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PLUS Introducing artistic director Johanna Pfaelzer Berkeley Rep premieres: where are they now? Francis Turnly: scribe and shepherd

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FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR GW.program.encore.3.indd 5 FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Theatre and adear friend who was one of my firstcalls began as I you read as many scripts with as Ido! Next Francis himself, aself- But But second production of this play (previously seen only in London) was withstarted Nina Steiger, the senior dramaturg at the National series of conversations many years in the making. In this case, it to program this season. She sent Francis’ me play and Ifound the first show of this first season politically be to astute, emotion tools to examine our reactions, and the context to engage with a delight to learn that adirector Ihad so long admired had such a againstartistry which Ihave measured other works ever since. What when Imoved to nyc in general, and Berkeley Rep in particular, feels to like me the leavingworth his sheep farm in Ireland! Northern ally transporting, and of sweeping theatricality. expectations...! No myself reading it like apage-turner or athriller, arare delight when nity totogether reflect, and separately, on what it a is of be part to play, under the direction of Mark Wing-Davey. course Of Iwanted and and Mark, the other extraordinary writers, directors, actors, perfect containerperfect for these vital discussions. like Artists Francis our audience. It is my that hope this play will give us the opportu Churchill’sof Caryl Forest Mad described Japanese Ulsterman, for whom the opportunity to have a each other in adeep and rigorous way. experiences may similar be to or wildly ours, different, give us the explore and empathize with characters whose perspectives and course of this season, allow us access to worlds not our own, to designers, composers, and technicians who will join us over the community Ilove, in atheatre Ihave admired for Theatre decades. long history here at Berkeley Rep. long to find your way back. family, to acitizen be of anation, to separated be from home, and to The Great The Wave And ofAnd course crucial the next phase of conversation is with you, thenAnd with Mark Wing-Davey, whose seminal production This production, like so much of our is work, the result of a I am so excited and grateful to back be in Berkeley, a Johanna Pfaelzer Johanna Warmly, Looking forward to all of it! is all those things, and so much more. in 1991, and one became of the benchmarks in 1991, of Stage and Film, and anticipating anew life zones and cities, bringing to aclose my Berkeley Rep with Francis Turnly’s beautiful this moment next in the storied history of tenure as artistic director of York New topics have at been the forefront of my mind this year, as Ihave straddled time for myself and my family here in Berkeley. Family. Identity. Home. Politics. I am so pleased and proud to launch Perhaps it’s no surprise that those was one of the first showssaw I

- - 2019–20 · ISSUE 1· ISSUE · 2019–20 ·5 MAGAZINE REP BERKELEY THE 8/29/19 4:27 PM FROM THE MANAGING DIRECTOR 8/29/19 4:27 PM - - - As I absorb the national and international international and national As the I absorb for the past year on selecting plays for her first her for plays selecting on year past the for After working working thisSo, beginning!new is a After of us need to hear, see, and connect through through connect see, and hear, need to us of news these days, I think that more than ever all all ever than more that I think days, these news in person. I have had the pleasure of getting getting of pleasure the had person. I have in to know her over the course of this last year. year. last this of course the over her know to resonant good, on human, places she value the season, Johanna has finally arrived in Berkeley, in Berkeley, arrived finally has Johanna season, stories, well told. well stories, This season is unequivocally hers. It reflects hers. It unequivocally is season This real soon, I hope. real

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For the past year Johanna has taken on the enormous task of planning her inaugural season at Berkeley Rep while finishing her last season as artistic directorN of New York Stage and Film (nysaf), which produces its season during the summer. OUR STORIES. OUR THEATRE. We caught up with her by phone a few weeks in advance of herH official move to the Bay Area with her husband, lighting YOU HAVE A ROLE TO PLAY. designer Russell H. Champa, and their son, Jasper. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE A Text BACKSTAGE to 71777 berkeleyrep.org/give BE A DONOR. BE A REP.

2019–20 · ISSUE 1 · THE BERKELEY REP MAGAZINE · 9 OGW.program.encore.3.indd 9 AN8/29/19 4:27 PM What excites you about this season’s collection of plays? I always want a season to contain artists who are coming at this task of theatrical storytelling from really different perspectives, whether that means from different moments in their career, different moments in their evolution as artists, different cultural perspectives, different backgrounds, and also really different styles of storytelling. The season has, I hope, a real sense of theatrical scope. Each of these projects Top to bottom Johanna Pfaelzer at the design presentation for The Great Wave has a different kind of storytelling vernacular. They’re each told in different theatri- with director Mark Wing-Davey cal idioms, but the range of narratives in this season feels like what I think a Berke- PHOTOS BY CHESHIRE ISAACS ley Rep season can and should be. We’ll all learn a lot more by the end of this season about what the next few years of Berkeley Rep can contain for all of us together, but this felt like a great collection of works to begin to test out what the conversation could be between me, the staff, this audience, and this community as a whole.

What excites you about being at Berkeley Rep and the Bay Area? What I know of Berkeley Rep audiences and Berkeley as a community is that it’s a place of great intellectual rigor. It’s a place of creative thinkers, of people who are forward looking, who are demanding things of themselves and their community and thinking about what it is to be a community in a really rigorous way. It feels like a special place to use the tool of theatre to further those questions.

Was theatre always part of your life? You know, it really wasn’t. My mom did street theatre in Berkeley during the Watergate years. So I have great memories of my parents and their friends running around with Richard Nixon masks on, through the streets of Berkeley. But no, I don’t come from a theatre family. My stepfamily is full of visual artists. My stepmother, Coille Hooven, is a well-known ceramic artist. My stepsister, Molly, now runs her mom’s business. My stepbrother Matthew was originally a painter and is now a design-build contractor. But there isn’t a big tradition of performing arts. I stumbled into ballet as a kid in Berkeley, and that was my passion until high school, and it was that that led me into the theatre.

How did you get into producing? I trained as an actor in college and then I spent a year at Actors Theatre of Louisville as a member of the apprentice company where you had acting classes during the day, and alongside the performing opportunities, you also had the responsibility to work in the shops and other administrative departments. So in addition to the acting training, we also got a crash course in the overall administration of a theatre at large. When I moved to New York I got involved with a theatre company called Zena Group, which was formed by 30 alums of the atl program, and which developed and produced new work. Over a period of years, as we curated series, as we fundraised, as we both performed in but also produced the work, as we figured out how to reach an audience and what to do with an audience once they were in our building, I came to realize that those aspects felt as creatively engaging to me as performing did. Acting didn’t give me the same kind of agency over myself as a creative artist that I needed.

Many regional theatres across the country have recently seen changes in their artistic leadership. Up until this point, many of the artistic directors at these theatres were also directors. And now we’re starting to see creative producers like you step into the artistic director leadership role. For you, what is a creative producer? It’s interesting to me that it’s a sea change that is now happening regionally, because it has been happening in New York over the last decade or two. When you look at a number of the institutional theatres in New York like Lincoln Center, Roundabout, mcc, Playwrights Horizons, the Vineyard Theater — those are all run by creative producers, by non-directing artistic directors. I think what it has meant — for them and for me — is that we have the ability to broadly serve artists throughout a season. There aren’t particular projects that I attach to; I expect to

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be of service to the creative team in any project that’s in our building and to be able to lend another pair of eyes. I think the creative part of it for me comes first in the curation of the work, of course, and then in helping to build the team from that. Whether it’s a project initiated first by a playwright or a director, I help to pair them with the creative partner who’s really going to stimulate this particular production. I like to think deeply about the design team that comes in to support that vision, and the cast that’s going to be the most illuminating for that playwright and director in that particular moment in a play’s life. Then I get to figure out how to communicate the intentions of the play more broadly, to be an advocate for that play to an audience, to a community, to colleagues in the field. I WAVES OF CHANGE think it means I can work in an in-depth way with that creative team throughout their process. As they refine the play in the company of Introducing Berkeley Rep’s an audience I think I can serve as a proxy for that audience in some ways to articulate what the experience of receiving that play is and new board president help them refine that process. BY MADDIE GAW What do you think the differences will be between your role at nysaf and at Berkeley Rep? Some of the overall tasks are not that different. But because WHILE ALL THE BUZZ has been about Johanna Pfaelzer taking the reins as artistic director, it’s not the only leadership transition during nysaf is entirely developmental in nature, the work is by definition Berkeley Rep’s 2019–20 season. Gail Wagner, a recently retired unfinished when we encounter it, and that is different in Berkeley. oncologist from Kaiser Permanente, begins her term as president of nysaf is designed to be of service to the artists while they’re in the board of trustees as the Theatre writes its next chapter. process; it thinks first about the artistic community as the constit- It seems fitting that the new president, who will lead the uents and then, in a more secondary way, about the audience. That board during a time of seminal change, is someone who has paradigm shifts at Berkeley Rep where the task of the work on the been there for all the previous ones. “Berkeley Rep and I grew up stages is to engage an audience. together,” says Gail, who first visited when she and her husband Arne were students, near the beginning of founding Artistic Part of what is so exciting to me in coming to Berkeley Rep is the Director Michael Leibert’s tenure. notion of being in production year-round. nysaf’s primary producing “I first started seeing plays at Berkeley Rep in 1972 when it season really only lasts for two months, so an enormous amount of was at a tiny storefront theatre on College Avenue,” she says. Gail work is done really quickly. Being able to take that volume of projects and Arne became subscribers in 1984, the same year Sharon Ott and spread it out over a year is going to enable me to approach each was selected as Berkeley Rep’s next artistic director, and they one in greater depth and with more attention, and I’m really look- continued their relationship with the Theatre as subscribers and ing forward to that. One of the things I’m interested in for my own donors. Gail then took her commitment to Berkeley Rep one step further by joining the board of trustees seven years ago. creative development is, what is it to be able to take a more in-depth “Berkeley Rep is now one of the foremost regional theatres in and measured approach to the work, to be able to be supportive of the country, and I’m honored to be president of its board of trust- an artist or creative team over a longer period of time, to get to watch ees,” says Gail. “I can give back to the Theatre that has entertained that work transform in front of an audience over more weeks, and to and challenged me for so many years.” She continues, “Johanna is a see the impact of that both on the community and on the piece itself. very warm, creative, lively person, and I’m so excited to be working with her as she starts her adventure with Berkeley Rep.” What theatrical shows have you seen that rocked your world? The board president may not be as visible to the public as the artistic and managing directors, but is equally vital to So many! I remember seeing the original company of Evita. I re- running the Theatre. A nonprofit arts organization is really led by member seeing Dreamgirls on Broadway with my grandparents and a triumvirate that, here, includes Johanna, who sets the artistic that experience you have when a show literally stops in the middle vision for Berkeley Rep’s programming, managing director Susan of an act so the audience can express their gratitude for a performer Medak, who is responsible for the administration of the Theatre, was something I don’t think I had ever experienced before. Things of and Gail, who leads the board of trustees, which has policy and more recent vintage that have just blown my head off include Taylor fundraising responsibilities. Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, Suzan-Lori Parks’ Father Gail is succeeding Stewart Owen, who had the herculean task of leading the search for Berkeley Rep’s next artistic director Comes Home from the Wars, Steven Hoggett and John Tiffany’s during the last years of his term. Like Gail, Stewart highlights production of Black Watch — things that really challenge what the Johanna’s “warmth and character” as something the entire relationship between an audience and a narrative can be. transition task force was drawn to. Stewart is also proud that in Johanna, they found someone “with deep roots in Berkeley and What other artistic genres inspire you? the Bay Area” who “gets the particular nature of this community For me the great palate cleanser when I’ve been way too im- where we have rich diversity, strong political opinions, and a very mersed in theatre is dance. It’s the place that enables me to totally well-educated audience.” The relationship between Berkeley Rep and its audience short-circuit an intellectual response to a piece of art and to engage clearly sparked something in Gail many years ago, and will hope- with it on a really visceral emotional level. The Alvin Ailey company fully continue to spark something in the audiences of today who is always the one that can tear my heart open the quickest. may become the trustees of tomorrow.

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Francis Turnly, a playwright of Japanese and Northern Irish descent, is a sheep farmer in rural Northern Ireland. Yes, you read that right. The farm has been in his family since the 1800s, and when asked why he still farms though his playwriting career has taken off he says, “A farmer wants to keep it up so it stays in the family. If you lose it, you lose several generations.” He came to playwriting via writing for bbc drama on the radio. At the suggestion of the bbc, he adapted one of his radio dramas into a play. He balances farming with writing nowadays, and Berkeley Rep’s production of The Great Wave marks his first North American production.

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GW.program.encore.3.indd 15 8/29/19 4:28 PM “ In Japanese schools, people don’t talk a lot about certain things Japan did during World War II and the occupation of Korea. In North Korea, the people aren’t told the exact truth about history either, so there are parallels between both countries not telling their people everything.”

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His house is located in rural Northern Ireland, where Korea, the people aren’t told the exact truth about history he has a weak internet signal. Literary Manager Sarah Rose either, so there are parallels between both countries not telling Leonard failed many times to reach him and was ever so happy their people everything. when he finally got through to her. Below are excerpts from their conversation. Your heritage is Japanese and Northern Irish. How did your Note: The play is inspired by real events. We did our best not family come to settle in Northern Ireland? to give away any spoilers. My father traveled to Japan and that’s where he met my mother. They got married and she came back to live in Ire- How did you decide what to keep factual and what land. At the start there weren’t very many Japanese people in to imagine? Ireland — even to this day there’s still not very many Japanese I tried to stay within the timeline as close as possible, but people there. I took dramatic license sometimes. I would push the action forward six months or push it backwards a year to maintain Northern Ireland has its own set of cultural circumstances. forward momentum, but the actual main events are pretty Do you think those politics have made their way into much as they happened. The Great Wave? I didn’t want to base any characters on an exact family There are similarities. In Northern Ireland during The Trou- unit so I just imagined two sisters. The Tetsuo character is an bles we had the Disappeared, when quite a lot of people were amalgamation of different characters that I came across in my taken by various organizations and their bodies were never research. I thought it would be easier to just have one person found. That notion parallels the events in the play. representing lots of different people. So for instance, there were two journalists but I just combined them into one person It absolutely does. How does your identity factor into and then made up a backstory. your writing? I’m more interested in writing about Japanese characters How did you begin your research process? and history onstage, whereas for radio or television I tend to I went to a couple of talks at an organization in London gravitate toward writing Irish stories or Northern Irish stories. called Asia House, where lots of East Asian creatives come I haven’t gotten to where I’ve combined them both but maybe to meet. Now and again, North Koreans would come and one day… tell people about their experiences. I got relatives in Japan to In the UK and in Ireland it takes a long time to get a play translate documents that weren’t available here so I guess that on — typically three or four years — but with radio it’s very was the starting point…it’s probably 50 percent research and quick. A radio play can go up in four months, six months, and 50 percent creating characters based on actual events. they’re more willing to take an Irish play or a British drama as I didn’t grow up in Japan, so I didn’t have any personal con- opposed to a Japanese story. But I would like one day to may- nection to it, although my mother did. She mentioned that for be adapt The Great Wave to a feature film. a lot of Japanese people, the events the play is based on were always in the back of their mind, especially in coastal areas Does the title relate to the famous print entitled where these events were happening. The Great Wave? Yes, the art inspired me to write the play in part. I The Japanese occupation of Korea, and the subsequent ten- wanted to have the sea onstage as the personification of the sions between the countries, underlies much of the plot. way the two families are affected by political waves as well How did that history contribute to your thinking? as literal waves. The actual full title of the woodblock print In Japanese schools, people don’t talk a lot about certain is The Great Wave off Kanagawa, which was the original title things Japan did during World War II and the occupation of of the play until a Japanese person pointed out to me that Korea. Even today, a lot of Japanese people don’t actually know Kanagawa isn’t actually opposite North Korea. So the title what took place, they just learned the edited version. In North had to change slightly.

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The Great Wave takes place on the island of Japan, on the Korean Peninsula, and in the sea between them. While the play spans from 1979 to 2003, earlier history of Japan and Korea reveals layers hidden beneath the action of the drama itself. In 1910, the Empire of Japan annexed Korea, which was then one united country not yet split into North and South. The subsequent period of colonial rule devastated Korea’s cultural legacy — a great source of pride for its people— and enforced Japanese customs and rules. The occupation ended in 1945, after Japan lost much of its power when

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Japan was at the height of its imperial power when it pared to the Japanese. The notion seeped into textbooks, annexed Korea in 1910. It had taken over Manchuria (part of museums, movies, business dealings, and even Koreans’ own China), some islands in the South Pacific, and Taiwan, after perceptions of themselves. Japanese officials forbade the winning wars against superpowers China and Russia. Japan speaking of Korean in school. They issued an edict to make grew its colonial influence in reaction to Western countries films in Japanese. They sought to wipe out historical mem- flexing their muscles: Southeast Asia fell under French rule, ory: it became a crime to teach history from non-approved Russia moved into China, and the United States expanded its texts, and authorities burned over 200,000 Korean historical territory throughout the 1800s. After witnessing these take- documents. Shinto shrines originally intended for Japanese overs, Japan set its sights on Korea. This made sense strate- families became places of forced worship for Koreans. Some gically: Korea served as the entryway for China and Russia to people worked around the Shinto edict by visiting the shrines reach Japan. One politician described the land as “the dagger but neglecting to pray, while others hastily adopted this new pointing at the heart of Japan.” The colonizers crafted a sense religion out of fear. of national superiority to justify their defensive hold on Korea. Japanese officials destroyed many Korean cultural arti- During the time of the occupation, the Japanese concept facts, and the objects and structures they did preserve were of Kokutai — meaning strong national identity — reigned su- used to demonstrate the purported superiority of Japan as a preme. Kokutai created a sense of patriotism and encouraged civilization. One of the most powerful symbols of Korean sov- sacrifice on behalf of the country. Japan upheld its own tradi- ereignty was the royal palace in Seoul, built in 1395 during the tions as superior, yet it also sent mixed messages to its colo- Joseon dynasty. The Japanese government tore down over a nies: it spread the belief that Koreans were inferior to Japanese third of the palace’s buildings and turned the remaining struc- citizens, but could become Japanese. The Japanese government tures into tourist attractions. The colonizers also transformed did this to create a unified people under the Japanese Emperor; the land itself: they chopped down forests and planted non-na- for Koreans, it was cultural genocide. tive species, rendering a landscape familiar to Koreans almost The Japanese government used multiple tactics to unrecognizable. Nearly 100,000 Japanese families moved into convince the population that Koreans were primitive com- homes in Korea on land the government gave to them.

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GW.program.encore.3.indd 20 8/29/19 4:28 PM Left Demonstrators during the March 1st Movement (public domain photo from Wikimedia Commons) Right Korean “comfort women” after the end of World War II (public domain photo by US Army Sergeant A. E. Lemon from Wikimedia Commons)

One of the most lasting changes from the occupation was the eradication of Korean names. In 1939, more than 80 percent of Koreans complied with a name-change ordinance by the Japanese government. Though lawmakers tried to market the new policy to take a Japanese name as “voluntary,” it was of obvious benefit to change one’s name. Low-level officials forced people to switch their family names if they wanted to register to get married, apply for work, get a ration card, buy or sell land, or go to school. Koreans lined up outside government offices and police stations to change their names amidst widespread anguish. In a series that covered 60 major events in Korea’s history, The Korea Times reported that “many of the elderly, in befuddled resistance, refused to choose and had names selected for them.” The article goes on to state that many Koreans submitted their new names for registration wearing black armbands and afterwards went to pray at their ancestral tombs. A new generation of nationalists came into being in the wake of this misery. The official resistance movement began An estimated 90 percent of “comfort women” did not survive on March 1, 1919 when approximately two million Koreans the war. Records of the women’s imprisonment are scarce, as participated in more than 1,500 demonstrations. The Jap- most were destroyed by Japanese officials. The women who anese military massacred thousands of these protesters. survived became societal outcasts, and many died of sexually Incited by the violence, activists formed the Korean Indepen- transmitted infections or committed suicide. Today, Japan dence Movement. Exiled leaders established the Provisional argues that it made amends via a monetary settlement in the Government of the Republic of Korea and an official Libera- 1965 accord that re-established diplomatic relations between tion Army in China. Koreans successfully pushed back at their the two countries, but South Korean courts and popular opin- oppressors: after the first decade of occupation Japanese ion don’t see it that way. officials loosened their rules. Workers received the same After WWII ended, the U.S. and Russia captured the Kore- wages as Japanese workers, the ban on Korean newspapers an Peninsula and ended Japanese rule. The two allied countries was lifted, and laws interfering with traditional customs were divided Korea: the south went to the U.S. and the north to altered. However, as WWII approached, lawmakers tightened Russia. What was supposed to be a temporary state of affairs their grip once again. became permanent after the Korean War (1950–1953) devastat- Nearly 725,000 Koreans were engaged in forced labor ed the country and left it divided. South Korea remained allied in Japan over the course of the occupation. The pain of this with the U.S. and the United Nations, becoming a democratic brutality lingers most potently in the legacy of women and nation, while North Korea maintained ties with Russia and girls forced into sexual slavery for Japanese soldiers fighting in China, becoming a communist dictatorship. The South aimed to WWII. These women and girls, euphemistically called “comfort mend the wounds of the Japanese occupation, while the North women,” lived at “comfort stations” — essentially brothels — in froze relations entirely, cutting itself off from the outside world. Japanese-occupied China. Military brothels expanded widely Because of the war, Koreans were made to choose between after the Rape of Nanking, in which Japanese troops massacred South or North Korean citizenships, and those living in Japan residents in the Chinese city of Nanking over a period of six were recognized as permanent residents of Japan. weeks. During this rampage, Japanese soldiers raped between We all know where to find news about North Korea these 20,000 and 80,000 Chinese women. This incident horrified days, but it’s a little trickier to find evidence of the tension the world, and the Japanese military reacted to the outrage between South Korea and Japan. You inevitably have to thumb by expanding its “comfort stations” in an attempt to prevent (or scroll) to the back pages of a newspaper, sub-sectioned future incidents of rape. The thought was that a steady and under “Asia,” but you’re actually more likely to find reporting isolated group of prostitutes would satisfy the soldiers’ sexual about this ever-simmering-on-a-low-boil conflict in the finan- appetites. But these women were brought to the brothels by cial section. Arguments arise between ambassadors, or trade force, most of them from colonized Korea or parts of China. disputes erupt. Since the 1950s, Japan has formally apologized The subject of “comfort women” remains tender in Japan for its war crimes nearly every year. Ongoing controversy and its once-occupied countries. In July of this year, a trade persists regarding whether these statements are enough. Yet spat over chemicals used to make cell phones erupted be- one player remains completely silent on these tensions: North tween Japan and South Korea. At its root is the issue of forced Korea. They pretty much ignore Japan. Except for a notable labor during WWII, including the subject of “comfort women.” incident…which you’ll learn about in The Great Wave.

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- . David Shih Films/Film4 and has TV commissions with TAKESHI/SOLDIER ONE Balloon, Brightstar, and Bryncoed. Francis is This is Dave’s Berkeley Rep Japanese/Northern Irish and is often inspired by debut. His theatre credits stories from both countries. Proud to include the National Asian American Theatre Compa- Mark Wing-Davey ny (naatco) productions DIRECTOR Support of Henry VI: Shakespeare’s Mark first came to prominence in the United Trilogy in Two Parts, Awake States in 1992 with his celebrated production and Sing!, and [veil widow of Caryl Churchill’s Mad Forest at New York Berkeley Rep conspiracy]; KPOP (Ars Theatre Workshop. Since then he has worked Nova); Somebody’s Daugh- extensively in New York for Labyrinth Theater ter (Second Stage Theater); Tiger Style! (La Jolla Company, Lincoln Center, Manhattan Theatre Playhouse); Bike America (Ma-Yi Theater Compa- Club, Playwrights Horizons, and The Public The- ny); Crane Story (The Playwrights Realm). He has ater/New York Shakespeare Festival. The Great appeared on television in Billions, The Path, City Wave is his sixth show at Berkeley Rep: after on a Hill, Blindspot, Elementary, Madam Secretary, Mad Forest made its West Coast premiere here, Personal attention The Blacklist, and in the films Mr. Sushi, Eighth he also staged The Beaux’ Stratagem, The Life of Grade, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Saving Face. Galileo, the world premiere of Naomi Iizuka’s 36 thoughtful litigation Dave works with Only Make Believe performing Views, and Pericles, Prince of Tyre. He directed final resolution for children in hospitals and care facilities. an acclaimed Angels in America at American

Conservatory Theater, and directed Sarah Ruhl’s LAW FAMILY Our goal is to preserve our Francis Turnly Passion Play at the Goodman, at Yale Rep, and for client’s dignity and humanity. PLAYWRIGHT Epic Theater Ensemble. His other credits include Francis is a playwright and screenwriter. He was productions of new writing and classic plays at a winner of a Channel 4 playwright bursary in theatres across the U.S., as well as shows at the 2015 and as a result was Writer in Residence at Edinburgh Festival, London’s National and Royal

the Tricycle Theatre which culminated in him Court Theatres, and musicals in the West End FA M I LYLAW G R OUP, P. C . winning the Catherine Johnson Best Play Award and Australia. He is an Arts Professor at New in 2016. His play, The Great Wave, was co-pro- York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and duced by the National Theatre and the Tricycle Chair of its Graduate Acting Program. He will be 575 Market Street, Suite 4000 in 2018. He is developing several projects for directing The Vagrant Trilogy by Mona Mansour San Francisco, CA 94105 screen, including a feature film with Element at The Public Theater in Spring 2020. 415.834.1120 www.sflg.com

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Logan Production Assistants Administrator Building Engineer Sandra R. McCandless Tait Adams · James McGregor · Destiny Askin Thomas Tran 2019–20 BERKELEY REP FELLOWSHIPS Susan Medak Sofie Miller Sudha Pennathur Building Technician Bret C. Harte Directing Fellow Johanna Pfaelzer DEVELOPMENT Kevin Pan Nailah Harper-Malveaux Laura Severino STAGE OPERATIONS Director of Development Facilities Assistants Company Management Fellow Richard Shapiro Stage Supervisor Lynn Eve Komaromi Lemont Adams · Theresa Drumgoole · Reagan O’Malley Roger Strauch Julia Englehorn Sophie Li · Guy Nado · Jesus Rodriguez · Jean Z. Strunsky Associate Director of Development LeRoy Thomas Costume Fellow Kelli Tomlinson Daria Hepps Anthony Fiore Steven C. Wolan PROPERTIES Director of Individual Giving BERKELEY REP SCHOOL OF THEATRE Development Fellow Laura Fichtenberg Samuel Levit Past Presidents Properties Supervisor Helen C. Barber Jillian A. Green Stewardship Officer Director of the School of Theatre Rachel Hull Education Fellow A. George Battle Associate Properties Supervisor Woof Kurtzman Zandra Starks Carole B. Berg Associate Director Amelia Burke-Holt Institutional Giving Manager Graphic Design Fellow Robert W. Burt MaryBeth Cavanaugh Shih-Tso Chen Props Artisan Julie McCormick Haly Roy Program Manager, Training and Narsai M. David Dara Ly Special Events Manager Harry Weininger Sound Fellow Abbey Bay McSweeney Community Programs Thalia Dorwick, PhD Anthony Jackson Jaime Tippett Nicholas M. Graves SCENE SHOP Individual Giving Manager Lighting/Electrics Fellow Richard F. Hoskins Kelsey Scott Education Communications and Technical Director Partnerships Manager Hannah Solomon Jean Knox Jim Smith Grant & Communications Marcela Chacón Marketing/Digital Robert M. Oliver Coordinator Communications Fellow Stewart Owen Associate Technical Director Data and Tessitura Analyst Maddie Gaw Katherine Gunn Marjorie Randolph Matt Rohner Katie Riemann Harlan M. Richter Development Coordinators Peter F. Sloss Literary/ Shop Foreman Community Programs Administrator Richard A. Rubin Nina Feliciano · Alexandra Josefski Dramaturgy Fellow Sam McKnight Modesta Tamayo Edwin C. Shiver Development Database Charlie Dubach-Reinhold Roger Strauch Master Carpenter Education Youth Associate Coordinator Production Management Fellow Martin Zankel Jamaica Montgomery-Glenn Si Mon’ Emmett Jane Voytek Kali Grau Carpenters Faculty Sustaining Advisors Properties Fellow Patrick Keene · Read Tuddenham Bobby August Jr. · Erica Blue · Rena Bransten MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS Jon Burnett · Rebecca Castelli · Del Hanson Diana Cohen Director of Marketing and Eugenie Chan · Iu-Hui Chua · Scenic Art Fellow William T. Espey SCENIC ART Communications Jiwon Chung · Sally Clawson · Samantha (Sam) Welsing William Falik David Fleishhacker Charge Scenic Artist Peter Yonka Deborah Eubanks · Susan Garner · Scenic Construction Fellow Lisa Lázár Christine Germain · Nancy Gold · Paul T. Friedman Director of Public Relations Kathryn Bosch Nicholas M. Graves Tim Etheridge Gary Graves · Marvin Greene · Susan-Jane Harrison · Gendell Stage Management Fellow David Hoffman COSTUMES Communications & Digital Hing-Hernández · Melissa Hillman · Elizabeth Kamla Richard F. Hoskins Costume Director Content Director William Hodgson · Andrew Hurteau · Dale Rogers Marshall Maggi Yule Karen McKevitt Anthony Jackson · Kasey Klem · Helen Meyer Senior Marketing Manager Krista Knight · Julian López-Morillas · Dugan Moore Tailor Peter Pervere Kathy Kellner Griffith Seth Macari Dave Maier · Reid McCann · Patricia Miller · Alex Moggridge · Marjorie Randolph Draper Webmaster Patricia Sakai Christina Cone Edward Morgan · Jack Nicolaus · Star Rabinowitz Slater Penney · Greg Pierotti · Jack Schafer First Hand Video & Multimedia Producer Lisa Anne Porter · Diane Rachel · William Schaff Janet Conery Benjamin Michel Rolf Saxon · Elyse Shafarman · Michael Steinberg Arje Shaw · Joyful Simpson · Michael Strunsky Wardrobe Supervisor Program Advertising Cleavon Smith · M. Graham Smith · Martin Zankel Barbara Blair Pamela Webster Elizabeth Vega · James Wagner · Front of House Director Dan Wolf Kelly Kelley Founding Director Front of House Manager Michael W. Leibert Debra Selman Producing Director, 1968–83

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PLAY’S THE THING Actors always need to warm up, but there are different ways to do it. During rehearsals for The Great Wave, the cast — and anyone else in the room at the time — performed South Korean morning exercises (with a YouTube video for guidance) and played spirited rounds of Koosh Ball volleyball.

In rehearsal Tuesday, August 27, 2019: Jo Mei, Paul Juhn (throwing), Cindy Im, and Julian Cihi PHOTO BY CHESHIRE ISAACS

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GW.program.encore.3.indd 34 8/29/19 4:28 PM We Mastered Our Craft in Berkeley too.

Peet’s Coffee welcomes Berkeley Rep’s artistic director Johanna Pfaelzer in her inaugural season.

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