To Let Go and Fall Written by Harrison David Rivers Original Music by Cellists Jacqueline Ultan and Michelle Kinney

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Pictured: Tyler Michaels King. Photo credit Allen Weeks credit Michaels King. Photo Tyler Pictured: TO LET GO AND FALL WRITTEN BY HARRISON DAVID RIVERS ORIGINAL MUSIC BY CELLISTS JACQUELINE ULTAN AND MICHELLE KINNEY

DIRECTED BY SHERRI EDEN BARBER CHOREOGRAPHY BY PENELOPE FREEH MAY 29 - JUNE 30, 2019 • RITZ THEATER Theater Latté Da presents the World Premiere of TO LET GO AND FALL Written By Harrison David Rivers Original Music by Cellists Jacqueline Ultan† and Michelle Kinney†

Directed by Sherri Eden Barber** Choreography by Penelope Freeh

FEATURING Mark Benninghofen*, Austen Fisher, Conner Horak, JuCoby Johnson*, Da’Rius Malone, Tyler Michaels King*, Jon-Michael Reese*, and André Shoals*

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors **Member of SDC, the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union †Member of Twin Cities Musicians Union, American Federation of Musicians

Opening Night: Saturday, June 1 at 7:30 pm ASL Interpreted and Audio Described Performance: Thursday, June 13 at 7:30 pm

Post-show Conversations: Thursday evenings June 6, 13, 20 and 27 Sunday afternoons June 2, 9, 16, 23

TO LET GO AND FALL was developed and originally produced by Theater Latté Da, Peter Rothstein, Artistic Director.

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2 TO LET GO AND FALL Written by Harrison David Rivers Original Music by Cellists Jacqueline Ultan† and Michelle Kinney† Directed by Sherri Eden Barber** Choreography by Penelope Freeh

THE COMPANY THE PRODUCTION TEAM

Arthur, 51 ...... André Shoals* Director...... Sherri Eden Barber** Playwright...... Todd, 51 ...... Mark Benninghofen* Harrison David Rivers † Co-Composer/Cellist...... Michelle Kinney Arthur, 25 ...... JuCoby Johnson* † Co-Composer/Cellist...... Jacqueline Ultan Todd, 25 ...... Tyler Michaels King* Choreographer...... Penelope Freeh

Arthur, 16 ...... Jon-Michael Reese* Dramaturg...... Elissa Adams Scenic Designer ...... Maruti Evans*** Todd, 16...... Austen Fisher Costume Designer ...... Sarah Bahr Dancer ...... Conner Horak Lighting Designer ...... Mary Shabatura

Dancer ...... Da’Rius Malone Sound Designer ...... Kevin Springer Wig and Hair Designer ...... Paul Bigot Fight Director ...... Annie Enneking Projections Designer ...... Kathy Maxwell SETTING Projections Videographer ...... Maxwell Collyard Stage Manager ...... Todd Kalina* Outside of the Vivian Beaumont Theater Assistant Stage Manager ...... Kyla Moloney New York City, New York Sub. Stage Manager ...... D. Marie Long* Technical Director ...... Bethany Reinfeld Properties Master ...... Abbee Warmboe Asst. to the Director ...... Kari Olk Costume Design Asst...... Ash Kaun Wardrobe...... Carrie Monroe Master Electrician ...... Micayla Thebault-Spieker Asst. Master Electrician ...... Nick Fetting Audio Engineer ...... Phillip O’Toole Sub. Audio Engineer ...... John Acarregui Master Carpenter ...... Eric Charlton Projections Head ...... Emmet Kowler Scenic Charge ...... Angelique Powers *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors **Member of SDC, the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, Stage Management Intern ...... Emily Anna Bierbrauer a national theatrical labor union † Carpenters ...... Whitley Cobb, Matt Boerst, Member of Twin Cities Musicians Union, American Federation of Musicians Teresa Nelson ***Member of USA, United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829 of the IATSE is the union representing Scenic, Costume, Lighting, Sound and Projection designers in Live Electricians ...... Kit Baumer, Jeremy Ellarby Performance. Paul Epton, Claudia Errickson, Dan Featherstone, Mairead Koehler, Joanna McLarnan, Grant Merges Projections Technicians...... Jeremy Ellarby, Kassia Lisinski, Ray Steveson

THEATER LATTÉ DA • LATTEDA.ORG 3 LETTERS FROM THE CREATIVE TEAM

In its way, To Let Go and Fall is a love letter

To dance And to the discipline and devotion that it takes to be great

To music And especially to the cello, which sounds closest to the human voice

To first love To John Cage and Merce Cunningham, those great lovers To Christopher Bineham, my great love And to all great loves

To fear and regret And more so, to second chances

To those who we have loved who are no longer with us To those who were taken by disease And to those who live with it every day - Harrison David Rivers, Playwright

This is a moment for us to be together, to be present with these words and these people. A meditation on courage, on love, on knowing that time is our most precious resource, and a reminder to act bravely. This show is a space for everyone. We welcome and invite all forms of genuine response to the play.

For all our great loves, for the moments we held each other and time stood still. For those we lost—your breath sways through the leaves, your memory will always be reflected in the world around as your presence continues to move through us like the bowing of a cello.

Thank you for joining us.

- Sherri Eden Barber, Director

Composing the music for Harrison David Rivers’ beautiful story was an inspiring and rewarding experience, (as was working on the production with this gifted and fun cast and crew)! In May, we recorded a CD of the music composed for this production. It will be on sale in the theater lobby before and after all performances. You may also purchase a digital download of the music on our website: Jelloslavemusic.com. We would love for you to visit our site, get to know us, and sign up for our email list to be notified about our shows and projects. Our future plan is to record a full-length album of the music composed for To Let Go and Fall, orchestrated for our band Jelloslave, featuring our two cellos, plus Tablas and drums.

- Jacqueline Ultan and Michelle Kinney Cellists/Composers Jelloslave

4 TO LET GO AND FALL ABOUT THEATER LATTÉ DA

TYLER MICHAELS KING AS HEDWIG IN HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH Founded in 1998, Theater Latté Da is in its 21st season of PHOTO BY DAN NORMAN presenting original and re-imagined musical theater. Our Mission Theater Latté Da (TLD) seeks to create new connections between story, music, artist, and audience by exploring and expanding the art of musical Theater Latté Da seeks to create new connections theater. TLD is dedicated to expanding the American Musical Theater with between story, music, artist, and audience by work that speaks to a contemporary audience. Theater Latté Da has fostered innovation and diversity since its conception. We believe in work that is exploring and expanding the art of musical theater. bold and collaborative; we act with integrity and gratitude. These values are integral to the organization’s health and drives the discussion at every stage of decision-making. Through productions that transcend the conventional, Our Values the organization helps solidify the Twin Cities’ reputation as a place where progressive art plays a vital role. We believe in work that is bold and collaborative; we act with integrity and gratitude. Theater Latté Da is the leading nonprofit professional theater in the Twin Cities that exclusively produces musical theater. Since its inception, TLD has BOLD We make bold choices in support of our mission and vision, both on and off stage. By illuminating the unseen, presented 75 Mainstage productions, including 11 world premieres and 12 area giving voice to the unheard, and empathizing with the premieres. Each has garnered critical acclaim and earned its artists and TLD a unknown, we open eyes, ears and hearts. host of awards, including: seven IVEY Awards for overall excellence, National Endowment for the Arts, the Gabriel Award for Broadcast Excellence, and COLLABORATIVE We believe musical theater to be the most the American Theater Wing National Theater Company Award. In addition collaborative of art forms, incorporating music, drama, to our Twin Cities presence, TLD’s original production All is Calm: The poetry, dance and design. We are inspired and strengthened Christmas Truce of 1914 celebrated its 12th anniversary with a North American through inclusive partnerships with artists, organizations and tour and an Off-Broadway debut at the Sheen Center in New York City this our diverse community, and embody a collaborative spirit in past November and December. TLD’s provocative staging of Ragtime was all we do. remounted at the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle, Washington in October 2017, INTEGRITY We hold ourselves to the highest standards of artistic and Asolo Repertory Theater in Florida in May 2018. TLD’S production of and fiscal integrity. We are committed to honesty, equality and Sweeney Todd was remounted at Asolo Repertory in May 2019. transparency in all aspects of our administration and art.

Since 1998, TLD has performed in venues throughout the Twin Cities, ranging GRATITUDE We are grateful for our artists, audiences, donors, from the intimate 120-seat Loring Playhouse to the historic Pantages Theater board and staff. We recognize that each individual plays an in downtown Minneapolis. To deepen our relationship with Twin Cities important role in this organization’s success, and we actively audiences and to better reach the communities we serve, Latté Da decided to seek out opportunities to acknowledge each person’s make a permanent home in northeast Minneapolis. In 2016, TLD became the contribution. proud owner of the historic Ritz Theater, a 240-seat theater with administrative offices, rehearsal space, dressing rooms, and box office.

THEATER LATTÉ DA • LATTEDA.ORG 5 STEP FORWARD

dancer as the antithesis of conventional masculinity, yet the culture inside ballet can still be somewhat bro-y.

As a ballet student in Sweden, the dancer Pontus Lidberg, 41, had a hypermasculine, almost cartoonish notion of what a ballerino should be — the guy who pulls up to the theater on a motorcycle, muscles his way through “Quixote” and caps off the evening with a ballerina. This was the dominant narrative in the 1990s, when only a few male dancers were openly gay. He sees it as part of the aftermath of the AIDS epidemic that killed so many artists, including, in 1993, ballet’s global celebrity, Rudolf Nureyev, who cracked the door to his closet but never fully emerged from it. “I had no role models,” Lidberg says. “I had to create that myself.” Lidberg has since become a leading choreographer around the world, developing works for companies such as City Ballet and the Royal Danish Ballet... On a muggy afternoon in Harlem, Preston Chamblee, 23, a member of New York City Ballet since 2015, says to Like the dancers he mentors, Lidberg is part of a cohort me, “I hope to be part of a generation that can change the of choreographers (some of whom are straight) expanding boundaries of what ballet can do, a generation that says ballet by telling new stories….Watching ballet is ultimately we’re going to represent everyone, not just the stories that ephemeral — “an experience that can never be relived,” have been told before.” Lidberg says. So, too, is the body, especially the dancer’s. “Aging is very real, and for the dancer, it happens very If you didn’t know much about classical ballet, you might quickly.” Rather than lamenting this, he embraces it, filming think it’s an obvious home for queer artists and narratives, his work and releasing it on social media. In his 2007 ballet but it’s more complicated than that: Ballet, of course, film, The Rain, he dances a pas de deux with a close male has always had gay dancers and choreographers and friend in a downpour to Doris Day’s Perhaps, Perhaps, homoeroticism, but it’s an artistic discipline shaped by Perhaps (1965). “My identity as a gay man has many layers,” tradition. The canon is small; the institutions are formal and Lidberg adds. He also tries to convey something he rarely steeped in history; and the masters who cast the principal sees in ballet — not just sexuality, but companionship and male roles — Romeo, Don Quixote, Prince Siegfried in tenderness between men. In other words, love. Swan Lake — sometimes select dancers who embody the conventional male hero, onstage and off. To have a public queer identity, or to be perceived as too effeminate, can still Excerpted from “How a Group of Gay Male Ballet Dancers is affect a dancer’s ability to land these lead roles. It’s one of Rethinking Masculinity” by David Ebershoff for theNew York Times. ballet’s ironies — the outside world has long viewed the male

THE ROLE OF MUSIC IN TO LET GO AND FALL

Theater Latté Da commissioned cellists Jacqueline Ultan and Michelle Kinney to create a score specifically for this and fighting with each other. I think you really hear that in production. Here they discuss how the score echoes both the music. There’s a lot of really interconnected harmony the play and their own artistic relationship. and interconnected tension.

The two of us have been performing and composing “The music for this play is not “soundtrack” music. It’s really together for years and, in a way, we have a relationship that a part of the story. The play is based on two characters, is similar to Todd and Arthur’s. It’s built over time and, Arthur and Todd, and as composers and performers, we are like any relationship, lots of struggle and lots of wonderful two voices, so a lot of the time we were thinking about those experiences, and we just keep going and it keeps growing.” two characters coming together in harmony, but also at odds

6 TO LET GO AND FALL STEP FORWARD CAGE AND CUNNINGHAM

I don’t know: this gravity elastic feeling to let go and fall together with you is one thing, but it is better to live exactly where you are with as many permanent emotions in you as you can muster. Talking to myself.

Your spirit is with me. Did you send it or do I just have it?

A letter from John Cage to Merce Cunningham, dated June 28, 1943

The title ofTo Let Go and Fall is drawn from a letter written by John Cage to his lover and artistic soul mate, Merce Cunningham. Throughout the play, Todd and Arthur take inspiration from these artists and their relationship.

John Cage (1912-1992,) was an American avant-garde composer whose inventive compositions and unorthodox ideas profoundly influenced mid-20th-century music; Merce Cunningham (1919 – 2009) was an American modern dancer and choreographer who developed new forms of abstract dance movement. Cage and Cunningham met as young men and quickly formed an artistic and romantic partnership that carried them through the rest of their lives. Together they innovated and explored broadly across the mediums of both dance and music, testing the boundaries of what sound and movement could be and how music, dance and visual art could intersect and relate.

John Cage’s letters to Merce Cunningham were found among Cunningham’s personal papers shortly after his death in 2009. THE ROLE OF MUSIC IN TO LET GO AND FALL In eleven beautiful letters written to Cunningham over the span of two years, from 1943 – 1944, Cage shows himself to be a man who has fallen deeply in love. His letters are passionate, distraught, talkative, romantic, and confused, and occasionally contain snippets of poetry and song. John Cage and Merce Cunningham at Black Mountain College, 1948 (Photograph courtesy of the John Cage Trust) Cage’s letters have been recently collected and published as The Selected Letters of John Cage, edited by Laura Kuhn.

THEATER LATTÉ DA • LATTEDA.ORG 7 TO LET GO AND FALL and the AIDS EPIDEMIC

In To Let Go and Fall, we see Todd and Arthur at three different life stages (ages 16, 25, and 51), in three different calendar years (1982; 1991/1992, and 2017), always in the same spot—at Lincoln Center’s Paul Milstein Pool & Terrace in New York City. The timeline of their relationship is echoed by the rise of the AIDS epidemic, which struck gay men in New York City with particular force during the 1980s and 1990s. 1981 • In 1981, cases of a rare form of pneumonia and an unusually aggressive cancer start popping up in previously healthy gay men in New York and California. By the end of 1981, there are 270 reported cases of immune-deficiency in gay men, almost half of whom have died.

1982 Todd and Arthur (Age 16) • The Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC ), the first community-based AIDS service provider in the United States, is founded in New York City. Volunteer Rodger McFarlane sets up a GMHC information and counseling hotline on his home phone—he receives 100 phone calls from worried gay men the first night. • It is discovered that the immune-deficiency seems to be linked to sexual activity and it is dubbed gay-related immune deficiency and the CDC uses the term AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) for the first time. U.S. YEAR-END STATISTICS for 1982: 771 cases of AIDS reported to date, 618 deaths.

1991 Todd and Arthur (Age 25) • The CDC reports that one million Americans are infected with HIV. • Earvin “Magic” Johnson announces that he is infected with HIV. • The red ribbon is introduced as a symbol of hope and compassion in the face of AIDS. • WHO estimates that nearly 10 million people are infected with HIV worldwide. • Freddy Mercury dies of AIDS. U.S. YEAR-END STATISTICS for 1991: 206,563 cases of AIDS reported to date, 156,143 deaths. 1992

• Both the Democratic and Republican national conventions are addressed by HIV-positive women. • The first clinical trial of combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) begins. • In New York City, amfAR undertakes the largest and most comprehensive study of syringe exchange programs in the U.S. The research is designed to provide solid data on which to base future public policy. • President Clinton establishes a new White House Office of National AIDS Policy. • Alison Gertz, Tina Chow, and Anthony Perkins die of AIDS. U.S. YEAR-END STATISTICS for 1992: 254,147 cases of AIDS reported to date, 194,476 deaths.

2017 Todd and Arthur (Age 51) • 1.1 Million people are living in the U.S. with HIV/AIDS. • The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announces that it will invest $140 million in a new HIV-prevention tool. The funds will go to develop implants that can deliver HIV-prevention medication continuously over a long period of time—eliminating the need for people to take daily preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP). • Broadway composer and lyricist Michael Friedman dies of AIDS-related illness at age 41. His death is a shocking reminder to many that HIV continues to be deadly—even for well-to-do, white men with good health insurance. • The New York Times reports that, as a group, America’s black gay and bisexual men have a higher HIV prevalence rate than any nation in the world.

8 TO LET GO AND FALL TO LET GO AND FALL and the AIDS EPIDEMIC THE ARTISTIC GENERATION LOST TO AIDS

Dancers, in the pursuit of the joy of dance, undergo a Ulysses Dove, and Arnie Zane, not to mention dancers from hailstorm of hardships: bodily injuries, scrawny salaries, and every major dance company in the country. And what about a cruelly short career span. But no one could have foretold the local dance teachers and directors who seemed to disappear the medical nightmare that raged during the last two overnight, their cause of death obscured by fear of scandal? It decades of the 20th century, when AIDS assaulted the dance is incumbent upon all of us to never forget the impact of AIDS, community. how we reeled in its wake, and what might have been.

For those too young to remember, hardly a day went by when What have we learned from this tragedy? Hopefully to studios and theaters weren’t haunted by whispered stories demonstrate more compassion towards others, to never judge of dancers succumbing to AIDS-related pneumonia, brain anyone for a disease, to never be complacent about health tumors, or a deadly lymphoma. Friends vanished so quickly issues, to appreciate the wisdom of those who are here with us that mourning was equated with numbness. now. And to develop the vigilance to never allow the ambush of something like AIDS to decimate our ranks on our watch. And among those were the dancers, choreographers, teachers, and so many others who were invaluable to the field, including -Joseph Carman; Dance Magazine, August 2007 Alvin Ailey, Rudolf Nureyev, Michael Bennett, Robert Joffrey,

The images that make up the background of these pages represent just a portion of the artists that were lost to H.I.V./AIDS-related causes throughout the 1980’s and 90’s in New York City. Thessaly La Force’s photo memorial, Those We Lost to the AIDS Epidemic, can be viewed on the New York Times website.

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Recent: Tiny Performance with departmental honors, Sweeney Todd, Cabaret, Spring Awakening; Beautiful Things(Pasadena Playhouse), good Butler University. THEATER: Guthrie Theater: West Side friday (The Flea Theater), Only You Can Story, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, My Fair Prevent Wildfires (Ricochet Collective – Lady, A Christmas Carol; Ordway: West Side Teatro Circulo), Happily After Ever (Ricochet Story, 42nd Street (upcoming); Children’s Collective – 59E59, Edinburgh Fringe), Gordy Theater Company: Peter Pan the Musical; Crashes (Ricochet Collective – IRT), Mr. Chanhassen Dinner Theatres: Hello Dolly!, Landing Takes A Fall (The Flea),Esperanza The Little Mermaid, Mary Poppins, Fiddler on Spalding’s Emily’s D+Evolution (Development

10 TO LET GO AND FALL on European Tour), Herman Kline’s Midlife original compositions in the sextet What We Minnesota Orchestra, Mu Performing Arts, Crisis (The Beckett), Monstrosity, Polaroid Have Here, and in Maithree, a cross-cultural Nautilus Music-Theater, Park Square Theatre, Stories, and BENT (The New School for collaboration with South Indian Veena Skylark Opera Theatre, VocalEssence, Zenon Drama), The Lightning Thief (Theatreworks virtuoso Nirmala Rajasekar. Recognition Dance Company; PERFORMER: James USA), 24 Hour Plays on Broadway with and support for Michelle’s work has come Sewell Ballet 1994-2011; RECOGNITION: Pablo Schreiber, Laverne Cox, and Melanie from the McKnight Foundation (Composer McKnight Fellow for Choreography (2010, Griffith (American Airlines Theatre), Men On Fellowship), Metropolitan Regional Arts 2014), McKnight Fellow for Dancers (1998) Boats (Yale Dramat). She has developed new Council, the Bush Foundation (Bush Sage Awards: Outstanding Performer (2010), work with Rattlestick, Orchard Project, The Artists Fellowship), the Jerome Foundation, Best Overall Design for Test Pilot, original Flea, Culture Project, Chautauqua, and The MN State Arts Board (a touring grant for dance opera created with composer Jocelyn Old Vic. Sherri is a recipient of The Eugene Jelloslave), NEA/Rockefeller, Harvestworks/ Hagen (2015); EDUCATION: Dance MFA O’Neill Theater Center’s National Directors Studio Pass, and the American Composers candidate, Hollins University. Fellowship, the Core Company Director Forum. Training and education: BA, for The Orchard Project, a Drama League Northwestern University, MA New York ELISSA ADAMS Directing Fellow, and recipient of the US/UK University. SHE/HER/HERS (DRAMATURG) Exchange Award. RicochetCollective.com | THEATER LATTÉ DA: SherriEdenBarber.com JACQUELINE ULTAN C., Lullaby, Assassins, Five SHE/HER/HERS (CO- Points, Underneath the HARRISON DAVID COMPOSER/CELLIST) Cellist Lintel, Once, A Little Night RIVERS HE/HIM/HIS and composer Jacqueline Music, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, NEXT (PLAYWRIGHT) is the winner Ultan is a singularly Festival (Producer); THEATER: Director of of the 2018 Relentless Award creative artist who’s unique New Play Development at Children’s Theatre for his play the bandaged versatility is reflected in the diversity of her Company (1998- 2017); Sundance Theatre place. His other plays artistic collaborations: urban groove trio Lab; Playwrights’ Center; TRAINING: MFA include This Bitter Earth (World Premiere - Saltee; drum/cello quartet Jelloslave; pop in Dramaturgy UC San Diego New Conservatory Theatre Center, Penumbra band The Starfolk; improvising collective Theater Company, MN Theatre Award for Sans le System/iNMiGRATiON; flute/cello MARUTI EVANS Exceptional New Work), Where Storms Are duo J2J; Douglas Ewarts’ Quasar and world HE/HIM/HIS (SCENIC Born (World Premiere - Williamstown Theater music trio Ottie The Mink. In demand DESIGNER) THEATER Festival, Edgerton Foundation New Play locally and nationally, Ultan has recorded and LATTÉ DA: Debut; Award, Berkshire Theatre Award Nom.), When collaborated extensively with theater, pop, THEATER: Real Enemies Last We Flew (World Premiere - Diversionary rock, and new music artists, including Kill (BAM), Epiphany (BAM), Theatre, GLAAD Award) and the musical The Vultures, Roma di Luna, The Jayhawks, Else Where (BAM), LEIDERABEND (BAM Five Points (World Premiere - Theater Latté Dan Wilson, E. Carlos Nakai, Huun Hur + LA PHIL), Ogresse ( Kennedy Center, Jazz Da, MN Theatre Award for Exceptional New Tu and Kevin Kling. Ultan has received at Lincoln Center, Met Measume), Sweeny Work, BroadwayWorld Award for Best New several awards and commissions including Todd (Virginia Opera), Witness Uganda Work). Harrison was named a Runner-up for a McKnight Performing Artist Fellowship; (ART), Mouth Wide Open (ART), Much Ado the 2018 Artist of the Year by the Minneapolis MacPhail Artist and Commissioning Grants; About Nothing (McCarter Theater), Master Star Tribune and a 2017 Artist of the Year MRAC’s Next Step; and a State Arts Board and Margarita (Summer Scape), An Oresteia by City Pages. He has received McKnight Arts Tour MN grant. She has also composed (Classic Stage Co), Crowns (Goodman and Many Voices Jerome Fellowships, a Van music for and participated in TED Talks Theater), Peculiar Patriot (NBT), Kill Move Lier Fellowship, an Emerging Artist of Color Conferences in Minneapolis and Los Angeles. Paradise (NBT), This Bitter Earth (Penumbra Fellowship and New York Stage & Film’s A dedicated teacher, Ultan is on the faculty Theater), Ballad of Emmett Till (Penumbra Founders’ Award. A member of the Board of MacPhail’s Center for Music and holds Theater), Owl Answers and the Dutchman of Directors at the Playwrights’ Center. a Masters Degree in Performance from Yale (Penumbra Theater); AWARDS: Drama Desk TRAINING: M.F.A, Columbia University. University. Awards for Tiny Dynamite & Pilo Family Circus; Drama Desk nominations: Peculiar MICHELLE KINNEY PENELOPE FREEH Patriot, Kill Move Paradise, Deliverance, In the SHE/HER/HERS (CO- SHE/HER/HERS Heat of the Night, Slaughterhouse 5, Blindness; COMPOSER/CELLIST) co-leads (CHOREOGRAPHER) Hewes Award nominations: Deliverance, Kill the 2-cellos and tabla/ THEATER LATTÉ Move Paradise; Audelco nominations: Kill drum quartet Jelloslave, DA: Debut; Move Paradise, The Peculiar Patriot, Relativity, which has made 2 critically CHOREOGRAPHY: Dead and Breathing; IRNE nominee: Witness acclaimed recordings and is anticipating the Gilbert and Sullivan Very Light Opera Uganda. soon to be released Suite from the music Company, James Sewell Ballet, Lyric Arts for Theater Latte Da’s production of To Let Main Street Stage, Minnesota Ballet, Go and Fall. Michelle also performs her Minnesota Dance Theatre, Minnesota Opera,

THEATER LATTÉ DA • LATTEDA.ORG 11 BIOGRAPHIES

SARAH BAHR Night, Romeo and Juliet; Swandive Theatre: Sometimes There’s Wine, Henry and Alice: Into SHE/HER/HERS (COSTUME Monster, Defying Gravity, An Outopia for the Wild; (as Run Crew) Baskerville: A Sherlock DESIGNER) THEATER Pigeons; Workhaus Collective: Feast of Wolves, Holmes Mystery, Pirates of Penzance, Amy’s View, LATTÉ DA: Debut; The Mill; TRAINING: M.F.A Theater Design Of Mice and Men; History Theatre (as Head THEATER: Jungle Theater: and Technology, University of Minnesota Spot Op) Teen Idol: The Bobby Vee Story, Orphan Small Mouth Sounds, Wolves, Train; (as Board Op) Stewardess!, Paper Dreams of The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberly, Hand KATHY MAXWELL Harry Chin; Penumbra Theatre: (as Asst. Video to God, Lonestar Spirits, Anna in the Tropics; SHE/HER/HERS (PROJECTIONS Design) This Bitter Earth; Climb Theatre: (as Penumbra: This Bitter Earth, Joy Rebel; Ten DESIGNER) THEATER Video Designer) 2019 Spring Season, 2019-2020 Thousand Things: The Sins of Sor Juana; LATTÉ DA: Underneath Season. Mixed Blood: Roe; Yellow Tree Theater: the Lintel; Hedwig and the Flowers for the Room, String, One Man Two Angry Inch; THEATER: ABBEE WARMBOE Guvnors; Trademark Theater: Understood, Penumbra Theatre: Girl Shakes Loose, This SHE/HER/HERS (PROPERTIES The Boy and Robin Hood; OPERA: Mill Bitter Earth; Mixed Blood Theatre: Vietgone, MASTER) THEATER LATTÉ City Summer Opera: Carmen; Minnesota A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night DA: Hedwig and the Angry Opera: Romeo & Juliet; DANCE: Timetrack Time; History Theatre: All The Way; Open Eye Inch, A Little Night Music, All Productions: Invisible; STRONGMovement: Figure Theatre, Children’s Theatre Company, is Calm, Once, Underneath 6; Vail Dance Festival: Farewell; TEACHING: the Ordway, the Guthrie; TRAINING: M.F.A the Lintel, Five Points, Assassins; THEATER: Augsburg University: Adjunct Faculty; in theatrical design at The University of Penumbra Theatre: The Brothers Paranormal, TRAINING: Design and Technical Theatre Minnesota a B.A. in theatre and dance from benevolence, For Colored Girls, This Bitter Earth; M.F.A.,University of Minnesota; Studio Art the University of Texas. Ten Thousand Things: The Sins of Sor Juana, Into M.A., New York University; Design and the Woods, Scapin, The Good Person of Szechwan; Technical Theatre B.F.A., University of Minn. TODD KALINA History Theatre: Stewardess; Mixed Blood Theatre: Duluth. HE/HIM/HIS (STAGE MANAGER) Roe; Park Square Theater: Marie and Rosetta, The THEATER LATTÉ DA: Agitators; Old Log Theater: Lend Me a Tenor; MARY SHABATURA Underneath the Lintel, Six Trademark Theater: Understood; Theater Mu: SHE/HER/HERS (LIGHTING Degrees of Separation, Man of The Korean Drama Addict’s Guide to Losing Your DESIGNER) THEATER La Mancha, NEXT Festival; Virginity, Two Mile Hollow; Ordway: Mamma LATTÉ DA: Hedwig and THEATER: Children’s Theatre Company: Mia!, Jesus Christ Superstar; Guthrie Theater: the Angry Inch, Five Points, Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch…(2017 and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner; AWARDS: 2018 A Christmas Carole Petersen, 2018), Cinderella; Ordway: Mamma Mia!, MN Theater Awards Honoree for Exceptional Ragtime, Gypsy; THEATER: Mixed Blood Jesus Christ Superstar; Guthrie: Familiar; Design, 2017 Ivey Award for Production Design Theater: Prescient Harbingers, Is God Is; Dark Walker Art Center: Morgan Thorson’s Public and Execution for Six Degrees of Separation, & Stormy Productions: Blackbird, ‘Night, Love; BROADWAY: An Act of God starring Overall Excellence for Ragtime; UPCOMING Mother, The Maids, Fool for Love(and more); Sean Hayes, King Charles III (US premiere), PROJECTS: Park Square Theater: Jefferson Artistry: Tinker to Evers to Chance, W;t, Bad Airline Highway; OFF-BROADWAY: Atlantic Township Sparkling Junior Talent Pageant; Mill Dates, The Secret Garden; Trademark Theater: Theater Company: the world premiere of City Summer Opera: Cosi Fan Tutte. The Boy and Robin Hood; DANCE: Morgan Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Pulitzer Prize winning Thorson: Public Love; Shapeshift: Grey Skies play Between Riverside and Crazy, FOUND; EMILY ANNA BIERBRAUER Blue, XI:XI; OPERA: Minnesota Opera: Signature Theatre: Martha Clarke’s Angel SHE/HER/HERS (STAGE Fellow Travelers; TRAINING: B.A. Theater Reapers; Manhattan Theatre Club: Of Good MANAGEMENT INTERN) Arts, University of Minnesota Stock; OTHER CREDITS: The History THEATER LATTÉ DA: Theatre, The Acting Company, Giants Debut; THEATER: University KEVIN SPRINGER are Small, The Juilliard School, and many of Minnesota Theater HE/HIM/HIS (SOUND readings and workshops throughout the years; Department: Ruby Slippers, Autobiography of Red, DESIGNER) THEATER TV: Tony Awards, NFL Honors, Showtime at Machinal-Rage Against the Machine; PROJECTS: LATTÉ DA: Once, Man the Apollo, Ink Master; UPCOMING: Smokey Katherine E. Nash Gallery: You Are Here; Regis of La Mancha, A Christmas Joe’s Café with The Ordway Center, Cinderella West Gallery: Introspectacle; Northern Spark Carole Petersen; THEATER: with CTC, La Bohème and Twelve Angry Men 2017: Tunnel Vision; TRAINING: B.A. Visual Gumble Theater: Féminaal; In The Heart with Theater Latté Da, Sweat with Guthrie Arts, University of Minnesota of the Beast: Make Believe Neighborhood; Theater. Minnesota Opera: Dead Man Walking, Dinner Special Thanks at Eight; New Native Theatre: 2012 The KYLA MOLONEY Musical; Penumbra Theatre: This Bitter Earth, SHE/HER/HERS (ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER) Alexander Frieden Dutchman, The Owl Answers; Shakespearean THEATER LATTÉ DA: Debut; THEATRE: Guthrie Theater Youth Theatre: Two Noble Kinsmen, Twelfth Park Square Theatre: The Diary of Anne Frank, Normandale Community College Theater Dept.

12 TO LET GO AND FALL We believe in community. In opportunity. In teamwork. In dreams.

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Theater Latté Da’s mission is to create new connections between story, music, artist, and audience by exploring and expanding the art of musical theater. We are guided by our values that our work be bold and collaborative, and strive to act with integrity and gratitude both on and off the stage. By illuminating the unseen, giving voice to the unheard, and empathizing with the unknown, Theater Latté Da strives to open eyes, ears, and hearts.

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Grand Finale ($25,000 and above) These individuals have made a Kent Allin and Tom Knabel Rita and Benedict Olk significant contribution in support Carol and Kim Culp Marti Morfitt and Patrick Weber of Theater Latté Da’s commitment to Kathy and Allen Lenzmeier making musical theater available to our entire community.

Curtain Call ($10,000–$24,999)

Bill and Jane Johnson, Noreen Charitable David A. Wilson and Michael J. Peterman Trust Dick and Diane Wright Christopher Rence Margaret and Angus* Wurtele *In remembrance Kathleen and Paul Rothstein Emerald Foundation

Eleven O’clock Number ($5,000–$9,999) Anonymous (2) Jane and Ogden Confer Patricia Johnson and Kai Bjerkness Lorri Steffen and Paul Zenner Ron Frey and Steven Thompson Penny Meier John Sullivan John Hemann* Jennifer Melin Miller and David Miller Jane Zilch Lisa and Dan Hoene Gary Reetz Dennis and Nora Hunchar Cara Sjodin and Scott Stensrud

14 TO LET GO AND FALL Show Stopper ($1,500–$4,999)

Anonymous (1) Peter Rothstein and Omar Guevara Christine Larsen and Scott Peterson Thomas Senn and Mark Manion Elissa Adams and Michael Margulies Soto Michael Lee Kevin Winge and Kevin Shores Jean M. and Jim Becker Katie Guyer and Steve Grego Carol Lichterman Ann and Tom Stanley Les Bendtsen and Rick Buchholz Jay Harkness and Jean Storlie James Lockhart and Janie Mayeron Brian Svendahl Scott Cabalka Jean and Jim Hartman Mary and Mark Maher Bill Venne and Douglas Kline Fran and Barb Davis Christopher Hermann and Brian Pietsch Drew Mattson Ruth and David Waterbury Janet and Mark Ditter Sandy and John Hey Curt D. Nelson Carol and Tom Windfeldt Joe Dowling and Siobhan Cleary Nancy Jones Steve Euller and Nancy Roehr Michelle Woster and Peter Quale Karla Ekdahl and Peter Hutchinson Bill Jones Ken and Nina Rothchild Patricia Zalaznik Matt Fulton Scott and Deborah Knight Ann and Pat Ryan Wayne Zink and Christopher Schout Doug Fulton Shannon Pierce and Rachael Kroog Colleen Ryan

Entr’acte ($500–$1,499)

Mary Alberts Diane Harder and Thomas Eckstein Gretchen Alberts Mellies Linda and Steven Sandvig Albrecht Family Foundation Diane Van Tassell and Sonny and Amy Miller Lewis Sandy in Memory of Kathy Greg and Penny Anderson Steven Eggimann Tom and Conchy Morgan Sandy Jan and Greg Aplin Lucas Erickson Kim and David Motes Carol Schirmers Stuart Appelbaum and Jean King Bill Underwood and Chris Everett Sara Mushlitz Marjorie Schroeder Ward and Kathleen Armstrong James P. Gearen Marlys J. Nelson Paul Schumann James Assali and Michael Mauch Jeff and Gail Gibbs Karle and Diane Nolte DeAnne Sherman Dan Avchen and David Johnson Ray Goettl Mary Weber Nord Lance and Christopher Sibilia John Beal and Barbara Brin Christine and Bill Griffith Marvel Norton Rolf and Janet Skjei Mary Beidler Gearen Shannon Harris John Stefany and David Odenbach Lynn Spelman Joe Andrews and Scott Benson Randy Hartten and Ron Lotz James Olson Marcia and John Stout Kris Berggren and Ben Olk Jeffrey D. Bores and Dr. Luis A. Pagan-Carlo and Kevin Streeter Judy and Dennis Berkowitz Michael Hawkins Joe Sammartino Scott and Cindy Sundet David and Janet Berry Janis Heaney MTKC David Feroe and Linda Svitik Ray DeSpiegler and Michael Birch Mark Addicks and Thomas L. Hoch Jim Payne Rupert the Wonder Dog Foundation David Bjork and Jeff Bengtson Susan Genaw and Lee Humphries Jim Macknick and John Pemberton Richard Rosow and Jean Borgerding Jim and Sandi Jensen Jeffery Perkey and Robert Spikings Vicki Underland-Rosow Erik Brendtro and John Sweet Bruce and Jean Johnson Carol Peterson Libby and John Utter Priscilla Brewster Jeff Johnson Mark Peterson and Donna Gibbons Patricia Vayda Virginia and Stuart Campbell Gina and Kurt Kastel Patti Pinkerton Michael Wagner Darlene J. and Richard P. Carroll Kath Hammerseng and Mo Kennedy David Pote and Linda Tapsak Marjorie and Irving Weiser Family Fund John Kundtz and Thomas Amon Denise Prosek and Milton Ferris David Young and Edward Williams, Thomas Caswell and Nancy Tessmer Al Kvaal Gene and Pat Radecki Jr. Sheldon and Lili Chester Rebecca and Andrew Lahl Michael Rainville Jodi and Jim Young William and Andrew Collis-Prather Diana and Kenneth Lewis Jaime A. Roman and Jim Bernier Peter Zenner David Colwell Anna Linder Jake and Donna Romanow Ann and Doug Cooley Carolee Lindsey and Darolyn Gray Randy and Tara Roth Kurt Bachmayer and Lisa Dalke Mark and Barbara Lyons Kristin Rothstein Kirk and Kathy Davis David and Marilee Mahler Peggy and Bill Roush Thomas and Mary Lou Detwiler Paul and Julie Mattson Susan and John Ryan Sara and Jock Donaldson Mary H. and J. Milo Meland Family Sandy Ryan and David Myhre Jennifer Patti Duffy and Sean Duffy Fund Sharon Sampson

Overture ($100–$499) Anonymous (9) Kim Havey and Mike Bisping Roberta and John Dahler Amy and Jack Fistler Mira Akins Michelle Blaeser Tom and Mary Darnall Chad and Denisea Fitch Libby Alberts Allen Borcherding Tammy Darrah Wenberg Terry Fitzgerald and Susan Mendesh-Fitzgerald Susan Albrecht and Nancy Desmond Susan S. Boren and Steve King Tom E. Davis Deborah Fletcher Theresa Alewine Rosanne Borscheid Jennifer Debrow Gerald Foley Robert Allen John and Kate Boyle Meg DeLapp George and Mary Kay Fortier Spalding Grant Amadio Mary Brady Virginia and John Dell Tim Foster Matt and Amy Anderson Judith and Arnie Brier Debra DeNoyelles Jinnet Fowles Vic and Phyllis Anderson Renee Brown Brian Dernbach Ron Fraboni Edward Anderson Cheryl Brown Lisa Dethloff Gene and Charlotte Frampton Rita Andrescik Carol Brozic David Miller and Mary Dew Craig Freeman Howard Ansel Philip and Carolyn Brunelle Caroline Dey Patricia Gaarder John Arechar Stephen Bubul Michael DiBlasi Micah and Michal Garber Douglas Armato Tom and Barb Burke Alison Didier Fred and Gael Gardner Jennifer and Joseph Armitage Burke Genz Family Brett Diethert Joan Gecik Lisa Armstrong Sheryl Burkhardt Marcus and Cynthia Dilliard Walter Gegner Annette Atkins and Tom Joyce Jennifer Burleigh-Bentz James and Sharon Dimond Leland and Beverly Gehrke Marcia Aubineau Vicki and Janaki Burlet Kristofer S. Djupedal Mark Gilberstadt Reade Bailey Jimmy Burnett Tim Dordell & Kirk Ballard Robin Gillette John Bale and Margie Commerford Russ Bursch and Lee Mauk Jane Doyle Jerome Girton Stan and Cindy Bandur Peter Carlsen and Sylvia Frank Jeff Duffin and Andy Groves Patrick and Elizabeth Goebl Jennifer Bankers-Fulbright Cindy Carpenter and Gregg Roberts Bruce Dumke and Cathy Barrea Lisa Goodman Travis L. Barkve Dana Gust Carr Charla Eccles Kathleen Gorman Tom and Traci Bates Brooks Christensen Linda Eckman Michael Graham Diana Bauman Gary Christenson Andrew and Jessica Elofson Justin Gross Paul D. Olson and Mark Baumgartner Janet Christenson Thomas Emmert Joan Growe and Thomas Moore Carolyn Becker-Paulson Kristen Claus Sharon Engel Jennifer Marshall and Matthew Haines Patricia Beithon Burton and Rusty Cohen Robert Englund Peggy Hall and Lee Barry Joan Berg Ruth Colby Hope Esparolini Mark and Mary Jo Hallberg Andrew Leshovsky and Louis Berg-Arnold Sheila Cole-Schmitt and Tom Schmitt Mark and Kelly Evans Roger and Pam Hamilton Robert Bergstrom Jeanne and David Cornish Tim Evens Kristin Harper Bill Bertram Jeanne Corwin Kristin Evenson Christine Harrison Peter Carlson and Bradley Betlach Kristine Cotroneo Ryan Feltman Dr. Daniel Hartnett Family Foundation Marilyn Bierden Peggy Crosby Mary and David Fenske Jeffrey Hatcher Jeannette and Jeff Bineham Kathy M. Dahl Stephen Field and Stephen Herzog Phebe Haugen

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Margie and Tom Hebig Linda Luksan and David Munn Maryanne Poliseno Anthony Sofie Mark and Mary Henderson Judy Lund Susan Mary Porter Wendy Sommer Laura Silver and Jeff Hertzberg Lynne and Jack MacBean Jack and Nylce Myers Scott Appelwick and Ed Sootsman Joan Higinbotham Pat Mack Karen and Don Prestly Susan Stamson Wilbur Hill George and Debbie Magliano Nancy and James Proman Mary Stanley Joel Hoekstra and Eric Jensen Mike and Diana Magner Debra and Lawrence Que Jennifer Starr and John Waddle Jim and Mary Holland Teresa Maki John and Elizabeth Quinn George and Janet Stevens Joe Holmers Cookie and Paul Mandell Fred Quirsfeld and Linda Campbell Elizabeth Stevens Nanette Hoover Will and Willene Mangham Bob Radecki Virginia Stewart Steve Horan Joanne Manthe Lori Radecki James Stolz Margaret and Mark Hottinger Susan L. Maples James and Susan Ramlet Kristin Storrs George Hudachek Vivian and Jeff Martin Delores Ray Jack Stuart Kathleen and Mark Humphrey Jeff Masco Maria Reamer Judy Stuthman Marcia Hunter Jim and Kristin Matejcek Dick Rice and Rosemarie Whitehead Kari and Kevin Swan Mary and Jeff Husband Ron and Mary Mattson Jim Sheeley Craig and Janet Swan Betsy Husting Virginia May John F. Riehle Javen Swanson and Oby Ballinger Hugh Huston Robert and Polly McCrea Allan Riel Chuck and Jennifer Tatsuda Wyn Huynh Martha M. and James P. McDermott Patti Rogness Jennifer, Daniel, Raina, and Zoey Tenenbaum Mark and Jeanne Innerbichler Rosalia McDonnell Susan Rose Axel Theimer Gregg Radecki and Jeralyn Irrthum Kathleen McGonigle Tom Rosen and Tom Emmert Anthony Thein Carol Jackson Roni McKenna Rodney Rowe John Theurer Jeanne Jacobson Anita McKeown Denise Roy Lindsay Thompson R. Peter Jacobson Lisa McLean Jean Ryan Erik and Emily Thurman Diane Jacobson Rebecca McNally and Marty L’Herault Ann Kathryn Ryan Doug Tiede Kate Jamison Rebecca McNamara Cal and Claudia Ryan-Mosley Terry Treanor Bernadette and Jeffrey Janisch Julie Meredith Mark Rynda and Daniel Henriquez Rodriguez Lois Kapteina and David Truckenmiller Christina Jansa Douglas and Cindy Merrigan Gregg M. Sawyer Bill Turcotte Phillip Jares and Mark Hager Fern Meshbesher Sue Salmela Stephanie Untiedt Suzanne Jebe Barb Michaels-Rauen Dorene and Ed Sarnoski Katherine and Martijn van de Ruijtenbeek Dan Berg and Welcome Jerde Kari Miller Nancy Saxhaug Wendell Vandersluis and Cynthia Marsh David Johnson Kate Morton-Peters and Stan Oleson Jill Schafer Andrejs Vape and Vija Pelecis Mary Johnson Laurie Mount Julie Schaper Tammi Veale Cory Johnson and Paul Amann Bonnie Mulligan and Charlie Greenman Heidi Schellhas Costa Voulgaropoulos Jeraldin and Steven Johnson Debra Mundinger Bill Schoppert Brian Waelti Lois Juster Katherine Murphy Meg Schuller Mary Claire Wahlberg Paul Kaminski and Rich Bonnin Thomas Murtha Judy Schwartau Jay Waldera and Mary Tietjen Scott and Julie Kammer Richard Myers Trish and Ralph Scorpio Charles Wallin Mark Kappelhoff Nicholas Naumann and Joe Chadwick Michelle Seefeld David Warner Brad Keil Joan Nelson Dan and Cyndy Seeman Elizabeth Watkins and Tom Huberty Ann Kim Vicki Nelson Sharon and Stephen Segal Marlys Weber Karen Kirby Robert Nesterowich Miriam Seim Corliss Weeks Matt Kiser and Chris Nichol Kristen Neurer Marsha and Joel Seltz MaryAnn Weidt Larissa Kokernot and Karl Gajdusek Rick Nielsen Carole Senty and Richard Miller Lisa Welch Jonna Kosalko and Dan Rabin Judy Nobles Kelly Sharp Rebecca and Christopher Wenthold Stuart Krahn Lynn Noren William and Katrinka Sharpe Mark and Deborah Werner Mike Kunnick Gary P. Nygaard Michelle Sherman Gary and Andrew Whitford Holey Mary Kay Langager Gary Oftedahl and Robin Bristol Robin Shima David and Kathy Wiemer Mary Langsjoen Lynn Olds Mariana and Craig Shulstad Frank and Frances Wilkinson Jane Lansing Duane and Lynn Olson Tonia Shupien Jim and Martha Williams David Larson Mary O’ Neil Lisa Sinclair Sally Wingert and Tim Danz Ruth and Herb Lauritzen Jenneke Oosterhoff Jackie and Stephen Sinykin Mike Wolsted Patty Lawrence Carol and Keith Ottoson Marci and Mike Skrove Ann Wynia Kate and Greg Lawson Sandra Overland Nancy Slaughter Mary Yates Sally Leighninger Lois Pallmeyer and John Barnicle Jeff Slywka Ingrid Young Susan and Michael Lewis Marcia and Russ Palma Jim and Cindie Smart John Zeches and Scott Mayer Andrew Litecky Steve Passeri Jim Smith Mark and Penny Ziessman Catherine J. Little Jaime Pedraza and Stephen Gronewold Bruce Smith Rebecca Loader and Michael Ritchie Steve Peloquin David Smith James Loeffler Ron Pentz Tom Smith Mary and Doug Logeland Larry Pfarr Olivia Snortland Jon Michael Logue Daniel Pinkerton and Jane Johnston Linnea Sodergren Peggy and Dave Lucas Julie and Jim Podlich Ron and Kathy Sofie

Places ($50–$99)

Anonymous (6) Monique Bush Deborah Gerhardt Jocelyn Laberge Sara Affias Lorna Call Manon Gimlett and Thaxter Cunio Jon C. Lahann deEtt Allen Jeannie Campbell Duane and Nancy Graham Diane Landis Jeanette Andersen Don Feeney and Diane Carter Greta Grosch Judy Larsen Craig Anderson Cindy Case and John Foley Tom and Jaci Guglielmi Shelly Leshovsky Margaret Anderson Paul Chrenka and Martha Ballard Patricia Haarman Kristie Lester Joseph Anderson Stewart Corn and Ellen Ferrari Michael Hagburg Jennifer Lewin Carole Anderson Stacey Cunningham Benjamin Hain David Sebberson and Meg Lewis Sasha Andreev Pam and Tim Dagoberg Norma Hanlon Justin Lombardo Linda Aronson Lynda Dahl William Haring Jean London Tim Backous Lawrence and Sheila Dalen Judith Hawley Pamela and Frederick Lott Libi Baehr and Isaiah Kirshner-Breen Dianne Del Giorno Wendy Short-Hays Jeffrey Lovich William Bahl Charles Denny Laura Heglund Janet Mackenzie-Polanski Alice and Bob Bakken Annie Doughty and Jim Detmar Jelan and James Heidelberg Jolene and John Madden Karen Barstad B. Economon Janet Herbert Duayne Malewicki Barbara Bauer Emilee Elofson Russell Heuckendorf Kristine Mandler Meg Benefield Timothy Embretson Connie Hines Robert and MaryEllen Manske Steve and Judy Benson Chris Estee Carol Hondlik Rita Martinez Susan Bernstein Anna Marie Ettel Marcy Horwitz Mary McGuire Ann M. Biggar Mike and Cindy Collins Kathleen Humphries Michele McNulty Judith Bird Sara and Karl Fiegenschuh Mary Ites and Michael Stuart Laurie and Dave Mech Virginia and Joe Bisanz Susan Fink Foster Johns Margaret Michaelson Michael Bisping Gretchen Fogo Joe Kandiko Robert Jardin, Kevin Miller, Izzy Miller-Jardin Paul and Marcia Bjerke Christine Fournier Madonna Kasbohm Jean Montgomery Thomas Boatman Robert Frame Lori Kimmet-Mobley and Andy Mobley Laura Nelson John and Judy Borger Susan Franklin Linda King and Robert Schauinger Susan and Jeff Nelson John Brant Donald and Marjorie Frishberg Susan King Zachary Nelson-Winters Peggy Brennan Beth Ann Gaede Sharon Knopp Margaret Olson Fran Buesgens Gayle C. Gaskill Paige Kraemer Kathy O’Malley Carole Buller Elaine Gaston and Mark Scannell Brian Kraft Elizabeth O’Mara

16 TO LET GO AND FALL Lowell and Finola Parsons Belina Reisman Katie and Ken Searl Kay Thompson Jeanne Peltier Marilyn Riederer Ed Simpson Anna and Bob Tift Susan Pelton Julie Robbins William Smith Paul and Ruth Tillquist Cara Pester Michael Robins Rosemary Soltis Corinna and Andrew Troth Carole R. Peterson Scott Romane Roxanne Soth Michael VanCleve John Pikala Judy Romanowich Smith Nanette Stearns Nancy Walton Edward Linder and Stacey Poirier Steve and Kris Rose Michael Stockman Julie Barnes Weaver Deborah E. Pollak Mark Sateren Nathan Stohlmann Lori-Anne Williams Diana Postlethwaite Richard Scarlett Claire Stortz Mike Wilson Steve and Susan Prestwood Martha Schermer Susan Summitt Fremajane Wolfson Carl Prosek Jeanne Schleh Hildy Swedean Maryann Wycoff Laura E. Rathe Jake Schmiesing Gregory Thomas JoAnne Zachow Jim Reininger Robert and Margaret Schwob Harv Thompson and Richard Klemm Dianne Schmiesing and Victor Zupanc

Season 21 Production Sponsors Legacy Circle We gratefully recognize the following individuals who have chosen to include Dick and Diane Wright - Once Theater Latté Da in their estate plans. These estate gifts will sustain our The Rence Campbell Household - All is Calm artistic excellence and fiscal health for years to come: Kathy and Allen Lenzmeier - A Little Night Music Kent Allin and Tom Knabel - Hedwig and the Angry Inch Marcia Aubineau Bill Venne and Doug Kline Mary Ebert and Paul Stembler John Hemann To Let Go and Fall Anonymous - Patti Pinkerton Stephen Fischer RBC Wealth Management - To Let Go and Fall Kevin Winge and Kevin Shores

If you have included Theater Latté Da in your estate plans but are not listed here, or if you would like to learn more about legacy giving to Theater Latté Da, please contact Libi Baehr at [email protected] or 651-204-6852.

In-Kind Supporters Minnesota Public Radio Northeast Social Dan Avchen and David Johnson Peter Rothstein and Omar Guevara We would like to extend Chocolat Céleste Soto Fran and Barb Davis a special thanks to MyTalk 107.1 Laurie DeMartino Design The Sheridan Room Allianz Life for supporting Rob Dingmann and Ethan Reynolds Jim and Cindie Smart Hammel Green & Abrahamson Season 21 and Theater Stagetime Productions The Guthrie Theater Latté Da’s Senior ticket Jay Harkness and Jean Storlie Nancy Jones access program. Mary Meighan, David Ingbar, and Jake Ingbar

NEXT 20/20 is an initiative to cultivate 20 new musicals, or plays with music, over a five- year period. This initiative comes from the belief that it is the responsibility of the regional theater to not only speak to audiences today, but to contribute to the dramatic canon of tomorrow. With NEXT 20/20, Theater Latté Da will invest in the future of the great American Musical and its playwrights, composers, and lyricists through our annual NEXT Festival and world premieres.

Please consider supporting new work through giving to NEXT 20/20 in addition to your annual fund gift. Thank you to the following individuals and organizations or institutions for their commitment to new work through supporting NEXT 20/20.

Anonymous Lisa and Dan Hoene Randy and Tara Roth Elissa Adams and Michael Margulies Jim and Sandi Jensen Peter Rothstein and Omar Guevara Soto You can play a vital Mary Alberts Patricia Johnson and Kai Bjerkness Michael and Kathleen Ruhland Kent Allin and Tom Knabel Nancy Jones Thomas Senn and Mark Manion role in the future of Jean M. and Jim Becker Cyndi and Greg Klaus Lorri Steffen and Paul Zenner the American Musical Sue A. Bennett Carolee Lindsey and Darolyn Gray John Sullivan Theater. Please Jeff Bores and Michael Hawkins Jim and Kristin Matejcek Douglas* and Suzanne Tacheny Kubach Priscilla Brewster Jennifer Melin Miller and David Miller Steven Thompson and Ron Frey contact Libi Baehr at Barbara Brin and John Beal Kim and David Motes Libby and John Utter [email protected] to Scott Cabalka Rita and Ben Olk Bill Venne and Douglas Kline find out how. Shelli Chase and John Feldman Dr. Luis A. Pagan-Carlo and Jay Waldera Jane and Ogden Confer Joe Sammartino Kevin Winge and Kevin Shores Carol and Kim Culp Jim Payne Margaret and Angus* Wurtele Fran and Barb Davis Shannon Pierce and Rachael Kroog David Young and Edward Williams, Jr. Timothy Dordell and Kirk Ballard Gary Reetz Jane Zilch Jay Harkness and Jean Storlie Lewis and Connie Remele Jean and Jim Hartman Christopher Rence *In Remembrance Tom Hoch and Mark Addicks Jaime A. Roman and Jim Bernier

Funders are listed for the donations made between 8/1/2018 and 5/15/2019 . Please accept our apologies for any errors or omissions. For corrections, please contact Libi Baehr, Development Manager, at 651-204-6852 or [email protected].

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18 TO LET GO AND FALL Board of Directors Staff THEATER Officers: Peter Rothstein LATTÉ Nancy Jones, Chair Founding Artistic Director DA

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The perfect musical comedy Guys and Dolls June 22 – Aug 25 A Musical Fable of Broadway based on a story and characters of DAMON RUNYON music and lyrics by FRANK LOESSER book by JO SWERLING and ABE BURROWS directed by KENT GASH