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By Tim Pinckney Directed by Dennis Lickteig
CAST KEVIN Scott Cox BYRON J. Conrad Frank MARCUS William Giammona SUSAN Desiree Rogers CHRISTOPHER Matt Weimer
CREATIVE TEAM CASTING Stephanie Desnoyers COSTUME DESIGN Jorge R. Hernandez SOUND DESIGN Theodore JH Hulsker SET DESIGN AND Devin Kasper TECHNICAL DIRECTOR LIGHTING DESIGN Maxx Kurzunski STAGE MANAGEMENT Emilio Racinez PROP DESIGN Daniel Yelen
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Several decades have passed since the height of the AIDS pandemic. Like countless others, my heart still aches from the heavy toll. There is no forgetting that we were in the fight of our lives – a battle many did not survive.
Still at Risk, a world premiere by Tim Pinckney, is a play about friendship and the power of standing strong together even when the odds are stacked against you. You rely on instinct learning quickly that wit, activism, dexterity, and love of one another are your most durable weapons. If you can hold on to these you might find light at the end of the longest, darkest tunnel you have ever traveled.
Thankfully, we live in a different time. While rooted in history, the characters in Still at Risk live and breathe in our contemporary world. The poignant and often humorous story reminds us that we hold the responsibility to take good care of each other, advance mindfully, speak our truths and that we must always rise against injustice.
I am grateful to producer Tom Kirdahy and his husband Terrence McNally for nurturing this important play forward. Their confidence in NCTC’s ability to bring this world premiere to the stage in San Francisco continues to affirm our commitment to new work. Additionally, having the pleasure of working with Tim Pinckney again, whose play Message to Michael was staged here in our 1999-2000 Season, has been a joyous homecoming.
As we find ourselves with a President who abolishes his HIV Advisory Council, establishes word-bans, and continues to roll-back protections against the LGBT community, the startling reality is that we are indeed Still at Risk.
Founder & Artistic Director
ONSTAGE INSIGHTS January 24th, 25th, 26th at 8pm STILL AT RISK playwright, cast and director discuss the play with the audience post-show February 5th at 2pm STILL AT RISK cast and director take the stage after the show to discuss the play with the audience
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AIDS Activism: Then and Now By Ari Rice
Still at Risk, by Tim Pinckney, The contemporary landscape of opens up a discussion about how the AIDS activism, while markedly different work of AIDS organizations has shifted, from that of the 1980s and 1990s, still and whether that may be a shift which demands attention and support. The failsBY to acknowledgeKATE JONES the painful BUTLER history continued stigma of AIDS as the “gay of the disease and its activist voices. disease”, which roots in the disease’s When the AIDS epidemic began, activism initial misnomer as GRIDS (Gay-Related had to be ferocious. President Reagan’s, Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome), and the and President Bush Sr.’s, responses were discrimination that the LGBTQ community meager at best and to be diagnosed still faces, contributes to the need for was almost certainly a death sentence. AIDS activism. Some public health The stigma of AIDS cloaked prevention, officials in the South, the contemporary diagnosis, and treatment in secrecy and epicenter of the AIDS epidemic, suggest shame, and that stigma continues to that the dangers and prevalence of HIV/ persist today. We are “still at risk”, but AIDS seems to be lost among younger as the play explores, the world of AIDS generations, thus contributing to a lack activism has shifted. of dedicated prevention and testing. Additionally, with the wavering future of Nov 15, 1985: Demonstrators protest in NYC the Affordable Care Act, the numbers of uninsured (and thus untreated) patients with AIDS could swiftly increase, especially amongst the already harder hit communities struggling with poverty and access to care. The activist fight seems to continually be one of education, of awareness, and the pressing need for In a fitting nod to NCTC’s origin as an educational theatre free and widely available testing and Cast from the About Face program, our Conservatory performed at the top of the event production of LE SWITCH treatment. photo by Michael Brosilow 2017-2018 SEASON NCTC 6 DRAMATURGY
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Where once AIDS was a death housing, and inflated criminal charges. US sentence, shrouded in fear and without House Representative Barbara Lee has viable treatment options, there is now proposed the Repeal HIV Discrimination the ability to live with the disease being Act, which would ban federal and state virtually undetectable. While an outright laws that would discriminate against vaccine has yet to be developed, PrEP someone solely as a result of their HIV (Pre-exposure prophylaxis) can virtually status. There is a necessary and vital eliminate the risk of infection, but access element to contemporary AIDS activism, to the drug is limited depending on the and it builds on the activism of all those country. Antiretroviral drugs, taken after from the 80s onward. diagnosis, can bring the level of the virus Awareness, education - the in an infected person low enough to be uniting factors of activism “then and now” improbable for them to pass the disease - stand at the heart of NCTC’s program, on to someone else. Many of the millions YouthAware, which was the first program of people living with AIDS, however, are in the US that toured schools to educate not on any form of therapy. Some of students on AIDS. While widespread those with the disease do not even know access to healthcare and testing are new they have it. While cases worldwide have contemporary fronts in the fight against decreased, in Eastern Europe, Central AIDS, it is education that will always be Asia, and certain populations within the the light that shines through. The past US, they’re increasing. may not always stay in the past, but The characters in Still at the future is brightest when we absorb Risk are all interacting with AIDS/ the lessons available to us and carry HIV activism, whether peripherally or them through to the next generation of directly, and the conflict between Kevin activists. and Byron is representative of the initial and current activist action around AIDS. Ed Decker walks with SF AIDS Foundation In a wealthy liberal city with socialized at San Francisco’s Pride Parade 1985 health care, AIDS ceases to be a fear, and the stigma of homosexuality is hardly a concern. To those who lived through the tragedy and travesty of the AIDS epidemic in the 80s, this freedom and lack of concern for the disease’s deadly past can appear flippant. But AIDS education is still minimal, even in privileged communities, and almost non-existent in poorer ones. There is continued criminalization of the HIV positive community both worldwide and in the US. HIV positive status can result in the loss of child custody, the loss of A NOTE from the Playwright
I was working as an actor (and a waiter) when I found out that my best friend, David, had become HIV positive. This was when there was no hope and very few treatment options. I stopped auditioning because I didn’t want to go out of town and leave my friend; we did not have a lot of time left. After David died, I lost 8 more friends within 2 weeks. It was everywhere. Like so many others, I was furious, scared and heartbroken. I stopped acting and went to work with new clients at Gay Men’s Health Crisis. The agency, at that time, was primarily made up of people like me. We had quit our regular jobs and joined the fight. We became activists and caretakers. We became soldiers in this war. As Paul Monette said, “Grief is a sword, or it is nothing.”
Still at Risk is a story of one person who went to war, survived, but lost his way. There are thousands upon thousands of survival stories from this plague; this is just one. It is an incredibly personal story although it is not my story. There are certainly some parallels with my own experience (as well as more than one embarrassing moment that for some reason I have decided to put into a play for all to enjoy…), but Kevin’s journey is very different from mine.
This hateful plague swept in and changed our lives in unimaginable ways. It was horrifying to see your circle of friends, lovers and colleagues get smaller on a sometimes-daily basis. But as we fought, we banded together, using our voices and our anger to bring about change. We cried and laughed together and we created strong, compassionate families. Those relationships kept us going. They are the ones that continue to keep me going. The families we created are the true heart of Still at Risk.
Tim Pinckney January 10, 2018
The playwright would like to thank Ed Decker and everyone at NCTC – it’s great to be back. Also, Dennis Lickteig and this dream of a cast, Tom Kirdahy, Tom Viola, Sharr White, Carl Andress, Michael Berresse, Amy Hohn and all the amazing actors who have participated in the development of this play, and Eddie Pisapia. NEW CONSERVATORY THEATRE CENTER FAMILY MATINEE SERIES PRESENTS
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A Reflection From Encore Society friend to a concert by the opera star, and NCTC Board Helen Traubel. I was enthralled. My friend was bored, perhaps aghast. He Member David Beery went to cowboy movies. I sought I don’t remember the source movies with greater substance. In high of my commitment to giving money to school, I surreptitiously acquired tickets cultural organizations. It certainly was to performances I thought beyond the not from my parents. There was no appreciation of my parents: Gilbert and family tradition of giving. Nor was there Sullivan, opera, ballet, even the ice follies. particular interest in the arts. I was creating my own I was provided piano lessons, for individuality, my own value structure. which I had no particular talent. Even so, I deluded myself at one point that I should In return, the art world rewarded apply to Oberlin. There were infrequent me, as it has my husband, Norm Abramson. tickets to classical concerts at the local For that gift to both of us, we have chosen college. I once took my childhood best to give back.
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I have specific reasons for giving: These are my perspectives. Norm shares the same goals. Our CHOICE mutual decisions for donations, our I have chosen NCTC as a primary beneficiary personal involvement, and our frequent because its work merges with my belief in attendance at performances enrich our the significance of theater, and with my wish relationship. And we both want to leave to celebrate the unique viewpoint gay artists something after we are gone. contribute to our larger culture. I have no children to leave an inheritance. Norm does have children. REPAYMENT OF PLEASURE After the consideration of his family, I donate to the arts in general and to our estate goes primarily to cultural NCTC specifically, because of the years of organizations. This is our recognition of pleasure, rewards, and learning that the something greater than the individual, arts have provided me. Giving conveys the greater than ourselves, greater than appreciation I have for the talent that has today. measurably enriched my life. Neither Norm nor I (nor any of my readers) are Andrew Carnegie or . VALUES Bill Gates. In today’s dollars, Andrew I believe that my sexuality nourished a value Carnegie would have a wealth equivalent system that I would not have had otherwise. to 372 billion dollars. Bill Gates? A Growing up gay creates a unique sensibility. piddling 79 billion dollars. Both of them Having lived through restrictions on my have promoted giving one’s wealth to own life, I am sensitive to injustices inflicted benefit the public good. Most known on others. Being a member of a minority, I for his donation for the construction of value diversity. Seeing division around me, libraries, Carnegie gave virtually all his I aspire to a society of inclusion. But also wealth outside his family. Bill Gates, a society that still recognizes and admires along with Warren Buffett, encourage the differences. These values are inherent in the super wealthy of today to give away at arts. NCTC encompasses them season after least half of their wealth while they live. season. But the super wealthy do not make up the fabric of society. Nor PERPETUITY will they be supporting small arts Charity reaches beyond our selves. Culture organizations. They will not be giving continues beyond our lives. I feel an to NCTC. What Norm and I give to the obligation to contribute to the continuation of future is every bit as important to us as the culture to which I have committed myself. their gifts are to Bill Gates or to Warren Granted, what I give will not make a great Buffet. And we can support what they difference in the larger scheme of things. But will not. it will do its bit. The NCTC Encore Society I value NCTC. I am happy my provides a doorway to the future. husband and I can promote its future.
2017-2018 SEASON NCTC 11 PROFILES SCOTT COX (Kevin) has That’s Beautiful, Mark Bruckner in On a Clear Day been a regular in the Bay You Can See Forever, Tom Zeller in American Area theatre scene for Dream, Thomas Weaver in The Story of My Life, almost two decades. Last Luc in Waiting for Giovanni, Brandt in The Busy seen portraying Brother World Is Hushed, Hank Hartley in The Sugar Witch, Boy in NCTC’s Sordid Richard Loeb in Thrill Me, and as Princeton & Rod Lives, Scott has also in Avenue Q the past four seasons. Other favorite performed with San roles include: Franklin Shepard in Merrily We Roll Francisco Playhouse, Along (for which he won the 2014 Theatre Bay Berkeley Rep and Center Rep to name a few. Area Award), Leo Frank in Parade, Carl-Magnus Scott’s most recent film credits include A Wake, in A Little Night Music, Billy Flynn in Chicago, Lt. Youth, Doggie B and The Stranger in Us. In his Joe Cable in South Pacific, and Tommy Albright in spare time he’s worked in voice-over for audio Brigadoon. For more information on his work, visit books, a commercial for French TV, modeled for williamgiammona.com. Williams-Sonoma cookbooks, coached engineers DESIREE ROGERS on how to better communicate and discover their (Susan) loves to entertain emotional intelligence. Scott is especially thankful and educate and got that for the opportunity he’s had to partner with the opportunity playing Drama dept of Lincoln High School in the design Deborah Lacks in Lauren and construction some amazing sets. Those kids Gunderson & Greetha continually surprise and deliver. Reedy’s Hela at TheatreFIRST, Alberta J. CONRAD FRANK (Byron) is delighted to be Hunter in Leaving The returning for another Blues and three exciting season at NCTC! characters in Waiting For Giovanni by Jewelle A San Mateo native, Gomez at NCTC, Siara in Patricia Milton’s Conrad received a degree Enemies Foreign & Domestic at CentralWorks, in vocal performance from understudying three roles in Naomi Wallace’s the University of Oregon. The Liquid Plain at OSF Ashland, and playing six Best known for his work as characters in Ed Decker & Robert Leone’s Rights The Countess Katya Of Passage at NCTC. Smirnoff-Skyy, Conrad has performed his one “Woman” shows at many of the nations finer Bars MATT WEIMER and Cabaret establishments. Other credits include: (Christopher) This is Alex More (Buyer & Cellar, NCTC), Angela Arden Matt’s eighth show with (Die Mommy Die, NCTC), Sister Walburga (The NCTC, following such Divine Sister, NCTC) Beadle Bamford (Sweeney personal favorites as Todd, ROLT), Rudi Gernreich (The Tempermentals, The Lisbon Traviata and NCTC), Mrs. Peacock (CLUE, Boxcar Theatre) & The Homosexuals (TBA Sylvia Fowler (Jungle Red, Artful Circle). Conrad Award Finalist, featured appeared as Joan Crawford in the 2008 Billy Clift actor). He has also film Baby Jane and its sequel Hush Up Sweet performed with companies including Theatre Charlotte. Special thanks to My Show Widow Rhinoceros, Custom Made, Left Coast, Indra’s Mikey! Twitter: @KatyaSmirnoff, instagram @ Net, Porchlight, Pacific Alliance, Eastenders, and katyasmirnoffskyy Impact. He has toured with children’s theater, WILLIAM GIAMMONA performed improv and sketch comedy, appeared (Marcus) is a veteran of in independent films and video games, and has musicals and plays around written for the stage. the Bay Area, having performed leading roles in TIM PINCKNEY (Playwright) started writing over 60 productions in the plays after ten years as a working actor. His first last 15 years. This show play, Message to Michael, was produced by marks Will’s 13th show Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre. His play Ever here at NCTC, having So Humble premiered at The Hangar Theatre previously performed as Luke Harris in Everything starring Andréa Burns, directed by Peter Flynn.
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE THEODORE JH HULSKER (Sound Designer) is a Bay Area based theater artist, composer, Stir Until Smooth was just presented by Stable theater sound/video designer, and curator. His Cable in New York City, directed by Carl recent theater sound design credits include Andress. Other plays include A Prehistoric Ritual, Baltimore Waltz at the Magic Theater, August A Perfect Blendship and First Refusal. Tim wrote Osage County at Marin Theater Company, the stage adaptation for the world premiere of Seared with San Francisco Playhouse, and Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol starring Douglas Leni at Aurora Theater Company. For more Sills, Joshua Henry and Betsy Wolfe. He has information, videos and sounds visit: theodore- also adapted four classic musicals - Hair, On hulsker.squarespace.com the Twentieth Century, Chess, and Funny Girl - for The Actors Fund’s concert series. Tim has DEVIN KASPER (Technical Director and Set traveled all over the map as a contributing writer Designer) is excited to be working on this world to Passport Magazine. Originally from Auburn, premiere! Previously for NCTC he has designed New York, Tim is a member of The Dramatists This Bitter Earth, warplay, Everything that’s Guild and is represented by Charles Kopelman Beautiful, Sons of the Prophet, For the Love at Abrams Artists. For more information, visit of Comrades, The Paris Letter, and Cock. He timpinckney.com was nominated for best set design by TBA for The Pillowman for Breadbox Theater. He has DENNIS M. LICKTEIG (Director) happily returns also worked with foolsFury, Ghostroad Theatre, to NCTC to direct the world premiere of this CustomMade Theatre, and Rabbit Hole Theater. incredible play. Other recent projects include: Currently he is baking lots of brownies. Diary of Anne Frank, Parade and The Heiress for Palo Alto Players, Sordid Lives, Avenue MAXX KURZUNSKI (Lighting Designer) Q (4 times), The Nance, American Dream, SFBATCC awards include: Lighting design for The Lisbon Traviata, Lips Together, Teeth Ice Cream Sandwich Incident at FaultLine and Apart, The Story of My Life, The Busy World is for Next to Normal at CMTC. Recent credits Hushed, Anita Bryant Died for Your Sins, The include Lighting Design for Sam & Dede (World Sugar Witch, Act A Lady, Thrill Me, Farm Boys, Premiere) CMTC and 59E59 NYC, Avenue Theatre District and Harvey Milk –The Musical all for NCTC, The Story of My Life (Contra Costa Q at NCTC, #Bros at FaultLine, Mother Night Civic), Thoroughly Modern Millie and The King at CMTC, Fiddler on the Roof, Jr. for CMTSJ, and I (Broadway By the Bay), Forum, Sunday in Anything Goes at 42nd St. Moon. Maxx is the the Park with George, Anything Goes (CCMT), Managing Director for FaultLine and Director of A Little Night Music, Closer Than Ever, Crimes Production at Custom Made. of the Heart (Hillbarn Theater), Hello, Dolly! and The King and I (Diablo Theatre Company), EMILIO RACINEZ (Stage Manager) has stage Anyone Can Whistle, All My Sons and Do I managed numerous shows over the past several Hear a Waltz? (Masquers Playhouse), Carousel years at NCTC. Previous credits include Deal (Lamplighters) and The Boys from Syracuse and with the Dragon, Avenue Q, Master Class, Redhead (42nd Street Moon). Dennis currently Rights of Passage, Waiting for Giovanni, and serves as Artistic Director for the Lamplighters The Lisbon Traviata. Music Theater. DANIEL YELEN (Props Designer) has been JORGE R. HERNANDEZ (Costume Designer) lurking onstage, backstage, in costume shops has worked as assistant costumer with The and scene shops, in prop storerooms and on Lamplighters in Bitter Sweet and My Fair shopping websites for over three decades. He Lady. At NCTC, he has designed costumes has sung and designed for Lamplighters Music for Sons of the Prophet, Dames at Sea, Theatre since 1987. He has built and chewed The Stops, The Temperamentals, Maurice, scenery for SF Free Civic Theater and the 16th Marvelous Wonderettes, The Divine Sister, Die Street Players. He perennially props Pocket Mommie Die!, The Nance, and many others. Opera and sews for the Mountain Play. Upon his He also makes costumes for ballroom teams eighth New Conservatory Theatre production, he and practices the art of Traditional Japanese thanks all of his enablers. Massage. Make an appointment with him today! CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE LOWELL KIMBLE (Season Producer) TOM KIRDAHY (Tom Even though I left the Kirdahy Productions) is Bay Area, I still look currently producing the forward to supporting smash hit Anastasia on NCTC’s mission. Over a Broadway. In 2017, he decade ago Mason and also produced Bandstand I began our support on Broadway and the because of the offerings revival of Edward Albee’s by NCTC: training for youth, outreach to schools The Goat, or Who is with YouthAware, opportunities offered local Sylvia? on London’s West End. He was the lead artists and the presentation of new plays by producer of the 2015 Broadway hit It’s Only a Play upcoming playwrights. It’s with pleasure, I starring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick and continue my support of NCTC. the five-time Tony-Nominated Broadway premiere of The Visit starring Chita Rivera. He was also the JIM TAUL & DAVE producer of the Off-Broadway NYTimes Critic’s HOPMANN pick, White Rabbit Red Rabbit, which has become (Executive Producers) a global sensation. Tom has previously been Jim has been involved nominated for Tony Awards for Mothers and Sons, with NCTC since its After Midnight, as well as his revivals of Ragtime inception, having and Master Class. He is a founding director of served on the Board Berwin Lee London New York Playwrights, Inc. in the mid-1980s, and Kirdahy studied politics and dramatic literature at most recently from 2008-2014. Dave is a retired New York University and is a graduate of NYU attorney who has served on boards of nonprofits School of Law. As an attorney, Kirdahy spent that include public radio, land conservation, legal nearly two decades providing free legal services full aid to persons with AIDS, and HIV day care. time to people living with HIV/AIDS and served for They both value the great work done by NCTC, many years on the Executive Committee of the especially the YouthAware and Satellite Drama NYC LGBT Center. He currently serves as Chair of Education Programs. the Broadway League Government Relations Committee. Upcoming projects include Hadestown, DR. ALLAN GOLD & Head Over Heels and The White Chip. ALAN FERRARA (Producers) are very pleased and honored to NORMAN ABRAMSON be Producers for Still at & DAVID BEERY Risk, their first NCTC (Season Producers) sponsorship. Allan has In a diverse society, it been a practicing school is important that sub- psychologist in the Reed Union School District in cultures record their Tiburon for 42 years. Alan is a retired ob-gyn own history, as well nurse and a former owner of a needlepoint as enriching the larger store. They have been together since 1995, culture. In its support of were first married at their synagogue, Sha’ar LGBTQ playwrights, New Conservatory Theatre Zahav, in 1999 and again at City Hall in 2008. is an active participant in sharing those voices Allan paints and collects stamps as a hobby and with all. This singular view is one that makes Alan loves to bake and garden. They both enjoy NCTC important for the two of us. As it reaches reading, travel, symphony, theater, and animals. a wider and younger audience, these artistic Their dog, Maggie, and cat, Chelsea, bring them visions do become part of our history and enrich much joy. They have attended NCTC for over the arts. It is an invaluable contribution. 20 years and greatly value the fine drama that it provides for the LGBT Community and the wider Bay Area.
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ENCORE SOCIETY NCTC’S PLANNED GIVING PROGRAM Tom Kirdahy Productions Anonymous Charles Matteson & Oakley Stephens Norman Abramson & David Beery Andrew Smith & Brian Savard Robert Beadle STEAMWORKS - Berkeley James L. Coran Jim Taul & Dave Hopmann Ed Decker & Robert Leone Larry M. Vales* Richard Galbraith Eric Valko & Brad Sullivan Dr. Allan P. Gold Estate of Richard Viehweg Lowell Kimble & Mason Cartmell Curtis Wilhelm & Michael Glover Victoria Kirby Ron & Alison Limoges PRODUCER ($2,500-$4,999) Gary L. Lomax Dennis Buckley Dave Madsen & Richard Norris Ed Decker & Robert Leone* - in memory of Jeff Malloy Terrell David Walker Gerard McCauley Richard Galbraith David Meders Dr. Allan Gold & Mr. Alan Ferrara - in honor of Ed Deb Mosk Decker Andrew Nance Andrew Leas & Bong Villa-Leas Kenneth Noyes & Alan Pardini Dave Madsen & Rick Norris William Oman & Larry Crummer Bennet Marks & Kim Harris Tom Pajak David Meders Joe Ries Richard Meiss & Peter Rudy Victor Rodriguez Kenneth A. Moore - in memory of Jack P. Warren Thaddeus Trela & Jack A. Armstrong Matt Vandeberg Nicolette Noyes - in memory of Henry Noyes Chris Yaros Ken Prag & Steve Collins Ted Snowdon CHAMPION ($50,000+) Thaddeus Trela & Steven Rivas Norman Abramson & David Beery Chris Yaros Alvin Baum & Robert Holgate Dana Zook James L. Coran Estate of Jerome Geller & Kenneth Sullivan PLAYWRIGHT ($1,000-$2,499) Lowell Kimble & Mason Cartmell Anonymous (2) Ted Tucker Anonymous - in memory of David George Muffy Barkocy & John Merlino SEASON PRODUCER ($20,000-$49,999) Jeffrey A. Bluestone & Leah Rosenkrantz Blue- Estate of Gerald B. Rosenstein stone Paula Campbell IMPRESARIO ($10,000-$19,999) Steve Carney & CW Hobbs Anonymous Douglas Daugherty & Philip Leighton Carlstrom Productions Gary Demyen & Les Partridge Jeff Malloy & Dean Shibuya Anne Dorman & Annette Tracy Andrew Nance & Jim Maloney J. Conrad Frank Bob A. Ross Foundation Richard Giardina & Daniel Carter Tim Gullicksen EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ($5,000-$9,999) Barbara Hodgen Robert Burkes & Son Nguyen James C. Hormel & Michael Nguyen Michael Golden & Michael Levy Mary Lea Johnson Richards Charitable Bill Gregory Foundation, Michael Milton, Trustee - in honor of Jorge R. Hernández & Ron Jenkins Jeff Coyne & Kurt Halstead
19 NCTC 2017-2018 SEASON NCTC Board Member2017-2018 Eric Valko SEASON & Brad NCTC Sullivan 19 with Friends at NCTC’s Gala All Decked Out! OUR THANKS Carl Jukkola & Desmond Lee Philip Charney Erwin Kelly John Claypole Maurice Kelly Brett Conner Lawrence C. Klein Scott Cox & Ian Enriquez Stewart Kramer & Jonathan Domash Christopher Damon Eli Lazarus - in honor of Andrea Partridge Philip Dawkins James Lombardi* James Denman & Robert Espinoza Alan Louie Dino Di Donato & Martin Taras Alan Mattacola - in memory of Emile Reyes David Differding E. Mireault Arnold Dito Enrique & Jason Monagas Brett Egan Drew Monaghan & David Dibley Brian & Stephanie Eule - in honor of Jeff Malloy Dr. RJ Moriconi & Mr. Tony Alonzo - in honor of Ed William B. R. Fahrner Decker Farouk & ShuSheng Family Fund of Horizons Kenneth Noyes & Alan Pardini Foundation - in honor of Robert Holgate Ken Odom Andrew Ferguson & Kay Wu Randall A. Shields & Harrison Yeoh Fred Girodat Stephanie L. Walker Joseph & Laura Gold Ronald Wolberg William Goldstein & Christopher Archuleta Kenneth Wright Kevin J. Harty - in honor of Richard L. Meiss & Peter W. Rudy DIRECTOR ($500-$999) Eric Hoberg Anonymous - in memory of Scott Hearron Institute for the Future - in memory of Edwin Brent Ross Armstrong Jones Tamera Avery & Douglas Tom Peter Jacobs & Oni Tibay - in memory of Ed Jones Chuck Bailey - in honor of Ed Decker Neema & Sarah Jalali Peter Benson & Thomas Savignano Bennett Janken & Paul Hein Roy Bergstrom & Allan Chinen Clark Johnson & Ismael Basco* Bordewich Family Charitable Fund Jackie Jordan Tim J. Collins Gregory Jurin & Jim McCrea - in memory Rev. Jim Steven F. Correll & James R. Shay Sandmire Gennaro “Gerry” Devito John Kelley Gary Dickinson Robin & David Lee Mark Dietrich Gary L. Lomax Earl Diskin Gary Luce & Larry Hoover Paul Feasby Christine Macomber The Forester Fun Fund of Horizons Foundation Peter Nye & Jamie Marks Martha & Leon Goldin Brian Olkowski & Jess Hutchins* Ray Hanssen Anthony & Kathryn Poppiti Dennis Hopkins & Jordan Smith Laura Poppiti John Hudson & Peter Weiser Aaron Rainey Alex Ingersoll - in honor of Robert Holgate Kent L. Sack, MD Susan Karp & Paul Haahr Andy Reid & Ann Schaefer-Reid Amy Lawson & Scott Fittje Matt Stevens Krista Lee Steve Susoyev Li Chow Family Fund - in honor of Arturo Catricala Justo Talamantez Eve & Niall Lynch Lois Tema Patricia Milton - in memory of Michael G. Tiphane Jeffrey Nebenzahl & Hoa Tran Karen & Leon Traister Kate O’Hanlan, MD & Leonie Walker - in honor of Matt Vandeberg Debra Mosk & Debra Shapiro Bill Weihl & Lisa Mihaly Grant F. Peterson Brett Wesner & Roger Myrick The Eddie Reynolds Family Fund Robert Weston Russell Rice & Dr. Helene Spivak Leonard Whitney Jack & Betty Schafer Bev Scott & Courtney - in honor of Al Baum & Robert Eric Jansen & Jim Maloney with NCTC Holgate Dennis J. Setlock Board Members Andrew Nance & Larry Vales AJ Shepard & Anthony Chiu, MD - Chiu-Shepard Family Fund Stephen Shorette & Steven Chickering* Patrick Smith James Sokol Lyle Swallow & Jack Becker Matthew Westendorf* Frank Yellin & Mark Showalter ACTOR ($250-$499) Anonymous (2) Walt Anthony* - in memory of Paul Lueken Daniel Ray Bacon Roderick G. Baldwin Robert Beadle Dik Behm Leo Berry-Lawhorn Alex Borders Charlotte Burchard & Bahman Sheikh-Ol-Eslami - in honor of Ed Decker Tom Burke & Axel Brunger Beverly Butler OUR THANKS
ENSEMBLE ($100-$249) Beery, Rick Ruvolo & Hassan Fauzy, Megan Samartzis, Anonymous, Anonymous - in honor of David Beery, Charles Schuler, Kenneth Schultz & Brian Gronlund, Lisa Anonymous - in honor of Andrew Nance, Anthony Schur, Tony Sciortino, Travis & Scott Segal - in memory Abdulla, Elie Abi-Jaoude, John Atwood & Sofia Ah- of Ed Jones, Neil Sekhri & Chris Sherrill, Donald Senn, mad, Susan Austin & Kern King - in honor of Audrey Blaine Shirk, Del Shores, Gae & Mel Shulman, Elizabeth Baker, Angela, Jeff & Lucy Bennett, Bruce Blouin, Sinclair - in memory of Ken Hughes, Raymond Souza, Adrian Deane Brannen-Jurgenson, Harry Breaux, Kate Stoia, Rony Maoz & Ella Maoz, Jack Sugrue, Edward Lauren Brener & Jeff Demain - in honor of Donald Tanovitz, Robert Tat, Stephanie Temple, Mark Allen Currie, Laurence Brenner & Angelo Figone, Leonard Terrell, William Thornton - in memory of Edwin Brent Brill, Mike Bromberg & Kenneth Repp - in memory Jones, Samuel Thoron, Greg Tong, Nathan Tylutki, Judi of Ed Jones, Wayne Bryan, LesLee Burnett - in honor & Ralph Van Houten, Julie Van Reyper Miller & Taylor of Chris Yaros, John G. Capo, Charles H. Cassell, Jr., Miller, Kalman Varga, Maggie Vittori, Scott Walton & Lori Cassels, Mario Champagne, Ken Cleaveland, Scott Williams, Eldon L. Wegner, Heidi Werbel - in honor Paul Colfer - in memory of Tom Altieri, Jon Conway of Christy Kearney, James Westfall - in honor of Stepha- & Bill Coppock, Dan Cousins, Fred Cummins, Joseph nie Temple, Dale & Janet Westfall, Tim Wolfred, Angelo A. Czuberki, Hanna Decker - in memory of Lucille Wong, Russ Wood & Kathryn Carpenter, Bret Wright & Phillips, Jacque, Keith & Sydney Duncan, Nancy Bill Elias, Claus Zielke & Ski Bannowsky Durgin - in honor of Barbara Hodgen, Edward Dzialo, Alan E. & Dale W.* - in memory of Dennis Conroy, William Elias, Richard Elliott, Debra Engel INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS - in memory of Edwin Jones, Brad Erickson, Jeff Eugley & Joshua Keller, The James D. Fagler & Lori L. $50,000+ Yamauchi Living Trust, Richard Falls & Ronald Schaer, Bloomberg Philanthropies Krista Farey, Beth Feingold - in honor of Maurice William & Flora Hewlett Foundation Kelly, Marsha D. Felton, Margot & Richard Fetrow San Francisco Arts Commission - in memory of Connie Janssens, Clifford Flamer & San Francisco Department of Children, Youth & Their Molly Glockler, Charles Forester, Robert Foxe, Dave Families Freeman, L. Scott Garcia, The Gays™, Jason Gieger & San Francisco Grants for the Arts David Toise, Carleton Gillenwater, Laura Goldin, Ann Gomes, Michael Gordon & Megan Antoncich - in $25,000 - $49,999 honor of Chris Yaros, Catherine Hebert, Adrienne Walter & Elise Haas Fund Hirt & Jeffrey Rodman, Eric P. Jansen, Michael Job, Kimball Foundation Lee A. Johnson & Dr. Maurice Solis - in memory The Shubert Foundation of Edwin (Ed) Brent Jones, Bill & Beth Johnston, Victoria Kirby, Karen Klier, James Leventhal and Emil $15,000 - $24,999 Leventhal, Thomas Kocon, Louis Kravitz & Charles Crescent Porter Hale Foundation Lagrave, Naren Larson, Christopher Leason III - in Kenneth Rainin Foundation memory of Dennis Zaborowski, Kelly Gabriel Lee, Small Change Foundation Meredith Lee, Lesbian Equity Fund - in honor of Robert Holgate, Sharon Levin, Sue & Shel Lewis - in $10,000 - $14,999 honor of Jacob Thompson, Leslie Lopato & Skip Getz Centers for Disease Control & Prevention - in honor of Ed Decker, Kevin Lucas, Richard Lynch Fleishhacker Foundation & Frank Steil - in memory of Mimi Streleck, Richard Grass Roots Gay Rights Foundation Magary, Jeffery & Diedre Mahaney, Allan Mann & Horizons Foundation Seiji Morikawa, Michael Mansfield, Ed Markey & Ed Sam Mazza Foundation Esclovon, Kenneth David Martin, Thomas Marzolf, Metta Fund Lloyd Matheson, James Mattacola - in memory Until There’s A Cure Foundation of Emile Reyes, Laura McCrea - in honor of Laura Poppiti & Barb Hodgen, Susan McDevitt, Robert $2,500 - $9,999 McDowell, Stephen McFarland, Edward Melaika, Ameriprise Financial Michael Merrigan, Markham Miller, Serenity Siya Art4Moore Mlay, Margaret Montgomery, Zach Morfín, Milton Bernard Osher Foundation Mosk & Thomas Foutch, Jeffrey Moss, Stuart Center for Cultural Innovation Moulder, Scott Murphy & David Spirt - in memory Charles Schwab Foundation of Ed Jones, Patrick Murray, Jennifer Norris & Giants Community Fund Doris Flaherty - in honor of Stephanie Temple, Jim James Irvine Foundation Oerther, Andrea Partridge, Michael Perreault & Ric Mukti Fund Borjes, Matthew J. Poynter, Jack Rengstorff, Joe Ries, Target Paul Robinson, Alma & Angelo Roque, Noel Rosales, Wells Fargo Foundation Tom Rothgiesser & George Lucas - in honor of David Zellerbach Family Foundation
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FOUNDER & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Ed Decker EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Barbara Hodgen FRONT OF HOUSE & BAR MANAGER Walt Anthony MARKETING DIRECTOR Kate Jones Butler MASTER CARPENTER Paul Collins PRODUCTION COORDINATOR Stephanie Desnoyers TECHNICAL DIRECTOR & PRODUCTION MANAGER Devin Kasper CONSERVATORY PROGRAMS MANAGER Kathleen Lee DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR Shannon McDonnell YOUTHAWARE PROGRAM MANAGER Nicole Meñez DEVELOPMENT MANAGER Andrea Partridge BUSINESS MANAGER Brad Pence BOX OFFICE PATRON SERVICES MANAGER Ari Rice PHOTOGRAPHER Lois Tema CONSERVATORY DIRECTOR Stephanie Temple BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Ed Decker - Artistic Director Jeff Malloy - Board Chair Maurice Kelly Larry Vales - Treasurer Eli Lazarus Dana Zook - Secretary Serenity Siya Mlay David Beery Andrew Nance Jeff Eugley Andrew Smith J. Conrad Frank Eric Valko Leah A. Hofkin Stephanie Walker Robert Holgate Chris Yaros
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