Jlm Slmpson ARTISTIC DIRECTOR CAROL OSTROW PRODUCING
THE FLEA THEATER Jim Simpson artistic director Carol Ostrow producing director Beth Dembrow managing director presents the new york premiere of THE RECOMMENDATION
Written by Jonathan Caren Directed by Kel Haney Featuring The Bats
Caite Hevner Kemp Set Design Nick Solyom Lighting Design Sydney Maresca Costume Design Elisheba Ittoop Sound Design Mark Olsen Fight Director Jacqueline Filer Stage Managment
World Premiere at The Old Globe, San Diego, California Barry Edelstein, Artistic Director Michael G. Murphy, Managing Director CAST (in alphabetical order) Dwight Barnes...... Barron B. Bass Iskinder Iudoku...... James Fouhey Aaron Feldman...... Austin Trow
understudies Aaron Feldman...... Alex J. Gould Iskinder Iudoku...... Donaldo Prescod Dwight Barnes...... Orlando Rivera The Recommendation
CREATIVE TEAM Playwright...... Jonathan Caren Director...... Kel Haney Set Designer...... Caite Hevner Kemp Lighting Designer...... Nick Solyom Costume Designer...... Sydney Maresca Sound Designer...... Elisheba Ittoop Fight Director...... Mark Olsen
THE FLEA THEATER Stage Manager...... Jacqueline Filer Actor Coach...... Jennifer McKenna Associate Costume Designer...... Sarah Thea Swafford
This play is dedicated to Amdie Mengistu. 23 FLEA STAFF Artistic Director...... Jim Simpson Producing Director...... Carol Ostrow Managing Director...... Beth Dembrow Technical Director...... Liz Blessing Company Manager...... Erin Daley Development Associate...... Alek Deva Marketing Associate...... David Sernick Audience Development Associate...... Dominic Spillane Assistant Technical Director...... Brandon Stock Graphic Designer...... Jaime Vallés Videographer...... Crystal Arnette
The Recommendation Costume Manager...... Josh Boerman
Theater, Technical & Production Consultant...... Kyle Chepulis Accountant...... Joel Faden & Company, Inc. Attorney...... Carol M. Kaplan/Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp LLP Development Consultant...... Rachel Colbert Press Representative...... Ron Lasko/Spin Cycle
Special Thanks to Technical Artistry, ThinkSo, Tribeca Lighting, Brett Hunter, and Souths THE FLEA THEATER The playwright would like to thank Lou Spisto, Jack Depalma, Eric Louie, Marsha Norman & Chris Durang, Tanya Barfield, Joe Kramer, Evan Cabnet, Jerry Patch, Annie MacRae, Jonathan Lomma, Di Glazer, Laura Savia and Alex Barron. 33 CAST (in alphabetical order)
Barron B. Bass (Dwight Barnes) The Flea Theater: a cautionary tail (dir. Benjamin Kamine), New York: Flying Fables (dir. John Martin-Green), Regional: Shakespeare In Vegas (Dreamcatcher Rep/NJ Playwrights Theater). Barron recently received his BFA from Rutgers University, MGSA. www.BarronBBass.com
James Fouhey (Iskinder Iudoku) This will be James’ second show at The Flea after debuting as Loveless in Restoration Comedy. Regionally, he has performed in Love’s Labour’s Lost (Huntington Theatre), in Cyrano
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Austin Trow (Aaron Feldman) graduated from Yale University in 2012 with a BA in Theatre Studies and History. The Flea: The Shakes: Romeo and Juliet (Romeo), #serials@theflea. THE FLEA THEATER Other NYC credits include And We Shall Never Speak of This Again (Performance Research Group), Fry Side (New Light Theatre Project). Other favorite productions include: Othello (Iago), R&G Are Dead (Rosencrantz), and Rabbit Hole (Jason). 43 UNDERSTUDIES Alex J. Gould (Aaron Feldman) has appeared in christopher oscar pena’s a cautionary tail, Thomas Bradshaw’s Job, The Shakes: Romeo and Juliet and #serials@theflea. Other NYC Credits include: Fast in Fire (Theater for the New City), East in Red (Dreamcatcher Entertainment), Much Ado About Nothing (EBE Ensemble). Regional: WHADDABLOODCLOT!!! by Katori Hall, The Valley of Fear, Summer in the Country, The Applicant, The Sandbox (Williamstown Theater Festival). Education: AMDA.
Donaldo Prescod (Iskinder Iudoku) The Flea: The Wundelsteipen by Nick Jones, Future Anxiety, serials@theflea. Other New York credits include: Richard III, Orestes 2.0, Pillars of Society, Harold Pinter’s Celebration,
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Bradstreet’s Patrick Story. California credits: Angels in America, Burn This, and Lend Me a Tenor. In addition to being an actor, Donaldo is also a playwright, having written plays for The Flea Theater; his work has been directed by Elizabeth Carlson, Sarah Krohn, and other prominent New York directors. www.donaldoprescod.com
Orlando Rivera (Dwight Barnes) is an actor/ nurse/poet from the Bronx and has been
THE FLEA THEATER a proud Bat since June of 2012. Past Flea credits: christopher oscar peña’s a cautionary tail, Thomas Bradshaw’s Job, The Shakes: Romeo & Juliet, #serials@theflea and recent workshops of The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards (dir. Kristan Seemel) & The Juarez Project (dir. Danya 53 Taymor). Select credits: Michal in The Pillowman, Balm in Gilead - 2010 NYIT Award for Best Production of an OOB Play (T. Schreiber Studio). CREATIVE TEAM
Jonathan Caren (Playwright) Plays include The Recommendation (The Old Globe, ‘12 Craig Noel Outstanding Play), The Morning The Sun Fell Down (MTC 2013 7@7), The Venerable Raman Gupta (Sundance Lab ’13 Finalist), Open Heart Meditation (Ars Nova Out Loud ’11), and Catch The Fish (NY Fringe, Outstanding Play). 2011-12 Dramatist Guild Fellow, 2011 New York Stage And Film Founder’s Award, T.S Eliot Old Vic/New Voices Network member, SPACE @ Ryder Farm fellow, two-time Lecomte du Nouy award winner. Jonathan graduated from the The Juilliard School and Vassar College where he studied mythology and religion.
Kel Haney (Director) Recent directing credits include: The Shakes: (The Flea), by Jonathan
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Caren (Keen Company/Keen Teens), El Fugo by Edith Freni (Partial Comfort Productions), Row After Row by Jessica Dickey, Little Rock by Rachel Bonds (both at Williamstown Theatre Festival), The Consequences with music and lyrics by Nathan Leigh and Kyle Jarrow, book by Kyle Jarrow (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre). She has directed and developed new work at Ars Nova, The Directors Company, Cherry Lane Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre and Youngblood, The Lark, Ma-Yi, New Dramatists, New Georges, NY
THE FLEA THEATER Fringe Festival, Rattlestick, Rising Phoenix, Studio 42, Vampire Cowboys, Westport Country Playhouse, & the 52nd Street Project. Also: Manhattan Theatre Club Directing Fellow, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, Old Vic/New Voices Exchange Program and a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre. www.kelhaney.com 63 Caite Hevner Kemp (Set Designer) is a New York based scenic and projection designer. Previously at The Flea: Tales from My Parents’ Divorce. Upcoming: Smokey Joe’s Café, Arena Stage, Surviving Twin, Playmakers Rep. Off-Broadway (selected): Triassic Parq, Jukebox Jackie, Honky, Son of a Gun. New York (selected): La Scala di Seta and Il Cambiale di Matrimonio, The Juilliard School; Miss Lilly Gets Boned, Billy Witch and My Base and Scurvy Heart, Studio 42; March, Red Fern Theater Company. Regional (selected): Williamstown Theatre Festival, ArtsEmerson, Chautauqua Theater Company, Infinity Theatre Company, Yale Dramat, Greenwich Music Festival. Graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts (MFA) and the Yale School of Drama. Member of Wingspace Theatrical Design. www.caitekemp.com
Nick Solyom (Lighting Designer) is thrilled to be designing his first production at The Flea. Past designs include: The Reformed
The Recommendation Drunkard (Little Opera Theatre of NY), The Glass Menagerie (College of New Rochelle) and Blogologues (Lively Productions). In addition, he was the 2010-2011 Resident Lighting Designer for Brown University/Trinity Repertory Company, where he designed A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Vieux Carre, The Rover, and The Threepenny Opera. He is an alumni of NYU’s Graduate Department of Design for Stage and Film. www.SolyomDesign.com
Sydney Maresca (Costume Designer) recently designed the
THE FLEA THEATER costumes for Blood Play (The Debate Society), Finks (Ensemble Studio Theater), Alice in Wonderland (New York City Opera), The Civil War (TheatreWorks USA), La Brea (Clubbed Thumb), The Lapsburgh Layover (Ars Nova), Hand to God (Ensemble StudioTheater), and The Zero Hour (13P). Film work includes: Sin Matador, Breakup 3 at a Wedding, and Movie 43’s “Superhero Speed Dating”. Sydney 7 has an MFA from NYU, is on the board of directors for Triskelion Arts, and is part of The Hazzards. Elisheba Ittoop (Sound Designer) is beyond stoked to play with The Bats. Her designs and original music have been heard at The Kennedy Center, Folger Theatre, National Gallery of Art, Theatre J, Roundhouse Theatre, Studio Theatre, Chautauqua Theater Company, Alliance Theatre, Virginia Stage Company, Children’s Theatre of Charlotte, and the Center for Puppetry Arts. Elisheba was a resident sound designer at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center for the 2010 and 2011 National Playwrights Conferences, recipient of the Kenan Fellowship at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and winner of the 2008 USITT Rising Star Award. Elisheba earned her MFA at North Carolina School of the Arts. For Alan P. www.elishebaittoop.com
Mark Olsen (Fight Director) is a nationally recognized authority on stage movement and combat. Emeritus teacher and former secretary of the Society of American Fight Directors, Mark’s combat
The Recommendation work in New York was most recently seen in the Roundabout Theatre’s production of Tally’s Folly and Trip to Bountiful at the Stephen Sondheim theatre. He just directed Reunion Run for the NY Fringe Festival. Mark has directed more than 45 professional and university productions; movement coordinator and fight director for productions at the Signature Theater, Hartford Stage Company, Long Wharf Theater, Alley Theatre, Houston Grand Opera, New York Shakespeare Festival, Roundabout, and others. 2010 Drama Desk for work on Orphan’s Home Cycle. Formerly head of THE FLEA THEATER graduate acting at Penn State School of Theater, he teaches at The Juilliard School, Columbia University, and is the Chair of the Musical Theatre Conservatory at the New York Film Academy.
83 Jacqueline Filer (Stage Manager) Lincoln Center Institute Projects (Clark); Honour (La Mama); The End of Days (Fringe Festival); Disjointed Love (Alchemist Theatre); Chicago City Limits (Broadway Comedy Club); Falling Awake (Midtown International Festival); Mommies: A Musical Blog (Regional); ASM: Annie, Damn Yankees, Hairspray, Sweeney Todd, A Chorus Line (MWVTC); New York Fashion Week c/o fall/winter 2013; New York Fashion Week c/o spring/summer 2013; PASEO (Dance) PA: HereAfter (Off Broadway), La Jolla Playhouse, Disney Special Events. BFA University of North Carolina School of the Arts
Jennifer McKenna (Actor Coach) is an arts activist and consultant in the theatrical and artistic communities. She has worked directly with the The Flea for the past 5 years to cultivate a resource for the resident company in which the actors can equip and prepare themselves to live fully inspired lives on and off stage in New York
The Recommendation City. She is striving to address and progress beyond the starving artist paradigm that so often adheres itself to creative people in our culture today. Jennifer also works privately outside The Flea with creators of varying artistic mediums. THE FLEA THEATER
93 THE FLEA STAFF Jim Simpson (Artistic Director and Founder) Jim was a child actor in his hometown of Honolulu, as a teenager worked with Jerzy Grotowski in Poland, and holds degrees from Boston University School for the Arts and the Yale Drama School. He’s worked at many venues in New York City, Nationally and Internationally. Drama Desk cited for Downtown Adventurous Theater, Two-time OBIE-award winner, National Board of Review Excellence in Filmmaking, and cited for artistic leadership in Downtown New York by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
Carol Ostrow (Producing Director) joined Jim Simpson at the helm of The Flea in 2001 and The Guys marked her return to Off-Off-Broadway. She was the OBIE-award winning Producing Director of The Recommendation
the Classic Stage Company, where she produced The Merchant of Venice, directed by Jim Simpson, the world premiere of Ezra Pound’s Elektra, directed by Carey Perloff as well as the acclaimed 30th anniversary production of Pinter’s The Birthday Party, among others. She was also the founder and original Producing Director of The Powerhouse Theater at Vassar, now in its 28th season. In between, she has been an adjunct professor of theater at Vassar College, Chatham College and McGill University.
THE FLEA THEATER For The Flea, Carol has produced dozens of world premieres and has been responsible for sound fiscal management of the theater’s $1M budget for eleven years. In addition to expanding and professionalizing infrastructure at The Flea, she helped to develop the theater’s current 18-member board of directors and has overseen the launch of a 3 patron program that has raised more than $300,000 in the past 10 three years. She has produced the theater’s successful galas and has helped The Flea win prestigious grants from The Andrew W. Mellon Theater Program, The National Endowment of The Arts, The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, The Empire State Development Corporation and The Shubert Foundation, among many others. Carol is a graduate of Vassar College and the Yale Drama School. She is a board member of LAVA, an acrobatic dance collective, serves on the President’s Advisory Council of Vassar College and the Board of Advisors of the Yale Drama School, and on the executive committee of one of the oldest congregations in New York City, Central Synagogue. Married and the mother of four incredible young adults, she and her family count Pittsburgh, London, Montreal and now New York City once again as home.
Beth Dembrow (Managing Director) has been with The Flea since 2007 working on Oh, The Humanity and other exclamations by Will Eno, Lower Ninth by Beau Willimon, Kaspar Hauser by Liz Swados
The Recommendation & Erin Courtney, Love/Stories (or But You Will Get Used to It) by Itamar Moses, The Great Recession, an evening of short plays by Thomas Bradshaw, Sheila Callaghan, Erin Courtney, Will Eno, Itamar Moses and Adam Rapp, Girls in Trouble by Jonathan Reynolds, Parents’ Evening by Bathsheba Doran, She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen, These Seven Sicknesses by Sean Graney and all other mainstage and downstairs productions. Prior to her arrival, she spent two and half years at Lincoln Center Theater where she worked on all mainstage and second stage productions, including THE FLEA THEATER the Tony-Award winning productions, The Light in the Piazza and Tom Stoppard’s The Coast of Utopia. Other management experiences include various Broadway and Off Broadway with Snug Harbor Productions (Steven Chaikelson and Brannon Wiles). Beth holds a B.A. from Cornell University and an M.F.A. in Theater Management 113 and Producing from Columbia University. Liz Blessing (Technical Director) Liz is happy to have found a home at The Flea Theater. Before coming to the Flea she was the Draftsperson for I. Weiss, creating construction drawings for rigging system installation on Broadway and beyond. Previous to that she was an Engineering Assistant for City Theatrical, Inc, where she helped test the W-DMX system. Liz has a B.S. from The College of William and Mary.
Erin Daley (Company Manager) comes to The Flea after spending last year producing Arena Stage’s Eugene O’Neill Festival in Washington D.C. Prior to this; she spent three years as a coordinator in Los Angeles working in film and commercials before her love of theater tore her away. After cutting her teeth as an independent producer and director, Erin is thrilled to have a found a home at The Flea where she can continue to work on exciting and innovative new theater.
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Dominic Spillane (Audience Development Associate) began working with The Flea Theater in 2009 as an actor in The Great Recession performing in Sheila Callaghan’s Recess directed by Kip Fagan, Classic Kitchen Timer by Adam Rapp, and Severed by Erin Courtney. In 2011 he and partner Stephen Stout created and produced the hit late-
THE FLEA THEATER night play competition #serials@theflea, now in its second year running. As a producer Dominic created the short film “Falling Down” which toured 4 international film festivals, and the one- act festival Dancing With Myself at the Working Stage theater in Los Angeles. In 2012 Dominic directed Bea Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table by Joe Tracz (Ars Nova’s ANT Fest), and 123 Lighthouse by Charlotte Miller (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater’s TheaterJam). He has also directed short plays by Stacy Davidowitz and Leslye Headland. David Sernick (Marketing Associate) graduated from Indiana University with a double BA in Political Science and Theatre & Drama along with a Certificate in Arts Administration. From 2009 – 2012 David was the Marketing Associate at Barrington Stage Company where he cultivated younger audiences with new media strategies thanks to a Future Audiences Grant from TCG. David founded Black Swan Theatre Project in Grand Rapids, MI and InPulse Productions in Bloomington, IN where he directed, produced and occasionally acted. Other directing credits include assistant directing at Barrington Stage Company and directing for Barrington Stage’s inaugural 10×10 New Play Festival.
Alek Deva (Development Associate) received a degree in English with a focus in Poetry Writing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. During his tenure at UNC-CH, Alek worked
The Recommendation nearly full time as the Master Electrician and in-house Lighting Designer at the University’s world-class Memorial Hall, the main performance venue of Carolina Performing Arts. After working with numerous theater, dance, and music artists from around the world, he decided to make the transition to the other side of the curtain. Alek studied for a year at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in their Performing Arts Management MFA program, during which time he produced a world premiere percussion and piano performance featuring award-winning percussionist Scott O’Toole
THE FLEA THEATER and composer/pianist Alicia Willard. He most recently worked at the Weston Playhouse Theatre Company as their Marketing Associate, where he developed a dynamic and successful marketing campaign for world premiere musical Pregnancy Pact (by Gordon Leary and Julia Meinwald). 133 WHAT IS THE FLEA? The Flea is our theater: two unique and intimate performance spaces, located here at 41 White Street in Tribeca. But The Flea is also an award- winning producing organization, founded in 1996, that offers more than 250 cutting-edge theatrical and multi-disciplinary performances each year and gives voice to some of the most exciting and innovative writers of our time. Founded from the purely artistic impulse to create “joyful hell in a small space”, our body of work has earned us accolades from across the globe including two Obie Awards for Best Production, an Otto for Courageous Political Theater, and a Drama Desk Award Special Award for our commitment to adventurous theater. Our 2001 production of The Guys, a raw artistic response to the events of 9/11, became a phenomenon that played to sold-out houses for 13 months and quickly cemented our leadership role in the downtown, Off-Off-Broadway and Lower Manhattan communities. The Recommendation
The Flea is a beacon for adventurous audiences and creative artists of all stripes, from the young striver to the legendary veteran. More than 150,000 people have come to The Flea to witness the rare spark created when artists are given free rein to play, experiment and invent—often in ways that the commercial theater can’t support. And it is that spark that fulfills our mission, pure and simple: to embody the spirit of adventure and excitement that has defined Off-Off-Broadway since its inception. THE FLEA THEATER
143 WHO & WHAT ARE THE BATS? The Bats is our critically acclaimed resident company, cast anew each year from over 1,000 aspiring young actors. Voted “Best Off- Off-Broadway Company to Act In” by Backstage, being a Bat offers young artists the rare opportunity to break into the field with real life experience, performing in front of an audience on a regular basis and working to support The Flea and its visiting artists. All in one night, a Bat may tear your ticket, pour you a drink and rivet your soul to the stage. The Recommendation
WHAT IS OFF-OFF-BROADWAY? Dating back almost fifty years, Off-Off-Broadway began informally-- an alternative, non-commercial environment where new ideas and THE FLEA THEATER projects were born out of energetic and often happenstance encounters. Hundreds of well-known artists credit this adventurous and free- spirited time with their falling in love with theater, and getting good at what they do.
Visit www.theflea.org for information on all things Flea! 153 Find The Flea Theater on Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter & YouTube THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Chair Jamie Harris President Jim Simpson Secretary Douglas Liebhafsky Treasurer Emmeline Wexer
Kyle Chepulis Robert Eimicke Paul J. Elston
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Wendy Harrison Hashmall Andrea Miller Carol Ostrow David Prittie Nanahya Santana Linda Schupack Bernadette Speach THE FLEA THEATER Tony Tramontin Basil Walter Sigourney Weaver Katherine White Weinhoff 163 Stephen Weinroth Davis Weinstock THE FLEA CIRCUS CAMPAIGN Fifteen years ago The Flea’s founders undertook an artistic experiment, renting an old TriBeCa factory in the wilds of Lower Manhattan and opening the doors to the most iconoclastic and talented artists they could find. Since then The Flea has evolved into an award-winning theater known for presenting the very best of Off-Off-Broadway theater, music and dance. We have also become an emblem for the resilience of Lower Manhattan, drawing more than 150,000 people to the area since the 9/11 attacks. To continue in that leadership role, we recently purchased a site nearby that is soon to become our permanent new home. Our goal is to continue producing our own intimate and exhilarating work while providing stability to dozens of other artists and performance groups. We are grateful to the following for their lead gifts to the project: VISIONARIES ($500K+) International Creative Anonymous Management, Inc. State of New York Liam Neeson Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor In Memory of Natasha Richardson George E. Pataki, Governor Omnicom Empire State Development Corporation David Richenthal Julie Shimer, Chairman Kenes Rakishev & City of New York Aselle Tasmagambetova Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor United Talent Agency The Recommendation New York City Council Katherine & Samuel Weinhoff Christine C. Quinn, Speaker Stephen & Cathy Weinroth Margaret Chin, Council Member Davis & Betsy Weinstock James Van Bramer, Council Member Borough of Manhattan New York DIRECTORS ($25K+) Scott M. Stringer, President New York State Council on the Arts The Lower Manhattan Aby Rosen, Chair Development Corporation Lisa Robb, Executive Director Carol Ostrow & Michael Graff Jim & Suzy Cameron Paul Elston & Frances Beinecke Kyle Chepulis A.R. & Molly Gurney Linda Schupack & David Good The September 11th Fund Wendy & David Hashmall Marilyn & Jeffrey Katzenberg ANGELS ($250K+) Kathleen Kennedy & Frank Marshall Anonymous Massey Knakal Real Estate Douglas Liebhafsky & Wendy Gimbel Ed & Patricia Matthews THE FLEA THEATER Sigourney Weaver & Jim Simpson Gould Family Foundation David Prittie PRODUCERS ($50K+) Daryl Roth & Jordan Roth Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Dan & Sue Rothenberg The Irene Diamond Fund Ted Snowdon Dormitory Authority The Fran & Ray Stark Foundation of the State of New York Edward Trach Paul T. Williams, Jr., President Basil Walter Walter Nick Howley 3 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council ARTISTS ($10K+) 17 Dennis Mehiel Roger Berlind All The Way Foundation André Bishop & the Lecomte du Noüy Foundation Joseph F. Godfrey & Keith Halstead Ellen McCourt James & Toni Goodale Andrea & George Miller Sarah C. Goodyear Newman’s Own Foundation Jane Whitney Gruson Emma Sheafer Charitable Trust Christopher Bumcrot & Evelyn R. Gurney Kent Lawson & Carol Tambor Lynne Halliday & B.H. Barry Celeste & Tony Tramontin Robert & Marilyn Harbage Patrick Herold PATRONS ($5K+) Fenita Bilgoraj Heyman Anonymous Cindy & Alan Horn Robert Eimicke & Roslyn Black Emily F. Johnson Vivian Bower & Lawrence Shainberg Marsha Berkowitz & Wayne Kabak Marshall & Nina Brickman Marianne & David Kaplan E.L. & Helen Doctorow Jerome B. Kauff William H. Draper III & Stephen & Marina P. Kaufman Phyllis C. Draper Louise Lamphere Kristin & Gary Friedman in honor of Basil Walter Jane Gelfman Claire & David Lane Edwin & Lorna Goodman Harry Moses & Randy Lehrer The Anrol Foundation Jerry Levine & Nina Tassler Mary G. Gurney Paige & Nicky L’Hommedieu Sylvia G. & Benjamin F. Johnson and Kate H. Marber Sarah East Johnson Israela Margalit Mark Kaplan Julian Mazor Edward McKinley Michael Miller Susan Sarandon Robert & Evelyn Miller Mike Nichols & Diane Sawyer Susan Monserud & Ric Sonder George Sheanshang Bernard W. Nussbaum Jeanne S. & Herbert J. Siegel Pakula Productions, Inc.
The Recommendation The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation Gilbert Parker
Becky Tesich David B. Pearce, M.D. Emily & Lily Wiest Mary Ann & Bruno A. Quinson Holland Taylor FRIENDS ($1K+) Deborah Schneider & Jim Tilley Marla Mayer & Chris Ahearn The Shana Alexander Robert & Betsy Barbanell Charitable Foundation Agnes Martin Barley Jonathan Sheffer Tom & Meredith Brokaw Barry Skovgaard & Marc Wolinsky Arthur H. Brooks Bernadette Speach & David C. Bryan Jeffrey Schanzer Beth Burnam Scott & Dhuane Stephens Arthur & Linda Carter Michael & Marjorie Stern Michael J. Chepiga & Bruce Sunstein Pamela Rogers Chepiga David & Deborah Trainer in honor of Kathy White Victoria G. Traube
THE FLEA THEATER Marya Cohn Ginny & Bob Walther Al & Roma Connable Emmeline Wexer Blythe Danner Marguerite C. Whitney Robert L. Denton Rachael Worby Arlene Donovan F.A. Zunino John & Karen Erickson List as of 8/22/13 Mr. & Mrs. John Galen We apologize if you have been left off this list. Please contact Alek Deva at [email protected] for any corrections. 183 For more information on our Capital Project, please contact Carol Ostrow, (212) 226-0051 x104 THE FLEA I.P.’S In June of 2009 The Flea launched a unique patron program called The Flea IPs - an elite and dedicated group that helps to make the dreams of The Flea a reality. Flea IPs gain insider access through exclusive events including private talk-backs, intimate artist dinners, master classes and first-look readings. Flea IPs commit their support for three full years, generously pledging $5,000 each year. Interested? We’d love to make you a Flea IP too! Please contact Carol Ostrow at 212.226.0051 x104 or [email protected] for more information. The Flea proudly salutes our Flea I.P. members and thanks them for their unwavering support:
Catherine Adler Trey Beck John & Gaily Beinecke Lois Chiles
The Recommendation Larry Condon
Jonathan Reynolds & Heidi Ettinger Douglas Liebhafsky & Wendy Gimbel Lorna B. & Edwin A. Goodman Carol Ostrow & Michael Graff Celeste Guth Wendy Hashmall Lorie & Nick Howley Ellen M. Iseman Eleanora & Michael Kennedy Sahra Lese Larry Kanter & Shelly J London THE FLEA THEATER Andrea & George Miller Elizabeth Olofson Stephen & Livia Russell Jeremy T. Smith Nanhya C. Santana & Hume Steyer Tony & Celeste Tramontin Katherine & Sam Weinhoff 193 Stephen & Cathy Weinroth FOUNDATIONS, CORPORATIONS, GOVERNMENT & INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT $50,000+ David Good & Linda Schupack The National Endowment for the Arts The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation The Poses Family Foundation $1,000 - $2,499 $25,000 - $49,999 Anonymous Catherine Adler Gay & Harry Abrams Bloomberg Philanthropies Abrams Artists Agency JPMorgan Chase Foundation Claudia Baez New York City Department of The Barbara Bell Cumming Foundation Cultural Affairs Nancy & Alan Brenner Warburg Pincus Beth Burnam Jonathan & Margot Davis $10,000 - $24,999 Dramatists Guild Fund Anonymous Elizabeth B. Elston Douglas Liebhafsky & Wendy Gimbel The Friars Foundation The Prospect Hill Foundation Thomas & Darlene Fridstein Dan & Sue Rothenberg Jane R. Gelfman The Fan Fox & Mark & Madeline Lebwohl Leslie R. Samuels Foundation The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation The Shubert Foundation Shelly & Neil Mitchell Nanahya C. Santana & Hume Steyer William Plapinger & Cassie Murray Katherine & Samuel Weinhoff The New York Stock Exchange Foundation Stephen & Cathy Weinroth Nick & Julie Sakellariadis The Edward & Sally Van Lier Fund Robert Santos & Linda Carlson The Recommendation of the New York Community Trust Harry Stout
Cynthia King Vance & Lee Vance $5,000 - $9,999 Trey Beck $500+ Larry Condon Anonymous Paul J. Elston & Frances Beinecke Marita & Michael Altman The Ettinger Foundation Lynn & Mark Angelson Edwin & Lorna Goodman Virginia Arcari Wendy & David Hashmall Suzanne Bales Lorie & Nick Howley Robert & Betsy Barbanell Ellen M. Iseman Jacqueline Brody in honor of Helen Frankenthaler George & Jane Bunn Larry Kanter & Shelly J. London Ellen Davis The Lucille Lortel Foundation Jean Fitzgerald Andrea & George Miller Christopher Flinn & Daniela Del Boca The New York State Council on the Arts Fred & Susan Foster THE FLEA THEATER Celeste & Tony Tramontin Bobby & Vicki Freeman Andrew Frey $2,500 - $4,999 Steven & Donna Gartner The Angelson Family Fund Mia Goldman & Michael Rotblatt The Axe-Houghton Foundation Geoffrey & Sarah Gund James Cameron Robbi D. Holman Richard & Jennie DeScherer Lise Jeantet Robert Eimicke & Roslyn Black Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Kamine The John Golden Fund Carol Kaplan 3 The Walter & Elise Haas Fund John Kilgore 20 Stephen & Kristina Lang Jame Willkomm & Marc Lesnick The Frederick Loewe Foundation Gregory Long Fred & Nancy Poses LuEsther T. Mertz Advised Fund Murray A. Luftglass Eric Seiler & Darcy Bradbury Caroline McCandless Gretchen Shugart Sherry McCutcheon South’s Bar & Restaurant Jane Read Martin & Douglas McGrath Charbel & Aida Tagher Stephen McNabb Elizabeth Duggal Taghipour Payne Middleton Stephanie Garry & Art Tatge Elaine Montgomery Edward Trach Laurence Hazell & Mimi Quillin Mary & Jerome Vascellaro Mitchell Rabinowitz & Roberta Weiss Emmeline Wexer Steven Rand Ellen Freudenheim & Daniel Wiener Benjamin & Alice Reiter Dan & Cammy Zamlong Saluggi’s List as of 8/22/13 We apologize if you have been left off this list. Please contact Alek Deva at [email protected] for any corrections. FLEA MEMBERS $250 Donors $100 Contributors Anonymous (1) Anonymous (5) Jon Robin Baitz Edward Albee Richard & Susan Baldwin Joseph Allen Catherine Cahill & William Bernhard Marilyn Armel Ronni J. Casty Peter & Susan Axelrod Linda & Tom Cauchois Gerry Bamman Frank & Helga Doyle Doug & Sarah Banker Margaret Einhorn & Machel Lasky Judy & Ennius Bergsma Sara & Fred Epstein Barbara & Gary Bloom Alice Ericsson John J. Bolebruch The Recommendation John & Deborah Evangelakos Sarah Bond Wendy Federman Lesley Broder Richard V. Girodano & Khairul E. Astwood JuLondre Karlveon Brown Mrs. James B. Gubelman Jean Bundy Bob Honsinger Jane & George Bunn The Jacoby Family Christopher Cayaba Wayne S. Kabak Susan & Jeffrey Chase Virgie & Walter Klein Mr. & Mrs. Coleman Conkling Pat & Nathan Kornfeld Douglas Cramer Judith Krupp David Dallon Kenneth D. Levien Bonnie Milligan Alison Mandelker-Burnett Laurie DeGrazia David & Sheila Manischewitz Bunny Dell Barbara & Alan Marks Judy & Ira Dembrow Peg McGetrick Sue B Dorn Seth J. Meyer & Nathaniel V. Speer M. Burton Drexler THE FLEA THEATER Carl Moellenberg Laurel Elliot Judy Myers & Ira Schwartz Star & Yves Eonnet Douglas, Nancy & Molly Ostrow Clarice Feinman Kent Cole & Diana Prechter George Fleming Missie Rennie Ken & Kay Folks Ellen & Norman Roth Charles A. Forma Laurie Sackler James Fraser & Katherine Hanson Barbara J Smith & Lance Gooberman Stephen Friedman Robert Stein Henry Frommer & Cheryl Tuttle 3 Julie & Jim Tynion Jack Gangi 21 Chris Vroom Barbara & Mark Gerson Susan Wilen Betty & Joshua Goldberg Melissa Wohlgemuth Randi Goldmann & Marty Forman Jason Goldstein Richard & Mary Ronan Mary & Gordon Gould Todd & Lori Rosen Emily C. Graff James Rothman Bonnie Graff Lisa Roumell Anabel Graff Peter & Lee Scott Meaghan Gragg Amy Ralston Seife Sean Graney Eleanor Shakin Jean Gross Kathleen Shannon Kathleen A. Halvey Philip Smith Marc Happel Dainni Spalding Alan Harper Preston Stahly Ryan Hart Alec Stais Anne & Gordon Herrald Jeanne & Steven Stellman Blake & Catherine Holden Thomas Synan Jim & Gale Jacobsohn Jay Topkis Katherine Janca Rahul Tripathi Sarah East Johnson Indiana Market & Catering Thomas R Keenan Douglas Ver Mulm Gene Kilik Claire S. Werner Ralph Kleinman Edward B. Whitney Dan Kohn Rita Wolf, Kiran & Anjeli Chapman Wendie & Bud Kroll Elaine Yaffe Susan Lagomarsino Jeremy Zimmer Billy Lazarus Ann Leary $50 Supporters Jane Huey-Chai Lin Anonymous (7) Mark & Susan Lippitt Toshi Abe & Nancy Hall Carla Lord Jeanette & Robert Aginian Murray Luftglass Marie & Harold Alexander
The Recommendation Robert David Norman & Kate H. Marber Misty Anderson
Tom Marvel Judith & DeWitt Baker Stephen & Carolyn McCandless Stephanie D’Alton Barrett Loretta McCarthy Carolyn Benbow Nello & Mary McDaniel Christine Boeke John McDermott Kenneth Brooks Wells & M. Christina Benson Andrew & Su-Ellyn McMaster Margaret Berkes Judith & Richard Merbaum Elinor & Robert Berlin Judith Milhous Nadia Bernstein Harriet Millan Helena & Peter Bienstock Thomas Molner Linda Blacken Elaine Montgomery Jay & Dena Bock Daria & David Moore Anna Bogyay Seth Moskowitz Elio Bracco Eve Mykytyn Peter Brew Drs. Benjamin Natelson & Gudrun Lange Leslie Susan Brittingham THE FLEA THEATER Peter Chance Sheldon & Carolyn Bross Nelle Nugent Joan Budish Deborah O’Brien Bridget K. Burke David & Siobhan Olson Steven Charen Harriet & Gregg Orley Elizabeth Cho & Lucas Dixon Roberto F. Ortiz Tom Costello Frances Pandolfi John & Ann Costello Judy & Gary Pasquinelli Karen Crawford Christopher Patsiga Susan Crowe 3 Dr. Susan R. Peterson Marina Cruz 22 Miriam Poser Leslie Danoff Elizabeth Propp Kim Davies Sarah H. Reines Emma Davies Alek Deva Mia Leo & Dick Kuczkowski Mickey Diener & Lisa Bennett Rosanne Kumins Charles Dische Melissa & Peter Lacijan Martin Domb Ed & Marilyn Levin Josh & Kerry Dorf Warren Liebold Diane & Barry Eisenstat Elizabeth Littlefield Judith Ferber Dayna Lucas Annette Ferstenberg Melanie Matthews M. K. Fischer Jeanne C. Miller Paul Michael Fontana Audrey Moore Joyce Friedland Kirill Onishchenko Elizabeth Garnsey William Pike Walter Gilbert Ron & Claire Radice Marlowe Holden Wayne Ransier & Sharon Tomaselli Alan & Susan Guma Bill & Chris Reynolds Jon Haber & Bonnie Levin Lillian Roth Elizabeth Littlefield Milton B. Rubin Robert & Jodi Harrison Sherry Schwartz Walton Deva & Laurie Fendell Josie Sentner Anne Herman Anindita Sinha Beverly Hodgson Dorothy Slater-Brown James Hoffman Sarah Jane Smedley Donna Hogben Fran Smyth John Holden Dominic Spillane William Hollingsworth Gena Stein Nina Horowitz Clarke, Peggy & Claire Utermohle Lily Hou Catherine Versegi Allen Hubby Judith & Robert Waldman Alasdair Hunter Alan Watkins
The Recommendation Stuart N. Hutchison JoAnn Weisel
K.C. Hyland Kelly Wines & Scott Freishtat Linda Kahn John Moon & Abby Winship Benjamin Kamine Andrea Kaplan List as of 8/22/13 Kaori Kitao
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