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DECEMBER 2019 PRIDE PRE&JUDICE About TheatreWorks Silicon Valley December 2019 | Volume 51, No. 4 Welcome to TheatreWorks Silicon Valley and our 50th season of award-winning theatre! Led by Founding Artistic Director Robert Kelley and Executive Director Phil Santora, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley presents a wide range of productions and programming throughout the region. Tim Bond will become TheatreWorks’ second-ever Artistic Director following Robert Kelley’s retirement in June 2020. Founded in 1970, we continue to celebrate the human spirit and the diversity of our community, presenting contemporary plays and musicals, revitalizing great works of the past, championing arts education, and nurturing new works for the American theatre. TheatreWorks has produced 70 world premieres and over 160 US and regional premieres. In June 2019, TheatreWorks received the highest honor for a theatre not on Broadway— the American Theatre Wing’s 2019 Regional Theatre Tony Award®. TheatreWorks’ 2018/19 season included the world premiere of Hershey Felder: A Paris Love Story, the West Coast premiere of Marie and Rosetta, and regional premieres of Hold These Truths, Native Gardens, Tuck Everlasting, and Archduke. Our 2017 world premiere, The Prince of Egypt, is slated to open on London’s West End in February 2020. With an annual operating budget of $11 million, TheatreWorks produces eight mainstage productions at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto and the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. Eighteen years ago, we launched the New Works Initiative, dedicating ourselves to the development of new plays and musicals. The Initiative has since supported over 160 new ENCORE works through retreats, workshops, staged readings, developmental PAUL HEPPNER President productions, and the annual New Works Festival, inspiring The Mercury MIKE HATHAWAY Senior Vice President News to call us ”a premiere breeding ground for new musicals, which has KAJSA PUCKETT Vice President, put the company on the national map.” Sales & Marketing GENAY GENEREUX Accounting & TheatreWorks believes in making theatre accessible to the entire Silicon Valley Office Manager community. Our Education Department reaches on average 15,000 students Production from 70 schools in 7 counties annually. It sponsors outreach programs that SUSAN PETERSON Vice President, Production include the Children’s Healing Project at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, JENNIFER SUGDEN Assistant Production Manager the Young Playwrights Project, specially-priced student matinees, extensive ANA ALVIRA, STEVIE VANBRONKHORST school tours, post-show discussions, theatre camps, and programs for youth. Production Artists and Graphic Designers For more information on our 2019/20 season, New Works Initiative, and Sales MARILYN KALLINS, TERRI REED Education programs, please visit theatreworks.org or call 650.463.1960. San Francisco/Bay Area Account Executives BRIEANNA HANSEN, AMELIA HEPPNER, SHERRI JARVEY, ANN MANNING TheatreWorks Silicon Valley is a member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) and AFFILIATIONS— Seattle Area Account Executives operates under agreement between LORT and Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States. TheatreWorks is a constituent member of Theatre Communications CAROL YIP Sales Coordinator E Group, Inc., the national organization for the nonprofit professional theatre. TheatreWorks N is a member of the R E Marketing National Alliance for Musical Theatre, a national service organization for musical theatre. In addition, B N TheatreWorks is a member of Theatre Bay Area, the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce, the Mountain View I SHAUN SWICK Brand & Creative Manager V Chamber of Commerce, and the Los Altos Chamber of Commerce. TheatreWorks’ 2019/20 Season is presented E K CIARA CAYA Marketing Coordinator in cooperation with the City of Mountain View and the City of Palo Alto, Community Services Department, O T Division of Arts and Sciences. O H P Encore Media Group / The director is a member of the Society of N 425 North 85th Street • Seattle, WA 98103 O S Stage Directors and Choreographers, Inc., I T 800.308.2898 • 206.443.0445 an independent national labor union. The T A M costume, lighting, and sound designers [email protected] Y are members of United Scenic Artists. R A encoremediagroup.com M & This season is supported in part by awards I T from the National Endowment for the Arts I Encore Arts Programs and Encore Stages are published L L and the California Arts Council, a state E monthly by Encore Media Group to serve performing arts T agency: www.arts.ca.gov R events in the San Francisco Bay Area and Greater Seattle O M Area. All rights reserved. ©2019 Encore Media Group. N TheatreWorks Silicon Valley is a proud I Reproduction without written permission is prohibited. T home company of the Mountain View S U J Garden Court is the official J. Lohr is the official wine Center for the Performing Arts. TheatreWorks’ 2019/20 J. Lohr is the official wine : R hotel of TheatreWorks. of TheatreWorks. E Season Media Sponsor of TheatreWorks. V The Mercury News is TheatreWorks’ O C 2017/18 Season Media Sponsor. 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Member FDIC. Union Bank is a registered trademark and brand name of MUFG Union Bank, N.A. encorespotlight.com 3 Untitled-3 1 4/30/19 12:16 PM In this Issue From the Board Chair About TheatreWorks 2 We’ve all experienced Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice Silicon Valley many times, in many different ways. There’s the book of course, and plays, and a series of movies that often spark Gift Subscriptions debates about the merits of the Colin Firth version vs. the 7 Keira Knightley version vs. whatever other version is out T O TheatreWorks, Paul Gordon, N there. IMDB.com lists nine film versions, the oldest of which 9 E H C R was produced in 1938. It’s a classic love story and deserves E and Magical Premieres T E P the wide audience it has found. 10 Jane Austen Now, thanks to Paul Gordon, Pride and Prejudice has become a musical. TheatreWorks has long been involved in developing new plays and musicals 11 The Regency Period and this World Premiere of Pride and Prejudice is a direct outgrowth of our 2018 New Works Festival, where it was one of the highlights. Paul has 13 Director’s Notes written wonderful songs that bring this well-known story new richness and vibrancy. Pride and Prejudice is TheatreWorks’ 70th world premiere, a truly amazing feat for a company that is only 50 years young. TheatreWorks’ 50th season has been a great success so far. I hope you enjoyed Mark Twain’s River of Song as much as we did. In January, we’ll have the music-filled drama The Pianist of Willesden Lane, created by TheatreWorks favorite Hershey Felder and performed by renowned concert pianist Mona Golabek. It is followed by another hit from our New Works Festival, They Promised Her the Moon, the story of a prize-winning aviatrix who hoped to become the first woman in space. Please join us for all these great productions. Jane Austen Enjoy the show. 15 TheatreWorks Silicon Valley presents Roy Johnson PRIDE AND PREJUDICE 17 WHO’S WHO BOARD OF TRUSTEES Roy Johnson, Chair 21 Austen’s Independent Woman Patricia Bresee Anne Hambly Ellice Papp Denise Brosseau Rose Hau Phil Santora Cabell Chinnis Ron Hayden Barbara Shapiro 25 Spotlight on Education Bill Coughran Judy Heyboer Nancy Ginsburg Stern Sarah Donaldson Charlotte Jacobs Lynn Szekely-Goode 26 Season of Giving Susan Fairbrook Derry Kabcenell Mark Vershel Peggy Woodford Forbes Michael Kahn Kristina Vetter Matt Fuller Julie Kaufman Holly Ward 27 TWSV Contributors Ciro Giammona Robert Kelley Lisa Webster Mark Greenstein Donald Matsuda Jane Weston 30 TWSV Staff BOARD EMERITUS Nancy Meyer, Founder • William F. Adler • Edward T. Anderson, MD • Doug Barry • Lauren Berman • 31 TWSV General Information Chuck Bernstein • Jayne Booker • Sharon Anthony Bower • Michael Braun • Polly W. Bredt • Bruce C. Cozadd • Jeff Crowe • Peggy Dalal • Yogen Dalal • Jenny Dearborn • Susan Fairbrook • Michael R. Flicker • Dan Garber • Doug Garland • Aaron Gershenberg • Marcia Goldman • Emeri Handler • Larry Horton • Susan M. Huch • Perry A. Irvine • Nancy Lee Jalonen • Lisa Jones • Gina Jorasch • Roberta Continue the conversation online! R. Katz • Tom Kelley • Robin Kennedy • Michael Kwatinetz • Dick Maltzman • Suzanne Martin • Patti McClung • Don McDougall • Bruce McLeod • Cynthia S. Miller • Leslie Murphy-Chutorian • Eileen Nelson • Karen Nierenberg • Carrie Perzow • Carey Pickus • Margot Mailliard Rawlins • John Reis • Eddie Reynolds • Sandi Risser • Lynn Wilson Roberts • Ray A. Rothrock • Loren Saxe • Denise Stanford • Debra Summers • Rosina Lo Sun • James Sweeney • Cathie Thermond • Ewart Thomas • Helaina @TheatreWorksSV Titus • Tzipor Ulman • Robert J. Van der Leest, MD • Ronni Watson • Elissa Wellikson • Gayla Lorthridge Wood 4 THEATREWORKS In this Issue From the Board Chair About TheatreWorks 2 We’ve all experienced Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice Silicon Valley many times, in many different ways. There’s the book of course, and plays, and a series of movies that often spark Gift Subscriptions debates about the merits of the Colin Firth version vs.