Edition 3 | 2019-2020

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THE HUMAN RACE THEATRE COMPANY KAPPY KILBURN, Executive Director and KEVIN MOORE, Artistic Director present

Directed by Marya Spring Cordes+

FEBRUARY 27-MARCH 15, 2020

Set Designer Lighting Designer Costume Designer Tamara L. Honesty John Rensel+ Ayn Kaethchen Original Projections Projection Designer Sound Designer Designed by John Riechers Jay Brunner+ Elaine J. McCarthy Stage Manager Producers Jacquelyn Duncan* Kevin Moore and Tara Lail Written by Emily Mann

Original Off-Broadway production produced by Daryl Roth and directed by Diane Paulus. Commissioned by Lincoln Center Theater by special arrangement with Daryl Roth. With special thanks to the American Repertory Theater and McCarter Theatre Center. GLORIA: A LIFE is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

humanracetheatre.org 3 4 THE HUMAN RACE THEATRE COMPANY ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S NOTE Playwright Emily Mann said, “I could not have the life I led without Gloria Steinem.” And many women echo her sentiments. We are thrilled to kick off 2020 with the regional premiere of Emily Mann’s new play, GLORIA: A LIFE – all about Ohio’s own, Gloria Steinem. Steinem has spent her lifetime fighting for the rights of all women – as a journalist and an activist. She believes that dialogue is the catalyst for change, which is reflected in both her life and this play. With the #MeToo movement at its peak, this play could not be more timely. (Credit must be given to our Executive Director, Kappy Kilburn, who worked on the New York production right before coming to join our staff. And those connections have made it possible for us the produce this show right now. And to Associate Artistic Director, Tara Lail, who has served this production as the lead producer.) I hope you enjoy the dialogue! Continuing our Women of Influence in the Movies film series at the Neon, please consider extending your GLORIA experience on Monday, March 2 at 7:30 pm, with the new documentary 9 to 5: The Story of a Movement by Dayton’s own, award-winning filmmakers, Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar. Other events to mark on your calendar: •Our next Monday Night Playreading will feature The Submission by Jeff Talbott. Described as “…a raw, unsentimental play about race and gender that exposes the quiet prejudice and intolerance among even our most progressive thinkers. It is both uncomfortable and impossible to not watch.” Monday, March 9 at 7 pm in the Loft Theatre. Tickets are available through Ticket Center Stage. •Because we are not busy enough, we have a great addition to our Women of Influence season. We will feature our own Jen Joplin in her one-woman show, The MILF Also Rises on Monday, March 16 and Tuesday, March 17 at 7 pm. Tickets start at $20 and are available through Ticket Center Stage. (more info in the playbill) All of these are a perfect celebration of March 2020 being Women’s History Month! Celebrate the influential women in your life. Thanks for attending The Human Race! Kevin Moore Artistic Director & Founding Member humanracetheatre.org 5 THE CAST

Gloria...... Jennifer Johansen* Woman 2...... Burgess Byrd* Woman 5...... Rae Buchanan Woman 6...... Eileen Earnest Woman 3...... Sherman Fracher* Woman 4...... Andréa Morales Woman 1...... Aurea Tomeski*

THE CREW Technical Director...... Isaac Harris Head Carpenter/Charge Artist...... Eric Moore Carpenter/Scenic Artist ...... Alexander Capeneka Production Stage Manager...... Jacquelyn Duncan Assistant to the Director/Moderator...... Michelle “Elle” Zimmerman Production Assistant...... Anna Moore Props Master...... Mikayla Burr Costume Shop Manager...... Debra Howard Wardrobe...... Andrew Ian Adams Projection Operator...... Alexander Koker Sound Engineer...... Bailey Olean Production Artwork...... Dave Arnold Sign Interpreters...... Miami Valley Interpreters Audio Description...... Gayle Smith Publicity Photographer...... Heather N. Powell Production Photographer...... Scott J. Kimmins

Gloria: A Life is performed without an intermission.

+ Resident Artist with The Human Race Theatre Company * Appearing through an Agreement between this theatre and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Equity Membership Candidate (EMC) The scenic designer for this production is represented by United Scenic Artists, Local 829 of the IATSE.

Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 49,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org

6 THE HUMAN RACE THEATRE COMPANY OUR SPONSORS GLORIA: A LIFE PRODUCTION SPONSORS R. Doug Annala Larry Glickler, Glickler Funeral Home Marni Flagel Alice and Burt Saidel The Hope-Aholics

THE LOFT SEASON SPONSOR

WOMEN OF INFLUENCE OFFICIAL SEASON SPONSOR

ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY

2019-2020 SUSTAINABILITY SPONSORS ELM Foundation | Steve and Lou Mason | Anne F. Johnson

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Gloria Steinem is a writer, political activist, and feminist organizer. She was a founder of New York and Ms. magazines, and is the author of My Life on the Road, Moving Beyond Words, Revolution from Within, and Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, all published in the United States, and in India, As If Women Matter. She co-founded the National Women’s Political Caucus, the Ms. Foundation for Women, the Free to Be Foundation, and the Women’s Media Center in the United States. As links to other countries, she helped found Equality Now, Donor Direct Action, and Direct Impact Africa. For her writing, Steinem has received the Penney-Missouri Journalism Award, the Front Page and Clarion awards, the National Magazine Award, the Lifetime Achievement in Journalism Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Society of Writers Award from the United Nations, and the University of Missouri School of Journalism Award for Distinguished Service in Journalism. In 1993, her concern with child abuse led her to co-produce an Emmy Award–winning TV documentary for HBO, Multiple Personalities: The Search for Deadly Memories. She and Amy Richards co-produced a series of eight documentaries on violence against women around the world for VICELAND in 2016. In 2013, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama. In 2019, she received the Freedom Award from the National Civil Rights Museum.

Here’s a bit more about Gloria's career:

In 1972, she co-founded Ms. magazine, and remained one of its editors for fifteen years. She continues to serve as a consulting editor for Ms., and was instrumental in the magazine’s move to join and be published by the Feminist Majority Foundation. In 1968, she had helped to found New York magazine, where she was a political columnist and wrote feature articles. As a freelance writer, she was published in Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, and women’s magazines as well as for publications in other countries. She has produced a documentary on child abuse for HBO, a feature film about the death penalty for Lifetime, and been the subject of profiles on Lifetime and Showtime.

Ms. Steinem helped to found the Women’s Action Alliance, a pioneering national information center that specialized in nonsexist, multiracial children’s education, and the National Women’s Political Caucus, a group that continues to work to advance the numbers of pro-equality women in elected and appointed office at a national and state level. She also co-founded the Women’s Media Center in 2004. She was president and co-founder of Voters for Choice, a pro-choice political action committee for twenty-five years, then with the Planned Parenthood Action Fund when it merged with VFC for the 2004 elections. She was also co-founder and serves on the board of Choice USA (now URGE), a national organization that supports young pro-choice leadership and works to preserve comprehensive sex education in schools. She is the founding president of the Ms. Foundation for Women, a national multi-racial, multi-issue fund that supports grassroots projects to empower women and girls, and also a founder of its Take Our Daughters to Work Day, a first national day devoted to girls that has now become an institution here and in other countries. She was a member of the

8 THE HUMAN RACE THEATRE COMPANY Beyond Racism Initiative, a three-year effort on the part of activists and experts from South Africa, Brazil and the United States to compare the racial patterns of those three countries and to learn cross-nationally. She works with the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College on documenting the grassroots origins of the U.S. women’s movement, and on a Center for Organizers in tribute to Wilma Mankiller, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. As links to other countries, she helped found Equality Now, Donor Direct Action and Direct Impact Africa.

As a writer, Ms. Steinem has received the Penney- Missouri Journalism Award, the Front Page and Clarion awards, National Magazine awards, an Emmy Citation for excellence in television writing, the Women's Sports Journalism Award, the Lifetime Achievement in Journalism Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Society of Writers Award from the United Nations, the James Weldon Johnson Medal for Journalism, the University of Missouri School of Journalism Award for Distinguished Service in Journalism and the 2015 Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award. In addition to her bestsellers, her writing also appears in many anthologies and textbooks, and she was an editor of Houghton Mifflin’s The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History.

Ms. Steinem graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Smith College in 1956, and then spent two years in India on a Chester Bowles Fellowship. She wrote for Indian publications, and was influenced by Gandhian activism. She also received the first Doctorate of Human Justice awarded by Simmons College, the Bill of Rights Award from the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, the National Gay Rights Advocates Award, the Liberty award of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Ceres Medal from the United Nations, and a number of honorary degrees. Parenting magazine selected her for its Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995 for her work in promoting girls’ self-esteem, and Biography magazine listed her as one of the 25 most influential women in America. In 1993, she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York. In 2014, she received The Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Medal Award and in 2013, President Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor. Rutgers University is now creating the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies.

In 1993, her concern with child abuse led her to co-produce and narrate an Emmy Award-winning TV documentary for HBO, “Multiple Personalities: The Search for Deadly Memories.” With Rosilyn Heller, she also co-produced an original 1993 TV movie for Lifetime, “Better Off Dead,” which examined the parallel forces that both oppose abortion and support the death penalty. She is also host and executive producer of the Emmy-nominated VICE series, WOMAN.

Gloria has been the subject of three television documentaries, including HBO’s Gloria: In Her Own Words, and she is among the subjects of the 2013 PBS documentary MAKERS, a continuing project to record the women who made America. She was the subject of The Education of a Woman, a biography written by Carolyn Heilbrun.

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EMILY MANN (Playwright) Multi-award-winning Director and Playwright Emily Mann is the Artistic Director and Resident Playwright of the Tony Award winning McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, New Jersey. Her plays include: Having Our Say, adapted from the book by Sarah L. Delany and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth (Hull-Warriner Award, Peabody Award, Christopher Award; Tony awards, Outer Critics, Drama Desk award nominations); Execution Of Justice (Bay Area Theatre Critics Award, Playwriting Award from the Women’s Committee of the Dramatists Guild, Burns Mantle Yearbook Best Play Citation, Drama Desk nomination); Still Life (six Obie Awards); Annulla, An Autobiography; Greensboro (A Requiem); an adaptation of I.B. Singer’s novel Meshugah; and Mrs. Packard (Kennedy Center’s Fund for New American Plays). Adaptations: Scenes From A Marriage (Drama League Award nomination), Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, A Seagull In The Hamptons, The House Of Bernarda Alba, Baby Doll, and Antigone. She was awarded a Princeton University Honorary Doctorate of Arts, a 2015 Helen Merrill Distinguished Playwrights’ Award, and a 2015 Margo Jones Award given to a “citizen-of-the-theatre who has demonstrated a lifetime commitment to the encouragement of the living theatre everywhere.”

MARYA SPRING CORDES (Director) has a career that is a blissful blend of performing, directing and teaching other theatre artists. She is Associate Professor and serves as Head of Acting in Wright State University’s Department of Theatre, Dance, and Motion Pictures. At The Human Race Theatre Company, directing credits include Sylvia, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Managing Maxine and Becky’s New Car. At WSU, most recent productions include The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe and The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Nighttime by Simon Stephens. Marya has been seen in recent years onstage regionally in Dayton with The Human Race Theatre in Americana Christmas, and Dayton Philharmonic/Human Race Theatre Company’s Best of Broadway I & II at the Schuster Center. In Columbus with Short North Stage she walked in the shoes of Desiree in A Little Night Music. She is an active member of Actors’ Equity Association, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and was recently elected Co-chair of the Executive Board of Alexander Technique International. Marya is a proud Resident Artist of The Human Race Theatre Company.

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JENNIFER JOHANSEN (Gloria) returns for her eighth production at The Race and is elated to be a part of the Women of Influence season. A few HRTC favorites include: Sex With Strangers, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, and God of Carnage. At home in Indianapolis, Jen has appeared in numerous shows at the Phoenix Theatre, including: The Christians, Hir, On Clover Road, and the World Premier of Tom Horan’s The Pill, and in over twenty productions at the Indiana Repertory Theatre where highlights include: The Syringa Tree, The Game’s Afoot, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Holmes and Watson, and A Christmas Carol. She has also performed with Chicago Shakespeare Theater, The Kitchen Theatre, Geva Theatre Center, and Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati. Jen is proud to both be a new member of the Indianapolis Shakespeare Company, with whom she has performed in Coriolanus and Hamlet, and to serve on the board of a new company, American Lives Theatre. Much gratitude and love to Tara, Kevin, Marya and this team of warriors, and to my husband Rob and my family. Most humble gratitude to Gloria Steinem and the countless individuals who have lit the fires so that we might continue to fan them and poke more light into the darkness. Thank you for supporting The Human Race.

RAE BUCHANAN (Woman 5) is thrilled to make her Human Race debut! Rae holds an MFA in Acting (Purdue University) and BA in Musical Theatre (Weber State University). She has performed both regionally and internationally, including a German/ English production of Faust (Gretchen) and is a resident artist with The Playground Theatre (Jewels, Stained Glass; Dawn, The Library; Jenny, Assistance; Anna, Feast; Amy, Tape, Jessica; This Is Our Youth.) Currently, Rae can be seen performing in the Know Theatre’s original touring shows (Alice, Alice In Neverland; Meetra, Dragon Up) and as a healthcare clown at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Rae also shares her passion for the arts as an educator, holding original workshops and partnering with institutions such as Interlochen Center for the Arts, Urbana University and Franklin University. For more information, please visit RaeBuchananActor.com.

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BURGESS BYRD (Woman 2) is delighted to be back at Human Race! Previously she was seen here in Higher Ground in the 2000-2001 season under the direction of Sheila Ramsey and Artistic Director Marsha Hanna. Recently, she was seen at Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati’s The Frog Princess (Madame Tsar), Skeleton Crew (Faye Davison), Detroit ‘67 (Bunny), Red Velvet (Connie), This Random World (Bernadette). In 2018, she was a Guest Artist at University of Texas at Austin in an updated production of The Merchant of Venice (Shylock.) Some of her favorite roles have been in Raisin In The Sun (Lena Younger), Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (Tilly) at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company; Doubt (Mrs. Muller) at Glenmore Playhouse; Avenue Q (Gary Coleman) at The Carnegie Center; Steel Magnolias (Clairee Belcher) at Covedale Theatre; Harry and The Thief (Shiloh) and Pretty Fire (Charlayne Woodward) at Know Theatre Cincinnati. Many thanks to Tara Lail, Kevin Moore and Marya Cordes for the opportunity to play with these strong, passionate and fierce ladies!

EILEEN EARNEST (Woman 6) is an actress/ improviser based in Cincinnati, OH. Improv/Sketch Troupes: Two Sketchy Dames, OTRimprov, ComedySportz Cincinnati, and Dinner Detective. Recent Performance credits: 39 Steps (Clown 2), A Christmas Carol (Marley/Past/Present/Future), Hocus Pocus (Mary Sanderson), Golden Girls Murder Mystery (Rose Nylund), and Mercury (Olive.) Previous Human Race Theatre credit: Lazzi-Faire Commedia School Tour (Isabella/Eileen.) She sends this much and more to DSKR and thanks you for supporting live theater. She is also standing riiiight behind you. Send a hello at eileen-earnest.com

A Christmas Story Photo credit: Scott J. Kimmins

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SHERMAN FRACHER (Woman 3) is delighted to return to The Human Race Theatre Company. Most recently, HRTC audiences saw her as Sonia in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Earlier shows with HRTC include Other Desert Cities, Steel Magnolias, Anton in Show Business and Three Days of Rain. More recently, she played Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf at Athens West Theatre company, and Isabelle Arc in the Mother of the Maid at Marin Theatre Company. Sherman was a long-time Resident Artist with the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company and has appeared in many productions there including Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, The Seagull, Much Ado about Nothing, Pride and Prejudice, and A Streetcar Named Desire. Other theatres include Actors Theatre of Louisville, Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati, and Georgia Shakespeare. Sherman makes her home in central Kentucky, where she lives with her husband, Director/Actor/Fight Choreographer Drew Fracher.

ANDRÉA MORALES (Woman 4) is delighted to return to The Human Race! Prior HRTC credits include The Full Monty and Hail Mary!. Recent shows include Native Gardens (Tania), Always, Patsy Cline (Louise), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Judy), and Airline Highway (Francis). Select regional credits include It’s a Wonderful Life-The Radio Play (American Theatre Company), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Harbor County Theatre Festival), and A Chorus Line (NightBlue Theatre). Andréa has performed with Southwest Shakespeare, Sedona Shakespeare, Richmond Shakespeare Festival, Adventure Stage Chicago, and Geffen Playhouse. World premieres include Not Your Generic Latina (Teatro Luna), The Toymaker’s War (Alcyone Festival), and The Sun Serpent (Childsplay). She is an Artistic Associate of Magnolia Theatre Company, seen in Parallel Lives and Gidion’s Knot (Daytony- Best Actress.) Andréa is a Company Member for Childsplay, Arizona. İMi familia es mi vida! Visit ms-andreamorales.com

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AUREA TOMESKI (Woman 1) is originally from South Florida, and is a New York based actor, producer, and teaching artist. Recent New York credits: The White Dress (CIA Productions), Dirty July (Monsterpiece Theatre Collective), Lamia (NY Fringe), The Improbable Fall, Rise, & Fall of John Law (Dreamscape Theatre), Dead Special Crabs (Wide Eyed Productions), Tapefaces (Ars Nova.) Favorite regional credits: The Giver (National Tour), Shakespeare in Love (Shakespeare Theatre of NJ), Julius Caesar (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival), Macbeth (California Shakespeare Company), Oliver Twist (A Noise Within.) Additionally, she has worked with New York Shakespeare Exchange, New York Stage and Film, The Lark, and Ensemble Studio Theatre. She has appeared in numerous national commercials, web-series, and independent films. As a producer, Aurea is passionate about bringing original, socially- conscious work to the forefront. MFA from The New School. Proud member of Actors’ Equity. Find out more at www.aureatomeski.com. Instagram: @TheAureaT

Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill Photo credit: Heather N. Powell

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BEHIND THE SCENES

TAMARA L. HONESTY (Scenic Designer) is delighted to return to The Human Race Theatre! A few of her favorite designs at HRTC include Banned from Baseball, Family Ties, Crowns, Other Desert Cities, Becky’s New Car, Lombardi, and Managing Maxine. She also enjoys designing theatre for young audiences, having designed ten shows for Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park’s Educational Touring Company. Her designs have been on stages from New York City to the Midwest and as far south as Florida. Recently, the book she co-authored, The Fake Food Cookbook, was published. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Scenic Design at Kent State University. Check out her website at www.edwardlaynedesigns.com

AYN KAETHCHEN (Costume Designer) is a Museum Educator at the Dayton Art Institute. When not designing costumes for local theaters including The Human Race Theatre Company or for local residents, she plies her trade as an accomplished singer-songwriter, jazz vocalist and local artisan on the Dayton, Ohio scene. She is the former Company Manager for the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company and was also the Lead Teaching Artist for a local puppet company. She has also taught art and fashion at the Rosewood Arts Centre and K-12 Gallery as well as for community groups and at local schools. All work is dedicated to her beloved spawn: Z, Jay and Leo, and her person, Swann.

JAY BRUNNER (Sound Designer) has designed sound, music directed, performed and composed music for countless theatrical events and is proud to call The Human Race his artistic home. He has composed music and recorded audio projects for many musical groups, voiceovers, regional commercials, radio spots, training videos, collegiate theatre projects, marching bands, clubs, and organizations. Jay owns and operates a professional recording studio (Audio Forest) with his wife, fellow HRTC Resident Artist Christine Brunner.

JOHN RENSEL (Lighting Designer) is the long-term Resident Lighting Designer for The Human Race Theatre Company, Muse Machine, the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra Pops series and Dayton Opera Association. He also serves as the long-time Technical Director for the Fraze Pavilion and has provided technical advance production coordination, lighting designs, automation programming and performance operation services for many artists and productions that have visited that venue. John also has a diverse dance lighting background, having provided lighting designs and technical production services for many years to The Dayton Ballet and Dayton Contemporary Dance Co. John’s national credits included a lighting design package for a National Touring Production of the Elton John/Tim Rice collaboration Aida. Some of his most recent local credits include all the

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designs for The Human Race Theatre Company’s season at the Loft Theatre; Muse Machine’s productions at the Victoria Theatre and the Dayton Opera Association’s season at the Schuster Center. John recently swept the leaves out of his garage.

JACQUELYN DUNCAN (Stage Manager) is delighted to be Stage Managing Gloria: A Life in her fourth season with HRTC! Jacquelyn received her BFA in Theatre Design and Technology with an emphasis in Stage Management from Wright State University. During her collegiate years, Jacquelyn had the pleasure of working for Adam Pascal, Jason Robert Brown, and Tom Hanks. Her first show with HRTC was Hail Mary! back in October 2016. After nine consecutive shows as the Production Assistant, she was promoted to Production Stage Manager in Spring 2018 during Brighton Beach Memoirs. Jacquelyn is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and encourages you all to follow us on social media! “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” -Gloria Steinem

MICHELLE “ELLE” ZIMMERMAN (Moderator) Dayton audiences may remember Michelle from performances at The Human Race Theatre’s Loft Stage, Dayton Opera, Fraze Pavilion, and the Victoria Theatre before she had her three children, Noah, Mirabelle and Oliver. (all of which made their own stage debuts in utero!) Her favorite Dayton roles include Anne in A Little Night Music, Yonah in Children of Eden, Janet in Rocky Horror, Beehive, and Sarah Brown in a concert of Guys and Dolls with the Dayton Philharmonic. Michelle is a member of Actors’ Equity and works as a live and on-camera spokesperson having been featured on a number of PBS programs. As a previous HRTC Resident Artist, Michelle is proud be back with The Human Race for Gloria: A Life, this time honored to be learning from the directing expertise of Marya. Currently, she is host of the podcast SHE MADE IT featuring women creatives and their journey to fulfillment. Ellezimmerman.com

9 TO 5: THE STORY OF A MOVEMENT (2020 work in progress)

In the early 1970s, a group of women office workers in Boston decided they’d suffered in silence long enough. Largely forgotten today, their movement was a unique convergence of those fighting for both women’s and labor rights. Still-relevant issues such as workplace harassment, equal pay for equal work, and the “glass ceiling” were brought to the national stage by the 9 to 5 movement. This new documentary was directed by Dayton filmmakers Julia Reichert and Steve Bognar.

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The Human Race Theatre Company is Dayton’s official professional theatre company, exploring the human experience and promoting enlightenment, inclusion, and understanding through quality entertainment for 33 years. By focusing on award-winning, cutting-edge dramas and comedies, American classics, regional and world premieres, and the development of new plays and musicals—and by uniting artists from across the country with artists in our own backyard—we enjoy a growing reputation and national recognition for excellence in theatre. We are at home in both the intimate setting of the Loft Theatre, and on a larger scale at the historic Victoria Theatre and appearances at the Schuster Center. Our youth education and community engagement programs reach thousands every year. Our Resident Artists have been inducted into the Dayton Theatre Hall of Fame and recognized with the Governor’s Award for the Arts.

Kappy Kilburn, Executive Director Kevin Moore, Artistic Director STAFF Lisa Arlt, Finance Manager Tara Lail, Associate Artistic Director Mikayla Burr, Props Master Beth Metcalf, Administrative Intern Alexander Capeneka, Carpenter/Scenic Artist Eric Moore, Head Carpenter/Charge Artist Isaac Harris, Technical Director The Ohlmann Group, Marketing Partners Debra Howard, Costume Shop Manager Haley Sylvester, Accountant Jennifer Joplin, Development Manager

BOARD OF TRUSTEES Officers A.J. Kessler, Chair Heather Bailey, Vice Chair H. Todd Kepler, Secretary Linda Deitz, Treasurer

Board Members Elizabeth Connor, Larry Glickler, Shannon Jackson, Ileana Marin, Jennifer McCormick, Jaresha Moore, Beth Schaeffer, David P. Williamson

RESIDENT ARTISTS Christine Brunner, Jay Brunner, Deb Colvin-Tener, Jamie Cordes, Marya Spring Cordes, Bruce Cromer, Joe Deer, Sean Michael Flowers, Richard E. Hess, Scott Hunt, Alan Bomar Jones, Jennifer Joplin, Caitlin Larsen, Tim Lile, Patricia Linhart, Michael Kenwood Lippert, Jake Lockwood, Kevin Moore, Katie Pees, Scott Stoney

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HOUSE POLICIES

LATECOMERS For the consideration of our patrons, latecomers and patrons leaving during a performance for any reason will be seated on a seat-available basis to the rear of the house at the house manager’s discretion. The performance may be viewed in the lobby.

CHILDREN Some productions at the Loft Theatre are inappropriate for children. Parents are advised to use their own discretion.

RECORDING AND PHOTOGRAPHS All video or audio recording of any portion of this production is strictly prohibited. The taking of photographs is also prohibited.

THEATRE ETIQUETTE Please turn off alarms, pagers, and cellular phones. For everyone’s enjoyment of the performance, please refrain from talking, unwrapping candy, text messaging, or the excessive use of perfume. If you experience a disturbance, please notify an usher and the situation will be handled discreetly. Remember to turn off your cell phone again after intermission.

BEVERAGES While beverages purchased at our Loft Bar may be taken into the theatre, we remind you to be sensitive to our other patrons.

SMOKING The Metropolitan Arts Center is a smoke-free building. All onstage smoke, fog, and haze effects are created with water-based, nontoxic materials.

LOST AND FOUND If you believe you may have lost or left a personal item at the Loft Theatre, call The Human Race offices at 937-461-3823 weekdays 10-4, and we will make every effort to locate your property and arrange its return.

EMERGENCIES Emergency Phone Messages can be received during the performance by leaving your name and seat location with the house manager. Leave our emergency phone number, 937-225-3503 ext. 1, with those who may need to reach you. Messages will be delivered to you as soon as possible.

The Loft Theatre at the Metropolitan Arts Center is managed by Victoria Theatre Association, provider of box office, concessions, security, janitorial, and house management services for The Human Race Theatre Company.

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