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Rattlestick Playwrights Theater gratefully relies on donor support. Giving has never been easier. Use your phone to scan the QR code and donate now.. Post No Bills Or, detach the form below and return it to the house manager - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Name Billing address City, ST, Zip Code I (we) pledge a total of $____________________ to be paid: ☐now ☐monthly ☐quarterly ☐yearly. Credit card number | Exp. date By Mando Alvarado Authorized Signature Directed by Please make checks, corporate matches, or other gifts payable to: Michael Ray Escamilla Rattlestick Productions, Inc. 224 Waverly Place, New York, NY 10014 I (we) would like Rattlestick to use the following name(s) in all acknowledgements: ________________________________ ☐I (we) wish to have our gift remain anonymous. Support Rattlestick: As a nonprofit theater serving New York receive additional discounts, invitations City for the past 20 years, Rattlestick to private events, benefits and more. For Presents Playwrights Theater relies on the gener- more information, or to make a contri- osity of its patrons who donate through- bution, visit our website at out the season. Our Patron Program is a www.rattlestick.org/donatetorattlestick THE FEW new initiative for our most dedicated or contact: supporters to become a vital part of the Hannah Baxter by Rattlestick family, with seven levels of Individual Giving Manager giving tailored to fit all of our patrons, [email protected] Samuel D. Hunter no matter your budget. Please consider making a donation to Rattlestick and directed by 1. Friend—$75 Davis McCallum 25% discount on tickets to shows throughout the season 2. Donor—$150 50% discounts on tickets to shows throughout the season with 3. Patron—$300 One complimentary ticket to each of the shows throughout the season Gideon Glick 50% off additional tickets to shows throughout the season Michael Laurence Invitation to selected play readings Tasha Lawrence 4. Sustaining Patron—$500 2 complimentary tickets to each of the shows throughout the season 50% off additional tickets to shows throughout the season set design Dane Laffrey Invitation to selected play readings costume design Jessica Pabst Invitation to one opening night show and after-party with cast and crew Recognition in Playbill lighting design Eric Southern 5. Sponsor—$1,000 sound design Daniel Kluger 4 complimentary tickets to each of the shows throughout the season props designers Andrew Diaz 50% off additional tickets to shows throughout the season Invitation to all public play readings production manager Eugenia Furneaux Invitation to two opening night shows and after-parties with cast and crew production stage manager Katharine Whitney Invitation to two closing night shows and after-parties with cast and crew assistant stage manager Emily Cates A script from Rattlestick’s current season (upon request) Recognition in Playbill publicity Don Summa, Richard Kornberg & Assoc. 6. Benefactor—$5,000 casting by Calleri Casting Complimentary tickets to each of the shows throughout the season graphic design Achilles Lavidis Invitation to all public play readings Invitation to all opening night shows and after-parties with cast and crew cover image Samuel D. Hunter Invitation to all closing night shows and after-parties with cast and crew A script from Rattlestick’s current season (upon request) Recognition in Playbill The Few will be performed without an intermission. Private dinner with Rattlestick’s Artistic Director and Managing Director The restroom will be unavailable during the performance. 7. Leader—$10,000+ All of the above Invitation to meet and greets with Rattlestick alums Recognition in the annual report Private dinner twice a year with Artistic Director, Managing Director, Playwright, and other theater artists SPONSORS SAMUEL D. HUNTER (Playwright) Samuel D. Hunter’s plays include The ($1,000 & above) Whale (2013 Drama Desk Award, 2013 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, 2013 GLAAD Media Award, Drama League and Outer Critics Circle nomi- nations for Best Play), A Bright New Boise (2011 Obie Award for Playwriting, 2011 Allan Arffa Jesse Eisenberg Drama Desk nomination for Best Play), and his newest plays, The Few, A Great Alliance Bernstein Jim and Susie Perakis Wilderness and Rest. His plays have been produced by theaters such as Playwrights Anastasia Barzee John Huneke Horizons, South Coast Rep, The Old Globe, Seattle Rep, Victory Gardens, Wool- Brian Polovoy John and Nina Darnton ly Mammoth Theatre Company, Denver Center Theatre Company, Clubbed Catherine A. Gellert Laura Danforth Thumb, and Page 73. His work has been developed at the O’Neill Playwrights Catherine Schmidt Manda D’Agata Conference, the Ojai Playwrights Conference, Seven Devils, and elsewhere. Sam Charles and Susan Tribbitt Michael Margitich is the winner of a 2012 Whiting Writers Award, the 2013 Otis Guernsey New Chris and Ann Stack Murray and Clare Stadmauer Voices Award, the 2011 Sky Cooper Prize, and the 2008-2009 PONY Fellowship. Craig Wright Nevin Steinberg He is a member of New Dramatists, an Ensemble Playwright at Victory Gardens, Daniel Romanow Patricia Heller a Core Member of The Playwrights’ Center, a member of Partial Comfort Produc- Dorothy Strelsin Foundation Paul Ciasullo tions, and was a 2013 Resident Playwright at Arena Stage. A native of northern Frieda and Roy Furman Peter Wilderotter Idaho, Sam lives in NYC. He holds degrees in playwriting from NYU, The Iowa Jeffrey Steinman Sarah Plath Playwrights Workshop, and Juilliard. Davis McCallum recently directed John van Druten’s London Wall at the Mint SUSTAINING PATRONS Theater Company (2014 Lucille Lortel Nomination for Best Revival). Previously ($500 & above) with Sam Hunter: The Few (The Old Globe), The Whale (Playwrights Horizons; 2013 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play), A Bright New Boise (Partial Com- Colleen Jones J. Saferstein Nicola Walter fort; Drama Desk Nominations for Best Play and Best Director), and Five Gen- Dan & Allison Markley John Gellert Raymond Gregorczyk coides (Clubbed Thumb). NEW YORK: Water By The Spoonful (Second Stage, Deborah Whitmore John Guare Robert Freeman 2012 Pulitzer Prize), February House (Public Theater), This Is My Office (Play Com- Doris Tolins John Koski Smarttix.com pany), Melancholy Play (13P), Sex Lives of Our Parents (Second Stage Uptown), punk- Doug Nevin Karen Roberts Stacey Mindich play (Clubbed Thumb), Queens Boulevard (Signature Theater), Elliot: A Soldier’s Ed Forstein Keith Lobert Stephen Belber Fugue (P73; Pulitzer Prize Finalist), Henry IV, Part One (The Pearl), Henry V (New Edmund Schwesinger Lisa & Peter Bellamy Terrency McNally Victory), Jane Eyre, The Tempest, The Turn Of The Screw (The Acting Company). Fred Kornberg Lisa Smith Tom Kirdahy REGIONAL: the Guthrie, the Old Globe, Humana, Hartford Stage, Long James Lecesne Matthew McClanahan Van Hengel Family Fund Wharf, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Williamstown, Alliance, Chautauqua, the O’Neill, Playmakers Rep, Two River, New York Stage & Film, others. OTHER: Drama League Alum; NEA/TCG Career Development Program; Boris Sagal Fel- lowship; Princess Grace Honoree. He was recently appointed Artistic Director of Subsidized studio space graciously provided by the A.R.T./New York the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival in Cold Spring, NY Creative Space Grant, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (www.hvshakespeare.org). GIDEON GLICK (Matthew) B’way: Julie Taymor’s Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark SPECIAL THANKS TO: 1.0, Spring Awakening (original cast). Off B’way: Jack in Into The Woods (Public/ Kip Fagan, Casey Stangl, Wyatt Fenner, Adam Rapp; Robert Drake, Neil Holmes, and Delacorte Theater), Wild Animals You Should Know (MCC Theater), Speech and Paul Peterson at the Old Globe for their generous help and support in this production; Debate (Roundabout Theater), Spring Awakening (Atlantic Theater). Regionally he New York State Department of Cultural Affairs. has worked at Fringe NYC, Culture Project, Ensemble Studio Theater, Prince This program is supported, in part, by the public funds from the New York State De- Music Theater, Wilma Theater,. He appeared in the world premiere of The Few at partment of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council The Old Globe. Film: One Last Thing…, A Case of You, Gods Behaving Badly, Song One. TV: “Devious Maids” (recur). Webseries: It Could Be Worse. Rattlestick would like to thank its donors, without whose MICHAEL LAURENCE (Bryan) Theatre credits include Talk Radio (Broadway), support none of this great work would be possible. Appropriate (Signature), The Few (Old Globe), The Morini Strad (Primary Stages), Krapp,39 (Drama Desk nom, Soho Playhouse-NY/ Tristan Bates-London), Desire Under the Elms (Broadway), Opus (Primary Stages), Horsedreams (Rattlestick), Diary of a Teenage Girl (New Georges/3LD), Two Rooms (Lion/ Theatre Row), Tooth of LEADERS Crime (Signature), Book of Days (Signature), Hands In Wartime (LaMama), John ($10,000 & above) Proctor in The Crucible (Hartford Stage), Mikey Dillon in Good People (Huntington), Starbuck in The Rainmaker (Arena), Eric Bogosian’s Humpty Dump- Anonymous ty (McCarter), The Pavilion (Westport), NYTW, Seattle Rep, Shakespeare Thea- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation New York Theater Program tre, Portland Center Stage, Wilma, Humana, others. He is the playwright of Abbe & Dan Klores Hamlet In Bed (upcoming) and the aforementioned Krapp, 39. His television Axe-Houghton