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Directed anddevisedby Sleep Naomi Iizuka Adapted by Approx 70min BAM Fisher(FishmanSpace) DEC 2at2:30pm NOV 29—DEC2at7:30pm

Executive Producer Joseph V. Melillo, President Katy Clark, Vice ChairmanoftheBoard William I.Campbell, Chairman oftheBoard Adam E.Max, Brooklyn AcademyofMusic Season Sponsor: The Shubert Foundation,The Shubert Inc. The SHS Foundation Foundation Trust The Francena T. Harrison The AchelisandBodmanFoundation provided by: fortheateratBAM Major support Friendship Commission. providedbyTheJapan-U.S. Support Fund Innovation. forArtistic fromthe JosephV.support Melillo This productionismadepossiblewith Ford Foundation programming atBAMprovidedbythe forDiverseVoicesLeadership support BAM Fisher Production stage manager Sleep Lisa McGinn Rehearsal stage manager Adapted for the stage by Dee Dee Katchen Naomi Iizuka Production manager Devised and directed by Meg Kelly Rachel Dickstein and Ripe Time Assistant director Set and object design Sebastian Pray Susan Zeeman Rogers Dramaturg Costume design Joy Meads Ilona Somogyi Assistant sound design Lighting design AJ Surasky Jiyoun Chang Set construction Projection design Joseph Silovsky Hannah Wasileski Costume construction Original score created and performed by John Cowles NewBorn Trio Katie Down Mask construction Miguel Frasconi Erik Sanko Jeffrey Lependorf Technical director Sound design David Foley Matt Stine Video supervisor Choreography Jesse Garrison Rachel Dickstein in collaboration with the ensemble Production assistant Sam Schanwald Produced in association with Octopus Theatricals Set intern Lacey Ballard

ENSEMBLE Wardrobe intern Woman: Jiehae Park Kiyo Kamisawa Shadow: Saori Tsukada Woman’s Husband, Policeman, Ensemble: For Octopus Theatricals Brad Culver Founder and Executive/Creative Producer Child and Ensemble: Takemi Kitamura Mara Isaacs Stranger, Old Man, Ensemble: Akiko Aizawa Associate Producer Anna and Ensemble: Paula McGonagle Ronee Penoi

Place: A Stage Time: Now Production Coordinator Bryan Hunt Director’s Note

Like few other writers, Haruki Murakami The location where the action takes place straddles the real and the surreal, the is literally a box. It evokes both a domestic everyday and the extraordinary, inside space and a psychic space. It is at times of a quotidian moment in time. In our a prison. It is at times a hall of mirrors. It multidisciplinary approach to staging is at times a portal offering escape. As the Sleep, we have aimed to dive deep within woman breaks free of conventions, the the dark underbelly of his work to find space fractures and eventually shatters, what is raw, violent, and disruptive. leaving her in uncharted terrain that is both a battlefield and the precipice of a Sleep’s housewife is an unlikely new world filled with possibility. heroine, but one who challenges social constrictions in radical ways. One day, In an era where difference is under siege, she wakes to find herself caught in limbo we hope Sleep’s vision of an ordinary between night and day and chooses to woman tearing down the prison walls stay “awake,” defying what is normal or of her life as a wife and mother offers a expected. This act of defiance releases a necessary rally cry for us all. universe of spirits, doubled selves, and hidden passions beneath the floorboards —Rachel Dickstein of her very own home. In a fusion of imagery inspired by Murakami, Iizuka, Tolstoy, and Japanese Hannya myths, we Ripe Time dedicates this production tell a story that catapults an everywoman to Henry Christensen III. We celebrate from the threshold of a surreal dream his and his wife Constance’s decade of through a radical remastering of her life. generous support for Ripe Time’s work.

Sleep is a co-commission from the Joseph V. This production is supported, in part, by Melillo Fund for Artistic Innovation at BAM public funds from the New York City for the 2017 Next Wave Festival and the Department of Cultural Affairs. The project Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts at has been supported by the Foundation the University of Pennsylvania. through the Performing Arts JAPAN program. Made possible from a generous grant from Sleep was originally developed for the stage the Leo Shull Foundation for the Arts. by Ripe Time, Rachel Dickstein (Artistic Production design support provided by A.R.T/ Director), and The Play Company, Kate New York’s Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Loewald (Founding Producer), Lauren Weigel GeddesFoundation. Generous support also (Executive Producer.) Sleep was developed provided by The Jerome Robbins with support from The Ground Floor at Foundation, New York State Council on the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Berkeley, CA. Arts—a State Agency, the Alex and Rita Sleep was developed in association with Hillman Foundation, the Dramatists Guild, Center Theatre Group with support from the Off-Broadway Angels, NET/TEN Travel Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. A work-in- Grant, a LMCC Process Space residency, progress presentation of Sleep was presented an A.R.T. / New York Creative Space Grant, with The Play Company at Japan Society in the Purchase College Foundation, and New York City in Winter 2016. Alliance Bernstein.

RACHEL DICKSTEIN Devisor/Director

Who’s Rachel Dickstein is the founder and artistic director of Ripe Time. She de- vised, choreographed, and directed the world premiere of Sleep at the Annen- Who berg Center for the Performing Arts in October 2017. She created the critically HARUKI MURAKAMI acclaimed The World Is Round (BAM Author Fisher 2014, Obie award—Special Citation for Heather Christian (music), Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto, Jiyoun Chang (lighting), and Hannah Japan in 1949. He grew up in Kobe Wasileski (projections), finalist for 2014 and then moved to , where he Richard Rodgers Award); Septimus and attended Waseda University. After Clarissa (Baruch Performing Arts Center, college, Murakami opened a small Joe A. Calloway, Drama Desk, Drama jazz bar, which he and his wife ran for League nominations); Fire Throws (3LD seven years. His first novel, Hear the ART & Technology Center); Innocents Wind Sing, won the Gunzou Literature and Betrothed (Ohio Theatre); and Prize for budding writers in 1979. The Secret of Steep Ravines (PS 122). He followed this success with two Other recent projects include Sankaram/ sequels, Pinball, 1973 and A Wild Yankowitz’s Thumbprint (LA Opera, Sheep Chase, which together form The Prototype), and Vijay Iyer/Mike Ladd’s Trilogy of the Rat. Murakami is also In What Language? (Asia Society, RED- the author of the novels Hard-Boiled CAT, PICA TBA Festival). Her awards Wonderland and the End of the World, include the 2015 LPTW Lucille Lortel Norwegian Wood, Dance Dance Dance, Award for her work with Ripe Time. South of the Border, West of the Sun, She was nominated for the 2014 Alan The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Sputnik Schneider Award and the 2014 and Sweetheart, Kafka on the Shore, After 2015 Doris Duke Impact Award. She Dark, 1Q84, and Colorless Tsukuru has received commissions from BAM, Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. Annenberg Center, CTG, NYSCA, MAP, He has written three short story col- and PS 122, along with NEA/TCG and lections, The Elephant Vanishes, After Drama League Director’s Fellowships. the Quake, and Blind Willow, Sleeping She holds a BA from , has Woman, an illustrated novella, The been a Usual Suspect at NYTW since Strange Library, and several works of 1995, and is currently on faculty at nonfiction. The most recent of his Purchase College, SUNY. many international literary honors is the Jerusalem Prize, whose previous recipients include J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, and V. S. Naipaul. Murakami’s work has been translated into more than 50 languages. Next Wave). Other SITI credits include NAOMI IIZUKA the theater is a blank page (with Ann Playwright/Adaptation Hamilton, Wexner Center), Persians (Getty Villa, LA), Radio Macbeth (The Naomi Iizuka’s plays include 36 Public Theater), La Dispute (ART), and Views, Polaroid Stories, Anon(ymous), American Document (Martha Graham Language of Angels, Aloha, Say the Dance Company, Joyce Theater), all Pretty Girls, Tattoo Girl, Skin, and At directed by Anne Bogart. the Vanishing Point. Her plays have been produced at theaters across the BRAD CULVER country including Berkeley Rep, the Woman’s Husband/Policeman/ Goodman, the Guthrie, Cornerstone, Ensemble Children’s Theater Company, Kennedy Center, Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, Brad Culver’s performances include and the Public Theatre. Iizuka is an Gertrude Stein’s Brewsie and Willie alumna of New Dramatists and the (REDCAT/The Public Theater’s Radar recipient of a PEN/Laura Pels Award, LA); One Man, Two Guvnors (Berkeley an Alpert Award, a Joyce Foundation Repertory Theatre, Bay Area Critic’s Award, a Whiting Writer’s Award, and a Circle Award nomination—best featured Stavis Award from the National Theatre actor); Thirty.Three. (by Bill Cain, Ojai Conference. Her play Good Kids was the Playwright’s Conference); Edward Tu- first play commissioned by the Big Ten lane (South Coast Repertory); The Black Consortium’s New Play Initiative. Iizuka Glass (Ballhaus Ost, Berlin); Satyr Atlas was named a Berlind playwright-in-resi- (Getty Villa, LA); and The Internation- dence at earlier this alists (International Theater Festival, year. She heads the MFA playwriting Serbia). Culver has collaborated with program at the University of California, notable artists to develop new work at San Diego. institutions such as CAP@UCLA, Center Theatre Group (with Rajiv Joseph), EM- Ensemble PAC, University of Zagreb, and Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor. In film and televi- AKIKO AIZAWA sion, recent credits include Extracted Stranger/Old Man/Ensemble (Official Selection, SXSW Film Festival), The Next Big Thing, Cartoon Network’s Akiko Aizawa’s previous BAM perfor- Regular Show, and Dead in the Room mances with SITI Company include (produced by Slamdance Film Festi- Steel Hammer (Julia Wolfe, Bang on a val). Culver is a founding member of Can All-Stars, 2015 Next Wave); A Rite LA-based company Poor Dog Group. (Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Compa- He received his BFA in theater from the ny, 2013 Next Wave); Trojan Women California Institute of the Arts. (Jocelyn Clarke, 2012 Next Wave); Hotel Cassiopeia (Chuck Mee, 2007 Next Wave); bobrauschenbergamerica (Chuck Mee, 2003 Next Wave); and War of the Worlds (Naomi Iizuka, 2000 Theatre, Harvard Summer Dance, EST, TAKEMI KITAMURA NYTW, and La MaMa. McGonagle is a Child/Ensemble teaching artist and has been awarded a teaching grant from the Jerome Takemi Kitamura is a native of Osaka, Robbins Foundation. Japan and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in dance education from JIEHAE PARK Hunter College, where she received the Woman Choreographic Award from the dance program. Her work has been presented Jiehae Park has performed with at numerous venues in New York. Her Clubbed Thumb Summerworks, La Jolla latest performance credits include The Playhouse, Studio Theatre, Tiny Little Oldest Boy (puppeteer/dancer, Lincoln Band, A Collection of Shiny Objects, Center Theater); The Indian Queen and REDCAT. As a writer, Park’s (dancer, opera directed by Peter Sellars); plays include peerless (Yale Rep pre- Demolishing Everything with Amaz- miere, Cherry Lane MP), Hannah and ing Speed (puppeteer, production by the Dread Gazebo (Oregon Shakespeare Dan Hurlin); Shank’s Mare (puppeteer, Festival), and Wondrous Strange (col- production by Tom Lee and Koryu laborative, ATL/Humana); development Nishikawa V); and Memory Rings (2016 includes Sundance, Soho Rep, Berke- Next Wave, puppeteer/dancer, Phantom ley Rep’s Ground Floor, EWG at The Limb). Kitamura has worked with Nami Public Theater, p73, DG, Ojai Confer- Yamamoto, Sondra Loring, Sally Silvers, ence, and Ma-Yi. Current commissions Christopher Williams, The Body Cartog- include Playwrights Horizons, McCarter, raphy Project, Risa Jaroslow and Danc- Williamstown, the Geffen, MTC/Sloan, ers, and Crossing Jamaica Avenue. She Yale, and OSF. Park is a NYTW Usual has been a lead perfomer for eight years Suspect, Hodder Fellow, Lincoln Center in Samurai Sword Soul, a Japanese New Writer in Residence, and New sword fighting theater company. Dramatist. She received her BA from Amherst College and an MFA in acting PAULA MCGONAGLE from UCSD. Anna/Ensemble SAORI TSUKADA Paula McGonagle has worked with Shadow Ripe Time since 2003. Her productions include Septimus and Clarissa, Fire Saori Tsukada was born in America Throws, Betrothed, and Innocents. As and raised in Japan. Her “astound- a founding member of Gabrielle Lasner ingly precise movements” (Irish Times) & Co., McGonagle collaborated and and “carefree charisma” (Village Voice) performed in over a dozen productions made her a “virtuoso” (TimeOut NY) including River Deep: a Tribute to Tina performer in the NY downtown dance Turner, Salt Chocolate, Crush, and and theater scene. She has collabo- Holocaust Stories, and her films include rated with composer/theater artist John Dad, Wishing, and The Stranger. Moran, playwright/director Aya Ogawa, She has performed at Trinity Repertory choreographer Yoshiko Chuma, chore- ographer/multi-media artist Catherine to Kosovo. She has taught workshops Galasso, video artist Katja Loher, theater in music and theatrical improvisation, company Hoi Polloi, Witness Reloca- deep listening meditation, and collab- tion, and composer Joe Diebes. Aside orative songwriting at Roma villages in from her favorite NY venues such as Kosovo, youth programs in Macedonia, La MaMa, The Kitchen, PS 122, and an orphanage in Johannesburg as well Japan Society, she has performed as at NYU, SVA, the New School, Cal in London, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, State Fullerton, Rensselaer Institute, Glasgow, Düsseldorf, Warsaw, Skopje, and The Jewish Theological Seminary. and Bucharest, among other places. katiedown.com Her autobiographical silent film theater work called Club Diamond (co-created JEFFREY LEPENDORF with Nikki Appino) was presented at Shakuhachi, xiao, tanso, bawu, & The Public Theater as part of Under objects the Radar Festival as well as Days and Nights Festival. Tsukada was nomi- Jeffrey Lependorf, a member of the New nated for best actress at Dublin Fringe Born Trio, a composer, certified master Festival in 2005 and 2008. She holds player of the shakuhachi (traditional a BA in visual communication from Japanese bamboo flute), and player Waseda University. of multiple Asian bamboo flutes, has performed and been performed around NewBorn Trio the globe—literally. In fact, a recording of his “Night Pond” for solo shakuha- KATIE DOWN chi was launched into space when the Metal and glass objects shuttle Atlantis took off on May 15, 1997 and remained for a year aboard Katie Down is a composer, performer, the Russian space station Mir. He meditation teacher, and creative arts received degrees in music composition therapist. Her sound scores for theater, from Oberlin Conservatory and Colum- dance, and film include Roland Schim- bia University, serving as a beloved melpfenig’s The Golden Dragon (Drama teacher at the latter for many years, and Desk nomination 2013) and Aditi created and currently directs the Art Kapil’s Agnes Under the Big Top at Omi: Music International, a collabora- Long Wharf Theatre (Connecticut Critics tive musicians program in upstate New Circle Award). Down has performed York. jeffreylependorf.com. at Under the Radar, Live Arts Festival, Fryma e Re Festival, National Arts MIGUEL FRASCONI Festival (Grahamstown, South Africa), Glass percussion Trn Festival Slovenia, Ohrid Summer Festival, Zadar Snova Theatre and Mu- Miguel Frasconi is a composer sic Festival, Malta Experimental Theatre and improviser specializing in Festival, and in Poznan, Poland. She the relationship between acoustic has received a Meet the Composer objects and musical form. His commission, a Jerome Foundation instrumentarium includes glass grant, and Mid Atlantic Arts travel grant objects, analog electronics, laptop, and hybrid constructions of his own League Nomination for distinguished design. He has composed chamber production for Septimus and Clarissa; music, operas, and numerous dance Best Design, First Irish Festival; 2010 scores. A new short opera was recently Elliot Norton Design Award; 1997, premiered at Symphony Space, NYC, 2008, 2010 IRNE Design Awards; Best and his previous opera was premiered Design, Opera Online; HOLA Scenog- in Northern California in 2015. He raphy Award; ACE Award, and the Na- has performed with many new and tional Endowment for the Arts/Theater experimental music ensembles and is Communications Group Career Develop- co-director of Ne(x)tworks, one of the ment Program (NEA/TCG CDP). Rogers’ leading new music ensembles in NYC. design for Septimus and Clarissa was In September 2012 he curated the selected for the 2015 Prague Quadren- CAGE100 Festival@The Stone, which nial. She is a New Georges Affiliated called “one of Artist. szrdesign.com the best observances of John Cage’s 100th birthday.” Frasconi’s music has ILONA SOMOGYI been released on New Albion Records, Costume design Porter Records, clang.cl, and his string quartets will soon be released on the Ilona Somogyi’s previous collaborations Tzadik label. frasconimusic.com with Ripe Time are The Secret of Steep Ravines, Innocents, and The World is Design & Production Round. Theater credits include London West End: Nice Fish (previously at St.

Ann’s Warehouse and A.R.T.); Broad- SUSAN ZEEMAN ROGERS way: Clybourne Park; off-Broadway: Set and object design Gloria (Vineyard, Goodman Theater); Body of an American, Satchmo at Susan Zeeman Rogers’ many works the Waldorf, Dinner with Friends, My with Ripe Time include Septimus and Name Is Asher Lev, and A Soldier’s Clarissa, Innocents, Betrothed, and Tale (Zankel Hall); Maple and Vine, A Fire Throws. Her off-Broadway credits Small Fire (Playwrights Horizons); Jerry include NYTW, Prototype Festival, New Springer: the Opera (Carnegie Hall); Georges, Red Bull Theater, INTAR, Mint and the original production of Wit. Her Theater, Susan Marshall and Co., MCC recent regional work includes Okla- Theater, Flea Theater, Hook & Eye The- homa (Glimmerglass); Assassins, Three ater, One-Eighth Theater, and a Mabou Sisters, and Passion Play (Yale Rep); Mines Artists Residency. Regionally, she Seder, Cloud 9, Heartbreak House, has designed for Opera, and Romeo and Juliet (Hartford Stage); Trinity Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare Carousel, King Hedley II, and Smokey and Co., Two River Theatre Company, Joe’s Café (Arena Stage); Grey Gardens Actors Shakespeare Project, SpeakEasy (Ahmanson/LA); Anything Goes (Good- Stage Co., Opera Boston, Merrimack speed Opera House); and Vanya, Sonia, Repertory Theatre, Commonwealth Masha & Spike, and Cat on a Hot Tin Shakespeare, Curtis Opera, Opera Roof (Guthrie). She is a graduate of the North, Underground Railway Theatre, Yale MFA program and is currently on ART Institute, and Moscow Art The- faculty there. atre School. Awards include a Drama Photo: Susan Zeeman Rogers Life in a Nutshell (HERE Arts Center). JIYOUN CHANG Her video installations and designs have Lighting design been exhibited in London, Brighton, Glasgow, and Prague. She received her Jiyoun Chang‘s New York credits in- MFA from the Yale School of Drama. clude Too Heavy for Your Pocket, Ugly hannahwasileski.com Lies, The Bone (Roundabout Under- ground); Sojourners, Her Portmanteau MATT STINE (NYTW, projection and lighting design), Sound design brownsville (LCT3), Goldberg’s Variation (2013 Next Wave), The World is Round Matt Stine’s Broadway and off-Broad- (Ripe Time, BAM Fisher 2014), The way credits include Sweeney Todd Dance and the Railroad (Signature), (Barrow Street Theatre; Drama Desk, and T.1912 and Peter and the Wolf Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle Award (Guggenheim). Among her other credits nominations for outstanding sound de- are The Parchman Hour (Guthrie); sign); Here Lies Love (music producer, Tokyo Fish Story (The Old Globe); Public Theater/Royal National Theatre/ Aubergine and An Octoroon (Berkeley Seattle Rep); The Liar (sound design, Rep); and The Unfortunates and Troilus Classic Stage Company); A Christ- and Cressida (OSF). She has received mas Carol (music producer, McCarter an Obie Award special citation in light- Theater); Dead Poets Society (sound ing design and is a graduate of the Yale design, CSC); The Clearing (sound de- School of Drama. sign, 59E59); The Black Crook (sound design, Abrons Art Center); Nathan HANNAH WASILESKI The Wise (sound design, CSC); Misery Projection design (music producer, Broadway); Mother Courage and Her Children (sound Hannah Wasileski is a visual artist and design, CSC); and The Tempest (music projection designer whose work spans producer, Delacorte Theater) and Love’s theater, opera, music, and installation. Labour’s Lost (music supervisor, Dela- Her recent designs include Pipeline corte). His composer credits include The (Lincoln Center); A Mouth is Not for Weight Of Smoke (Paul Taylor Dance Talking (National Sawdust); The Death Company) and Mo(or)town/Redux and of the Last Black Man in the Whole En- Hapless Bizarre (doug elkins choreogra- tire World (Signature Theatre); Revolt. phy, etc.) He also produced the albums She Said. Revolt Again. (Soho Rep.); Love’s Labour’s Lost (Sh-K-Boom Re- A Proust Sonata (Wortham Center); cords) and The Remix Collection From Angel’s Bone (Prototype Festival); The Here Lies Love (Todomundo!), and will Wreckers (Bard SummerScape Opera); be music producer for the upcoming Albany Symphony’s American Music musical adaptation of Moulin Rouge! Festival (EMPAC), architectural projec- directed by Alex Timbers. 27sound.com tion design for La Celestina (Metro- politan Museum); The World Is Round (BAM Fisher 2014: Obie Award); Dear Elizabeth (Yale Rep and Berkeley Rep); and Strange Tales of Liaozhai and My (Soho Rep); Rememberer (2016 Next JOY MEADS Wave, Steven Reker & Open House); Dramaturg Forbidden Creature Virgin Whore and From the Spot Where We/You/I Stand Joy Meads is the literary manager/ (Stood) (Miller Rothlein Dance); You, artistic engagement strategist at Center My Mother (Theatre of a Two-Headed Theatre Group. At CTG, her drama- Calf); Card and Gift and Baby Screams turgy credits include Archduke by Rajiv Miracle (Clubbed Thumb); The Seagull Josepth, Good Grief by Ngozi Anyanwu, and Ivanov (Chekhov at Lake Lucille); Appropriate by Branden Jacobs-Jen- Temporal Powers and Donogoo (Mint kins, Forever by Dael Orlandersmith, Theater Company); The Room Sings, Marjorie Prime by Jordan Harrison The Peripherals, and Hot Lunch Apos- (2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist), A Parallel- tles (Talking Band). Regional credits ogram by Bruce Norris, The Royale by include Trinity Repertory Company, Two Marco Ramirez, and Radiate by Daniel River Theatre Company, George Street Alexander Jones. Previously, Meads was Playhouse, and Passage Theatre. literary manager at Steppenwolf Theatre Company and associate artistic director MEG KELLY at California Shakespeare Theater. She Production manager has also developed plays with NYTW, Berkeley Rep, Denver Center, the Meg Kelly’s many credits include Liz O’Neill, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Lerman’s Healing Wars (on tour), Insig- Portland Center Stage, South Coast Rep, nificance at Langham Place with UK- and Campo Santo, among others. She is based Defibrillator, and numerous tour- a proud member and co-founder of The ing productions with Dance Exchange Kilroys. thekilroys.org (Hammock, Blueprints of Relentless Nature, Drift, Language from the Land, LISA MCGINN The Matter of Origins) and the Public Production stage manager Theater (Shakespeare in the Park, Mobile Unit, Under the Radar). She is Lisa McGinn’s recent stage managing a graduate of the University of Arizona credits include Geoff Sobelle’s Home (BFA in theater design and technology) (2017 Next Wave) and The Object Les- and Columbia University (MFA in the- son (2014 Next Wave); Underground ater management and producing). Railroad Game (Jennifer Kidwell, Scott Sheppard + Ars Nova); Chimera and The Wholehearted (Stein | Holum Proj- Octopus Theatricals ects); This Is Reading (Lynn Nottage, lead artist, Kate Whoriskey, director); Founded in 2013 by creative producer Jacuzzi and The Light Years (The De- Mara Isaacs, Octopus Theatricals is bate Society); Eager to Lose (Ars Nova); dedicated to producing and consulting How to Build a Forest (PearlDamour in the performing arts. From experimen- + Shawn Hall); Revolt. She said. tal to commercial, Octopus collaborates Revolt Again and Winners and Losers with artists and organizations to foster an expansive range of compelling the- BAM-Fisher, Annenberg Center Live, the atrical works for local, national, and in- Baruch Performing Arts Center, 3LD Art ternational audiences. Octopus eschews & Technology Center, the Ohio The- boundaries—aesthetic, geopolitical, atre, PS 122, and the Clark Studio at institutional—and thrives on a nimble Lincoln Center. Ripe Time Designs were and rigorous practice. Current projects featured in the 2015 USITT Prague include Hadestown by Anaïs Mitchell, Quadrennial, an international exhibit Iphigenia by Wayne Shorter and Esper- featuring excellence in design from anza Spalding, The Island and across the globe. by Poland’s Song of the Goat Theatre, Falling Out by Phantom Limb Company, RIPE TIME Theatre for One by Christine Jones, Rachel Dickstein and An Iliad by Homer’s Coat. Current Artistic Director clients include the Jerome Robbins Foundation, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Ronee Penoi Princeton University, Fiasco Theater, Octopus Theatricals, Tour producer The Wilma Theater, and The Civilians. octopustheatricals.com John Wyszniewski Publicity, Everyman Agency

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Additional recent donors: Sleep is contained within The Elephant Akiko Aizawa, Bruce Allardice, Susan Vanishes: Stories by Haruki Murakami Bernfield, Sylvie Bertrand, Josh Broder, published by Random House in various Bernadette Chi and Raymond Sheen, formats and is available for purchase at Constance Congdon, John and Louisa major bookseller and online retailers. This Craddock, Jane Ann Crum, Joel and Trudy adaptation of Sleep has been commis- Cunningham, Pamela Drexel, Cynthia and sioned by Ripe Time in special arrange- Howard Epstein, Andrew Feigin, Doris and ment with Haruki Murakami and ICM Sam Feinberg, Suzanne Graver, Samantha Partners. Excerpts from the original text are Hegarty, Richard Hersh, Anne Kupferstein, included from Sleep, by Haruki Murakami Patricia Laurence, Barbara Kass, John and translated from the Japanese by Alfred Kim, Moon Kim, Kaori Kitao, Kim Kittay, Birnbaum and Jay Rubin. Sarah Krainin, Frances Kumin, Tsy Cheng Lim, Katt Lissard, Richard Locke, Richard McCoy and Marsha Wagner, Noah Millman, Lynn Moffat, Jody Oberfelder, Chris Pennington, Ellen Perecman, Kartheesan Ragavan, Barbara Rockow, Susan and Fred Sanders, Kamala Sankaram, Jonathan Schenk, Sarah Stern, Nancy Stearns, Susan Yankowitz, and Natasha Zaretsky.