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A letter from the managing director · 8 Visit our website berkeleyrep.org facebook.com/ @berkeleyrep You can buy tickets and plan your visit, berkeleyrep watch video, sign up for classes, donate to vimeo.com/ Lisa Peterson, associate director at Berkeley Rep, chatted with @berkeleyrep REPORT the Theatre, andLiterary explore Manager BerkeleySarah Rose Leonard Rep. following the first three berkeleyrep previews of Watch on the Rhine at the Guthrie Theater. Below A life in the theatre: Lynn Eve Komaromi are excerpts from their conversation. berkeleyrep. berkeleyrep celebrates 20 years at Berkeley Rep · 10 tumblr.com We’re mobile!We have gaps in American theatre between classic plays that are produced again and again, like Long Day’s Journey Download ourinto free Night iPhone, A Doll’s Houseor Google, Three Sisters, Play and app brand —or new visit our mobile site —to buy tickets, read the buzz, watchplays. video, There’s and an entire plan section your of lesser-knownvisit. classics and FEATURES contemporary plays that seem to slip through the cracks. Why do you think this is a play that’s been overlooked? The Origin Story · 12 I feel like partly it’s that Lillian Hellman was such a spiky person that a lot of people decided they didn’t like her. Her Wake up! A conversation with voice is so unapologetic. In her memoirs, she’s so bitchy, but Considerationstruthful. I think the dislike might also come from the revelation Director Lisa Peterson · 13 that she may have made some stuff up in her autobiographies. But also, honestly it’s sexism. Just sexism. Only beverages in cans, cartons, or plastic cups A present for Lillian Hellman · 15 CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGEYou are welcome to take a closer look, but with lids are allowed in the house. please don’t step onto the stage or touch Die Wacht am Rhein · 17 Food is prohibited in the house. the props. High stakes: The real-life counterparts Smoking and the use of e-cigarettes is prohibited Any child who can quietly sit in their own to Watch on the Rhine characters · 18 by law on Berkeley Rep’s property. seat for a full performance is welcome at Berkeley Rep. Please inquire if you have Please keep perfume to a minimum. Many questions about content or language. All CONTRIBUTORS patrons are sensitive to the use of perfumes attendees must be ticketed: please, no and other scents. babes in arms. Foundation, corporate, and in-kind sponsors · 33 Individual donors to the Annual Fund · 34 Please make sure your cell phone or watch alarm If you leave during the performance, we may will not beep. Use of recording equipment or taking not be able to reseat you until an appropriate Michael Leibert Society · 36 of photographs in the theatre is strictly prohibited. break. You may watch the remainder of the act on a lobby or bar screen.

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WR_program.indd 6 11/9/17 2:05 PM PROLOGUE from the Artistic Director

It’s hard to stay calm these days. Even when you’ve cut back on watching the news or stopped reading every tweet coming out of the White House. Even after you’ve developed some new healthy workout habits, or practiced staying mental- ly positive, or distracted yourself into exhaustion. Even after all that, it’s hard to stay calm. The simple fact is that a new level of anxiety has embedded itself into our dna. It hides in the lining of our intestinal walls, crouches behind the hairs on the back of our necks, and folds itself neatly into the creases of our brains. And there it waits, biding its time, looking for the right moment to explode into our everyday reality and destroy any illusion of normalcy. Watch on the Rhine describes a moment in the life of a family when normalcy is shattered. Written in 1940 by the intrepid Lillian Hellman, the play feels both prescient and relatable: not simply because it describes a world caught up in the growing appeal of fascism, but because it captures the fragile nature of civility and the triumph of base, human impulses. Hellman is a master of unveiling complex behaviors, and it is her ability to fold dastardly deeds into fabric of mundane life that marks her dramatic genius. Her characters are utterly believable, taking extreme actions under the guise of quiet self-interest. The fact that this play holds up almost 80 years after it was written is a testament to her nuanced grasp of psychology and her understand- ing of American politics. I can think of no one better to bring this play to life than Lisa Peterson. Lisa is entering her second year as our associate director, and she brings a wealth of talent and experience to the job. Forging a bracing, modernist aesthetic with a passion- ate political sensibility, she treats every play as if it were brand new. Her energy is boundless, as is her love for both contemporary and classic drama. Watching her embrace the challenges of this play (finding a fresh look for the design, redefining the racial makeup of the cast, working with children on very demanding roles) has only increased my admiration of her. It was a stroke of good fortune that Joe Haj, the artistic director of the Guthrie Theater, brought my attention to Watch on the Rhine. We’ve wanted to work together for some time, and when he mentioned his interest in the play it felt as if the stars had aligned. And so we bring this show to you directly on the heels of its successful run in Minneapolis. A classic that reaches beyond the time it was written to inform our lives today.

Sincerely,

Tony Taccone

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WR_program.indd 7 11/9/17 2:05 PM PROLOGUE Proud to from the Managing Director Support The roots of this Theatre were forged in what the Arts in our founders referred to as adventuresome classics. These works, created in a different time, were like messages in a San Francisco bottle, bringing word from the past and conveying works that spoke to us from the past about issues that concern us today. Watch on the Rhine is very much in that tradition. When Lillian Hellman first wrote this play she must have been appalled by Personal attention the seemingly willful American disregard for the rise of fascism thoughtful litigation in Europe. Her play seethes with impatience and urgency. It speaks to us across the decades. It is utterly of its time even as it has something mean- final resolution ingful to say about our current moment in time.

Our goal is to preserve our LAW FAMILY And isn’t that exactly what constitutes a classic? A play written for the specific- client’s dignity and humanity. ity of one time but that illuminates a predicament of the present. It reminds us that while new plays written in our moment often demand our attention, sometimes a piece that carries the weight of history can also illuminate our current circumstances and can serve to connect us to historical precedents and context. FA M I LYLAW G R OUP, P. C . It is a delight to bring Lillian Hellman’s play to the Bay. Lisa Peterson refers to her as the first “nasty woman.” If being nasty means being outspoken and angry and un- 575 Market Street, Suite 4000 restrained and just plain smart, then I second Lisa. It’s hard to imagine that Hellman San Francisco, CA 94105 wouldn’t be delighted by the compliment. 415.834.1120 www.sflg.com Warmly,

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A life in the theatre: Lynn Eve Komaromi celebrates 20 years at Berkeley Rep BY JULIA STARR

Lynn Eve Komaromi with her dog Murray The average tenure of development officers at nonprofits is 18 months, according to the Association of Fund- raising Professionals. Berkeley Rep’s Director of Development Lynn Eve Komaromi with Managing Director Susan Medak, Michael and Sue Steinberg, and Narsai Lynn Eve Komaromi celebrated 240 months at the Theatre and David at the 2008 Narsai Toast 156 months as director last September—that’s 20 and 13 years, respectively. When asked to reflect on her tenure at Berke- ley Rep, Lynn Eve remembered her parents, small business owners: “I grew up in a family business, and this is my family business.” Fundraising is by nature personal, but Lynn Eve’s enthusiasm for the work Berkeley Rep does and investment in the Theatre’s long-term success is extraordinary. Whether advocating for the organization, raising funds for the world premiere of Monsoon Wedding, or leading her staff, Lynn Eve approaches each new challenge with a deep appreciation for Berkeley Rep’s mission of striving to engage audiences in an ongoing dialogue of ideas—always, in the words of longtime supporter Michael Steinberg, “with an infectious smile and laugh.” Managing Director Susan Medak says, “There are so few development directors who speak with such passion, intelligence, and deep commitment to the work that they are representing. Lynn Eve speaks not like a paid fundrais- Lynn Eve Komaromi with director David Ivers er, but as someone who cares as deeply about the art as every artist who walks through our doors does.” Originally hired as the special events coordinator in the development department, Lynn Eve transformed Berkeley Rep’s gala into a remarkable annual event that celebrates and raises funds to support the Theatre’s work, at first through a partnership with acclaimed Bay Area chef Narsai David. She quickly moved up the ranks, her deep passion for her work evident. Before becoming the sole director, she co-ran the development department with Sara Fousekis, who still carries knowledge she learned from Lynn Eve, her “partner-in-crime,” 10 years after leaving Berkeley Rep. With her colleagues, Lynn Eve has championed three major fundraising campaigns that built the Roda Theatre, established both the School of Theatre and The Ground Floor: Berkeley Rep’s Center for the Creation and Development of New Work, and renovated the Peet’s Theatre. Most recently, she led the Create Campaign,

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WR_program.indd 10 11/14/17 4:28 PM which hasREPORT raised $44 million of its $50 Lynn Eve is frequently seen at art Rep’s Michael Leibert Artistic Director. million goal. Lynn Eve’s stalwart energy, shows put on by Berkeley Rep commu- “She has managed to make the idea of boundless empathy, and resilient nature nity members or on casual bike rides charity a staff-wide concern, not just have helped the Theatre grow into the in the Berkeley Hills with supporters of an individual thing.” By connecting nationally recognized regional theatre the Theatre, many of whom consider with other staff members, whether and new play incubator that it is today. her a close friend. Gallery owner Rena by visiting the tech booth after a long What makes Lynn Eve truly special Bransten expressed gratitude for the day in the office or inviting production is her unique ability to genuinely personal approach that Lynn Eve and her team members to lead backstage tours connect and inspire others with her team take to fundraising: “Reaching out for donors, Lynn Eve has instilled an deep love for the arts. Celebrated from a website is not, to me, the be-all appreciation for both philanthropy director David Ivers (One Man, Two and end-all,” adding with a laugh, “but of and Berkeley Rep’s own supporters Guvnors and Hand to God) became a course I’m old so I like the old ways best.” amongst the staff. She often says that, cycling buddy of Lynn Eve’s and noted Pat Sakai, an active supporter of Berkeley as theatre artists and administrators, that on their rides, they often had long Rep, adds, “I often ask people why they we traffic in empathy, and her efforts conversations about everything from give to Berkeley Rep. Many say that of over the years have helped us as an the opera to the symphony and the course the work is tremendous, but Lynn organization realize that at every step theatre. “She is not just a development Eve and the development department of the way. director. She is a person of the arts make them feel appreciated and wel- At the start of this season, Lynn Eve and cares deeply about the narrative comed.” Lynn Eve’s warm presence and stepped away from the boisterous party of the arts,” he says. Through this deeply rooted belief in the importance after the opening of the record-breaking shared love of theatre, Lynn Eve has of the arts have helped the Berkeley Rep hit Ain’t Too Proud to stream her reflec- helped to foster a beautiful sense of family grow and thrive. tions to Facebook Live in the empty community between artists, donors, Over the years, she has worked Peet’s Theatre, her brilliant orange heels community members, and the Berke- to cultivate a culture of philanthropy strewn to the side. “I have a very fortu- ley Rep staff—a web that she sees as within the organization. “Lynn Eve’s nate life in the Theatre. This is my tribe. a Venn diagram with multiple intersec- charity does not begin and end at the And there is no place I would rather be.” tions, many of which she operates in. Theatre,” says Tony Taccone, Berkeley Lynn Eve, we are so blessed.

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WR_program.indd 11 11/9/17 2:05 PM THE ORIGIN STORY Artists tend to intuit issues bubbling under of selection, however, was exactly how pertinent choosing a the surface of society long before they come to light. Every Lillian Hellman play was going to feel in production. year when we read some 500–700 Ground Floor Summer In Watch on the Rhine Hellman challenges us to think about Residency Lab applications, we notice a dominant theme. In what it means to be an American: What values are important 2015, the number of applications for plays about the trans- to us? How do we respond when those values are tested? gender community was on the rise. A few months later, gen- Berkeley Rep Associate Director Lisa Peterson is inexhaustibly der-neutral bathrooms became an urgent topic in the news, politically active in her own life, and her production of Hellman’s bringing transgender rights to the forefront of our national classic play only raises the volume on Hellman’s own pressing consciousness. In 2001, we programmed Homebody/Kabul by questions. Today, as in 1940, it is important to tell stories about Tony Kushner, a play about Afghanistan, months before 9/11 people who stand up for what they believe in, regardless of the happened. Often a show we programmed a year ago feels noise around them. eerily prescient once it is onstage. Like the characters in Watch on the Rhine, Lillian We came on board to co-produce Lillian Hellman’s Watch Hellman acted on her beliefs, even if society berated her for on the Rhine with the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis in the her choices. Testifying before the House Un-American Ac- spring of 2017, right after Arena Stage produced it as part of tivities Committee in 1947, she famously said, “I cannot and their Lillian Hellman Festival. The artistic directors of these will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions.” Out- three theatres felt that the play resonated with our current spoken and politically active her whole life, she achieved worldwide refugee crisis, and with the escalation of the far great success as a playwright and belongs in our classical right in our political milieu. What they didn’t see at the time canon. We are proud to make her work part of our season.

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wake up! A conversation with Director Lisa Peterson

BY SARAH ROSE LEONARD

Lisa Peterson, associate director at Berkeley Rep, in with the playwright to confirm that what we’re doing is in chatted with Literary Manager Sarah Rose Leonard following line with what they imagined. But with a classic, I feel a respon- the first three previews of Watch on the Rhine at the Guthrie sibility to find my own way in. Theater. Below are excerpts from their conversation. With Watch on the Rhine it was a bit of both. I’m aware that Watch on the Rhine isn’t well known, which is unlike a We have gaps in American theatre between classic plays Shakespeare play or one of Arthur Miller’s plays, where most that are produced again and again, like Long Day’s Journey people would know it, so you could really abstract it. At first I into Night, A Doll’s House, Three Sisters, and brand new plays. tried to challenge myself to do something crazy with Watch on There’s an entire section of lesser-known classics like Watch the Rhine. What if there’s no room? Could we focus on morn- on the Rhine that tend to slip through the cracks. Why do you ing mail, night mail, and all of the various periodicals? I tried think Lillian Hellman’s work has been overlooked? to stretch my mind to point the designers toward something I feel like partly it’s that Lillian Hellman was such a spiky that was interpretively radical. But in the end, I thought, wait person that a lot of people decided they didn’t like her. Her a minute. People don’t know this play. They need to follow the voice is so unapologetic. In her memoirs, she’s so bitchy, but story and not be interpreting it as they watch. So that’s more truthful. I think the dislike might also come from the revelation like a new play process. I think they need to see this play as that she may have made some stuff up in her autobiographies. Lillian Hellman imagined it. But also, honestly it’s sexism. Just sexism. What was the casting process like? Is your process different with a new play versus a classic? It’s a play written for mainly Anglo-Saxon actors, and I I think it is somewhat different. Mostly because of the in- went into it thinking “Ok, how can we shake that up in any teraction with the playwright. With a new play, I keep checking CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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WR_program.indd 13 11/14/17 4:28 PM CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE he says, “Shame on us. Thousands of years and we cannot direction?” So from there two decisions were made. One was yet make a world.” I reversed the ethnicities of the two people who worked in And that, to me, is so deep. When you think about where the house. As Hellman wrote it, the butler is African Ameri- the world sits at the moment—and it’s not just Trump, it’s ev- can and the secretary/best friend is a white French lady, and erywhere—there’s the feeling that we have not found a good that seemed retrograde. I switched those two parts so in this way to organize ourselves. We can take a big step forward like production, Joseph, who is the butler, the main servant, is with Obama, and then we just slide way back. Irish American, and Anise, who is the secretary and has an It’s absolutely a play about waking up from your own bub- even bigger place than that in the household, is an African ble. And looking out beyond yourself to see what’s happening French woman living in America. And now that we’ve been in in the world. The trouble in the play comes into the living room rehearsal for a month, it seems absolutely natural, like it’s the of this American house. So they have to wake up. only way to cast it. I guess the other thing that had surprised me—and this is And then I couldn’t stop thinking about Kurt, the Ger- about Lillian Hellman’s playwriting and why I think it’s good— man anti-fascist fighter, in relation to Syria. So much of the is that the good guy is imperfect and the bad guy is complicat- play is about privileged Americans who are educated and ed. And nobody is sure what to do. So though there are clear progressive, but in the world of the play they have not invest- moralities in the play, I feel like it’s not black and white. ed very much yet in finding out what is happening in Europe. That’s what the play is about: that moment right before What has learning about Lillian Hellman been like? America decided to get involved. And I was thinking about I’m in the final chapter of the memoir An Unfinished Woman Syria and how we didn’t know what to do about it. We still and I love Hellman’s voice so much. She’s so open and vulnera- don’t. I thought it would be really interesting to find a Middle ble to experiences, but also very judgmental. I feel like she was Eastern American actor to play Kurt. a woman in a man’s world and she never softened her opinion. So coming full circle back to this thing about, “Is she likable?” I The play draws many parallels to the political situation feel like she didn’t care! She might have been horrible to interact today. Was there a particular resonance that surprised you with, but I think her voice, which we still get in her plays and in during the process? her memoirs, is inspiring because she doesn’t seem to apologize Well, there are a few lines that, as we worked on it, at all for being incredibly smart and having really high expecta- seemed central to me. Kurt—after a pretty shocking mo- tions about the kind of choices people make. It’s just tickled me ment that we won’t give away here—is freaked out, he’s to learn about her. I feel like if I learned about her 30 years ago I not really thinking clearly. But he gets to the point where would have done a lot more of her plays.

It’s absolutely a play about waking up from your own bubble. And looking out beyond yourself to see what’s happening in the world. —DIRECTOR LISA PETERSON

Lisa Peterson directing Sarah Agnew and Caitlin O’Connell in Watch on the Rhine at the Guthrie Theater PHOTO BY DAN NORMAN

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A present for Lillian Hellman

BY JAMES DINNEEN

For her 36th birthday party shortly after the 1941 premiere of Watch on the Rhine, Lillian Hellman asked her friends to forget the gift wrap and make “a blow against fascism” their present to her. As a political figure, Hellman is generally remembered in that image: a socialite and stalwart advocate for anti-fascism, a movement formed in opposition to the rise of extreme nationalist and authoritarian governments in early 20th-century Europe. But Hellman wasn’t always politically active. When she first moved to Hollywood from New York City in 1930 at the age of 25, friends would describe her as uninterested in politics. Eleven years later, Hellman completed Watch on the Rhine, a potent measure of the political convic- tions she had gained during that tumultuous decade and to which she remained committed for the rest of her life. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE Born in 1905, “Lilly” grew up splitting time between her Germany represented a failure of capitalism and the democratic father’s New Orleans boardinghouse and the kitschy Man- status quo. Hellman’s first direct experience with activism hattan apartments of her mother’s wealthy Jewish relatives. in response to those challenges was her involvement in the Both settings would inspire characters in her work. After two formation of the Screen Writers Guild in 1935. Dissatisfied with years at nyu and a brief stint as a reader at a well-known low wages and a lack of control over their work, screenwriters publishing house in the city, Hellman married a young writer began an effort to unionize in 1934. Hellman, protected from the named Arthur Kober. When Kober got a job in Hollywood, financial intimidations of the Hollywood studios by her revenue Hellman reluctantly followed and spent several years working from Broadway, used her growing influence among screenwrit- on short stories and socializing with the Hollywood intelligen- tsia. During this period, Hellman, who didn’t shy away from In a reflection of the world in unconventional romantic relationships, began an affair with the novelist and screenwriter Dashiell Hammett that would which Hellman worked, several continue for the next 31 years. He would serve as a trusted critics expressed surprise that editor on many of her future projects. In 1932, Hellman quietly divorced Kober and returned to a woman had written a play on New York City with Hammett to focus on writing. She had her big break on Broadway in 1934 when the well-known director such “serious” themes. Herman Shumlin picked up The Children’s Hour, her first solo ers to increase Guild membership and was in turn influenced by attempt at playwriting. Critics and audiences were enthusiastic other labor organizers. Though this first attempt at forming the about the production, which focused on the damage caused Guild failed in 1936, it marked an important moment for politics by a student’s false accusation of a lesbian affair between in Hollywood and activism for Hellman—one that would come two headmistresses at a boarding school. In a reflection of back to haunt her and many other filmmakers in the form of the the world in which Hellman worked, several critics expressed McCarthy-era “Hollywood blacklist.” surprise that a woman had written a play on such “serious” In 1937, Hellman travelled to Paris, Moscow, and Spain themes. With the help of Kober and Hammett—both Holly- to observe the Spanish Civil War, a conflict between General wood insiders in the early days of the “talkie”—Hellman re- Francisco Franco’s Nationalists and a wide coalition of anti-fas- wrote The Children’s Hour for the screen as These Three in 1935. cist groups that started the year before. Her experience there Hellman’s success continued on Broadway and in Hollywood solidified the anti-fascist sentiments she had developed in through the Great Depression. response to the Nazi Party’s anti-Semitism and Hitler’s dictato- In addition to her triumphs at the box office, the 1930s was rial methods. She was also influenced by her visit to the Soviet a formative period for Hellman’s political views. For her, just as Union. Like many other communist sympathizers outside of for many American artists and intellectuals, widespread unem- Russia in the 1930s, Hellman came to view the ussr as the great ployment at home and the specter of fascism in Italy, Spain, and hope for humanitarian communism. For many of those sympa-

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WR_program.indd 16 11/14/17 4:29 PM thizers, news of Stalin’s increasingly inhumane and authoritarian rule had diminished the appeal of the Soviet model by the end of wwii. Hellman, however, remained reluctant to denounce the brutality of Stalin’s regime even long after the war. Her reputa- Die Wacht tion as an apologist for those atrocities would become a major point of controversy around her political and literary legacy. am Rhein In the milieu of late-1930s Hollywood, however, Hellman found her connections to communism and her burgeoning Lillian Hellman waited until late in the rehearsal anti-fascist commitments—she helped fund an anti-fascist process of the original Broadway production of propaganda film with Ernest Hemingway called The Spanish Watch on the Rhine to choose a title for her play. In an Earth—were well-matched to the alliance developing between interview with the New York Times in 1941, she said anti-fascists and communists known as the “Popular Front.” director Herman Shumlin threatened to halt rehears- Taking advantage of the anti-fascist fervor inspired by Fran- als until she had chosen a title. Her choice, Watch on co’s military coup in Spain and encouraged by Joseph Stalin’s the Rhine, is a reference to the German patriotic song statements against fascist ideologies, American communist “Die Wacht am Rhein.” You might be familiar with the groups emphasized an anti-fascist interpretation of Marxist tune from Casablanca, where it was sung by the Nazis theory to attract members from a wider political base. Though in competition with the refugees singing “La Marseil- Hellman would never become a member of the Communist laise,” the French national anthem. Hellman’s original Party, she became involved with several anti-fascist political idea was to use the German Die Wacht am Rhein, but organizations the Attorney General’s office considered “com- Shumlin balked: “So many people would be afraid munist-front” groups around this time. In 1937, President Roo- they were mispronouncing the German they would sevelt contributed his more moderate voice to the broadening hesitate either to order tickets or talk about the play anti-fascist coalition by speaking out against the United States’ after they had seen it.” policy of isolation from the war in Europe for the first time. The text of “Die Wacht am Rhein” was written In the midst of all this, Hellman had written several during the Rhine Crisis of 1840, when France threat- films and plays including The Little Foxes, which had a hugely ened to annex German territory along the left bank successful run after opening on Broadway in February of 1939, of the Rhine River. It calls for courage and loyalty in just seven months before Hitler’s invasion of Poland. With the fight against enemies of Germany. The poem was the proceeds from The Little Foxes, Hellman purchased a small set to music in 1854. During the Franco-Prussian War farm in Westchester County where she would write most of of 1870–71, German soldiers sang the anthem on their Watch on the Rhine. After eight months of extensive research way to battle. The song became an unofficial national and writing, Hellman finished the play in early 1941. The first anthem after the German victory over France and reproduction, directed by Herman Shumlin (to whom the play is mained extremely popular through both World Wars dedicated), opened at the Martin Beck Theater on Broadway as a powerful symbol of German strength in unity. on April 1 of that year. Eight months later, the United States would enter the war. Hellman wrote several other political dramas during the war, though none would be as successful as Watch on the Rhine. The Broadway production won the New York Drama Der Schwur erschallt, die Woge rinnt Critics Circle Award and ran for 378 performances. In 1942, die Fahnen flattern hoch im Wind: the Roosevelt administration selected the play to be per- Am Rhein, am Rhein, am deutschen Rheine formed for the president in Washington. It was also staged wir alle wollen Hüter sein. during the war in Moscow and in London, where it ran for 678 performances. In 1943, Warner Brothers produced a film version starring Bette Davis. After the war, Hellman’s career in Hollywood was sty- mied when she was blacklisted for “un-American activity.” The oath resounds, on rolls the wave, Still, she managed to mount a number of successful plays on The banners fly high, proud, and brave, Broadway through the 1950s, and would reclaim her position The Rhine, the Rhine, the German Rhine in Hollywood in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1969, she published We all shall stand to hold the line! An Unfinished Woman, the first of several well-regarded but controversial memoirs she would complete before her death in 1984. Watch on the Rhine, written in the complex political context of interwar America, stands among Hellman’s work as a clear statement of her commitment to anti-fascism and courage in an age of injustice.

The Rhine River in Germany PHOTO BY RAPHAEL SCHUSTER, PADERBORN-MASTBRUCH.

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PHOTO BY TRUDE FLEISCHMANN The real-life counterparts to Watch on the Rhine characters BY SARAH ROSE LEONARD

ELIZABETH ASQUITH Lillian Hellman, like many writers, took inspiration from real life to shape the drama in Watch on the Rhine. Hell- man aimed to engage the American public with the high stakes of life in Europe in order to engender sympathy and action. The play encapsulates what many Americans felt about Europe at the time of the play’s premiere in 1941, but her audience may have seen further than she imagined. Brooks Atkinson, writing in his review for the New York Times, said, “Watch on the Rhine ought to be full of meaning a quarter of a century from now when people are beginning to wonder what life was like in America when the Nazi evil began to creep across the sea.” To help her tap into the immediacy of the moment, Hellman drew inspiration from the real lives of Prince Antoine Bibesco, Muriel Gardiner, and Otto Katz to create three key characters in her drama. P R I N C E A N T O I N E B I B E S C O Hellman’s antagonist Teck de Brancovis, a Romanian Count, closely resembles Prince Antoine Bibesco, a Romanian aristocrat, diplomat, and lawyer. Apparently, Hellman and Bibesco crossed paths when he fleeced her of some $600 in a card game at the home of his mother-in-law. Nobody witnessed that meeting, but Bibesco must have impressed Hell- man because various aspects of his life overlap with Teck’s. For one, Bibesco married a woman 20 years his junior, Elizabeth Asquith, at the urging of her high-society mother, Lady Margot Asquith, who thought he would exert a steadying influence on her daughter. In Watch on the Rhine, Teck’s wife, Marthe, mirrors Elizabeth Asquith: both of their mothers pressured them to marry older, well-regarded European men; both women were outspoken and skilled (Elizabeth was a well-regarded writer); and both their husbands whisked them away to Europe as members of the aristocracy only to scramble to find their place as wwii began. It should be said that Bibesco, unlike Teck, was never O T T O K A T Z known as a Nazi conspirator. He was a diplomat and aristocrat. He served as the Romanian diplomat to the U.S. from 1920 to 1926, establishing the Romanian Embassy in Washington during his tenure. He then moved his family—

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WR_program.indd 18 11/9/17 2:05 PM now including daughter Priscilla—to Madrid in 1927, where appearance of honesty? Then I wondered how my face looked pre-Spanish Civil War tensions were rising around them. to the others. Would they describe it as honest?” Gardiner and In 1936, Bibesco held the unenviable position of reassuring Sara Farrelly, and their risk-taking husbands, lived in a society France and England, Romania’s main allies, that Romania where paranoia prevailed. rejected fascism. The truth, however, was more complicated: Hellman largely based Sara Farrelly’s husband and Watch The King of Romania resisted Hitler, while Prime Minister on the Rhine’s hero, Kurt Muller, on Moscow-trained spy (later, dictator) Ion Antonescu courted him. When war broke Otto Katz. Katz and Hellman met in 1936 when they helped out in 1939, Bibesco and his family moved back to Romania, to fund The Spanish Earth, a propaganda film co-written by which had become a member of the Nazi alliance. After Ernest Hemingway in support of the anti-fascists fighting in the war, the communists confiscated Bibesco’s estates and the Spanish Civil War. As their friendship deepened, Hellman forced him from the country. Bibesco, like his fictional coun- gleaned snippets of Katz’s life as a spy—though it is unclear terpart Teck de Brancovis, lost everything he held dear as how much of the truth he shared with her (or anyone). Katz fascism overtook his country. occupied at least 21 aliases and operated out of pre-Hitler Watch on the Rhine’s heroine, Sara Farrelly (identified in Germany, England, and France. Katz, a Jew originally from the play’s cast of characters as Sara Muller), resembles Muriel Bohemia (modern Czech Republic), turned toward commu- Gardiner, an American heiress who studied psychiatry in Vien- nism when he witnessed the rise of Nazism in the 1920s. He na. Gardiner and Hellman never met, but they shared a mutual gravitated toward the Soviet Union, which he saw as the friend who likely recounted Gardiner’s story to the famed only nation effectively resisting Hitler. He lived in Moscow, dramatist. Gardiner, like Farrelly, went to great lengths to resist training at the International Lenin School as an “illegal”—an Nazi activity in Europe. As tensions rose in the 1930s, Gardin- agent operating under false names. “Illegals” worked as er became an active member of the couriers, transporting secret Socialist Party and played a key role in documents and hordes of cash the anti-fascist resistance. She helped A diplomat, an anti-fascist, and with which to finance their global secure false passports and necessary network, formed secret units for documents for many communists, so- a spy, these historical figures surveillance, worked as forgers cialists, Jews, and wanted anti-fascists, of captured documents, and sneaking dozens of individuals across sparked Hellman’s imagination. pushed propaganda. Katz ended the border to Switzerland and helping up becoming a cultural courier, thousands more through her underground network. Thanks to rather than a traditional spy. He seemed to work everywhere her wealth and status as an American, Gardiner owned various after he left Moscow: he published anti-fascist propaganda in apartments and homes that served as safe houses for citizens German and English, led battlefield tours during the Span- on the run. Through her resistance work she met and fell in ish Civil War, organized conferences and talks throughout love with Joseph Buttinger, a fellow socialist and top leader in Europe, and raised money in Hollywood. the Austrian resistance. The couple moved around often after Hellman’s character Kurt Muller never worked as a the Nazis annexed Austria in 1938. Using her American and Soviet spy or a Hollywood socialite, but he did spread British passports to protect her as she crossed borders, Gar- documents around as Katz did. Hellman’s text also suggests diner undertook dangerous missions traveling to Switzerland that he engaged in the same kind of work as Muriel Gardin- and Czechoslovakia, where she secured false papers from her er and her husband Joseph Buttinger: securing safe pas- colleagues, then slipped back into Austria, where she delivered sage across borders for those in danger, sheltering wanted the documents to those in need. When Hitler invaded Poland members of the resistance, and participating in violence if in 1939, Gardiner and her family left for New York on the last necessary. Hellman’s imagination was more attached to the American ship to leave France. way Katz operated in an underground fashion than to the In addition to their anti-fascist activity, Sara Farrelly and details of his resistance. Muller, like Katz, used many aliases, Gardiner had similar family circumstances. Both women and the secret service from various countries closely inherited sufficient wealth and abandoned their previous followed his trail. lifestyles to live with their husbands in wartime Europe. Yet, Bibesco, Gardiner, and Katz resisted the growing menace while Farrelly refused to ask her family for money to help in the of fascist forces in pre-war Europe and helped shape key mo- resistance, Gardiner subsisted on it. Here, Hellman’s dramatic ments in the wartime narrative. A diplomat, an anti-fascist, license is well earned: The Farrelly family must begin the play and a spy, these historical figures sparked Hellman’s imag- in the dark about their daughter’s life in order for the drama ination. Mixing and matching from her knowledge of their to unfold. Indeed, Farrelly and Gardiner could not fully tell experiences, she created a set of characters who could bring their families about what their work entailed and what they the menace of fascism right into the Farrelly’s living room. endured. Secrecy was paramount to the resistance, as just one Teck, Kurt, and Sara enter the stage united in their otherness; slip could land someone in prison, or worse. In one passage of they’ve all arrived on U.S. soil from a Europe Americans her memoir, Gardiner recalls peering at the faces of her fellow can barely fathom. Yet, once they all meet in Sara’s elegant resistance workers: “I realized that not one of them struck me childhood home the tensions between them become un- as appearing equally honest. Even at this first meeting it oc- mistakable. In Watch on the Rhine, the relationships Hellman curred to me to wonder whether it was rare for honest people imagined on stage show us a climatic, intimate look at a to go into illegal work. Or did illegal work itself reduce one’s crucial moment in our country’s history.

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After enthralling audiences with Aubergine, Julia Cho returns to Berkeley Rep with a searing and touching play. Hiding in the back of the classroom, Dennis’ sullen presence has his fellow students and professors on edge. But during an office visit, his writing instructor seeks to break through Dennis’ silence and earn his trust—with shocking results. A deeply personal story of empathy and redemption, Office Hour explores otherness and paranoia while revealing our essential human need for connection.

BY Julia Cho DIRECTED BY Lisa Peterson STARTS FEB 22 · PEET’S THEATRE

SEASON SPONSORS

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BY CAST Sara Muller Sarah Agnew* Lillian Hellman Kurt Muller Elijah Alexander* Babette Muller Emma Curtin DIRECTED BY Joseph James Detmar* Lisa Peterson Marthe Kate Guentzel* Bodo Muller Jonah Horowitz NOVEMBER 30, 2017–JANUARY 14, 2018 David Farrelly Hugh Kennedy* RODA THEATRE · MAIN SEASON Anise Leontyne Mbele-Mbong* This show includes a 15-minute intermission and Fanny Farrelly Caitlin O’Connell* a five-minute pause. BY Julia Cho Joshua Muller Silas Sellnow Setting: The Farrelly family home, about 20 miles Teck De Brancovis Jonathan Walker* from Washington, DC DIRECTED BY Lisa Peterson Late May 1940 PRODUCTION STAFF STARTS FEB 22 · PEET’S THEATRE Watch on the Rhine is made possible thanks to Scenic Design Neil Patel the generous support of Costume Design Raquel Barreto SEASON SPONSORS Jack & Betty Schafer Lighting Design Alexander V. Nichols Michael & Sue Steinberg Sound Design/Composer Paul James Prendergast The Strauch Kulhanjian Family Fight Direction Aaron Preusse Dramaturg Jo Holcomb Casting McCorkle Casting, Ltd. Amy Potozkin, csa LEAD SPONSOR Jennifer Liestman Stage Manager Kathy Rose*

EXECUTIVE SPONSORS Susan Chamberlin *Indicates a member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional John Dains Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. SPONSORS Watch on the Rhine is presented by arrangement with Graham Agency, New York Joan Sarnat & David Hoffman ([email protected]). Dugan Moore Pam & Mitch Nichter

ASSOCIATE SPONSORS Shelley & Jonathan Bagg Affiliations SEASON SPONSORS William Espey & Margaret Hart Edwards The director is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Inc., an Martin & Janis McNair independent national labor union. The Scenic, Pat & Merrill Shanks Costume, Lighting, and Sound Designers in lort Theatres are represented by United Lisa & Jim Taylor Scenic Artists Local usa-829, iatse.

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credits include Frank Theatre, TigerLion Arts, Sarah Agnew Emma Curtin Gremlin Theatre, Pangea World Theater, Sand- SARA MULLER BABETTE MULLER box Theatre, and Four Humors Theater. She Sarah appeared at Emma is thrilled to be received an Ivey Award for the role of Antonia Berkeley Rep in Roe making her debut at in Illusion Theater’s My Antonia, and was Star (also Oregon Shake- Berkeley Rep. Previ- Tribune’s Best Actress 2016. Kate trained at speare Festival and ous mainstage credits University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Arena Stage), as well include Tarzan, Billy as in Theatre de la Elliot (Debbie), Fiddler Jonah Horowitz Jeune Lune’s Don Juan on the Roof (Bielke), BODO MULLER Giovanni, The Green Mary Poppins, Shrek the Jonah is honored to be Bird, and The Miser. Musical (Young Fiona), making his debut with Regional credits include The Music Man, A Little Berkeley Rep. Favorite Richard III and Dead Man’s Cell Phone (osf), Princess, and The Sound of Music (Gretl) at credits include Simon in Hamlet (New Victory Theater), Twelfth Night Berkeley Playhouse; Wait Until Dark (Gloria) 13 The Musical, Geppetto (Shakespeare Theatre Company), The Servant and A Christmas Carol (Helen/Fan/Belinda) at in Pinocchio, and Joseph of Two Masters (Yale Repertory Theatre), Chanticleers; Oklahoma! (Virginia/featured and the Amazing Tech- Sarah Ruhl’s Three Sisters and Behind the Eye dancer) and Our Town (Rebecca) at Altarena nicolor Dreamcoat (cmt (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park), The Syringa Playhouse; and Beauty and the Beast at Wood- San Jose) and Small Boy Tree (Jungle Theater), and Time Stands Still, The minster Summer Musicals. Emma attends in Billy Elliot (Berke- 39 Steps, Dollhouse, Major Barbara, Home Place, Oakland School for the Arts (vocal emphasis) ley Playhouse). He has also participated in The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde, and As You and does additional vocal training with Erica conservatory programs at American Conser- Like It (the Guthrie Theater), and The Miser and D’Ambrosio. She studies ballet, tap, hip-hop, vatory Theater and the Berkeley Rep School Amerika (American Repertory Theatre). Film/ lyrical, and jazz with Dance10 and Irish step of Theatre. This spring he is looking forward TV credits include Lady Dynamite, Detective dance with Annie McBride. to playing the title role in James and the Giant Fiction, and Older Than America. Sarah is a Peach at Berkeley Playhouse. Jonah lives in 2012 McKnight Theater Fellow and received James Detmar Berkeley and is in the 6th grade at King Middle the Cincinnati Acclaim Award and Princess JOSEPH School. He enjoys making movies and building Grace Honorarium. James is making his sets for his backyard theatre company. Berkeley Rep debut. He Elijah Alexander has performed around Hugh Kennedy KURT MULLER the country in West Side DAVID FARRELLY Elijah last appeared at Story, White Christmas, Hugh is making his Berkeley Rep in Much and Sound of Music at Berkeley Rep debut. Ado About Nothing. Ordway Center for the He has appeared at He has been seen on Performing Arts; Caba- the Guthrie Theater in Broadway in Meta- ret and Spring Awakening Tribes, Othello, Pride and morphoses and off at Theater Latté Da; Prejudice, The Primrose Broadway in Shopping Fly by Night at Jungle Theater; Lombardi and Path, Arsenic and Old and Fucking (New York The Highwaymen at History Theatre; Annie, Lace, The Two Gentle- Theatre Workshop). Mid-Life: The Crisis Musical, and Beauty and men of Verona, A View Other New York credits the Beast at Chanhassen Dinner Theatres; from the Bridge, The include Throne of Blood at Brooklyn Academy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels at Old Log Theatre; Government Inspector, A Midsummer Night’s of Music. He has performed with the Royal and Glengarry Glen Ross at the Torch Theatre. Dream, Be Here Now, and A Christmas Carol. Shakespeare Company in Tantalus. Elijah’s James’ film and television credits include Thin He also appeared in Hamlet at Jungle Theater regional credits include Fingersmith, Hamlet, Ice, Hap and Ashley, Factotum, Public Domain, and in Anthony Tassa’s Macbeth Arabia in Pride and Prejudice, and Henry VIII (Oregon Best Man Down, Ghost Light, From the Earth to Dubai, uae. His other theatre credits include Shakespeare Festival); Richard III, Julius Caesar, the Moon, Carousel of Revenge, America’s Most the Public Theater, the Moving Company, Gaslight, Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Wanted, Santa Barbara, Clarissa Explains It All to Philadelphia Theatre Company, Eugene O’Neill Art (Utah Shakespeare Festival); Man and You, Superboy, and Hi Honey, I’m Home! Theater Center, New York Theatre Workshop, Superman, Restoration Comedy, and An Ideal TheatreSquared, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Husband (California Shakespeare Theater); Kate Guentzel the Acting Company, and Pillsbury House Disgraced (Arizona Theatre Company); and The MARTHE Theatre. His film credits include Suburbicon, Invisible Hand (Gregory Award, A Contempo- Kate is making her The Goodbye, and Hope. Hugh received the rary Theatre, Seattle). His film and television Berkeley Rep debut. 2012 Ivey Award for Buzzer and was a Presi- credits include Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Amazing Love, She has appeared at the dential Scholar of the Arts. He received a bfa Touch, Awake, jag, and Summerland. Elijah re- Guthrie Theater in The from University of Minnesota Actor Training ceived an mfa from the Yale School of Drama. Master Butchers Singing Program and is a national reviewer for the Please visit elijahalexander.net. Club and M. Butterfly, YoungArts Organization in Miami, Florida. Jungle Theater in The Heiress and The Birthday Party, Park Square Theatre in School for Lies, Penumbra Theatre in Dutchman, Pillsbury House Theatre in The Children, and Illusion Theater in My Antonia. Her other theatre

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WR_program.indd 22 11/9/17 2:05 PM Leontyne Mbele-Mbong Silas Sellnow The Good Book and a commission for McCarter ANISE JOSHUA MULLER Theatre Center titled The Song of Rome. Lisa Leontyne is making her Silas is making his is also writing a new music-theatre piece with Berkeley Rep debut. She Berkeley Rep debut. His Todd Almond called The Idea of Order, co-com- has appeared at Aurora theatre credits include missioned by La Jolla Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, Theatre Company in Peter and the Starcatcher and Seattle Rep. Temple and Breakfast at Theater Latté Da; with Mugabe; the San Richard III, Comedy of Neil Patel Francisco Shakespeare Errors, As You Like It, SCENIC DESIGNER Festival in Hamlet; and Julius Caesar at Neil’s Berkeley Rep credits include Our Town, African-American Great River Shakespeare Ghosts, and Nocturne. His recent designs Shakespeare Company in Festival; While You Were include Time and the Conways (Roundabout Antony and Cleopatra, Medea, Much Ado About Out at Red Eye Theatre; and The Snow Queen Theatre Company), Father Comes Home from Nothing, Merry Wives of Windsor, and A Raisin in at Park Square Theatre. Silas received a bfa the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) (Royal Court, London), the Sun; Stanford Rep in Slaughter City; Shotgun from University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater Mughal-E-Azam (National Centre for the Players in Top Girls; Aluminous Collective in Actor Training Program. Performing Arts, Mumbai), Born for This (the The Last Days of Judas Iscariot; Role Players Broad Stage), The Crucible (the Glimmerglass Ensemble in Good People; Altarena Playhouse in Jonathan Walker Festival), Mr Burns: a post-electric play and Fences and Sylvia; Central Works in Andromache; TECK DE BRANCOVIS Stage Kiss (Playwrights Horizons), and Norma Woman’s Will in Richard III, Twelfth Night, and Jonathan is making his (LA Opera). His film and television credits Macbeth; Solano College Theatre in Intimate Berkeley Rep debut. He include Some Velvet Morning (TrBeCa Films), Apparel; TheatreFirst in World Music and Map has appeared on Broad- The Path (Hulu), In Treatment (hbo), and Little of the World; and Lamplighters Music Theater way in The Assembled Boxes (Netflix). Neil created exhibition designs in Show Boat and Candide. Leontyne received Parties, 20th Century, for Space Force Construction for vac Founda- a Theatre Bay Area Award for Outstanding After the Fall, and Rocky. tion, Venice. Performance Female Principal for Medea. She His off-Broadway received a BA from Macalester College. Please credits include world Raquel Barreto visit leontynembele-mbong.com. premieres by Richard COSTUME DESIGNER Greenberg, Donald Mar- Raquel was the costume designer for Roe Caitlin O’Connell gulies, Wendy MacLeod, Doug Wright, James at Berkeley Rep (also Oregon Shakespeare FANNY FARRELLY Lapine, Peter Parnell, and Charles Busch at Festival and Arena Stage). Her other credits Caitlin is making her mcc Theater, the Public Theater, Playwrights include Pericles (the Guthrie Theater); The River Berkeley Rep debut. Horizons, Primary Stages, Roundabout Bride, Pericles, The Happiest Song Plays Last, She has appeared Theatre Company, Manhattan Theatre Club, and Water by the Spoonful (Oregon Shake- on Broadway in The Cherry Lane Theatre, and the New Group. He speare Festival); Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar Crucible, Mothers and appeared in the films The Chaperone, Bridge of and Grill (Actors Theatre of Louisville); and The Sons, The Heiress, and Spies, It Had to Be You, Man on a Ledge, Michael Glass Menagerie, The Triumph of Love, Romeo 33 Variations. She has Clayton, People I Know, Heights, and Far from and Juliet, Uncle Vanya, and Pericles (California appeared at the Guthrie Heaven. Jonathan’s television credits include Shakespeare Theater), as well as productions Theater in Watch on Madam Secretary, Quantico, Person of Interest, at Arena Stage, Syracuse Stage, Folger The- the Rhine, Mrs. Warren’s Elementary, The Good Wife, The Big C, Sex and atre, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Cornerstone Profession, and Playboy of the Western World. the City, Chappelle’s Show, Law & Order, Zero Theater Company, Latino Theater Company, Her off-Broadway credits include Ugly Lies the Hour, The Carrie Diaries, and Daredevil. the Magic Theatre, Campo Santo, and the Bone (Roundabout Theatre Company), All’s Cutting Ball Theater. She has also designed for Well That Ends Well (New York Shakespeare Lisa Peterson Operaucla, San Francisco Lyric Opera, the Festival/the Public Theater), The Killing of Sister DIRECTOR/ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR Joyce Theater, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Walt George (the Actors Theatre Company), Stuff Lisa is a two-time Obie Award-winning writer Disney Concert Hall, Jacob’s Pillow, and the Happens (the Public), Third (Lincoln Center and director whose previous projects at Berke- Broad Stage. Raquel is on the costume design Theater), Boy (Primary Stages), and Baby ley Rep include It Can’t Happen Here (2016); faculty at the ucla School of Theater, Film Screams Miracle (Clubbed Thumb). She has also Madwoman in the Volvo (2016); An Iliad (2012), and Television and received an mfa from the appeared at Williamstown Theater Festival in which Lisa co-wrote with Denis O’Hare and University of California, San Diego. Pygmalion; South Coast Repertory in Habeus which won Obie and Lortel Awards for Best Corpus; Shakespeare Theatre Company in Solo Performance; Mother Courage (2006); Alexander V. Nichols Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, and The Fall (2001); and Antony & Cleopatra (1999). LIGHTING DESIGNER Merry Wives of Windsor; Center Stage in The Other recent West Coast productions include Alex has designed more than 30 productions Matchmaker, Winter’s Tale, and Othello; the Old You Never Can Tell (California Shakespeare for Berkeley Rep. His Broadway credits include Globe in Julius Caesar; Denver Center Theatre Theater), Hamlet (Oregon Shakespeare Fes- Wishful Drinking, Hugh Jackman—Back On Company in Third, The Clean House, Dinner tival), and Chavez Ravine (Ovation Award for Broadway, and Nice Work If You Can Get It. with Friends, and The Little Foxes; and Actors Best Production—Center Theatre Group). She His off-Broadway productions include In Theatre of Louisville/Cincinnati Playhouse in has directed world premieres by many major Masks Outrageous and Austere, Los Big Names, Doubt. Her film and television credits include American writers, including Tony Kushner, Horizon, Bridge & Tunnel, Taking Over, Through Oppenheimer Strategies, The Automatic Hate, Beth Henley, Donald Margulies, José Rivera, the Night, and In the Wake. Alex has worked at The Stepchild, Unforgettable, Whoopi, and David Henry Hwang, Luis Alfaro, Marlane regional theatres throughout the country, in- Homicide. Caitlin is a recipient of a Fox Foun- Meyer, Naomi Wallace, Basil Kreimendahl, cluding American Conservatory Theater, Mark dation Grant. and many others. She regularly works at the Taper Forum, National Theatre of Taiwan, Guthrie Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and La Jolla the Mark Taper Forum, La Jolla Playhouse, Playhouse, among others. His dance credits Seattle Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, and include resident designer for Pennsylvania Bal- New York Theatre Workshop. Lisa and Denis let, Hartford Ballet, and American Repertory are working on a new play about faith called Ballet; lighting supervisor for American Ballet

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Theatre; and resident visual designer for the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company since 1989. His designs are in the permanent repertory of San Francisco Ballet, Boston Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Hubbard Street Dance, Hong Kong Ballet, Singapore Dance Theatre, odc/SF, and the Royal Winnipeg Bal- let. Alex’s other projects include the museum installation Circle of Memory, a collaboration with Eleanor Coppola, presented in Stock- holm, Sweden, and the video and visual design “Villa Marin for Life: A Journey Through Time, a collaboration with Frans Lanting and Philip Glass, is My Home” presented at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. Paul James Prendergast Artist Ann Brooks found the SOUND DESIGNER/COMPOSER Paul was the composer and sound designer for perfectVILLA home atM VillaARIN Marin. RETIREMENT LIVING REDEFINED It Can’t Happen Here and Roe at Berkeley Rep. Ann sees Villa Marin as a small His Broadway credits include All the Way. His village where everyone is regional credits include the Guthrie Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (25 productions), valued. With medical services, Seattle Repertory Theatre, the Mark Taper housekeeping and other Forum, South Coast Repertory, American Repertory Theater, PlayMakers Repertory services included at Villa Company, Hartford Stage, Great Lakes The- Marin,VILLA Ann has MmoreARIN time to ater Festival, Geffen Playhouse, Long Wharf RETIREMENT LIVING REDEFINED follow her creative direction. Theatre, California Shakespeare Theater, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Utah Shakespeare Festival, the Kennedy Center, Alley Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, and American Conserva- tory Theater. He has also designed for theme parks, including Universal Studios, Disney, and Knott’s Berry Farm, and museums, including J. Paul Getty, Geffen Contemporary, and Autry VILLA MARIN Museum of Western Heritage. His dance RETIREMENT LIVING REDEFINED credits include Diavolo Dance Theater, Momix, and Parsons Dance. Paul’s work as a singer/ Marcus Godfrey songwriter has appeared in films, on record- Madison Company Realtors ings, and in music venues nationwide. 100 Thorndale Dr., San Rafael Aaron Preusse

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BerkeleyTheatre_4.75x4.875.indd 4 8/28/17 9:19 PM The Royal Family, The Bluest Eye, Refugia, and Native Gardens at the Guthrie Theater; The Pirates of Penzance and Jesus Christ Superstar at the Ordway; Carmen at the Minnesota Opera; The Three Musketeers at Commonweal Theatre Company; Buried Child and Time to Burn at Red Bird Theatre; The Three Musketeers at Theatre in the Round; The Illusion and Henry V at Theatre Pro Rata; Carmen at Skylark Opera; Human Combat Chess (six seasons) at Six Elements Theatre Company; Peter Pan at the Phipps Center; and Leading Ladies at Lyric Arts of Anoka. Aaron trained at the Dell’Arte In- ternational School of Physical Theatre and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and is a member of the Society of American Fight Directors.

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WR_program.indd 24 11/9/17 2:06 PM Jo Holcomb Garden Paths, Killer Joe, Mrs. Klein, and Driving Area. Prior to working at Berkeley Rep, she DRAMATURG Miss Daisy. Film and television credits include was an intern at Playwrights Horizons in New Jo worked on more than 60 productions at the Premium Rush, Ghost Town, Secret Window, York. Amy is a member of csa, the Casting Guthrie Theater since 1996, including Native Tony ’n’ Tina’s Wedding, Basic, The Thomas Society of America, and was nominated for Gardens, Refugia, The Bluest Eye, The Parchman Crown Affair, The 13th Warrior, Madeline, Die Artios Awards for Excellence in Casting for The Hour, South Pacific, Trouble in Mind, Critic/ Hard with a Vengeance, School Ties, Sesame Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism Hound, The Music Man, Juno and the Paycock, Street, Californication (Emmy nomination), Max and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures and The Crucible, A Christmas Carol, My Fair Lady, Bickford, Strangers with Candy, Barbershop, and One Man, Two Guvnors. Crimes of the Heart, Freud’s Last Session, Uncle Chappelle’s Show. Vanya, Other Desert Cities, Tales from Holly- Jennifer Liestman wood, The Burial at Thebes, God of Carnage, M. Amy Potozkin, csa CASTING Butterfly, Faith Healer, The Intelligent Homo- DIRECTOR OF CASTING/ Jennifer has been on the artistic staff at the sexual…, Caroline, or Change, Shadowlands, The ARTISTIC ASSOCIATE Guthrie Theater for the past 15 years and is Glass Menagerie, and Six Degrees of Separation. This is Amy’s 28th season at Berkeley Rep. in her third season as the artistic associate/ She is a librarian/literary specialist and teaches Through the years she has also had the plea- resident casting director. In addition to her at the University of Minnesota/Guthrie The- sure of casting plays for act (Seattle), Arizona casting work, she also enjoys speaking with ater bfa Actor Training Program. Jo received Theatre Company, Aurora Theatre Company, B the students with the Guthrie/University of her MS from University of Kentucky and MA Street Theatre, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Minnesota training program as well as teach- from Athenaeum of Ohio. Dallas Theater Center, Marin Theatre Com- ing auditioning master classes to students pany, the Marsh, San Jose Repertory Theatre, across the country. McCorkle Casting, Ltd./ Social Impact Productions Inc., and Traveling Pat McCorkle Jewish Theatre. Amy cast roles for various Kathy Rose CASTING independent films, including Conceiving Ada, STAGE MANAGER McCorkle Casting, Ltd./Pat McCorkle is the starring Tilda Swinton; Haiku Tunnel and Love Kathy last worked with Berkeley Rep as stage casting consultant for the Guthrie Theater’s & Taxes, both by Josh Kornbluth; and Beyond manager for John Leguizamo’s Latin History 2017–18 season, and has cast more than 50 Redemption by Britta Sjogren. Amy received for Morons, and she also stage managed How productions there since 1998. Broadway cred- her mfa from Brandeis University, where she to Write a New Book for the Bible. She has its include End of the Rainbow, The Lieutenant was also an artist in residence. She has been produced or stage managed for organizations of Inishmore, The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot an audition coach to hundreds of actors and a such as the Santa Fe Opera, Teatro Zinzanni, Tin Roof, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The presentation/communication coach to many Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, odc Dance, Ride Down Mt. Morgan, Amadeus, She Loves businesspeople. Amy taught acting at Mills the SF Jazz Center, Opera Paralléle, Post: Bal- Me, Blood Brothers, and A Few Good Men. College and audition technique at Berkeley let, and Cal Performances. Kathy has worked Off-Broadway credits include Tribes, Our Town, Rep’s School of Theatre, and has led work- with a wide variety of artists, most notably Almost, Maine, Ears on a Beatle, Down the shops at numerous other venues in the Bay Joan Baez, Anna Deavere Smith, Lars Ulrich,

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WR_program.indd 25 11/9/17 2:06 PM Repertory Theatre. As a playwright, he debuted BERKELEY REP Ghost Light, Rita Moreno: Life Without Makeup, Game On, written with Dan Hoyle, and It Can’t PRESENTS Happen Here, written with Bennett S. Cohen. In 2012, Tony received the Margo Jones Award for “demonstrating a significant impact, under- profiles standing, and affirmation of playwriting, with a commitment to the living theatre.”

and Meredith Monk. Kathy is a proud member Susan Medak of both Actors’ Equity Association (aea) and MANAGING DIRECTOR the American Guild of Musical Artists (agma). Susan has served as Berkeley Rep’s managing director since 1990, leading the administra- The Guthrie Theater tion and operations of the Theatre. She has The Guthrie Theater (Joseph Haj, Artistic served as president of the League of Resident Director) was founded by Sir Tyrone Guthrie Theatres (lort) and treasurer of Theatre in 1963 and is an American center for theater Communications Group (tcg), organizations performance, production, education and pro- that represent the interests of nonprofit fessional training, dedicated to producing the theatres across the nation. Susan chaired great works of dramatic literature and to cul- panels for the Massachusetts Arts Council tivating the next generation of theater artists. and has also served on program panels for Under Haj’s leadership, the Guthrie produces Arts Midwest, the Joyce Foundation, and the a mix of classic and contemporary plays on National Endowment for the Arts. Closer three stages, and continues to set a national to home, Susan serves on the board of the standard for excellence in theatrical produc- Downtown Berkeley Association (dba). She tion and performance. In 2006, the Guthrie is the founding chair of the Berkeley Arts in opened its new home on the banks of the Education Steering Committee for Berkeley Mississippi River in Minneapolis. Designed by Unified School District and the Berkeley Pritzker Prize-winning architect Jean Nouvel, Cultural Trust. Susan serves on the faculty of the Guthrie Theater houses three state-of-the- Yale School of Drama and is a member of the art stages, production facilities, classrooms, International Women’s Forum and the Mont full-service restaurants and dramatic public Blanc Ladies’ Literary Guild and Trekking So- lobbies. Please visit guthrietheater.org. ciety. She was awarded the 2012 Benjamin Ide Wheeler Medal by the Berkeley Community Tony Taccone Fund and the 2017 Visionary Leadership Award MICHAEL LEIBERT by tcg. During her time in Berkeley, Susan has ARTISTIC DIRECTOR been instrumental in the construction of the Tony is celebrating his 20th anniversary season. Roda Theatre, the Nevo Education Center, the During Tony’s tenure as artistic director of renovation of the Peet’s Theatre, and in the Berkeley Rep, the Tony Award-winning non- acquisition of the Harrison Street campus. profit has earned a reputation as an international leader in innovative theatre. In those 20 Theresa Von Klug years, Berkeley Rep has presented more than GENERAL MANAGER 70 world, American, and West Coast premieres Before joining Berkeley Rep, Theresa had and sent 23 shows to New York, two to London, over 20 years of experience in the New York and one to Hong Kong. Tony has staged more not-for-profit performing arts sector where than 40 plays in Berkeley, including new work she has planned and executed events for from Julia Cho, John Leguizamo, Culture Clash, dance, theatre, music, television, and film. Her Rinde Eckert, David Edgar, Danny Hoch, Geoff previous positions include the interim gen- Hoyle, Itamar Moses, and Lemony Snicket. He eral manager for the Public Theater; general directed the shows that transferred to London, manager/line producer for Theatre for a New Continental Divide and Tiny Kushner, and two Audience, where she opened its new state-of- that landed on Broadway as well: Bridge & the-art theatre in Brooklyn and filmed a major Tunnel and Wishful Drinking. Prior to working at motion picture of the inaugural production Berkeley Rep, Tony served as artistic director of of Julie Taymor’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Coldwell Banker Berkeley Eureka Theatre, which produced the American released June 2015; production manager at premieres of plays by Dario Fo, Caryl Churchill, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center and Locally Grown, Globally Known and David Edgar before focusing on a new New York City Center, including the famous generation of American writers. While at the Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert; MEET US IN THE BAR! 1495 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley Eureka, Tony commissioned Tony Kushner’s and field representative/lead negotiator for 510.486.1495 | ColdwellBankerHomes.com legendary Angels in America and co-directed its the Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Join us for signature californiahome.me | /cbcalifornia world premiere. He has collaborated with Kush- Managers. She holds a MS in Labor Relations cocktails, wines, craft beer, ner on eight plays at Berkeley Rep, including and Human Resources Management from and delectable treats. The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism Baruch College. and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures. Tony’s Open before and after the show, regional credits include Actors Theatre of Peter Dean and during intermission Louisville, Arena Stage, Center Theatre Group, PRODUCTION MANAGER

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WR_program.indd 26 11/9/17 2:06 PM WR_program.indd 27 11/9/17 2:06 PM Repertory Theatre. As a playwright, he debuted BERKELEY REP Ghost Light, Rita Moreno: Life Without Makeup, Game On, written with Dan Hoyle, and It Can’t PRESENTS Happen Here, written with Bennett S. Cohen. In 2012, Tony received the Margo Jones Award for “demonstrating a significant impact, under- profiles standing, and affirmation of playwriting, with a commitment to the living theatre.” and Meredith Monk. Kathy is a proud member Susan Medak of both Actors’ Equity Association (aea) and MANAGING DIRECTOR the American Guild of Musical Artists (agma). Susan has served as Berkeley Rep’s managing director since 1990, leading the administra- The Guthrie Theater tion and operations of the Theatre. She has The Guthrie Theater (Joseph Haj, Artistic served as president of the League of Resident Director) was founded by Sir Tyrone Guthrie Theatres (lort) and treasurer of Theatre in 1963 and is an American center for theater Communications Group (tcg), organizations performance, production, education and pro- that represent the interests of nonprofit fessional training, dedicated to producing the theatres across the nation. Susan chaired great works of dramatic literature and to cul- panels for the Massachusetts Arts Council tivating the next generation of theater artists. and has also served on program panels for Under Haj’s leadership, the Guthrie produces Arts Midwest, the Joyce Foundation, and the a mix of classic and contemporary plays on National Endowment for the Arts. Closer three stages, and continues to set a national to home, Susan serves on the board of the standard for excellence in theatrical produc- Downtown Berkeley Association (dba). She tion and performance. In 2006, the Guthrie is the founding chair of the Berkeley Arts in opened its new home on the banks of the Education Steering Committee for Berkeley Mississippi River in Minneapolis. Designed by Unified School District and the Berkeley Pritzker Prize-winning architect Jean Nouvel, Cultural Trust. Susan serves on the faculty of the Guthrie Theater houses three state-of-the- Yale School of Drama and is a member of the art stages, production facilities, classrooms, International Women’s Forum and the Mont full-service restaurants and dramatic public Blanc Ladies’ Literary Guild and Trekking So- lobbies. Please visit guthrietheater.org. ciety. She was awarded the 2012 Benjamin Ide Wheeler Medal by the Berkeley Community Tony Taccone Fund and the 2017 Visionary Leadership Award MICHAEL LEIBERT by tcg. During her time in Berkeley, Susan has ARTISTIC DIRECTOR been instrumental in the construction of the Tony is celebrating his 20th anniversary season. Roda Theatre, the Nevo Education Center, the During Tony’s tenure as artistic director of renovation of the Peet’s Theatre, and in the Berkeley Rep, the Tony Award-winning non- acquisition of the Harrison Street campus. profit has earned a reputation as an international leader in innovative theatre. In those 20 Theresa Von Klug years, Berkeley Rep has presented more than GENERAL MANAGER 70 world, American, and West Coast premieres Before joining Berkeley Rep, Theresa had and sent 23 shows to New York, two to London, over 20 years of experience in the New York and one to Hong Kong. Tony has staged more not-for-profit performing arts sector where than 40 plays in Berkeley, including new work she has planned and executed events for from Julia Cho, John Leguizamo, Culture Clash, dance, theatre, music, television, and film. Her Rinde Eckert, David Edgar, Danny Hoch, Geoff previous positions include the interim gen- Hoyle, Itamar Moses, and Lemony Snicket. He eral manager for the Public Theater; general directed the shows that transferred to London, manager/line producer for Theatre for a New Continental Divide and Tiny Kushner, and two Audience, where she opened its new state-of- that landed on Broadway as well: Bridge & the-art theatre in Brooklyn and filmed a major Tunnel and Wishful Drinking. Prior to working at motion picture of the inaugural production Berkeley Rep, Tony served as artistic director of of Julie Taymor’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Coldwell Banker Berkeley Eureka Theatre, which produced the American released June 2015; production manager at premieres of plays by Dario Fo, Caryl Churchill, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center and Locally Grown, Globally Known and David Edgar before focusing on a new New York City Center, including the famous generation of American writers. While at the Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert; MEET US IN THE BAR! 1495 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley Eureka, Tony commissioned Tony Kushner’s and field representative/lead negotiator for 510.486.1495 | ColdwellBankerHomes.com legendary Angels in America and co-directed its the Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Join us for signature californiahome.me | /cbcalifornia world premiere. He has collaborated with Kush- Managers. She holds a MS in Labor Relations cocktails, wines, craft beer, ner on eight plays at Berkeley Rep, including and Human Resources Management from and delectable treats. The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism Baruch College. and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures. Tony’s Open before and after the show, regional credits include Actors Theatre of Peter Dean and during intermission Louisville, Arena Stage, Center Theatre Group, PRODUCTION MANAGER

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WR_program.indd 26 11/9/17 2:06 PM WR_program.indd 27 11/9/17 2:06 PM The Bernard Osher Foundation BERKELEY REP PRESENTS profiles LEAD SPONSOR The Bernard Osher Foundation, supporting higher education and the arts, was founded in NUTURE Love Story), Monsoon Wedding, and Aubergine. and Second Stage Theater in New York, and 1977 by Bernard Osher, a respected business- Previously, he served as production manager Yale Repertory Theatre. For the Magic The- man and community leader. The Foundation at the Public Theater, where favorite works in- atre, he stage managed Albert Takazauckas’ provides scholarship funding at colleges and clude Here Lies Love, Father Comes Home from Breaking the Code and Sam Shepard’s The Late universities across the nation, with a recent the War Parts 1–3, Mobile Shakespeare, and Henry Moss. emphasis on assisting reentry students. In ad- YOUR The Tempest as well as musical collaborations dition, the Foundation supports a national net- with Sting, the Roots, and the Eagles. Peter Jack & Betty Schafer work of lifelong learning institutes for seasoned also helped Alex Timbers develop Rocky the SEASON SPONSORS adults on the campuses of 120 institutions of Musical, The Last Goodbye, and the cult classic Betty and Jack are proud to support Berkeley higher education. The Foundation also benefits CREATIVE Dance Dance Revolution the Musical. Other Rep. Jack just rotated off the Theatre’s board programs in integrative medicine at Harvard favorites include working with Edward Albee and is now on the boards of San Francisco University, Northwestern University, ucsf, the to remount The Sandbox and The American Opera and the Straus Historical Society. He is University of Miami, and Vanderbilt University Dream at their original home at the Cherry an emeritus trustee of the San Francisco Art in the United States as well as at the Karolinska Lane Theatre, working on Little Flower of East Institute and the Oxbow School. Betty is on Institute in Sweden. Finally, an array of perform- SPIRIT Orange directed by the late Philip Seymour the board of EarthJustice, the Jewish Commu- ing arts organizations, museums, and select Hoffman, and being a part of the development nity Center of San Francisco, and Sponsors of educational programs in the San Francisco Bay team for The Ride, an interactive four-mile Educational Opportunity. In San Francisco, Area and the State of Maine receive Foundation Winter classes traveling performance in the heart of Times she is engaged in the launch of Wise Aging, a grants. Barbro Osher, Honorary Consul General Square. Regionally Peter has worked with program for adults addressing the challenges of Sweden in California, chairs the Foundation’s start January 8 the Huntington Theatre Company, American of growing older. They have three daughters Board of Directors. Repertory Theater, Commonwealth Shake- and eight grandchildren. speare, Trinity Rep, Hasty Pudding Theatricals, Susan Chamberlin berkeleyrep.org/classes Colorado Ballet, Central City Opera, and the Michael & Sue Steinberg EXECUTIVE SPONSOR Denver Center Theatre Company. Peter is a SEASON SPONSORS Susan is a retired architect and project manag- 510 647-2972 graduate of Otterbein University. Michael and Sue have been interested in the er. Currently she, along with her husband Steve, arts since they met and enjoy music, ballet, directs the work of their family foundation. Madeleine Oldham and live theatre. Michael, who recently retired She also serves on the board of the Oakland RESIDENT DRAMATURG/ as chairman and chief executive officer of Museum of California and is the chair of the UC DIRECTOR, THE GROUND FLOOR Macy’s West, served on Berkeley Rep’s board Berkeley Foundation board of trustees. Madeleine is the director of The Ground Floor: of trustees from 1999 to 2006 and currently Berkeley Rep’s Center for the Creation and serves on the board of directors of the Jewish John Dains Development of New Work and the Theatre’s Museum. Sue serves on the board of the EXECUTIVE SPONSOR resident dramaturg. She oversees commission- World of Children. The Steinbergs have always John and his late wife Stephanie have enjoyed ing and new play development, and drama- enjoyed regional theatre and are delighted to Berkeley Rep since moving to the Bay Area in turged the world premiere productions of sponsor Berkeley Rep this season. 1987. Stephanie was a registered art therapist Aubergine, The House that will not Stand, Passing and retired in 2004 from the California School Strange, and In the Next Room (or the vibrator The Strauch Kulhanjian Family for the Blind where she ran the art program. play), among others. As literary manager and as- SEASON SPONSOR She was the board chair of Art4Moore, which sociate dramaturg at Center Stage in Baltimore, Roger Strauch is a former president of Berke- she started in memory of her mother. Art- she produced the First Look reading series and ley Rep’s board of trustees and is currently 4Moore gives grants to provide art supplies headed up its young audience initiative. Before vice president of the board. He is chairman of and resources to schools and programs for moving to Baltimore, she was the literary man- The Roda Group (rodagroup.com), a venture- teachers, students of all ages, the elderly, ager at Seattle Children’s Theatre, where she development company based in Berkeley. The and the disabled. John is the ceo Emeritus of oversaw an extensive commissioning program. Roda Group is a lead investor in new battery, Helm Financial Corporation, which is now a She also acted as assistant and interim literary carbon capture, and water remediation part of Wells Fargo. He served on the board manager at Intiman Theatre in Seattle. Mad- technology companies based in Silicon Valley of Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito eleine served for four years on the executive and Vancouver, Canada. Roger is chairman and Gateway High School, a charter school in committee of Literary Managers and Drama- of the board of directors of Cool Systems, San Francisco, and is on the board of trustees turgs of the Americas and has also worked with the manufacturer of Game Ready, a medical at Washington University in St. Louis where he act (Seattle), Austin Scriptworks, Crowded Fire, physical therapy system. He is also chairman and Stephanie both graduated from college. the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, the Kenne- of the board of trustees for the Mathematical dy Center, New Dramatists, Playwrights Center, Sciences Research Institute. He is a member David Hoffman & Joan Sarnat and Portland Center Stage. of the uc Berkeley Engineering Dean’s college SPONSORS advisory board; a member of the board of David is a consulting research professor of Michael Suenkel Northside Center, a mental-health services mathematics at Stanford and a Berkeley Rep PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER agency based in Harlem, New York City; and trustee. He was an associate director of the Michael began his association with Berkeley a co-founder of the William Saroyan Program Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Rep as the stage management intern for the in Armenian Studies at Cal. Roger also leads (msri) in Berkeley and has been involved in 1984–85 season and is now in his 23rd year the Mosse Art Restitution Project, which producing museum shows about mathematics as production stage manager. Some of his searches for family art illegally confiscated in the United States, France, and China. Joan favorite shows include 36 Views, Endgame, during Germany’s Third Reich. His wife, Julie is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in Eurydice, Hydriotaphia, and Mad Forest. He has A. Kulhanjian, is an attending physician at private practice in Berkeley. also worked with the Barbican in London, the Oakland Children’s Hospital. They have three Huntington Theatre Company, the Juste Pour college-age children. Rire Festival in Montreal, La Jolla Playhouse, Pittsburgh Public Theater, the Public Theater

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WR_program.indd 28 11/9/17 2:06 PM WR_program.indd 29 11/9/17 2:06 PM profiles The Bernard Osher Foundation BERKELEY REP PRESENTS LEAD SPONSOR music dance theater The Bernard Osher Foundation, supporting 2017/18 higher education and the arts, was founded in Cal Perform ances SEASON NUTURE Love Story), Monsoon Wedding, and Aubergine. and Second Stage Theater in New York, and 1977 by Bernard Osher, a respected business- UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Previously, he served as production manager Yale Repertory Theatre. For the Magic The- man and community leader. The Foundation at the Public Theater, where favorite works in- atre, he stage managed Albert Takazauckas’ provides scholarship funding at colleges and clude Here Lies Love, Father Comes Home from Breaking the Code and Sam Shepard’s The Late universities across the nation, with a recent the War Parts 1–3, Mobile Shakespeare, and Henry Moss. emphasis on assisting reentry students. In ad- The Hard Nut YOUR The Tempest as well as musical collaborations dition, the Foundation supports a national net- with Sting, the Roots, and the Eagles. Peter Jack & Betty Schafer work of lifelong learning institutes for seasoned Mark Morris Dance Group also helped Alex Timbers develop Rocky the SEASON SPONSORS adults on the campuses of 120 institutions of Musical, The Last Goodbye, and the cult classic Betty and Jack are proud to support Berkeley higher education. The Foundation also benefits Music by Tchaikovsky (The Nutcracker); Choreography by Mark Morris Dance Dance Revolution the Musical. Other Rep. Jack just rotated off the Theatre’s board programs in integrative medicine at Harvard Colin Fowler, conductor; Members of the Berkeley Symphony CREATIVE Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir, Ensemble; Robert Geary, founding artistic director favorites include working with Edward Albee and is now on the boards of San Francisco University, Northwestern University, ucsf, the to remount The Sandbox and The American Opera and the Straus Historical Society. He is University of Miami, and Vanderbilt University Dream at their original home at the Cherry an emeritus trustee of the San Francisco Art in the United States as well as at the Karolinska First Bay Area Performances in 5 years! Lane Theatre, working on Little Flower of East Institute and the Oxbow School. Betty is on Institute in Sweden. Finally, an array of perform- SPIRIT Orange directed by the late Philip Seymour the board of EarthJustice, the Jewish Commu- ing arts organizations, museums, and select Hoffman, and being a part of the development nity Center of San Francisco, and Sponsors of educational programs in the San Francisco Bay team for The Ride, an interactive four-mile Educational Opportunity. In San Francisco, Area and the State of Maine receive Foundation Winter classes traveling performance in the heart of Times she is engaged in the launch of Wise Aging, a grants. Barbro Osher, Honorary Consul General Square. Regionally Peter has worked with program for adults addressing the challenges of Sweden in California, chairs the Foundation’s “A boldly perfected start January 8 the Huntington Theatre Company, American of growing older. They have three daughters Board of Directors. masterpiece.” Repertory Theater, Commonwealth Shake- and eight grandchildren. speare, Trinity Rep, Hasty Pudding Theatricals, Susan Chamberlin —Theaterweek berkeleyrep.org/classes Colorado Ballet, Central City Opera, and the Michael & Sue Steinberg EXECUTIVE SPONSOR Denver Center Theatre Company. Peter is a SEASON SPONSORS Susan is a retired architect and project manag- 510 647-2972 graduate of Otterbein University. Michael and Sue have been interested in the er. Currently she, along with her husband Steve, “Waves of happy arts since they met and enjoy music, ballet, directs the work of their family foundation. laughter greet The Madeleine Oldham and live theatre. Michael, who recently retired She also serves on the board of the Oakland RESIDENT DRAMATURG/ Hard Nut from curtain- as chairman and chief executive officer of Museum of California and is the chair of the UC up to curtain-down.” DIRECTOR, THE GROUND FLOOR Macy’s West, served on Berkeley Rep’s board Berkeley Foundation board of trustees. Madeleine is the director of The Ground Floor: of trustees from 1999 to 2006 and currently —The New York Times Berkeley Rep’s Center for the Creation and serves on the board of directors of the Jewish John Dains Development of New Work and the Theatre’s Museum. Sue serves on the board of the EXECUTIVE SPONSOR resident dramaturg. She oversees commission- World of Children. The Steinbergs have always John and his late wife Stephanie have enjoyed ing and new play development, and drama- enjoyed regional theatre and are delighted to Berkeley Rep since moving to the Bay Area in turged the world premiere productions of sponsor Berkeley Rep this season. 1987. Stephanie was a registered art therapist Aubergine, The House that will not Stand, Passing and retired in 2004 from the California School Strange, and In the Next Room (or the vibrator The Strauch Kulhanjian Family for the Blind where she ran the art program. play), among others. As literary manager and as- SEASON SPONSOR She was the board chair of Art4Moore, which sociate dramaturg at Center Stage in Baltimore, Roger Strauch is a former president of Berke- she started in memory of her mother. Art- she produced the First Look reading series and ley Rep’s board of trustees and is currently 4Moore gives grants to provide art supplies “You’ve never seen a headed up its young audience initiative. Before vice president of the board. He is chairman of and resources to schools and programs for Nutcracker quite like moving to Baltimore, she was the literary man- The Roda Group (rodagroup.com), a venture- teachers, students of all ages, the elderly, this before.” ager at Seattle Children’s Theatre, where she development company based in Berkeley. The and the disabled. John is the ceo Emeritus of —The Huffington Post oversaw an extensive commissioning program. Roda Group is a lead investor in new battery, Helm Financial Corporation, which is now a She also acted as assistant and interim literary carbon capture, and water remediation part of Wells Fargo. He served on the board manager at Intiman Theatre in Seattle. Mad- technology companies based in Silicon Valley of Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito eleine served for four years on the executive and Vancouver, Canada. Roger is chairman and Gateway High School, a charter school in Dec 15–24 committee of Literary Managers and Drama- of the board of directors of Cool Systems, San Francisco, and is on the board of trustees ZELLERBACH HALL turgs of the Americas and has also worked with the manufacturer of Game Ready, a medical at Washington University in St. Louis where he act (Seattle), Austin Scriptworks, Crowded Fire, physical therapy system. He is also chairman and Stephanie both graduated from college. the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, the Kenne- of the board of trustees for the Mathematical dy Center, New Dramatists, Playwrights Center, Sciences Research Institute. He is a member David Hoffman & Joan Sarnat and Portland Center Stage. of the uc Berkeley Engineering Dean’s college SPONSORS advisory board; a member of the board of David is a consulting research professor of Michael Suenkel Northside Center, a mental-health services mathematics at Stanford and a Berkeley Rep PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER agency based in Harlem, New York City; and trustee. He was an associate director of the Michael began his association with Berkeley a co-founder of the William Saroyan Program Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Rep as the stage management intern for the in Armenian Studies at Cal. Roger also leads (msri) in Berkeley and has been involved in 1984–85 season and is now in his 23rd year the Mosse Art Restitution Project, which producing museum shows about mathematics as production stage manager. Some of his searches for family art illegally confiscated in the United States, France, and China. Joan favorite shows include 36 Views, Endgame, during Germany’s Third Reich. His wife, Julie is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in Eurydice, Hydriotaphia, and Mad Forest. He has A. Kulhanjian, is an attending physician at private practice in Berkeley. also worked with the Barbican in London, the Oakland Children’s Hospital. They have three Season Huntington Theatre Company, the Juste Pour college-age children. Sponsor: Rire Festival in Montreal, La Jolla Playhouse, calperformances.org Pittsburgh Public Theater, the Public Theater

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Pam & Mitch Nichter SPONSORS Pam and Mitch recently retired from their longtime careers as partners at Osterweis Capital Management, a San Francisco investment manager, and Paul Hastings, a global law firm, respectively. They recently moved to their home in San Luis Obispo County where they keep busy enjoying the beauty that life offers by gardening, hiking, traveling, and, of Think deeper. Laugh louder. course, wine tasting. Pam serves on the board of trustees at Berkeley Rep and is chair of its Investment Committee. Pam and Mitch have been enthusiastic supporters of Berkeley Rep 2017/2018 SEASON for years and are thrilled to help sponsor this production of Watch on the Rhine. BART SEASON SPONSOR Bay Area Rapid Transit (bart) is the backbone of the Bay Area transit network and serves more than 100 million passengers annually. bart’s all-electric trains make it one of the greenest and most energy-efficient transit systems in the world. Visit bart.gov/bartable to learn more about great destinations and events that are easy to get to on bart (like Berkeley Rep!). At bart.gov/bartable, you can find discounts, enter sweepstakes offering fantastic prizes, and find unique and exciting things to do just a bart ride away. While you’re there, be sure to sign up for bartable This Week, a free, weekly email filled with the latest and greatest bartable fun! WIDOWERS’ A NUMBER EUREKA DAY DRY POWDER Peet’s Coffee HOUSES By Caryl Churchill By Jonathan Spector By Sarah Burgess SEASON SPONSOR By George Bernard Shaw Directed by Barbara Damashek Directed by Josh Costello Directed by Jennifer King Peet’s Coffee is proud to be the exclusive cof- Directed by Joy Carlin MAR/APR 2018 APR/MAY 2018 JUN/JUL 2018 fee of Berkeley Repertory Theatre and salutes JAN/FEB 2018 WORLD PREMIERE BAY AREA PREMIERE Berkeley Rep for its dedication to the highest artistic standards and diverse programming. TICKETS ON SALE NOW! | SUBSRIPTIONS START AT $99 Peet’s is honored to support Berkeley Rep’s 2081 Addison, Downtown Berkeley | 510.843.4822 | auroratheatre.org renovation with the new, state-of-the-art Peet’s Theatre. In 1966, Alfred Peet opened his first store on Vine and Walnut in Berkeley and Peet’s has been committed to the Berkeley community ever since. As the pioneer of the craft coffee movement in America, Peet’s is dedicated to small-batch roasting, superior quality beans, freshness and a darker roasting style that produces a rich, flavorful cup. Peet’s is locally roasted in the first leed® Gold certified roaster in the nation. Reach Your Highest Business Potential Wells Fargo SEASON SPONSOR • Make getting reviews a breeze Wells Fargo is proud to support the • Show up higher in search results award-winning Berkeley Repertory Theatre as • Appear in “near me” searches a season sponsor for the last 12 years because of its dedication to artistic excellence and community engagement. Founded in 1852 and www.real.review headquartered in San Francisco, Wells Fargo

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Pam & Mitch Nichter ADDITIONAL STAFF SPONSORS Deck crew THE GROUNDBREAKING Pam and Mitch recently retired from their Bradley Hopper longtime careers as partners at Osterweis Kourtney Snow EPIC COMES HOME Capital Management, a San Francisco invest- Dialect coach ment manager, and Paul Hastings, a global TO THE BAY Jessica Berman law firm, respectively. They recently moved to their home in San Luis Obispo County where Fight consultant they keep busy enjoying the beauty that life Dave Maier offers by gardening, hiking, traveling, and, of Production assistant Think deeper. Laugh louder. course, wine tasting. Pam serves on the board James McGregor of trustees at Berkeley Rep and is chair of its Investment Committee. Pam and Mitch have Props been enthusiastic supporters of Berkeley Rep Lisa Fong 2017/2018 SEASON for years and are thrilled to help sponsor this Noah Kramer production of Watch on the Rhine. Dara Ly Baz Wenger BART Scene shop SEASON SPONSOR Jennifer Costley Bay Area Rapid Transit (bart) is the backbone of Erica Engel the Bay Area transit network and serves more Will Gering than 100 million passengers annually. bart’s Chance Grable all-electric trains make it one of the greenest Carl Martin and most energy-efficient transit systems in Sean Miller the world. Visit bart.gov/bartable to learn more Scenic artist about great destinations and events that are Lassen Hines easy to get to on bart (like Berkeley Rep!). At bart.gov/bartable, you can find discounts, enter Stage carpenter sweepstakes offering fantastic prizes, and find Kourtney Snow BY unique and exciting things to do just a bart ride Studio teacher away. While you’re there, be sure to sign up for Victoria Northridge bartable This Week, a free, weekly email filled Wardrobe TONY KUSHNER with the latest and greatest bartable fun! Claire Griffith DIRECTED BY WIDOWERS’ A NUMBER EUREKA DAY DRY POWDER Peet’s Coffee Kennedy Warner HOUSES By Caryl Churchill By Jonathan Spector By Sarah Burgess SEASON SPONSOR Medical consultation for Berkeley By George Bernard Shaw Directed by Barbara Damashek Directed by Josh Costello Directed by Jennifer King Peet’s Coffee is proud to be the exclusive cof- Rep provided by Cindy J. Chang, MD, TONY TACCONE Directed by Joy Carlin MAR/APR 2018 APR/MAY 2018 JUN/JUL 2018 fee of Berkeley Repertory Theatre and salutes ucsf Clinical Professor, and Steven JAN/FEB 2018 WORLD PREMIERE BAY AREA PREMIERE Berkeley Rep for its dedication to the highest Fugaro, MD. STARTS APR 17 artistic standards and diverse programming. TICKETS ON SALE NOW! | SUBSRIPTIONS START AT $99 Peet’s is honored to support Berkeley Rep’s 2081 Addison, Downtown Berkeley | 510.843.4822 | auroratheatre.org renovation with the new, state-of-the-art Peet’s Theatre. In 1966, Alfred Peet opened his first store on Vine and Walnut in Berkeley and Peet’s has been committed to the Berkeley Experience Tony Kushner’s masterpiece community ever since. As the pioneer of the craft coffee movement in America, Peet’s is anew and share it with a new generation of dedicated to small-batch roasting, superior theatregoers—additional tickets and gift quality beans, freshness and a darker roasting style that produces a rich, flavorful cup. Peet’s certificates available now! is locally roasted in the first leed® Gold certified roaster in the nation. Wells Fargo Purchase online at berkeleyrep.org SEASON SPONSOR or call 510 647-2949, Tue–Sun, noon–7pm. Wells Fargo is proud to support the award-winning Berkeley Repertory Theatre as SEASON SPONSORS a season sponsor for the last 12 years because of its dedication to artistic excellence and community engagement. Founded in 1852 and headquartered in San Francisco, Wells Fargo

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SHEN YUN’S unique artistic vision expands theatrical experience into a multi-dimensional, inspiring journey through one of humanity’s greatest treasures— the ﬁve millennia of traditional Chinese culture.

Prepare for an experience that will take your breath away.

“Breathtaking!” —Curtain Up

“Marvelous dance... Absolutely perfect music.” —Brooklyn View

“This is the highest and the best of what humans can produce.” —Olevia Brown-Klahn, singer and musician

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ShenYun.com/CA Jan 12–14 BERKELEY Zellerbach Hall 888.633.6999 ALL- N E W 2018 PROGRAM Dec 26, 2017 – Jan 10, 2018 San Francisco | San Jose | Sacramento | Fresno ACCOMPANIED BY LIVE ORCHESTRA

EAP full-page template.indd 1 10/13/17 12:40 PM We thank the many institutional partners who enrich our community by championing Berkeley Rep’s artistic and community outreach programs. BERKELEY REP We gratefully recognize these donors to Berkeley Rep’s Annual Fund, THANKS who made their gifts between September 2016 and October 2017. Institutional Partners

LEGEND Ground Floor donor

GIFTS OF $100,000 AND ABOVE GIFTS OF $25,000–49,999 GIFTS OF $5,000–9,999 The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation Anonymous Anonymous The Shubert Foundation BayTree Fund Distracted Globe Foundation The Ira and Leonore S. Gershwin Philanthropic Fund Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation GIFTS OF $50,000–99,999 Wallis Foundation Ramsay Family Foundation Edgerton Foundation Walter & Elise Haas Fund The Reva and David Logan Foundation Woodlawn Foundation GIFTS OF $1,000–4,999 National Endowment for the Arts Joyce & William Brantman Foundation The Bernard Osher Foundation GIFTS OF $10,000–24,999 Butte Creek Foundation The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust Berkeley Civic Arts Program Civic Foundation Time Warner Foundation, Inc. James Irvine Foundation Tournesol Project jec Foundation Karl & Alice Ruppenthal Foundation for the Arts San Francisco Foundation Frank Sinatra Foundation twanda Foundation

CORPORATE SPONSORS

SEASON SPONSORS SPONSORS BUSINESS MEMBERS Mechanics Bank Wealth Management Aspiriant Wealth Management The Morrison & Foerster Foundation BluesCruise.com Cooperative Center Federal Credit Union CORPORATE PARTNERS Field Paoli Architects, in memory of Armanino llp John & Carol Field Deloitte Perforce Foundation Faber Daeufer & Itrato PC tmg Partners, in memory of John & Carol Field McCutcheon Construction EXECUTIVE SPONSORS Panoramic Interests ADVOCATES American Express Schoenberg Family Law Group Peacock Construction PERFORMANCE SPONSORS Bayer Boston Properties, in memory of John & Carol Field Gallagher Risk Management Services Macy’s

Is your company a corporate sponsor? Berkeley Rep’s Corporate Partnership program offers excellent opportunities to network, entertain clients, reward employees, increase visibility, and support the arts and arts education in the community. For details visit berkeleyrep.org/support or call Daria Hepps at 510 647-2904.

IN-KIND SPONSORS EXECUTIVE SPONSORS

MATCHING GIFTS The following companies have matched their employees’ contributions to Berkeley Rep. Please contact your company’s HR office to find out if your SPONSORS Aurora Catering La Note company matches gifts. Hafner Vineyard Autumn Press Lucia’s of Berkeley Accenture · Adobe Systems Inc. · Apple · Applied Latham & Watkins llp Bare Snacks Maker’s Common Materials · Autodesk Inc. · Bank of America · Chevron Mayer Brown llp Bobby G’s Pizzeria Picante Corporation · Clorox · Dolby · Electronic Arts Ramsay Winery Brown Sugar Kitchen PiQ Outreach · Farallon Capital Mangement · Fremont Robert Meyer’s Mangia/Nosh Comal Platano Salvadoran Cuisine Group Foundation · Gap Foundation · Genentech · Catering Company Corison Winery Revival Bar + Kitchen Google · ibm Corporation · Intel Corporation · John & Semifreddi’s Donkey & Goat Winery Suya African Carribbean Grill Maria Goldman Foundation · Johnson & Johnson · Whole Foods Market East Bay Spice Company Sweet Adeline Bakeshop Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory · Levi Viks Chaat & Market Eureka! Tigerlily Strauss & Co. · Microsoft · Morrison & Foerster · five Triple Rock Brewery norcal Mutual Insurance Company · Oracle PARTNERS Gather Restaurant Venus Corporation · Pixar Animation Studios · Salesforce · act Catering gio’s Pizza & Bocce Zut! Tavern on 4th St. Shell Oil · Sidley Austin llp, San Francisco · Union Almare Gelato Hugh Groman Catering Bank, The Private Bank · Varian Medical System · Angeline’s Louisiana Kitchen Jazzcaffè Hotel Shattuck Plaza is the visa u.s.a., Inc. · Workday Au Coquelet La Méditerranée official hotel of Berkeley Rep.

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WR_program.indd 33 11/9/17 2:06 PM We thank the many individuals in our community who help Berkeley Rep produce BERKELEY REP adventurous, thought-provoking, and thrilling theatre and bring arts education to thousands BERKELEY REP THANKS THANKS of young people every year. We gratefully recognize these donors to Berkeley Rep’s Annual Donors to the Annual Fund Donors to the Annual Fund Fund, who made their gifts between September 2016 and October 2017. To make your gift and join this distinguished group, visit berkeleyrep.org/give or call 510 647-2906. CHAMPIONS Helen Richardson · Galen Rosenberg & Fisher · Michael & Vicky Flora · Jacques Fortier · Steve & Jaxon · Ronald Morrison · James & Anonymous (5) · Fred & Kathleen Allen · Denise Barnett · Martha Ross · Deborah Christie Fraser · David Gaskin & Phillip Katherine Moule · Aki & Emi Nakao · Ron Elisabeth Andreason & Melissa Allen · Marcia Dashow Ruth, in memory of Leo P. Ruth · McPherson · Karl & Kathleen Geier · Tim Nakayama · Judy Ogle · Suzette S. Olson · Nancy & George Argyris · Ross E. Armstrong · Jolie Dace P. Rutland · Laurel Scheinman · Teddy & Geoghegan · Arlene Getz · Judith & Alex Glass · Park · Todd Parr · Brian D. Parsons · P. David Baumgardner · Susan Benzinger, in memory Bruce Schwab · Andrew & Marva Seidl · Seiger Gwendolyn Goldsby, in memory of Angela Pearson & Barbara Schonborn · Bob & Toni of Zan Gray Bealmear · Steve Bischoff · Family Foundation · Valerie Sopher · Douglas Paton · Barry & Erica Goode · Gail Gordon & Peckham, in honor of Robert M. Peckham, Jr. · SPONSOR CIRCLE Robert Bransten, in memory of John & Carol Sovern & Sara Newmann · John St. Dennis & Jack Joseph · Jane Gottesman & Geoffrey James & Susan Penrod, in honor of Dale & Don Field · Davis Carniglia & Mary-Claire Baker · Roy Anati · Monroe W. Strickberger · Pate & Biddle · Gene Gottfried · Linda Graham · Marshall · Lewis Perry · James F. Pine · F. SEASON SPONSORS Marjorie Randolph Leonard X & Arlene B. Rosenberg Tracy & Mark Ferron Paula Carrell · Anthony J. Cascardi · Sumir Judy Thomson · Larry Vales · William van Dyk Sheldon & Judy Greene · Don & Becky Grether · Anthony Placzek · Charles Pollack & Joanna Jack & Betty Schafer Rummi & Arun Sarin kbe Sheli & Burt Rosenberg, in honor of Hitz Foundation Chadha · Ed & Lisa Chilton · Patty & Geoff & Margi Sullivan · Jennifer M. Van Natta · Frede S. Hammes · Ken & Karen Harley · Paula Cooper · Susie & Eric Poncelet · Roxann R. Michael & Sue Steinberg Jean & Michael Strunsky Len & Arlene Rosenberg Christopher Hudson & Chin · Terin Christensen · Richard & Linnea Pamela Gay Walker/Ghost Ranch Hawthorn & Michael Ubell · Geoffrey & Shawn Preston · Rich Price · Laurel & Gerald Przybylski · The Strauch Kulhanjian Family Guy Tiphane Joe Ruck & Donna Ito Cindy J. Chang, MD K Christiani · John & Izzie Crane · Pam & Mike Productions · William R. Weir · Susan & Haynes · Dixie Hersh · Fran Hildebrand · George Sheldon & Catherine Ramsay · Teresa L. Crane · Meredith Daane · Harry & Susan Harvey Wittenberg & Leslie Hume · Alex Ingersoll & Martin Remillard · Paul & Margaret Robbins · Rick & Tomlinson Family Patricia Sakai & Richard Shapiro Ms. Wendy E. Jordan Dennis · David Deutscher · Burton Peek Tannenbaum · Stephen & Helene Jaffe · Anne & Stephanie Rogers · Dorothy R. Saxe · Bob & LEAD SPONSORS Gail & Arne Wagner Joan Sarnat & David Hoffman Rosalind & Sung-Hou Kim Edwards · Paul Feigenbaum & Judy Kemeny · ADVOCATES Douglas Jensen · Ann L. Johnson · Claudia & Gloria Schiller · Dr. David Schulz · Marc & Jane Edward D. Baker Liliane & Ed Schneider Ted & Carole Krumland Martin & Barbara Fishman · Frannie Anonymous (18) · Robert & Evelyn Apte · Emily Daly Jordan-Koch · Kaarel Kaljot · Helmut H. Seleznow · Steve & Susan Shortell · Joshua & Yogen & Peggy Dalal SPONSORS Nick & Laura Severino Dixon Long Fleishhacker · Samuel Fogleman, in memory Arnold · Steven & Barbara Aumer-Vail · Celia Kapczynski & Colleen Neff · Pat Kelly & Jennifer Ruth Simon · William & Martha Slavin · Carra Bruce Golden & Michelle Mercer Anonymous (2) Felicia Woytak & Steven Rasmussen Peter & Melanie Maier of Zan Gray Bealmear · Mary & Stan Bakke · Stephanie Beach · Richard & Kathy Doebler · Kimberly J. Kenley-Salarpi · Beth & Tim Sleight · Suzanne Slyman · Jerry & Dick Friedman · Don & Janie Friend, in honor of Bill Berman · The Blackman Family · Karen Bowen & Kientzle · Jack & Birthe Kirsch · Deborah & David Smallwood · Sigrid Snider · Louis & Bonnie Frances Hellman & Warren Breslau Maria Cardamone & Paul Matthews Martin & Margaret Zankel Helen M. Marcus & Candy Falik · Ann Harriman, in memory of Beth Gerstein, in honor of Donald Trump · Kirshman, in memory of John & Carol Field · Spiesberger · Robert & Naomi Stamper · Wayne Jordan & Quinn Delaney David & Vicki Cox Dale & Don Marshall Malcolm White · Dan & Shawna Hartman Marilyn Bray · Peter Brock · Craig Broscow · John Beverly Phillips Kivel · Jeff Klingman & Deborah Herbert Steierman · Annie Stenzel · Carol Jonathan Logan Thalia Dorwick ASSOCIATE SPONSORS Martin & Janis McNair Brotsky · Rick Hoskins & Lynne Frame · Mr. & H. Buckman · Dr. Alan Burckin & Carol Olmert · Sedberry · David & Joan Komaromi · Kenneth Sundell · Tracy Thompson · Prof. Jeremy Thorner Jane Marvin/Peet’s Coffee Robin & Rich Edwards Anonymous (2) Steven & Patrece Mills M Mrs. Harold M. Isbell · Randall Johnson · Paula Campbell · Robert & Margaret Cant · Kulander · Wayne Lamprey & Dena & Dr. Carol Mimura · Karen Tiedemann & Geoff Norman & Janet Pease Corrina Jones · Dennis Kaump · Janet Bruce Carlton · John Carr · Laura Chenel · Karen Watson-Lamprey · Robert Lane & Tom Cantrell · Piller · Henry Timnick · Amy Tobin & Scott Stewart & Rachelle Owen Cynthia A. Farner Shelley & Jonathan Bagg Kornegay & Dan Sykes · Craig Labadie · Clayton & Stephen Clayton · Jim & Jeanette Jane & Mike Larkin · David & Mari Lee · Ray Jacobson · Lynn Tolin, in memory of John & Mary Ruth Quinn & Scott Shenker David & Vicki Fleishhacker Edith Barschi Peter Pervere & Georgia Cassel Susilpa Lakireddy · Barbara & Thomas Cottle · Jane & Tom Coulter · Carolyn & Phil Lifchez · Julianne Lindemann & Michael Carol Field · Mike & Ellen Turbow · Dean Ujihara · Paul Friedman & Diane Manley Neil & Gene Barth Barbara L. Peterson Lasinski · Glennis Lees & Michael Glazeski · Cowan · Michael & Denise Coyne · Ed Cullen & Weinberger · Jennifer S. Lindsay · Deidre & Sharon Ulrich & Marlowe Ng · Mr. Leon Van EXECUTIVE SPONSORS Jill & Steve Fugaro Valerie Barth Sue Reinhold & Deborah Newbrun Marcia C. Linn · Sidne S. Long · Jay & Eileen Ann O’Connor · Sheila Cullen · Sharon & Ed Loren Lingenfelter, in memory of Zan Bealmear · Steen · Carol Verity · Gerald & Ruth Vurek · Anonymous Karen Galatz & Jon Wellinghoff The Battle Family Foundation Gary & Noni Robinson Love · Jane Marvin/Peet’s Coffee · John E. Cushman · Jill & Evan Custer · Brett D’Ambrosio · Dottie Lofstrom · Jacqui & Terry Long · Loveable Louise & Larry Walker · Rhona & Harvey Matthews · Erin McCune · Karen & John Kathleen Damron · Joshua Dapice · Pat & Steve Feast, in memory of Zan Bealmear · Jane & Bob Weinstein · Robert & Sheila Weisblatt · Sallie Barbara Bakar Paul Haahr & Susan Karp Ben Brown & Louise Rankin Cynthia & William Schaff McGuinn · Ruth Medak · Harry Mixon Esq · Davis · ddl Productions, in memory of Zan Lurie · Gerry & Kathy MacClelland · Bruce Weissinger · Dr. Ben & Mrs. Carolyn Werner · Michelle Branch & Dale Cook Scott & Sherry Haber Lynne Carmichael Emily Shanks M Geri Monheimer, in honor of Sharon Kinkade · Bealmear · Dennis T. De Domenico & Sandra Maigatter & Pamela Partlow · Paul Mariano · Elizabeth Werter & Henry Trevor · Robert T. Susan Chamberlin Jerry & Julie Kline Julie & Darren Cooke Pat & Merrill Shanks Brian & Britt-Marie Morris · Patricia Motzkin Brod · Jacqueline Desoer · Jerome & Thao Sue & Phil Marineau · Igor Maslennikov · Weston · Sharon & Kenneth Wilson · Fred John Dains Jack Klingelhofer Robert Council & Ann Parks-Council Shirlen Fund & Richard Feldman · Daniel Murphy ·Christina Dodson · Carol Dolezal · Amar & Manali Doshi · Caroline McCall & Eric Martin · Marie Singer Winslow & Barbara Baratta · Laura & Ernest Suzanne LaFetra Paul Daniels, in honor of Ed & Ellen Smith & Geoffrey Norman, in memory of John & Kathy Down & Greg Kelly · Kristen Driskell · McEnnis · Daniel & Beverlee McFadden · John G. Winslow · H. Leabah Winter · Dorothy Witt · Bill Falik & Diana Cohen Carol Field · Pier & Barbara Oddone · Carol J. David Drubin · Anita C. Eblé · Thomas W. McGehee · Brian McRee · George & Jeri Medak, Margaret Wu & Ciara Cox · Bob & Judi Yeager · Kerry Francis & John Jimerson Sandra & Ross McCandless Peter Yonka Karen Stevenson & Bill McClave Ormond · Lynette Pang & Michael Man · Edwards & Rebecca Parlette-Edwards · Jessica & in memory of Alexandra Victoria Gray- Lee Yearley & Sally Gressens · Sandra Yuen & Lata Krishnan & Ajay Shah Dugan Moore William Espey & Margaret Hart Lisa & Jim Taylor Regina Phelps · Malcolm & Ann Plant · Gary & Michael Eisler, in memory of John & Carol Field · Bealmear · Joanne Medak, in honor of Susan Lawrence Shore Monica Lopez & Sameer Gandhi Pam & Mitch Nichter Edwards Wendy Williams Jean Pokorny · David & Mary Ramos · Kent Roger & Jane Emanuel · Alan Entine · Gini Erck & Medak · Ralph & Melinda Mendelson · Aliza & Linda & Steven Wolan Rasmussen & Celia Ramsay · Reuben, Junius & David Petta · Michael Evanhoe · Mary & Ben Peter Metzner · Marlene & Stephen Miller · Jeff Rose, llp, in memory of John & Carol Field · Feinberg · Sheilah & Harry Fish · Brigitte & Louis Miner · The Morris Family: Susan, Kathy, Karen,

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE PARTNERS Rezwan & Azarmeen Pavri Broitman-Basri Family Paula Hughmanick & David & Bobbie Pratt We gratefully recognize CONTRIBUTORS Andy Kivel & Susan Goldstein · Debie Krueger, Ralph Holker & Carol Hochberg-Holker · Anonymous (5) Kermit & Janet Perlmutter Don & Carol Anne Brown Steven Berger Linda Protiva Anonymous (5) · Evalyn Baron & Peter Yonka · in memory of Alex Maffei · David Landreth · Karen Houston · Joanne Jacobs · Margaret Tarang & Hirni Amin Timothy Rempel K Don Campbell and Family M Polly & Greg Ikonen Lawrence Prozan the following members Kate Berenson, in memory of Ann and Jim Amelia Langston, in memory of R. Geist · Johnson · Debra Kagawa · Phillip Kehe · Michelle L. Barbour Gregg Richardson & Lee Mingwei K Leslie Chatham & Kathie Weston Roxanna Jackman, in honor of Mary Bill Reuter & Ruth Major Carroll · Pat & Mary Boyle · Kate & Monroe Susan Li · Mike & Linda Madden · Natasha Laurel Kellner · Judith Linsenberg, in Stephen Belford & Bobby Minkler David S. H. Rosenthal & James Cuthbertson & Norman Jackman Maxine Risley, in memory of of the Annual Fund whose Bridges · Denys Carrillo · W. Bradford Carson · Martin · Ellen Meltzer · Selma Meyerowitz and memory of Myrna Linsenberg · Laurence Cynthia & David Bogolub Vicky Reich Barbara & Tim Daniels M Bill & Lisa Kelly James Risley Nancy Drooker · Linda Fried & Jim Helman · Malcolm Trifon K · Bruce A. Miller · Penelope Lusvardi · Marlene Michelson · Jane B. Ronnie Caplane Jaimie Sanford & Ted Storey Richard & Anita Davis Duke & Daisy Kiehn John & Jody Roberts contributions were Daniel Friedland & Azlynda Alim · Karen S. More · Russell Nelson · Robin Olivier · Peter Moore · Wesley Morgan · Mitchell Nakano · Jennifer Chaiken & Sam Hamilton Beth & David Sawi Ilana DeBare & Sam Schuchat Stephen F. Kispersky Deborah Romer & William Tucker Harrington · Marisita & Tu Jarvis · Trudy & Rolf Peacock · Irene Plunkett Chowenhill · Marcia & Denise Nolan · Sarah Nowicki · Victoria Betsey & Ken Cheitlin Jackie Schmidt-Posner & Francine & Beppe Di Palma Jean Knox Boyard & Anne Rowe received from August 26, Lesem · Sukey Lilienthal & David Roe · Robert Popper · Lael R. Rubin · Marci Rubin · Pedersen · Therese M. Pipe · Alison Barbara & Rodgin Cohen Barry Posner Corinne & Mike Doyle Lynn Eve Komaromi, in honor of Enid & Alan Rubin Annette C. Lipkin, in memory of Paul Lipkin · William & Lee Rust · Ruth & Paul Saxton · Karl Quoyeser · Rudolph Reich · Tammy Constance Crawford Joyce & Jim Schnobrich Linda Drucker the Berkeley Rep Staff Lisa Salomon & Scott Forrest 2017 to October 22, 2017: Cheryl & Laurence Lyons · Ken McCroskey Snover · Janet Sovin, in memory of Flora Renstrom · Alma & Merlin Richardson · Karen & David Crommie Linda & Nathan Schultz Susan English & Michael Kalkstein Michael Kossman Monica Salusky & Wait · Margo Ogus M · Tracie E. Rowson · Paul Roberts · The Stanek Family · Robin Voet & Kathleen Gutierrez & Tim Roake · Kathleen L. Lois M. De Domenico Neal Shorstein, MD & Bill & Susan Epstein John Kouns & Anne Baele Kouns John K. Sutherland & Patti Sax · Kay Stodd · Myron G. Sugarman · Carol Ellen · Mark & Judy Yudof Servello · Jennifer Sierras· Janey Skinner · Nancy & Jerry Falk Christopher Doane Merle & Michael Fajans Lucy Kuntz, in honor of Jeane & Roger Samuelsen SUPPORTERS Helen & Rick Walker Matthew Smyth · Joan Sperans, in honor of Nelson Goodman Stephen & Cindy Snow Lisa & Dave Finer The Cage Players Jackie & Paul Schaeffer Anonymous (2) · Patricia Berger, Charles PATRONS Steve Flint · Dr. and Mrs. David Surrenda · Pamela Mary & Nicholas Graves Audrey & Bob Sockolov Ann & Shawn Fischer Hecht Woof Kurtzman & Liz Hertz Brenda Buckhold Shank, M.D., Drucker, & Laura Drucker · Mary Boyvey · FRIENDS Anonymous (5) · Trudie Anderson · Thornton · Jacobus Wagener · Jackie Walter · Ms. Teresa Burns Gunther & Vickie Soulier Linda Jo Fitz Helen E. Land Ph.D. Alice Breakstone & Debbie Goldberg · Marc & Anonymous (6) · Anonymous, in memory of Margalynne Armstrong · Susan Ashley · Marlene & Jerry Walters · Joyce Yokomizo Dr. Andrew Gunther Deborah Taylor Barrera Patrick Flannery Randy Laroche & David Laudon Beryl & Ivor Silver Ellen Brown · Pamela & Christopher Cain · Jerrie Meadows · Bill & Marsha Adler · Jeff & Frederic D. Baker · Lynn Bell · William Richard & Lois Halliday Susan West James & Jessica Fleming Sherrill Lavagnino & Dave & Lori Simpson Michael & Denise Coyne · Sue J. Estey · Kat Bandy · Erica Baum · Thomas G. 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Floore, In memory of Leslie Thayer Edwards · Robert Enzminger · Vallery Bonnie & Tom Herman Sally Woolsey Chris R. Frostad M Henry Lerner, in honor of Joanne Alison Teeman & Sharon Morris · Mr. L. William Perttula · Karen O’Hara · Madeleine Frankel · Don Fujino · Feldman · Michael Finney · Kristina Galante · Richard N. Hill & Nancy Lundeen James Gala Levene Lerner Michael Yovino-Young & Jeff Richardson · Joe RudyM · Joshua & Ruth Anna Christine Harris · Kathleen Hormel · John Harriet Garfinkle · Alan Gellman & Arlene James C. Hormel & Michael P. BENEFACTORS Kevin & Noelle Gibbs Ellen & Barry Levine Susan Terris Simon · Liz Varnhagen Jay & Scott Miller · Kiyoshi & Irene Katsumoto · Zuckerberg · Cornelia Geppert · Abby Ginzberg · Nguyen, in honor of Rita Moreno Anonymous (4) Dennis & Susan Johann Gilardi Suzanne & William Lingo Sam Test Lynda & Dr. J. Pearce Hurley Roy & Judith Alper Marjorie Ginsburg & Vonnie Madigan Michael Tubach & Amrita Singhal Kathleen & Chris Jackson Peggy & Don Alter Howard Slyter Naomi & Bruce Mann Sushmita Vij Barbara E. Jones, in memory of Pat Angell, in memory of Daniel & Hilary B. Goldstine Lois & Gary Marcus Jonathan & Kiyo Weiss William E. Jones Gene Angell Robert & Judith Greber Sumner & Hermine Marshall Beth Weissman Seymour Kaufman & Martha & Bruce Atwater Anne & Peter Griffes Charlotte & Adolph Martinelli Wendy Willrich Kerstin Edgerton Naomi Auerbach & Ted Landau Garrett Gruener & Amy Slater Rebecca Martinez Charles Wolfram & Peter Wolfram Duke & Daisy Kiehn Nina Auerbach Migsy & Jim Hamasaki Jill Matichak Ron & Anita Wornick Wanda Kownacki Linda & Mike Baker Bob & Linda Harris Kirk McKusick & Eric Allman Sam & Joyce Zanze Louise Laufersweiler & Leslie & Jack Batson Ruth Hennigar Dan Miller Mark Zitter & Jessica Nutik Zitter Warren Sharp Don & Gerry Beers M Christina Herdell, in memory of Andy & June Monach Jane & Mark Zuercher Eileen & Hank Lewis David Beery & Norman Abramson Vaughn & Ardis Herdell Scott Montgomery & Marc Rand Elsie Mallonee Michael S. Berman, in memory of Doug & Leni Herst, in honor of Jerry Mosher Phyra McCandless & John & Carol Field Susie Medak Marvin & Neva Moskowitz Angelos Kottas Caroline Beverstock Howard Hertz & Jean Krois Judith & Richard Oken Miles & Mary Ellen McKey Naomi Black Elaine Hitchcock Sheldeen Osborne LEGEND Susan Medak & Greg Murphy Brian Bock and Susan Rosin Bill Hofmann & Robbie Welling M Judy O’Young, MD & Gregg Hauser K in-kind gift Toby Mickelson & Donald Brody Caroline Booth Don & Janice Holve, in memory of Gerane Wharton Park M matching gift Eddie & Amy Orton Bernard Boudreaux Daisy & Paul Persons Bob & MaryJane Pauley Janet & Clyde Ostler Linda Brandenburger The Hornthal Family Foundation, Mary Ann Peoples, in memory of We are pleased to recognize first-time donors to Berkeley Rep, whose names appear in italics. Sandi & Dick Pantages Eric Brink & Gayle Vassar M in honor of Susie Medak Lou Peoples

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WR_program.indd 34 11/9/17 2:06 PM WR_program.indd 35 11/9/17 2:06 PM We thank the many individuals in our community who help Berkeley Rep produce BERKELEY REP adventurous, thought-provoking, and thrilling theatre and bring arts education to thousands BERKELEY REP THANKS THANKS of young people every year. We gratefully recognize these donors to Berkeley Rep’s Annual Donors to the Annual Fund Donors to the Annual Fund Fund, who made their gifts between September 2016 and October 2017. To make your gift and join this distinguished group, visit berkeleyrep.org/give or call 510 647-2906. CHAMPIONS Helen Richardson · Galen Rosenberg & Fisher · Michael & Vicky Flora · Jacques Fortier · Steve & Jaxon · Ronald Morrison · James & Anonymous (5) · Fred & Kathleen Allen · Denise Barnett · Martha Ross · Deborah Christie Fraser · David Gaskin & Phillip Katherine Moule · Aki & Emi Nakao · Ron Elisabeth Andreason & Melissa Allen · Marcia Dashow Ruth, in memory of Leo P. Ruth · McPherson · Karl & Kathleen Geier · Tim Nakayama · Judy Ogle · Suzette S. Olson · Nancy & George Argyris · Ross E. Armstrong · Jolie Dace P. Rutland · Laurel Scheinman · Teddy & Geoghegan · Arlene Getz · Judith & Alex Glass · Park · Todd Parr · Brian D. Parsons · P. David Baumgardner · Susan Benzinger, in memory Bruce Schwab · Andrew & Marva Seidl · Seiger Gwendolyn Goldsby, in memory of Angela Pearson & Barbara Schonborn · Bob & Toni of Zan Gray Bealmear · Steve Bischoff · Family Foundation · Valerie Sopher · Douglas Paton · Barry & Erica Goode · Gail Gordon & Peckham, in honor of Robert M. Peckham, Jr. · SPONSOR CIRCLE Robert Bransten, in memory of John & Carol Sovern & Sara Newmann · John St. Dennis & Jack Joseph · Jane Gottesman & Geoffrey James & Susan Penrod, in honor of Dale & Don Field · Davis Carniglia & Mary-Claire Baker · Roy Anati · Monroe W. Strickberger · Pate & Biddle · Gene Gottfried · Linda Graham · Marshall · Lewis Perry · James F. Pine · F. SEASON SPONSORS Marjorie Randolph Leonard X & Arlene B. Rosenberg Tracy & Mark Ferron Paula Carrell · Anthony J. Cascardi · Sumir Judy Thomson · Larry Vales · William van Dyk Sheldon & Judy Greene · Don & Becky Grether · Anthony Placzek · Charles Pollack & Joanna Jack & Betty Schafer Rummi & Arun Sarin kbe Sheli & Burt Rosenberg, in honor of Hitz Foundation Chadha · Ed & Lisa Chilton · Patty & Geoff & Margi Sullivan · Jennifer M. Van Natta · Frede S. Hammes · Ken & Karen Harley · Paula Cooper · Susie & Eric Poncelet · Roxann R. Michael & Sue Steinberg Jean & Michael Strunsky Len & Arlene Rosenberg Christopher Hudson & Chin · Terin Christensen · Richard & Linnea Pamela Gay Walker/Ghost Ranch Hawthorn & Michael Ubell · Geoffrey & Shawn Preston · Rich Price · Laurel & Gerald Przybylski · The Strauch Kulhanjian Family Guy Tiphane Joe Ruck & Donna Ito Cindy J. Chang, MD K Christiani · John & Izzie Crane · Pam & Mike Productions · William R. Weir · Susan & Haynes · Dixie Hersh · Fran Hildebrand · George Sheldon & Catherine Ramsay · Teresa L. Crane · Meredith Daane · Harry & Susan Harvey Wittenberg & Leslie Hume · Alex Ingersoll & Martin Remillard · Paul & Margaret Robbins · Rick & Tomlinson Family Patricia Sakai & Richard Shapiro Ms. Wendy E. Jordan Dennis · David Deutscher · Burton Peek Tannenbaum · Stephen & Helene Jaffe · Anne & Stephanie Rogers · Dorothy R. Saxe · Bob & LEAD SPONSORS Gail & Arne Wagner Joan Sarnat & David Hoffman Rosalind & Sung-Hou Kim Edwards · Paul Feigenbaum & Judy Kemeny · ADVOCATES Douglas Jensen · Ann L. Johnson · Claudia & Gloria Schiller · Dr. David Schulz · Marc & Jane Edward D. Baker Liliane & Ed Schneider Ted & Carole Krumland Martin & Barbara Fishman · Frannie Anonymous (18) · Robert & Evelyn Apte · Emily Daly Jordan-Koch · Kaarel Kaljot · Helmut H. Seleznow · Steve & Susan Shortell · Joshua & Yogen & Peggy Dalal SPONSORS Nick & Laura Severino Dixon Long Fleishhacker · Samuel Fogleman, in memory Arnold · Steven & Barbara Aumer-Vail · Celia Kapczynski & Colleen Neff · Pat Kelly & Jennifer Ruth Simon · William & Martha Slavin · Carra Bruce Golden & Michelle Mercer Anonymous (2) Felicia Woytak & Steven Rasmussen Peter & Melanie Maier of Zan Gray Bealmear · Mary & Stan Bakke · Stephanie Beach · Richard & Kathy Doebler · Kimberly J. Kenley-Salarpi · Beth & Tim Sleight · Suzanne Slyman · Jerry & Dick Friedman · Don & Janie Friend, in honor of Bill Berman · The Blackman Family · Karen Bowen & Kientzle · Jack & Birthe Kirsch · Deborah & David Smallwood · Sigrid Snider · Louis & Bonnie Frances Hellman & Warren Breslau Maria Cardamone & Paul Matthews Martin & Margaret Zankel Helen M. Marcus & Candy Falik · Ann Harriman, in memory of Beth Gerstein, in honor of Donald Trump · Kirshman, in memory of John & Carol Field · Spiesberger · Robert & Naomi Stamper · Wayne Jordan & Quinn Delaney David & Vicki Cox Dale & Don Marshall Malcolm White · Dan & Shawna Hartman Marilyn Bray · Peter Brock · Craig Broscow · John Beverly Phillips Kivel · Jeff Klingman & Deborah Herbert Steierman · Annie Stenzel · Carol Jonathan Logan Thalia Dorwick ASSOCIATE SPONSORS Martin & Janis McNair Brotsky · Rick Hoskins & Lynne Frame · Mr. & H. Buckman · Dr. Alan Burckin & Carol Olmert · Sedberry · David & Joan Komaromi · Kenneth Sundell · Tracy Thompson · Prof. Jeremy Thorner Jane Marvin/Peet’s Coffee Robin & Rich Edwards Anonymous (2) Steven & Patrece Mills M Mrs. Harold M. Isbell · Randall Johnson · Paula Campbell · Robert & Margaret Cant · Kulander · Wayne Lamprey & Dena & Dr. Carol Mimura · Karen Tiedemann & Geoff Norman & Janet Pease Corrina Jones · Dennis Kaump · Janet Bruce Carlton · John Carr · Laura Chenel · Karen Watson-Lamprey · Robert Lane & Tom Cantrell · Piller · Henry Timnick · Amy Tobin & Scott Stewart & Rachelle Owen Cynthia A. Farner Shelley & Jonathan Bagg Kornegay & Dan Sykes · Craig Labadie · Clayton & Stephen Clayton · Jim & Jeanette Jane & Mike Larkin · David & Mari Lee · Ray Jacobson · Lynn Tolin, in memory of John & Mary Ruth Quinn & Scott Shenker David & Vicki Fleishhacker Edith Barschi Peter Pervere & Georgia Cassel Susilpa Lakireddy · Barbara & Thomas Cottle · Jane & Tom Coulter · Carolyn & Phil Lifchez · Julianne Lindemann & Michael Carol Field · Mike & Ellen Turbow · Dean Ujihara · Paul Friedman & Diane Manley Neil & Gene Barth Barbara L. Peterson Lasinski · Glennis Lees & Michael Glazeski · Cowan · Michael & Denise Coyne · Ed Cullen & Weinberger · Jennifer S. Lindsay · Deidre & Sharon Ulrich & Marlowe Ng · Mr. Leon Van EXECUTIVE SPONSORS Jill & Steve Fugaro Valerie Barth Sue Reinhold & Deborah Newbrun Marcia C. Linn · Sidne S. Long · Jay & Eileen Ann O’Connor · Sheila Cullen · Sharon & Ed Loren Lingenfelter, in memory of Zan Bealmear · Steen · Carol Verity · Gerald & Ruth Vurek · Anonymous Karen Galatz & Jon Wellinghoff The Battle Family Foundation Gary & Noni Robinson Love · Jane Marvin/Peet’s Coffee · John E. Cushman · Jill & Evan Custer · Brett D’Ambrosio · Dottie Lofstrom · Jacqui & Terry Long · Loveable Louise & Larry Walker · Rhona & Harvey Matthews · Erin McCune · Karen & John Kathleen Damron · Joshua Dapice · Pat & Steve Feast, in memory of Zan Bealmear · Jane & Bob Weinstein · Robert & Sheila Weisblatt · Sallie Barbara Bakar Paul Haahr & Susan Karp Ben Brown & Louise Rankin Cynthia & William Schaff McGuinn · Ruth Medak · Harry Mixon Esq · Davis · ddl Productions, in memory of Zan Lurie · Gerry & Kathy MacClelland · Bruce Weissinger · Dr. Ben & Mrs. Carolyn Werner · Michelle Branch & Dale Cook Scott & Sherry Haber Lynne Carmichael Emily Shanks M Geri Monheimer, in honor of Sharon Kinkade · Bealmear · Dennis T. De Domenico & Sandra Maigatter & Pamela Partlow · Paul Mariano · Elizabeth Werter & Henry Trevor · Robert T. Susan Chamberlin Jerry & Julie Kline Julie & Darren Cooke Pat & Merrill Shanks Brian & Britt-Marie Morris · Patricia Motzkin Brod · Jacqueline Desoer · Jerome & Thao Sue & Phil Marineau · Igor Maslennikov · Weston · Sharon & Kenneth Wilson · Fred John Dains Jack Klingelhofer Robert Council & Ann Parks-Council Shirlen Fund & Richard Feldman · Daniel Murphy ·Christina Dodson · Carol Dolezal · Amar & Manali Doshi · Caroline McCall & Eric Martin · Marie Singer Winslow & Barbara Baratta · Laura & Ernest Suzanne LaFetra Paul Daniels, in honor of Ed & Ellen Smith & Geoffrey Norman, in memory of John & Kathy Down & Greg Kelly · Kristen Driskell · McEnnis · Daniel & Beverlee McFadden · John G. Winslow · H. Leabah Winter · Dorothy Witt · Bill Falik & Diana Cohen Carol Field · Pier & Barbara Oddone · Carol J. David Drubin · Anita C. Eblé · Thomas W. McGehee · Brian McRee · George & Jeri Medak, Margaret Wu & Ciara Cox · Bob & Judi Yeager · Kerry Francis & John Jimerson Sandra & Ross McCandless Peter Yonka Karen Stevenson & Bill McClave Ormond · Lynette Pang & Michael Man · Edwards & Rebecca Parlette-Edwards · Jessica & in memory of Alexandra Victoria Gray- Lee Yearley & Sally Gressens · Sandra Yuen & Lata Krishnan & Ajay Shah Dugan Moore William Espey & Margaret Hart Lisa & Jim Taylor Regina Phelps · Malcolm & Ann Plant · Gary & Michael Eisler, in memory of John & Carol Field · Bealmear · Joanne Medak, in honor of Susan Lawrence Shore Monica Lopez & Sameer Gandhi Pam & Mitch Nichter Edwards Wendy Williams Jean Pokorny · David & Mary Ramos · Kent Roger & Jane Emanuel · Alan Entine · Gini Erck & Medak · Ralph & Melinda Mendelson · Aliza & Linda & Steven Wolan Rasmussen & Celia Ramsay · Reuben, Junius & David Petta · Michael Evanhoe · Mary & Ben Peter Metzner · Marlene & Stephen Miller · Jeff Rose, llp, in memory of John & Carol Field · Feinberg · Sheilah & Harry Fish · Brigitte & Louis Miner · The Morris Family: Susan, Kathy, Karen,

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Sustaining members Dr. Harvey & Deana Freedman Miles & Mary Ellen McKey Phillip & Melody Trapp as of October 2017: Joseph & Antonia Friedman Margaret D. & Winton McKibben Janis Kate Turner Anonymous (7) Paul T. Friedman Ruth Medak Dorothy Walker Norman Abramson & Dr. John Frykman Susan Medak & Greg Murphy Weil Family Trust— David Beery Laura K. Fujii Stephanie Mendel Weil Family Sam Ambler David Gaskin & Toni Mester Karen & Henry Work Carl W. Arnoult & Phillip McPherson Shirley & Joe Nedham Martin & Margaret Zankel Aurora Pan Marjorie Ginsburg & Theresa Nelson & Bernard Smits Ken & Joni Avery Howard Slyter Pam & Mitch Nichter Gifts received by Nancy Axelrod Mary & Nicholas Graves Sheldeen G. Osborne Berkeley Rep: Edith Barschi Elizabeth Greene Sharon Ott Anonymous Neil & Gene Barth Don & Becky Grether Amy Pearl Parodi Estate of Suzanne Adams Susan & Barry Baskin Richard & Lois Halliday Barbara L. Peterson Estate of Helen Barber Linda Brandenburger Julie & Paul Harkness Regina Phelps Estate of Fritzi Benesch Broitman-Basri Family Linda & Bob Harris Margaret Phillips Estate of Carole B. Berg Bruce Carlton & Fred Hartwick Marjorie Randolph Estate of Nelly Berteaux Richard G. McCall Ruth Hennigar Bonnie Ring Living Trust Estate of Jill Bryans Stephen K. Cassidy Douglas J. Hill Tom Roberts Estate of Nancy Croley Paula Champagne & Hoskins/Frame Family Trust David Rovno Estate of Carol & John Field David Watson Lynda & Dr. J. Pearce Hurley Tracie E. Rowson Estate of Rudolph Glauser Terin Christensen Robin C. Johnson Deborah Dashow Ruth Estate of Zandra Faye LeDuff Andrew Daly & Jody Taylor Bonnie McPherson Killip Patricia Sakai & Estate of John E. & M. Laina Dicker Lynn Eve Komaromi Richard Shapiro Helen A. Manning Thalia Dorwick Scott & Kathy Law Betty & Jack Schafer Estate of Richard Markell Rich & Robin Edwards Ines R. Lewandowitz Brenda Buckhold Shank, Estate of Gladys Thomas W. Edwards & Dot Lofstrom M.D., Ph.D. Perez-Mendez Rebecca Parlette-Edwards Helen M. Marcus Kevin Shoemaker Estate of Margaret Purvine Bill & Susan Epstein Dale & Don Marshall Valerie Sopher Estate of Leigh & Ivy Robinson William Espey & Margaret Sumner & Hermine Marshall Michael & Sue Steinberg Estate of Stephen C. Schaefer, in Hart Edwards Rebecca Martinez Dr. Douglas & Anne Stewart honor of Jean and Jack Knox Dr. Stephen E. Follansbee & Suzanne & Charles Jean Strunsky Estate of Peter Sloss Dr. Richard A. Wolitz McCulloch Henry Timnick Estate of Harry Weininger Kerry Francis John G. McGehee Guy Tiphane Estate of Grace Williams

Members of this Society, which is named in honor of Founding Director Michael W. Leibert, have designated Berkeley Rep in their estate plans. Unless the donor specifies otherwise, planned gifts become a part of Berkeley Rep’s board-designated endowment funds, where they will provide the financial stability that enables Berkeley Rep to maintain the highest standards of artistic excellence, support new work, and serve the community with innovative education and outreach programs, year after year. For more information on becoming a member, visit our website at berkeleyrep.org/mls or contact Daria Hepps at 510 647-2904 or [email protected].

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Untitled-2 1 11/10/17 11:17 AM BERKELEY REP STAFF BOARD OF TRUSTEES Michael Leibert Artistic Director Managing Director Tony Taccone Susan Medak President General Manager Theresa Von Klug Stewart Owen Vice Presidents ARTISTIC ELECTRICS House Managers Jan and Howard Oringer Carrie Avery Director of Casting & Master Electrician Steven Coambs · Juliet Czoka · Teaching Artists Richard M. Shapiro Frederick C. Geffken Gabriel de Paz · Aleta George · Amber Flame · Carla Pantoja · Dave Artistic Associate Roger A. Strauch Amy Potozkin Production Electricians Kimberly Harvey-Scott · Mary Cait Maier · Elena Wright · Jack Nicolaus · Christine Cochrane · Kenneth Coté Hogan · Tuesday Ray · David Rogers · Lindsey Schmeltzer · Radhika Rao · Jean Z. Strunsky Director, The Ground Floor/ Debra Selman Salim Razawi · Simon Trumble · Teddy Resident Dramaturg Spencer · Andre San-Chez · Bryan Treasurer Madeleine Oldham SOUND AND VIDEO Lead Concessionaires Steven Coambs · Molly Conway · Nina Quinn · Shannon Davis · Zoe Felicia Woytak Literary Manager Sound Supervisor Gorham · Chenoa Small Swenson-Graham · Daryl Harper · Sarah Rose Leonard James Ballen Miriam Ani Secretary Concessionaires Leonard X Rosenberg Artistic Associate Sound Engineers Chloe Auletta-Young · Jessica Bates · Teen Core Council Katie Craddock Angela Don · Annemarie Scerra Molly Conway · Casey Fay · Lorenz Neo Barnes · Jesias Burrell · Chair, Trustees Committee Associate Director Video Supervisor Gonzales · Katie Holmes · Daron Uma Channer · Adin Gilman-Cohen · Jill Fugaro Lisa Peterson Alex Marshall Jennings · Serene LaBue-Deshais · Luci Mirabel Connor · Miya Drain · Devin Elias · Anna Granados · Fiona Chair, Audit Committee Artists under Commission Liss · David Rogers · Chenoa Small · Michelle Sellers · Win Wallace Deane-Grundman ·Alecia Harger · Kerry L. Francis Todd Almond · Christina Anderson · ADMINISTRATION Kayla Hansen · Kyla Henderson · Zoe Jackie Sibblies Drury · Dave Malloy · Controller Ticket Services Director Larkin · Avery Martin · Sumayya Board Members Lisa Peterson · Sarah Ruhl · Tori Suzanne Pettigrew Geo Haynes Bisseret-Martinez · Lucy Urbano · Edward D. Baker Sampson · Joe Waechter Subscription Manager Alana Walker · Hannah Williams · Michelle Branch Associate Managing Director/ David Cox Manager, The Ground Floor Laurie Barnes Sophia Villamor Amar Doshi PRODUCTION Sarah Williams Box Office Supervisor Docent Co-Chairs Robin Edwards Production Manager Executive Assistant Julie Gotsch Matty Bloom, Content Lisa Finer Peter Dean Joy Lancaster, Recruitment Kate Horton Box Office Agents Karen Galatz Associate Production Manager Selma Meyerowitz, Off-Sites Bruce Golden Bookkeeper Marianne Almero · Gabrielle Boyd · and Procedures Amanda Williams O’Steen Kristine Taylor Carmen Darling · Jordan Don · Steven Goldin Katherine Gunn · Lian Ladia · Watch on the Rhine Docents Scott Haber Company Manager Associate Controller Jean-Paul Gressieux Jaden Pratt Joy Lancaster, Lead Docent David Hoffman Eric Ipsen Ellen Kaufman, Assistant Lead Jonathan C. Logan Beth Cohen · Monica Fox · Helen Tessitura User Interaction OPERATIONS Jane Marvin STAGE MANAGEMENT Administrator Gerken · Dee Kursh · Dale Marshall · Sandra R. McCandless Production Stage Manager Destiny Askin Facilities Director Joan Sullivan · Catherine Warren · Susan Medak Mark Morrisette Michael Suenkel Information Technology Manager Ron Zak Pamela Nichter Stage Managers Dianne Brenner Facilities Coordinator Sudha Pennathur Leslie M. Radin · Karen Szpaller · Andrew Susskind 2017–18 BERKELEY REP Laura Severino FELLOWSHIPS Emily Shanks Julie Haber · Kimberly Mark Webb DEVELOPMENT Building Engineer Bret C. Harte Directing Fellow Tony Taccone Production Assistants Director of Development Thomas Tran Nicholas Kowerko Kelli Tomlinson Amanda Mason · Sofie Miller · Lynn Eve Komaromi Maintenance Technician Gail Wagner Betsy Norton Company Management Fellow Associate Director of Development Johnny Van Chang Alice Stites Past Presidents Daria Hepps Production Driver Helen C. Barber STAGE OPERATIONS Costume Fellow Director of Individual Giving Laurence Tasse A. George Battle Kiara Montgomery Stage Supervisor Laura Fichtenberg Facilities Assistants Carole B. Berg Julia Englehorn Development Fellow Robert W. Burt Institutional Giving Manager Theresa Drumgoolie · Sophie Li · Ariana Johnson Shih-Tso Chen Julie McCormick Alex Maciel · Carlos Mendoza · Guy PROPERTIES Nado · Jesus Rodriguez · Diego Ruiz · Education Fellow Narsai M. David Individual Giving Coordinator Properties Supervisor LeRoy Thomas Ky’Lend Adams Thalia Dorwick, PhD Kelsey Scott Nicholas M. Graves Jillian A. Green Graphic Design Fellow Special Events Coordinator Richard F. Hoskins Assistant Properties Supervisor BERKELEY REP Kendall Markley Lauren Shorofsky SCHOOL OF THEATRE Jean Knox Amelia Burke-Holt Harry Weininger Sound Fellow Robert M. Oliver Development Database Director of the School of Theatre Properties Artisan Cecilia Pappalardo Marjorie Randolph Coordinator Rachel Hull Harlan M. Richter Samantha Visbal Lighting/Electrics Fellow Jane Voytek Associate Director Richard A. Rubin Domino Mannheim SCENE SHOP Development Associates MaryBeth Cavanaugh Edwin C. Shiver Marketing/Digital Maddie Gaw · Julia Starr Program Manager, Training and Roger A. Strauch Technical Director Communications Fellow Community Programs Martin Zankel Jim Smith Arielle Rubin M ARKETING & Anthony Jackson Sustaining Advisors Associate Technical Director COMMUNICATIONS Peter F. Sloss Literary/ Education Communications and Rena Bransten Matt Rohner Dramaturgy Fellow Director of Marketing and Partnerships Manager Thalia Dorwick, PhD James Dinneen Shop Foreman Communications Marcela Chacón William T. Espey Sam McKnight Peter Yonka Production Management Fellow Registrar William Falik Dawn Marie Kelley Master Carpenter Director of Public Relations Katie Riemann David Fleishhacker Jamaica Montgomery-Glenn Tim Etheridge Properties Fellow Paul T. Friedman Community Programs Administrator Nicholas M. Graves Carpenters Mara Ishihara Zinky Art Director Modesta Tamayo Richard F. Hoskins Patrick Keene · Read Tuddenham Nora Merecicky Scenic Art Fellow Faculty Carole Krumland Chrissy Curl Communications & Digital Bobby August Jr. · Erica Blue · Jon Dale Rogers Marshall SCENIC ART Content Director Burnett · Rebecca Castelli · Eugenie Scenic Construction Fellow Helen Meyer Charge Scenic Artist Karen McKevitt Chan · Iu-Hui Chua · Jiwon Chung · William Ebeler Dugan Moore Lisa Lázár Audience Development Manager Sally Clawson · Deborah Eubanks · Stage Management Fellow Peter Pervere Samanta Cubias Susan Garner · Christine Germain · Tait Adams Marjorie Randolph Nancy Gold · Gary Graves · Marvin Pat Rougeau COSTUMES Webmaster Greene · Susan-Jane Harrison · Gendell Patricia Sakai Costume Director Christina Cone Hing-Hernández · Melissa Hillman · Jack Schafer Maggi Yule Video & Multimedia Producer William Hodgson · Andrew Hurteau · William Schaff Associate Costume Director/ Joel Dockendorf Anthony Jackson · Kasey Klem · Krista Michael Steinberg Hair and Makeup Supervisor Program Advertising Knight · Julian López-Morillas · Dave Michael Strunsky Amy Bobeda Pamela Webster Maier · Reid McCann · Patricia Miller · Martin Zankel Alex Moggridge · Edward Morgan · Tailor Front of House Director Kathy Kellner Griffith Jack Nicolaus · Slater Penney · Greg Kelly Kelley Pierotti · Lisa Anne Porter · Diane First Hand Front of House Manager Rachel · Rolf Saxon · Elyse Shafarman · Janet Conery FOUNDING DIRECTOR Debra Selman Arje Shaw · Joyful Simpson · Cleavon Michael W. Leibert Wardrobe Supervisor Smith · M. Graham Smith · Elizabeth Producing Director, 1968–83 Barbara Blair Vega · James Wagner ·Dan Wolf

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WR_program.indd 39 11/9/17 2:06 PM “ City National helps keep my financial life in tune.”

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