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WELCOME TO A.C.T. AND THE GEARY! HELLO FRIENDS, We are here to celebrate a real person who lived for a Welcome to Toni Stone. This play is such a great example lot of her life as our neighbor in San Francisco and the of the time and extended team it takes to bring new work Bay Area. It was in San Francisco that Toni Stone adopted to life. As Pam shared, Toni Stone has been seven years in her professional name, leaving her childhood nickname of the making. Ever building on the opportunity to rework “Tomboy” behind. It was here that she met her husband at and develop the play, from the world premiere in New York one of the first clubs to cater to the Black community, Jack’s to A.C.T.’s rehearsal process, playwright Lydia R. Diamond Tavern at Sutter and Fillmore, where Toni sometimes played has the opportunity with our important second production drums with the house band. It was in Bay Area shipyards to incorporate changes to the script that will influence all that she worked during World War II. subsequent productions. As of now, we are aware of almost It was in our city that she shaved ten years off her age 20 theaters across the country who are hoping to produce so she could play American Legion League baseball, later Toni Stone. Thank you for being an instrumental part of playing for the San Francisco Sea Lions. And where—after launching this play into the world! retiring from Negro League baseball and her time with We’ve taken inspiration at our theater from Toni’s story— the Indianapolis Clowns and Kansas City Monarchs—she she was told time and again there wasn’t room for her, and yet worked as a nurse’s aide, still playing occasional baseball she was determined and chased her dream. At A.C.T. we work into her sixties. She is honored in the International Women’s to empower our students to pursue their dreams. You have Sports Hall of Fame and the Negro Leagues Baseball the opportunity to see our talented Young Conservatory (YC) Museum. It’s time we celebrate her here. performers over the next two months. I am thrilled to bring you this play. It’s been part of my First, there’s Miscast, featuring our High School Cabaret life for seven years, since producer and friend Samantha Ensembles. In this cabaret, students will be singing in roles Barrie approached me, having bought the rights to Martha in which they would probably never be cast. Miscast runs Ackmann’s book Curveball. We thought it could be a great April 3–4. Then, for one night only, the rising stars of the YC play and asked Lydia R. Diamond to write it. After dozens of High School Actors Ensemble will present Get Real(ism): workshops and a New York premiere with rave reviews and Exploring Chekhov. Directed by Domenique Lozano, these happy crowds, we’re bringing Toni home. students will present on April 4 scenes from Chekhov’s Toni Stone replaced Hank Aaron to play second base for most celebrated works. The following night, check out our the Indianapolis Clowns when he went to the Milwaukee inaugural Actors Ensemble for Middle School presenting The Braves. She was a baseball player through and through. The Glass Menagerie Project. They’ll be examining the work of play’s opening monologue came to Lydia early. Largely Tennessee Williams, culminating in an adapted performance unchanged after seven years, it reveals the character’s of The Glass Menagerie on April 5. Rounding out the defining love of baseball. We can all take lessons from that classics, we’re presenting Anon(ymous) by Naomi Iizuka, an pursuit of love. Making this play, telling Toni’s story, has adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey, running April 15–18. been an inspiring ride for me. I am happy to now share her Tickets for all shows can be found at act-sf.org/ycshows. story with her hometown. The tickets are affordable and your presence in their audiences, your applause, and your support mean the world to us and to them. I hope to see you there.

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IN ASSOCIATION WITH CAST ARENA STAGE DANIEL J. BRYANT JaBEN EARLY MARQUIS D. GIBSON Spec King Tut Jimmy PRESENTS THE ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY’S PRODUCTION OF KENN E. HEAD RODNEY EARL JACKSON, JR.◊ SEAN-MAURICE LYNCH TONI STONE Millie Elzie Stretch by RAY SHELL JARROD SMITH DAWN URSULA LYDIA R. DIAMOND Alberga Woody Toni Stone

Directed by PAM MACKINNON UNDERSTUDIES

Choreographed by RYAN NICOLE AUSTIN MICHAEL A. CURRY Elzie, Jimmy, Spec CAMILLE A. BROWN Toni Stone

In association with KHARY L. MOYE ANTHONY ROLLINS-MULLENS SAMANTHA BARRIE King Tut, Stretch, Woody Alberga, Millie

We Dedicate The 2019–20 STAGE MANAGEMENT Season In Honor Of Nancy Livingston Levin ELISA GUTHERTZ DEIRDRE ROSE HOLLAND HANNAH ROSE-JING Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager STOFFER THIS PRODUCTION MADE Stage Management Fellow POSSIBLE BY Company Sponsors Kenneth and Gisele Miller CREATIVE TEAM Executive Producers RICCARDO HERNÁNDEZ DEDE AYITE ALLEN LEE HUGHES Celeste and Kevin Ford Scenic Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer The Milledge and Patti Hart Family Jo S. Hurley BROKEN CHORD COOKIE JORDAN CHRISTINE ADAIRE Fred Levin, in honor of Nancy Livingston Levin, The Shenson Foundation Sound Design and Hair and Wig Designer Voice and Dialect Coach David and Carla Riemer Original Music Abby and Gene Schnair DANYON DAVIS ALLIE MOSS JANET FOSTER, CSA Producers Movement Coach Dramaturg VICTOR VAZQUEZ, CSA Concepción and Irwin Federman Casting Directors Lori Halverson Schryer Rich Rava and Elisa Neipp A.C.T. PRODUCING TEAM Associate Producers Linda Brewer ANDY CHAN DONALD LOUISA BALCH MARTIN BARRON Daniel E. Cohn and Lynn Brinton Associate Artistic Director General Manager Director of Production Linda Kurtz Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Marion and Emmett Stanton LEAD CORPORATE OFFICIAL HOTEL PARTNER ADDITIONAL SUPPORT Beverly and Loring Wyllie SPONSOR PROVIDED BY:

Toni Stone is based on the book The Sheri and Les Curveball: The Remarkable Story of Biller Family Foundation Toni Stone by Martha Ackmann.

Commissioned by Roundabout Theatre Company and Samantha Barrie. Toni Stone received development support from The actors and stage managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the the Resident Artists Program at Arena Stage, union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States Washington, DC. ◊ Dance Captain 9 ONSTAGE NOW PHOTO COURTESY OF LYDIA R. DIAMOND.

REACHING FOR WHAT YOU WANT AN INTERVIEW WITH PLAYWRIGHT LYDIA R. DIAMOND BY A.C.T. PUBLICATIONS STAFF

What is this play about? over the decision to cast only one The show acknowledges how female and eight men. Ultimately problematic that tension could be. First and foremost it’s about Toni I decided that Toni really was the Stone. This remarkable woman is such only woman and I fell in love with What’s your collaboration been like on this production? an important part of our history, and the image of this one Black woman she wasn’t sufficiently recognized and surrounded by Black men. These Like Toni Stone, Pam MacKinnon celebrated prior to Martha Ackmann’s men hold her up and support her in is a badass, an elite athlete playing book, Curveball: The Remarkable the telling of the story. I also love at the highest level. Pam’s rehearsal Story of Toni Stone, the First Woman that the ensemble members play a room is very much hers, and still to Play Professional Baseball in the multitude of characters, including she so generously and deftly invites Negro League. Toni had rigor and a women, children, and white people. collaboration. A big part of this singular focus. Despite Jim Crow, process has been the work of Camille institutional racism, and sexism, Toni The Negro Leagues seem like A. Brown, the choreographer, who is the Harlem Globetrotters. fought to play ball with a tenacious absolutely amazing. Pam has created focus that didn’t leave room for being There’s not an institutional connection, an environment in which we all work told what she couldn’t do. This is a story but it’s in the same tradition. There in concert. She empowers people in a about perseverance and bravery and was a piece of it that was a minstrel way that brings forth their best work. n reaching for what you want. show. Some of these clubs were owned by whites, but the majority This interview is adapted What was your thinking about casting? were Black-owned enterprises. Just from an original interview by The American theater has finally like the Globetrotters, there was a dramaturg Ted Sod for Roundabout started to address gender parity; still, high level of athleticism and also Theatre Company in 2019. we have a long way to go. I labored a comedic performative element. ONSTAGE NOW

BREAKING BARRIERS AND IGNITING CONVERSATION PHOTO COURTESY OF LYDIA R. DIAMOND. DIRECTOR PAM MACKINNON ON TONI STONE BY A.C.T. PUBLICATIONS STAFF

How did you start working on I’m happy people laugh and go on a What do you hope the audience takes Toni Stone? ride. But American racial history is away from Toni Stone? The producer, Samantha Barrie, is a really screwed up. In Toni Stone, this I hope there’s continued conversation. friend of mine and a big baseball fan. is a baseball team that had to clown. It I hope people will talk about the She heard about Martha Ackmann’s demands that the actors go to this deep, mother-daughter relationship, or the book, Curveball. Samantha approached ugly well of American performance owners colluding, or why Toni Stone Martha for the rights, and then she traditions. Some people in the audience is so unknown. I want activity and asked me to read the book. It was quite may feel complicit, and then they’re conversation. Keep the story rolling. n a page-turner. I thought of Lydia R. asked to reflect on it, which I think is Diamond as the playwright, because she good. It’s not just for the sake of shock. could write really hard-hitting things REACHING FOR WHAT YOU WANT that are also filled with big humor. Can you talk about the idea of transformation in the play? AN INTERVIEW WITH PLAYWRIGHT LYDIA R. DIAMOND Early on, Toni Stone introduces the BY A.C.T. PUBLICATIONS STAFF audience to her team. She’s surrounded by eight men, all dressed in baseball over the decision to cast only one The show acknowledges how PHOTO BY LIVIAN YEH. What is this play about? uniforms. As she tells her story, other female and eight men. Ultimately problematic that tension could be. characters start to emerge. A man who First and foremost it’s about Toni I decided that Toni really was the becomes her husband comes out of the Stone. This remarkable woman is such only woman and I fell in love with What’s your collaboration been like on this production? team. The female character of Millie is an important part of our history, and the image of this one Black woman played by another team member. The she wasn’t sufficiently recognized and surrounded by Black men. These Like Toni Stone, Pam MacKinnon actor who plays Toni Stone’s mother celebrated prior to Martha Ackmann’s men hold her up and support her in is a badass, an elite athlete playing simply takes off his baseball cap. book, Curveball: The Remarkable the telling of the story. I also love at the highest level. Pam’s rehearsal Story of Toni Stone, the First Woman that the ensemble members play a room is very much hers, and still Very importantly, some Black actors to Play Professional Baseball in the multitude of characters, including she so generously and deftly invites also play white characters. This is an Negro League. Toni had rigor and a women, children, and white people. collaboration. A big part of this all Black American cast. We don’t often singular focus. Despite Jim Crow, process has been the work of Camille see a Black American man playing a institutional racism, and sexism, Toni The Negro Leagues seem like A. Brown, the choreographer, who is the Harlem Globetrotters. white man onstage. In this production, fought to play ball with a tenacious absolutely amazing. Pam has created we take the time to show that, as focus that didn’t leave room for being There’s not an institutional connection, an environment in which we all work opposed to it being a sleight of hand. told what she couldn’t do. This is a story but it’s in the same tradition. There in concert. She empowers people in a about perseverance and bravery and was a piece of it that was a minstrel way that brings forth their best work. n How do you walk the line between reaching for what you want. show. Some of these clubs were entertaining and challenging your audience? owned by whites, but the majority This interview is adapted What was your thinking about casting? were Black-owned enterprises. Just from an original interview by The cast and creative team of A.C.T.’s 2020 production of Toni Stone. The American theater has finally like the Globetrotters, there was a dramaturg Ted Sod for Roundabout started to address gender parity; still, high level of athleticism and also Theatre Company in 2019. we have a long way to go. I labored a comedic performative element. @ACTSanFrancisco 11 ONSTAGE NOW PHOTO BY JACK DELANO. PHOTO COURTESY OF LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.

ON THE ROAD WITH THE INDIANAPOLIS CLOWNS A GLIMPSE OF THE NEGRO LEAGUES BY A.C.T. PUBLICATIONS STAFF

Spring 2020 marks the centennial of For Toni Stone, her teammates on business and make the players enough the Negro Leagues, which started in the Indianapolis Clowns, and other money to live on. Teams traveled February 1920, when Andrew “Rube” Black baseball players in the early- hundreds of miles from town to Foster organized a meeting of owners 1900s, the only way to professionally town, sometimes overnight, on buses of professional Black baseball teams. play the sport they loved was to or in uncomfortable touring cars. Foster, a retired pitcher and owner endure the grueling schedules of the Chicago American Giants, and pervasive discrimination of a The Negro Leagues and Jim Crow the city’s best Black baseball team, career in the Negro Leagues. While Negro League teams generally sought to “create a profession that players’ everyday lives depended on sought connections with the local would equal the earning capacity of the financial situation of their team communities that they visited. Some any other profession . . . keep Colored owner, schedules were nonstop. Pre- towns welcomed players, but in baseball from the control of whites . . . season games began in February, with many others, Negro League teams [and] do something concrete for the the regular season starting in April contended with the discrimination loyalty of the Race.” Modeled on Major and ending in September. Negro of Jim Crow laws—statutes in League Baseball, Foster envisioned a League teams would, if possible, play a existence from the end of the Black professional league that would ballgame every day—sometimes even Civil War to the end of the Civil rival white Major League teams. three or four—to keep the teams in

12 ACT-SF.ORG Rights Era that instituted racial he renamed them the Indianapolis a woman on the field, Pollock relied on segregation and denied rights to Clowns. Although he replaced the promotional pieces to soften Stone’s Black citizens. Negro League teams grass skirts, the white greasepaint image, often enlisting Black-owned were often prohibited from white- remained, and Pollock capitalized on publications to promote her as demure owned hotels. Players would stay at the “novelty” of his players’ blackness and unthreatening. An article in Black-owned hotels, or with Black and talents. By 1943, when the Clowns Ebony magazine showed her applying homeowners who opened their doors were officially incorporated into the makeup in a mirror. One caption read: to them. Finding a meal could be Negro American League, much of “Stone is an attractive young lady a challenge, as white restaurants the belittling costuming and overt who could be somebody’s secretary.” frequently wouldn’t serve Negro minstrelsy ended. And while physical Stone resented these sexualizing League teams or required players comedy remained a hallmark of comments, feeling displayed “like a to take their food at the back door. the Clowns’ reputation, the team goldfish” and wanting to represent began to play by-the-book baseball. herself on her own terms. Clowning and Minstrelsy An Indianapolis Clowns game On the Road and on the Field Through all the unique challenges as the “Gal Guardian” featured more than standard of the Negro Leagues, ballplayers baseball, incorporating bursts of As the only woman in the Negro drew strength from each other “clowning”— a sort of “imaginary Leagues, Toni Stone faced targeting and from their love of the game to baseball” using exaggerated every day. It was in Clowns return to the field again and again. physicality, comedic timing, and advertising that Stone felt most Their dedication paved the way for feigned foolishness. Team owner “capitalized on.” Pollock scouted the racial integration of the Major Syd Pollock’s influence often caused Stone as an answer to lagging ticket Leagues in the mid-20th century. them to verge on minstrelsy—a sales, marketing her gender over performance founded in false athleticism when he dubbed her “the This article is adapted from content and negative racial stereotypes, Gal Guardian of Second Base.” When originally published in Roundabout designed to make others laugh at the told she’d be wearing a skirt and Theatre Company’s UPSTAGE expense of marginalized people. shorts, Stone refused: “I wasn’t going guide, created for the world premiere to wear no shorts.” As some male of Toni Stone in 2019. n Minstrel acts first gained popularity sportswriters responded negatively to in 1830, when white actor Thomas Rice performed as the character Jim Crow (after whom Jim Crow laws were later named), an offensive caricature of a disabled Black stable groom. Darkening his face with makeup, Rice sang and spoke with an exaggerated accent and slowness, reinforcing negative stereotypes about enslaved Black people. Minstrel acts became the most popular US entertainment before the Civil War. While their popularity waned in the early 1900s, television, film, and radio programs continue to

feature white actors portraying PHOTO BY ED WESTCOTT, US DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY. Black people and characters.

Some white Negro League team owners assigned derogatory names with minstrelsy in mind. The Zulu Cannibal Giants, for example, were made to wear costumes of white face paint, clown wigs, and grass skirts. OPPOSITE A segregated bus station in Durham, North Carolina, in 1940. When Pollock bought the team in 1937, ABOVE Fans gather to watch the Oak Ridge Bombers, a Negro League team, in 1948.

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DANIEL J. Guthrie Theater); and Macbeth Chicago Fire, Early Edition, and ER. He BRYANT (Spec) (Shakespeare Theatre Company). is also particularly proud of some indie is excited to reprise Early’s film work includesHarriet . He films of which he has been part,Once his role from the was trained at Morehouse College. Upon a River—which recently played in world-premiere MARQUIS D. San Francisco at The Coven Film production at Festival and is now in the festival GIBSON (Jimmy) Roundabout circuit—as well as The Chosen. is honored to make Theatre Company his A.C.T./Geary RODNEY EARL last year. Bryant’s West Coast credits debut! He recently JACKSON, JR. include Nabo in the world premiere of worked with Marin (Elzie) made his Lynn Nottage’s Las Meninas (San Jose Shakespeare Broadway debut Repertory Theatre) and Slide Glide the Company as in The Book of Slippery Slope (the Mark Taper Forum). Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Mormon and Regionally, his credits include Broken Dream. His regional credits include The was last seen at Fences (16th Street Theater); “Master Christians and Sex With Strangers (The Berkeley Repertory Harold”…and the boys (TimeLine Hippodrome Theatre); The Piano Theatre in the world premiere of Ain’t Theatre); and Topdog/Underdog, True Lesson (Cape Fear Regional Theatre); Too Proud: The Life and Times of the West, and The People’s Temple Wig Out! (Studio Theatre); Black Temptations. Previously, he traveled (American Theater Company). At Nativity (Theater Alliance; Helen North America in the first national tour Congo Square Theatre, where Bryant is Hayes Award for Outstanding of Motown: The Musical. Jackson is a an ensemble member, he was featured Ensemble); 295N (Signature Theatre); San Francisco native who built his love in The Talented Tenth, Joe Turner’s Shakespeare in Love (Cincinnati and foundation for arts and theater in Come and Gone, and Stick Fly, Playhouse in the Park and Baltimore public city organizations such as the originating the role of Spoon. Other Center Stage); and Mother Emanuel San Francisco Arts Education Project, credits include Vivisections from the (New York International Fringe San Francisco Recreation and Parks Blown Mind and By the Music of the Festival). He has served as a teaching Department, Young People’s Teen Spheres (Goodman Theatre); Wheatley artist in his hometown of Durham, Musical Theatre Company, and the and Fashion (Victory Gardens Theater); North Carolina, with Camp Usanii and Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of and A Clockwork Orange (Steppenwolf in the Bay Area with Handful Players. the Arts. He is the cofounder/artistic Theatre Company). Bryant is also a He trained at Howard University. director of the San Francisco Bay Area voice-over artist, director, and a proud (he/him) marquisdgibson.com Theatre Company (SFBATCO), a member of AEA, SDC, AFTRA, and five-year-old nonprofit whose mission SAG. KENN E. HEAD is to produce live theater that (Millie) is thrilled JaBEN EARLY authentically reflects the experiences of to be part of A.C.T.’s (King Tut) is the Bay Area’s historically and currently Toni Stone after performing at A.C.T. marginalized communities, while also originating the role for the first time. His creating mentorships that aspire to of Millie in regional credits engage a new generation of live theater Roundabout include All the Way supporters, housed at the Brava Theater Theatre Company’s (Lincoln Center Center. (he/him) sfbatco.org world-premiere production. He has Theater); The Piano worked on numerous plays at many SEAN-MAURICE Lesson (Olney Theatre Center); Julius theaters over his career. To name a few: LYNCH (Stretch) Caesar (Folger Theatre); Civilization Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Yale is delighted to make (All You Can Eat) and The Convert Repertory Theatre, Goodman Theatre, his A.C.T. debut. His (Woolly Mammoth Theater); Fucking A Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Next theater credits (Studio Theatre); All The Way, The Theatre Company, American Theatre include Frederick Great Society, and Ruined (Arena Company, and Victory Gardens Theater. Loudin in Jubilee Stage); We Are Proud to Present… and His television credits include The Chi, (Arena Stage); Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner (the Chicago Med, Empire, The Exorcist, Second Juror in Twelve Angry Men and Matthew Henson in Ragtime (Ford’s The actors and stage managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States Theatre); Stephen Kumalo in Lost in the

14 ACT-SF.ORG Stars (Washington National Opera); DAWN URSULA MICHAEL A. Mr. Franklin/Mr. Venus in Passing (Toni Stone) CURRY Strange and Pope Ondine in Pop! makes her A.C.T. (Understudy) was (Studio Theatre); Wayne in Dreamgirls debut as Toni in recently seen in (Signature Theatre); and Frog in A Year Toni Stone. A Ubuntu Theater’s with Frog and Toad (Adventure Theatre resident company production of Romeo MTC). He has also performed in Parade member with and Juliet, in which (Ford’s Theatre), Ruined (Everyman Everyman Theatre he played Mercutio. Theatre), and Show Boat, Sweeney Todd, for 11 years, she most recently appeared He also performed in Aurora Theatre and Hairspray (Signature Theatre). as Mame in Radio Golf. Also an 11-year Company’s production of Actually in the (he/him) resident company member with Woolly role of Tom. He is excited to be working RAY SHELL Mammoth Theatre Company, she most with A.C.T. for the first time. He’d like to thank his family and friends who have (Alberga) has recently appeared as Madre Maria in supported him along his journey so far. been a permanent Botticelli in the Fire. Other credits (he/him) @kingcurry0730 fixture on London’s include Ruth in A Raisin in the Sun with West End since Arena Stage, the Angel in Angels in KHARY L. MOYE 1978, starring in America Parts One & Two with Round (Understudy) was original productions House Theatre and Olney Theatre last seen as Martin including Starlight Center, and Grace Kumalo in Lost in the Luther King Jr. in Express, Ain’t Misbehavin, Miss Saigon, Stars for Washington National Opera. Contra Costa Civic The Lion King, and The Bodyguard. She has received two Helen Hayes Theatre’s Shell covered James Earl Jones in Awards and been thrice nominated. production of All the Driving Miss Daisy (West End), played On-camera credits include Isabella in Way. Other Bay Area Joe Keller in Arthur Miller’s All My Prince Among Slaves (PBS) and Mrs. credits include A Streetcar Named Sons (Talawa Theatre Company), and “Bunny” Colvin on HBO’s The Wire. Desire with African-American recently played Emil Foley in Curve (she/her) dawnursula.com Shakespeare Company, Clybourne Park Theatre’s An Officer and a Gentleman: RYAN NICOLE at Altarena Playhouse, Six Degrees of The Musical, directed by Nikolai Foster. AUSTIN Separation at Custom Made Theatre Shell is the creative director of London’s (Understudy) has Co., Of Mice and Men at Role Players Giant Olive Theatre Company, for worked with A.C.T. Ensemble, and Zenith at San Francisco which he’s directed A Christmas Carol, as writer and Playhouse Sandbox Series. Film and Oliver Twist, Zip, and The Tulip Wars. director for television credits include Chappelle’s Shell will be seen in Lee Daniels’s Storytellers: A Show and Sense8. This is Moye’s first forthcoming filmThe United States vs. Lyrical Hip Hop production with A.C.T. @kharylmoye Billie Holiday. Shell’s internationally Cabaret. She is honored to make her ANTHONY published novel Iced is an upcoming performance debut with A.C.T. in this ROLLINS- film, produced and directed by Daniels. role. She has performed as an actress MULLENS His other written works include and writer in television, film, and (Understudy) is a Carolina Red, Spike Lee: The Eternal theater for ESPN/NBA, HBO, The native San Maverick, and articles and short stories Public Theater, Marin Theatre Franciscan and for the New York Times, the Guardian, Company, and California Shakespeare longtime stage and Serpent’s Tail, and Penguin Books. Theater. Among her theater credits are independent film @taip_lab her roles as Ruth Younger in A Raisin in performer here in the Bay Area. His JARROD SMITH the Sun (California Shakespeare theatrical credits include Sheriff in Theater), Bessie in Native Son (Marin (Woody) has Groundhog Day (West Coast premiere), Theatre Company), Yvonne in The Story performed in The Willie in The View Upstairs, Admiral (San Francisco Playhouse), and O in Whipping Man at Boom in Mary Poppins, Louis in Sunday Hamlet: Blood in the Brain (Cal Shakes/ South Coast in the Park with George, Caractacus Campo Santo). (she/her) Repertory and Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Duppy msryannicole.com Pasadena Playhouse, in Bob Marley’s Three Little Birds, Toad Sojourners at Magic in A Year with Frog and Toad, Louis Theatre, and The Royale at A Armstrong in Ella the Musical, Tom Contemporary Theater. Collins in Rent, Fred in Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Willie in “Master Harold”…and the

@ACTSanFrancisco 15 boys, Jafar in Disney’s Aladdin, Aslan in Institute scholar in nonfiction, her Parade (directed by Hal Prince; Tony Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the columns have appeared in the New and Drama Desk nominations), The Wardrobe, and Waymon as Hunter York Times, the Washington Post, the Tempest, and Bring in ’da Noise, Bring Priestess in Good Goods (West Coast Los Angeles Times, and Salon. She is a in ’da Funk. His recent work includes premiere). Rollins-Mullens has had the frequent commentator for New England Claudia Rankine’s The White Card: A joy of working with many storytelling Public Radio. marthaackmann.com Play (American Repertory Theater), companies, including A.C.T., Berkeley Lempicka (Williamstown Theatre PAM MACKINNON (Director) Playhouse, San Francisco Playhouse, Festival), Admissions (Lincoln Center See bio on page 29. New Conservatory Theatre Center, Theater), Mlima’s Tale (The Public Ubuntu Theater Project, and Center CAMILLE A. BROWN Theater), The Invisible Hand (New REPertory Company. (he/him) (Choreographer) is an award- York Theatre Workshop; Henry Hewes rollinsmullens.com winning choreographer, director, Outstanding Set Design Award), The and dance educator. Her Broadway Father, A Doll’s House (Theatre for a LYDIA R. DIAMOND (Playwright) credits include Choir Boy (Tony and New Audience), La Mouette (Avignon is an award-winning playwright Drama Desk award nominee), Once Festival), and Splendid’s (Théâtre whose works include Toni Stone (2019 on This Island (Drama Desk, Outer National, Paris). He is a design faculty premiere at Roundabout Theatre Critics Circle, and Chita Rivera award member at Yale School of Drama. Company), Smart People, Stick Fly nominee), and A Streetcar Named (Broadway run at Cort Theatre), DEDE AYITE (Costume Designer) Desire. Her other theater and opera Voyeurs de Venus, Harriet Jacobs, and is a costume designer whose Broadway credits include For Colored Girls Who The Bluest Eye. Her work has been credits include A Soldier’s Play, Slave Have Considered Suicide/When the performed at Arena Stage, Arden Play, American Son, and Children of a Rainbow Is Enuf (The Public Theater); Theatre Company, Congo Square, Lesser God. Select off-Broadway credits Porgy and Bess (Metropolitan Opera); Second Stage Theater, the New Victory include The Secret Life of Bees, Fireflies, Much Ado about Nothing (Shakespeare Theater, Company One, Goodman and Tell Hector I Miss Him (Atlantic in the Park; Audelco Award winner); Theatre, the Guthrie Theater, Hartford Theater Company); By the Way, Meet Toni Stone (Roundabout Theatre Stage, Huntington Theatre Company, Vera Stark and Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Company); tick, tick... BOOM! (New Long Wharf Theatre, Steppenwolf Train (Signature Theatre); BLKS and York City Center Encores!); Bella: An Theatre, and McCarter Theatre Center. School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls American Tall Tale (Lucille Lortel Diamond has been a W. E. B. DuBois Play (MCC Theater); Bella: An American nominee, Audelco Award winner); Institute Fellow at Harvard University, Tale (Playwrights Horizons); Sugar in Fortress of Solitude (Lucille Lortel a Sundance Playwright Lab Creative Our Wounds (Manhattan Theatre Club); nominee); and ink at Kennedy Center Advisor, a Harvard Radcliffe Institute The Royale (Lincoln Center Theater); (Camille A. Brown & Dancers). She Fellow, a Sally B. Goodman Fellow, a and Ugly Lies the Bone (Roundabout made her television debut with Jesus Huntington Playwriting Fellow, and Theatre Company). Regionally, Christ Superstar Live in Concert a National Endowment for the Arts/ Ayite’s work has appeared at Oregon (NBC) and her feature film debut in the Theatre Communications Group Shakespeare Festival, Steppenwolf soon-to-be-released Ma Rainey’s Black playwright. Diamond was a writer/ Theatre, Signature Theatre in Virginia, Bottom (Netflix). Brown will make her consulting producer for Showtime’s California Shakespeare Theater, La directorial debut with Ain’t Misbehavin’ fourth season of The Affair, for which Jolla Playhouse, Berkeley Repertory at Westport Country Playhouse in she was nominated for a Writer’s Guild Theatre, Arena Stage, Baltimore Center July 2020. camilleabrown.org Award for Best Drama, episode 407. Stage, and McCarter Theatre Center. She is the recipient of the 2020 Horton RICCARDO HERNÁNDEZ Her television work includes Netflix, Foote Playwriting Award. She sits on (Scenic Designer) has designed Comedy Central, and FOX. Ayite the Dramatists Guild Legal Defense over 250 productions in the US and earned her MFA at the Yale School of Fund board and is on the faculty at internationally and received an Obie Drama and has received Obie, Lucille University of Illinois at Chicago. Award for Sustained Excellence. Lortel, Helen Hayes, Theatre Bay Area, Broadway credits include Jagged Little MARTHA ACKMANN (Author) and Jeff awards. @dedeayitedesign is a Pill, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair ALLEN LEE HUGHES (Lighting journalist and author who writes about de Lune, Indecent, The Gin Game, The Designer) is a designer whose women who have changed America. Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, and The Broadway work includes Who’s Afraid Her books include The Mercury 13, People in the Picture. London credits of Virginia Woolf? and Clybourne Park, Curveball: The Remarkable Story of Toni include Caroline, or Change (National both directed by Pam MacKinnon; Stone, and the recently released These Theatre), Elaine Stritch at Liberty Having Our Say; Mule Bone; Once on Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments (The Old Vic), and Topdog/Underdog This Island; K2; Strange Interlude; in the Making of Emily Dickinson. (Royal Court Theatre). Hernández’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist; and A Guggenheim fellow and Radcliffe other credits include Bells Are Ringing, Quilters. His work has been seen at the Bridge, South Pacific, and Fela! Off- theaters including McCarter Theatre Broadway credits include Ain’t No Mo’, Center, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Fairview, Toni Stone, If Pretty Hurts Proud to Goodman Theatre, the Guthrie Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka, The Secret Theater, and the Mark Taper Forum. Life of Bees, Boesman and Lena, Our Support New York designs include work at Lady of 121st Street, In the Blood, Daddy, Roundabout Theatre Company, New Hercules, and Fabulation, or the Re- A.C.T. York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Education of Undine. Jordan’s television Horizons, New York Shakespeare work on NBC’s The Wiz Live! earned an Festival, and Lincoln Center Theater. Emmy nomination for makeup design. He is proud to have been honored CHRISTINE ADAIRE (Voice with three Tony Award nominations, Coach) is head of voice at A.C.T. She Audelco Award and Ovation Award Personal attention is a Designated Master Linklater nominations, an Outer Critics thoughtful litigation Voice Teacher, trained by the world- Circle Award, the Joseph Maharam final resolution renowned voice teacher Kristin Award in Design, the United States Linklater. She has worked as an actor, Our goal is to preserve our LAW FAMILY Institute for Theatre Technology’s voice coach, and director in many client’s dignity and humanity. Distinguished Achievement Award in American regional theaters, including Lighting Design, the Michael Merritt The Old Globe, Milwaukee Repertory Award for Excellence in Design and Theatre, the Guthrie Theater, Chicago Collaboration, and two Helen Hayes FA M I LYLAW G R OUP, P. C . Shakespeare, Goodman Theatre, Lyric Awards and eight nominations. Hughes Opera, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, teaches at New York University 575 Market Street, Suite 4000 Steppenwolf Theatre Company, San Francisco, CA 94105 and is proud that Arena Stage’s Court Theatre, American Players 415.834.1120 fellowship program bears his name. www.sflg.com Theatre, Theatre for a New Audience BROKEN CHORD (Sound Design (NYC), Santa Cruz Shakespeare, La & Original Music) are pleased to be Jolla Playhouse, and Shakespeare & making their A.C.T. debut. Broadway Company. Adaire has taught at DePaul credits include The Parisian Woman University, National Theatre School of ALL A.C.T. SHOWS and Eclipsed. Off-Broadway credits Canada, University of Massachusetts– include Toni Stone at Roundabout Amherst, University of Wisconsin– ARE BARTABLE Theatre Company, The Lying Lesson Milwaukee, and Roosevelt University. at Atlantic Theater Company, OZET She’s taught workshops in Shanghai, at Incubator Arts Project, Bull in a Barcelona, London, Australia, and China Shop at LCT3, and Party People New Zealand. Her current area of at The Public Theater. Regional credits research and writing is transgender include Angels in America at Repertory voice. She works with transgender/ Theatre of St. Louis, An Enemy of the gender-diverse individuals so they People at the Guthrie Theater, Ruined can modify their voice to more fully at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Top express their gender identity. (she/her) THE GEARY Powell Street Girls at Huntington Theatre Company, DANYON DAVIS (Movement UniSon at Oregon Shakespeare Coach) is the head of movement at Festival, and Macbeth at Shakespeare A.C.T. He formerly served as the head Theatre Company. Film credits of movement at Stella Adler Studio include Fall to Rise. brokenchord.us of Acting, and he’s also a former COOKIE JORDAN (Hair & Wig faculty member at the Neighborhood Designer) is an Obie Award–winning Playhouse, Circle in the Square designer whose Broadway credits Theatre School, and HB Studio’s include Slave Play, Choir Boy, The Cher Hagen Core Training program. Davis THE STRAND Civic Center Show, Once on This Island, Sunday in the assisted Moni Yakim, founding faculty Park with George, In Transit, Eclipsed, member and head of movement at Side Show, After Midnight, A View from the Juilliard Drama Division, for

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18 ACT-SF.ORG many years. He also performed, include Tracey Takes On New York, Shakespeare Theater); Cyrano and 2 taught, and directed with the Guthrie The Deal, The Day That Lehman Died Pianos 4 Hands (TheatreWorks); The Theater. He is a former collaborator (Peabody, SONY, and Wincott awards), Big Meal, Game On, Next Fall, Next with the SITI Company and a former and “T” Is for Tom (Tom Stoppard radio to Normal, A Christmas Carol, and associate with Bill T. Jones. Davis has plays, WNYC and WQXR). She also cast Spring Awakening (San Jose Repertory coached individuals and taught group LifeAfter, a GE Theater podcast, and Theatre); The Laramie Project: 10 workshops in a variety of settings, the mystery- thriller podcast Passenger Years Later and the world premiere of including school programs, correctional List, featuring Patti LuPone. (she/her) Bonnie & Clyde (La Jolla Playhouse); facilities, Middlebury College, the VICTOR VAZQUEZ, CSA (Casting and the Shakespeare Festival 2011, Dr. 52nd Street Project, and The Public Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Director) is the founder of X Casting Theater. (he/him/Black American) (2010), and The Mystery of Irma Vep NYC. He served as resident casting (The Old Globe). Holland holds an MFA ALLIE MOSS (Dramaturg) is a Bay director at Arena Stage in Washington, in stage management from UC San Area–based director and dramaturg. DC, for three seasons, casting over 25 Diego and currently lectures at San Previous dramaturgy credits include productions and over two dozen new Francisco State University’s School Top Girls and The Realistic Joneses play/musical workshops. Vazquez holds of Theatre and Dance. (she/her) (American Conservatory Theater); The a graduate degree from University of Birds of Empathy (Bay Area Playwrights Oxford, and is a member of the Casting ARENA STAGE (Coproducer) Festival); and You’ll Not Feel the Society of America. He lives and works at the Mead Center for American Drowning (Custom Made Theatre Co.). in New York City. xcastingnyc.com Theater, under the leadership of Recent projects include directing Cloud ELISA GUTHERTZ (Stage Artistic Director Molly Smith and Nine at Custom Made and Ways to Manager) has been a Bay Area stage Executive Producer Edgar Dobie, is a Leave a Body at Cutting Ball Theater. manager for over 25 years. Her most national center dedicated to American Moss has also worked at San Francisco recent A.C.T. credits are Testmatch, voices and artists. Arena Stage Playhouse, FaultLine Theater, Rhinoceros, Edward Albee’s Seascape, produces plays of all that is passionate, Playwrights Foundation, Breadbox Sweat, and Wakey, Wakey. She stage- profound, deep, and dangerous in the Theatre, and Left Coast Theatre managed A Thousand Splendid American spirit, and presents diverse Company. Her favorite directing Suns at A.C.T., The Old Globe, and and ground-breaking work from credits include Hookman (A.C.T. Theatre Calgary. Her numerous other some of the best artists around the Young Conservatory), The Vagina productions for A.C.T. include A Night country. Arena Stage is committed to Monologues (A.C.T. V-Day Project), Bull with Janis Joplin, Love and Information, commissioning and developing new in a China Shop (A.C.T.’s Sky Festival), Testament, Major Barbara, Underneath plays and impacts the lives of over American Hero (Custom Made), and The the Lintel, Arcadia, The Normal Heart, 10,000 students annually through Foreigner and A Streetcar Named Desire The Scottsboro Boys, Clybourne Park, its work in community engagement. (Columbus Civic Theater). Moss is the The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Now in its 70th season, Arena Stage literary manager/artistic associate Rainmaker, A Number, and Eve Ensler’s serves a diverse annual audience of at American Conservatory Theater, The Good Body, among others. She more than 300,000. arenastage.org where she coproduces A.C.T.’s annual has also stage-managed The Mystery ROUNDABOUT THEATRE New Strands Festival. She holds a BA in of Irma Vep, Suddenly Last Summer, COMPANY (Todd Haimes, theater from Goucher College. (she/her) Big Love, Collected Stories, and Cloud Artistic Director/CEO) Founded in JANET FOSTER, CSA (Casting Tectonics (Berkeley Repertory Theatre); 1965, New York’s nonprofit Roundabout Director) has cast for A.C.T. for the last The Good Body (Broadway); Big Love Theatre Company celebrates the power eight seasons. On Broadway, she cast (Brooklyn Academy of Music); and The of theater by spotlighting classics from The Light in the Piazza (Artios Award Vagina Monologues (Alcazar Theatre). the past, cultivating new works of the nomination), Lennon, Ma Rainey’s Black DEIRDRE ROSE HOLLAND present, and educating minds for the future. Roundabout produces a mix of Bottom, and Taking Sides (co-cast). (Assistant Stage Manager) has revivals and world premieres on and off Off-Broadway credits includeTrue worked on many regional theater Broadway, winning eight Best Revival Love, Floyd Collins, A Cheever Evening, projects and productions. Her A.C.T. Tony Awards and debuting such new The Monogamist, and Later Life. credits include the 2019 New Strands playwrights as Stephen Karam, Lindsey Regionally, she has worked at Intiman Festival, Father Comes Home From the Ferrentino, Steven Levenson, Ming Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Wars, John, On Beckett, Chester Bailey, Peiffer, and Jiréh Breon Holder. Its Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Yale Let There Be Love, and Ah, Wilderness! educational initiatives impact 15,000 Repertory Theatre, Goodman Theatre, (A.C.T.); Measure for Measure and The students and over 1,000 teachers Steppenwolf Theatre Company, The Old Liar (Santa Cruz Shakespeare); As annually. roundabouttheatre.org. Globe, and American Repertory Theater. You Like It, Othello, Twelfth Night, and Film, television, and radio credits Lady Windermere’s Fan (California SAMANTHA BARRIE trustee, and Milledge and Dustin and the San Francisco Film Society (Commissioning Producer) Prior through their endless energy and (which his father founded), and keeps to commissioning and developing Toni enthusiasm, are proud supporters Nancy’s love of the arts, education, Stone, Barrie was the casting director of A.C.T. as it continues to bring and Jewish culture alive through for The Old Globe and worked in the excellent work to our great city. generous support across a broad array artistic departments of The Public JO S. HURLEY (Executive of local and national organizations. Theater and Roundabout Theatre Producer), a member of the A.C.T. DAVID AND CARLA RIEMER Company. In addition to producing, Board of Trustees, has been a (Executive Producers) David she designs educationally focused subscriber since 1970 and a donor since serves as A.C.T.’s board chair and is tours around the world for some of 1975. She is the chair of the Prospero executive-in-residence at UC Berkeley the country’s most prestigious media Society Committee, a member of the Haas School of Business, where he outlets and nonprofit institutions. board’s Development Committee teaches innovation, design thinking, She feels immense pride that and the Committee on Trustees and and storytelling. David was previously because of this project, her son Governance, and a trustee host to vice president of marketing at Yahoo! Isaac knows Toni Stone’s story. an MFA Program student. Hurley is and president of J. Walter Thompson/ CELESTE AND KEVIN FORD passionate about supporting A.C.T. as SF. Carla is a librarian at Albany High (Executive Producers) moved to an executive producer as well as in the School and a member of the American the Bay Area in 1978 and purchased long term through legacy giving. Hurley Library Association (ALA), where she A.C.T. season tickets to support two often joins the staff in the VIP Lounge, chairs membership and outreach for classmates from the University of chatting with donors about her love the Graphic Novels and Comics Round Notre Dame who were enrolled in the of theater and the Prospero Society. Table. David holds a BA from Brown A.C.T. MFA Program. The Fords have She is also an ardent patron of the San and an MBA from Columbia. Carla not missed a production at A.C.T. since. Francisco Symphony. She is a member holds a BA from Wellesley, an MBA Celeste is the board chair and founder of the advisory board for Women from Columbia, and an MS in library of Stellar Solutions, an aerospace Philanthropists for Kansas University science from University of Illinois. engineering services business, and and Kansas University Endowment Kevin is the former CFO. Stellar Association, and a volunteer at ADDITIONAL CREDITS Solutions just celebrated its 25th SFMarin Food Pantry and Lima Center, Karina Fox, Assistant Director anniversary and has received numerous a daytime shelter for the homeless. Dick Daley, accolades, including the prestigious NANCY LIVINGSTON LEVIN* Associate Production Manager Malcolm Baldrige National Quality AND FRED LEVIN (Executive Jungah Han, Award. The company’s engineers Producers), through stewardship Scenic Design Associate work on a variety of satellite projects, of The Shenson Foundation, have Joshua Benghiat, including the science mission to been among A.C.T.’s most generous Lighting Design Associate Mars, commercial communication contributors. Previous A.C.T. works Christopher Jackson, Associate Choreographer satellites, and defense and intelligence supported include The Great Leap, Jay Staten, Associate Choreographer satellites. Celeste and Kevin have Father Comes Home from the Wars Danielle O’Dea, Fight Director three grown children who join them (Parts 1, 2 & 3), King Charles III, and The Sydney Schwindt, at A.C.T. productions whenever Unfortunates. A San Francisco native, Assistant Fight Director they are available. Celeste, who was Levin attended A.C.T. performances Ian Roth, Stage Crew an engineer by day and actress by as a student. At the time of her passing, night in college, currently serves Nancy Livingston Levin, a former on the A.C.T. Board of Trustees. advertising copywriter, was the SPECIAL THANKS PATTI AND MILLEDGE HART chair emerita of the A.C.T. Board of Dr. C. Walters-Knight, (Executive Producers) are long- Trustees, co-chair of A.C.T.’s Business Counselor, CONCERN Employee serving executive leaders in the Leadership Council, and served on the Assistance Program technology industry, have embraced dean’s advisory board at the College Lauren Meyer life post-career and, along with of Fine Arts at Boston University, as Frank Allocco their son Dustin, created the Hart well as on the Advisory Board of the Coach Anthony N. Giarratano, Family Foundation. The foundation National Museum of Women in the Allen Smoot, Troy Nakamura, Mat Keplinger, Craig Gianinno, and Arts in Washington, DC. Levin serves is multifaceted and has made the Jordan Barchus, performing arts a top priority. Patti, on the boards of the San Francisco University of San Francisco through her service as a board Symphony, the Asian Art Museum, Baseball Staff *In memoriam

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The cast of The Code , a new musical by the Kilbanes that played at the 2019 New Strands Festival. The COURAGE AND CREATIVITY Code will premiere at A.C.T.’s Strand Theater August 6–15. THE VITAL ROLE OF PRODUCERS AT A.C.T. BY SIMON HODGSON

At the first rehearsal for every A.C.T. board. “I will always have respect for For the Kaykas-Wolffs, in addition to mainstage production, the cast and the greats of American theater, but serving on A.C.T.’s Board of Trustees, creative team cram into a rehearsal there is certainly room for new and being producers is an investment studio with dozens of A.C.T. staff different plays,” says Hollenbeck. in the San Francisco community, a members. As folks around the room “Fostering the creation of new work tribute to great storytelling, and introduce themselves, there are will hopefully introduce a young and a partnership with A.C.T. theater- cheers—for longtime Geary performers, diverse audience to the theater to keep makers. “Producing at A.C.T. provides for returning MFA Program alums, the art form alive well into the future.” the opportunity for us to reconnect and always for the producers of the with theater through developing show. Everyone here understands the In May, the Hollenbecks will join experiences with the creative team vital contribution of producers, who their friends and fellow theater-lovers and interfacing directly with artists,” make possible the works on our stages. Rebecca and Jascha Kaykas-Wolff says Rebecca, “It’s a wonderful as producers for A.C.T.’s upcoming chance to gain insight into the The producer’s role is especially New Strands Festival, three days of process of creating new works.” n important for new and unheard performances and readings for works stories. “Like any art form, theater in progress. This year’s festival will needs to move and change with the be the Kaykas-Wolffs’ third, after If you’re interested in producing times to stay relevant,” says A.C.T. getting involved in 2018 and serving new work or learning more producer Holly Hollenbeck. She and as sole producers in 2019. “I love about being a producer at her husband Chris have been part of that there is a vehicle to support A.C.T., please contact Tiffany A.C.T.’s family for 20 years. Longtime new works,” says Rebecca. “The Redmon at 415.439.2482 subscribers, they twice chaired MFA creative process isn’t a straight or [email protected]. Program fundraiser Spooked at the line and it takes a lot of courage to Strand, and Chris serves on the MFA expose your work in development.”

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We are privileged to recognize Producers Circle members’ generosity during the January 1, 2019–January 1, 2020, period. For information about Producers Circle membership, please contact Tiffany Redmon at 415.439.2482 or [email protected].

 Lead Gala supporter *Leadership Circle Member †Spring Fling! supporters **Deceased

Season Presenters ($100,000+) JEROME L. AND PRISCILLA AND BARBARA RAVIZZA AND MARY AND STEVEN SWIG† THAO N. DODSON † KEITH GEESLIN † JOHN S. OSTERWEIS Steven has served on A.C.T.’s board Jerry is president of Parnassus Priscilla is a vice chair of A.C.T.’s since 1986 and is cofounder of Presidio TONI REMBE AND Investments and serves on the boards Board of Trustees and Development Graduate School. Mary is on the ARTHUR ROCK † of San Francisco Opera and A.C.T. Thao Committee Chair. She is vice Women’s Leadership Board of Harvard Past chair of A.C.T.’s Board of and Jerry have established scholarships president and president elect of University’s John F. Kennedy School of Trustees, Toni is a retired partner at for music education at the San Francisco the SF Symphony, a board member Government. They serve on the boards Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. Symphony, undergraduate education at of Grace Cathedral, and a board of the Solar Electric Light Fund and the Arthur was one of America’s first UC Berkeley, and high school education member and former chair of NARAL Americans for Cures Foundation. venture capitalists. Along with other for 125 girls in Vietnam. Pro-Choice America Foundation. community endeavors, they are JEFF AND LAURIE UBBEN Keith is president of SF Opera’s FRANNIE FLEISHHACKER† cofounders of the Arthur and Toni Jeff is a founder of ValueAct Capital board and a board member of Frannie has supported A.C.T. for more Rembe Rock Center for Corporate and a director of 21st Century Fox Inc. Episcopal Community Services. than 21 years. She has chaired season Governance at Stanford Law School. and Willis Towers Watson PLC. He galas and serves on A.C.T.’s Board KENNETH AND serves on the boards of Duke University, ROBINA RICCITIELLO † of Trustees and several committees. GISELE MILLER Northwestern University, and the E.O. Robina is communications director for She funded the Mort Fleishhacker Wilson Biodiversity Foundation. Laurie JAMES C. HORMEL AND the Million Person Project, a company MFA Scholarship and multiple capital founded San Francisco’s Bird School MICHAEL P. NGUYEN-HORMEL that helps people identify their core campaigns. She has held board positions of Music. James, the first openly gay US values to tell their personal story. She at the SF Junior League and the ambassador, founded the James C. is involved with the UCLA Depression JAY YAMADA Francisca Club. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center at the Grand Challenge, an effort to cure KAY YUN AND ANDRE San Francisco Public Library (SFPL). depression by the end of this century, NEUMANN-LORECK † Michael works alongside James on their and with NARAL Pro-Choice America. President of A.C.T.’s Board of Trustees, charitable giving foundation, and has Kay is a partner at private equity fund served on the SFPL Commission for Health Evolution Partners. She is a two terms. A trustee of A.C.T., Michael trustee of Parnassus Funds and a board is profoundly passionate about the arts member of San Francisco University and humanities. High School. Andre, the founder of On Tap Consulting, has held executive roles in startups and Fortune 500 companies.

Company Sponsors Executive Producers Jeri Lynn and Jeffrey W. Johnson Producers ($50,000–$99,999) ($25,000–$49,999) Janet V. Lustgarten ($15,000–$24,999) Nion McEvoy and Leslie Berriman Barbara Bass Bakar Bill Draper Norman Abramson in celebration of Donald J. and Toni Ratner Miller† Lesley Ann Clement and Jesse Lee Eller David V. Beery † Marcy and Paul Nathan† Karl Lukaszewicz Mr. Rodney Ferguson and Paul Asente and Ron Jenks Gerine Ongkeko† Ray and Dagmar Dolby Fund Ms. Kathleen Egan† Clay Foundation - West Norman and Janet Pease  Kevin and Celeste Ford † Linda Jo Fitz† Frances and Patrick Devlin † Elsa and Neil Pering Fred Levin, in honor of Nancy Peyton Gallant and Scott Patterson Concepción and Irwin Federman Sara Eisner Richter and Michael Richter† Livingston Levin, The Shenson Mr. and Mrs. Gordon P. Getty Don and Judy McCubbin Matthew and Lisa Sonsini Foundation† Marcia and John Goldman Mary and Gene Metz Aaron Vermut and Kirke and Nancy Sawyer Hasson† The Milledge and Patti Hart Family† Rich Rava and Elisa Neipp Adriana López Vermut† John Little and Jo S. Hurley† The New Ark Fund Heather Stallings Little† Christopher and Leslie Johnson Merrill Randol  The Marymor Family Fund† Lori Halverson Schryer † Burt** and Deedee McMurtry Kathleen Scutchfield  David and Carla Riemer† Anne and Michelle Shonk † Patti and Rusty Rueff† Cherie Sorokin Abby and Gene Schnair† Nola Yee† Associate Producers Dr. Allan P. Gold and Mr. Alan C. Ferrara* Mr. and Mrs. Robert McGrath ($10,000–$14,999) Betty Hoener Mr. and Mrs. Tom Perkins† Dianne and Ron Hoge† Joseph E. and Julie Ratner† Anonymous Chris and Holly Hollenbeck† Sally and Toby Rosenblatt† Paul Angelo Jascha and Rebecca Kaykas-Wolff† Emmett and Marion Stanton Dr. Barbara L. Bessey Luba Kipnis and David Russel† Dr. Martin and Elizabeth Terplan Linda K. Brewer Linda Kurtz † Mrs. Katherine G. Wallin and Linda Joanne Brown Ken Lamb Mr. Homer Wallin Janet Cluff, in memory of Lloyd Cluff Pamela D. Lee Carlie Wilmans Daniel E. Cohn and Lynn Brinton † Mr. and Mrs. John P. Levin Beverly and Loring Wyllie Harold Cranston Marcia and Jim Levy† James and Julia Davidson Dr. David Gaba and Deanna Mann Scott Delman Marmor Foundation/Drs. Michael and Philip and Judy Erdberg Jane Marmor

22 ACT-SF.ORG DIANNE HOGE, CO-CHAIR • NOLA YEE, CO-CHAIR

We are privileged to recognize these members’ generosity during the January 1, 2019–January 1, 2020, period. For information about Directors Circle membership, please contact Sasha Habash at 415.439.2415 or [email protected].

 Lead Gala supporter *Leadership Circle Member †Spring Fling! supporters ** Deceased

Benefactors Mary Ann Munro† Robert and Judith DeFranco Dr. Thane Kreiner ($7,500–$9,999) Mr. Daniel Murphy Ingrid M. Deiwiks Richard N. Hill and Nancy Lundeen Paula and John Murphy Mrs. Julie D. Dickson Elisabeth and Daniel McKinnon Anonymous Don and Sally O’Neal Bonnie and Rick Dlott Mr. Byron R. Meyer Tom Frankel Mr. and Mrs. William Pitcher Barb and Gary Erickson Ms. Nancy Michel Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Gallagher LSP Family Foundation Charles** and Susan Fadley Jeffrey and Elizabeth Minick Christine and Stan Mattison† Rick and Anne Riley Nancy and Jerry Falk Ms. Mary D. Niemiller Terry and Jan Opdendyk Susan Roos Mr. Alexander L. Fetter and Barbara O’Connor Dr. James Robinson and Ms. Dace Rutland Ms. Lynn Bunim Mrs. Margaret O’Drain Ms. Kathy Kohrman Scott and Janis Sachtjen Mr. Robert Feyer and Ms. Marsha Cohen Margo and Roy Ogus Matt and Yvonne Rogers Rick and Cindy Simons Mr. and Mrs. Patrick F. Flannery Janet and Clyde Ostler Patrick S. Thompson† George and Camilla Smith Mr. and Mrs. Richard Fowler Barbara Phillips Kenneth and Sharon Wilson Lee and Carolyn Snowberg Mrs. Susan Fuller Gordon Radley The Somekh Family Foundation John L. Garfinkle Jeff and Karen Richardson Playwrights Mr. Lawrence L. Spitters William Garland and Michael Mooney Gary and Joyce Rifkind ($5,000–$7,499) Diana L. Starcher Mr. Michael R. Genesereth Mr. Orrin W. Robinson, III Anonymous (5) Vera and Harold Stein Susan and Dennis Gilardi Mrs. Marianne B. Robison The Tournesol Project Mr. M. H. Suelzle Dr. A. Goldschlager Gary Rubenstein and Nancy Matthews Roger and Helen Bohl Sandra and John W. Thompson Barbara Grasseschi and Tony Crabb Betty and Jack Schafer Christopher and Debora Booth Doug Tilden Marcia and Geoffrey Green Kent and Nancy Clancy Mr. Andrew Bradley and Jack and Susy Wadsworth† Mr. Bill Gregory* Mr. and Mrs. John Shankel Mrs. Ellen Bradley Mr. and Mrs. James Wagstaffe Ms. Ann M. Griffiths Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Spears Ed Brakeman Ms. Allie Weissman Naren and Vinita Gupta Vibeke Strand, MD and Jack Loftis, PhD Susan and Ralph G. Coan, Jr. Katherine Welch James Haire and Timothy Cole Richard and Michele Stratton Carlotta and Robert Dathe† Barbara and Chris Westover Mr. and Mrs. Richard Halliday Mr. Jay Streets Madeline and Myrkle Deaton Mr. and Mrs. Bruce White Ms. Kendra Hartnett and Robert Santilli Susan Terris Richard DeNatale and Craig Latker Andrew and Billie Wiesenthal Lenore Heffernan Nancy Thompson and Andy Kerr Roberta and Steven Denning Mrs. Deirdre Henderson Ian and Olga Thomson William H. Donner Foundation Directors ($2,500–$4,999) Adrienne Hirt and Jeffrey Rodman Mrs. Helena Troy Wasp Tracy Ferron Anonymous Ms. Marcia Hooper Susan A. Van Wagner Vicki and David Fleishhacker Mr. Howard J. Adams Rob Hulteng Kiran and Vino Verghese Sameer Gandhi and Monica Lopez Martha and Michael Adler Robert Humphrey & Diane Amend Arnie and Gail Wagner Marilee K. Gardner Bruce and Betty Alberts Robert and Riki Intner Ms. Margaret Warton and Dr. and Mrs. Richard E. Geist Lynn Altshuler and Stanley D. Herzstein Harold and Lyn Isbell Mr. Steve Benting Glasser Family Fund Sharon L. Anderson Franklin Jackson & Maloos Anvarian Ms. Carol Watts Kaatri and Doug Grigg Ray and Jackie Apple Anne Jamieson Ms. Patricia Tomlinson and Kenneth Hitz Ms. Kay Auciello*† Ms. Carolyn Jayne Mr. Bennet Weintraub Alan and Cricket Jones † Donna L. Beres and Terry Dahl Phil and Edina Jennison Ms. Beth Weissman David Jones and Joe D’Alessandro David and Rosalind Bloom Stephanie and Owen Jensen Irv Weissman and Family Sy Kaufman and Kerstin Edgerton Peter Blume Ms. Pamela L. Kershner Mr. and Mrs. David Wilcox Mr. Joel Krauska and Ms. Patricia Fox Mr. Mitchell Bolen and Ms. Nancy L. Kittle Diane B. Wilsey† Paola and Richard Kulp Mr. John Christner Mr. R. Samuel Klatchko Mr. and Mrs. Roy B. Woolsey Sue Yung Li and Dale K. Ikeda Benjamin Bratt and Talisa Soto Sue Kubly Mr. and Mrs. Roger Wu Jennifer S. Lindsay † Susan Breyer Thomas and Barbara Lasinski Melanie and Peter Maier - John Tracy Brown and Greg Holland Dr. Lois Levine Mundie Brockway Huntington Foundation Mrs. Libi Cape Ms. Helen S. Lewis James D. Marver Steven and Karin Chase Ron and Mary Loar Maris Meyerson † Teresa Clark and Martin Lay Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Logan Mr. Ronald Morrison Mr. and Mrs. David Crane Ms. Gayla Lorthridge Tim Mott Joan T. Dea and Lionel F. Conacher Dr. Steven Lovejoy and

at Artists PL AY DID YOU KNOW? • Ticket sales cover only 40% of the costs to bring bold theatrical productions of artistic excellence to the Bay Area. • A.C.T. is one of the largest providers of arts education in the region, reaching over 20,000 young people each year. • Many Bay Area students experience their first live performance through A.C.T.’s diverse community outreach e orts. PleasePlease consider consider making making a tax-deductible a tax-deductible donation donation today! today!Give online Give at online act-sf.org/support at act-sf.org/support or call 415.438.2353or call 415.439.2353 to donate to donate over the over phone. the phone. We are privileged to recognize Friends of A.C.T. members’ generosity during the January 1, 2019–January 1, 2020, period. Space limitations prevent us from listing all those who have generously supported the Annual Fund. For information about Friends of A.C.T. membership, please contact Hillary Bray at 415.439.2353 or [email protected].

 Lead Gala supporter *Leadership Circle Member †Spring Fling! supporters ** Deceased

Patrons ($1,200–$2,499) Joe Tally and Dan Strauss Dr. Marcus Feldman and Mr. Jon Shantz Steven and Jacqueline Tulsky Mrs. S. Shirley Feldman Kate and Kip Sheeline Anonymous (3) John R. Upton Jr. and M. Daniel and Carla Flamm Kristine Soorian and Bryce Ikeda Mr. and Mrs. Harold P. Anderson Janet Sassoon-Upton Sandi Fleishhacker Randall Jeffrey Stern, M.D. Mr. Paul Anderson Mr. Douglass J. Warner Frederick and Leslie Gaylord Margaret Stewart and Severin Borenstein Mr. Larry Bardoff and Ms. Lilli Alberga Mr. Robert Weston Glenmore-Rye Road Gang Stephanie Stowe Allen and Lynn Barr Mr. David S. Wood and Kathleen Goldman Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Strickberger Jeanne and William Barulich Ms. Kathleen Garrison Dr. Floyd Gonella and Ms. Margaret Taylor* Mr. John E. Sweeney and Ms. Lana Basso Mr. Michael Bassi and Ms. Christy Styer Mr. and Mrs. Philip Zimbardo Dr. and Mrs. Gabriel Gregoratos Jane and Jay Taber* Dr. Fowler A. Biggs Victoria and Richard Zitrin, The Arthur and Bill and Nancy Grove Derek Taylor and Marcia Barrow Taylor John Boland and James Carroll Charlotte Zitrin Foundation Ms. Margaret Handelman Maggie Thompson Ben and Noel Bouck Mr. and Mrs. Roger Hassett* The Laney and Pasha Thornton Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Butcher Pete and Rebecca Helme Barbara Tomber and Don Mathews Jaime Caban and Rob Mitchell Sustainers ($750–$1,199) Susana Hernandez Ms. Mary Topliff Ms. Sally A. Carlson and Mr. Karl Keesling Anonymous (3) Judy Hoeschler Robert Tufts Denis Carrade and Jeanne Fadelli Susan Adamson and George Westfall David ibnAle and Mollie Ricker Leon Van Steen Rebecca Coleman Stephanie and Tom Ahlberg Maxine Isaacs Mr. and Mrs. Ron Vitt Mr. Edward Conger Rebecca and David Ayer Allan and Rebecca Jergesen Richard Votava* Jean and Mike Couch Donna and Dan Aykroyd Ed and Peggy Kavounas Ms. Meredith J. Watts Ms. Karen T. Crommie Chris Barker Ms. Peggy Kivel Mr. Richard West Ira and Jerry Dearing Mr. David N. Barnard Bree Klotter Susan Wojcicki Peggy Dennis Mr. William Barnard Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Klotter Mrs. Samuel Engel William Dewey Ms. Pamela Barnes Mrs. Judith T. Leahy Ms. Mary Wolfe Ron Dickel Mr. Daniel R. Bedford Barry and Ellen Levine Maria Donat David and Michele Benjamin Harold and Diane Lunde Ms. Winn Ellis and Mr. David Mahoney Anne Berkeley Leadership Circle Robert Lurie Sue and Ed Fish James Biondi Donors Under $750 Mr. and Mrs. William Manheim Cary and Helen FitzGerald Fred and Nancy Bjork Rachel Black* Helen M. Marcus, in memory of Elizabeth and Paul Fraley Mr. Noel Blos Gail Block* David Williamson † Ms. Susan Free Audrey Bojack Ms. Denise Brosseau* Susan Marinoff Alan and Susan Fritz* Mr. Roland E. Brandel Mr. Thomas R. Chambers* Ms. R. Vernie Mast Mark and Renee Greenstein Serena Broussard Loni and Robert Dantzler* Robert McCleskey Ms. Margaret J. Grover Ms. Angela Brunton Linda Fraley* Ms. Nancy F. Noe Melanie Schilling and Steve Hallock Natalia Bushyager The Freiberg Family* Ms. Joanna Officier and Mr. Ralph Tiegel Mr. Kim Harris and Bennet Marks Cecily Cassel and Larry Cassel Ms. Margaret Fuson* Emilie and Douglas Ogden Kathy Hart* Todd H. Charles Leni and Doug Herst Ms. Barbara Oleksiw Michael Kim Michael Charlson and Susan Austin* Dr. Beverly Vaughn Hock* Mr. Lester Olmstead-Rose George and Janet King Ceil Cirillo* Jeffrey and Loretta Kaskey* Pamela Orloff Harold and Leslie Kruth Craig E. Claussen Mr. Erwin Kelly* Mrs. Diane Paradiso Harriet Lawrie June and Michael Cohen Nelda Kilguss* Barbara Paschke and David Volpendesta Julius Leiman-Carbia Bart Connally Ms. Sally Lopez* Peter Pastreich and Jamie Whittington Julia Lobel James Cuthbertson Ms. Brenda Olwin* Sandi and Mark Randall Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Long Ms. Kathleen Damron Jillian C. Robinson* Karen and Bruce Rohde Jeff and Susanne Lyons William Dinon Steven and Barbara Segal* Mr. L. Kyle Rowley Ross MacKinnon Ms. Pat Dwyer Mr. Ronald Steininger* Ms. Monica Salusky and Mr. John Sutherland Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm MacNaughton Ms. Kirsty Ellis Ms. Sally Lopez* Elizabeth Salzer Karen and John McGuinn Mr. and Mrs. John L. Elman Ms. Brenda Olwin* Louise Adler Sampson Dr. Margaret R. McLean Marilynne Elverson Jillian C. Robinson* Mr. James J. Scillian Thomas and Lydia Moran Leif and Sharon Erickson Steven and Barbara Segal* Mr. Jim Sciuto Sharon and Jeffrey Morris Mr. Albert M. Everitt Mr. Ronald Steininger* John and Betsy Munz Joseph C. Najpaver and Deana Logan Jane and Bill Neilson Mr. and Mrs. Merrill E. Newman Bill Newmeyer, in memory of Nancy Newmeyer Gifts Made In Memory Of Nancy Livingston Levin Bruce Noble and Diane Elder Gifts made before December 20, 2019. Ms. Lisa Nolan Ms. Susan O’Brien Janine Paver and Eric Brown David and Michele Benjamin Maxine Isaacs Joan Shafran and Rob Haimes Ms. Diane Raile Fred Berger Jeri Lynn and Jeffrey W. Johnson Anne and Michelle Shonk Helen Hilton Raiser Carla and Gerald Berman Luba Kipnis and David Russel Glenn D. Siegler Mrs. Maria Elena Ratinoff Jennifer Bielstein and Shane Spaulding Doria Leong Vera and Harold Stein Ms. Joyce Ratner † Nikki Blum Susan Marinoff Susan Sterling Ms. Danielle Rebischung Ms. Sally A. Carlson and Mr. Karl Keesling Glenmore-Rye Road Gang Rachel Stuart Mr. and Mrs. John A. Reitan Albert and Roxanne Richards Fund Janet Cluff Maris Meyerson Roselyne C. Swig Barbara and Saul Rockman Carlotta and Robert Dathe James Monteleone Jill Switzer Marguerite Romanello James Daus and Larissa Read Carol Paull Doug Tilden Ms. Mary Ellen Rossi Roberta and Steven Denning Joyce Pavlovsky Barbara Tomber and Don Mathews Michele and John Ruskin Linda Jo Fitz Caitlin A. Quinn and Peter C. Garenani Steve Weiner & Norm Dito Ms. Karen Scussel and Mr. Curt Riffle Marcia and John Goldman Helen Hilton Raiser Carlie Wilmans Andrew and Marva Seidl Janet Gordon Tiffany Redmon Kochis Wong Jason Seifer and Brian Ayer Roger Grunwald Toni Rembe and Arthur Rock Roberta Wong Joan Shafran and Rob Haimes Dr. Elliot and Mrs. Kathy Shubin Kirke and Nancy Sawyer Hasson David and Carla Riemer Kay Yun and Andre Neumann-Loreck Mr. Earl G. Singer James C. Hormel and Joan Saffa Dr. and Mrs. Marvin B. Zwerin Mr. Mark Small Michael P. Nguyen-Hormel Dorothy Saxe Richard and Jerry Smallwood Ms. Beth Hurwich Jason Seifer and Brian Ayer Jacqueline Smith Steven and Chris Spencer Dr. Gary Stein and Jana Stein

24 ACT-SF.ORG For more information about Prospero Society JO S. HURLEY, CHAIR membership, please contact A.C.T. gratefully acknowledges the Prospero Society members listed below, Sasha Habash who have made an investment in the future of A.C.T. by providing for the theater in their estate plans. Associate Director of

**Deceased Individual Giving Providing a Legacy for A.C.T. 415.439.2415 [email protected] Gifts Designated to A.C.T. Marilee K. Gardner Dr. Margaret R. McLean Mrs. Katherine G. Wallin and Anonymous (2) Michele Garside, PhD Burt** and Deedee McMurtry Mr. Homer Wallin Norman Abramson in celebration of Dr. Allan P. Gold and Mr. Alan C. Ferrara Mary and Gene Metz Paul Weintraub and Raymond Szczesny David V. Beery Dr. A. Goldschlager J. Sanford Miller Ms. Beth Weissman Mr. Anthony Alfidi Ruth Goldstine and David Weber Milton Mosk and Thomas Foutch Tim M. Whalen Judith and David Anderson Ms. Carol A. Goodman and Pennie Needham Barry Williams and Lalita Tademy Ms. Kay Auciello Mr. Anthony Gane James C. Hormel and Beverly and Loring Wyllie Nancy Axelrod Ms. JeNeal Granieri and Michael P. Nguyen-Hormel Kay Yun and Andre Neumann-Loreck Ms. Mary Lou Baird Alfred F. McDonnell Mr. Dante Noto Mr. Eugene Barcone Mr. Bill Gregory Shelly Osborne** Gifts Received by A.C.T. Teveia Rose Barnes and Alan Sankin James Haire and Timothy Cole Patricia Patton The Estate of Barbara Beard Robert H. Beadle Mr. and Mrs. Richard Halliday Elsa and Neil Pering The Estate of John Bissinger Ms. Susan B. Beer Ms. Terilyn Hanko Barbara Phillips The Estate of Ronald Casassa Leo and J. Michael Berry-Lawhorn Richard H. Harding Robert and Marcia Popper The Estate of Rosemary Cozzo Dr. Barbara L. Bessey Kent Harvey Kellie Raines The Estate of Nancy Croley Mr. Arthur Bredenbeck and Betty Hoener Bert and Anne Raphael The Estate of Leonie Darwin Mr. Michael Kilpatrick Dr. and Mrs. Richard W. Horrigan Mrs. Maria Elena Ratinoff The Estate of Mary Jane Detwiler Linda K. Brewer Jo S. Hurley John and Karen Kopac Reis The Estate of Olga Diora Ms. Agnes Chen Brown Alex Ingersoll and Martin Tannenbaum Toni Rembe and Arthur Rock The Estate of Mortimer Fleishhacker Martin and Geri Brownstein Mr. Barry Johnson Mary L. Renner The Estate of Mary Gamburg Gayle and Steve Brugler Ms. Robin Johnson and Ellen Richard The Estate of Rudolf Glauser Ms. Carol Buchser Ms. Dottie Lofstrom Jillian C. Robinson The Estate of Phillip E. Goddard Christine Bunn and William Risseeuw Carol and Paul Kameny Susan Roos The Estate of Mrs. Lester G. Hamilton Mr. Bruce Carlton Dr. and Mrs. Stewart Karlinsky Ms. Andrea Rouah The Estate of Sue Hamister Florence Cepeda and Earl Frick Nelda Kilguss Dr. David Rovno The Estate of Howard R. Hollinger Ms. Paula Champagne and Heather M. Kitchen Ms. Pamela Royse The Estate of William S. Howe, Jr. Mr. David Watson Jonathan Kitchen and Nina Hatvany Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sandberg The Estate of Ines R. Lewandowitz Steven and Karin Chase Catherine Kuss and Danilo Purlia Brian Savard and Andrew Smith The Estate of Thomas H. Maryanski Lesley Ann Clement and Karl Lukaszewicz Stephanie Hencir Lamey and Sonja Schmid The Estate of Michael L. Mellor Janet Cluff in memory of Lloyd Cluff Patrick Lamey Mr. Harold E. Segelstad The Estate of Bruce Tyson Mitchell Mr. James L. Coran and Mr. Philip C. Lang Dr. F. Stanley Seifried The Estate of Gail Oakley Mr. Walter A. Nelson-Rees Mindy Lechman Ms. Ruth A. Short The Estate of Shelly Osborne Patricia Corrigan Ms. Marcia Leonhardt Dr. Elliot and Mrs. Kathy Shubin The Estate of Dennis Edward Parker Jack and Susan Cortis Marcia and Jim Levy Cherie Sorokin The Estate of Rose Penn Ms. Joan Danforth Jennifer S. Lindsay Ruth and Alan L.** Stein The Estate of Shepard P. Pollack Richard Davis-Lowell and Bill Lowell Fred M. Levin, in honor of Nancy Bert and LeAnne Steinberg The Estate of Margaret Purvine Mrs. Carl Degler Livingston Levin**, The Shenson Jasmine Stirling The Estate of Gerald B. Rosenstein Sharon Dickson Foundation Mr. John E. Sweeney and Ms. Lana Basso The Estate of Charles Sassoon Jerome L. and Thao N. Dodson Ms. Paulette Long Jane and Jay Taber The Estate of Olivia Thebus Bill Draper Dr. Steven Lovejoy and Dr. Thane Kreiner Marilyn E. Taghon The Estate of Ayn and Brian Thorne Drs. Peter and Ludmila Eggleton Mr. and Mrs. Jim Magill Marvin Tanigawa** The Estate of Sylvia Coe Tolk Linda Jo Fitz Melanie and Peter Maier - John Brockway Nancy Thompson and Andy Kerr The Estate of Elizabeth Wallace Frannie Fleishhacker Huntington Foundation Mr. Dayton E. Torrence The Estate of Frances Webb Kevin and Celeste Ford Mr. Jeffrey P. Malloy Michael E. Tully The Estate of William R. Weir Mr. and Mrs. Richard Fowler The Kenneth and Muriel Marks Living Trust Herman Victor The Estate of William Zoller Alan and Susan Fritz Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Marron Ms. Nadine Walas Mr. and Mrs. Russell Fudge John B. McCallister Ms. Marla M. Walcott John G. McGehee

The following members of the A.C.T. community made gifts in memory and in honor of friends, Memorial & Tribute Gifts colleagues, and family members of $100 or more during the December 1, 2018 to December 1, 2019, period.

Fred M. Levin and Nancy Livingston Levin**, The Shenson Jaime Caban and Rob Mitchell In Honor Of Mark Peters Mr. David J. Pasta In Memory Of Gloria Guth Foundation In Honor Of Jennifer Bielstein Sandra and John W. Thompson In Honor Of Pamela Kershner In Memory Of Ann Smulka In Honor Of Bess Blackburn Robina Riccitiello Marian and Richard Kershner Jude Rachele In Honor Of Summer Brown Peter Blume In Honor Of Hannah Roth Dr. Margaret R. McLean In Memory Of Edythe Chan In Honor Of Andy Chan Donald Lilian Shackelford Murray In Honor Of Casey Schryer Teresa and Phillip McLean Sandra Bragar and Jerome Rossen In Honor Of Sally and Jim Shapiro In Honor Of Casey Schryer Mr. Christopher Carter In Memory Of Olga Mylan Linda Jo Fitz Kate and Kip Sheeline In Honor Of Casey Schryer Peter Kogan In Memory Of Olga Mylan Maris Meyerson In Honor Of Linda Jo Fitz Eric and Susan Nitzberg In Honor Of Craig Slaight Victor La Gamma and June Pieratti In Memory Of H. E. Miller Giving Fund In Honor Of Linda Jo Fitz Stephen Tann In Honor Of Michael Tann Olga Mylan Sandi Fleishhacker Randall In Honor Of Frannie Mr. and Mrs. Sandy Dean In Honor Of Ronald Mayer In Memory Of Olga Mylan Fleishhacker Adriana López Vermut Dan Reiss In Memory Of Olga Mylan Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fischer In Honor Of Marilee Gardner Heather Box In Honor Of The Women in Richard and Victoria Larson In Memory Of Dennis Powers Daniel Zielaski In Honor Of Jascha Kaykas-Wolff Business Initiative via Robina Riccitiello Joan W. Sadler Trust In Memory Of Joan Sadler Mr. Andrew Bradley and Mrs. Ellen Bradley In Honor Of Todd H. Charles In Memory Of Dr. Robert E. Scheid, Jr. Marcia and Jim Levy Ms. Jamie Ney In Memory Of Anne Adams Richard Gibson and Paul Porcher In Memory Of Dr. Sandra L. Lillie In Honor Of Dakota Lillie Anonymous In Memory Of Ruth Asawa Robert Simpson Tim Whalen In Honor Of Nancy Livingston Michael Kim In Memory Of Youngmee Baik Sally-Ann and Ervin Epstein, Jr. In Memory Of Alan Stein Peyton Gallant and Scott Patterson In Honor Of Macbeth Carol and Don Hardesty In Memory Of Bart Cannon Ms. Joy Eaton In Memory Of Todd Wees Yvonne L. Bess In Honor Of Jared Manders Fred M. Levin and Nancy Livingston Levin**, The Shenson Helen M. Marcus In Memory Of David Williamson Neil Cormia In Honor Of Rod Marymor and Breezy Foundation In Memory Of Lloyd Cluff Mr. and Mrs. Gene D’Ovidio In Honor Of Rod Marymor Maria Donat In Memory Of Peter Donat

25 Corporate Membership Program

As the Bay Area’s leading theater, A.C.T. provides unique partnership opportunities to the business sector, including visibility before an affluent and influential audience, entrée to creative and dynamic spaces for client entertaining and business meetings, and exceptional artistic insiders’ experiences like backstage tours, meet-and-greets with artists, and so much more. Member companies support the artistic mission of A.C.T., including A.C.T.’s investment in helping to develop the next generation of the Bay Area’s creative and empathetic workforce through our vibrant artist training and education and community outreach programs serving over 20,000 young people each year. For more information, please contact Caitlin A. Quinn at [email protected] or 415.439.2436.

Business Leadership Council PRESENTING PRODUCING PARTNERS Patrick Devlin, Chair PARTNERS ($15,000–$24,999) Freedom Financial Network ($25,000–$49,999) Theatre Forward Lesley Clement, Clement & Associates OFFICIAL HOTEL PARTNER Jerome L. Dodson, Parnassus Investments DIRECTING PARTNERS Celeste Ford, Stellar Solutions ($10,000–$14,999) Kirke M. Hasson, Pillsbury Winthrop EXECUTIVE PARTNERS Freedom Financial Network Shaw Pittman LLP ($50,000 +) JP Morgan Chase & Co. Jascha Kaykas-Wolff, Mozilla Perkins Coie LLP Janet V. Lustgarten, Kx Systems, Inc. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Jeffrey Minick, Bank of America David Riemer, UC Berkeley Dutta Satadip, Pinterest STAGE PARTNERS Steven L. Swig, Presidio World College ($5,000–$9,999) Patrick S. Thompson, Perkins Coie LLP PG&E Jeffrey W. Ubben, ValueAct Capital RBC Wealth Management Schoenberg Family Law Group Kay Yun, Health Evolution Partners

MEDIA PARTNER

Foundations and Government Agencies The following foundations and government agencies provide vital support for A.C.T. For more information, please contact Director of Grants and Foundation Relations Nicole Chalas at 415.439.2337 or [email protected].

$100,000 and above $50,000–$99,999 $25,000–$49,999 $10,000–$24,999 $5,000–$9,999 Department of Children, National Endowment for Anonymous Davis/Dauray Family Fund Anonymous Youth & Their Families the Arts California Arts Council The Stanley S. Langendorf The Bill Graham Memorial Doris Duke Charitable The Bernard Osher The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation Foundation Foundation Foundation Foundation Marin Community Foundation Edna M. Reichmuth The William Randolph Hearst The Edgerton Foundation Laird Norton Family Educational Fund of Foundations Walter and Elise Haas Fund Foundation The San Francisco The William and Flora The Kimball Foundation San Francisco Arts Foundation Hewlett Foundation MAP Fund Commission Jewels of Charity, Inc. The Harold & Mimi The Sato Foundation Koret Foundation Steinberg Charitable Trust The Zellerbach Family San Francisco Grants The Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation for the Arts Foundation The Shubert Foundation

26 ACT-SF.ORG Theatre Forward Current Funders List as of December 2019

Theatre Forward advances the American theater and its communities by providing funding and other resources to the country’s leading nonprofit theatres. Theatre Forward and its theaters are most grateful to the following funders:

$50,000 AND ABOVE Paula A. Dominick Lisa Orberg◆ Robin and Bob Paulson Daryl & Steven Roth AT&T◆ The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. Presidio Charitable Fund Foundation◆ Bank of America• Bruce R. & Tracey Ewing Patti & Rusty Rueff Foundation Rando Santa Fe Foundation David Schwartz & Pamela Farr & Buford Alexander EY RBC Wealth Management Sanderson Donor Advised Fund Amy Langer* Citi Mr. Anthony C. Lembke & Raja Sengupta Donna & Jack Sennott* Stephanie Scott◆ The Schloss Family Foundation◆• Ms. Diane S. Lembke*◆ S&P Global John Thomopoulos Elliott Sernel & Larry Falconio* Wells Fargo◆ Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. James S. & Lynne P. Turley* Terrence P. Yanni George & Pamela Smith* Pfizer, Inc. Isabelle Winkles Alison Tam* $25,000–$49,999 Jonathan Maurer & $2,500–$4,999 Ten Chimneys Foundation The Augustine Foundation◆ Gretchen Shugart◆ $5,000–$9,999 Joe Baio & Anne Griffin* Michael A. Wall* BNY Mellon Daniel A. Simkowitz & Mari Nakachi AudienceView† Sheri and Les Biller Foundation Mary Beth Winslow & Cognizant Southwest Airlines◆† DLR◆ Christopher Campbell Bill Darby Dorsey & Whitney LLP TD Charitable Foundation◆ Dramatists Play Service, Inc. Nicole Clay Vicki & Carl Zeiger* Goldman, Sachs & Co. UBS Irwin & Rosalyn Engleman Dewitt Stern MetLife Alan & Jennifer Freedman*◆ Christ Economos* Morgan Stanley $10,000–$14,999 John Gore Organization Lucy Fato & Matt Detmer* *National Society Membership Aetna Floyd Green Steven & Donna Gartner*◆ †Includes in-kind support $15,000–$24,999 DELL Roe Green* Jessica Farr◆ ◆ Educating through Theatre Support American Express Fischer Jordan LLC Richard K. Greene Libshap Realty Corporation Mitchell J. Auslander/Willkie Farr KLDiscovery Nancy Hancock Griffith*◆ Louise Moriarty & •Advancing Strong Theatre Support  & Gallagher◆ Evelyn Mack Truitt* Joyce & Gregory Hurst Patrick Stack * Lead Gala supporter Bloomberg Philanthropies Maurer Family Foundation◆ Mary Kitchen & Jon Orszag* Frank & Bonnie Orlowski For a complete list of funders visit, Steven & Joy Bunson◆ Robert A. Rosenbaum theatreforward.org.

Gifts in Kind A.C.T. thanks the following donors for their generous contributions of goods and services.

ACORN Winery/Alegria Vineyard Joe Tally and Dan Strauss Blue Angel Vodka The Marker Hotel CyberTools for Libraries Premium Port Wines, Inc.

Corporations Matching Annual Fund Gifts As A.C.T. is both a cultural and an educational institution, many employers will match individual employee contributions to the theater. The following corporate matching gift programs honor their employees’ support of A.C.T., multiplying the impact of those contributions.

Acxiom Corporation BlackRock GE Foundation Macy’s, Inc. The Clorox Company Adobe Systems Inc. Charles Schwab Google Merrill Lynch & Co. Foundation Apple, Inc. Chevron Hewlett-Packard Foundation, Inc. The James Irvine Foundation Applied Materials Chubb & Son IBM International Foundation Northwestern Mutual The Morrison & Foerster AT&T Foundation Dell Direct Giving Campaign JPMorgan Chase Foundation Foundation Bank of America Dodge & Cox Johnson & Johnson Family Pacific Gas and Electric TPG Capital, L.P. Bank of America Foundation Ericsson, Inc. of Companies Arthur Rock Verizon Bank of New York Mellon Federated Department Stores Levi Strauss Foundation Salesforce Visa International Community Partnership The Gap Lockheed Martin Corporation State Farm Companies John Wiley and Sons, Inc. Foundation

@ACTSanFrancisco 27 A.C.T. STAFF

PAM MACKINNON JENNIFER BIELSTEIN MELISSA SMITH Artistic Director Executive Director Conservatory Director

Artistic Director Emerita The Strand: Audience Services MFA Program Adjunct Faculty Carey Perloff Ana Gabriella Hernandez-McKig, Megan Murray, Audience Services Manager Milissa Carey, Singing, Director Head Electrician Kym Hawkins, Matt Chapman, Clowning Producing Director Emeritus Matthew Reynolds, Head Carpenter Assistant Audience Services Manager Richard Dent, Play Intensive James Haire Bert Hebbert-Castillo, Head Sound David Whitman, House Manager and Volunteer Andy Chan Donald, Arts Leadership Usher Coordinator Julie Douglas, Beginning Mask ARTISTIC ADMINISTRATION Beatrice Lazar, Genevieve Pabon, Tuesday Lauren English, The Business of Acting Andy Chan Donald, Associate Artistic Director Coralyn Bond, Ray, Mark Saladino, Associate House Managers Daniel Feyer, Accompanist Janet Foster, Executive Assistant and Board Liaison Oliver Sutton, Security Janet Foster, Audition Director of Casting and Artistic Associate Mads Leigh-Faire, Front Desk Associate Ramsey Abouremeleh, Monica Amitin, Anthony Fusco, Acting Joy Meads, Emma Perrin, Yale Fellow NJ Bice, Forrest Choy, Bernadette Director of Dramaturgy and New Works Fons, Nailah Harper-Malveaux, Anthony Jasmin Hoo, Citizen Artistry Allie Moss, Human Resources Hernandez, Caleb Lewis, Svetlana Karasyova, Mark Jackson, Performance Making Literary Manager and Artistic Associate Amanda Williams, Human Resources Director Susan Monson, Scott Phillips, Miki Richmond, Darryl Jones, Acting, Director Cevie Toure, Bartenders Ken Savage, Associate Producer Amanda Roccuzzo, W. D. Keith, On-Camera Acting Gracie Brakeman, Artistic Fellow Human Resources Generalist Philip Charles MacKenzie, On-Camera Acting Andrea van den Boogaard, Producing Fellow Susan Allen, Rodney Anderson, Branden Heidi Marshall, On-Camera Acting General Management Bowman, Bryan Bowman, Serena Broussard, Hope Mohr, Dance Danica Burt, Jose Camello, Philip Carbery, Coaches Louisa Balch, General Manager Danielle O’Dea, Combat Wendy Chang, Niyjale Cummings, Kathy Christine Adaire, Lisa Anne Porter, Amy Dalba, Associate General Manager Dere, John Doll, Larry Emms, Mileta Foster, Kari Prindl, Alexander Technique Voice and Text Sabra Jaffe, Company Manager Christina Ford, Claire Gerndt, Liz Githuka, Tiffany Redmon, Fundraising Danyon Davis, Movement Christina M. Sturken, Carol Grace, Kayla Kaufman, Blue Kesler, Gabriel Romero, Latin Social Dance Dave Maier, Danielle O’Dea, Fights Assistant Company Manager Ryszard Koprowski, Sharon Lee, Sadie Li, Joe Lindsay Saier, Stage Makeup Joel Chapman, Daniel Feyer, Music Freddie Baldonado, MacDonald, Maria Markoff, Kescha Mason, Virginia Scott, Clowning General/Company Management Fellow Val Mason, Sam Mesinger, Edvida Moore, Elyse Shafarman, Alexander Technique Commissioned Artists Kathy Napoleone, Mary O’Connell, Brandie Lee Strawn, Singing Julia Cho and Seret Scott; Jeremy Cohen Finance Pilapil, Walter Schoonmaker, Melissa Stern, Lisa Townsend, Director, Choreographer and Dipika Guha; Eisa Davis; Lorena Feijoo, Rob Fore, Chief Financial Officer Dale Whitmill, Lorraine Williams, June Yee, Brian Thorstenson, The Actor Writes Alfredo Rodriguez, Damaso Rodriguez, and Rebecca Reis, Senior Manager, Accounting Ushers Caridad Svich; Casey Lee Hurt; Kate Kilbane Stephanie Wilborn, Citizen Artistry Sharon Boyce, Accounting Manager The Strand Cafe and Dan Moses; Craig Lucas; Susan Soon He May Chin, Matt Jones, Ryan Jones, Stanton; Mfoniso Udofia; Anne Washburn Rafael Monge, Studio A.C.T. Finance Associates Cafe Manager Jamin Jollo, Jarod LeCouve, Baristas Mark Jackson, Director of Studio A.C.T. PRODUCTION Information Technology Sophia Nguyen, Young Conservatory & Studio Martin Barron, Director of Production EDUCATION & COMMUNITY A.C.T. Associate Thomas Morgan, Director Jack Horton, Production Manager Liz Anderson, On-Camera Acting, Improv Joone Pajar, Network Administrator PROGRAMS Marlena Schwartz, Juan Manzo, Heidi Carlsen, Acting, Voice, Movement Associate Production Manager Operations Director of Education & Community Programs Eugenie Chan, Playwriting Aaron Curry, Eric Brizee, Operations and Facilities Manager Vincent Amelio, School & Community Programs Julie Douglas, Acting, Clown, Improv Design and Production Associate Operations Manager Jeffrey Warren, Assistant Facilities Manager Francie Epsen-Devlin, Musical Theater Emma Penny, Production Office Coordinator Stephanie Wilborn, Leopoldo Benavente, Matt Stewart-Cohn, Deb Fink, On-Camera Acting Michael Anderburg, Community Programs Manager Facilities Crew Members Paul Finocchiaro, Acting Conservatory Production Manager Hannah Clague, Curtis Carr, Jr., Sol MacIan, Jesse Nightchase, Margo Hall, Acting Ariana Johnson, ACTsmart Residencies Coordinator Urban Alchemy, Ambassadors W. D. Keith, Acting, On-Camera Acting Conservatory Production Associate Elizabeth Halperin, Jaime Morales, Geary Cleaning Foreman Drew Khalouf, Speech, Shakespeare Morgan Badillo, Conservatory Design and Student Matinee Coordinator Production Associate Jamal Alsaidi, Jeaneth Alvarado, Lidia Dave Maier, Stage Combat Godinez, Geary Cleaning Crew Patrick Mahoney, Conservatory Design and YOUNG CONSERVATORY Michelle Maxon, Acting, On-Camera Acting Production Associate Carolina Morones, Acting Development Jill MacLean, Miranda Erin Campbell, Conservatory Craig Slaight Director of the Young Conservatory Kari Prindl, Alexander Technique Caitlin A. Quinn, Director of Development Production and Stage Management Coordinator Sophia Nguyen, Young Conservatory & Studio Mark Rafael, Acting Tiffany Redmon, Annie Kao, Production Fellow A.C.T. Associate Radhika Rao, Improv Deputy Director of Development Yohana Ansari-Thomas, Katie Rubin, Stand-Up Comedy, Acting Stage Management Nicole Chalas, Director of Grants and Young Conservatory Assistant Foundation Relations Naomi Sanchez, Musical Theater Elisa Guthertz, Head Stage Manager Andy Alabran, Acting, Voice Jody Price, Caitlyn Tella, Movement Dick Daley, Samantha Greene, Elisa Guthertz, Director of Special Events Robert Allen, Accompanist Laura Wayth, Acting, Musical Theater Christina Hogan, Megan McClintock, Leslie M. Sasha Habash, Cristina Anselmo, Acting, On-Camera Associate Director of Individual Giving Valerie Weak, Acting Radin, Stage Managers Kimberly Braun, Musical Theater Stephanie Swide, Senior Manager of Beth Wilmurt, Acting, Movement, Voice Dani Bae, Dick Daley, Christina Hogan, Joel Chapman, Accompanist Deirdre Rose Holland, Cheryle Honerlah, Development Operations Fenner, Voice & Dialect, Acting Amanda Marshall, Chris Waters, Hillary Bray, Professional Development Nancy Gold, Physical Character, Acting Assistant Stage Managers Donor Relations and Membership Manager Ben Quinn, Mark Rafael, Katie Rubin, Patrick Michele Menard, Improv, Physical Character Amanda Marshall, Production Assistant Derek Collard, Special Events Associate Russell, Radhika Rao, Dominique Salerno Arielle Markowitz, Development Assistant Michael Mohammed, Musical Theater Gabrielle Harper, Mika Rubinfeld, Hannah Conservatory Accompanists Rose-Jing Stoffer, Stage Management Fellows Sarah Gray, Andrew Mondello, Musical Theater Development and Special Events Fellow Thaddeus Pinkston, Daniel Feyer, Christopher Hewitt, Louis Prop Shop Accompanist, Musical Arranger Lagalante, Paul McCurdy, Thaddeus Pinkston, Naomi Sanchez, Katelyn Tan Abo Greenwald, Supervisor Marketing & Public Relations Salim Razawi, Acting Joan Rosenberg, Director of Marketing Corinna Rezzelle, Musical Theater Paul Velasquez, Assistant Library Staff and Communications Elena Ruggiero, Musical Theater Joseph Tally, Head Librarian Costume Shop Syche Phillips, Associate Director of Marketing Vivian Sam, Musical Theater, Dance G. David Anderson, Theresa Bell, Laurie Jessie Amoroso, Costume Director Simon Hodgson, Publications Manager Katelyn Tan, Accompanist Bernstein, Helen Jean Bowie, Bruce Carlton, Kevin Kopjak/Charles Zukow Associates, Callie Floor, Rentals Manager Valerie Weak, Acting Barbara Cohrssen, William Goldstein, Pat Public Relations Counsel Keely Weiman, Build Manager/Draper Krista Wigle, Musical Theater, Voice Hunter, Connie Ikert, Ashok Katdare, Martha Samantha Lomax, Digital Engagement Manager Jef Valentine, Inventory Manager Kessler, Nelda Kilguss, Barbara Kornstein, Laura Clatterbuck, Lead Visual Designer Maria Montoya, Head Stitcher CONSERVATORY Gail McGowan, Vineet Mishra, Lynnda Means, Dani Karonis, Graphic Designer Kelly Koehn, Accessories & Crafts Artisan Melissa Smith, Conservatory Director Maida Paxton, Connie Pelkey, Christine Beryl Baker, Video Content Producer Chanterelle Grover, First Hand Peter J. Kuo, Associate Conservatory Director Peterson, Dana Rees, Roger Silver, Jane Samantha Wong, Taber, Aileen Thong, Susan Torres, Joyce Victoria Mortimer, Costume Administrator Christopher Herold, Conservatory Marketing Associate Director of Summer Training Congress Weisman, Jean Wilcox, Marie Wood, Kate Miller, Grace Robertson, Costume Fellows Miranda Ashland, Jack Sharrar, PhD, Director of Academic Affairs Library Volunteers Wig Shop Digital Media and Marketing Associate Jerry Lopez, Director of Financial Aid Livian Yeh, Publications Associate Accreditation Lindsay Saier, Wig Master Charlotte Brockman, Conservatory Manager Anne Bonino-Britsch, Marketing Fellow A.C.T. is accredited by the Accrediting Sara Leonard, Wig Supervisor Alejandra Maria Rivas, Claire L. Wong, Publications Fellow Commission for Senior Colleges and Conservatory Associate, Academic Programs Universities of the Western Association STAGE STAFF Matt Jones, Bursar/Payroll Administrator Ticket Services of Schools and Colleges (WASC), 985 Emily Rose Cooper, Conservatory Fellow Atlantic Avenue, Suite 100, Alameda, The Geary: Jennifer Peterian, (Studio A.C.T./YC) CA 94501, 510.748.9001, an institutional Director of Ticketing and Sales Operations Christopher Kristant, Head Carpenter accrediting body recognized by the Council Jorena de Pedro, Box Office Manager MFA Program Core Faculty Suzanna Bailey, Head Sound on Postsecondary Accreditation and the US Mark C. Peters, Subscriptions Manager Department of Education. Amy Domjan, Head Electrician Christine Adaire, Head of Voice David Engelmann, Head Treasurer Candace Drucelle Shankel, Head of Props Danyon Davis, Head of Movement Elizabeth Halperin, Leontyne Mbele-Mbong, Brandon Gage, Flyrail Operator Peter J. Kuo, Collaboration Building Assistant Head Treasurers Mary Montijo, Wardrobe Supervisor Joy Meads, Character and Text Anthony Miller, Group Sales Diane Cornelius, Assistant Wardrobe Supervisor Lisa Anne Porter, Head of Text and Dialects Scott Tignor, Subscriptions Coordinator Loren Lewis, Joe Nelson, Stage Door Monitors Jack Sharrar, PhD, Theater History Andy Alabran, Liam Blaney, Richard Claar, Melissa Smith, Head of Acting Peter Davey, Treasurers

28 ACT-SF.ORG A.C.T. PROFILES

PAM MACKINNON (Artistic Director) Lucille Lortel nominations). Her most recent credits include is celebrating her second season as Bruce Norris’s Downstate (Steppenwolf Theatre Company, A.C.T.’s fourth artistic director. She is a London’s National Theatre), Lydia R. Diamond’s Toni Stone Tony, Drama Desk, and Obie award– (Roundabout Theatre Company), and Edward Albee’s winning director, having directed Seascape (A.C.T.). She is an artistic associate of the upwards of 70 productions around the Roundabout Theatre Company, an advisory board member country, off Broadway, and on of Clubbed Thumb, and an alumna of the Drama League, Broadway. Her Broadway credits Women’s Project, and Lincoln Center Theater’s Directors’ include Beau Willimon’s The Parisian Woman (with Uma Labs. She just completed a three-year term as executive Thurman), Amélie: A New Musical, David Mamet’s China board president of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Doll (with Al Pacino), Wendy Wasserstein’s The Heidi Society (SDC), and continues to serve on the board. She grew Chronicles (with Elisabeth Moss), Edward Albee’s A Delicate up in Toronto, Canada, and Buffalo, New York, acted through Balance (with Glenn Close and John Lithgow), Edward her teens, but majored in economics and political science at Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Tony Award, Drama the University of Toronto and briefly pursued a PhD in Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle nomination), and political science at UC San Diego, before returning to her Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park (Obie Award, Tony and true passion: theater. (she/her)

JENNIFER BIELSTEIN (Executive Steppenwolf Theatre Company, About Face Theatre, Director) joined A.C.T. in 2018 with Northlight Theatre, and Lincoln Park Zoo, as well as served more than 25 years of theater on the boards of the League of Chicago Theatres, the Arts management experience. She serves and Cultural Attractions Council, and other civic boards. on the board of Theatre Forward, is a She has received the Center for Nonprofit Excellence’s member of the International Women’s Pyramid Award of Excellence in Leadership, has been Forum, and is president of the League recognized in Louisville’s Business First’s 40 Under 40, and of Resident Theatres (LORT)—an was named by Twin Cities Business as a Person to Know organization that represents 75 theaters nationwide— and a Real Power 50 member by Minnesota Business having previously served as LORT’s vice president; chair of magazine. Bielstein is a graduate of University of North its Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee; secretary; Carolina at Chapel Hill, attended Stanford’s Graduate and on multiple union negotiating teams. Before relocating School of Business Executive Program for Nonprofit to the Bay Area, Bielstein was the managing director of the Leaders in the Arts, and earned an MBA from Bellarmine Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, managing director of University, where she received the MBA Faculty Merit Actors Theatre of Louisville, and executive director of Award and was inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma, the Writers Theatre in Chicago. She has also worked for honor society for business programs. (she/her)

MELISSA SMITH (Conservatory Conservatory, Smith was the director of the Program in Director, Head of Acting) has served as Theater and Dance at Princeton University. She has taught Conservatory director and head of acting classes to students of all ages in various colleges, acting in the Master of Fine Arts high schools, and studios around the continental United Program at A.C.T. since 1995. During States, at the Mid-Pacific Institute in Hawaii, New York that time, she has overseen the University’s La Pietra campus in Florence, and the Teatro expansion of the MFA Program from a di Pisa in San Miniato, Italy. She is featured in Acting two- to a three-year course of study Teachers of America: A Vital Tradition. Also a professional and the further integration of the MFA Program faculty and actor, she has performed regionally at the Hangar Theatre, student body with A.C.T.’s artistic wing, while also teaching A.C.T., the California Shakespeare Festival, and Berkeley and directing in the MFA Program, Summer Training Repertory Theatre; in New York at Primary Stages and Congress, and Studio A.C.T. In 2013, she launched the San Soho Rep.; and in England at the Barbican Centre in London Francisco Semester, a semester-long intensive that deepens and Birmingham Repertory Theatre. Smith holds a BA from students’ acting. In 2016, she was honored by Theatre Bay Yale College and an MFA in acting from Yale School of Area as one of 40 individuals who have changed the face of Drama. (she/her) Bay Area theater. Prior to assuming leadership of the @ACTSanFrancisco 29 F.Y. I .

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