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The Complete Text: CHILDREN OF ANGELS EVERY DAY IS OPENING NIGHT TURNING NASHVILLE’S TCG MOMENT INTO NEW-PLAY MOMENTUM TCG’s Leaders of Color PLUS: GALA Martha Rivers Ingram, FEBRUARY 4, 2019 THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP Tony Kushner, Rick Miramontez Congratulations, Rick, on a well-deserved honor. Scott, Eli, and Adam TABLE OF CONTENTS VOL.1 NO.1 FEBRUARY2019 18 LEADERS OF COLOR TCG is proud to be celebrating its long-standing commitment to EVENT advancing leaders of color in the theatre fi eld ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TCG would like to thank 22 CHILDREN OF ANGELS the following for their A generation of playwrights refl ects on a play help in making this event that still sets the bar high for their work a success! Christopher Anselmo Emily Breeze Alexandra B. Burlason Sean Campbell Hunter Chancellor Nolan Doran Samara Finkle Tara Groft Keith Hallworth Zach Hunt 32 TURNING NASHVILLE’S MOMENT Michael Jorgensen INTO NEW-PLAY MOMENTUM Renee Salem Plays in Nashville Rep’s Ingram New Works Lab go from seedling Jean Spooner Carr to sapling Suzanne Tobak 36 EVERYDAY IS OPENING NIGHT Cristina Vivenzio Jordan Roth interviews Rick Miramontez EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Teresa Eyring DEPUTY DIRECTOR AND CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER Adrian Budhu SINCE 1961, THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP, THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR U.S. THEATRE, HAS EXISTED TO STRENGTHEN, NURTURE, AND PROMOTE DEPARTMENTS THE PROFESSIONAL NOT-FOR-PROFIT 2 WELCOME 14 ENTRANCES, featuring THEATRE. 4 TCG BOARD OF DIRECTORS Gala Co-Chairs, Presenters, and NATIONAL COUNCIL and Director Theatre Communications Group FOR THE AMERICAN 28 DONORS 520 Eighth Avenue, 24th Floor, THEATRE 42 ABOUT TCG New York, NY 10018-4156 HONOREES www.tcg.org 6 MARTHA RIVERS INGRAM 8 TONY KUSHNER 10 RICK MIRAMONTEZ HONORING Martha Rivers Ingram Tony Kushner Rick Miramontez CELEBRATING TCG Programs Committed to Advancing Leaders of Color in the Field February 4, 2019 Edison Ballroom—New York City GALA CO-CHAIRS Jacob G. Padrón Jordan Roth & Richie Jackson Thomas Schumacher & Matthew White Liesl Tommy DIRECTED BY MUSICAL DIRECTION BY Michael Mayer Christopher D. Littlefield ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGEMENT Nolan Doran Rebecca Marzalek-Kelly FEATURING PERFORMANCES BY Beth Malone Patrick Page Nico Muhly Ali Stroker Eva Maria Noblezada MUSICIANS Monica Davis, Violin; Brian Hamm, Bass; Jay Mack, Drums TCG would like to thank Boulevard Carroll Entertainment Group, Mara Issacs, and Eva Price for helping to make this evening’s entertainment possible. WELCOME Our Stories Dear Martha, Rick & Tony, Eyring Budhu Lipuma HEN DID IT HAPPEN FOR YOU? WAS IT WHEN for those who have historically been marginalized. you’d barely reached age six, and your parents took you to With your support tonight, we will continue to serve A standing ovation to each of you! a play for young audiences? Was it when you acted in that over 700 member theatres and Affi liate organizations and unforgettable high school production? Or couldn’t put down thousands of individuals nationwide. We recommit to that script you were assigned in college? Or was it later, when programs that strengthen an intergenerational network of Your vision and commitment have a play or new musical gave you a brand-new perspective on leaders of color who are changing the face of theatre. You’re Wthe history of our country or your local community? We all also supporting our arts advocacy efforts in Washington strengthened our national theater have our own theatre origin stories; those moments when we D.C.; the TCG Books program, which includes 16 Pulitzer became theatre people. Tonight, we celebrate three luminaries Prizes for Drama and features 400 active titles in circulation whose work has launched countless theatre origin stories: to students and theatre lovers across the globe; our Veterans community. Congratulations! Martha R. Ingram, Tony Kushner, and Rick Miramontez. and Theatre Institute; the Audience (R)Evolution program, For whether it’s the joyful awe of watching Prior and so much more. wrestle The Angel in Kushner’s Angels in America, or the In the pages of this program, and in the stories you hear obsessive glee of listening to soundtracks from Miramontez- tonight, the power and potential of our theatre movement And bravo to TCG, for their commitment represented hits like Dear Evan Hansen and Kinky Boots, will resonate. We want to personally thank our co-chairs or the spectacular thrill of entering one of the many Jacob G. Padrón, Jordan Roth and Richie Jackson, Thomas cultural spaces made possible by Ingram’s philanthropy, Schumacher and Matthew White, and Liesl Tommy; director to advancing leaders of color in the their work has collectively called thousands of theatre Michael Mayer, as well as the performers and presenters, people into being. and all of you for helping us celebrate. theater world! At TCG, we believe that call belongs to all of us. The So we ask you again: when did it happen? When did story of the American theatre movement is full of inspiring you become a theatre person? Hold that moment in your examples of courage and ingenuity, artistry and community mind and remember just how much theatre can matter. activism. In 60 years or so, our movement has produced a rich How it can, in the words of Angels in America, grant us and interdependent theatre ecology. At the same time, our “more life.” Then let’s raise our glasses to our honorees, story has countless examples of inequity. And we are called and as we celebrate our time together, help bring about to create a more equitable and diverse theatre landscape by TCG’s vision of a better world for theatre, and a better world raising awareness and building resources and opportunity because of theatre. Brian Stokes Mitchell Teresa Eyring Adrian Budhu Kathryn M. Lipuma Chairman Executive Director/CEO Deputy Director/COO Chair, TCG Board of Directors Joseph P. Benincasa President & CEO 2 OURSTORIES FEBRUARY19 WE CELEBRATE THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP FOR ITS DEDICATED SERVICE TO AMERICAN THEATRE AND SEND OUR CONGRATULATIONS TO THIS YEAR’S HONOREES TONY KUSHNER, RICK MIRAMONTEZ, AND MARTHA R. INGRAM YOUR FRIENDS AT AMBASSADOR THEATRE GROUP TCG BOARD OF DIRECTORS TCG Board members represent a broad cross-section of the American theatre field and professional perspectives. They are united by their belief in TCG’s mission and dedicated to building a bond between TCG and the national theatre community. WE CELEBRATE THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP Kathryn M. Lipuma, Chair Larissa FastHorse, Vice Chair Meghan Pressman, Vice Chair Ellen Richard, Treasurer Eileen J. Morris, Secretary FOR ITS DEDICATED SERVICE TO AMERICAN THEATRE Christopher Acebo, Associate Artistic Director; Benita Hofstetter Koman, Executive Director; Oregon Shakespeare Festival The Roy Cockrum Foundation Joseph P. Benincasa, President and CEO; The Actors Fund Kathryn M. Lipuma, Executive Director; Writers Theatre Raymond Bobgan, Executive Artistic Director; Cleveland Public Theatre Laurie McCants, Co-Founder; Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble Jeremy B. Cohen, Producing Artistic Director; Johamy Morales, Education Director; Creede Reportory Theatre AND SEND OUR CONGRATULATIONS The Playwrights’ Center Kevin Moriarty, Artistic Director; Dallas Theater Center Kristen Coury, Founder and Producing Artistic Director; Eileen J. Morris, Artistic Director; The Ensemble Theatre Gulfshore Playhouse TO THIS YEAR’S HONOREES Lisa Portes, Head of Directing; The Theatre School at DePaul University Joshua Dachs, President; Fisher Dachs Associates Theatre Planning and Design Meghan Pressman, Managing Director; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Will Davis, Director & Choreographer Randy Reyes, Artistic Director; Theater Mu Snehal Desai, Producing Artistic Director; East West Players Francine T. Reynolds, Artistic Director; New Stage Theatre Kelvin Dinkins, Assistant Dean/General Manager; TONY KUSHNER, RICK MIRAMONTEZ, Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre Ellen Richard, Executive Director; Laguna Playhouse Teresa Eyring, Executive Director; Theatre Communications Group Blake Robison, Artistic Director; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park Larissa FastHorse, Playwright and Choreographer Nikkole Salter, Actor, Playwright, and Advocate AND MARTHA R. INGRAM Nataki Garrett, Producer and Director Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Playwrights Horizons Derek Goldman, Co-Founding Director; Laboratory for Global Carlo Scandiuzzi, Philanthropist, Executive, and Community Leader Performance and Politics; Director, Playwright/Adapter, Professor David Schmitz, Executive Director; Steppenwolf Theatre Company Jamie Herlich, Director of Development; Seattle Repertory Theatre Harold Steward, Interim Executive Director; The Theater Offensive Susan Hilferty, Costume and Set Designer Robert P. Warren, President; The William & Eva Fox Foundation Rebecca Hopkins, Managing Director; Florida Studio Theatre NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE AMERICAN THEATRE Composed of leading trustees from member theatres across the country, the National Council for the American Theatre guides TCG’s programs on governance and board development, and serves as a “brain trust” for the organization. YOUR FRIENDS AT For information on joining the National Council, please contact Adrian Budhu, Deputy Director and COO: [email protected]. * Judith O. Rubin, Council Chair; Playwrights Horizons Myla Lerner, Lean Ensemble Theater David Shiffrin, Arena Stage AMBASSADOR THEATRE GROUP * Eve Alvord, Seattle Children’s Theatre Gail Lopes, Oregon Shakespeare Festival * Jaan Whitehead, The SITI Company Roger J.