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D R O F N A T S R E T N E C G N I P P O H S July 2016 From the Board Chair About TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Volume 48, No. 1 In this Issue Welcome to TheatreWorks Silicon Valley and our 47th season of award-winning Where to begin… First, a big welcome to TheatreWorks’ Silicon theatre. Led by Founding Artistic Director Robert Kelley and Managing Director Valley’s 47th season! So many terrific happenings this summer: the 2 About TheatreWorks world premiere of Confederates, the upcoming New Works Festival Phil Santora, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley presents a wide range of productions Silicon Valley and programming throughout the region. Paul Heppner (August 12–21), and rolling out the red carpet for the musical The Publisher Life of the Party (August 24–September 18) and our friends across Founded in 1970, we continue to celebrate the human spirit and the diversity 4 THE 2016/17 SEASON Susan Peterson the pond. Let’s take them in order… of our community, presenting contemporary plays and musicals, revitalizing Design & Production Director We have an amazing season ahead including a world premiere, From the Artistic Director great works of the past, championing arts education, and nurturing new works regional premieres, reprised and reimagined favorites, comedies, 7 for the American theatre. TheatreWorks has produced 66 world premieres Ana Alvira, Robin Kessler, Shaun Swick, Stevie VanBronkhorst dramas, and musicals. There’s clearly something for everyone—including students and 160 US and regional premieres. In the 2016/17 season, we add the world From the Festival to Premiere Production Artists and Graphic Design home for the summer. Which leads me to a small detour. 8 premiere of Confederates and four more regional premieres to our résumé. Did you know that attending live theatre engages students in ways that movies or on TheatreWorks’ Main Stage Mike Hathaway books never can? Researchers from the University of Arkansas confirmed that live TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s 2015/16 season included the world premiere of Sales Director theatre encourages a deeper understanding of plot while also promoting greater 10 On the Trail: A Conversation with the musical Triangle, as well regional premieres of The Country House, Hershey Brieanna Bright, tolerance and more empathy among 7th to 12th graders than either reading the play Felder as Irving Berlin, tokyo fish story, Cyrano, and The Velocity of Autumn. Joey Chapman, Ann Manning Playwright Suzanne Bradbeer or watching the movie. So what are you waiting for? Summer is the perfect time to Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin broke all our box office records, becoming the Seattle Area Account Executives bring your kids to TheatreWorks. highest-grossing show in TheatreWorks’ history. In the course of the year, Marilyn Kallins, Terri Reed, Rob Scott And the timing couldn’t be better. Confederates’ politically charged tale of media shows that debuted here were produced at theatres around the world. San Francisco/Bay Area Account Executives muckraking during a Presidential campaign is headline hot and leads directly into Brett Hamil With an annual operating budget of $8 million, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley our 15th Annual New Works Festival, an incredible array of plays and musicals about Online Editor produces eight mainstage productions at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto people and issues as diverse as the artists who created them. With their shows still and the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. Sixteen years ago, we Jonathan Shipley in development, playwrights ask our audience to experience and help shape the final Associate Online Editor launched the New Works Initiative, dedicating ourselves to the development of product. The works invariably change from reading to reading, and the process of new plays and musicals. The Initiative has since supported over 150 new works Jonathan Shipley playmaking becomes as rewarding as the product. It’s a unique theatre experience, Ad Services Coordinator through retreats, workshops, staged readings, developmental productions, ENCORE perfect for the whole family. Consider a Festival Pass, which gives you access to all and the annual New Works Festival, inspiring The Mercury News to call us “a Carol Yip five staged readings. I’ll be seeing each one at least twice and it would be great to premiere breeding ground for new musicals, which has put the company on Sales Coordinator see you there. Lastly, I want to let you know how excited we all are to partner with London’s the national map.” Director’s Notes by Lisa Rothe acclaimed Menier Chocolate Factory theatre and its very talented artistic director, 12 TheatreWorks believes in making theatre accessible to the entire Silicon Valley David Babani, on the American premiere of The Life of the Party. How wonderful it community. Our Education Department reaches on average 25,000 students in will be to celebrate the brilliant music of Broadway composer Andrew Lippa with all 13 TheatreWorks Silicon Valley 70 schools in 7 counties annually. It sponsors outreach programs that include of you. presents CONFEDERATES the Children’s Healing Project at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, the Young So let the fun begin! And once again...welcome to TheatreWorks’ 47th season... Playwrights’ Initiative, specially-priced student matinees, extensive school 18 The New Works Festival tours, post-show discussions, and theatre camps, classes, and conservatories Paul Heppner for youth. President Barbara Shapiro 22 The Life of the Party Mike Hathaway For more information on our 2016/17 season, New Works Festival, and Vice President Education programs, please visit theatreworks.org or call 650.463.1960. 24 The Party of the Decade Genay Genereux BOARD OF TRUSTEES Accounting & Office Manager Outside Mullingar Barbara Shapiro, Chair 25 Sara Keats Jayne Booker Michael Kahn Lynn Szekely-Goode AFFILIATIONS—TheatreWorks Silicon Valley is a member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) and Marketing Manager 26 Contributors operates under agreement between LORT and Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), the union of professional actors Bill Coughran Julie Kaufman Ewart Thomas and stage managers in the United States. TheatreWorks is a constituent member of Theatre Communications Ryan Devlin Ciro Giammona Robert Kelley Tzipor Ulman Group, Inc., the national organization for the nonprofit professional theatre. TheatreWorks is a member of the Business Development Manager The Healing Project Expands National Alliance for Musical Theatre, a national service organization for musical theatre. In addition, Anne Hambly Phil Santora Mark Vershel 28 TheatreWorks is a member of Theatre Bay Area, the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce, and the Mountain View Larry Horton Loren Saxe Holly Ward Chamber of Commerce. TheatreWorks’ 2016/17 Season is presented in cooperation with the City of Mountain Charlotte Jacobs Nancy Ginsburg Stern Lisa Webster View and the City of Palo Alto, Community Services Department, Division of Arts and Sciences. 30 TWSV Staff Roy Johnson Debra Summers Jane Weston Corporate Office The director is a member of the Society Derry Kabcenell Gayla Lorthridge Wood 425 North 85th Street Seattle, WA 98103 TWSV General Information of Stage Directors and Choreographers, 31 Inc., an independent national labor union. p 206.443.0445 f 206.443.1246 The scenic, lighting, and sound designers are members of United Scenic Artists. This [email protected] BOARD EMERITUS season is supported in part by an award P H O T K E V I N B R 800.308.2898 x105 Continue the conversation online!

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A HIGH STAKES POLITICAL DRAMA A JOYOUS MUSICAL REVUE A WRY ROMANTIC COMEDY A MUSICAL ROMANCE FOR THE HOLIDAYS Confederates The Life Outside Daddy Long Legs By Suzanne Bradbeer of the Party Mullingar Book by John Caird Directed by Lisa Rothe AM uBsiRc I&L LLyIAricNs Tby C POauNl GToErMdoPnORARY DRAMA A Celebration of the Songs of Andrew Lippa By John Patrick Shanley Based on the 1912 novel by Jean Webster WORLD PREMIERE Conceived by David Babani & Andrew Lippa Directed by Robert Kelley Directed by Robert Kelley Father’s running for President. Daughter’s Music & Lyrics by Andrew Lippa Tony Award® Nominee, Best Play 2015 Proof running wild. And the press is running Reprising TheatreWorks’ World Premiere Directed by David Babani Regional Premiere By David Auburn out of time. With the campaign in full swing, someone unfurls a From the creator of Jane Austen’s EMMA and the adaptor of Les American Premiere Directed by Leslie Martinson confederate flag and the scandal hits the fan. The provocative hit With a touch of blarney and a wealth of heart, the Oscar, Pulitzer, Misérables comes an intimate musical valentine that captivated the Reprising its hit run in London, this spectacular musical evening of TheatreWorks’ 2015 New Works Festival, this headline-hot and Tony Award-winning author of Moonstruck and Doubt con- Bay Area andP hualist zsienrc eP rcihzaer mfoerd Dauradmieanc—esT oinn yLo Anwdoanr,dT oBkeysot, Palnady stars renowned Tony Award®-nominated composer Andrew Lippa political drama is a fresh, fascinating look at today’s muckraking jures up a wry and wondrous romantic comedy with a dark Irish New York. Its joyous return for the holidays is set in suffragette-era and friends in a sexy, tantalizing revue of hits from Broadway’s Proof is a riveting drama of the heart, a captivating tale of a media and the world it relentlessly pursues. twist. Family feuds and rustic fences have kept two eccentric, New Englandfa, dwehde rme aat hspeimritaetdic aolr pgheanniu gsi ral nisd sheinst btori llaia pnrte bstuigt ioduasmaged hilarious The Addams Family and tender Big Fish, his award-winning lovelorn neighbors apart since childhood, but in this passionate, college by a mysterious benefactor. Her heartwarming journey to Contains mature language. daughter, a young woman caught in a quest for legitimacy in The Wild Party, poignant I Am Harvey Milk, and many more. Expect compassionate Broadway hit it’s never too late to take a chance independence, education, and romance is chronicled in a wealth of July 13–August 7, 2016 male-dominated world of top-level science. It is a mystery of sensational surprises along the way in this laugh-filled evening of on love. witty letters and glorious songs. Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto song and sophistication. family instability and fledgling attraction, an exhilarating, funn “Shanley’s finest work since Doubt.” The New York Times “An absolute charmer suitable for the whole family.” Contains mature subject matter. and fulfilling tribute to the humanity that permeates our worl October 5–30, 2016 The Mercury News “Sexy, sophisticated, and funny. 5 Stars!” The Telegraph, London of equations, equivocations, and codes.* Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts November 30–December 23, 2016 August 24–September 18, 2016 Lucie Stern T“hReicaht raen, dP aclom Aplteolling. Full of life, laughter, and hope.” Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts New York Daily News October 7 – November 1, 2015 Mountain View A MUSICAL SAGA OF IMMIGRANT AMERICA ACNen EtXeTrRAORDINARY MUSICAL PLAY A CLASSIC AMERICAN COMEDY AN EAST/WEST COMIC DRAMA Crimes of Calligraphy Rags Hershey Felder, Book by Joseph Stein By Velina Hasu Houston BEETHOVEN the Heart Music by Charles Strouse Directed by Leslie Martinson By Hershey Felder By Beth Henley Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz Regional Premiere Music by Ludwig van Beethoven Directed by Giovanna Sardelli Directed by Robert Kelley Two continents, two cultures, two estranged Directed by Joel Zwick Winner of the Pulitzer Prize America’s Greatest Unknown Musical sisters, and the two cousins determined to Regional Premiere NY Drama Critics Circle Award Hope, good will, and fierce determination bridge the gap between them—all are boldly calligraphed in this Following his triumph as Irving Berlin, the brilliant Hershey Felder Three hard-luck Mississippi sisters are betrayed by their passions light the ragtag journey of Jewish immigrant Rebecca and her international comic drama set in Los Angeles and Tokyo, past and now brings Ludwig van Beethoven to life through the eyes of a in this Southern Gothic classic—a zany, warm-hearted, and son from European persecution to new lives in the teeming, turn- present. East and West collide as biracial American Hiromi and Viennese Doctor who as a boy spent Beethoven’s last years by the brilliantly imaginative tale of relationships run amok and dreams of-the-century tenements of New York in this exhilarating musical Japanese free spirit Sayuri confront tradition, prejudice, and their Maestro’s side. Featuring some of the composer’s greatest works, gone awry. In a hurricane of hilarity and hurt, Lenny’s turning from the creators of Fiddler on the Roof and Wicked. A soaring, heritage of filial duty in one final attempt to reunite their aging parents. from the “Moonlight Sonata” to the “9th Symphony” and the 30, Meg’s fresh from rehab, and Babe’s out on bail, testing the tuneful score highlights this sweeping saga of dreams and “Intimate, sensitive…the emotional stakes are high.” LA Times “Emperor Concerto,” this intense, illuminating, and unforgettable boundaries of sisterhood in a world full of pitfalls and a town disillusion, love lost and inspiration found, of the heart and soul journey through time will immerse you in the astounding life of without pity. March 8–April 2, 2017 of the American character. Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto the Maestro and his genius that transcended it all. “Overflows with infectious high spirits.” The New York Times “A winner, warm and witty. You are tempted to rise cheering.” The Mercury News “A hypnotic production...a chamber music piece of exquisite January 11–February 5, 2017 beauty.” Chicago Sun Times Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts April 5–30, 2017 Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts June 7–July 2, 2017 Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts

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A HIGH STAKES POLITICAL DRAMA A JOYOUS MUSICAL REVUE A WRY ROMANTIC COMEDY A MUSICAL ROMANCE FOR THE HOLIDAYS Confederates The Life Outside Daddy Long Legs By Suzanne Bradbeer of the Party Mullingar Book by John Caird Directed by Lisa Rothe AM uBsiRc I&L LLyIAricNs Tby C POauNl GToErMdoPnORARY DRAMA A Celebration of the Songs of Andrew Lippa By John Patrick Shanley Based on the 1912 novel by Jean Webster WORLD PREMIERE Conceived by David Babani & Andrew Lippa Directed by Robert Kelley Directed by Robert Kelley Father’s running for President. Daughter’s Music & Lyrics by Andrew Lippa Tony Award® Nominee, Best Play 2015 Proof running wild. And the press is running Reprising TheatreWorks’ World Premiere Directed by David Babani Regional Premiere By David Auburn out of time. With the campaign in full swing, someone unfurls a From the creator of Jane Austen’s EMMA and the adaptor of Les American Premiere Directed by Leslie Martinson confederate flag and the scandal hits the fan. The provocative hit With a touch of blarney and a wealth of heart, the Oscar, Pulitzer, Misérables comes an intimate musical valentine that captivated the Reprising its hit run in London, this spectacular musical evening of TheatreWorks’ 2015 New Works Festival, this headline-hot and Tony Award-winning author of Moonstruck and Doubt con- Bay Area andP hualist zsienrc eP rcihzaer mfoerd Dauradmieanc—esT oinn yLo Anwdoanr,dT oBkeysot, Palnady stars renowned Tony Award®-nominated composer Andrew Lippa political drama is a fresh, fascinating look at today’s muckraking jures up a wry and wondrous romantic comedy with a dark Irish New York. Its joyous return for the holidays is set in suffragette-era and friends in a sexy, tantalizing revue of hits from Broadway’s Proof is a riveting drama of the heart, a captivating tale of a media and the world it relentlessly pursues. twist. Family feuds and rustic fences have kept two eccentric, New Englandfa, dwehde rme aat hspeimritaetdic aolr pgheanniu gs iral nisd sheinst btori llaia pnrte bstuigt ioduasmaged hilarious The Addams Family and tender Big Fish, his award-winning lovelorn neighbors apart since childhood, but in this passionate, college by a mysterious benefactor. Her heartwarming journey to Contains mature language. daughter, a young woman caught in a quest for legitimacy in The Wild Party, poignant I Am Harvey Milk, and many more. Expect compassionate Broadway hit it’s never too late to take a chance independence, education, and romance is chronicled in a wealth of July 13–August 7, 2016 male-dominated world of top-level science. It is a mystery of sensational surprises along the way in this laugh-filled evening of on love. witty letters and glorious songs. Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto song and sophistication. family instability and fledgling attraction, an exhilarating, funn “Shanley’s finest work since Doubt.” The New York Times “An absolute charmer suitable for the whole family.” Contains mature subject matter. and fulfilling tribute to the humanity that permeates our worl October 5–30, 2016 The Mercury News “Sexy, sophisticated, and funny. 5 Stars!” The Telegraph, London of equations, equivocations, and codes.* Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts November 30–December 23, 2016 August 24–September 18, 2016 Lucie Stern T“hReicaht raen, dP aclom Aplteolling. Full of life, laughter, and hope.” Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts New York Daily News October 7 – November 1, 2015 Mountain View A MUSICAL SAGA OF IMMIGRANT AMERICA ACNen EtXeTrRAORDINARY MUSICAL PLAY A CLASSIC AMERICAN COMEDY AN EAST/WEST COMIC DRAMA Crimes of Calligraphy Rags Hershey Felder, Book by Joseph Stein By Velina Hasu Houston BEETHOVEN the Heart Music by Charles Strouse Directed by Leslie Martinson By Hershey Felder By Beth Henley Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz Regional Premiere Music by Ludwig van Beethoven Directed by Giovanna Sardelli Directed by Robert Kelley Two continents, two cultures, two estranged Directed by Joel Zwick Winner of the Pulitzer Prize America’s Greatest Unknown Musical sisters, and the two cousins determined to Regional Premiere NY Drama Critics Circle Award Hope, good will, and fierce determination bridge the gap between them—all are boldly calligraphed in this Following his triumph as Irving Berlin, the brilliant Hershey Felder Three hard-luck Mississippi sisters are betrayed by their passions light the ragtag journey of Jewish immigrant Rebecca and her international comic drama set in Los Angeles and Tokyo, past and now brings Ludwig van Beethoven to life through the eyes of a in this Southern Gothic classic—a zany, warm-hearted, and son from European persecution to new lives in the teeming, turn- present. East and West collide as biracial American Hiromi and Viennese Doctor who as a boy spent Beethoven’s last years by the brilliantly imaginative tale of relationships run amok and dreams of-the-century tenements of New York in this exhilarating musical Japanese free spirit Sayuri confront tradition, prejudice, and their Maestro’s side. Featuring some of the composer’s greatest works, gone awry. In a hurricane of hilarity and hurt, Lenny’s turning from the creators of Fiddler on the Roof and Wicked. A soaring, heritage of filial duty in one final attempt to reunite their aging parents. from the “Moonlight Sonata” to the “9th Symphony” and the 30, Meg’s fresh from rehab, and Babe’s out on bail, testing the tuneful score highlights this sweeping saga of dreams and “Intimate, sensitive…the emotional stakes are high.” LA Times “Emperor Concerto,” this intense, illuminating, and unforgettable boundaries of sisterhood in a world full of pitfalls and a town disillusion, love lost and inspiration found, of the heart and soul journey through time will immerse you in the astounding life of without pity. March 8–April 2, 2017 of the American character. Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto the Maestro and his genius that transcended it all. “Overflows with infectious high spirits.” The New York Times “A winner, warm and witty. You are tempted to rise cheering.” The Mercury News “A hypnotic production...a chamber music piece of exquisite January 11–February 5, 2017 beauty.” Chicago Sun Times Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts April 5–30, 2017 Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts June 7–July 2, 2017 Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts

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American politics have changed dramatically since Suzanne July, Aug, Sept Bradbeer’s Confederates electrified our 14th New Works Festival last summer. The play focuses on both the ethics 7/20, 7/27, 8/3 of the press and the lingering impact of racist symbolism CONFEDERATES throughout the country. When we decided to premiere this POST-SHOW DISCUSSIONS headline-hot play during both national political conventions, Question and Answer with we wondered what America would be thinking at the time. the cast and staff following Now we know: racial and cultural prejudice have become the performance critical issues of the campaign, the press has become a political piñata, and inflammatory rhetoric has replaced civility as the national norm. And the 8/10 & 8/11 @ 7:30pm nation seems more divided than ever before. SUMMER STUDIO @ TW PRESENTATION Confederates explores the critical ways in which the media affects the Students grades 8–12 present political discussion, shaping the choices we make about our leaders and our The Feathers, their own wacky future. It is a reality that Americans both relish and resent. Our press is free adaptation of Aristophanes’ to speak but inherently not free of opinion, and we therefore pick our media The Birds. FREE to match our own vision of the country. Confederates suggests that the Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto truth is inevitably altered by the prism of human interpretation. 8/12–8/21 Today’s world is absorbed with symbols. We wear the colored caps of our 15TH ANNUAL sports teams and colored ties of our political parties; our leaders dare NEW WORKS FESTIVAL not appear without a flag pinned to their lapels; we’ve even begun to Staged readings of 3 musicals communicate via emojis. Until recently, some states displayed symbolically and 2 plays as well as exciting racist flags before their capitol buildings, a practice that only began to extras, including keynote change when a mass murderer appeared online wrapped in just such a flag. addresss by Pulitzer Prize Yet throughout the past year, sales of “rebel” flags have skyrocketed finalist Rajiv Joseph and throughout the country. Confederates puts a human face on this world of meet-the-artists panel “First Republic shares our passion for innovation symbols, acknowledging that in our current political landscape, what are Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto negative symbols to some may be positive to others. We once celebrated See schedule on page 21 and world-class performance.” the tumbling of the symbolic Berlin Wall; now many Americans champion the building of one of our own. 8/27 THE LIFE OF THE PARTY ANDREA MILLER Confederates is TheatreWorks’ 67th world premiere and marks the first OPENING NIGHT Founder, Artistic Director and Choreographer, Gallim Dance Post-show reception with the 2014 Guggenheim Fellow phase of our 15th Annual New Works Festival. It is followed, from August 12 to 21, with the Festival itself, offering professional staged readings of five cast and staff remarkable new plays and musicals. Some may be destined for our next Mountain View Center season, as were Festival hits Confederates and tokyo fish story, the latter for the Performing Arts produced here last April. The excitement is palpable at TheatreWorks, where the memory of our first Festival in 2002 still lingers. It previewed the 8/31, 9/7, 9/14 musical Memphis, subsequent winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical, THE LIFE OF THE PARTY and we hope that similar success awaits the thrilling new shows we’ll all POST-SHOW DISCUSSIONS soon share. Come discover these new works for yourself, and witness the Question and answer with future of American theatre. the cast and staff following the performance Mountain View Center (855) 886-4824 or visit www.fi rstrepublic.com New York Stock Exchange Symbol: FRC Robert Kelley for the Performing Arts Member FDIC and Equal Housing Lender

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encoreartsprograms.com 9 On the Trail: The Creation of Confederates A Conversation with Playwright Suzanne Bradbeer

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley: and when we were offered a writing workshop, I loss of privacy I think it is a risk that we all share, and the New Works Festival reading? Has your background always jumped at the chance. And that was it—that was the you don’t have to have skeletons in your closet to be been in playwriting? missing piece of the puzzle for me. vulnerable. As Matt Bai asks in his recent book about SB: I am just as conflicted! the Gary Hart debacle, should we be defined by our Suzanne Bradbeer: When I TWSV: Can you talk about the creation of worst moment? TWSV: Although Maddie’s presidential candidate was growing up I fantasized Confederates? Where did the idea come from? father is a pivotal person in the story of the play, he’s that I was the reincarnation of Very early in the writing the Confederate flag made its offstage the entire time. Did you ever think about Louisa May Alcott, but that’s SB: The idea for the play came from a few places. disturbing appearance. It was unplanned actually, including him as a character onstage? about as close to being a I had just spent two years researching and writing although I wrote that scene while I was visiting my writer as I could imagine a play (The God Game) where a politician is asked parents in Virginia. Once the flag materialized I knew SB: I never thought about Maddie’s father as an myself. Both of my parents tell to compromise one of his most cherished values in it was going to be a vital part of the story. onstage character but your question reminds me Playwright Suzanne Bradbeer a good story and so does my order to reach the bigger prize. Among the materials that in a lot of my plays there is at least one very brother. My dad is great at long form humor—often a I read as research was the David Foster Wallace TWSV: How did being in TheatreWorks’ New Works strong offstage presence. The play started out as a swashbuckling adventure from his childhood that will book, McCain’s Promise: Aboard the Straight Talk Festival last summer benefit the script for Confederates? 20 minute one-act, and was called Maddie and Will. end in a belly laugh. My mother’s stories tend to focus Express with John McCain and a Whole Bunch of What has your experience been with the development When I decided to expand it to a full-length, I knew on loss and redemption and will make your heart Actual Reporters, Thinking About Hope. Rolling of this piece? there would be at least one more character. At first break. We didn’t go to plays much. I remember see- Stone has a tradition of hiring non-journalists to I tried adding Will’s mother, but I stopped after a ing Jesus Christ Superstar and, and…that’s about it. follow a presidential campaign and Mr. Wallace was SB: I’ve been fortunate with the development support couple of scenes because it brought Will out of the My mother had a few cast albums and years later I their guy in 2000. Wallace happened to be in South that I’ve had with Confederates. I started writing it in crucible of the campaign trail, and that felt wrong. discovered that I had written on her copy of The King Carolina during a critical week in McCain’s campaign my Playwright/Director’s Workshop at the Actors Eventually I landed on having a second reporter, and I—in my sprawling five-year-old print—“Mommy, and the resulting article (and later, book) is so Studio, working with the director and journalist Ellen senior to Will—Stephanie—and at that point I knew I love this record.” In high school I played sports beautifully composed—it’s one of my favorite pieces Maguire. I was also able to work on the play through I had found the people of this play. I love working (field hockey and lacrosse). I was also, which is more of writing, in any genre. That book eventually led the Labyrinth Theater’s Summer Intensive and then on plays with three characters; it lends itself to such pertinent to this play, on the staff of the school news- me to the Alexandra Pelosi (journalist daughter of Lisa Rothe and I did a workshop at The Lark, all in interesting, even primal dynamics. paper and was editor my senior year. Nancy) documentary called Journeys with George, New York City. After that, the New Works Festival was documenting George W. Bush’s rise through the just the opportunity I had been hoping for, and with TWSV: Is there anything else you’d like the audience It wasn’t until my last year in college that I discovered primaries. Ms. Pelosi later covered the Democrats in Lisa and our big-hearted, smart cast I was able to to know? theatre (by way of New Zealand, long story). I the 2004 campaign and her book, Sneaking Into the focus on certain questions in a very targeted way. For auditioned for the fall play, which was Mark Medoff’s Flying Circus, is an irresistible, yet depressing read. example, I felt I could push the urgency for Will SB: I am just so grateful to premiere this play here When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder? The exhilaration throughout the play, and I also wanted to apply with this cast, with Lisa as director, and with the of working on that play with those folks changed my I am fascinated (and horrified) by the idea more pressure in the climax. support of [New Works Director] Giovanna, [Casting life. I eventually moved to New York and was a (not that one misstep could ruin your life: this and Associate Artistic Director] Leslie, [Artistic great) actor, but I was in a small do-it-yourself theatre is true if you’re in the public eye, of TWSV: You put these three characters Director] Kelley, and everyone at TheatreWorks. I company (we produced two shows a year, did the course (unless you’re Donald Trump?), into a tough situation together—is received so much great energy from the community fundraising, swept floors, acted, ran the lights, etc) but not just there. With the modern there one character you identify with last summer, and I left so inspired. To come back the most? One you feel has the moral for this next and most important step in the play’s right-of way? Or are you as conflicted journey is an extraordinary gift. bout them as people were, watching

10 THEATREWORKS On the Trail: The Creation of Confederates A Conversation with Playwright Suzanne Bradbeer

encoreartsprograms.com 11 Director’s Notes by Lisa Rothe

few years ago, I directed a reading of Suzanne Bradbeer’s play The God Game, at Hudson Theatre in upstate New York. This smart and provocative play is about a Senator who is tapped to serve as the running mate for a conservative Presidential

candidate, and as a popular, moderate politician, it is clear that he would add balance and Aappeal to the ticket. However, there is just one problem: he needs to sound a bit more Christian and unfortunately, the Senator is agnostic. It’s a troubling conversation about the private dilemmas that drive the public side of politics. Suzanne has done it again with Confederates, but this time around, the story revolves around the Senator's daughter. In The God Game, Maddie was an offstage character, but in this play, she is a central figure with quite a dilemma on her hands.

Over the last few years, I have spent time with Suzanne while facilitating a writer’s retreat in Vermont, where she has been a playwright in residence. When she approached me about D L working on Confederates as part of the Lark Studio Retreat series in 2014, I was thrilled. I was S A captivated by Suzanne’s passion for political journalism, and followed her recommendation to C N check out David Foster Wallace's book, McCain's Promise, a compelling read dealing with P questions of ethics and authenticity on the campaign trail. Presidential elections today are L more akin to theatre, if not reality television. Confederates addresses these ethical conundrums S and more. C L N A At the center of the play is the Confederate flag, a symbol of our vexed racial history, the S R repercussions of which still persist today. It’s convenient to use the flag to scapegoat the south for what is clearly a national rather than regional scourge. Ultimately, the Confederate flag represents the original sin of the United States. Witness the shootings in South Carolina that

inspired that state to finally outlaw the Confederate flag on state property, though it is still flown proudly—if such an adverb really captures the motive behind the impulse—on private property. Witness the school district in Cleveland, Mississippi, that is finally getting around to desegregating its schools, 123 years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed into law and 62 years since the U.S. Supreme Court declared segregation unconstitutional in Brown vs Board of Education.

This play is both timely and prescient. When we presented the reading of Confederates during the New Works Festival last August, the shooting in South Carolina had just taken place a month prior. Since then, the discussion over the Confederate flag’s place in the country

has increased. Just this past June, the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant Christian denomination in the U.S. with 15.8 million members, adopted a resolution that said the flag was an emblem of slavery, and called members to discontinue its display. During the run of Confederates, we will follow both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions and there will be an abundance of sensational news coverage. Needless to say, this election season reminds us of what is at stake.

12 THEATREWORKS Director’s Notes by Lisa Rothe TheatreWorks S I L I C O N V A L L E Y few years ago, I directed a reading of Suzanne Bradbeer’s play The God Game, at Hudson Theatre in upstate New York. This smart and provocative play is about a Senator who is tapped to serve as the running mate for a conservative Presidential presents candidate, and as a popular, moderate politician, it is clear that he would add balance and Aappeal to the ticket. However, there is just one problem: he needs to sound a bit more the WORLD PREMIERE of Christian and unfortunately, the Senator is agnostic. It’s a troubling conversation about the private dilemmas that drive the public side of politics. Suzanne has done it again with Confederates, but this time around, the story revolves around the Senator's daughter. In The God Game, Maddie was an offstage character, but in this play, she is a central figure with quite CONFEDERATES a dilemma on her hands. By Suzanne Bradbeer Over the last few years, I have spent time with Suzanne while facilitating a writer’s retreat in Vermont, where she has been a playwright in residence. When she approached me about Directed by Lisa Rothe working on Confederates as part of the Lark Studio Retreat series in 2014, I was thrilled. I was Scenic Designer Andrew Boyce captivated by Suzanne’s passion for political journalism, and followed her recommendation to Costume Designer Noah Marin check out David Foster Wallace's book, McCain's Promise, a compelling read dealing with Pamila Z. Gray questions of ethics and authenticity on the campaign trail. Presidential elections today are Lighting Designer more akin to theatre, if not reality television. Confederates addresses these ethical conundrums Sound Designer Brendan Aanes and more. Casting Director Leslie Martinson New York Casting Director Alan Filderman At the center of the play is the Confederate flag, a symbol of our vexed racial history, the Stage Manager Randall K. Lum* repercussions of which still persist today. It’s convenient to use the flag to scapegoat the south *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. for what is clearly a national rather than regional scourge. Ultimately, the Confederate flag represents the original sin of the United States. Witness the shootings in South Carolina that Confederates was developed at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley as part of their New Works Festival. Confederates was also developed at The Lark, the Labyrinth Theater Company’s Summer Intensive, inspired that state to finally outlaw the Confederate flag on state property, though it is still the Actors Studio P/D Workshop, and the Dorset Theatre Festival/Theresa Rebeck Writer’s Colony. flown proudly—if such an adverb really captures the motive behind the impulse—on private property. Witness the school district in Cleveland, Mississippi, that is finally getting around to desegregating its schools, 123 years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed into law VISIONARY PRODUCERS and 62 years since the U.S. Supreme Court declared segregation unconstitutional in Brown vs TheatreWorks Board Emeritus Board of Education. PRODUCERS This play is both timely and prescient. When we presented the reading of Confederates during Elaine Baskin & Ken Krechmer the New Works Festival last August, the shooting in South Carolina had just taken place a Julie Kaufman & Doug Klein month prior. Since then, the discussion over the Confederate flag’s place in the country Bart & Nancy Westcott has increased. Just this past June, the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant Christian denomination in the U.S. with 15.8 million members, adopted a resolution that said the flag was an emblem of slavery, and called members to discontinue its display. During the SEASON SPONSORS run of Confederates, we will follow both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions Garden Court Hotel • J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines • Sobrato Philanthropies and there will be an abundance of sensational news coverage. Needless to say, this election season reminds us of what is at stake. SEASON MEDIA SPONSOR The Mercury News

CONFEDERATES plays July 13–August 7, 2016

encoreartsprograms.com 13 Questions for the Who’s Who Car Ride Home... JESSICA LYNN Theatre of Louisville Humana SUZANNE BRADBEER (Playwright) CARROLL (Maddie) Festival); Bad Dates, Human Error has written Naked Influence (Capital is delighted to return (City Theatre Company); Les Liaisons Repertory Theatre); The God Game What would you do with the to TheatreWorks, Dangereuses (Huntington Theatre (Gulfshore Playhouse/Capital central conflict of the play? having previously Company); and Clover Road Repertory Theatre, Hudson Stage, Do you think there’s a right appeared in (Contemporary American Theatre etc); Full Bloom (Barrington Stage, answer to Will’s question? With Auctioning the Festival). Film: Romance and Vital Theatre Company, etc.); and which character did you most Ainsleys and multiple New Works Cigarettes (dir. John Turturro), Bethlehem, PA (City Theatre of sympathize? Festivals. She most recently per- Hangnail (Slamdance), Pooka, and Miami). She has received grants from formed at Cincinnati Playhouse in Irma and Floyd. TV: Unbreakable the New York Foundation for the the Park in The Revolutionists as Kimmy Schmidt, Law and Order Arts, the Berrilla Kerr Foundation, Confederates tackles the Marie Antoinette; other regional (Classic, SVU, Criminal Intent), Third the Anna Sosenko Trust, and the intersection of media and credits include I and You and Watch (recurring), Deadline, Kevin BMI Foundation’s Harrington Award politics. In today’s world— Bellwether at Marin Theatre Hill, Royal Pains, Life with Boys, and for Creative Excellence. She has especially in this lead up to Company, Jesus in India at Magic The Line (ACTRA, Gemini twice been a Kilroy’s Honorable the presidential election Theatre, and The Big Meal at Nominations: Best Actress). Mention, and was a winner of the this fall—what do you think San Jose Repertory Theatre. Ashland New Plays Festival. Her is the media’s responsibility Additionally in the Bay Area, she RICHARD work has been developed at The when it comes to politics? has been seen at Crowded Fire PRIOLEAU (Will) New Harmony Project, PlayPenn, Theater (Truck Stop), Center was last seen at the LAByrinth Theatre Company’s Tasha Lawrence, Jessica Lynn Carroll, & RIchard Prioleau / Photo Kevin Berne REPertory Company (Boeing- TheatreWorks in Summer Intensive, the Alabama What have you noticed Boeing), and Encore Theatre Wild with Happy Shakespeare Festival’s Southern about the portrayal of politics THE CAST Company (Hookman), where she is (Terry). Off-Broadway Writers’ Project, the Dorset Theatre over the last year in the In order of appearance also an associate artist. Ms. Carroll credits include A Festival, and as a Fellow in the Lark media? Have you noticed Stephanie earned her BFA in acting from Persistent Memory with Beckett Theater Playwright’s Workshop. inconsistencies? Tasha Lawrence Will Richard Prioleau Southern Methodist University in Theatre/Theatre Row, and Tom in Ms. Bradbeer is a member of the Dallas, Texas. The Glass Menagerie with Ensemble Studio Theatre and the Maddie Jessica Lynn Carroll Masterworks Theater Company. His Dramatists Guild. We say children shouldn’t The actors and Stage Manager employed in this production are Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States TASHA LAWRENCE regional credits include Actors have to pay for the sins of (Stephanie) has Theater of Louisville, The Repertory LISA ROTHE (Director) directed the their parents. Do you think been seen on Williams Project, Clarence Brown 2015 New Works Festival reading of parents, especially those in TIME & PLACE Broadway in Good Theatre, American Conservatory Confederates. Recent productions the public eye, should Presidential primary season. People (Manhattan Theater, and Arkansas Repertory include Ropes at Two River Theater; be held accountable for Various. Theatre Club), Theatre. NYC credits include Access Dear Elizabeth and The Harassment mistakes made by their Wilder Wilder Theater, The Gallery Players, La of Iris Malloy at People’s Light; and children? Should Maddie’s CONFEDERATES WILL BE PERFORMED WITHOUT INTERMISSION. Wilder (Circle in the Square, Willow MaMa ETC, and New Ohio Theatre. Science Fair at HERE Arts Center. father have to answer for Cabin), and the National Tour of Film and TV: Madam Secretary, She was nominated for SDC’s Joe the secret Will uncovers? SPECIAL THANKS Proof. Off-Broadway credits include HBO’s The Normal Heart, and 30 A. Callaway Award for Direction for Ellen Maguire; John Clinton Eisner, Suzy Fay, Lloyd Suh; Dina Janis; Andy Lost Girls (MCC Theatre); The Few Rock. Mr. Prioleau earned his BA Hold These Truths (this fall at the Lucien, Florencia Lozano, Emily Kratter. Tim Weiner, Steve Wink. Thank you from Fordham University at Lincoln Guthrie Theater), and has developed What do you think happens (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre); Padraic Lillis, Neil Tyrone Pritchard, Paola Lazaro-Munoz; Amy Wagner and The Whale after the final scene of the (Playwrights Horizons— Center, and his MFA from American plays with New York Theatre Abrams Artists; Brandon Gill, Charlotte Graham, Carol Halstead, Jeremy Drama Desk Nom.); Asheville, and Conservatory Theater. Workshop, Epic Theatre Ensemble, play? What do you think is Tardy, Will Harper; Chris Campbell. Bart and Nancy Westcott. Giovanna, Bhutan (Cherry Lane Theatre). Women’s Project Theater, Primary left for these characters? Kelley, Leslie and all the lovely folks at TheatreWorks. Lisa Rothe and our Regional credits include A Great Stages, Ensemble Studio Theatre, dreamy cast: Jessica, Richard, and Tasha. Also! Randall and Becca and our Wilderness (Williamstown Theatre and The New Harmony Project. swell design team. And finally, the Playwrights Unit at The Ensemble Festival); The Roommate (Actors She has directed at NYU's Graduate Studio Theatre.

14 THEATREWORKS Questions for the Who’s Who Car Ride Home... JESSICA LYNN Theatre of Louisville Humana SUZANNE BRADBEER (Playwright) CARROLL (Maddie) Festival); Bad Dates, Human Error has written Naked Influence (Capital is delighted to return (City Theatre Company); Les Liaisons Repertory Theatre); The God Game What would you do with the to TheatreWorks, Dangereuses (Huntington Theatre (Gulfshore Playhouse/Capital central conflict of the play? having previously Company); and Clover Road Repertory Theatre, Hudson Stage, Do you think there’s a right appeared in (Contemporary American Theatre etc); Full Bloom (Barrington Stage, answer to Will’s question? With Auctioning the Festival). Film: Romance and Vital Theatre Company, etc.); and which character did you most Ainsleys and multiple New Works Cigarettes (dir. John Turturro), Bethlehem, PA (City Theatre of sympathize? Festivals. She most recently per- Hangnail (Slamdance), Pooka, and Miami). She has received grants from formed at Cincinnati Playhouse in Irma and Floyd. TV: Unbreakable the New York Foundation for the the Park in The Revolutionists as Kimmy Schmidt, Law and Order Arts, the Berrilla Kerr Foundation, Confederates tackles the Marie Antoinette; other regional (Classic, SVU, Criminal Intent), Third the Anna Sosenko Trust, and the intersection of media and credits include I and You and Watch (recurring), Deadline, Kevin BMI Foundation’s Harrington Award politics. In today’s world— Bellwether at Marin Theatre Hill, Royal Pains, Life with Boys, and for Creative Excellence. She has especially in this lead up to Company, Jesus in India at Magic The Line (ACTRA, Gemini twice been a Kilroy’s Honorable the presidential election Theatre, and The Big Meal at Nominations: Best Actress). Mention, and was a winner of the this fall—what do you think San Jose Repertory Theatre. Ashland New Plays Festival. Her is the media’s responsibility Additionally in the Bay Area, she RICHARD work has been developed at The when it comes to politics? has been seen at Crowded Fire PRIOLEAU (Will) New Harmony Project, PlayPenn, Theater (Truck Stop), Center was last seen at the LAByrinth Theatre Company’s Tasha Lawrence, Jessica Lynn Carroll, & RIchard Prioleau / Photo Kevin Berne REPertory Company (Boeing- TheatreWorks in Summer Intensive, the Alabama What have you noticed Boeing), and Encore Theatre Wild with Happy Shakespeare Festival’s Southern about the portrayal of politics THE CAST Company (Hookman), where she is (Terry). Off-Broadway Writers’ Project, the Dorset Theatre over the last year in the In order of appearance also an associate artist. Ms. Carroll credits include A Festival, and as a Fellow in the Lark media? Have you noticed Stephanie earned her BFA in acting from Persistent Memory with Beckett Theater Playwright’s Workshop. inconsistencies? Tasha Lawrence Will Richard Prioleau Southern Methodist University in Theatre/Theatre Row, and Tom in Ms. Bradbeer is a member of the Dallas, Texas. The Glass Menagerie with Ensemble Studio Theatre and the Maddie Jessica Lynn Carroll Masterworks Theater Company. His Dramatists Guild. We say children shouldn’t The actors and Stage Manager employed in this production are Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States TASHA LAWRENCE regional credits include Actors have to pay for the sins of (Stephanie) has Theater of Louisville, The Repertory LISA ROTHE (Director) directed the their parents. Do you think been seen on Williams Project, Clarence Brown 2015 New Works Festival reading of parents, especially those in TIME & PLACE Broadway in Good Theatre, American Conservatory Confederates. Recent productions the public eye, should Presidential primary season. People (Manhattan Theater, and Arkansas Repertory include Ropes at Two River Theater; be held accountable for Various. Theatre Club), Theatre. NYC credits include Access Dear Elizabeth and The Harassment mistakes made by their Wilder Wilder Theater, The Gallery Players, La of Iris Malloy at People’s Light; and children? Should Maddie’s CONFEDERATES WILL BE PERFORMED WITHOUT INTERMISSION. Wilder (Circle in the Square, Willow MaMa ETC, and New Ohio Theatre. Science Fair at HERE Arts Center. father have to answer for Cabin), and the National Tour of Film and TV: Madam Secretary, She was nominated for SDC’s Joe the secret Will uncovers? SPECIAL THANKS Proof. Off-Broadway credits include HBO’s The Normal Heart, and 30 A. Callaway Award for Direction for Ellen Maguire; John Clinton Eisner, Suzy Fay, Lloyd Suh; Dina Janis; Andy Lost Girls (MCC Theatre); The Few Rock. Mr. Prioleau earned his BA Hold These Truths (this fall at the Lucien, Florencia Lozano, Emily Kratter. Tim Weiner, Steve Wink. Thank you from Fordham University at Lincoln Guthrie Theater), and has developed What do you think happens (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre); Padraic Lillis, Neil Tyrone Pritchard, Paola Lazaro-Munoz; Amy Wagner and The Whale after the final scene of the (Playwrights Horizons— Center, and his MFA from American plays with New York Theatre Abrams Artists; Brandon Gill, Charlotte Graham, Carol Halstead, Jeremy Drama Desk Nom.); Asheville, and Conservatory Theater. Workshop, Epic Theatre Ensemble, play? What do you think is Tardy, Will Harper; Chris Campbell. Bart and Nancy Westcott. Giovanna, Bhutan (Cherry Lane Theatre). Women’s Project Theater, Primary left for these characters? Kelley, Leslie and all the lovely folks at TheatreWorks. Lisa Rothe and our Regional credits include A Great Stages, Ensemble Studio Theatre, dreamy cast: Jessica, Richard, and Tasha. Also! Randall and Becca and our Wilderness (Williamstown Theatre and The New Harmony Project. swell design team. And finally, the Playwrights Unit at The Ensemble Festival); The Roommate (Actors She has directed at NYU's Graduate Studio Theatre.

encoreartsprograms.com 15 Who’s Who Who’s Who

Acting Program, Yale School of Alliance Theatre, Asolo Repertory RANDALL K. LUM (Stage Manager) Shakespeare Theater (Titus Paine Knickerbocker Award for life- Director of Northlight Theatre Drama, and The Juilliard School. Theatre, California Shakespeare has stage managed TheatreWorks’ Andronicus), Marin Theatre time achievement; BATCC Awards (Chicago) and Georgia Shakespeare Ms. Rothe is the co-President of the Theater, Curtis Opera Theater, The Velocity of Autumn, Jane Company (Seagull), and Magic for Outstanding Direction for his Festival (Atlanta), as well as League of Professional Theatre Dallas Theater Center, Geffen Austen’s EMMA, The Country House, Theatre (Why We Have a Body). His productions of The Hound of Development Director for Great Women, and for over five years was Playhouse, George Street Playhouse, Fallen Angels, The Lake Effect, Peter film credits include Disney’s The Baskervilles; Into the Woods; Pacific Lakes Theatre Festival (Cleveland) the Director of Global Exchange at Goodman Theatre, Kirk Douglas and the Starcatcher, Water by the Sorcerer’s Apprentice. He earned Overtures; Rags; Sweeney Todd; and George Street Playhouse (New Another Midsummer Night; Sunday the Lark Play Development Center. Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Spoonful, Marry Me a Little, Once his MFA from Brandeis in Boston Brunswick). He holds an MFA in in the Park with George; Jane Eyre; She received her MFA in Acting Magic Theater, Mark Taper Forum, on This Island, Little Women, Time and BFA from San Francisco State, Theatre Administration from the both in Costume Design. and Caroline, or Change; and Back Yale School of Drama and a BA in from NYU. Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Stands Still, and Other Desert Cities. Stage West Garland Awards for his Drama from Duke University. He is Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Other credits include five years at LESLIE MARTINSON (Casting direction of Side Show and Sunday Vice President of the National BRENDAN AANES (Sound Design) Portland Center Stage, Syracuse Oregon Shakespeare Festival Director) is TheatreWorks’ in the Park with George. He recently Alliance for Musical Theatre Board. has designed sound for a variety of Stage, and Yale Repertory Theatre. (Equivocation; American Night: Associate Artistic Director and directed Cyrano, Jane Austen’s Prior board service includes the performances, most recently for Mr. Boyce is a member of The Ballad of San Juan José; Dead Casting Director. Her many EMMA, The Country House, Fallen League of Chicago Theatres, TheatreWorks’ The Velocity Of Wingspace Theatrical Design, a Man’s Cell Phone; Ruined; The TheatreWorks directing credits Angels, Peter and the Starcatcher, Atlanta Coalition of Theatres, and Autumn, Triangle Unfortunates), Denver Center Theatre (TBA Award for graduate of The Yale School of include Proof, the regional pre- Sweeney Todd, Marry Me a Little, the executive committee of the The Outstanding Sound Design), Drama, and an Assistant Professor Company, La Jolla Playhouse, mieres of Water by the Spoonful The Hound of the Baskervilles, Once League of Resident Theatres Country House, and The Lake Effect. in the Northwestern University Center Theatre Group, The Old and Time Stands Still, and the On This Island, and Little Women. (LORT). He was named 2000’s Best Elsewhere, he has designed The Theater Department. Globe, American Conservatory West Coast premieres of The Arts Administrator by Atlanta Unfortunates (American Conservatory andrewboycedesign.com Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Pitmen Painters and Superior PHIL SANTORA (Managing Magazine and received the Atlanta Theater); Fire In Dreamland (Kansas California Shakespeare Theatre, Donuts. A graduate of Occidental Director) joined TheatreWorks in Arts and Business Council’s 1998 City Repertory Theatre); The Way PAMILA Z. GRAY (Lighting Seattle Repertory Theatre, Laguna College, she has been a Watson 2007. He has served as Managing ABBY Award for Arts Administrator. West (Marin Theatre Company); Designer) designed TheatreWorks’ Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, and Fellow in political theatre, a member Rapture Blister Burn (Aurora Theatre Cyrano, Once on This Island, Sense 18 seasons and over 90 productions of Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, Company); Truck Stop and The and Sensibility, The Light in the as Resident Stage Manager at South a member of the La MaMa Hundred Flowers Project (Crowded Piazza, Tinyard Hill, Baby Taj, My Coast Repertory (Wit, Intimate International Directing Symposium, Fire Theater); Mutt: Let’s All Talk Ántonia, Kept, and A Civil War Apparel, Three Days of Rain, Blue and has served on Theatre Bay About Race! (Impact Theatre); Christmas. Her work on Bingo! The Door, The Further Adventures of Area’s Theatre Services Committee Abigail’s Party, Bloody Bloody Musical was seen in Chicago, Ft. Hedda Gabler, Kimberly Akimbo). since 2002. She was awarded an Andrew Jackson, and The Aliens Lauderdale, and the Bay Area’s Individual Artist Fellowship in Stage (San Francisco Playhouse). Center REPertory Company. Her NOAH MARIN (Costume Designer) Direction from the Arts Council of designs have also been seen in Los is TheatreWorks’ Assistant Costume Silicon Valley for artistic achievement and community impact. She ANDREW BOYCE (Scenic Design) Angeles, Portland, Sacramento, Designer, and designed costumes GLEIM leads master classes and audition designed TheatreWorks’ The Houston, Dallas, and Washington, for Proof, 2 Pianos 4 Hands, and workshops throughout the Bay Velocity of Autumn and Now Circa DC. She has won seven Bay Area Warrior Class. He has assisted on Area, and is a Performance Coach Then. He is a Chicago and NYC- Theatre Critics Circle Awards many TheatreWorks productions, in leadership communication train- based designer working in theatre, including her TheatreWorks designs including Wheelhouse, Of Mice and ing with Stand and Deliver Group. opera, and film/TV. He has credits for Grey Gardens, Floyd Collins, Men, Now Circa Then, The Pitmen Cabaret, and Almost September, Painters, The Secret Garden, with Lincoln Center Theater, ROBERT KELLEY (Artistic Director) Clementine in the Lower 9, Roundabout Theatre Company, which also garnered a Bay Area and is a Bay Area native and Stanford Atlantic Theater Company, Primary Drama-Logue Award. She has won Sense and Sensibility. He also University graduate. He founded Stages, Rattlestick Playwrights four Dean Goodman Awards, includ- assisted on Broadway productions TheatreWorks in 1970 and has Theater, The Play Company, ing both Ragtime and The Cripple of Ragtime and Blithe Spirit. Other directed over 165 TheatreWorks Playwrights Realm, Cherry Lane of Inishmaan, at TheatreWorks. Ms. assistant design credits include productions, including many world Theatre, and more. Regional credits Gray is a graduate of Northwestern Westport Country Playhouse and regional premieres. He has include American Conservatory University. (She Loves Me), Berkeley Repertory received the Silicon Valley Arts Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Theatre (Three Sisters), California Council’s Legacy Laureate Award; the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle encoreartsprograms.com 17 THE DRAMA OF A NEW CENTURY A HAUNTING MUSICAL THRILLER Archduke Something Wicked This TheatreWorks By Rajiv Joseph Directed by Giovanna Sardelli Way Comes S I L I C O N V A L L E Y Based on the novel by Ray Bradbury Can one man, one moment, define a century? Pulitzer Music & Lyrics by Neil Bartram / Book by Brian Hill Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph explores the assassination of Directed by Brian Hill Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, 1914—the flash Rajiv Joseph that lit the fuse of World War I. Neil Bartram 1938. A tiny town. A mysterious carnival. A time-traveling Dan Moses & Kate Kilbane carousel. Freaks and fireworks, lingering memories. And Rajiv Joseph is the author of the Broadway play Bengal Tiger AN INNOVATIVE NEW MUSICAL at the Baghdad Zoo, a 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Drama. two boys bent on escaping the midway of life to find adventure, and themselves. Look there! In the dark— Other plays include Guards at the Taj (recipient of the 2016 Eddie the Marvelous: OBIE and Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play), The a tuneful, tantalizing musical parable for all ages and North Pool (TW 2011), Gruesome Playground Injuries, all time. Who Will Save the World 15 TH Animals Out of Paper, and The Lake Effect (TW 2015). Neil Bartram (Music & Lyrics) BROADWAY: The Story of My Book, Music, & Lyrics by Kate Kilbane & Dan Moses Life (four Drama Desk Award nominations). REGIONAL: The A N N U A L Giovanna Sardelli (Director) is the Director of New Works for Adventures of Pinocchio, The Story of My Life, The Theory of Directed by Becca Wolff TW and has directed 12 productions of Rajiv Joseph’s plays, Relativity, You Are Here, Senza Luce, Bedknobs & Broom- Eddie the Marvelous fronts a band, struts the stage, saves including TW’s World Premieres of The North Pool (2011) and sticks. CAST ALBUMS: The Story of My Life, The Theory of the world. Eddie the Real can’t leave the house, can’t hold The Lake Effect (2015). Brian Hill Relativity (PS Classics). a job, can’t keep a friend. His mom makes every sacrifice, but when she finds a new man neither Eddie knows what 8/16 @ 8pm • 8/20 @ 12 noon Brian Hill (Book/Director) BROADWAY: The Story of My Life to say or what to sing. (four Drama Desk Award nominations), The Little Mermaid NEW (Associate Director), The Lion King (Resident Director). The Kilbanes, a theatrical rock band led by married songwrit- REGIONAL: Brigadoon (revised book), The Adventures of ing duo Kate Kilbane and Dan Moses, are the authors of OF LOVE AND LUST Pinocchio,The Story of My Life, The Theory of Relativity, You Weightless (won “Best of Fringe” at the SF Fringe Festival in Are Here, Senza Luce, Bedknobs & Broomsticks. 2012) and the medea cycle (2010). Eddie the Marvelous got WORKS I Enter the Valley its start at Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor in 2014. By Dipika Guha 8/13 @ 8pm • 8/17 @ 8pm • 8/20 @ 4pm Becca Wolff (Director) has directed and developed premieres Directed by Kirsten Brandt by writers including Lauren Yee, Dan LeFranc, Krista Knight, Augusto has loved, must love. Now in the twilight of life, Emma Donaghue, Jon Caren, Dorothy Fortenberry, and Bess the famous poet gathers lovers like birds, each with gifts Wohl. She co-founded Tilted Field. MFA (Directing): Yale. to give, memories to take, dreams to share. But who will Dipika Guha remain when summer ends? Inspired by the life of Pablo 8/19 @ 9:30pm • 8/21 @ 7pm FEST Neruda. FROM THE FUNNY PAGE TO THE STAGE Dipika Guha had two Bay Area premieres this spring: Mechanics of Love at Crowded Fire and The Rules at SF The Four Immigrants: An American Musical Manga Playhouse. The Art of Gaman was developed by Ground Floor Book, Music, & Lyrics by Min Kahng at Berkeley Rep. She is currently under commission from Based on Manga Yonin Shosei by Henry Yoshitaka Kiyama Bad Kitty On Stage, and The Song of the Nightingale. He is a Oregon Shakespeare Festival, South Coast Rep, and Play- Translated as The Four Immigrants by Frederik L. Schodt Resident Playwright with Playwrights Foundation and received wrights Horizons Theatre School. MFA: Yale School of Drama Directed by Leslie Martinson the 2014 Titan Award for Playwrights. minkahng.com IVAL under Paula Vogel. In a comic musical drawn from one of the first graphic Leslie Martinson (Director) is TW’s Associate Artistic Director. Kirsten Brandt recently directed tokyo fish story for TW. She is Min Kahng novels ever created, four endearing Japanese immigrants Her TW directing credits include Proof, Water by the Spoonful, August12–21 an award-winning director and playwright with many regional discover turn-of-the-twentieth-century America as a world and Superior Donuts. She also works with Theatre Bay Area credits including Arizona Theatre Company, San Jose Repertory, of both possibility and prejudice. Can they succeed with and Stand & Deliver Group. Marin Theatre Company, The Old Globe, San Diego Repertory, limited options in the land of opportunity? 8/14 @ 7:30pm • 8/18 @ 8pm • 8/20 @ 8pm Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto La Jolla Playhouse. Min Kahng is a Bay Area playwright and composer whose 8/19 @ 7pm • 8/21 @ 3pm recent works include Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, Our Festival, a nationally-acclaimed incubator for new works, includes Meet the Festival Artists “script-in-hand” debuts of five new The Festival’s featured playwrights and composers S P E C I A L E X T R A S P E C I A L E X T R A share their anecdotes and insights into creating brave musicals and plays, Meet the Festival new works for the American Theatre. Bring your ques- Rajiv Joseph Keynote Address A NEWTONIAN MUSICAL Artists Panel, and Special Extras. tions and be a part of the conversation with writers who “The Black Cat That Isn’t There” Gravity are shaping the theatre landscape of tomorrow. See all five readings and the Artists Panel for Rajiv Joseph is the author of the Broadway play Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo Created by Joel Chapman, Weston Gaylord, 8/21 @ 12 noon one low price with a FESTIVAL PASS: (2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Drama). His other plays include Guards at the Taj Matt Herrero, Jessia Hoffman, and Ken Savage (recipient of the 2016 OBIE and Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play), The Directed by Ken Savage Subscribers $49 Non-Subscribers $65 North Pool (TW 2011), Gruesome Playground Injuries, Animals Out of Paper, and Single tickets for readings $19 each The Lake Effect (TW 2015). Rajiv has written for television and film and is the librettist Modern day physicist Sophie travels back in time to 1666, meeting young various musical projects at Stanford University. Since winning Shalimar the Clown, Isaac Newton but upsetting the applecart of history in the process. An the Stanford Arts’ 72-Hour Musical competition in January Single tickets for Panel/Extras $10 each for the opera adapted from the novel of the same name by Salman Rushdie. He served for three years in the Peace Corps in Senegal and now original comedy with a fresh, contemporary score, Gravity is a delightful tale 2015, they have developed their Newtonian musical with theatreworks.org 650.463.1960 lives in Brooklyn, NY. of romance, feminism, and the art of science. support from Stanford Arts, Z Space, and Encore Theatre Company. Gravity co-creators Joel Chapman, Weston Gaylord, Matt Herrero, Jessia Hoffman, 8/12 @ 8pm and Ken Savage are artists and friends from their time working together on 8/14 @ 3pm Continued on next page 18 THEATREWORKS THE DRAMA OF A NEW CENTURY A HAUNTING MUSICAL THRILLER Archduke Something Wicked This TheatreWorks By Rajiv Joseph Directed by Giovanna Sardelli Way Comes S I L I C O N V A L L E Y Based on the novel by Ray Bradbury Can one man, one moment, define a century? Pulitzer Music & Lyrics by Neil Bartram / Book by Brian Hill Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph explores the assassination of Directed by Brian Hill Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, 1914—the flash Rajiv Joseph that lit the fuse of World War I. Neil Bartram 1938. A tiny town. A mysterious carnival. A time-traveling Dan Moses & Kate Kilbane carousel. Freaks and fireworks, lingering memories. And Rajiv Joseph is the author of the Broadway play Bengal Tiger AN INNOVATIVE NEW MUSICAL at the Baghdad Zoo, a 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Drama. two boys bent on escaping the midway of life to find adventure, and themselves. Look there! In the dark— Other plays include Guards at the Taj (recipient of the 2016 Eddie the Marvelous: OBIE and Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play), The a tuneful, tantalizing musical parable for all ages and North Pool (TW 2011), Gruesome Playground Injuries, all time. Who Will Save the World 15 TH Animals Out of Paper, and The Lake Effect (TW 2015). Neil Bartram (Music & Lyrics) BROADWAY: The Story of My Book, Music, & Lyrics by Kate Kilbane & Dan Moses Life (four Drama Desk Award nominations). REGIONAL: The A N N U A L Giovanna Sardelli (Director) is the Director of New Works for Adventures of Pinocchio, The Story of My Life, The Theory of Directed by Becca Wolff TW and has directed 12 productions of Rajiv Joseph’s plays, Relativity, You Are Here, Senza Luce, Bedknobs & Broom- Eddie the Marvelous fronts a band, struts the stage, saves including TW’s World Premieres of The North Pool (2011) and sticks. CAST ALBUMS: The Story of My Life, The Theory of the world. Eddie the Real can’t leave the house, can’t hold The Lake Effect (2015). Brian Hill Relativity (PS Classics). a job, can’t keep a friend. His mom makes every sacrifice, but when she finds a new man neither Eddie knows what 8/16 @ 8pm • 8/20 @ 12 noon Brian Hill (Book/Director) BROADWAY: The Story of My Life to say or what to sing. (four Drama Desk Award nominations), The Little Mermaid NEW (Associate Director), The Lion King (Resident Director). The Kilbanes, a theatrical rock band led by married songwrit- REGIONAL: Brigadoon (revised book), The Adventures of ing duo Kate Kilbane and Dan Moses, are the authors of OF LOVE AND LUST Pinocchio,The Story of My Life, The Theory of Relativity, You Weightless (won “Best of Fringe” at the SF Fringe Festival in Are Here, Senza Luce, Bedknobs & Broomsticks. 2012) and the medea cycle (2010). Eddie the Marvelous got WORKS I Enter the Valley its start at Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor in 2014. By Dipika Guha 8/13 @ 8pm • 8/17 @ 8pm • 8/20 @ 4pm Becca Wolff (Director) has directed and developed premieres Directed by Kirsten Brandt by writers including Lauren Yee, Dan LeFranc, Krista Knight, Augusto has loved, must love. Now in the twilight of life, Emma Donaghue, Jon Caren, Dorothy Fortenberry, and Bess the famous poet gathers lovers like birds, each with gifts Wohl. She co-founded Tilted Field. MFA (Directing): Yale. to give, memories to take, dreams to share. But who will Dipika Guha remain when summer ends? Inspired by the life of Pablo 8/19 @ 9:30pm • 8/21 @ 7pm FEST Neruda. FROM THE FUNNY PAGE TO THE STAGE Dipika Guha had two Bay Area premieres this spring: Mechanics of Love at Crowded Fire and The Rules at SF The Four Immigrants: An American Musical Manga Playhouse. The Art of Gaman was developed by Ground Floor Book, Music, & Lyrics by Min Kahng at Berkeley Rep. She is currently under commission from Based on Manga Yonin Shosei by Henry Yoshitaka Kiyama Bad Kitty On Stage, and The Song of the Nightingale. He is a Oregon Shakespeare Festival, South Coast Rep, and Play- Translated as The Four Immigrants by Frederik L. Schodt Resident Playwright with Playwrights Foundation and received wrights Horizons Theatre School. MFA: Yale School of Drama Directed by Leslie Martinson the 2014 Titan Award for Playwrights. minkahng.com IVAL under Paula Vogel. In a comic musical drawn from one of the first graphic Leslie Martinson (Director) is TW’s Associate Artistic Director. Kirsten Brandt recently directed tokyo fish story for TW. She is Min Kahng novels ever created, four endearing Japanese immigrants Her TW directing credits include Proof, Water by the Spoonful, August12–21 an award-winning director and playwright with many regional discover turn-of-the-twentieth-century America as a world and Superior Donuts. She also works with Theatre Bay Area credits including Arizona Theatre Company, San Jose Repertory, of both possibility and prejudice. Can they succeed with and Stand & Deliver Group. Marin Theatre Company, The Old Globe, San Diego Repertory, limited options in the land of opportunity? 8/14 @ 7:30pm • 8/18 @ 8pm • 8/20 @ 8pm Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto La Jolla Playhouse. Min Kahng is a Bay Area playwright and composer whose 8/19 @ 7pm • 8/21 @ 3pm recent works include Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, Our Festival, a nationally-acclaimed incubator for new works, includes Meet the Festival Artists “script-in-hand” debuts of five new The Festival’s featured playwrights and composers S P E C I A L E X T R A S P E C I A L E X T R A share their anecdotes and insights into creating brave musicals and plays, Meet the Festival new works for the American Theatre. Bring your ques- Rajiv Joseph Keynote Address A NEWTONIAN MUSICAL Artists Panel, and Special Extras. tions and be a part of the conversation with writers who “The Black Cat That Isn’t There” Gravity are shaping the theatre landscape of tomorrow. See all five readings and the Artists Panel for Rajiv Joseph is the author of the Broadway play Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo Created by Joel Chapman, Weston Gaylord, 8/21 @ 12 noon one low price with a FESTIVAL PASS: (2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Drama). His other plays include Guards at the Taj Matt Herrero, Jessia Hoffman, and Ken Savage (recipient of the 2016 OBIE and Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play), The Directed by Ken Savage Subscribers $49 Non-Subscribers $65 North Pool (TW 2011), Gruesome Playground Injuries, Animals Out of Paper, and Single tickets for readings $19 each The Lake Effect (TW 2015). Rajiv has written for television and film and is the librettist Modern day physicist Sophie travels back in time to 1666, meeting young various musical projects at Stanford University. Since winning Shalimar the Clown, Isaac Newton but upsetting the applecart of history in the process. An the Stanford Arts’ 72-Hour Musical competition in January Single tickets for Panel/Extras $10 each for the opera adapted from the novel of the same name by Salman Rushdie. He served for three years in the Peace Corps in Senegal and now original comedy with a fresh, contemporary score, Gravity is a delightful tale 2015, they have developed their Newtonian musical with theatreworks.org 650.463.1960 lives in Brooklyn, NY. of romance, feminism, and the art of science. support from Stanford Arts, Z Space, and Encore Theatre Company. Gravity co-creators Joel Chapman, Weston Gaylord, Matt Herrero, Jessia Hoffman, 8/12 @ 8pm and Ken Savage are artists and friends from their time working together on 8/14 @ 3pm Continued on next page encoreartsprograms.com 19 TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Accessibility New Works Festival Schedule at a Glance

TheatreWorks strives to create an environment that is accessible for all members of our community. The following services are available to assist patrons with limited mobility, visual impairments, and hearing loss.

WHEELCHAIR ACCESS Both the Mountain View Center for the Perfoming Arts and the Lucie Stern Theatre offer accessible parking, wheelchair ramps, and ADA with companion seating.

AUDIO DESCRIBED PERFORMANCES Audio description is a verbal commentary that tells patrons who are visually impaired what is happening on the stage during the parts of the performance where there is no dialogue. Daddy Long Legs: Dec 18 @ 2pm and 7pm, Audio described performance dates: Dec 21 @ 2pm Confederates: Aug 5 @ 8pm, Aug 6 @ 8pm, Crimes of the Heart: Jan 29 @ 2pm and 7pm, Aug 7 @ 2pm Feb 1 @ 2pm The Life of the Party: Sep 16 @ 8pm, Sep 17 @ 8pm, Calligraphy: Mar 26 @ 2pm and 7pm, Mar 29 @ 2pm Sep 18 @ 2pm Rags: Apr 23 @ 2pm and 7pm, Apr 26 @ 2pm Outside Mullingar: Oct 28 @ 8pm, Oct 29 @ 8pm, Hershey Felder, BEETHOVEN: June 25 @ 2pm and Oct 30 @ 2pm 7pm, June 28 @ 2pm Daddy Long Legs: Dec 11 @ 2pm, Dec 17 @ 8pm, Dec 23 @ 8pm Crimes of the Heart: Feb 3 @ 8pm, Feb 4 @ 8pm, ASSISTIVE LISTENING DEVICES Feb 5 @ 2pm Both of our venues offer assistive listening devices in the Calligraphy: Mar 31 @ 8pm, Apr 1 @ 8pm, lobby prior to performance. No advance reservations are Apr 2 @ 2pm required. Rags: Apr 28 @ 8pm, Apr 29 @ 8pm, Apr 30 @ 2pm Instruction pamphlets are available to provide you with Hershey Felder, BEETHOVEN: Jun 30 @ 8pm, helpful tips on how to best use your hearing aid or Jul 1 @ 8pm, Jul 2 @ 2pm assistive listening device. They are available in the lobby, or download them from our website: OPEN CAPTIONED PERFORMANCES NEW! theatreworks.org/about/accessibility Open captioning is a text display of words and sounds heard during an event, and is provided for patrons SCRIPTS with hearing loss. The display is positioned in such a We have scripts of the play available to read prior to way that is open for anyone to see in a particular seat- your performance. To request a script, email ing area. It is considered passive assistance, a service [email protected]. that is there to use or ignore. No one is labeled as needing the captioning with special equipment required at his or her seat. Caption seating is available DO YOU HAVE TROUBLE HEARING? for best viewing of the screen. We have partnered with Pacific Hearing Service to help create the best possible audio experience for our Open captioned performance dates: communities. If you have questions or concerns about Confederates: July 31 @ 2pm and 7pm, Aug 3 @ 2pm hearing loss, we encourage you to call their office at The Life of the Party: Sept 4 @ 2pm, Sept 11 @ 7pm, 650.249.4088 or visit their website today. Sept 14 @ 2pm pacifichearingservice.com. Outside Mullingar: Oct 23 @ 2pm and 7pm, Oct 26 @ 2pm

20 THEATREWORKS TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Accessibility New Works Festival Schedule at a Glance

WHEELCHAIR ACCESS Both the Mountain View Center for the Perfoming Arts and the Lucie Stern Theatre offer accessible parking, wheelchair ramps, and ADA with companion seating.

encoreartsprograms.com 21 Coming Next at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley

THE LIFE OF THE PARTY Conceived by David Babani & Andrew Lippa “It’s a really satisfying Music & Lyrics by Andrew Lippa show for the performers Directed by David Babani to play—they love it. And for the audience, it AMERICAN PREMIERE Reprising its hit run in London, this spectacular musical evening delights and entertains stars renowned Tony Award®-nominated composer Andrew Lippa and in act one, and then goes friends in a sexy, tantalizing revue of hits from Broadway’s hilarious The Addams Family and tender Big Fish, his award-winning The Wild very dark and sexy, and Party, poignant I Am Harvey Milk, and many more. Expect sensational surprises along the way in this laugh-filled evening of song and then gets heartfelt, then sophistication. goes all show-biz at the Contains mature subject matter. end. It really does have Meet some of the cast members: something for everybody.” David Babani ANDREW LIPPA’s work has been seen on and off-Broadway and around the world. His musicals Co-conceiver and Director A Celebration of the Songs of include The Addams Family, The Wild Party, Big The Life of the Party Fish, John & Jen, A Little Princess (TheatreWorks ANDREW LIPPA 2004 World Premiere), I Am Harvey Milk, and more.

AMERICAN PREMIERE SALLY ANN TRIPLETT is making her TheatreWorks HHHHH Silicon Valley debut. She has appeared on Broadway in Finding Neverland (Mrs. DuMaurier), The Last The Telegraph, London Ship (Peggy White), and Carrie (Sue Snell), and in fifteen West End/UK Tours. FUN FACTS Aug 24 – Sept 18 The Life of the Party producer Menier Chocolate Factory also Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts TEAL WICKS is making her TheatreWorks Silicon produced the revival of The Color Valley debut. She appeared on Broadway in Finding Purple, directed by John Doyle. Neverland Jekyll & Hyde theatreworks.org 650.463.1960 (Mary Barrie), (Emma The production opened in London Wicked Carew), and (Elphaba), as well as the National in 2013, and on Broadway in 2015, Jekyll & Hyde Wicked Tours of and . recently winning the 2016 Tony Award® for Best Revival of a Musical. Cynthia Erivo also took home a Tony® for Best Actress in a Musical for her portrayal of Celie.

22 THEATREWORKS Coming Next at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley

encoreartsprograms.com 23 It’s never too late to take a chance on love... REGIONAL PREMIERE Tony Award® Nominee, Best Play 2015 With a touch of blarney and a wealth of heart, THEATREWORKS SILICON VALLEY the Oscar, Pulitzer, and Tony Award®-winning Outside author of Moonstruck and Doubt conjures up a wry and wondrous romantic comedy with a PARTYOFTHE DECADE dark Irish twist. Family feuds and rustic fences (Really, we’re not bragging!) Mullingar have kept two eccentric, lovelorn neighbors apart since childhood, but in this passionate, By John Patrick Shanley compassionate Broadway hit it’s never too late to take a chance on love. SAVE THE DATE! Meet the cast: Saturday, November 12, 2016 STEVE BRADY starred in Palo Alto Hills Golf and Country Club TW’s The Great Pretender 5:30 pm (2014). He has appeared on Broadway in Inherit the Wind, toured nationally in The This November, journey back with TheatreWorks Silicon Valley as we celebrate our Exonerated, and toured the inaugural Party of the Decade. Each fall, we will pick a decade from the past 150 world with West Side Story. years to explore the fashion, trends and music of a bygone era. This gala evening will include sumptuous food, dancing, an action packed live auction, and a peek at the ROD BROGAN was seen in Other Desert Cities theatre of the time. TW’s (2014). He has appeared on Broadway in Mauritius, in the The Party of the Decade promises to be the party of the year! National Tour of Doubt, and Mark your calendars now! off-Broadway and at regional theatres around the country. For more information contact Events Manager Jodi Corwin [email protected] 650.463.7112 LUCINDA HITCHCOCK CONE was most recently seen at TW in Big River (2012). She performed off-Broadway in Eyes on the Harem, and in “Shanley’s finest work since Doubt.” the National Tour of Big The New York Times River, as well as at regional theatres around the country.

JESSICA WORTHAM is mak- October 5–30 ing her TW debut. She has performed off-Broadway in Mountain View Center Green Girl and Bone Portraits, for the Performing Arts and won a Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for her theatreworks.org 650.463.1960 performance in San Jose Rep’s Black Pearl Sings.

24 THEATREWORKS It’s never too late to take a chance on love... REGIONAL PREMIERE Tony Award® Nominee, Best Play 2015 With a touch of blarney and a wealth of heart, THEATREWORKS SILICON VALLEY the Oscar, Pulitzer, and Tony Award®-winning Outside author of Moonstruck and Doubt conjures up a wry and wondrous romantic comedy with a PARTYOFTHE DECADE dark Irish twist. Family feuds and rustic fences (Really, we’re not bragging!) Mullingar have kept two eccentric, lovelorn neighbors apart since childhood, but in this passionate, By John Patrick Shanley compassionate Broadway hit it’s never too late to take a chance on love. SAVE THE DATE! Meet the cast: Saturday, November 12, 2016 STEVE BRADY starred in Palo Alto Hills Golf and Country Club TW’s The Great Pretender 5:30 pm (2014). He has appeared on Broadway in Inherit the Wind, toured nationally in The This November, journey back with TheatreWorks Silicon Valley as we celebrate our Exonerated, and toured the inaugural Party of the Decade. Each fall, we will pick a decade from the past 150 world with West Side Story. years to explore the fashion, trends and music of a bygone era. This gala evening will include sumptuous food, dancing, an action packed live auction, and a peek at the ROD BROGAN was seen in Other Desert Cities theatre of the time. TW’s (2014). He has appeared on Broadway in Mauritius, in the The Party of the Decade promises to be the party of the year! National Tour of Doubt, and Mark your calendars now! off-Broadway and at regional theatres around the country. For more information contact Events Manager Jodi Corwin [email protected] 650.463.7112 LUCINDA HITCHCOCK CONE was most recently seen at TW in Big River (2012). She performed off-Broadway in Eyes on the Harem, and in “Shanley’s finest work since Doubt.” the National Tour of Big The New York Times River, as well as at regional theatres around the country.

encoreartsprograms.com 25 Eileen Nelson & Hugh Franks Christine B. Butcher+ David & Noreen Henig Carey & Josh Pickus TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Contributors Margo & Roy Ogus Eric Butler MD & Craig & Deborah Hoffman in John & Valerie Poggi THE PRODUCER CIRCLE Tom Rindfleisch & Carli Scott Suzanne Rocca-Butler memory of Susan Woods Kathy & Gary Reback Paul & Sheri Robbins Jeff & Deborah Byron Anne & Emma Grace Holmes In memory of Pearl Reimer TheatreWorks Producers have made a gift of $10,000 or more. They are invited to exclusive events with visiting artists, and on special theatre trips. Producers may select a production to follow from “page to stage” by attending the design presentation, rehearsals, and opening nights. Producers also receive all Inner Circle benefits. Ron & Lila Schmidt Calvin & Jennifer Carr David Hornik & Karen & John Reis Contact Hans Cárdenas at 650.463.7155 or [email protected] for more information. Edward & Jane Seaman Ron & Sally Carter Pamela Miller-Hornik Eddie Reynolds & Ed Jones Bart Sears Josephine Chien & Susan M. Huch Edward & Verne Rice Ron & Ellen Shulman Stephen Johnson Perry A. Irvine & Orli & Zack Rinat Visionary Producers Morgan Family Foundation Steve & Gayle Brugler The Marmor Foundation/ Joyce Reynolds Sinclair & Nancy M. Cohen Linda Romley-Irvine Alicia Rojas & Howard Lyons ($50,000 and above) Cynthia Sears Steven & Karin Chase Drs. Michael & Jane Marmor Dr. Gerald M. Sinclair Jodi Corwin & Irv Duchovny in Ken Jaffee Betsy Boardman Ross Ann S. Bowers Rick Stern & George & Susan Crow Suzanne Martin & John Doyle Lisa & Matthew Sonsini memory of Milt, Michael, & Jack Sudhanshu & Lori Jain Rita & Robert Rove Dr. & Mrs. W. M. Coughran, Jr. Nancy Ginsburg Stern Gordon & Carolyn Davidson Gillian & Tom Moran Susanne Stevens & Monte Mansir Jeff & Amy Crowe Leigh & Roy Johnson Robert & Suzanne Rubenstein Anne & Larry Hambly Janet Strauss & Jeff Hawkins John & Susan Diekman Leslie & Douglas Murphy-Chutorian Anthony & Rosina Lo Sun* Redwood Serenity Fund Hilary Jones* Alan Russell & Fred Thiemann The Dirk & Charlene Kabcenell Lynn Szekely-Goode & Susan Fairbrook Yvonne & Mike Nevens Foundation Dr. Richard Goode Dan & Catharine Garber Adam Samuels Catherine & Jeff Thermond Richard & Anita Davis Craig & Gina Jorasch Family Fund Ellen & Jerry Saliman Brent & Michèle Townshend Scott & Edie DeVine Jack Jorgenson Joseph & Sandy Santandrea Ray & Meredith Rothrock Mark & Teri Vershel Sylvia & Ron Gerst Philip Santora & Cristian Asher Ted & Betty Ullman Douglas Dexter Mr. & Mrs. Abdo Kadifa Elizabeth & Mark Schar TheatreWorks Board Emeritus Lisa Webster & Ted Semple William J. Higgs Dorothy Saxe Holly Ward & Scott Spector Dennis & Cindy Dillon Thomas Kailath & Anu Maitra Lee & Kim Scheuer Gayla Lorthridge Wood & Larry Horton & George Wilson Loren & Shelley Saxe Griff & Lynne Weber Carl & Meredith Ditmore Louise Karr Charles G. Schulz & Claire E. Taylor Executive Producers Walt Wood Lisa & Marc Jones Martha Seaver & Scott Walecka Mark & Sheila Wolfson Monica Donovan Ruth Ann & David Keefer Pamela & Rick Shames ($25,000 to $49,999) Mike & Martha Kahn Leonard Shustek & Donna Dubinsky Pamela Dougherty Cynthia & Bert Keely Jack & Dorothy Shannahan Anonymous Producers Julie Kaufman & Doug Klein Larry & Barbara Sonsini Players Jack & Marcia Edelstein Arthur Keller Sarah Shema & Neyssa Marina Bruce Cozadd ($10,000 to $24,999) Robert Kelley & Ev Shiro Debra Summers & John Baker ($1,500 to $2,999) Sue & Jeff Epstein Woof Kurtzman & Liz Hertz Marge & Jim Shively Yogen & Peggy Dalal Marsha & Bill Adler Tom & Sharon Kelley Watkins Family Charitable Fund Anonymous (4) Frances Escherich Jim & Marilyn Lattin Ursula Shultz The John & Marcia Goldman Lois & Dr. Edward Anderson Robin & Don Kennedy Carol Watts Marc & Sophia Abramson Patrick Farris Marcia & Henry Lawson Carolyn & Rick Silberman Foundation Paul Asente & Ron Jenks Dick & Cathy Lampman Harriet & Frank Weiss Douglas & Loretta Allred Sheldon Finkelstein & Linda Lester Gerry Sipes William Green Elaine Baskin & Ken Krechmer Dorothy Lazier Nancy & Bart Westcott Mary Ann Anthony & Ken Fowkes Beatriz V. Infante Donald & Rachel Levy Ellen & Ed Smith Judy Heyboer & Brian Shally Lucy Berlin & Glenn Trewitt Mark & Debra Leslie Jane Weston & J. Horn Peter Bacchetti in memory of Kathleen Fitts Robert J. Lipshutz & Pamela Smith Phil Kurjan & Noel Butler Jayne Booker Mark Lewis & Barbara Shapiro Bill & Janne Wissel Michelle & Michael Kwatinetz Bredt Family Fund at Truckee Marks Family Foundation Ray Bacchetti Peggy Woodford Forbes & Nancy Wong, MD Jim Stephens & Abraham Brown Mendelsohn Family Fund Tahoe Community Foundation Lisa Backus & Harry Bremond Drs. John & Penny Loeb Mark Stevens & Mary Murphy Anthony Montefusco Diane & Bob Frankle Tom & Sally Logothetti The Sher-Right Fund Shirley Bailey Barbara Franklin & Bernie Loth Malcolm MacNaughton Polly Taylor Doug & Marie Barry Francis Franklin Joe Margevicius Jan Thomson & Roy Levin THE INNER CIRCLE Pat Bashaw & Gene Segre Jodye & Jonny Friedman Anne B. McCarthy Helaina Titus Jane Baxter & Steve Beck Jay & Joyce Friedrichs Patricia McClung & Allen Morgan Tzipor Ulman & Yigal Rubinstein Members of The Inner Circle contribute a minimum of $1,500 each season and enjoy Mr. & Mrs. David W. Beach Markus Fromherz & Heike Schmitz Kevin McCoy Robert J. Van der Leest, MD a variety of benefits including priority subscription seating, VIP ticket purchases and exchanges, access to house seats on Broadway, and invitations to Meet-the-Artists Betsy & George Bechtel Marilee Gardner Gerald & Betty McIntyre Mimi & Jim Van Horne events. Contact Hans Cárdenas at 650.463.7155 or [email protected] for more Don & Deborah Bennett Nancy & Charles Geschke Dave & Carolyn McLoughlin Thomas Vogelsang 45 for 45Circle information. Stuart & Marcella Bernstein Ciro & Eileen Giammona Rani Menon & Keith Amidon Margaret & Curt Weil TheatreWorks 45 for 45 Circle members have made a multi-year Dr. Barbara L. Bessey in memory Kenneth & Susan Greathouse Shauna Mika & Rick Callison Paul & Barbara Weiss pledge of $45,000 or more to honor Robert Kelley and Associate Producers Bruce & Gail Chizen of Dr. Kevin J. Gilmartin Renee & Mark Greenstein Sondra Murphy & Jeremy Platt Elissa Wellikson & Tim Shroyer TW’s 45th Anniversary. Contact Hans Cárdenas at 650.463.7155 or ($6,000 to $9,999) Dean & Wilma Chu Caroline Beverstock Nancy & Bill Grove Melinda Nasif & Michael Scruggs Karen Carlson White [email protected] for more information. Anonymous Diane & Howard Crittenden Charlotte & David Biegelsen Barbara Gunther James Niemasik Ken & Ruth Wilcox David & Ann Crockett Randy Curry & Kay Simon Wendell & Celeste Birkhofer Jim & Linda Hagan Lynn & Susan Orr Bruce & Elinor Wilner David E. Gold & John & Wynne Dobyns Bob & Martha Bowden Kovin Hagan Ellice & Jim Papp Lynn Wilson & Howard Roberts Elaine Baskin & Ken Krechmer Suzanne Martin & Irene Blumenkranz Richard & Josephine Ferrie Lauren & David Boyle Elaine & Eric Hahn Richard Partridge Neil & Ann Wolff Ann S. Bowers John Doyle Linda M. Hinton & Vince Foecke Gayle Flanagan Michael & Leslie Braun Russell & Debbie Hall David Pasta in memory of Bill & Sue Worthington Edward Hunter & Michelle Garcia Lynda & Steve Fox Gayle & Steve Brugler Mendelsohn Family Fund Kathy Bridgman Jane Hamlin & Steven Schow Gloria J.A. Guth Sue & Dick Levy Peter & Rose Friedland Ellen & Marc Brown Susan Heller Beth & Charlie Perrell Bruce Cozadd Rebecca & James Morgan Rob & Ann Marangell Terry & Carolyn Gannon in honor of Chet & Marcie Brown Helen Helson Carrie Perzow & Von Leirer Gordon & Carolyn Davidson Cynthia Sears Richard Niblock Robert Kelley Sylvia & Ron Gerst Barbara Shapiro & Bill & Janet Nicholls Peter & Laura Haas Anne & Larry Hambly Mark Lewis Joe, Nancy, Sam & Sara Ragey Emeri & Brad Handler Benefactors Judy Heyboer & Brian Shally Rick Stern & Jerre & Nancy Hitz Directors D & J Hodgson Family Foundation ($750 to $1,499) Julie Kaufman Nancy Ginsburg Stern ($3,000 to $5,999) Barbara Jones Anonymous • Sally Abel • Robert Block • Sharon & John Brauman • H. Hans Cardénas • Marni Brown & Gabe Garcia • Lee & Amy Christel • Robert A. Cook • Ursula & Tom & Sharon Kelley Mark & Teri Vershel Anonymous (2) Claiborne S. Jones Paul Cooney • Anne Dauer • Mary David • Ronald & Marion Dickel • James J. Elacqua • Suzanne & Allan Epstein • Patrick Farris • Aaron & Julia Gershenberg • Mark Gorenberg • Sue & Bill Gould • Mary Ann & John Grilli • Laura Hale • Susan & Don Hanson • Tom & Mary Haverstock • Anna Henderson • Mitzi Henderson • Phil Kurjan & Noel Butler Lisa Webster Carol Bacchetti Chris Kenrick In memory of Bridget Ross • Nancy Lee Jalonen • Laurie T. Jarrett • Dean & Patricia Johnson • Mary Louise Johnson • Carl Jukkola & Desmond Lee • Deborah Karlson Michelle & Michael Kwatinetz Watkins Family Charitable Paul & Debbie Baker Hal & Iris Korol • Professor & Mrs. David Kennedy • Bob & Edie Kirkwood • Michael & Ina Korek • Jim & Marilyn Lattin • Stephen & Nancy Levy • George & Ann Limbach • Robert & Dorothy Lazier Trust Joel & Wendy Bartlett John & Catharine Kristian Paige Locke • Alexander & Anne Long • Richard & Charlene Maltzman in memory of Carol Adler • Anders & Juneko Martinson • Karen & Bob McCulloch • Nancy & Jim Bassett & Lily Hurlimann Bill & Terry Krivan Patrick McGaraghan • Sharon & Harris Meyers • Gus Meyner in memory of Miriam • William & Sue Miklos • Heidi & Jorge Ochoa • Bob Rodert & Bev Kiltz • Mary Rodgers Mark & Debra Leslie Carol Watts Anne & Buz Battle Arlene & Jack Leslie in memory of David Rodgers • Nancy & Magnus Ryde • Jill Sagner & Steve Lipman • Emil J. & Barbara Sarpa • David & Harriet Schnur • Maria & Mitch Segal • Perry Carole & Michael Marks Janne & Bill Wissel Katherine Bazak & John Dohner Janet Littlefield & William Coggshall Segal • Sheri Sobrato • The Fred Terman & Nan Borreson Fund • Thomas Vogelsang • Arlene & Bruce S. White • Judith & Peter Wolken • Joel & Linda Zizmor The BelleJAR Foundation The Merrimac Fund Contributions listed were received between 6/6/2015 and 6/6/2016. Program deadlines and space limitations prevent us from listing all of our greatly appreciated patrons. Steven & Michele Boal Buff & Cindy Miller For corrections, or to make a contribution, please contact Michelle Piasecki at 650.463.7132 or [email protected]. Marah & Gene Brehaut Myrna & Hy Mitchner, PhD * Indicates donors whose gifts include in-kind goods or services. + Indicates members of the Encore Club, who make ongoing monthly or quarterly gifts.

26 THEATREWORKS Eileen Nelson & Hugh Franks Christine B. Butcher+ David & Noreen Henig Carey & Josh Pickus TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Contributors Margo & Roy Ogus Eric Butler MD & Craig & Deborah Hoffman in John & Valerie Poggi THE PRODUCER CIRCLE Tom Rindfleisch & Carli Scott Suzanne Rocca-Butler memory of Susan Woods Kathy & Gary Reback Paul & Sheri Robbins Jeff & Deborah Byron Anne & Emma Grace Holmes In memory of Pearl Reimer TheatreWorks Producers have made a gift of $10,000 or more. They are invited to exclusive events with visiting artists, and on special theatre trips. Producers may select a production to follow from “page to stage” by attending the design presentation, rehearsals, and opening nights. Producers also receive all Inner Circle benefits. Ron & Lila Schmidt Calvin & Jennifer Carr David Hornik & Karen & John Reis Contact Hans Cárdenas at 650.463.7155 or [email protected] for more information. Edward & Jane Seaman Ron & Sally Carter Pamela Miller-Hornik Eddie Reynolds & Ed Jones Bart Sears Josephine Chien & Susan M. Huch Edward & Verne Rice Ron & Ellen Shulman Stephen Johnson Perry A. Irvine & Orli & Zack Rinat Visionary Producers Morgan Family Foundation Steve & Gayle Brugler The Marmor Foundation/ Joyce Reynolds Sinclair & Nancy M. Cohen Linda Romley-Irvine Alicia Rojas & Howard Lyons ($50,000 and above) Cynthia Sears Steven & Karin Chase Drs. Michael & Jane Marmor Dr. Gerald M. Sinclair Jodi Corwin & Irv Duchovny in Ken Jaffee Betsy Boardman Ross Ann S. Bowers Rick Stern & George & Susan Crow Suzanne Martin & John Doyle Lisa & Matthew Sonsini memory of Milt, Michael, & Jack Sudhanshu & Lori Jain Rita & Robert Rove Dr. & Mrs. W. M. Coughran, Jr. Nancy Ginsburg Stern Gordon & Carolyn Davidson Gillian & Tom Moran Susanne Stevens & Monte Mansir Jeff & Amy Crowe Leigh & Roy Johnson Robert & Suzanne Rubenstein Anne & Larry Hambly Janet Strauss & Jeff Hawkins John & Susan Diekman Leslie & Douglas Murphy-Chutorian Anthony & Rosina Lo Sun* Redwood Serenity Fund Hilary Jones* Alan Russell & Fred Thiemann The Dirk & Charlene Kabcenell Lynn Szekely-Goode & Susan Fairbrook Yvonne & Mike Nevens Foundation Dr. Richard Goode Dan & Catharine Garber Adam Samuels Catherine & Jeff Thermond Richard & Anita Davis Craig & Gina Jorasch Family Fund Ellen & Jerry Saliman Brent & Michèle Townshend Scott & Edie DeVine Jack Jorgenson Joseph & Sandy Santandrea Ray & Meredith Rothrock Mark & Teri Vershel Sylvia & Ron Gerst Philip Santora & Cristian Asher Ted & Betty Ullman Douglas Dexter Mr. & Mrs. Abdo Kadifa Elizabeth & Mark Schar TheatreWorks Board Emeritus Lisa Webster & Ted Semple William J. Higgs Dorothy Saxe Holly Ward & Scott Spector Dennis & Cindy Dillon Thomas Kailath & Anu Maitra Lee & Kim Scheuer Gayla Lorthridge Wood & Larry Horton & George Wilson Loren & Shelley Saxe Griff & Lynne Weber Carl & Meredith Ditmore Louise Karr Charles G. Schulz & Claire E. Taylor Executive Producers Walt Wood Lisa & Marc Jones Martha Seaver & Scott Walecka Mark & Sheila Wolfson Monica Donovan Ruth Ann & David Keefer Pamela & Rick Shames ($25,000 to $49,999) Mike & Martha Kahn Leonard Shustek & Donna Dubinsky Pamela Dougherty Cynthia & Bert Keely Jack & Dorothy Shannahan Anonymous Producers Julie Kaufman & Doug Klein Larry & Barbara Sonsini Players Jack & Marcia Edelstein Arthur Keller Sarah Shema & Neyssa Marina Bruce Cozadd ($10,000 to $24,999) Robert Kelley & Ev Shiro Debra Summers & John Baker ($1,500 to $2,999) Sue & Jeff Epstein Woof Kurtzman & Liz Hertz Marge & Jim Shively Yogen & Peggy Dalal Marsha & Bill Adler Tom & Sharon Kelley Watkins Family Charitable Fund The John & Marcia Goldman Lois & Dr. Edward Anderson Robin & Don Kennedy Carol Watts Anonymous (4) Frances Escherich Jim & Marilyn Lattin Ursula Shultz Marc & Sophia Abramson Patrick Farris Marcia & Henry Lawson Carolyn & Rick Silberman Foundation Paul Asente & Ron Jenks Dick & Cathy Lampman Harriet & Frank Weiss Douglas & Loretta Allred Sheldon Finkelstein & Linda Lester Gerry Sipes William Green Elaine Baskin & Ken Krechmer Dorothy Lazier Nancy & Bart Westcott Mary Ann Anthony & Ken Fowkes Beatriz V. Infante Donald & Rachel Levy Ellen & Ed Smith Judy Heyboer & Brian Shally Lucy Berlin & Glenn Trewitt Mark & Debra Leslie Jane Weston & J. Horn Peter Bacchetti in memory of Kathleen Fitts Robert J. Lipshutz & Pamela Smith Phil Kurjan & Noel Butler Jayne Booker Mark Lewis & Barbara Shapiro Bill & Janne Wissel Michelle & Michael Kwatinetz Bredt Family Fund at Truckee Marks Family Foundation Ray Bacchetti Peggy Woodford Forbes & Nancy Wong, MD Jim Stephens & Abraham Brown Mendelsohn Family Fund Tahoe Community Foundation Lisa Backus & Harry Bremond Drs. John & Penny Loeb Mark Stevens & Mary Murphy Anthony Montefusco Diane & Bob Frankle Tom & Sally Logothetti The Sher-Right Fund Shirley Bailey Barbara Franklin & Bernie Loth Malcolm MacNaughton Polly Taylor Doug & Marie Barry Francis Franklin Joe Margevicius Jan Thomson & Roy Levin THE INNER CIRCLE Pat Bashaw & Gene Segre Jodye & Jonny Friedman Anne B. McCarthy Helaina Titus Jane Baxter & Steve Beck Jay & Joyce Friedrichs Patricia McClung & Allen Morgan Tzipor Ulman & Yigal Rubinstein Members of The Inner Circle contribute a minimum of $1,500 each season and enjoy Mr. & Mrs. David W. Beach Markus Fromherz & Heike Schmitz Kevin McCoy Robert J. Van der Leest, MD a variety of benefits including priority subscription seating, VIP ticket purchases and exchanges, access to house seats on Broadway, and invitations to Meet-the-Artists Betsy & George Bechtel Marilee Gardner Gerald & Betty McIntyre Mimi & Jim Van Horne events. Contact Hans Cárdenas at 650.463.7155 or [email protected] for more Don & Deborah Bennett Nancy & Charles Geschke Dave & Carolyn McLoughlin Thomas Vogelsang 45 for 45Circle information. Stuart & Marcella Bernstein Ciro & Eileen Giammona Rani Menon & Keith Amidon Margaret & Curt Weil TheatreWorks 45 for 45 Circle members have made a multi-year Dr. Barbara L. Bessey in memory Kenneth & Susan Greathouse Shauna Mika & Rick Callison Paul & Barbara Weiss pledge of $45,000 or more to honor Robert Kelley and Associate Producers Bruce & Gail Chizen of Dr. Kevin J. Gilmartin Renee & Mark Greenstein Sondra Murphy & Jeremy Platt Elissa Wellikson & Tim Shroyer TW’s 45th Anniversary. Contact Hans Cárdenas at 650.463.7155 or ($6,000 to $9,999) Dean & Wilma Chu Caroline Beverstock Nancy & Bill Grove Melinda Nasif & Michael Scruggs Karen Carlson White [email protected] for more information. Anonymous Diane & Howard Crittenden Charlotte & David Biegelsen Barbara Gunther James Niemasik Ken & Ruth Wilcox David & Ann Crockett Randy Curry & Kay Simon Wendell & Celeste Birkhofer Jim & Linda Hagan Lynn & Susan Orr Bruce & Elinor Wilner David E. Gold & John & Wynne Dobyns Bob & Martha Bowden Kovin Hagan Ellice & Jim Papp Lynn Wilson & Howard Roberts Elaine Baskin & Ken Krechmer Suzanne Martin & Irene Blumenkranz Richard & Josephine Ferrie Lauren & David Boyle Elaine & Eric Hahn Richard Partridge Neil & Ann Wolff Ann S. Bowers John Doyle Linda M. Hinton & Vince Foecke Gayle Flanagan Michael & Leslie Braun Russell & Debbie Hall David Pasta in memory of Bill & Sue Worthington Edward Hunter & Michelle Garcia Lynda & Steve Fox Gayle & Steve Brugler Mendelsohn Family Fund Kathy Bridgman Jane Hamlin & Steven Schow Gloria J.A. Guth Sue & Dick Levy Peter & Rose Friedland Ellen & Marc Brown Susan Heller Beth & Charlie Perrell Bruce Cozadd Rebecca & James Morgan Rob & Ann Marangell Terry & Carolyn Gannon in honor of Chet & Marcie Brown Helen Helson Carrie Perzow & Von Leirer Gordon & Carolyn Davidson Cynthia Sears Richard Niblock Robert Kelley Sylvia & Ron Gerst Barbara Shapiro & Bill & Janet Nicholls Peter & Laura Haas Anne & Larry Hambly Mark Lewis Joe, Nancy, Sam & Sara Ragey Emeri & Brad Handler Benefactors Judy Heyboer & Brian Shally Rick Stern & Jerre & Nancy Hitz Directors D & J Hodgson Family Foundation ($750 to $1,499) Julie Kaufman Nancy Ginsburg Stern ($3,000 to $5,999) Barbara Jones Anonymous • Sally Abel • Robert Block • Sharon & John Brauman • H. Hans Cardénas • Marni Brown & Gabe Garcia • Lee & Amy Christel • Robert A. Cook • Ursula & Tom & Sharon Kelley Mark & Teri Vershel Anonymous (2) Claiborne S. Jones Paul Cooney • Anne Dauer • Mary David • Ronald & Marion Dickel • James J. Elacqua • Suzanne & Allan Epstein • Patrick Farris • Aaron & Julia Gershenberg • Mark Gorenberg • Sue & Bill Gould • Mary Ann & John Grilli • Laura Hale • Susan & Don Hanson • Tom & Mary Haverstock • Anna Henderson • Mitzi Henderson • Phil Kurjan & Noel Butler Lisa Webster Carol Bacchetti Chris Kenrick In memory of Bridget Ross • Nancy Lee Jalonen • Laurie T. Jarrett • Dean & Patricia Johnson • Mary Louise Johnson • Carl Jukkola & Desmond Lee • Deborah Karlson Michelle & Michael Kwatinetz Watkins Family Charitable Paul & Debbie Baker Hal & Iris Korol • Professor & Mrs. David Kennedy • Bob & Edie Kirkwood • Michael & Ina Korek • Jim & Marilyn Lattin • Stephen & Nancy Levy • George & Ann Limbach • Robert & Dorothy Lazier Trust Joel & Wendy Bartlett John & Catharine Kristian Paige Locke • Alexander & Anne Long • Richard & Charlene Maltzman in memory of Carol Adler • Anders & Juneko Martinson • Karen & Bob McCulloch • Nancy & Jim Bassett & Lily Hurlimann Bill & Terry Krivan Patrick McGaraghan • Sharon & Harris Meyers • Gus Meyner in memory of Miriam • William & Sue Miklos • Heidi & Jorge Ochoa • Bob Rodert & Bev Kiltz • Mary Rodgers Mark & Debra Leslie Carol Watts Anne & Buz Battle Arlene & Jack Leslie in memory of David Rodgers • Nancy & Magnus Ryde • Jill Sagner & Steve Lipman • Emil J. & Barbara Sarpa • David & Harriet Schnur • Maria & Mitch Segal • Perry Carole & Michael Marks Janne & Bill Wissel Katherine Bazak & John Dohner Janet Littlefield & William Coggshall Segal • Sheri Sobrato • The Fred Terman & Nan Borreson Fund • Thomas Vogelsang • Arlene & Bruce S. White • Judith & Peter Wolken • Joel & Linda Zizmor The BelleJAR Foundation The Merrimac Fund Contributions listed were received between 6/6/2015 and 6/6/2016. Program deadlines and space limitations prevent us from listing all of our greatly appreciated patrons. Steven & Michele Boal Buff & Cindy Miller For corrections, or to make a contribution, please contact Michelle Piasecki at 650.463.7132 or [email protected]. Marah & Gene Brehaut Myrna & Hy Mitchner, PhD * Indicates donors whose gifts include in-kind goods or services. + Indicates members of the Encore Club, who make ongoing monthly or quarterly gifts.

encoreartsprograms.com 27 VISIONARY SPONSORS CORPORATE CIRCLE, FOUNDATION, & GOVERNMENT GIFTS Foundations and Corporate Circle members sponsor productions, support new works, and fund education programs for K–12 students. Sponsors may host events at the theatre, receive heightened community visibility, and enjoy other hospitality benefits. Contact Hans Cárdenas at 650.463.7155 or [email protected] for more information.

Visionary Sponsors Sponsors Friends ($50,000 and above) ($10,000 to $14,999) ($1,000 to $2,499) The Garden Court Hotel* Adams Wine Group* Anonymous The William & Flora Hewlett The Leonard C. & Mildred F. Applied Materials Excellence in the Foundation Ferguson Foundation Arts Grants, a program of J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines* Harrell Remodeling Silicon Valley Creates The Mercury News* Heising-Simons Foundation ChaseVP* Microsoft Corporation Hengehold Motor Company* The Dramatists Guild Fund The David & Lucile Packard International ProInsurance Services LLC Foundation Benefactors Nikon Precision, Inc. The Shubert Foundation ($5,000 to $9,999) Sobrato Philanthropies* Dodge & Cox Investment Managers Matching Gifts Presenting Sponsor Hurlbut-Johnson Charitable Many companies will double or triple their employees’ contributions to nonprofits. ($25,000 to $49,999) Trusts It’s a great way to make your gift to T I N Avant! Foundation Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund TheatreWorks go further at no extra cost.

National Endowment for the Arts Call 650.463.7155 for more information. Sand Hill Foundation Supporters Stephen Silver Fine Jewelry* ($2,500 to $4,999) * Indicates donors whose gifts include

Avidbank in-kind goods or services. Supporting Sponsors Cooley LLP*

($15,000 to $24,999) Los Altos Community A L P H O T S B Y R C M PRESENTING SPONSORS Applied Materials Foundation Carla Befera Public Relations* S. H. Cowell Foundation TheatreWorks’ Healing Project at Lucile Packard Is Expanding! Fenwick & West LLP The Morrison & Foerster The Kimball Foundation Foundation The Harold & Mimi Steinberg Palo Alto Weekly* Since 2003, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley has brought joy and laughter to the Charitable Trust Perkins Coie LLP patients at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. Throughout the school year, Synaptics Wells Fargo two gifted Teaching Artists visit the hospital and serve patients and their siblings in elementary, middle, and high school. Through improvisation at patients’ bedsides, creative drama workshops in the hospital classrooms and comprehensive care units, as well as monthly special family workshops, these ENDOWMENT FUND TheatreWorks Silicon Valley thanks the following lead donors for their extraordinarily generous Endowment gifts. artists shed a special light in patients’ lives. Marsha & Bill Adler • William C. Anderson • Ann S. Bowers • Polly & Tom Bredt • Bruce Cozadd & Sharon Hoffman • Peter & Melanie Cross • Yogen & Peggy Dalal • Carl H. Feldman • Kathryn Green • The John & Marcia On any given Wednesday you might see our artists playing a wacky version SUPPORTING SPONSORS Goldman Foundation • Emeri & Brad Handler • Hurlbut-Johnson Charitable Trusts • Charles & Roberta Katz of “American Idol” in the dialysis unit, four youngsters laughing uproariously Family Foundation • Patricia McClung & Allen Morgan • The Rathmann Family Foundation • Eddie Reynolds • John & Diane Savage • Joyce Reynolds Sinclair • Lynn Szekely-Goode & Dr. Richard Goode as they disqualify each actor's attempt to master a certain singing style. Or you might witness fifteen high school students, some in various stages of chemotherapy, playing with the language of Shakespeare. You may even FUTUREWORKS hear a couple of young siblings explaining why they were a superhero that FutureWorks members have made an estate gift from a will or living trust, a beneficiary designation in an IRA, a gift of life insurance, a gift that returns lifetime income, or another planned gift. Contact [email protected] for more information. day. Through the Children’s Healing Project, patients have the opportunity to forget their troubles and enjoy creative and imaginative exploration. Anonymous (6) • Marc Abramson • The Estate of William C. Anderson • Ray & Carol Bacchetti • Pauline Berkow & Ronald Kauffman • David & Lauren Berman • Jayne Booker • James & Diane Bordoni • Ann S. Bowers • Steve & Gayle Brugler • Carol Buchser • The estate of Cathryn Z. Cannon • Eleanor W. Caughlan • Steven & New this summer, we are very excited to announce that TheatreWorks is SPONSORS Karin Chase • Jodi Corwin & Irv Duchowny • Bruce Cozadd & Sharon Hoffman • George & Susan Crow • John & expanding a portion of the Children’s Healing Project! TheatreWorks will Linda Elman • Frances Escherich • Susan Fairbrook • Harriett Ferziger • Gayle Flanagan • Carole & David Florian • Peter & Rose Friedland • Terry & Carolyn Gannon • Ed Glazier • Marcia & John Goldman • Kathryn Green • now visit the Comprehensive Care Unit for Teens with Eating Disorders Lorie Griswold • Maureen Hoberg • Anne & Emma Grace Holmes • Kenny Hom • Sam & Elaine Housten • Susan throughout the summer months, providing creative programming to these M. Huch • Edward Hunter & Michelle Garcia • John W. & Nancy Lee Jalonen • Barry Lee Johnson • Stanley patients even when school is out. This program is located at El Camino Earl Johnson • Claiborne S. Jones • Mike & Martha Kahn • Dr. Steve Kelem • Robert Kelley & Ev Shiro • Bill & Terry Krivan • Phil Kurjan & Noel Butler • Woof Kurtzman • Mr. & Mrs. Robert Mangelsdorf • Steve Mannshardt Hospital in Mountain View and is part of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. • Monte Mansir • Suzanne Martin & John Doyle • Leigh Metzler & Jim McVey • Cynthia S. Miller • Tami & Craney Ogata • Karen & John Reis • Eddie Reynolds • Betsy Boardman Ross • Adam Samuels • Philip Santora & Cristian For information on how hospitals and arts organizations can implement Asher • Dorothy Saxe • Loren & Shelley Saxe • Edward & Jane Seaman • Barbara Shapiro & Mark Lewis • Joyce Reynolds Sinclair • Gerry Sipes • Carol Snell & Mindy Rauch • Esther Sobel • Jim & Mary Southam • Cherrill M. a similar program, please contact Amy Cole-Farrell, Director of Education, Spencer • Rick Stern & Nancy Ginsburg Stern • Susanne Stevens • Mark Stevenson • Laurie Waldman • Carol [email protected], 650.463.7134. Watts • Renee & Herman Winick

28 THEATREWORKS VISIONARY SPONSORS CORPORATE CIRCLE, FOUNDATION, & GOVERNMENT GIFTS Foundations and Corporate Circle members sponsor productions, support new works, and fund education programs for K–12 students. Sponsors may host events at the theatre, receive heightened community visibility, and enjoy other hospitality benefits. Contact Hans Cárdenas at 650.463.7155 or [email protected] for more information.

National Endowment for the Arts Call 650.463.7155 for more information. Sand Hill Foundation Supporters Stephen Silver Fine Jewelry* ($2,500 to $4,999) * Indicates donors whose gifts include

Avidbank in-kind goods or services. Supporting Sponsors Cooley LLP*

encoreartsprograms.com 29 TheatreWorks SV Staff Artistic Director Robert Kelley Managing Director Phil Santora A MUSICAL ROMANCE FOR THE HOLIDAYS

ARTISTIC Lighting & Sound Intern DEVELOPMENT MARKETING Andrew Robbin Associate Artistic Director Associate Director of Director of Marketing Leslie Martinson SCENERY Individual Gifts Lorraine VanDeGraaf-Rodriguez H. Hans Cárdenas Director of New Works Technical Director Art Director Giovanna Sardelli Frank Sarmiento Events Manager Ev Shiro Jodi Corwin Company Manager/ Lead Scenic Artist / Craftsman Associate Director of Marketing Book by John Caird Music & Lyrics by Paul Gordon Casting Associate Tom Langguth egs Development L Operations Manager Syche Phillips Daddy Long Jeffrey Lo Michelle Piasecki Based on the 1912 novel by Jean Webster Master Carpenter Box Office Manager FutureWorks Fellow Bill Roberts Telefunding Associate Alix Josefski Directed by Robert Kelley Akemi Okamura Constance Gannon Carpenters Sales Manager Resident Musical Director Esteban Calvillo, Andrew Clark, Development Apprentice Sarah Benjamin Reprising TheatreWorks’ Hit World Premiere! William Liberatore Rodrigo Frausto, Henry Ing Jake Hurwitz Digital Media Manager New Works Reading Committee Development Intern Jennifer Gosk Nov 30–Dec 23, 2016 Bill Adler, Cristian Asher, PROPERTIES Cameron Wells Tessitura Specialist Elaine Baskin, Doug Brook, Andrew Skelton Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto Sue Krumbein, Shareen Merriam, Properties Master Patty Reinhart, Cindi Sears, Christopher Fitzer EDUCATION Marketing & Ticketing Supervisor Heather Orth theatreworks.org 650.463.1960 Amy Sundberg, Scott Walecka Properties Stock Manager Director of Education Artistic Engagement Apprentices Alfred Rudolph Amy Cole-Farrell Patron Services Coordinator Davis Banta, Tracy Hayden Kieran Beccia, Properties Intern Associate Education Director SINGLE TICKETS ON SALE JULY 20! Nina McMurtrie, Carolyn Murray Justine Law Katie Bartholomew Ticket Services Representatives Company Andree Beals, Laura Henricksen, Management Intern Master Teaching Artist Benjamin Wong Margaret Purdy, Michelle Skinner COSTUMES Piper LaGrelius New Works Festival Intern Graphics Assistant Costume Director Teaching Artists Alexander Ronneburg Katie Dai Jill Bowers Jake Arky Literary Interns Brittany Caine Public Relations & Advertising Assistant Costumer Lillian Cole, Grace Hoffman, Lauren Mayer Carla Befera & Co. Noah Marin Cameron Wells Maggie Cole Carla Befera, Molly Kullman TheatreWorks SV General Information Lead Cutter/Draper Jennifer Debevec Company Photographers Martin Rojas Dietrich PRODUCTION, Yen La Wong Kevin Berne Vicki Graff CONTACT US GROUP SAVINGS LOST AND FOUND Costume Rentals Manager Alessandra Mello LIGHTING, & SOUND Meghan Hakes Mailing Address: Savings are available for groups of 8 or more. For Mountain View Center for the Performing Conni Edwards PO Box 50458, Palo Alto, CA 94303-0458 For more information, call Sarah Benjamin at Arts lost and found, please call 650.903.6568. Mary Kalita Production Manager Phone: 650.463.1950 Fax: 650.463.1963 650.463.7177 or email [email protected]. For Lucie Stern Theatre lost and found, please David A. Milligan Wardrobe Manager Fredrika Keefer ADMINISTRATIVE E-mail: [email protected] call 650.463.1960. Sarah Hatton Josh Marx WHEELCHAIR SEATING Assistant Production Manager General Manager TICKET SERVICES Jennifer Mitchell Seating is available for wheelchair patrons. Please PLEASE REMEMBER Elizar Ivanov Assistant Cutter/First Hand Scott DeVine Michileen Oberst Tickets to all TheatreWorks Silicon Valley telephone the Ticket Office in advance so that There is no smoking in the theatres or lobbies. Michelle Earney performances are sold through the TheatreWorks special arrangements may be made. Operations Manager/ Kelly Rinehart Database Administrator Cameras and recording devices of any kind Silicon Valley Box Office are strictly prohibited. Neither food nor drink Stitchers Ken Maitz LISTENING SYSTEMS Master Electrician Cassie Rosenbrock Hours: Monday–Friday, 11am–6pm; is permitted in the theatres. Please ensure that Nhan Thi Luu, Son Pham Elissa Stebbins Saturday-Sunday, 12pm-6pm Both theatres are equipped with listening Steven B. Mannshardt Bookkeeper all electronic devices are set to the “off“ Kristina Sutherland Phone: 650.463.1960 systems for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. position while you are in the theatre. Resident Lighting Designer Resident Wigmaster Jason Hyde Tickets may also be obtained through the Please see the house manager for details. Sharon Ridge Amanda Wallace Children 5 and under are not permitted in Steven B. Mannshardt Mountain View Center Ticket Office Maryssa Wanlass Staff Accountant AUDIO-CAPTIONING the theatre. Persons 14 and under must be Hair Stylist Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, noon–6pm Production Coordinator Barbara Sloss Audio captioning for the visually impaired is accompanied by an adult. Every person, Education Intern Phone: 650.903.6000 Karen Szpaller Jeanne Naritomi available at certain performances. Please call regardless of age, must have a ticket. Hanna Berggren Front Desk Volunteers WALK-UP TICKET SERVICES 650.463.1960 for details. Schedules, shows, casts, and ticket prices are Electricians Costume Construction Intern Joan Doherty, Cindi Sears The walk-up ticket office will open one hour subject to change. Justin Barnett, Rudy Chapman, Alejandra Wahl OPEN-CAPTIONED PERFORMANCES And thanks to our fabulous prior to each performance. Single ticket purchases are non-refundable, but Steven Fetter, Carolyn Foot, Open-captioned performances for Costume Rentals Interns TheatreWorkers! are exchangeable for $15 per ticket. PERFORMANCE TIMES Confederates: 7/31 at 2pm & 7pm, 8/3 at 2pm A.C. Hay, Cosmo Hom, Laini Katheiser, Sara Yates Some restrictions apply. The Life of the Party Dan Kaminski, Sean Kramer, Wed, Thur, Fri Previews 8pm : 9/4 at 2pm, 9/11 at 7pm, Tuesday & Wednesday Eve 7:30pm Nick Kumamoto, Kelly Jean Mack, CONFEDERATES ADDITIONAL STAFF 9/14 at 2pm Thursday–Saturday Eve 8:00pm For more information about open captioning, Visit theatreworks.org Harris Meyers, Gary Nelson, STAGE MANAGEMENT Sunday Eve 7:00pm Production Assistant Rebecca Sharpe Properties Runner please contact the box office at 650.463.1960 for detailed information or to purchase tickets. Seth Tuthall, Wednesday, Saturday, & Sunday Matinee 2:00pm Alex Underwood, Resident Stage Manager or [email protected]. Light Board Operator Justin Buchs Marissa Mendoza Jarku Virtanen, Jackson Wijtman Randall K. Lum INDIVIDUAL TICKET PRICES Sound Board Operators Deck Crew Briana Billups LATE ARRIVALS Load-in/Strike Volunteers Quinn Pierron, Dimitri Wentworth Starting at $32 (balcony). Latecomers will not be seated until appropriate Rick Amerson, Ed Hunter Discounts available for Seniors, Educators, and intervals, and may not be seated in their Show Carpenter Megan Hall exact seat Patrons 35 & Under. For pricing, call locations until intermission. 650.463.1960 or visit theatreworks.org.

30 THEATREWORKS TheatreWorks SV Staff Artistic Director Robert Kelley Managing Director Phil Santora A MUSICAL ROMANCE FOR THE HOLIDAYS

ARTISTIC Lighting & Sound Intern DEVELOPMENT MARKETING Andrew Robbin Associate Artistic Director Associate Director of Director of Marketing Leslie Martinson SCENERY Individual Gifts Lorraine VanDeGraaf-Rodriguez H. Hans Cárdenas Director of New Works Technical Director Art Director Giovanna Sardelli Frank Sarmiento Events Manager Ev Shiro Jodi Corwin Company Manager/ Lead Scenic Artist / Craftsman Associate Director of Marketing Book by John Caird Music & Lyrics by Paul Gordon Casting Associate Tom Langguth egs Development L Operations Manager Syche Phillips Daddy Long Jeffrey Lo Michelle Piasecki Based on the 1912 novel by Jean Webster Master Carpenter Box Office Manager FutureWorks Fellow Bill Roberts Telefunding Associate Alix Josefski Directed by Robert Kelley Akemi Okamura Constance Gannon Carpenters Sales Manager Resident Musical Director Esteban Calvillo, Andrew Clark, Development Apprentice Sarah Benjamin Reprising TheatreWorks’ Hit World Premiere! William Liberatore Rodrigo Frausto, Henry Ing Jake Hurwitz Digital Media Manager New Works Reading Committee Development Intern Jennifer Gosk Nov 30–Dec 23, 2016 Bill Adler, Cristian Asher, PROPERTIES Cameron Wells Tessitura Specialist Elaine Baskin, Doug Brook, Andrew Skelton Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto Sue Krumbein, Shareen Merriam, Properties Master Patty Reinhart, Cindi Sears, Christopher Fitzer EDUCATION Marketing & Ticketing Supervisor Heather Orth theatreworks.org 650.463.1960 Amy Sundberg, Scott Walecka Properties Stock Manager Director of Education Artistic Engagement Apprentices Alfred Rudolph Amy Cole-Farrell Patron Services Coordinator Davis Tracy Hayden Banta, Kieran Beccia, Properties Intern Associate Education Director SINGLE TICKETS ON SALE JULY 20! Nina McMurtrie, Carolyn Murray Justine Law Katie Bartholomew Ticket Services Representatives pany Andree Beals, Laura Henricksen, Com Management Intern Master Teaching Artist Benjamin Wong Margaret Purdy, Michelle Skinner COSTUMES Piper LaGrelius New Works Festival Intern Graphics Assistant Costume Director Teaching Artists Alexander Ronneburg Katie Dai Jill Bowers Jake Arky Literary Interns Brittany Caine Public Relations & Advertising Assistant Costumer Lillian Cole, Grace Hoffman, Lauren Mayer Carla Befera & Co. Noah Marin Cameron Wells Maggie Cole Carla Befera, Molly Kullman TheatreWorks SV General Information Lead Cutter/Draper Jennifer Debevec Company Photographers Martin Rojas Dietrich PRODUCTION, Yen La Wong Kevin Berne Vicki Graff CONTACT US GROUP SAVINGS LOST AND FOUND Costume Rentals Manager Alessandra Mello LIGHTING, & SOUND Meghan Hakes Mailing Address: Savings are available for groups of 8 or more. For Mountain View Center for the Performing Conni Edwards PO Box 50458, Palo Alto, CA 94303-0458 For more information, call Sarah Benjamin at Arts lost and found, please call 650.903.6568. Mary Kalita Production Manager Phone: 650.463.1950 Fax: 650.463.1963 650.463.7177 or email [email protected]. For Lucie Stern Theatre lost and found, please David A. Milligan Wardrobe Manager Fredrika Keefer ADMINISTRATIVE E-mail: [email protected] call 650.463.1960. Sarah Hatton Josh Marx WHEELCHAIR SEATING Assistant Production Manager General Manager TICKET SERVICES Jennifer Mitchell Seating is available for wheelchair patrons. Please PLEASE REMEMBER Elizar Ivanov Assistant Cutter/First Hand Scott DeVine Michileen Oberst Tickets to all TheatreWorks Silicon Valley telephone the Ticket Office in advance so that There is no smoking in the theatres or lobbies. Michelle Earney performances are sold through the TheatreWorks special arrangements may be made. Operations Manager/ Kelly Rinehart Database Administrator Cameras and recording devices of any kind Silicon Valley Box Office are strictly prohibited. Neither food nor drink Stitchers Ken Maitz LISTENING SYSTEMS Master Electrician Cassie Rosenbrock Hours: Monday–Friday, 11am–6pm; is permitted in the theatres. Please ensure that Nhan Thi Luu, Son Pham Elissa Stebbins Saturday-Sunday, 12pm-6pm Both theatres are equipped with listening Steven B. Mannshardt Bookkeeper all electronic devices are set to the “off“ Kristina Sutherland Phone: 650.463.1960 systems for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. position while you are in the theatre. Resident Lighting Designer Resident Wigmaster Jason Hyde Tickets may also be obtained through the Please see the house manager for details. Sharon Ridge Amanda Wallace Children 5 and under are not permitted in Steven B. Mannshardt Mountain View Center Ticket Office Maryssa Wanlass Staff Accountant AUDIO-CAPTIONING the theatre. Persons 14 and under must be Hair Stylist Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, noon–6pm Production Coordinator Barbara Sloss Audio captioning for the visually impaired is accompanied by an adult. Every person, Education Intern Phone: 650.903.6000 Karen Szpaller Jeanne Naritomi available at certain performances. Please call regardless of age, must have a ticket. Hanna Berggren Front Desk Volunteers WALK-UP TICKET SERVICES 650.463.1960 for details. Schedules, shows, casts, and ticket prices are Electricians Costume Construction Intern Joan Doherty, Cindi Sears The walk-up ticket office will open one hour subject to change. Justin Barnett, Rudy Chapman, Alejandra Wahl OPEN-CAPTIONED PERFORMANCES And thanks to our fabulous prior to each performance. Single ticket purchases are non-refundable, but Steven Fetter, Carolyn Foot, Open-captioned performances for Costume Rentals Interns TheatreWorkers! are exchangeable for $15 per ticket. PERFORMANCE TIMES Confederates: 7/31 at 2pm & 7pm, 8/3 at 2pm A.C. Hay, Cosmo Hom, Laini Katheiser, Sara Yates Some restrictions apply. The Life of the Party Dan Kaminski, Sean Kramer, Wed, Thur, Fri Previews 8pm : 9/4 at 2pm, 9/11 at 7pm, Tuesday & Wednesday Eve 7:30pm Nick Kumamoto, Kelly Jean Mack, CONFEDERATES ADDITIONAL STAFF 9/14 at 2pm Thursday–Saturday Eve 8:00pm For more information about open captioning, Visit theatreworks.org Harris Meyers, Gary Nelson, STAGE MANAGEMENT Sunday Eve 7:00pm Production Assistant Rebecca Sharpe Properties Runner please contact the box office at 650.463.1960 for detailed information or to purchase tickets. Seth Tuthall, Wednesday, Saturday, & Sunday Matinee 2:00pm Alex Underwood, Resident Stage Manager or [email protected]. Light Board Operator Justin Buchs Marissa Mendoza Jarku Virtanen, Jackson Wijtman Randall K. Lum INDIVIDUAL TICKET PRICES Sound Board Operators Deck Crew Briana Billups LATE ARRIVALS Load-in/Strike Volunteers Quinn Pierron, Dimitri Wentworth Starting at $32 (balcony). Latecomers will not be seated until appropriate Rick Amerson, Ed Hunter Discounts available for Seniors, Educators, and intervals, and may not be seated in their exact Show Carpenter Megan Hall seat Patrons 35 & Under. For pricing, call locations until intermission. 650.463.1960 or visit theatreworks.org.

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