OCT 2018 OCT NEXT WAVENEXT FESTIVAL

Roy Lichtenstein, Reflections on Hair, 1990

Published by: Season Sponsor: 2018 BAM Next Wave Festival #BAMNextWave

Brooklyn Academy of Music

Adam E. Max, Katy Clark, Chairman of the Board President

William I. Campbell, Joseph V. Melillo, Vice Chairman of the Board Executive Producer

Place BAM Harvey Theater Oct 11—13 at 7:30pm; Oct 13 at 2pm

Running time: approx. one hour 15 minutes, no intermission

Created by Ted Hearne, Patricia McGregor, and Saul Williams Music by Ted Hearne Libretto by Saul Williams and Ted Hearne Directed by Patricia McGregor

Conducted by Ted Hearne Scenic design by Tim Brown and Sanford Biggers Video design by Tim Brown Lighting design by Pablo Santiago Costume design by Rachel Myers and E.B. Brooks Sound design by Jody Elff

Co-produced by Beth Morrison Projects and LA Phil

Season Sponsor:

Leadership support for music programs at BAM provided by the Baisley Powell Elebash Fund

Major support for Place provided by Agnes Gund Place

FEATURING Steven Bradshaw Sophia Byrd Josephine Lee Isaiah Robinson Sol Ruiz Ayanna Woods

INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE Rachel Drehmann French Horn Diana Wade Viola Jacob Garchik Trombone Nathan Schram Viola Matt Wright Trombone Erin Wight Viola Clara Warnaar Percussion Ashley Bathgate Cello Ron Wiltrout Drum Set Melody Giron Cello Taylor Levine Electric Guitar John Popham Cello Braylon Lacy Electric Bass Eileen Mack Bass Clarinet/Clarinet RC Williams Keyboard Christa Van Alstine Bass Clarinet/Contrabass Philip White Electronics Clarinet James Johnston Rehearsal pianist Gareth Flowers Trumpet

ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION CREDITS Carolina Ortiz Herrera Lighting Associate Lindsey Turteltaub Stage Manager Shayna Penn Assistant Stage Manager

Co-commissioned by the Los Angeles Phil, Beth Morrison Projects, Barbican Centre, Lynn Loacker and Elizabeth & Justus Schlichting with additional commissioning support from Sue Bienkowski, Nancy & Barry Sanders, and the Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts.

Texts by James Baldwin Reprinted By Consent of the James Baldwin Estate. Excerpted from THE FIRE NEXT TIME ©1962, 1963 by James Baldwin. Copyright renewed. Published by Vintage Books. Used by arrangement with the James Baldwin Estate. Place

TED HEARNE SAUL WILLIAMS PATRICIA MCGREGOR

STEVEN BRADSHAW SOPHIA BYRD JOSEPHINE LEE

ISAIAH ROBINSON SOL RUIZ AYANNA WOODS

ASHLEY BATHGATE RACHEL DREHMANN GARETH FLOWERS JACOB GARCHIK MELODY GIRON

BRAYLON LACY TAYLOR LEVINE EILEEN MACK JOHN POPHAM NATHAN SCHRAM

CLARA WARNAAR DIANA WADE ERIN WIGHT RON WILTROUT MATT WRIGHT

CHRISTA VAN ALSTINE RC WILLIAMS PHILIP WHITE Note

Director Patricia McGregor asks you (yes, you): Has gentrification been a protagonist or antagonist in your life? Why and how?

Place began with Ted Hearne addressing the intersections of privilege and appropriation in his own life and work, weighing a personal sense of place and space in the most immediate family relationships against the inherited and generational.

How is whiteness a learned performance?

Saul Williams calls Place a fiery meditation on gentrification. Ted’s opening libretto was a volley to Saul, who responded to Ted’s words—complicating, expanding, implicating, addressing, and redressing Ted’s narrow view, to consider the experiences of others across the street, across the globe and across time. “You realize your inability to face these things may drive me crazy? Do you realize that it may have already driven you crazy?”

Ted wrote Place to be sung by specific people he grew up singing with in Chicago—Josephine, Allison, Isaiah—and by individuals he encountered in different musical contexts later in life—Ayanna, Steven, Sol. Music was, at times, its own map that cut through the boundaries of streets he otherwise would not have crossed. The 18 instrumentalists come from different places too—RC and Braylon play with R&B and hip-hop artists, Philip plays solo noise sets, Matt and Diana play with orchestras— and the adjacency and overlay of their individual relationships to music is another kind of map.

While the piece was drawn from a matrix of specific collaborators, there are no static characters here. The singers are at once themselves and shifting, situational archetypes in an ongoing conversation that dissolves, complicates and refreshes characters through poems set to music.

Through this process, our focus has shifted to DISplaceMENT. While workshopping the piece at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA, we were aware that we were only a couple of blocks from tent cities, and that we were standing on ground that had been home to Tongva people long before. Where had/ have those displaced people and their descendants found to make a new home?

How fitting that we premiere the piece at BAM. Fort Greene has played a major role in all three of our lives. When we walk out of the Harvey doors after the performance, we will encounter a landscape that has changed drastically in the last couple of decades. If that change is for better or worse, why and for whom, is for you to decide.

Patricia McGregor Ted Hearne Saul Williams Who’s Who

TED HEARNE (composer, co-librettist, a multimedia project in connection with his conductor) (b.1982, Chicago) is a composer, forthcoming graphic novel MartyrLoserKing. singer, bandleader, and recording artist noted for his “pan-stylistic freedom” (Pitchfork) and PATRICIA MCGREGOR (director) is a director “tough edge and wildness of spirit” (The New and writer from St. Croix, US Virgin Islands. She York Times), who “writes with such technical has twice been profiled by The New York Times assurance and imaginative scope” (San for her work. Recent credits include the world Francisco Chronicle). Hearne’s Sound From the premiere of Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole (People’s Bench, a cantata for choir, electric guitars, and Light, upcoming Geffen Theater), Skeleton Crew drums setting texts from US Supreme Court oral (Studio Theater, Geffen Theater), world premiere arguments, was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer of Good Grief (Center Theater Group), Measure Prize. The New York Times included Hearne’s for Measure (The Old Globe), The Parchman oratorio The Source (BAM 2014) on its list of Hour (Guthrie Theater), Hamlet (The Public the best classical vocal performances of 2014, Theater), NY premiere of Ugly Lies the Bone and (along with The New Yorker and The Nation) (Roundabout Theatre Company), NY premiere of the best albums of 2015. Alex Ross wrote in brownsville song (b-side for tray) (Lincoln Center The New Yorker, “Hearne’s piece holds up as Theater), world premiere of Stagger Lee (Dallas a complex mirror image of an information- Theater Center), world premiere of Hurt Village saturated, mass-surveillance world, and remains (Signature Theatre Company), and productions staggering in its impact.” Pitchfork called The of A Raisin in the Sun, The Winter’s Tale, and Source “some of the most expressive socially Spunk (Cal Shakes). Other credits include: engaged music in recent memory — from any Becky Shaw, Adoration of the Old Woman, genre.” Law of Mosaics, Hearne’s 30-minute Blood Dazzler, Holding It Down, Four Electric piece for string orchestra, was recently performed Ghosts, Nothing Personal, The House That Will by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and San Not Stand, and Indominatable: James Brown. Francisco Symphony, and was named one of The She served as consultant for J Cole’s 4 Your Eyez New Yorker’s most notable albums of 2014 by Only tour, and was AD of Fela! on Broadway. Alex Ross. Hearne performs with Philip White as For several years she has directed The 24 Hour the vocal-electronics duo R WE WHO R WE. His Plays on Broadway. McGregor is co-founder works have been conducted by Michael Tilson of Angela’s Pulse with her artist/activist sister Thomas, John Adams, and Gustavo Dudamel. Paloma McGregor, a Usual Suspect at New York Recent collaborations have paired him with poet Theatre Workshop, and was a Paul & Daisy Jena Osman, director Daniel Fish and legendary Soros Fellow at Yale School of Drama, where she musician Erykah Badu. tedhearne.com served as artistic director of the Yale Cabaret.

SAUL WILLIAMS (co-librettist) came to SANFORD BIGGERS (co-scenic designer) worldwide attention as a writer and performer was raised in Los Angeles and currently lives with his debut film, SLAM (directed by Marc and works in New York City. His diverse work Levin), winning Sundance’s Grand Jury encompasses installation, film, drawing, Prize and Cannes Camera D’Or in 1998 and sculpture, and performance, examining well- introducing the world to the phenomenon of recognized social, political, and cultural topics slam poetry. As a musician his albums, which which he reinterprets to highlight new narratives. have featured genre-bending collaborations with He has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of producers Rick Rubin and Trent Reznor, ushered Contemporary Art Detroit (2016), MassMOCA in Brooklyn’s Afro-Punk movement. Williams has (2012), and the Brooklyn Museum (2011), also collaborated with Swiss composer Thomas among others. His work has been shown in Kessler on two symphonies based on two books several institutional group exhibitions including at of his poems and has performed as a poet and the Menil Collection (2008) and the Tate Modern performer in over 40 countries and hundreds of (2007), the Whitney Biennial (2002), Freestyle universities. In 2013 Williams became the first at The Studio Museum in Harlem (2001), and African-American to win best actor in the largest recent exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of and oldest African film festival, FESPACO, in Art (2017) and the Barnes Foundation (2017). Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso for his work in the Biggers’ work is held in the public collections L’Etalon d’Or prize-winning film TEY (directed of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the by Alain Gomis). He is currently working on Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Who’s Who

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Whitney A Reimagined La Voix Humaine (OperaPhila/ Museum of American Art; Studio Museum in O18 Festival); War of the Worlds (Los Angeles Harlem; and the National Museum of African Philharmonic and The Industry); Breaking the American History and Culture, Washington, DC. Waves (OperaPhila and Prototype Festival); He was awarded the 2017 Rome Prize in Visual Flight (Opera Omaha); Boris Godunov, On Arts and is an associate professor and director the Town, Das Klagende Lied (San Francisco of the sculpture program at Columbia University. Symphony); Zoot Suit (Mark Taper Forum); The Biggers is the creative director of Moon Medicin, Mexican Trilogy (Los Angeles Theatre Center); a multimedia concept band that straddles visual Good Grief and Citizen (Kirk Douglas Theatre); I art and music with performances staged against Am My Own Wife (Laguna Playhouse and EST a backdrop of curated sound effects and video. Santa Barbara); and Skeleton Crew and The Cake (Geffen Playhouse). Upcoming projects TIM BROWN (co-scenic designer and video include: Schoenberg in Hollywood (Boston Lyric designer) is a scenic and projection designer Opera), Prism (Los Angeles Opera and Prototype based in New York and Orlando. He recently Festival), Pagliacci (Opera Omaha), Valley of the designed the set for J. Cole’s KOD Tour as well Heart (Mark Taper Forum); Macbeth and Mother as the set for Tyler the Creator’s recent tour. Road (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). His scenic design for J.Cole’s 4 your Eyez Only and 2014 Forest Hills Drive tours were seen JODY ELFF (sound designer) is a Grammy across North America, Europe, and Australia Award-winning audio engineer, sound artist, and and on HBO. He also designed the set for designer whose experience includes work with the world premiere of Ugly Lies the Bones for Yo-Yo Ma, Bang on a Can, Laurie Anderson, Roundabout Theatre Company in New York Yuval Sharon, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and City and the Washington, DC premiere of The many others. Elff has mixed countless televised Skeleton Crew at the Studio Theatre. His scenic concert events for ABC, NBC, MTV, and others. and projection designs have been seen at the His recording work with Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Yale Repertory Theatre, Roundabout Theatre Ensemble includes recording and mixing for Company, Studio Theatre, Harlem Stage, Interact three albums, including Sing Me Home (2017 Theatre Company, Redhouse Arts Center, Astoria Grammy Award for Best World Music Album). Performing Arts Center, NY Fringe Festival, His fine art sound works have been presented at Columbia University, Barnard College, Yale museums and galleries internationally, including School of Drama, and Connecticut Repertory collaborations with David Lang and Diller & Theatre. He has also been an assistant projection Scofido and Renfro on Musings on a Glass Box designer for Driving Miss Daisy and Macbeth on at Foundation Cartier in Paris and The Mile Long Broadway and productions at The Public Theater, Opera. He was commissioned to create a sound Signature Theatre, 2nd Stage, and New York art installation, Strata, which is permanently on Theatre Workshop. His work has been featured display in Lyon, France. in American Theatre magazine and Opera America magazine. He is a graduate of Yale RACHEL MYERS (costume designer) is a School of Drama and currently teaches at the designer for stage, film and live events. Regional: University of Central Florida. Center Theatre Group, Geffen Playhouse, South Coast Repertory, Los Angeles Philharmonic, PABLO SANTIAGO (lighting designer) is Shakespeare Theatre, Getty Villa, Robert originally from Mexico and is the winner of the Wilson’s Watermill Center, and Williamstown Richard Sherwood Award 2017 and Stage Raw Theatre Festival. Los Angeles: Rattlestick West, Award in 2015. He was also nominated for an Los Angeles Ovation Awards, IAMA Theatre Ovation Award in 2014 and 2018. His work has Company, Theatre @ Boston Court and Vs. been seen at Arena Stage, ArtsEmerson, Skirball Theatre. Myers’ award-winning experiential Center, Soundbox, REDCAT, and Su Teatro in design company, 3 Penny Design, has conceived Denver. Recent credits include Proving Up and and produced live events, brand activations, and The Wreck (ONE Festival/Opera Omaha and interiors for Crayola in Times Square, the Emmy Miller Theater); Threepenny Opera (Boston Lyric Awards, Golden Globe Awards, VIDCON and Opera); Destiny of Desire (Oregon Shakespeare more. Her film Wendy’s Shabbat premiered at Festival, Goodman Theatre); Ne Quittez Pas: this year’s Tribeca and Palm Springs International Photo: Yannick Grandmont Who’s Who Jersey University), andTheCunning LittleVixen Lyre (Lighten Theater), Trouble inTahiti (New Cabaret). Heropera creditsincludeTheSilent Untitled Project, Don’t BeToo Surprised (Yale of Snow,Caught Lake Kelsey ,The Musical In theRed andBrownWater, TheSlowSound (Yale SchoolofDrama).Othercreditsinclude Teeth, andTheTroublesome Reign ofKingJohn Women Beware Women, TheSkinofOur Theatre); Titus Andronicus , SomeBodiesTravel, Holiday Theatre),SevenGuitars(Yale Repertory theater. HercreditsincludeYellowman (Billie based lightingdesignerforopera,dance,and associate) isaMexican-bornandNewYork- CAROLINA ORTIZHERRERA(lighting California InstituteoftheArts. Education: BFA MFA UniversityofMaryland, 829andCostumeDesignersGuild892. Artists Clevver TV.Affiliations:memberofUnitedScenic Screen Junkies,Warp Zone,SmoshGames Improvised Shakespeare Project , DEFYMedia’s ofWarMan atArms:Art , AbominablePicture’s Award (BlitheSpirit).Film/TV: ElRey Network’s Best Production Design; 2010Ticket Holder Raw Weekly nominee,***2010LA Award for 2017 OvationAward presenter; 2016Stage Winner DramaCriticCircleAward, and2018LA BlackDahlia,Awards: *2018Ovation Court, New Performance). EastWest Players,Boston Brewsie andWillie***, WhattoWear (Centerfor LA); Center); InvisibleCities(TheIndustry China). Los Angeles:HittheWall LGBT ** (LA Fantomas (CNP/Wu-Zhen TheaterFestival, Theatre,Portland). International: Repertory (Laguna Playhouse);Ten Chimneys(Artists Perseverance Theatre,Alaska);BillyandRay (Native Voices—The Autry, LaJollaPlayhouse, (Geffen Playhouse);TheyDon’t Talk Back Bad Jews,Wait UntilDark,GoodPeople, Build Festival) TheLegendofGeorgiaMcBride*, Off theRails, Manahatta(OregonShakespeare costume designerincluderegionalproductionsof E.B. BROOKS’(costumedesigner)creditsasa 3pennydesign.com andrachelmyersdesign.com. 829.Herworkcanbeviewedat Scenic Artists DirectorsGuildLocal 800andUnited of theArt from theYale School ofDramaandisamember on afeatureforDisney. MyersreceivedherMFA , andLiminal.Sheiscurrentlyinproduction Theft Awards), TheDrowning,SearchParty, Identity 12 (winnerofSXSWandIndependentSpirit include KimPossible Term (Disney),Short film festivals. Production designfilmcredits (Downtown Art); Promise (Yale);About (DowntownArt); Land projections forWhereYou From, WhatYou Be (Opera TheaterofYale). Shedesignedsetsand regularly with SeraphicFire, Trinity Wall Street, of Teeth and Variant 6,Bradshawperforms aroundtheworldwithRoomful performing for NewMusic.In additiontorecordingand Bach Collegiumof Philadelphia,andNetwork Orchestra, Tempesta diMare,BangonaCan, as asoloistwithPhiladelphiaChamber hasappeared STEVEN BRADSHAW (performer) Ultimate BeautyBible(asst.stagemanager). Pack CruiseLine,stagemanager), (Norwegian Line, stagemanager),For theRecord: TheBrat Cruise Midnight(Norwegian manager), After stage manager),JazzatLincolnCenter(stage Festival, assoc. MostlyMozart (Lincoln Center’s (PA). Othercredits:IntheNameofEarth tour: Anastasia(PA), TheLionKing–Rafiki Tour Broadway: HomefortheHolidays (PA), National SHAYNA PENN(assistantstagemanager) Center. Education: MFA, Yale SchoolofDrama. Carnegie Hall,JuilliardOpera,Los AngelesMusic andmusic:JazzatLincolnCenter,Concerts POP!, BattleofBlackandDogs(Yale Rep). Autumn Sonata,ADelicateBalance Wharf), (Williamstown TheatreFestival), BadJews(Long Romance, TheRoommate, AGreatWilderness The MemberoftheWedding , ALegendary and Allegro(CSC).Regional: TheCloset, Nation, JuliusCaesar(TheActingCompany), Theatre Workshop), X:OrBettyShabazzvthe A CivilWar Christmas,Food &Fadwa (NewYork de Grace,Sontag:Reborn, What’sItAllAbout? Hundred Days,HadestownRed-Eye toHavre The Realistic Joneses,Follies. Off-Broadway: Soldier Songs,andElsewhere.Broadway: Days, Persona, LoveFail, SongfromtheUproar (Gilgamesh, Naga,MadameWhiteSnake),Dog Brooklyn Babylon,TheOuroborosTrilogy of IronandCoal,HubbleCantataReal Enemies, City. Creditsinclude:BethMorrisonProductions theater, opera,andevents basedinNewYork a freelanceproductionandstagemanagerfor LINDSEY TURTELTAUB (stagemanager)is at Yale SchoolofDrama. carolinaeortiz.com 2018 season. SheearnedhermastersinDesign forthe Opera asoneofthelightingsupervisors Mexican DanceCo. SheworkedfortheSantaFe Ballet, anddesignedBodaMexicanaforCalpulli istheresidentdesignerforVivid In dance,Ortiz and Wild inWichita (LatinoTheaterCompany). Photo: Sandra Powers Who’s Who

Eckmeles, Blue Heron, and Apollo’s Fire. He commissioned by Frank Chaves and River is a founding member of The Crossing—which North Dance Chicago; and the co-creation of recently won a Grammy for its recording of the original world musical Sita Ram with David The Fifth Century by Gavin Bryars with the Kersnar of Lookingglass Theatre, which enjoyed PRISM saxophone quartet. The Crossing has sold-out performances in its 2012 remount. Lee recently collaborated with ICE, Quicksilver was also a collaborator on Chance the Rapper’s Baroque, American Composer’s Orchestra, and Grammy Award-winning Coloring Book and led LA Philharmonic. Bradshaw premiered Pulitzer choruses in studio recordings for the album and Prize winner David Lang’s work Lifespan for tour performances in 2016. three whistlers and a four billion year-old fossil, and gave over 300 performances of the work. In ISAIAH ROBINSON (performer) is a multi- addition to his singing career, he is a dedicated talented musician born in Chicago into a musical visual artist. His artwork has been featured at family. As an actor he was featured as Pockets in Arch Enemy Arts, Stephen Romano Gallery, Gristle Steven Spielberg’s 1991 film Hook. He has also Gallery (New York), Grindcore House, Philamoca appeared in radio/TV commercials as a child; (Philadelphia), Baker-Hezeldenz (Tucson, AZ), notably, “That’s My Baby” for Johnson’s Baby and La Luz de Jesus gallery in Los Angeles. His Shampoo, a Polaroid ad featuring comedian artwork appears on the latest Crossing album Sinbad, and many others. As a vocalist he was Zealot Canticles on Innova records. primarily trained by his parents and siblings singing in church, which led to his performing on SOPHIA BYRD (performer), 19, is a jazz vocal many jingles and voice overs. He has performed performance major at the University of Illinois with the Barrett sisters, Darius Brooks, Aretha at Urbana-Champaign. She began singing in Franklin, R-Kelly, Patti LaBelle, Rascal Flatts, her church on the south side of Chicago at age Joan Collaso, Rene Marie, Kim Stratton, Jonita seven, and before long became a member of the Lattimore, the Brown Sisters, Twinkie Clark Chicago Children’s Choir. During her 10-year Terrell, Kelvin Lenox, Mavis Staples, Janis Siegel, tenure in this ensemble, she realized that she Chaka Khan, Yo-Yo Ma, and Dennis DeYoung. needed music in her life. Since this time, Byrd Robinson is a teaching artist for Lookingglass has had the opportunity to perform with artists Theater, City of Chicago After School Matters such as Jamila Woods, Jennifer Hudson, Baby Program, Urban Gateways, and private students Face, and most recently, Chance the Rapper. Her in Chicago. He also performs with the Stu Hirsh song, “I See the Light,” was featured in the Spike Orchestra, Silent Theater, and other groups. He Lee motion picture Chiraq. was the featured vocalist at the inauguration of Rahm Emanuel as Mayor of Chicago. He JOSEPHINE LEE (performer), acclaimed artist, performs with and facilitates workshops for the serves as the president and artistic director of Chicago Children’s Choir, and is on staff as a Chicago Children’s Choir (CCC), where she has musician/organist and choir master at the Life revolutionized the field of youth choral music Center C.O.G.I.C in Chicago where he has served through cutting-edge performances of diverse for more than 14 years. repertoire and innovative collaborations with world-class artists. Through her vision and SOL RUIZ (performer) is an international leadership, Lee has established CCC as one of recording artist based in Miami. As songwriter, Chicago’s premier cultural institutions, solidifying producer, arranger, guitarist, and band leader partnerships with renowned arts organizations, for Picadillo and Sol + The Tribu, she fuses including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Caribbean rhythms with American music. Ruiz Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Ravinia Festival and has released four studio albums and is currently directing and developing new works. Recent signed with Warner Chappell. Critics describe projects include the development and world Ruiz as the “female Manu Chao” and The Miami premiere of Long Way Home, a fully-staged Herald named her “the Cuban Janis Joplin.” She theatrical work with the Q Brothers Collective, was appointed Miami’s Songwriter of the Year which played to five sold-out audiences in March by Miami New Times. Sol + The Tribu is her 2018; an original suite for piano and cello, most recent musical project, for which she has Ascension, commissioned by Ballet Chicago; an recently released their first video single, “A Chi original piano composition, The Good Goodbyes, Cha Rao.” Who’s Who

AYANNA WOODS (performer) is a composer, Timo Andres, Elliot Cole, and Gabriel Kahane. performer and producer from Chicago. She Schram is also a violist in the Affiliate Ensemble earned her BA in music at Yale University. Her of Carnegie Hall, Decoda, and an Honorary music explores the spaces between acoustic Ambassador to the city of Chuncheon, South and electronic, traditional and esoteric, wildly Korea. Apart from performing, he is the founder improvisational and mathematically rigorous. and executive director of Musicambia. Founded Woods’ pieces have been performed by Third in 2013, Musicambia brings music learning and Coast Percussion, Wet Ink Ensemble, Chicago ensemble performance to prisons throughout the Children’s Choir, and members of Fifth House US. Through working closely with incarcerated Ensemble. Her music has also appeared in individuals on performance, music theory, a range of film projects, including the Emmy- ear training, and composition, Musicambia’s nominated web series Brown Girls. Currently, professional musicians build artistic communities she’s composing for WFMT’s new podcast that nurture the humanity of all involved. Bughouse Square with Eve Ewing, and writing her Musicambia currently runs a music conservatory debut solo album under the name Yadda Yadda. in Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, NY with other programs in Indiana and South DIANA WADE (viola) likes to make strange Carolina. In addition to their work in the US, sounds, usually on the viola. In a recent Musicambia has collaborated with projects in performance of Berio’s Sequenza VI, Wade Venezuela and Scotland. was praised for playing with “both athletic and operatic ferocity” and “throwing herself ERIN WIGHT (viola), Seattle-based, is an active into tremolo passages with a physical force chamber musician and avid performer of new that shook her and a sonic one that practically music. Giving performances The New York shook the walls” (Mark Swed, LA Times). You Times describes as “surehanded,” “engrossing,” may recognize her for saying “Shia LaBeouf” and “rich,” she plays frequently as a member in that internet video. Wade enjoys a richly of the New York City ensemble Either/Or and varied musical life in Los Angeles. She can be has appeared as a contemporary music soloist heard recording for film and television, and on four continents. Deeply committed to also performing with ensembles such as Los community engagement, Wight has been a lead Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group, Los teaching artist for the faculty of the New York Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Master Philharmonic’s Philharmonic Schools program Chorale, wild Up, and appearances in series and has also served as a teaching artist for such as Jacaranda, Tuesdays @ Monk Space, the Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall and and the Hear Now Music Festival. Recently, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Wade has turned to composition and her vocal Additionally, Wight is a founding member of fry extravaganza “fry on fry” has been performed the Toomai String Quintet, and with Toomai across the US and Australia. Upcoming projects has brought interactive concerts to listeners include the premiere of an arrangement of Garth across the US. Toomai was honored to be Knox’s Jonah and the Whale for viola, mezzo- one of the pilot ensembles in Carnegie Hall’s soprano, and 25-foot drainage tube, as well groundbreaking community engagement program as a new work for solo violin commissioned by Musical Connections. Wight is also a music Shalini Vijayan. specialist for The Juilliard School, where she completed her master of music degree studying NATHAN SCHRAM (viola) was hailed by The with Paul Neubauer. New York Times as an “elegant soloist” with a sound “devotional with its liquid intensity,” ASHLEY BATHGATE (cello) has been described Schram is a composer, entrepreneur, and violist as an “eloquent new music interpreter”(New with the Attacca Quartet. He has collaborated York Times) and “a glorious cellist” (Washington with many of the great artists of today including Post) who combines “bittersweet lyricism along Björk, Itzhak Perlman, Sting, David Crosby, with ferocious chops” (New York). Her “impish Becca Stevens, David Byrne, Trey Anastasio, ferocity,” “rich tone,” and “imaginative phrasing” Joshua Bell, Simon Rattle, and others. He has (New York Times) have made her highly sought- premiered music by Steve Reich, Nico Muhly, after as a performer. The desire to create a dynamic energy exchange with her audience and Who’s Who

build upon the ensuing chemistry is a pillar of Monday Evening Concerts (Los Angeles), Bathgate’s philosophy as a performer. Her affinity reMusik (St. Petersburg), Beijing Modern to dynamism drives Bathgate to venture into Music Festival (China), Brücken (Austria), previously uncharted areas of ground-breaking Internationales Musikfest Hamburg (Germany), sounds and techniques, breaking the mold of Open Music (Austria), Wiener Festwochen a cello’s traditionally perceived voice. She is a (Austria), Bay Chamber (Maine), and the member of the award winning, internationally Contemporary Classical Music Festival (Peru). acclaimed sextet, Bang on a Can All-Stars, the Popham’s principal teachers include David Soyer, chamber music group HOWL, as well as two David Geber, and Marcy Rosen. He has recorded chamber groups of which she is a founding for Tzadik, Carrier, New Focus, Albany, and Arte member: TwoSense and Bonjour. Nova records. Popham co-directs The Loretto Project, a composition seminar and concert MELODY GIRON (cello), an award-winning series held in his home state of Kentucky. He is cellist, grew up in Boston to immigrant parents currently on cello faculty at The Juilliard School’s from Guatemala who enrolled her in the New Music Advancement Program. England Conservatory of Music’s Preparatory School at the age of four. She has since EILEEN MACK (bass clarinet, clarinet) grew performed in concert halls of China, Europe, up in Australia and is based in New York. South America, Central America, and the US She is a member of the amplified ensemble with orchestras, chamber groups, and as a Newspeak (which she also co-directs) and the soloist. An active new music performer, Giron post-minimalist band Victoire, a co-founder of recently performed the world premiere of Julia the New Music Bake Sale, and has performed Wolfe’s Spinning for three cellos, in collaboration with many other New York new music groups with Maya Beiser; she also premiered a concerto including Wet Ink, Alarm Will Sound, Signal by David Chesky and Daniel Wohl’s Holographic. Ensemble, Bang on a Can All Stars, and Giron plays principal chair for NYC’s Metro Wordless Music Orchestra. She has performed Chamber Orchestra, Huntsville Symphony in venues around the world including Zankel Orchestra, and plays with the Chamber Orchestra Hall, Sydney Opera House, Amsterdam of New York. She performed in Signature Concertgebouw, and London’s Royal Albert Hall, Theater’s off-Broadway production of Edward with conductors including Pierre Boulez, Oliver Albee’s The Sandbox, and recently played the Knussen, Brad Lubman, and Alan Pierson. revival of Leonard Bernstein’s Peter Pan at Bard She has appeared as soloist at the Canberra Summerscape Theater. Giron has performed with International Chamber Music Festival and the Stevie Wonder, Andra Day, Eminem, and Keyshia Bang on a Can Marathon. Her discography Cole. She is featured in a GMC car commercial ranges from work on the Crocodile Hunter TV and on Amazon Prime in Mozart in the Jungle. and movie soundtracks to releases on New She received her bachelor’s degree from the New Amsterdam Records, Tzadik, Innova, and Warp England Conservatory of Music and earned her Records. Mack holds degrees from Stony Brook master’s degree from the Peabody Institute of University, Manhattan School of Music, and Johns Hopkins University. melodygiron.com Queensland Conservatorium.

JOHN POPHAM (cello) is a chamber musician CHRISTA VAN ALSTINE (bass clarinet, and educator based in Brooklyn. His playing contrabass clarinet) is dedicated to performing has been described as “brilliant” and “virtuosic” new music and collaborating closely with (Kronen Zeitung), “warm but variegated” and composers. Recognized by The New York Times “finely polished” (The New York Times). Popham as “animated...careful and diligent,” Van Alstine is a founding member of Longleash, an “expert is the clarinetist with Ipse, bass clarinetist with young trio” praised for its “subtle and meticulous Hotel Elefant, and performs frequently in NYC musicianship” (Strad magazine). Popham has and abroad with several other contemporary performed internationally with groups including ensembles including Mantra Percussion, Wet Either/Or Ensemble, Klangforum Wien, and the Ink, A Far Cry, Talea, ICE, Either/Or, Red Light Talea Ensemble. He has appeared as soloist with New Music, Iktus Percussion, Ascolta, and Toca Louisville Orchestra, String Orchestra of Brooklyn, Loca. This New York based artist has performed Red Light Ensemble, and Kunstuniversität Graz and premiered works at festivals including, in Chorus. Recent festival appearances include New York, Next Wave, MATA, Ecstatic, and Who’s Who

Liederabend; and at Darmstadt (Germany), adventure. Most recently she performed and Impuls (Austria), soundXis (Canada), avantX recorded as part of NBC’s production of Jesus (Canada), Moving Sounds (NYC), and the 12 Christ Superstar live. Drehmann performs with Nights (Miami). Van Alstine received an artist’s American Symphony Orchestra, International diploma from the Glenn Gould School at the Contemporary Ensemble, American Ballet Theater, Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto and her Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, and Berkshire master’s degree from Stony Brook University Bach Society. When she’s not onstage she enjoys in New York and is currently on faculty at the volleyball as well as managing a talented gang of United Nations International School. violin bowmakers at Salchow & Sons.

GARETH FLOWERS (trumpet) is originally from JACOB GARCHIK (trombone), multi- Arlington, VA. He has has been a member of the instrumentalist and composer, was born in San International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) since Francisco and has lived in New York since 1994. 2007, working with many living composers At home in a wide variety of styles and musical through the ICELab and OpenICE programs. roles, he is a vital part of the downtown and Flowers has performed with TILT Brass, Either/ Brooklyn scene, playing trombone in groups Or, Wet Ink large ensemble, Tri-Centric orchestra, ranging from jazz to contemporary classical Ymusic, and Practical Trumpet Society. He has to Balkan brass bands. He has released four recorded for John Adams, Philip Glass, David albums as a leader including “The Heavens: Byrne and St. Vincent, Matthias Pintscher, the Atheist Gospel Trombone Album.” He has Anthony Coleman, DuYun, Gabriel Kahane, worked with many luminaries of jazz and the Sasha Gordon, Andy Bloch, and Nick Britell. His avant-garde, including Henry Threadgill, Steve two solo recordings so far are titled Acousmatic Swallow, Laurie Anderson, Anthony Braxton, and A Beginner’s Guide to Lucid Dreaming. He John Hollenbeck, and George Lewis. He has recorded a record in 2014 titled Silent Period played in ensembles led by emerging artists with guitarist and found-sound guru Josh Mason Dafnis Prieto, Ethan Iverson, Darcy James of the label Sunshine Ltd. Recently, Flowers Argue, Dan Weiss, Miguel Zenon, and Steve contributed music and voiceover to two versions Lehman. He is also an in-demand arranger, and of Waywords and Meansigns, an audiobook has contributed nearly 100 arrangements and project of James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake. transcriptions for Kronos Quartet of music from all over the world. In 2018 he won the “Rising RACHEL DREHMANN (French horn) is a Star” category for trombone in the Downbeat’s classically trained but postmodern-inspired Critics Poll. horn-player-about-town based in Harlem. She can often be found playing in numerous MATTHEW WRIGHT (trombone) is a performer, Broadway orchestra pits, as a member of Banda composer, and pedagogue. From New Orleans, de Los Muertos, and as founding member of Wright has played all over the world in horn quartet Genghis Barbie. Drehmann grew orchestras, big bands, and chamber ensembles. up among the farms, cheese-lovers, and her He has recorded with Bela Fleck and was in the fellow Packer fans outside of Green Bay, WI, but first horn section to play with the band Cake. since has become a vital part of the professional He was a soloist with the Syracuse Symphony music scene throughout NYC. She has recorded Orchestra, but he was dressed as Santa Claus and/or shared the stage with Adele, Bruce at the time. He has played in orchestras backing Springsteen, Lorde, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Father James Moody, Andy Williams, Yo-Yo Ma, Randy John Misty, Arcade Fire, Frank Ocean, Kanye Newman, and Placido Domingo. As a composer, West, and Shakira. Her radio and television Wright has written and arranged many pieces appearances have included NPR, Late Show for his own solo recitals as well as for his group, With David Letterman, The Colbert Report, The Versipel New Music. Currently, he holds positions Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, as well as with Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and Saturday Night Live appearances with Father Vermont Symphony Orchestra and teaches at John Misty and Arcade Fire, and live music Loyola University, New Orleans Center for the videos with Lorde filmed at Electric Lady Studios Creative Arts, and University of New Orleans. for Vevo. She was also the horn player for the His primary teachers include Jeannie Little, Love This Giant tour with pop/rock icons David Matthew Vaughn, Per Brevig, Steve Norrell, Byrne and St. Vincent on a whirlwind year-long and Scott Hartman. Who’s Who

CLARA WARNAAR (percussion) has worked can be found living in Brooklyn developing as a drummer and percussionist with the electronic circuits for himself and others in the International Contemporary Ensemble, music community. American Modern Ensemble, So Percussion, Contemporaneous, Man Forever, and Red Bull BRAYLON LACY (electric bass) is an upright and Music Academy. She plays drums with the band electric bassist whose playing is richly influenced Infinity Shred, as well as with Object Collection, by his family’s musical and gospel roots as well and opposite Shayna Dunkelman of Xiu Xiu as jazz inspirations. Lacy has toured the globe in It’s All True, a show inspired by punk band with an array of artists in all genres, including Fugazi. She has premiered and recorded the Wynton Marsalis, Prince, Erykah Badu, Chaka music of Missy Mazzoli (Proving Up), Shara Khan, Roy Ayers, Israel Houghton, Kirk Whalum, Nova (aka My Brightest Diamond), Nico Muhly, Oleta Adams, N’Dambi, and the late Wayman and others. Additionally, she has performed Tisdale. Lacy began playing in the church and on the film scores of The Fate of the Furious, has been playing professionally for 15 years. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and works by His formal training began with Dean Hill and Aaron Zigman. As a composer, Warnaar’s solo continued in his years at Booker T. Washington album Hollow Siren “pairs analog instruments High School, Dallas’ arts magnet high school. with grainy, moody samples and field recordings” He further studied music at Weatherford College (Bandcamp). She has been commissioned by and the University of North Texas. Lacy has been ICE pianist Jacob Greenberg to write for Indian featured on numerous recordings including the harmonium, and is in residence at Future Space, Grammy award-winning Hero by Kirk Franklin working with spatialized sound. Warnaar is a and Erykah Badu’s Mama’s Gun. Featured Sabian artist. in Bass Player magazine, Lacy has several endorsements including Aguliar Amplification, RON WILTROUT (drum set) is a percussionist DR Strings, and Fender guitars. He maintains a based in Charleston, SC. He performs regularly busy schedule of recording, teaching, and touring throughout the Southeast with ensembles nationally as well internationally. whose styles range from jazz and salsa to free improvisation to avant-garde and contemporary RC WILLIAMS (keyboard) is a maestro classical music. An avid performer of new working across multiple genres who shares his music, he has premiered pieces by Ted Hearne, passion for music making and story telling with Michael Pisaro, Sam Sfirri, KCM Walker, Andy audiences in venues ranging from arenas to Akiho, Sean Friar, Philip White, and Nathan living rooms. Raised by a family of professional Koci. Wiltrout is devoted to exploring the use musicians in Dallas, TX, Williams attended the of unconventional percussion and extended Booker T. Washington High School, an institution techniques and integrating the drumset into renowned for producing extraordinary talent. any musical scenario. He co-leads multiple jazz His studies focused on jazz and synthesizer groups and is the leader and originator of the combinations. He received an opportunity to band Rad Western. Wiltrout has performed with tour with internationally celebrated gospel group, Lewis/Gregory/Wiltrout, Garage Cuban Band, God’s Property. This experience opened the doors Lee Barbour, Tommy Gill, Brad Moranz, Asphalt for Williams to tour and perform alongside such Orchestra, Charleston Latin Jazz Collective, Duda artist as Erykah Badu, Snoop Dogg, Prince, Jill Lucena, Kopaja, Conor Donohue, Matadero, Scott, Queen Latifah, The Roots, Bootsy Collins, Katrina Ballads, Charleston Jazz Orchestra, and Pharell Williams, Mos Def, Common, Talib Kweli, the Opposite of a Train. ronwiltrout.com Dead Prez, Dwele, Raheem Devaughn, Bilal, Roy Ayers, and Roy Hargrove, to name a few. This TAYLOR LEVINE (electric guitar) is a guitarist Grammy Award-winning touring musician has and circuit builder. He is often working within also received multiple Grammy nominations for the experimental, improvised, composed, producing and writing. Currently he is working classical, and noise music communities. Besides with his group RC and the GRITZ, which releases playing in his quartet Dither, he has been found its third album in the fall of 2018. He is also a core making music with a diverse range of artists member of Erykah Badu’s electronic production such as John Zorn, Steve Reich, Weasel Walter, group, the Cannabinoids. With these duties he also Marc Ribot, Erykah Badu, Tyondai Braxton, and tours with Snoop Dogg and Badu as the musical Kronos Quartet. When not performing, Levine director for her legendary live show. Who’s Who

PHILIP WHITE (electronics), a composer, legacy for a new American canon. Over the past performer, and sound designer, works with five years alone, BMP has produced works in electronics at the intersection of noise, jazz, and 43 venues in 22 cities around the world. BMP’s contemporary concert music. Current projects commitment to cutting-edge musical expression include collaborations with Ted Hearne (R has created “its own genre” (Opera News) of WE WHO R WE, Chris Pitsiokos, and Paula originality. In 2013, Beth Morrison Projects and Mathussen). His work has been presented at HERE Arts Center co-founded the PROTOTYPE Carnegie Hall, BAM, The Kitchen, Fylkingen Festival, which showcases contemporary opera- (Stockholm), and American Academy in Rome. theater and music-theater projects over 10 days It has been released on Carrier, New Focus, each January. The New Yorker recently wrote Infrequent Seams, and Tape Drift and has that the festival is “Essential to the evolution been described as “utterly gripping” (Time Out of American Opera,” and The New York Times Chicago), “bona fide evocative music” Brooklyn( called the festival “Bracingly innovative… Rail), and a “vibrant textural tapestry” (Wall a point of reference.” The 2014 bi-coastal Street Journal). expansion to Los Angeles sprang from growing partnerships with institutions such as LA Opera, JAMES JOHNSTON, (rehearsal pianist) called the LA Phil, Ford Theatres, and RVCC. BMP a sensitive performer (New York Times) and is a National Sawdust Artist in Residence. especially impressive (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), bethmorrisonprojects.org enjoys an active and varied career as a pianist, prototypefestival.org keyboardist, composer, and arranger. A graduate of The Juilliard School and Yale University, he BMP is generously funded by The Aaron Copland applies his varied skills and abilities to a wide Fund for Music, Alice M. Ditson Fund, Allen variety of projects. Performance highlights R. and Judy Brick Freedman Venture Fund include premieres of Tyondai Braxton’s Central for Opera, The Amphion Foundation, Andrew Market with the London Sinfonietta and LA W. Mellon Foundation, The Association of Philharmonic, Pierrot Lunaire with the Proteus Performing Arts Professionals (APAP), the BMI Ensemble at the Five Boroughs Music Festival, Foundation, Inc., Dr. David M. Milch Foundation, and performances of John Adams’ Gnarly The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Buttons and Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto #3 The Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts, at the 2014 Vail Festival. Recent concerto The Howard Gilman Foundation, The Jana appearances include Mozart K453 (with Foundation, Jean and Louis Dreyfus Foundation, original cadenzas) with the Pittsburgh The Howard & Sarah Solomon Foundation, The Symphony and Elliot Carter’s Double Concerto Linda and Isaac Stern Charitable Foundation, (on Harpsichord) and John Adams Grand MAP Fund/Creative Capital, The Mid-Atlantic Pianola Music with the Manhattan School of Arts Foundation, Meyer Sound Laboratories, Inc., Music Orchestra. His concert schedule has The Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, The National included performances in Carnegie Hall, Zankel Endowment for the Arts, New Music USA, New Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Whitney Museum, Ford York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New Theatre, Kennedy Center, Library of Congress, York State Council on the Arts, OPERA America, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Heinz Hall, Disney Seniel and Dorothy Ostrow Foundation, and Hall, and Walter Reade Theatre as part of the The Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation. BMP is a Great Performers at Lincoln Center. He received National Sawdust Artist in Residence. his doctoral degree at the Manhattan School of Music and lives in New York City. LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC (co- producer), under the vibrant leadership of BETH MORRISON PROJECTS (BMP) (co- Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, producer) since 2006 has been a tastemaker presents an inspiring array of music, through at the forefront of musical and theatrical a commitment to foundational works and innovation by supporting living composers adventurous explorations. Both at home and and their collaborators during the creation of abroad, the Philharmonic is leading the way in groundbreaking new works in opera, opera- ground-breaking programming, both on stage theater, and vocal-theater. BMP encourages risk- and in the community, offering a diverse range taking in all its artists, resulting in provocative of programs that reflect the orchestra’s artistry works that represent a dynamic and lasting and demonstrate its vision. 2017/18 marks Who’s Who

the orchestra’s 99th season. More than 250 BETH MORRISON PROJECTS concerts are either performed or presented by Beth Morrison, President & Creative Producer the LA Phil at its two iconic venues: the Frank Jecca Barry, Executive Director Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall Noah Stern Weber, Director of Development and the Hollywood Bowl. The organization’s James Fry, Production Manager commitment to the music of our time is evident Mariel O’Connell, Associate Producer throughout the season programming, as well Chris Mode, Associate Producer as in the exhilarating Green Umbrella series Carlos Johns-Davila, Company Manager and the LA Phil’s extensive commissioning Melanie Milton, PROTOTYPE Festival Producer initiatives. The orchestra’s involvement with Los Angeles extends far beyond symphony BOARD OF DIRECTORS concerts in a concert hall, with performances in Frederick Peters, BOARD CHAIR schools, churches, and neighborhood centers of Beth Morrison, PRESIDENT a vastly diverse community. Among its wide- Lynn Loacker and Nancy Sanders, VICE-CHAIRS ranging education initiatives is Youth Orchestra Sue Bienkowski, TREASURER Los Angeles (YOLA). Inspired by Venezuela’s Judy Brick Freedman, SECRETARY revolutionary El Sistema, the LA Phil and its Miles Benickes, Sarah M. Brown, Connie Chen, community partners provide free instruments, Ralph Dandrea, Pamela Drexel, Nicholas Firth, intensive music training, and leadership David Gindler, Jane Gullong, Dr. Michael Siegal, training to nearly 800 students from Raymond Steckel underserved neighborhoods. Special Thanks to Michael Taylor and Theatre Corner.

Rehearsed at the New 42nd Street Studios. Libretto

PLACE

Music by Ted Hearne Libretto by Saul Williams and Ted Hearne Conceived by Ted Hearne, Saul Williams, and Patricia McGregor

PART 1 | TED HEARNE

1. Balloons 2. Boundary 3. Interview 4. Maps (Appropriation) 5. Breakup Letter 6. Guilt

PART 2 | SAUL WILLIAMS

1. Is it ok to say? 2. What About My Son? 3. Displacement bloop 4. This Land Was Worth Every War 5. The Tales You Tell Your Children 6. New Faces 7. Running to Us All (written for hands over mouths) 8. Hallelujah in White 9. A Thought 10. The Guilt That I Feel is Freedom 11. You Were Never Comfortable With Intimacy 12. Beneath the ruins are older ruins

PART 3 | SAUL WILLIAMS

1. Colonizing Space 2. A Message from The Last Ones 3. WeNeedToTalk [addendum:] Remind Me Not To Mention The Stars Libretto

PART I | TED HEARNE

1. BALLOONS I am lying in bed with him He is asleep I am lying in bed with him, my son He is breathing regularly

I am staring at his birthday balloons They have lost their lift He is five years old They lightly graze the ceiling

Stuck and strung up Not knowing where I will live

My son Does he know where I end and he begins?

I am taking the video He says ‘dodi’, he’s so young You’re holding him in the snow He means daddy, you can tell

Stuck and strung up Not knowing where I will live Bound and unbound

My son Does he know where I end and he begins?

Will he think I don’t want him?

2. BOUNDARY He does not know what the boundary is

in the sudden, uncontrollable note of fear heard in his mother’s or his father’s voice when he has strayed beyond

He does not know what the boundary is [James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time] Libretto

3. INTERVIEW Like wh — wh — um, the place where um, um, the place where I let my my guard down, place my guard down down down where the place where I’m — I don’t belong. I’m — I don’t think It’s funny. It’s funny. It’s funny. the place where I don’t think about myself at all, and the, um the place I don’t. I don’t. the wh— perform. I’m present. the place where I don’t, um, I’m present. I’m present. um, present — place to think to love. to talk. um, so to crash. to put it’s funny cause I — it out there. I — you know you know I’m someone who loves attention and um, so. um um, so. I love to perform and — umum so, um um so. Singing, because, uh — um um um, so. umum so.

so home.

Every time you think you’re talking, you’re just moving your mouth.

just talking, you know I sing because I’m happy, I sing because I’m free.

you know, I’m also someone who can completely crash and burn when I just think about what I’m putting out there, and you know uh, just into the world and um, you know

[Ted Hearne, interview with Patricia McGregor, 02.06.2017] [commentary by Saul Williams] Libretto

4. MAPS (APPROPRIATION) He comforts himself by singing under his breath A child in the dark.

Like a map with no ocean

Every time you think you’re walking, you’re just moving the ground.

He walks and halts to his speech The song is like a sketch of a calming and stabilizing

This year I turn 36

Every time you think you’re talking, You’re just moving your mouth.

He skips as he sings Calm and stable, center in the heart of chaos

Maps: they don’t love you like I love you

Him. He. He has only heard what I I felt. He He is far away but I I see him. Him but dimly across the ocean and the continents that have fallen between us. Us. He

[Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus] [Feist/James Blake, Limit to your Love] [Modest Mouse, Cowboy Dan] [Erykah Badu, Me] [The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Maps] [Nina Simone, The Assignment Sequence] [Kirk Franklin, Why We Sing] [Zora Neale Hurston, “How it feels to be colored me”] Libretto

5. BREAKUP LETTER

A vast amount of energy that goes in When you told me I was invasive To what we call the Negro problem It hurt but I knew it was the truth Is produced by the white man’s profound desire That I encroached, refused to give you anything, Not to be judged by those who are not white To guard and keep was all I knew. Not to be seen as he is To take.

A vast amount of the white anguish is Terrible, you told me I was terrible Rooted in the white man’s equally profound need And I am inclined to embrace fury To be seen as he is, Flashes of defensiveness To be released Flashes of anger From the tyranny of his mirror. Of bitterness, of ferocious resentment

[James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time] [Ted Hearne]

6. GUILT Some have suggested It is not a feeling But a way of blocking feeling.

A prod A goad An impetus

Others have suggested It is a displacement from a deeper un-felt Grief, longing, fear

A prod A goad An essential cog

One can feel it in result to a destructive impulse

Feeling is available Feeling is available text inspired by [Judith Butler, lecture on The Human Condition] [Eula Biss, interview with Krista Tippett, “On Being,” 01.19.17] Libretto

Part 2 | SAUL WILLIAMS

1. Is it ok to say?

Is it ok to say white supremacy in white spaces?

Can we get to the bottom of this?

Is it ok to say bottom?

Is it ok to say?

Is it ok to say your kind not welcome here?

Is it ok to say welcome?

Is it ok to say? Is it ok to say?

Am I ok?

(amiokamiokamiokamiokamiok)

Is it ok to say I did not Not make these rules?

Is it ok to say sorry and do it anyway?

Is it ok? Is it ok? Is it ok?

Is it ok to let some anger show?

Even if it has no place?

Is it ok? Is it ok? Is it ok? Is it ok? Is it ok? Is it ok? Libretto

2. What About My Son?

What about my son? What about my son? What about my son? What about my son? What about my son? What about my son? What about my son? What about my son? What about my son? What about my son? What about my son? What about my son? What about my son? What about my son?

This may come as some surprise but I miss you.

“I’d rather not talk about it.” “It makes me feel uncomfortable.” “I don’t want to talk about history.”

I bet you don’t. You don’t want to talk. It’s. It’s. It’s. It’s. It’s. It’s. It’s. It’s. It’s. It’s. It’s. It’s.

Too convenient. Too easy. Too hard. Too heavy. Too dark. Too tiring. Too useless to think about.

You who have no place no place no place for memories unless they are your own.

You are welcome here. Consider it home. Libretto

3. Displacement bloop

There is no place like home.

There is no place.

There is no home.

4. This Land Was Worth Every War

My anger is beautiful

but my beauty is all the rage.

I am richest soil. I am the lakeside view. I am the highest hill. I am a funeral.

And this land was worth every war.

…and the land was mined. And the land is mine.

And the land was mined. And the land is mine.

And the land was mined. And the land is mine.

My anger is beautiful but my beauty is all the rage.

I am richest soil. I am the lakeside view. I am the highest hill. I am a funeral.

And this land was worth every war. Libretto

5. The Tales You Tell Your Children

This place is going cheap. This place is renting me. This place no coffee shop. This place got sugar crop. This place where father grew. This place was different time. This place’ll bury you. This place is in your mind.

A glass bedroom over a shattered favela.

It was an explosion.

First in heart. Now at hand.

The guilt that I feel is freedom.

6. New Faces

I look around the world I see a lot of new faces.

I look right down my street I see a lot of new faces.

And there’s a mall with churches where the stores would be.

And we got pop up shops that give out water for free.

I squat a piece of land on an abandoned street where some abandoned dreams live off abandoned meat.

I look around I see a lot of new faces.

They give out God for free but they selling places.

(And parking spaces.) Libretto

7. Running to Us All (written for hands over mouths)

The myth of Canada is not the same for the indigenous.

The fact of property is not a fact at all.

And in your neighborhood there’s someone who is new to it and what they’re running from is running to us all.

The use of fear to rule an outcome which is dangerous…

The role of prejudice is not a role at all.

But in my neighborhood we’re hiding from your prejudice.

When you used fear to rule it clouded up your soul. Libretto

8. Hallelujah in White

MIND YOUR BUSINESS. MIND YOUR BUSINESS. MIND YOUR BUSINESS. MIND YOUR BUSINESS. MIND YOUR BUSINESS. MIND YOUR BUSINESS.

MIND YOUR BUSINESS. MIND YOUR BUSINESS. MIND YOUR BUSINESS. MIND YOUR BUSINESS. MIND YOUR BUSINESS. MIND YOUR BUSINESS.

FOR THE LORD GOD OMNIPOTENT REIGNETH

9. A Thought

Gentrification is a generational conversation that has gone by many names. We should not discuss what brings you back to the city without acknowledging why you left. White flight. White flight. White flight. Now that winter is over you’re flying back. Will you bring your old viruses with you? Will you push us away? Are you capable of playing and living with others? Or will you find reasons, very sane and honorable reasons, for pricing us out, for placing us in camps, prisons, squats…. eraaaaaaaaaasure.

“I’d rather not talk about it.” “It makes me feel uncomfortable.” “I don’t want to talk about history.”

Migraaaaaaaation. Migraaaation. I’m migration. Imma graaaation. Immigration. What led you here in the first place? Why did you leave in the first place? Migraaaaaaaation. Was it war? Was it poverty? Was it persecution? Was it dreams? White flight. White flight. White flight. Migraaaaaaaation. It means one thing for you and another when they land on your land. Migraaaaaation. History in cycles. Migraaaaation. Guns keep firing on my street. Migraaaation. The price of bread the price of meat. Migraaaaation. They moved in next door and now the rent has risen. Migraaaaation. Just two miles from the prison. Libretto

10. The Guilt That I Feel is Freedom

White flight white flight white flight Maps: they don’t love you like I love you

Bouncing off your wall Sometimes it’s hard to move you see Migration I see no concession. Will I escape this vanity?

I sing because I’m happy I sing because I’m free Is this the promised land or just another cool neighborhood?

Am I inventing shit or just walking with my eyes closed? Is there a place that you have not invaded? Is it that God is male that laws are just excuses?

11. You Were Never Comfortable With Intimacy

You Were Never Comfortable With Intimacy.

You’re in the business of you.

You approached it abruptly.

None of your reasons are true.

Each planted flag a dagger thru Caesar’s mantle.

Et tu? Et tu? Et tu?

You’re in the business of you.

None of your reasons are true.

He left the public gardens. Privatized a spirit hardens. Mother Nature begs your pardon. Libretto

12. Beneath the ruins are older ruins.

I need a million mouths to say this but I only have this one.

A million bright ambassadors of mourning mothers’ Sun.

As if each cloud were testament of trials yet to come and yet the sky was clearer than its memory.

Earth as my hard drive. Sky as my witness.

Search Engine: find Indian.

All things traceable.

Language that self-corrects.

Control/Shift population. Press buttons/take lives. Press keys/pull triggers.

Shake hands gain confidence.

Poison by touch.

Quarantine those you infect.

Fire cannon/introduce modern warfare.

Lazy drone finds comfortable island and expands.

Puts his money where my mouth is

holds my nose.

The quivering hand.

The body slides across the floor

and opens its mouth. Libretto

PART 3

1. Colonizing Space

Everybody know when the sun ri-

See it dawn in they own eye.

Die and bloom in a season.

Everybody knows what the folks call reason(ing).

On a distant planet where the reason landed and the folks transparent fourth dimensional libation granted.

Projectile vomit of the stars. A question of resources. Hands to clean it up. Subprime mortgages.

This place is something else.

Do you want to share your location? More than one to choose from. Our future histories. Our chance survival. Our hidden mysteries. Binary rivals. The gravitational pull. The radiation. The use of fear to rule. But not the Haitians. The foreseen colonies. but not the past ones.

A message from the last ones:

They will call it an improvement and price you out. Libretto

2. A Message from The Last Ones

Here is what we’ve learned. The subject responds to paranoia in violent turns. The outcome is cyclical.

Subject: place. Subject: place. Subject: place.

If the subject is space - will speak of colonizing once again.

“there are no victims.”

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I n e e d s p a c e

Everybody know when the sun ri-

See it dawn in they own eye.

Die and bloom in a season.

Everybody knows what the folks call reason(ing).

On a distant planet where the reason landed and the folks transparent fourth dimensional libation granted. Libretto

[addendum:]

Remind Me Not To Mention The Stars

Everything was something, some time. Some time ago. Nothing Nothing was everything.

Those bright things that are glowing.

BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM

You are my only son.

You are my everything.

And if you fuck it up

I’ll give you more.

Do not kneel for the rockets. Do not kneel for the anathema.

Recognize no boundaries.

That is our law.

Our place among.

Place your hands against the wall!

Place your hands where I can see them.

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Satyagraha Kreatur

Photo: Markus Gårder Gandhi, by way of Philip Glass and Sweden’s Cirkus Cirkör and Folkoperan. By Rebecca Ritzel Photo: Sebastian Bolesch Sasha Waltz & Guests create a riveting alien dancescape with collaborators Iris Van Herpen, The White Album Soundwalk Collective, and Urs Schönebaum. Joan Didion’s iconic essay is brought to vivid life by By Susan Yung director Lars Jan. By Nicole Serratore

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Roy Lichtenstein was one of the most influential and innovative artists of the second half of the 20th century. He is preeminently identified with Pop Art, a movement he helped originate, and his first fully achieved paintings were based on imagery from comic strips and advertisements and rendered in a style mimicking the crude printing processes of newspaper reproduction. These paintings reinvigorated the American art scene and al- tered the history of modern art. Lichtenstein’s success was matched by his focus and energy, and after his initial triumph in the early 1960s, he went on to create an oeuvre of more than 5,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, murals and other objects celebrated for their wit and invention. —Avis Berman

In 1983, Roy Lichtenstein designed BAM’s inaugural Next Wave Festival poster and journal cover. Now, 35 years later, his widow Dorothy Lichtenstein has generously donated another Roy Lichtenstein print to Roy Lichtenstein serve as the 2018 Next Wave Festival BAMbill cover to honor Joseph V. Reflections on Hair, 1990. Lithograph, Melillo in his final year as BAM’s executive producer. screenprint, woodcut, metalized PVC collage, embossing on mold-made Somerset paper. 56-1/8” x 45”. Gift of Dorothy Lichtenstein Reflections on Hair is available for purchase with all proceeds going to in honor of Joseph V. Melillo. Front cover and support BAM programs. To inquire, please contact Alli Arnold by email at image above: © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein [email protected]. Satyagraha soars Satyagraha received its NewYork Citypremiere Next Wave Festival. Callitahomecoming,since of ExecutiveProducer JosephV. Melillo’sfinal receive itsAmerican premiereatBAMaspart premiered twoyearsagoinStockholm andwill Satyagraha byFolkoperan/Cirkus Cirkör and atroupethatelevatescircusas high art. hit foracompanydedicatedtopopularizing opera The resultingproductionhasbeen an unexpected in SouthAfrica. nonviolent protest,andayoungGandhi’stravels and settledonPhilipGlass’operaaboutpeace, grandItalianbombastbehind treatment, theyleft operas thatmightlendthemselvestothecircus Asthewomensearchedforother performers. with acrobats,tight-ropewalkers,andother they losttherightstostagePuccini’s finalopera Cirkör, respectively, werehardatworkonitwhen directorsofFolkoperan andCirkusthe artistic Mellika MelouaniMelaniandTilde Björfors, production ofTurandot. oddly bethebestthingtoarisefromacancelled onOct31,may opening attheBAMHarvey The SwedishtouringproductionofSatyagraha, @BAM_Brooklyn Photo: Pedro Greig By Rebecca Ritzel although theFolkoperan board wasskeptical. minimalism madesense, gears to20th-century rights toTurandot wereinjeopardy, switching When shereturned toSwedenandlearnedthe to Satyagraha.” “Wesuburban Stockholmheadquarters. listened athercompany’s recently inaninterview recalled listening tootherthings,”Björfors got tiredoflisteningtoTurandot , sowestarted were inresidenceplanningtheirTurandot. “We andAustraliandesignerDanPotraBjörfors on Long IslandattheWatermill Center, where This Satyagrahacollaborationwasactuallyborn up todate.” opera canbe,”Melanisaid.“Itisopera,butit budget andattendance.“We wanttoexpandwhat 2011, andhasvastlyincreasedthecompany’s a theaterbackgroundtookoverthecompanyin under Melani’sleadership.Theoperadirectorwith toured toBAM—and thefirst has Folkoperan that 2017) butthefirsttimeinnearlytwodecades European refugeecrisis,wasatBAMinJune responsetothe Brooklyn (Limits,thecompany’s in seasons thatCirkus Cirkörhasperformed at BAMin1981.It’sthesecondtimethree 2018 Next Wave @BAM_Brooklyn Satyagraha

The company strives to perform as many six soloists, a choir of eight, and fewer than 20 works as possible in Swedish, and Melani was players in the orchestra. (A few musicians have proposing to let a circus director take the helm of voluntarily joined the circus tableau, and none an opera sung in Sanskrit. “Everyone around us have been injured in rehearsal, Melani said.) The thought we were crazy,” Melani said. “And maybe production’s popularity is due in part to circus that’s true; we are a little crazy.” performers—trampoline jumpers, hoop spinners, and tight-rope walkers who metaphorically Björfors nearly always commissions scores depict Gandhi’s revelatory studies in non-violent for Cirkus Cirkör shows. It’s unusual for her to resistance. But Melani said audiences do not connect with an extant work of contemporary turn out just for the thrills— they connect classical music, so she felt strongly that as long with Gandhi’s message and with the music. as Glass approved, they should do Satyagraha. Satyagraha is only the second Philip Glass opera And he did. to be performed in the Scandinavian country, and the circus opera is winning over new fans to the “I felt I understood Philip Glass, and I felt that American composer who will receive a Kennedy I knew how circus acts could work with the Center Honor in December. music,” she said. “When you see the circus artists practice, it is like a constant meditation. Melani said, “The whole experience is an art They can practice balance for hours. Satyagraha form, from the first note to the last.” became some kind of magic.” It also sold out, with more than 70 performances in Stockholm to date. Rebecca J. Ritzel is a journalist based in “It is a very happy success story,” Melani said. Washington, DC who contributes to The Washington Post and other publications. The musical forces for this Folkoperan production are scaled back from the original scoring, with © 2018 Brooklyn Academy of Music, Inc. All rights reserved. Photo: Pedro Greig Photo: Pedro WORKING IN CONCERT KAUFMAN ELLIOTT PHOTO: IS WHAT WE DO. Fly toward something better with the help of 80,000 Delta employees who do everything they can to help you explore what’s possible. @BAM_Brooklyn Kreatur Photo Sebastian Bolesch

By Susan Yung Kreatur’s Creators Berlin-based choreographer Sasha Waltz has that were the first witnesses of a radical change shown her daring breadth in dance-theater at in our social and sonic landscape, living memo- BAM—from the formal eloquence of Continu rials. Each of these buildings is made of multiple (2015) to the operatic madness of Gezeiten layers of history, sleeping layers, each with its (2010), which literally set the house on fire. The own narrative. Through the act of recording members of her company alternately thrive, band and re-composing we have re-awakened these together, or challenge the parameters given by narratives and memories left behind by their each distinctive production. inhabitants and held tightly inside the walls of these buildings. We picked up the traces left Kreatur (2018), her fifth work at BAM (Nov behind by the thousands of souls who lived and 2—5), is a collaboration between Waltz and a suffered in between those walls. We approached team of artists contributing vividly imaginative the composition as a musical abstraction derived elements. Soundwalk Collective created the from the resonance of these buildings, industrial soundscape by recording inside of buildings with machinery, and factory acoustics, as well as their histories—what the trio terms psychogeography. empty spaces today. The echoing sound of their Sites used to record the pulsing, evocative score architecture is far more eloquent than their empty include Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen, spaces suggest. Their empty space is memory.” a former Stasi prison specializing in psychologi- cal torture; and Berghain Berlin, once a turbine The striking costumes for Kreatur were created hall in a power plant in East Germany, and in by Iris Van Herpen, a Dutch designer known for its most recent incarnation one of the foremost radical concepts and using technology to realize clubs for techno music. them. She can articulate the human frame by exaggerating its structure. For Kreatur, she In a conversation with Sasha Waltz, Stephan emphasizes the individual by nestling the body Crasneanscki of Soundwalk Collective spoke within an airy, shimmering cloud of metal wool, about creating sound for the project. “A starting giving each dancer a cocoon that protects even point of our conversations in this collaboration while it is glowingly transparent. Black and white was the Stasi. We recorded sounds of various plastic sheaths are scored in wavy lines, allowing architectures symbolizing control, and embody- them to stretch and contract with movement. A ing mass-production, capitalist power, revolu- performer bristles with long spikes which simul- tion—landmarks of 20th-century architecture taneously fascinate and repel others. Prismatic TBHC was founded in 1845 and BAM was founded in 1861. Together, we share more than 325 years of serving Brooklyn!

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plastic sheets refract and clone their bearers. through a shift of perception—is always available to us. There is always a solution. With this lad- The lighting, by Urs Schönebaum, pushes to der, we are able to change where we are going, extremes the charged psychological tension in a positive, new, different way. As individuals, onstage. Alternating between otherworldly lumi- as society. We have control.” nosity and inky darkness, the effect transports viewers into the fantastical, at times ominous Upending gender norms is another theme in world created by the collaborators. A few key set Kreatur. Waltz notes, “The greatest moment of elements offer the performers options—a stepped not just dominance but actual violence in Krea- wall forces an individual to choose a direction; tur is coming from a woman, not a man. I think a wooden beam is manipulated and brandished it is important to see that there is this potential in in myriad ways. In Kreatur, these elements women, and break the idea that only men can be combine to transport viewers to an intriguing dominating or violent, because women also can alienscape where the actions of an individual can have their dark side.” ineffably alter the environment. By raising collective awareness, Waltz hopes Waltz spoke about the potential for large-scale that true change, and love, are possible. “Before societal change, symbolized in Kreatur’s set piec- being able to resist, we must accept that there is es. “We can literally shift power, but only through this monster which wishes to control us. The fear awareness. A journalist whom I spoke with of this monster, of this control, alone is enough brought up a very interesting experience regard- to paralyze us. But through awareness, at a ing this. While watching Kreatur, he noticed the certain moment the collective realizes its power. various fragments of architecture on the stage. Through awareness and resistance, we can To most, they appear as just simple pieces, but actually begin to destroy this monster. Without his shift in perception transformed these into the this control or fear of control, we are finally able form of a ladder—an escape ladder. Through a to love again.” slight shift in his thinking, these pieces became symbolic of an actual escape. We too can find Susan Yung is senior editorial manager at BAM. this escape ladder. Regardless of how critical or precarious our situation seems, this escape— © 2018 Brooklyn Academy of Music, Inc. All rights reserved. Kreatur . Photo Sebastian Bolesch @BAM_Brooklyn The White Album Photo: Lars Jan

The White Album Comes Alive By Nicole Serratore “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” “It is a very personal monologue. She uses a tremendous amount of theatrical and cinematic With that succinct opening sentence in her language to describe her experience in the essay, The White Album, Joan Didion probes world—in terms of being a character, needing to the identity of the artist, the act of writing, and hear cues, and feeling like she needed a script our compulsion towards narrative. But is her but she had lost it,” notes Jan. She analyzes her storytelling an artistic venture or a cry for help— own off-kilter performance of her life. or both? Didion gave permission for this venture and The essay involves 15 vignettes in which Jan’s broad-spectrum artistic background, Didion flits between her own breakdown and which is fitting for this adaptation from page- hospitalization, her relationship to the Charles to-stage. Jan’s work with his performance lab Manson trial, a recording session with The Early Morning Opera moves between visual Doors, the shooting of Huey P. Newton, and the and performing arts. He has straddled the San Francisco State College strikes. personal and political as well. Jan’s The Institute of Memory was a multimedia performance Didion gives voice not only to herself as a writer that used photographs, reenactments, and but to a distinct place and time—America from surveillance records to search for truth in his 1966 to 1971, when the country was wracked late father’s past. With Holoscenes, a durational with division. As a journalist, she was on the front installation on climate change, he placed lines. In her words, “I offer only that an attack of performers in a massive aquarium which rapidly vertigo and nausea does not now seem to me an filled with water, leaving them to manage tasks inappropriate response to the summer of 1968.” under a deluge. Jan has always worked from his Her unsteadiness then reflected America’s. own writing, but Didion’s essay has followed him For artist Lars Jan, The White Album remains for 20 years. The chance to engage with it was “one of the great pieces of literature of our too tantalizing. time” and one that begged for theatricalization. cont. Thanks to our Next Wave Festival supporters

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It also allows Jan to collaborate on-stage with between 1968 and 2018. To do this, the main his partner in life for the first time. Actor Mia audience for the show (Nov 28 to Dec 1) will sit Barron will perform the text of the essay (save in the BAM Harvey Theater, but another smaller quotations). Typically, Barron works in new play audience composed of local students, artists, development and Jan in visual and performance and activists will be in a windowed, sound-proof art. But with “the quality of the text, and Joan box on stage. Within that box, Jan intends to Didion, this is where our two paths have “take the late 60s and distill it into a party.” naturally crossed,” he says. That young activist audience will bring its own perspective to the events of the past. In her essay, Didion explores some of the battles over race and economic justice in the As the essay works on two levels, so too will the 1960s. But on stage Jan delves the legacy of theater piece. “She’s trying to tell the story of the those events for movements such as Occupy country and of the time, and she’s also telling Wall Street and Black Lives Matter, and what the story of herself,” Jan suggests. Didion zooms “contemporary America has to learn from the in and out in her writing, so the show moves movements of the late 60s.” between the “internal and macroscopic.” With Didion’s instability will come spatial flux on-stage Moreover, Didion’s depth of analysis varies on with the two audiences, Barron, and the box. these potent issues. Fifty years later, this gives Jan an opportunity to scrutinize the material Fifty years on, we will experience this expressive anew. “I’m interested in not only what she and intimate voice that Jan will put “into body, covered and how she covered it, but also what flesh, and blood in space.” she missed,” Jan says. Nicole Serratore is is a freelance theater To look at those gaps and resonances, Jan is journalist and critic in New York City. creating a dynamic performance space which he hopes will incite conversation and collision © 2018 Brooklyn Academy of Music, Inc. All rights reserved. Photo: Lars Jan Securing BAM’s Future

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Kreatur | Sasha Waltz & Guests | Directed and CO-PRESENTED BY BAM AND MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP choreographed by Sasha Waltz | Nov 2—5 | OH Phantom Limb Company | With Jessica Grindstaff and Falling Out | Phantom Limb Company | Nov 7—10 Erik Sanko | In conjunction with Falling Out | Nov 2 at | HT Savage Winter | American Opera Projects and 10am | MM Pittsburgh Opera | Music by Douglas J. Cuomo | Dance with MMDG | In conjunction with The Hard Nut Directed by Jonathan Moore | Nov 7—10 | FS | Nov 3 at 2pm & 3pm | MM Circus: Wandering City | ETHEL | Directed by Grant Dorrance Dance| With Michelle Dorrance and Ephrat McDonald | Nov 14—17 | HT Asherie| In conjunction with Dorrance Dance | Nov 27 Interpassivities | Jesper Just | Nov 15—17 | FS Voyage of Time | Directed by Terrence Malick | at 2pm | MM Wordless Music Orchestra | Presented in association Making Your Own Rules | With Heidi Rodewald, Donna with Wordless Music | Nov 16 & 17 | OH DiNovelli, and Kevin Newbury | In conjunction with The Good Swimmer | Music by Heidi Rodewald | The Good Swimmer| Nov 30 at 11am | MM Libretto and lyrics by Donna DiNovelli | Directed by Kevin Newbury | Nov 28—Dec 1 | FS Separating Sound and Picture | With Lars Jan | In con- The White Album | By Joan Didion | Created by Lars junction with The White Album | Nov 30 at 2pm | MM Jan / Early Morning Opera | Nov 28—Dec 1 | HT BAMCINÉMATEK TALKS ALL IN BRC On the Force of Truth | In conjunction with Satyagra- Women at Work | Nov 2 -9 ha |With asha bandele, Tilde Björfors, and Anand Caribbean Film Series: Rude | Nov 7 Giridharadas | In conversation with Charles W. Mills | Random Acts Expanded: Terence Nance and Friends | Co-presented by BAM and the Onassis Cultural Center Nov 12—15 New York | Part of Speaking Truth to Power | Nov 1 at Screen Epiphanies: Terence Nance Presents Hollywood 6pm | FHS Shuffle| Nov 13 I hunger for you Post-Show Conversation | With Revival Run: Les rendez-vous d’Anna | Nov 16—22 Kimberly Bartosik and members of the company | Revival Run: Wanda | Nov 23—25 Nov 2, post-show | FLL Beyond the Canon: Wanda + Bonnie and Clyde | Nov 24 MET LIVE IN HD Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema | Nov 26— Nico Muhly’s Marnie | Nov 10 at 1pm | BRC Dec 2 Pre-screening lecture by Marc Scorca at 12pm VISUAL ART

Moving Body, Moving Study Event Featuring Readings by Lauren Bakst and Jesse Chun | Nov 13 at 7pm | FLL

BC=BAMcafé | BRC=BAM Rose Cinemas | FH=Fisher Hillman Studio | FLL=Fisher Lower Lobby | FS=Fishman Space (BAM Fisher) HT=BAM Harvey Theater | MM=Mark Morris Dance Center | OH=BAM Howard Gilman Opera House BAM Supporters & Patrons

BAM is deeply grateful to the supporters and patrons listed below for their vital gifts to BAM over the last year. (List represents gifts between July 1, 2017—August 30, 2018)

$5,000,000 and above Frances A. Resheske $25,000 to $49,999 Violet & Christopher Eagan $5,000 to $9,999 The Thompson Family The Jerome Robbins Roger Alcaly & Helen Bodian Estate Of Katherine Schrier Theresa Galvin & Mark Foundation Foundation, Inc. Rose M. Badgeley Residuary Fribourg Family Foundation Almeida New York City Department Jonathan F.P. & Diana Charitable Trust Steven J. Gartner The American Chai Trust of Cultural Affairs Calthorpe Rose Anne H. Bass Ms. Roberta Garza Takis C. Anoussis The City of New York—Bill The Morris and Alma The Bay and Paul Foundations GBRG, Inc. Joseph Baio de Blasio, Mayor Schapiro Fund Tony Bechara MaryAnne Gilmartin Daniel Baldini The New York City Council— The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Charles Hayden Foundation John M. Goldsmith David Bank & Jason R. Corey Johnson, Speaker Joseph and Sylvia Slifka Goldman Sachs Gives at Elaine Golin Stone The New York City Council— Foundation the direction of R. Martin Pamela Grace Barry Barbash BrooklynDelegation Brian Stafford & Céline Chavez Robert M. Greenberg & Estate of Benjamin Barber The New York City Council— Dufétel Jim Chervenak Corvova Choy Lee Ronald Baron Laurie A. Cumbo Axel Stawski & Galia Meiri Mr. & Mrs. Henry Henry B. & Karoly S. Gutman Alan L. Beller Stawski Christensen III The Marc Haas Foundation, Linda Berley $1,000,000 to The Joseph S. and Diane Pamela Codispoti & Mark Inc. Elaine S. Bernstein $4,999,999 H. Steinberg Charitable Habner Mr. & Mrs. Burton K. Haimes The Bloomingdale’s Fund of Howard Gilman Foundation Trust Constans Culver Foundation The Francena T. Harrison the Macy’s Foundation Jeanne Donovan Fisher Joseph A. Stern Ide & David Dangoor Foundation Trust Barbara & Christopher Brody Diane & Adam E. Max Theater Subdistrict Council Rohit and Katharine Desai Gilbert & Shelly Harrison Centerbridge Partners LP New York City Economic Tiger Baron Foundation Family Foundation The Jim Henson Foundation Beverly & Herbert Chase Development Corporation Time Warner Inc. The Dutch Performing Arts Cheryl Henson & Ed Finn Jaye Chen & Peter Brown The Robert W. Wilson Pedro Jose Torres & Cecilia Fund NL The DuBose and Dorothy Timothy & Carol Cole Charitable Trust Picon Estate Of Henry Christensen III Heyward Memorial Fund Greg Coleman Anonymous Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation Gotham Organization, Inc. Hilton Brooklyn New York The Aaron Copland Fund Robert L. Turner Charles J. & Irene F. Hamm Sophie Hughes for Music, Inc. $500,000 and above The Wall Street Journal Barbara Haws & William IATSE - Theatrical Stage Cowen Group Brooklyn Borough Josephson Employees Local 4 The Cowles Charitable Trust President’s Office—Eric $50,000 to $99,999 Penn & Diane Holsenbeck Consulate General of Israel Creative Artists Agency Adams The Achelis and Bodman Miriam Katowitz & Arthur Pamela Jackson Peter Davidson & Drew Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Radin Japan-US Friendship McGhee (The J.M. Foundation Jody & John Arnhold Dan & Abbe Klores Commission Kaplan Fund) Jerome L. Greene Foundation Jonathan & Jessika Auerbach John Lichtenstein J. J. Kasper Jr. Elizabeth & Matthew Denys The Rita and Alex Hillman Bank of America The Frederick Loewe Gene & Terry Kaufman The Dermot Company, Inc. Foundation Sarah Billinghurst & Foundation, Inc. Will & Prattana Kennedy Brooke Devine Goldman Sachs Gives at Howard Solomon Lorraine Lynch Alexander E. Kipka & Beth Rudin DeWoody the recommendation of Brooklyn Community David & Susan Marcinek Katherine Nintzel Dwight W. & Ann C. Ellis Anne Hubbard & Harvey Foundation MetLife Foundation Kameron M. Kordestani Henry & Kathy Elsesser Schwartz Chicago Community Mertz Gilmore Foundation Joan Kreiss Matthew Feldman Robin & Edgar Lampert Foundation Donald A. Pels Charitable Eileen M. Lach Nathaniel N. Felsher Stavros Niarchos Foundation Natasha Chefer & Joel Trust Solange Landau Linda & Gregory Fischbach PASNY Tompkins Marcel Przymusinski Leon Levy Foundation Britton & Melina Fisher The SHS Foundation Linda & Adam Chinn rag & bone The Bertha and Isaac Susan L. Foote & Stephen United States Department Citi Foundation Richenthal Foundation Liberman Foundation L. Feinberg of State, Bureau of Steven & Alexandra Cohen The River Café John Lipsky & Zsuzsanna Fox Searchlight Pictures Educational and Cultural Foundation Sarah & Spencer Robertson S. Karasz Mr. & Mrs. Austin T. Affairs Suzy & Anthony Davis May and Samuel Rudin M&T Bank Fragomen, Jr. Della Rosa Family Foundation Family Foundation, Inc. Susan & Morris Mark Laurie Garrett $250,000 to $499,000 The Gladys Krieble Delmas Bette & Richard Saltzman Medgar Evers College Gifts Ann and Gordon Getty Bloomberg Family Foundation Foundation The Scherman Foundation, and Grants Foundation Bloomberg Philanthropies Mark Diker & Deborah Colson Inc. Peter Mensch Nomi Ghez Foundation William I. Campbell & Yrthya Dinzey-Flores & Timothy & Julie Sebunya Moet Hennessy USA John N. & Gillett A. Gilbert Christine Wächter- Antonino D’Ambrosio Amy Sherman-Palladino Edward S. Moore Beth & Gary Allen Glynn Campbell Andre & Stephanie Dua Edward & Virginia Spilka Foundation June O. Goldberg JPMorgan Chase & Co. Epstein Teicher Simon Sinek Morgan Stanley The Grodzins Fund Thérèse M. Esperdy & Philanthropies Ellen & Sam Sporn Sanford Nager Scott & Ellen Hand Robert G. Neborak Steven & Susan Felsher The Harold and Mimi The O’Grady Foundation Peter & Beth Hammack The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Barry M. Fox Steinberg Charitable Trust Peck Stacpoole Foundation Jeanne Hardy Samuels Foundation, Inc. The Freeman Foundation William & Anne M. Tatlock Laura Pels International Pamela J. Hoiles First New York Partners William R. Kenan Jr. Anonymous Foundation for Theater Richard Hulbert Management Charitable Trust Pfizer Inc. The Hyde & Watson Judith R. & Alan H. Fishman The Emily Davie & Joseph $10,000 to $24,999 Maya Polsky Foundation Agnes Gund S. Kornfeld Foundation Jad Abumrad & Karla Murthy Katharine Rayner Scott & Viktoriia Irwin The Hearst Foundations, Inc. Philippe & Posey Krakowsky Academy of Motion Picture Red Bull Mark Jackson & Karen Stephanie & Timothy Ingrassia The Lepercq Charitable Arts and Sciences The Reed Foundation Hagberg James I. McLaren & Lawton Foundation The Aeroflex Foundation William D. & Susan Kahan JLRJ, Inc. W. Fitt Gary Lynch & Kate Hall AHBA, Inc. Rifkin Alan Jones & Ashley Garrett New York State Council on Scott C. McDonald American Express Max Rifkind-Barron Mary Kantor the Arts The Ambrose Monell Ameriprise Financial Mr. & Mrs. Theodore C. Christoph & Flora Kimmich Onassis Cultural Center NY Foundation Allan Arffa & Kay Matschullat Rogers David L. Klein, Jr. John L. & Eva Usdan Barbara & Richard Moore David Ashen Rolex SA Foundation Nora Ann Wallace & Jack Henry and Lucy Moses BNY Mellon The Late Robert S. Rubin Steven & Carolyn Kotler Nusbaum Fund, Inc. The Barker Welfare Anonymous Ruth & Sid Lapidus Anonymous National Endowment for Foundation Rena Shagan Maurice & Faith Lefkort the Arts The Howard Bayne Fund The Evelyn Sharp Foundation New York State Assembly— $100,000 to $249,999 Samuel I. Newhouse Nathaniel Beck & Karen Showtime Joseph R. Lentol Amazon Studios Foundation, Inc. Hackett Melanie & Joseph Shugart Garrick Leonard & Leslie Frances Bermanzohn & The Pinkerton Foundation Catrina Bentley & Carey Alfred & Stephanie Shuman Feder Alan Roseman Gabriel & Lindsay Pizzi R. Ramos Susan & Larry Sills Carol & Joel Levy The Brooklyn Hospital Center Renaissance Charitable Bergdorf Goodman, Inc. Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Marion Leydier Con Edison Foundation Inc. William & Margaret Berkley Fund Christopher Li Greci & Chubb Anna Kuzmik Sampas & Paula & Earl Black Trust for Mutual Robert Ohlerking Delta Air Lines George Sampas Mr. & Mrs. Tony Bowe Understanding Virginia Lovejoy Aashish & Dinyar Devitre Santander Brooklyn Daily Eagle Teresa Tsai The Lupin Foundation Dow Jones Foundation Bartholomew A. Sheehan & The Brooklyn Brewery Wendy vanden Heuvel Anne Mackinnon Robert and Mercedes Sheila A. Cain Gordon Caplan Iva Vukina Jerome Markowitz Eichholz Foundation In Memory of Robert Sklar Mr. Thomas Cerabino The Wasily Family Jan Marks Baisley Powell Elebash Fund Jennifer Small & Adam The Corinthian Foundation Foundation, Inc. Donna Marshall & Lee Ford Foundation Wolfensohn Cory Cruser White & Case LLP Marshall Forest City New York Starry Night Fund The Nathan Cummings James Wilentz & Robin John Martinez & Andrea The Harkness Foundation Douglas C. Steiner Foundation Maxwell Bozzo for Dance Viacom Joan K. Davidson (The J.M. WNYC Radio Constance & H. Roemer The Kovner Foundation John & Barbara Vogelstein Kaplan Fund) Richard C. Yancey McPhee Toby Devan Lewis Joseph LeRoy & Ann C. Elizabeth De Cuevas Barbara & David Zalaznick Robert and Joyce Menschel Grace Lyu-Volckhausen Warner Fund Emme & Jonathan Deland Pia & Jimmy Zankel Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Willkie Farr & Gallagher Tax and Phyllis Levin Anonymous (3) Joyce F. Menschel Foundation Department Joseph & Diana DiMenna Richard & Ronay Menschel National Grid Carol Yorke & Gerard Conn Craig Dykers BAM Supporters & Patrons

Darnell-Moser Charitable Carol & Chris Beemer James G. Croghan & Louis Christopher A. Noey & Jill Weinstein Fund Robert Belfer R. Hedgecock Ghiora Aharoni New York State Assembly— Jim & Iris Munson Carol Bellamy Diana Rhoten & John Michael Novodvorskiy Helene Weinstein Laura Naylor Serge Benchetrit Heilemann James C. & Marie Nugent- Deborah E. Wiley Linda & Stuart Nelson Carl & Judith Berg Jeffery Hentze Head Marlas David Wilf New England Foundation Howard & Judy Berkowitz Herrick, Feinstein LLP Dianne O’Donnell Elisabeth & Robert G. for the Arts’ National Barbara Berliner & Sol Dr. Arlene Heyman, MD Adam H. Offenhartz Wilmers Dance Project Rymer The William Talbott Hillman Bianca Maria Orlando & Richard Winger New England Foundation Denise Bernardo & Eddie Foundation William McGinty Devera & Michael Witkin for the Arts’ National Muentes Jeffrey & Barbara G. Hochman Jim & Mary Ottaway Jacqueline Woodson & Theater Project Thérèse D. Bernbach Mr. & Mrs. Peter M. Holbrook Nicole & Bruce Paisner Juliet Widoff Elyse & Michael Newhouse JJ & Michelle Berney Frank Holozubiec Dr. & Mrs. Rudolph Palmer WWW Foundation The New York City Suzanne Bernstein Dennis Hranitzky Gwenevere Parker Danielle Durchslag & Aamir Council—Alicka Ampry- Marie-Eve Berty Tom Huhn & Nancy Steele Lee Parks Wyne Esq. Samuel Karen Binder & Victor Ney Laura Hussey Estelle Parsons & Peter Kathleen Yoh The New York City Alison Blood Paul Hyun & Lily Chang Zimroth Michael Young & Debra Council—Stephen Levin Molly & Tom Boast Jan Inscho & Seymour Miles Robert H. Pees Raskin New York City Council – Mr. & Mrs. James Bodovitz Lois A. Jackson, D.D.S. Christopher & Fatima Peters Nancy Young Jumaane Williams Jill & Sheldon Bonovitz David & Amy Jaffe Daniel Porter & Melanie Judd Bird Bath & Beyond Pamela & Edward Pantzer David Boston Douglas Jaffe & Kristin Paul & Marjorie Possick Frank & Arrien Zinghini Paramount Pictures Dominique Bravo & Eric Heavey Paul & Margaret Poster Anonymous Diana & Gene Pinover Sloan Donna & Carroll Janis Vlad Preoteasa Jeffrey R. & Judith Brous Sandra Brinkert Susan & Stephen Jeffries Michael Pride $1,500 to $2,499 Poss Broadway Stages David Johnson Nadezhda Pryadko & New York State Assembly— Rajika & Anupam Puri Virginia Brody Randy & Mill Jonakait Matthew Daniel Peter Abbate William C. Rudin Brooklyn Gin Barbara Julius & Marc Leslie & David Puth Hani Abouhalka Thomas & Georgina Russo John & Michelle Brooks Silberberg The Quebec Government Nora Abousteit & Joshua S&P Global Andrew Brown Julia Kahr & Brian Colton Office in New York Ramo Milton T. Schaeffer Anonymous Alex & Ada Katz Maureen Raley Brice Acosta Sarah I. Schieffelin Angela Bucknell Aaron & Jacquie Katzel Bridget Read Caroline P. Addison Residuary Trust Monica Byrczek Susan Kellman Peter & Susan Restler Lindsey Adelman Amy W. Schulman & David Carolina Carvalho-Cross & Margot Kenly & Bill Cumming Stephanie Ribakoff Derek & Noreen Adler E. Nachman Spencer Cross Chin Kim Juergen Riehm & Jody Howard & Roberta Ahmanson Fred & Robin Seegal Robert & Joan Catell Helen Kim-Bordes Oberfelder June & Ron Ahrens Steven A. & Luba Seidman Joyce E. Chelberg Tori Klein The Rodgers & Keira Alexandra Lucynda & Dan Shefter Neil & Kathleen Chrisman Alan & Susan Kolod Hammerstein James B. Anderson & Dror Loren & Marlene Skeist Jennifer Chu Eric & Sharone Komaroff Organization Katzir Ellynne Skove Geoffrey E. Clark, M.D. Beth Korein Mace Rosenstein & Louise Stephanie Ansin & Spencer Brian Snyder William & Marjorie Coleman Bennette Kramer & Eliot Long de la Fuente Stewart Dr. Rogelio Sosnik & Dr. Mr. John Colton & Ms. Bill Kramer & Peter Cipkowski Beverly & William Rosoff Milton & Sally Avery Arts Irene Cairo Catherine Colton Jay Kriegel & Kathryn James & Eliza Rossman Foundation The Bernard and Anne Ranny Cooper & David Smith McAuliffe (Tides Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP S. J. Avery Spitzer Charitable Trust Breukelein Institute/Dennis Foundation) William Ryall Ajay & Sonya Ayyappan Glenn Stiskal & Andy Lupin Corrado Miodrag Kukrika Jack Sanderson Stephen & Ellie Backer Tom & Wendy Stephenson The Criterion Collection Peter & Karen Labbat Anthony Schlesinger & Michael Bailey & Latheisha Stop & Stor Charitable Fund Sebastian Cucullu Hugh & Betsy Lamle Anne Forward Legree Michael M. Thomas Gordon J. Davis Foundation Miriam Schneider Olga Baly Alice M. & Thomas J. Tisch Monique Y. Davis Drs. Robert Langan & Sara Pat Schoenfeld Shepard Barbash & Vicki Foundation Sabina Daley Deaton & L. Weber Ellen Schonfeld Ragan Jane & Robert Toll Adam Deaton Judith A. Langer Ralf Schwieger Nancy Barber Neil & Elizabeth Townsend Martha DeRight & Erich Richard Ledes John Schwolsky Wilhelmina Barker Vanetta Vancak Bechtel Helena Lee & Richard Klapper Dr. & Mrs. Thomas P. Sculco Ms. Monica Barrett & Ms. Phyllis Wallace Diana Diamond & John Janice Lee & Stuart Shapiro Jerry & Marsha Seslowe Alexis Frazier Leigh & Robin Walters Alschuler Roseanne Legrand Ann Settel Jeffrey Bauman Earl D. Weiner Stephen E. & Martha Bakos Jonathan E. Lehman Michael Shea & Armen Barbara Becker & Chad Martin Weinstein Dietz Barbara Lemperly Grant Marsoobian Gallant The Levy-Westhead Family Rose DiMartino François & Calleen Vivien & Michael Shelanski Serge Becker Nathaniel White Donna & Mitchell Drach Letaconnoux Ted & Mary Jo Shen Koren Bell Francis H. 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Levin John & Martha Watts Victoria Carey Martine Beamon & Eddie Justin Haythe & Muriel Margery Neale Seymour & Kate Weingarten Louanna Carlin & Jane Joyce Soenens Charlene Magen Weinstein Hamburger Fisher

The Richard B. The Richard B. Next Wave Award Each year, members of the Fisher family help BAM select a recipient who best exemplifies Dick’s forward-thinking ethos and passion for the arts, using this opportunity to celebrate Richard B. Fisher in perpetuity. Past recipients have included Pina Bausch, Charles Mee, Bill T. Jones, Robert Wilson, Mark Morris, Kronos Quartet, Anne Bogart, Fiona Shaw, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, James Thierrée, David Lang and Ivo van Hove. The 2018 Richard B. Fisher Next Wave Award honors BAM Executive Producer Joseph V. Melillo for his 35 years of visionary leadership.

Joe began his journey at BAM when Harvey Lichtenstein hired him to curate the first Next Wave Festival in 1983. That year’s festival Photo of Richard B. Fisher: Bill Ray Photo of Richard B. Fisher: included works by Philip Glass, Trisha Brown, Behind great arts presenters are great supporters, and Lucinda Childs—artists who would later and few of BAM’s friends have deserved that title define Joe’s singular legacy. In his over three- more than Richard B. Fisher (1936—2004). A decade tenure at BAM, Joe has provided a global visionary in both professional and philanthropic platform for more than 7,000 artists from more endeavors, Dick championed the creation of a than 45 countries. Through his longstanding strong endowment to enable BAM to continue commitment to excellence and innovation presenting its signature groundbreaking across artistic disciplines, he has immeasurably programming, even in difficult times. changed the way we look at the As Chairman of the BAM Endowment Trust from performing arts. 1992—2004, Dick shared financial expertise from years as president, chairman, and chairman emeritus of Morgan Stanley. Dick’s generosity throughout his life continued even after his passing in the form of a landmark bequest. To honor Dick’s friendship to BAM and recognize the legacy of progressive arts presentations he helped ensure in Brooklyn, BAM inaugurated the annual Photo of Joseph V. Melillo : Jesse Winter Richard B. Fisher Next Wave Award in 2006. BAM Supporters & Patrons

Brendan Carney I. Michael Goodman & Drs. John & Judie LaRosa Ilana Pachter & William Wynn John Sorensen-Jolink & Marie Carney Judith Uman Marcelle Lashley-Kabore & Meredith Palmer Fabien Dubuet Mary Ellen Cashman Bindhu Gopalan Sougrinoma Kabore Cheryl Paradis & Gene Jonathan & Jennifer Soros Elizabeth & John Caulk Erwin Gorostiza Jess Latham McCullough Ellen Sorrin Keisha A. Chamberlain & David & Elaine Gould Raymond Learsy Kirk & Sue Patrick André Spears & Anne Rosen Mathieu S. Chamberlain Andre Gouvea Matthew & Sabrina Leblanc Steven Pavlakis & Bonnie David Spears Tzili Charney Stephen R. Greenwald & Danielle Ledford Messing Joseph Spiegel Lori Chemla & Shelley Rebecca A. Sullivan Michael Lee Martin H. Peretz Shirley Staples & Donald Sonnenberg The Green-Wood Cemetery Almudena & Pablo Alexandra & Frederick Peters Vangel Annie Clayton Mimi & Bill Grinker Legorreta Antonia Pew Sarah Stasny John Colborn Bill Grogan Sue Lehmann Andrew Pinkowitz & Mary Jillian Steadman Joanna Cole & Jonathan Cole Mark Groves & Ross Nehm Bruce Leibstone Pinkowitz Gillian Steel Michele & Terry Cone Gunilla Haac Susana Leval Anne Pollack Joshua Sternoff & Rebecca Lois Conway Helen & Peter Haje Michael Levesque Richard Porteous & Sara Gradinger Kimberly Cooper Patricia Hallstein & Axel Dominique Levy Meadows Christopher Stewart Michael Cox & Zach Fannin Kramer Marcia & William Levy Sandra Pierson Prior Katherine Stinson Peter & Mary Coy Cynthia Hammond & Marley Lewis Kent Rahman Gail Stone & Matt Fishbein Stuart D. Freedman & Carla Joseph Samulski Seen Lippert & Frederick Zach Rait Joshua Storck E. 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Brooklyn Academy of Music Natalia Chefer David L. Picket Lori H. Luis, Rep. for Hon. BAM Endowment Trust Linda Chinn Frances A. Resheske Eric Adams Chair Chairman of the Board Pamela A. Codispoti Jonathan F.P. Rose Chris Coffey, Rep. for Hon. Gabriel Pizzi Adam E. Max Dr. Rudolph F. Crew Anna Kuzmik Sampas Corey Johnson Suzy Franczak Davis Alberto Sanchez Treasurer Vice Chairman of the Board Cheryl Della Rosa Timothy Sebunya Chairmen Emeriti Keith Stubblefield William I. Campbell Dinyar S. Devitre Bartholomew A. Sheehan III Neil D. Chrisman Mark N. Diker Brian Stafford Seth S. Faison * Members President Yrthya Dinzey-Flores Axel Stawski Alan H. Fishman William A. Douglass III Katy Clark Andre Dua Doug Steiner Bruce C. Ratner Steven G. Felsher Thérèse M. Esperdy Joseph A. Stern Alan H. Fishman Secretary Richard E. Feldman Alexa Davidson Suskin Honorary Trustees Elizabeth Holtzman Joseph V. Melillo Steven G. Felsher Pedro J. Torres Beth Rudin DeWoody Alberto Sanchez Jeanne Donovan Fisher John L. Usdan Mallory Factor Timothy Sebunya Treasurer Barry M. Fox Brigitte Vosse Robert L. Forbes R. Edward Spilka James I. McLaren MaryAnne Gilmartin Nora Ann Wallace Charles J. Hamm Nora Ann Wallace Robert M. Greenberg Adam Wolfensohn Barbara B. Haws Adam E. Max, Ex Officio Presidents Emeriti Anoushka Healy Claire Wood William Josephson James I. McLaren, Ex Officio Karen Brooks Hopkins G. Penn Holsenbeck Mary Kantor Harvey Lichtenstein * Anne Hubbard Ex Officio John Lipsky *in memoriam Daniel A. Klores Hon. Bill de Blasio Laurie Mallet Members Philippe Krakowsky Hon. Corey Johnson Cathy-Ann Martine-Dolecki Jonathan S. Auerbach Edgar A. Lampert Hon. Eric L. Adams David L. Ramsay, M.D., Tony Bechara Gary Lynch Hon. Tom Finkelpearl M.Ed. Fran Bermanzohn Lorraine Lynch Emma Wolfe, Rep. for Hon. Elaine Weinstein Gordon Bowen Ahrin Mishan Bill de Blasio Hon. Franklin R. Weissberg

BAM Staff

Katy Clark, President ARCHIVES Samuel Denitz, GM Supervisor Paloma Estévez, Audrey Rosenblith, Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Sharon Lehner, Director of Archives Cady Knoll, Operations & Rentals Artist Services Representatives Producer Louie Fleck, Archives Manager Manager, BAM Fisher David Binder, Artistic Director Evelyn Shunaman, Processing Sarah Kelly Konig, Admin. Asst. SECURITY Designate Archivist Scott Shaw, Security Director Coco Killingsworth, Vice President Anita Goss, Volunteer Librarian PRODUCTION Bobby Arnold, Asst. Security of Education & Community Denis Azaro, Volunteer R. Michael Blanco, Director of Manager Engagement Mackeba Braham, Intern Production Shaunte Snipes, Admin. Coordinator Bill Kramer, Vice President of Dylan Nachand, Production Manager Collie Dean, Supervising Attendant Development BAM ROSE CINEMAS Collin Costa, Production Manager, Guard John Lanasa, Vice President of Gina Duncan, Assoc. Vice Fisher Building Kenneth Aguillera, Michael Whyte, Marketing & Communications President, Cinema Paul Bartlett, Senior Production Senior Attendant Guards Patrick J. Scully, Vice President & BAMCINÉMATEK Supervisor Juan Lebron, Lead Guard General Manager Ashley Clark, Senior Repertory Ryan Gastelum, Olivia O’Brien, Marlon Desouza, Yasmin Diaz, Keith Stubblefield,Chief Financial Film Programmer Brian Sciarra, Courtney Wrenn, Kevin Lemon, Teonia Smith, Andel Officer and iceV President of Jesse Trussell, Repertory Film Production Supervisors Thomas, Kelly Wheaton, Attendant Finance & Administration Programmer Tony Crawford, Palmer Johnston, Guards Ryan Werner, Programmer at Large Laura Williams, Production PRESIDENT’S OFFICE Natalie Erazo, Department Coordinators THEATER MANAGEMENT Michael Doyle, Manager Coordinator Bianca Davies, Admin. Coordinator Christine M. Gruder, Theater Andrea Montesdeoca, CINEMA OPERATIONS Claire Gresing, Production Intern Manager Administrative Asst. Efi Shahar,Cinema Executive Kourtney Charles, Melo Davis, John L. Jones, Assoc. Theater Manager Samuel Ravelo, Fellows in Manager BOARD RELATIONS Jesse Green, BAM Cinema Stagecraft Sonia Clayton, Jacqueline David, Alexandra Biss, Director of Board Technical Manager Leroy Houston, Theater Staff Relations Michael Katz, Projectionist STAGE CREW Supervisors Alison Midgley, Board Relations Assoc. Adam Goldberg, Asst. Manager Thomas Paulucci, Crew Chief Andreea Drogeanu, Anthony Oscar Gruchalski, Head Carpenter, EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY HUMAN RESOURCES Shields Jr., Patrece Stewart, OH ENGAGEMENT Seth Azizollahoff, Assoc. Vice Head Floor Staff John Manderbach, Head Electrician, OPERATIONS President, HR OH Shana Parker, Director of Samara Alexander, Assoc. Director, HUMANITIES Nicholas Varacalli, Master of Operation HR Molly Silberberg, Assoc. Director, Properties, OH Jennifer Leeson, Senior Operations Cynthia Smith, Payroll Manager Humanities Marc Putz, Sound Engineer, OH Manager Alexis Boehmler, Benefits Manager Lucy Petropoulos, Humanities Wayne Brusseau, Asst. Carpenter, Sommer McCoy, Operations Gerard Franco, HR Coordinator Assistant OH Manager Courtney Best, Administrative Asst. James Kehoe, Head Carpenter, HT Leo Paredes, Operations VISUAL ART Joseph Werner III, Asst. Carpenter, HT, Coordinator ARTISTIC PROGRAMMING Holly Shen, Curator of Visual Arts Chris Wilenta, Head Electrician, HT Zunairis Velazquez, Education Stonie Darling, Assoc. Director, Alli Arnold, Visual Arts Development Sean Kelly, Asst, Sound & Video Operations Intern Artistic Programming Dept. & Sales Manager Edward Donohue, Master of Juan Pablo Siles, Manager of Morgan King, Program Asst. Properties, HT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Artistic Planning Alison Dabdoub, Sound Engineer, HT Schawannah Wright, Director of GENERAL MANAGEMENT Tom Holler, Richard Wurzbach, Community Programs PROGRAMS & CURATORIAL Alexander Orbovich, Assoc. Utility Men Dewonnie Frederick, Community Amy Cassello, Producer General Manager Ginger Blake, Wardrobe Supervisor Affairs & Bazaar Manager Sarah Horne, DanceMotion USASM Liz Zieminski, Director, GM Patricia Fogah, Community Affairs Project Director Budgets & Contracts ARTIST SERVICES & Bazaar Asst. Danny Kapilian, Producer, R&B Jaclyn Bouton, Senior Project Mary Reilly, Director of Artist Services Festival, MetroTech Manager Stacey Dinner, Artist Services EDUCATION FAMILY PROGRAMS Steven Serafin,Special Consultant; Liana Agredo, Project Manager Manager Steven McIntosh, Director of Editor, BAM: The Complete Works Jimmy Walden, Budget & Contract Britney Polites, Artist Services Education & Family Programs & BAM: The Next Wave Festival Manager Representative Ava Kinsey, Assoc. Director of Johanie Olivero, Project Supervisor Education BAM Staff

Eveline Chang, Mikal Lee, Verushka Natalia Flores, Graphic Design Stephanie Caragliano, Institutional Allan Boyce, Calvin Brackett, Wray, Program Managers Intern Giving Manager Ronald Hunter, Maintainers Sasha Metcalf, Program Analyst | DIGITAL MEDIA Emma Kilroy, Institutional Carl Blango, Asst. Maintainer Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow Aaron Weibel, Director of Digital Giving Asst. Quincy Simmons, Education Production CUSTODIAL SERVICES Asst./BOLD Fellow Nico Dodd, Manager of Email MAJOR GIFTS & PATRON Ramon Cabassa, Custodial Operations PROGRAMS Supervisor LEAD INSTRUCTORS Sarah Hayes, Manager of Website Stacy Margolis, Assoc. VP of Derrek Demary, Jean Smith, Lead Jennifer Armas, Mtume Gant, Operations Major Gifts & Patron Programs Custodians Arts & Justice Alison Kozol, Manager of Digital Ramzi Awn, Director of Patron Yossess Allen, Ludlow Jenny Rocha, Dancing into the Operations Services Chamberlain, Isaias Flores, Future Barbara Cummings, Director of Mayra Guillen, Ron Rathan, Michael LoMonico, Shakespeare AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT & Development Akeon Thomas, Jerry Wright, Teaches Teachers MARKETING Maayan Dauber, Director of Custodians Lonnie Woods III, Brooklyn Charlotte Levitt, Director of Audience Patron Programs Interns for Arts and Culture Development & Marketing William Lynch, Director of FINANCE Instructor Raphaele de Boisblanc, Assoc. Leadership Giving & Special Kozue Oshiro, Controller Director of Marketing Projects Tameka White, Asst. Controller TEACHING ARTISTS Allison Kadin, Senior Marketing Michael Kendrick, Senior Claudia Bailey, Adam Sachs, Raquel Almazan, Gideon Bautista, Manager Manager of Patron Services & Assoc. Directors of Finance Morris Beasley, Rebecca Bliss, Stacey Sharlene Chiu, Senior Manager, Donor Relations Brian Gee, Accounting Manager Bone Gleason, Mahogany Brown, Audience Development & Jessica Hindle, Patron Services Tyler Cleveland, Staff Accountant Melissa Brown, Chia-Ti Chiu, Darian Insights Manager Heli Soell, Budget Analyst Dauchan, Harris Eisenstadt, Imani Vilina Phan, Marketing Manager Deema Salem, Patron Programs Chaya Coppersmith, AP Faye, Okai Fleurimont, Kimani Fowlin, Lori Zakalik, Senior Cinema Manager Administrator Samara Gaev, Ingrid Gordon, Pat Hall, Marketing Manager Jesse Rose-Pulitzer, Major Gifts & Meaghan McLaughlin, Fiscal Chelsea Harrison, Mel House, Albert Andrew Rubenbauer, Marketing Patron Programs Asst. Coordinator Iturregui-Elias, Devin Kawaoka, Abigail Manager, Development Meredith Kelly, Patron Services Paige Haroldson, Finance Asst. Levine, Spencer Lott, GV Maldonado, Shamim Hossain, Advertising Intern Farai Malianga, WT McRae, Anthony Coordinator INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Merchant, Elia Monte Brown, Anna Troester, Marketing Coordinator, MEMBERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT William Allen Lee III, Assoc. Michael Mullen, Janet Onyenucheya, Education & Community OPERATIONS Vice President of Information Pamela Patrick, Mike Ramsey, Lindsay Brayton, Marketing & Claire Charlesworth, Director of Technology Gwenyth Reitz, Efeya Sampson, Publicity Asst. Membership & Development Jason Q. Minnis, Assoc. Director, Victor Sanchez, Jashua SaRa, Billy Jasmine Blake-Swaby, Content Operations IT Development Schultz, Lauren Sharpe, Jen Shirley, Strategy Intern J Olson, Assoc. Director, Ira Sibulkin, Assoc. Director, IT Elizabeth Simmons, Marcus Smalls, Development Operations & Technical Services Šara Stranovsky, Taylor Steele, Karen TICKET SERVICES Analytics Svetlana Mikhalevskaya, Thornton-Daniels, Jono Waldman, G. Scott Kubovsak, Director of Travis Calvert, Senior Manager, Database Developer Sarah Wansley, Adia Whitaker, Todd Ticket Services Budget & Operations Matthew Taylor, Senior Web Woodard Kevin McLoughlin, Head Treasurer Cheryl Miller, Membership Developer Russell Grier, First Asst. Treasurer Manager Benjamin James, Andrei Iliescu, MARKETING & Victor Jouvert, Charlie Dolce, Kyle Elizabeth Sarkady, Project Man- Web Developers COMMUNICATIONS Williams, Asst. Treasurers ager, Crediting & Operations Jersy Rodriguez, Technical Ece Ozaman, Admin. Asst. to VP of Royda C. Venture, Assoc. Director, Richard Serrano, Research Manager Support Manager Marketing & Communications Ticket Services Bruce Smolanoff, Assoc. Director, Tamar Audate, Technical Support Britt Aronovich, Marketing Georgina Richardson, Customer Telefund Manager Tech Revenue Manager Care Manager Steven Knudsen, Development Susan Bishop, Admin. Coordinator Frank Marsilio, Marketing Latasha McNeil, Asst. Manager Operations Coordinator Kenneth Flores, Senior Desktop Operations Manager Ryan Mauldin, Ticket Services Emily Searles, Membership Asst. Analyst Coordinator Lucas Austin, Rafael Iglesias, COMMUNICATIONS Miranda Gauvin, Ticket Services SPECIAL EVENTS Desktop Analysts Sandy Sawotka, Director of Senior Representative James Vause, Special Events Communications Saul Almiachev, Anaïs Blin, Director INSTITUTIONAL ADVOCACY Sarah Garvey, Assoc. Director Shadell Brown, Lucca Damilano, Grace Eubank, Special Events Ellen Leszynski, Senior of Publicity Justin Dash, Robert Ebanks, Manager Manager Susan Yung, Senior Editorial Greg Garner, Liana Jackson, Gina Dyches, Special Events Katerina Patouri, Capital Projects Manager Andy Mines, Warren Ng, Coordinator & Government Affairs Manager David Hsieh, Publicity Manager Edward Raube-Wilson, Angela Hector Rios, Special Events Asst. Maureen Masters, Cinema Romualdez, Allyson Steele, Audience Research & Analysis Publicity Manager Noel Vega, Ticket FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION George A. Wachtel James Sutton, Publications Asst. Services Representatives CAPITAL PROJECTS Bookseller Jonathan Jones, Director, Capital Greenlight Bookstore CREATIVE SERVICES DEVELOPMENT Projects European Production Representative Andrew Sloat, Creative Director Olivia Jacobs, Admin. Asst. to Daniel Costa, Capital Projects On Tour Ltd., Roger Chapman Patrick Morin, Assoc. Director the VP of Development Manager of Design Film Buyer Joseph Kaplan, Alison Whitworth, CORPORATE RELATIONS & FACILITIES MANAGEMENT Adam Birnbaum Designers SPONSORSHIP James Boese, Director of Facilities Immigration Counsel Ben Katz, Video Producer Chantal Bernard, Director of Lynn Alexander, Facilities Manager Jonathan Ginsburg, Fettman, Kaitlyn Chandler, Video Editor & Corporate Relations & Danny Jiang, Engineering Project Tolchin and Majors, PC Motion Designer Sponsorship Manager Andi Floyd, Blue Skies Joseph Barglowski, Video Editor Rebecca Carew, Associate Director Markee Glover, Logistical Services Immigrations Services, LLC Dorothea Trufelman, Asst. Video of Corporate Partnerships & Coordinator Insurance Broker Editor Sponsorships Ronald Jones, Admin. Coordinator Dewitt Stern Jenny Choi, Publications Manager Mari Ogino, Corporate Relations & Joshua Allen, Ahmad Ghany, Raul Charity Coleman, Farah Haidari, Sponsorship Manager Gotay, Ron Hayes, Anthony Sam, Medical Consultants Copywriters Clara Hung, Sponsorship. Asst. Building Services Assocs. Ahmar Butt, MD Kati Rehbeck, Creative Services General Counsel Project Coordinator INSTITUTIONAL GIVING BUILDING MAINTENANCE Mark Jackson Annie Heath, Creative Services Clemente Luna, Director of Anthony Shields, Maintenance Restaurateur Asst. Institutional Giving Supervisor Great Performances Mariana Sanchez Bueno, Video Kailin Husayko, Assoc. Director Steve McDowell, Lead Intern of Institutional Giving Maintenance Technician Aug 1, 2018