BY CHRISTINA ANDERSON DIRECTED BY NATAKI GARRETT

2018–2019 SEASON PICASSO • DALÍ • MIRÓ • POLLOCK • MASSON • ROTHKO • TANNING • ERNST • MAGRITTE

FEATURING WORKS BY MORE THAN 30 OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY’S MOST CELEBRATED ARTISTS

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Salvador Dalí. Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach. 1938-39. The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund, 1938.269. © 2019 Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Artists Rights Society CONTENTS

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Dear Baltimore Center Stage Members and Guests,

It is my pleasure to welcome you to the final show of our 2018/19 Mainstage Season, How to Catch Creation. I cannot imagine a better way to end my first season here in Baltimore than with this beautiful new play from the magnificent Christina Anderson.

I met Christina back when she was at Yale studying playwriting with Paula Vogel. She was already an exceptional artist then; but in the years since, she has become one of our most important contemporary theatrical voices, bringing an STEPHANIE YBARRA ARTISTIC DIRECTOR intimate approach to expansive questions. In How to Catch Creation, she has constructed a play that is both brand-new and deeply familiar. By telling a cross-generational story of six artists, she thoughtfully portrays that resonant feeling of unrequited dreams, unrequited love, unrequited everything. Still, at its core, this play is an ode to artists and the incredible act of generosity that is creation.

It is only fitting that our production is helmed by the inimitable artist Nataki Garrett, who will assume her place as one of the most prominent leaders of the American Theater when she starts as the new Artistic Director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival this spring. Nataki is a powerhouse director and great mind whose contributions to the field are invaluable. I feel so lucky to have been able to collaborate with her before she jets off to greatness in the Northwest.

As we wrap up this season, How to Catch Creation lights us a path forward into the next one, demonstrating the power of art to genuinely impact all those who come in contact with it. Creation is emblematic of the kinds of fresh perspectives and new voices that Baltimore Center Stage has always been proud to present and is excited to keep bringing more of, next season and beyond.

Stephanie Ybarra Artistic Director

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Produced in Association with Philadelphia Theatre Company

How to Catch Creation received its world premiere at Goodman Theatre, Chicago, Illinois on January 28, 2019 Robert Falls, Artistic Director Roche Schulfer, Executive Director

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THE CAST THE ARTISTIC TEAM in alphabetical order

Jonathan Bangs Christina Anderson Stokes Playwright

Nataki Garrett Tiffani Barbour* Director G.K. Marche Jason Sherwood Shauna Miles* Scenic Designer Natalie Ivania Stack Shayna Small* Costume Designer Riley Xavier Pierce Lighting Designer Lindsay Smiling* Griffin Curtis Craig Sound Designer & Composer Stephanie Weeks* Sabine Decatur Tami Production Dramaturg

Lorraine Ressegger-Slone Intimacy Coach

Danielle Teague-Daniels* *Members of Actors' Equity Association, Stage Manager the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Tori Heikenfeld Production Assistant

Please silence all electronic devices. Alaine Alldaffer, CSA and Lisa Donadio There will be one intermission. Casting

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Time: 2014 and 1966. Plus a brief moment in 1988. Location: A place that resembles San Francisco and surrounding areas.

6 BALTIMORE CENTER STAGE MEET THE PLAYWRIGHT

CHRISTINA ANDERSON Born and raised in Kansas City, Kansas, Creation playwright Christina Anderson has had her works produced at places like The Public Theater, Yale Repertory Theatre, and Playwrights Horizons and has won honors like the Lorraine Hansberry Award and the Harper Lee Award. Learn more about Christina and her path to Creation in her own words:

What is your artistic origin story? What inspired How to Catch Creation? My introduction to playwriting came along Writing this play, I was inspired by a lot of my freshman year of high school. There Black queer women literature—things like was a teaching artist at this intensive who Ann Allen Shockley’s Loving Her, which taught the fundamentals of playwriting was the first story told from a Black lesbian and it really blew my mind that I could perspective. I also wrote this play at a time have access to that kind of art making. when I was really questioning my legacy Because I knew of playwrights—I knew of as a writer—am I writing these plays in vain Shakespeare—but I just assumed that they in a vacuum? Where is my work gonna be were all dead. It never clicked to me that when I’m 80 years old? And so I was thinking there were living people writing these plays about all of these Black women writers whose and that I could have the access and the work has disappeared. I actually think that power to write for the stage. And then with Black Twitter has changed that; since Black the immediacy of having actors embody the Twitter has been celebrating them, there work…I just got bit by the bug. I fell in love have actually started to be new publishings with it and it hasn’t let me go, since I was 15. of these lost women writers. But I wanted to consider how we celebrate and get inspired Do you find that there are themes that run by Black women artists. through your work? I was also inspired by my time living in San My mission is to always delve into the Francisco. I met a lot of really wonderful questions. I think that delving into the Black men in the Bay who identified as questions keeps me open as an artist. I feminists and Afrofuturists. And I knew Alice try not to go into a new project with too Walker used to live there so I got really many answers. I think that if I can surprise interested in this West Coast Black Woman myself, hopefully the audience will also Queerness. I ended up being pleasantly be surprised. And I’m always interested surprised with how this play shows these in Black American stories and how those empowered Black women across the stories are really American stories. Right spectrum in terms of how they live or how now, I’m really interested in how we’re they love, living in the truth of their sexuality in conversation with history whether we and not being questioned about it or feeling accept it or not. I’m really interested in those like they have to explain it. And that was kinds of Black folks that we don’t see a lot all inspired from reading queer men like of on the stage. So that’s my mission too— Essex Hemphill and Pomo Afro Homo, and really exploring the breadth of Blackness especially queer women like Cheryl Clarke as a culture. and Jewelle Gomez and others.

BALTIMORE CENTER STAGE 7 Left to right from Revolutionary Dreams top: Alice Walker, Jewelle Gomez, Nikki Giovanni Solange, Audre Lorde; Cheryl i used to dream militant Clarke, bell hooks, dreams of taking Sister Souljah, Gwendolyn Brooks; over america to show Kathleen Collins, these white folks how it should be Adrienne Kennedy, Nikki Giovanni, done Angela Davis. i used to dream radical dreams of blowing everyone away with my perceptive powers of correct analysis i even used to think i’d be the one to stop the riot and negotiate the peace then i awoke and dug that if i dreamed natural dreams of being a natural woman doing what a woman does when she’s natural i would have a revolution

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BY SABINE DECATUR, PRODUCTION DRAMATURG

hen playwright Christina contemporary plays that critique modern Anderson describes her structures of racism, the images of Black W character G.K. Marche—a writer people that we see onstage tend to be in the late 1960s—as “a singular voice that long-suffering, in poverty and in pain. explores the revolutionary act of Black Even in Black stories, white supremacy still intimacy in a climate of Black rage,” she finds its way to the center. How to Catch is describing herself too. Today’s social Creation is a radical departure from this and political climate often feels full of backdrop of American Theater. By writing rage—justified rage and productive rage Black characters who are middle-class, and necessary rage but rage nonetheless. successful, and flourishing in their talents, In 2019, How to Catch Creation feels Anderson commits the revolutionary act unusual: it is a play that celebrates love, joy, of representing Black people as people: heartbreak, creativity, passion. It centers people who have messy love lives, drink too Black people without centering Black pain. much wine, and make art. The American Theater has a long history As Anderson points out with the character of sensationalizing Black narratives of of G.K. Marche, artists—especially struggle. From slavery melodramas of the Black women artists and especially 19th Century, to shows like Porgy and Bess Black queer women artists—have been in the early 20th Century, and even to doing this work for a long time. In a world

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ow to Catch 1970s, the Combahee the importance of Black H Creation’s G.K. River Collective put out feminism in achieving a Marche might be fictional, a statement that became better world. but she’s inspired by very foundational to defining In the play, Griffin lists real and essential Black this new kind of feminism: the women who inspired feminist writers whose “As Black women, we see him to become a Black work helped imagine and Black feminism as the feminist—“Angela Davis, actualize more equitable logical political movement bell hooks, Alice Walker, futures. Black feminism to combat the manifold and Audre Lorde, Jewelle goes back to the 19th simultaneous oppressions Gomez, Cheryl Clarke, Century with figures like that all women of color Sister Souljah, Adrienne Sojourner Truth fighting face.” Since then scholars, Kennedy.” Check out specifically for the rights artists, and activists have some top hits from these of Black women. In the been advocating for revolutionary women:

BALTIMORE CENTER STAGE 9 Tiffani Barbour as G.K. Marche. Photo by Paola Nogueras. “…they are merely that disregards their humanity, Black human beings, women have been blossoming beautiful interior lives, insisting on softness even not exotics.” under powerfully racist conditions. Iconic poet Gwendolyn Brooks dedicated her career to representing the ordinary lives of Black folks. Written during the height of Jim Crow and on the cusp of the Civil Rights Movement, her books Annie Allen and Maud Martha follow “unexceptional” Black girls who fall in love, pursue their dreams, and have sometimes mundane experiences. In 1950, the year Brooks became the first African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize, her editor asked what made her write. “To prove to others (by implication, not by shouting) and to such among themselves who have yet to discover it,” she said, “that they are merely human beings, not exotics.” Writer and filmmaker Kathleen Collins carried Brooks’s legacy forward into the 1980s. Her film Losing Ground flopped

IN SEARCH OF OUR MOTHERS' GARDENS (1983) by Alice Walker

Best known for her novel The Color Mothers' Gardens and coined the Purple, Walker’s influence spans term “womanist” to reflect a distinctly from her literary contributions to her Black feminist ideology. “Womanist is unyielding activism to her search to feminist as purple is to lavender,” for lost work of Zora Neale Hurston. she writes. In 1983, she wrote In Search of Our

Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s SISTER OUTSIDER (1984) House,” and volumes of groundbreaking by Audre Lorde poetry that gave voice and grace to the Black lesbian experience. Until her death Lorde is a visionary best known for books in 1992, she encouraged women to use the like Zami: a new spelling of my name, personal as the political and find power, speeches and essays like “The Master’s strength, and love in their differences.

10 BALTIMORE CENTER STAGE “…they are merely human beings, not exotics.”

THE GILDA STORIES (1991) EXPERIMENTAL LOVE (1993) by Jewelle Gomez by Cheryl Clarke An early pioneer of Afrofuturism, Gomez is a Known for unapologetically Black lesbian feminist best known for science queer and inventively fiction, especially her book The Gilda Stories lyrical poetry, Clarke which tells the story of a young Black woman who is also a scholar whose escapes slavery and becomes a lesbian vampire. notable work includes research on the role of by Angela Davis women in the Black Arts WOMEN, CULTURE & POLITICS (1989) Movement and articles such as "Lesbianism: an Angela Davis is one of today’s most prominent advocates for act of resistance" and social justice, best known for her contributions to the Black “The Failure to Transform: Panther Party and her opposition to the prison-industrial Homophobia in the complex. A professor at UC Santa Cruz, she writes about the Black Community.” intersections of various kinds of oppression.

BALTIMORE CENTER STAGE 11 when it premiered in 1982, at least in musicians like Jamila Woods. Even Solange, part because it defied expectations of one of today’s biggest recording artists what a Black movie should be. Following proclaims the facets of her own interiority: the complicated relationship between a “I can’t be a singular expression of myself, professor and an artist, each struggling there’s too many parts, too many spaces, to find fulfillment in their personal and too many manifestation, too many lines, too creative lives, the film doesn’t make race many curves, too may troubles, too many its central problem but rather carefully journeys, too many mountains, too many investigates the ways that race, gender, rivers, so many…” Like Solange, How to and sexuality impact a particular Black Catch Creation’s characters contain so woman’s life. Despite her obvious genius, many multitudes—just as many as white Collins’s work had been largely forgotten characters have been afforded throughout until recent posthumous publications of all of American theater history. her writing. America wasn’t ready to see Director Nataki Garrett describes How Black people grappling with the same big to Catch Creation as a quiet revolution. questions that white artists ask in their work. She observes, “The play asks, ‘What does Artists like Collins and Brooks paved the it mean to create a world in which people way for the range of Black stories we see who are normally othered exist without the in popular culture today—from television lens of the status quo?’ That right there is like Atlanta to films like Black Panther to a revolution and a revelation.”

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Jonathan Bangs Film—Veep, The Leftovers, Law Stokes and Order, The Education of Max Bickford, The Bedford Baltimore Center Stage: Diaries, and Rabbit (Sundance debut. Regional—Philadelphia Festival Short Film Selection). Theatre Company: How Training/Other—proud to to Catch Creation; Idaho have trained and started her Shakespeare Company: performance career from the Julius Caesar (Brutus); Boise of age 9 at the Arena Players Contemporary Theatre: Hand Inc. Education—Garrison to God (Brutus); Shakespeare Forest School and UArts Alum. Center of Los Angeles: Macbeth (Lennox); Kennedy JONATHAN BANGS Center: Shelter (Eusebio, Ulan); Shauna Miles* Road Theatre Company: Natalie Little Children Dream of God (Vishal); Boston Court: What To Baltimore Center Stage: debut. Send Up When Its Going Down Off-Broadway—The Play (Shaun); Alpine Playhouse: Flee Company: No. 11 (Blue & White). (Paul); Drift (Jamal). Tours— New York (selected)—Radio Riot/Rebellion (National); City Christmas Spectacular. Speakeasy Society: Johnny 2 Regional (selected)— (National); Speakeasy Society: Philadelphia Theatre Johnny 3 – The Living (National). Company: How to Catch Film/TV—Mix & Serve; Toyota; Creation; Hartford Stage: A Treeline Lake; It’s a Party; Belkin; TIFFANI BARBOUR Christmas Carol; Contemporary Faded; He/She; The Loud American Theater Festival: The House; Earth To Jones; Plastered Ashes Under Gait City, One Synonyms; Diners, Drive-Ins, Night; Syracuse Stage: The and Dives. Education—BFA: Miracle Worker; Denver Center: California Institute of the Arts. Well; Huntington Theatre Company: The Amen Corner; Boston Court Theatre: Witness Tiffani Barbour* Uganda (workshop). Film/ G.K. Marche TV (selected)—Bachelorette, Flatbush Luck, The Good Wife, Baltimore Center Stage: debut. Luke Cage, Law & Order: SVU, Theater credits include Off- The Following, Elementary. Broadway—Barrow Street: Hit SHAUNA MILES Education—MFA: National The Wall. Tours—Mamma Mia! Theatre Conservatory at The (National), Fame (European). Denver Center for Performing Regional—Philadelphia Arts; BFA: Boston University Theatre Company: How to College of Fine Arts. Awards— Catch Creation; North Shore ACTF/Kennedy Center’s Music Theater: Mamma Irene Ryan Award, Region I; Mia! (Rosie, BWW Regional Williamstown Theatre Festival Lead Actress Nomination); Bill Everett Scholarship. Philadelphia Theater Drama Guild: Ain't Misbehavin'. TV/

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Shayna Small* and Bristol Riverside Theatre. Riley Professional/Other—Lindsay is a member of the Wilma Theater’s Baltimore CenterStage: HotHouse company and an debut. Off Broadway—The Adjunct Professor at Temple Public Theater: Parable of University. lindsaysmiling.net the Sower; Ars Nova: Rags Parkland Sings Songs of the Future (workshop). Regional— Stephanie Weeks* Philadephia Theatre Company: How to Catch Creation; Great Tami Lakes Center: The Buddy Holly Baltimore Center Stage: Musical; Bay Street Theater: SHAYNA SMALL George Orwell’s Animal Farm. Intimate Apparel; Huntington She has performed at many Theater: The Colored Museum. award-winning regional Tours—Parable of the Sower. theaters and Off-Broadway. Education—BA: Juilliard. Proud Favorite roles include Target Baltimore School for the Arts Margin Theater’s production grad. shaynasmall.com of Mourning Becomes Electra (Christine, New York Times Critics Pick), Ruined (Salima), Lindsay Smiling* and The Crucible (Tituba). Griffin Regional—credits include Philadelphia Theatre Company: Baltimore CenterStage: debut. How to Catch Creation. Film/ Off Broadway/NYC—Treasure TV—Ex-Doofus (dir: Melvin Van Island (Off-Broadway), Brave LINSDAY SMILING Peebles, Tribeca Film Festival), New World: Long Christmas Rosy (2017), and Tales of the City Dinner, Ensemble Studio: His for Netflix starring Laura Linney Daddy. Regional—Philadelphia (upcoming). Training—London Theatre Company: How to Academy of Music and Drama; Catch Creation, Hillary and MFA: American Conservatory Clinton; Wilma: Kill Move Theater. stephaniejweeks.com. Paradise, Mr. Burns, Romeo and Juliet; Milwaukee Rep: Othello; Shakespeare Theatre of NJ: Red Velvet; Arden: *Members of Actors' Equity Association, Metamorphosis; other regional the Union of Professional Actors and credits include Walnut Street, Stage Managers in the United States.

Syracuse Stage, People’s Light STEPHANIE WEEKS and Theatre Co., Pittsburgh Public, Two River Theatre, Victory Gardens, ACT, Dorset Theater Festival, Lantern Theater, Human Race Theatre, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Fest., Illinois Shakespeare Fest., Arkansas Shakespeare Theater, Mixed Blood Theater,

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Christina Anderson Pussy Valley; Skylight Theater: Center for the Performing Playwright Bulrusher; Ubuntu Theater: Hurt Arts, Shakespeare Theatre, Village; Mo’Olelo Performing Baltimore Center Stage: Goodspeed Musical, the Arts Company: Hoodoo Love. debut. Christina Anderson's Alliance. Music—Sam Smith’s Professional—Artistic Director plays include The Ripple, The The Thrill of It All World Tour. of Oregon Shakespeare Wave That Carried Me Home; TV—Sam Smith on the Grammy Company; co-founder and pen/man/ship; Man in Love; Awards, Saturday Night Live, co-Artistic Director of Blank Hollow Roots; and Blacktop Ellen, The Late Late Show, The The Dog Productions. Other— Sky. Her plays have appeared Brit Awards, Graham Norton. Theater Communications at Philadelphia Theatre Awards—Drama Desk, Lucille Group Board of Directors; Company, Goodman Theatre, Lortel, Henry Hewes Design former Acting Artistic Director Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Award nom. Education—NYU. of the Denver Center; The Public, Yale Repertory, previous Associate Artistic Ivania Stack and other theaters across the Director of CalArts Center Costume Designer US and Canada. Awards and for New Performance; former honors—Inaugural Harper Baltimore Center Stage: Stones Associate Dean and Co-head Lee Award for Playwriting, in His Pockets. Regional— of Undergraduate Acting for two PONY nominations, Philadelphia Theatre Company: CalArts School of Theater; three Susan Smith Blackburn How to Catch Creation; Round company member at Woolly nominations, and Woursell Prize House Theatre: This, Young Mammoth; recipient of the NEA/ Finalist. Affiliations: Resident Robin Hood, Glengarry Glen TCG Career Development playwright at New Dramatists, Ross; Woolly Mammoth: Detroit, Program for Directors, and a Epic Theatre Ensemble; The Elaborate Entrance of Chad member of SDC. Awards— DNAWORKS Ensemble Deity, Bright New Boise, Full NAACP Theatre Award member. Education—MFA: Yale Circle, Boom; Studio Theatre: nomination for Best Director for School of Drama, Playwriting Mother F**ker with the Hat, Time Black Women State of the Union. Program; BA: Brown University. Stands Still, Adding Machine: A Her production of Neighbors christinaandersonwriter.com Musical, Bloody Bloody Andrew by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Jackson, Pop!; Everyman: Nataki Garrett received several Ovation God of Carnage, Heroes, 50 Director nominations and was winner Words; Theatre J: Andy and of the Garland Award for Best Baltimore Center Stage: the Shadows, Our Class, The Ensemble. natakigarrett.com debut. Regional—Philadelphia Whipping Man, After the Fall, The Theatre Company: How to Odd Couple, Photograph 51, Jason Sherwood The Four of Us, In Darfur; GALA Catch Creation; Dallas Theater Scenic Designer Center: Fetch Clay/Make Man; Hispanic Theatre: House of the Baltimore Center Stage: debut. Mixed Blood Theater: Is God Spirits, Ana en el Tropico, Lucido, Off-Broadway—New York Is; CalShakes: Everybody; The True History of Coca Cola in Theatre Workshop, Atlantic Ford’s Theatre: Jefferson’s Mexico; Olney Theatre: Rancho Theatre Company, Playwrights Garden; Steppenwolf: BLKS; Mirage, Joseph, Farragut North; Realm, 59E59, Rattlestick. DCPA: Smart People; Mixed Contemporary American Regional—Philadelphia Blood Theater Company: Theatre Festival: Lidless, Theatre Company, Old Globe, An Octaroon, Katori Hall’s Breadcrumbs; Metrostage: Signature Theatre, Denver Ghost-Writer, Lonely Planet,

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Savage in Limbo, The Real Curtis Craig Research in Black Culture. Inspector Hound, Heroes; dog Sound Designer & Composer Education—BA: Yale University. & pony dc: A Killing Game, Baltimore Center Stage: Beertown, Separated at Birth, debut. Regional—Philadelphia Lorraine Ressegger-Slone Courage, Toast (co-director/ Theatre Company, Actor’s Intimacy Coach deviser). Education— Theatre of Louisville, Detroit Baltimore Center Stage: University of Maryland, Public Theater, Classical debut. Regional—Woolly MFA in Design program. Theater of Harlem, People’s Mammoth: BLKS, Botticelli in the Light and Theatre, Clarence Fire; Taffety Punk: Pramkicker. Xavier Pierce Brown Theatre, Denver Center Fight Choreographer—Woolly Lighting Designer Theatre Company, Seattle Mammoth: Oedipus el Rey, Baltimore Center Stage: Rep, Chautauqua Theater Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play; Fun Home. NYC—The Public Company, the world famous Shakespeare Theatre: The Theater: White Noise, Mint Apollo Theater, the Royal Silent Woman; Signature Theatre NYC: Yours Unfaithfully, Family Performing Arts Center, Theatre: Pacific Overtures; A Day by the Sea. Regional— New York Fringe, Watertower Imagination Stage: Merlin and Philadelphia Theatre Company: Theater, and the Dallas Theater the Cave of Dreams, Perseus' How to Catch Creation; Center. Awards and Other—In Bayou; 1st Stage: Three Days of Oregon Shakespeare Festival: 2017, his sound design and Rain, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Othello, Shakespeare in Love; composition from the Denver Education—MFA: Virginia The Guthrie: Native Gardens, Center production of All the Commonwealth University. Harvey, Blithe Spirit; Arena Way was awarded the Silver Stage: Smart People, Native Medal in Sound Design at the Danielle Teague-Daniels* Gardens; Steppenwolf Theatre: World Stage Design exposition Stage Manager The Roommate; Seattle Rep: 4 in Taipei, Taiwan. He previously Baltimore Center Stage: Women; Cincinnati Playhouse: exhibited his work at World Resident Stage Manager; Fun Misery; Syracuse Stage: Stage Design expo in Cardiff, Home, A Wonder in My Soul, Cat Noises Off!; Long Wharf and Wales and he won the Gold on a Hot Tin Roof, SOUL The McCarter: Fences; PlayMakers Medal in Sound Design for Stax Musical, The Christians. Rep: Peter and the Starcatcher, Pentecost in 2009 in Seoul, Regional—For the past 17 4000 Miles, The Mountaintop, South Korea. He is the head years, she has worked and Detroit ’67; Arden Theatre: of both the undergraduate reprised her role as SM with Two Trains Running; Arizona program in Theater Design many companies including: Theatre Company: Outside & Technology and the Sound Actors Theatre of Louisville, Mulingar; Olney Theatre Design program at Penn State Clubbed Thumb, 3LD, Lee Strasberg Institute, LAByrinth Center: The Piano Lesson; University. His work can be seen Theater, Rising Circle Theater Florida Studio Theatre: Fly; Triad and heard at curtiscraig.com. Stage: Common Enemy, Red; Collective, Big Apple Circus, NYU Steinhardt, New Georges, Westpost Country Playhouse: Sabine Decatur Working Theater, and New A Raisin in the Sun, Thousand Production Dramaturg Dramatists. Last summer she Pines; Two River Theater Baltimore Center Stage: wrapped up Bello Mania at Company: Two Trains Running; King of the Yees, A Wonder in the New Victory Theater on California Shakespeare My Soul, Fun Home. Other— 42nd St. Danielle has worked Theatre: Everybody, The Glass Yale Dramatic Association, on two recent workshops: The Menagerie, black odyssey, Yale Dance Theater, Donna Summer Project (La Jolla Fences; Arkansas Shakespeare Heritage Theater Ensemble, Playhouse) and Ain’t Too Proud Theatre: Hamlet, Pippin; Oberlin Summer Theater (Berkeley Rep). Additionally, Indiana Repertory Theatre: Festival, Semicolon Theater Danielle also worked on Pipeline; The Flea NYC: Company, Culture Project, Michael Kors' fashion show Hypeman; A.R.T.: Othello. the Schomburg Center for in Shanghai, China.

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Tori Heikenfeld Production Assistant Baltimore Center Stage: debut. Regional—Philadelphia Theatre Company: How to Catch Baltimore Center Stage operates Creation, Bridges of Madison under an agreement between LORT County, Sweat, PlayBrawl, Small and Actors’ Equity Association, the Mouth Sounds; Arden Theatre union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States. Company: My General Tubman (reading); Portland Stage Company: Disgraced, Buyer and Cellar, A Christmas Carol, Later Life; Theatre Aspen: Dear The Director and Choreographer Edwina, Mamma Mia. Other— are members of the Society of Stage Asphalt Piloten’s Tape Riot. Directors and Choreographers, Inc., an independent national labor union. Education—BA: Susquehanna University.

Alaine Alldaffer, CSA and Lisa Donadio The scenic, costume, lighting, and Casting sound designers in LORT theaters are Alaine Alldaffer is Casting represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE. Director for Playwrights Horizons while Lisa Donadio serves as the Associate Casting Director. Alaine is also the casting director for Playwrights Horizons, where her credits include Grey Gardens (also Musicians engaged by Baltimore for Broadway), Clybourne Park Center Stage perform under the terms of an agreement between (also for Broadway), Circle Center Stage and Local 40543, Mirror Transformation (Drama American Federation of Musicians. Desk and Obie Awards for

Best Ensemble and an Artios Baltimore Center Stage is a Award for casting), and The constituent of Theatre Communica- Flick (Playwright Horizons and tions Group (TCG), the national The Barrow Street Theater). organization for the nonprofit professional theater, and is a member Television credits include The of the League of Resident Theatres Knights of Prosperity (aka Let’s (LORT), the national collective Rob Mick Jagger) for ABC. bargaining organization of Associate credits include Ed professional regional theaters. for NBC and Monk for USA. Regional Theaters include The Huntington Theatre in Boston, The Alley Theatre in Houston, Arena Stage DC and Studio Theater DC, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Seattle Rep, ACT and Berkeley Rep, People’s Theatre in Philly among others.

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20 BALTIMORE CENTER STAGE CAMP SUMMER CAMP (for grades 2 through 7) Session 1: JUN 17–28 Session 2: JUL 1–12

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To register go to CENTERSTAGE.ORG/CAMP INDIVIDUALS AND FOUNDATIONS THANK YOU! The following list includes gifts of $250 or more made to the Baltimore Center Stage Annual Fund December 1, 2017 through April 5, 2019. Although space limitations make it impossible for us to list everyone who helps fund our artistic, education, and community programs, we are enormously grateful to those who contribute to Baltimore Center Stage. We couldn’t do it without you!

The Center Stage Society The JI Foundation J. S. Plank and D. M. DiCarlo represents individual donors Family Foundation Kathleen Hyle who, through their annual Wendy Jachman contributions of $1,500 or The Laurents /Hatcher more, provide special Foundation Francie and John Keenan opportunities for our artists Sandy Liotta and Townsend and Bob Kent and audiences. Society Carl Osterman members are actively Keith Lee involved through special Charles E. Noell III Ken and Elizabeth Lundeen events, theater-related Sharon and Jay Smith travel, and behind-the- Marion I. and Henry J. Knott scenes conversations with Foundation theater artists. ARTISTS CIRCLE ($10,000-$24,999) Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker SEASON SPONSORS Anonymous Jeannie Murphy ($50,000+) Paul M. Angell Family Ellen and Ed Bernard Foundation J. William Murray Lynn Deering Peter and Millicent Bain Dave and Chris Powell The Bunting Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. George M. Sherman Jane and Larry Droppa Mary Catherine Bunting Department of VSA and Joseph and Harvey Accessibility at the John F. Meyerhoff Family The Helen P. Denit Kennedy Center Charitable Funds Charitable Trust Ellen J. Remsen Webb and Walter B. Doggett III J.W. Thompson Webb Terry H. Morgenthaler and and Joanne Doggett Patrick Kerins Nancy Dorman and PLAYWRIGHTS CIRCLE Judy and Scott Phares Stanley Mazaroff ($5,000-$9,999) Lynn and Philip Rauch Brian M. and Denise H. Eakes The William L. and Victorine Q. Adams Foundation Amy Elias and The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Richard Pearlstone Taunya Lovell Banks

The Harold and Mimi Juliet A. Eurich and Bradie Barr and Tollie Miller Steinberg Charitable Trust Louis B. Thalheimer Mr. and Mrs. Douglas L. Becker Beth and Michael Falcone PRODUCERS CIRCLE Winnie and Neal Borden, The The Fascitelli Family Foundation ($25,000-$49,999) Harry L. Gladding Foundation Daniel and Lori Gahagan The William G. Baker, Jr. James T. and Francine G. Brady Sandra Levi Gerstung Memorial Fund, creator of the Susan Bridges and Bill Van Dyke Baker Artist Portfolios The Goldsmith Family Foundation www.BakerArtist.org Sylvia and Eddie Brown Harry Gruner and Penny Bank Rebecca Henry The Annie E. Casey Foundation Stephanie and Ashton Carter The Laverna Hahn Melissa and Augie Chiasera Charitable Trust James and Janet Clauson The Nathan & Suzanne Cohen Foundation

22 BALTIMORE CENTER STAGE THANK YOU! The Jane and Worth B. Kim Gringas and The Campbell Foundation, Inc. Daniels, Jr. Fund Gene DeJackome The Caplan Family The Delaplaine Foundation, Inc. Robert and Cheryl Guth Foundation, Inc. Jane Cooper and Philip Angell Dick Gamper Sandra and Thomas Hess The Mary and Dan Dent Megan M. Gillick Ralph and Claire Hruban Family Fund Fredye and Adam Gross David and Elizabeth J. Dana M. DiCarlo Himelfarb Hurwitz The Hecht-Levi Foundation, Inc. Andrea and Samuel Fine, in Susan and Steve Immelt memory of Carole Goldberg Patricia and Mark Joseph, Chris and Wendy Jeffries Dr. Matthew Freedman and The Shelter Foundation Dr. Gladys Arak Freedman Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. The John J. Leidy Foundation, Inc. Howard and Susan Goldberg Jennings, Jr. Maryland Humanities Council Dr. Neil Goldberg, in Rodica Johnson memory of Carole S. Goldberg John and Kim McCardell Francine and Allan Krumholz Goldseker Foundation Laurie McDonald The Macht Fund of Len and Betsy Homer Melissa Newman the Associated James and Rosemary Hormuth Nora Roberts Foundation Jim and Mary Miller Harriet S. Iglehart Hugh and Leanne Mohler Joseph J. Jaffa Mark and Joanne Pollak Chuck and Paddy Morton Murray Kappelman Dorothy Powe, in memory of Ethel J. Holliday John and Susan Nehra Myron Terry Koenig Fund for Waverly at the Baltimore The Ida and Joseph Jill and Darren Pratt Community Foundation Shapiro Foundation Val and Hutch Robbins Mr. and Mrs. Earl Linehan, The Linehan Family Foundation Michele Speaks and David Warnock Michelle and Nathan Robertson Diane Markman Donald and Mariana Thoms Charles and Leslie Schwabe The Meier and Berlinghof Families Fund Barbara Payne Shelton Joe Timmins and Jodie Kristy Marilyn Meyerhoff Scott and Mimi Somerville Krissie and Dan Verbic Morris A. Mechanic Foundation Scot T. Spencer Loren and Judy Western Michael and Cristina Niccolini Michael Styer Ted and Mary Jo Wiese Lee and Marilyn Ogburn Mr. and Mrs. Harry Thomasian The Rollins-Luetkemeyer Thomas Wilson Sanitarium for Foundation the Children of Baltimore City Cheryl Hudgins Williams and Alonza Williams Michael Ross Todd M. Wilson and Renee Samuels and DIRECTORS CIRCLE Jordan Rosenfeld ($2,500-$4,999) Edward Delaplaine Barbara and Sig Shapiro Anonymous Paul and Dorothy Wolman E. Follin Smith The Lois and Irving Blum Dr. Richard H. Worsham and Foundation Ms. Deborah Geisenkotter Scott and Julia Smith Meredith and Adam Borden Terri and Bob Smith George and Holly Stone Drs. Joanna and Harry Brandt DESIGNERS CIRCLE ($1,500-$2,499) Brian and Susan Sullam Diana and Clinton Daly Anonymous Nanny and Jack Warren, in Mr. Jed Dietz and Stephanie and Vince Baker honor of Lynn Deering Dr. Julia McMillan Patricia Baum, Sydney and Ron Wilner Suzan Garabedian The Baum Foundation Young Audiences of Andy and Beth Giddens Dr. & Mrs. Donald D. Brown Maryland, Inc.

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24 BALTIMORE CENTER STAGE As a Center Stage patron you will receive 10% off dinner at The Elephant on the night of a performance in which you hold a ticket. COMPANY Max Jordan ADVOCATES ($750-$1,499) Shirley Kaufman ($250-$749) Anonymous Neil and Linda Kirschner, Anonymous Diane Abeloff in honor of Ken and Yasamin Al-Askari Tracy Bacigalupo and Elizabeth Lundeen Bradley and Lindsay Alger Jake Baker Andrea Laporte Eleanor Allen Amy and Bruce Barnett Jonna and Fred Lazarus Bernadette Anderson Scott and Katherine Bissett Robert and Susan Mathias The Alsop Family Foundation Richard and Lisa Blue Mary L. McGeady Alan M. Arrowsmith, II Bruce Blum Brad Mendelson Meredith C. Atkinson and Leonor and Marc Blum John Messmore Joe Sanchez Deborah and Stephen Awalt John and Carolyn Boitnott Jane and Joe Meyer Mike Baker Michael Borowitz and Beverly and John Michel Barbara Crain The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Bank Betsy Nelson Jan Boyce Family Fund Roger F. Nordquist, in memory G. Brian Comes and Cheri Barr-Griffin of Joyce C. Ward Raymond Mitchener Jaye and Dr. Ted Bayless Fund Dr. Bodil Ottesen Joe Coons and David and Cecelia Beck Victoria Bradley Michael and Phyllis Panopoulos Randi and Adam Benesch The Cordish Family Jeffrey and Laura Thul Penza Drs. George and Stephen Richard and B.J. and Bill Cowie Valerie Bigelow Mame Hunt Richard and Lynda Davis Maureen and Bob Black The James and Gail Riepe James DeGraffenreidt and Katharine C. Blakeslee Family Foundation, Mychelle Farmer in honor of Lynn Deering Cynthia Wyrick Bledsoe The Honorable and Sara and Doug Sampson Rachel and Steven Bloom, in Mrs. E. Stephen Derby honor of Beth Falcone Gail Schulhoff Linda Eberhart Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Brager, Jr. Bayinnah Shabazz, M.D. Donald M. and Warren and Eva Brill Margaret W. Engvall The Earle and Annette Shawe Anne Elliott Brown Bob and Susie Fetter Family Foundation Michelle Brown Genine and Josh Fidler The Sinksy-Kresser-Racusin Memorial Foundation Susan and Michael Brown José and Ginger Galvez Sandra and Thomas Brushart Richard and Sharon Gentile, in Mr. and Mrs. Robert N. Charles and Betsy Bryan honor of the Center Stage Smelkinson Costume Shop Arun and Shilta Subhas Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Burnett, II John Ginovsky and Alma Hays William J. Sweet Natalie and Paul Burclaff Stuart and Linda Grossman and Geraldine Mullan Ardath Cade Tom and Barbara Guarnieri Marc and Diana Terrill Cindy Candelori Linda Hambleton Panitz Sabrina Sikes Thornton Evelyn Cannon and James Casey Rachel and Ian Heavers John Wessner The Jim and Anne Cantler Kelly and Andre Hunter Dr. and Mrs. Frank R. Witter Memorial Fund Elayne Hurwitz Jean L. Wyman Kevin and Tea Carnell James and Hillary Aidus Jacobs Patricia Yevics-Eisenberg and June Carr Kris Jenner and Stewart Eisenberg Mary K. Carter Susan Cummings Steve Ziger and Jamie Snead

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28 BALTIMORE CENTER STAGE THANK YOU

CORPORATIONS: PLAYWRIGHTS CIRCLE The Annie E. Casey Foundation THE 2018/19 EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS Caroline Fredericka Holdship ARE MADE POSSIBLE BY Charitable Trust via PNC Charitable Trusts Cho Benn Holback & Associates Constellation COPT Environmental Reclamation Company Ernst & Young LLP PRESIDENTS CIRCLE Gallagher Evelius & Jones LLP Greenspring Associates Inc. HMS Insurance Associates, Inc. Howard Bank Laureate Education Legg Mason & Co., Inc. McGuireWoods LLP Merritt Properties LLC Pessin Katz Law, P.A. PricewaterhouseCoopers Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP Stifel SunTrust Bank University of Maryland, Baltimore Wells Fargo Whiting-Turner Contracting Co.

DIRECTORS CIRCLE Ayers Saint Gross Inc. PRODUCERS CIRCLE The Baltimore Life Companies Baxter, Baker, Sidle, Conn & Jones, PA CGA Capital Continental Realty Donohue Hart Thomson Financial Group Janney Montgomery Scott LLC Ratcliffe Architects Seawall Slate Capital Group Tufton Capital Management, LLC

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BALTIMORE CENTER STAGE 29 Capital CAMPAIGN DonoRS We sincerely thank all of our campaign donors for their tremendously generous support. Without their trust and vision, all of the work we have done and continue to do would not be possible. The following includes gifts of $10,000 or more.

$2,000,000+ Jacob and Hilda Brian and Denise Eakes Howard Bank Edward and Ellen Blaustein Foundation Guy E. Flynn and A. C. and Penney Bernard Margaret Hammond Nupur Parekh Flynn Hubbard Lynn and Tony Deering Cooke (bequest) Daniel P. Gahagan David and Elizabeth JH Hurwitz and The Marilyn Meyerhoff Cordish Family Fredye and Adam Gross Foundation Himelfarb Family Hecht-Levi Foundation State of Maryland KPMG Nancy Dorman and Helen P. Denit $1,000,000– Stanley Mazaroff Charitable Trust John J. Leidy Foundation $1,999,999 Ben and Wendy Stephen and Eddie C. and Griswold Susan Immelt London Foundation/ C. Sylvia Brown The Hyle Family Meredith and Wendy Jachman Adam Borden Charlie Noell and Joan and Murray M. Patricia and Mark Barbara Voss Kappelman, M.D. Macht Philanthropic Joseph, The Shelter Fund George and Betsy Townsend and Bob Kent Foundation J. S. Plank and D. M. Sherman Earl and Darielle Linehan Francie and John DiCarlo Family Keenan Katherine Vaughns Joseph and Harvey Foundation (bequest) Meyerhoff Family Marion I. and Henry J. PNC Charitable Funds Knott Foundation $500,000-$999,999 Rollins-Luetkemeyer The Meyerhoff and McCormick & Co. Foundation Anonymous Becker Families Ruth Carol Fund Michael Ross Janet and James Middendorf Foundation Charles and Leslie Clauson Dana and Mary and Jim Miller Schwabe Matthew Slater France-Merrick J. William Murray Ellen J. Remsen Webb Scott and Mimi Foundation and J.W. Thompson Somerville Judy and Scott Phares Webb Lord Baltimore Capital Michele Speaks Corporation Sheridan Foundation $25,000–$49,999 Gilbert H. Stewart and Terry H. Morgenthaler Jay and Sharon Smith Anonymous Joyce L. Ulrich and Patrick J. Kerins T. Rowe Price Michael B. Styer Foundation Delbert and $250,000–$499,999 Gina Adams Krissie and Dan Verbic Whiting-Turner Annie E. Casey Baltimore County Contracting Co. Delegate Christopher Foundation Jane and Larry and Anne West Droppa $50,000–$99,999 Philip and Denise Mary Jo and Ted Wiese Andrews J.I. Foundation Anonymous Clayton Baker Trust $10,000–$24,999 Kenneth C. and Baltimore Gas & Electric James T. and Anonymous Elizabeth M. Lundeen Penny Bank Francine G. Brady Robbye D. Apperson M&T Bank Bunting Family Deering Family William G. Baker, Jr. Foundation The Pearlstone Family Foundation Memorial Fund Mary Catherine Bunting Lynn and Phil Rauch Walter B. Doggett III Bradie Barr and Thalheimer-Eurich The Caplan Family and Joanne Doggett Tollie Miller Foundation, Inc. Charitable Trust Ernst & Young Richard Berndt Stephanie and Robert and Cheryl Guth Katharine Blakeslee $100,000–$249,999 Ashton Carter Harry L. Gladding Joseph and Meredith Anonymous Augie and Melissa Foundation/Winnie and Callanan Chiasera Peter and Millicent Bain Neal Borden William and Bonnie Suzanne F. Cohen Baltimore City Bart Harvey and Clarke Jane W. Daniels Bank of America Janet Marie Smith G. Brian Comes and DLA Piper Sybil and Donald Hebb Raymond Mitchener

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Penelope Cordish Sandra Liotta and Peter de Vos Carl Osterman INtern DoNors Stephen Richard and James DeGraffenreidt Baltimore Center Stage thanks these and Mychelle Farmer Mame Hunt supporters of the Katherine Vaughns Jed Dietz and Valerie and Julie McMillan Hutch Robbins Internship Program for providing recent Linda Eberhart, in Clair and graduates an opportunity to spend the memory of William F. Thomas Segal 2018/19 Season working at the theater. Eberhart Barbara Payne Shelton The program would not be possible Sandra and Ross Flax Turner and Judy Smith without their generosity. Dick and Maria Scot T. Spencer Gamper William Sweet and FULL SEASON INTERN SPONSORSHIPS Suzan Garabedian Geraldine Mullan Pamela and Dr. Edgar and The Peter & Millicent Bain Stage Jonathan Genn Mrs. Betty Sweren Management Intern Linda Hambleton Panitz Harry and Carey The Ellen & Ed Bernard Production and The Family of T. Thomasian Management Intern Edward Hambleton Donald and Mariana Lee Meyerhoff Hendler Thoms The Lynn Deering Management Intern Dr. and Mrs. Freeman A. Kathryn and Mark Hrabowski III Vaselkiv The Jane & Larry Droppa Audio Intern Cheryl Hudgins Daniel Watson and Williams and Alonza Brenda Stone The Ethel J. Holliday Education Fellow Williams Ron and Sydney Wilner The Kathleen Hyle Carpentry Intern Joseph and Judy Todd Wilson and Langmead Edward Delaplaine III The Wendy Jachman Graphics Intern Jonna and Fred Linda Woolf Lazarus Nadia and Elias The Sandy Liotta and Carl Osterman Hugh and Zerhouni Producing and Community Programs Fellow Leanne Mohler The Kenneth & Elizabeth Lundeen Props Intern

BALTIMORE CENTER STAGE 2016/17 The Terry Morgenthaler & Patrick Kerins RENOVATIONS Costumes Intern Architect The Judy & Scott Phares Dramaturgy Intern Cho Benn Holback Associates Head Theater Consultants The Lynn & Philip Rauch Company Charcoalblue Management Intern

Multi Media Lobby Designs The Jay & Sharon Smith Digital Fellow Jared Mezzocchi Brand Design If you’re interested in sponsoring Pentagram an intern, please contact [email protected] or 410.986.4021.

BALTIMORE CENTER STAGE 31 ARTISTIC CORNER

BY GAVIN WITT DIRECTOR OF DRAMATURGY & ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

ome years ago, when the then-First ranging from first through twelfth grade SLady of Maryland served as honorary (home schooling included), to write and chair of the annual Young Playwrights send in a short play on a designated Festival at Baltimore Center Stage, she theme. Some enjoy in-class residencies leaned over during the performance with our BCS teaching artists, some of one of the honored plays—a highly work on their own initiative; some create amusing but deftly complex construct in solitary isolation, some work in small by a second grader—to share an collaborative groups; and some (mostly observation. “When I was in second the younger grades) work as entire classes grade,” she murmured, “I couldn’t write a to devise and create their masterpiece. thank you note, let alone an entire play!” The results, by the hundreds, get sent to Well, we kind of feel the same way about us for critical evaluation, and a rigorous this remarkable showcase and celebration, reading and winnowing process. From now in its 33rd iteration: torn between this emerge six (give or take) honored utter delight at the fantastic results and plays, representing students from across utter amazement that from imaginations so the state and all along the age spectrum— young come plays so darn excellent. generally including two elementary, two Every year, the call goes out across middle, and two high school writers. Those Maryland for any student in the state, selected begin with a workshop day of

32 BALTIMORE CENTER STAGE “We certainly see our share of talking bunnies, to be sure; but we also get plays about lonely, scared dust bunnies and the youngsters who befriend them.”

hearing their plays read aloud followed by imaginative, and truly unexpected. We dramaturgical sessions with designated certainly see our share of talking bunnies, “playwright mentors” to help them revise to be sure; but we also get plays about and rewrite. Then come design meetings lonely, scared dust bunnies and the with the teams conceiving the technical youngsters who befriend them. And for production elements—costumes, lights, every sweetly simple story about learning to sound, scenic, projections, and props. Next get along, there are provocatively complex into the mix come professional actors and narratives of ethical gray areas, or wild trips a director, who tackle the tricky process into unfettered imaginations. The plays we of enacting and embodying all six of the get for YPF are intrinsically diverse and wildly disparate plays in a single cohesive inclusive in every facet and every sense presentation, but approaching it with of these ideas, from the stories they tell to the same professional fervor they would whose stories get told to who is telling them any new play by any professional writer. to the form in which they are told. They And the final, glorious step is when the defy every easy expectation and offer audience arrives for a celebratory evening a lesson to us all. And that is something of awards and finished performance. for which we really owe all these young Year after year after reliable year, the playwrights a very sincere congratulations— YPF plays prove funny, profound, insightful, and a thank you note to go with it.

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SEP 12–OCT 13, 2019 musical about escaping and belonging from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who wrote the book for the Tony Award-winning In the Heights. Join Olivia and her mother on their cross-country road trip. Mothers may teach you where you come from, but they can be the trickiest things.

ONE THEME, SEVEN VARIATIONS SEASON THOUGHTS OF A COLORED MAN BY KEENAN SCOTT II DIRECTED BY TAYE DIGGS CO-PRODUCTION WITH SYRACUSE STAGE IN ASSOCIATION WITH OCT 10–NOV 10, 2019 BRIAN MORELAND AND RON SIMONS Directed by renowned artist Taye Diggs, and written EMBARK by Keenan Scott II, one of today’s boldest new voices, ON AN Thoughts of a Colored Man blends language, music, tURE and dance. Welcome to the vibrant inner life of being ADVEN Black, proud, and thriving in the 21st Century. Set OF THE ION over a single day, this richly theatrical mosaic goes NAT beyond the rhythms of the basketball court and the IMAGI boisterousness of the barbershop to shed brilliant light into the hearts and minds of a community of men searching for their most triumphant selves.

EXPLORERS WANTED, JOIN US MEN NEED NOT APPLY AS A MEMBER MEN ON BOATS TODAY! BY JACLYN BACKHAUS DIRECTED BY JENNY KOONS This rollicking adventure is a hilarious, true(ish)

SAVE NOV 29–DEC 22, 2019 history of the Grand Canyon. We invite you along on a journey that throws the history book—and all UP TO 30% the men inside it—out the window in this subversive retelling of the one-armed explorer John Powell and his exploration of the American West. Strap in for this uncharted, uproarious journey. A PLAY ABOUT FAMILY, AND OTHER INJUSTICES RICHARD & JANE & DICK & SALLY BY NOAH DIAZ

FEB 6–MAR 1, 2020 See Richard go. See Spot bark. See Dick cry. See Sally sign. See Jane struggle after a lifetime in her brother’s shadow. The classic world of “Dick and Jane” is beginning to fracture in this witty and raw look into one dysfunctional and dissembling family.

WHEN THE DEVIL PAYS HIS RESPECTS WHERE WE STAND BY DONNETTA LAVINIA GRAYS DIRECTED BY TAMILLA WOODARD CO-PRODUCTION WITH WP THEATER APR 2-APR 2020 26, This brand-new fable of penance is filled with humor, heart, and music. When a town is running low on compassion and a man is stripped of companionship, just one kind stranger can tip the scales. Join in community as one passionate storyteller spins a supernatural tale of loneliness seduced by kindness and asks us “what do we owe each other?”

LIFE IS A PARTY UNTIL HEADS START TO ROLL THE BACCHAE BY EURIPIDES DIRECTED BY MIKE DONAHUE This is not your English teacher’s Greek tragedy.

APR 30–MAY 24, 2020 Dionysus is totally over your drama, and he’s going to incite the women of the land to raise some hell in the greatest party in recorded history. Closing the season with a political exclamation point from the birthplace of Democracy, The Bacchae hits the Mainstage at the same moment our nation surges into its primary elections.

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BALTIMORE CENTER STAGE 39 DINING ADVISORY COMMITTEES DiNinG Baltimore Center Stage has launched two new committees, both helping the PArtNERs theater strengthen relationships and expand programming opportunities. The Family Engagement Committee Baltimore Center Stage is pleased to is focused on creating opportunities have partnerships with a variety of for families with school-aged children, neighborhood restaurants. working to build the next generation of Please take a moment to review our partners theatergoers. The Young Professional and be sure to visit them when you are in the Engagement Committee is focused neighborhood! Partners provide special on connecting and inspiring young discounts or offers to Baltimore Center professionals in Baltimore to learn Stage patrons. Visit our website for more about, attend, and support the theater. details on these exclusive offers. FAMILY ENGAGEMENT COMMITTEE Lauren Ades Penny Bank NEIGHBORHOOD DINING PARTNERS Meredith Borden Arlene Brothers Claire Cianos Aaron DeGraffenreidt 1. DOOBY’S FARTHER AFIELD Denise Eakes 802 N. Charles St. 6. L'EAU DE VIE Sara Fidler 410.609.3162 ORGANIC Danielle Frisby BRASSERIE Richard Gamper, Jr. 2. MARIE LOUISE BISTRO 803 S. Caroline St. Andrew Giddens 904 N. Charles St. 443.759.8758 410.385.9946 Patricia Hartlove Jessica Henkin 8. BAR VASQUEZ 3. MT. VERNON 1425 Aliceanna St. April Hurst STABLE & SALOON 410.534.7296 Elizabeth Hurwitz, Chair 909 N. Charles St. Chris Jeffries 410.685.7427 8. THE CLASSIC Kate Mumaw CATERING PEOPLE Angel Wilder 4. PLATES 99 Painters Mill Rd. Angela Wu 210 E. Centre St. Owings Mills 443.453.9139 410.356.1666 YOUNG PROFESSIONAL 5. POETS ENGAGEMENT COMMITTEE 24 W. Franklin St. J.C. Beese 410.489.158 Katherine Bissett Marc Broady Ashley Day Lydie Glen Elizabeth Koontz Lisa Lance Go to centerstage.org/visit/partners Sara Langmead for a map of our neighborhood and Clare Lochary Lindsay Machak the partners listed above. Jordan Rosenfeld, Chair Josh Russakis Evan Taylor Tom Whelley

40 BALTIMORE CENTER STAGE SAT, JUNE 1 | 8:30PM TO MIDNIGHT | TICKETS $100

Creative Cocktail Attire OPEN BAR LATE NIGHT SNACKS Go behind-the-scenes at DESSERTS Baltimore Center Stage with crazy ADVENTURES adventures, music, and dancing. DANCING Our six-floor building in the heart ENTERTAINMENT of Mount Vernon will be filled from bottom to top with performances, Join us for the party and surprises, and revelry. create your own adventure!

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Executive Director Michael Ross Artistic Director Stephanie Ybarra

ADMINISTRATION Education Coordinator AUDIENCE RELATIONS Dani Turner Associate Managing Director Box Office Manager Del W. Risberg The Ethel J. Holliday Kelly Broderick Education Fellow Board Relations & Subscriptions Manager Cara Hinh Special Projects Coordinator Jerrilyn Keene David Kanter Teaching Artists Senior Patron Services Dylan Arredondo, Tonnia Boykins, Shift Supervisor Allison Brown, Zipporah Brown, ARTISTIC Eddie Van Osterom Carolyn Buck, Molly Cohen, Cori Associate Director/ Dioquino, Mike Fleg, Hannah Group Sales Administrator & Senior Director of Dramaturgy Fogler, Susan Stroupe, Khaleshia Patron Services Shift Supervisor Gavin Witt Thorpe Price, Jacob Zabawa Liz Nelson Director of Artistic Producing Patron Services Associates Chiara Klein FINANCE Tiffany Brown, Tina Canady, Jonathan Jacobs, David Kanter, Artistic Consultant Director of Finance Sarah Lewandowski, Daniel Hana S. Sharif Michelle Williams Martin-Minnich, Kira-Lynae Pindell, Artistic Administrator Business Manager Keshia Smith, Shelby Sullivan Melody Easton Janessa Schuster Company Manager Business Assistant AUDIENCE SERVICES Marshall Garrett Hannah Machon AND RENTALS The Sandy Liotta & Carl Osterman Audience Services and Producing and Community INFORMATION Events Manager Programs Fellow TECHNOLOGIES Alec Lawson Joseph Biagini Technologies Manager Assistant Audience The Judy & Scott Phares John Paquette Services Manager Dramaturgy Intern Tessitura Database Coordinator Elizabeth Pillow Sabine Decatur Madeline Dummerth Accessibility Apprentice Bethany Slater DEVELOPMENT MARKETING & House Managers Director of Advancement COMMUNICATIONS Nick Horan, Lindsay Jacks, Hannah Randi Benesch Director of Marketing & Kelly, Shubhangi Kuchibhotla, Emily Padden, Faith Savill, Eddie Individual Giving Manager Communications Van Osterom Sara Kissinger Katie McCulloh Associate Director of Marketing Bar Manager Institutional Giving Manager Hilary Judis Ann Weaver Brandon Hansen Art Director Bartenders Development Assistant Bill Geenen Brandon Block, Dre Britton, Sarah Kara Powell Doccolo, Shea Fallick, Boh James, Publications Manager Advancement Coordinator Jade Jackson, Val Long, Asia Maggie Beetz Cameron Frostbaum Maxton, Whitney Stott, Scott Van Public Relations Manager Cleve, Jacob Zabawa Auction Coordinator Robyn Murphy Sydney Wilner Docent Coordinator Digital Marketing Associate Pat Yevics Auction Assistant & Videographer ASL Interpretation Norma Cohen Will Pesta First Chair The Wendy Jachman eDUCATION Lead Audio Describer Graphics Intern Mary Lou Fisher Director of Learning and Daniel Martin-Minnich Social Accountability Adena Varner The Jay & Sharon Smith Digital Fellow Devin McKay

42 BALTIMORE CENTER STAGE OPERATIONS Lighting Intern FOR THIS Jennifer Watson Facilities Supervisor Patrick Frate PRODUCTION PROPERTIES Facilities Assistant Joseph Wisniewski Props Manager Jeffery Bazemore RUN CREW PRODUCTION Master Craftsman Sound Op C. Swan Streepy Director of Production Nathan Scheifele Cary Gillett Props Artisan Production Assistants Antonio Eubanks, Tori Ujczo Associate Production Manager Rachael Pendleton Lawrence Bennett Elizabeth & Kenneth Lundeen Wardrobe Sarah Lamarr Production Intern Properties Intern Andrew Morgan Sydney Morrison OVERHIRE SCENERY AUDIO Electrics Technical Director Matthew Baldwin, Parker Damm, Supervisor Rob McLeod Dante Fields, Bevin Hensley, Amy C. Wedel Eric Johns, Brandon Richards, Scene Shop Supervisor Audio Engineer Will Voorhies, Jack Warner Frank Lasik Justin Vining Scenic Master Carpenter Video/Audio Engineer Roberto Castrence, Ben Jones, Eric Scharfenberg Kat Pagsolingan Andrew Loughery Scenic Carpenters The Jane & Larry Droppa Props High School Intern Brian Jamal Marshall, Audio Intern Sean Rath Sam Martin, Trevor Winter C. Swan-Streepy The Kathleen Hyle Carpentry Intern COSTUMES Megan Iacona Costumer SCENIC ART David Burdick Charge Scenic Artist SPECIAL THANKS TO Associate Costumer Erich Starke HILLARY JACOBS Ben Argenta Kress for her assistance with Craftsperson STAGE MANAGEMENT the 2019 Online Auction William E. Crowther Resident Stage Manager First Hand Danielle Teague-Daniels Ellouise Davis The Peter & Millicent Bain The Terry Morgenthaler & Patrick Stage Management Intern Kerins Costumes Intern Monica Cook Grace Santamaria STAGE OPERATIONS ELECTRICS Stage Carpenter Lighting Director Eric L. Burton Tamar Geist Wardrobe Supervisor Master Electrician Linda Cavell Travis Seminara Assistant Master Electrician Jessica Anderson Staff Electrician Michael Logue

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DINING ACCESSIBILITY Beginning two hours before each MOBILITY performance, our restaurant food Wheelchair-accessible seating is available provider, Sascha's & The Elephant at for every performance. There is a wheelchair Center Stage, will serve dinner on the available on the premises. second floor in the Marilyn Meyerhoff Mezzanine. A selection of food and snacks from Atwater's and the Peanut Shoppe is available at our first and fourth floor bars. BLIND/LOW VISION The Audio Description/Touch Tour DRINKS performances of How to Catch Creation Drinks from our bars are welcome in the take place on Sun, May 19 at 2pm. We can theater; lids are required. Please no food in also provide Audio Description services for the theater. No outside food or drinks. any performance if given at least seven PHONES & RECORDING days notice. Touch Tours present a pre-show opportunity to feel props and set Please silence all phones and electronic pieces on stage. Large print and braille devices before the show and after intermission. Audio and video recording are programs are available upon request. strictly forbidden. No photography of any kind Catering is permitted during the show. THE ELEPHANT BATHROOMS DEAF/HEARING LOSS Global Inspirations Restrooms are located on first, second, and Closed Captioning is available at no cost for [email protected] fourth floors. [email protected] any performance. Assistive listening devices BOX OFFICE are always available to be borrowed at no www.TheElephantBaltimore.com www.Saschas.com The Marilyn Meyerhoff Box Office on the first cost. An ASL Interpreted performance will 443.447.7878 410.539.6103 floor can service all patron needs regarding take place Fri, May 24 at 8pm. When buying purchasing tickets, will call, listening devices, online use promo code SIGN. braille and large print programs, and address 924 North Charles Street any of your questions. CC Baltimore, MD ON-STAGE SMOKING We use tobacco-free herbal imitations for PARKING any on-stage smoking and do everything If you are parking in the 601 N. Calvert St. possible to minimize the impact and amount Garage (diagonally across from the theater of smoke that drifts into the audience. Let at Monument & Calvert) you can pay via our Box Office or Audience Services credit card at the pay station in the garage personnel know if you’re smoke sensitive. lobby or at the in-lane pay station as you exit. CHILDREN We do not validate parking tickets. Children under six are not allowed FEEDBACK in the theater for Mainstage productions. We hope you have an enjoyable, LATE SEATING stress-free experience! Your feedback Patrons arriving after curtain will be seated at and suggestions are always welcome: [email protected] or the house manager’s discretion. [email protected].

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