singular, and among many others. Ms. Greco in Kansas. Her play Last Party PlayGround (where she is a CHURCHILL include the world premieres of (she/her) is directed the National Tour of at the Garden of Allah, or company member). Film and TV Barbara Hammond’s The Eva Trilogy, thrilled to be PLAYWRIGHT Emily Mann’s Having Our Say, as Lesbians in Pre-Code Hollywood credits include The Unbelievable Ong’s Grandeur, Hagedorn’s part of this well as the international premiere was to have had a reading this Truth; Flesh and Bone; Law and (she/her) The Gangster of Love, Sharr White’s amazing team. at the Market Theatre in past June at the Playwrights Order and Law & Order: SVU. was born on Annapurna, and Octavio Solis’s She began her Johannesburg, South Africa. Lab. Deep gratitude and love to Julia was a founding member of the 3 September Se Llama Cristina. She has also professional 1938 in reimagined westcoast premieres such as Loretta, Anne, Julia, Anne and Obie-Award-winning Cucaracha London and Sharr White’s The Other Place, Prior to her Magic post, Greco most of all Caryl Churchill for the career at the Magic Theatre in the world Theatre in New York and the Echo grew up in Liz Duffy Adams’ Or,, and served as Producing Artistic Direc- gift of this play. premiere of Lynn Kaufman’s Speaking in Los Angeles. She teaches at the Lake Theresa Rebeck’s Mauritius, among tor of New York’s The Women’s in Tongues. Other Magic productions Tamalpais High’s internationally many others. Project, where she was proud to include Sam Shepard’s The God of Hell, acclaimed CTE program and is District and in Montreal. She help launch the careers of Liesl Rebecca Gilman’s The American in Me, the creator of the Five Ways In was educated at Lady Margaret At Magic, Greco is grateful for her Tommy, Anne Kauffman, Lisa ANNE Edna O’Brien’s Tír Na nÓg, and Paula to Character technique. Julia is a Hall, Oxford. Downstairs, her first long standing collaborations with D’Amour, and Annie Dorsen, and Vogel’s The Baltimore Waltz (among proud member of the newly born play written while she was still at playwrights Sam Shepard, Luis Alfaro as the Associate Director/Resident HALLINAN many others). She has had the honor to A.R.C. online actors collective. university, was first staged in 1958 and Taylor Mac. Greco worked close- Producer at the McCarter Theatre LENA perform in numerous world premieres juliamcnealarts.com and won an award at the Sunday ly with Shepard on Magic’s five-year in Princeton. She received her including the Eureka Theatre production Times National Union of Students Bay Area Sheparding America series MFA from Catholic University, (she/her) is of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America as She is thrilled to be part of this Drama Festival. and directed the critically acclaimed her BA from Loyola University, delighted to well as works by Michelle Carter, Barry innovative audio production. legacy revivals of Buried Child and New Orleans. She is the recipient be making Gifford, Julie Myatt, and Neena Beber Thank you, Loretta Greco. Caryl Churchill’s plays include: Fool for Love. She developed and of Bay Area Critic’s Association her Magic (Magic), Anthony Clarvoe (Aurora), Owners, Traps, Light Shining in directed the world premieres of Alfa- Awards, two Drama League Fel- Theatre Brian Thorstenson (6NewPlays), Jane ** Buckinghamshire, Cloud 9, Top Girls, JAKE RODRIGUEZ ro’s Oedipus el Rey, Bruja, and This lowships, a Princess Grace Award, debut as Lena. A long ago Prowse (Z Space), Amy Sass (Ragged Fen, Serious Money, Ice Cream, Mad Golden State: Delano. She produced a Sundance/Luma Director’s Wing), Julie Jigour (PlayGround), Denis SOUND DESIGN/ENGINEER, COMPOSER Forest, The Skriker, Blue Heart, This is member of the SF Mime Troupe, Taylor Mac’s five-hourThe Lily’s Re- fellowship, and the 2018 Zelda she returned to the stage 20 Johnson (Campo Santo), Bill Talen (Life a Chair, Far Away, A Number, Drunk venge, the world premiere of Hir, and Fichandler Award. on the Water), Peter Nachtrieb (Encore (he/him) is a sound designer Enough To Say I Love You?, Seven years ago, appearing in Vanya Associate Produced the West Coast and Sonia and Masha and Theatre), Allan Havis (Ohio Theatre, and composer based in the San Jewish Children, Love & Information, premiere (with Curran, Pomegranate NY), and Anne Galjour (Brava Theatre). Francisco Bay Area. His work for Here We Go and Escaped Alone. Spike (Cassandra), Center Rep; Arts, and Stanford Live) A 24-Decade ELIZABETH Years in the Hundreds (Inez), She was last seen in The Children at Magic Theatre includes Buried Music theatre includes Lives of the History of Popular Music. She has the Aurora Theatre. Ms. Darragh has Child (2013), Annapurna, Bruja, Great Poisoners and Hotel, both Central Works; Voyage (Masha, commissioned and will direct Mac’s + Mrs. Beyer), Shotgun Players; also performed with A.C.T., Berkeley and Oedipus el Rey (2010/2019). with Orlando Gough. Caryl has also upcoming premiere, Joy and the BENEDICT* Rep, Marin Theatre Company, San Other recent theatre credits include written for radio and television. Disclosure (Anna), Those Women; Pandemic, in 2021. SALLY Deathtrap, (Helga), Theatre Francisco Playhouse, San Jose Rep, Between Two Knees (Oregon (she/her) is Rhinoceros; Strindberg’s Chamber and TheatreWorks. She is a company Shakespeare Festival); The Great LORETTA Her New York directing credits in- thrilled to be Plays (various), Cutting Ball; member of PlayGround and Stephen Leap, Her Portmanteau, Sweat, and clude the premieres of: working at Les Blancs (Madame Neilson), Pelton Dance Theatre Company. Thanks Vietgone (American Conservatory runboyrun and A Park in Our House the Magic Stanford Rep; Torch Song to her family, as always. Theater); Women Laughing Alone GRECO at New York Theatre Workshop; for the first Trilogy (Ma), theatre Q; and The with Salad and The Events (Shotgun DIRECTOR The Story, Lackawanna Blues, and time. Arab-Israeli Cookbook (Rena, Players); Everybody (California Two Sisters and a Piano at The Public JULIA Shakespeare Theatre); Angels (she/her) As She has appeared at the Aurora Rose, Shoshi), TheatreFirst. A Theater; Meshugah at Naked Angels: in America and An Octoroon the former in The Fifth of July, The Best Man, longtime Berkeley resident, + Mercy at The Vineyard; Under a (Berkeley Repertory Theatre); Artistic Direc- Hedda Gabler and Split. She she has also performed with MCNEAL* Western Sky at INTAR; and Victoria we, the invisibles (Actors Theatre tor of Magic was seen at TheatreWorks in The El Teatro Campesino, Utopia MRS. JARRET Martin Math Team Queen, Touch, of Louisville); and The Christians Theatre, Cripple of Inishman and at the B Theatre Project, Woman’s Will, and Gum at Women’s Project. Her Magic Theatre (Playwrights Horizons, the Mark Ms. Greco is Street Theatre in Sacramento in Bay Area Children’s Theatre, regional directing credits include; credits include Taper Forum). Rodriguez is the proud to have Becky Shaw. In addition, she has and the Boxcar and Tabard Sweat, The Realistic Joneses, Speed- Visible from recipient of a 2004 Princess Grace developed, worked locally at ACT, TheatreFirst, Theatre Companies, as well as Four States, Award. the-Plow, and Blackbird at American Traveling Jewish Theatre, Pacific understudying at Berkeley Rep premiered, and championed the coun- Conservatory Theater; The Eva Trilogy, try’s most innovating and cutting-edge Stage Alliance Co., Playhouse West, and SF Playhouse. Selected film/ Fred’s Diner, Life is a Dream at California Shake- and Free Range Theatre Co., where web series credits: White Rabbit, writers, including Taylor Mac, and A Lie of the Mind. Other Bay Area speare; Romeo and Juliet and Stop she was a founding member. She is Next, Ten Plagues, Adaline, and Mfoniso Udofia, Lloyd Suh, Luis Alfaro, credits: Top Girls, at A.C.T.; The Events Kiss at Oregon Shakespeare Festival; also a playwright, as E.H. Benedict, the upcoming How to Succeed John Kolvenbach, Jessica Hagedorn, and productions for McCarter The- at Shotgun Players, Gidion’s Knot and her short plays Orhan and War as a Failure in Hollywood. www. Linda McLean, Han Ong, and Octavio atre, South Coast Repertory, (extension) at Aurora Theatre. She has on Terror were produced locally by annehallinan.com Solis. Under her watch, twenty of the also appeared at SF Playhouse, *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, Actors’ Equity Association. +Member of Screen Actord Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists ** premieres of Don’t Eat The Mangos by Toni formerly served on the boards on the Boards of Directors JESSICA BERMAN ANDREW BOYCE Ricardo Perez Gonzalez, Reel to Reel of AT&T, Potlatch, Transamerica, of several theaters, an art DIALECT COACH SET/ COSTUME DESIGNER by John Kolvenbach, The Eva Trilogy Pacific Telesis, Safeco, APL Ltd., and museum, and several educational AEGON N.V. (a Dutch company). She institutions, utilizing her business (she/her) is a dialect, voice, and (he/him) is a multi disciplinary by Barbara Hammond, and runboyrun is a member of the advisory board skills in financial management, text coach. She teaches at UC designer working on a variety on by Mfoniso Udofia, among many and a past chair of the American strategic planning, and business Berkeley and the American Con- projects ranging from theater, opera, others, at Magic as well as Quixote Conservatory Theatre, and past development. servatory Theatre (A.C.T.). With and live events, to film and commer- Nuevo by Octavio Solis at CalShakes. president of the Commonwealth Club Magic Theatre she has coached: In cial spaces. Most recently at Magic: She is a longtime resident artist with of California. She is also a member Old Age, The Eva Trilogy, In Old Age, Fool For Love; Crowded Fire Theatre, and a member of Theatre Communications Group’s The Baltimore Waltz, Sojourners, This Golden State; Buried Child. of CFT’s EDI Squad. As Magic’s LARRY GOLDFARB National Council for the American and runboyrun. Other recent dialect Andrew has NYC credits with: Associate Artistic Director, Sonia Theatre. and vocal coaching credits include: Lincoln Center Theater, New York has produced the annual Virgin Play SEASON PRODUCER Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Theater Workshop, Roundabout The- Festival, stewarding workshops and Larry is a Boston native. He was (The Curran, SF Company), ater Company, Atlantic Theater Com- readings of new plays in development educated at Northeastern University Elizabeth Benedict, SALLY School Girls; Or, The African Mean pany, Primary Stages, etc. Regional every December and has cast the JOHN F. MARX & NIKKI BEACH and Brown University Graduate Girls Play, Becky Nurse of Salem, credits with: Actors Theatre of Louis- last five seasons of productions. She School. He relocated to the Bay The Good Book, Paradise Square: SEASON PRODUCER ville, American Conservatory The- received an AB from Princeton and Area from Providence, Rhode A New Musical, Angels in America, ater, Baltimore Center Stage, Berke- Master’s from San Francisco State. Began coming to Magic in 1981 Island in 1966. He worked for and What the Constitution Means ley Rep, Cal Shakes, Center Theater and have enjoyed its intensity and Stanford Research Institute and to Me (Berkeley Rep), An American Group, The Goodman, Huntington, independence ever since. John joined DiGiorgio in San Francisco. In in Paris (leg of North American Long Wharf, Oregon Shakespeare the Magic Theatre board in 2009. 1974 he worked as an Information Tour), Macbeth, A Midsummer Festival, Milwaukee Rep, Portland In 1999, John co-founded Form4 Technology headhunter. In 1983 he Night’s Dream, The War of the Ros- Center Stage, Westport Playhouse, Architecture, a SF-based firm that co-founded GW Consulting, a firm es, and Fences (Cal Shakes), and season producers and Yale Rep, among many others. produces award-winning architecture that marketed contract information The Who and the What, Assistant Professor of Design @ ranging from a 2,000-square-foot technology personnel. He sold the The Wickhams, Oslo, and Northwestern University. TONI REMBE ROCK penthouse in SF to a 4 million-square- company in 1995 and retired to Paris Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pember- www.andrewboycedesign.com foot IT campus in Pune, India. Other and London. Larry was on the Magic ley (Marin Theatre Company). In SEASON PRODUCER projects include the headquarters Board from 1977 to 1993 and from addition to her work in the theatre, Anne Darragh, VI CHRIS LUNDAHL Toni Rembe grew up in Seattle, and for Netflix, nVidia, and Vmware. A 2017-2020. Jessica works with business monograph of John’s work, entitled professionals and private individ- LIGHTING DESIGNER did her undergraduate work at the University of Washington and the Wandering the Garden of Technology uals on communication, presence, (he/him) is a Lighting Designer based University of Geneva in Switzerland. and Passion, was published by KATHRYN KERSEY and presentation skills. She holds in the San Francisco Bay Area. Recent After receiving a law degree from Balcony Press. Nikki Beach makes an M.A. from the Royal Birmingham Lighting Design credits include: SEASON PRODUCER the University of Washington and a model trees for architects worldwide. Conservatoire, and an M.F.A. from Don’t Eat the Mangos (Magic master’s degree in taxation at New John and Nikki are honored to Kathryn is Chair of the Magic the Royal Central School of Speech Theatre), Mother of the Maid (Marin York University School of Law, she have been producers of Tir na nOg, Theatre Board of Trustees. Her and Drama. Theatre Company), Rhinoceros joined the law firm of Chadbourne Mauritius, Oedipus el Rey, The Lily’s love of the arts began as a child (American Conservatory Theater), & Parke in New York. In 1964 she Revenge, Bruja, Se Llama Cristina, and in Toronto, going to the Shaw and Mama Mia (Berkeley Playhouse), The JASON STAMBERGER returned to the West Coast and Buried Child. They find the behind-the- Stratford Festivals and later to the Daughters (San Francisco Playhouse), joined the law firm of Pillsbury scenes access and relationships they symphony, opera, ballet and of COMPOSER Bright Star (Palo Alto Players), Kings Winthrop Shaw Pittman (formerly have formed from producing to be course, theatre in Toronto. She (he/him) is a composer, performer, (Shotgun Players), The Gentleman Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro), unforgettable. was thrilled to discover the bold and teacher born in the Appalachian Caller (New Conservatory Theatre) specializing in international and tax new plays at the Magic Theatre foothills of southern Ohio. He has and Transfers (Crowded Fire Theatre). Anne Hallinan, LENA law, and served for many years as and feels privileged to be able to composed and performed music the managing partner of the firm’s CLAY FOUNDATION WEST gain greater insight into how the for Magic Theater (Buried Child, An- Other credits include: tax practice. She also served as a SEASON PRODUCER Magic nourishes playwrights, the napurna), American Conservatory La Serva Padrona, Savitri, The Bear member of Pillsbury’s governing development of plays and how Theater (Top Girls, Sweat), Shotgun (Merola Opera), Rock of Ages, The executive committee. Now, a retired Is a small charitable foundation that they are brought to life on the Players (Care of Trees), and Theatre Little Mermaid, Titanic, the Musical partner at the Pillsbury firm, she is provides grants to a variety of stage. Kathryn has been involved of Yugen (The Cycle Plays). Jason (Rocky Mountain Repertory Theater). President of the van Loben Sels/ organizations that work to enrich the in clinical drug development for 30 has toured extensively throughout Lundahldesigns.com Rembe Rock Foundation, a private lives of those in their communities, years and currently works in Liver the US, Europe, and Japan with foundation focusing in the area of particularly theaters. Its President, Disease Clinical Research at Gilead Crack:WAR, Le Flange du Mal, and public interest law, and a board Buffington Clay Miller, has attended Sciences. Neung Phak, and has collabo rated SONIA FERNANDEZ member of the Immigrant Legal Magic Theatre productions for a with members of Can, Negativland, CASTING / INTERIM ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Resource Center. She is a co-founder number of years and appreciates the and Caroliner. He currently resides (she/her) is a dramaturg, casting and member of the board of the Rock ability of terrific actors, directors, set in Oakland, CA and teaches second director, administrator and producer, Center for Corporate Governance at designers, and all to bring plays to grade and art in the Tenderloin specializing in new work. Recently, Stanford University. life on the stage and engage their Julia McNeal, MRS JARRET District of San Francisco. she has dramaturged the world audiences. She has in the past served Photos: Loretta Greco Julia McNeal, Anne Darragh, Elizabeth Benedict, Anne Hallinan. Photo: Loretta Greco about magic theatre A NOTE FROM DIRECTOR, LORETTA GRECO MAGIC THEATRE is dedicated to the cultivation of bold new plays, playwrights, and audiences – and to producing explosive, entertaining, and ideologically-robust plays that ask substantive questions about, and reflect the rich diversity of, the world in which we live. For 53 years, Magic’s One sure way to beat Covid blues is to come together to make something. belief in supporting the writer’s vision has manifested in a rigorous artistic home where a full body of work can be imagined, developed, and produced. By adding innovative, challenging new With the pandemic ebbing and flowing and fires raging, we came together for eight days in voices to the canon, Magic ensures the future vibrancy of the American theatre. August on zoom and in person for another two: outside, masked, tested, distanced and with enough disinfectant for an army — for two recording days. Smoke and wind drove us to the edge Since the company’s founding in 1967 by visionary John Lion, Magic has identified and cultivated of Fort Mason — all to work on a play which wondrously explores intimacies, dreams, terror, writers on the cutting edge of American theatre, serving as a vital center for the creation and isolation, and community. Written four years ago by one of the world’s most potent, dazzling and performance of new American plays. The hiring of scholar Martin Esslin as the first resident dramaturg prescient writers, alive today, the incomparable Caryl Churchill’s Escaped Alone unfolds as three at an American theatre company had a resounding impact on the field. Sam Shepard developed and old friends and a wandering neighbor come together in a backyard for some tea. premiered his Pulitzer Prize-winning Buried Child, True West, and Fool for Love during his decade-long Magic residency (1974-84), forever altering the shape of American drama. The play is both capacious and taut; personal and universal. It requires the company to excavate all that is underneath and around its explosive language, history and relationships so that each Since Loretta Greco assumed leadership in 2008, 21 of Magic’s 26 most recent world premieres have may live fully and seamlessly in its precise, shared stream of consciousness—between visitations received between 2 and 72 subsequent productions throughout the United States and beyond. from a searing, not too distant future. The play is somehow a wondrous balm.

Magic remains a national leader in new play development through our commitment to a core group of While too much of our country seems to regard accomplished women with distrust and disdain writers as they build their groundbreaking bodies of work. These writers currently include Lloyd Suh, Taylor Mac, Linda McLean, Jessica Hagedorn, John Kolvenbach, Sharr White, Christina Anderson, Joshua and females over 50 as downright invisible, it is utterly revolutionary to have a play written for Harmon, Mfoniso Udofia, Barbara Hammond, and Luis Alfaro. four women, let alone four women in their 70’s!!! For me, it was a much needed and rare treat to be in the company of these extraordinary, piercingly intelligent, compassionate and hilarious Magic plays have received numerous honors, including the Pulitzer Prize, Obie Awards, Kennedy Center women of a certain age. Or course, we had intended a very different process and had naturally Awards, PEN-West Awards or Drama, Glickman Awards, Bay Area Critics Circle Awards, Los Angeles wanted to share with you the abundance of LIFE teeming within the piece— as a live experience. Drama-Logue Awards, and NAACP Image Awards. Magic playwrights have gone on to be recognized with Nonetheless, the play has been quietly gestating inside of each of us and as we can’t all safely MacArthur Genius Grants, Tony Awards, Outer Critics Circle Awards, the Herb Alpert Award, Drama Desk commune together with you yet, we’ve tried to conjure something different, perhaps even more Awards, Harper Lee Awards, Academy Awards, New York Drama Critics Circle Awards, Drama League intimate and of our time, (now is where I should suggest you listen to this through a pair of Awards, Guggenheim Fellowships, Rockefeller Grants, NEA Grants, Alfred Jarry Awards, and many more. headphones if you can). Of course, I also want to share that every damn brilliant discovery Julia, Annie, Elizabeth, and Anne have contributed to Caryl’s play was then deftly sprinkled with Jake Beyond the walls of our San Francisco performance space, Magic conducts a robust educational program, Rodriguez’s keen insight, kindness, emotional intelligence and playfulness as sound engineer, Making Magic: Arts and Community. A cornerstone of the program is Magic’s more-than-decade-long editor, designer, composer and musician extraordinaire. partnership with Oakland’s Laney College. Since 2018, Making Magic has worked in partnership with Tenderloin Elementary School, Southeast Asian Development Center, Code Tenderloin, Antonia Manor, I realize an apocalyptic fairy tale for our times may not sound like the prescribed tonic du jour, but and Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation, extending the program’s reach to engage I hope you will trust — and give this breathtaking piece of writing, featuring this sublime quartet of underserved community members of all ages. women, an opportunity to surprise and joyfully transport you.

Urging you to Vote (and to enlist everyone in your personal universe to)—and SOON. Wishing you good health. Sending you love.

original scenic design by ANDREW BOYCE original costume design by ANDREW BOYCE

PLACE: “I’m walking down the street and there’s a door in the fence open Sally’s backyard. and inside are three women I’ve seen before.”

Several unmatched chairs. Maybe one’s a kitchen chair.

MRS. JARRET VI

LENA TIME: SALLY Summer Afternoon.

A number of afternoons but the action is continuous. PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE contributors Rafael Luevano $100,000+ September 1, 2019 – August 31, 2020 John Maes We gratefully acknowledge all those that support Magic Theatre with gifts to our Annual Fund, The William and Flora Hewlett George Maguire Benefit Fundraisers, and special projects, especially at this time. magic theatre staff Foundation Susan Marineau Kathryn Kersey Carol Dweck & David Goldman Darian Swig Jacqueline Carlson Patrick Mason and Rebecca Mellon Foundation Elizabeth Erdos and Wayne Felicia Sze Millie and Barry Chauser Kurland STAFF Toni Rembe and Arthur Rock Dejong Susan Terris Jenny Cheng Nancy McCormick San Francisco Arts Commission Betty Gottlieb David Volpendesta and Debbie Chinn Kathleen McDonough Interim Artistic Director Sonia Fernandez BOARD OF TRUSTEES The Shubert Foundation Kate Hartley and Michael Kass Barbara Paschke Jon Cho Linda McKay Miriam John and William Julie Wainwright Jon and Brigitte Churnin Julia McNeal Interim Managing Director Kevin Nelson Chair Kathryn Kersey Wilson Elizabeth Werter and Henry Elizabeth Clarkson LEADERSHIP CIRCLE Ben van der Merwe Secretary $50,000-$99,000 Susan Karp Trevor Annie Cobb Helen Meyer Production Manager Jackie S. 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O’Connor and Patricia Reynoso, Abigail Rosen, Russell Judy and Wylie Sheldon William Leff Meyer Edward Callen Literary Apprentice Liana Irvine Charles and Debby Feinstein Claire Tomkins Janet Lehman Patty Penrod Theatre Management Apprentices EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Jennifer Villamin Maria Lench Maria Fernandez Frances Phillips $10,000-$24,000 Gerald Vurek and Lynda Fred Lonsdale Cara Figone Vivian Polishuk Emma Kuske, Adrianna Scalzo SPECIAL THANKS to the staff at the Fort Mason Anonymous Vurek-Martyn Pam MacKinnon Lindsey Force Wendy Porter Center for Arts & Culture for their support. Lucia Brandon Peter Wiley Emily Mann Mariel Fox John Price Production Apprentice Elizabeth Hall Edgerton Foundation Robert and Sharon Yoerg Dave McClure Douglas and Mary Hawker Amber Ramirez And our deepest gratitude to the immensely Koret Foundation Julius Young Jonathan McCurdy Fraser Mike Repanich Teaching Artists Philip and Velia K. Frost talented Jake Rodriguez, without whom this Harold and Mimi Steinberg Jo Ann and Rick McStravick Ellen Richard Nicole Bruno, Ely Orquiza, Bridgette Portman Charitable Trust NEW WORK ADVOCATE Betty Mok Lynn Fu Nancy and Chuck Riffle Audio Play would not exist. The Sam Mazza Foundation $500-$999 Daniel Murphy Susan Fuchs Barbara and Saul Rockman Development Volunteer Susan Boynton For more of Jake’s work, visit soundcrack.net The National Endowment for the Actor’s Equity Foundation Matt and Ben Overby Adam Garth Chris Rodriguez Arts Robert Aydlett Nancy Overby Hallie Gilmore Michael Sachs Administrative Volunteer Susie Lampert and find him on Twitter:@sounjaerk @branpos Alan Stewart and Frank Kelly Patricia Bacchetti Chandra Patel Paula Golden Saba Sedighi The Tournesol Project of the Sarood Baig Kristin Reniers Jack Gomm Spencer Seibert Barth Foundation Nancy Baker, Ph.D and Cathy Gary Robinson Peggy Greco-Ridge Meryl Shaw The following individuals have generously provided for Magic Theatre in their estate plans: Leigh Wolf Hauer Emily Rosenberg Pat B. Greene Stephanie Shoffner Katrina Wong and Gerhard Michele and David Benjamin Wendi Royal David Grillo Lorinda and Harry Silverstein C. Edwin Baker, Martha Heasley Cox, Bob Lemon, Mike Mellor, Mary Moffatt, Julia Sommer, Brianna Haag Esterhuizen Katie Colendich Dorothy Schimke Richard Silvestrini Bert Steinberg, Alan Stewart, Toni K. Weingarten, Nancy Baker, Ph.D and Ms. Cathy Hauer. Pamela Culp Staci Slaughter Ashlin Halfnight David Skeens PRODUCER Gerhard Esterhuizen Garret Swart Elizabeth Halperin Susan Slone $5,000-$9,999 Suzie Falk Suzanne Tucker John Haugarth Robert and Nancy Smith Ardea Fund Sonia Fernandez and Long Do Carol Wolff Nicole Henderson Octavio Solis and Jeanne Valerie Barth David and Vicki Fleishhacker Jocelyn Won George Heymont Sexton Karen Donovan Stewart Fox Bennett and Molly Young Adrienne Hirt and Jeff Mary Jean Stempien Rebecca and Jim Eisen Lori Ottolini Geno and Kevin Rodman Alan Stewart and Frank Kelly Mike and Lea Ann Fleming Geno PATRON Kathryn Hobart Yvonne Stoicheva Sarah Nina Hayon Angelyn Grillo $100-$249 Daniel Hoth and Kim Charles Stott and Elaine Mi- Cecilia and Jim Herbert Julie B Harkins Neil R. Ackerman Regan chaud Sandra Hess Karen Laws and Dan Callaway Patricia L. Akre Elizabeth Jewell and Ira Edna Sun Ken and Liselott Hitz Walter Lehman Joyce Aldana Simmons Deborah Sussel and Martin S. Courtland and Donna LaVallee Sukey Lilienthal Lada Alexeenko Andrew and Susan Berman Fred Levin, In honor of Nancy Judy Loehr Anne Marie Benfatto Jokelson Emilie Talbot and Gordon Livingston Paik Swan Low Robert Bergman Rozalia Kasim Brooks Meagan Levitan Mark Luevano Deborah Berman Lisa Kofod Emily Teickenson Vicky Reich and David S. H. Jill Matichak Jennifer Bielstein John Kolvenbach Lilian Tham Rosenthal Karen and Dennis May Sandra Blair Douglas Konecky Darcia Tipton Maureen Sullivan John G. McGehee Cheryl Blalock Jeremy Kotin Paula Tomei Zellerbach Foundation Nate McGuire Mehdi Boostani Bruce Kreter Audrey Tran Ann Miller Martha Brigham Christine and Jeffrey Krolik Stephanie Traub ASSOCIATE PRODUCER Joyce Newstat and Susan Karen Broido Margaret M Ledford Elizabeth Tse $2,500-$4,999 Lowenberg Jennifer Brokaw John Ledoux Consulting Anna Uhlig David and Karen Crommie Marcia and Robert Popper Michael Broom David Leonard Stuart Weich Stephen Djedjos and Angela Frank Reyes Donna Brorby Kate Levey Joshua Wolf Friedlan Atlas and Renu Karir Eddie Reynolds Bronwyn Brunner Polina Levitan Beth Wolinsky Christopher Shadix Kate Bullis Grace Lin Roy Zitting PLAYWRIGHT’S ANGEL Matt Sorgenfrei Merrill and Shelley Burns Rachel Long $1,000-$2,499 Carla Spindt Marianne Camargo Karen Lowther Ray Applebaum and Joanne Michelle D. and Richard J. Dale Carlson Koltnow Stratton