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202-488-3300 SUBSCRIBE TODAY! ARENASTAGE.ORG NINA SIMONE: FOUR WOMEN TABLE OF CONTENTS 4 Artistically Speaking 5 From the Executive Director 6 Molly Smith’s 20th Anniversary Season 9 Director’s Note 11 Title Page 13 Setting / Cast List / For this Production 15 Musical Numbers 17 Bios — Cast

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2017/18 SEASON 3 ARTISTICALLY SPEAKING

Our history defines us and drives us. I was 11 years-old when four African-American girls were murdered in the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing of 1963. I remember the shock. I remember thinking these were innocent children, and I was a child myself. It is one of my earliest memories of witnessing violence in America — a senseless act born from deep-seated hatred, bigotry and racism. This moment moved Nina Simone from being an artist to becoming an activist. Sadly, these horrific acts of domestic terrorism haven’t stopped. Whether because of race or because of hatred they continue with relentless timing. In 2012, we lost innocent children and women in Newtown, Connecticut at Sandy Hook Elementary School. I became an artist activist in response to this horror. After Sandy Hook, my partner Suzanne Blue Star Boy and a group of citizen activists created a March on Washington for Gun Control. Each of us has their own critical turning point. What is it for you? Like Nina Simone, we must use our voices to demand action. As an established black musician during the , Nina Simone risked her career to include fierce, uncompromising social commentary in her songs. And while the music industry punished her by boycotting her records, people began to listen. Most importantly, they began to react. Like Nina, we cannot be afraid to say what we need to say. This season marks my 20th Anniversary as Artistic Director at Arena Stage and it is the most important time in my life to create theater, to speak out and to take action. I’m proud to welcome director Timothy Douglas, who returns after his forceful King Hedley II and Disgraced. He brings passionate artistry that quite literally fuels the entire rehearsal room and all those working with him. Timothy and his beautiful cast are the kind of artists that fuel Arena. We are at a critical juncture in our country. It is a great moment to share Nina Simone’s elegant and powerful story in Washington. I hope that you are inspired by her story to speak up when you see injustices and to do something about it. Choose what you feel passionately about. To do so is an act of citizenship. When we stand together, we stand a chance. Many thanks,

Molly Smith, Artistic Director

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It’s hard to believe we have reached the last production we will open in 2017. The last quarter of the year is always one of the busiest at Arena with productions running in all our spaces and our rehearsal halls packed tightly with cast members, designers and production staff. This time of the year can often be one of the most chaotic due to the high volume activity. It is also, in my opinion, one of the most invigorating because the Mead Center is “at capacity” with the number of artists in our spaces. As I have mentioned in previous programs, I have decided to use my program notes this season to further explore how we at Arena demonstrate our commitment to our core values. The fourth core value of our mission statement is “to flourish by building a dynamic and powerful artistic community.” With each season, Arena’s artistic community grows exponentially. In each production that appears on our stages, we bring in new actors, directors, designers, musicians, crew members and production staff that help bring the shows to life. We also welcome back artists that we have collaborated with in the past to help foster relationships and further strengthen our existing community. The scope of our community continues to expand from a production standpoint with each co-production partnership. Earlier this season we produced the backyard comedy Native Gardens with our friends at the in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In March of 2018 we are excited to present August Wilson’s Two Trains Running with our colleagues at the Seattle Repertory Theatre. These partnerships not only allow us to produce first-rate productions, but allow Arena’s artistic community and influence to grow at a national scale. Our artistic community grows with each world premiere we produce and move on to have other productions at theaters both in the non-profit and for-profit realm. The spring will see two works added to Arena’s long list of world premiere productions with Sovereignty opening in January and Snow Child opening in April. Productions like Dear Evan Hansen and Next to Normal have made stops at Arena Stage before moving to Broadway, while productions like The Originalist have gone on to have life at other regional theatres. With each new production, development and reading, Arena’s artistic influence expands and further shapes the legacy of this 67 year-old organization. Our community engagement program strengthens the artistic community from a D.C. perspective with our Actors Arena series and Allen Lee Hughes Fellowship Program. Our commitment to training and engaging with artists at our local level ensures that Arena Stage is able to contribute to the robust D.C. arts community. Our Power Plays initiative has proven Arena’s commitment to developing works in D.C. and providing them the chance to be test driven in front of our sophisticated and introspective audiences. Molly and I recently gifted the staff with teal blue shirts that proclaim “Artists All” in bold text on the front. It serves as an important reminder that Arena Stage is made up of artists on and offstage. While you watch the performance, I invite you to reflect on the scope of Arena’s artistic community from what you see before you, who you see around you in the Mead Center, and beyond — we have learned here that the best way to live our values is to present fiery and poignant works likeNina Simone: Four Women! Happy Holidays!

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2017/18 SEASON 5 MOLLY SMITH’S 20TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON A MUSE ON DIRECTING BY MOLLY SMITH

Oh, directing! It’s my greatest joy — I’m at my My job is to synthesize the brilliant ideas we most creative; and it’s my greatest fear — I’m have as a group — then make decisions. at my most vulnerable. It’s also when I feel most alive because we’re creating in space, I talk to the casting director about the type in the moment. of actor I’m interested in. For those of you who follow my aesthetic, you know I cast A director’s art is interpretive. It’s my job to dynamic, emotionally available, opened interpret the words of the playwright for this minded actors. I want to work with actors moment in time. My medium is plastic and who will experiment and play in rehearsals is about the actors, the design, the words and who relish the hard work it takes to and the audience. Theater is created in the get to excellence. Yes, we check with space between audience and actor — even other directors to make sure each actor is if there is an audience of one for one actor a good company member. If they aren’t, on stage. I won’t cast them. Beware all actors who read this and now know… My work begins at least a year before it hits the stage. Research, research, research — I If it’s a musical, I’m in conversations early love studying the period, ideas and artwork with the choreographer and musical of the world we’re creating. I work with the director about the type of dancing and designers on two or three important themes ideas for the choreography. The musical to see in the set, costumes, light, projection director and I discuss interpretation of the and sound design. I strive to be very lyrics and the sound of the show. focused and clear since so many artists need to interpret these two or three ideas. We have at least one big design meeting The set leads the way technically. when designers, the stage manager and production manager all sit in a room to imagine the play scene by scene — often the set designer has a miniature model of the set. Each play has its own unique set of challenges and we consider many potential solutions. The best idea wins.

Snow Child, which I’m directing later this season, is so complex and has so many wonderful challenges to solve that we’ve already had two design meetings.

And I’m barely beginning to scratch the Design research for Mother Courage and Her Children. surface of what I do as director…

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more sense to . I think all of my work IN CONVERSATION WITH as a creative artist is in some way trying PLAYWRIGHT CHRISTINA HAM AND to address, heal and make sense of the world — specifically the world I grew up DIRECTOR TIMOTHY DOUGLAS in. I tend to feel most at home the more complicated the play is that I’m working on. What do you think Nina Simone was saying that we need to hear today? Is there a particular song or lyric that resonates with you now? CH: I’ve done a lot of reading on Nina Simone, and have learned that black pride was really important to her. I think her work was trying to break through those barriers and provide a , basically, for Director Timothy Douglas and Playwright Christina Ham. her people to really have black pride, even when she was fighting for that pride in her own life. She said “Young, Gifted and Black” On September 15, 1963, the 16th Street should be our new national anthem because Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was she hated “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” bombed by white supremacists. Four girls were killed in the bombing — Addie Mae TD: For me it continues to be “Mississippi Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson Goddam.” The music is doing one thing, and Carol Denise McNair. Here, we speak and the lyrics are doing another — it’s as with Playwright Christina Ham and Director if two locomotives are pulling in opposite Timothy Douglas about telling this story directions — and yet somehow it works. And through the lens of Nina Simone’s music. within that the most telling line, well two, is “This is a show tune but the show hasn’t What personal meaning does this been written for it yet.” How profound and story hold for you? prophetic. You can take it at so many levels. And then later she says, “I bet you thought I CHRISTINA HAM: I wrote the story using was kidding.” the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing as a starting point because my mom’s family CH: And she wasn’t. At all. went there. Thinking about this play and TD: I’m still so confronted by that. my mom’s family going to the 16th Street Baptist Church helped me to understand why this event would resonate for Nina, as well as the impact and pain it had on CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION my mom’s community. My parents both Join us for a post-show left the south before segregation ended. conversation with the artists on: They never lived in a desegregated south because they all went west and never NOVEMBER 28, 2017 – 7:30 P.M. looked back. Now many of my plays deal DECEMBER 6, 2017 – 12:00 P.M. with delving into what happened — I can DECEMBER 12, 2017 – 12:00 P.M. understand that pain a little better. DECEMBER 13, 2017 – 12:00 P.M. TIMOTHY DOUGLAS: The deeper I get into DECEMBER 19, 2017 – 12:00 P.M. Nina’s music, and into emotionally intuiting DECEMBER 21, 2017 – 8:00 P.M. her pain, her lyrics and artistry made much

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Arena Stage Molly Smith, Artistic Director | Edgar Dobie, Executive Director PRESENTS NINA SIMONE: FOUR WOMEN BY CHRISTINA HAM DIRECTED BY TIMOTHY DOUGLAS

MUSIC DIRECTOR CHOREOGRAPHER MUSIC AND VOCAL ARRANGEMENTS DARIUS SMITH LADY DANE FIGUEROA EDIDI DARIUS SMITH

SET DESIGNER COSTUME DESIGNER LIGHTING DESIGNER TIMOTHY MACKABEE KARA HARMON MICHAEL GILLIAM

SOUND DESIGNER WIG DESIGNER FIGHT CONSULTANT MATTHEW M. NIELSON ANNE NESMITH CLIFF WILLIAMS III

DRAMATURG CASTING DIRECTOR CASTING JOCELYN CLARKE VICTOR VAZQUEZ GEOFF JOSSELSON, C.S.A.

STAGE MANAGER ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER CHRISTI B. SPANN MARNE ANDERSON

Nina Simone: Four Women was commissioned by Park Square Theatre, St. Paul, Minnesota. Richard Cook, Artistic Director, C. Michael-jon Pease, Executive Director and received its first public performance on March 8, 2016. Nina Simone: Four Women is generously sponsored by R. Lucia Riddle and

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SETTING The ruins of 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, September 16, 1963.

CAST LIST (in order of appearance) Nina Simone...... HARRIETT D. FOY Sarah...... THERESA CUNNINGHAM Sephronia...... TONI L. MARTIN Sweet Thing / Dance Captain...... FELICIA CURRY Sam...... DARIUS SMITH Recorded Announcer...... EDWARD GERO

FOR THIS PRODUCTION Assistant Set Designer...... ANTON VOLOVSEK Assistant Lighting Designer...... CATHERINE GIRARDI Technical Director...... NATALIE BELL Properties Director...... MONIQUE WALKER Costume Director...... JOSEPH P. SALASOVICH Master Electrician...... CHRISTOPHER V. LEWTON Sound Director...... TIMOTHY M. THOMPSON SDCF Observer / Directing Assistant...... JASMINE B. GUNTER Stage Management Fellow...... DAYNE SUNDMAN Props...... KYLE HANDZIAK Light Board Operator...... PAUL VILLALOVOZ Sound Engineer...... REID MOFFAT Second Audio...... MELANIE NEHRKORN Wardrobe Supervisor...... ALINA GERALL and Makeup Supervisor / Assistant Wig Designer...... LASHAWN MELTON Hair and Makeup...... ANTOINETTE WINCHESTER-WILLIAMS Board Intern...... PATTI HERMAN

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HARRIETT D. FOY (Nina Simone) CAST (in alphabetical order) appeared at Arena Stage in The Women of Brewster Place THERESA CUNNINGHAM (Sarah) (Helen Hayes nomination), is excited to make her debut The Piano Lesson, Polk A MODERN AMERICAN CUISINE RESTAURANT SERVING SW DC at Arena Stage. D.C.-area County (Helen Hayes credits include Caroline or nomination), From the Mississippi Delta and Change (Stillpointe Theatre, A Wonderful Life. Broadway credits include Round House); A Raisin in the Amelie, Amazing Grace, The American Plan, Sun and If I Hold My Tongue (Compass Rose Mamma Mia and Once on This Island. Off- Theatre); Wiley and the Hairy Man Broadway credits include Rimbaud (BAM); DINNER & SHOW (Imagination Stage); Once on This Island On the Levee; Crowns (AUDELCO Award $35 THREE-COURSE DINNER (Olney); Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Riverside Theatre); winner); Lone Star Love; Dinah Was; and and Les Misérables and a Helen Hayes Inside Out. Regional credits include Reunion Start your evening with an appetizer & entrée, walk over to see Award for The Color Purple (Toby’s Dinner (Ford’s Theatre); The House That Will Not the show, then come back to enjoy dessert. Theatre). Regional credits include I Dream Stand (Yale Repertory/Berkeley Repertory, (Alliance Theatre); Smokey Joe’s Café TBA Award winner); dance of the holy ghosts (Atlanta Lyric Theatre); Three Sistahs (Yale Repertory); Breath and Imagination (Horizon Theatre); Member of the Wedding (ArtsEmerson); LMNOP (Goodspeed), and Seussical (Springer Opera House); True Ambassador Satch (Dubai); and Seven Story of the 3 Little Pigs (Theatre in the Guitars (Center Stage). Film/TV credits Square); Alice Thru the Wonderglass include Winter’s Tale, Collateral Beauty, (Synchronicity Theatre); and Heartbeats Welcome to the Wayne, Orange is the New (Aurora Theatre). Theresa studied musical Black, Rescue Me and Law & Order. She theater at Syracuse University. received her B.F.A. from Howard University. “WGATAP!” :@divafoyh. (Sweet Thing / FELICIA CURRY www.harriettdfoy.com Dance Captain) returns to Arena Stage after appearing TONI L. MARTIN (Sephronia) of in Disgraced. D.C.‑area Milwaukee, WI is thrilled to credits include OLIVÉRio, make her Arena Stage debut. Chasing George Washington Broadway credits include and Beehive (Kennedy Center); Ragtime, A Airline Highway. Additional Christmas Carol and The 25th Annual New York credits include Putnam County Spelling Bee (Ford’s Dream Ticket (NYC Fringe Festival). Chicago Theatre); Caroline or Change and This credits include Airline Highway (Steppenwolf (Round House); Home (Rep Stage); Laugh Theatre) and A Raisin in the Sun (TimeLine and Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Studio Theatre) for which she won Best Supporting Theatre); Les Misérables (Signature Theatre); Actress from Black Theatre Alliance. Film/TV Imagination Stage; Adventure Theatre MTC; credits include NBC’s Chicago Fire and MetroStage; Olney; and Toby’s Dinner ’sGypsy . She received her B.F.A. from Theatre. Regional credits include Vanya and University of -Milwaukee. All Sonia and Masha and Spike and The praise goes to The Creator and much love Mountaintop (Gulfshore Playhouse), Sister to my friends and family who show up and Act (Riverside Center) and The Color Purple support! Twitter: @ToniMartinMKE, (Virginia Repertory Theatre). New York Instagram: @LinnMartinT credits include We Three Lizas (Joe’s Pub) and The Brontes (NYMF). Felicia has received five Helen Hayes Award nominations and a RTCC Best Actress SAVE 10% WITH YOUR ARENA STAGE TICKET! Award. She is a graduate of University Not valid with any other specials, offers or promotions. of Maryland. 1101 4th St, SW WaShington, DC 20024 202.488.0987 for more DetailS, pleaSe viSit WWW.Station4DC.Com 2017/18 SEASON 17 HOB-ad-ArenaStage-171017.pdf 1 10/17/17 4:20 PM HOB-ad-ArenaStage-171017.pdf 1 10/17/17 4:20 PM

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DARIUS SMITH (Sam) makes his TIMOTHY DOUGLAS (Director) directed Arena Stage debut. Off- Disgraced and King Hedley II at Arena Broadway credits include Stage. D.C. credits include Father Comes Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3), Two Chameleon Skin (NY City Trains Running, The Trip to Bountiful, Center) and Futurity (ArsNova, Permanent Collection and A Lesson Before Soho Rep). D.C.-area credits include Jelly’s Dying (Round House); Dontrell, Who Kissed Last Jam (Helen Hayes nomination), La Cage the Sea (six Helen Hayes nominations) aux Folles, Soon (Signature); The Producers, and Insurrection: Holding History (Theater The Little Mermaid and Choir Boy (Studio). Alliance); The Last Orbit of Billy Mars (Woolly Regional credits include His Eye is On the Mammoth); and Much Ado About Nothing Sparrow (Portland Center Stage) and Choir (Folger Theatre). Additional credits include Boy (Marin Theater Company, JAG the premiere of Rajiv Joseph’s The Lake Productions). His original works include Effect (Silk Road Rising), Bronte: A Portrait Marcus Nate is Alive and Great and Still Living of Charlotte (Off-Broadway) and the world in Detroit, The Snowy Day, U.G.L.Y. Awards premiere of August Wilson’s Radio Golf (Yale include 2017 AUDELCO Award nomination Repertory). He has directed for Cincinnati for Raisin (Astoria PAC), NY City Center Playhouse in the Park (Associate Artist), Music Directing Fellowship, American Conservatory Theater, The Theatre Critics Award for Outstanding Music Guthrie, Berkeley Repertory, Center Theatre Direction for Choir Boy, and Signature Group, South Coast Repertory, Steppenwolf, Theatre Young Artist Citation. Upcoming Portland Center Stage, Berkshire Theatre productions include (Ford’s Theatre). Festival and Milwaukee Repertory. Twitter/Instagram: @DSmithMusic. www.timothydouglas.org www.dariussmithmusic.net DARIUS SMITH (Music Director / Music and Vocal Arrangements) See cast bios.

CREATIVE LADY DANE FIGUEROA EDIDI (Choreographer) last appeared at Arena Stage as Lady (Playwright)’s plays have CHRISTINA HAM in Trust Me as part of the Kogod Cradle been developed and produced both Series. D.C. credits include Faith in Wig nationally and internationally with the Out! (Studio Theatre) and New York credits Kennedy Center, The Guthrie, Goodman include Klytmnestra in Klytmnestra: An Theatre and the Tokyo International Arts Epic Slam Poem (WOW Theater Café). Festival, among others. Her play Four Little Considered one of the most prolific artists Girls was directed by Phylicia Rashad at of our time, she is the first TWOC to publish the Kennedy Center to commemorate a work of fiction in D.C., and released her the 50th anniversary of the 16th Street 10th book in August. She was the first Baptist Church bombing. Christina is a two- TWOC to be nominated for a Helen Hayes time recipient of a McKnight Fellowship Award (Outstanding Choreography for in Playwriting Award and a Jerome Theater Alliance’s Dontrell Who Kissed the Fellowship from the Playwrights’ Center Sea.) As an advocate, she is the founder in Minneapolis. Her plays are published of The Inanna D Initiatives and has created by Dramatic Publishing. A graduate of several arts advocacy initiatives to help the University of Southern California with combat the erasure of TGNC Artist of Color. an M.F.A. in playwriting from the UCLA www.LadyDaneFE.com School of Theater, Film, and Television, Christina is a Core Writer of the Playwrights’ Center and the playwright-in-residence at Pillsbury House Theatre in Minneapolis. www.christinaham.com

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TIMOTHY MACKABEE (Set Designer)’s MICHAEL GILLIAM (Lighting Designer)’s Broadway credits include The Elephant Broadway credits include Bonnie and Clyde, Man (starring Bradley Cooper) and Mike Brooklyn, Big River and Stand-Up Tragedy. Tyson: Undisputed Truth (dir. Spike Lee). West End credits include Gershwin Alone West End credits include The Elephant and Off-Broadway credits includeCagney Man. Off-Broadway credits includeThe Last The Musical, Tappin’ Thru Life, The Best Is Yet Match (Roundabout); Guards at the Taj, The to Come, Striking 12, Blue and Menopause Penitent and Our New Girl (Atlantic Theater the Musical. National tour credits include Company); Vietgone and Important Hats of Looped, Peter Pan, Brooklyn, Guys and Dolls the Twentieth Century (MTC); Heathers The and Big River. Regional theater credits Musical and Luce (Lincoln Center); Gigantic include Arena Stage, Alley Theatre, The (Vineyard Theatre); and Much Ado About Old Globe, Mark Taper Forum, La Jolla Nothing (The Public). Regional credits Playhouse, Seattle Repertory Theatre, include Center Theatre Group, Steppenwolf, Goodman Theatre, The Guthrie, Pasadena Old Globe, A.C.T., Ford’s Theatre, Seattle Playhouse, Geffen Playhouse, the Kennedy Repertory, Center Stage, Denver Center, Center, Ford’s Theatre, Theatre Portland Center Stage and Cleveland Company, Prince Music Theatre, Denver Play House. TV credits include Amy Center and Theatre Company. Schumer: Live at the Apollo and Mike Tyson: Awards include Ovation Awards, Drama- Undisputed Truth (HBO), Gotham, Smash Logue Awards, Garland Awards, San Diego and The Today Show. He attended North Theatre Critics Circle Awards and the 1999 Carolina School of the Arts and Yale School Career Achievement Award from the LA of Drama. Instagram: @timmackabeedesign. Drama Critics Circle. www.timothymackabeedesign.com MATTHEW M. NIELSON (Sound Designer)’s KARA HARMON (Costume Designer)’s Arena Off-Broadway credits include The Public’s Stage credits include Native Gardens. Shakespeare in the Park, Lincoln Center Broadway credits include assistant costume and 59E59. Regional credits include Ford’s designer for The Crucible, Magic Bird, First Theatre, Round House, Catalyst Theatre, Date and Memphis. Regional theater credits Forum Theatre, Theatre Alliance, Woolly include The Legend of Georgia McBride Mammoth, Signature Theatre, Olney, (Marin Theatre); The Mountaintop (Trinity Kennedy Center, Smithsonian, Studio Repertory); Barbecue (Geffen Playhouse); Theatre, Delaware Theatre Company, The Rape of Lucretia (Wolf Trap); Ethel and Philadelphia Theatre Company, Barrington God of Carnage (Alliance Theatre); Seven Stage Company, Portland Center Stage, Guitars (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Much Center Stage, Milwaukee Repertory and St. Ado About Nothing and The Comedy of Louis Repertory. Film/TV credits include Errors (Oregon Shakespeare); Safehouse Those Who Wait, Death in Time, Elbow (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Grease, Blue, Epix Drive-In, From Hell to Clybourne Park and The Trip to Bountiful Here, The Good Ways of Things and The (Hangar Theatre); Dot (Vineyard Theatre); Long Road. Matthew is a founding member and Seven Guitars and Broke-ology (The of the audio theater company The Audible ).TV credits include assistant Group and creator of Troublesome Gap. costume designer on Netflix’sDaredevil and He won several Helen Hayes Awards and HBO’s Boardwalk Empire. Kara received her film festival awards. He runs Sound Lab M.F.A. from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Studios, a recording studio and production www.KaraHarmonDesign.com house. Samples can be heard online at www.CuriousMusic.com.

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ANNE NESMITH (Wig Designer) returns to SITI Company – Bob, Alice’s Adventures Arena Stage where design credits include Underground, Room, Score, Antigone and The Pajama Game, Smart People, A Raisin in Trojan Women (After Euripides). Chess the Sun, Watch on the Rhine, Carousel, The Game No. 5, his new collaboration with the Little Foxes, All the Way, Oliver!, Destiny of company, premiered in New York in March. Desire, Fiddler on the Roof, Mother Courage GEOFF JOSSELSON, CSA (New York Casting) is and Her Children and The Music Man. Recent pleased to continue his association with credits include A Little Night Music (Signature Arena Stage. Broadway and Off-), La Pietra Del Paragone (Wolf Trap), productions include The Velocity of Autumn Le Nozze di Figaro (Nishinomiya, Japan) and starring Estelle Parsons; Southern Comfort; Death of a Salesman (Ford’s Theatre). Her Yank!; Enter Laughing; Pretty Filthy; John designs have been seen at the Kennedy and Jen, Himself and Nora; and Altar Boyz. Center, Opera Philadelphia, Shakespeare He has also cast productions for Actors Theatre Company, Washington Ballet and Theatre of Louisville, Arizona Theatre Saito Kinen Festival in Matsumoto, Japan. Company, Barrington Stage Company, Bay Anne was the resident wig/makeup designer Street Theatre, Brooklyn Academy of Music, for the Baltimore Opera and has created The Civilians, Cleveland Play House, Denver wigs for Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery Center, Marriott Theatre, North Shore Music programs, Investigation Discovery’s Ice Cold Theatre, Old Globe, Oregon Shakespeare Killers, Maryland Public Television and the Festival, The Public Theatre, San Francisco U.S. Army’s tour Spirit of America. Symphony and the York Theatre Company. CLIFF WILLIAMS III (Fight Consultant) is happy www.geoffjosselson.com to return for his ninth production at Arena CHRISTI B. SPANN (Stage Manager) returns to Stage. Cliff is a native Virginian and has Arena after serving as stage manager for A been choreographing and directing for Raisin in the Sun, The Little Foxes and Love the last 12 years, primarily in the D.C. area. in Afghanistan. Christi spent 12 seasons on Favorite credits include The Shoplifters, the stage management staff at the Denver Long Day’s Journey into Night and Gem Center Theatre Company, four summer of the Ocean (Arena Stage); As You Like It seasons with The Great River Shakespeare (Center Stage); Chimerica (Studio Theatre); Festival and just finishedShakespeare in Dead Man’s Cell Phone (Woolly Mammoth); Love with Virginia Repertory Theatre in Dracula, The Scene and Six Years (Actors Richmond, VA. Theatre of Louisville); (Forum Theatre); and The Argument and MARNE ANDERSON (Assistant Stage Manager)’s Yentl (Theater J). www.CliffWilliamsIII.net Arena Stage credits include A Raisin in JOCELYN CLARKE (Dramaturg) is currently the Sun, Roe, Moby Dick, All the Way, Erma Theatre Adviser to the Arts Council of Bombeck: At Wit’s End, King Hedley II, Ireland and dramaturg at American Voices Five Guys Named Moe, The Mountaintop, New Play Institute at Arena Stage in Metamorphoses and ’s Washington, D.C. He has taught dramaturgy Sophisticated Ladies. Additional D.C. at the John Kennedy Centre for the credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream Performing Arts, Columbia University, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are NYU Abu Dhabi, and Trinity College Dead (Folger Theatre); Angels in America: Dublin. He was the Commissioning and Parts 1 and 2 (Round House); Wig Out! Literary Manager of the Abbey Theatre (Studio Theatre) and The Arsonists, You for for four years, and lead theatre critic with Me for You and Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric The Sunday Tribune for nine years. He Play (Woolly Mammoth). She is a graduate is an associate artist with The Civilians of the University of School and Theatre Mitu in New York. He has of the Arts and a proud member of Actors’ written six plays for Anne Bogart and the Equity Association.

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EDGAR DOBIE (Executive Director) Born in ARENA STAGE LEADERSHIP Vernon, British Columbia, a village next to the Rocky Mountains (three years before Arena MOLLY SMITH (Artistic Director) has served as had its first performance in 1950), I am one Artistic Director since 1998. Her more than of five brothers raised by my Dad — Edgar, 30 directing credits at Arena Stage include a mechanic and small businessman — and Carousel, Oliver!, The Originalist, Fiddler on Mom — Connie, a telephone operator and the Roof, Camp David, Mother Courage and union organizer. I am the only Dobie to make Her Children, !, A Moon for the a career in theater. Luckily for me, drama Misbegotten, My Fair Lady, The Great White was an arts elective I was offered at the Hope, The Music Man, Orpheus Descending, tender age of 12, so I hung up my hockey Legacy of Light, The Women of Brewster skates and joined the drama class, led by Place, , South Pacific, Agamemnon teacher Paddy Malcolm and her fledgling and His Daughters, All My Sons and How I Powerhouse Community Theater after Learned to Drive. She most recently directed school. By the time I graduated from high at Canada’s Shaw Festival. Her school, we volunteers had built ourselves directorial work has also been seen at a 200 seat fully-equipped theater on its The Old Globe, Asolo Repertory, Berkeley own piece of land in the center of town and Repertory, Trinity Repertory, Toronto’s found a sell-out audience for the full season Tarragon Theatre, Montreal’s Centaur of plays we had to offer. That experience Theatre and Perseverance Theater in taught me so many lessons about the power Juneau, Alaska, which she founded and ran of theater to foster collaboration and share from 1979 – 1998. Molly has been a leader in meaningful stories, as well as the public new play development for over 30 years. values that attach themselves to building a She is a great believer in first, second safe place where everyone is welcome. All and third productions of new work and those lessons served me well as a managing has championed projects including How I leader and producer both sides of the Learned to Drive; Passion Play, a cycle; Next border, and both sides of the commercial to Normal; and Dear Evan Hansen. She has and non-profit theater divide. Arriving here at worked alongside playwrights Sarah Ruhl, Arena in 2009 makes me feel like I am well- Paula Vogel, Wendy Wasserstein, Lawrence equipped for the best job in the world. Wright, Karen Zacarías, John Murrell, Eric Coble, Charles Randolph-Wright and many others. She led the re-invention of Arena This theater operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Stage, focusing on the architecture and Actors’ Equity Association. creation of the Mead Center for American The actors and stage managers are Theater and positioning Arena Stage as a members of Actors’ Equity Association, national center for American artists. During the Union of Professional Actors and her time with the company, Arena Stage has Stage Managers in the . workshopped more than 100 productions, The scenic, costume, lighting and produced 39 world premieres, staged sound designers in LORT theaters are numerous second and third productions represented by United Scenic Artists, and been an important part of nurturing Local USA-829 of the IATSE. nine projects that went on to have a life The Director and Choreographer are on Broadway. In 2014, Molly made her members of the STAGE DIRECTORS Broadway debut directing The Velocity of AND CHOREOGRAPHERS SOCIETY, a Autumn, following its critically acclaimed run national theatrical labor union. at Arena Stage. She was awarded honorary Arena Stage is a constituent of the Theatre doctorates from American University and Communications Group (TCG), the national Towson University. organization for the American theater.

2017/18 SEASON 27 BOARD OF TRUSTEES / THEATRE FORWARD

ARENA STAGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2017/18

CHAIR Ann Hamilton HONORARY TRUSTEES LIFE TRUSTEES Judith N. Batty Ellen K. Harrison Jim Abdo Norman Bernstein Patti Herman Kent Amos Lee G. Rubenstein VICE CHAIRS Margot Kelly Ashok Bajaj Sander Bieber Daniel Korengold Michele G. Berman EMERITUS TRUSTEES Eric Braverman Arlene and Robert Kogod John Lynham Steven R. Bralove Edgar Dobie B. Thomas Mansbach Susan Haas Bralove Richard Feinstein PAST PRESIDENTS David BH Martin John Derrick Vicki J. Hicks AND CHAIRS Joyce Moorehead Nancy M. Folger J. Burke Knapp Richard A. Newman Ronald A. Paul M.D. Larry Franks Norman Bernstein Lucia Riddle Terry R. Peel Natwar Gandhi Curtin Winsor, Jr. Raymond Sczudlo Ilene Rosenthal Sylvia Greenberg Lee G. Rubenstein Hubert M. Schlosberg Gene Samburg Kay Kapoor Richard W. Snowdon David E. Shiffrin Beth Newburger Schwartz Judy Lansing Kovler Denie S. Weil Shawna Watley David Bruce Smith Mark Levine Riley K. Temple TRUSTEES Molly Smith David O. Maxwell Steven R. Bralove Andrew R. Ammerman Robert Stout Joan P. Maxwell Wendy Farrow Decker Anstrom Nneka Ukpai Beverly Perry James J. Rouse Joanne Barker Judy Lynn Prince John M. Derrick, Jr. CORPORATE OFFICERS Linda A. Baumann William S. Sessions Mark Shugoll Lavern Chatman PRESIDENT Richard W. Snowdon David E. Shiffrin Joseph DiGangi Edgar Dobie Sheila Stampfli Beth Newburger Schwartz John Edelmann Sandra E. Taylor Jeri Epstein TREASURER Grace Terpstra Joe Beradelli Elliot Feldman Margaret Tomlinson Maggie FitzPatrick SECRETARY Nicholas Goad Alison Irvin

THEATRE FORWARD FUNDERS (CONTRIBUTORS AS OF JUNE 2017) Theatre Forward advances the American theatre and its communities by providing funding and other resources to the country’s leading nonprofit theatres. Theatre Forward and our theatres are most grateful to the following funders:

THEATRE EXECUTIVES ($50,000+) National Endowment for the Arts  Edgerton Foundation AT&T  Southwest Airlines †  ESCADA Jessica Farr Bank of America TD Charitable Foundation  Glen Gillen and Michael Lawrence The Hearst Foundations  Theatermania / Gretchen Shugart Steven Gartner* James S. & Lynne Turley  George S. Smith, Jr. Kiki & David Gindler The Schloss Family Foundation  UBS Richard K. Greene Nancy Hancock Griffith* BENEFACTORS ($25,000 – 49,999) DONORS ($10,000 – 14,999)  Brian J. Harkins Buford Alexander and Pamela Farr Lisa Orberg Gregory S. Hurst BNY Mellon Mitchell J. Auslander Howard and Janet Kagan Steven and Joy Bunson Marianne Cassini John Mathena and Michael Forester Citi Dorsey & Whitney Foundation Jonathan Maurer and EY* Epiq Systems Gretchen Shugart Goldman, Sachs & Co. Bruce R. and Tracey Ewing Susan and John Major Roe Green Foundation Presidio  Donor Advised Fund at the MetLife RBC Wealth Management Rancho Santa Fe Foundation Stephanie Scott Daniel A. Simkowitz Louise Moriarty & Patrick Stack * Morgan Stanley S&P Global  The Nederlander Organization Wells Fargo Isabelle Winkles Newmark Holdings PACESETTERS ($15,000 – 24,999) SUPPORTERS ($2,500 – $9,999) Mary Lou Seidner* American Express Mitchell J. Auslander Elliott Sernel & Larry Falconio* Bloomberg Philanthropies Joseph Baio* Ten Chimneys Foundation Cisco Systems, Inc. Sheri and Les Biller Foundation John Thomopoulos Paula A. Dominick Sue Ann Collins* University Hospitals The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. COOMI Michael A. Wall* Alan and Jennifer Freedman Paula A. Dominick Frank and Bonnie Orlowski Dramatists Play Service, Inc. * National Society Membership Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. Kevin & Anne Driscoll* † Includes In-kind support Pfizer, Inc. John R. Dutt  *  Educating through Theatre Support Thomas C. Quick Christ Economos

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FULL CIRCLE SOCIETY – ARENA STAGE’S PLANNED GIVING PROGRAM Arena Stage gratefully acknowledges these individuals who ensure the future of Arena Stage by making a planned gift. These gifts assure that Arena Stage will continue to challenge, educate and entertain audiences, and maintain its excellence in theater nationally, and internationally for generations to come. Arena can help you accomplish your personal, family and philanthropic goals while benefiting the theater. Supporters who make planned gifts to Arena are invited to join the Full Circle Society and enjoy special benefits. For more information about planned giving, please contact Holly Oliver at 202-600-4029 or [email protected].

THE FOLLOWING ARE MEMBERS AS OF AUGUST 11, 2017. MEMBERS John and Patricia Long Estate of Albert Chaiken Anonymous (7) John and Lenora Lynham Estate of Marcus Cohn Esthy and Jim Adler Judy Lynn Prince Estate of Israel and Steven Bralove Richard Schwartz* and Augusta Convisser Curtis Bell Beth Newburger Schwartz Estate of Robert D. Davis Jr. and Louise Budelis Dr. and Mrs. Mark Shugoll Henry J. Schalizki Dorothy Bunevich Molly Smith and Estate of Zelda Fichandler John P. Cahill Suzanne Blue Star Boy In Memory of Helen W. and Ellen MacNeille Charles Dick and Katie Snowdon Felix E. Geiger John Edelmann and Jeff Love Helga Tarver Estate of Ann Gibbons Jeri and Gary Epstein Helene Toiv Estate of Ezra Glaser Donald H. Flanders Margaret L. Tomlinson Estate of Nancy M. Folger Frankie and Jerry* Williamson Estate of Giselle Hill Catherine F. and James F.* Fort, Sr. Estate of Joan E. Kain Arlene Friedlander BEQUESTS AND GIFTS In Memory of Jean Russ Kern Dr. JC Hayward IN REMEMBRANCE and Jeannette G. Kern Vicki J. Hicks Estate of Dr. and Estate of Herbert A. Lindow Lauren and Glen Howard Mrs. Clement C. Alpert Estate of LaRue R. Lutkins David Insinga and Robert McDonald Estate of H. Max and Estate of Suzy Platt Thomas Jesulaitis Josephine F. Ammerman Estate of Gruine Robinson Margot Kelly Estate of Audrey J. Barnett Barbara R. Walton Endowment Drs. Susan and Perry Klein Estate of Harry J. Boissevain Fund for New Playwrights Dr. Seth A. Koch and Estate of Henrietta T. Braunstein Estate of Eric Weinmann Barbara Bellman Koch Estate of Patricia Carroll Herb and Dianne Lerner Estate of Helen G. Codding * Deceased

THANK YOU FOR LEAVING YOUR LEGACY AT ARENA STAGE CREATE A LEGACY BY JOINING THE FULL CIRCLE SOCIETY

You don’t have to be wealthy to make a significant gift. Bequests and other planned gifts allow you the opportunity to make a significant contribution that will ensure the future of Arena Stage. The Full Circle Society allows us the opportunity to recognize you for that gift during your lifetime. For more information about making a planned gift or to inform us of your existing planned gift, please contact Holly Oliver at 202-600-4029 or [email protected].

“We feel the long-term viability of theater really has to come from two sources — annual fundraising efforts and long-term donations [in the form of a planned gift] from the people who love the theater and are willing to commit to it in perpetuity.” — Beth Newburger Schwartz and the late Richard Schwartz

2017/18 SEASON 29 THANK YOU — ANNUAL FUND

THE ANNUAL FUND Arena Stage gratefully acknowledges the many individuals, families, foundations and corporations who support the theater’s work by contributing to the Annual Fund. These gifts make it possible for the theater to continue presenting high-quality productions and innovative education programs that strengthen the community in which we live. For more information on the benefits of becoming an Annual Fund contributor, call the Development Department at 202-600-4177. The following are contributors as of October 13, 2017.

OVATION CIRCLE Craig Pascal and David and Susan Rockefeller Michael and Jerome A. and Anonymous Victor Shargai Margaret Ann Ross Penelope Pollard Deena L. Kaplan Arlene and Robert Kogod Ann and Terry R. Peel Dr. and Mrs. William Rule Benjamin and Judith Pratt Dr. and Mrs. James Karesh Lola C. Reinsch Toni A. Ritzenberg* Susan Scanlan Franklin D. Raines and Anne B. Keiser and Beth Newburger Schwartz Steven and Ilene Rosenthal George L. Shields Denise Grant Douglas Lapp and Richard Schwartz* Raymond S. Sczudlo and Foundation Bill and Donna Roberts Judge Gladys Kessler Deborah Sams Sczudlo Molly Smith and Talmadge and Leon Fund of the FOUNDER’S CIRCLE Peggy and David Shiffrin Suzanne Blue Star Boy Mary E. Roberts Community Foundation Andrew R. Ammerman Robert and Jan Stout Judi and Richard Sugarman Helen Ross Serving Richmond and Diane and Shawna Watley Tim and Grace Terpstra Beverly Schacht Central VA Norman Bernstein Rory and Anne Marie Tighe Steven and Marie Schram David Lloyd, Realtor Joan and David Maxwell Shelton Zuckerman Cindy and John Weber Nora Sekowski Walter and Betsy Lohmann David Bruce Smith Ellen and Bernard Young Shugoll Research Peter Lowet and Laura Sloss PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE Judy and Leo Zickler McAdo Shuler, Jr. Daniel and Karen Mayers BENEFACTOR’S CIRCLE Anonymous Thalia and Mark and Marsha Mazz Anonymous (2) Curtis Bell DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE Lynwood* Sinnamon Gerard and Mary McGann Decker Anstrom and The Lois and Richard Anonymous (6) Sandra Taylor Sally and Bill Meadows Sherry Hiemstra England Family Priscilla Aycock Suzanne Thouvenelle and Brian and Diana Meighan Joanne Barker Virginia McGehee Friend Elfreda Baptist Dennis Deloria Drs. Jeanne-Marie and Susan and Steven Bralove Irene and Edward Kaplan Dr. and Mrs. Laura L. Tosi Nathan Miller Ellen MacNeille Charles Sheldon and Audrey Katz C. Wrandle Barth Joan Wills Nancy Miron John and Linda Derrick Judy and Peter Kovler / Christopher Bavolack and Richard and Dr. Robin Mockenhaupt and George and Duffy Ftikas The Kovler Fund Martha Huelsbeck Leslie Wojciechowicz Dr. Ralph Popp Sylvia Kay Greenberg Mark T. Lewellyn Ted Bean and Kathy Brown Irene and Alan Wurtzel Dee Morris Margot Kelly Robert Liberatore and James and Karen Beardsley Deborah and David Yaffe Joan and Dan Mulcahy Alan and Marsha Paller Debra Kraft Kyle and Alan Bell Margot and Dr. Alfred Munzer and Toni and Ronald Paul The Robert and Natalie Jim Bellas and Kip Fenton Paul Zimmerman Mr. Joel Wind R. Lucia Riddle Mandel Family Foundation Dr. Sharon Bennett Myung Nam and Gene Samburg Peggy and Alec* Tomlinson Gene Bialek and PLAYWRIGHT’S CIRCLE Michael Hamilton Hubert (Hank) and Arlene Brown Anonymous (4) Meenakshi Nandedkar Charlotte* Schlosberg PRODUCER’S CIRCLE Deborah Bowles Carolyn Alper Martha Newman Mr. and Mrs. Anonymous (5) J. Alton and Cynthia Boyer Dr.* and Mrs.* Rita O’Brien, Esq. and Richard W. Snowdon Esthy and Jim Adler Joe and Sue Bredekamp Clement C. Alpert John Imparato Sheila Stampfli Celia and Keith Arnaud Bonnie and Jere Broh-Kahn Dean Amel and Terry Savela Michael and Cindy O’Kane Alan Asay and Sharon M. Brown Leon and Robyn Andris Ray Olson LEADERSHIP CIRCLE Mary Sturtevant Julie Burton and Judy and George Bowns, Mr. and Mrs. David M. Osnos Judith N. Batty Nancy and John Benson Roger Hickey in memory of their sons, Kerby L. Parker Linda A. Baumann The Honorable Ann W. Brown Clotilda Bowie Cassidy Mark and Scott Howard and Michele and Allan Berman and Donald A. Brown Marilyn Charles and Roger and Nancy Brown Dorothy Pedolsky Sandy Bieber and Richard and Evelyn Bynum Reuben Simmons* Buffy and William Wesley Pickard and Linda Rosenzweig Louis Delair, Jr. Judith Claire Cafritz Family Foundation Jeanette Studley Eric Braverman and Edgar and Tracy Dobie Richard H. Cleva Dr. Myla Carpenter Margaret J. Pollack Neil Brown Anita Dunn and Ellen and Michael Cronin John Chester Allen Purvis and Lavern Chatman Robert Bauer In Memory of Geri and David Cohen Jan Johnson John Edelmann and Louie and Ralph Dweck Martin “Marty” Davis Drs. Jack H. and Janis Reed and Jack Requa Jeff Love The Louis and Helen The Charles Delmar Rita R. Colwell Trina and Lee Rubenstein Jeri and Gary Epstein Fanaroff Foundation Foundation Annemargaret Connolly Jeff and Sarah Sandel Pam and Richard Feinstein Nancy M. Folger Kathy and Jody Dreyfuss Joseph DiGangi Eric and Patricia Sanner Drs. Elliot J. Feldman and Bernard S. and Barbara and David Ehrlich Patricia D’Orazio Steve and Nancy Silcox Lily Gardner Feldman Sarah M. Gewirz Lorraine Fleming and Carolyn and William Doying James Skiles and Estate of Zelda Fichandler Amnon and Sue Golan Harry Parrish Susan D. and Howard Feibus Lynne Church Mr. and Mrs. David Fisher Lucia and Woolf Gross Robert and Stephanie Fischer Linda Smith Larry Franks and Meg and John Hauge Carole Fontenrose Mr. and Mrs. Larry and Arlene Spinelli Ellen Berelson William Logan Hopkins Sallie Forman and Davis R. Gamble Jr. Steve and Danelle Springer Rick and Carol Froehlich Thomas Jesulaitis and Jonah Gitlitz B.J. Gilchrist Le Anne and Bert Steinberg Henock Gebreamlak and Barrie Seidman Christopher and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Eileen and Michael Tanner Nicholas Goad Bill Lands and Carol Fromboluti Gregg H. S. Golden Peter and Ann Tanous Ann O. Hamilton Norberta Schoene The Honorable William and Sherry and Neil Green Sharon Taylor Ellen K. Harrison Herb and Dianne Lerner Linda Garvelink Linda Griggs and Ms. Terri Tedford Patti and Mitchell Herman Mark Levine and Susan B. Haight Bill Swedish Mr. and Mrs. Keith Thackrey Vicki J. Hicks Sara Imershein Steven and Tanya Hilton Norene and Steuart and Linda Thomsen Frank Islam and Fred Lowery Kay Kendall and Jack Davies Timothy Guilford Ralph Timmons and Debbie Driesman Laura L. McAuliffe Cal and Barbara Klausner Loren and Phyllis Haag Janet Hill Dr. Donald Wallace Jones, Mills Family Foundation Lauren S. Kogod The Honorable Allen Unsworth Dr. Betty Jean Hazel C. Moore Leslie S. Kogod Robert and Susan Hale Rear Adm. and Tolbert Jones and John and Veronica Morrison Bruce and Jim and Carolyn Harris Mrs. Sidney Wallace Tracey Tolbert Jones Alfred Moses and Lori Laitman Rosenblum Patricia Harvey Virginia D. Weber Kay Kapoor Fern Schad Jean and John Lange Paul and Marilyn Henderson Anne Paine and Fowler West Mr. and Mrs. Greg Nelson and Caroline Lewis Sonia Herson Mark and Ria Weston Daniel Korengold Jose Cunningham Nancy and Dan Longo Erich Hosbach and Patricia Page Williams John and Lenora Lynham Melanie and Larry Nussdorf William and Ruth Lubic Franklin Moore Terry and William Witowsky B. Thomas Mansbach Beverly Perry Abby Mandel David Insinga and Richie and Jim Wright David and Martha Martin Sydney M. Polakoff and Steve Mayer and Robert McDonald Jane Yanulis Thomas and Carolyn Goldman Vera Oye’ Yaa Joseph and Anne Jarboe Joyce Moorehead Judy Lynn Prince Alan and Ruth Melvin James Johnson and Richard and Janice Newman Robert and Nan Ratner Matthew Shepard

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STAR Joe Oppenheimer and Patricia Burke Steven Leinwand and Seth Waxman and Anonymous (2) Edith Fraser Lisa Burns and Ann Lawrence Debra Goldberg Merry Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Ernest T. Oskin Henry Chamberlain Dr. and Mrs. Randall J. Lewis Dana Weekes Michael W. and David and Marina Ottaway Matt Butcher and Liz Pennisi Albert L. and Jack and Sue Whitelaw Stacie H. Arpey Craig Palmer Sandra and Paul Byrne Doris M. Lindquist Susan Wiener Lynn J. and Lynne A. Barden Sonja M. Palomaki Faye and Plater Campbell Margot Machol and Scott and Lucy Wilson Roy Barnes and Mr. and Mrs.* Joseph N Cannon Mark Bisnow John Wingard Mary Flanigan P. David Pappert Carol Caparosa Hon. John E. Mansfield C. Lawrence Wiser Michael Barrett and Mike Payne and Louis and Karen Carson Linda Marks Ken and Dorothy Woodcock Danielle Beauchamp Barbara Johnson Barbara Carter Louis Mayo Annette and Colin Young Nan Beckley Laura Peebles and Wallace Chandler Fred and Jeanne McCarroll Jeffrey and Johanna Zinn Barbara A. Bennett Ellen Fingerman Jack A Chiang J. Douglas and Lucille A. Bland Alvin Phillips and Mr. and Mrs. Martie McDowall SUPPORTING ROLE David and Judy Bonior Tia Johnson W. Joseph Coleman Jr. Patricia McMahon Anonymous (16) Jan Boyce Dr. Nathaniel Pitts Ray and Mary Converse Sarah and David McMeans D. M. Abruzzo Jerry Bridges and Lutz Alexander Prager Stephen T. Cramolini Charles and Clara Adams-Ender Sally Turner J. Paul and Diane Reason Susan M. Crawford Marilyn McMillion Ms. Charisse A. Adamson Ms. Carolyn M. Broussard Joe and Ginny Redish Beth Cunningham Stephen Meyer and Judith Agard Sharie A. Brown Nancy Regan Woody Cunningham and Erica Summers Firas Alkawas Blain and Peg Butner David and Susan Reichardt Jessie Harris Lisa Miller Lee Allen and Carolyn Cheney Deborah Remmers Lorraine Day Donald and Lynne Myers Howard Walgren N. Chesser and J.M. Rowe Terry and Alan Rettig Valerie and Ben Dinkins Jeffrey Neal and Amb. and Mrs. Claudette Christian June and Marvin Rogul Diane and Lowell Dodge Kevin Loeffler Frank Almaguer Beth and Ron Cogswell Marvin and Joan Rosenberg James Ebbitt and Sherry and Louis Nevins Richard Alperstein and John and Sheila Compton Steven M. Rosenberg and Scott Derrick C. Lynn O’Connell Lenore Seliger Camille Cook Stewart C. Low III Marjorie and Anthony Elson Deborah Okon Marilena Amoni and Mr. and Mrs. James Dake Barry and Joan Rosenthal Bob and Sue Faron Michael and Don Ryan Gil and Nancy Dannels Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Rothkopf John and Kathleen Farrell Kathleen Opincar Wolfram Anders and Mr. and Mrs. Evelyn Sandground and Carol Faulb Catherine O’Reilley Michele Manatt Floyd E. Davis, III Bill Perkins, in memory of Geraldine Feaster and Doris Parker and Jean W. Arnold Deirdre Donahue and Frank and Marta Jager Calvin Bethea* Michael Spatz Raymond D. Audet Jamie Dahlberg Dr.* and Mrs. Beth Feldman Antoinette Pavone Lawrence Ausubel Robert P. Donaldson Harold H. Saunders Mr. and Mrs. Nthakoana Peko and Ms. Jane Axelrad Sue Duncan and Leo Fisher Ernest Schichler and Edward W. Felton Don Spicer Elinor R. Bacon Mrs. Elizabeth Edgeworth John Murray Lorry M. Fenner, PhD Alan and Andrea Pendleton Cynthia Baggett Nancy and Cary Feldman Jean Schiro-Zavela and Jack L. Finglass Randy and Kathy Pherson Jacqueline Powell Bailey James and Patricia Flanigan Vance Zavela Mr. and Mrs. Michael Flyer Beth Pile Peter and Marjory Bankson The Henry J. Fox Trust Carol Schwartz Heather Foley Margaret Plank and Ann and Mal Barasch The Samuel Freedman Trust Linda and Arthur Schwartz Jean C. Fulton Dave Souders Dayle Bartholow and Amy C. Gilbert Robert and Jim and Lorrie Fulton Barbara and Larry Poe Jeff Pickard Hon. Joseph and Margaret Shanks Mr. and Mrs. James Gentle Liz Purdy Porter Michael Beale Alma Gildenhorn Colonel William E. and Richard Gervase and Gail Povar and Carolyn and John Beck Mark* and Sara Goldberg Helen Q. Sherman Stuart Delery Larry Bachorik Susan and Don Bennett Grace R. Gregg Dr. and Mrs. Gene Simaitis Lynne and Bill Glikbarg Wendell and Kathy Primus John and Sylvia Benoit Carol and Bill Gross Kathleen and Kerry Skeen Dr. Donna M. Gollnick Bill Raabe Guy Bergquist Ellie and John Hagner Annelise and Debra and Chris Gordon Dr. Johnny Railey Geoffrey Berlin James B. Hamlin Robert H. Smith Steve Grayson Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. and S. Ross and William Randolph Smith Christian Griffin Thomas J. Reckford Elissa B. Bernius Susan L. Hechinger Mr. Sid Stolz Karen T. Grisez Betty Revelle Ann Blackman and Lucia Hill Patricia Stonesifer and Frank Guzzetta Marilou and Massimo Righini Michael Putzel Theo W. Hodge Jr., MD Michael Kinsley Dean Haas Dr. Tommie L. Robinson, Jr. Edward and and Frederick Eugene Seema Sueko Jack E. Hairston, Jr. Dr. Sheila Rogovin and Elena Bloomstein Taylor, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Surovell Robert and Carol Hall Dr. Stewart Aledort Sandy and Stanley Bobb Judy Honig Dr. Harvey A. Sweetbaum Don and Sue Haller Gareth Rosenau Richard and Debra Johnson and Mrs. Selma Susan and Herbert and Eleanor Bochner James Jones and Sweetbaum Allen Hanenbaum Nancy Rosenthal Vincent and Veronica Boles Victoria Davis Judge and Mrs. The Hansan Family Rodney A. Ross Mickey and Sally Bolmer The S. Kann Sons Co. James T. Turner Chris Harris Nuhad Ruggiero Randall A. Bowman Foundation Joan and Mark Weiss Joan B. Harvey Jean Sammon Anne Boyden Gary Kemp Drs. Stephan and Marianne Harwit Jo Ella Samp Steven Brady Ann Werner Mary Kimble Kathleen A. Hasse Ms. Gail Sattler Kip and Kimberly Brailey Richard and Susan Westin Caroline S. Klemp A. H. Hatry Linda. B. Schakel Nancy Brandon Carolyn L. Wheeler Lindy Knapp Bert Helfinstein and Mr. and Mrs. Leonard and Randi and David Braverman Patricia and John Koskinen Robert and Anne Yerman Margaret Rodenberg Celia Schuchman Ann Breen Simeon M. Kriesberg and Naomi and Jack Heller Richard and Sandra Bresnahan Martha L. Kahn LEAD Tom Hentoff and Rochelle Schwab Ms. Sally Brice Anonymous (5) William and Sarah Sloan Joan H. Searby Philip and Constance Briley Al-Mughairy Grace LaChance Michael Hindi and Diane Seeger and Ms. Karen Broadnax Kate Acuff and Winona Lake Gregory Schultz Thomas Christein Terrence J. Brown and Professor Edward Hess Marvin and Dede Lang Linda Lurie Hirsch Mike and Patti Sipple Linda D. Whitlock-Brown Paul and Jeanette Barkley Col. (Ret.) Richard and Sallie L. Holder Carl Wayne Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Dr. and Mrs. John Barnes Alyssa Leatherman John and Debra Howard Michael Burke Ronald K. 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OUR INSTITUTIONAL DONORS (as of November 2, 2017)

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2017/18 SEASON 33 THEATER STAFF

Artistic Director...... Molly Smith PROPERTIES Executive Director...... Edgar Dobie Properties Director...... Monique Walker Founding Director...... Zelda Fichandler Associate Properties Director...... Lance Pennington ...... (1924-2016) Master Prop Carpenter...... Michael Ritoli Founding Executive Director...... Thomas C. Fichandler Props Artisan...... Niell DuVal ...... (1915-1997) Property Assistants...... Marion Hampton Dubé, ...... Kyle Handziak ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENT LIGHTS Deputy Artistic Director...... Seema Sueko Master Electrician...... Christopher V. Lewton Casting Director / Line Producer...... Victor Vazquez Assistant Master Electrician...... Paul Villalovoz Literary Associate...... Katie Rosenberg Electricians...... Scott Folsom, Brian Flory Artistic Development Fellow...... Anna’le Hornak* Lighting Fellow...... Sydney Becker* Directing Fellow...... Selene Betancourt* Casting Fellow...... F. Binta Barry* SOUND Dramaturg...... Jocelyn Clarke Sound Director...... Timothy M. Thompson Resident Artist...... Patty Rangel Sound Technicians...... Em Gustason, Adam W. Johnson, Reid Moffatt Commissioned Writers...... Bob Banghart, Nathan Alan Davis, David Henry Hwang, COSTUMES Rajiv Joseph, Craig Lucas, Mary Kathryn Nagle, Aaron Posner, Costume Director...... Joseph P. Salasovich Theresa Rebeck, Sarah Ruhl, Assistant to the Costume Director...... Cierra Coan Georgia Stitt, John Strand Drapers...... Carol Ramsdell, Steven Simon 2017 Playwrights’ Arena First Hands...... Lauren Allmeyer, Mallory Muffley Participants...... Kelly Renee Armstrong, Master Stitcher...... Noel Borden Jennifer Barclay, J. Shawn Durham, Jennie Berman Eng, Marian Licha, Craftsperson...... Deborah Nash Mary Hall Surface Wardrobe Supervisors...... Alina Gerall, Alice Hawfield Wigs, Hair and Makeup Supervisor.....LaShawn Melton PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS Costume Fellow...... Elizabeth Spilsbury* General Manager...... Ian Pool STAGE MANAGEMENT Associate General Manager...... Marissa LaRose Stage Managers...... Rachael Danielle Albert, General Management Coordinator...... Alicia Sells Marne Anderson, Anthony O. Bullock Company Manager...... Clifford Hannon Kurt Hall, Martha Knight, Trevor A. Riley, Assistant Company Manager...... Amber Gray Christi B. Spann, Susan R. White Company Management Fellow...... Ariana Garcia* Stage Management Fellows...... Lucia Ruppert*, Dayne Sundman* PRODUCTION Production Manager...... Joel M. Krause INFORMATION SYSTEMS Associate Production Manager...... Karen O. Mayhew Director of Information Systems...... Charles Rogers Associate Director of SCENIC Information Systems...... Travis Armbuster Technical Director...... Natalie Bell Database Manager...... Rachel Schlaff Senior Carpenter...... Norman Lee Help Desk Associate...... Edward Wieland Charge Scenic Artist...... Li Qiang FACILITIES Carpenters...... Mick Coughlan, Zachary Fullenkamp, Craig Hower, Facilities Manager...... Keith Brown Sean Malarkey, Frank Miller, Maintenance Technicians...... Brian K. Davis, Amanda Srok Lester McDonald Jr., Technical Direction Fellow...... Nola Werlinich* Vincent Gregg, Porter...... Lawrence Wise Stage Door Attendants...... Ra’Chelle Carey, Kay Rogers

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COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT COMMUNICATIONS Director of Associate Executive Director...... Khady Kamara Community Engagement...... Anita Maynard-Losh MARKETING Director of Education...... Ashley Forman Director of Marketing...... Renée M. Littleton School Programs Manager...... Rebecca Campana Digital Communications Partnership Manager...... Medha Marsten Coordinator...... Brieahn Demeo Master Teaching Artist...... Psalmayene 24 Marketing Fellow...... Jordan Jackson* Training Programs Manager...... Sean-Maurice Lynch Community Programs PUBLICATIONS Coordinator...... Matthew Reckeweg Director of Publications...... Anna Russell Community Engagement Fellow...... Akhila Khanna *, Graphic Designer...... Shawn Helm Juan-Pablo Amaya-Vargas* Jr. Graphic Designer...... James Sweeney Website and New Media Manager...... Ben Nolan ADMINISTRATION Artwork Creation...... Nicky Lindeman Chief Financial Officer...... Joe Berardelli Illustrators...... Nigel Buchanan, Jack Hughes, Leadership Office Manager...... Alison Irvin Uli Knorzer, Goni Montes, Tim O’Brien, Bill C. Ray, Human Resources and , Yuko Shimizu, Richard Davies Tom Finance Associate...... Jackie Rucker Bohi Management Fellows...... Miranda Gohh*, A.J. Orth* MEDIA RELATIONS General Counsel...... Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Publicist...... Lauren Alexander Jacobson; Robbins, Russell, Englert, Media Relations Fellow...... Skye Lindberg* Orsek, Untereiner & Sauber, LLP EVENTS BUSINESS OFFICE Director of Events and Rentals...... Kathleen Kelley Controller...... John Monnett Events and Rentals Manager...... Betsy O’Keeffe Accounting and Payroll Manager...... Joan A.S. Lada Events and Rentals Accounting Associates...... Larry Bright, Assistant Manager...... Kaitlyn Sakry Christopher Murk Events and Rentals Auditors...... Bormel, Grice & Huyett, P.A. Coordinator...... Chrystal Noelle Vaughan Bond Counsel...... Arent Fox, LLP AUDIENCE SERVICES Director of DEVELOPMENT Audience Services...... Lindsey Wareing Pisani Chief Development Officer...... Holly K. Oliver Group Sales Manager...... Isaac Evans Senior Director of Group Sales Associates...... Bria Hall, Kathryn Perry Individual Giving...... Kristen Mitchell Associate Director of Director, Ovation Campaign...... Ryan Merkel Audience Services...... Holly Longstreth Director, Development Operations Manager of Sales Services...... Sabrina Clark and Events...... Maria Corso Assistant Managers of Director of Board and Sales Services...... Maria Benzie, Donor Relations...... Anne Paine West Kate Thompson Director, Corporate Fund...... Char Manlove-Laws Sales Associates...... Trevor Comeau, Foundation Relations Nicole Cusick, Paige Goodwin, Manager...... Hannah Fried-Tanzer Alexandra Ley, Colin O’Bryan, Campaign Manager...... Melanie Heredia Anna-Claire McGrath, Asha Moses Membership Coordinator...... Tricia Edwards House Managers...... Jody Barasch, Development Coordinator...... Erin Jones Maddie Newell, Becca Spencer Development Assistant...... Sam Abney Visitor Services Coordinator...... Samantha Johnston Development Fellow...... Mary Patano* * Allen Lee Hughes Fellow

2017/18 SEASON 35 “TERRIFIC SONGS … SASSY DANCING … WISEACRE HUMOR … KNOCKOUT SCORE.” THE PAJAMA— Washington Post GAME NOW PLAYING THROUGH DECEMBER 24

THE PAJAMA GAME BOOK BY GEORGE ABBOTT AND RICHARD BISSELL | MUSIC AND LYRICS BY RICHARD ADLER AND JERRY ROSS BASED ON THE NOVEL 7½ CENTS BY RICHARD BISSELL | DIRECTED BY ALAN PAUL CHOREOGRAPHED BY PARKER ESSE | MUSIC DIRECTION BY JAMES CUNNINGHAM The Pajama Game is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.MTIshows.com

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