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Niegel Smith, artistic director Carol Ostrow, producing director presents the world premiere of THE FRE by directed by NIEGEL SMITH Featuring The Bats RYAN CHITTAPHONG, GEORGIA KATE COHEN, JON EDWARD COOK, ADAM COY, JOSEPH DALFONSO, NATE DECOOK, URE EGBUHO, JOAN MARIE, ALEX J. MORENO, MARCUS JONES, DRITA KABASHI, MATTHEW MACCA, CESAR MUNOZ, YVONNE JESSICA PRUITT, SARAH ALICE SHULL, LAMBERT TAMIN JIAN JUNG scenic designer MACHINE DAZZLE costume designer XAVIER PIERCE lighting designer MATT RAY composer, music director & sound designer SARAH EAST JOHNSON choreographer ADAM J. THOMPSON video designer KRISTAN SEEMEL associate director SOOA KIM associate video designer REBECCA APARCIO & SARAH JANE SCHOSTACK assistant directors CORI WILLIAMS assistant scenic designer & properties designer HALEY GORDON production stage manager CAST Hero...... Ryan Chittaphong / Lambert Tamin Frankie Fre...... Joseph Dalfonso / Alex J. Moreno Taylor Fre...... Drita Kabashi / Yvonne Jessica Pruitt Maggie Fre...... Geogia Kate Cohen / Sarah Alice Shull Bobby Fre (Frankie Fre U/S)...... Nate DeCook Bobby Fre (Hero U/S)...... Cesar Munoz Billy Fre...... Jon Edward Cook / Adam Coy Franny Fre...... Ure Egbuho / Joan Marie Brody Fre...... Matthew Macca / Marcus Jones

SPECIAL THANKS

Elissa Adams, Jocelyn Clarke, Jude Clarke, Eric Ehn, Andy Grotelueschen, Philip Himberg, Matthew Kittredge,Morgan Jenness, Steven Dean Moore, Lisa Peterson, Patt Scarlett, Thomas Shean, Joe Silovsky, Tony Torn, The Children’s Theater Company, New Dramatists, The Map Grant, Sundance Theater Lab

THE FLEA THEATER The Fre THE FLEA THEATER ABOUT THE PLAY In the land of two bridges The Fre, a rambunctious group of fun loving anti-intellectuals spend their days cavorting in the mud. Into their midst descends Hero, a dandy aesthete, who longs to cut the bridge and finally escape the mud pit. But first he must convince the leader Frankie Fre and the other fatuous inhabitants that there is a better life outside of the swamp. In this queer story, audiences will literally and figuratively jump into the mud with the Fre to hash out the current cultural divide.

3 This program is supported, in part, by public funds 2 from the City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

CREATIVE TEAM Playwright...... Taylor Mac Director...... Niegel Smith Scenic Designer...... Jian Jung Costume Designer...... Machine Dazzle Lighting Designer...... Xavier Pierce Composer, Music Director & Sound Designer...... Matt Ray Choreographer...... Sarah East Johnson Video Designer...... Adam J. Thompson Associate Director...... Kristan Seemel Associate Video Designer...... SooA Kim Associate Lighting Designer & Programmer...... Ryan Stofa Assistant Directors...... Rebecca Aparicio & Sarah Jane Schostack Assistant Scenic Designer & Properties Designer ...... Cori Williams Properties Assistant...... Lucy Cooper Assistant Costume Designer...... Adrienne Smith Costume Assistant ...... Irene Delgado Assistant Lighting Designer...... Aaliyah Stewart Assistant Sound Designer...... Germán Martínez Production Stage Manager ...... Haley Gordon Assistant Stage Manager ...... Gwen Sewell Production Assistant Intern ...... Khadija Bangoura Promotional Makeup Artist ...... Anastasia Durasova Promotional Photographer ...... Joseph Huffman The Fre THE FLEA THEATER Additional Technical Staff...... Madeline Burrow, Juan Coronado, Keenan Hurley, Kaiya Kirk, Sarah Murphy, Taelen Robertson and Skye Urbano

FLEA STAFF Artistic Director...... Niegel Smith Producing Director...... Carol Ostrow Director of Production & Facilities...... Karl Franklin Allen Associate Producer...... Martin Meccouri Company Manager & Producing Associate...... Emilie Pass Development Manager...... Charlie. Madison 33 Audience Development Associate...... Aurie Ceylon Satterthwaite General Management Associate...... Shannon Buhler Marketing Associate...... Jamie Brewer Company Dramaturg...... Drayton Hiers Technical Directors...... Michael Hernandez & Dan Hoskins Costume Shop & Wardrobe Manager...... Adrienne Smith Box Office Coordinator...... Austin Sanders Business Manager...... Erica Laird Director of Music Programming...... Jason Cady Directors of Dance Programming...... Jeffrey Kazin & David Parker Graphic Designer...... Philips Videographer...... Crystal Arnette Photographer...... Hunter Canning Attorney...... Carol M. Kaplan/Loeb and Loeb Development Consultant...... Melissa Sandor Theater, Technical & Production Consultant...... Kyle Chepulis Press Representative...... Ron Lasko/Spin Cycle Interns...... Graeme Cohen & Sabrina Konick CAST RYAN CHITTAPHONG (Hero) has performed across the world including such countries as Finland, Russia, Latvia, and Honduras. This is Ryan’s third year as a Bat with The Flea Theater (last seen in The Fez), and has also performed with Berkshire Theatre Festival, HERE Arts Center, The New Ohio Theatre, Nashville Rep, Harold Clurman Lab, The Grand Ole Opry, among others. Ryan

THE FLEA THEATER The Fre THE FLEA THEATER frequently performs with Ten Bones Theatre in the smash hit improv comedy show Entirely From Memory, is an Academy Member of Upright Citizens Brigade and performs on the Improv House Team “Friend of a Friend” at The Armory. In addition to serving as Director of Marketing for the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, Ryan is a proud company member of the Story Pirates and co-owner of Glamsmash Productions. Instagram: @ryanchittaphong

LAMBERT TAMIN (Hero) Credits include Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, Theater at St. Clement’s, , The Episcopal Actor’s Guild, Luna Stage, The Theater Project, the John Drew Theater at Guild Hall, and, most recently, as Third Man in Mac 43 Wellman’s Bad Penny (The Flea). TV: “Pandora’s Box: Unleashing Evil”, “Mysteries at the Museum”, and “Sloppy”. Film: On the Hook, N.ot W.ithout A.lonzo, I Want More I Want Less, The Ballad of Bobby Carr, On The Floor, Vignettes and Paranoia. Lambert is a graduate of the two-year conservatory program at William Esper Studio. He is thrilled to be a part of this World Premiere and would like to thank Taylor Mac, Niegel and the entire Fre team and Flea staff for making it such an amazing experience. Many thanks also to his friends and family for their support.

JOSEPH DALFONSO (Frankie Fre) is thrilled to be a part of this production. Favorite credits: The Glass Menagerie (Sierra Repertory Theatre), Kill (Signature Theatre), Hamlet (Compass Rose Theatre), Oedipus but Better (Modern Shakespeare Company). Joseph is also a Producer of SERIALS at the Flea. Training: Freeman Studio, BFA Stonehill College. CLA Proud. Endless gratitude to his family for their love and support. For Bruce.

ALEX J. MORENO (Frankie Fre) TV: Jessica Jones (NETFLIX), Kevin Can Wait (CBS), Sneaky Pete (Amazon), Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (TBS), Broad City (Comedy Central), and Duels (blackpills). Film: Daddy’s Boy (Novonovus), Marry Me (Universal Pictures), Clifford the Big Red Dog (Paramount Pictures) in theaters nationwide November 2020. Alex would like to thank his family, friends, and representation for their unending support and patience. www.alexjmoreno.com THE FLEA THEATER The Fre THE FLEA THEATER DRITA KABASHI (Taylor Fre) is very grateful to Niegel Smith, the cast, all those at The Flea, and Taylor Mac for this special opportunity and collaboration. Recent theatre credits- Answerer in The Invention of Tragedy (The Flea, dir. Meghan Finn), Bethany in When We Went Electronic (The Tank Theater, dir. Meghan Finn), Rasputin in Red Emma & The Mad Monk (The Tank Theater, NY Times Critic’s Pick, dir. Katie Lindsay), Ana Sofia inDelicacy of a Puffin Heart (Corkscrew Theatre Festival and The Parsnip Ship, dir. Theo Maltz), Bernadine Dohrn- Weatherman (La Jolla Playhouse’s DNA Series/ ), / Co-deviser in Aplomb (Actors Fund Theater presented by The Habitat, dir. Alex Keegan), Anima 3 in Three Bitches (Hudson Guild Theatre, dir. Kate Moore Heaney), Nurse in Romeo 5 and Juliet (Shakespeare Downtown, dir. Geoffrey Horne), Nina in A Dying Breed (Judson Memorial Church, dir. Alex Keegan). Film: Elizabeth in The Waiter (Short, dir. Lee Percy), Love in Fishhook & Eye (Best in Show, Fusion Film Festival, dir. Chloe Aktas). Developing works: “Tall Order” (web series in progress), Undergraduate Degree: ; Tisch School of the Arts, BFA, dritakabashi.com. Instagram: @dridith_piaf

YVONNE JESSICA PRUITT (Taylor Fre) is a Brooklyn born and raised, based actor. She is excited to be working with The Flea again in the world premiere of this one of a kind show. In March 2019, Yvonne made her New York stage debut in Southern Promises (The Flea). Her latest projects and credits include The Cancelled (SERIALS: Cycle 55), Richard the Third (The Fools and Kings Project), Miss Education (Web Series), and Everything You’re Told (Queer|Art). Yvonne thanks and sends her love to her family and friends for their unwavering support! BOOYAH!

GEORGIA KATE COHEN (Maggie Fre) is a New York City based actress. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a BA concentrating in Theatre and Psychology. She has recently performed at The Flea in the world premiere of The Fez by . Georgia was an Apprentice at Williamstown Theatre Festival (2017), and is an Alum of The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals (2019). She has studied at Stella Adler Studio, Atlantic Acting School, HB Studio, and with the

The Fre THE FLEA THEATER She-Collective. Prior to pursuing acting, Georgia trained in classical ballet at the School of American Ballet, Studio Maestro, and University of North Carolina School of the Arts. www.georgiakatecohen.com

SARAH ALICE SHULL (Maggie Fre) is an actor, writer, and creator originally from Louisville, Kentucky. She has been a member of The Bats for almost 2 years. Favorite Flea credits include Mother in Not My Monster!, The Narrator in The Invention of Tragedy, and as a performer in last spring’s Flea Fridays. Other notable NYC credits include The BARS Workshop as a member of the 5th cohort at , The Shotz Series with AMIOS, and the premiere of her play, The King, that 3 she wrote and acted in at the NY Winterfest. She also writes and stars in the web 6 series Sassy and MK’s Days of Fun, that she created with her best friend. Thank you to The Flea staff, the crew, and all members of The Fre!

NATE DECOOK (Bobby Fre, Frankie Fre (U/S)) is a Brooklyn based actor. He received his BFA from the University of Evansville, which is near the picturesque pollution of the Ohio River, where he performed as Horace in Lily Dale and Will Bloom in Big Fish. He has also appeared regionally as Henry V in Henry V. You may have caught him this past fall as part of the Mac Wellman Festival at The Flea. He would like to thank his cat, which he has yet to own (or meet).

CESAR MUNOZ (Bobby Fre, Hero U/S)) is a Mississippi raised, NYC-Based Actor and is thrilled to be a part of his first Flea theatrical production. Off credits include Sally, Hank and Harry (Kraine Theatre) and Reconciling (Soho Playhouse). Cesar received his training through Emerson College’s BFA Acting Program.

JON EDWARD COOK (Billy Fre) is stoked to be making his Flea main stage debut with this fantastic Fre! Most recently he was apart of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival’s summer rep performing in Davis McCallum’s Cymbeline, May Adrales’ Much Ado About Nothing, & Jenn

THE FLEA THEATER The Fre THE FLEA THEATER Thompson’s Into the Woods. Stay afloat on all things Jon: www.jonedwardcook.com Instagram: @itsmejonnycapri

ADAM COY (Billy Fre) is a New York based actor, originally from San Antonio, TX. Regional: Romeo and Juliet (Westport Country Playhouse) New York: Southern Promises, Fill,Fill,Fill,Fill,Fill,Fill,Fill, Cosmicomics (The Flea), Lilia (New Dramatists), and has collaborated with Chautauqua Theater Company, Joust and Pipeline. Adam is an associate member of SDC, artistic associate of Egg & Spoon Theatre Company, and a 18-19 SDC Foundation Observer (Chay Yew) Training: Syracuse University BFA Acting ‘17. Instagram: @Adammcoy 73 URE EGBUHO (Franny Fre) was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. Egbuho double majored in Journalism and Theatre Arts, and minored in both Musical Theatre and Dance at Sacramento State University, California. She became an Acting Apprentice at Actors Theatre of Louisville and later joined The Bats acting company shortly after moving to NYC. Her Off-Off-Broadway credits include: Riot Antigone (La Mama Theatre ETC; ), good friday; Locked Up Bitches; SCRAPS (The Flea). Regional Theatre credits include: Ragtime; Freedom Train (Albany Park Playhouse), No Child… (Relative Theatrics), Little Shop of Horrors (Sacramento Theatre Company), Hairspray; Caroline, Or Change (Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts), That High Lonesome Sound; At The Vanishing Point; A Christmas Carol (Actors Theatre of Louisville). JOAN MARIE (Franny Fre) is an actor, dancer and singer from and based in NYC. She is thrilled to be performing in the World Premiere of The Fre. Recent NY Theatre credits include: The Fez, Flea Fridays, SERIALS (The Flea), Spirit Journeyz (Clubbed Thumb), Beautiful Fig (The Barrow Group). In addition to her performing, she serves as a director and choreographer for the Teen Theatre at Main Street Theatre and Dance Alliance on Roosevelt Island. She holds a BFA in Acting with a minor in dance from SUNY Fredonia.

THE FLEA THEATER The Fre THE FLEA THEATER MATTHEW MACCA (Brody Fre) Stage credits include: Not My Monster! (The Flea),Comedy of Errors and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hartford Stage), Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare & Company), Brighton Beach Memoirs (Playhouse on Park), Twelfth Night and Two Gentleman of Verona (Valley Shakespeare Festival), and his solo show Mouth Open Eyes Closed (Boston University). His plays have been performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Boston Theater Marathon, TouchMe Philly, and workshopped at The Kennedy Center. matthewmacca.com

83 MARCUS JONES (Brody Fre) is a New York based actor from Texas. As a resident company member at The Flea, he has appeared in countless shows, the most recent being Southern Promises. After spending the summer in Williamstown working on soft by Donja R. Love, he is excited to return The Flea in the world premiere of The Fre. He’d like to thank his family and friends for their continued support. All Love, Always…Instagram: @jones_marcus

CREATIVE TEAM TAYLOR MAC (Playwright)—who uses “judy” (lowercase sic unless at the start of a sentence, just like a regular pronoun), not as a name but as a gender pronoun—is a playwright, actor, singer-songwriter, performance artist, director and producer. Judy’s work has been performed in hundreds venues including on Broadway and in New York’s Town Hall, , Celebrate Brooklyn, and , as well as London’s Hackney Empire and Barbican, D.C.’s Kennedy Center, Los Angeles’s Royce Hall and Ace Theater (through the Center for the Art of Performance), Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre, the , The Melbourne Festival (Forum Theater), Stockholm’s Sodra Theatern, the Spoleto Festival, and San Francisco’s Curran Theater and MOMA. Judy is the THE FLEA THEATER The Fre THE FLEA THEATER author of many works of theater including, Gary: A Sequel to , A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, Hir, The Walk Across America for , Comparison is Violence, The Lily’s Revenge, The Young Ladies Of, Red Tide Blooming, The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac, Cardiac Arrest or Venus on a Half- Clam, The Face of Liberalism, Okay, Maurizio Pollini, A Crevice, and The Hot Month and the soon to be premiered play, Prosperous Fools. Sometimes Taylor acts in other people’s plays (or co-creations). Notably: Shen Teh/Shui Ta in The Foundry Theater’s production of Good Person of Szechwan at La Mama and the Public Theater, in the City Center’s Encores production of Gone Missing, Puck/ Egeus in the ’s A Midsummer’s Night Dream, and in the two-man vaudeville, The Last Two People On Earth opposite 3 and directed by . Mac is a MacArthur Fellow, a Pulitzer Prize 9 Finalist for Drama, a Tony Award® nominated playwright, and the recipient of multiple awards including the Kennedy Prize, a NY Drama Critics Circle Award, a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, a Guggenheim, the Herb Alpert in Theater, the Peter Zeisler Memorial Award, the Helen Merrill Playwriting Award, 2 Bessies, 2 Obies, a Helpmann, and an Award. An alumnus of New Dramatists, judy is currently a New York Theater Workshop Usual Suspect and the Resident playwright at HERE Arts Center.

NIEGEL SMITH (Director) is a theater director and performance artist who sculpts social spaces into unique communal environments where we make new rituals, excavate our pasts and imagine future narratives. Directing credits include Southern Promises (The Flea, 2019), How to Catch Creation (Goodman Theatre, 2019), HYPE MAN: a break beat play (The Flea, 2018), Scraps (The Flea, 2018), Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) (Goodman Theatre, 2018), Syncing Ink (Alley Theater, 2017; The Flea, 2017), Take Care (The Flea, 2015-2016), Hir (Magic Theatre, 2014; Mixed Blood, 2015; Playwrights Horizons, 2015), A 24 Decade History of Popular Music… (New York Live Arts, et al., 2015), The Perils of Obedience (Abrons Arts Center, 2013–ongoing), and Neighbors (The Public Theater, 2010). His participatory performances have been produced by American Realness, Dartmouth College, The New Museum, Prelude Festival, PS 122, and the Van Alen Institute, among others. He is the Artistic Director of The Flea; Associate Artistic Director of Elastic City; and ringleader of Willing Participant – an artistic activist organization that whips up urgent poetic responses to crazy stuff that happens. www.niegelsmith.com

The Fre THE FLEA THEATER JIAN JUNG (Scenic Designer) is a New York based set designer for theater and opera. Jung’s design has been acclaimed as ‘innovative’, ‘inventive’, ‘genius’ and ‘spectacular’ by major press such as , LA Times, Time Out, and many others. Jung’s work has been in numerous downtown NYC theaters including Classic Stage Company, The Kitchen, The Bushwick Starr, Abrons Arts Center, Theater Row, and Soho Rep, as well as outside of NYC, in Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Korea, and Los Angeles. Her opera works have been in Lincoln Center Juilliard School, Long Beach Opera (CA), Huntington Theatre (Boston), among many venues. Jung received an Edith Lutyens & Norman Bel Geddes Design Enhancement Award. Her design was exhibited in Prague Quadrennial, the world’s largest scenography exhibition. Jung received an MFA in Theater Design from NYU and an MFA in Environmental Design from 103 Ewha Women’s University in Korea. www.jianjung.com MACHINE DAZZLE (Costume Designer) has been dazzling stages via costumes, sets, and performance since his arrival in New York in 1994. Notably, he has collaborated with Julie Atlas Muz, Big Art Group, Taylor Mac, , Chris Tanner, Soomi Kim, and Bombay Ricky, Prototype Festival, Opera Philadelphia, and Spiegleworld. In September 2019, Dazzle premiered his new original show, Treasure, at the Guggenheim Museum as a commission by Works and Process. In addition, he has recently held residencies at Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Moody Center for the Arts at University of Houston, Wesleyan University, and ’s Department of Theater, Dance & Media where he will be serving as Costume Designer for TDM’s fall production of Queer Cabaret, devised and directed by Carmelita Tropicana. In fall 2019, Machine’s work was included in Parsons School of Design’s “OTHERWORLDLY: PERFORMANCE, COSTUME, AND DIFFERENCE” exhibition.

In 2020, he will unveil a piece for THE BIG SPLASH, commissioned by Hancher Auditorium in collaboration with the municipality of Iowa City and the University of Iowa. Machine Dazzle is an artist-in-residence at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City, NJ.

For his design and conception of the costumes for Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music..., Dazzle was the co-recipient of the 2017 Bessie Award for Outstanding Visual Design and was awarded a Henry Hewes Design Award by The American Theatre Wing in 2017. THE FLEA THEATER The Fre THE FLEA THEATER XAVIER PIERCE (Lighting Designer) Professional credits include: The Public Theater (NYC), Steppenwolf Theatre (Chicago, IL) Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Ashland ,OR), Guthrie Theatre (Minneapolis, MN), McCarter Theatre Center (Princeton, NJ), Long Wharf Theatre (New Haven, CT), Saint louis Repertory Theatre ( St Louis, Mo) Seattle Repertory Theatre ( Seattle, Washington), Arena Stage (Washington , DC), California Shakespeare Theatre (Orinda, Ca),Cincinatti Playhouse (Cincinatti,OH) Indiana Rep (Indianapolis, IN), Arden Theatre (Philadelphia, PA), Playmakers Rep (Chapel Hill, NC), Westport Country Playhouse (Westport, CT), George Street Playhouse (New Brunswick , NJ), Syracuse Stage (Syracuse, NY), Two River Theatre Company (Red Bank, NJ), Olney Theatre Center (Olney, MD), Intiman Theatre (Seattle, WA), Arizona 3 Theatre Company ( Phoenix,AZ), Florida Studio Theatre, Arkansas Shakespeare 11 Theatre, Triad Stage (Greensboro, NC & Winston Salem, NC), Childrens Theatre (Charlotte, NC), Crossroads Theatre (New Brunswick, NJ). Xavier Pierce is a graduate of New York University Tisch School of the Arts MFA in Design Stage and Film, Recent credits: Harvey by Mary Chase, directed by Libby Appel (Guthrie Theatre), Two Trains Running by August Wilson directed by Raelle Myrick -Hodges; A Raisin in the Sun (Westport Country Playhouse) directed by Phylicia Rashad; Xavier lit Two Trains Running directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Two Rivers Theatre Company in Red Bank, NJ); and Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop directed by Raelle Myrick-Hodges in a co-production between Playmakers Rep and Triad Stage. Xavier designed August Wilson’s Fences directed by Phylicia Rashad in a co-production between Long Wharf Theatre and the McCarter Theatre. Xavier designed The Piano Lesson at the Olney Theatre Center directed by Jamil Jude.

MATT RAY (Composer, Music Director & Sound Designer) is a Brooklyn-based composer, pianist, singer, songwriter, arranger, sound designer, and music director. His arrangements have been called “wizardly” (Time Out NY) and “ingenious” (NY Times), and his piano playing referred to as “classic, well-oiled swing” (NY Times) and “to cry for” (Ebony). For his work on Taylor Mac’s show A 24-Decade History of Popular Music... he and Mac shared the 2017 Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired By American History. His show Matt Ray Plays Hoagy Carmichael featuring Kat Edmonson premiered at Lincoln Center’s American Songbook series in 2018. Other work includes music directing The Billie Holiday Project at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, recording for and appearing in the hit film Can You Ever Forgive Me? with Justin Vivian Bond, music directing and arranging for Taylor Mac’s winning play The Lily’s Revenge, and co-

THE FLEA THEATER The Fre THE FLEA THEATER writing songs for and performing in Bridget Everett’s one-hour Comedy Central special Gynecological Wonder as well as Everett’s hit show Rock Bottom. Matt has released two jazz albums as a leader: We Got It! (2001) and Lost In New York (2006); and one album of original pop/folk material called Songs For the Anonymous (2013). mattray.nyc

SARAH EAST JOHNSON (Choreographer) is the founder and artistic director of LAVA. Founded in 2000, LAVA’s feminist acrobatic dance has become known for an explosive choreographic language that pushes the accepted boundaries of dance while embodying empowerment and offering visions of gender equality. The OBIE and Bessie award-winning 13-member company works collaboratively to create works that they perform around NYC and the U.S. LAVA 123 offers instruction in their unique movement training to youth and adults in Brooklyn, upstate NY, and around the U.S. Johnson is also a member of Cry The Moon, a 3-person music and dance band based in Callicoon, NY. She is grateful for her time working for many years with Circus Amok and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir. Follow: @LAVABrooklyn on Facebook and Instagram; @Saraheastjohnson on Facebook and Instagram; @CryTheMoonCallicoon on Instagram.

ADAM J. THOMPSON (Video Designer) is a designer working with video and interactive technology in live performance environments. His work has been produced and presented off-Broadway, regionally, and on tour in the , and recent credits include Sing Street (New Workshop), (A)loft Modulation (the american vicarious), The Handmaid’s Tale (Boston Lyric Opera), Emma and Max (The Flea) and the 64th and 63rd Annual Obie Awards. Adam‘s work as a live cinema director and producer has received recognition and support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and The Foundation, among many others, and he recently served as an invited ambassador to the Beijing International Design Biennial. He holds an MFA in Video & Media Design from Carnegie Mellon University. adamjacobthompson.com.

KRISTAN SEEMEL (Associate Director) before coming to New York, was a freelance director in Oregon for the better part of a decade. While on the other coast, he worked for eight seasons at Portland Center Stage, first as a Literary Associate and later as Corporate Development Associate during the organization’s transition into the historic Armory Theater, a world-renowned THE FLEA THEATER The Fre THE FLEA THEATER Green Building project. Kristan came up in the theater working on new plays, serving as dramaturg on a score of premiere productions and developmental workshops. His for new American writing is clear from his direction of premiers such as Mary-Kate Olsen is in Love by Mallery Avidon and The Electric Lighthouse by Ed Himes (The Flea). Other plays Kristan has directed include Bad Penny by Mac Wellman; HYPE MAN: a break beat play by Idris Goodwin (The Flea), Mutt by Lava Alapai (Many Hats Collective) and The Verspiary by Matthew Zrebski (Stark Raving Theatre) as well as NW regional premieres of Carlos Murillo’s Mimesophobia (Sand & Glass Productions), The Long Christmas Ride Home by (TheatreVertigo) and Mac Wellman’s A Murder of Crows (defunkt theatre). He has developed new plays with Playwrights 3 Horizons/Clubbed Thumb (SuperLab), The Lark, Brave New World Repertory 13 Theater, Spookfish and The Barn Arts Collective. Kristan is a graduate of the Brown/Trinity Rep MFA program in directing and, while in Providence, he helmed workshop productions Oh Guru Guru Guru by Mallery Avidon and The Darkson Chronicles by Theo Goodell. Favorite revivals include Brecht & Weill’s , John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi (Brown/Trinity Rep) and Hamlet (CoHo Productions). Kristan’s staging of ’s Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (defunkt theatre) garnered him a Portland Dramatic Critics Circle award (Drammy) for Outstanding Direction. Some of his favorite assisting credits include Gurney’s AJAX, The Mysteries (The Flea), A Raisin in the Sun, A Christmas Carol and Camelot (Trinity Rep). Kristan is a proud alumnus of the 2012/13 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and the SDCF Observership Program. www.kristanseemel.com

RYAN J. STOFA (Associate Lighting Designer) is a New York based lighting designer, who is thrilled to work with The Flea. Endless thanks to the theatre community, Mom, Dad, and Andy.

SOOA KIM (Associate Video Designer) is a motion designer based in New York and Pittsburgh. She has been selected as the featured emerging artist at Prague Quadrennial 2019 in Czech Republic. Her recent credits include Boston Lyric Opera, The Obie Awards, CMU School of Drama and FragmentNine. SooA has a BFA from Parsons the New School for Design and a MFA in Video and Media Design at Carnegie Mellon University this May.

REBECCA APARICIO (Assistant Director) is an NYC-based director and writer of new work, and a Resident Director at The Flea! As a director, she’s developed THE FLEA THEATER The Fre THE FLEA THEATER work with Musical Theatre Factory, Classical Theatre of Harlem, Ars Nova, The Tank, HERE, Parsnip Ship, and more. As an associate/assistant director, recent credits include: Evita (dir. Sammi Cannold, NY City Center) and Gloria: A Life (dir. Diane Paulus, A.R.T.). Member of Roundabout Theatre’s Directing Group 2019-20, Theatre Club Directing Fellow, Latinx Theatre Commons Steering Committee, and a two-time SDCF Observership Award recipient. As a writer, her work includes the award-winning musical Pedro Pan, Legacy (Prospect Theatre), Nora Saves The World (Barn Arts), and The Garcia Sisters (Red Mountain Theatre). www.RebeccaAparicio.com

SARAH JANE SCHOSTACK (Assistant Director) Select NYC directing credits: 3 What I Left Behind (Hudson Guild Winterfest Best Short Play), Manere Fortis 14 (Take Ten Festival Semi-Finalist), No Stranger There (2014 Samuel French Finalist), Paid Off (5th Floor Theatre). Select regional directing credits Urinetown (Lost Nation Theater, Winner Broadway World Regional Awards), Spring Awakening (John W. Engeman Theatre), The Somewhat True Tale of Robin Hood (New London Barn Playhouse), James and the Giant Peach (Barrington Stage Company). Select associate/assistant credits: Lincoln Center Originals: CRY HAVOC (Lincoln Center), There is a Field (National Tour), The Stone Will Roll (New York Theatre Workshop), Trip to Bountiful (Hangar Theatre), and three seasons with NewArts Newtown Muscials. SDCF Observer to Peter Flynn and the City Theatre for Smart Blonde. SDC Associate Member.

CORI WILLIAMS (Assistant Scenic Designer & Properties Designer) is a New York based visual artist and theater maker and excited to be working with The Flea for the first time.

ADRIENNE SMITH (Assistant Costume Designer) NYC based artist Adrienne Smith has over a decade’s worth of creative career experiences including but not limited to photography, animation, costume design, fashion styling and more! She is Costume Shop Manager/Wardrobe Supervisor at The Flea, and is so excited to have helped bring The Fre to life!

GERMÁN MARTÍNEZ (Assistant Sound Designer) is a NYC based sound designer and audio engineer. Some of his work includes involvement in: Fiddler On The Roof [In Yiddish] (), Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (The Signature Theatre), MAC BETH (Lucille Lortel and Hunter College). He would like to thank Matt for trusting him with this project. Keep up with his work on Instagram: @GermanTheSoundDesigner THE FLEA THEATER The Fre THE FLEA THEATER

HALEY GORDON (Production Stage Manager) graduated in 2018 from Dartmouth College. Most recent credits include How To Load A Musket (Less Than Rent), BrandoCapote (The Tank), The Invention of Tragedy (The Flea Theater), good friday (The Flea Theater), HYPE MAN: a break beat play (The Flea Theater), a fellowship with the Hopkins Center for Performing Arts in Operations and Events, and Stage Management Intern for the 2018 New York Theatre Workshop Residency at Dartmouth. As a production intern, she worked with Primary Stages and the Walnut Street Theatre.

GWEN SEWELL (Assistant Stage Manager) is so excited to be working on her first 153 production at The Flea! Off Broadway credits include: Make Believe (Second Stage Theatre), Laura and the Sea, Rebel Verses (). Regional credits include: FLIGHT: Torn Like a Rose (Kumble Theater), War and Peace: But Mostly War (Hudson Guild Theater). Gwen is a recent alumna of the Fordham University Theatre Program.

KHADIJA BANGOURA (Production Assistant Intern) is a Burlington, Vermont native currently working to obtain a degree in Theater Arts at Boston University. She is currently on an abroad semester, where she has worked in NYC for the past two months on The Fre. At BU and in Vermont, she has participated in many productions, but The Fre is the first production in New York Khadija has worked on. Khadija is so thankful to the entire Fre team for all that they’ve taught her and for the welcoming nature of the community and The Flea!

THE FLEA STAFF NIEGEL SMITH (Artistic Director) is a Bessie Award winning theater director and performance artist. His theater work has been produced by The Alley, The Barbican, Goodman Theatre, HERE Arts Center, Hip Hop Theatre Festival, Magic Theatre, The Melbourne Festival, Mixed Blood, New York Fringe Festival, New York Live Arts, Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, Playwrights Horizons, Pomegranate Arts, The Public Theater, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Summer Play Festival and Under the Radar, and his participatory walks and performances have been produced by Abrons Arts Center, American Realness, Dartmouth College, Elastic City, The Invisible Dog, Jack, The New Museum, Prelude Festival, PS 122, the Van Alen Institute and Visual AIDS. He often collaborates with playwright/performer Taylor Mac. Smith was co-director of the critically acclaimed A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, winner of the Kennedy Prize in Drama, the Edwin THE FLEA THEATER The Fre THE FLEA THEATER Booth Award and a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He has received residencies, grants and/or fellowships from Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Sundance Theatre Lab, Theater Communications Group, Tucker Foundation, Van Lier Fund and VoxFest. Before surviving high school in Detroit, he grew up in the North Carolina piedmont, fishing with his dad, shopping with his mom and inventing tall-tale fantasies with his two younger brothers. CAROL OSTROW (Producing Director) joined founder 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 Classic Stage Company as well as the founder and original Producing Director of The Powerhouse Theater at Vassar, now in its 34th season. In between, she has been an adjunct professor of theater at Vassar College, 3 Chatham College and McGill University. For The Flea, Carol has produced dozens of world 16 premieres and has been responsible for the sound management of the theater’s increasing programming, cultural footprint and budget for eighteen years. She also oversaw The Flea’s capital campaign that resulted in a new performing arts center for The Flea, launched in the fall of 2017. Carol is a graduate of Vassar College and the Yale Drama School. She is a trustee of Vassar and she also serves on the Board of Advisors of the Yale Drama School. Beyond her alma maters, she is a member of the board the National Psoriasis Foundation, the Sag Harbor Partnership and LAVA, an acrobatic dance collective. Married and the mother of four incredible and launched young adults, she and her family count Pittsburgh, London, Montreal and now New York City once again as home. KARL FRANKLIN ALLEN (Director of Production & Facilities) joined The Flea after several years as Production Manager at Performance Space New York (formerly Performance Space 122, formerly PS122), supervising the outfitting of their new theater spaces during a historic renovation and overseeing the inaugural performances. Previously he was the Production Manager and Technical Director for the international tour of YOUARENOWHERE by Andrew Schneider as well as touring PM/TD for on Lucia’s Chapters on various stops around the world. Karl has also been Technical Manager of the Duke at New42nd St, Technical Director of the Bryn Mawr College Theater program, and the Technical Director at PS122 prior to renovations. In previous lives Karl has also worked as an exhibit designer at The Montclair Art Museum and the American Museum of Natural History as well as a performer with (Astronome) and Jay Scheib (This Place is a Desert, Untitled Mars), among others. MARTIN MECCOURI (Associate Producer) is a creative producer who comes to The Flea with over a decade of experience working in the performing arts. He has worked in various artistic, programmatic, fundraising, and educational capacities at Fine Arts Center at UMass Amherst, Amherst College, Random Access Theatre Company, La Jolla Playhouse, UCSD (Outstanding Contribution to Undergraduate Instruction in Theatre & Dance Award), The Classical Theatre of Harlem and most recently, Theatre Communications Group. THE FLEA THEATER The Fre THE FLEA THEATER Martin is passionate about risky artistic work, unlikely collaborations, intercultural and multilingual aesthetics, and facilitating opportunities for emerging artists. He believes in strengths-based leadership and is a Gallup-certified executive coach and organizational consultant in the CliftonStrengths(c) assessment model. He holds a BFA from Emerson College (summa cum laude), an MA from the University of Amherst, and an MFA from UCSD. EMILIE PASS (Company Manager & Producing Associate) is a New York based creative producer, director, and arts administrator. Prior to joining The Flea team four years ago, she was the Company/Theatre Management Fellow at Berkeley Repertory Theatre and the Box Office Manager at The Hollywood Fringe Festival. She has developed new plays at Dixon Place and Ensemble Studio Theatre, and she writes and performs on the comedy podcast 3 “Paperweight.” Emilie is a proud graduate of Wesleyan University and a Los Angeles native. 17 CHARLIE MADISON (Development Manager) has worked at The Flea since 2015, serving from 2017-2018 as Marketing & Events Associate. A graduate from Brandeis University, where he double-majored in Psychology and Musical Theater Writing, Charlie wrote and directed an original play Lost Girls for Brandeis Ensemble Theater and an original full- length musical Grace. Since moving to New York, Charlie has written for ThinyRhino, performed with the Astoria Choir, and music directed a benefit performance for The Flea. Charlie has interned at Central Square Theater (Cambridge, MA), Manhattan Theatre Club (New York, NY), and served as the inaugural Summer Apprentice at the Arden Theatre Company (Philadelphia, PA). AURIE CEYLON SATTERTHWAITE (Audience Development Associate) Aurie comes to Flea as a graduate from Howard University, where she received a B.F.A. in Fine Arts. Quickly catching the “tour bug” after her first professional gig, she stayed on the road for six years. She’s been very fortunate to work consistently as an actor, dancer, and writer. New York is her heart and her home, and she wants to spend her life creating and facilitating specific, inclusive art. She’s always admired the core values of The Flea, and can’t express how overjoyed she is to be part of such a poignant, diverse theater. She’s ready for the challenge, and beyond excited to raise a “joyful hell” with you! SHANNON BUHLER General Management Associate) Before joining the team at The Flea, Shannon worked just up 6th Avenue at HERE, first as the Development Intern and then as the Assistant General Manager. She’s a Kansas native and a proud University of Kansas graduate, where she received a degree in Theatre Performance. JAMIE BREWER (Marketing Associate) Coming off a marketing apprenticeship at Hartford Stage, Jamie is ecstatic to have landed in New York at The Flea. She is a proud graduate of Michigan State University where she studied Journalism, Public

THE FLEA THEATER The Fre THE FLEA THEATER Relations, and Arts and Cultural Management while interning at Wharton Center for Performing Arts. Jamie is thrilled to be at a theater that sparks important conversations and promotes new voices. DRAYTON HIERS (Company Dramaturg) Highlights at The Flea include Not My Monster! (Off Broadway Alliance Nomination, Best Family Show), SERIALS, good friday, HYPE MAN: a break beat play, Southern Promises, Scraps, LOCKED UP BITCHES, Fillx7, Inanimate, and Syncing Ink. Drayton runs the SERIALS Writers Room, now in its second year of creating acclaimed late night serialized theater, and facilitates new play development at The Flea. As a Literary Associate of Yellow Earth Theatre in London, he spent four years leading writing workshops and mentoring emerging British East Asian playwrights towards production at Hampstead Theatre Downstairs and Park Theatre, receiving an Olwen Wymark Award from the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain. He teaches 3 at Marymount Manhattan College, and has previously taught at NYU Tisch Asia and 18 Singapore Repertory Theatre. MFA Dramatic Writing, Tisch Asia. DAN HOSKINS (Technical Director) A recent graduate of Earlham College, Dan is thrilled to start his professional career with The Flea. Dan has long had a passion for crafting stories and bringing them to life which, along with a love for the community that it creates, led to his decision to join the theater lifestyle in high school. Though he specializes in lighting, Dan believes strongly in the holistic view of theater and the benefit in learning many different aspects of tech to support the art as a whole. MICHAEL HERNANDEZ (Technical Director) is a composer, sound designer and technician who works collaboratively with dance and performance artists. He most recently worked with Performance Space New York and Mabou Mines. ADRIENNE SMITH (Technical Director) NYC based artist Adrienne Smith has over a decade’s worth of creative career experiences including but not limited to photography, animation, costume design, fashion styling and more! She is Costume Shop Manager/ Wardrobe Supervisor at The Flea, and is so excited to have helped bring The Fre to life! AUSTIN SANDERS (Box Office Coordinator) is very proud to be joining the amazing group of artists at The Flea. Austin has over ten years of customer service experience including working as the Customer Service Director for OvationTix, a national ticketing agency. He graduated from Middle Tennessee State University with a degree in Speech & Theater and works regularly as a producer/director with the creative writing nonprofit group, The Story Pirates. JEFFREY KAZIN (Co-Director of Dance Programming) is a founding member and director with David Parker of The Bang Group (1995). He has created and performed signature roles for the company throughout North America and Europe, working also as David Parker’s assistant in the creation of new works and setting of TBG repertory for companies, colleges and universities throughout the U.S. Kazin is the founding producer of the Soaking WET dance series on NYC’s (2003). Additionally, he has danced for Doug

THE FLEA THEATER The Fre THE FLEA THEATER Elkins (creating the role of the Captain in Fraulein Maria), New York Theatre Ballet, Amber Sloan, Sara Hook and Monica Bill Barnes. Mr. Kazin is a board member of the Peculiar Works Project theater company and an advisory board member of Gina Gibney Dance. He is a graduate of Connecticut College and the National Theater Institute. DAVID PARKER (Co-Director of Dance Programming) David Parker and Jeffrey Kazin direct The Bang Group, a New York-based, rhythm-driven, genre-nonconforming dance troupe which spans contemporary and percussive forms. Parker is a Guggenheim Fellow in choreography and his work has been supported by several theaters, foundations, festivals and universities both here and abroad. The Bang Group has been a ubiquitous presence in New York City’s “downtown” dance scene through regular seasons presented by New York Live Arts, Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project, Symphony Space, Harkness Dance Festival, Dig Dance at the 92nd Street Y and DANCE NOW NYC. TBG tours widely 3 and is particularly well-known for its comic/subversive, neo-vaudeville production of The 19 Nutcracker called Nut/Cracked which will appear at The Flea in December 2019. JASON CADY (Director of Music Programming) is a composer and librettist. He performs on pedal steel and modular synthesizer. Pitchfork called him a “mod- synth mastermind…funny and engaging.” Anthony Tommasini, in the New York Times, described his video opera, I Screwed Up the Future, as ”charming fantasy… drably comic and spacey.” Opera News described his one-act opera I Need Space as “delightfully weird…hilarious, dry and detached performances made this futuristic, retro story of love and rejection endearingly poignant.” Cady’s CDs have been released on Lockstep Records and Peacock Recordings and his podcast opera, Buick City, 1:00 AM is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, and Spotify. The Brooklyn Arts Council, New Music USA, free103point9, The Casement Fund, Lighton International Artists Exchange and the American Music Center have funded his projects. He has lectured on his music at NYU, New School University, Wesleyan and ASU. He has been interviewed on WBEZ, WNYC, WKCR, WPIR, KMFA and East Village Radio. NPR featured him in “The Mix: 100 Composers Under 40.”­ Cady is the Artistic Director of Experiments in Opera, which has presented the music of over 40 composers, including Robert Ashley, Pauline Oliveros, and . He has an M.A. in composition from Wesleyan University, where he studied with Alvin Lucier and Anthony Braxton, and a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance from Arizona State University. He was born in Flint, Michigan and now lives in New York City. THE FLEA THEATER The Fre THE FLEA THEATER

203 WHAT IS THE FLEA? The Flea is our theater: three unique and intimate performance spaces, located at 20 Thomas Street in . 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 country and around the globe including two Obie Awards for Best Production, an Otto for Courageous Political Theater, and a 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 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 THE FLEA THEATER The Fre THE FLEA THEATER fulfills our mission, pure and simple: to embody the spirit of adventure and excitement that has defined Off-Off-Broadway since its inception.

213 WHO & WHAT ARE THE BATS? The Bats is our critically acclaimed resident company, cast anew each year from hundrends of 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. WHAT IS OFF-OFF-BROADWAY? Dating back over fifty years, Off-Off-Broadway began informally-- THE FLEA THEATER The Fre THE FLEA THEATER an alternative, non-commercial environment where new ideas and 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.

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223 THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Chair Stephanie Morimoto President Carol Ostrow Secretary Wendy Harrison Hashmall Treasurer Frank Lavadera Charlie Crane Michael Graff Lynne Halliday Jamie Harris Douglas Liebhafsky Rick Miramontez Melissa Poulos Jeremy Smith THE FLEA THEATER The Fre THE FLEA THEATER Niegel Smith Michael Sternberg Celeste Tramontin Tony Tramontin Emeritus David Prittie Jim Simpson Sigourney Weaver 233 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 by generously pledging $5,000 each year. Interested? We’d love to make you a Flea IP too! Please contact Charlie Madison at 212-226-0051 x110 or charliem@ theflea.org for more information. The Flea proudly salutes our Flea I.P. members and thanks them for their unwavering support. THE FLEA CAPITAL CAMPAIGN Over twenty 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. THE FLEA THEATER The Fre THE FLEA THEATER We have also become an emblem for the resilience of Lower Manhattan, drawing more than 150,000 people to the since the 9/11 attacks. To continue in that leadership role, we purchased a site nearby that is now 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: INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT Dormitory Authority The Shana Alexander of the State of New York Charitable Foundation Paul T. Williams, Jr., President Bloomberg Philanthropies City of New York Booth Ferris Foundation Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor Borough of Manhattan New York The Educational Foundation of America 3 Scott M. Stringer, President Empire State Development Corporation 24 David Charles Horn Foundation Julie Shimer, Chairman The Irene Diamond Fund Ford Foundation Howard Gilman Foundation Lauralee & Walter N. Howley International Creative Management, Inc. Dennis Mehiel Lower Manhattan Cultural Council All The Way Foundation The Lower Manhattan Liam Neeson Development Corporation In Memory of Natasha Richardson LuEsther T. Mertz Advised Fund David Richenthal Massey Knakal Real Estate Nanahya Santana & Hume Steyer William Morris Endeavor Entertainment Celeste & Tony Tramontin Newman’s Own Foundation New York City Council DIRECTORS ($25K+) Christine C. Quinn, Speaker Marilyn Armel Margaret Chin, Council Member Jim & Suzy Cameron James Van Bramer, Council Member Kyle Chepulis New York State Council on the Arts Susan Cooper Cronyn Aby Rosen, Chair Marilyn & Jeffrey Katzenberg Lisa Robb, Executive Director Kathleen Kennedy & Frank Marshall Pakula Productions, Inc. Ed & Patricia Matthews The Prospect Hill Foundation Gould Family Foundation Emma Sheafer Charitable Trust Andrea & George Miller The September 11th Fund David Prittie The Fran & Ray Stark Foundation Daryl Roth & Jordan Roth State of New York Dan & Sue Rothenberg Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor Jeremy Smith George E. Pataki, Governor Ted Snowdon The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation Edward Trach United Talent Agency ARTISTS ($10K+) VISIONARIES ($500K+) Catherine & Frederick George Adler Anonymous Rachel Colbert Carol Ostrow & Michael Graff in Memory of David Prittie A.R. & Molly Gurney Roger Berlind André Bishop

THE FLEA THEATER The Fre THE FLEA THEATER ANGELS ($250K+) The Lecomte du Noüy Foundation Anonymous Kent Lawson & Carol Tambor Paul Elston & Frances Beinecke Ellen McCourt Douglas Liebhafsky & Wendy Gimbel Edward McKinley & Kathleen Lavidge Sigourney Weaver & Jim Simpson Bill Murray Achilles Foundation GUARDIANS ($100K+) Monica Gerard-Sharp & Ali Wambold Stephanie Morimoto & Matt King Basil Walter Marc Platt Kenes Rakishev & PATRONS ($5K+) Aselle Tasmagambetova Anonymous Linda Schupack & David Good Adrienne Arsht Katherine & Samuel Weinhoff Marshall & Nina Brickman Stephen & Cathy Weinroth Jackie Brody Davis & Betsy Weinstock Lois Chiles Leslee G. Dart 3 PRODUCERS ($50K+) Jamie deRoy 25 Lynne Halliday & B.H. Barry E.L. & Helen Doctorow Wendy & David Hashmall William H. Draper III & Phyllis C. Draper Robert Eimicke & Roslyn Black in memory of Pete Gurney Kristin & Gary Friedman Patrick Herold Jane Gelfman Fenita Bilgoraj Heyman Arthur Glimcher Cindy & Alan Horn Edwin & Lorna Goodman Lise Jeantet The Anrol Foundation Emily F. Johnson Mary G. Gurney Marsha Berkowitz & Wayne Kabak Sylvia G. & Benjamin F. Johnson and Marianne & David Kaplan Sarah East Johnson Jerome B. Kauff Mark Kaplan Stephen & Marina P. Kaufman The Jackman Family Foundation Louise Lamphere Stephen & Kristina Lang in honor of Basil Walter Cassie Murray & William Plapinger Claire & David Lane Susan Sarandon Jerry Levine & Nina Tassler & Diane Sawyer Paige & Nicky L’Hommedieu Eric Seiler & Darcy Bradbury Kate H. Marber Lawrence Shainberg & Vivian Bower Israela Margalit George Sheanshang Marla Mayer & Chris Ahearn Jeanne S. & Herbert J. Siegel Julian Mazor Julie & Andrew Stanton Michael Miller Bruce Sunstein Robert & Evelyn Miller Becky Tesich Susan Monserud & Ric Sonder Emily & Lily Wiest Harry Moses & Randy Lehrer Bernard W. Nussbaum FRIENDS ($1K+) Gilbert Parker Robert & Betsy Barbanell Juliet & Michael Patsalos-Fox Agnes Martin Barley David B. Pearce, M.D. Tom & Meredith Brokaw Mary Ann & Bruno A. Quinson Arthur H. Brooks Ivan Reitman David C. Bryan in Memory of Harold Ramis Beth Burnam Deborah Schneider & Jim Tilley Arthur & Linda Carter Eleanor Shakin Michael J. Chepiga & Jonathan Sheffer THE FLEA THEATER The Fre THE FLEA THEATER Pamela Rogers Chepiga Barry Skovgaard & Marc Wolinsky in honor of Kathy White Niegel Smith Marya Cohn Bernadette Speach & Jeffrey Schanzer Steve Prittie & Deborah Coleman Andrew & Julie Stanton in memory of David Prittie Scott & Dhuane Stephens Al & Roma Connable Michael & Marjorie Stern Blythe Danner Holland Taylor Robert L. Denton David & Deborah Trainer Arlene Donovan Victoria G. Traube John & Karen Erickson Ginny & Bob Walther Thomas & Darlene Fridstein Emmeline Wexer Mr. & Mrs. John Galen Marguerite C. Whitney Joseph F. Godfrey & Keith Halstead Rachael Worby James & Toni Goodale F.A. Zunino Sarah C. Goodyear 3 Jane Whitney Gruson List as of 2/26/20 26 Christopher Bumcrot & Evelyn R. Gurney We apologize if you have been left off of Robert & Marilyn Harbage this list. Please contact Charlie Madison at Harry & Eugenie Havemeyer [email protected] for any corrections. INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT Flea productions and programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, as well as the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Axe-Houghton Foundation KPMG Booth Ferris Foundation Lazard Fréres & Co. Distracted Globe Foundation Lucille Lortel Foundation The Educational Morgan Stanley Foundation of America The Poses Family Foundation The Fan Fox and Leslie R. The Prospect Hill Foundation Samuels Foundation The Shubert Foundation Howard Gilman Foundation The Harold and Steinberg The John Golden Fund Charitable Trust Google The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation Gurney Playwrights Prize Fund Warburg Pincus List as of 2/26/20 We apologize if you have been left off this list. Please contact Charlie Madison at [email protected] for any corrections. THE FLEA THEATER The Fre THE FLEA THEATER

273 FLEA MEMBERS FLEA IP ($5,000+) Don & Corine Corpora Anonymous In memory of Leah Copora Julia Arnhold & Lane Gerson Ellen Davis Arnhold Foundation Sue Dorn Jackie Brody Cindy & David Edelson Lois Chiles Tim Fechter Christopher Curtis Douglas Forrester Rejeanne Desrosiers & James Stewart James F. Gerwien Jr. Elizabeth Duggal & Alain Taghipour Jeffrey Goldfaden Heidi Ettinger & Jonathan Reynolds Geraldine Inoa The Ettinger Foundation The Suzanne Nora Johnson Tom & Janet Horton & David G. Johnson Foundation Lauralee & Nicholas Howley David & Marianne Kaplan Sue & Steve Mandel Kristina & Stephen Lang Cassie Murray & William Plapinger Eugene M. Lang Foundation Abigail Pogrebin & David Shapiro Kathy & Arthur Langhaus Nancy & Fred Poses Catherine L. Mann & Randy Hartnett Donna & Phillip Satow Barbara & Alan Marks Gretchen Shugart & Jonathan Maurer Andrea & George Miller Stephanie Stiefel & Robert Cohen James Neary Edward Trach Michael J. Richter Lee Vance & Cynthia King Vance Don Schuck Lisa & Michael Senter FLEA FAVORITE ($2,500+) Karol Todrys Kenneth Bartels & Jane Condon Steven Weissman John & Gaily Beinecke Michael Beregovsky FLEA FRIEND ($500+) Claudia Brown & Terry Gruber Susan Davenport Austin Darlene & Thomas Fridstein & Kenneth Austin

THE FLEA THEATER The Fre THE FLEA THEATER Stephanie Garry & Art Tatge Virginia Benzak Maureen Hayes Patrick Bradford Nino Magliocco & Carla Solomon Lisa & Michael Dell Lisa Roumell & Mark Rosenthal Afsaneh Djabbari-Aslani Julie & Nick Sakellariadis & Hossein Asmir-Aslani Linda Schupack & David Good Robyn Field & Anthony O’Carroll Alberta & Henry Strage Madeleine Freind & Charbel Tagher Jan M. Guifarro Esme Usdan Sue & Don Guiney Melissa Vail & Norman Selby Evie Gurney & Chris Bumcrot Mary & Jerome Vascellaro Barry Judd Susan Wilen & Peter Segal John Kander Dan Zamlong & Cammy Grusd Ronald Laeremans Kurt Meyerhoff FLEA FAVORITE ($1,000+) Douglas & Nancy Ostrow 3 Angela Buchdahl Gabrielle & Michael Palitz 28 Beth Burnam Bryce Perry Tracy Chutorian Semler Leo & Antoinette Pulito & Eric Semler Petrarca Cucina e Vino Chris & Lynne Ramsey Sarah Deblois Betty Robbins & Moses Silverman Jordan DeBor Ellen & Norman Roth Daniel DeCook Shelley & David Sonenberg Thomas Finlan Cary Stathopoulos David Florence Robert Toth Charles A. Forma Fidelma & Bill Woodley Henry Fraimow & Jacqueline French Daniel Cohn FLEA FRIEND ($250+) Maria Gerlich Lynn Amos Walter Gilbert Marilyn Armel Anabel Graff John Ashworth Candace Graff Lauren Beaumont Emily C. Graff Joanna Dean Jesse Graff Lisa Denby & Ron Orland John Graffeo Donna Dwyer Kevin & Liz Gregory Sara Epstein In loving memory of Leah Corpora Mark & Annie Gensheimer Stephanie W. Guest Joe Godfrey Jodi & Robert Harrison Debbie & Mickey Goldberg Jonathan Harrison Bruce Goodrich William Havird Bonnie & Howard Graff Claude Hersh Mr. & Mrs. Geoffrey Gund James Hindman Mary R. Hardin Stuart Hutchison III Barry Hoggard & James Wagner Andrew Igdaloff Randee Horowitz Kelly Jiang Belle Horwitz & Jonathan Weiner Emily Johnson Thomas Jorgensen Janice Kaplan In memory of Leah Corpora Alix Laager Virginia Louloudes Erica Laird Pete, Lori & Everyone at Crowe Mia Leo & Dick Kuczkowski In memory of Leah Corpora Blair MacKenzie

THE FLEA THEATER The Fre THE FLEA THEATER Milbrey Rennie Taylor Deb & Ron Madison Giselle & Mike Mahoney FLEA FRIEND ($100+) Manthey Family Anonymous In memory of Leah Corpora ACCESS Inc. Stephen Marchetta In memory of Leah Corpora Nello McDaniel & Mary Giudici Lisa Amato Chris & Claire McGowan Susan Bernfield & Claude Millman In memory of Leah Corpora Linda Blacken Stephen & Barbara Mellor Ellen Blackler Judith Milhous Rabbi Sarah Reines Brian Morton & Richard Bornstein Harriet & Gregg Orley Holly Chou William Ostrow Tom & Nalini Corpora Bryce Perry In memory of Leah Corpora Carole Pesner Blossom Crawford Wayne Ransier 3 Gina Cronin Rachel Razor

29 In loving memory of Leah Corpora Ramon Rodriguez

Todd & Lori Rosen Edwin Martin Ellen Saland Gary & Julie Miller Melissa Sandor & Bernadette Ott In memory of Leah Corpora Eleanor Shakin Darnell-Moser Charitable Fund Kathleen E. Shannon Laura & Tom Neumann Stephen Singer In memory of Leah Corpora Kevin & Caroline Smith Don Novosel Erin Smith Carrie & Chloe Ochocki Fran Smyth In memory of Leah Corpora Bernadette Speach & Jeffrey Schanzer Nancy Perales Health Action Council Karen Phillips In memory of Leah Corpora Diana Prechter Jewelle Gomez Miriam Robbins Nancy Tichy Ramon Rodriguez In memory of Leah Corpora Roberta Lee Scott Steven Usdan John Seroff Vicky Vance Michelle & Ted Stevens In memory of Leah Corpora In memory of Leah Corpora Dede Welles J. Marvin Watts The John Wick Memorial Fund Mary Jo White & Tim Shull David Wickstrom Katharine B. Wolpe Joe & Betsey Wilson In memory of Leah Corpora Nina T. Winthrop List as of 2/26/20 We apologize if you have been left off of FLEA FAN ($50+) this list. Please contact Charlie Madison at Anonymous [email protected] for any corrections. Catherine Abbott Patti Aronofsky Ellie & Bob Berlin Robert & Christi Bowser In memory of Leah Corpora

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313 THE FLEA THEATER MEMBERSHIP PROGRAM Get Special Attention. Support The Flea. Be a Member.

$25+ Member • No booking or convenience fees • Exchange tickets up to 24 hours in advance • Exclusive Members-Only Pre-Sale

$50+ Flea Fan - all of the above, plus: • Invites to Flea Member Nights! Each production will have a special night, just for you. You’ll have a chance to hang with your fellow fans before you take your seats and chat up the artists after, and we’ll provide the drinks and snacks. • Your name in our digital program.

$100+ Flea Friend - all of the above, plus: • One complimentary drink at our bar before every show.

$250+ Flea Friend (Enhanced!) - all of the above, plus: • One complimentary drink you and all of your guests, at every show.

$500+ Flea Friend (Super Enhanced!) - all of the above, plus: • Unlimited complimentary drinks at our bar. • Reserved seats when you attend a Flea production! • Invites to Flea Reads, where you’ll have a chance to listen in as Resident Artists and Bats read and discuss new works.

$1,000+ Flea Favorite - all of the above, plus: • Invitations to exclusive Flea events with artists; the first one is on us! • 2 house seats to one Flea performance of your choice, arranged for you by our Development Associate

BECOME A MEMBER $2,500+ Flea Favorite (Enhanced!) - all of the above, plus: • Invitations to exclusive Flea events — the firsttwo are on us! • Up to 6 house seats to any and all Flea performances, arranged for you by our Development Associate.

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