Artistic Director Bruce Miller Managing Director Phil Whiteway
“Summer and Smoke” is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, INC.
STAGE MANAGEMENT Rick Brandt*
COSTUME DESIGN LIGHT DESIGN SET DESIGN Sue Griffin BJ Wilkinson Rich Mason
DIRECTION Bruce Miller
CORPORATE SPONSORS
E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation CAST (in order of appearance) COMPANY BIOS
Young Alma/Rosemary...... Keely Seward Dana Colagiovanni (Nellie/Mrs. Bassett) is thrilled to be working Young John/Roger Doremus...... Trace Coles at Virginia Rep on this beautiful show! She earned her BFA from Rev. Winemiller/Vernon/Gonzales...... Thomas L. Cunningham the University of Mississippi, and will be graduating this spring Rosa Gonzales/Mrs. Winemiller...... Alexandra Deglise with her MFA in Acting from UVa’s Professional Actor Training Alma Winemiller ...... Carolyn Demanelis Program. Previous credits include: One Man, Two Guvnors; Almost, Dr. John Buchanan, Jr...... Alexander Sapp* Maine; Spamalot (Heritage Theatre Festival), Vodka Variations; Nellie Ewell/Mrs. Basset ...... Dana Colagiovanni* Wonderful Town; The Sweetest Swing in Baseball (UVa Drama), Dr. Buchanan/Dusty/Young Man...... Charley Raintree The Full Monty; Boeing, Boeing (Pagosa Springs Center for Arts). Many thanks to Mom, Dad, John, and Jeremy for the unwavering support and unconditional love. A big thank *Member of Actors’ Equity you to Bruce for trusting me to help tell this story. Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the U.S.A. Trace Coles (Young John/Roger Doremus) is a 9th grader at Steward School and is very excited to be in his first VA Rep FOR THIS PRODUCTION production! He has been in 14 Steward shows, The Boy Friend, The Wiz and All In The Timing are some favorites. He has also attended several Virginia Rep camps and was Donkey in a Assistant Director...... Kelsey Schneider summer production of Shrek Style. He currently takes acting at Dialect Coach...... Thomas L. Cunningham Steward and participates in TRAIN, Cadence Theater Company’s Run Crew...... Luke Robinson pre-professional actor training program. Trace would like to thank Bruce Miller for this Light Board Operator...... Linwood Guyton opportunity, his family, Craig Smith and his TRAIN coaches for their guidance and Sound Board Operator...... Jason Winebarger support! . Dresser/Crew...... Kelsey Schneider Cover Art Illustration...... Robert Meganck Photography...... Aaron Sutten and Jay Paul Thomas L. Cunningham (Rev. Winemiller/Vernon/Gonzales) is a PhD candidate and head of voice/speech at Virginia Commonwealth University. Recent performance credits include: Hamlet as Horatio, King John as King John, A Midsummer Night’s Dream as Bottom, King Lear as The Foole, and Twelfth Night as TIME AND PLACE Malvolio with Quill Theatre; Closer as Dan with TheatreLab; and The Importance of Being Earnest as Jack, and Devil Boys from Turn of the Century through 1916, Glorious Hill, Mississippi Beyond as Lucinda Marsh with Richmond Triangle Players.
Alexandra Deglise (Rosa/Mrs. Winemiller) is delighted to make her Virginia Rep debut. She is getting her Acting MFA at UVa DEDICATION (class of 2016) and has a Masters in Journalism (Université Lyon 3). She lived in New York City for eight years and trained at the With the greatest love and respect, this production American Academy of Dramatic Arts and at the T. Schreiber is dedicated to the memories of Helen Levinson Studio. She has worked for several years as a financial TV and and Glenn Crone, two irreplaceable members of Radio Journalist, reporting live from the floor of the New York the Barksdale / Virginia Rep family. They gave Stock Exchange. Most recent credits: Luv (Heritage); 9 Parts of Desire, A Midsummer generously of their talent, hard work, and love of Night’s Dream, and The Sweetest Swing in Baseball (UVA). theatre, enriching countless productions. Their unique and exceptional contributions will live on in us forever.
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Carolyn Demanelis (Alma Winemiller) is part of the 2016 MFA Sue Griffin (Costumer Designer) has headed up the Virginia Rep costume department Acting Program at UVa and this is her first show with Virginia for the last fifteen years. Over this time, the shop has produced costumes for more than Repertory Theatre. She couldn’t be more thrilled to join the cast 300 shows, from traveling fairy tales to major musicals. With the help of the full time of Summer And Smoke. Some credits: 9 Parts of Desire; Bloody shop, hundred of costumes, wigs, shoes and hats are sent out on a stage or packed up Bloody Andrew Jackson; Our Town; A Midsummer Night’s on tour. Some of the most memorable shows: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Color Purple, Dream (UVa); I Love A Piano (Heritage); Macbeth (Wit Theatre and Mame. Company); Titus Andronicus; Hamlet; Taming of the Shrew; Pericles (Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival). She would like to thank her family Bruce Miller (Director) has been founding Artistic Director of Virginia Rep (Theatre IV) for their constant love and support, and she sends love to her fiancé, Zach. for the last 41 years. He has received critics’ awards (Phoebe, RTCC) as Best Director of the Year for Do Lord Remember Me, Crimes of the Heart, Frankie and Johnny in the Charley Raintree (Dr. Buchanan/Dusty/Young Man)is happy to Clair de Lune, The Little Foxes, The Crucible, Annie Get Your Gun, Anything Goes, and appear on the November stage. Some of his prior credits include The Little Dog Laughed. He thanks this wonderful cast for working with him to honor Alf in Peter and the Starcatcher, Prospero in The Tempest, the Barksdale Theatre founders, who had the courage to embrace their passions and Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Edgar in King Lear, follow them throughout their lifetimes. Ben Gunn in Treasure Island, Sheriff Twisdale in Santa’s Christmas Miracle, Otis Holloway in Twain’s Tales, Junior in This World We Rich Mason (Scenic Designer) is happy to be designing for Virginia Rep again having Know, Mitch in A Streetcar Named Desire, Henry Carver in Design last worked on the mainstage as Lighting Designer for The Rainmaker many, many for Living, Billy Bibbit in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Tom in The Glass Menagerie years ago. Rich works as the Resident Designer and Production Manager for Cadence and Touchstone in As You Like It. Theatre, having just recently designed scenery and lights for The Mountaintop, scenery for Equus and scenery and lighting for last year’s A Lie of the Mind. Rich received his MFA Alexander Sapp (Doctor John Buchanan, Jr.) was last seen in the in Production Design from Ohio University’s School of Theatre. While at OU he designed title role of Croaker: The Frog Prince Musical at Virginia Rep’s Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot and Phillip Barry’s Holiday. His Holiday design won Ohio Valley Children’s Theatre. Other credits include Lt. Buz Adams in South USITT’s Peggy Ezekiel 2011’s Award of Distinction and Board’s Choice Award, and was Pacific (Virginia Rep), Frankie in A Lie of the Mind (Cadence one of twelve designs showcased in USITT’s TD&P Magazine in June of 2012. He also Theatre), Jim Hawkins in Treasure Island (Virginia Rep), Richard in serves as Creative Consultant and Resident Designer for West End Assembly of God in The Lion in Winter (Quill Theatre), Patrick in Mame (Virginia Rep), Richmond, VA and continues a freelance career regionally. Rich has worked in New York, Buckingham in Richard III (Quill Theatre), Himself in The Complete Virginia and Michigan designing for such shows as Deyos Dance, Shrek Jr., Tarzan, Catch Works of William Shakespeare...Abridged (Quill Theatre), Steve in Grace (TheatreLAB), Me If You Can, Comedy of Errors, Jane Eyre, Jekyll & Hyde, Waiting for Godot, and Our Damis in Tartuffe (Virginia Rep), Stevie in Good People (Cadence Theatre). Country’s Good. For nine summers, Rich was on Faculty at Interlochen Arts Camp as Scenic Designer for the High School Technical Design and Production Program. Rich also Keely Seward (Young Alma/Rosemary) is in 8th grade at St. holds an MA in Liberal Arts from University of Richmond and a BFA from TheatreVCU. Catherine’s School and has been in numerous school plays and www.richmasondesign.com SPARC productions over the years. Some of her roles have included Smee in Peter Pan and Imogene in The Best Christmas BJ Wilkinson (Lighting Designer) received his BA in Design & Technology from the Pageant Ever. She was also part of the comedy improv troupe University of Northern Colorado and his MFA from the University of Cincinnati - College for the LiveArtSoul concert last summer. She thanks her family Conservatory of Music. Recent lighting designs include Croaker: The Frog Prince and many directors/drama teachers for all of their support. Musical, I Do! I Do!, Peter and the Starcatcher, Whipping Man, You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown, and Equivocation for Virginia Rep. Recent designs for Quill Theatre include; King Rick Brandt (Stage Manager) is happy to be back at Virginia Rep and working with Lear, Hamlet, Sam & Carol, Richard III, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Wittenberg, Death this wonderful company. His Virginia Rep stage management credits include Saturday, and the Maiden, Comedy of Errors, Othello, The Tempest, and MacBeth. He would like Sunday, Monday; Gypsy; Peter and the Starcatcher; South Pacific; Vanya and Sonia to thank Samm and Molly. and Masha and Spike; The Whipping Man; Equivocation; Tartuffe; To Kill a Mockingbird; Red,; and A Wonderful Life. He served as Assistant Stage Manager on Mame, The Color Purple, and Fiddler on the Roof. DIRECTOR’S NOTES DIRECTOR’S NOTES (CONTINUED)
While still a theatre student at U of R, When I handed Muriel McAuley my list I joined the Barksdale family as an actor ... six New York theatre artists of play suggestions, and she read the in their 1971 production of Invitation to first title, she emphatically said, “No. a March at an erstwhile studio theatre decided to risk everything to move We retired that jersey.” I asked what space in downtown Richmond known she meant. She let out a sigh, and told as Barksdale Experimental. Eight years to Hanover to start metro Richmond’s me this story. later, my second professional directing first professional performing arts opportunity outside of Theatre IV was on the Barksdale mainstage at Hanover organization of the modern era. On a hot night in August, 1953, about a Tavern (The Good Doctor, 1979). When Barksdale founders Muriel McAuley and week after the intrepid New York artists Pete Kilgore offered me the job, they asked for a short list of the plays I’d like to and their two children had invested direct. At the top of my list was Tennessee Williams’ Summer and Smoke. every penny they ever hoped to have
Over the years, I had been enthralled by into purchasing and moving into Hanover countless stories about the founding of Tavern, with no glass in the windows, I have no reason to doubt her word. Summer Barksdale in 1953, when six New York and Smoke is about many things. One of theatre artists decided to risk every no indoor plumbing, and certainly no them is the importance of risking everything thing to move to Hanover to start metro you have to find, claim, and follow your Richmond’s first professional performing air conditioning, they all gathered in the passion. That’s what the founders of arts organization of the modern era. Barksdale did when they were all in their I knew well that one of the founders, unfinished English basement that they 20s. That’s what Phil Whiteway and I did in Stu Falconer, had left his job as stage 1975 when we founded Theatre IV. Now, as manager of the legendary Off Broadway dreamed one day to turn into a theatre. I direct the final show of my 41-year career production of Summer and Smoke to as Artistic Director, I am honored to work join his friends on their bold adventure. They held a private reading of Summer with this wonderful cast of six eager actors and Smoke. No one else was there. all in their 20s, and two talented kids, to That 1952 production of Summer … was honor that evening in 1953 when a similar not just any NYC show. It had been the Nonetheless, it was the first play ever to group used Summer and Smoke to validate talk of the town — the Hamilton of its production to start a brand new theatre the craziness, the camaraderie, and the day. After initially flopping on Broadway in a rundown tavern in rural Virginia was a be brought to life by the motley company commitment that would determine the in 1948, the Summer … revival was huge and astounding gamble, to say direction of the rest of their lives. directed by José Quintero and the least. that has now become Virginia Rep. starred Geraldine Page at the Like Pete and Muriel and the other Barksdale original Circle in the Square in And yet, to the best of my founders, I have been privileged to build a Greenwich Village. Because knowledge at the time, “And it was the best damn Summer and life in Richmond theatre. I have not done it of that revival’s unparalleled Summer and Smoke had Smoke that will ever be done anywhere alone. To each and every one of you who critical and commercial success, never been produced by anyone,” Muriel assured me. have been there for the journey, I offer my it has long been credited as the by Barksdale Theatre at undying gratitude. Thank you for giving me start of Off Broadway. For Stu Hanover Tavern. my life. to leave his secure job in that Bruce Miller Director TENNESSEE WILLIAMS VIRGINIA REP STAFF
Pulitzer-winning playwright Tennessee Artistic Director ...... Bruce Miller Managing Director ...... Phil Whiteway Williams was born Thomas Lanier Williams on March 26, 1911, in Columbus, Associate Artistic Director ...... Chase Kniffen Director of Communications...Susan. Davenport Scenic Designer ...... Terrie Powers Director of Group Sales ...... Mark Persinger Mississippi. Known for works like The Scenic Charge ...... Emily Hake Web Manager ...... Jessica Printz Daugherty Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Audio / Visual Supervisor ...... Derek Dumais Tessitura Manager ...... Andy Boothby Desire, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Scenic Apprentice ...... Katie Peterson Marketing/Dev. Assoc ...... Kate Belleman Williams is often considered one of Stage Management Apprentice ...... Laura Hicks Illustrator ...... Robert Meganck Graphic Designer...... Druanne Cummins the greatest American playwrights Director of Production ...... Bruce Rennie Box Office Manager...... Janine Serresseque of the twentieth century. Master Carpenter ...... Hans Paul Box Office Associate...... Shannon Frazier Tech Director, Hanover/Cadence ...... Williams described his early childhood Thomas Hawfield Annual Fund Manager ...... Hannah Miller in Mississippi as happy, but when his Facilities Manager/Carpenter ...... Joel Ernst Events ...... Jennings Whiteway Master Electrician ...... BJ Wilkinson Box Office Associates...... Sarah Laine Peterson, family moved to more urban St. Louis, Electrics Assistant ...... Skyler Broughman Derek Gayle, Sam Cook, Erin Dabrowski, Missouri, he grew introverted and took Carpenters ...... Luke Robinson Chloe Williams, Caitlin Sneed, to writing. His parents’ marriage was Chelsea Flowers Emily Stava, Corbin Puryear unhappy and home life was frequently Leigh Bartlett Props Apprentice...... Josh Blum Controller ...... Ruth Garrett, CPA tense, while his father was sometimes Accounting Manager ...... Lucas Hall abusive. Many critics believe that his Director of Costumes ...... Sue Griffin Accounting Assistant ...... Sara Heifetz turbulent family life provided some Assistant Director of Costumes .... Sarah Grady Accounting Assistant ...... Jill Porcelli inspiration for his later works. Cutter/ Draper ...... Marcia Miller-Hailey Manager of Admin. Affairs ...... Tony Foley “ Williams moved to New Orleans Costumer ...... Ruth Hedberg Interns ...... Rachel Dilliplane, Madeline Hurley, In 1929, Williams enrolled at the and changed his name to Education Manager ...... Rai Anne Larkins Chelsea Kuehnel, Katherine McDonald, University of Missouri to study jour Education Associate ...... Jason Sandahl David Plotnick, Elissa Russell, Kacey Yachuw nalism, but was soon withdrawn by his ‘Tennessee’.” Program Mgr, Community Health.... Amy Sproul overbearing father. He took a job as Director of Tour Operations ...... Eric Williams a sales clerk that he hated and spent Company Manager ...... Ford Flannagan his evenings writing late into the night. Tour Manager ...... Gordon Bass He later suffered from depression and Despite these successes, Williams Arts in Education Manager ...... Mike Brown eventually a nervous breakdown. struggled throughout his life with mental illness and addiction. He In 1937, Williams returned to school spiraled downwards into depression in to finish his education at the University 1963 after the death of his partner, and of Iowa. He then moved to New several of his plays received negative Orleans and changed his first name reviews. He was later hospitalized for to “Tennessee,” in homage to his alcohol abuse by his brother. father’s birth state. Williams found inspiration in the city, and quickly Although he continued writing late JUNE 24 – AUGUST 7 gained notoriety as a successful writer into his life, Williams again became BOOK AND LYRICS BY TOM EYEN who drew upon his life experiences in withdrawn as he suffered from MUSIC BY HENRY KRIEGER many areas of the American South to addiction to alcohol and drugs. He DIRECTION BY CHASE KNIFFEN create vividly realistic characters and died in 1983 at the age of 71. He is still THE MEGAWATT BROADWAY SENSATION stories. Williams enjoyed several years remembered as one of America’s most of commercial and critical success, notable playwrights. with works like The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire having celebrated runs on Broadway. VIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE 2016/2017 SIGNATURE SEASON
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Edmonds Sarah Parrish^ Mrs. Nancy Ellen Beck Angels ($25,000 & above) The Community Foundation Newport News Arts Commission Dr. Fred & Ellen Ende Mr. & Mrs. J. Terry Parsley Carolyn Belgrad The Community Foundation Kathryn & W. Harry Alison Fauls Mr. & Mrs. Robert Dean Pope Kate Belleman^ Serving Richmond & Stage Managers ($2,500 – $4,999) Schwarzschild Fund Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Foley Mr. Charles Pruett Clara & Jeremiah Central Virginia BB&T SunTrust Mr. & Mrs. Roger T. Fortin Dr. Marjorie Quimby Colonel Matt C. C. Bristol, III CultureWorks J. Read Jr. and Janet Dennis Harry A. Thomas Memorial Fund Belinda C. Friday Michael & Melissa Radtke Mr. William P. Brown Dominion Resources Branch Fund of The of The Community Foundation Jack & Mary Frye Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Rainey Ellen & Duncan Buoyer Cecil R. & Edna S. Hopkins Community Foundation Virginia Sargeant Reynolds Brian & Laura Fuller^ Laurie & Barbara Rennie^ Mrs. Eleanor K. Carleton Family Foundation^ Camp Foundation Foundation Mr. Tyrrell W. Gauthier Lilian & Ralph Rhudy Ben & Peggy Chappell Roller-Bottimore Foundation^ Ruth Camp Campbell Foundation York County Arts Commission Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Giles Robbie Rice Becky Clarke & Tim Cates The Shubert Foundation Inc. Chesapeake Corporation Gail L. Gilligan Mr. & Mrs. David L. Richardson Conner Family Union Bank & Trust Foundation Fund of The Featured Players ($500 – $999) Larry & Brenda Gilman Mr. Doug Riddell Mrs. Cathleen M. Conner Community Foundation Dairy Queen of Virginia Dianne Graham Mr. John Rupp^ Pascal Cromer Producers ($15,000 – $24,999) Circle S Studio McGladrey, LLP Ralph & Jocelyne Graner Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Sanders, II^ Barbara Duling Roy E. Burgess II Fund of Covington Travel Riverfront Investment Group Tony & Gordon Grappone Mr. Carl Schluter Joe Eash The Community Foundation Franklin Federal Foundation Ryan and Elizabeth Thalhimer Linda & Mark Greer Lynn & Jay Schwartz Barbara Ebert The Community Foundation for Greater Lynchburg Smartt Charitable Fund of Bill & Kathy Groves Jane Scott Phyllis A. Errico Greater Atlanta Community Trust The Community Foundation^ Nancy Haga Mr. & Mrs. R. Strother Scott Marcella Fierro Gay & Erskine Love Foundation KPMG W. W. Whitlock Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Shepard Harder Susan Bailey & Lisa C. Fusco Alan Kirshner and Deborah McGuireWoods Ms. Georgia Hening Sidney Buford Scott Maria Gharakhanian Mihaloff Charitable Fund NewMarket Corporation Ensemble ($250 – $499) Jean Hester Mr. & Mrs. R. Carter Scott III Mr. & Mrs. James H. Green Obici Healthcare Foundation Rencourt Foundation, Inc. Katherine T. and John G. Jeb & Becky Hockman Mary Ann Sheehan^ Diane W. Halley Towne Bank Ruth and Hal Launders Adamson Family George & Margaret Hornburg Marcia L. Shipley Michael & Ellen Hartenberg Barbara B. and James E. Ukrop Charitable Trust Charitable Fund of Graham & Moira Horne Dr. & Mrs. Wendell Smith^ Anne H. Hendrick Fund of The Community Lester Charitable Fund of The Community Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Walter B. Howard Nancy & Steve Snyder Rose & Sheldon Herold Foundation The Community Foundation^ CSX Corporation Michael & Shirley Hughes Sara Sommers Mrs. JoAnn Houser WestRock Foundation PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Stephanie & Marshall Wishnack Mary Carter Hyman^ Jane Sper Mr. Miles F. Johnson Virginia Eye Institute Fund of The Sandy & Jim Irby Dr. I. Norman Sporn Kevin & Jeannie Kilgore Directors ($10,000 – $14,999) Community Foundation Anne Jennings Leslie Stack Dr. & Mrs. Isaac Koziol Arenstein Foundation Co-Stars ($1,000 – $2,499) Allen & Patricia Kahane Mr. Dan Stackhouse Ron & Barbara Kozlowski Mary and J.P. Causey Jr. Fund of Richard and Juanita Beadles Page A. Kastelberg Mrs. Mary Lou Stocky Dr. Susan Dana Leone The Community Foundation Family Fund of Ms. Barbara Kincaid Mr. & Mrs. Richard E. Strauss Alexandria Lewis Overton & Katharine Dennis Fund The Community Foundation Andy & Kris Koebler Anne P. Stiles^ Ms. Risa Levine
^Contributed to Capital Challenge Grants ^Contributed to Capital Challenge Grants IN HONOR & MEMORIAM
The following gifts were made Doris Treubert Henning Veronica McKeever In Memory of in honor or memory of family In Memory of Brenda Asch Michael McKeever or friends. Rev. & Mrs. Charles Hunt Mrs. Sandi Nogi In Loving Memory In Honor of Adele Sherman of Dr. Jay Nogi Commonwealth Architects Jewish Family Services Lynne Shockley In Memory of In Memory of Brenda Asch In Memory of Brenda Asch Lloyd W. Shockley Blair Curdts In Honor of Suzanne Keiter In Memory of Brenda Asch Geanne and Charlie Stallings Pollard & Scott Wichmann Neil Marrin In Honor of John Cario In Memory of Brenda Asch Ronald E. Grubbs* In Memory of and Phil Whiteway Mary Ann Wilson Beverly D. Grubbs Lee & Peggy Martin In Memory of In Memory of Louis Wilson Elizabeth Harris In Honor of John and Florence Walters Monroe Harris Dr. & Mrs. Hunter H. McGuire, Jr. Jonathan Harwell In Honor of In Honor of Meredith & Reed Harwell Harrison Alfred Scott
ENDOWMENT & NAMED OPERATING FUNDS
Donors may choose to designate The Muriel McAuley Fund The Tom McGranahan Fund their gift in support of the Supports new and innovative Supports our Tom Tickets following named operating artistic programming. program, providing free or and endowment funds. reduced price admission to The Curtis & Amy Miller Fund low-income seniors. The Betty Bauder Fund Supports program that elevate Supports our annual Snow the human spirit. The Miller Whiteway Fund Bear operations. Supports professional The Neil and Sara Belle compensation for Richmond- The Hobie and Kitty Claiborne November Fund based artists and arts Children’s Fund Supports the operation and administrators. Supports excellence in ongoing restoration of the children’s theatre. historic November Theatre. The Brad Boynton Fund Supports touring to low-income The Phyllis Galanti Fund The deVeaux Riddick and schools in Virginia. Supports community health Robert Watkins Fund for and wellness programs and Excellence in Design The Suzanne Pollard Fund work with veterans. Supports excellence in scenic, Supports musicals and special costume, and lighting design. programs that celebrate the Great American Songbook. INKIND CONTRIBUTIONS
Patricia Archer Mr. & Mrs. Orville H. Jones Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Toy D. Savage Carytown Cleaners Caryn & Mark Persinger Sally M. Snyder Steve & Jamme Coy Dr. & Mrs. Laurie Rennie TSRC Inc. Marshall Johnson RSVP Richmond
PLANNED GIVING
You CAN Take It With You... the knowledge that your planned gift continues to benefit Virginia Repertory Theatre in perpetuity.
If you would like more information, contact Phil Whiteway, Managing Director at 783-1688, ext. 1116 or [email protected].
*Deceased ^Contributed to Capital Challenge Grants