Sound Designer Video Producer Production Stage Manager Jeremiah Turner Kaede Kai Kogo Egypt Dixon

Assistant Stage Manager Production Manager Assistant Director Thomas Bertron Adam Zonder Monica Jimenez

Dramaturg Director Jacob Ettkin Michael Barakiva+

Hope...... Emily Donahoe* Jim...... Rick Holmes* Featuring Ginger Goldberg

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Member of the Actor's Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. + RICK HOLMES* (Jim) is a graduate of NYU’S MFA EMILY DONAHOE* (Hope) has an MFA from the Program. His credits include Broadway: Junk (LCT), University of California, San Diego and a BA Matilda, The Visit, Peter and the Starcatcher, from Vassar College. Her credits include Spamalot, The Pillowman, Cabaret, Major Barbara, Broadway: 33 Variations. Off-Broadway: The The Deep Blue Sea, Timon of Athens, The Christians (Playwrights Horizons; Obie Award, Government Inspector, and Saint Joan. Off- Performance), Queens Boulevard (the Musical) Broadway: Dan Cody's Yacht (MTC), Lives of the (Signature Theatre), The Attic (Play Company), Saints (Primary Stages), The Threepenny Opera Great Expectations (Theatreworks), Deathbed, (ATC), The School For Lies (CSC), The New York Apparition (Apparition Productions), and The Hasty Heart (ATC), Stop Kiss (Public), and more. Television: Dead To Me (Keen Company). Regional: What the Jews Believe (Berkshire (Recurring), The Resident, Tommy, The Politician (Recurring), Theatre Festival), Mary Jane (Yale Rep, Connecticut Critics Fosse/Verndon (Recurring), The Punisher (Recurring), Modern Award Nomination), The Christians (Taper & Humana Family, Atlanta, etc. Film: The Post, Irreplaceable You, The Girl Festival/ATL), Maple and Vine (ACT), In the Wake In The Park, Melina And Melinda, and The Stepford Wives. (CTG/Berkeley Rep), Other Desert Cities and Shakespeare in Hollywood (Arena Stage, Helen Hayes Award for Best JOY PESKIN (Playwright) is an editor and personal essayist. She Supporting Actress), Wintertime (La Jolla Playhouse); Honour developed Dear Hope, her first play, over a series of Hangar and The Glass Menagerie (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), and Theatre AIRS (Artist In Residency Series) fellowships, during Philadelphia, Here I Come! (Williamstown Theatre Festival). which she worked on and workshopped the play in Ithaca. Dear Film/TV: Atlantic City Story, Handsome Harry, Zelimo, Weeki Hope is inspired by a year-long correspondence between Joy Wachi Girls, How Do You Type A Broken Heart, FBI, Bull, High and a Trump supporter she met on her way to the Women’s Maintenance, Law & Order: SVU, Homeland, As the World March in Washington D.C. in January, 2017. A graduate of Turns. Vassar College, Joy is currently the editorial director of Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers and a member of the board of the nonprofit organization Every Child a Reader. She GINGER GOLDBERG (Ginger) is a six-year-old has volunteered as a writing teacher for homeless youth and free-range guinea pig who lives in Maplewood, incarcerated women. Joy’s essays have appeared in Parents, New Jersey. Her passions include vegan cuisine Publishers Weekly, Lilith, and Glamour. and quiet contemplation. Acting helped her overcome extreme childhood shyness. When Ginger was a youth, she spent most of her time hiding in an JEREMIAH TURNER (Sound Designer) is a music producer/sound empty box of Trader Joe's cereal bars. By tapping into her designer from Baton Rouge Louisiana. His previous shows power as a performer, she has found the confidence to include, Theatre Baton Rouge’s American Son, NO Show step out of the box and travel to such faraway places as Comedy’s Open The Mic Podcast: Season 1, Swine Palace’s The the kitchen, the upstairs, and even Cape Cod, where she Importance of Being Earnest, Swine Palace’s Oil (Assistant dipped her tiny toes in the Atlantic Ocean. Ginger is thrilled Designer), LSU TYA’s Brooklyn Bridge, and LSU Mainstage’s The to be making her performance debut in Dear Hope, though Diary of Anne Frank. honestly, she's always wanted to direct.

MICHAEL BARAKIVA+ (Director) is an Armenian/Israeli KAEDE KAI KOGO (Video Designer/Producer) is a video American writer and director based in New York City and designer/producer who graduated from the University of just recently stepped down after five years as Artistic California Santa Barbara, Theater Design this year. Her Director of the Hangar Theatre. His first novel, One Man previous work includes Assistant Lighting Designer for Fall Guy, published by Macmillan (FSG), was ranked the #1 Gay Dance Concert 2019 (UCSB), and Production Designer for Young Adult novel on Goodreads in 2014, was named to the Alone Together, and SHANGHAI (UCSB LAUNCH PAD). She is Rainbow List and Family Equality Council’s Book Nook and thrilled to join the Hangar Theatre Company production team was released in Brazil by LeYa. The stand-alone sequel, with her first professional work. She thanks her family and Hold My Hand, was released in May 2019. He is currently friends who continuously support her as she steps into a new working on this third novel, These Precious Stones, as well as phase of her career. an adaptation of Paradise Lost for the stage commissioned by Red Bull Theatre Company in NYC. Michael also serves as the Artistic Director of The Upstart Creatures EGYPT DIXON: (AEA Stage Manager) is born and raised in New (upstartcreatures.com), a theater company dedicated to York City. Atlantic Theater Company (Production Stage creating (meta)physical feasts combining theater and food. Manager): Anatomy OAS. Theatre for a New Audience He is an avid board-game player, and a proud member of (Assistant Stage Manager): Fefu and Her Friends, Julius Caesar, the New York Ramblers, the world’s first openly-gay soccer Winter’s Tale. Weston Playhouse (Assistant Stage Manager): club. He is a graduate of Vassar College and the Juilliard Indecent. Weathervane Theatre (Assistant Stage Manager): School, where he studied as an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Bright Star, Curious Incident…, Chicago, Sister Act. Directing. Weathervane Theatre (Production Stage Manager): Little Shop of Horros, Miracle of South Division Street, And the World Goes Round, Always, Patsy Cline.

Pre-show Conversation Hosts: Tompkins County League of Women Voters Co-President, Sally Grubb Cornell Votes President, Patrick Mehler