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2 ENCORE STAGES Throwing Like a Girl and Writing Like One Too

The cast of the upcoming production of The Wolves at ACT. Photo by Dawn Schaefer.

Danielle Mohlman My dad was a star athlete in high My parents met in high school. She school. Letterman jacket, full page in was a cheerleader, full of school spirit examines the women the yearbook, the whole nine yards. He and there for every water polo game laying claim to sports was a water polo goalie and to this day and swim meet. Pom poms in hand, via the theatre, and their the number he wore on his swim cap she watched him pull through the – 22 – is significant for both him and water, breaking records in freestyle and inspiration for doing so. my mom. Every “22” they’ve ever seen backstroke. in the wild has been photographed and framed. It’s the date of their wedding As a teenager, I lived for the hours anniversary. And it was etched into between the end of school and the the pin cushion my mom used in beginning of sunset. I’d flash my home economics, silver-headed pins completed homework at my mom forming the curves of each number. and then run down the street to my

encoremediagroup.com/programs 3 Danielle Mohlman's father, Mitch Mohlman, on the far left. (He’s wearing number 22, but the angle doesn’t show it.) neighbor Gilbert’s house. If we could jealousy-fueled competition these about a “sweet old lady” with only assemble a team of neighborhood kids, young soccer players seem to thrive on. one breast, claiming that the winter we’d play touch football in the street, Their drug instead, is frantic whispers air is “colder than a witch’s” – well, yelling “Car!” every time someone’s about a sheltered teammate who you can finish the rest. As the Wolves parent got home from work. We had chooses pads over tampons. And jokes warm up for their games, they name- more timeouts than any regulation game about pregnancy that quickly become check each other by jersey number and, it seemed, just as many injuries. unchecked abortion rumors. These If we couldn’t get a team together, I’d girls are sixteen and it shows. strap on my roller blades and speed up “As the Wolves and down the sidewalk, jumping off our Interspersed in this dialogue about homemade ramp. If he was patient and uterine lining and inefficient feminine warm up for their I was calm, Gilbert would continue his products is a discussion about former games, they name- lifelong quest – teaching me how to ollie Prime Minister of Cambodia, Nuon on his skateboard. I was never any good, Chea, who at 90 years old is giving check each other but I was relentless. Still am. I’d fall and testimony about the Khmer Rouge get back up again, bloody palms and all. genocide. The audience is momentarily by jersey number Despite everything, I’m the furthest thing faced with an odd juxtaposition: the from an athlete. But sports are starting to murder of hundreds of thousands of and masculine creep their way into my plays – and I’m Cambodian citizens and the torture of not the only one. a particularly heavy period. Offstage, epithets like another soccer team warms up – a team just as driven, just as talented, “man” and “dude,” just as vicious. Spend enough time on the field and as though their you’ll come away with blood. But the Sarah DeLappe’s dialogue in The blood that opens Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves perfectly intones a teenage and feminine first Wolves isn’t skinned knees or thousands athletic vocabulary. These girls turn names betray the of burst blood vessels congealing into around crude language as though they a purple bruise. It’s menstrual blood – just learned how to form the syllables very nature of their in all its coagulated glory. The Wolves’ with their mouths. They litter their thirst for blood isn’t quenched by the sentences with expletives, gossiping competitive spirit.”

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EAP full-page template.indd 1 12/12/17 9:49 AM and masculine epithets like “man” and grace. It’s like my body has forgotten writing The Great Leap. In her author’s “dude,” as though their feminine first how to move. But as a teenager, I’d show note, Yee writes that her father played names betray the very nature of their up at my community center on Tuesday basketball all day and all night growing competitive spirit. It’s reminiscent of nights, poised to learn another thirty up. As a 6’1” Chinatown kid from San every male dominated sport out there. seconds of choreography. I wanted so Francisco’s projects, he dominated They don’t want to be weak, so instead badly to dance to Tchaikovsky. Instead, asphalt courts and recreation center they’re “man” and “dude.” It’s easier my teacher brought in the Runaway floors. He was never going to go pro that way. It’s armor. Bride soundtrack. To this day I can’t – he knew that even then. But he was hear Shawn Colvin without thinking good. He was really good. In my own play, Dust, I also dive about those long mirrors, the ballet into the ferocity of teenage girls. My barre, and the smell of high school girls Lauren Yee’s father first visited China in athletes are a high school swim team, learning to dance. As I raised my hands the 1980s, playing a series of exhibition condemned to an unfinished life – the high above my head, blood dried on my games against China’s best teams. entire play lives in the memory of the palms. My mind was on the asphalt road Yee says that The Great Leap isn’t her young man who killed every one of of our makeshift football field. father’s story – his American team was them, but even in his distorted lens defeated too many times to count. But they’re magnificent. The swim team’s All those years of dance make their it’s a story like her father’s. In The Great captain, Wendy, is the queer object of way into Dust as well. In an effort to Leap, Manford, a rec center-trained this vicious man’s attention. Everyone communicate with the audience that teenager from Chinatown, busts else was just in the wrong place at something is very wrong, the play never into a basketball practice uninvited, the wrong time. Even in death, they stops moving. Dance is an integral part barreling at the team’s point guard, work together as a team, shifting the of the play’s vocabulary, conveying twisting his ankle in the process. perspective memory by memory. everything from an overactive With a newly injured player and a life imagination to a mass murder. This changing exhibition game against When I told my parents about this play lives in a zone where words are Beijing University on the horizon, the play they were surprised I’d chosen an not sufficient on their own. It’s the University of San Francisco coach, athletic path. Those football games unsquareable moment of my bloody Saul, is livid. In the moment before the on the street went on for years and at palms in a ballet class. It may look play begins, Saul tells Manford that one point I actually took a chance on delicate at first glance, but upon closer he has thirty seconds to explain why organized sports, playing two seasons inspection it’s everything but. he was “sh---ing all over his practice” of softball. But their perception of me before he calls security. While other has always been divorced from the While I was finding inspiration for players might leave immediately, athletics they know and love. They Dust in my dad’s legendary tales about running through the door they came describe my upbringing as musical – a his high school swim records, Lauren in, Manford takes full advantage of the decade of clarinet and nearly the same Yee was looking to her own father’s thirty seconds. amount of dance classes. Today, I lack obsession with basketball as she started

Production photos from the Studio Theatre production of The Wolves. Photo by Teresa Wood.

6 ENCORE STAGES “I will win you games. I will score you points. I will make you layups. I will shoot from half court, full court. I will shoot over whatever, whenever, whoever is getting in my way. I am quick. I am relentless. I am the most relentless person you have ever met, and if you’ve met someone more relentless than me, tell me. Tell me and I will meet them, and I will find a way to become even more relentless than th e m .”

“It’s an athletic embarrassment of riches, helmed by three female playwrights who aren’t afraid to walk away with a scraped knee verdi and a couple of bruises.” AIDA

Despite his short stature and brash may 5–19 introduction, Manford makes his way onto the University of San Francisco team. Because he’s right. He is relentless. But he’s also undeniably talented. VERDI’S MONUMENTAL MASTERPIECE New Production In this profoundly personal love story, In Italian with English subtitles. Evenings 7:30 PM Verdi’s power to translate human We live in a city that pulses with Sunday 2:00 PM Seahawks spirit, even in the off emotions into magnificent music is on full display. The high-stakes love triangle Featuring the Seattle Opera season. But March through May, a unfolds on a grand scale amid glorious Chorus and members of new cavalry of athletes is taking over. Seattle Symphony Orchestra. spectacle and rousing choruses—including Manford and the University of San the famous Triumphal March. Francesca Francisco are commanding the Leo Zambello’s all-new production includes MCCAW HALL K. Theatre at Seattle Rep. Wendy and evocative choreography by Jessica Lang, 206.389.7676 the Mermaids are taking over Youth and largescale visuals by visionary artist PRODUCTION SPONSORS: Theatre Northwest, aptly surrounded RETNA, who cites the structures of LENORE M. HANAUER by water on Mercer Island. And the Egyptian hieroglyphics as the basis for his C.E. STUART CHARITABLE TRUST Wolves are running drills up and down striking designs. ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FROM: 4CULTURE Artwork © RETNA (Marquis Duriel Lewis), the Allen Theatre at ACT. It’s an athletic SEATTLEOPERA.ORG/AIDA Photo © Philip Newton embarrassment of riches, helmed by

encoremediagroup.com/programs 7 SPACE BARONS, BANKERS, AND A SEAHAWK LEARN MORE AT TOWNHALLSEATTLE.ORG Lauren Yee’s father, Larry Yee, blocking a shot. Photo from excerpt of The Great Leap on New Play Exchange, courtesy of cinema the playwright.

three female playwrights who aren’t afraid to walk away with a scraped knee and a couple of bruises. As every coach we’ve ever encountered has said, “Rub some dirt on it and walk it off.” <

The Great Leap by Lauren Yee runs at Seattle Repertory Theatre from March 23 to April 22.

The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe runs at ACT from April 20 to May 13.

A workshop production of Dust by Danielle Mohlman runs at Youth Theatre Northwest from May 11 to 12.

Danielle Mohlman is a nationally RORY KINNEAR ("PENNY DREADFUL") AND produced feminist playwright based in ANNE-MARIE DUFF (SUFFRAGETTE) RETURN TO THE NATIONAL Seattle. Her play Nexus is among the 2015 THEATRE TO PLAY MACBETH AND LADY MACBETH. Honorable Mentions on The Kilroys list. THU, MAY 10 ∙ SIFF CINEMA UPTOWN She is an alumnus of the inaugural class SUN, JUN 17 - TUE, JUN 19 ∙ SIFF FILM CENTER of Playwrights’ Arena at Arena Stage and a member of the 2018 Umbrella Project FOR TICKETS VISIT SIFF.NET Writers Group.

8 ENCORE STAGES WELCOMEFrom Seattle Theatre Group, a non-profit arts organization

Dear Friends,

Spring is here! And with it comes the energy of renewal: Big energy! Bright colors! Leaping and playing! At Seattle Theatre Group, we are thrilled to showcase some of our favorite artists. These creative forces celebrate life and affirm our best selves, while reflecting the world back to us through a critical lens, challenging us to grow.

This spring season brings a bouquet of vibrant offerings: cutting-edge tap dance from Dorrance Dance; a “radical faerie ritual” from Taylor Mac; the finest contemporary dance with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater; a series of Silent Movie Mondays celebrating the leading ladies of early cinema; Seattle Rock Orchestra’s rendition of Beatles’ classics, and the 20th Anniversary of DANCE This, a beloved celebration of homegrown talent.

Dorrance Dance, the innovative contemporary tap dance company led by MacArthur fellow Michelle Dorrance, challenges our assumptions of what tap dance can be, while being firmly rooted in the traditions of the form.

Taylor Mac is a singular artist who melds theatre, cabaret, drag, and ritual, creating a performance experience without precedent. Mac’s shows are a celebration and a critical examination of American life through its musical history. By inviting the audience into the performance, Mac creates a space for bonding, emotional catharsis, and personal transformation.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is one of our country’s finest arts enterprises, and a great international ambassador of American culture. In their Spring 2018 program at The Paramount, expect to be moved and challenged. Seattle premiers of works from Kyle Abraham and longtime company member Hope Boykin each powerfully tackle social-justice and race issues in America, while the ballet Winter in Lisbon celebrates the great artist Dizzy Gillespie.

Seattle Rock Orchestra returns to The Moore on Mother’s Day weekend with new arrangements of the Beatles’ No. 1 hits from the UK and the USA. With a 50-piece orchestra and a bevy of super-talented guest vocalists, it’s sure to put a smile on any mom’s face.

DANCE This turns 20 this year! STG’s own dance program joins together youth and adult performers from diverse communities to share and celebrate their cultures through dance.

We are thrilled to have you join us in these beautiful historic theatres, sharing the work of artists who examine and process the past, while creating the future.

Jack McLarnan Manager of Fine Arts Programs

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Stage Struck (1925) stars screen legend Gloria Swanson in a comedy about a waitress who dreams SILENT MOVIE of becoming a star. The film was directed by Allan Dwan and includes early Technicolor footage. MONDAYS Christian Elliott plays the Mighty Wurlitzer Organ with the post-screening CineClub hosted by local LEADING LADIES SERIES filmmaker Janice Findlay.

Little Annie Rooney (1925) stars Mary Pickford, who also wrote and produced the film which was directed by William Beaudine. This comedy- drama takes place in the tenements of New York City with a gang of children and Pickford (then 33) playing a scruffy young Irish girl. The film was a critical and commercial success, becoming one of the highest grossing films of 1925. Film rights are provided by the Mary Pickford Foundation, which partnered with the Academy Film Archive to restore the film, and then mastered it digitally while also commissioning a new score by LA- based composer Andy Gladbach. He performs and conducts a nine-piece live local ensemble for this special restoration presentation. The post-screening CineClub will be hosted by Elaina Archer, Director of Archive & Legacy for the Mary Pickford Foundation who also will introduce the film.

Ella Cinders (1926) stars Colleen Moore with Today as we look to Hollywood to provide improved opportunities for women in film, both in front Lloyd Hughes in a classic Cinderella story set of and behind the camera, we can also look back to the female forerunners from the silent era. The in Hollywood. The film is directed by Alfred leading ladies in this series were stars, innovators and savvy businesswomen in navigating their E. Green. In 2013, the film was placed on the careers on and off the screen and putting Hollywood on the map. National Film Registry by the Library of Congress Please join us for five Silent Movie Mondays in April recognizing the contributions from due to its cultural and aesthetic importance. superstar multi-talented MARY PICKFORD, who co-founded United Artists — to GLORIA Christian Elliott plays the Mighty Wurlitzer Organ SWANSON producing and acting in silent and talkies, “I’m always ready for my close-up” — to with the post-screening CineClub hosted by vamp POLA NEGRI, the first European film star invited to Hollywood — to actress, producer, Joseph Yranski, film historian and former Director screenwriter, philanthropist MARION DAVIES — and one of the most fashionable and well-paid of the Film Library for New York Public Library. stars of the silent era COLLEEN MOORE. Celebrate The Paramount Theatre’s 90th year in 2018 He will also conduct a pre-film presentation on the continuing its mission as “the people’s theatre” from when it opened March 1, 1928 with the silent films of Colleen Moore. comedy Feel My Pulse. We still feel the pulse… PLEASE JOIN US AFTER THE FILM IN Vicky Lee, Curator of Silent Movie Mondays THE PARAMOUNT BAR FOR CineClub, Director of Education & Performance Programs, Seattle Theatre Group A COMMUNITY DISCUSSION EXPLORING ABOUT THE FILMS THE FILM ITSELF, TRIVIA AND THE ART OF SILENT CINEMA. The Patsy (1928), starring Marion Davies and directed by King Vidor, is a screwball comedy featuring a younger sister who falls hopelessly in love with her older sister’s beau. The film was co-produced by Marion Davies and also features actress Marie Dressler. Donna Parker plays the Join Us! Mighty Wurlitzer Organ with the post-screening CineClub hosted by Dr. Jennifer Bean, Director, Show Divine at 9th & Pine Cinema & Media Studies, University of Washington. May 21, 2018 at 7:00 pm at The Paramount Theatre - FREE! A Woman of the World (1925), starring Pola Negri and directed by Malcolm St. Clair, is a drama Show Divine at 9th & Pine (original comedy in which a worldly flapper journeys to the other side of the world—though the other side billing used March 1, 1928) celebrates of the world turns out to be Maple Valley, Iowa, instead of an exotic retreat in the Himalayas. Tedde the 90th anniversary of The Paramount Gibson plays the Mighty Wurlitzer Organ with the post-screening CineClub hosted by Melinda Theatre, featuring popular songs from Fox, co-Founder & CEO of Tanji, the first mobile ticketing app connecting audiences to women- 1928 performed by Tedde Gibson on the Mighty Wurlitzer and selected sing-along centric film in theaters and online. She will be joined by Justyna Budzik, a recent Polish Fulbright numbers led by local vocalists Taryn Darr Scholar to the University of Washington Slavic Studies Dept. and Assistant Professor at the Dept. of and Ty Willis. Special thanks to the Puget Film and Media Studies at the University of Silesia in Poland. Sound Theatre Organ Society.

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS Baltimore. In the DC area he is organist/ Arts in Los Angeles. He was commissioned by musician-in-residence at First Baptist Church the Mary Pickford Foundation for the Donna Parker, a native of of Highland Park; organist at Capitol Hill restoration of LITTLE ANNIE ROONEY and Los Angeles, CA, began Seventh-Day Adventist Church and Holy conducts and performs on piano with local her organ studies at the age Comforter-St. Cyprian Roman Catholic Church musicians: Dave Long (Flute/Clarinet/Bass of seven. Four years later and teaches music at Highland Park Christian Clarinet), Wade Demmert (Bass Trombone), she was introduced to the Academy. Tedde is on the board of directors for Rob Tucker (Percussion 1), Jim Reif (Percussion theatre organ and, at 13, the American Theatre Organ Society, an 2), Misha Shmidt (Violin 1), Steve Bryant began her classical organ international non-profit organization (Violin 2), Mike Watson (Viola), Virginia instruction with Richard Purvis, Organist and comprised of worldwide volunteer members Dziekonski (Cello); Jack Klitzman (Orchestra Master of Choristers Emeritus and Honorary who are committed to helping preserve and contractor) Canon of San Francisco’s famed Grace perpetuate the musical theatre pipe organ Cathedral. Donna quickly established a name heritage that began in the early 20th century. Special thanks to: for herself on the concert circuit as a very Tedde has been accompanying films for silent Andy Gault, American Sign Language capable performer for one so young. She made Movie Mondays since 2015. Interpreter for Introductions her first recording at 15, was appointed the first Kurt Morrison, for song selections on Knabe Official Organist for the Los Angeles Dodgers Christian Elliott is one of Ampico reproducing grand piano in Lobby baseball team, and toured Southern California today’s premier theatre Mezzanine in concert as a product specialist for Conn organists who specializes Phil Hargiss and Puget Sound Theatre Organ Organ Company. Through arrangements made in presenting historically Society by George Wright, Donna began studying authentic silent film Miles McRae, Projectionist harmony and arranging with Gordon Kibbee accompaniment. The Scarecrow Video while also studying theatre organ stylings with protégé of legendary silent Hotel Theodore Seattle Lyn Larsen. Donna maintains an active concert film organist Gaylord Carter, he was fortunate and recording schedule, besides private to have had the tradition of silent film The Paramount Theatre is teaching and playing for church. She currently accompaniment passed down to him from one home to Wurlitzer opus 1819, serves as the Membership Secretary for the of the finest film accompaniments of the silent one of only about 40 theatre American Theatre Organ Society and is a film era. He has done extensive silent film organs still playing in their member of the core teaching team for the accompaniment, including at the Packard original venues. Volunteers American Theatre Organ Society’s Summer Foundation’s Stanford Theatre (Palo Alto, CA), from the Puget Sound Theatre Youth Adventure—a week-long education UCLA, the Cinequest and San Francisco Silent Organ Society (PSTOS) have been maintaining opportunity for young people to learn how to Film Festivals, San Luis Obispo International this beautiful Publix 1 organ for the past 50 play the theatre organ. Film Festival, as well as the San Diego years, and also work closely with STG to Symphony, Los Angeles Conservancy, and the provide educational opportunities involving the Tedde Gibson started Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. organ and the silent films it was invented to playing the piano at age 4. Christian is a frequent performer at the accompany. In recent years, PSTOS has been He is one of a few American Theatre Organ Society’s national conducting an extensive restoration of the musicians able to play not conventions; as a solo artist has recordings organ to repair inevitable deterioration that has only classical and theatre available on iTunes; and continues to perform occurred during the nearly 90 years it has been pipe organ, but also jazz solo organ engagements and silent film in the theatre. The most recent phase of this and gospel organ on the presentations all across the United States. In process has been restoration of the console (the Hammond and piano and integrates these styles 2009 he was named “Organist of the Year” by organ’s operator interface) and installation of a into his playing of the Mighty Wurlitzer organ. the American Theatre Organ Society. Christian new digital control system, as a result of which A native of Tacoma, Tedde studied pipe organ has been accompanying films for Silent Movie the organ doesn’t look or sound appreciably with the late Dr. Edward Hansen, president of Mondays since 2015. different; it just works much better. To the American Guild of Organists and organ learn more about the organ, or to contribute to professor at the University of Puget Sound; Andy Gladbach is a Los its restoration, please visit the PSTOS table in the lobby, or visit the PSTOS website at www. David Dahl, organist emeritus of Pacific Angeles based composer, pstos.org. Lutheran; Dr. J. Melvin Butler of the University pianist, and filmmaker of Washington and St. Marks Cathedral; and originally from The Paramount Theatre’s Knabe while attending UW, with Dr. Carol Terry. Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. Ampico reproducing grand piano Tedde has also coached with international In addition to writing film located in the first mezzanine is theatre organist Jonas Nordwall of Portland and scores, Andy frequently playing again thanks to the efforts of the late Andy Crow of Olympia. Since moving serves as an accompanist for vocalists, the Pacific Can-Am chapter of to the DC area in 2003, he has studied classical instrumentalists, and ensembles, as well as AMICA (Automatic Musical Instrument organ with Dr. Mickey Thomas Terry, editor of musical theatre, opera, and cabaret Collectors Association) International. Local the 7+ volume anthology of organ works by productions. Andy studied composition and AMICA and PSTOS member Kurt Morrison African American composers. Tedde also piano performance at Pepperdine University in restores, maintains and demonstrates this studied organ performance at The Peabody 2015 and is currently pursuing an MFA in film historic instrument. www.amica.org. Institute of Johns Hopkins University in production at the USC School of Cinematic

encoremediagroup.com/programs A-3 Dorrance Dance

Myelination (2017) Choreography by Michelle Dorrance, in collaboration with and featuring improvisation by the dancers Additional Choreography by Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie and Matthew “Megawatt” West Original Music by Prawn til Dante (Donovan Dorrance and Gregory Richardson) with Aaron Marcellus Lighting Design by Kathy Kaufmann Costume Design by Amy Page Dance Captains: Elizabeth Burke and Byron Tittle

Dancers: Full Company

Musicians: Donovan Dorrance (piano/clarinet) Aaron Marcellus (vocals/keys) Gregory Richardson (bass/clarinet) DeWitt Fleming Jr. (percussion) Warren Craft (additional guitar)

Myelination (2017 and 2015) has been commissioned by New York City Center for the Fall for Dance Festival with generous support from the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation. Music for Myelination (2015) commissioned by the Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundation. Myelination (2017) has also been commissioned, in part, by Cal Performances, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California DORRANCE DANCE Myelination (2017) was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew Artistic Director Michelle Dorrance W. Mellon Foundation. Myelination (2017) was supported by New Music USA, made possible by annual program Dancers support and/or endowment gifts from Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, New York State Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie, Christopher Broughton, Elizabeth Burke, Warren Council on the Arts, Helen F. Whitaker Fund, and Aaron Copland Fund for Music. Craft, Michelle Dorrance, Claudia Rahardjanoto, Leonardo Sandoval, Byron Tittle, Matthew “Megawatt” West, Gabriel Winns Ortiz DORRANCE DANCE Dorrance Dance is an award-winning tap dance company based out of New York Musicians City. The company’s work aims to honor tap dance’s uniquely beautiful history in a Donovan Dorrance, Aaron Marcellus, Gregory Richardson new, dynamic, and compelling context; not by stripping the form of its tradition, but by pushing it - rhythmically, technically, and conceptually. The company’s inaugural DeWitt Fleming Jr., Warren Craft performance garnered a Bessie Award for “blasting open our notions of tap” and the company continues its passionate commitment to expanding the audience of tap Jungle Blues (2012) dance, America’s original art form. Choreography by Michelle Dorrance with solo improvisation by Christopher Broughton Founded in 2011 by artistic director and 2015 MacArthur Fellow, Michelle Dorrance, Lighting Design by Kathy Kaufmann the company has received countless accolades, rave reviews and performed for packed Costume Design by Amy Page houses at venues including The Joyce Theater (New York, NY), The Kennedy Center Music: “Jungle Blues” (Washington, DC), New York City Center (New York, NY), Lincoln Center Out of Doors (New York, NY), Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival (Becket, MA), Vail International Written By: Fred “Jelly Roll” Morton Dance Festival (Vail, CO), National Arts Centre of Canada (Ontario, Canada), Fira Courtesy of Edwin H Morris & Company, Tarrega (Tarrega, Spain), Staatstheater Darmstadt (Darmstadt, Germany), Danse A Division of MPL Music Publishing, INC. (ASCAP) Danse Montreal (Montreal, Canada), Hong Kong Arts Festival (Hong Kong), among others and including many colleges and universities across the United States. Dancers: Full Company www.dorrancedance.com

Three to One (2011) DORRANCE DANCE STAFF Choreography by Michelle Dorrance Artistic Director Michelle Dorrance Lighting Design by Kathy Kaufmann Executive Director Donald Borror Costume Design by Michelle Dorrance and Mishay Petronelli Production Manager/Sound Engineer Christopher Marc Music: “Nannou” Company Manager Tina Huang Written By: Richard D James Rehearsal Director Elizabeth Burke Published By: BMG Blue (BMI) obo Chrysalis Music Ltd; Musical Director Donovan Dorrance Used by permission. All rights reserved. Lighting Design Kathy Kaufmann Lighting Supervisor Serena Wong “A Rat’s Nest” Technical Director/Assistant Stage Manager Diego Quintanar Written By: Thom Yorke Artist Representative Margaret Selby, Selby/Artists Management Courtesy of Kobalt Music PERFORMER BIOS Dancers: Michelle Dorrance, Byron Tittle, Matthew “Megawatt” West Michelle Dorrance (Artistic Director/Choreographer/Dancer) is a New York City based artist. Mentored by Gene Medler, she grew up performing with his North The creation of Three to One was made possible, in part, by the Danspace Project 2010-2011 Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble and was lucky to study under many of the last master Commissioning Initiative with support from the Jerome Foundation. Danspace’s Commissioning Initiative is a core component of the Choreographic Center Without Walls (CW²). hoofers. Career highlights include: STOMP, Derick Grant’s Imagine Tap, Jason Samuels Smith’s Charlie’s Angels/Chasing the Bird, Ayodele Casel’s Diary of a Tap Dancer, Mable Lee’s Dancing Ladies, and Darwin Deez. Company work: Savion

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Glover’s ti dii, Manhattan Tap, Barbara Duffy, JazzTap Ensemble, Rumba Tap, and solo Duffy, Jane Goldberg, Jared Grimes, Max Pollak, Michael Minery, the late Harold work ranging from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to Damian Woetzel’s Vail ‘Stumpy’ Cromer, and the legendary Mable Lee, amongst others. She is grateful to Dance Festival Projects, and a commission for the Martha Graham Dance Company. be able to share her passion and love for tap dance through her performances and A 2017 Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellow and 2015 MacArthur Fellow, Michelle teaching worldwide. is humbled to have been acknowledged/supported by United States Artists, The Joyce Theater, New York City Center, the Alpert Awards, Jacob’s Pillow, Princess Grace Gregory Richardson (Composer/Musician) was born in Tucson, AZ and learned Foundation, The Field, American Tap Dance Foundation, and the Bessie Awards. Rhythm and Blues at an early age from a family of musicians where everyone could Michelle holds a B. A. from New York University and is a Capezio Athlete. play at least a little piano and everyone was expected to sing. As a member of the band Darwin Deez, Gregory has performed at many of the world’s largest music festivals. In Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie (Dancer), a 2016 Bessie Award Winner for Innovative recent years, he’s found a second home with the New York City tap dance community, Achievement in Dance, is a NYC-based bgirl, dancer and choreographer. As artistic composing for and/or performing in several Dorrance Dance works, including director of Ephrat Asherie Dance (EAD), she has presented work at Jacob’s Pillow, Myelination, which was commissioned by the Fall for Dance Festival and premiered at FiraTarrega and New York Live Arts, among others. Ephrat has received numerous New York City Center. awards to support her work including a NDP Award from NEFA, a Mondo Cane! Commission from Dixon Place and an Extended Life Residency from the Lower Leonardo Sandoval (Dancer) has established a reputation in the tap world and Manhattan Cultural Council. Ephrat has taught at Wesleyan University and is beyond for his musicality, and for adding his own Brazilian flavor to tap. Leo on faculty at Broadway Dance Center. For more information please visit www. co-founded the Cia Carioca de Sapateado in Rio de Janeiro, bringing tap to a wider ephratasheriedance.com audience in Brazil. Since moving to New York in 2013, he has performed with Dorrance Dance, as a solo artist, and presented work as a choreographer at venues Christopher Broughton (Dancer), born and raised in Los Angeles, CA, Chris began across the U.S. and abroad. dancing at the age of 11 and has never looked back. Under the instruction of Paul and Arlene Kennedy at Universal Dance, he became a member of The Kennedy Tap Byron Tittle (Dancer) has been dancing since the age of 7 in his hometown of New Company, receiving the national NAACP ACT-SO Award twice. He now travels York. Starting with tap and ballet, he soon grew to enjoy the different genres and worldwide both as a soloist and with Jason Samuels Smith’s A.C.G.I., Rasta Thomas’ aesthetics in the entire realm of dance. He began tap dancing with David Rider and Tap Stars, and Dorrance Dance. Performances include New York City Center’s Cotton then with the American Tap Dance Foundation’s Tap City Youth Ensemble. There, Club Parade; Juba! Master’s of Tap & Percussive Dance at the Kennedy Center; and he met Michelle Dorrance and continually took her master classes and workshops. Broadway’s Tony & Astaire award-winning production After Midnight. He joined the company in 2014 and has been consistently involved since then. Commercially, he has danced for Janet Jackson and Nicki Minaj but feels most fulfilled Elizabeth Burke (Rehearsal Director/Dancer) is a Chapel Hill, North Carolina native on stage with Dorrance Dance. who spent 11 years under the direction of her mentor, Gene Medler, in the acclaimed North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble. Burke has been with Dorrance Dance since its Matthew “Megawatt” West (Dancer) started dancing at 16 on his church’s dance team inception in 2010. She pursues her own choreographic work, teaches and performs as in Queens, New York, and with the company On Point Choreography, with whom he a soloist on occasion. She is an alumna of the School at Jacob’s Pillow and Marymount learned challenging choreography and mastered different styles within hip hop dance. Manhattan College (BA Political Science, BA Communication Arts, magna cum He has competed in several Bboy competitions, and strives to impart knowledge and laude). wisdom on the next generation of dancers: he has taught at Coney Island’s Shining Angels Studio and at after school programs in Queens. Mega is an avid listener of Warren Craft (Dancer/Musician) is a New York City tap dancer who has trained in House music and a dedicated student of House dance, training with the NYC crew ballet with both the American Ballet Theatre and the School of American Ballet. He MAWU, Conrad Rochester, and James “Cricket” Colter. has been a member of Brenda Bufalino’s New American Tap Dance Orchestra, Max Pollak’s RumbaTap, and Dorrance Dance. He moves with “bizarre physicality,” and Gabe Winns Ortiz (Dancer), 26, was born and raised in San Diego, CA. He started “unconventional eloquence.” (New York Times). dancing at the age of 11, and his love for the art form has continued to grow ever since. He has toured worldwide with the critically acclaimed stage show Tap Kids, Donovan Dorrance (Musical Director/Composer/Musician) hails from Chapel Hill, and since moving to New York City he has worked with various companies, including NC where he studied piano, guitar, drums, and voice before attending The University RumbaTap, Dorrance Dance and Swing FX. He also directs his own group called the of North Carolina for a B.A. in Philosophy. After singing in an a cappella group, Students of Sound, and teaches at the American Tap Dance Foundation. Television drumming in an indie-rock band, and receiving a degree fit for waiting tables for credits include America’s Most Talented Kids (2002), America’s Got Talent (2011), and the rest of his life, Donovan moved to Brooklyn to assist his sister’s company and FakeOff (2014). pursue his passion for music. In his spare time, Donovan composes music with Greg Richardson for Dorrance Dance, takes online business courses, and is occasionally PRODUCTION BIOS published in his UNC professors’ books in the field of philosophy. Kathy Kaufmann (Lighting Designer) is a resident designer at Danspace Project whose work has been seen throughout the US, Canada and Europe. She is a two-time DeWitt Fleming Jr. (Musician) is an actor, singer, dancer, and percussionist from Bessie recipient and was nominated for her work on Rebecca Davis’s Bloowst Windku Washington, DC. A graduate of Duke Ellington School for the Arts and Marymount at Here in 2015. She was also honored to be included in Curtain Call: Celebrating 100 Manhattan College, he has performed, taught, and choreographed throughout the Years of Women in Design at the NY Performing Arts Library and currently teaches world. Credit highlights include Riverdance, Cirque Du Soliel’s Banana Shpeel, Cotton lighting at Sarah Lawrence. Most recent projects include designs for Joanna Kotze, Club Parade, Signature Theater’s Jelly’s Last Jam, Boardwalk Empire (HBO), Smash David Parker, Eiko & Koma, Jillian Peña, Larissa Velez Jackson and Dorrance Dance (NBC), among others. DeWitt has danced as a soloist with Lincoln Center Jazz (The Blues Project, SOUNDspace and ETM). Orchestra, Princeton Symphony Orchestra, and with artists from Wynton Marsalis to Bobby McFerrin. He has played percussion for The Jared Grimes Feel, Brandon Dixon, Christopher Marc (Production Manager/Sound Engineer) Credits: The Kennedy among others, at venues including the legendary Blue Note and BB Kings Times Center TYA: Elephant and Piggy’s we are in a Play; National Tour: Clifford the Big Red Square. DeWitt is a proud Capezio Athlete. www.dewittflemingjr.com Dog Live! Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival; Forever Plaid, Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet, The Fantasticks. Design Credits: Off-Broadway; The Black Book; Aquila Aaron Marcellus (Co-Composer/Musician), singer, vocal coach, writer, musician, Theatre National Tour; Wuthering Heights, The Tempest, Fahrenheit 451, Twelfth Night. dancer, and actor from Atlanta started in Gospel music and has performed around the world. He has recorded albums and was voted top 24 on American Idol in 2011. After Diego Quintanar (Technical Director/Assistant Stage Manager), started working in a world tour, Aaron was featured in a Chapstick commercial, NBC’s “Next Caller” theater production as a student at the College of the Holy Cross. He was introduced and was a cast member of STOMP. Marcellus also hosts a Burlesque show at Duane to Dorrance Dance through his work with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s Park. Most importantly, he founded both Surrender To Love, LLC, a foundation that Works & Process series as a project coordinator. Other credits include: Latino Cultural supports arts programs and seeks to feed the hungry and Adventure Voice, a training Center and Wyly Theater, Dallas, TX where he worked as a carpenter and electrician; program offering vocal classes for groups and individuals. off-Broadway musical I Like It Like That as Production Manager, NYC; Shen Wei Dance Arts, NYC and Dance Heginbotham, NYC as an assistant stage manager and Claudia Rahardjanoto (Dancer), born and raised in Berlin, Germany, started scenic charge. dancing professionally at the age of nine at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Named one of “25 To Watch” by Dance Magazine in 2010 and featured on the cover of Dance Serena Wong (Lighting Supervisor) is a Brooklyn-based freelance lighting designer Teacher Magazine in 2011, Claudia has danced with and learned from Andreas Dänel, for theater and dance. Her designs have been seen at New York Live Arts, Irondale Sven Göttlicher, Dianne Walker, Ted Levy, Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards, Michelle Arts Center, the New Ohio, and Danspace. She enjoys biking, beekeeping, and bread Dorrance, Derick Grant, Brenda Bufalino, Roxane Butterfly, Andrew Nemr, Barbara baking.

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A 24-DECADE HISTORY OF POPULAR MUSIC: ACT VII

Featuring Taylor Mac, Creator, Writer, Vocals Matt Ray, Music Director, Piano,Vocals Machine Dazzle, Costume Designer, Performer

with Bernice “Boom Boom” Brooks, Drums and Steffanie Christi’an, Vocals Northwest Tap Connection, Special Guests Thornetta Davis, Vocals Viva DeConcini, Guitar CREATIVE/PRODUCTION Timothy White Eagle, Dandy Minion Jimin Brelsford, Audio Supervisor Greg Glassman, Trumpet Paul Frydrychowski, Lighting Supervisor Jessica Lurie, Saxophones, Flute Jason Kaiser, Stage Manager Gary Wang, Bass Willa Folmar, Company Manager TAYLOR MAC TAYLOR MAC (Creator/Writer/Performer) (who uses “judy,” lowercase sic, not as a name Photo: Teddy Wolff Teddy Photo: but as a gender pronoun) is one of the world’s leading theater artists. A playwright, actor, STG singer-songwriter, performance artist, director and producer and “Critical darling of the presents New York scene” (NY Magazine), judy’s work has been performed in hundreds venues in association with On the Boards including New York City’s Town Hall, Lincoln Center, Celebrate Brooklyn, The Public Theatre and Playwrights Horizons, as well as London’s Hackney Empire and Barbican, D.C.’s TAYLOR MAC Kennedy Center, Los Angeles’s Royce Hall and The Theatre at Ace Hotel (through UCLA’s A 24-DECADE HISTORY OF Center for the Art of Performance), Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre, the Sydney Opera House, The Melbourne Festival (Forum Theater), Stockholm’s Sodra Theatern, the Spoleto POPULAR MUSIC: ACT VII Festival, San Francisco’s Curran Theater and SFMOMA. judy is the author of many works Conceived, written, performed and co-directed by of theater including the soon to be produced plays, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus, TAYLOR MAC Prosperous Fools, and The Fre, and the previously produced works, A 24-DECADE Music Director / Arranger Costume Designer HISTORY OF POPULAR MUSIC, Hir, The Walk Across America for Mother Earth, MATT RAY MACHINE DAZZLE Comparison is Violence, The Lily’s Revenge, The Young Ladies Of, Red Tide Blooming, The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac, Cardiac Arrest or Venus on a Half-Clam, The Face of Liberalism, Okay, Executive Producer Linda Brumbach Maurizio Pollini, A Crevice, and The Hot Month.

Associate Producer Alisa E. Regas Sometimes Taylor acts in other people’s plays (or co-creations). Notably: Shen Teh/Shui Ta in The Foundry Theater’s production of Good Person of Szechwan at La Mama and the Co-Produced by Pomegranate Arts and Nature’s Darlings Public Theater, Puck/Egeus in the Classic Stage Company’s A Midsummer’s Night Dream, and in the two-man vaudeville, The Last Two People On Earth opposite Mandy Patinkin, A 24-DECADE HISTORY OF POPULAR MUSIC is directed by Susan Stroman. commissioned in part by ASU Gammage at Arizona State University; Belfast International Arts Festival and Mac is a MacArthur Fellow, a Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Drama and the recipient of multiple 14 - 18 NOW WW1 Centenary Art Commissions; Carole awards including the Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History, a NY Drama Shorenstein Hays, The Curran SF; Carolina Performing Arts, Critics Circle Award, a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Center in Drama and Performance Art, the Herb Alpert in Theater, the Peter Zeisler Memorial for the Art of Performance at UCLA; Hancher Auditorium Award, the Helen Merrill Playwriting Award, 2 Bessies, 2 Obies, and an Ethyl Eichelberger at the University of Iowa; Lincoln Center for the Performing Award. An alumnus of New Dramatists, judy is currently a New York Theater Workshop Arts; Melbourne Festival; Museum of Contemporary Usual Suspect and the Resident playwright at the HERE Arts Center. Art Chicago; International Festival of Arts & Ideas (New Haven); New York Live Arts; OZ Arts Nashville; Stanford Live at Stanford University; University Musical Society of POMEGRANATE ARTS (Creative Producers) the University of Michigan. For the past twenty years, Pomegranate Arts has worked in close collaboration with a small group of contemporary artists and arts institutions to bring bold and ambitious artistic This work was developed with the support of the Park Avenue ideas to fruition. Founder and Director Linda Brumbach, along with managing director Armory residency program, MASS MoCa (Massachusetts Alisa E. Regas, produced the Olivier Award-winning revival of Einstein on the Beach, the Museum of Contemporary Art), New York Stage and Film multi-award winning production of Taylor Mac’s A 24-DECADE HISTORY OF POPULAR & Vassar’s Powerhouse Theater, and the 2015 Sundance MUSIC and the Drama Desk Award winning production of Charlie Victor Romeo. Since Institute Theatre Lab at the Sundance Resort with continuing its inception, Pomegranate Arts has produced over thirty major new performing arts post-lab dramaturgical support through its initiative with the productions and tours for Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Lucinda Childs, Dan Zanes, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. London’s Improbable, Sankai Juku, Batsheva, and Bassem Youssef and collaborated on new productions with the Kronos Quartet, Leonard Cohen, Robert Wilson, and Frank A 24-DECADE HISTORY OF POPULAR MUSIC Gehry. We hope to continue to build our community of institutions and individuals that was made possible with funding by the New England are inspired by the artists in our lives who help bring beauty and truth into the world, ask Foundation for the Arts’ National Theater Project, with important questions, and take bold risks. lead funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

A-6 SEATTLE THEATRE GROUP THE PARAMOUNT Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater APRIL 27–29

ABOUT THE COMPANY Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater grew from a now-fabled performance in March 1958 at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. Led by Alvin Ailey and a group of young African-American modern dancers, that performance changed forever the perception of American dance. The Ailey company has gone on to perform for an estimated 25 million people at theaters in 48 states and 71 countries on six continents—and has reached millions more through television broadcasts, film screenings, and online platforms. In 2008 a U.S. Congressional resolution designated the Company as “a vital American cultural ambassador to the world” that celebrates the uniqueness of the African-American cultural experience and the preservation and enrichment of the American modern dance heritage. When Mr. Ailey began creating dances, he drew upon his “blood memories” of Texas, the blues, spirituals, and gospel as inspiration, which resulted in the creation of his most popular and critically acclaimed work, Revelations. Although he created 79 ballets over his lifetime, Mr. Ailey maintained that his company was not exclusively a repository for his own work. Today the Company continues Mr. Ailey’s mission by presenting important works of the past and commissioning new ones. In all, more than 250 works by more than 100 choreographers have been part of the Ailey company’s repertory. Before his untimely death in 1989, Mr. Ailey named Alvin Ailey, Founder Judith Jamison as his successor, and over the next 21 years she brought the Company to Judith Jamison, Artistic Director Emerita unprecedented success. Ms. Jamison, in turn, Robert Battle, Artistic Director personally selected Robert Battle to succeed her in 2011, and The New York Times declared Masazumi Chaya, Associate Artistic Director he “has injected the company with new life.” COMPANY MEMBERS Hope Boykin Vernard J. Gilmore Renaldo Maurice Jamar Roberts Jeroboam Bozeman Jacqueline Green Ashley Mayeux Samuel Lee Roberts Clifton Brown Daniel Harder Michael Francis McBride Kanji Segawa Sean Aaron Carmon Jacquelin Harris Rachael McLaren Glenn Allen Sims Sarah Daley-Perdomo Collin Heyward Chalvar Monteiro Linda Celeste Sims Ghrai DeVore Michael Jackson Jr. Akua Noni Parker Constance Stamatiou Solomon Dumas Megan Jakel Danica Paulos Jermaine Terry Samantha Figgins Yannick Lebrun Belén Pereyra-Alem Fana Tesfagiorgis Matthew Rushing, Rehearsal Director & Guest Artist

Bennett Rink, Executive Director Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater gratefully Major funding is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts; acknowledges The Joan & Sandy Weill Global the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; American Express; Bank of America; BET Networks; Ambassador Fund, which provides vital Bloomberg Philanthropies; BNY Mellon; Delta Air Lines; Diageo, North America; Doris Duke Charitable support for Ailey’s national and Foundation; FedEx; Ford Foundation; Howard Gilman Foundation; The William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust; The Prudential Foundation; The SHS Foundation; The Shubert Foundation; Southern Company; international tours. Target; The Wallace Foundation; and Wells Fargo.

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ALVIN AILEY, FOUNDER As a performer, Mr. Chaya appeared on Japanese television in both dramatic and musical Alvin Ailey was born on January 5, 1931, in Rogers, Texas. His experiences of life in the productions. He wishes to recognize the artistic contribution and spirit of his late friend and rural South would later inspire some of his most memorable works. He was introduced fellow artist, Michihiko Oka. to dance in Los Angeles by performances of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and the Katherine Dunham Dance Company, and his formal dance training began with an JUDITH JAMISON, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR EMERITA introduction to Lester Horton’s classes by his friend Carmen de Lavallade. Horton, the Judith Jamison joined Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 1965 and quickly became an founder of one of the first racially integrated dance companies in the United States, became international star. Over the next 15 years, Mr. Ailey created some of his most enduring roles a mentor for Mr. Ailey as he embarked on his professional career. After Horton’s death for her, most notably the tour-de-force solo Cry. During the 1970s and 80s she appeared as in 1953, Mr. Ailey became director of the Lester Horton Dance Theater and began to a guest artist with ballet companies all over the world, starred in the hit Broadway musical choreograph his own works. In the 1950s and 60s Mr. Ailey performed in four Broadway Sophisticated Ladies, and formed her own company, The Jamison Project. She returned to shows, including House of Flowers and Jamaica. In 1958 he founded Alvin Ailey American Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 1989 when Mr. Ailey asked her to succeed him as Dance Theater to carry out his vision of a company dedicated to enriching the American artistic director. In the 21 years that followed, she brought the Company to unprecedented modern dance heritage and preserving the uniqueness of the African-American cultural heights—including two historic engagements in South Africa and a 50-city global tour to experience. He established the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center (now The Ailey School) celebrate the Company’s 50th anniversary. Ms. Jamison is the recipient of numerous awards in 1969 and formed the Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble (now Ailey II) in 1974. Mr. Ailey and honors, among them a prime time Emmy Award, an American Choreography Award, a was a pioneer of programs promoting arts in education, particularly those benefiting Kennedy Center Honor, a National Medal of Arts, a Bessie Award, the Phoenix Award, and underserved communities. Throughout his lifetime he was awarded numerous distinctions, the Handel Medallion. She was also listed in “The TIME 100: The World’s Most Influential including the Kennedy Center Honor in 1988 in recognition of his extraordinary People” and honored by First Lady Michelle Obama at the first White House Dance Series contribution to American culture. In 2014 he posthumously received the Presidential Medal event. In 2015 she became the 50th inductee into the Hall of Fame at the National Museum of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian honor, in recognition of his contributions and of Dance. In 2016 she received the Douglas Watt Lifetime Achievement Award from the commitment to civil rights and dance in America. When Mr. Ailey died on December 1, Fred and Adele Astaire Awards. As a highly regarded choreographer, Ms. Jamison has 1989, The New York Times said of him, “you didn’t need to have known [him] personally to created many celebrated works, including Divining (1984), Forgotten Time (1989), Hymn have been touched by his humanity, enthusiasm, and exuberance and his courageous stand (1993), HERE... NOW. (commissioned for the 2002 Cultural Olympiad), Love Stories (with for multi-racial brotherhood.” additional choreography by Robert Battle and Rennie Harris, 2004), and Among Us (Private Spaces: Public Places, 2009). Ms. Jamison’s autobiography, Dancing Spirit, was edited by ROBERT BATTLE, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and published in 1993. In 2004, under Ms. Jamison’s artistic Robert Battle became artistic director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in July 2011 directorship, her idea of a permanent home for the Ailey company was realized and named after being personally selected by Judith Jamison, making him only the third person to head after beloved chairman emerita Joan Weill. Ms. Jamison continues to dedicate herself to the Company since it was founded in 1958. Mr. Battle has a longstanding association with asserting the prominence of the arts in our culture and she remains committed to promoting the Ailey organization. A frequent choreographer and artist-in-residence at Ailey since the significance of the Ailey legacy—using dance as a medium for honoring the past, 1999, he has set many of his works on Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Ailey II, celebrating the present, and fearlessly reaching into the future. and at The Ailey School. The Company’s current repertory includes his ballets Ella, In/Side, Mass, No Longer Silent, and The Hunt. In addition to expanding the Ailey repertory with BENNETT RINK, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR works by artists as diverse as Kyle Abraham, Mauro Bigonzetti, Ronald K. Brown, Rennie Bennett Rink became Executive Director of Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation in January 2013. Harris, and Paul Taylor, Mr. Battle has also instituted the New Directions Choreography Prior to that time, Mr. Rink served the Ailey organization in a number of roles. He first joined Lab to help develop the next generation of choreographers. Mr. Battle’s journey to the top Ailey as Manager of Special Events in 1994, became Development Director in 1998, and then of the modern dance world began in the Liberty City neighborhood of Miami, Florida. He worked as Senior Director of Development and External Affairs from 2007 to 2012. In his showed artistic talent early and studied dance at a high school arts magnet program before tenure overseeing Ailey’s development and fundraising efforts, Mr. Rink led a $75 million capital moving on to Miami’s New World School of the Arts, under the direction of Daniel Lewis campaign that supported the construction of Ailey’s first permanent home, The Joan Weill Center and Gerri Houlihan, and finally to the dance program at The Juilliard School, under the for Dance, which opened in 2005, and established an endowment to support major program direction of Benjamin Harkarvy, where he met his mentor, Carolyn Adams. He danced with areas. When the Company celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2008, Mr. Rink supervised an The Parsons Dance Company from 1994 to 2001, and also set his choreography on that 18-month celebration, including events, promotions, collaborations and special performances, company starting in 1998. Mr. Battle then founded his own Battleworks Dance Company, bringing public awareness of the Ailey organization to new heights. In conjunction with the which made its debut in 2002 in Düsseldorf, Germany, as the U.S. representative to the anniversary, Mr. Rink also oversaw “The Next Step Campaign,” which grew the organization’s World Dance Alliance’s Global Assembly. Battleworks subsequently per-formed extensively endowment to $50 million. As Executive Director, Mr. Rink launched a five-year strategic plan at venues, including The Joyce Theater, Dance Theater Workshop, American Dance Festival, in 2014 to realize Artistic Director Robert Battle’s creative vision for the Company, expand the and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. Mr. Battle was honored as one of the “Masters of African- impact of Ailey’s educational offerings, and enhance technology to extend the reach of all aspects American Choreography” by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 2005, and he of the organization. Central to the plan has been the expansion of The Joan Weill Center for received the prestigious Statue Award from the Princess Grace Foundation-USA in 2007. Dance, which attracts more than 200,000 visitors each year. In the fall of 2017, Ailey unveiled He has honorary doctorates from The University of the Arts and Marymount Manhattan the Center’s Elaine Wynn and Family Education Wing, providing much-needed additional College. Mr. Battle was named a 2015 visiting fellow for The Art of Change, an initiative studios and classroom space to meet the growing demand for Ailey’s programs. The building by the Ford Foundation. He is a sought-after keynote speaker and has addressed a number now comprises 87,000 square feet and is the largest destination for dance in New York City. Mr. of high-profile organizations, including the United Nations Leaders Programme and the Rink also conceived The Campaign for Ailey’s Future, which has raised more than $50 million UNICEF Senior Leadership Development Programme. to support the Center’s expansion and the ongoing implementation of other long-range strategic priorities. During Mr. Rink’s tenure as Executive Director, the Company has deepened its MASAZUMI CHAYA, ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR presence in New York City by establishing a spring season at Lincoln Center to complement its Masazumi Chaya was born in Fukuoka, Japan, where he began his classical ballet annual winter season at New York City Center, while also extending its role as America’s “Cultural training. Upon moving to New York in December 1970, he studied modern dance and Ambassador to the World” with tours to Africa, Europe, and South America. In order to reach performed with the Richard Englund Repertory Company. Mr. Chaya joined Alvin Ailey audiences beyond the realm of live performances, the Company has broadened its commitment American Dance Theater in 1972 and performed with the Company for 15 years. In 1988 to creating film, video and digital content, including its first-ever theatrical movie release as he became the Company’s rehearsal director after serving as assistant rehearsal director. part of Lincoln Center at the Movies: Great American Dance. Mr. Rink is a graduate of Syracuse A master teacher both on tour with the Company and in his native Japan, he served as University and holds a B.F.A. degree in theater. choreographic assistant to Alvin Ailey and John Butler. In 1991 Mr. Chaya was named MATTHEW RUSHING, REHEARSAL DIRECTOR AND GUEST ARTIST associate artistic director of the Company. He continues to provide invaluable creative assistance in all facets of its operations. Mr. Chaya has restaged numerous ballets by Alvin Matthew Rushing was born in Los Angeles, California. He began his dance training with Kashmir Ailey, including Flowers for the State Ballet of Missouri (1990) and The River for the Royal Blake in Inglewood, California, and later continued his training at the Los Angeles County High Swedish Ballet (1993), Ballet Florida (1995), National Ballet of Prague (1995), Pennsylvania School for the Arts. He is the recipient of a Spotlight Award and a Dance Magazine Award and Ballet (1996), and Colorado Ballet (1998). He has also restaged The Mooche, Stack-Up, was named a Presidential Scholar in the Arts. He was a scholarship student at The Ailey School Episodes, Bad Blood, Hidden Rites, and Witness for the Company. At the beginning of his and later became a member of Ailey II. During his career Mr. Rushing has performed as a guest tenure, Mr. Chaya restaged Ailey’s For ‘Bird’ - With Love for a Dance in America program artist for galas in Vail, Colorado, as well as in Austria, Canada, France, Italy, and Russia. He has entitled Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Steps Ahead. In 2000 he restaged Ailey’s Night performed for Presidents George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama, Creature for the Rome Opera House and The River for La Scala Ballet. In 2002 Mr. Chaya as well as at the 2010 White House Dance Series. During his time with the Company, he has coordinated the Company’s appearance at the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree-lighting choreographed three ballets: Acceptance In Surrender (2005), a collaboration with Hope Boykin ceremony, broadcast on NBC. In 2003 he restaged The River for North Carolina Dance and Abdur-Rahim Jackson; Uptown (2009), a tribute to the Harlem Renaissance; and ODETTA Theatre and for Julio Bocca’s Ballet Argentina. Most recently Mr. Chaya restaged Bad Blood, (2014), a celebration of “the queen of American folk music.” In 2012 he created Moan, which was Blues Suite, Love Songs, Masekela Langage, Pas de Duke, and Vespers for the Company. set on Philadanco and premiered at The Joyce Theater. Mr. Rushing joined the Company in 1992 and became rehearsal director in June 2010.

A-8 SEATTLE THEATRE GROUP THE PARAMOUNT APRIL 27–29

ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES AILEY TOUR MERCHANDISE Daria L. Wallach, Chairman Ailey Tour Merchandise and AileyShop.com are managed by The Araca Group Debra L. Lee, President AileyShop.com Gina F. Adams, Stephen J. Meringoff, Arthur J. Mirante II, John H. Schaefer, Vice-Chairmen Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater • The Joan Weill Center for Dance Eleanor S. Applewhaite Anthony S. Kendall Stanley Plesent, Esq. 405 West 55th Street, NY, NY 10019-4402 • Tel: 212-405-9000 • AlvinAiley.org Robert Battle Robert Kissane Marylin L. Prince facebook.com/AlvinAileyAmericanDanceTheater • Instagram: @alvinailey Paulette Mullings Bradnock Ricki Lander Lata N. Reddy Tia Breakley-China Michelle Y. Lee Bennett Rink Robyn Coles Natasha Leibel Levine, M.D. Richard Speciale Sela Thompson Collins Anthony A. Lewis Marc S. Strachan Laura D. Corb Leslie L. Maheras Joan H. Weill Paul M. Donofrio Lucinda C. Martinez Roger C. Williams, Jr. STG AileyCamp Jaishri Kapoor Doris Meister Gillian Wynn Helping Kids Define Their Possibilities! Philip Laskawy, Harold Levine*, Stanley Plesent, Esq., Joan H. Weill, Chairmen Emeriti For six weeks during the summer 65 young people will dedicate Henry McGee, President Emeritus themselves to a daily rigor known as AileyCamp. After completing Simin N. Allison, Anthony M. Carvette, Kathryn C. Chenault, Guido Goldman, Bruce S. Gordon, Lemar Swinney, Honorary Trustees a full school year, these young boys and girls spend an additional *In Memoriam 30 days, Monday – Friday, in an all-day summer experience learning personal development, communication skills, and ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION confidence building, while also learning various dance techniques. Recipient of the National Medal of Arts The successful goal of this completely free six-week program is Bennett Rink – Executive Director to create an opportunity for young people to learn new skills, be Pamela Robinson – Chief Financial Officer empowered, and develop respect for themselves and others. Thomas Cott – Senior Director of Marketing and Creative Content Kimberly T. Watson – Senior Director of Development Renowned choreographer Alvin Ailey conceived of the camp in ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER 1989 and incorporated a vital element of his vision that asserts Matthew Rushing, Rehearsal Director “dance is for everybody.” Using the power of dance, AileyCamp Linda Celeste Sims, Assistant to the Rehearsal Director enriches and positively impacts the lives of children. Seattle Dacquiri T’Shaun Smittick, Director of Production Theatre Group hosts 1 of only 10 AileyCamps in America, and for Isabelle Mezin, Director of Company Business Affairs a 3rd year, 65 young people ages 11-14, will be enriched as they Gregory Stuart, Company Manager experience what Mr. Ailey made possible long before their birth. Joseph Anthony Gaito, Technical Director Kristin Colvin Young, Production Stage Manager STG is committed to creating access to AileyCamp for young Al Crawford, Lighting Director people in our region. As a completely free experience, everything Jon Taylor, Wardrobe Supervisor needed to focus on personal development for 6 weeks is available DJ Adderley, Master Carpenter Zane Beatty, Master Electrician at no cost. Healthful meals, dance attire, curriculum materials, and Russell J. Cowans IV, Sound Engineer transportation are all provided. Chris Theodore, Property Master Selena M. Campbell, Assistant Company Manager To donate and learn more, please go to Nicole A. Walters, Assistant Stage Manager Roya Abab, Associate Lighting Director stgpresents.org/education/aileycamp, Jesse Dunham, Wardrobe Assistant or call Maura Ahearne at 206-467-5510 x1148 Katie Chihaby, Wardrobe Assistant Philip Lugo, Flyman Andrew Davila, Assistant Electrician Michael Windham, Production Associate MAJOR AILEYCAMP SUPPORTERS Michelle Grazio, Production and Finance Associate Donald J. Rose, M.D., Director of the Harkness Center for Dance Injuries, Hospital for Joint Disease Shaw Bronner, Director of Physical Therapy Sheyi Ojofeitimi, Physical Therapist Sara Aingorn, Physical Therapist Kala Flagg, Physical Therapist Ryanne Glasper, Physical Therapist

TOURING CONTACTS North American Agent International Agent OPUS 3 ARTISTS ASKONAS HOLT LTD. Tel: 212-584-7500 Tel: +44-20-7400-1700 opus3artists.com askonasholt.co.uk

PRODUCTION CREDITS Jubilation Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation Lighting system provided by 4Wall Entertainment. Touring sound system provided by Gibson Entertainment Services. Peg & Rick Young Foundation Domestic trucking services provided by Stage Call Corporation. Schultz Family Foundation Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is a proud member of Dance/USA, the national service organization for professional dance. STG is deeply grateful to the generous individuals and anonymous supporters who make AileyCamp possible.

encoremediagroup.com/programs A-9 SEATTLE THEATRE GROUP THE MOORE CORPORATE SPONSORS Seattle Rock Orchestra MAY 12–13

SEATTLE ROCK ORCHESTRA THE BEATLES: NUMBER ONES

Pours on Pine Sponsor Seattle Rock Orchestra (SRO) returns to The Meltdown Festival; and Timber Outdoor Moore Theatre stage as they continue their Music Festival. COMMUNITY PARTNERS annual Mother’s Day weekend exploration of The Beatles’ vast creative output. Taking In 2012, SRO began its expansion into inspiration from the popular Beatles a full-fledged arts organization with the compilation album 1, SRO celebrates the introduction of the Seattle Rock Orchestra band’s broad swath of No. 1 hits that reigned Summer Intensive, a week long summer day on both the U.K. and U.S. charts, along with camp for middle and high school musicians, their charming B-Side companions (many of which now hosts two sessions each summer which are hits in their own right). Featuring at Seattle’s Moore Theatre and at Kirkland the songs “Can’t Buy Me Love,” “Eight Days A Performance Center. Other SRO programs Week,” “Yesterday,” Penny Lane,” “Hey Jude,” include Seattle Rock Orchestra Quintet, “Something,” “Let It Be,” and many more. SRO’s elite chamber ensemble; Seattle Rock Sunday’s performance will include a special Orchestra Social Club, a volunteer amateur opening set by Seattle Rock Orchestra Social community orchestra; and Seattle Rock Club, SRO’s sister-orchestra comprised of Orchestra Street Band, a New Orleans-style adult amateur musicians. brass band and mobile party unit.

Seattle Rock Orchestra doesn’t hide behind a Seattle Rock Orchestra’s Mission Statement rock band...it is the rock band! SRO utilizes strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion, and Seattle Rock Orchestra believes in the rotating cast of exciting guest vocalists to power of music to heal, nourish, inspire and deliver tribute shows unlike any other. SRO invigorate. SRO is committed to producing was founded in 2008 by bassist and composer experiences that entertain, educate, and Scott Teske. In the years since, SRO has foster community, while continuing the racked up an impressive resume that includes performance and study of orchestral music as collaborations with the likes of Elvis Costello, a vibrant and vital art form. Macklemore, DeVotchKa, Jeremy Enigk, Damien Jurado, D.R.A.M, Jesse Sykes, Rosie Seattle Rock Orchestra is an Associated Thomas, Allen Stone, Jason Webley, Sir Mix- Program of Shunpike. Shunpike is a 501(c) a-Lot, and members of Big Star, The Posies, (3) non-profit art service organization whose R.E.M., Harvey Danger, The Long Winters, mission is to strengthen the Seattle arts Vendetta Red, Nada Surf and Pearl Jam, on community by partnering with small and stages across Washington State, including mid-size arts groups to develop the business Seattle’s Paramount, Moore and Neptune tools they need to succeed. Theatres; Sasquatch Music Festival; Summer

A-10 SEATTLE THEATRE GROUP THE PARAMOUNT PARAMOUNT AND MOORE DANCE This JULY 13 SEASON PARTNERS

STG’s signature dance program brings together youth and adult performers from diverse communities for collaboration and to share their culture through the art of dance. Works from local and national artists highlight this region’s vibrant talent. Past guest artists have included Broadway professionals, New York and L.A. award-winning dancers, the Joffrey Ballet, and Savion Glover to name a few. This year, we celebrate the 20th Annual DANCE This Performance at the Paramount Theatre on July 13, 2018 with a Youth Matinee at 1:00 pm and Evening Public Performance at 7:30pm. In a time where we look towards the arts as a vessel to grow and connect as a community, DANCE This truly brings everyone together.

Cultural dances from Mexico, Croatia, India and the Philippines join contemporary dances of tap, modern and hip hop. The performers include alumni, new dancers and guest artists from New York plus a finale to bring down the house. Join us in this celebration of the past 20 years along with all of those who have helped stretch our reach through DANCE This!

Dance education opportunities offered are:

DANCE This Intensive Pacific Northwest Ballet – Phelps Center, Seattle June 25 - 30, 2018 The DANCE This Intensive, now in its 15th year, provides a weeklong opportunity for young dancers (ages 13-21) at all levels to immerse themselves in a wide range of dance styles and techniques in a supportive, yet challenging atmosphere.

DANCE This Camp @ Centrum Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend, WA August 12 - 19, 2018 Open to dancers grades 9-12, DANCE This Camp @ Centrum, now in its 10th year, offers a weeklong opportunity for young dancers at all levels to study dance in beautiful Port Townsend, WA. Students learn a range of dance styles and genres with professional educators from the Seattle area. Please note: this is a residential program/camp.

Learn more about DANCE This at STGPRESENTS.ORG/EDUCATION/DANCE-THIS

encoremediagroup.com/programs A-11 SUPPORTERS of Seattle Theatre Group

$100,000 & Above Intellectual Ventures Shwab • William Skoff • George Soltes • David & Anonymous Jubilation Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation Naomi Spinak • Star Equity Management • Tom & 4Culture Kyle Kinkade Kathy Story • Timothy Sunday • Dillon Tellier • Amy M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust Jaclyn & Stefan Lessard Theobald & Carabeth Lee • Johnathan Toman • Washington State Heritage Capital Project Fund Bob & Monique Lipman Selena Tonti • Jason & Erica Tripard • Jeff & Summer administered by the Washington State Historical Tonya & Robert Little Trisler • Maya Trujillo Ringe • Jeff Vanlaningham & Society Grant MacLeod Beth Galetti • Martin Walker • Bruce & Peggy Wanta Shawn & Jesse Magraw • Mike Waters • Steve Wicklund • Mark & Barbara $50,000 - $99,000 Gail Mautner Williams • Windermere Real Estate/M2 • Jennifer Anonymous Kristi Miller Yi • Bob & Sandy Zook • Donald Zwink & Clark ArtsFund Greg & Allison Mollner Thompson • Gerry Zyfers The Boeing Company Greg & Michelle Page Broadway Across America Jenn Pan $1000 - $2499 Ida Cole Steve & Nena Peltin Anonymous (2) • Claudine Adamo • Susan Adelman King County Gale Picker • Maura Ahearne & John Bregar • Amy Alcala • Microsoft Matching Gifts Paul & Dina Pigott Mark & Caryl Andrews • Claire Angel • Wayne City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture Kristina & Jeff Preedy Araki • Jesus Areyano • Cassandra Aspinall • Anne Sasquatch! Music Festival Backstrom • Nancy Backus • Regina & Steve Ball $25,000 - $49,000 Jeffery Schempp • Florian Barca • David & Jacqui Barnes • Carlos Anonymous Schultz Family Foundation Barrera • Tom Bartholomew • Kate Becker & Michael The Bradley Family Foundation David Shank Compton • Crystal Beeler • Roy Belville • Rachelle Casey Family Programs Walt Smith Benbow • Paul Berg • Allyson Bertz • Lea Black • Charlotte Martin Foundation Start It! Foundation Graham Arthur Blair • Blum-Kovler Foundation • Peter & Susan Davis Cody Touchette Catherine Boshaw • Brad Boswell • Tim & Lori Boyd Tom Douglas & Jackie Cross VWC CPAs & Business Managers • Megan Bramlette & Megan Hall • Mark & Linda Jim Kraft & Dominique Posy Steven Wayne Bratonia • Jim & Lynn Brooks • Joe Brotherton • Tim & Kris Rose Bill & Becca Wert Elizabeth Broussard • Heather Brubeck • Kevin & Ron Wilkowski & Kyla Fairchild Nancy Cahill • Karen Caldwell • Angel Calvo • Jama $10,000 - $24,999 Christopher Wright Cantrell & Allen Summers • Steve Carstensen • Corey Christina L Aadland Kathryn & John Yerke Casper • Myla Causing & Todd Versaw • Century Kirsten & Jason Abboud The Peg & Rick Young Foundation Pacific, LLLP • Jennifer Chartraw & Selina Petosa • Stephen Black & Kevin McNamara Zaki Rose Jeff Clapsaddle • Jeremy Cole • Joe Bailey Cole • Jan & Kenneth Block Jason & Lisa Colton • David Coons • Gary Corrington Boeing Matching Gifts $2500 - $4999 & Jennifer Whip • Carolyn Corvi • Stephen Costanzo Becky Bogard Anonymous • Adrienne Adams • Maggie Alhadeff • • Michael Covarrubias • Johnna Craig • John & Emily The John Brooks Williams & John H. Bauer Andrea Amundson • Lindsay Anderson & Janet Piehl Crandall • Gail Crawford & John Barnard • Jeremy Endowment for Theatre • Rebecca Armstrong • Sherilyn Bankston • Tom Cummins • Madeleine & Luke Cwik • Josie Daniels Lori Campana Barghausen & Sandra Bailey • Howie & Karli Barokas • Alok Desai • Detachment 3 Inc. • Christopher Doll Country Music Association Foundation • Melissa Barrett • Don W. Beaty • Carolyn Bechtel • Meredith Drent • Andy Dulin & Linda Schoener • Jack & Anne Fontaine • Marc Bellis & Lauri Burroughs • Rick & Mindy Nathan Dwyer • Derek & Juiling Edmonds • David The Furnessville Foundation Bennett • Linda Betts • Mr. Jim Bianco • Luther Black McShea & Sophia Eitel • Ray Engle in Memory of Garneau-Nicon Family Foundation & Christina Wright • Shawna & Jim Bold • Leona Janice Engle • Chad Errett • April Bailey & Eduardo David & Patricia Giuliani Bosch • Barbara Cahill • Don Carlin • Carrie Carson • Escardo-Raffo • Catherine Escobar • Antonio HNS Charitable Gift Fund Tim & Sarah Cavanaugh • Ken & Sharon Clay • Larry Esteves • Steve & Sue Eulau • Thomas & Kay Ewing National Endowment for the Arts Cohen • The Colic Family • Don & Ann Connolly • Maritza Farrant • Kristy Fassio • Alison Fast • New England Foundation for the Arts Family Fund • Jennifer Dailey-Helgestad • Hazel Joseph & Anusha Fernando • Janyce Fink • Bruce Kwok Jack Yang Ng Davis • Tom & Margaret Easthope • Lisa & Fred Farin Firestone • Ken & Kathy Fisher • Lani Fisher • William Norcliffe Foundation • Ellen Ferguson • Jody Fletcher • Barry & JoAnn Fitzharris • Cecilia Flombaum • Carrie Foley • Forrest Tina Podlodowski & Barcy Fisher Forman • Michael & Lynnele Forrest • Anne Francis & Rebecca Foltz • Michael & Marta Fortin • Albert The Raney Family Fund & Craig Simmons • Gail & Jackie Frank • Aaron Frein Foster • Deborah Fouts • Justin Fox • Christina Frary Safeco Foundation • Jim Fursman • Travis Gagnier • The Gargus Family • Michael & Danielle Freeman • Leslie & Tony Freytag Lorna Stern • Anthony J. Giardini • Elizabeth Glazov • Diane • James Fridenmaker • Sharon Friel • Jamie Fullen Vitalogy Foundation Godfrey • Rohit Gopal • Jeff & Judy Greenstein • • Glynn Furby • Claire Furlong • Dana Garvey • Bill Adam Zacks & Lynn Resnick Scott & Suzette Guenther • Kristi & John Guin • & Melinda Gates Foundation Matching Gifts • Emily Missy Hagell • Richard Hansen • Antonette & Robert Gigot • Joshua Gilpatrick & Lichun Li • Brian Gish • $5000 - $9999 Harmon • Mary & Tom Herche • Joseph Hoang • Thomas & Tracey Glembin • Joanna Glickler & Brenda Anonymous (2) Michael Hoffman • Aidan Hughes • Jim & Pamm Majercin • Turner Gochanour • Google Matching Gifts Rache Boston Jardine • Tim & Becky Johnson • Jeannine Jones • Chris Gorey • Dr. Leslie Greene • Carol Gregory • Alexander Brandt • Stacy Justino • Robin Kanter • Jeff King • Doug Scott Gregory • Gerard Grohl • Sonia Handforth- Shavondelia Brown Kirby • Steven Kohlmyer & Debra Warden • Robyn Kome & Christ Bobbitt • Rebecca Harris • Laurie Hart Susan & Jeffery Buske Barfoot & John Kropp • Thomas & Sarah Stuhlsatz- & Thomas Morgan • Lisa & Tucker Hatfield • Alex Hay Costco Wholsale Executive Match Krouper • Josh & Colleen LaBelle • Landbridge • Sandra Herman • Tim & Pam Highfill • Holly Hill • Christina & Mark Dawson Lighting • Ty & Lisa Lee • Mr. Thomas F. Leonard • Douglas Hillman • Garett Hilty • Christina Hitchcock Kelley & Craig Dobbs Ross & Tracy Lincoff • Marty Loesch & Cyndi Lewis • Paula E. Hlastala • David Holt, ARNP & William Katherine Flinn • Karin Marlowe • Patrick & Peggy Mazzuca • Carla Freestone • Douglas & Andrea Holtan • Hadden Ricardo Frazer McAlister • Robert Medal • Mind-Body Empowered Hoppert • Jeffrey Howard & Jan Carlton • Aaron Laurie Frink • Caroline Mock • Jesse Moore • Heather & Brian Howland • Sarah L Hughes • Nimia Hunter-Velez • GACO Western Myers • Jesse & Kristi Nelson • Dawna Nipp • Mike Laura Inveen & Bill Shaw • Eric Ismert • Luke Ivey • Ms. Debrorah Gates & Ashley McCready • Cristine & Chris Orr • Pacific Cherryl Jackson-Williams • Kevin Jahne • Kimberly Edward & Sue Giaimo Learning Academy, Kirsten O’Malley • Rob Aigner Jarvis • Cheryl Johnson • Frederick Johnson • Phillip Glenn & Nancy Haber & Tina Pappas • Patrice & Helene Pelland • Edward Johnson • Tracy Johnson • Jim & Pat Johnston • Charles Hammontree Jr. Pesik & Teresa Blanchett • Arthur Pfund • Owen Andrea Keene • Catherine Kent • Gilles Khouzam Jeff & Shelly Heier Pitcairn • Diane Prescott • Puget Sound Energy • Jason & Deanna Kilmer • Matthew Kinzelman • Lucy Helm Foundation • Adam & Tanya Reinhardt • Sam Riley Brittany Kohl • William Konrady • Sacha Koohgoli • Janie Hendrix • Derek & Natalie Robbecke • Dorie Ross • Gordon Karen Koon • Jeb Korzilius • Emily Krouse • Cathy Pamela Hinckley Adams & Corie Sandall • Michael & Cari Schutzler Krug & Erik Lundberg • Ana Munoz • Sam Largent Teri Howe • Lynnette Sherwood • DeLee Shoemaker • Kenny • William Lawson • Ed & Barbara Lee • Phyllis Carolyne Howley

A-12 SEATTLE THEATRE GROUP SUPPORTERS of Seattle Theatre Group

Leventhal • Jan Levy • Kris Lilley • Lovejoy Family Cardamenis • Chris Carlson • Marianne Cartwright • • Jason & Linda Lowry • Julie Lyman • Deming & Paul & Beverly Cascio • Linda & Mike Casey • Derek Michelle Maclise • Macrodglon Family • The Maney Castro • CBRE Foundation, Inc. • Adrienne Family • Stephen Markowitz • Donna Martin • Les & Chamberlin • Scott & Heidi Chandler • M Patrick Jen Martin • Pam Mason • Dylan Mayo • Lia & John Chinn • Steve Cho • John & Kelle Christianson • McClellan • Susan McConnell • Michelle Mejia • Joan Christi Clark & Ivan Mendoza • James Clark • Sean SPONSORS Melgaard • J Eric Middleton • James Mitchell • Chie Clark • Robert Clore & Julia Wolf • Gloria & Fern • Mitsui • Steve & Thanne Moore Family Charitable Sarah Coerber • Sabrina D. Quarles • Charles Collins Fund • Timothy Morrow • Derrick Morton • Steve & • Debbie Collins • Ross & Linda Comer • Mr. Ari Cassandra Moselle • Elizabeth Mountsier • Ronald Consul • Peter Corwin • Donna J. Crider, DVM • Muller • Michael & Erane Myint • Louise Durocher & Danielle Cunningham • John Cory Curtis • Randolph Mike Nelson • Rebecca Nelson • Robert & Colleen & Shelly d’Amore • Jennifer & Byron Dailey • Mitchell Nicklos • Thomas Noble • George & Gloria Northcroft Daily • Douglas Daman • Kaleb Dameron & Andrew • Alicea & Nathaniel Novak • Amy Ogi • Victoria Kane • Lien Dao • Alicia Dara • Addy Davis • Elaine Olson • Kristi L. Oosterveen • Eric & Elizabeth Orth • Davis • Terry & Jeannie Davis • Robert Day • Leslie Terry & Joe Ozimek • Liam Palmer • Leah Papernick Decker • Michael Deer • Stanley Delducco • Dan & & Eric Lippert • RuthAnn Parish • Robert & Rachel Natalie Delorey • Kathleen & Philip Demaree • Pasterick • Sean Pelletier • People’s Injury Network Thomas DesLongchamp • Ray DiCasparro • Jaennae NW • Anne Peterson • Dave & Kristy Peterson • Dinius • Matt Dixon • Gail M. Doll • Alfred Donohue • Sara Peterson • Pie Lab Bakery • Sean Pierce • Mary Mark Donovan & Erica Chriss • Mark Doran • Deborah Pigott • Steve Poslermo • Ryan Price • Melanie Pritt • Drake & Dan Murray • Mr. Ralph Dreitzler • Brandi Judy Quick • Jim & Patricia Ramseth • Scott & Shawn Duffy • Nextune, Inc. • Kathryn Edens • Steve Egge • Redman • Jonathan Reichhold • Donna Reitz • Rao Brandt Elster • John & Christine Enslein • Philip J. Remala • Brian Richmon & Kathleen Peterson • Rush Erickson & Michele Lucien Erickson • Mr. John Eyre & & Susan Riese • D&P Roberts Family Foundation • Ms. Karren Eckwortzel • Jill Fancher • Paul Ferraro • Jennifer Rodriguez • Frank Rohrschneider • Andrew Steve Fisher • Tom Fisher & Kathy Jorgensen • Katie Rose • Emma Roudabush • Shawn Rourk • Robin & Flannigan • Steve & Patty Fleischmann Fund • John William Rutherford • Jeff & Lauri Ryder • Debra L. Forbes • Gwendolyn Ford • Kashawna Foster • Sally Sand • Erin Schietinger • Maren & John Schnebeck & Eben Frankenberg • Lindsay Franklin • Elizabeth • Ashley Seffernick & Mel Carson • Rebecca Shank Frederickson • Andrew M Friedland • Greg & Lorien • Andrew Shultz & Wade Stritzinger • The Shwab Friedman • Brian Galante • Elisabeth Gallegos • Family • Dr. Clay B. Siegall • Joe Simon & Mark Miller Kevin Geloff • Anna Gentry • Troy Gessel • Eric & • Robert Simon • Ted Sive • Ryan Slaugh • Tyler Siege Getsinger • Sarah Giles • Jonathan Gill • Zoe & Maggie Slone • Mary Smith • Kay & Len Sorrin • Gillespie • Ellen Gillette & Lawrie Payne • Timothy Jennifer & Mark Spatz • Kimberly Starman • John Gleason • Nathan Goldberg • Rachel Goldberg • & Eva Stephanus • Phillip Stone • Deborah Streeter Ronald & Elizabeth Goldberg • Bruce Gordon • Laura • Heather Sumner • BG & Leslie Tanzer • Rose B. Gowen • Nicole Grass • Laurie P Greene • Barbara Tatlow & Neil Roseman • Greg & Kris Taylor • Jesse Griffin • Jennifer Guild • Thomas Guinn • Sarah & Taylor • Tammy Taylor-Raden • Mariano & Barbara Michael Hahn • Patricia Haight • Andrew & Michelle Teixeira • Tyler & Bianca Tillman • Jennifer Tomas • Haines • Jim Hamilton & Billie Coopwood • Chi Han • Timothy Tomlinson & Vu Pham • Colin & Annie Turner Michelle Hanson • Edward Harley • A Gustav • Michael Turner • Johnny Underwood & Monte Hartmann • Robert Hartt • Paul Hasegawa • Bridges • Scott Unger • Cornelis van Rij • Clark & Katherine Haselton & Benjamin Andrews • John Barb VanBogart • Andrew Vanosdale • Alisa & Josh Hayward • Clare Hegg • Ariel Heining • Anja & John Vitello • Gary Volchok • Adam Vwich • Jan & Nancy Helmon • Chuck & Christine Hendryx • Bob & Wanamaker • Levi & Stephanie Ware • Bob & Andrea Jennifer Henning • Kelly & Michael Hershey • Charlie Watson • Julie Weed • Weisman Family Foundation • Hill & Sarat Vann-Hill • Nathan Hill • Michael Hines • Andrea Wenet • Catherine Wheaton • Kelly Whorton Jaclynn Hiranaka • Suzanne Hittman • Amy Holiday • • Stephanie Wildman • Levi & Mark Wilhelmsen • Andrea Holliman • Susan Hood • Leslie & Daniel Byron Williams • Larry & Susan Winn • Sherri Wolson Hopkins • Mary P Horan • Collin Howell • Tami & Neil Black • Matt Woltman • Steven & Mary Wood Yamashita • Tami Yamashita • Andrew Hushbeck • • Samia Khudari & Dan Wuthrich • Danielle & Jay Larry Jacobson & Heather Trim • Jessica & Rajit Jain Yedinak • Grace Yuan • Andrew Zhang • Brady Johnson • Deborah Johnson & Jeff Hupp • Zach Johnson • Jett Jones • Meg Jones • Paula $500 - $999 Jones Gong • Christian Juenke • Verne & Celia Anonymous (4) • Nick Achmon • Gary Ackerman • Justice • Judy Kalb • Nandita Kamath • Ruth Kerr • Celeste Adame & Tanya Keene • Craig & Joan Adams Berb Kidder • Thomas Klein • Lindsay Knickelbein • • Donna & Richard Adler • Jon Aguirre • Carla Teresa Kopkas • Allen Koser • Susan Kramer • Ainsworth • Bryan & Yuko Alberts • Doreen Ali • Ekawee Kriengkraipetch & Michael Wilson • Elisa SEATTLE THEATRE GROUP Rene Alkoff • Ken & Jennifer Altena • Matthew Krinsky-Unser • Anthony & Melissa Lackey • Robert Andersen • Megan Anderson • Kathrine Angel • Laks • Monica Lane • Nicholas Lane • Aaron Nwando Anyaoku • Darryl Aoki • Libby Gates Langhorne • Shelly Langley • James Larson • George SEASON PARTNERS Armintrout • Amy Armstrong • Matthew Bailey • Laws • Brian & Suzanne Leavitt • David LeCompte • Katharine Baker • Susan Baker • Kate Endle & Chris Se-Wai Lee • Frank & Waltraut Lehmann • Kasey Ballew • Donna Barker • Peter Barnes • Jeff & Lewis • Lichun Li • Armin & Kelly Liedtke • Barbara Carmen Barr • Anne Bartol • Scott Bash • Katherine Lile-Duzsik • Sharon Lott • Corey Louviere • Carol Beal • Amy Berens • Tushar Bhatnagar • Beka & Matt Sanders & John Loux • Lowen Family Foundation • Bielman • Alison Billings • Jay Arnold & Mary Beth Twyla & Tom Lucas • Dillon Lynch & Ikuyo Tsunoda • Binns • Andrew Birck • Sharon Bloome • David Casey Madsen • Bettina Maki • Kenneth Ragsdale • Bluhm • Dina Blum • Mary Ann Bolte • Marni Bonnin Managed Reliability • Matthew Manley • James & • Sarah Boss • Elizaabeth Bower • Tom Bowman • Tracy Manlove • Ramandeep Mann • Mrs. Naomi Philip Brazil • David & Satin Brennan • Audrey Marquez-Blake & Mr. Bruce Blake • Maria Marsans • Brimmer • Traci Brooks • Ray & Yuko Broscovak • Matthew Martel • Chuck Martin • Michael Massaro • Tammra Brougher • Pamela Brouns • Susan Brown • Bruce C Mathey • Sherry & Mitchell Maurer • Michael Donna Bruton • Ted Bruya • Patricia & Dan Brzusek • Mayer • John Maynard & Sally Annabella • Diane & Sean Bulger • Tracy N Burgess • Dave Burr • Tom & Merley McCall • Laura McGinnis • Megan McLaughlin Yelena Button • Shirleyand Sean Butts • Mark Byers • • Emily McLuen & Kevin Judson • Bob McMahon • Dennis Byrd • Carrie Cain • Samantha Caplan • Pam

encoremediagroup.com/programs A-13 SUPPORTERS of Seattle Theatre Group

Bret Meaker • Shevaun Meggitt • Monte & Rachel Ahern • Timothy Ahlers • Ken Albinger • Amanda Whitney Dawson • O’Donnell Day • Brooke De Witt Michaelis • Heather Mickler • Mariana Mihai • Frank Aldous • Kenneth & Marleen Alhadeff • Rachel Allen • Kory & Laura Dean • Minerva Del Razo & Cesar Miley • Susanna & Dan Miller • Anna Mitchell • Judith • Holly Alleva • Lisa Alley • Spencer Ambauen • The Perez • Leonardo Del Riego • Sharon Delabarre • Moccia Sattler • Andrew Monary • Aaron Moore • D.R. Amromin Charitable Fund • Allison Andersen • Jeff DeLong • Wendy & Peter DeLuca • Candace Billy Morales • Jennifer & Aaron Morgan • Sean Trae & Amy Andersen • Casey & Melinda Anderson • Denegal • Denny-Brown • Lauren Denslow • Jeffrey Morse • Marc & Cindy Mrvicka • Janet Muldrow • Judith Anderson • Drena Ando • Jeremy & Michele & Nancy Denson • Rebecca Deschamps • Alex Ryan Muro • Dan & Mary Murray • Daniel Myers • Andrasik • Vera Andrews • Barbara Angel • Melanie Deutmeyer • Kerry Deutsch • Kathleen Devney • Doug Myers • Carolyn Nance & Klaus Lustica • Arena • Donald Armstrong • Patricia Aro • Anthony Rainbow Dickerson • Amy Dickson • Nathaniel Clarice Nash • Timothy Naugler • Michael Neufeld • & Amanda Arrington • June Ashley • Michael Aspi • Dillow • Ashley & Heath Dixon • Beverly Doleac • Jennifer Nichol • Cornelius Nicholson • Novo Nordisk Frank Au • Susan Aznoff • Wendell Bagby II • Elizabeth Donahue • Brittany & Bill Doran • John & Matching Gifts • John O’Neill • Mary Kay O’Neill • Tammy Bahr • Norman Bailey • Stephanie Bailey • Mary Ann Dorman • Ms. Gaynelle Dorsey & Mr. Mike Gary Olson • Janice & Jack Olson • Todd Olson • Joe Julie Baker • Jacqueline Mikala Balinbin • Michael Poppoff • Allan Douglas-Braid • Dundeana Doyle • & Kathy Ornelas • Karen Ortiz, PhD • Thomas & Barclay • Mr. Craig Barker • Michael Barnard • Radu Dragan • Jan & Noel Drago • Denise Duble • Cynthia Ostermann Charitable Fund • Pacific Stephen & Kathleen Barrett • Brandon & Meredith Josh Dudash • David Dunham • Janet Duvardo • Continental Bank • Maria & Phillip Pacini • Kristan Baty • Corrin Bauer • Steve Bean • Dawn Beatty • Duane S Easterly • Malaika Eaton • Warren & Parks • Emily Parsons • Michael Pasewark • Nicole Shawn Behrens • Kathleen Bemis • Edward Maggie Eckstrom • Manda Ederer • Julia Ednie • Pelsinsky • Mark Pendergrast • Benjamin Peters • Ben-Judah • Jordi Bengtsson • In Honor of Stephen Brianna Edwards • Dwayne & Kristin Edwards • Diana Peters • DeAnna Poling • Terrance Pollak • Benjamin • Gregg & Lauren Bennett • Matthew Berg Michael & Christine Edwards • Malinda & Jean-Emile Scott Porad • Bec Powell • Susan Pray • Precor • Kelly Berger • Judith Berry • Anthony Beyer-Tyler Elien • Wendy Ellington • Brian Ellis • Stephanie Incorporated Matching Gifts • Bill Predmore • Trish • Slavka Bishoff • A.K. 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Rhea & Wendy Thompson • Katina Jennifer Pettyjohn • M. E. Chisholm • Lawrence Julia & Mike Greely • Stephanie Greenberg • Darlyne Thornock • Paul & Sue Thorpe • Erica Toikka • Chomsky • Kyle Christensen • Patricia Christenson • Greenwalt • Jennifer Greer • Pamela Greer, MD & Mr. Suzanne Toner • Clint Tseng • Patricia Tucker-Dolan • Marian Christjaener • Grace Clark • Ms. Marilyn Clay Robert Walker • George Griffin • John Griffin • Mark Janet Turpen • Chris & Lori Twomey • Timothy Ufkes • Steven Clyne • Kathryn Coats • Patrice Codio • & Stacey Griffith • Carolynn Grigsby • Jason • Jennifer Loo • Sandra Vargas • Eric & Julie Varness Timothy Coffey • Jeff & Kathi Coffler • Edward R. 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Francisco Meaghan Craig • Tim Crain • Margo Crandall • Stacie Haworth • Carolyn Hayek • Marlo Haynes • Yuvienco Catherine Crandell • Crazy Pho Cajun Restaurant • Maria Hays • Karen & Mark Hayward • Theressia CC & Bill Crenshaw • Larissa Cretarolo • Amy Criniti Hazelmyer & Nissa Hamilton • Chuck Heaton & Misty $250 - $499 • Jill Crisafulli • Carolyn Crouch • Crown Properties McClure • Dave Heberer • Mohamed Hegazy • Eric Anonymous (4) • Susan & Jon Aarstad • Morgan Inc. • Anna & Ryan Culp • Curious Ventures • Kevin Heinberg • Heinrich-Dahlheimer Donor Advised Abbott & Ryan Rood • Oscar Abello • Linda Currier • Lawrence Cushman • Zachary Cyr • Fund • Ian Hellen • MaryJo Heller • William Helsel • Abernathy • Wael Abou-Zaki • Dan Absher • Paul Cynthia & Mike D’Angelo • Luke Dacy • Kathryn Robyn Henderson & Dave Hagel • Bradley Henry • Abundis Jr. • Chrissy Acarregui • Diane Ack • Doug Dalzell • Mason Danner • Alan & Karin Dashen • Michael & Kimberly Hensley • Jill & Jon Herendeen • & Shelly Ackerman • Bethany Acree • Christine William Daugherty • Judith Davey • Heather Jen Hersman • Dick & Sheila Hess • Peter & Jane Agostino • Mariani Agus • Yonatan Ahdut • Ryan Davidson • Andrew G. Davis & Amy DiBattista • Hesslein • Ann Hicks-Thomas • Peter Hilgendorf •

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John Hilscher • Thomas Hinman • Larry & Mary Dorothy Mitchel • Elizabeth Mitchell • Kassandra Smith • Jim & Laura Smith • Julia Smith • Klarissa Hoback • Darren Hochstedler • Chris & Tiffani Mitchell • Melba Mitchell-Ayco • Steven Montague • Smith • C M Smith • Paul Smith • Sheryl & Jeff Hockett • Randy & Tina Hodgins • Erin Ellen Hoff • Tracey Monte • Cynthia Swent • Bruce Moore • Bob Smith • Tyler & Trista Smith • Veronica Smith & Joan Hoff • Christine Hogle • Karen Holeman-Brown & Peggy Moore • Tiffany Moore & Jonah Sterling • Natalie Hamrick • Smith-Stoe Family • Chanisha • Robert & Linda Holland • Katherine Hollenbaugh • Cole Mora • Andrew Moravec • Becky Moreno • Somatilaka • Cecilia Sorci • Alexandra Sparks • Tim & Kim Holm • Corey Holmes • Harvey & Barbara Vanessa Morgan • Sheilagh Morlan • Kathy & Jon Bart Stamper • Daniel & Charlotte Stanton • Lisa Holt • Darren Horejsi • Tai Horgan • James Horton • Morrow • David & Margaret Mourning • Chris Stapleton • DeAnna Starcher • Laurence Starks • Thomas Horton • Brian & Terri Hough • House Mowery • Marcia M Mueller • Steve & Beth Mullin • Alexandra Stavert • Matt & Nina Steadman • Richard Wares, Edmonds • Minglei Huang • Brian Hughes • Marilyn Munn • Liberty Munson • Aileen Murphy • & Michele Steckler • Dorothy Sterling • Elizabeth Michael Hui • Lorette Humphreys • Kirk Hunt • Scott Murray • Colton Myers • James Navone • Nana Sternhell • John Stevens • Scott Stevens • Melanie Katherine & Brian Husted • Anatol Ionis • Steven Ip Nduom • Jaime Neal & Justin Sluyter • Amy Nelson Stewart • Mary Jo Stojak • Charmaine Stouder • & Tina Pham • Gayle Irwin • Michelle Irwin • • Bonnie Nelson • Chris Nelson • Angelin Neo • Studio 342 Landscape Architecture • Jacqueline Nicholas Isaac • Jocelyn & Scott Isaacs • Evan & Susan Newbold • Laura & Ben Newman • Rocky Sullivan • Jennifer Sullivan • Robert & Patricia Jennifer Iverson • The Jacob Family • Dwain Newton • Cheri Neyens • Taylor Nichols • Amy & Sullivan • Gordon & 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Osborne • Thompson • Judith Thoresen • Michelle Tieder • Neil Kaethler • Leni Karr • Deborah Katz • Andrea Shana Osmer • Scott March & Brenda Osterhaug • Grant Tillemans • Caitlin Tinney • Paula Towne • The Kearns • Mark & Jeanette Keller • Kaylynn Kelley • Jessica Ostrow • Janice Oten-Jensen • Carl & Sue Tran Family • Vincent Tran • Toby & Jen Travis • Joshua Kensok • Steve Kersey • Mrs. Sallie L Kessey Ott • Debra Overlin • Connie Ozmer • Lisa Page • Michael Trzupek • James Tsai • Jeffrey Tucker • Nick • King County Employee Giving Program • Glynnis Lindsay Pakzad • Philip Palaveev • Jason Pankow • Tucker • Sharleen Tufts • Ingrid Turner • Julie & Kirchmeier • Jessica Kirkland • Burton Knapp • Addison Pann • Tim Park • Robert Parnell • Tanya Brad Turner • Sharlyn & Bill Turner • Laura Tyler • Lorna Kneeland • Catherine Knowles • John Parypa • Nola Pearson • Robert & Steffi Pencovic • Allan & Barbara Tyson • United Way • Michelle Kohlsaat • Mark Konings • Jacob & Peggy Kornberg 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Daly • Jonete Rehmke • Julie Reid • Tristan • Sheila Watkins • Steve & Jocelyn Watters • William Matthew Leveron • David Levin • Lisa Levine & Reidford • Meredith Reilly • Sonia Rekdahl • Julia Gibbs • Crystal Weary • Tyler & Jenny Weaver • Eddie Rehfeldt • Neil Levine • Cynthia Lewis & Jeff Renouard • Karen Resquer Burnham • Tracy Reuter Edward Webber • Dawn Webster • Lexie Weil • Stone • Charles Liban • Karissa Lightsmith • Britta • Sean Reynolds • Shannon Reynolds • Zanne William & Judy Weinberger • Eric Weir • Dave Lindborg • Rian & Johna Lindell • Donald & JoEllen Rhyder • Liz & Lorne Richmond • Angela Riddle • Welch • Tracy Wellens • M. 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encoremediagroup.com/programs A-15 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Ricardo Frazer, President SEATTLE THEATRE GROUP Bob Lipman, Treasurer Josh LaBelle, Executive Director Ron Wilkowski, Vice President VISION To enrich, inspire, challenge and expand our world through the arts Steve Peltin, Secretary MISSION Making performances and arts education in the Pacific Northwest enriching, while keeping Directors Seattle’s historic Paramount, Moore and Neptune Theatres healthy and vibrant Lindsay Anderson CORE VALUES • Stewards of historic theatres • Catalysts for community alliances • Passion for diversity in the Jan Block arts, artists and audiences • Arts leadership locally, regionally and nationally Becky Bogard Shavondelia Brown MEMBERS OF STAFF Peter Davis EXECUTIVE OFFICE PATRON SERVICES HOUSE STAFF Masha Hart Josh LaBelle Tory Wimer Contreras Mason Sherry James Kraft Executive Director Director of Sales and Patron Services Theatre Manager Brian Langstraat David Allen Jeff Beauvoir Ted Dowling Jim Margard Chief Operating Officer Director of Ticketing House Manager David McShea Olivia Thomas Phil Brock & Stefanie Wolf Brandon Cyprian Executive Assistant Show Supervisors Assistant House Manager George Northcroft Heather Davidson Lila Hughes PROGRAMMING Tina Podlodowski Club Relations Manager Event Coordinator Adam Zacks Natalie Robbecke Alicia Gibson Billie Webber, Sydney Webster Chief Programming Officer Mike Slade Club Relations & Events Coordinator House Staff Ryan Cook Ngai Kwan Senior Talent Buyer Ticketing Manager MAINTENANCE HONORARY BOARD MEMBERS Debra Heesch Jenny Lachuta Jeff DeVick Special Events Manager & Booking Ida Cole, Founding Director Club Relations & Administrative Director of Building Services Associate Coordinator Julia Beckley Jack McLarnan CENTERSTAGE COUNCIL Nathan Forman Building Services Manager Manager of Fine Arts Programs Club Relations Assistant Judith Carroll, Grant Fryer, Robert Phare, Ted and Danielle Ackerley Nadia Quitslund Bryan Lineberry Connor Sturzen Howie Barokas Booking & Sales Manager Group Sales Manager Maintenance Staff Ann Deutscher Mackenzie Mercer PJ Mertz CUSTODIAL Janie Hendrix Contract Administrator Sales Manager Dembo Hatu Marty Loesch and Cyndi Lewis MARKETING Jordan Acosta Building Services Assistant Manager Subscriptions Coordinator John Maynard Ken Potts Denise Antoine, Alex Arthur, David Chris McReynolds Director of Marketing & Communications Amelia Vaughn Beckley, Suzanne Brandkamp, David Season Sales Assistant Jenn Pan Lauren Daniels Breyman, Killian Brown, Nic Butera, Digital Communications Manager Sara Sucharski Jordan Elliott, Fadumo Farah, Brennen Tina Pappas and Robert Aigner Emily Krahn Box Office Lead Fernie, Brandon Fregoso, Orlando Garcia, Paul Pradel Public Relations Manager David Gordon Michael Girardi, Ifra Giire, Darian Graham, Stephen and Sheila Salamunovich Kevin Harris Box Office Administrator Andrea Groce, Lonnie Haynes, David Michael Shrieve Graphic Designer Alex Alire Hilton, David Kisan, Ashley Mauerhan, Concert Ticketing Assistant Nikita Pines, Sherry Procell, Nikita Tarver, Jeff Trisler Kelly McMahon Data Manager Elizabeth Davenport Kirk Thompson Gigi and Alan White Hilary Northcraft Front Desk Administrator Custodial Staff Marketing Manager Joe Maxwell LEAD CREW PARAMOUNT IN MEMORIAM Patron Services Assistant Joshua Phenicie Mike Miles Gustavo Amaya, Summer Begalka, Kabby Mitchell, III Digital Communications Assistant Technical Director/Master Carpenter Cenee Cain, Courtney Comfort, Jason Ross Roy Niendorf Concerts Marketing Manager Sophia El-Wakil, Chad Gabagat, Greg VOLUNTEER COUNCIL Head Carpenter Marcus Shriver Pacenti, Paul Rauch, Mia Sessions SLATE OF OFFICERS 2016–2017 Box Office Associates Byron Reynolds Marketing Associate Head Flyman Lynn Thrasher  DEVELOPMENT PHONE ROOM Jeff Payne Chairman Maura Ahearne David Oster Head Electrician Melinda Wilson  Development Director Phone Campaign Manager Mike Miller Vice-Chairman Anna Culp Tom Barnes, Derek Felter, Scott Head Sound Engineer Major and Planned Gifts Director Fisher, Donna Hines, Jeff Kahrs, Jason Montgomery Carol Allen  Cathy Krug, Penelope Loucas, Cheryl Brian Layton Head Props Secretary Nance, Andrew Peate, Marie Sanchez, Historic Facilities Program Director Pam Farrow Frida Weisman Head of Hair & Makeup Members Angela Lindou Callers Delia Mulholland Bonnie Briant Grants Manager Jamie Moses HUMAN RESOURCES Wardrobe JoAnn Field Development Manager Nate Dwyer LEAD CREW MOORE Sara Hart Myra Mushalla Director of Human Resources Robert Margoshes Development Assistant Susan Jackson Misty Stevens Technical Director/Head Electrician Danielle Olson Linda Middlebrooks HR/Safety Manager Steve Martin Director of Corporate Relations Arlene Rankin Stage Manager Aaron Semer FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION Dan Droz Marian Thrasher Annual Fund Manager Gary Corrington Head Sound Chief Financial Officer Honorary Members Anneka Kielman EDUCATION & COMMUNITY Andria Green Electrician Phil Hargiss, Puget Sound PROGRAMS Controller Organ Society Vicky Lee Jennifer Moore LEAD CREW NEPTUNE Director of Education & Performance Accountant Dan Reinharz Council Members Emeritus Programs Brianna Evans Theatre Manager Fred Johnson Shawn Roberts Venue Accountant Mark McLean AileyCamp Director & Dance for PD® Barbara Roper Ellen Trowbridge Head Electrician/Lighting Designer Program Manager Claire Tompkins Payroll Specialist Hiram Hernandez Sarah Strasbaugh Eva Cooperman Stage Manager Community Programs Manager STG Volunteer Office Coordinator Accounting Assistant Chris Gibbs Marisol Sanchez-Best Jim Malatak Head Audio Engineer Education Programs Manager THEATRE OPERATIONS Miranda Lerian Rex Kinney David Allen Production Coordinator Dance Education & Performance Manager Chief Operating Officer Josh Bahr Alexis Ramirez Dean Wattles Key Grip Program Assistant Operations Manager Martin Sepulveda Michael von Kempf HISTORIC THEATRES LIBRARY Special Artistic Projects Manager Network Administrator Staffed by volunteers

A-16 SEATTLE THEATRE GROUP Dialogue Encore Stages in conversation

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Youth in Focus is a 24-year-old youth development photography What is Youth in Focus? program whose mission is to empower young people to experience We put cameras in the hands of their world in new ways and to make positive changes in their lives adolescents and place them in a challenging environment surrounded through photography. by high-quality, talented teachers and nurturing adult mentors, creating a strong community of support. Through photography our students find their Encore Stages recently sat down with Trina Gadsden, voice, identity, creativity, and gain new Youth in Focus’s Executive Director, to discuss seeing confidence in their worth and abilities. the world in light and shadows, a boy named Tony, and We are the people who teach kids how how you can help. to develop negatives into positives. Nobody has as much fun creating a safe community of trust and support for youth through photography, as we do. Our impact is empowering youth to find their voice and gain self-confidence as

encoremediagroup.com/programs 9 Photo by Youth in Focus student Chris P. they learn life skills and discover who At the time, I was running a nonprofit they are, and what matters to them. doing work in Uganda, but I knew I “Through couldn’t pass up the opportunity to Are you a photographer yourself? What help empower youth in our community got you into the art form? photography through a camera lens. Back in the day my father bought me a second-hand film camera before I our students Who are some of your favorite headed off to college. Since that time, photographers? Why? I see the world in light and shadows. Our Youth in Focus students who Photography has always been a magical find their create profound work and continue to medium for me to explore human vulnerably reveal their inner struggles emotions and nature’s gifts. voice, identity, through a camera lens. We often rush through our busy lives without truly How did you get involved with Youth in creativity, noticing or appreciating all the unique Focus? things that surround us. Our students While in graduate school, I was continue to remind me of the beauty in fascinated with the nonprofit and and gain new the small things. partnered with them any opportunity I could, to see how the organization confidence in In the professional realm, Joyce could play on a larger scale and Tenneson’s portraits have always been serve more youth through the gift hauntingly beautiful and unworldly of photography. When the former their worth and to me. And Alan Ross, who was Ansel Executive Director decided to leave, Adams’ assistant for years, chases light the Founder, Walter Bodle, left me a abilities.” and captures emotions in nature, like no voicemail and said, “You need to apply.” other.

10 ENCORE STAGES SEASONAL EXHIBITS Trina Gadsden. FOR YOUR PALETTE Enjoy artistically inspired dishes crafted from local ingredients, and see the personal story of Dale Chihuly What are some specific events or through his collections. activities throughout the year that the LUNCH / WEEKEND BRUNCH kids participate in? We offer quarterly Core Classes for youth ages 13-19 in digital and black COLLECTIONSCAFE.COM and white photography. Throughout LOCATED AT CHIHULY GARDEN AND GLASS 305 HARRISON ST / SEATTLE WA the year we partner with schools, 206.753.4935 community centers, libraries and other organizations within the community through our Partner Programs, and we work with populations ranging from If you loved Priscilla Queen of the Desert elementary school children to 92-year- at BPA, sail back for olds through our Seniors in Focus program!

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What are some of your favorite “Dad” showed up to his End of Quarter memories of Youth in Focus? Show and Tony was grinning from ear to ear as he shared his final image and One of my favorite memories at spoke to the crowd about his work and Youth in Focus has nothing to do with experience in our program. photography and more about the connection with the youth. A few years ago, there was a student named Tony, who was personally struggling because “Our Youth in he had been moved around so many Focus students times while in foster care. He would come early to class and would sit in ...reveal their inner my office and we would talk about his struggles through day, sometimes he would ask for advice by Oscar Wilde on how to get along with his foster a camera lens.” parents better as he didn’t want to get moved again, but most of the time I just MAY 16 - JUN 23 listened and let him know I saw him and What do you hope for the organization appreciated him. About a year into our in both the near and distant future? taproottheatre.org program, after changing schools and 206.781.9707 My goal has always been to be a 204 N 85th St his foster care home again, he ran in my sustainable organization that can serve Seattle, WA office and said he was getting adopted more kids through quality programs. by one of his teachers in his school! We Long term, we have been working with were both so excited, we started crying PROFESSIONAL THEATRE IN A NEIGHBORHOOD SETTING Mahlum Architects to help design and jumping around my office! His new ‘Youth in Focus in a Box’ so we can

12 ENCORE STAGES LadyW_CityArts_ad1-6.indd 1 2/20/18 4:09 PM How to get involved! Wholesale and Retail Sales ¿ Roasting fine coffees since 1993 Teach Youth in Focus needs professional teaching artists to teach B&W Darkroom and Digital Photography classes. Course are eight-weeks One of Seattle’s original long and occur throughout the roaster cafes, Lighthouse year. They also offer workshops has spent more than and partner programs, depending twenty years creating a on a teacher’s interest and skills. loyal following of coffee Mentor lovers. Lighthouse roasts If you have experience with consistently great coffee photography and working with in small batches of the at-risk youth, you could become freshest premium beans, a mentor with Youth in Focus to hand roasted in a vintage help make a difference in the lives cast-iron roaster each day. of over 300 kids a year. Mentors must be available for class twice a week, over an eight-week course.

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How can one support Youth in Focus? Individual donations go such a long way in our nonprofit and help cover scholarships, film and cameras, just to name a few things! Corporate sponsorship of our classes is extremely helpful, along with simply spreading the word and sharing the work we do with more people to gain support!<

Jonathan Shipley is a freelance writer living in West Seattle. He's been published in the Los Angeles Times, Fine Books & Collections Magazine, and Seattle Magazine, among others.

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