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BY DIRECTED BY BJ JONES

Scenic Design Scott Davis, USA Costume Design Izumi Inaba, USA Lighting Design Christine A. Binder, USA Sound Design Andre Pluess, USA Production Stage Manager Rita Vreeland, AEA Fight Choreographer and Intimacy Consultant David Woolley, SDC

Casting by Paskal Rudnicke Casting

Opening Night: SEPTEMBER 20, 2019 at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie

Mother of the Maid is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. Original New York Production by The Public Theater, Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director; Patrick Willingham, Executive Director. Mother of the Maid received its world premiere by Shakespeare & Company, Lenox, MA, 2015 and was developed in part at Berkshire Playwrights Lab. It was originally commissioned by Geffen Playhouse, Gilbert Cates, Producing Director; Randall Arney, Artistic Director; Ken Novice, Managing Director. COLOR COLOR

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LEAD PRODUCTION SPONSORS CAST (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE)

NAN AND WALLY GREENOUGH Kate Fry*...... Isabelle Arc Grace Smith*...... Joan Arc OPENING NIGHT SPONSORS Kareem Bandealy*...... Jacques Arc Casey Morris†...... Pierre Arc/Guard Ricardo Gutierrez*...... Father Gilbert/Chamberlain/Scribe Penelope Walker*...... Lady of the Court Hayley Burgess...... Monique

SEASON SPONSORS Understudies: Jerome Beck (Pierre), Hayley Burgess (Joan), Kristin Collins (Isabelle/Lady), Tim Kidwell (Jacques/Father Gilbert)

Understudies will not substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the performance.

*Member of the Actors Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers. NORTHLIGHT IS SUPPORTED IN PART BY: † Fight Captain

Mother of the Maid will be performed with one 15-minute intermission. THE DAVEE FOUNDATION

THE OFFIELD FAMILY FOUNDATION THE SULLIVAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION STAFF

Assistant Director & Production Dramaturg...... Kristen Osborn Properties Master...... Jared Davis Production Assistant...... Sapier Weinglass Costume Coordinator...... Darcy Hofer Assistant Fight Choreographer & Intimacy Consultant...... Taylor Weber Additional Dramaturgy...... Lyra Yang, Sarah Slight

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THE HAROLD AND MIMI STEINBERG CHARITABLE TRUST The videotaping or making of electronic or other audio and/or visual recordings of this production or distributing recordings on any medium, including the internet, is strictly prohibited, a violation of the author’s rights and actionable under United States copyright law. Kirkland & Ellis Foundation | Polsinelli | Col. Stanley R. McNeil Foundation For more information, please visit samuelfrench.com. Niles Township Corporate Fund | Jackie Mack and More | Dr. Scholl Foundation Full Circle Foundation | Henrietta Lange Burk Fund | Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Mammel Family Foundation | | Sanborn Family Foundation

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FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR “I HAD A DAUGHTER…” THE MOTHER OF THE MAID AND THE TRIAL OF NULLIFICATION OR REHABILITATION When one considers the story of Joan of Arc, her life and set of events that took place in the 1400s, it’s hard to Isabelle d’Arc, née Romeé, (1377-1458) was overstate the enormity of her impact, politically, socially originally from Vouthon, a small town about 200 and religiously. This is a time when legends were carried by miles east of . She married Jacques d’Arc word of mouth. And, in the absence of images or eye and together they raised a family that included witnesses, the truth could be blurred, enhanced, diminished, three sons and two daughters in the pastures of or manipulated to suit the purpose of the story-teller. Domremy. In the case of Joan of Arc, the impact was immediate and profound. Her story found its way to the king and the . Strong and fearless she faced Isabelle exerted a great Christian influence upon her inquisitors, refusing to be bullied or intimidated. She kept her contact Joan in her formative years, believing it to be her with her higher power to herself and her confessor, frustrating the tribunal greatest responsibility to her children. As Joan who was bent on proving her a heretic. later described at her trial, “My mother taught This season, the thread that connects all our choices is the viewpoint of me the Pater Noster, Ave Maria, and the Credo. the marginalized characters who take center stage. In Mother of the Maid, Nobody taught me my belief, if not my mother.” Jane Anderson turns the lens around, to see the Maid’s story from the view of her mother. Anderson eschews classical style to approach the tale from After Joan was convicted of heresy and burned at the stake, Isabelle a contemporary point of view. She brings us into the mind and the heart made it her life’s work to overturn the Trial of Condemnation that of the person closest to Joan, her mother Isabelle. Isabelle was a simple sealed Joan’s fate. In 1455, Isabelle appealed to the newly elected Pope woman, both humble and pious, but, as history tells us, was perhaps the Calixtus III, and he a trial. Isabelle and her sons, Pierre and source of Joan’s steel will and resolve. Nearly thirty years after Joan’s death, Jehan, made the journey to Paris, where hearings were to be conducted she mounted her horse and headed to Paris to defend her daughter’s at the Cathedral of Notre-Dame. On November 7, 1455, Joan’s Trial of saintliness, fearless and determined. Nullification or Rehabilitation opened with Isabelle speaking to the Pope’s representatives: As with all my work, I try to connect to the stories I’m telling, and, sadly, Mother of the Maid is freshly resonant. Just recently a dear colleague I had a daughter born in lawful wedlock who grew up amid the fields lost their child to cancer at the age of 17. The time from diagnosis to her and pastures. I had her baptized and confirmed and brought her up in passing was less than a year, but her battle was fierce and courageous. My friends persevered, drawing their strength from their astonishing daughter, the fear of God. I taught her respect for the traditions of the Church as courageously maintaining something like a normal family life even in the much as I was able to do given her age and simplicity of her condition. hospital. They are an inspiration. Like Isabelle Arc, these heroic parents I succeeded so well that she spent much of her time in church and stayed strong and determined, supporting her even as she approached after having gone to confession she received the sacrament of the the end. I cannot imagine the personal suffering they endured and my Eucharist every month. Because the people suffered so much, she had admiration for them as a family knows no bounds. I imagine that is what a great compassion for them in her heart and despite her youth she Isabelle went through as she prepared Joan for her final journey. would fast and pray for them with great devotion and fervor. She never thought, spoke or did anything against the faith. Certain enemies had The story of Joan of Arc is a story of political and religious manipulation, her arraigned in a religious trial. Despite her disclaimers and appeals, and of the vital impact that one small determined soul can have to alter the course of history. But it’s also the story of how important a parent’s love both tacit and expressed, and without any help given to her defense, and support can be when the child they’ve been blessed with has a gift that she was put through a perfidious, violent, iniquitous and sinful trial. The needs to be honored and nourished. judges condemned her falsely, damnably and criminally, and put her to death in a cruel manner by fire. For the damnation of their souls and Today we are still inspired by the story of Joan of Arc because she had a in notorious, infamous and irreparable loss to me, Isabelle, and mine...I vision, a personal truth. It is a parent’s purpose to honor that truth, to try demand that her name be restored. and understand it, and to love their children with all the courage we can muster. Thanks to the tireless efforts of her mother, Joan was declared innocent #teamNoraforever on July 7, 1456, and, ultimately, canonized on May 16, 1920. Isabelle lived out her final days in Orleans where she was highly regarded and honored as the mother of the “Maid of Orleans,” the hero of France. BJ Jones, Artistic Director

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THE MAKING OF A MEDIEVAL MAJOR GENERAL: heaven, the keys of all the fine towns that you have taken and violated JOAN OF ARC AND THE SIEGE OF ORLEANS in France… King of England, if you do not do this, I am the military leader, and wherever I find your men in France, I will make them leave, Between Act One and Act Two of Mother of the whether they want to or not, and if they will not obey, I will have them Maid, Joan leads men into battle for the first time all killed. I am sent here by God, the king of heaven, to face you head to at the Siege at Orleans, a critical moment for the head and drive you out of the whole of France. And if they will obey, I French in the 100 Years’ War. To give context to show them mercy… this critical moment in France’s history, one must Singularity of purpose had brought this girl more than halfway across the understand the precarious state of the French country, and singularity of purpose had won her the chance to turn her kingdom at this time. fighting words into action. After devastating losses at Agincourt and Less than a month later, Joan, with an army Normandy, the death of King Charles VI (also at her command, headed to Orleans. On April known as the “mad king”), and deep divisions 25, 1429, the night before she entered the city, within the French government, which inhibited the Joan slept in her armor, a full suit ordered from crowning and recognition of a new French king, Charles VII’s master armorer. The next day, the French people were weary and on the verge of led by her banners—golden fleurs-de-lis sewn succumbing to English rule. Charles VII considered across a white field with a painted Christ sitting The banner of Joan of Arc surrendering to the English or fleeing to Spain. It in judgement over the world, an angel on either was at this moment that Joan and her entourage arrived at Charles VII’s side of him—Joan entered Orleans. Inside the doorstep with a message from God. city, people crowded the streets, their voices On March 7, 1429, Joan was presented publicly to the king, in a piece of raised with the exhilaration of hope, as the political theatre designed to set the scene for the launch of her mission. Maid rode among them on her white horse, her The story goes that Joan was first directed to other royal figures, under armor shining in the torchlight. She made her the pretense that each was the king, only for her to declare that she knew way slowly through the press of people, hands it was not, and to recognize Charles as soon as she saw him. If this was The Entrance of Joan of Arc into reaching out towards her along the way, as pantomime, it served as a dramatic demonstration of the Maid’s claim to Orleans by Jean-Jacques Scherrer though a touch would bring a blessing. more-than-human insight. The French needed a savior, and the savior, it A week later, after some back-and-forth with the English, Joan entered her seems, had finally materialized. first battle. While she did not carry a sword nor shed any English blood, Charles VII, desperate for any solution, promised Joan an army but then she rode with her banner among the men needed to find troops who would fight under the command of a woman. A to encourage them. After having driven the Latin poem was composed and disseminated in an attempt to explain the English out of several key locations, Joan king’s decision to put a young girl in armor at the head of his troops and was wounded by an arrow between her encourage loyal Frenchmen to join her. The king’s secretaries searched neck and shoulder. At the sight of their Maid hard among the archives to find prophecies that might prefigure Joan’s staggering and bloodied, the French began coming. They found it in a twelfth-century text of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s to falter. However, Joan, always the symbol of called History of the Kings of Britain, a telling prophecy by the great sage hope, stopped the call to retreat. She pressed Merlin: “A virgin ascends the backs of the archers, and hides the flower of forward into a ditch at the foot of a tower, her virginity.” brandishing her standard. When the soldiers La Pucelle (The Maid) On March 22, 1429, Joan dictated a letter to be sent to the English enemy. saw her rise from where she had fallen, when by Frank Craig At the head of the letter, she instructed the clerk to write two words in the they heard her urging them on, they pushed Latin she heard in church: Jhesus Maria, “Jesus” and “Mary,” bounded on again forward. Seeing this, panic spread among the English, and, by either side by the sign of the cross. The letter read: sunset, they pulled back. Overnight, the English withdrew. The siege was over. The miracle had happened. In just four days, Joan the Maid had freed King of England, and you, Duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of Orleans. the kingdom of France; you, William de la Pole, Count of Suffolk; John, Lord of Talbot; and you, Thomas, Lord of Scales, who call yourselves Inside Orleans, the churches were packed with people giving thanks, lieutenants of the said Duke of Bedford: submit yourselves to the king in wonder, for their deliverance. When news of Joan’s victory reached of heaven. Restore to the maid, who is sent here by God, the King of Rome, the Bishop of Cahors added a new chapter to his magnum opus, 6 | NORTHLIGHT THEATRE NORTHLIGHT THEATRE | 7 COLOR

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THE MAKING OF A MEDIEVAL MAJOR GENERAL: JOAN OF ARC AND THE SIEGE OF ORLEANS cont. a brief history of the world, to describe “The Maid named Joan” who More than “accomplishes actions which appear more divine than human.” While the 100 Years' War dragged on another 25 years after the Siege at Orleans, Joan’s victory turned the tide in favor of the French, who would go on to win the war as the English came to recognize that France was Immediate Care. too strong to be directly confronted any longer. Joan’s legacy, of course, outlasts the war. She is one of the most famous women in history and has inspired artistic and cultural works for nearly six centuries including plays by Friedrich Schiller (The Maid of Orleans) and George Bernard Shaw (Saint Joan), countless paintings, statues and other Expert care. likenesses, a novel by Mark Twain (Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc), and a few films such as the critical and financial successThe Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc starring Milla Jovovich. While we know of Joan’s enduring legacy through the many works that bear her name, Mother of the Maid celebrates Joan’s mother, Isabelle Arc, whose lesser-examined Open seven days a week. role in history is nonetheless vital to this historical narrative. Without Isabelle’s belief, Joan would never have become the girl general who commanded armies of men and altered the course of French history. When you need to see someone right away, NorthShore University HealthSystem is here for you:

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KAREEM BANDEALY KATE FRY (Isabelle (Jacques Arc) makes Arc) returns to his Northlight debut. Northlight, where she : A Christmas performed in The Carol, Rock N’ Roll, Gas Beauty Queen of For Less, King Lear Leenane, Outside (Goodman); The Wheel Mullingar, and The (Steppenwolf); 20,000 Miser. Other Chicago Leagues Under the credits include The Seas, Blood Wedding, Moby Dick, The Little Winter’s Tale, Ah, Wilderness! (Goodman); Prince, Big Lake Big City, Bengal Tiger at The Belle of Amherst, Electra, The Hard the Baghdad Zoo, The Last Act of Lilka Problem and others (Court); Marjorie Kadison, Peter (Lookingglass); Prime, Hedda Gabler, The Letters, A Oklahoma! (Paramount); The Good Book, Minister’s Wife, Oh Coward! (Writers); as The Illusion (Court); Julius Caesar, Hamlet, well as productions with Victory Gardens, The Caretaker, Heartbreak House (Writers); Chicago Shakespeare, Apple Tree Theatre, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Edward II, and . She has also worked Romeo and Juliet (Chicago Shakespeare); A with Center Theatre Group in LA, McCarter Disappearing Number, Blood and Gifts Theatre Center in Princeton, Repertory (Timeline); The Real Thing, The Skin of Our Theatre of St. Louis, and Lincoln Center. TV Teeth (Remy Bumppo); and Othello (The credits include episodes on Empire (Fox), Gift). Regionally: Shakespeare Boss (Starz), Chicago PD (NBC), and Festival, Notre Dame Summer Shakespeare, Proven Innocent (Fox). She is the recipient Pittsburgh Irish & Classical, and four of four Joseph Jefferson awards, the local seasons with Shakespeare Theater. Sarah Siddons award, the After Dark award, Film/TV: The Merry Gentleman, Chicago and Chicago Magazine’s actress of the year. Fire (NBC). He’s a recipient of the 2011 Kate is married to actor/teacher Timothy 3Arts Artist Award and an ensemble Edward Kane; they have two sons. member of Lookingglass where he made his playwriting debut with Act(s) of God. RICARDO GUTIERREZ (Father Gilbert/ HAYLEY BURGESS Chamberlain/Scribe) is (Monique) makes her delighted to make his Northlight debut. Northlight Theatre Chicago credits include debut in Mother of the Twilight Bowl, The Sign Maid. He most recently In Sidney Brustein’s appeared in Ah Window, The Little Wilderness and Destiny Foxes (Goodman); of Desire at . Other Women In Jeopardy acting credits include In the Heights

MICHAEL MAHLER, BRIANNA BORGER AND LUCY GODÍNEZ. PHOTO BY SAVERIO TRUGLIA. BY SAVERIO BRIANNA BORGER AND LUCY GODÍNEZ. PHOTO MICHAEL MAHLER, PICTURED: BETHANY THOMAS, (); Spin Moves (Ignition (Paramount) and the world premieres of Festival of New Plays, Victory Gardens); Lydia (Denver Center Theatre), Fish Men The Mystery Of Love And Sex (Writers); (Goodman) and Ground (Actors Theatre in Domesticated and the First Look Repertory Louisville). Ricardo has appeared on stages of New Work reading Stupid Kid across Chicago and the nation including (Steppenwolf); Fugitive Awareness (First Steppenwolf, Victory Gardens, Floor Theatre); and Jake’s Women (Spartan Lookingglass and South Coast Rep. Recent Theatre). Regional credits include A Trick television credits include , Of The Light (Peninsula Players Theatre) Chicago PD, Sirens and Boss. Ricardo is the BEGINS AUGUST 14 and Frankenstein (Cardinal Stage Executive Artistic Director of Teatro Vista, Company). Hayley is a graduate of New the premiere Latino theatre company in the York University’s Tisch School of the Arts Midwest, where he leads an ensemble of 847-242-6000 I WRITERSTHEATRE.ORG and the School at Steppenwolf. She is 40+ actors, resident designers and represented by Stewart Talent. playwrights.

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CASEY MORRIS (Pierre PENELOPE WALKER Steppenwolf, Court and other design firm Aether and Nyx and serves Arc/Guard & Fight (Lady of the Court) is throughout Chicago. Film/TV credits as adjunct faculty at Columbia College Captain) returns to ecstatic to return to include The Fugitive, Body Double, Law and having received his MFA from Northwestern Northlight after Northlight after Order: Criminal Intent, Early Edition, Cupid, University. www.scottadamdavis.com appearing in The previously appearing in and Turks, among others. Beauty Queen of Into the Breeches!, Curve IZUMI INABA (Costume Design) is thrilled Leenane. You may have of Departure, Eclipsed, JANE ANDERSON (Playwright) is an Emmy to be at Northlight again after designing seen Casey in the role Gee’s Bend, and Bee award-winning writer and director for Mansfield Park, Faceless, The Mousetrap, of Joey in Laura Luther Hatchee. Other theater, film and television. Plays include: Charm, and You Can’t Take It With You. Eason’s The Undeniable Sound of Right Chicago credits include Life Sucks, Black , Defying Gravity, Looking Her recent design credits include Twilight Now at Raven Theatre directed by BJ Diamond, The Years the Locusts Have Eaten for Normal, The Quality of Life, The Escort, Bowl (Goodman), A Doll’s House, Part Jones. Other credits (Lookingglass); The House That Will Not Lynette at 3AM, Food & Shelter and The Two (Steppenwolf), An American Dream include: Hooded or Being Black for Stand, No One As Nasty (Victory Gardens); Last Time We Saw Her. Her plays have (Lyric Unlimited), Cambodian Rock Band, Dummies (First Floor); Ah, Wilderness! A Christmas Carol, The Story, Crowns, been produced Off-Broadway and in If I Forget (Victory Gardens), and Miracle (Goodman); What of the Night? (Stage Left (Goodman); Love & Information (Remy theaters around the country, including ACT, (Miracle Productions at Royal George). Izumi & Cor Theatre); Hand to God (Victory Bumppo); We’re Gonna Be Okay, The Arena Stage, Actors Theater of Louisville, is a resident artist at Albany Park Theater Gardens); Hamlet, The Grapes of Wrath Project(s), Agnes of God, Doubt, People’s Williamstown, Shakespeare & Company, Project. She received Michael Maggio (The Gift); #Newslaves, EOM (Ignition Temple (American Theater Company); Will The McCarter Theater, Long Wharf, Geffen Emerging Designed Award, and her MFA in Festival Victory Gardens); Voyage (Cock You Stand Up (Erasing the Distance Theatre Playhouse, and the Pasadena Playhouse. Stage Design from Northwestern University. and Bull); The Revel (The House Theatre of Company); Seven Homeless Mammoths Her latest play, Mother of the Maid, Chicago); Post Apocalypto (Sketchbook ’15, Wandering New England (Theatre Wit); Love premiered at the Public Theater in 2018 CHRISTINE A. BINDER (Lighting Design) has Collaboraction); In a Little World of Our Lies Bleeding (Steppenwolf); 10 Virgins, and starred . Screenwriting designed for Writers, Steppenwolf, Chicago Own (Irish Theatre of Chicago); and Voyeurs de Venus (); The credits: The Wife, How to Make An Shakespeare, Court, Lookingglass, Geva Charlotte’s Web (Emerald City). Casey Clink (Rivendell Theatre). She created and American Quilt, It Could Happen to You Theatre, and the among others. received his MFA from The Theatre School performed her own solo show How I Jack and The Prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio. Her opera designs include work at the Lyric at DePaul University and is represented by Master Funked The Sugar in My Knee Caps. Documentary film:Packed in a Trunk: The Opera of Chicago, Chicago Opera Theatre, Gray Talent Group. Visit him at www. Film/Web/TV: Dubious Ruffians, Olympia, Lost Art of Edith Lake Wilkinson (HBO). San Diego Opera, New York City Opera, caseymorris.info Flowers, Matching Pursuit, , Television writing credits: The Baby Dance Pittsburgh Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Chicago Fire, , and Boss. (Showtime); and Houston Grand Opera. Recent designs GRACE SMITH (Joan (ABC); Olive Kitteridge, The Positively include: Mansfield Park(Northlight), A Doll’s Arc) is thrilled to make BJ JONES (Director/Artistic Director) is True Adventures of the Alleged Texas House, Part 2 (Steppenwolf), and Onegin her Northlight debut. in his 22nd season as Artistic Director of Cheerleader Murdering Mom, Normal, and (Canadian Opera Company and Washington Chicago: On Clover Northlight. Mr Jones is a two-time Joseph the first segment ofIf These Walls Could National Opera). Upcoming productions are: Road (American Blues), Jefferson Award Winning actor and a three- Talk II (HBO). The Agitators (Alabama Shakespeare); The Plantation! time nominated director. He has directed Last Match (Writers); Her Honor Mayor Jane (Lookingglass), Eden the world premieres of Relativity, Charm, SCOTT DAVIS (Scenic Design) Off- Byrne, Lookingglass Alice (Lookingglass); Prairie, 1971 (Goodman Faceless, White Guy on the Bus, Chapatti, Broadway credits: Ride the Cyclone (MCC), and Onegin (Seiji Ozawa Festival/ New Stages), and work The Outgoing Tide (Jeff Nomination), Better Othello: The Remix (The Westside Theater). Matsumoto, Japan). Ms. Binder has been with the Shakespeare Project of Chicago. Late, and Rounding Third. Notably he has International credits: Shakespeare’s nominated for Joseph Jefferson Awards New York/Regional: Peter and the directed productions of Outside Mullingar, Globe, Unicorn Theater (London), The for her work with Court, Northlight, and Starcatcher (City Equity Theatre); Alice in Grey Gardens, The Price, The Lieutenant Market Theater (South Africa), The Neuss Lookingglass. She is an Artistic Associate Wonderland, As You Like It, King Lear, A of Inishmore, Curve of Departure, and The (Germany), Gdansk Shakespeare Theater with Lookingglass and Head of Lighting at Christmas Carol, The Importance of Being Beauty Queen of Leenane. As a producer (Poland), The Cultch (Vancouver), DUCTAC The Theatre School at DePaul University. Earnest (Alabama Shakespeare); Censored he has guided the world premieres of Miss Theater (Dubai), Brice Mason Center (New on Final Approach (The Gym at Judson); Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, Shining Zealand), and The Edinburgh Festival ANDRE PLUESS (Sound Design) has and The School for Lies (Boxed Wine Lives, The Last Five Years, and Studs Terkel’s (Scotland). Regional credits: Chicago designed the Broadway productions of Productions). Film/TV: Knives and Skin, The ‘The Good War.’ Additional directorial credits Shakespeare, Steppenwolf, Court, Writers, Metamorphoses, I Am My Own Wife and 33 World’s Astonishing News!, Dorm Therapy. include Pitmen Painters (Jeff Nomination, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Asolo Variations (Drama Desk Award nomination) Ms. Smith is the co-creator of Timeline); 100 Saints You Should Know Repertory Theater, Signature Theater, as well as the world premiere of The Clean MARYSHELLEYSHOW, which she has (Steppenwolf); (Susie Walnut Street Theater, Children’s Theater House at Yale Repertory and Lincoln Center. performed in Maine, NYC, and the Chicago Bass Nomination, , Atlanta); Company, Utah Shakespeare, Getty Based in Chicago, his work has appeared Fringe Festival. She is a proud Equity The Lady with All the Answers (Cherry Lane, Villa Outdoor Theater, Delaware Theatre on most of the city’s stages including member and is represented by Paonessa New York); Animal Crackers (Baltimore Company, Paramount, Victory Gardens, Northlight (Shining Lives with Amanda Talent. gracesmithactor.com. Center Stage); Three Musketeers, The Drury Lane, Northlight, American Theater Dehnert), Goodman, Steppenwolf, Court and Tempest, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Company, Marriott, Griffin Theater, Windy Lookingglass, where he is an associate artist. Nothing (Utah Shakespeare Festival), City Playhouse, Steep Theater, Clarice He has composed music and designed sound and four productions at the Galway Smith Performing Arts Center, Dallas for theaters around the U.S., most frequently International Arts Festival. As a performer, Theatre Center, and Mercury Theater. Mr. at the Oregon and California Shakespeare he has appeared at Northlight, Goodman, Davis is a co-founder of the Chicago based Festivals, Berkeley Repertory, Arena Stage, 12 | NORTHLIGHT THEATRE NORTHLIGHT THEATRE | 13 COLOR COLOR

PROFILES ABOUT NORTHLIGHT THEATRE American Conservatory Theater, Seattle productions. Other recent projects: The Polar Repertory, La Jolla Playhouse and Center Express train ride, seven seasons of The Northlight distinguishes itself in the landscape of Chicago theatre through Theater Group. Choral works include: Christmas Schooner at Mercury Theater, and its compelling and compassionate work onstage and innovative and Winesburg, Ohio, Eastland, Whitman and productions at Victory Gardens, Route 66 impactful work offstage, including dynamic education and community Undone (with Ben Sussman) and Paris By Theatre Company, Theatre at the Center, and Night (with Amy Warren). Northlight’s productions of Chapatti and Stella engagement programs. Northlight’s story begins in 1974, when Gregory & Lou in Galway, Ireland. She is the proud wife Kandel, Mike Nussbaum, and Frank Galati established the Evanston Theatre DAVID WOOLLEY (Fight Choreographer & of actor Tom Hickey and mom to six-year-old Company in the Kingsley Elementary School Theater on Green Bay Road Intimacy Consultant) returns to Northlight Charlie, and has been a member of Actors’ in Evanston. The company evolved and expanded in the two decades that after working on The Beauty Queen of Equity for 18 years. Thank you for supporting followed, moving between several different locations in the North Shore area Leenane, and City on the Make. Chicago: live theatre! and adopting the name Northlight Theatre. The Gentleman Caller (Raven Theatre); Red Velvet, Mary Stuart (Chicago Shakespeare). TIMOTHY J. EVANS (Executive Director) Off Broadway:The Elaborate Entrance leads Northlight Theatre’s overall strategic, Northlight settled into its current home at the North Shore Center for the of Chad Deity (Second Stage Theater), management and long-range initiatives. Prior Performing Arts in Skokie in 1997. From then on, Northlight began a new Edmond (Provincetown Playhouse). to his arrival at Northlight, Tim spent over era of growth, quickly developing into one of the largest nonprofit theatres Regional: Three Musketeers, Henry V (Utah 20 years at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in the Chicagoland area led by Artistic Director BJ Jones, who took over in Shakespeare Festival); God of Carnage, in management and producing positions. He 1998. In 2007, he was joined by Executive Director Timothy J. Evans. Under Norma and Wanda (Oakland Press created, curated and produced Steppenwolf’s their joint leadership, Northlight has established itself as a regional magnet Award); The Adventure of the Elusive Ear, acclaimed TRAFFIC Series including a and Escanaba in da Moonlight (Purple partnership with Chicago Public Radio for critical and professional acclaim and a home for talent of the highest Rose Theatre). Mr Woolley is co-creator for subsequent broadcasts. Tim founded quality. and performs as Guido in Dirk & Guido: Steppenwolf Films, of which he is still a The Swordsmen!. He is the recipient of partner with , Terry Kinney and Jeff Today, Northlight’s programming includes: two Joseph Jefferson Awards for fight Perry, to develop film and television projects. direction, a professor at Columbia College He has served on the Board of Trustees of MAINSTAGE Northlight produces five mainstage productions per Chicago and a member of the College of the League of Chicago Theatres and on the season, with a spectrum of work ranging from timely world premieres Fight Masters with the Society of American theater selection panel for the Princess Grace Fight Directors. Foundation Awards. He also serves on the to refreshed classics. USA selection committee for The Eisenhower RITA VREELAND (Production Stage Fellows, Philadelphia, PA. Previously, Tim NEW PLAY DEVELOPMENT By the end of the 2019-20 season, Manager) is proud to be starting her served on the board of the Independent Film Northlight will have brought over 40 world-premiere plays to life and is 13th season at Northlight, where she Project (IFP) and was a charter member of the the recipient of ten Edgerton Foundation for New Play Awards. has the stage manager for over 30 Governor’s Task Force for Media Development. EDUCATION Our comprehensive arts education program reaches 4000

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BJ Jones Jasmine Henri Jordan Julie Chernoff,Vice President Artistic Director Kate Leslie Donna Frett, Vice President Edmund O’Brien Craig Smith, Vice President Timothy J. Evans Jeremy Ohringer Carole Cahill Executive Director Jenn Oswald Christy Callahan Will Quam Timothy Evans, Executive Director ADMINISTRATION Wilfredo Ramos Jr Freddi Greenberg General Manager Christopher Salveter Walter C. Greenough Janet Mullet Vanessa Strahan BJ Jones, Artistic Director Gus Thomas Matthew Magnuson Director of Advancement Susie McMonagle Kim Hoopingarner PRODUCTION Katy Okrent Production Manager Atlee Valentine Pope Institutional Relations Manager Scott Miller Robert J. Regan Morgan Ulyat Rahul Roy Technical Director Evelyn Salk, Trustee Emeritus Campaign/Advancement Administrator Emily Kneer Robert S. Silver Christina Ward Bob Silverman Assistant Technical Director/ Thomas D. Stringer Director of Marketing & Assistant to the Production Manager Mark Tendam Communications Kevin Lynch Mara Mihlfried Advisory Council Master Electrician/ Anne Berkeley Marketing Coordinator Light Board Operator Steven J. Bernstein Francisco Lopez Cory Drewry Karl Berolzheimer Gerhard Bette Director of Finance Audio Visual Engineer/ Edward Bradley Lisa Stern Sound Board Operator Margo Brown Jennifer Udoni-Sharp Michael R. Callahan* Associate General Manager/ Joe Cappo Company Manager Wardrobe Run Crew Marcia Caulkins Victoria Martini-Rosowicz Jenn Thompson Josh Chernoff Moises Diaz Dennis Clarkson Finance Administrator/ Beth Davis Group Sales Coordinator Floor Manager Paul Finnegan* Michelle Blendermann Victoria Fox Gene Frett Craig Golden ARTISTIC Scenic Charge Hall Literary Manager & Casting Associate Eileen Rozycki Tom Hazlett Kristen Osborn Karen Hunt Scenic Artist Ann Jennett Artistic Programs Manager Dominique Zaragoza Susan Karol* Sarah Slight Diana King Carpenters Paul Lehman* Artistic Fellow Jared Davis James Lytle Tasia A. Jones Tim Martin Michelle Marvin Gerry Reynolds Marcia Mead Stillerman EDUCATION Carol Mullins Director of Education & SERVICE PROVIDERS Phil Palmer ALDEN Community Engagement Public Relations Nicki Pearson Mara Stern Cathy Taylor PR, INC. Merril Prager Toby Sachs 4.625 x 3.75 in Education & Community Graphic Design Esther Saks* Engagement Manager Bridget Schultz Sara Schastok Margaret Bridges Ralph Segall Usher Coordinator David Seidman* Teaching Artists Vicki Weisberg, The Saints Jill Soderberg Kaiser Ahmed Ingrid Stafford Jessica Alldredge Insurance Trimmy Stamell* Kat Bramley Robert Nichols Claire Sucsy Sheldon Brown Timothy P. Sullivan Mikael Burke BOARD OF TRUSTEES John Syverstsen Kaylyn Carter J. Douglas Gray, Chair Greg Taubeneck Jazmin Corona Mark McCarville, President Bernice Weissbourd Matt Farabee James West, Treasurer *Past President/Chairperson Tiffany Fuison Paul Lehner, Secretary 16 | NORTHLIGHT THEATRE NORTHLIGHT THEATRE | 17 COLOR COLOR

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NORTHLIGHT DONORS A TRIBUTE TO LEGACY SOCIETY The Legacy Society is a group of Northlight Theatre is deeply grateful to the following contributors for their RALLA KLEPAK support. If you would like your name to appear differently or prefer committed supporters who have 1936 - 2019 to remain anonymous, please contact Morgan Ulyat at 847.324.1613 or included Northlight Theatre in their [email protected]. estate planning. Joining this group Ralla Klepak, This list reflects gifts received August 1, 2018 through August 20, 2019. who funded the ensures the next 45 years of Ralla Klepak CORPORATIONS, Presenting Sponsors Hagerty Consulting Trust for the • Intensely entertaining FOUNDATIONS $5,000-$9,999 John J. Cahill Inc. Performing Arts, productions serving 50,000+ audience members annually and GOVERNMENT Bridgeview Bank Group Kinder Morgan was inducted as AGENCIES Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Foundation a member of the • Dynamic education programs reaching thousands of students Full Circle Foundation LionBird Chicago LGBT Principal Sponsors Henrietta Lange Burk Mather LifeWays Hall of Fame annually in over 45 schools throughout the Chicago area $50,000 and Above Fund MB Financial Bank in 2017. She was an attorney The Davee Foundation Kirkland & Ellis Network for Good • New play development for Mattachine Midwest, one MacArthur Foundation Foundation North End Mothers’ Club championing new and emerging of the city’s first gay rights The Offield Family Jackie Mack & More Northwestern University organizations. Ralla defended playwrights Foundation Mammel Family Plante Moran gay rights when legal services The Shubert Foundation, Foundation Romano Wealth for the LGBTQ community “We want to ensure the theatre Inc. Niles Township Management were almost non-existent. She we’ve enjoyed for so many years Corporate Fund Vi at the Glen gained renown as a court- continues to be enjoyed by future Premiere Sponsors Polsinelli appointed lawyer and Guardian generations.” $20,000 - $49,999 Sanborn Family Under $1,000 Ad Litem representing children – Diane and Karl Berolzheimer, Illinois Arts Council Foundation Rotary International Allstate Insurance Dr. Scholl Foundation Campagnola in many contentious custody charter Legacy Society members Company Eckenhoff Saunders cases, while also taking BMO Harris Bank Lead Sponsors Architects, Inc. individual civil and criminal To learn more about estate gift options, contact Kimberly ComEd $2,500-$4,999 Evanston Awning Co., cases for people whom she Paul M. Angell Family Quarles & Brady LLP Inc. believed were being ill-treated Hoopingarner at 847.324.1614 or [email protected]. Foundation The Lerner Group at Forge Projects LLC by the legal system. HighTower Heart Certified Auto The Rice Young People’s Care We are honored to recognize the Executive Sponsors As a lover for the performing $10,000-$19,999 Endowment Illinois Tool Works following Legacy Society members: arts, she used the drama Anonymous Room & Board Foundation training she received at Bulley & Andrews The Woman’s Club of The Kiwanis Club of Northwestern University Diane and Karl Berolzheimer Edgerton Foundation Evanston Evanson to argue cases in court, Margo and Paul Brown The Elizabeth F. Cheney PNC Bank combining her love for the Josh and Julie Chernoff Foundation Sponsors Stephens Dentistry arts with her commitment to Ralla Klepak Evanston Community $1,000 - $2,499 Uline the rights of disadvantaged Freddi Greenberg and Dan Pinkert Foundation Blueleaf Lending children and the disabled. Lloyd Morgan The Harold and Mimi Byline Bank Carol and Steve Mullins Steinberg Charitable CoBank Trust Coldwell Banker Ms. Ralla Klepak left legacies Janet Mullet Modestus Bauer Evanston to her favorite Chicago Marcia Mead Stillerman Neal and Trimmy Stamell Foundation Edward Jones theaters, including Northlight The Pauls Foundation Evanston Arts Council Theatre, helping them create Skokie Community Evanston Community programs to support the For more information, visit northlight.org/donate Foundation Bank & Trust disabled and disadvantaged. Tom Stringer Design Foundation 65 Partners Gigio’s Pizzeria

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NORTHLIGHT Diana and Neil King Rahul and Anuradhika Roy Ellen K. Munro Katherine and Ray Haase Supporters VISIONARIES CIRCLE Leslie and Paul Lehner Anthony Burt and Karin Barbara and Daniel O’Keefe Eleanor Northrop Hall $100 - $249 Phillip Palmer and Michael Reutzel Marjorie Pelino Becky Harris Anonymous (15) Producers Noonan Sue and Tim Salisbury Atlee Valentine Pope and Joe Hasman Judith Aiello-Fantus $25,000 and Above Merle Reskin Horst and Sara Schastok Rick Pope Janet and Brian Hoffman Moreen Alexander Anonymous William and Eleanor Revelle Dan and Debra Scherman Andrew Porte Don and Betsy Hohman Judith and Trent Anderson J. Douglas Gray Penelope and Toby Sachs David and Christine Seidman Polly and Ken Rattner Louise A Holland Yvonne Anderson Mark and Kathy McCarville Keith and Ann Sarpolis Neal and Trimmy Stamell Roberta and Howard Rosell Karen and David Hughes Steve and Maria Ballantyne Kathleen Okrent and Peter Joyce and John Schladweiler Dr. Rhonda Stein and Dr. Ed Debby and Tim Schmid Kathleen and Hal Jenkins Cindy Barbera-Brelle Haleas Ralph and Nancy Segall Smolevitz Dr. G. Stephen and Ellen Doris J. Johnson Lou and Louise Barnett Thomas D. Stringer and Scott Marcie and Avy Stein Scholly Stephen Johnson Margi and Roger Baron E. Waller Company Claire Sucsy Susan and Brad Schulman Dr. Claudia Katz Anne Berkeley The Sullivan Family $1,000 - $2,499 Louise A. Sunderland David and Kimberly Shaw Brendan and Karmen Keane Bob Blitzke Foundation Anonymous (6) Mary and James West Eugene L. Shepp Dennis and Barbara Kessler Arlene and Hugh Block John and Linda Baker Lawrence and Nancy Wojcik Craig Smith Donna LaPietra and Bill Kurtis Patricia and Edward Blumen Playwrights Bob and Trish Barr Janet Carl Smith and Mel Elaine and Steve Lev Donald Bouseman $10,000 - $24,999 Sheryl and Christopher Bartol INDIVIDUAL ANNUAL Smith Ron and Mary Lewis Ed Bradley Anonymous Diane and Karl Berolzheimer FUND DONORS Fredric and Nikki Will Stein Sherry and Mel Lopata Frank and Barbara Brady Freddi Greenberg and Dan Max and Beth Boosalis Davis Ginny and Steven Towbin David Lynch and Catherine Deborah and Thomas Brejcha Pinkert Douglas Brown and Rachel Partners Mr. and Mrs. Charles Vogl Guillemin-Lynch Roger and Carol Brice Nan and Wally Greenough Kraft $500 - $999 Lewis Wagner Edward and Holly Mann Steven and Phyllis Brody Carol and Steve Mullins Vickie and Tim Burke Anonymous (6) Joyce Anne Wainio and John Charlene Marcus Lander and Jeanatte Brown Jim and sujo Offield Michael and Joan Callahan Larry and Mary Boeder Fulcher Bob and Barb McCullough Barbara Bunn and Marianne Oliva Mary Anne and Joe Cappo Mary and Jim Bowman Helen and Paul Weaver William Miceli and Cindy Ann and Dick Burnstine Melanie and Dan Peterson Scott Carter Robert and Sara Brenner Bernice Weissbourd Nowinski Brenda and Walter Bushala Greg and Anne Taubeneck Marcia Caulkins Bill and Marea Brichta Don Wiener and Mike Sari Mintz and Gary Morrison Richard Campbell Family Fund Bert Crossland Cindy Clark and Bob Regan Thallmer Martin W. Morris Linda Camras The Zunamon-Cunniff Family The Howard and Ursula Dubin Bob Creevy and Sarah Robert Willey Susan Mullen Rachel Cantor Foundation Hughes Janet Mullet Margaret Cantrell Directors Marci Eisenstein and John Joan Criswell Advocates Michelle and Scott Nelson John Carver $5,000 - $9,999 Treece David and Kate Cudnowski $250 - $499 Marsha and Richard Newman Carlo and Christine Cavallaro Mary Jane and Edward Mark Evans and Maureen Susan and David Curry Anonymous (2) Jamin and Phoebe Nixon Frank Cella and Trev Minnaert Chainski Moran John R. Dainauskas, MD Elbrey Harrell and Mary Joseph Olszewski Richard and Marcia Chessick Bernie Dowling Timothy and Jane Evans Linda and Alexander Darragh Badger Sanford and Jody Perl Lynn and Robert Clark M. J. O’Brien Family Robert and Maurita Freas Charles and Brigid Duffy Elizabeth and Rick Bald Beverly and Mitchell Petersen Mary and Dick Clark Foundation Bernard Friedman Gerace Ken Belcher and Sandra Ihm V Pristera Jr. Wade and Linda Clarke Donna and Gene Frett Susan Mabrey Gaud Jerry and Liz Ettinger Kathleen M Bell Barbara Putta Patrick and Barbara Clear Susan Karol and Glenn Linda and Hal Gerber Bess Evans and Dan Jon and Shelley Benson Norman and Helene Raidl Melanie and Robert Cody Warning Guy and Joan Gunzberg Holdaway Lorie Berger Ed and Susan Ritts Jeff and Liz Coney Mark Tendam and Neal Emily and Kevin Hansen Mark and Donna Falcone John and Vicki Bitner Ira Rosenthal Peter M. Christie and Joan Moglin Sheri and Charles Hawkins Bill and Sandra Farrow Michael Block Lee Ann Russo and Casey Corwin BJ Jones and Candy Corr Tom and Jan Hazlett Bonnie S. Forkosh and Dick Patrice Frey and Wally Miller John Culbert Keely Jones and Angie Frank Gerta Janss Cohen Bobkiewicz Kathleen and Philip Ryan Robert and Chie Curley Julie and Josh Chernoff Ann and Bernie Jennett Bridget Freas Nancy Bradt Bruce Sagan and Bette Cerf Tom and Carol Dammrich Susie McMonagle Douglas and Kathy Johnson Thomas and Patricia Gahlon Mike Brody and Libby Ester Hill Jeff and Paula Danoff Paul Lehman and Ronna Cameron and Emily Jones Craig Golden and Michal Margo and Paul Brown The Scherer Family Ray and Mary Dash Stamm Robert and Judy Kemp Heifitz-Golden Rev. Daniel P. Buck Michael Schnur and Janice Harrise and Jos Davidson Abel and Judy Friedman Adele and Roland Martel Robyn and David Grossberg Greg Cameron and Greg Liten Barbara and Peter DeBerge Evelyn Salk Michelle and Jim Marvin Brenda Hansen Thompson Marybeth Schroeder and Maria C Deizman Lisa Sandquist and Peter Marcia Mead Stillerman Carol and Jim Hansen Nick Canellis Charlie Vernon Mary Anne Diehl and James Kinney Linnea and John Mead Marilyn Heath Pat and Sandy Cantor Joan D Sears Kauffman Robert S. and Sandra G. Silver Lois Melvoin Todd Hensley and Lizanne Ron and Mary Charles Margaret and Alan Silberman Brian and Maureen Dixon Brian Montgomery and Laura Wilson Diana Cohen and David Bob and Lisa Silverman Joseph E. and Ruth B. Designers Armstrong Montgomery Donna and Steven Horwitz Spitulnik Bob and Debbie Silverstein Doninger $2,500 - $4,999 Lloyd Morgan Sarah Krepp and Carter Judy and Bill Cottle Geri Sizemore John Donoghue Carole Cahill Bill Nelson and Sherry Howard Arlene and Harvey Coustan Chuck and Sandy Sonneborn Judy and Michael Duhl Christy Callahan and Drew Graham Nelson Michaela Jones James Dahl Ann B. Stevens Joan Dutton Pfeifer Jordan and Jean Nerenberg Dr. Herb and Mrs. Adrienne Bruce Davidson Bob and Anne Sullivan John Dyble Joyce Chelberg Greg and Nicki Pearson Kamin Kimberly and Richard Dsida JWT Family Foundation Nancy Ebert James and Pam Elesh Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett Martin and Susanne Kanter Betsy and Steve Engelman Virginia Tolford Noreen Edwards and Mark Joan and Kevin Evanich Laurie and Michael Petersen Suzanne and Dan Kanter Roy and Marta Evans Betsy E. Tolstedt Metz L. Klug and B. Farrelly Merril Prager and John Levine Steve Krug and Lori Darling Mark Fennell Daniel and Lisa Tyler Jerry and Ellen Esrick Mary Ann and David Pat Price Judith Levin William and Lynda Frillman Pete and Laurel Mitchell and Maurice and Ruth Ettleson Grumman David and Elizabeth Richards Bonnie and Jay Lytle Neil and Marge Gambow Tyler Jessica T. Feldman Catherine Hayden and Tom Catherine and Bart Rocca Carol Majka Yvette Gideon and Rodger Margie and Mark Zivin Diane Filbin Carmichael Lisa and Jeff Rosenkranz Mara and Bob Mihlfried Sonneborn Dr. William and Carole Kim and Kirk Hoopingarner Piper and Jono Rothschild Margaret Steve and Anne Gilford Fishman

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Brooke Flanagan Grace and Richard Lehner Jeffrey Richards Bonny Wilson Good’s Fine Picture Framing Company Karen and John Flood Anne Leidner Sandi Riggs Ann and Arnie Wolff Gracie’s Revival Food Hall Sidney and Jackie Freedman Gregg and Carolyn Lemein Susan and Guy Robbins Mel Marino Wolff Green Spoon Catering Holly and David Reynolds Janice Friedlander Susan Levitt Eleanor Robien Cheryl Wollin Guildhall Richard Driehaus Museum Joan Friedman Thomas and Joan Lindsey Ed and Lavada Robinson John Wright Steve Hagerty and Lisa Rivendell Theater Ensemble Kathleen Gaffney Bill and Wendy Lipsman Joseph H. Romeo Michael Wright Altenbernd Room & Board Barbara Gaines Kathryn M. Lipuma Renee Rosenberg Maureen “Moe” Yanes Tom and Jan Hazlett Sanders Fine Portraits John and Mary Galati Bob and Dale Lubotsky Colleen Hughes and Donald Stacie Young Don and Betsy Hohman Rep. Jan Schakowsky Bryna and Edward P. Gamson Elizabeth Luby Rothschild Gary and Norma Zuckerman Kim and Kirk Hoopingarner Sideshow Theatre Elizabeth Ganitopoulos Ted and Judy Lucas James and Cynthia Rowe The House Theatre of Richard Small Elza and John Garnett Andrew Lysaught and Neal and Bonnie Rubin IN KIND Chicago Soul & Smoke Jean Gershuny Caroline Brown Norman and Patricia Sack Accents Plus Anonymous SoulCycle Ray and Sylvia Gilbert John and Martha Mabie Anne Schaefer Actors Gymnasium Images Med Spa Chicago White Sox Ethel and Bill Gofen Jackie and David Mack Marianne Schapiro Art & Science Salon Jameson’s Original SPACE Cindy Gold Richard P. and Brigid D. Pamela Davidson and Tim Avli Restaurant Charhouse The Spice House Joan Golder Magnuson Scherman Bagel Art Cafe Ann and Bernie Jennett Stained Glass Bistro and Peggy Bagley and Rabbi Margie Marcus Roche Schulfer and Mary The Joffrey Ballet Jill Norton Photography Cellar Douglas Goldhamer Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence Beth Fisher Ballroom Dance Chicago BJ Jones and Candy Corr Stella Evanston Marcia Goldstick Margolies Raquel Schuman Barb Meyer, Independent Koi Chinese & Sushi Thomas D. Stringer and Scott Sharon Gonsky Jeff Mariola Scott Seltzer Cabi Stylist Koval Distillery E. Waller Eve Gorman Eleanor Marsolais Ruth Sharps Beam Suntory Inc. LA Fitness Stuart-Rodgers Photography Jack and Violet Graber Howard and Jean May Jan and Art Sherman Bien Assorti Evanston La Macchina Cafe Stumble & Relish John and Patsy Grady Bobbi Meyers Jeff and Marilyn Sherman bloom-3 Lad and Lassie Sur la Table Larry Green Laura Michelini Joan Siavelis Bonefish Grill Skokie Le Peep Talia Rochelle Greenberg Gene Mikota Michael and Georgiana Malcolm S. Brown Lincoln Park Boat Club The Tempel Lipizzans Joan Guilianelli Lois Milburn Siegall Business Valuation Group, McGaw YMCA Temperance Beer Company Francis and Kate Guinan Lynne Miller Bruce and Sarane Siewerth Inc. Marge McMonagle Thalia Hall and Dusek’s Abraham and Carolyn Tony and MaryLou Mockus Kathryn Simon Julie and Josh Chernoff Marcia Mead Stillerman Trattoria D.O.C. Haddad Art Mollenhauer Don Huff and Jeanne Smith Chicago Architecture Center Amy Morton and Neil Levin Vera Bradley - Old Orchard John and Suzanne Hales Thomas and Elizabeth Charles and Pamela Smith Chicago Botanic Garden Jodi Mullet and Ken Clark Store Jeff and Jennifer Harris Monahan Cindy Smith Chicago Children’s Theatre The Music Institute of David Hawkanson Kendra Morril and Brett Margaret Snorf Chicago Magic Lounge Chicago Vin Chicago Thomas and Virginia Helm Johnson Alvin and Kate Spector Chicago Shakespeare Vineyard Vines Judy and Jay Heyman Ann Morris and Vada Woods Elyssa Joy Springer Theater NaKorn - Urban Thai Vinic Wine Company Joyce and Rich Hirsch Douglas Morrison William and Ingrid Stafford Museum of Contemporary (Evanston) Chicago Public Media - Elizabeth Holding Kevin Mott Evelyn Stearns Art Chicago Napolita Pizzeria & Wine Bar WBEZ Cheryl Holm John and Martha Muno Judy Stern Dennis and Franny Clarkson Nick’s Neighborhood Bar + Wilmette Massage Center Don Honchell and Susan Horn Kathryn Murphy Abby L. Strauss ComedySportz Chicago Grill Wirtz Center for the Mary Jane and Lawrence Ron and Mary Nahser Rosalie Streng Corepower Yoga Old Orchard The Noodle and Depot Performing Arts, Horwitz Carol Napoli Jim JR Sullivan and Cheryl Nuevo Northwestern University Jackie and Bill Ieuter Michael and Kathleen Nash Hamada Cupitol Coffee and Eatery The Rice Young People’s Alysa and Barry Isaacson Steve and Kate Newman Dr. Arnold and Priscilla Sutker DMK Restaurants Endowment Jancy Jerome and Dan Jennifer Newton Valerie Swanson Drury Lane Theatre Northwestern University HOSPITALITY PARTNERS Lipson Margaret T. Nicosia Gerard Swick Escape Artistry Athletics The DoubleTree Hotel Larry Jones and Susan Knight Marcus Nunes Chuck and Judy Swisher Essa Dora Salon and Spa Northwestern University/ Hearth Restaurant Alice Jones Gladys Nutt Lauren and Joseph Szwiec Evanston Art Center Bienen School of Music Hecky’s Barbecue Dan and Michelle Jordan Tom and Cathy Omundson Gail and Bernard Talbert Evanston Athletic Club Nothing Bundt Cakes The Homestead Irv Kaage Jerry Oswald and Kathy Ann Taylor and Gil Sharon Evanston Symphony One Key Yoga Gigio’s Pizzeria Laurie Kabb Fredricks Oswald Cathy Taylor Orchestra peace by piece Koi Fine Asian Cuisine and Sono Fujii and Claudio Katz Michael and Diane Paley Mary Tobin Feast & Imbibe Catering The Performer’s School Lounge Dori Keller Roger Parfitt Shila Tuchman Group Melanie and Dan Peterson Nothing Bundt Cakes Nancy Kellman Eleanor Parker Mary Ellen Van Ness State Rep. Laura Fine Piece Brewery & Pizzeria Room and Board John Kennedy and Carol Eric and Patty Perrin Andria Venezia Firefly Kitchen Pilates Connection Sweet Ali’s Gluten Free Hammerman Genevieve Phelps Alexis Wallace Art by Arianna Prairie Grass Bakery Peggy King Anita and Seymour Platt Stan Waller Frank Lloyd Wright Trust Pro Skin By Afsan Allan and Tanya Klasser Tom Platt Ellen Wartella Donna and Gene Frett Raven Theatre John and Sue Klemmer David Powell Tamara Waskin State Rep. Robyn Gabel Remy Bumppo Theatre Bianca Jerry Kohlenbrener Sally Prager William and Barbara Welke Gilbert and Carolyn Krulee Carol Prieto Wertheimer Box Corp Mary S. Kurz Ronald Raben Catherine Westphal William Lampkin Lynn and Jim Rainwaters Jon-Micheal and Stephanie

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