ART MAGAZINEVolume 38 Issue 6

MercuryHg Company II ART MISSION Artists Repertory Theatre’s mission is to produce intimate, provocative theatre and provide a home for a diverse community of artists and audiences to take creative risks.

ANTI-RACIST STATEMENT Artists Repertory Theatre recognizes that we are a predominately white organization and operate within systemic racism and oppression, and that silence and neutrality are actions of complicity. We recognize the critical role the arts play in our culture and national conversation, and accept our responsibility to make positive change through our work, our practices, and our policies. We commit ourselves to the work of becoming an anti-racism and anti-oppression organization, and will work with urgency to end racial inequities in our industry and our culture.

ARTISTS REP gratefully acknowledges our theatre rests on the traditional lands of the Multnomah, Wasco, Cowlitz, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Bands of Chinook, Tualatin Kalapuya, Molalla and many other tribes who made their homes along the Columbia River.

ARTISTSREP.ORG 2 TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY AUDIO by SUSAN SOON HE STANTON

Mercury Company

Dámaso Rodríguez, Executive Artistic Director J.S. May, Executive Director Kisha Jarrett, Managing Director CAST DJ Loki ...... Andrés Alcalá Mrs. Asuncion (Landon’s Mom) ...... Lava Alapai^~ Sebastian ...... Fajer Al-Kaisi*@ Hostess ...... Naiya Amilcar%+ Joyce ...... Ayanna Berkshire^*@ Self Help Phone Menu ...... Diana Burbano*@ Landon ...... Charles Grant@ Mom ...... Emily Kuroda*@ Answering Machine Voice ...... Treasure Lunan@ Amazingpresence83 ...... Lauren Modica@ Various Voices ...... Kristen Mun@ Richard ...... John San Nicolas^*@ Hawaii Public Radio Voice/Shower Dude ...... Sharath Patel^# Bill Tapia ...... William (Bill) Earl Ray*@~ Kurt ...... Dámaso Rodríguez~ Halima ...... Zeina Salame Marcus ...... Vin Shambry^*@ Alyssa ...... Susan Soon He Stanton Emily ...... Christina Uyeno DJ Solange ...... Andrea Vernae^ Dad ...... Greg Watanabe*@ Mrs. Kobayashi ...... Barbie Wu^+ Keoni/Jonathan/Franklin ...... Ken Yoshikawa@

CREATIVE TEAM AND CREW Playwright ...... Susan Soon He Stanton Director...... Dámaso Rodríguez~ Sound Designer ...... Sharath Patel^# Associate Director ...... Barbie Wu^+ Line Producer ...... Kristen Mun^# Assistant Sound Designer ...... Leslie Crandell Dawes

TIME: CURRENT RUN TIME: APPROXIMATELY 1 HOUR 46 MINUTES WITHOUT INTERMISSION The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means is strictly prohibited.

* Member of SAG/AFTRA % Member of SAG-E @ Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Actors’ Equity Association, founded in 1913, represents mre than 49,000 actors and stage managers in the U.S. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. Equity seeks to foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. www.actorsequity.org Hg Member of ART Mercury Company + Actors’ Equity Association Candidate ~ Stage Directors & Choreographers Society ^ Artists Repertory Theatre Resident Artist # The scenic, costume, lighting, projections, and sound designers are represented by United Scenic Artists. This theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatre and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. ARTISTSREP.ORG 3 “COULD THE FACT THAT THE ACTORS WERE AS DISCONNECTED FROM ONE ANOTHER AS THEIR CHARACTERS ACTUALLY REVEAL SOMETHING UNIQUE IN THE AUDIO-ONLY VERSION? ”

ARTISTSREP.ORG 4 Alapai Lava by Photo DIRECTOR’S Note

“Susan’s funny, honest, quirky, messy, and open-hearted play feels like a perfect note from which to look ahead toward a hope-filled summer”

Today Is My Birthday by Susan Soon He Stanton video meeting platform created the environment for is the seventh and final release from this season’s communication, the audio you hear was captured on AudioART, Artists Repertory Theatre’s venture into each actor’s headset microphone and digital device. audio-only productions. Prompted to explore digital Following each take, the actors would label the files mediums by the shutdown of theatres across the and upload them to the online server. I offer immense world due to the Covid-19 pandemic, AudioART gratitude and appreciation to actor Christina Uyeno, features the work of Artists Rep’s Portland, Oregon- who appears in the play’s more than 50 scenes and based artistic company in collaboration with writers became an expert at the recording process while and performers from around the U.S. This production bringing the leading character of Emily to vivid features a cast of 23 actors from all over the country, life. I marvel at Sharath Patel’s work as sound who recorded their scenes from home during the designer—consider that he had to construct each most isolated winter months of the pandemic. scene as if the recordings were happening on one recording device. He creates the illusion of scenes While this disconnected recording process might “paced” in real time, when in reality there was likely be a diminishing factor on most plays, Today Is a “Zoom delay” during the actual recording session. My Birthday (which was originally produced Off- And I mustn’t forget the invisible work of Associate Broadway in 2017 at Page 73…“on stage” in a Director Barbie Wu, Line Producer Kristen Munn traditional theatre performance) utilizes the conceit and Producer Kristeen Willis who managed the, that every line of dialogue is a digital transmission: logistical matrix of the getting 23 actors in and cell phones, land lines, radio broadcasts, intercoms, out of the revolving door of the virtual recording Facetimes, etc.. The piece itself is about displacement studio from their computers in New York, Florida, and the search to find a location to connect. In the Oregon, California, and Hawaii—sometimes on original stage production, a cast of six played all the same day. 23 characters, which is thrilling in its own way! However, playwright Susan Soon He Stanton and I Thanks for listening in on this epic conference call! agreed in an early pandemic phone conversation of I hope you sense some of the joy and community we our own, that Today Is My Birthday might actually be felt while recording Today Is My Birthday during the well served by the chance to tell the story via a series anxious final months of 2020. As we can now envision of recordings. Could the fact that the actors were as an end to the pandemic and a return to in person disconnected from one another as their characters connection, Susan’s funny, honest, quirky, messy, and actually reveal something unique in the audio- open-hearted play feels like perfect note from which only version? Plus, in this age of budget-mandated to look ahead toward a hope-filled summer. small-cast theatre, Artists Rep’s audio version could create the piece with 23 distinct voices and provide Warmly, a rare opportunity to involve as many performers as possible in a way that would not be possible under non-pandemic production conditions.

While seemingly simple, the production itself Dámaso represents a logistical feat by the cast and creative team, which assembled over many days in the Zoom recording room, time zones apart. While the ARTISTSREP.ORG 5 PLAYWRIGHT BIO

Susan Soon He Stanton Susan (she/her) is a writer for theatre, film, and television from ‘Aiea, Hawai‘i. Susan is a producer and writer on the BAFTA, Golden Globe and Emmy award winning HBO Succession, for which she has also won WGA and Peabody Awards. Upcoming television work includes Amazon’s Modern Love, BBC / Element Pictures’ Conversation with Friends adapted from the novel by Sally Rooney. Plays include we, the invisibles (Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival), Today Is My Birthday (Page 73), Takarazuka!!! (Clubbed Thumb and East West Players), Solstice Party! (Live Source), Cygnus (Women’s Project Pipeline), Moana Jr. (book) for Disney Theatrical Group, Navigator (Honolulu Theatre for Youth), and more. She is a Sundance Theater Lab Resident Playwright and was awarded Leah Ryan FEWW, the Venturous Playwrights Fellowship at the Lark, and is a member of New Dramatists and MaYi’s Playwright’s Lab, and was an alumni of Primary Stage’s Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group, the Public’s Emerging Writer’s Group, and SoHo Rep’s Writer Director Lab. Commissions include Yale Repertory, American Conservatory Theater/Crowded Fire, South Coast Repertory, and Ensemble Studio Theatre, among others. In film, she received a Feature Film Development Grant from the Sloan Foundation. Her film Dress won the audience award at the Hawaii International Film Festival. BFA: NYU Tisch’s Dramatic Writing, MFA from Yale School of Drama.

DIRECTOR’S BIO

Dámaso Rodríguez Dámaso (he/him/él) is in his eighth season as Executive Artistic Director of Artists Repertory Theatre (ART), Portland’s longest- running professional theatre company, which became a member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) under his leadership. Plays developed during his tenure have been produced in New York, Chicago, London, and throughout the U.S. Acclaim for ART developed projects includes the Dramatists Guild Foundation Award, the Edgerton New Play Award, NEA Funding, American Theatre Magazine’s Most Produced Plays list, and coverage in the New Yorker and the New York Times. In 2021, the Oregon Media Production Association honored ART with the Creative Innovation Award for the company’s pivot to digital mediums in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic.

He is a Co-Founder of L.A.’s Furious Theatre, where he served as Co-Artistic Director from 2001-2012. From 2007-2010 he served as Associate Artistic Director of the Pasadena Playhouse, where he directed main stage productions and oversaw programming for the Playhouse’s second stage, including its Hothouse New Play Development Program. He has directed a broad range of new and classic plays including over 20 Artists Rep productions, along with work at the Pasadena Playhouse, Intiman Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Conservatory Theater, Seattle

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Rep, A Noise Within, The Playwrights’ Center, The Theatre@Boston Court, Odyssey Theatre, The Blank Theatre, The Road Theatre, The Zephyr Theatre and Furious Theatre.

Dámaso is a recipient of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, the Back Stage Garland Award, the NAACP Theatre Award, and the Pasadena Arts Council’s Gold Crown Award. He was honored as a Finalist for the Zelda Fichandler Award by the Stage Directors & Choreographers Foundation and was named a Knowledge Universe Rising Star by Portland Monthly. His productions have received or been nominated for dozens of awards including the L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Award, LA StageScene Award, and the LA Weekly Theatre Award, among others. He is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and serves on the faculty of The Actors Conservatory at Artists Rep.

Current directing projects: Magellanica (Audio Drama) by E.M. Lewis, The Berlin Diaries (Audio Drama) by Andrea Stolowitz, The Vertical City (Audio Drama) by Diana Burbano, Today is My Birthday (Audio Drama) by Susan Soon He Stanton, The Great Divide by E.M. Lewis in development at Artists Rep/Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Eight seasons as Artistic Director of Artists Repertory Theatre (ART)

Directing credits: Romeo and Juliet at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the World Premiere of We, the Invisibles by Susan Soon He Stanton for the Humana Festival of New American Plays, Kings by Sarah Burgess at South Coast Repertory, the World Premiere of Wolf Play by Hansol Jung, the World Premiere of Magellanica by E.M. Lewis, the World Premiere musical Cuba Libre by Carlos Lacámara featuring the 3-time Grammy nominated band Tiempo Libre, Portland premieres of La Ruta by Isaac Gomez, The Humans by Stephen Karam, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ An Octoroon and Everybody, Nina Raine’s Tribes and David Ives’ The Liar, the Northwest premieres of Carlos Lacámara’s Exiles and Nick Jones’ Trevor, the west coast premieres of Dan LeFranc’s The Big Meal, Charise Castro Smith’s Feathers & Teeth, 1984 by George Orwell adapted by Duncan Macmillan & Robert Icke, and The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart by David Greig; the U.S. premiere of Dawn King’s Foxfinder, The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder, The Miracle Worker by William Gibson, The Playboy of the Western World by J.M. Synge, at Artists Rep; Ruth & Augustus Goetz’ The Heiress (starring Richard Chamberlain), Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes (starring Kelly McGillis), Austin Pendleton’s Orson’s Shadow (starring Sharon Lawrence) and the reading of Ellen Simon’s Aunt Stossie’s Coming for Five Days (starring Marsha Mason & Mary Steenburgen) at the Pasadena Playhouse; the reading of Steven Drukman’s The Prince of Atlantis for the Pacific Playwrights Festival at South Coast Repertory, Clifford Odets’ Paradise Lost at Intiman Theatre; Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit, Tennessee Williams’ The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Eugene O’Neill’s Desire Under the Elms, Bernard Shaw’s The Doctor’s Dilemma at A Noise Within. Furious Theatre credits include the Los Angeles premieres of Craig Wright’s Grace, Peter Sinn Nachtrieb’s Boom and Hunter Gatherers, Bruce Norris’ The Pain and the Itch, Yussef El Guindi’s Back of the Throat, Richard Bean’s The God Botherers, Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things, and the world premieres of Alex Jones’ Canned Peaches in Syrup and Matt Pelfrey’s An Impending Rupture of the Belly and No Good Deed, among others.

ARTISTSREP.ORG 7 ARTISTSREP.ORG 8 Architecture LEVER by provided Rendering Alapai Lava by Photo ART NOTE

What a year! Without private philanthropic and governmental support, ART may not have survived the pandemic, yet because of these investments ART thrived. With this support ART formed a rapidly assembled repertory company dubbed, Mercury Company, paying homage to the Depression-era Mercury Theatre of New York that produced trailblazing works for theatre, radio, and film. Across the pandemic year, ART hired more than 250 artists at salaries comparable to regular productions who worked on more than 70 projects, which range from raw development of scripts and nascent ideas, to full productions of audio dramas and series of short films. Innovation also extended into our education programs – which went virtual due to the pandemic. Today Is My Birthday is the final release of the year. In the fall ART will return to in person performances with Campfire Stories in collaboration with Back Fence PDX and then The Chinese Lady in the Ellyn Bye Studio launching our residency at Portland Center Stage. Thank you for staying with us. The best is yet to come.

JS May Kisha Jarrett Executive Director Managing Director

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J.S. May J.S. (he/him) is a seasoned fundraising and communications professional and has worked with a wide range of local, regional, national, and international nonprofit organizations. He and his teams have raised more than $500 million. For eleven years prior to ART, he was the chief Fundraising, Marketing & Communications Officer, and strategist for the Portland Art Museum — Oregon’s premier visual arts institution. Before the Art Museum, for seven years, J.S. led the fundraising practice for Metropolitan Group, a Portland-based social marketing firm that works to create a more just and sustainable world. For the six years prior to MG, he supported the growth of the region’s leading pediatric teaching and research hospital as Executive Director for the Doernbecher Children’s Hospital Foundation at OHSU. Before Doernbecher, J.S. spent six years supporting the expansion and growth of the region’s most trusted media source as the Director of Corporate Support for Oregon Public Broadcasting. J.S. currently serves as President of Cycle Oregon board and is a board member for the Cultural Advocacy Coalition. J.S. is an avid yogi, cyclist, and reader.

MANAGING DIRECTOR’S BIO

Kisha Jarrett Kisha (she/her) is the Managing Director at Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland, Oregon. She is a creative change-maker with a background in marketing and development throughout her ten-year career in Arts Management that has helped raise over $50 million dollars for various organizations and has a cumulative earned revenue of over $5 million. A Virginia native, she has lived all over the country but now calls Portland, Oregon home. Kisha is also a writer, director, producer, actor, musician, and storyteller. She has performed for both stage and screen, been a musician at SXSW, and has been a costume designer for the stage and television, and an independent bakery owner. Through storytelling, she has performed for the Moth (2017 and 2018 GrandSLAM winner), Seven Deadly Sins, Wildfang, and Back Fence PDX where she is a co-host and story producer. Most recently, Kisha helped devise the first DNA:Oxygen short filmSee Me and was seen onstage at Portland Center Stage @ The Armory as the Headmistress in School Girls; or The African Mean Girls Play, a co-production with Artists Rep. Currently, she is working on her second feature-length screenplay, pre-production for a feature-length documentary Black Girl in the Woods, documenting a hike-thru of the Pacific Northwest Trail) and an educational piece for the Oregon Bar Association (about the four black suffragettes in Oregon who deserve to have their stories told), and writing her first novel. Kisha is proud to be a co-founder of the DNA: Oxygen program at ART. She is in the inaugural cohort of the LORT EDI Mentor/Mentee program and serves on the LORT EDI committee. Kisha is on the Literary Arts Festival of the Book Committee and has served as an Event Producer for Oregon Media Production Association (OMPA), Children’s Book Bank, Boys and Girls Club, Artists Rep, Live Arts, MTV Woodie Awards, Invisible Children, World Monuments Fund, and School of Visual Arts. She serves on the board of directors of Global Works Community Fund.

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MANAGING DIRECTOR’S BIO

The mission of the ArtsHub is to create a cultural center by supporting Portland’s rich artistic ecosystem. Programs and services include: below market rates for rehearsal, performance, and meeting space; shared administrative work space for individuals and organizations; and production services such as set construction, scenic painting, and professional technical support from design through performance. Our goal is to help a diverse range of arts and community organizations thrive. We prioritize artists and organizations that support ART’s values of equity, diversity and inclusion, and seek to provide a home for artists and audiences to take creative risks. While the program’s origin six years ago was in response to an opportunity to share underutilized performance space, we have found that the most vital and lasting impact of the ArtsHub is the bustling community that has been formed, and the myriad ways it has led to the empowerment of local artists and the accelerated growth of participating organizations. On any given day, staff members and dozens of artists from multiple arts and community organizations are rehearsing, utilizing administrative support and meeting spaces, with chance encounters in shared spaces leading to increased communication and unanticipated future collaborations between organizations. In the 2018/19 season alone, over 1,500 events were held in our building by 42 local nonprofits, including 11 resident companies — 380 ArtsHub public events, 462 rehearsals, 422 classes, and 306 ART events. Our new facility is being designed so that the ArtsHub can include even more organizations than it currently serves. CAST & CREW

CHRISTINA UYENO Oregon, she received her Master of Fine Arts Emily degree in Acting from Southern Methodist Christina (she/her) is an actress University in 2014. She is a Resident Artist born and raised in Hawai’i now and educator at Artists Repertory Theatre residing on Kalapuya, Cowlitz, and was featured in Better Maybe, A Doll’s and Chinook lands (SW House, Part 2, Everybody, and Magellanica. Portland). Former company Her other credits include Renaissance: member of Honolulu Theatre for Youth and Technically! (Portland Center Stage), curator for Eat Cake Gallery. #25 in The Wolves (Portland Playhouse), Cobweb in A Midsummer Night’s Dream EMILY KURODA (Anonymous Theatre Company), Mika Endo Mom in The Mermaid Hour (Theatro Milagro), Emily (she/her) worked at Katherina Serafima Gleb inSlavs! (Southern Theatreworks (Language Methodist University), Kattrin in Mother Archives, Calligraphy), New Courage (Oregon Contemporary Theatre), York Theatre Workshop Puck in Shakespeare in Hollywood (Very (Endlings), Pan Asian Little Theatre), Cordelia in King Lear (Lane (Brothers Paranormal), American Repertory Community College) and was a founding Theater (Endlings), Page 73 (Today is My ensemble member of Bootstrap Theater Birthday), Actors Theater of Louisville(we, Company in Truckee, California. Barbie is a the invisibles), Huntington Theater (Tiger teaching artist with Hand2Mouth, Portland’s Style, Woman Warrior), Artists at Play longest running theatre ensemble, and a (Two Mile Hollow), South Coast Rep (Fast barista at Tōv, Portland’s only double-decker Company, Ballad of Yachiyo and Our Town), coffee bus. Alliance (Tiger Style), East West Players, Kirk Douglas, Mark Taper Forum, Public AYANNA BERKSHIRE Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Rep, Joyce Singapore Repertory, Berkeley Repertory, Ayanna (she/her/hers) is a The Doolittle, LATC, Zephyr, LA Women’s professional actress based Shakespeare Company, and the Los Angeles in the Pacific Northwest. Shakespeare Festival. Recent TV: The Good She is a Resident Artist of Doctor, Resident, Drop Dead Diva, Gilmore Artists Repertory Theatre, Girls. Recent Films: Take the 10, Party member of Actors Equity Association and Boat, Red and Sensei. Awards: Dramalogue SAG-AFTRA and recipient of the Round Ikebana, The Maids, Minamata, The Golden 14 TCG and Fox Fellowship Foundation Gate, and Visitors from Nagasaki - LA grant for Distinguished Achievement. Commendation (About Love) - Garland Ayanna is thrilled to join round 3 of the Straight As a Line. Entertainment Today Mercury Project and continue to define and (Winter People). develop the DNA: Oxygen group alongside her friends and colleagues. Ayanna’s work BARBIE WU includes: The Curious Incident of the Dog Mrs. Kobayashi in the Night-Time (Portland Center Stage); Born and raised in Taiwan, The Revolutionists, Wolf Play, Teenage Dick, Barbie discovered her Small Mouth Sounds, Between Riverside passion for acting in 2003 and Crazy, An Octoroon, The Importance as an exchange student in of Being Earnest, A Civil War Christmas, Eugene. After earning her Grand Concourse, The Understudy, Intimate Bachelor’s degree from the University of Apparel and Race (Artists Repertory Theatre)

ARTISTSREP.ORG 12 CAST & CREW and The Scottsboro Boys (Dir. Susan No No Boy (adapted by Ken Narasaki), Stroman, Ahmenson Theatre). The Happy Ones (South Coast Rep, L.A. www.ayannaberkshireinfo.com Drama Critics Circle nomination for Best Featured Performance) and Extraordinary LAVA ALAPAI Chambers (The Geffen Playhouse, Ovation Mrs. Asuncion nomination for Best Featured Actor). Greg Lava (she/her) is originally also appeared as ‘DHH’ in Yellow Face at from Okinawa, Japan and Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company (San grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii Diego Theater Critics Circle nomination where she learned the art for Outstanding Lead Performance in a of Bunraku puppetry. She Play). Other appearances include Golden graduated with an MFA in acting from Child at the Signature Theater in New York, California Institute of the Arts and has Extraordinary Chambers at Mo’olelo (San been creating theatre in Portland for more Diego Theater Critics Circle nomination than a decade. Credits include design and for Best Ensemble). His film and television acting work for Portland Playhouse, defunkt credits include Madam Secretary, Aquarius, theatre, Tears of Joy Theatre and Many Hats Curb Your Enthusiasm, Reno 911!, Only The Collaboration, among others. Directing Brave, Americanese, and Life Tastes Good. credits include Columbinus, Charlotte’s Greg is also a member of the 18 Mighty Web and Locomotion for Oregon Children’s Mountain Warriors. The documentary about Theatre, and staged readings for Profile them, Mighty Warriors of Comedy won a Theatre and Playwrights West. She is an Northern California Emmy. associate member of the Stage Directors & Choreographers Society (SDC). She would WILLIAM EARL RAY like to thank her amazing team and beautiful Bill Tapia cast for giving her the opportunity to create William (Bill) (he/his) is a this show with them, and her wife, Alex, Director/Actor with 40 years for agreeing to go on this crazy ride with of experience in the business. her. Visit www.lavaalapai.com to see Lava’s Directing credits are: Lonely work as a photographer. Planet, No Niggers, No Jews, No Dogs (The No Play), Two Trains GREG WATANABE Running, Skeleton Crew, King Liz, AIN’T Dad MISBEHAVIN’, A Raisin in the Sun & Greg (he/him) recently Having Our Say, staring Ms. Irma P. Hall made his Broadway debut in (Big Mama of Soul Food movie fame and A Allegiance and was recently Family Thing), Beehive, The 60’s Musical, seen in HoldTheseTruths at The Gin Game, The Gospel At Colonus, New Century Theatre and The Fires in the Mirror, A Song For Coretta, A Language Archive at Portland Playhouse. Lovesong for Miss Lydia, Annie Get Your Greg’s theatre credits include the world Gun, Jerry’s Girls, Agnes of God, The premiere productions of The Ballad Of Heiress, Sea Marks, Ceremonies in Dark Old Yachiyo (Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Seattle Men, Lilies of the Field, and others. Some of Repertory Theatre, Public Theater-New William’s acting credits would include, The York), Butcher’s Burden (Asian American Whipping Man, Master Harold and the Boys, Theater Company), The Summer Moon The Meeting, Blues for an Alabama Sky, (Seattle’s A Contemporary Theatre and South Driving Miss Daisy, Misery, God’s Favorite, Coast Repertory Theatre), 10,000 YEARS Two Trains Running, Joe Turner’s Come and (written and produced by John Ridley), Gone, Dirty Work, Cobb, Miss Evers Boys,

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The Sunset Limited, Piano Lesson, Audience, artist and narrator. TV appearances include: Of Mice and Men, A Streetcar Named Desire, Law and Order, 30 Rock, Nurse Jackie, Simply Heavenly, Bank Job, Amen Corner The Blacklist, The Onion News Network, and others. TV and Film credits include The Person of Interest, Delocated, Future man, Tuskegee Airmen, The Gas Cafe’, Cadillac The Code, Search Party, Madam Secretary Ranch, The Temp, Dr. Giggles, Terror in and Deadbeat. His Film Credits include the Towers, Better off Dead, Walker Texas Karim in I’ll Come Running, Ali Soufan in Ranger, Con Alma, See Me, and the soon the Report, and as the interpreter in Billy to be release short filmMetal . William is Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. Theatrical credits a member of Actors Equity, Screen Actors include: Tareq in the Guthrie’s production Guild and a graduate of the Evergreen of Nora, Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet and State College with a Bachelor of Arts degree as Aeneas in Troilus and Cressida at the in the performing arts. Oregon Shakespeare Festival, As Grahm/2 in the world premiere of Informed Consent JOHN SAN NICOLAS at Cleveland Playhouse, and as Shahid the Richard translator in the NYTW world premiere of John (he/him/his) is a native Aftermath and the subsequent Arktype World of San Diego, CA, John tour. Additional regional credits include: The first worked at Artists Rep. Humans, Disgraced, and The Invisible Hand. on Jack Goes Boating in 2011. He has since appeared KEN YOSHIKAWA in The Motherfucker with the Hat, Exiles, Keoni/Jonathan/Franklin The Invisible Hand, The Liar, Grand Ken (he/him) is a half- Concourse, A Civil War Christmas, Trevor, Japanese third culture The Talented Ones, An Octoroon, The American poet-actor from Humans, Magellanica, Small Mouth Sounds, Portland, Oregon. In 2019 Everybody, and 1984 and is proud to be a he released his first spoken Resident Artist. He has also performed at word album Quiver (Lightship Press), and Portland Center Stage, Portland Playhouse, performed his autobiographical poetic solo Third Rail Repertory Theatre, Oregon play The Art of Fly Swatting at the Pan Asian Children’s Theatre, Portland Experimental Repertory off-broadway in NYC. His poems Theatre Ensemble, Badass Theatre Company, have appeared in Nailed Magazine, Letters Miracle Theatre, The Anonymous Theatre from the Void, Hapa Mag, and Discover Company, Clackamas Repertory Theatre, Nikkei. His first full length poetry book Shaking the Tree Theatre, CoHo Productions, Monster Colored Glasses is out now through Fusion Theatre Co. and several others. He Lightship Press. Notable credits include has appeared on the television show Leverage Jason in Protocol (Portland Center Stage); and has made several appearances on IFC’s Franklin in Today is my Birthday (Artists Portlandia. Also an acting teacher, writer and Rep); Ben in The Journal of Ben Uchida director, John is a proud member of Actors (Oregon Children’s Theatre); Martin in Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA. 1984 (Artists Rep); Arjun in Chitra, the Girl Prince (NW Children’s Theatre); Soldier in FAJER AL-KAISI Mojada, A Medea in Los Angeles (Portland Sebastian Center Stage/Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Fajer Al-Kaisi is an actor for Minister of Coin in Tenali the Royal the stage and screen as well Trickster (NW Children’s Theatre); Malvolio as an experienced voice over Antonio in Twelfth Night (Oregon Adventure

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Theatre); Doctor/Clerk in You For Me For Theatre, Staged!, and Milagro. Thank you to You (Portland Playhouse); The Artist in The Dámaso and the entire team at Artists Rep Courtesan (MediaRites); Edgar in King Lear for bringing us all together and providing a (Oregon Adventure Theatre); Mr. Oji in After platform for artists to create and connect in the War Blues (Theatre Diaspora). He would a time when it is much needed. Check out like to express gratitude for his family, his thecharlesgrant.com to say hello! friends, and his teachers for their kindness and wisdom. LAUREN MODICA Amazingpresence83 ANDRÉS ALCALÁ Lauren (she/her) proudly DJ Loki made her Artists Rep debut Andrés (he/him) has worked with The Skin of Our Teeth. on 11 productions with Local credits and companies Artists Rep. He ran the Intern include Portland Center Stage Program at the Northwest (Mrs. Cratchitt in Second City Presents: Children’s Theatre where Twist Your Dickens, JAW 2014, Our Town), he also performed as Shrek, Captain Hook, Vertigo/Anonymous Theater (Tituba, The Shere Kahn in The Jungle Book and Mr. Crucible), Defunkt (Ruth, In the Forest Banks in Mary Poppins. He has received She Grew Fangs, Jessica, Undiscovered awards for performances of the one man Country), Northwest Classical (Fool, King show, Men on the Verge of a Hispanic Lear), PAE (Queen/Belarius, Cymbeline), Breakdown and The Self-esteem Files Willamette Shakespeare (Verges, Much Ado in which he has performed in Portland, about Nothing), Rose in Gretchen Icenogle’s Phoenix, and Chicago. He played Daddy Trailing Colors and others. Warbucks in Annie at Clackamas Rep in which he recieved an award for best VIN SHAMBRY supporting actor in a Musical. He has a Marcus BFA from Southern Oregon in Ashland Vin Shambry (he/him/his) is where he also spent two seasons as a a published writer, acclaimed Actor at the Oregon Shakespeare festival, storyteller, international where he performed as the Moon in Blood actor, and Director. Before Wedding and Florizal in the Winters Tale returning home to Portland, among others, and worked for 5 years, as an Vin performed on Broadway as Tom Collins educating outreach teaching artist. in Rent and John in Miss Saigon, and toured nationally with Rent, Miss Saigon. CHARLES GRANT His writing is in the new book Occasional Landon Magic: True Stories about Defying the Charles is filled with joy and Impossible, which he also performed at the gratitude to be collaborating Portland’s historic Arlene Schnitzer Concert with so many amazing artists Hall. Additionally, his performative, original in Mercury Company (and writing was featured in April Baer’s State this is his first time working of Wonder on Oregon Public Broadcasting with Artists Rep)! As an actor, producer, and radio. Vin toured and performed with the teaching artist, he’s worked with various US State Department Bureau of Educational companies over the years: Portland Center and Cultural Affairs Arts Envoy trip to Stage, Fuse Theatre Ensemble, Broadway Egypt (2019) and will be returning in 2020 Rose, Portland Playhouse, Confrontation to develop a new bi-lingual cross cultural

ARTISTSREP.ORG 15 CAST & CREW music and theatre performance with the NAIYA AMILCAR support of the US Embassy Cairo. Hostess Naiya is very excited to be ZEINA SALAME a part of the 3rd process of Halima the Mercury Company. Most Zeina (she/her) is a director, recently she was in La Ruta actor, educator, applied (Artists Repertory Theater) theatre practitioner, and a and various commercials. In her free time, she scholar. A few recent creative enjoys studying human behavior, traveling and collaborations include work spending time with her family and friends. with Artists Repertory Theatre’s Mercury Company, the Guthrie Theater’s Level Nine DIANA BURBANO with New Arab American Theater Works, Self Help Phone Menu Commonwealth Theatre Center, and the Diana (she/her/Ella), a National Institute for Directing and Ensemble Colombian immigrant, is a Creation with Pangea World Theater and playwright, an Equity actor, Art2Action. Zeina is also a co-founder and and a teaching artist at South artistic team member of Florida based theatre Coast Repertory and Breath company, The 5 & Dime. Zeina holds a of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble. Diana’s PhD in Theatre Arts from the University of play Ghosts of Bogota, was commissioned Oregon. Her dissertation, “Carried In One and debuted at Alter Theater in the Bay Woman—Reflections on Arab American Area in Feb 2020. Sapience, was featured Female Solo Performance’’ centers on themes at Latinx Theatre Festival, San Diego Rep of “home” and the creative value of embodied 2020. Fabulous Monsters, a Kilroys selection generational knowledge, heritage, and was to premiere at Playwrights Arena in intersectionality in performance aesthetics. 2020 (postponed). She is in the Geffen’s Some of her recent writing on theatre has been Writers Lab in 20-21. She has worked on published on Howlround Theatre Commons, projects with South Coast Repertory, Artists Etudes, Al Jadid, and in the Encyclopedia of Repertory Theatre, Breath of Fire Latina Women & Islamic Cultures. Theatre Ensemble and Center Theatre Group and Livermore Shakespeare Festival. ANDREA VERNAE Diana recently played Amalia in Jose Cruz DJ Solange Gonzales’ American Mariachi at South Coast Andrea (she/her) is a native Repertory and Arizona Theatre Company, of Miami, Florida. She is and Marisela in La Ruta at Artists Repertory. grateful for the collective that She is the current Dramatists Guild Rep for is the Mercury Company. She Southern California. is so excited to have been www.dianaburbano.com included in See Me, Today is My Birthday, and several workshops within the company. TREASURE LUNAN Thank you to ART for including me in Answering Machine Voice this incredible company and for helping to Treasure (they/themme) reignite my own creative fire. is a Black, queer, gender variant performer whose work aims to focus on those intersections and how they affect their movements through the world. Recent performance credits include Hot

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N’ Throbbing (Profile Theatre),Vinegar KRISTEN MUN Tom (The Theatre Company), Mlima’s Tale Line Producer & (Profile Theatre)Weighted Bodies (Risk/ Various voices Reward), Curious Incident of the Dog in Kristen (she/her) was born the Night-Time (Portland Center Stage), and raised on the island of School Girls: Or, the African Mean Girls Oahu. She has worked in Play (Portland Center Stage) and The Most Portland as a Stage Manager Massive Woman Wins (Deep End Theatre). and Fight Choreographer for the past 9 years. She has worked with almost every theatre SHARATH PATEL company in Portland, including Artists Sound Designer & Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage at Hawaii Public Radio the Armory, Third Rail Repertory Theatre, Voice/Shower Dude Oregon Children’s Theatre, and Northwest Sharath (he/him/his) was Children’s Theatre. She has received multiple raised between Appalachia Awards for Best Fight Choreography most and India while spending the recently, Tender Napalm 2018, Girl in the following years studying across Europe and Red Corner 2019. Kristen is a proud AEA New England. Before arriving in the Pacific stage manager and facilitator with Racial Northwest, he spent nearly a decade as a Justice from the HEART. lead sound designer in New York City. Local design highlights include Wolf Play, Teenage LESLIE CRANDELL Dick, Skeleton Crew, I and You, Between DAWES Riverside and Crazy, Grand Concourse, The Assistant Sound Price, Tribes, The Motherfucker with the Designer Hat (Artists Rep); In the Heights, Macbeth, Leslie (she/her) is the The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Audience Development Night-Time (Portland Center Stage); 26 and Marketing Manager at Miles, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Buried Child Artists Rep. She is also a sound designer (Profile Theatre);The Piano Lesson, Jitney, and sound engineer. Most recently, she was King Hedley II, The Brother Sister Plays the sound engineer for See Me, an ART (Portland Playhouse). Regional/International film. A California native, she has hopped credits include designs in New York City, back and forth between the coasts, but Washington D.C., Boston, Norfolk, Raleigh, now calls Portland, Oregon home. Leslie Aspen, Columbus, India, France, England, serves on the Public Arts Commission in Germany, and Romania. He has previously Forest Grove and has served on the board at served as a visiting assistant professor, lead Theatre in the Grove. Some of her favorite designer, guest artist, instructor, or lecturer productions include, Rent, Next to Normal, at Reed College, Yale, Fordham, Columbia, Steel Magnolias, Peter and the Starcatcher, Willamette, Ohio, Portland State, and Butler Jesus Christ Superstar, The Importance of Universities. He holds an MFA in Sound Being Earnest, and Honk!, Jr. (Theatre in the Design from the Yale School of Drama, a BFA Grove). When she’s not working or designing in Production Design & Technology from sound, you can find her making jewelry, Ohio University, and is very proud to be a gardening, knitting, hiking, rock climbing, Resident Artist at Artists Rep. wine tasting, or chasing after her four kids.

ARTISTSREP.ORG 17 OUR SUPPORTERS IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING, BUT WE CAN’T MAKE THEATRE WITHOUT THE SUPPORT OF OUR INCREDIBLE DONORS. THE APPLAUSE FOR THE SHOW IS NOT ONLY FOR THE ACTORS, DESIGNERS, AND TECHNICIANS, BUT FOR YOU, OUR COLLABORATORS. THANK YOU!

This list celebrates Artists Rep donors who gave $100 or more to the Annual Fund between February 1, 2020 and April 30, 2021. Join us in supporting the creation of outstanding theatre by contacting Kisha Jarrett [email protected] or by making a gift online at www.artistsrep.org.

GAME CHANGERS Herbert A. Templeton Sheri and Les Biller Richard & Betty Duvall ($100,000+) Foundation Nita Brueggeman & Mary Elizabeth Ellis Day Anonymous (2) Howard S. Wright - Kevin Hoover Leslye Epstein & James F. & Marion L. Balfour Beatty Jeffrey G. Condit Herman Taylor Miller Foundation The Jackson Foundation Anne Conway & Louis Trish & Bennett Garner Andrew W. Mellon The Juan Young Trust Baslaw Dan Gibbs & Lois Seed Foundation Beth & Chris Karlin Norma Dulin & James Curtis Hanson Multnomah County Arthur & Virginia Kayser Barta Roy Schreiber & Carole Cultural Coalition Dolores Leon Shawn Lee & Vonessa Heath The Oregon Cultural Leonard & Susan Martin Pam Henderson & Allen Trust Magazine, REAL Lever Architecture Wasserman In memory of Joan ESTATS Hugh & Mair Lewis Cody Hoesly & Kirsten Peacock J.S. & Robin May Jim & Eva MacLowry Collins Robert & Mercedes Steven & Linda McGeady Carter & Jenny Barbara Holisky & Gary Eichholz Foundation Oregon Arts MacNichol McDonald Commission, a state Allen & Frances Nause Mike & Judy Holman VISIONARIES agency Alan Purdy Lynne Johnston ($50,000 - $99,999) Portland General Steve & Trudy Sargent Kristen & Michael Kern Regional Arts & Culture Electric Foundation Drea Schmidt & Emilee Carol Kimball Council, including Lorraine Prince Preble Jill & Tri Lam support from the Julia Rea & Jim Diamond Marilyn & Gene Stubbs Kirsten & Christopher City of Po Patricia Reser US Bank Leonard The Shubert Foundation Rose E. Tucker Wood Partners Robert A. Lowe & Charitable Trust Lora & Andy Woodruff Michelle Berlin-Lowe PRODUCERS John Saurenman Anonymous ($25,000 - $49,999) Marcy & Richard BACKSTAGE PASS Laurie & Gilbert Meigs Cowlitz Indian Tribe Schwartz ($1,000 - $2,499) Deanna & Wilfried Charlotte Rubin Scott Stephens & Leslie Anonymous (3) Mueller-Crispin Houston Ruth & Jim Alexander Michael & Dr. Whitney PATRONS Rosalie Tank Phyllis Arnoff Nagy ($10,000 - $24,999) Doris Duke Charitable Autodesk, Inc. Cheryl R. Neal Anonymous (2) Foundation Glenda Beiermann Neilsen Family Fund Michael Davidson & Theatre Brian Benavidez of The Oregon Tom Gifford & Patti Communications Bruce Blank & Janice Community Fisher Group Casey Foundation Diane Herrmann David & Christine Lesley Bombardier Anne & David Noall The Kinsman Foundation Vernier Molly Butler & Robin Kristine Olson Fund Koener Camera Systems Manning of The Oregon Bill & LaRue Stoller DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE City of Portland Community John & Jan Swanson ($2,500 - $4,999) Cleveland H. Dodge Foundation Anonymous Foundation Patricia Perkins STAGEMAKERS Adelsheim Vineyard Communicare Students Gregory Pulver & Rick ($5,000 - $9,999) Advance Gender Equity of Roosevelt High Woddford Ausplund Tooze Family in the Arts (AGE) School John Ragno Foundation Andersen Construction Barbara & Tom Cooney Bonnie & Pete Reagan Julia & Robert S. Ball Ankrom Moisan Marcia Darm MD & Robert Reed Mike Barr Architects Bruce Berning Thomas Robinson Karl & Linda The Harold & Arlene Marvin & Abby Dawson Dámaso Rodriguez & Boekelheide Schnitzer CARE Edward & Karen Demko Sara Hennessy Bob & Janet Conklin Foundation, Jordan Wolfgang Dempke Richard & Mary Susan Gendein-Marshall Schnitzer Susan Dietz Rosenberg Fund & Lee Marshall Randy & Patty Bateman Margaret Dixon of The Oregon

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Community Richard L. Hay Kara Anderson Ellen Lewis Foundation Mark Horn & Mark Elizabeth & Stephen Richard Lewis & Meg Miriam Rosenthal Wilkinson Arch Larson Dr. & Mrs. William Sack Carol & Tom Hull Atticus Hotel Noah & Dena Lieberman Dianne Sawyer & The Nathan Cogan Susan & Grover Bagby Jodi Lietz Richard Petersen Fund of the Matt Baines Susannah Mars & Gary Wayne D. Schweinfest Oregon Community Jean Carufo Johnson Josie Seid Foundation George Bateman Earlean Marsh Bert Shaw & Liana Jessie Jonas Margaret and Raul Ms. Nancy Matthews Colombo Richard and Jean Bencomo Scott & Jane Miller James G. & Michele L. Josephson Pamela Berg in Dolores & Michael Stemler Judith & Gregory Membory of Glenda Moore John & Sandra Swinmurn Kafoury Goldwater Linda Nelson & Ted John Taylor & Barbara Katie Jane Band Ann Brayfield & Joe Olson West David Katz Emerson Cathy & Jack O’Brien Robert Taylor & Maude Catherine & Timothy Kacia & Clark Brockman Jack F. O’Brien May Keith Kacia Brockman Senator Bob Packwood Tonkon Torp LLP Jody Klevit Corey Brunish Patrick Lumber Marcia Truman Pamela Knowles Lauretta Burman Company Kristeen Crosser Leslie Kolisch Ms. Ellen Cantwell Duane & Corinne Maureen Wright & Lane Bill & Shelley Larkins Tom Capps, in honor of Paulson Brown Patty & Greg Mamula Charlie Capps Dee Poujade Charlene Zidell Linda & Ken Mantel michael chellis Karen & John Rathje Carol Marmaduke Laurette Cosby Ed Reeves & Bill Fish SUPERSTARS Melanie Schnoll Begun Leslie Crandell Dawes & Scott & Kay Reichlin ($500 - $999) Joseph Murphy & C. Andrew Dawes Joanne & James Ruyle Anonymou Branson Graham & Peggy Crow Rick & Halle Sadle Linda Apperson Joanna Nowak Jim & Vicki Currie Vincenza Scarpaci Susan Bach & Douglas Alfred & Eileen Ono Christina DeYoung Curtis Schade Egan Julie Poust Christina DeYoung & Luan Schooler & Ann Balzell & Joe Wendy & Richard Rahm Andrew Rogers Timothy Wilson Marrone Jay & Barbara Ramaker Elizabeth & John Erika Schuster & Clay Sonia Buist Andrew & Peggy Recinos Ehrsam Biberdorf Merrily Burger Michael Sands & Jane Cheri Emahiser Luisa Sermol Diana Burman Robinson Donna Flanders & Carl Doug Sheets Don Caniparoli & Sarah Dianne Rodway Collins H. Joe Story Rosenberg Charlie Rosenblum Bernard Froelich Chen Subramanian Charles & Barbara Carol Schnitzer Martha & Eugene Fuchs Aaron Tabacco Carpenter Lewis Fund of The Amy Fuller Jane Terzis Denise Carty & Roger Oregon Community Krista Garver The Rotary Foundation Brown Foundation Paul & Theresa Graham Lynn Tobar John & Kathryn Cochran Ursula Scriven Candace Haines Cyrus Vafi Allison Couch & Tom Vin Shambry Jan & Dave Halsey Jennifer Van Meter Soals Jinny Shipman & Dick Jeff Hamm Gillian Wildfire Stephen Early & Mary Kaiser Marlene & Clark Hanson Carol Ann & Patrick Shepard Donald & Roslyn Ulrich Hardt & Karen Wohlmut Ken Edwards Sutherland Johnson Carmen Egido & Abel Michael Szporluk Joan Heinkel & Ben FRIENDS ($100 - $249) Weinrib Carole Whiteside Massell Anonymous (3) Sherry and Paul Fishman Pam Whyte & Ron Saylor Joe & Diana Hennessy Kay & Roy Abramowitz Larry & Marilyn Flick Rick Woodford Marcus Hoffman Michael & Deborah Carol Fredlund & John Kathleen Worley Constance Jackson & Aiona Betonte Merri Souther-Wyatt Xavier Le Héricy Alchemy Restaurant Beverly Galen Ms. Cecily A. Johns Alder Creek Kayak Paul Gehlar INSIDERS ($250 - $499) Leslie Johnson Ameriprise Financial Susan & Dean Gisvold Anonymous (3) Colleen Kelly John Anderson Lynn Marchand Gerry & Jory Abrams Elaine & Ed Kemp Susan Anderson Goldstein Lava Alapai Carol & Jeff Kilmer Thomas Robert Melissa & Bob Good Chuck & Meg Allen Ted Labbe & Kelly Anderson Gray Family Fund Ted & Fran Ames Rogers Kristin Angell Al & Penny Greenwood Bob Amundson & Sully Robert & Helen Ladarre Anonymous Jamey Hampton Taylor Nicole Lazo Ruby Apsler

ARTISTSREP.ORG 19 ArborBrook Vineyards Sandra Denton Doris & Eric Kimmel Sue Pickgrobe & Mike Herman Asarnow Elaine & Bill Deutschman Rev. Larry King Hoffman Nancy Ashton Dinah Dodds PJ Kleffner Pike Road Wines Katherine Atkinson Norma Dody Dahv Kliner Daniel Pollack-Pelzner Adriana Baer Jeanne & Lauren Anneliese Knapp Portland Opera Thomas Bahrman Donaldson Knot Springs Social Club Portland Spirit Matt Baines Judith E Posey & Edward Peter Kohama Portland Timbers Claudia Barnard J Doyle, MD Priscilla & Tony Kostiner Shannon Pratt Kathleen Barnebey Anne Driscoll Penelope Kreinberg Anne Prescott Linda Barnes & Robert Joseph Eckert Bruce & Cathy Kuehnl Pierre Provost Vanderwerf Lakita Edwards Deborah Kullby Rob Johnson Vicki L. Barron Sumann Laury Ellis & Kathy Fode Meg Larson Diane Redd & Dan Laura Barton Nevill Eschen Elyse & Ron Laster Wilson F. Blair Batson Mary Fellows Mary Lavelle Betty Reiss Joanne & John Bauer Steve Fenwick & Martha Mary Lou & Ross Betty & Jacob Reiss Johnathan Beck Wilson Laybourn Resonance Winery Alan and Sherry Bennett Mary Finneran Clif Leonard Jesus Reyes Linda Blakely & Lou Gillian Floren Robert Leventer Patricia Reynolds Fernendaz Denise & Robert Frisbee David D. Levine Judith Rice Catherine Blosser Juliane Fry Joan Lintz & Terry Day Martha & David Richards Jeffrey Bluhm Fullerton Wines Louis Livingston Charles & Judith Rooks Brian Blum Kay Gage & Ketan Mari & Louis Livingston Kathryn Ross Michael Simon & Sampat Henry C. Louderbough Kurt Ross Suzanne Bonamici Joann Gilles Jane Luddecke & Rebecca Ross Evan Boone Bryan Gonzalez Robert Anderson Beth Rubin Jane Bottomley George Goodstein Christina Luther Ellen Rubinstein Risa Brainin Roswell & Marilynn Jacklyn Maddux Zeina Salame John Braunger Gordon Robin Magdahlen Martin Salinsky & Erin Bobby & Gabrielle Virginia and Jeff Graham Sheila Mahan Peters Brewer-Wallin David and Caroline James Hager & Michelle Jeffrey Sapiro Margaret Bromley Greger Maida Hager Pancho Savery Nancy & Gerry Brown Lydia Grimm Jim & Midge Main Gil Sharp & Anne Saxby Jon Buffington Polly Grose Deborah Marble Craig Sayers Amanda Bullock Stephen Haber Kevin Martin Miriam Schwartz Elisse Burian Val Harder Deborah Jo McCoy Robin Selig Marlene Burns & Jon Paul Harmon Kathy McLaughlin Sally Sellers & Michael Dickinson Adrian Harris Crowne Frank & Joan McNamara Subocz Sudarshan Cadambi Robert & Amy Hayes Michael Mendelson & Mary Ann & John Wish Barbara Canavan Maynard Hedum Tim Thompson Shap Shapiro Judy & Steve Carroll Doren Helterline William Meyer Michele Sharp Sue Caulfield Judith A. Henderson Mary Middendorf Ariel Shattan Nicholas Cernoch Sarah Hershey Dale Miller Neil Soiffer & Carolyn Rita Charlesworth Jon Hirsch Matthew Miller Smith Valri & Vince Chiappetta Kirk Hirschfeld Ina Milloff Dawn Sorem Karl Citek Kevin Hoover Leila Moharram Linda Sowray Clackamas Repertory Lynette & Don Houghton Lois Montgomery Desta Spence Theatre Karen Hudnall Connie Morgan Charles & Karen Susan Climo Steve & Kris Hudson Carole Morse Springer Elaine & Arnold Cogan Deborah Indihar Nate Moss Adrianne Stach Jonathan Cole Colleen & Jeff Johnson Carlson Mun William Steuernagel Charlotte Corelle North Country Tim Neighbors Kristin Stevens Harriet Cormack Productions, Alan & Heidi Nelson Cynthia Stowell John Cornyn Sharon Jones Victo Ngai Julia Surtshin & Richard Corrib Theatre Becky Gardner Robert Nimmo & Linda Sessions Joseph Costa Dawn Jones Jensen Wenda Tai Carter Dawes Erika & Tom Kane Patricia Oldham Gary Taliaferro Mark Crislip Erika Kane Peter Olson Rick Talley & Mary Ann Deborah Cross Steve & Anita Kaplan Oregon Helicopters Barr Talley Howard Cutler & Pamela David Goldman & Diane Pace Megan Taylor Echeverio Merliee Karr Kathy Parker Tracy Thornton and Robert Daasch & Linda Keeton Corporation Alan Pasternack Ernie Conway Schaefer Karen Kemper Kate Patricelli Patricia Tidmarsh Mr. Ken Dale Stephanie Kerley Debra & Paul Pellati Dwight McFaddin Carol Daniels Schwartz Kellie Petruzzelli Jane Unger John and Liz DeBarro Heather Kientz Donna Philbrick Sarah Vhay Becky Denham Margaret Kieweg Olliemay Phillips Janet Vining & Eric Vega THANK YOU! ARTISTSREP.ORG 20 Pamela Vohnson & David Streight J. Wandres Janet F. Warrington Maureen K. Wearn & Frederick Wearn, MD M. Howard Weinstein Hilda Welch Nick & Ela Whelan Karen Whitaker Megan Wilkerson Claire Willett Susan Willis Carl Wilson & Evan Boone Chris Wilson Joe Wonderlick Susan Woods Vincent & Emma Yoswick Jon Younkin DONATIONS AND PLEDGES TO Hampton Family Foundation/OCF ARTISTS REP’S RISE CAPITAL Beth & Chris Karlin CAMPAIGN Carol Kimball Dolores and Fernando Leon Len and Susan Magazine Anonymous Nancy Matthews ART Guild Shiels Oblitz Johnsen Julie & Robert S. Ball PLANAR Glenda Beiermann Pat Reser Nita Brueggeman Andrea Schmidt & Emilee Preble Barbara and Charles Carpenter Leslie Houston and Scott Stevens City of Portland Tonkon Torp Bob & Janet Conklin Tonkon Torp Ann & Bill Swindells Charitable Anne Conway and Louis Baslaw Trust Marcia Darm & Bruce Berning Darci & Charlie Swindells Michael Davidson David & Christine Vernier Carmen Egido and Abel Weinrib Frederick Wearn, MD The Robert & Mercedes Eichholz Foundation

ARTISTSREP.ORG 21 I WANT TO DO SOMETHING THAT MATTERS, YOU KNOW? ... WHAT CAN ANY OF US DO TO TRULY MAKE THE WORLD MORE BEAUTIFUL?

ARTISTSREP.ORG 22 STAFF

Founded in 1982, Artists Repertory Executive Artistic Director: Dámaso Rodríguez Executive Director: J.S. May Theatre is the longest-running Managing Director: Kisha Jarrett professional theatre company in Portland. ART became the 72nd ARTISTIC member of the League of Resident Producing Director: Shawn Lee Theatres (LORT) in 2016 and is an Associate Producer: Kristeen Willis Associate Member of the National New Director of New Works: Luan Schooler Play Network (NNPN). Dramaturgy Scholar: Pancho Savery Casting Director: Vonessa Martin Lacroute Playwright-in-Residence: Table | Room | Stage (T|R|S) was Andrea Stolowitz established in 2015 and is Artists Rep’s Artistic Directing Fellow: Zi Alikhan new play program whose mission is to Andrew W. Mellon Playwright-in-Residence: develop and produce new work that E. M. Lewis vividly expresses Artists Rep’s aesthetic Resident Intimacy Choreographer: values. Amanda K Cole Resident Fight Choreographer: Jonathan Cole The mission of the ArtsHub is to Resident Artists: Lava Alapai, Linda Alper, Adriana create a cultural center by supporting Baer, Ayanna Berkshire, Bobby Brewer-Wallin, Portland’s rich artistic ecosystem. Amanda K Cole, Jonathan Cole, Chris Harder, While the program’s origin six years Sarah Gahagan, Sara Hennessy, Michelle Jazuk, ago was in response to an opportunity JoAnn Johnson, Kevin Jones, Val Landrum, E.M. Lewis, Sarah Lucht, Susannah Mars, Michael to share underutilized performance Mendelson, Allen Nause, Amy Newman, Vana space, we have found that the most O’Brien, Rodolfo Ortega, Sharath Patel, Gregory vital and lasting impact of the ArtsHub Pulver, John San Nicolas, Josie Seid, Vin Shambry, is the bustling community that has Andrea Stolowitz, Andrea Vernae, Joshua J. been formed, and the myriad ways it Weinstein, Megan Wilkerson, Carol Ann Wohlmut, has led to the empowerment of local Barbie Wu artists and the accelerated growth of ADMINISTRATIVE participating organizations. General Manager: Vonessa Martin The Resident Artist title is offered by MARKETING & DEVELOPMENT & BOX OFFICE Audience Development & the Artistic Director in appreciation Marketing Manager: Leslie Crandell Dawes of each artist’s achievements with Patron Services Manager: Christina DeYoung ART and in the spirit of continued Data Analyst & Ticketing Sales Manager: collaboration. These multidisciplinary Jon Younkin theatre makers are deeply committed EDUCATION to ART’s success, share organizational Director of Education: Karen Rathje values, and participate in decision- making processes that impact the PRODUCTION theatre’s mission and its future. Production Manager: Kristeen Willis BOARD OF DIRECTORS Artists Rep’s education program Jeffrey Condit, Chair Michael Davidson is dedicated to developing theatre Pancho Savery, Norma Dulin artists, students, business and arts Vice-Chair Erik Opsahl professionals, and life- long learners Tom Gifford, Justin Peters at every ability, interest, and level of Treasurer Andrea Schmidt expertise. Patricia Garner, Michael Szporluk Secretary Marcia Darm, MD, Mike Barr, Past Chair Trustee Emeritus Julia Ball

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