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By COLMAN DOMINGO Directed by E. G. BAILEY

DEC 8 – JAN 7 Midwest Premiere / Proscenium Stage made possible with support from: JOHN SULLIVAN WILLIAM & SUSAN SANDS

2017–2018 SEASON

Dear Park Square Patron:

When you see an iceberg, no matter how large, only one-fifth is seen above the surface. That which is unseen constitutes the bulk of its true mass. That is true of what my fellow spousal caregivers and I go through living with and loving someone with Alzheimer’s.

Today’s play reveals a few unseen chunks of the Alzheimer’s iceberg – including how African American families like mine deal with the disease within our unique cultural and social context. As a spousal caregiver, I can attest to what these characters reveal: some days are worse than others. Hearing, “I hate your guts!” from your spouse pierces your very being. Yes, I know it’s not her, it’s the disease, but I’m still human and still feel it.

Like these characters, I still find joy. I often choose to laugh instead of cry.

And I work hard to stop this from happening to other families in the future as a Board Member of the American Brain Foundation, today’s sponsor.

We are working to identify and eradicate the causes of Alzheimer’s, as as the whole spectrum of brain-related injuries, illnesses, and diseases. Please consider supporting our work at www.AmericanBrainFoundation.org and the work of partner agencies The Alzheimer’s Association and HealthPartners Center for Memory & Aging.

Thank you to Park Square for choosing to produce this bold, sassy new play that brings us all into the very human story of Alzheimer’s. Park Square’s commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and to stories that reveal and celebrate the whole human family is more important than ever.

Thank you for being with us today on this journey and may your holidays and families be blessed.

Dan Gasby Board Member, American Brain Foundation

OUR MISSION is to enrich our community by producing and presenting exceptional live theatre that touches the heart, engages the mind and delights the spirit.

3 By COLMAN DOMINGO photos by Petronella J. Ytsma Dot

The holidays are always a wild family affair at the Shealy house. But this year, as Dot struggles to hold on to her memory, her adult children grapple with how to balance care for their mother and care for themselves. Filled with laughter and heartbreak, uproariously funny yet emotionally tender, Dot is a testament to the enduring bonds of family. “It’s part of our tradition – to confront tragedy with comedy, to laugh to keep from crying. I love the characters, their humanity, their candor, and sense of humor… there’s obviously a lot of love between them.” – E.G. Bailey, Director

THANKS FOR JOINING US THIS HOLIDAY SEASON! Special Thanks to our Premiere Producer’s Club: Jeffrey Bores & Michael Hawkins Pat & Paul Sackett Mary Ann Ebert & Paul Stembler William & Susan Sands Barbara Forster & Lawrence Hendrickson Joe & Christie Schmitt Bruce Jones & Joann Nordin John Sullivan Jeanne & Jack Matlock

The Park Square Theatre Premiere Producer’s Club brings new works and new writers to our stages – from the latest successes at national new play festivals to world premieres by local artists. Contact Mackenzie Pitterle at 651.767.1440 for more details on how you can become involved with the Premiere Producer’s Club and bring new works to Park Square Theatre’s stages.

AARP members and those 62+ enjoy complimentary coffee and cookies before Park Square matinees courtesy of:

4 on the PROSCENIUM STAGE

By COLMAN DOMINGO

ARTISTIC STAFF CAST Director...... E.G. Bailey Dotty...... Cynthia Jones-Taylor* Scenic Designer...... Andrea Heilman Shelly...... Yvette Ganier* Costume Designer...... Rebecca Karstad Jackie...... Anna Letts Lakin Lighting Designer...... Michael P. Kittel Donnie...... Ricardo Beaird Sound Designer...... Christy Johnson Adam...... Michael Hanna* Properties Designer...... Connor McEvoy Averie...... Dame-Jasmine Hughes* Dialect Coach...... Foster Johns Fidel...... Maxwell Collyard Choreographer...... Vie Boheme Stage Manager...... Megan Fae Dougherty* Asst. Stage Manager...... Elizabeth Efteland

TIME / SETTING Two days before Christmas and Christmas Eve. ,

PERFORMANCE TIME Approximately 2 hours, 15 minutes with a 20-minute intermission. Special Thanks to our Premiere Producer’s Club: This show contains adult themes and strong language.

DOT is presented by special arrangement with Sam French, Inc. World premiere in the 2015 Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville.

DOT was produced by the , Douglas Aibel, Artistic Director; Sarah Stern, Co-Artistic Director; Jennifer Garvey-Blackwell, Executive Director, New York City, Winter, 2016.

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. For more information, please visit: www.samuelfrench.com/whitepaper

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*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States Park Square Theatre is a member of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the American theatre.

5 PERSPECTIVE there’s an Idiot’s Guide.) As Dot suggests, caring for prior generations is a nearly inescapable experience, and some who do escape it may incite resentment and anxiety in other family members – hence Shelly’s exasperation. Just as in the play, families debate whether to care for aging loved ones in-home (and whose home) or to pursue other accommodations (“the home”). The stress of these conversations (or negotiations, or outright conflict) is compounded because most families make these decisions with highly constrained finances. Tina Howe’s play is a moving portrait of a family bonding. Domingo’s play is an unnerving mirror. Shelly feels that “every day is an emergency,” and In 2010, Park Square produced Painting for so many of us who have been in the Churches, Tina Howe’s play about a woman position of the Shealy children, we may who returns home to paint and help her feel that way, too. As we care for the aging parents. The father’s memory has begun and ailing, every second risks a trauma, to fail, and in its place are snatches of and every day offers an emergency. We Irish and American poems. In the program may judge Shelly for the measures she for that production, I wrote about Mary takes to give herself a break, but we can Pipher’s book : Navigating understand her. the Emotional Terrain of Our Elders, in which the author describes how we have no frame From Oedipus to King Lear, from A of reference for dealing with those who Streetcar Named Desire to August: Osage are growing old. She writes, “We have few County, the family reunion has been road maps to help us navigate the new a major impetus in Western drama, lands [of aging].” In Howe’s play, the couple as far-flung family are forced home to are relocating to Cape Cod from Boston’s confront crises. And crises, according Beacon Hill (current home to John Kerry, to Pipher, “make everyone more who former home to Carly Simon, Ted Kennedy, they really are.” At least Blanche DuBois and Uma Thurman). The Churches had the knew not to head to the Kowalskis’ just privilege to confront aging with substantial in time for Christmas: holiday traditions resources, and that’s what makes Colman and expectations – not to mention sheer Domingo’s play feel so vital. numbers of people – can trouble even the most delicately balanced families. But Dot In 2010, I did not note that I knew of is not a tragedy, and neither is aging, and Pipher’s book because it was on my family’s it’s no surprise the Shealys’ emergency bookshelf, alongside Eldercare for Dummies. ebbs when the family tries to understand As Pipher points out, and as anyone one another. knows who has experienced that traumatic – by Matt DiCintio instant when a loved one turns to you and Matt DiCintio holds a PhD in Drama from asks, “Who are you?”, we’re all dummies Tufts. He works at Boston University and when it comes to eldercare. (If you prefer, is a freelance dramaturg.

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CAST RICARDO BEAIRD (Rattlesticks Playwrights Theatre), Breath, Donnie Boom (Playwrights Horizons, 2002 OBIE Park Square Sons of the Ward); (Second Stage/Union Square); Prophet Representative Aqua in For Colored Girls (Henry St./Tribeca Theatre Yellow Tree Arts, Audelco Award); The Quadroon Ball Theatre: ; (La MAMA) Regional Theatre Project Pangea World Theater; Dawn (People’s Light and Theatre Co.), Conference of the Birds; Stage of Fools Between Riverside and Crazy (The Cleveland Theatre: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot; Playhouse), Don Juan Comes Back From Public Theatre of MN: Much Ado About Iraq (Wilma Theatre), Nothing, I and You; Nebraska Shakespeare (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Richard III Festival: The Tempest Training B.A., Theatre (Temple Repertory Theatre), Tartuffe (Temple and Marketing, Middle Tennessee State Repertory Theatre), Three Sisters (; additional training with the Repertory Theatre), Measure for Measure Nashville Shakespeare Festival (Temple Repertory Theatre), The Piano Lesson (Arden Theatre Company), Intimate Apparel (Intiman Theatre), Elmina’s Kitchen MAXWELL COLLYARD ( Center Stage), Gem of the Ocean Fidel (Mark Taper Forum/ The Goodman Theatre, Park Square (as Actor) 2003 LA Ovations Award), I Just Stopped Sons of the Prophet, (as by to See the Man (The Steppenwolf), King Assistant Director) Great Hedley II (The Goodman Theatre), I Am a Expectations Representative Man (Philadelphia Theatre), A Raisin in the Theatre (as Actor) Jungle Sun (Dallas Theatre Center/Great Lakes Theater: Bars and Measures; Mixed Blood Theatre, Critics Forum Award), Two Trains Theatre: How to Use a Knife; Arts Center on Running (Cleveland Playhouse), The Old 7: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Settler (Geva Theatre), Etta Jenks (Wilma Bee, Lemonade for the Lawnboy, Mame; (as Theatre) Film The So So You Don’t Know Projection Designer) Theatre Novi Most: (web), Poughkeepsie, Must Be The Music, Dancing on the Edge; Frank Theatre: Revolt. She Confessions of An Ex-Doofus, Evolution of a Said. Revolt Again.; Playwrights’ Center: Molly; Criminal, The Dance Lesson, Sweet Flame, For (as Assistant Director) Frank Theatre: Citizen: One Night, Batina’s World, Sink, Fight Nights, An American Lyric; Walking Shadow Theatre Driving Fish TV: All My Children, The Handler, Company: Midwinter Night’s Revel; Theater Third Watch, Queens Supreme Latté Da: C., Oliver!, Our Town; (as Playwright) Bedlam Theatre and Bryant-Lake Bowl: You Don’t Have to Leave but You Can’t Stay Here; MICHAEL HANNA* 2015 Minnesota Fringe Festival: Ferguson, USA Adam Training B.A., Physics and Theatre, St. Olaf Park Square Romeo and College Juliet Representative Theatre : The Lion in Winter, Sense YVETTE GANIER* and Sensibility; Jungle Shelly Theater: Le Switch; New Conservatory Park Square Debut Theatre Center: This Bitter Earth; Frank Broadway The Miracle Theatre: Citizen; Collide Theatrical: Dracula; Worker; King Hedley II Minnesota Jewish Theatre: Bad Jews; (understudy) London Jitney Mixed Blood Theatre: Stars and Stripes (, Training B.F.A, University of Minnesota, 2002 Oliver Award) New York Theatre The Actor Training Program Accolades NFAA Block (The Working Theatre), The Pitbulls YoungArts Finalist

8 651.291.7005 | parksquaretheatre.org CAST DAME-JASMINE ANNA LETTS LAKIN HUGHES* Jackie Averie Park Square Debut Park Square Debut Representative Theatre Representative Theatre Ten Smartmouth Comedy: Thousand Things: Intimate Director’s Cut; Maggie’s Apparel; Ubuntu Theater, Farm Theatre: The Comedy Oakland: Hurt Village; Penumbra Theatre: of Errors; Day Trippers Theatre: Greetings; Jitney; Pillsbury House Theatre: Bright Half Théâtres du Monde: I Call My Brothers; Life; Mixed Blood Theater: Pussy Valley; Theatre Unbound: Lilly; Gadfly Theatre: Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, NY: Bus The Edge of Flight Training B.A., Theatre, St. Stop TV/Film Katori Hall’s directorial debut Olaf College; Professional Certificate, Gaiety Arkabutla; Pleasure to Burn; No Lye Baby; School of Acting, Dublin Time Killed the Big Bang Theory; Stranded in Oblivion; ReTROGRADE; Celebrity Ghost ARTISTIC STAFF Stories; Special Ed Training B.A., Humanities, E.G. BAILEY Tougaloo College; M.F.A., Acting, Director Institute of the Arts Accolades 2016 Ivey Park Square Debut Award Winner for Acting for Sunset Baby Representative Theatre (Penumbra Theatre) Upcoming Projects (As Director) Open Eye SoHo Rep Theater: Is God Is (Spring 2018) Figure Theatre: Khephra: A Hip Hop Holiday CYNTHIA Story; Freestyle Theatre: #SayHerName, JONES-TAYLOR* U/G/L/Y, Amiri Baraka’s Wise Why’s Y’s, Dotty N-Word; (As Assistant Director) Guthrie Park Square Debut Theater: King Lear, Othello, Juno and the Representative Theatre Paycock; Pillsbury House Theatre: Brother National and Canadian Size; Children’s Theatre: Jackie and Me TV/ tours of Menopause The Film New Neighbors (Short Film; Writer, Musical; National tour of The Miracle Director, Editor, Producer); #Brothers (Web Worker; Seattle Repertory Theatre: Doubt, Series; Writer, Director, Editor, Producer); Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Time of How To Make the Girl (Spoken Word Film; Your Life, Play On!, Seven Guitars, New Producer); Pocket Size Feminism (Spoken Patagonia; Group Theatre: A...My Name is Word Film; Producer); How to Love Your Alice; ACT Theatre (Seattle): Waiting to be Introvert (Spoken Word Film; Producer); The Invited, Omnium Gatherum, Blues for an Other’s World (Spoken Word Film; Producer); Alabama Sky; Intiman Theatre (Seattle): Meditations on My Mother (Spoken Word Nickel and Dimed, Black Nativity, A Raisin Film; Producer); Our Relationship is a Slowly in the Sun, Crumbs from the Table of Joy Gentrifying Neighborhood (Music Video; TV/Film Spree; Gory, Gory Hallelujah; Director, Editor, Producer) Training B.A., numerous radio and TV commercials English, Philosophy, History, University of Accolades Arizona Theater Alliance: Arizoni Notre Dame Accolades 25 New Faces of Award for Best Supporting Actress in Independent Film (Filmmaker Magazine); a Musical (Play On! at Arizona Theatre 2017 Sundance Film Festival Official Company); Theater Alliance: Selection; Regional Emmy Award Upcoming nominated for Best Supporting Actress in Projects Foto Libre (Short Film; Writer, a Musical (Play On! at Goodman Theater) Director, Editor, Producer); Omolere (Short Upcoming Projects Park Square Theatre: A Film, shot in Nigeria; CoWriter, CoDirector, Raisin in the Sun CoProducer); North Star (Web Series; Writer, Director, Editor, Producer)

9 ARTISTIC STAFF VIE BOHEME MEGAN FAE DOUGHERTY* Choreographer Stage Manager Park Square Debut Theatre Guthrie Theater: Park Square Macbeth; The Soul of Gershwin; Refugia Dance Center Great Expectations; My Children! My Africa!; Dance Ensemble, performed works by Kyle Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue; The Other Place; Abraham, Camille A. Brown, Darrell Grand The Color Purple; Sexy Laundry; Behind Moultrie, Sidra Bell; TU Dance, performed the Eye; Cyrano; Good People; Stick Fly; Or works by Dwight Rhoden, Uri Sands, Gregory Representative Theatre TigerLion Arts: Dolbashian Choreography Self produced: Nature, The Dragons Are Singing Tonight; Viva:BLACK a Live Theater Documentary at Troupe America: A Christmas Carol; Utah The August Wilson Center, Viva:BLACK an Shakespeare Festival: 2007 Season; Santa Intimate Evening with Vie at The Kaufmann Fe Opera: 2006 Season Training B.A., Center, Viva:BLACK Who is Vie Boheme? at Theatre Administration, Bemidji State The Alloy; Solo voice/ dance works presented University by The Walker (Choreographer’s Evening 2014/2015) Patrick’s Cabaret (Open Call ANDREA HEILMAN Cabaret 2015), Vital Matters Dance Festival Scenic Designer (2016), Intermedia Arts (Underbelly 2017) Park Square Debut Representative Theatre Music Opening act Little Dragon, Bilal California Lutheran University; Cymbeline; Training Point Park University’s Conservatory Jungle Theater: Anna in the Tropics, Bars and of Performing Arts, The Ailey School Measures; American University in Cairo: Upcoming Projects Vie Boheme Live in Tartuffe, The Arsonists; Pillsbury House at Detroit at Cliff Bell’s the Guthrie Theater: Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet, The Brothers Size; Frank Theatre: The New Electric Ballroom; Mixed Blood Theatre: A Cool Drink A Water, Agnes Under the Big Top Training B.A., Theatre Arts, Macalester CAAM Chinese Dance College; M.F.A., Scenic and Lighting Theater Celebrates Design, Brandeis University Accolades/ Other Head of Design at California Lutheran University Upcoming Projects 25yrs California Lutheran University: Hansel and of dance Gretel, an Opera FOSTER JOHNS Dialect Coach Park Square Behind the Eye Representative Theatre Wayward: The Weir; University of Minnesota B.F.A. Program: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, In Arabia We’d All Be Kings; Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company: Becoming Dr. Ruth, Photograph 51; Old Log Our Dance, Our Dreams Theatre: Outside Mullingar, Steel Magnolias; Theater Latté Da: Steerage Song, Next Festival; Bloomington Civic Theatre: Guys & Dolls Training M.F.A, Voice Studies, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama; B.A., JAN 27-28, 2018 English & Theater Arts, Boston College http://oshag.stkate.edu/events

10 651.291.7005 | parksquaretheatre.org ARTISTIC STAFF CHRISTY JOHNSON CONNOR MCEVOY Sound Designer Properties Designer Park Square Debut Representative Theatre Park Square Hamlet, My Children! My Theatre in the Round: The Prime of Miss Jean Africa! Representative Theatre Great River Brodie, The Drawer Boy; Top Hat Theatre: The Shakespeare Festival: As You Like It, Julius Jungle Book; Marshall Area Stage Company: Caesar, Georama, Richard III, Comedy of Macbeth Training B.A., Theatre Arts, Errors, Shipwrecked! An Entertainment; Southwest Minnesota State University Other Classical Actor’s Ensemble: MacBeth, Julius Acts locally around the Twin Cities. Caesar, Faust, The Tempest, Training B.A, Theatre and English, Hamline REBECCA KARSTAD University Upcoming Projects Park Square Costume Designer Theatre: The Pirates of Penzance Park Square Henry and Alice: Into the Wild Representative Theatre Theatre in the Round: Production Staff & Crew The Three Musketeers, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Asst. Stage Manager: Elizabeth Efteland House of Blue Leaves, The Beaux Stratagem, Appointment with Death, Round and Round Run Crew: Rosie Westphal, the Garden, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Daniel McDermott Are Dead; Midnight Star Productions: It’s A Sound Operator: Charlotte Deranek Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play at the St. Dresser/Wardrobe Crew: Veronica Stark Paul Hotel; Actor’s Theater of Minnesota: A Christmas Carol Training B.A., English, Production Director: Rob Jensen Gustavus Adolphus College Upcoming Technical Director: Ian Stoutenburgh Projects Theatre in the Round: The Canterville Paint Charge: Mary Montgomery-Jensen Ghost, Postmortem Master Carpenter: William Bankhead MICHAEL P. KITTEL Carpenters: Meagan Kedrowski, Lighting Designer Brittany Pooladian, Trevor Muller-Hegel Park Square Over 150 productions (as Master Electrician: Brent Anderson Resident Lighting Designer) including The Color Purple, Red, Ragtime, Grey Gardens, Electricians: Brittany Pooladian, Democracy, To Kill a Mockingbird, Rock Mairead Koehler, Courtney Schmitz ‘n’ Roll Representative Theatre Ordway, Sound Supervisor: Charlotte Deranek Frank Theatre, Stages Theatre Company, Wardrobe Supervisor: Aaron Chvatal Steppingstone Theatre, Mu Performing Arts, Bloomington Civic Theatre TV/Film tpt: The St. Olaf Christmas Festival Training University Special Acknowledgements of Wisconsin-River Falls Accolades Ivey Award Park Square would like to thank: for (Frank Theatre); Lavender Nikolay Shishakin for assistance with Magazine Best Lighting Design 2008 & 2009 dialect; Maxwell Collyard for recorded piano pieces; Susan DeSimone for audience research services

*Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) was founded in 1913 as the first of the American actor unions. Equity’s mission is to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Today, Equity represents more than 40,000 actors, singers, dancers and stage managers working in hundreds of theatres across the United States. Equity members are dedicated to working in the theatre as a profession, upholding the highest artistic standards. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions and provides a wide range of benefits including health and pension plans for its members. Through its agreement with Equity, this theatre has committed to the fair treatment of and stage managers employed in this production. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. For information, visit www.actorsequity.org.

11 OUR CONTRIBUTORS SPECIAL THANKS TO THE HISTORIC HAMM BUILDING Their investment of $12,000,000 in donated rent and use of facilities over our 40-year tenure creates a vibrant cultural life in downtown Saint Paul.

PARK SQUARE THEATRE LEAD FUNDING PARTNERS:

John Larsen Foundation

The F.R. Bigelow The Thomas Mairs & The Saint Paul Foundation Marjorie Mairs Fund Foundation

Harlan Boss Mardag Foundation Foundation for the Arts

Margaret H. and James E. Kelley Foundation These activities are made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund, and a grant from the Wells Fargo Foundation Minnesota.

ANNUAL FUND $1,000-2,499 John Sullivan Tim & Sara Beckstrand CORPORATIONS, Theatre Communications Ron & Margaret Tabar Tom & Mary Lou Detwiler FOUNDATIONS AND Group Helen Wagner Jill Irvine Crow GOVERNMENT Willis Towers Watson Susan Wenz Wesley & Deirdre Kramer $10,000-24,999 Steve & Kathy Wellington Gregory & Darla Landmark Fred C. & Katherine B. Andersen INDIVIDUALS John & Sandra White Christopher Taykalo & Foundation CHAMPIONS $25,000+ Michael-Jon Pease Hugh J. Andersen Foundation Linda Boss LEADERS $2,500+ Steve & Deb Ragatz Katherine B. Andersen Fund Susan & Edwin McCarthy Jim & Ellen Altman Carolyn Sorensen & Boss Foundation Gayle & Timothy Ober Mary Beth Brody & David Kelm Caroline’s Kids Foundation Doris Swenson† Richard Crowell Irene Suddard Colles + McVoy* Allan & Mary Lou Burdick Gail Ward Deluxe Corporation Foundation DIRECTORS $10,000+ Charles & Laura Cochrane Ecolab Foundation Betty Anderlik† in memory of Edward Fox GUARANTORS $1,000+ EMC Paradigm Publishing* Joseph Anderlik Andrea Trimble Hart Janet Albers Highlands Foundation Nancy Feldman Celita Levinson Judy Bartlett RBC Wealth Management John & Jeanne Lefevre Steven Kent Lockwood & Herbert & Lynne Benz Foundation Benedict & Rita Olk Richard Cook Daniel Boone Richard M. Schulze Foundation Peter & Sara Ribbens David Long & Jill Tammen Casey & Rachael Crabb The Scrooby Foundation Paul & Pat Sackett Jack & Jeanne Matlock Joan Duddingston Travelers Paul & Tara Mattessich Hugh & Joyce Edmondson Wells Pianos* FANS $5,000+ Peter Maye & Betsy Cobb Lucas Erickson Rolf & Christi Bolstad Laura McCarten Tim & Susan Flaherty $5,000-9,999 Mary Ebert & Paul Stembler Judy McNamara Robert & Jenny Florence American Brain Foundation Dianne & Jim Falteisek Kristin Parker Robert & Lucille Ingram Aroha Philanthropies David & Genevieve Freier Thomas & Nancy Rohde Bruce Jones & Greystone Foundation Jewelie Grape Susan Rostkoski Joann Nordin Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation Robyn Hansen & John Clarey Kari Ruth & Tom Park Kent & Diane Krueger Michaud Cooley Erickson The John W. Harris Family Joe and Christi Schmitt James & Mary LaFave Securian Foundation Karen B. Heintz Thomas & Sharon Stoffel Ken & Diana Lewis $2,500-4,999 Athena Hollins Terri & Michael Uline Sharon & James Lewis AARP Jeff & Kathy Johnson Fred Wall William Mahlum & Baird Foundation, Inc. Renee & Paul Johnson Donna Allan Highland Friendship Club David & Karen Olson PACESETTERS $1,500+ Tony Manzara & Connie Kirk Poehler/Stremel Charitable Trust Foundation Suzanne Ammerman Robert Milligan & Lillian Wright & C. Emil Berglund Scott T. & Jennifer Anonymous Sharon Danes Foundation Norris Peterson John & Barbara Balfanz Richard & Joan Newmark Archie D. & Bertha H. Walker James Rustad & Kay Thomas Lynne Beck Molly O’Shaughnessy & Foundation Michael Monahan 12 651.291.7005 | parksquaretheatre.org OUR CONTRIBUTORS

Douglas & Carol Ogren Mary A. Jones Sheila Faulkner Gloria & David Olsen George Perez & Donald & Carol Jo Kelsey David E. Feinberg Jim Ostlund Karna Johnson Peters Thomas & Mary Krick Richard & Beverly Fink Bonnie Palmquist David Robinson & Janet Ekern Lynn Kvalness Mary Finnerty & Sidney & Decima Phillips Ken & Nina Rothchild Chris and Daniel Mahai Patrick Esmonde Mackenzie Pitterle Edwin & Jennifer Ryan William & Virginia McDonald Carolyn Fiterman Nicole & Charlie Prescott Art & Jan Seplak Bryan Mcgee Caroline & H Dutton Foster Barbara & William Read PARK SQUARE THEATRE LEAD FUNDING PARTNERS: David & Ann Smith Barbara Mikkanen K. Paul Freborg Lawrence Redmond Joan T. Smith Rosanne Nathanson Mike & Carol Garbisch Nancy & Kevin Rhein Miriam & James Stake Russell & Kathryn Rhode Mary Beidler Gearen Jill Rice Dale & Judy Tucker Chuck & Terri Roehrick Sue Ann Guildermann & Dale Richner Cindy Werner† Tim & Kim Scanlan Stephen Phillipps Shelly Rucks Robert & Barb Wieman Summer Seidenkranz & Julie & Anders Himmelstrup Allan & Sally Ruvelson Ann Wynia Clark Schroeder Robin Hubbell Sandra Sandell Connie Shaver Todd & Mary Jacobson Noel Schenker $500+ Richard & Janine Zehring Kaj & Meaghan Johansen Jack & Judy Schlukebier Nicole Ankeny Sheri Zigan Nancy Jones William & Glennis Schlukebier Marcia J. Aubineau Jo Zimmermann Art & Martha Kaemmer Jim Seidel Kay C. Bach Susan Kimberly Ronald-Craig & Susan & Jim Berdahl SUSTAINERS $250+ Jan Konke Mariana Shulstad Thelma Boeder Carolyn Adams Peter & Bonnie Kramer Jackson Smith Susan Cammack William A. Anderson Sara Kuether Rosemary Soltis Paul & Tina Casey Elizabeth Andrews Ruth Ladwig Cynthia & Mark Stange C.C. and Dawn Clawson Anonymous James & Gail Lafave & Connie Suchta Karin Collins in memory of Kj Bach David & Pamela Lande Michael Symeonides Dr. Thomas Collins Terry Banaszewski John & Colles Larkin Jon & Lea Theobald The Crabb Family, Ken, Gwen, Robert & Mary Beck Kim Leventhal Joyce Thielen Casey & Rachel Tanya Bell Mary & David Missy Staples Thompson & Kathy Cristan Laura & Jon Bloomberg Lundberg-Johnson Gar Hargens Barb & Fran Davis Carol Bossman Jim & Liane Mattson Linda Twiss Fran Davis Arnold & Judith Brier Ron & Mary Mattson Gerald & Beth Voermans Steven Euller & Nancy Roehr Jean & Carl Brookins Joan & Rob Mitchell Jenifer Wagner & James Vogel Dan & Jerri Freier Cecil & Penny Chally Bev & Ward Montgomery Claudia & Don Wiebold John Gillen Ron & Kathy Colby James & Nancy Mulvey Jeanne Winiecki Jennifer Gross Steve Colton Muriel Nelson Lori Harris David Coslett in memory of Joann Nelson William & Linda Holley Evelyn Coslett Merritt Nequette in memory Gerald Holt Jay & Page Cowles of Pauline Lambert * In-Kind Gift Mary Jacobs Buzz Cummins Theodore Neuhaus † In Remembrance

FOUNDERS SOCIETY The Founders Society recognizes individuals who have made PLANNED ESTATE GIFTS a future gift to the Theatre through their wills or other estate Betty Anderlik† Jack & Jeanne Matlock plans. These gifts literally lay the foundation for the next Anonymous Dick Morrison† generation of theatre goers – making each donor a founder of Marcia Aubineau Corrie Ooms Beck Park Square’s future. Robert Baker Ronald Parker You don’t need to be rich to leave a lasting legacy. You can John & Barbara Balfanz C. Michael-jon Pease Dennis Breining Scott T. & Jennifer provide for your heirs, gain important tax benefits, and even Richard Cook & Norris Peterson receive an income now by making a thoughtful planned gift. Steven Kent Lockwood Ken & Nina Rothchild Planned Gifts include: A Bequest in Your Will; Retained Life Margaret Durham Berneen Rudolph Estate; Gift of Retirement Plan Assets; Charitable Remainder John & Hilde Flynn Paul & Pat Sackett Trust; Gift of Life Insurance Policy; Charitable Lead Trust; John P. Gillen Laurie Simon Charitable Gift Annuity John W. Harris Doris Swenson† Sheila Henderson† Randall & Cynthia Thoen For more information about planned gifts and their potential William & Janice Kimes John & Sandy White tax advantages, please visit parksquaretheatre.org/legacy Sue McAllister

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14 651.291.7005 | parksquaretheatre.org PARK SQUARE STAFF BOARD OF DIRECTORS Richard Cook, Artistic Director Paul Mattessich (President) Michael-jon Pease, CFRE, Executive Director Executive Director, Wilder Research Foundation ARTISTIC Tim Ober (Immediate Past President) Rob Jensen, Production Director President, Red Oaks of Dakota County Inc. Ian Stoutenburgh, Technical Director Jewelie Grape (Vice President) Laura Leffler, Associate Artistic Director Partner, Conner & Winters, LLP Michael P. Kittel, Resident Lighting Designer John LeFevre (Treasurer) William Bankhead, Master Carpenter Community Volunteer (Deluxe, Retired) Mary Montgomery-Jensen, Paint Charge Nancy Feldman (Secretary) Charlotte Deranek, Sound Supervisor President and CEO, UCare, Retired Meagan Kedrowski, Rep Crew Head John L. 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Adam Harris, Steve Hendrickson, Andrea Trimble Hart CPCU, Senior VP, Brian Hesser, Katharine Horowitz, Stephen Houtz, JuCoby Johnson, Willis of Minnesota, Inc. Aditi Kapil, Mike Kittel, Carson Kreitzer, Kory LaQuess Pullam, Karen Heintz Senior VP, Branch Manager, Robert W. Baird Kym Longhi, Katy McEwen, Leslye Orr, Joseph Papke, Aaron Preusse, Paul Johnson VP, Investor Relations, Xcel Energy Doug Scholz-Carlson, Jen Scott, Eric Sharp, Dane Stauffer, Jennifer Weir, Greg Landmark VP - HR, Compensation, Regina Marie Williams Benefits and Operations, Travelers Insurance EXTERNAL RELATIONS Kristin Berger Parker Partner, Stinson, Leonard, Street Susan Berdahl, Marketing Director Susan Rostkoski Consultant Connie Shaver, PR & Social Media Director Kari Ruth Director of Strategic Communications, Mackenzie Pitterle, Annual Fund Manager Hennepin Theatre Trust Rachel Wandrei, Marketing & Engagement Manager Paul Sackett Professor of Psychology and Liberal Arts, Lynne Beck, Development Consultant University of Minnesota Madge Duffey, Graphic Designer Paul Stembler Consultant Petronella J. Ytsma, Photographer Michael Hanisch, Videographer Jim Heideman, Telemarketing Services EDUCATOR ADVISORY BOARD Christine Kullman, Development Intern Marcia Aubineau, University of St. Thomas, Retired Liz Erickson, Rosemount High School, Retired FINANCE AND OPERATIONS Sheri J. Zigan, Interim Managing Director Theodore Fabel, South High School Jackson Smith, Finance Manager Craig Farmer, Perpich Center for Arts Education Dave Peterson, Facility & Event Manager Amy Hewett-Olatunde, LEAP High School Rafael Michaca Lara, Facility & Event Associate Cheryl Hornstein, Freelance Theatre and Music Educator Robby Miller, Finance & Administrative Intern Alexandra Howes, Twin Cities Academy Front of House Staff: (Evening) Jiffy Kunik – Performance Manager; Ashe Dr. Virginia McFerran, Perpich Center for Arts Education Jaafaru, Jackson Smith, Kasey Tunell, Mariah Christensen, Michelle Kristin Nelson, Brooklyn Center High School Clark, Sophie Wozniak, Emily Bierbrauer, Emily Sonneborn, Tammie Mari O’Meara, Eden Prairie High School Weinfurtner, Mina Kobayashi, Michelle Perkowski, Claire Chwalek, Jennifer Parker, Falcon Ridge Middle School Robby Miller, Charlotte Deranek; (Daytime) Adrian Larkin – Lead House Maggie Quam, Hmong College Prep Academy Manager; Gayle Smith, Louise Rosemark, Ann Feider, Patricia Arnold, Kate Schilling, Mound Westonka High School Paula Manzuk, Ting Ting Cheng, Liz Englund, Jamie Kranz Jack Schlukebier, Central High School, Retired Ticket Agents: Ben Cook-Feltz – Ticket Office Manager; Eva Gemlo, Tanya Sponholz, Prescott High School Sophie Wozniak Usher & Friday Morning Club Coordinator: Judy Bartlett Jill Tammen, Hudson High School, Retired ARTISTIC ASSOCIATES: Aditi Kapil, Playwright, Director and Actor; Craig Zimanske, Forest Lake Area High School Carson Kreitzer, Playwright; Ricardo Vázquez, Playwright and Actor; James A. Williams, Director, Actor and Teacher THEATRE AMBASSADORS ACCESS SERVICES STAFF: Audio Description: Rick Jacobson, William Booth (Mounds View High School),Trent Chiodo Laurie Pape-Hadley, Elana Centor, Laura Wiebers; ASL: Paul Deeming, (Minnehaha Academy), Jamie Darling (Saint Anthony Elizabeth Bonderson, James Gardner, Erin Gardner, Jonella Titus, Village High School), Gloria Elena Portillo Flores (Hope Susan Masters, Jenae Hanson; Open Captioning: Shelia Bland, Academy), Michaela Long (Saint Paul Conservatory for Laura Wiebers Performing Artists), Elijah Owens (Hope Academy), Claire Scharfenberg (St. Croix Falls High School), Jessica CONSULTANTS: Assignment Writers: Ting Ting Cheng, Matt DiCintio, Stonehouse (Mounds View High School),Greta Hallberg Vincent Hannam; Auditor: Clifton Larson Allen; Volunteer Curator: (Minnehaha Academy), Payton Anderson (Shell Lake Toni Dachis High School), Amiri Burns (Harding High School), Soren VOLUNTEERS: Friday Morning Club: Susan Adix, Doreen Aszmus, Eversoll (Highland Park High School), Mairi Johnson Sue Bjerke, Pat Dalluhn, Monica Fritzen, Pat Sackett; Thank you to (Mounds View High School), Catherine Vorwald (Twin all of our Volunteer Ushers. 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