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January 2020 | Volume 39, No. 5 CHAIR VICE PRESIDENT TREASURER Amy Bautista Adam Cornell Kevin Millison Kosmos Management Snohomish Co. Boeing Commercial Airplanes Prosecuting Attorney PRESIDENT SECRETARY Stellman Keehnel VICE PRESIDENT Juli Farris DLA Piper LLP (US) Karen Fletcher Keller Rohrback LLP Civic Leader VICE PRESIDENT/ PAST CHAIR PRESIDENT-ELECT VICE PRESIDENT John Keegan Sandy McDade Becky Lenaburg Civic Leader Civic Leader Microsoft Corporation

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Scottland Glenn Terri Olson Miller Braden Abraham† Kantor Taylor PC Civic Leader Seattle Rep TABLE OF CONTENTS Earle J. Hereford Carla Millage Clodagh Ash‡ Kutcher Hereford Bertram Civic Leader About the Show ...... 7 Civic Leader Burkart Brown & Cashman PLLC Lisa Oratz Meet the Cast ...... 8 Susan Ashmun MANAGING DIRECTOR Perkins Coie Civic Leader Jeffrey Herrmann† From the Artistic Director .. 12 Seattle Rep Rebecca Pomering Matthew Bergman Moss Adams Wealth Advisors LLC Beyond the Stage ...... 13 Bergman Draper Oslund Alyssa Hochman Point B Anita Ramasastry Donor Recognition ...... 19 Jarvis Bowers University of Washington Holland America Winky Hussey Civic Leader Tim Rattigan EDITOR-IN-CHIEF CREATIVE DIRECTOR Lynne Bush Citigroup Global Markets Inc. Noelle McCabe Angela Nickerson Civic Leader Bruce E.H. Johnson Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP Anne Simpson COMMUNICATIONS GRAPHIC DESIGNER Debra A. Canales Civic Leader DIRECTOR Sayed Alamy Providence Health & Services Deborah T. Killinger Christian Barclay Civic Leader Richard B. Stead, M.D. Oneika Cassanova Bio-Pharma Consulting Services LLC U.S. Bank PAUL HEPPNER President Gwenann Kroon Civic Leader SRT FOUNDATION MIKE HATHAWAY Senior Vice President Elizabeth Choy, M.D. REPRESENTATIVE † KAJSA PUCKETT Vice President, Civic Leader Mandy Leifheit Carlyn Steiner Sales & Marketing Microsoft Corporation Civic Leader Donna M. Cochener GENAY GENEREUX Accounting & HomeStreet Bank Marko Liias John Stilin Office Manager Washington State Senator – Civic Leader SRO REPRESENTATIVE 21st District Production Diane Cody† Janice Tsai SUSAN PETERSON Vice President, Production Civic Leader Charlotte Lin Mozilla JENNIFER SUGDEN Assistant Production Civic Leader Manager Jim Copacino Marisa Walker Copacino+Fujikado, LLC SRO PRESIDENT Baird Private Wealth Management ANA ALVIRA, STEVIE VAN BRONKHORST † Production Artists and Graphic Designers Sandra Lucas Tracy Daw Civic Leader Nancy Ward Funko, LLC The World Justice Project Sales Marcella McCaffray MARILYN KALLINS, TERRI REED † Dottie Delaney Civic Leader Tom Wright San Francisco/Bay Area Account Executives Civic Leader Filmmaker BRIEANNA HANSEN, SHERRI JARVEY, Rick McMichael ANN MANNING Seattle Area Donte Felder Civic Leader Account Executives Seattle Public Schools CAROL YIP Sales Coordinator Marketing SHAUN SWICK Brand & Creative Manager CIARA CAYA Marketing Coordinator Trustees Jill Watkins Tricia Pearson SRT Emeriti Shauna Woods Andy Peet Foundation David Schneiderman Encore Media Group Pam Anderson Board * An employee of 10 or more years. Advisory Paul Stamnes 425 North 85th Street • Seattle, WA 98103 ** An employee of 20 or more years. Robert S. Cline Marty Taucher Bruce E.H. Johnson Bold Member of Senior Leadership Team Council 800.308.2898 • 206.443.0445 Bill Gates, Sr. Savanna Thompson Chair [email protected] John Hempelmann Dr. Laila Abdalla Moya Vazquez CHRIS BENNION Toni Hoffman Kenny Alhadeff Carlyn Steiner encoremediagroup.com Jane Zalutsky Brent Johnson Marleen Alhadeff Vice-Chair Robert L. King, Jr. Virginia Anderson Amy Bautista† Encore Arts Programs and Encore Stages are published H.L. (Skip) Kotkins, Jr. Cindy Domingo Honorary Margaret Clapp monthly by Encore Media Group to serve performing arts Lynn Manley Joanne Euster Trustees events in the San Francisco Bay Area and Greater Seattle Allan Davis Ilse Oles Area. All rights reserved. ©2019 Encore Media Group. Carver Gayton Chap Alvord Stellman Keehnel† Ann Ramsay-Jenkins Reproduction without written permission is prohibited. Tiffany Gorton Joan Cremin Terri Olson Miller Deborah Rosen Jerry Gronfein Bill Franklin Kevin Millison† Stanley Savage Mary Kay Haggard Phil McCune Elizabeth D. Rudolf Carlyn Steiner Nancy Iannucci Nancy Mertel Janet True Janet True Nathan Ill Robin Nelson Shauna Woods Yaegel T. Welch and Warner Miller in James F. Tune Chris Kevorkian Tammy Talman The Brothers Size (2011) Jean Viereck Jeff Payne Hal Strong † ex-officio ‡ deceased 2 JANUARY 2020 Board of Trustees

CHAIR VICE PRESIDENT TREASURER Amy Bautista Adam Cornell Kevin Millison Kosmos Management Snohomish Co. Boeing Commercial Airplanes Prosecuting Attorney PRESIDENT SECRETARY Stellman Keehnel VICE PRESIDENT Juli Farris DLA Piper LLP (US) Karen Fletcher Keller Rohrback LLP Civic Leader VICE PRESIDENT/ PAST CHAIR PRESIDENT-ELECT VICE PRESIDENT John Keegan Sandy McDade Becky Lenaburg Civic Leader Civic Leader Microsoft Corporation

Trustees Jill Watkins Tricia Pearson SRT Emeriti Shauna Woods Andy Peet Foundation David Schneiderman Pam Anderson Board * An employee of 10 or more years. Advisory Paul Stamnes ** An employee of 20 or more years. Robert S. Cline Marty Taucher Bruce E.H. Johnson Bold Member of Senior Leadership Team Council Bill Gates, Sr. Savanna Thompson Chair John Hempelmann Dr. Laila Abdalla Moya Vazquez CHRIS BENNION Carlyn Steiner Toni Hoffman Kenny Alhadeff Jane Zalutsky Brent Johnson Marleen Alhadeff Vice-Chair Robert L. King, Jr. Virginia Anderson Amy Bautista† H.L. (Skip) Kotkins, Jr. Cindy Domingo Honorary Margaret Clapp Lynn Manley Joanne Euster Trustees Allan Davis Ilse Oles Carver Gayton Chap Alvord Stellman Keehnel† Ann Ramsay-Jenkins Tiffany Gorton Joan Cremin Terri Olson Miller Deborah Rosen Jerry Gronfein Bill Franklin Kevin Millison† Stanley Savage Mary Kay Haggard Phil McCune Elizabeth D. Rudolf Carlyn Steiner Nancy Iannucci Nancy Mertel Janet True Janet True Nathan Ill Robin Nelson Shauna Woods Yaegel T. Welch and Warner Miller in James F. Tune Chris Kevorkian Tammy Talman The Brothers Size (2011) Jean Viereck Jeff Payne Hal Strong † ex-officio ‡ deceased encorespotlight.com 3 For Our Patrons Current Funders List as of December 2019 Theatre Forward advances American theater and its communities by providing funding and other resources to Seattle Rep and other leading nonprofit theaters. Theatre Forward and its member theaters are most Mission location to the house grateful to the following funders: manager if you expect to Seattle Rep collaborates be contacted. with extraordinary artists $50,000 and Above Alan & Jennifer Freedman* ♦ John Gore Organization to create productions Accessibility AT&T ♦ Floyd Green and programs that reflect Wheelchair-accessible Bank of America• Roe Green* and elevate the diverse Richard K. Greene cultures, perspectives, and ticketing available. Inquire Pamela Farr & Buford Alexander Nancy Hancock Griffith* ♦ life experiences of with the Patron Services Joyce & Gregory Hurst our region. Office when you purchase Citi Mary Kitchen & Jon Orszag* your ticket. Robin and Bob Paulson The Schloss Family Charitable Fund Vision Foundation ♦• Seattle Rep is equipped Rando Santa Fe Foundation Sanderson Donor Advised Theater at the heart with a hearing loop which Wells Fargo ♦ Fund of public life. uses a wireless signal to Donna & Jack Sennott* transmit the sound from $25,000-$49,999 John Thomopoulos Values the theater’s PA system to The Augustine Foundation ♦ Terrence P. Yanni Artistic Vitality the T-coils in your cochlear BNY Mellon Sustainability implant or hearing aid, Cognizant $2,500-$4,999 Generous and Inclusive and to receivers that Dorsey & Whitney LLP Joe Baio & Anne Griffin* are available on loan at Sheri and Les Biller Practices Goldman, Sachs & Co. Coat Check. Coverage is Foundation provided wherever you see MetLife Christopher Campbell Morgan Stanley Nicole Clay the T-coil symbol. Mary Beth Winslow & Welcome! Bill Darby* We offer select $15,000-$24,999 Dewitt Stern Seattle Rep is committed captioned, audio- American Express Christ Economos* to being a racially, described, and ASL- Mitchell J. Auslander / Lucy Fato & Matt Detmer* culturally, and socially interpreted performances. Willkie Farr & Gallagher ♦ Steven & Donna Gartner* ♦ Bloomberg Philanthropies just organization. We Large-print programs Jessica Farr ♦ Steven & Joy Bunson ♦ promote equity, diversity, available at Coat Check. Libshap Realty Corporation and inclusion in all aspects Paula A. Dominick Louise Moriarty & The Estée Lauder Companies Patrick Stack * of the work we do, and Firearms & Smoking Inc. Frank & Bonnie Orlowski uphold a safe environment Bruce R. & Tracey Ewing Robert A. Rosenbaum wherein all people are Firearms are not allowed EY Daryl & Steven Roth welcome to our space and in any part of the building. Mr. Anthony C. Lembke & Foundation ♦ Ms. Diane S. Lembke* Encore Ad are treated with respect Smoking is not allowed in ♦ David Schwartz & Marsh & McLennan Amy Langer* our building or within 25 and dignity. Companies, Inc. Stephanie Scott ♦ feet of any entrance. Pfizer, Inc. Elliott Sernel & Larry Jonathan Maurer & Falconio* It is our expectation that all Gretchen Shugart Contact Us ♦ George & Pamela Smith* patrons and those affiliated Daniel A. Simkowitz & Mari Alison Tam* Nakachi with Seattle Rep will align PATRON SERVICES OFFICE Ten Chimneys Foundation Southwest Airlines ♦† with this code of conduct Michael A. Wall* 206.443.2222 TD Charitable Foundation ♦ and we reserve the right Hours: Noon to curtain Vicki & Carl Zeiger* to relocate or remove any UBS ADMINISTRATIVE person from our theater $1,500-$2,499 who disregards our 206.443.2210 $10,000-$14,999 Aetna Ryan Cross* commitment. ADDRESS Cathy Dantchik DELL John R. Dutt* 155 Mercer St. Fischer Jordan LLC Coat Check Seattle, WA 98109 Robert Dwyer & KLDiscovery Diana Kanca* Check items for $1 each. Evelyn Mack Truitt* Wendy Federman Maurer Family Foundation ♦ Peggy & Shawn Feeney* Food & Beverage Lisa Orberg ♦ Debi Feinman Presidio Catherine Gropper Patrons are welcome to We welcome you to Patti & Rusty Rueff Patti & John Heller* bring drinks in plasticware Foundation David Katz* into the theater. Food and take pictures of the RBC Wealth Management Rob Kauffman* glassware are not allowed set before and after Raja Sengupta Evan Ladouceur & Meg Langan* in the theater. the show. S&P Global ♦ Marla Moskowitz-Hesse* ♦ James S. & Lynne P. Turley* The Old Globe Emergencies Share Your Photos Isabelle Winkles O’Reilly Family* Leonard J. Oremland in In an evacuation, wait $5,000-$9,999 honor of Rachel Oremland for an announcement #TrueWestSeaRep Deborah Van Eck* ♦ AudienceView † for further instructions. Francine Walker ♦ @seattlerep DLR ♦ Ushers will be available Joseph Yurcik* Dramatists Play Service, Inc. for assistance. Familiarize Irwin & Rosalyn Engleman yourself with the exit route nearest your seat. If you note an inadvertent error in our donor listing, Photography, recording, please contact Carl Sylvestre at Doctors and other [email protected] or 212.750.6895 and use of cell phones emergency contacts may are strictly prohibited * National Society Membership reach you at 206.443.2222. † Includes In-kind support during the performance. Give your name and seat ♦ Educating through Theatre Support • Bank of America ACTivate Awards Support CHRIS BENNION For a complete list of funders, visit theatreforward.org Denis Arndt and Connor Toms in Red (2012) 4 For Our Patrons Current Funders List as of December 2019 Theatre Forward advances American theater and its communities by providing funding and other resources to Seattle Rep and other leading nonprofit theaters. Theatre Forward and its member theaters are most Mission location to the house grateful to the following funders: manager if you expect to Seattle Rep collaborates be contacted. with extraordinary artists $50,000 and Above Alan & Jennifer Freedman* ♦ John Gore Organization to create productions Accessibility AT&T ♦ Floyd Green and programs that reflect Wheelchair-accessible Bank of America• Roe Green* and elevate the diverse Richard K. Greene cultures, perspectives, and ticketing available. Inquire Pamela Farr & Buford Alexander Nancy Hancock Griffith* ♦ life experiences of with the Patron Services Joyce & Gregory Hurst our region. Office when you purchase Citi Mary Kitchen & Jon Orszag* your ticket. Robin and Bob Paulson The Schloss Family Charitable Fund Vision Foundation ♦• Seattle Rep is equipped Rando Santa Fe Foundation Sanderson Donor Advised Theater at the heart with a hearing loop which Wells Fargo ♦ Fund of public life. uses a wireless signal to Donna & Jack Sennott* transmit the sound from $25,000-$49,999 John Thomopoulos Values the theater’s PA system to The Augustine Foundation ♦ Terrence P. Yanni Artistic Vitality the T-coils in your cochlear BNY Mellon Sustainability implant or hearing aid, Cognizant $2,500-$4,999 Generous and Inclusive and to receivers that Dorsey & Whitney LLP Joe Baio & Anne Griffin* are available on loan at Sheri and Les Biller Practices Goldman, Sachs & Co. Coat Check. Coverage is Foundation provided wherever you see MetLife Christopher Campbell Morgan Stanley Nicole Clay the T-coil symbol. Mary Beth Winslow & Welcome! Bill Darby* We offer select $15,000-$24,999 Dewitt Stern Seattle Rep is committed captioned, audio- American Express Christ Economos* to being a racially, described, and ASL- Mitchell J. Auslander / Lucy Fato & Matt Detmer* culturally, and socially interpreted performances. Willkie Farr & Gallagher ♦ Steven & Donna Gartner* ♦ Bloomberg Philanthropies just organization. We Large-print programs Jessica Farr ♦ Steven & Joy Bunson ♦ promote equity, diversity, available at Coat Check. Libshap Realty Corporation and inclusion in all aspects Paula A. Dominick Louise Moriarty & The Estée Lauder Companies Patrick Stack * of the work we do, and Firearms & Smoking Inc. Frank & Bonnie Orlowski uphold a safe environment Bruce R. & Tracey Ewing Robert A. Rosenbaum wherein all people are Firearms are not allowed EY Daryl & Steven Roth welcome to our space and in any part of the building. Mr. Anthony C. Lembke & Foundation ♦ Ms. Diane S. Lembke* Encore Ad are treated with respect Smoking is not allowed in ♦ David Schwartz & Marsh & McLennan Amy Langer* our building or within 25 and dignity. Companies, Inc. Stephanie Scott ♦ feet of any entrance. Pfizer, Inc. Elliott Sernel & Larry Jonathan Maurer & Falconio* Wholesale and Retail Sales ¿ Roasting fine coffees since 1993 It is our expectation that all Gretchen Shugart Contact Us ♦ George & Pamela Smith* patrons and those affiliated Daniel A. Simkowitz & Mari Alison Tam* Nakachi with Seattle Rep will align PATRON SERVICES OFFICE Ten Chimneys Foundation Southwest Airlines ♦† with this code of conduct Michael A. Wall* 206.443.2222 TD Charitable Foundation ♦ and we reserve the right Hours: Noon to curtain Vicki & Carl Zeiger* to relocate or remove any UBS ADMINISTRATIVE person from our theater $1,500-$2,499 who disregards our 206.443.2210 $10,000-$14,999 Aetna Ryan Cross* One of Seattle’s original commitment. ADDRESS Cathy Dantchik DELL John R. Dutt* 155 Mercer St. Fischer Jordan LLC roaster cafes, Lighthouse Coat Check Seattle, WA 98109 Robert Dwyer & KLDiscovery Diana Kanca* has spent more than Check items for $1 each. Evelyn Mack Truitt* Wendy Federman Maurer Family Foundation ♦ Peggy & Shawn Feeney* twenty years creating a Food & Beverage Lisa Orberg ♦ Debi Feinman loyal following of coffee Presidio Catherine Gropper Patrons are welcome to We welcome you to Patti & Rusty Rueff Patti & John Heller* lovers. Lighthouse roasts bring drinks in plasticware Foundation David Katz* take pictures of the into the theater. Food and RBC Wealth Management Rob Kauffman* consistently great coffee glassware are not allowed set before and after Raja Sengupta Evan Ladouceur & Meg Langan* in the theater. the show. S&P Global ♦ in small batches of the Marla Moskowitz-Hesse* ♦ James S. & Lynne P. Turley* The Old Globe freshest premium beans, Emergencies Share Your Photos Isabelle Winkles O’Reilly Family* Leonard J. Oremland in hand roasted in a vintage In an evacuation, wait $5,000-$9,999 honor of Rachel Oremland cast-iron roaster each day. for an announcement #TrueWestSeaRep Deborah Van Eck* ♦ AudienceView † for further instructions. Francine Walker ♦ @seattlerep DLR ♦ Ushers will be available Joseph Yurcik* Dramatists Play Service, Inc. for assistance. Familiarize Irwin & Rosalyn Engleman yourself with the exit route nearest your seat. If you note an inadvertent error in our donor listing, Photography, recording, please contact Carl Sylvestre at Doctors and other [email protected] or 212.750.6895 and use of cell phones emergency contacts may 400 N 43rd St. ¿ Seattle, WA. 98103 ¿ 206-633-4775 are strictly prohibited * National Society Membership reach you at 206.443.2222. † Includes In-kind support during the performance. Give your name and seat ♦ Educating through Theatre Support LIGHTHOUSEROASTERS.COM • Bank of America ACTivate Awards Support CHRIS BENNION For a complete list of funders, visit theatreforward.org Denis Arndt and Connor Toms in Red (2012) encorespotlight.com 5 ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Braden Abraham MANAGING DIRECTOR Jeffrey Herrmann

ECA SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT Lorrie Morgan True West Friday, March 13 | $34–$69 Eloquently emotive country music vocalist BY JIM BENNETT PRODUCING Joan Osborne PARTNERS Sam Shepard Justin Huertas, Sarah Russell, and & The Weepies Rheanna Atendido in The Odyssey (2017) Stellman Keehnel Tuesday, March 24 | $29–$64 & Patricia Britton DIRECTED BY A special collaboration between Braden Abraham the multi-platinum selling artist ASSOCIATE SPONSOR and indie pop-folk duo Kutscher Hereford Derina Harvey Band Bertram Burkart Brown Friday, April 24 | $19–$44 & Cashman, PLLC Canadian Celtic rock group THE CAST SEASON (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) SPONSOR Lee ...... Kevin Anderson* Mom ...... Lori Larsen* ec4arts.org | 425.275.9595 Austin ...... Zachary Ray Sherman* Encore Ad Saul ...... Brandon J. Simmons RUN TIME Approximately 2 hours including a 15 minute intermission. At the PLEASE NOTE This show contains SCENIC DESIGNER COSTUME DESIGNER profanity. show Tim Mackabee Deborah Trout LIGHTING DESIGNER SOUND DESIGNER & COMPOSER FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHER Seattle Rep’s Marcus Doshi Mikaal Sulaiman Geoffrey Alm or on Season Sponsor STAGE MANAGER ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER the go Celebrates Shellie Stone* Erin B. Zatloka* A future for the arts is a future for our community. Fueled by thousands ADDITIONAL CASTING SEATTLE CASTING of donors across decades, ArtsFund has been building community McCorkle Casting LTD Kaytlin McIntyre Encore is your through the arts for 50 years. We’ve been a proud supporter of Seattle companion Rep every step of the way. Arts nonprofits like Seattle Rep not only to Seattle’s entertain, inspire, inform, and provoke us, they drive social change and performing arts. make our region a better place to live and work. Enjoy the show, and thanks for strengthening our January 17 - February 16, 2020 community by supporting the arts! encorespotlight.com True West is presented by special arrangement with artsfund.org/50 SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States

6 ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Braden Abraham MANAGING DIRECTOR Jeffrey Herrmann

True West

BY JIM BENNETT PRODUCING PARTNERS Sam Shepard Justin Huertas, Sarah Russell, and Rheanna Atendido in The Odyssey (2017) Stellman Keehnel & Patricia Britton DIRECTED BY

ASSOCIATE Braden Abraham SPONSOR Kutscher Hereford Bertram Burkart Brown & Cashman, PLLC THE CAST SEASON (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) SPONSOR Lee ...... Kevin Anderson* Mom ...... Lori Larsen* Austin ...... Zachary Ray Sherman* Encore Ad Saul ...... Brandon J. Simmons RUN TIME Approximately 2 hours including a 15 minute intermission.

PLEASE NOTE

This show contains SCENIC DESIGNER COSTUME DESIGNER profanity. Tim Mackabee Deborah Trout

LIGHTING DESIGNER SOUND DESIGNER & COMPOSER FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHER Seattle Rep’s Marcus Doshi Mikaal Sulaiman Geoffrey Alm Season Sponsor STAGE MANAGER ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER Celebrates Shellie Stone* Erin B. Zatloka*

A future for the arts is a future for our community. Fueled by thousands ADDITIONAL CASTING SEATTLE CASTING of donors across decades, ArtsFund has been building community McCorkle Casting LTD Kaytlin McIntyre through the arts for 50 years. We’ve been a proud supporter of Seattle Rep every step of the way. Arts nonprofits like Seattle Rep not only entertain, inspire, inform, and provoke us, they drive social change and make our region a better place to live and work.

Enjoy the show, and thanks for strengthening our January 17 - February 16, 2020 community by supporting the arts! True West is presented by special arrangement with artsfund.org/50 SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States

encorespotlight.com 7 broken all the furniture in Mandrake/The Cast Wedding, taken her own life in The Front Page, Artistic/ danced the tango in The Vinegar Tree, and come in through the bathroom window in New Production Patagonia. She’s very happy to be back. Sam Shepard Playwright Sam Shepard’s first New York plays, Cowboys and The Rock Garden, were produced by Theatre Genesis in 1964. For several seasons, he worked with Off-Off-Broadway theater Kevin Anderson groups including La MaMa and Caffe Cino. Lee Eleven of his plays won Obie Awards, including Kevin is thrilled to be back at Seattle Rep Zachary Ray Sherman Chicago, The Tooth of the Crime, and Curse of the Starving Class. Other award-winning where he was seen last year as Jeeter in Last Austin of the Boys. Regionally, he has performed at plays include Fool for Love, True West, A Lie Roundabout, Second Stage, and Manhattan Born in Portland, Oregon, actor Zachary Ray of the Mind, and Buried Child, for which he Theatre Club in NYC, Steppenwolf, Goodman, Sherman has lived in Los Angeles since 2005 won a Pulitzer Prize in 1979. In 1986, Shepard and Victory Gardens in Chicago, and the when he was cast off a videotape audition for was inducted into the American Academy of Geffen in LA. Kevin has starred in over 30 film Tim Hunter's (River's Edge) western, The Far Arts and Letters and received the Gold Medal and television productions and over 30 stage Side of Jericho. Past theater credits include: for Drama from the Academy in 1992. He was productions worldwide from Steppenwolf Keith Huff’s A Steady Rain, DB Levin’s One inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame two (35-year ensemble member) to Broadway, Step Over, Macbeth, and Lost in Yonkers. Film years later. As a writer and director, he filmed Off-Broadway, Dublin, and London’s West and TV credits include CBS's "90210," Netflix's Far North and Silent Tongue. As an actor, he End. He has been nominated for a Tony Award teen dramedy "Archie's Final Project," Netflix’s appeared in numerous films, including The (Death of a Salesman), Outer Critics Circle series “Everything Sucks!" and the recently Right Stuff, Days of Heaven, and Resurrection. Award (Come Back Little Sheba), Golden released film CUCK, for which he gained 45lbs His final works of prose, The One Inside and Globe, Viewers for Quality Television, TV Critics for the role of an isolated, lonely, confused Spy of the First Person, were published in 2017, Association Awards (“Nothing Sacred”), and young man in 2019’s divided America. He's the year of his death. has won Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle helmed two feature films: writing, directing, Awards (Death of a Salesman), and Theatre and producing Barbie's Kenny; and his second Braden Abraham World and Jefferson Awards (Orphans). Some film, Thunderbolt In Mine Eye, co-directed with Director of his most memorable performances include his sister Sarah, is executive produced by the Orphans (with Albert Finney), Sleeping with the Duplass Brothers. Braden joined Seattle Rep in 2002 and held Enemy (with Julia Roberts), Sunset Boulevard several positions on the artistic staff before his (with Patti LuPone), RFK in Hoffa (with Jack appointment as Artistic Director in 2015. An Nicholson), and Biff in Death of a Salesman. He accomplished director, he has directed many is perhaps best known for his performance as productions for Seattle Rep, most recently: Father Ray in ABC’s “Nothing Sacred.” Recently, The Great Moment (premiere); A Doll’s House, he created the role of Mr. Breeding in Tracy Part 2; Last of the Boys; Ibsen in Chicago Letts' new play The Minutes at Steppenwolf (premiere); Well; Luna Gale; and A View from and portrayed John Adams in the musical 1776 the Bridge. Other productions include: Who’s in Jacksonville, Florida. Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, A Great Wilderness Brandon J. Simmons (premiere), The Glass Menagerie, Clybourne Saul Park, and the critically acclaimed, extended runs of Photograph 51; My Name is Rachel Brandon J. Simmons is pleased to make his Corrie (U.S. regional premiere); and Betrayal. Seattle Rep debut in True West. Brandon Braden directed the West Coast premieres of has appeared with many theaters in Seattle, This (Seattle Rep), The K of D, an urban legend including Book-It Repertory Theatre (The Picture (Seattle Rep, Pistol Cat, FringeNYC, Illusion of Dorian Gray), The Seagull Project (The Theatre), Breakin’ Hearts and Takin’ Names, Seagull, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard), Opus (Seattle Rep), and White Hot (Marxiano Lori Larsen Washington Ensemble Theatre (Feathers & Productions/West of Lenin). Other premieres Mom Teeth, Sextet), The Williams Project (A Bright include Riddled (Richard Hugo House), Room Called Day), On the Boards (The People's Clear Blue Sky (On the Boards/Northwest Lori Larsen played Hazel in The Children last Republic of Valerie), New City Theater (Hamlet, New Works), and The Ten Thousand Things fall at Island Stage Left on San Juan Island. She The Tempest), and numerous productions with (Washington Ensemble Theatre). Braden has returns to Seattle Rep where she made her Seattle Shakespeare Company, most recently developed new work with Seattle Rep, Denver debut 50 years ago as a hotel guest in A Flea as Olivia in Twelfth Night. He wrote Is She Dead Theatre Center, On the Boards, The O’Neill in Her Ear. She has wrestled sardines in Noises Yet?, which received the 2016 Gregory Award Playwrights Conference, Ojai Playwrights Off, slid down piano keys in Private Lives, gone for Outstanding New Play, and directed the Conference, Portland Center Stage, and The slumming in satin in The Time of Your Life, Seattle premiere of An Octoroon at ArtsWest. Playwrights Center. Member of SDC. secretly written a play in The Beard of Avon, Brandon co-founded The Seagull Project, where shared the stage with a pug in The Constant he served in various artistic and administrative Wife, comforted a hemophiliac in Shivaree, roles from 2011-2018.

8 broken all the furniture in Mandrake/The Cast Wedding, taken her own life in The Front Page, Artistic/ danced the tango in The Vinegar Tree, and come in through the bathroom window in New Production Patagonia. She’s very happy to be back. Sam Shepard Playwright Sam Shepard’s first New York plays, Cowboys and The Rock Garden, were produced by Theatre Genesis in 1964. For several seasons, he worked with Off-Off-Broadway theater Kevin Anderson Mark & Maggie groups including La MaMa and Caffe Cino. Lee Eleven of his plays won Obie Awards, including Kevin is thrilled to be back at Seattle Rep Zachary Ray Sherman Chicago, The Tooth of the Crime, and Curse of the Starving Class. Other award-winning where he was seen last year as Jeeter in Last Austin of the Boys. Regionally, he has performed at plays include Fool for Love, True West, A Lie Roundabout, Second Stage, and Manhattan Born in Portland, Oregon, actor Zachary Ray of the Mind, and Buried Child, for which he Theatre Club in NYC, Steppenwolf, Goodman, Sherman has lived in Los Angeles since 2005 won a Pulitzer Prize in 1979. In 1986, Shepard and Victory Gardens in Chicago, and the when he was cast off a videotape audition for was inducted into the American Academy of Geffen in LA. Kevin has starred in over 30 film Tim Hunter's (River's Edge) western, The Far Arts and Letters and received the Gold Medal and television productions and over 30 stage Side of Jericho. Past theater credits include: for Drama from the Academy in 1992. He was productions worldwide from Steppenwolf Keith Huff’s A Steady Rain, DB Levin’s One inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame two (35-year ensemble member) to Broadway, Step Over, Macbeth, and Lost in Yonkers. Film years later. As a writer and director, he filmed Off-Broadway, Dublin, and London’s West and TV credits include CBS's "90210," Netflix's Far North and Silent Tongue. As an actor, he End. He has been nominated for a Tony Award teen dramedy "Archie's Final Project," Netflix’s appeared in numerous films, including The (Death of a Salesman), Outer Critics Circle series “Everything Sucks!" and the recently Right Stuff, Days of Heaven, and Resurrection. FEBRUARY 14 Award (Come Back Little Sheba), Golden released film CUCK, for which he gained 45lbs His final works of prose, The One Inside and Globe, Viewers for Quality Television, TV Critics for the role of an isolated, lonely, confused Spy of the First Person, were published in 2017, Association Awards (“Nothing Sacred”), and young man in 2019’s divided America. He's the year of his death. has won Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle helmed two feature films: writing, directing, Awards (Death of a Salesman), and Theatre and producing Barbie's Kenny; and his second Braden Abraham World and Jefferson Awards (Orphans). Some film, Thunderbolt In Mine Eye, co-directed with Director of his most memorable performances include his sister Sarah, is executive produced by the Orphans (with Albert Finney), Sleeping with the Duplass Brothers. Braden joined Seattle Rep in 2002 and held Enemy (with Julia Roberts), Sunset Boulevard several positions on the artistic staff before his (with Patti LuPone), RFK in Hoffa (with Jack appointment as Artistic Director in 2015. An Nicholson), and Biff in Death of a Salesman. He accomplished director, he has directed many is perhaps best known for his performance as productions for Seattle Rep, most recently: Father Ray in ABC’s “Nothing Sacred.” Recently, The Great Moment (premiere); A Doll’s House, he created the role of Mr. Breeding in Tracy Part 2; Last of the Boys; Ibsen in Chicago Letts' new play The Minutes at Steppenwolf (premiere); Well; Luna Gale; and A View from and portrayed John Adams in the musical 1776 the Bridge. Other productions include: Who’s in Jacksonville, Florida. Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, A Great Wilderness Brandon J. Simmons (premiere), The Glass Menagerie, Clybourne Saul Park, and the critically acclaimed, extended runs of Photograph 51; My Name is Rachel Brandon J. Simmons is pleased to make his Corrie (U.S. regional premiere); and Betrayal. Seattle Rep debut in True West. Brandon Braden directed the West Coast premieres of has appeared with many theaters in Seattle, This (Seattle Rep), The K of D, an urban legend including Book-It Repertory Theatre (The Picture (Seattle Rep, Pistol Cat, FringeNYC, Illusion of Dorian Gray), The Seagull Project (The Theatre), Breakin’ Hearts and Takin’ Names, Seagull, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard), Opus (Seattle Rep), and White Hot (Marxiano Lori Larsen Washington Ensemble Theatre (Feathers & Productions/West of Lenin). Other premieres Mom Teeth, Sextet), The Williams Project (A Bright include Riddled (Richard Hugo House), Room Called Day), On the Boards (The People's Clear Blue Sky (On the Boards/Northwest Lori Larsen played Hazel in The Children last Republic of Valerie), New City Theater (Hamlet, New Works), and The Ten Thousand Things fall at Island Stage Left on San Juan Island. She The Tempest), and numerous productions with (Washington Ensemble Theatre). Braden has returns to Seattle Rep where she made her Seattle Shakespeare Company, most recently developed new work with Seattle Rep, Denver debut 50 years ago as a hotel guest in A Flea as Olivia in Twelfth Night. He wrote Is She Dead Theatre Center, On the Boards, The O’Neill in Her Ear. She has wrestled sardines in Noises Yet?, which received the 2016 Gregory Award Playwrights Conference, Ojai Playwrights TICKETS Off, slid down piano keys in Private Lives, gone for Outstanding New Play, and directed the Conference, Portland Center Stage, and The MEANYCENTER.ORG slumming in satin in The Time of Your Life, Seattle premiere of An Octoroon at ArtsWest. Playwrights Center. Member of SDC. 206-543-4880 secretly written a play in The Beard of Avon, Brandon co-founded The Seagull Project, where shared the stage with a pug in The Constant he served in various artistic and administrative Wife, comforted a hemophiliac in Shivaree, roles from 2011-2018. Tim Mackabee work has been seen on and off-Broadway, at Rep, George Street Playhouse, Pittsburgh Erin B. Zatloka Seattle Rep Scenic Designer home in Chicago, in Seattle with Seattle Opera, Public, Connecticut Rep, and multiple hundreds Assistant Stage Manager Seattle Rep puts theater at the heart of public Memoriam Intiman, and Seattle Rep where he designed of individual productions. Feature films:Senior life. Founded in 1963 and winner of the 1990 Seattle Rep: In the Heights, Roz and Ray. The King Stag and Memory House, extensively Moment, Year by the Sea, Premium Rush, Erin is happy to be returning to Seattle Rep Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre, Broadway: The Elephant Man (starring Bradley at most major regional theaters and opera Ghost Town, The Thomas Crown Affair, Die where she assistant stage managed Two Trains Seattle Rep is currently led by Artistic Director Cooper), Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth (dir. companies, and internationally in 18 countries Hard with a Vengeance, School Ties, etc. Running. She has most recently been at ACT Braden Abraham and Managing Director Jeffrey Spike Lee). West End: The Elephant Man. Off- across five continents, notably at La Comédie Television: “Twisted,” humans for “Sesame Theatre where she was the stage manager for Herrmann. Over a season and throughout the Broadway: Seared (MCC Theatre); Describe Française, Dutch National Opera, La Monnaie, Street,” “Hack” (CBS), “Californication” Steven Dietz’s Dracula. Other favorites include: year, Seattle Rep collaborates with extraordinary In Memory of the Night, Guards at the Taj (2016 Lucille Sydney Festival, and National Arts Centre (Emmy Nomination), “Max Bickford”(CBS), Ragtime, Romy and Michele’s High School artists to create productions and programs Lortel Award for Outstanding Set Design), Our Mumbai. He is a frequent collaborator with “Chappelle’s Show,” “Strangers with Candy,” Reunion, Annie (The 5th Avenue Theatre). Nothing that reflect and elevate the diverse cultures, Clodagh Ash New Girl (Atlantic); Vietgone, Important Hats Theatre for a New Audience and Steppenwolf etc. mccorklecasting.com in her life could happen without the support of perspectives, and life experiences of the Pacific of the Twentieth Century (Manhattan Theatre Theatre. Doshi is a graduate of Wabash College friends and family. Love to Greg and Zoey. Northwest. Seattle Rep’s nationally recognized Club); Heathers: The Musical, Luce (Lincoln and Yale School of Drama. marcusdoshi.com Shellie Stone programs include the New Works Program, Seattle Center Theater); Gigantic (Vineyard); Much Ado Stage Manager For Seattle Rep Rep’s Public Works, the August Wilson Monologue About Nothing (The Public Theater). Regional: Mikaal Sulaiman Competition, Pay What You Choose ticketing Geffen Playhouse, A.C.T. San Francisco, Ford’s Credits include: Shout Sister Shout!, Seattle Braden Abraham options, and numerous audience enrichment and Theatre, Seattle Rep, The Old Globe, Center Sound Designer and Composer Rep’s Public Works’ As You Like It, Nina Artistic Director engagement opportunities including post-play Stage Baltimore, Denver Center, Portland Off-Broadway: Fires in the Mirror (Signature Simone: Four Women, In the Heights, The panels, discussions, and community events. Center Stage, Cleveland Play House, Dallas Theatre); Continuity (Manhattan Theatre Humans, Seattle Rep’s Public Works’ The See page 8 for bio. Theater Center, Geva Theatre Center, and Club); Passage, Fairview (Soho Rep); Recent Odyssey, The Vaudevillians, Who’s Afraid of Seattle Rep is a member of the League Yale Repertory Theatre. Dance: Doug Varone Alien Abductions, Time's Journey Through Virginia Woolf?, Venus in Fur, Boeing Boeing, of Resident Theatres, a nationwide Jeffrey Herrmann association of not-for-profit theaters. and Dancers, Cedar Lake Dance. TV: “Amy a Room (Play Co.); By the Way, Meet Vera Clybourne Park, The Imaginary Invalid, Birdie Managing Director Schumer: Live at the Apollo,” “Gotham,” Stark (Signature Theatre); Blue Ridge (Atlantic Blue, Twelfth Night (Seattle Rep); Rock of The director is a member of the Stage “Smash,” and “The Today Show.” Education: In May 2014, Jeffrey Herrmann was appointed Directors and Choreographers Society, Theatre); The Thanksgiving Play (Playwrights Ages, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Romy a national theatrical labor union. North Carolina School of the Arts, Yale School Horizons); Rags Parkland, Underground & Michele’s High School Reunion, Grease, A as the third Managing Director in Seattle Rep’s of Drama. timothymackabeedesign.com Railroad Game (Ars Nova); Light Shining in Chorus Line, Oliver!, Secondhand Lions, The 56-year history. In this role, Jeff oversees all This theater operates under an agreement Buckinghamshire (NYTW); Master (Foundry Music Man, RENT, Cinderella (The 5th Avenue the administrative functions of this $15 million, between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the A stalwart volunteer and Deborah Trout Theatre Co.); Skittles: The Broadway Musical; Theatre); The Little Prince, The Lion, the Witch nationally-recognized, not-for-profit performing Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. philanthropist with wide-ranging Black Artist Retreat by Theaster Gates (Park and the Wardrobe, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, arts organization, including development, finance, Costume Designer interests, Clodagh Carrow Ash Avenue Armory). Regional: Berkeley Rep, The Lyle the Crocodile (Seattle Children’s Theatre); marketing, operations, and Board relations. The scenic, costume, lighting and sound (1934 – 2019) cared deeply Deborah Trout is pleased to return to Seattle Alley, Woolly Mammoth, Baltimore Center The Temple Bombing (Alliance Theatre); La Since his arrival—which coincided, to the day, designers in LORT Theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 about our community and about Rep after her recent work on A Doll’s House, Stage, Trinity Rep, Pig Iron, Syracuse Stage, Cenerentola (Spoleto Festival ’08); The Lion in with Braden Abraham’s appointment as Artistic of the I.A.T.S.E. Scenery Construction and Part 2. Other recent projects range from Operations performed by employees organizations advancing our Arden Theatre, Early Morning Opera. Mikaal Winter, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo Director—activity, attendance, fundraising, and represented by I.A.T.S.E. locals 15 and region’s quality of life, from the The Turn of the Screw and Beatrice and has received nominations from Drama Desk and Juliet (Shakespeare Santa Cruz). the budget have all shown marked increases. 488. Wardrobe services are performed by employees represented by T.W.U Local 887. performing arts to education Benedict at Seattle Opera; Dracula and The Award, Lucille Lortel Award, SF Bay Area Under their management, the theater also recently and medicine. Seattle Rep was Crucible at ACT Theatre; as well as her more Theatre Critics Circle, Theatre Bay Area Award, completed a significant renovation of the PONCHO Seattle Rep is a constituent of Theatre unusual journey with choreographer Alice Communications Group (TCG), the national honored by her 16 years of service and AUDELCO Award. He is a recipient of the Forum, the first major capital project undertaken service organization for the nonprofit on the Board of Trustees (2003- Gosti on the transformational “epic dress” Henry Hewes Design Award. www.mikaal.com by Seattle Rep since the construction of the Leo K. professional theater. for How to Become a Partisan at Seattle’s Upcoming Theater in 1995; saw its world premiere of Come 2019), where she saw the theater St. Mark’s Cathedral and in Terni, Italy. A Seattle Rep is a member of through four artistic directors, Geoffrey Alm From Away open on Broadway and launch North Theatre Puget Sound. Northwest designer, past collaborations SRO Spotlight: two managing directors, the Fight Choreographer American and international tours; reconfigured have included shows at Actors Theatre of the Bagley Wright Theater in order to produce Seattle Rep is a member of NAMT, a not- Great Recession, and significant Louisville, Houston’s Alley Theatre, Atlanta’s for-profit organization serving the musical changes and growth in our Geoffrey is honored to be part of True West. Thursday, David Byrne’s groundbreaking, immersive theater community. Alliance Theatre, Denver Center Theatre, Past Seattle Rep credits include Indecent, musical Here Lies Love, which now stands as the community. No matter what Intiman Theatre, Manhattan School of Music, As You Like It, Here Lies Love, Who's Afraid January 30, 2020 highest-grossing show in Seattle Rep’s history; Seattle Rep operates under an agreement direction Seattle Rep’s leadership with AFM, the American Federation of conversations took, Clodagh Minneapolis Children’s Theatre Company, of Virginia Woolf?, Inspecting Carol, Sylvia, has committed to an initiative to increase equity, Musicians. remained deeply engaged, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Portland Center and God of Carnage, to name a few. National Meet the artists diversity, and inclusion at every level of the theater; Stage, Juneau’s Perseverance Theatre, Seattle credits include work at The Old Globe, the and completed its first strategic plan in more always leaning in to share her Children’s Theatre, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Shakespeare Theatre, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, of True West! SRO than a decade. Prior to his arrival in Seattle, Jeff opinion respectfully and ask and Syracuse Stage, among many others. and Seattle Children's Theatre's production Spotlight luncheons served as Managing Director of Washington D.C.’s THE VIDEOTAPING OR MAKING OF challenging questions. Through Co-founder of the New York-based millinery of Robin Hood, which premiered at The New and interviews are Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company for seven ELECTRONIC OR OTHER AUDIO AND/ her love of connecting people and company Mackey and Trout, she is a graduate of Victory Theatre in NYC. seasons. Before that, Jeff served as Producing OR VISUAL RECORDINGS OF THIS organizations with one another the Yale School of Drama, a member of United an opportunity and with the theater, Clodagh Director at Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, AK PRODUCTION OR DISTRIBUTING Scenic Artists, and on the design faculty at the Pat McCorkle, (C.S.A.), to informally visit for eight seasons. Jeff started his career in arts was truly aligned with our vision University of Washington’s School of Drama. with cast members, administration with the Albany Berkshire Ballet RECORDINGS ON ANY MEDIUM, of putting theater at the heart Katja Zarolinski, (C.S.A.), of public life. Together with her McCorkle Casting LTD theater artists, and in Pittsfield, MA, where he served as Managing INCLUDING THE INTERNET, IS Marcus Doshi Director for three years. Born in upstate NY and husband, Bob, she was a 26- Additional Casting staff who make each STRICTLY PROHIBITED, A VIOLATION year subscriber and a dedicated Lighting Designer raised in West Hartford, CT, Jeff received his B.A. in OF THE AUTHOR’S RIGHTS AND advocate for the theater, Broadway: Over 50 productions including On show possible. English at Vassar College and his M.F.A. in Theatre Marcus Doshi is an international theater maker, providing steadfast annual The Town, Amazing Grace, End of the Rainbow, Management at the Yale School of Drama. ACTIONABLE UNDER UNITED professor, and Associate Chair of Theatre at support and helping to conclude A Few Good Men, etc. Off-Broadway: Over STATES COPYRIGHT LAW. FOR MORE Northwestern University. He designs lighting Learn more and RSVP: our campaign to transform the 60 productions: Highlights, Our Town (Barrow and sets for theater, opera, and dance, and INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT: PONCHO Forum. We will miss Street), Freud’s Last Session, Toxic Avenger, collaborates with artists and architects on a seattlerep.org/SRO Clodagh’s warmth, compassion, Almost Maine, Driving Miss Daisy. Regional WWW.SAMUELFRENCH.COM/ variety of non-performance-based work. His and generous spirit. Theater: Guthrie, Barrington Stage, St. Louis WHITEPAPER

10 Tim Mackabee work has been seen on and off-Broadway, at Rep, George Street Playhouse, Pittsburgh Erin B. Zatloka Seattle Rep Scenic Designer home in Chicago, in Seattle with Seattle Opera, Public, Connecticut Rep, and multiple hundreds Assistant Stage Manager Seattle Rep puts theater at the heart of public Memoriam Intiman, and Seattle Rep where he designed of individual productions. Feature films:Senior life. Founded in 1963 and winner of the 1990 Seattle Rep: In the Heights, Roz and Ray. The King Stag and Memory House, extensively Moment, Year by the Sea, Premium Rush, Erin is happy to be returning to Seattle Rep Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre, Broadway: The Elephant Man (starring Bradley at most major regional theaters and opera Ghost Town, The Thomas Crown Affair, Die where she assistant stage managed Two Trains Seattle Rep is currently led by Artistic Director Cooper), Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth (dir. companies, and internationally in 18 countries Hard with a Vengeance, School Ties, etc. Running. She has most recently been at ACT Braden Abraham and Managing Director Jeffrey Spike Lee). West End: The Elephant Man. Off- across five continents, notably at La Comédie Television: “Twisted,” humans for “Sesame Theatre where she was the stage manager for Herrmann. Over a season and throughout the Broadway: Seared (MCC Theatre); Describe Française, Dutch National Opera, La Monnaie, Street,” “Hack” (CBS), “Californication” Steven Dietz’s Dracula. Other favorites include: year, Seattle Rep collaborates with extraordinary In Memory of the Night, Guards at the Taj (2016 Lucille Sydney Festival, and National Arts Centre (Emmy Nomination), “Max Bickford”(CBS), Ragtime, Romy and Michele’s High School artists to create productions and programs Lortel Award for Outstanding Set Design), Our Mumbai. He is a frequent collaborator with “Chappelle’s Show,” “Strangers with Candy,” Reunion, Annie (The 5th Avenue Theatre). Nothing that reflect and elevate the diverse cultures, Clodagh Ash New Girl (Atlantic); Vietgone, Important Hats Theatre for a New Audience and Steppenwolf etc. mccorklecasting.com in her life could happen without the support of perspectives, and life experiences of the Pacific of the Twentieth Century (Manhattan Theatre Theatre. Doshi is a graduate of Wabash College friends and family. Love to Greg and Zoey. Northwest. Seattle Rep’s nationally recognized Club); Heathers: The Musical, Luce (Lincoln and Yale School of Drama. marcusdoshi.com Shellie Stone programs include the New Works Program, Seattle Center Theater); Gigantic (Vineyard); Much Ado Stage Manager For Seattle Rep Rep’s Public Works, the August Wilson Monologue About Nothing (The Public Theater). Regional: Mikaal Sulaiman Competition, Pay What You Choose ticketing Geffen Playhouse, A.C.T. San Francisco, Ford’s Credits include: Shout Sister Shout!, Seattle Braden Abraham options, and numerous audience enrichment and Theatre, Seattle Rep, The Old Globe, Center Sound Designer and Composer Rep’s Public Works’ As You Like It, Nina Artistic Director engagement opportunities including post-play Stage Baltimore, Denver Center, Portland Off-Broadway: Fires in the Mirror (Signature Simone: Four Women, In the Heights, The panels, discussions, and community events. Center Stage, Cleveland Play House, Dallas Theatre); Continuity (Manhattan Theatre Humans, Seattle Rep’s Public Works’ The See page 8 for bio. Theater Center, Geva Theatre Center, and Club); Passage, Fairview (Soho Rep); Recent Odyssey, The Vaudevillians, Who’s Afraid of Seattle Rep is a member of the League Yale Repertory Theatre. Dance: Doug Varone Alien Abductions, Time's Journey Through Virginia Woolf?, Venus in Fur, Boeing Boeing, of Resident Theatres, a nationwide Jeffrey Herrmann association of not-for-profit theaters. and Dancers, Cedar Lake Dance. TV: “Amy a Room (Play Co.); By the Way, Meet Vera Clybourne Park, The Imaginary Invalid, Birdie Managing Director Schumer: Live at the Apollo,” “Gotham,” Stark (Signature Theatre); Blue Ridge (Atlantic Blue, Twelfth Night (Seattle Rep); Rock of The director is a member of the Stage “Smash,” and “The Today Show.” Education: In May 2014, Jeffrey Herrmann was appointed Directors and Choreographers Society, Theatre); The Thanksgiving Play (Playwrights Ages, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Romy a national theatrical labor union. North Carolina School of the Arts, Yale School Horizons); Rags Parkland, Underground & Michele’s High School Reunion, Grease, A as the third Managing Director in Seattle Rep’s of Drama. timothymackabeedesign.com Railroad Game (Ars Nova); Light Shining in Chorus Line, Oliver!, Secondhand Lions, The 56-year history. In this role, Jeff oversees all This theater operates under an agreement Buckinghamshire (NYTW); Master (Foundry Music Man, RENT, Cinderella (The 5th Avenue the administrative functions of this $15 million, between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the A stalwart volunteer and Deborah Trout Theatre Co.); Skittles: The Broadway Musical; Theatre); The Little Prince, The Lion, the Witch nationally-recognized, not-for-profit performing Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. philanthropist with wide-ranging Black Artist Retreat by Theaster Gates (Park and the Wardrobe, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, arts organization, including development, finance, Costume Designer interests, Clodagh Carrow Ash Avenue Armory). Regional: Berkeley Rep, The Lyle the Crocodile (Seattle Children’s Theatre); marketing, operations, and Board relations. The scenic, costume, lighting and sound (1934 – 2019) cared deeply Deborah Trout is pleased to return to Seattle Alley, Woolly Mammoth, Baltimore Center The Temple Bombing (Alliance Theatre); La Since his arrival—which coincided, to the day, designers in LORT Theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 about our community and about Rep after her recent work on A Doll’s House, Stage, Trinity Rep, Pig Iron, Syracuse Stage, Cenerentola (Spoleto Festival ’08); The Lion in with Braden Abraham’s appointment as Artistic of the I.A.T.S.E. Scenery Construction and Part 2. Other recent projects range from Operations performed by employees organizations advancing our Arden Theatre, Early Morning Opera. Mikaal Winter, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo Director—activity, attendance, fundraising, and represented by I.A.T.S.E. locals 15 and region’s quality of life, from the The Turn of the Screw and Beatrice and has received nominations from Drama Desk and Juliet (Shakespeare Santa Cruz). the budget have all shown marked increases. 488. Wardrobe services are performed by employees represented by T.W.U Local 887. performing arts to education Benedict at Seattle Opera; Dracula and The Award, Lucille Lortel Award, SF Bay Area Under their management, the theater also recently and medicine. Seattle Rep was Crucible at ACT Theatre; as well as her more Theatre Critics Circle, Theatre Bay Area Award, completed a significant renovation of the PONCHO Seattle Rep is a constituent of Theatre unusual journey with choreographer Alice Communications Group (TCG), the national honored by her 16 years of service and AUDELCO Award. He is a recipient of the Forum, the first major capital project undertaken service organization for the nonprofit on the Board of Trustees (2003- Gosti on the transformational “epic dress” Henry Hewes Design Award. www.mikaal.com by Seattle Rep since the construction of the Leo K. professional theater. for How to Become a Partisan at Seattle’s Upcoming Theater in 1995; saw its world premiere of Come 2019), where she saw the theater St. Mark’s Cathedral and in Terni, Italy. A Seattle Rep is a member of through four artistic directors, Geoffrey Alm From Away open on Broadway and launch North Theatre Puget Sound. Northwest designer, past collaborations SRO Spotlight: two managing directors, the Fight Choreographer American and international tours; reconfigured have included shows at Actors Theatre of the Bagley Wright Theater in order to produce Seattle Rep is a member of NAMT, a not- Great Recession, and significant Louisville, Houston’s Alley Theatre, Atlanta’s for-profit organization serving the musical changes and growth in our Geoffrey is honored to be part of True West. Thursday, David Byrne’s groundbreaking, immersive theater community. Alliance Theatre, Denver Center Theatre, Past Seattle Rep credits include Indecent, musical Here Lies Love, which now stands as the community. No matter what Intiman Theatre, Manhattan School of Music, As You Like It, Here Lies Love, Who's Afraid January 30, 2020 highest-grossing show in Seattle Rep’s history; Seattle Rep operates under an agreement direction Seattle Rep’s leadership with AFM, the American Federation of conversations took, Clodagh Minneapolis Children’s Theatre Company, of Virginia Woolf?, Inspecting Carol, Sylvia, has committed to an initiative to increase equity, Musicians. remained deeply engaged, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Portland Center and God of Carnage, to name a few. National Meet the artists diversity, and inclusion at every level of the theater; Stage, Juneau’s Perseverance Theatre, Seattle credits include work at The Old Globe, the and completed its first strategic plan in more always leaning in to share her Children’s Theatre, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Shakespeare Theatre, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, of True West! SRO than a decade. Prior to his arrival in Seattle, Jeff opinion respectfully and ask and Syracuse Stage, among many others. and Seattle Children's Theatre's production Spotlight luncheons served as Managing Director of Washington D.C.’s THE VIDEOTAPING OR MAKING OF challenging questions. Through Co-founder of the New York-based millinery of Robin Hood, which premiered at The New and interviews are Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company for seven ELECTRONIC OR OTHER AUDIO AND/ her love of connecting people and company Mackey and Trout, she is a graduate of Victory Theatre in NYC. seasons. Before that, Jeff served as Producing OR VISUAL RECORDINGS OF THIS organizations with one another the Yale School of Drama, a member of United an opportunity and with the theater, Clodagh Director at Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, AK PRODUCTION OR DISTRIBUTING Scenic Artists, and on the design faculty at the Pat McCorkle, (C.S.A.), to informally visit for eight seasons. Jeff started his career in arts was truly aligned with our vision University of Washington’s School of Drama. with cast members, administration with the Albany Berkshire Ballet RECORDINGS ON ANY MEDIUM, of putting theater at the heart Katja Zarolinski, (C.S.A.), of public life. Together with her McCorkle Casting LTD theater artists, and in Pittsfield, MA, where he served as Managing INCLUDING THE INTERNET, IS Marcus Doshi Director for three years. Born in upstate NY and husband, Bob, she was a 26- Additional Casting staff who make each STRICTLY PROHIBITED, A VIOLATION year subscriber and a dedicated Lighting Designer raised in West Hartford, CT, Jeff received his B.A. in OF THE AUTHOR’S RIGHTS AND advocate for the theater, Broadway: Over 50 productions including On show possible. English at Vassar College and his M.F.A. in Theatre Marcus Doshi is an international theater maker, providing steadfast annual The Town, Amazing Grace, End of the Rainbow, Management at the Yale School of Drama. ACTIONABLE UNDER UNITED professor, and Associate Chair of Theatre at support and helping to conclude A Few Good Men, etc. Off-Broadway: Over STATES COPYRIGHT LAW. FOR MORE Northwestern University. He designs lighting Learn more and RSVP: our campaign to transform the 60 productions: Highlights, Our Town (Barrow and sets for theater, opera, and dance, and INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT: PONCHO Forum. We will miss Street), Freud’s Last Session, Toxic Avenger, collaborates with artists and architects on a seattlerep.org/SRO Clodagh’s warmth, compassion, Almost Maine, Driving Miss Daisy. Regional WWW.SAMUELFRENCH.COM/ variety of non-performance-based work. His and generous spirit. Theater: Guthrie, Barrington Stage, St. Louis WHITEPAPER

encorespotlight.com 11 rural/Western manhood. That Shepard was, to put it mildly, skeptical of the archetype (and, indeed, of “authenticity”) From the and loathed Hollywood, are only two of the many ironies of Artistic Director Shepard's “day job.” “Sam Shepard” was itself an assumed role, an attempted identity. He was born Samuel Shepard Rogers III, but was actually the seventh generation of eldest sons to bear the name. And burden it was; that family, cultural, and Since the late 1970s and the appearance of his so-called national heritage were simultaneously inescapable and Family Trilogy—Curse of the Starving Class, the Pulitzer barren and would become a recurring theme in his work. Prize-winning Buried Child, and True West—Sam Shepard, Nicknamed “Steve” to distinguish him from his father, the who died at age 73 in 2017, has been young Rogers spent his formative considered “the greatest American years on an avocado farm in what playwright of his generation,” a Sam Shepard's plays was then rural eastern Los Angeles title some theater cognoscenti County, a community only some 40 had given him a decade earlier manifest a country of miles east of Los Angeles proper but when he was the 20-something accelerating disruption culturally a world away from the big “genius” of the 1960s avant-garde city. As happens to the worlds of so Off-Off Broadway scene. I think in which nothing is many of Shepard's characters, that Shepard was something more rural community would eventually than his generation's preeminent fixed or stable be obliterated, transformed into the dramatist: he has been for two, suburb in which True West is set. maybe three generations of theater Shepard is alone among the giants of American playwriting folk the quintessential and essential American theater artist. to come from the West, and the region looms large in his The reasons are too many to list. Certainly the originality, work—although what “West” means for Shepard and, lyricism, and visceral force and thrill of his writing. His separately, for his characters, is complicated. The young uncompromising dedication to his art. He made theater Samuel wasn't a cowboy but a farm boy for whom the “Old cool, and both metaphorically and literally put rock 'n' West” and the “Frontier” were only pop myths in television roll into playwriting and made the playwright a rock star. westerns. But he was and would always remain deeply That he was the theater artist who most showed us an attached to rural life, to the land, agricultural America we recognized as our own—and, work, and nature. On graduating high to a shocking degree, more recognize school he enrolled in junior college as our own with each passing to study animal husbandry. He decade. His plays manifest ended up discovering jazz, acting, a country of accelerating and the plays of Samuel Beckett, disruption in which nothing and at age 19 Steve Rogers is fixed or stable, not family, found himself a college drop- class, landscapes, or even an out in downtown New York individual's personal identity; City, where he changed his the disruption leaving both name to Sam Shepard and winners and losers anxious, began writing plays. haunted, and nostalgic for old myths, certainties, and More influenced by jazz, authentic identities which rock 'n' roll, Abstract had actually never been Expressionism, Pop Art, true, certain, or authentic. and “happenings” than by He explored the violence and literature or drama (about insecurity of men, specifically which he knew little), the of the “Anglo male American,” plays of Shepard's 20s are well before the term “toxic hallucinatory conjurings of masculinity” was officially coined. fractured, unstable worlds in which And, of course, he was a movie star. characters—often archetypes out of For all his eminence as a playwright, pop culture—alter, morph, and merge Sam Shepard was best known to the without warning or logic. Even when public as Hollywood's go-to icon obscure, the plays are vivid events of strong, silent, and authentic

12 and display the thrilling Beyond immediacy, exuberance, the Stage imagination, language, and themes that would define all of Shepard's work.

In his 30s, Shepard began to embrace story, character, Famous Sibling Rivalries and dramatic structure— True West explores the intricacies of sibling the “old timey” notions he had rejected in the 1960s. rivalry between two brothers. Explore a The plays became less few examples of famous sibling rivalries fantastical, more grounded throughout history:

BRIGITTE LACOMBE in real circumstances that Sam Shepard included elements of his own Mary I and Elizabeth I experience. This was not a Of the many sibling conversion to naturalism, but, as he later put it, a realization rivalries throughout that “mythology has to come out of real life.” And he began the history of England’s to investigate a topic he'd long avoided: the family. “I was a feuding royal families, little afraid of it,” Shepard admitted. “Particularly in relation Mary I and Elizabeth to my old man and all of that emotion.” I’s was one of the most fraught. Mary and The “old man” being the playwright's father, Samuel Elizabeth were half-sisters, daughters of Henry VIII. England Shepard Rogers, Jr., a charismatic but deeply alienated had shifted to Protestantism before Mary ascended to the and ultimately elusive man “full of terrifying anger,” who throne, and as a devout Catholic, she attempted to return the repeatedly abandoned his family and fought bitterly with country to Catholicism. However, with Elizabeth, a devout his namesake and only son. In most of the playwright's Protestant, in line for the throne behind her, this kept the mature plays, the presence of some version of the “old sisters in a state of dispute throughout their lives. man” is felt—a volatile and mysterious figure recognized by his sons as alike themselves, but less the cause of their Edwin and John Wilkes Booth estrangement than a fellow victim of some old and hidden Long before the pattern of belief and behavior shaping their world. “You assassination of could see his suffering, his terrible suffering,” the playwright President Abraham recalled in middle-age, “living a life that was disappointing Lincoln in 1865 by John and looking for another one.” Wilkes Booth, he and his older brother Edwin It's easy to exaggerate the degree to which Sam Shepard's were locked in a brutal writing changed. It might be more correct to say he sibling rivalry. The brothers were both aspiring actors and changed us. He became less reliant on fractured storytelling fought for the attention of their father, a famous Shakespearean to portray a fractured world, and the eerie mutation, performer at the time. When John Wilkes began supporting doubling, and fusion of characters and identity became the Confederates, Edwin had him thrown out of their home for less explicit, but he never compromised his personal style, treason. Though Edwin was very famous for his acting talent at concerns, or skepticism of resolution and closure. the time, his legacy has been overshadowed throughout history by his brother’s heinous crime. One of his most enduring legacies is his expansion of what we accept as “conventional” playwriting to accommodate Georgia and Ida O’Keeffe his surrealism, absurdism, poetic leaps, and personal vision. Many know Georgia Another, especially in this volatile moment in our history, is O’Keeffe’s famous his admittedly personal, but also penetrating and prescient paintings: striking works vision of our divided country and character. of flowers, landscapes, and bones. But few know that her sister, Ida O’Keeffe, was also an artist. Ida often showed her work under her middle name, Ten Braden Abraham Eyck, to avoid comparison with Georgia. Georgia had married Artistic Director a well-known art dealer before her claim to fame and Ida had at one point stated that if she had married a man like him, she too would be famous. In 2019, an exhibition of Ida’s work was held at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts entitled Ida O’Keeffe: Escaping Georgia’s Shadow. continued on page 15

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encorespotlight.com 15 The Gift That Keeps On Giving Seattle Rep’s Endowment Provides Perpetual Support and Stability August Wilson by Bruce Johnson, Chair, Seattle Repertory Theatre Foundation Board of Directors Monologue Competition

Eighteen years ago, Seattle Rep announced a public campaign Indeed, over the years the endowment has seen Seattle Rep Join us at Seattle Rep as the next generation of Seattle actors to increase the theater’s long-term financial stability by through thick and thin, providing essential operating support perform August Wilson’s iconic words in the city he cherished. developing an endowment fund to provide ongoing support in times of need. In particular, this resource was a critical Twelve high school finalists will present their monologues, for productions, new work development, and youth and backstop for the theater’s annual operations following the community programming. Today, that endowment is the economic downturn in 2008, as ticket sales and contributions vying for the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to advance to reason why Seattle Rep continues to thrive and grow. fell off sharply. Thanks to above-and-beyond New York to perform in the national competition distributions authorized by the Board of the at the August Wilson Theatre on Broadway. Come In 2001, following nearly two decades of Seattle Repertory Theatre Foundation, and be inspired by these talented young artists! balanced budgets and two successful What is an Seattle Rep was able to weather the Great capital campaigns, developing an Recession even as so many other local endowment was the natural next step Endowment Fund? arts organizations shrank or were for Seattle Rep as it sought to parlay Friday, February 21 at 7:30 p.m. An endowment fund is a body of assets forced to fold. its momentum into a new millennium. (usually cash) that have been donated to a Bagley Wright Theater, Tickets $5 Through an effort chaired by then- nonprofit and set aside for investment so Today, as Seattle Rep continues to Trustees Chap Alvord and Janet that they can provide the organization grow, we seek to grow our endowment True, nearly 200 donors contributed with ongoing, long-term support accordingly. If you are considering how to from investment income. more than $15 million to the endowment, maximize the impact of your philanthropy, seattlerep.org/AWMC including leadership gifts from the Bill & we hope that you will keep a gift toward Seattle Melinda Gates Foundation, the Mary Davis Clapp Rep’s endowment in mind. Invested over the long Angelina Riley performs in the August Wilson Monologue Competition (2019) Fund for New Works, the Bagley Wright Family Fund, the term, your gift can have lasting results—providing us with the Kreielsheimer Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation, the flexibility to keep innovating and pursuing ambitious projects, We are thrilled to announce Seattle Rep’s Public Works’ Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, Alta and Stan Barer, and strengthening the sustainability of our annual operations, and 2020 production, a musical adaptation of Janet and Doug True. We remain grateful every day for their protecting Seattle Rep in an unpredictable economic climate so forward-thinking support. that we can continue to put theater at the heart of public life for generations to come. THE

Since that time, Seattle Rep’s endowment has been managed by HOUCK BRONWEN the Seattle Repertory Theatre Foundation, a separate 509(a)(3) Want to learn more? Contact supporting organization with its own Board of Directors (please Jamie Herlich McIalwain, Director of Development WINTER'S TALE [email protected] see page 3). The Foundation invests our endowment and, 206.443.2532 based on three-year average of investment returns, determines By William Shakespeare an annual distribution to support the theater. Seattle Rep’s Music and Lyrics by Todd Almond endowment provides steady and stable funding for the theater’s Adaptation by Lear deBessonet and Todd Almond annual operations, ensuring that we continue to thrive and vigorously pursue our mission regardless of vicissitudes of the broader economy. Performing on the Bagley Wright stage August 28-30, 2020

Endowment Gifts Make a Lasting Impact Learn more about The Winter’s Tale in A gift to the Seattle Repertory Theatre Foundation will provide support for Seattle Rep in perpetuity, and is a our full 2020/21 season announcement, great option to consider as a gift now or as a planned gift in the future. Gifts of all types and sizes can make a lasting difference! coming this spring. seattlerep.org/endowment Want to keep up with all things Public Works? Visit seattlerep.org/publicworks Cast of Seattle Rep's Public and sign up for our Public Works email list. Works' As You Like It (2019) encorespotlight.com 17 Up Next in the Bagley Wright Theater: Diamond Artistic Director's Circle ($100,000+) Individual Donors Chap & Eve Alvord Tony Award-Winning Revival Each year, support from our generous donor Stellman Keehnel & Patricia Britton family ensures Seattle Rep’s artistic vitality and Marcella McCaffray financial stability. We gratefully acknowledge the following individuals whose philanthropic Gold Artistic Director's Circle ($75,000 - $99,999) investment is pivotal to supporting the theater’s Rod & Nancy Hochman mission-driven work. The Knossos Foundation Join Seattle Rep’s donor family. No gift is too small. Silver Artistic Director's Circle ($50,000 - $74,999)

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Williams Steve & Liz Rummage Dr. & Mrs. Bill Schnall Rubin • Barbara Sando • Ingrid & Stanley Savage & the & Linda Le Resche • Brooke & Josh Williams • Donald Lonnie & Susan Edelheit Shannon Williams Greg Smith & Betty Mattson-Smith Hilen Foundation • Seattle Spine & Sports Medicine • & Arda Williams • Gary & Nancy Willis • Christopher & Bob Evans & Steve Davis Shauna Woods & Benjamin Arenas Paul & Michelle Stamnes Gayle & Bob Seda • Jeanne Sheldon & Marvin Parsons • Tracy Yang • Anonymous (13) Sandy & Katie Farewell Wyman Youth Trust Delphine & Charles Stevens Richard & Barbara Shikiar • Laurette & LeRoy Simmons • H. Warren & Nancy Smith • Kristen & Michael Soltman Juli Farris Steven & Tina Yentzer Leonard & Marsha Stevens • Ronald & Dawnelle Spaulding • Robert & Susan † deceased John Zagula Todd & Jane Summerfelt Kent Fisher & Barbra Richardson Spieth • Kathleen & Rob Spitzer • Barbara & Burton The accuracy of this list is important to us; we welcome Karen & Doug Fletcher Anonymous (2) Tammy A. Talman Sternoff • Jane Stevens & Jerry Zimmerman • Cindy Richard & Catherine Wakefield notification of unintended omissions. Billy & Cheryl Geffon & Bob Strauss • Alex Sutton & Karen Easterbrook • Peter Williams & Su Chang Katharyn Gerlich Melinda & Sterling Wilson [email protected] Virginia Gilder & Lynn Slaughter Brien Wygle 206.443.2202 x1163 Jane Zalutsky & Mark Kantor Anonymous (6) IN HONOR Evan Cartwright by Martin Johansson & Betsy Groat • Veliere Crump by Annie Delucchi • Katha Tribute Gifts IN MEMORY Clodagh Ash by Roxanne Shepherd, by Mary Kay Haggard, by Kermit Anderson • Vernon Carlton Bryant, Jr. by Sarah Dalton by Frida Weisman • Jane Davis by David R. Davis • The People of Gander, Newfoundland by Jeanne Brixey, by Commercial Office Interiors, by Nanci Price Scoular & Andrew Scoular, by Nanci, Jillian, & Dru at Allsteel, by Helenjean Bryant Lundquist • Mary Kay Haggard by Kevin Haggard • Roy & Mollie Hammarlund by Mark Hammarlund • Winky Tribute gifts are a wonderful • Lisa Dudley by Cindy Klettke • George Gelernter by Virginia Wyman • Rick Gustafson by Nicki Brown, by Tom and Sandy Schuder, by Hussey by Bob & Micki Flowers, by Andrew Benjamin & Shelley Saunders • Gwen Kroon & Charlotte Lin by way to remember a loved Alice Mailloux, by Betty H. Winfield, by John & Carole Holland, by Susan Henderson, by Andrea Schneider & Kristin Petchnick, by Roger Jerry Kroon & Roxanne Shepherd • Jerry Large by Virginia Wyman • Marcella McCaffray by Deborah T. Killinger • one, honor a friend, or & Stacy Rounds, by Jennifer & David Gaulding, by Dawn & Mike Taylor, by Susan McConville, by Lisa McConville, by Michael McConville, Kate Neville by Patricia Limberg • The Playwright & Cast of Nina Simone: Four Women by Anonymous • Tricia celebrate a special occasion. by Vonda & Rod Chamberlin, by Jeanne Jones, by Doug Coats, by Karen Fensel, by Kathy McConville, by Lynn Beck, by Anonymous (2) Pearson by Kristin Pearson • Tedi & Dennis Reynolds' 50th Wedding Anniversary by Kelly Westerfield, Michael • Ginger Luce by Nancy Apple • Jerry Manning by Lory Manning • Cindy Marriott by Joanna Marriott • Nancy Mertel by Diana & Warren Hansen, Blane Coppin, Sandi Swarthout, and Vivian Hanset • Dottie Simpson & Nancy Alvord by Marsha & Jay Quinn Franzen and Aakervik, Jr., by Carrie Campbell • Ed & Emily Nelson by Anonymous • Rich Olson by Wendy McClure • Robert Romeo by Anonymous Glazer • The Storytellers at Seattle Rep by Barbara Hume • James & Katherine Tune's commitment to the Shá Cage in Familiar (2018) • Sandy Walker by Michelle Walker • Constance Wentzel by Marty Wentzel arts by Mary Hamilton & Jack White • The Victims of September 11, 2001 by Penny Tetter • Andrew Wilhelm by Andrea H. Reay encorespotlight.com 21 $400,000+ Brent Roberts Executive BUSINESS OPERATIONS Janet Shaughnessy Staff COSTUME PROPS ARTISAN/DYER DONOR RELATIONS OFFICER Evan Cartwright Institutional Seattle Repertory Theatre Foundation Alyssa Bostwick Imelda Daranciang* BUSINESS OPERATIONS Ben Swenson-Klatt Braden Abraham* Artistic Director EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT & DIRECTOR BAGLEY WRIGHT WARDROBE BOARD LIAISON DEVELOPMENT Jeffrey Herrmann Managing Director SUPERVISOR COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST Donors Joanna Barnebey $100,000 - $399,999 Cindy Sabye* Administration DATA OPERATIONS MANAGER Linnea Ingalls LEO K. WARDROBE SUPERVISOR GIFT PROCESSING SPECIALIST Seattle Rep is proud to & Human Timothy V. Norris Jr. Resources DATA RESOURCES MANAGER acknowledge the support of the Artistic Production PROPERTIES Sarah Wright following regional and national DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANT Elisabeth Farwell- Sann Hall Jolene Obertin** DonYeta Villavaso-Madden PATRON EXPERIENCE organizations, whose generous Moreland* PRODUCTION MANAGER PROPERTIES DIRECTOR DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES Professional Arts PRODUCING DIRECTOR Claire Koleske grants and sponsorships make Brian Fauska* Karla Davenport PATRON EXPERIENCE DIRECTOR Training Program $50,000 - $99,999 possible artistic and audience Kaytlin McIntyre TECHNICAL DIRECTOR PROPERTIES ASSISTANT Finance DIRECTOR OF CASTING & Marcus Williams Antonieta Castillo Carpio programs serving 150,000 NEW PLAY DEVELOPMENT Robert J. 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Johnson Randall Reece Steve Brown Nathan Kahler* Ellie Savidge Hansol Jung Michael McKenna HEAD AUDIO ENGINEER MARKETING & ADVERTISING Brian Quijada DIRECTOR ASL INTERPRETING Joel Herrera COORDINATOR Matt Schatz SCENIC CARPENTERS Tony Smith $10,000 - $24,999 Samantha Silva HEAD FLYPERSON Christian Barclay Ruby Rae Spiegel COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR Development

ALAN ALABASTRO COSTUME SHOP ATLAS Workbase The Morgan Fund at Seattle Foundation Cheryl L. West STAGE CREW: Michelle S. Leyva Anna Ziegler Denise Damico* Jamie Herlich McIalwain Avennia Winery NextLevel LEO K. THEATER PUBLICIST ARTISTS UNDER COMMISSION COSTUME DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT Baird Private Wealth Management Nordstrom, Inc. DIRECTOR Joel Wilmot Angela Nickerson MASTER STAGE CARPENTER Melissa Husby CREATIVE DIRECTOR Bank of America Charitable Foundation Peach Foundation Engagement Emily Blanche ASSOC. DIRECTOR OF The Boeing Company Robert Chinn Foundation ASSISTANT COSTUME Desirae Brownlee DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT MANAGER Sayed Alamy MASTER ELECTRICIAN Nabra Nelson GRAPHIC DESIGNER City Catering Company Treeline Foundation DIRECTOR OF ARTS Sarah Bednar ENGAGEMENT Danielle Nieves Mark Krida CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS COSTUME DESIGN ASSOCIATE Noelle McCabe DIRECTOR Clark Nuber P.S. U.S. Bank Foundation HEAD AUDIO ENGINEER Alex Lee Reed PUBLICATIONS & DIGITAL Naomi Weber CONTENT MANAGER Kate Neville YOUTH ENGAGEMENT MANAGER STAGE MANAGEMENT $5,000 - $9,999 TAILOR/DRAPER INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERSHIPS Jessica C. Bomball Richie Carpenter DIRECTOR Maddie Napel WEB PRODUCTION SPECIALIST Forest Foundation Moccasin Lake Foundation Lisa Lockard** Caitlin Denney-Turner PATP COORDINATOR Amy Bokanev Laura Mé Smith** Rachael Dorman Hazel Miller Foundation Muckleshoot Charitable Fund Allison Dunmore INDIVIDUAL GIVING DIRECTOR FIRST HANDS Jeremiah Givers SOCIAL MEDIA & PRESS Kutscher Hereford Bertram Burkart Brown & Pecado Bueno Artist Relations Maria Gray MANAGER Heather Seethoff Cashman, PLLC Sarah Gladden** Perkins Coie Zachary Jenkins SPECIAL EVENTS DIRECTOR Ariel Bui COSTUME STOCK MANAGER Veliere Crump The Loeb Family Charitable Foundations Stina Lotti Summit Law Group ARTIST RELATIONS ASSOCIATE GROUP SALES MANAGER Joyce Degenfelder** Adrienne Mendoza Anna Strickland Macy's DONOR STEWARDSHIP U.S. Bank Private Wealth Management WIG MASTER Michael B. Paul Catherine Huber MANAGER Cristine Ann Reynolds MARKETING & Shellie Stone COMMUNICATIONS Chris Quilici $2,500 - $4,999 COORDINATOR Brenda K. Walker DONOR RELATIONS OFFICER BECU Four Park Avenue LLC Erin B. Zatloka Olivia Mangione * An employee of 10 or more years. BNSF Railway Foundation Lester and Phyllis Epstein Foundation GRAPHIC DESIGN ASSISTANT ** An employee of 20 or more years. Compton Lumber Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management Bold Member of Senior Leadership Team Davis Wright Tremaine Tulalip Tribes Charitable Contributions Flatstick Pub Washington State Arts Commission Seattle Rep Organization (SRO) SRO Executive Board

MEDIA SPONSORS SRO is a 70+ member volunteer group established in 1963. Through The Shop at the Rep, Sandra Lucas Judy Hucka Cathy Kitto themed fundraisers, and four service projects, SRO donates more than $30,000 and over PRESIDENT TREASURER CORRESPONDING LIST AS OF DECEMBER 2019 3,800 volunteer hours each season. They also support Interns and Apprentices, assemble SECRETARY Carmen Spofford Dottie Delaney Italics represent in-kind gifts. subscriber materials for mailings, and volunteer at the Seattle Rep admin front desk. Sarah Rudinoff and FIRST VICE PRESIDENT RECORDING SECRETARY Diane Cody * Includes capital support Monthly Spotlight Meetings feature “Interviews with the Artists.” SRO REPRESENTATIVE Barbara Dirickson in Well (2017) Michael Leake Learn more at seattlerep.org/volunteer SECOND VICE PRESIDENT $400,000+ Brent Roberts Executive BUSINESS OPERATIONS Janet Shaughnessy Staff COSTUME PROPS ARTISAN/DYER DONOR RELATIONS OFFICER Evan Cartwright Institutional Seattle Repertory Theatre Foundation Alyssa Bostwick Imelda Daranciang* BUSINESS OPERATIONS Ben Swenson-Klatt Braden Abraham* Artistic Director EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT & DIRECTOR BAGLEY WRIGHT WARDROBE BOARD LIAISON DEVELOPMENT Jeffrey Herrmann Managing Director SUPERVISOR COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST Donors Joanna Barnebey $100,000 - $399,999 Cindy Sabye* Administration DATA OPERATIONS MANAGER Linnea Ingalls LEO K. WARDROBE SUPERVISOR GIFT PROCESSING SPECIALIST Seattle Rep is proud to & Human Timothy V. Norris Jr. Resources DATA RESOURCES MANAGER acknowledge the support of the Artistic Production PROPERTIES Sarah Wright following regional and national DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANT Elisabeth Farwell- Sann Hall Jolene Obertin** DonYeta Villavaso-Madden PATRON EXPERIENCE organizations, whose generous Moreland* PRODUCTION MANAGER PROPERTIES DIRECTOR DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES Professional Arts PRODUCING DIRECTOR Claire Koleske grants and sponsorships make Brian Fauska* Karla Davenport PATRON EXPERIENCE DIRECTOR Training Program $50,000 - $99,999 possible artistic and audience Kaytlin McIntyre TECHNICAL DIRECTOR PROPERTIES ASSISTANT Finance DIRECTOR OF CASTING & Marcus Williams Antonieta Castillo Carpio programs serving 150,000 NEW PLAY DEVELOPMENT Robert J. Aguilar* PATRON SERVICES MANAGER James Severson* Vinita Gupta PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT LIGHTING DIRECTOR theatergoers each year, including * Nicolette Vannais** DIRECTOR OF FINANCE Hattie Claire Andres Sutton Vie Jamie “James” Coblentz Angela Zylla PATRON SERVICES ASSISTANT ARTISTIC ASSOCIATE & Tyler Krieg SCENIC ARTS (PROPS) mainstage productions, new Gi Hara** MANAGER ASSISTANT TO THE ARTISTIC ASST. PRODUCTION MANAGER PROPERTIES ARTISANS CONTROLLER work, and youth and community DIRECTOR Madisen Crowley Devonnie A. Black Wiley SCENIC ARTS STAGE MANAGEMENT engagement initiatives. Wollansa Chekol PATRON SERVICES LEAD Angie Kamel ASSOCIATE TECHNICAL AP COORDINATOR John Graham PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR DIRECTOR Ruth Gilmore Gabrielle Duong Sara Albertson Join these philanthropic leaders in Foundation CHARGE SCENIC ARTIST SCENIC ARTS (PAINT) Lia Fakhouri Stina Lotti Supriya Hariharan Alyssa Hall ACCOUNTANT supporting great theater in Seattle. PUBLIC WORKS ASSOCIATE PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER Maureen Wilhelm* LEAD SCENIC ARTIST Emily Hall Reed Flores Guy Simpson, III DIRECTING/LITERARY Julia Thornton Lily McLeod Beth Peterson I.T. & Operations Nathan Smith $25,000 - $49,999 RESIDENT MUSIC CONSULTANT LIGHTING ASSOCIATE Yanci Huezo More Information SCENIC ARTIST PATRON SERVICES SPECIALISTS Chip Phillips YOUTH ENGAGEMENT Christopher Breyer Yuko Ariga Melissa Husby DIRECTOR OF I.T. Garneau-Nicon CONSULTING DRAMATURG PRODUCTION COORDINATOR STAGE CREW: FRONT OF HOUSE Annika Perez-Krikorian 206.443.2202 x1014 Ballinger Family The Chisholm BAGLEY WRIGHT THEATER Ballmer Group Family Sean Little DIRECTING/CASTING [email protected] Foundation Foundation Hal Brooks CARPENTERS Lance Park Foundation FACILITIES SUPERVISOR Constanza Romero Noel Clayton AUDIENCE SERVICES DIRECTOR Anna Vraney MASTER STAGE CARPENTER ASSOCIATE ARTISTS Jon Zucker** Debra Forman* Taylor Kesterson STAGE MANAGEMENT Grousemont SCENE SHOP FOREMAN RECEPTIONIST LEAD LOBBY MANAGER Dave Scamporlina Abigail Wang Foundation MASTER ELECTRICIAN Marco Collins Denny Hartung** Tony Morse LIGHTING DESIGN Wendy Goldberg MASTER SHOP CARPENTER Marketing & Zacharee Simms Seattle Lily Houghton Jeremiah Foglesong* Communications Haley Thomas Alyssa Woodbury The Norcliffe Virginia B. Toulmin MASTER PROPERTIES Repertory Justin Huertas Patrick Robinson* HOUSE MANAGERS DEVELOPMENT Foundation Foundation Organization C.A. Johnson Randall Reece Steve Brown Nathan Kahler* Ellie Savidge Hansol Jung Michael McKenna HEAD AUDIO ENGINEER MARKETING & ADVERTISING Brian Quijada DIRECTOR ASL INTERPRETING Joel Herrera COORDINATOR Matt Schatz SCENIC CARPENTERS Tony Smith $10,000 - $24,999 Samantha Silva HEAD FLYPERSON Christian Barclay Ruby Rae Spiegel COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR Development

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