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Dear Friends, Welcome to this co-production between This kind of theater, which is almost like the Playhouse and the Resident Ensemble a ballet for actors as well as the director, Players, a professional resident company of became the inspiration for the great silent perfectly-trained actors that performs in a film comedies of Max Sennett, Chaplin, beautiful new theater on the campus of the Keaton, and Laurel & Hardy. The mad University of Delaware. REP Artistic Director mistakes and misapprehensions that lead Sanford Robbins and I had long wanted to to even more mistakes are all components find a suitable play for us to produce together of classic comedy, as is the conceit of with the marvelous company of actors he characters who look so much alike that even has brought together there. I’ve had the their spouses and lovers get them confused. great good fortune to work with them twice I hope you enjoy this joyously performed before, and it is a singular honor for us to be classic comedy as much as we enjoyed able to host them here at the Playhouse. bringing it back to life — on both our stages. The production was conceived for both theaters — no mean feat for designers and technical crews in both venues. But we achieved it. MARK LAMOS A Flea in Her Ear had an exhilarating premiere Artistic Director in Newark, Delaware, in March. I had a glorious time working on it with this company — a group of perfectionists who were determined to find the freshness of this 111- year old play! There is nothing in the theater like the energy of a group of like-minded artist/actors all working together to form a seamless ensemble. And if any play requires that, it is ’s wind-up Swiss watch of a farce. Written at the turn of the last century, it has since held the stage all over the world. I’ve always longed to direct it, so the chance to create the production with these actors proved irresistible.

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A NEW VERSION OF GEORGE FEYDEAU’S FARCE

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DIRECTED BY MARK LAMOS

SCENIC DESIGN COSTUME DESIGN LIGHTING DESIGN Kristen Robinson Sara Jean Tosetti Matthew Richards

SOUND DESIGN FIGHT DIRECTOR PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER Fitz Patton Michael Rossmy Matthew G. Marholin

David Ives’ new translation/adaption of Feydeau’s A FLEA IN HER EAR was commissioned by Chicago Shakespeare Theater and the World Premiere was presented on March 10, 2006 at CST (Artistic Director, Barbara Gaines; Executive Director, Criss Henderson). A FLEA IN HER EAR was created with funds from the Prince Prize for Commissioning Original Work, which was awarded to David Ives, Gary Griffin and Chicago Shakespeare Theater in 2005. Additional production sponsorship provided by Gayle and Glenn R. Tilles. A FLEA IN HER EAR is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

PRODUCTION SPONSORS PRODUCTION PARTNERS CZEKAJ ARTISTIC PRODUCTIONS JUDY AND SCOTT PHARES

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ETIENNE/ENSEMBLE David Beach OLYMPIA/ENSEMBLE Deena Burke DR. FINACHE/ENSEMBLE Hassan El Amin VICTOR CHANDEBISE/POCHE/ENSEMBLE Lee E. Ernst EUGENIE/ENSEMBLE Laura Frye DON CARLOS/ENSEMBLE Michael Gotch RUGBY/ENSEMBLE Robert Adelman Hancock BAPTISTE/ENSEMBLE Wynn Harmon RAYMONDE CHANDEBISE/ENSEMBLE Elizabeth Heflin CAMILLE CHANDEBISE/ENSEMBLE Mic Matarrese ANTOINETTE/ENSEMBLE Carine Montbertrand ROMAIN TOURNEL/ ENSEMBLE Stephen Pelinski FERRAILLON/ENSEMBLE John Rensenhouse LUCIENNE HOMENIDES DE HISTANGUA/ENSEMBLE Antoinette Robinson

setting , 1900 ACT I The drawing room of Victor and Raymonde Chandebise ACT II The Frisky Puss Hotel ACT III The drawing room of Victor and Raymonde Chandebise, later that day

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This operates under an agreement between The League of Regional and ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.

The Director is a member of the STAGE DIRECTORS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS SOCIETY, a national theatrical labor union.

Westport Country Playhouse employs members of the INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF THEATRICAL STAGE EMPLOYEES, Local 74.

The Scenic, Costume, Lighting, and Sound Designers in LORT theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA-829, IATSE.

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eorges Feydeau was born in Paris His 1899 play La Dame de chez Maxim on December 8, 1862 to Léocadie (The Woman from Maxim’s) is considered by Boguslawa Zalewska and novelist some to be his greatest work, while La puce Ernest-Aimé Feydeau, although he à l’oreille (A Flea in Her Ear, 1907), would go on G was rumored to be the son of Emperor to become his most popular play in English- Napoleon III or the Emperor’s half-brother, the speaking countries. At the peak of his success, Duke of Morny. Feydeau sometimes had three plays running concurrently in the theatres of Paris. Feydeau first attempted a career as an actor, but quickly turned to writing instead. He wrote Feydeau left his wife in 1909 and spent his first comic monologue, Par la the next ten years living alone, fenêtre (Through the Window), surrounded by his paintings, at age twenty. This was books, and a perfume quickly followed by two collection of around one-act plays that 250 different scents. were praised by His art collection the critics but sold included 136 works poorly. His first by renowned major triumph artists such as came in 1886 Renoir, Monet, with Tailleur pour and Van Gogh, dames (Ladies’ although these Dressmaker), but were eventually after that came auctioned off to seven years of only pay off the gambling moderate success. debts that plagued him throughout his life. In 1889, he married The couple formally divorced Marianne Carolus-Duran, the in 1916, further straining Feydeau’s wealthy daughter of celebrated finances despite his successful career. portrait painter Carolus-Duran. The next year, Feydeau began a two-year hiatus from writing In the winter of 1918, Feydeau contracted in order to study the great farces, including the syphilis, and in 1919 he moved into a work of Eugène Labiche, , and sanatorium for treatment. He slowly Alfred Hennequin. The outcome of this study, descended into madness, dying on June 5, 1921 1892's Champignol malgré lui (translated as at the age of 58. He left behind 39 published A Close Shave) became a popular hit. plays, many of which are still enjoyed today on French stages and internationally.

A FLEA IN HER EAR 15 Georges Feydeau’s career spanned cabarets (such as the Moulin Rouge and much of the period in French history the Folies Bergère), the flourishing of the known as La Belle Époque, literally “the visual arts (Impressionism, Pointillism), beautiful era.” Named in retrospect and and the rise of Art Nouveau, a movement bookended by the end of the Franco- inspired from natural elements to create Prussian War in 1871 and the start of lavish curves and floral accents. Fashion the Great War in 1914, La Belle Époque became more luxurious and even more was a time of relative peace for France, exclusive. And the theatre thrived, as with unprecedented economic growth , farces, and light comedies and the flourishing of art, architecture, dominated the boulevard venues. technology, and culture. It was also a time With the bourgeoisie basking in their of extraordinary inequality, imperialism, entertainments and luxuries, they were and deep domestic discontent. not difficult to lampoon for their excesses, The city of Paris boomed during these ignorance, or vanity. This was where years, increasing its population by Feydeau derived his greatest inspiration, almost two thirds and fostering the because he saw the upper classes as not development of a new moneyed class. only patronizing to the working class but Despite the overwhelming poverty of completely blind to their own privilege or the city’s slums, the new economic might lack of experience. It was not much of a of the Parisian bourgeoisie inspired a stretch to make their morals, ethics, and hunger for pleasures and diversions that behavior the subject of his farces. had to be met. This was the era of famous An Art Nouveau Metro Station depicted on a postcard, Bastille, Paris, ca. 1900.

The world-famous cabaret Moulin Rouge, on Boulevard de Clichy in Paris, opened its doors in 1889. French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec created the above lithograph, Moulin Rouge: La Goulue, in 1891 as an advertisement for the popular club.

French artist Jules Chéret's 1897 poster for one of the Théâtre de l’Opéra’s seasonal masked balls — an example of the dizzying array of dance, theatre, and musical entertainments popular in fin-de-siécle Paris.

Georges Seurat's 1884 painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, captures the Parisian bourgeoisie at leisure in his famous Pointillist style.

Henri Lemoine's 1894 photo, Champs de le course personnages, depicts the fashionable men and woman of Paris at the race track. 18 WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE | 2018 SEASON A FLEA IN HER EAR 19 20 WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE | 2018 SEASON WCP | WHO'S WHO

David Beach The Cripple Of Inishmaan (Helen), Noises Off Etienne/Ensemble (Brooke), O Beautiful (Arlene), The Good Doctor, Westport Country Playhouse: (Louise), The Homecoming (Ruth), Room Service (directed by Death Of A Salesman, The Imaginary Invalid, Mark Lamos), and Script In and The Hostage. Regional: The Old Globe Hand playreadings: Social Theatre, The Pacific Theatre Ensemble, the Security, The Supporting Cast, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Tacoma Actors You Know I Can’t Hear You Guild, The Group Theatre, A Contemporary When The Water’s Running, Theatre, The Intiman, The Chautauqua Theatre Sherlock Holmes: The Final Company. Deena’s voice has been heard Adventure. Broadway: Something Rotten, It’s Only on numerous radio ads and in video games. a Play, Fish in the Dark, Mamma Mia!, Urinetown Deena is a founding member of the REP and (original cast), Moon Over Buffalo. TV/Film taught in the PTTP from 2004-2011. Training: credits include Steven Spielberg’s The Post, “The The Julliard School. Dangerous Book for Boys,” “VEEP,” “The Good Wife,” “Person of Interest,” “Submissions Only,” Hassan El-Amin “Delocated,” “Blue Bloods,” “The Sopranos,” “Law Dr. Finache/Ensemble & Order,” “[Untitled],” “Firetrap” (HBO), “I Have Westport Country Playhouse Valentine’s Day”, “Rescue Me,” “Dharma & Greg,” debut. REP: From the “Malcolm in the Middle,” and “Ed” among others. Author Of (Dax Davis), The Off-Broadway and Regional credits include Mountaintop (Martin Luther Damn Yankees and The Great American Mousical King, Jr.), Tartuffe (Officer of (directed by Julie Andrews) both at Goodspeed; the King), The Elephant Man the NY premiere of Michael Hollinger’s Opus (Dr. Carr Gomm and others), at Primary Stages; Rattlestick; Drama Dept., The Bells (Jim), Clybourne EST; Alabama Shakespeare; the Walnut Street; Park (Albert/Kevin), God of Carnage (Michael). Adirondack Theater Festival; the Kitchen Theater; A native of San Diego, CA, Hassan has worked the North American premiere of Ying Tong at extensively as a regional Equity actor. For the the Wilma Theater; The Rocky Horror Picture past eight years he was a company member Show at the Pioneer Theater Company; and Art of the Regional Tony award-winning Brierley at the Cape Playhouse. His essay “Just Don’t Resident Acting Company, and a Community Call Me Mom” appeared in the New York Times Outreach Artist at Dallas Theater Center, Modern Love column and was recorded for their where his acting credits include: Dream Girls, podcast by Gideon Glick. David is a graduate of The Mountaintop, All the Way, Colossal, Stagger Dartmouth College and the London Academy of Lee, Driving Miss Daisy, Les Misérables, Sherlock Music and Dramatic Art. Holmes: The Final Adventure, A Raisin in the Sun, Clybourne Park, Fly, The Odd Couple, Deena Burke King Lear, A Christmas Carol, God of Carnage, Olympia/Ensemble The Wiz, Henry IV, Death of a Salesman. Regional Westport Country Playhouse credits: Fences, Seven Guitars, Radio Golf, debut. REP: Tartuffe Jitney, Blues for an Alabama Sky, The Lion King, (Dorine), To Kill a Mockingbird The Tempest, Julius Caesar, Othello, Stick Fly, (Rachel Harris), Wait Until The Whipping Man, A Soldiers Play. Theaters: Dark (Susan), The Patsy The Alley, Kennedy Center, Mark Taper (Clotilde Pontagnac), Faust Forum, Goodman, Arena Stage, Guthrie, Alliance, (Earth Spirit/Ensemble), Huntington, Denver Center, Portland Center The Mousetrap (Miss Stage, Trinity Repertory, Milwaukee Repertory, Casewell), The Servant of Two Masters (Singer/ San Diego Repertory, Penumbra, Colorado, Townsperson), The Night Of The Iguana (Miss Oregon, and Utah Shakespeare Festivals. Fellowes), Fever – World Premiere (Sam), Training: Professional Theatre Training Program The Threepenny (Polly), Anything To Declare? (PTTP), University of Delaware. (Paulette), Our Country’s Good (Liz Morden),

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Lee E. Ernst Laura Frye Victor Chandebise/ Eugenie/Ensemble Poche/Ensemble Westport Country Playhouse Westport Country Playhouse debut. NYC Credits: Iago debut. REP: Director: in Othello, Regan in King Clybourne Park. Actor: Dial Lear, Maria in Twelfth “M” for Murder (Max Halliday), Night, Chorus in Henry V, From the Author Of (Richard Elizabeth in RIII, Ophelia Tuttle), You Can’t Take It with in Hamlet (Titan Theatre You (Mr. De Pinna), Tartuffe Company). Regional: Virginia (Orgon), The Elephant Man (Pinhead Manager Shakespeare Festival, Monomoy Theatre, and others), The Bells (Mathias), Waiting for Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Forward Theatre, Godot (Vladimir), Things We Do for Love (Gilbert First Stage, and internationally as Helena in Fleet), To Kill a Mockingbird (Associate Director A Midsummer Nights Dream at Teatro Franco- and the roles of Nathan Radley/Bob Ewell), Wait Parentti in Milan. Laura was awarded Best Until Dark (Roat), Heartbreak House (Captain Actress in Queens, NY for her various roles in Shotover), The Patsy (Maurice Vatelin), The 39 Titan Theatre Company’s A Christmas Carol. Steps (Clown), Juno and the Paycock (Joxer), She holds an M.F.A from the PATP program at The Millionairess (The Doctor/the Shwop Owner), the University of Houston. She sends love to Macbeth (Macbeth), Angels in America (Rabbi her husband and dog for their constant support Chemelwitz, Henry, Martin, ‘Medieval’ Prior), and to Sandy and Sandy, for this amazing Wit (Dr. Kelekian), The Mousetrap (Mr. Paravicini), opportunity. Instagram: @laurafrye_nyc. The Servant of Two Masters (Truffaldino). Regional: Milwaukee Repertory Theater: Resident Actor, Michael Gotch Resident Fight Director, Makeup Design. Roles Don Carlos de Histangua/ include: Clybourne Park (Russ/Dan), Cabaret Ensemble (The Emcee), Death of a Salesman (Willy Loman), Westport Country Playhouse To Kill a Mockingbird (Atticus Finch), debut. REP: Actor: Dial “M” (John Proctor), A Christmas Carol (Ebenezer for Murder (Tony Wendice), Scrooge), Assassins (Sam Byck), Sherlock You Can’t Take It with You Holmes: The Final Adventure (Holmes), Lombardi (Tony Kirby), The Elephant (Vince Lombardi), Of Mice and Men (George), Man (John Merrick), Clybourne The Norman Conquests (Norman), Cyrano De Park (Karl/Steve), Waiting Bergerac (Cyrano), Richard III (King Richard), for Godot (Lucky), Red (Ken), The 39 Steps Work Song (F.L. Wright), Tartuffe (Tartuffe), (Richard Hannay), Hamlet (Hamlet,winner of The Seafarer (Sharky), Barrymore (John 2013 BroadwayWorld Best Actor, dir. Mark Barrymore). American Players Theatre: Lamos), Angels in America (Prior), The Cripple Founding Acting Company Member: Cyrano, of Inishmaan (Cripple Billy), O Beautiful (Jesus), Hamlet, Benedick, and King Lear. Other credits: The Glass Menagerie (Tom), The Homecoming Arizona Theatre Company, Milwaukee Chamber (Lenny), Death of a Salesman (Biff), I Am My Own Theatre, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, Wife, also at Milwaukee Repertory Theatre. Off- Kansas City Rep, New American Theatre, Broadway: Theatre for a New Audience: Svejk Peninsula Players, American Conservatory (U.S. Premiere); The Acting Company: Richard III, Theater, Tokyo’s Institute of Dramatic Arts. Murder by Poe. Regional: Milwaukee Repertory Texas Shakespeare Festival: Hamlet (director), Theater: Armadale (World Premiere), I Am My The Nerd (director). Awards: AriZoni and Own Wife. South Coast Repertory: The Importance Shepherd – Express “Best Actor” awards, The of Being Earnest (Algernon). Actors Theatre of Minerva Laureate (presented by the Wisconsin Louisville: Amadeus (Salieri). Chicago Shakespeare Academy of Letters, Arts, and Sciences), Lunt- Theater: Shakespeare’s R&J (Jeff Nomination & Fontanne Fellow, by the Ten Chimneys Foundation. After Dark Award). American Players Theatre: Training: Professional Theatre Training Program Julius Caesar, Timon of Athens, The Merchant of (PTTP), University of Delaware. Venice, Much Ado About Nothing (Falstaff Award Nomination). ACT Seattle: World Premieres of The Piano Men, Daisy. Training: Professional Theatre Training Program (PTTP), University of Delaware.

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Robert Adelman Hancock on “The Knick.” Film: Paper Cranes. Training: BFA Rugby/Ensemble from Boston University, MFA from American Westport Country Playhouse Conservatory Theatre. He is a proud recipient of debut. London: Daddy Long a Helen Hayes Award nomination and The Edwin Legs. National Tour: Mamma E. Stein Award for Excellence in the Arts. Mia! Regional Theater: Utah Shakespeare Festival, Elizabeth Heflin Court Theatre, Cincinnati Raymonde Chandebise/ Playhouse, Cleveland Play Ensemble House, Northlight Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Geva Theatre, debut. REP: Dial “M” for Westport Country Playhouse, Great River Murder (Margot Wendice), Shakespeare Festival, Theatreworks, Arizona From the Author Of Theatre Company, Rubicon Theatre, Royal (Meredith Renner), You Can’t Manitoba Theatre, La Mirada, Skylight Music Take It with You (Penelope Theatre, Delaware Theatre Company, Hangar Sycamore), Tartuffe (Elmire), Theatre, Laguna Playhouse. TV: “Royal Pains,” The Elephant Man (Mrs. Kendal and others), “True Blood: Postmortem,” “Guiding Light,” God of Carnage (Annette), Things We Do For Love and the leading role in “Greenport.” Education: (Nikki Wickstead), Heartbreak House (Hesione University of Tennessee. Other: soloist with Hushabye), The 39 Steps (Annabella Schmidt/ Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Japan, Margaret/Pamela), The Millionairess (Epifania), Metropolitan Festival Orchestra (Singapore), Macbeth (Lady Macbeth), The Threepenny Opera Evergreen Symphony (Taipei); Instagram/ (Pirate Jenny), The Skin of Our Teeth (Sabina – Twitter: @boorobbie. Barrymore Award Nomination), The Little Foxes (Regina), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Maggie), among Wynn Harmon others. Broadway: The Government Inspector Baptiste/Ensemble (Avdotya). National Tour: The Odd Couple—with Westport Country Playhouse: Tony Randall & Jack Klugman (Cecily). Regional: A Christmas Carol (2006, Alley Theatre—company member 13 years; 2007). On Broadway, he Milwaukee Repertory Theater: Bad Dates (Haley); played The Detective in Porgy The Old Globe: The Taming Of The Shrew (Kate); and Bess (also telecast “Live Actors Theatre of Louisville: The Play’s the Thing from Lincoln Center” on PBS). (Ilona); Paper Mill Playhouse: The Dinner Party; Off-Broadway appearances Dallas Theatre Center: Dancing At Lughnasa. TV: include: The Lucky One (Mint “The Guiding Light,” “New York News,” “Days Of Theater Company), As You Like It (The Pearl Our Lives,” “As The World Turns,” “The Pretender.” Theater Company), and The New Yorkers (Musical Training: Professional Theatre Training Program Theater Works). International credits include: (PTTP), University of Delaware. Voltaire/Dr. Pangloss in Candide, both at Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse and Opéra National de Mic Matarrese Bordeaux; The Music Man at Royal Opera House Camille Chandebise/Ensemble Muscat, in Oman. Regional: Lost in the Stars; Westport Country Playhouse Showboat; Candide (upcoming) at The Kennedy debut. REP: Dial “M” for Center; and shows or seasons with: Arena Stage, Murder (Captain Lesgate, , Hartford Stage, The Alley Thompson), Tartuffe (Tartuffe), Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, The The Elephant Man (Dr. Treves), Studio Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre, The Bells (Baptiste), Waiting Huntington Theatre Company, Westport Country for Godot (Pozzo), Wait Until Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, Baltimore Dark (Mike), Angels in America Center Stage, The Glimmerglass Festival, (Joe), Faust (Mephisto), The Night of the Iguana multiple Shakespeare festivals; and The Constant (Shannon), The Threepenny Opera (Mac the Knife), Wife plus ten Shakespeare productions at The Anything to Declare? (Robert De Trivelin), among Old Globe in San Diego. TV: The Chaplain on this others. Regional: Lake Tahoe Shakespeare season’s “Madam Secretary,” Trevor Babcock on Festival: The Comedy of Errors (Solinus, “All My Children” and Mayor Robert Van Wyck Pinch); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Oberon);

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Romeo and Juliet (Lord Capulet); Alley Theatre: (Argan). Regional: Alley Theatre: Born Yesterday Noises Off (Garry); Artists Repertory Theatre: (Harry Brock); Guthrie Theater: over forty roles A Streetcar Named Desire (Stanley Kowalski); including: Three Sisters (Vershinin), Iphigenia Chamber Theatre: Crime and Punishment At Aulis (Agamemnon), The Cherry Orchard (Raskolnikov); Milwaukee Repertory Theater: (Lopakhin), The Seagull (Trigorin), Much Ado About A Christmas Carol (Jacob Marley); In Tandem Nothing (Benedick), A Doll’s House (Torvald); Theatre: My Dear Dorothea (G.B. Shaw); Chautauqua Theatre Company: You Can’t Take Renaissance Theaterworks: Trojan Woman It With You (Mr. Kirby). Other credits include: (Talthibius); Skylight: The Fantasticks (Henry Intiman Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Albertson). Training: Professional Theatre Geffen Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Center Stage, Training Program (PTTP), University of Delaware. Citadel, The National Theatre in Ottawa, Atlantic Theatre Festival. Off-Broadway: Theatre for a Carine Montbertrand New Audience. Film: Sweet Land, Wooly Boys, Antoinette/Ensemble Factotum, Irv De Toilette, Killer Movie. He was Westport Country Playhouse recently awarded a Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship debut. Off-Broadway: Soho by The Ten Chimneys Foundation. Training: Rep, Classical Theatre of Professional Theatre Training Program (PTTP). Harlem, The Acting Company. Regional: Arkansas Rep, John Rensenhouse Baltimore Center Stage, Ferraillon/Ensemble Hartford Stage, Actors Westport Country Playhouse Theatre of Louisville, The debut. REP: You Can’t Take Alley, Denver Center, UDREP (company member It with You, The Millionairess, for seven seasons), Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Hamlet, Our Town, The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park (Acclaim Importance of Being Earnest. Award, Emilia in Othello), Pioneer Theatre, Regional: Oregon Shakespeare Capital Rep, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Festival, Hartford Stage, and more. She is an award winning audiobook McCarter Theatre, Arena narrator for companies such as Recorded Books, Stage (D.C.), Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Audible, and Penguin Random House. Carine Cincinnati Playhouse, Alabama Shakespeare, is also an accomplished teacher specializing Heart of America Shakespeare, Kansas City in neutral and Commedia Mask. Her original Actors Theatre, Kansas City Rep. National Tours: solo show, Seven Devils and A French Nun was The Lion King, Noises Off. TV: “The Edge of Night,” developed with a grant from Amherst College “L.A. Law,” “thirtysomething.” Film: Candyman. and has performed in numerous venues. Mr. Rensenhouse makes his home in Kansas City www.carinemontbertrand.com where he serves as the Artistic Chairman of Kansas City Actors Theatre (www.kcactors.org). Training: Stephen Pelinski Professional Theatre Training Program (PTTP). Romain Tournel/Ensemble Westport Country Playhouse Antoinette Robinson debut. REP: Director: All in Lucienne Homenides de the Timing; Actor: Dial “M” for Histangua/Ensemble Murder (Inspector Hubbard), Westport Country Playhouse From the Author Of (Tom debut. REP: The Mountaintop Foley), You Can’t Take It with (Camae). Antoinette was You (Paul Sycamore), Tartuffe recently seen as Flavius (Cléante), The Elephant Man (Timon of Athens) and Celia (Ross and others), The Bells (Charlie), Clybourne (As You Like It) at the Folger Park (Russ/Dan), Waiting for Godot (Estragon), Theatre in Washington, DC. Red (Mark Rothko), To Kill a Mockingbird (Atticus Other Credits include: Lucretia (Sir Patient Finch), Wait Until Dark (Carlino), Heartbreak Fancy), Perdita (The Winter’s Tale) and Hortensio House (Hector Hushabye), The Patsy (Eugene (Taming of the Shrew) with The Queens Company Pontagnac) Angels in America (Roy Cohn), Faust in New York City; Phoebe (As You Like It) with (Faust), Death of a Salesman (Willy Loman), Cat on New York Classical Theatre; Celia (As You Like It), a Hot Tin Roof (Big Daddy), The Imaginary Invalid Emily (Our Town) and Isabella u/s (Measure for

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Measure) at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival; Shakespeare in the Park (As You Like It). He was Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing) and Gertrude Artistic Director of Hartford Stage for 16 seasons (Hamlet) at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival; (1989 Tony Award). Other theater: Kennedy Juanita Lee (Becoming Something) with Esperance Center, Canada's Stratford Festival, Guthrie Theatre Company; Alma (Edge of Peace) at Theater, Yale Repertory Theatre (Associate The Seattle Children’s Theatre; Mother Earth Artist), A.C.T., The Old Globe, Delaware Rep, (Time Sensitive) at The Guthrie; Victoria (The Ford’s Theatre, D.C.'s Shakespeare Theatre, Mother***ker with The Hat), Lucy (Mr. Marmalade) Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and others. He and The Ocean/Rebecca (Spirits to Enforce) at was the first American to direct a company in Hyde Park Theatre. Antoinette can also be seen the former Soviet Union (Moscow's Pushkin in the films Ol’Daddy, 9 Actors, and the hit web Theatre - Desire Under the Elms), and the first series “The Great Black Way.” MFA from the to act as dramaturge in the creation of a ballet, University of Texas at Austin. Alexei Ratmansky's The Tempest for American Ballet Theatre. His work in opera is extensive. David Ives For the Metropolitan Opera: New productions of Playwright I Lombardi with Luciano Pavarotti, and Wozzeck David Ives is perhaps best known for his (both televised for “Great Performances”), evening of one-act plays, All In The Timing (he as well as the world premiere of Harbison's has been included in the “Best Short Plays” The Great Gatsby, and Adriana Lecouvreur with series seven times), and for his drama Venus Placido Domingo. He created many productions In Fur, which was nominated for a Tony Award for NYC Opera, including televised productions for Best Play. His plays include New Jerusalem: of Paul Bunyan, Tosca, Central Park, and The Interrogation of Baruch De Spinoza; Madama Butterfly (Emmy Award). Other opera: The School for Lies (adapted from Molière’s Glimmerglass, Bergen National, Gothenberg, The Misanthrope); The Liar (adapted from Munich Biennale, London's Barbican, L'Opera Corneille); Time Flies; and Is He Dead? (adapted du Montreal, Chicago Lyric, Santa Fe, St. Louis, from Mark Twain). He has also translated Dallas, San Francisco, and others. Lamos began Feydeau’s A Flea in Her Ear and Yasmina Reza’s his career in the theater as an actor on and A Spanish Play. A former Guggenheim Fellow in Off-Broadway and in regional theater and made playwriting and a graduate of The Yale School of his film debut inLongtime Companion. He was Drama, he lives in New York City. awarded the Connecticut Medal for the Arts as well as honorary doctorates from Connecticut Georges Feydeau College, Trinity College, and the University of Original Playwright Hartford. In October 2016, he was the recipient Georges Feydeau (1862–1921) was a French of the John Houseman Award. playwright and master of farce with more than 60 titles to his credit, including Champignol Kristen Robinson malgré lui (translated as A Close Shave); La puce à Scenic Designer l’orielle (A Flea in Her Ear); La Dame de chez Maxim Westport Country Playhouse: Nora, A Song at (The Woman from Maxim’s); and L'Hôtel du libre Twilight. Kristen Robinson is a NYC based set échange (translated as Hotel Paradiso). A complete designer. Her work ranges from site-specific bio of Feydeau can be found in the program notes installations to outdoor Shakespeare. Her design beginning on page 15. for Westport Country Playhouse’s Nora has been featured in Chance Magazine issue 4, and Mark Lamos her design for Rapture Blister Burn won the 2015 Director/Artistic Director Barrymore Award for Best Set Design. A Princess Westport Country Playhouse: Artistic Director Grace Fellow, she holds her MFA from Yale. You can since 2009. Broadway: Our Country's Good (Tony see her work at www.kristenrobinsondesign.com nomination); The Rivals, Cymbeline, Seascape (Tony nomination, best revival) for Lincoln Sara Jean Tosetti Center Theater; The Deep Blue Sea; The Gershwins' Costume Designer Fascinating Rhythm. Off-Broadway: Tiny Alice, Sara Jean Tosetti is a New York City-based Measure for Measure (Lortel Awards for both); costume designer, originally from Paris, France. productions at Playwrights Horizons, Primary Recent designs include Cato in Utica (Glimmerglass Stages, Signature Theatre, The Public Theater, Festival, directed by Tazewell Thompson); the

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world premiere of Laura Kaminsky’s As One I’ll Eat You Last, Outside Mullingar, Casa Valentina, (Brooklyn Academy of Music, directed by Ken The House of Blue Leaves, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Cazan); Radamisto (Julliard, directed by James Broadway Bound. 2016 Drama Desk Award Darrah); (Central City Opera, directed by for The Humans. 2010 Drama Desk and Lucille Danny Pelzig); Orpheus in the Underworld; Rinaldo; Lortel Awards for When the Rain Stops Falling Cendrillon (CCO, directed by Marc Astafan); at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Théâtre. Manuscript; The Exonerated (Daryl Roth Theatre, He is the founding editor of Chance Magazine, a directed by Bob Balaban); ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore serialized art book on performance and design. (Red Bull Theatre at the Duke, directed by Jesse Berger), Much Ado About Nothing (Barrinton Stage Michael Rossmy Company, directed by Julieanne Boyd); Richard III Fight Director (Husdon Valley Shakespeare festival, directed Westport Country Playhouse: Flyin’ West, Romeo by Terry O’Brien); Phoenix Rising (New Victory and Juliet, Appropriate, Lettice and Lovage, Camelot, Theatre, choreographed by Dwight Rhoden with The Invisible Hand, Art, Red, Broken Glass, The Liar, Complexions INC); Sediment (Jacob’s Pillow, Nora, Room Service, Harbor, Loot, A Raisin in the choreographed by Johannes Wieland). She was Sun, Tartuffe, Into the Woods. Broadway: A Tale awarded the Princess Grace Award in Design of Two Cities. Regional: The Public Theatre, Asolo as well as the Bel Geddes Design Enhancement REP, Yale Repertory Theatre, The Old Globe, Award. She earned a BFA and MFA from NYU’s Geffen Playhouse, Long Wharf Theater, McCarter Tisch School of the Arts, with Outstanding Theatre, Primary Stages, Delaware REP, SoHo Achievement in Design. SaraJeanTosetti.com Repertory Theatre, The MUNY, Baltimore’s Center Stage, Goodspeed Opera House, Paper Matthew Richards Mill Playhouse, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Lighting Designer Huntington Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse: Romeo and Rattlestick Theater, Pace University, Cherry Lane Juliet, Appropriate, The Invisible Hand, Red, Art, Theatre, Smith Street Stage, and others. He was And A Nightingale Sang, The Liar, Nora, Loot, nominated for a 2016 Drama Desk Award for Tartuffe, Suddenly Last Summer, Dinner with Outstanding Fight Direction. Michael is a faculty Friends. Broadway: Ann. Off-Broadway: Absolute member at the Yale School of Drama where he Brightness …, and The Curvy Widow at Westside teaches Stage Combat, and the Stage Combat Arts; The Killer, Tamburlaine, and Measure For Supervisor for all undergraduate productions at Measure at Theatre For a New Audience; The Yale College. He is also the creator/coach of the Atlantic; B.A.M.; MCC; Playwrights Horizons; physical training program, "The Actor as Athlete.” Play Co.; Primary Stages; Rattlestick; Second Stage. Regional: Actor’s Theater of Louisville; Matthew G. Marholin Arena Stage; Baltimore’s Center Stage; Cincinnati Production Stage Manager Playhouse; Cleveland Playhouse; Dallas Theater Matt is currently employed as the Production Center; Ford’s Theatre; The Goodman; Hartford Stage Manager for The REP in Newark Stage; The Hangar; The Huntington; La Jolla Delaware. Prior to joining The REP, he spent Playhouse; Long Wharf; New York Stage and eight years as the Production Stage Manager Film; The Old Globe; Shakespeare Theatre; at the Virginia Stage Company in Norfolk. Matt Westport Playhouse; Williamstown Theatre worked extensively in New York and on National Festival; Yale Repertory Theatre. Graduate: and International Tours. Among his favorite University of Massachusetts, Yale School of accomplishments are Blood Brothers, A Few Good Drama. matthewrichardsdesign.com. Men, South Pacific, The Wiz and international tours of Sophisticated Ladies, Carmen Jones and Fitz Patton . Additionally, Matt served as the Sound Designer Artistic Director for Cirque du Soleil’s Allegria. To Westport Country Playhouse: Appropriate, The date, Matt’s work has taken him to 31 countries. Invisible Hand, And a Nightingale Sang, Intimate Apparel, Nora, and more. Broadway: Three Tall Alice M. Pollitt Women, Bernhardt Hamlet, Choir Boy, Meteor Assistant Stage Manager Shower, Present Laughter, Our Mother's Brief Affair, Westport Country Playhouse: Flyin’ West, Sex The Humans, The Father, Blackbird, Act of God, With Strangers. Broadway: A Bronx Tale, American It's Only a Play, Airline Highway, The Other Place, Psycho, Noises Off, Aladdin. Tours: Finding

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Neverland, Matilda. Regional: Disney Theatrical performed in a wide variety of styles that Group; Berkeley Repertory Theatre: Monsoon celebrate and demonstrate the range and Wedding, Amélie; The Public Theater: Before breadth of its resident acting company. The REP Your Very Eyes, The Screens; Marin Shakespeare is committed to create future audiences for live Company. Events: The 69th Annual Tony Awards, theatre by offering its productions at low prices Hulu, Turner, Condé Nast, LOL With LLS. that enable and encourage the attendance of Love and thanks to Byron and Teri for their everyone in the region, regardless of income. never ending support. Westport Country Playhouse Michael Barker The mission of Westport Country Playhouse is Managing Director to enrich, enlighten, and engage the community Michael Barker joined Westport Country through the power of professionally produced Playhouse in 2016 from Mill Valley, CA, where theater worth talking about and the welcoming he was the managing director of Marin Theatre experience of the Playhouse campus. The Company. Previously, Barker was general Playhouse creates this relationship with the manager of Laguna Playhouse in Laguna community and provides this experience Beach, CA, and managing director for the in multiple ways by offering: Live theater Los Angeles classical theater ensemble The experiences of the highest quality, under the Antaeus Company. Before moving to California, artistic direction of Mark Lamos, from May Barker was associate managing director at Yale through November; educational and community Repertory Theatre and managing director of engagement events and opportunities to further Yale Summer Cabaret, and produced the first explore issues presented by the work on stage; annual Carlotta Festival of New Plays. He was the New Works Circle, a program dedicated to Seattle Repertory Theatre’s 2008 Managing the discovery, development, and production of Director Fellow. Barker holds an MFA in theater new live theatrical works; special performances management from Yale School of Drama and and programs for students and teachers with an MBA from Yale School of Management. extensive curriculum support material; Script in At Yale, he was the recipient of the Daniel Hand play readings throughout the year to deepen and Helene Sheehan Scholarship for theater relationships with audiences and artists alike; management and a Kosciusko Scholarship the renowned Woodward Internship Program for outstanding students of Polish descent. during the summer months for aspiring theater He served on the Yale School of Management professionals; Family Festivities presentations Alumni Advisory Board. He is a member of the from November through April to delight inaugural class of artEquity diversity, equity young and old alike and to promote reading and inclusion facilitators. Prior to graduate through live theater; and the beautiful and school, he was associate director of marketing historic Playhouse campus open for enjoyment for Court Theatre in Chicago, and also worked and community events year-round. In 2017, with Goodman Theatre, American Theater The Playhouse proudly named the Broadway Company, Sansculottes Theater Company, and Method Academy as its resident conservatory The Playground Theater. program, training hundreds of young performers annually. The value of the Westport Country Resident Ensemble Players - Playhouse to all it touches is immeasurable. University of Delaware The Resident Ensemble Players (REP) is a For This Production professional theatre company located at the Wig Designer: Denise O’Brien University of Delaware, headed by Producing Assistant Lighting Designer: Jane Chan Artistic Director Sanford (Sandy) Robbins. The Production Assistant: Page Tazewell REP offers frequent productions of outstanding Fight Captain: Lee E. Ernst classic, modern and contemporary plays Dresser/Crew: Kalyn Lummis

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PREMIERE CIRCLE FRIENDS CIRCLE PRODUCER ($100,000 AND ABOVE) Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth J. Seel Lyla & Peter Steenbergen, MD Howard J. Aibel* Joan & Joel Smilow Catherine & Chris Stroup Eunice and David Bigelow Foundation Nancy & David Tillson Mr. Arthur C. Tauck, Jr. Cathy and Colin Walker Stephen Corman PATRON ($5,000–$9,999) Jane & Richard B. Wolf AMBASSADOR ($50,000–$99,999) Anonymous (2) Burry Fredrik Foundation Aquarion Water Co. CHAMPION ($1,000–$1,499) CT Department of Economic and Community The Daphne Seybolt Culpeper Memorial Anonymous (2) Development, Office of the Arts Foundation, Inc. Jim Arata Michele & Marc Flaster The Neil & Sandra DeFeo Family Foundation The Ashken Family Lucille Lortel Foundation Jodi & Bill Felton Shelly and Drummond Bell Newman’s Own Foundation Edith Hall Friedheim Jean H. Bennett Barbara & John Samuelson The Goss Family Seth and Vani Birnbaum The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Stan Green Prill and Mike Boyle Barbara and John Streicker KeyBank Aileen & Jeffrey Brill Lucinda E. Knuth Jack & Amy Gillis SPONSOR ($25,000–$49,999) Laura & Dale Kutnick Harold Gordon Bank of America Lux Bond & Green Malcolm Gordon & Nan Miller Connecticut Health and Education Facilities Mr. & Mrs. Robert Pizzella Jane Green & Ian Warburg Authority Nancy & Roger Sachs Ms. Shirley Gura Anna Czekaj-Farber Dr. Richard Sackler, Richard & Beth Sackler Scott & Beth Hensel Kate & Bob Devlin, The Devlin Foundation Foundation Linda Jacob Fidelity Investments Ann Sheffer & Bill Scheffler Marta Jo Lawrence Jerome Levy Foundation Kimberly V. Strauss Mark Manus Judy & Scott Phares Harold Matzner Roz & Bud Siegel SUSTAINER ($3,000–$4,999) Peter & Wendy McCabe The Winston Foundation Robert & Jan Anestis Kimberly Mullen & Brian Foster Andrea & Theron Hoffman Jeff Peterson PARTNER ($15,000–$24,999) Richard & Terry Lubman Patrice C. Peugnet (In honor of actor BNY Mellon John & Sharon Miller Christopher Walken) Cohen & Wolf, P.C. Anne & Chuck Niemeth David & Mindy Pritchard Angela and Mark Graham / The Graham Westport Young Woman’s League Foundation of Connecticut Vivian Rosenberg Michael Klingher and Lindsay Schine CONTRIBUTOR ($1,500–$2,999) Paul & Jeanne Russ Darlene Krenz Anonymous Deborah Shear Mary Ellen & Jim Marpe Molly Alger and Jay Dirnberger Michael and Bridget Streicker National Endowment for the Arts Ballet Etudes (in honor of Nannette Vallas) Vincent and Connie VonZwehl Pitney Bowes, Inc. Bruce and Susan Barnet Sara & John Walsh Janet & Fred Plotkin / Adolph & Ruth Barneys New York Frances S. White and Harry B. Evans Schnurmacher Foundation Sharon and Stephen Baum LEADER ($750–$999) Carol and Peter Seldin Dr. & Mrs. Garry Boxer Gloria & Franchon Smithson Johnna G. Torsone & John McKeon Arthur Cohen Joan Ross Sorkin Marietta Battaglia White Rebecca Colin Joan Waricha Elwood & Catherine Davis BENEFACTOR ($10,000–$14,999) Essex Financial Services SUPPORTER ($350–$749) Athena and Daniel Adamson Mr. R. Bradford Evans on behalf of PTM Anonymous (4) Galia & Adam Clemens Charitable Foundation Actors’ Equity Foundation Amy & Richard Corn Terry & MJ Hogan Daniel Aibel and David Pittman The David & Geri Epstein Private Foundation Barbara & Greg Joseph Dr. & Mrs. Todd E. Arnold Robert & Susan Doran Steven & Yvette Kohn Nadine Baccellieri Fairfield County’s Community Foundation George A. & Grace L. Long Foundation, Bank Livia Barndollar Katia Friend of America, N.A., and Alan Ruth Barrett Fiona Garland & Andrew Bentley Mitzi Lyman & David Geronemus Helen Martin Block Jessie A. Gilbert Marianna & Mark McCall Deborah Harper Bono & Girome Bono Philip & Lisa Green Marjorie Neville & Michael Jacoby Robert Bourguignon and Brandon Bone Joyce Hergenhan Allen and Lorraine Noveck Susan & Michael Boyar Carole Hochman Alan & Frances Offenberg Arvin Brown Beryl & Roger Leifer Rina & Howard Pianko Meagan Burns-Min Thomas & Paula McInerney The Richenthal Foundation James and Janey Campbell Teresa Nardozzi Steve & Frances Rowland Andrea & David Cross Northwestern Mutual Financial Network, Susan & Gene Shanks Joan & Barrie Damson The Bender Financial Group Patti & Rick Slavin Mia Dillon & Keir Dullea

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FRIENDS CIRCLE SUPPORTER ($350–$749) CONT’D Paal and Roseann Elfstrum Nancy & John Billington Carolaline Flaumenhaft Susan S. Ellis Stephen Bistran Pat Fleischmann Joyce N. Fensterstock Thomas C. Bloch Heidi & Robert Flicker Bettina & David Fiore David & Laurie Boczar Tim & Pam Foarde Mary & Frode Foss-Skiftesvik Chris & Laurie Bradbury Claire Ford Stephanie Ercegovic & Brian Foster Edward & Jane Brennan Howard Forman Sally & Bob Galan Wesley Broderick Marguerite Bunny Franco Joe Godfrey & Keith Halstead Bernard Shapiro and Michele Brown Doris Fuertes Ellen Graff & Martin Fox Nancy Brown Frank & Jean Gallinelli William Gratz & James Bruno Mr. & Mrs. Matthew R. Bud Hilary & Will Gibson Dorothy & Fred Haas Lois & Robert Bull Jack Gilpin & Ann McDonough Dan & Wilma Kail Michael Burnette Givenik.com Alexa Kantgias Mr. David Caddis Carol Gluckman Craig & Caroline Lazzara Maureen and Rick Campbell Betty and Joshua Goldberg Michael E. Loeb Arlene Carpenter Susan & Laurence Goldfein Jane Malakoff Katelin Carr and Bevan Moore Arnold Grant Josephine Merck Nancy Catalano Jill Greenberg & Mitchell Lester Howard & Ginger Morgan Paul & Lois Cathcart Amy & Michael Greenberg Barry Nalebuff and Helen Kauder Benjamin Chalfin Mimi & Chuck Greenlee William Nolan Peter & Megan Chenot James Haag and Todd Samburg Douglas Ormond Mrs. Eleanor Cilo Matt and Kristen Haines Karen & Michael Parrella Dupre Cocrhan Gladys Handelman Joan Phillips John and Cindy Cody J. Handschumacher Playhouse Staff John & Eva-Lena Cody Laura and Ted Harlan Josephine A. Raimondi Yvette Cole Roni & Howard Harmetz Susanne Risoli Kevin & Pamela Collins Peter Harrar Eva & Paul Rosenblatt (in memory of Jacquelyn Conlon Kevin Harrington A.R. Gurney) Kerry Connell Aleta Mitchell & Thomas Haskell Christopher E.G. Saxe Dr. & Mrs. Arturo Constantiner Patricia Hayman Maureen & Edwin Schloss Kerry Cooper Marion Heiss Rick and Becky Scott James Corgel Rebecka Hekmat George & Madeline Shepherd Shelagh & John Corporon Sophie Hekmat Allen & Leslie Silberman Paige Couture Jackie Heneage Isaac & Ellen Sonsino John Crocco Nancy Herzog Benson & Betty Srere Kendall Crolius & Stephen Stout Louise Kerz Hirschfeld Ron & Maryann Stell Roselle & Brian Crombie Joyce & Robert Hobbie Ricki & Stanley Stern Christopher Cunningham Beth Hochhauser Mr. & Mrs. Lee D. Vincent Carol & Joel Davis Mr. Leigh Hoffman Barbara Wojtusik (in honor of Michael Barker Patricia & Raymond Dayan Heather Hopkins and Mark Lamos) Patricia Delano Cynthia & Peter Hurvitz Richard & Beth Zucker Wendy DiChristina Virginia Hyde FRIEND ($150–$349) Jo-Ann Dierks Bob & Bev Iannucci Anonymous (7) Andrew Diloreto Janet & Bill Jacklin Martha & Lawrence Aasen Joe and Emily DiMiceli Arthur and Mary Ann Jacobs Elizabeth Albertini Jill and Alex Dimitrief Barbara James Durelle Alexander Gina & Peter Dodge Estelle & Charles Jones Mr. & Mrs. Lynn Austin Alexander Dunev Nancy Kail Bob & Barbara Bachner Deborah Dyer Honorable Edward & Renie Karazin J. Edward Backus Frank & Ellen Estes Anna Karidas Harold & Bernicestine Bailey Barbara Ettinger Janet & Leo Karl III Mr. & Mrs. Henry Banach Joanna Exacoustos Mrs. Mickey Karlan James R. Barker Lee Ann Fallet Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Katzman Stacy and Howard Bass Mr. & Mrs. Stuart Farber Frederick Kennedy Debra & David Bauer Dina Ferdman Michael and Elizabeth Kessler Rebecca & Michael Bellora Virginia Ferrari Daniel Kiely & Gretchen Johanns Michelle Benner Gael Thomas Ficken & Barry E. Ficken Charles Kiernan Rick & Totney Benson Thomas & Anita Field Lynda Kinney Geoffrey Beringer Sue & Steve Fields Michele and Mark Kolier James Berner & Sheila Ward Michelle Fitzpatrick Anatole & Rosaria Konstantin

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FRIENDS CIRCLE FRIEND ($150–$349) CONT’D Michael Koskoff Mr. & Mrs. Scott E. Niven Jean T. Sells Phyllis & Adam Kurzer Robert Nixon Jennifer Seymour Michael Kyle Judith & Alphonse Noë Jerome and Catherine Shereshewsky Warren & Lisa Lagerloef Carole Novick Larry & Ruth Sherman Kamala Lakhdhir Salvador & Audrey Novoa Edith D. Sillman Leona Lamberson Dacey and Dennis O’Connor Ms. Eileen Simonson Barbara Lampugnale Fran & Ed O’Neill Cheryl P. Slater and James A. Slater, MD Stephen and Lisa Lawrence Alexander Orthwein Sabina Slavin The Lederer Family Samantha Owades Sara Lev and Michael Sloan Gordon and Lynne Leibowitz Penny Palmer Alison and Mark Smith Ms. Leona R. Lepofsky Don & Alice Parker Kathleen Smith Marcia Levy Dr. & Mrs. Michael F. Parry Nancy W. Smith Doree & Robert Levy Penny Pearlman Jenny Sozzi Lillian Lewis Joan Pendergast Peary & Patti Spaght Rita & Stephen Lewis John and Elizabeth Peto Ken Staffey Amber Llorens Zelie & Andy Pforzheimer David and Gayle Stebbins Kathy & Wayne Locurto Steve Pincus Katina Stefanova Tom Lombardi Dr. and Mrs. Warren R. Pistey Sybil & Harold Steinberg Marilyn Lord & James Meisner Louis Pittocco Warren Steinberg M.D. Arline and Marvin Lubin Susan and Richard Plutzer Steve Stockman James & Margot Mabie David and Nicole Pogue Kristine Story Olga & George Mack Anne and Saul Pollack Fran & Martin Stuttman Mrs. Mary Makowka John and Kim Porio Ann & Robert Svensk Peter and Carol Maloney Dr. Joan Poster and Dennis Poster (in honor of Tara Tanzer Susan Manicke Meredith Poster) Jenny Taubman Rebecca Martin and John Donoghue Julie Potack Margaret & Alan K. Temple Richard & Cora Martin Don and Kelly Quatrella Nancy Thiel Donald and Amanda Martocchio Carol Quinn & David Mayo Elva & John Thompson Carolina Mata-Tovar Juan Alejandro Ramos Charlotte and Cooper Tirola Fern & Joseph Mayer Ms. Marilyn Rappoport Chrissy Toeplitz Carole & Anthony Mazzarella Lou & Paula Reens Juana Toporovsky John & Susan McCabe Jim Reesman Amy Tyson Teresa and Joseph McCartin Paula and David Ridge Laurence and Nikki Untermeyer Leigh & Edward McDermott Jay & Joyce Riemer Joseph Valerio Jessica McEntee Mr. & Mrs. Dominic Rispoli Irma & Henri Van Dam Andy McGrade Megan Robbins Ralph & Maria Ventura Beryl Meiner & Richard Carleton Betty & Dan Roberts Patricia Vezendy Nadine Melniker Donna Rodenburg Sarah Vigoda Joan & John Mendenhall Bruce and Mary Rogers Ms. Olga Vladimirsky Maria Mendoza-Smith Cynthia and John Rohrs Donna Volpitta Albert Messina Daniel Romanello Alison Wachstein Kelly and Andrew Mikolasy Benjamin Romney John and Pamela Waesche Lois & Richard Miller Mr. & Mrs. Marc Rosen Suzy & Sadek Wahba Elizabeth Molinelli Howard and Abby Ross Janine Waldman` Carol Morris & Kim Hourihan Mr. & Mrs. Michael F. Ross Norma & Paul Warner Jack & Lu Morris Dr. & Mrs. Steven Rothenberg Carol & John Waxman Robert Morris Ann & Donald Rully Mary & Charles Welch Stanley Morten Katherine Ryden Brian Welker Kathleen Mufson Anita Sabatino Patricia Wentworth & Mark Fagan Eric & Adrienne Muntzenberger Elizabeth & Matt Salem Eden and Joel Werring Tanya Murphy Molly Sargent Marion & Joe Wertheim Ken Nagin & Laurie Brown-Nagin Lida Saw James White & Ann Jacobi-White Mark Neidig Mark Schiff Myrtis & Roger White Helen & Melvin Neisloss Barbara and Greg Schindler Laura and Paul Whitmore Anurag Nema Lois G. Schine Michael Wilens & Carolyn Longacre Kenneth Ng Howie Schmuck Michelle Wiles Richard and Alyona Nicholson Josef & Vicki Schoell C. Webb Williams & Sallie Walter Williams Mr. & Mrs. Mark Nickson Laurie & Charles Schott Caroline Williams Jolande Niedekker Tricia and Matthew Schwartz Sheryl and Tim Williams

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FRIENDS CIRCLE

Ruth & Alan Winnick Michael & Elizabeth Kessler Jim Reesman Paul Wolff Charles Kiernan Jay & Joyce Riemer Cynthia Wood Michele & Mark Kolier Donna Rodenburg Richard and Robin Woods Anatole & Rosaria Konstantin Bruce & Mary Rogers Dan Woog Warren & Lisa Lagerloef Daniel Romanello Suzanne Zelinski Kamala Lakhdhir Mr. & Mrs. Marc Rosen Ronni & Fred Zinn Barbara Lampugnale Mr. & Mrs. Michael F. Ross David Zippel and Michael Johnston Stephen & Lisa Lawrence Ann & Donald Rully DONORS (UP TO $150) Olga & George Mack Katherine Ryden Peter & Carol Maloney Anita Sabatino Mr. & Mrs. Henry Banach Richard & Cora Martin Molly Sargent James R. Barker Carolina Mata-Tovar Lida Saw Debra & David Bauer Carole & Anthony Mazzarella Mark Schiff Geoffrey Beringer John & Susan McCabe Howie Schmuck Edward & Jane Brennan Teresa & Joseph McCartin Laurie & Charles Schott Bernard Shapiro & Michele Brown Andy McGrade Larry & Ruth Sherman Mr. & Mrs. Matthew R. Bud Beryl Meiner & Richard Carleton Alison & Mark Smith Maureen & Rick Campbell Joan & John Mendenhall Kathleen Smith Arlene Carpenter Maria Mendoza-Smith Nancy W. Smith Mark Carver Albert Messina Jenny Sozzi Nancy Catalano Katelin Carr & Bevan Moore Katina Stefanova Paul & Lois Cathcart Carol Morris & Kim Hourihan Sybil & Harold Steinberg Dupre Cocrhan Robert Morris Ann & Robert Svensk John & Cindy Cody Eric & Adrienne Muntzenberger Jenny Taubman Yvette Cole Tanya Murphy Elva & John Thompson Kevin & Pamela Collins Sandy & Peter Nathan Charlotte & Cooper Tirola Dr. & Mrs. Arturo Constantiner Mark Neidig Juana Toporovsky Shelagh & John Corporon Anurag Nema Laurence & Nikki Untermeyer John Crocco Jolande Niedekker Patricia Vezendy Kendall Crolius & Stephen Stout Judith & Alphonse Noë Sarah Vigoda Patricia & Raymond Dayan Carole Novick Donna Volpitta Jo-Ann Dierks Alexander Orthwein Alison Wachstein Joe & Emily DiMiceli Samantha Owades Norma & Paul Warner Deborah Dyer Don & Alice Parker Patricia Wentworth & Mark Fagan Joanna Exacoustos Dr. & Mrs. Michael F. Parry Laura & Paul Whitmore Pat Fleischmann Joan Pendergast Caroline Williams Tim & Pam Foarde John & Elizabeth Peto Ruth & Alan Winnick Susan Frey Steve Pincus Paul Wolff Frank & Jean Gallinelli Louis Pittocco Dan Woog Jack Gilpin & Ann McDonough David & Nicole Pogue Merle Yoder Carol Gluckman Lou & Paula Reens David Zippel & Michael Johnston Arnold Grant Mimi & Chuck Greenlee James Haag & Todd Samburg J. Handschumacher Laura & Ted Harlan Marion Heiss “No person was ever honored for what he Rebecka Hekmat Sophie Hekmat received. He was honored for what he gave.” Jackie Heneage Beth Hochhauser CALVIN COOLIDGE Heather Hopkins Virginia Hyde Barbara James Sarah & Tim Johnson Nancy Kail Mrs. Mickey Karlan Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Katzman Frederick Kennedy

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SPECIAL GIFTS BRIDGE TO THE FUTURE ANNUAL MEMBERS FRIENDS Howard J. Aibel* Darlene Krenz Molly Alger & Jay Dirnberger Judy & Scott Phares Terry Nardozzi Patti & Rick Slavin Barbara & John Samuelson Roz & Bud Siegel Joyce Hergenhan Marietta Battaglia White IN-KIND DONATIONS Roz & Bud Siegel Asylum Distillery Czekaj Artistic Productions WOODWARD INTERNSHIP PROGRAM BetterITS Lindsay Schine & Michael Klingher SPONSORS Patricia Blaufuss Barbara & John Streicker Howard J. Aibel* Broken Shed Vodka Eunice & David Bigelow Foundation Castle Wines & Spirits NEW WORKS CIRCLE Stephen Corman Greenhook Ginsmiths Hilton Garden Inn Michele Flaster, Chair Robert & Susan Doran Jodi & Bill Felton Bruce & Beth Miller FOUNDING MEMBERS Michele & Marc Flaster Moffly Media Howard J. Aibel* Fiona Garland & Andrew Bentley Newman’s Own Foundation Stephen Corman The Goss Family Parks Driving Service Ania Czekaj-Farber Angela & Mark Graham / The Graham Peter & Carol Seldin Sandra & Neil DeFeo Foundation of Connecticut Westport Inn Kate & Bob Devlin Claudia & Rob Hahn WSHU Public Radio Michele & Marc Flaster Judy & Scott Phares Susan Jacobson & David Moskovitz Carol & Peter Seldin Judy & Scott Phares Ann Sheffer & Bill Scheffler Barbara & John Samuelson Roz & Bud Siegel Barbara & John Streicker Barbara & John Streicker Johnna G. Torsone & John McKeon Marietta Battaglia White

All gifts as of May 4, 2018 * Deceased

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A GALA EVENING TO BENEFIT WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE

2017 GALA BENEFACTORS 2017 GALA PATRONS Howard J. Aibel * Athena and Daniel Adamson Carole Hochman Stephen Corman Molly Alger and Jay Dirnberger Michael and Elizabeth Kessler Kate and Bob Devlin, Robert and Jan Anestis KeyBank The Devlin Foundation The Ashken Family KPMG Michele and Marc Flaster Bank of America Darlene Krenz Philip and Lisa Green Stacy and Howard Bass Stephen and Lisa Lawrence Claudia and Rob Hahn Shelly and Drummond Bell Beryl and Roger Leifer Joyce Hergenhan Mr. and Mrs. David Bigelow Kerry and Maggie Lehnerd-Reilly Mary Ellen and Jim Marpe Seth and Vani Birnbaum Lance and Terry Lundberg Harold Matzner BNY Mellon Wealth Management Tanya Murphy Judy and Scott Phares Deborah Harper Bono Teresa Nardozzi Janet and Fred Plotkin / Adolph and Galia and Adam Clemens Steve and Diane Parrish Ruth Schnurmacher Foundation Cohen and Wolf, P.C. Jeffrey Peterson Barbara and John Samuelson Ania Czekaj-Farber Ellen Petrino Roz and Bud Siegel Sandra and Neil DeFeo Pitney Bowes, Inc. Barbara and John Streicker Stephanie Ercegovic and Brian Foster Ann and Peter Pollack Bettina and David Fiore Lindsay Schine and Michael Klingher Edward A. Froelich Carol and Peter Seldin Fiona Garland and Andrew Bentley Diana and Dan Sussman Jessie Gilbert Nancy and David Tillson Angela and Mark Graham Marietta Battaglia White Connie and Stewart Greenfield David Zippel and Michael Johnston

We give our profound thanks to Stephen Corman for his $100,000 challenge grant!

34 WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE | 2018 SEASON Our 2017 gala, moonlight over venice, was a great success, raising more than $500,000! Thanks to all who joined us to hear Broadway star Jonathan Groff perform for the benefit of our beloved Playhouse.

2017 GALA SUPPORTERS Dr. Tanya Futoryan 2017 GALA DONATIONS The Hirsch Family Arline P. Gertzoff Anonymous (2) Michele Hance lppolito Mary Gladden William Bowers and JoAnne Kennedy Melissa Kane Ruth and Steven Glazer Claire and Hayes Clark (in honor Jill N. Lundin Sarah Goldstein of Molly Alger) Mr. and Mrs. John M. Nevin, Jr. Patricia Goodrich DeWitt Stern Group, Inc. Jim and Carol Randel William Gratz and James Bruno Pamela Farr and Buford Alexander Philip and Wendy Schaefer Jerry and Mary Gail Gristina Michael D. Gilligan Ann Sheffer and Bill Scheffler Diana Hopper Carmen and Ed Gulbenkian Margie Jacobson Al and Celia Hegyi 2017 GALA FRIENDS Richard and Francoise Jaffe IATSE Local 74 Jane and Peter Jordan Estelle and Charles Jones Anonymous (6) The Maric Family J.W. Kaempfer Elizabeth Albertini Donald and Amanda Martocchio Brinton Taylor Parson Andrew and Ellie Antrobus Ginger More and Paul McMillan Joyce Pauker Lee Arthurs and Judy Kessler Maria Mendoza-Smith Carolyn B. Raymond Paul Ballasy Francie Morris Susan and Gene Shanks Kathie and Scott Bennewitz John and Beth Peto Mr. and Mrs. Richard Siderowf Rick and Totney Benson Richard and Susan Plutzer Richard and Deborah Smilow Robert Bourguignon and Brandon David and Nicki Pogue (in honor of Michael Klingher Bone Doug and Dana Robinson and Ann Sheffer) Tricia and James Brady Janet Rubel David and Susan Smith Nancy A. Brown Anita Sabatino Johnna G. Torsone and John McKeon Miggs Burroughs Elizabeth and Matt Salem Esme Usdan and James Snyder Craig and Karen Chodash Joseph H. and Irma K. Schachter Cheryl Wiesenfeld and Cathy Colgan Barbara Silver Slaine Gerald Rosenberg Paige Couture Katina Stefanova and Harry Singh Roselle and Brian Crombie Leslie Stetter Shealeigh Crombie Eleanor Streicker Betty Lou Cummings A. Morris and Jennifer Tooker Diane DelVecchio Alison Wachstein Nancy Diamond and Jeffrey Mayer The Westport Library John Donoghue and Becky Martin Willis Towers Watson Jonathan and Melissa Ellis Betsy and Cliff Wolf Kurt Fladten and Corbett Mercer Mindy Wolkstein and Frank Giresi Ed and Lisa Friedland

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Barbara K. Streicker, Chair Mark S. Graham HONORARY TRUSTEES ARTIST CIRCLE Michele Flaster, Vice Chair Joyce Hergenhan Elisabeth Morten, Chair A.R. Gurney* Johnna G. Torsone, Vice Chair Carole Hochman Howard J. Aibel* Lynne Meadow Walter Bergen Kenneth Seel, Treasurer James Earl Jones James Naughton Michael Klingher James P. Bradley Carol West Seldin, Secretary Sandra DeFeo Darlene Krenz Richard Slavin, Asst. Secretary Kate Devlin Roger Leifer Robert Devlin Mary Ellen Marpe Robert H. Forrester Athena T. Adamson Teresa Nardozzi Edith Hall Friedheim Harold Bailey, Jr. Ellen H. Petrino Helen Lee Henderson Adam G. Clemens Judy M. Phares Catherine Herman Stephen Corman Robert Pizzella Dan Kail Amy C. Corn Janet Plotkin Bill Mitchell Anna Czekaj-Farber Christopher Plummer Judith Resnick Ann Sheffer Robert Doran Jake Robards Joel Smilow Katia Friend Barbara Samuelson Sharon Sullivan Fiona Garland David Tillson John Vaccaro Jessie A. Gilbert Marietta Battaglia White Steven Wolff Joanne Woodward Bob Wright WCP | STAFF LEADERSHIP MARKETING MARK LAMOS Artistic Director Cynthia Astmann Graphic Design Director MICHAEL BARKER Managing Director Jennifer Carroll Community and Sales Manager Stephen Emerick Digital Content Manager ARTISTIC Patricia Blaufuss Public Relations Manager David Kennedy Associate Artistic Director Justin Jones Marketing Intern Anne Keefe Associate Artist Bethany Gugliemino Artistic and Management Associate PRODUCTION Liam Lonegan Directing Fellow DAVID DREYFOOS Associate Producer/Director of Production Laura Silence Family Festivities Coordinator RJ Romeo Technical Director/Assoc. Director of Production Bruce Miller Company Manager GENERAL MANAGEMENT Alexandra Rappaport Associate Company Manager BETH HUISKING General Manager Anthony Servetas Head Carpenter/Flyman Geoff Topalian Data Analyst Bob McDevitt Head Electrician/Light Board Operator Kelly Mikolasy House and Events Manager Jon Damast Head Sound/Sound Board Operator Rich D’Arinzo Facilities Manager Lisa Ficco Wardrobe Supervisor Josh Sinclair Box Office Manager Jess Ploszaj Scenic Artist Eve Lyons Asst. Box Office Manager Heather Ogden Stage Management Intern Jake Krasniewicz Box Office Supervisor; Aaron Moss Cohen Carpentry/ATD Intern First-Time Subscriber Concierge Carol Ann Rotella Company Management Intern Molly Hamilton Box Office Associate Kaylee Drake Wardrobe Intern Kaitlyn Speakman Front of House Intern Sean Sanford Scenic Painting/Props Intern DEVELOPMENT FINANCE + HUMAN RESOURCES CAROLE SOUTHALL Director of Development SHARON BOILINI Director of Finance Aline O’Connor Associate Director of Development Kerry Maloney HR and Finance Manager Georgia Sayers Grant Writer Clare Livingston Stephen Corman Development Fellow Kaylee Moran Development Intern * Deceased A FLEA IN HER EAR 39 WCP | 2018 SUPPORT

WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES GENEROUS LEADERSHIP SUPPORT FOR THE 2018 SEASON.

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BNY MELLON WEALTH MANAGEMENT AQUARION WATER COMPANY BNY Mellon Wealth Management is a leading wealth manager. Aquarion Water Company applauds the Westport Country In 2016 it was named by Family Wealth Report as the top U.S. Playhouse for its starring role as one of our area’s most important Private Bank and rated the Top Private Bank for Family Offices by artistic institutions. We also congratulate the public for its Professional Wealth Management magazine. Barron’s ranked it commitment to sustaining not just local cultural resources but the 8th largest U.S. wealth manager in 2016. The firm has more the natural ones as well. With demands on our water supplies than two centuries of experience in providing services to clients growing across our service area, we’ve seen a tremendous who today include financially successful individuals and families, response to our requests for increased conservation. We their family offices and business enterprises, planned giving especially thank all those community members who are now programs, and endowments and foundations. It has nearly $205 limiting outdoor sprinkler irrigation to two times per week billion in total private client assets, as of December 31, 2016, and or less. For many more ideas on conserving water, just visit an extensive network of offices in the U.S. and internationally. aquarionwater.com. And, remember, any time you’re looking for BNY Mellon Wealth Management, which provides investment an alternative to the fine beverages you may be enjoying tonight, management, custody, wealth and estate planning and private Aquarion reminds you that there’s always water. banking services, conducts business through various operating subsidiaries of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation. For more information go to bnymellonwealth.com or follow us on Twitter @BNYMellonWealth.

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FIDELITY INVESTMENTS PITNEY BOWES Fidelity Investments is proud to be a 2017 sponsor of Westport Pitney Bowes is proud to support Westport Country Playhouse as Country Playhouse. Fidelity’s mission is to inspire better futures a sponsor for the Family Festivities series. Pitney Bowes is a global and deliver better outcomes for the customers and businesses we technology company, powering billions of physical and digital serve. We focus on meeting the unique needs of a diverse set of transactions in the connected and borderless world of commerce. customers helping more than 26 million people invest their own Pitney Bowes and the Pitney Bowes Foundation support literacy, life savings. Local investors can access Fidelity’s guidance and education and the diverse community interests of Pitney Bowes investment tools via the web, by telephone, or in person, working employees. We focus our energies on advancing learning and with investment professionals at their local Investor Center. enrichment for students in underserved school districts in an To learn more about Fidelity Investments, visit one of our three effort to help close the academic achievement gap and prepare Fairfield County locations — Stamford, Greenwich, or Fairfield — the future workforce. or call 800-544-9797. Please visit fidelity.com. Fidelity Brokerage Services, Member NYSE, SPIC. 831742.2.0

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2018 CORPORATE CLUB

2018 MEDIA SPONSORS

Moffly Media — publisher of Greenwich, Westport, New Canaan- WSHU is a non-profit, listener-supported group of public radio Darien, Stamford, and athome magazines — celebrates community stations whose mission is to be a unique and independent voice with excellence in design and editorial as well as online content, in our community. Every day, we engage listeners through a custom events and philanthropic partnerships. range of thoughtful programming that includes NPR News, award-winning local news, entertainment and classical music. www.wshu.org.

2018 TECHNOLOGY SPONSOR

2018 IN-KIND SUPPORT

Castle Wine and Spirits is proud to be a Hilton Garden Inn believes that the arts The Westport Inn is well known for its sponsor of Westport Country Playhouse. are the fabric of our society and make contemporary New England hospitality. They have been meeting the needs of a community a better place to live and This boutique hotel offers richly their customers and their community for work. After an evening at the theater, appointed rooms with luxurious bedding more than 20 years. The knowledgeable spend the night at the nearby Hilton and onsite dining. Visit www.wesportinn. staff can assist you find something to Garden Inn Norwalk and discover why com or call 203-557-8124 to receive the enjoy from their more than 1500 wines, they were voted Best Hotel 7 years in a Playhouse’s preferred rate. hundreds of spirits and an extensive row. Free shuttles to the Playhouse. Visit selection of craft beers. Make Castle at norwalkhilton.com or call 203-523-4000. 1439 Post Road East your one-stop wine and beverage shop.

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We hope to make your experience here as enjoyable as possible. If you need assistance, please notify the house manager or a member of the staff.

Westport Country Playhouse 25 Powers Court | Westport, CT 06880 BOX OFFICE: (203) 227-4177 westportplayhouse.org

Photo: Robert Benson

BOX OFFICE HOURS EMERGENCY CONTACT 12PM–6PM Tuesday–Friday (and through Babysitters or other emergency contacts may show time on performance days) call the house manager during the performance 11AM–8:30PM Saturday performance days at (203) 227-5137 x196. Please have contacts provide the location of your seats. 11AM–3:30PM Sunday performance days CLOSED Other Saturdays, Sundays, Mondays CONCESSIONS Tickets available online 24 hours a day: A variety of food and beverages are available westportplayhouse.org for purchase at the Playhouse concessions stand on the orchestra level of the lobby. ELECTRONIC DEVICES Beverages are only allowed in the theater in For the enjoyment of all patrons, please silence a souvenir glass purchased at concessions. all cell phones, pagers, and electronic devices No food is allowed in the theater. while in the theater. If you use your phone during intermission, please remember to ACCESSIBILITY silence it for the remainder of the performance. A number of accessible seats for patrons with ASSISTED LISTENING DEVICES mobility requirements are available throughout the theater. A limited number of infrared assisted listening devices are available from the box office to aid If you require an accessible seat, please contact in your enjoyment of the performance. the house manager.

PHOTOGRAPHY The use of photographic or recording devices The Playhouse is a non-profit theater, is strictly prohibited. and can only survive with the PLEASE NOTE: The audience may be generous support of donors like you. photographed by Playhouse staff for archival Please make your gift today. and publicity purposes. If you prefer that your likeness not appear in Playhouse materials, Contact Aline O’Connor please notify the house manager. [email protected] | 203 571 1138

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