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ANNIE BAKER • MIKE BARTLETT • PETER BROOK • DAVID BYRNE • KHALED HOSSEINI INTRODUCING THE SEASON

ROBERT LEPAGE • URSULA RANI SARMA • FATBOY SLIM • TOM STOPPARD

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THE HARD

KING CHARLES III PROBLEM Schwarz Shaul by Photo THE COMPANY

ANNIE BAKER • MIKE BARTLETT • PETER BROOK • DAVID BYRNE • KHALED HOSSEINI Matthew Baldiga Aldo Billingslea James Carpenter Elizabeth Carter Julie Eccles Lance Gardner Liz Sklar Michael Storm

Nina Ball Alexae Visel Russell Champa Brendan Aanes Olive Mitra INTRODUCING THE SEASON Scenic Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Sound & Projections Designer Composer Dave Maier Philippa Kelly Clea Shapiro Deirdre Rose Holland Chris Waters Fight Director Dramaturg Casting Director Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager ROBERT LEPAGE • URSULA RANI SARMA • FATBOY SLIM • TOM STOPPARD

Written by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Directed by ERIC TING

The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States

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ACTING COMPANY include work at Arizona Theatre Company, LANCE GARDNER Huntington Theatre Company, Intiman Theatre, (Cassio, Ensemble) MATTHEW BALDIGA the Old Globe, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Lance is a Bay Area (Roderigo, Messenger, and Yale Repertory Theatre. He is the recipient native who recently First Gentleman, of the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle’s Barbara returned to the stage Ensemble) Bladen Porter award for Excellence in the Arts after a four-year family- Matthew is returning and their Lifetime Achievement Award, and focused hiatus. He to Cal Shakes after his in 2010 was named a Lunt-Fontanne Fellow. has appeared in all debut in You Never James’ film and TV credits include Nash of Cal Shakes’ 2016 Can Tell. Regional: Bridges, Metro, and The Rainmaker, and the productions: You Never Ah Wilderness!, independent projects Presque Isle, Singing, and Can Tell, August Wilson’s Fences and Much A Christmas Carol For The Coyotes. Ado About Nothing; and in the 2009 production (American Conservatory Theater); Our Town, of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He has Intimate Apparel, Henry V (Chautauqua ELIZABETH CARTER worked as an actor with TheatreWorks (Proof, Theatre Company); Hamlet, All’s Well That (Duke, Second Superior Donuts, Auctioning the Ainsleys, Ends Well (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); A Gentleman, Bianca, Anna in the Tropics, Intimate Apparel [u/s]), Christmas Carol (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Ensemble) Marin Theatre Company (Equivocation, Fuddy 3:59am, BRINK! (33rd Humana Festival); Elizabeth Carter is Mears, A Streetcar Named Desire, Lovers Cyrano de Bergerac (PlayMakers Repertory delighted to be back at and Executioners, A Brief History of Nearly Company). New York: Einstein and Mileva Cal Shakes after playing Everything), Berkeley Repertory Theatre (Crosshatch Theatre Company); Pratfalls Mrs. Clandon in You (Yellowjackets, Passing Strange [u/s]), Magic (GroundUP Productions); The Lady’s Not for Never Can Tell. She Theatre, Climate Theatre, Just Theatre, City Burning (Parenthesis); Twelfth Night (Fiasco began her professional Lights and more. He has also directed locally, Theatre). ACT-MFA: The Long Goodbye, The career at Cal Shakes with Romeo and Juliet, and was a teaching artist with Red Ladder Cherry Orchard, Crazy for the Country, I Am Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, Richard II and Theatre Company. When he’s not acting, he’s My Own Wife, Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Winter’s Tale. Elizabeth’s Bay Area theatre either home with his two boys, out running Bay Hamlet, The Big Meal, The Rocky Horror Show. credits include The Convert at Marin Theatre Co. Area trails, or responding to 911 calls as an Training: MFA—American Conservatory Theater, where she was nominated for both SFBATCO EMT in Santa Clara County. Acting Apprentice Program—Actors Theatre of and TBA Awards, Fences at Lorraine Hansberry Louisville, BA—University of North Carolina at Theatre, Nickel and Dimed at TheatreWorks, LIZ SKLAR Chapel Hill. Merry Wives of Windsor at SF Shakespeare (Desdemona, Ensemble) Festival, Trouble in Mind, Wittenberg where Liz is thrilled be back ALDO BILLINGSLEA she was nominated for a SFBATCO Award and at the Bruns where she (Othello, Ensemble) most recently The Heir Apparent at the Aurora was last seen in The Aldo was most recently Theatre Co. Elizabeth teaches Shakespeare Tempest. Most recently seen as Troy Maxson in performance at Asawa San Francisco School she played the title role Cal Shakes’ production of the Arts and has directed for the Cal Shakes in Anne Boleyn at Marin of August Wilson’s Summer Conservatory for nearly 20 years. Theatre Company. Other Fences earlier this MTC credits include The summer. Previously JULIE ECCLES Whale, Failure: A Love Story, Lasso of Truth, he’s performed at Cal (Second Messenger, Othello (Aemilia), Seagull, and Bellwether. Shakes in Spunk, A Emilia, Ensemble) Around the bay she’s been seen in Trouble Winter’s Tale, Lady Windermere’s Fan, and Previously at Cal Cometh and Becky Shaw - SF Playhouse, King Lear. A Professor of Theatre Arts at Santa Shakes: Twelfth Care of Trees - Shotgun Players, A Christmas Clara University, he teaches acting and directs Night, Pygmalion, Carol - A.C.T., King John and Winter’s Tale - plays. He serves on the advisory board of the Hamlet, Candida, Marin Shakespeare Company. She played Lady Gritty City Youth Repertory Theatre and is Vice John Steinbeck’s The Macbeth and Titania (Midsummer) at Mortal President of the 100 Black Men of Silicon Pastures of Heaven, Folly Theatre in NYC and co-starred with Stacy Valley. Romeo and Juliet, An Keach in the filmImbued . Up next will be Ideal Husband, King Lear, As You Like It, The The Real Thing at Aurora Theatre Company. JAMES CARPENTER Importance of Being Earnest, Much Ado About Liz holds a BA in Theater Arts from Brown (Iago, Ensemble) Nothing, Hamlet, and Love’s Labour’s Lost. University and an MFA in Acting from A.C.T. James has appeared Regional credits include: The House of Mirth, at Cal Shakes in many Dinner at Eight, and A Christmas Carol (A.C.T.); MICHAEL STORM productions during Our Town, An Ideal Husband, and The Beaux’ (Brabantio, Montano, his 14-year tenure as Stratagem (Berkeley Rep); Enchanted April, Lodovico, Ensemble) Associate Artist. His Holiday, and Hay Fever (San Jose Rep); Far Michael returns to other Bay Area credits East, Tally’s Folly, and The Heidi Chronicles Cal Shakes with this include: Berkeley (TheatreWorks); The Comedy of Errors and production of Othello, Repertory Theatre, Much Ado About Nothing (SF Shakespeare having appeared in American Conservatory Theater, Aurora Theatre Festival). She has also worked for Seattle The Tempest, The Company, Cutting Ball Theater, Magic Theatre, Rep, Huntington Theatre, Geva Theatre, and Merchant of Venice, Marin Theatre Company, San Jose Repertory Syracuse Stage. She received her B.A. in Drama The Two Gentlemen of Theatre, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Shotgun from UC Davis, and trained at London Academy Verona, and King Lear. Other regional theatre Players and TheatreWorks. His regional credits of Music and Dramatic Art. credits include Romeo and Juliet, Othello, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Oedipus (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Pericles,

18 WWW.CALSHAKES.ORG Prince of Tyre (San Francisco Shakespeare Company); A Comedy of Errors, Cymbeline, and Ondine, and has performed with San Francisco Festival), as well as Missing Persons (Berkeley The Two Gentlemen of Verona at San Francisco Playhouse (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson), Repertory Theatre). With Firenze Shakespeare Shakespeare Festival; and The Coast of Utopia, Shotgun Players (Beardo, Sea of Reeds, in Florence, Italy he was extremely fortunate to Voyage, and Shipwreck at Shotgun Players. and Daylighting), Killing My Lobster and play the title role in Macbeth. He was seen most Regionally her designs include Clifford Odets’ Speechless, an improvisation Power Point- recently at SF Playhouse originating the role of Awake and Sing at The Public Theater, Happy based comedy show. Olive composes for and Stein in On Clover Road and he has also worked Days at Yale Repertory Theatre, and the world leads The Eggplant Casino, a theatrically-driven, locally with TheatreWorks, San Jose Stage premiere of The Children at Yale School of genre-bending Cabaret band and is the bassist Company, Crowded Fire, Livermore Shakespeare Drama. Next spring she will design the remount and singer for the Freeze, an improvised hip hop Festival and TheatreFIRST, among others. of Happy Days (starring Dianne Weist) at group performing monthly with the Bay Area Theatre for a New Audience in New York City. chapter of the national literary show, Mortifed. CREATIVE TEAM www.alexaevisel.com Olive is always excited to work with California Shakespeare Theater and their talented ERIC TING RUSSELL CHAMPA performers, staff, and crew. (Director, Artistic Director) (Lighting Designer) Eric is an Obie Award-winning director and Previous shows at Cal Shakes include A DAVE MAIER was appointed Artistic Director of California Winter’s Tale, Titus Andronicus, Macbeth, (Fight Director) Shakespeare Theater in November of 2015. Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet, Dave has most recently worked at Cal Shakes He previously served for almost a decade Pericles, Man and Superman, The Tempest, for August Wilson’s Fences and has been the as Associate Artistic Director at Long Wharf and Henry IV Parts 1 and 2. Current and resident fight director since the 2006 production Theatre. Recent directing credits include the recent projects include: The Hard Problem of As You Like It. Other favorite Cal Shakes world premiere of Sam Hunter’s Lewiston (Long (American Conservatory Theater), Rain (Old credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream Wharf Theatre) and To Kill a Mockingbird Globe Theater), The Unfortunates (American (2014), Romeo & Juliet (2013), Hamlet (Cincinnati Playhouse), The World of Extreme Conservatory Theater), The Light Years (NYSAF/ (2012) and Titus Andronicus (2011). Recent Happiness by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig The Debate Society), The Qualms (Playwrights credits include Carmen and Sweeney Todd (SF (Manhattan Theatre Club / Goodman), Branden Horizons), Brownsville Song (Long Wharf and Opera), Macbeth (Berkeley Rep), Dogeaters Jacobs-Jenkins’ Appropriate (Center Theatre Philadelphia Theater Company), Thresh:Hold (Magic Theatre), and Born Yesterday (Center Group), Kimber Lee’s Brownsville Song (Long (Pilobolus). Broadway: China Doll (Schoenfeld Rep). His work has also been seen at A.C.T., Wharf / Philadelphia Theatre Co), Sam Hunter’s Theater), In the Next Room or The Vibrator Central Works, Aurora Theatre, Cutting Ball, A Great Wilderness (Williamstown), Nora Play (Lyceum Theater/Lincoln Center), and Julia SF Playhouse, Berkeley Playhouse, Hope Chipaumire’s Miriam (BAM Next Wave), Jackie Sweeney’s God Said “Ha!” (Lyceum Theater). Mohr Dance Co., Shotgun Players, and Impact Sibblies Drury’s We Are Proud to Present a New York Companies: Lincoln Center Theater, Theatre. He is a five-time recipient of the SF Presentation… (world premiere, Soho Rep NYSF/The Public Theater, Second Stage, Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for fight / Victory Gardens) and Rising Son (world MTC, The Vineyard, New York Stage and Film. direction and an eleven-time nominee. He is premiere, Singapore Rep). He is a founding Regional: Steppenwolf, Arena Stage, Wilma, member of the artists’ collective INTELLIGENT Trinity Rep, Mark Taper Forum, and Kennedy BEASTS. He recently relocated to the Bay Center. Thanks J + J. PEACE. Area with his wife, director and producer Meiyin Wang, and their baby daughter Frankie. BRENDAN AANES Upcoming, Octavia Butler’s Parable of the (Sound & Projections Designer) Sower and An Octoroon at Berkeley Rep. Brendan has designed sound for a variety of Proud to performances. Recent productions include NINA BALL The Unfortunates and Chester Bailey at (Scenic Designer) A.C.T.; Triangle (Theatre Bay Area Award for Celebrate Nina’s designs have been seen here at Cal Outstanding Sound Design), Life Of The Party, Shakes (Twelfth Night, A Comedy of Errors, The Confederates, and The Lake Effect for A Midsummer Night’s Dream), American TheatreWorks; Fire In Dreamland at Kansas City Cal Shakes Conservatory Theater, San Jose Repertory Rep; The Way West at Marin Theatre Company; Theatre, Aurora Theatre Company, Shotgun Rapture, Blister, Burn at Aurora Theatre Players, SF Playhouse, Center REP, Z Space, Company; The Hundred Flowers Project (Will Santa Cruz Shakespeare among many others. Glickman Award for best new play) at Crowded Recent honors include SFBATCC awards for My Fire Theater; Mutt at Impact Theatre; and Fair Lady at SF Playhouse and Metamorphosis Abigail’s Party, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Personal attention at Aurora Theatre; a Broadway World San and The Aliens at San Francisco Playhouse. thoughtful litigation Francisco Award for Care of Trees at Shotgun He also worked as the associate designer on Players; and a Shelly Award for her design Old Hats at Signature Theatre Company and final resolution of Mirandolina at CenterREP. She is also a Kneehigh Theatre’s Tristan & Yseult (national company member of Shotgun Players. In tour). Our goal is to preserve our LAW FAMILY addition to theatre, Nina works as a production client’s dignity and humanity. designer in film and television. Current and OLIVE MITRA upcoming projects include The Baltimore Waltz (Composer) at Magic Theatre, Baskerville at Center REP, Olive is a Bay Area musician, composer, and Shotgun Player’s full season of plays in and actor. He has composed and performed repertory. original music for California Shakespeare Theater’s touring production of The Tempest FA M I LYLAW G R OUP, P. C . ALEXAE VISEL and composed for this season’s production of (Costume Designer) Much Ado About Nothing. As a musician and 575 Market Street, Suite 4000 Alexae makes her Cal Shakes debut with performer, Olive has most recently worked San Francisco, CA 94105 Othello. Bay Area credits include the West with the San Francisco Symphony in their 415.834.1120 Coast premiere of Steve Yockey’s Octopus at January Sound Box series, played “The Old www.sflg.com Magic Theatre (co-produced by Encore Theatre One” in the We Players 2015 production of

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He was formerly the Artistic grant for the Oakland Schools project, Making (Stage Manager) Director of the Town Hall Theatre (2008-13), Shakespeare Real and Relevant (2016), and Deirdre is thrilled to be back for a fourth a company member at Shotgun Players (2000- the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the season at Cal Shakes, having previously 05), TheatreFirst (2008-15), Aqueduct Theater Americas which co-awarded her a Bly grant for worked on Twelfth Night, Mike Daisey’s The Company (1994-98) and a founding member of Innovation in Dramaturgy (2014). She has also Great Tragedies and Lady Windermere’s Fan. Armitage Shanks sketch comedy troupe (1992- received fellowships and travel grants from the Regional credits include: Cyrano and Two Pianos 95). As an award-winning actor he has appeared Fulbright, Rockefeller, and Walter and Eliza Hall 4 Hands (TheatreWorks); Chester Bailey, Ah on many Bay Area stages including Cal Shakes, Foundations, the Commonwealth Awards, and Wilderness, and Let There Be Love (American Berkeley Rep, TheatreWorks, Marin Theatre the Centre for Human Emotions. The best known Conservatory Theater); The Big Meal, Game On, Company, Magic Theatre, Center REP, Shotgun of her several books is The King and I, a book Next Fall, Next to Normal, A Christmas Carol Players, TheatreFirst, and many others. critically acclaimed as dramaturging King Lear (2011 and 2012), and Spring Awakening (San for Australia. She is married to composer Paul Jose Repertory Theatre); the World Premiere JANET MAGLEBY Dresher and mother to Cole. of Bonnie and Clyde and The Laramie Project: (Director of Marketing and Communications) Ten Years Later (La Jolla Playhouse); the Janet came to Cal Shakes with over 25 years’ PRODUCERS Shakespeare Festival (2011), How the Grinch experience in radio broadcasting promotion Stole Christmas!, and The Mystery of Irma Vep and sports marketing expertise. She served as ELLEN & JOFFA DALE (Old Globe Theatre). She holds an MFA in Stage Director of Marketing for Bay Area radio stations (Executive Producers) Management from the University of California, KGO, KNBR Sports Radio 680/1050, 107.7 The Long-time subscribers and donors, Ellen and San Diego. BONE, as well as several Seattle-based stations. Joffa Dale live in Orinda. Ellen is serving her While in Seattle, Janet also managed marketing second stint on Cal Shakes’ Board of Directors; CHRIS WATERS duties for the company’s NBA franchise, she was also on the board in 1991 when (Assistant Stage Manager) the Seattle Supersonics. In addition to her the Bruns Amphitheater first opened. While Chris is thrilled to be back with Cal Shakes professional accomplishments, Janet has served Ellen and Joffa thoroughly enjoy picnics and after Much Ado About Nothing earlier this in a variety of leadership roles in her church performances at the Bruns, the primary focus season and King Lear last season. Locally, he and for many non-profits including Outreach of their donations is Artistic Learning. They has had the pleasure of working with American Homeless Project, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, believe that the lives of children reached by Cal Conservatory Theater, Aurora Theatre Company, The Breast Cancer Fund, and Special Olympics Shakes’ education programs are enormously Bay Area Children’s Theater, Cabrillo Stage, of Northern California. Janet is a graduate of enriched and that these children are the artists Magic Theatre, Santa Cruz Shakespeare, and Z Brigham Young University. and audiences of the future. Ellen and Joffa Space. He holds an MA in theatre management also helped establish the Moscone Permanent from the University of California, Santa Cruz. LISA EVANS Endowment and are charter members of the Cal Chris is a proud member of Actor’s Equity (Associate Director of Artistic Engagement) Shakes Legacy Circle. Association. Lisa is a qpoc actor, poet, and cultural worker based out of Oakland, CA. Lisa’s work in youth CRAIG & KATHY MOODY CAL SHAKES STAFF development at organizations such as Cal (Executive Producers) Shakes and Youth Uprising has focused on youth Craig & Kathy Moody love Cal Shakes. Craig is leadership development and on building more from a theatrical family; his mother and father SUSIE FALK robust programming for LGBTQIA2-S youth. both acted and directed professionally, and Craig (Managing Director) They most recently performed as a part of Queer acted through high school, college, law school, Susie caught the theater bug at age ten playing Rebels Fest, Brouhaha: QTPOC Activist-Comics and summer stock. The Moodys first saw Cal Nana in Peter Pan on the stage of the Julia Rise Up, and in The Love Balm For My Spirit Shakes’ production of The Taming of the Shrew Morgan Theater in Berkeley and has never Child, based on the testimonies of Bay Area 15 years ago, the same week as the RSC’s looked back. She has worked in Bay Area mothers who have lost children to violence, and inferior production of Shrew at the Herbst. From theaters supporting theater-makers and theater- in award-winning filmmaker Cheryl Dunye’s that time on they have been ardent Cal Shakes making for more than two decades. She has Black Is Blue. Lisa is also a 2016 YBCA Fellow supporters, ushering, donating, and bringing served as Cal Shakes’ Managing Director since and the co-founder of the How Spirit Moves Us friends to every production. Craig joined Cal 2009, and prior to that, served as Marketing Project, focused on using performance art to Shakes Board of Directors in 2012. They have Director for five years. She previously worked celebrate the struggles, resistance and resilience one child, Ross, a recent graduate of UCLA (BA) at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, American of Black Queer and Trans folks. and Cambridge (M.Phil) who, they are happy Conservatory Theater, Seattle Repertory Theatre, to say, works in San Francisco and lives eight and the Berkshire Theatre Festival. She served CLEA SHAPIRO blocks from them. They reside in Piedmont for seven years on the board (four as vice (Casting Director/Intern Program Manager) where Kathy was a teacher’s aide until last year. president) of Theatre Bay Area, the local service Clea was born and raised in the Bay Area, Craig recently retired from his antitrust litigation organization for theater companies and theater and grew up attending California Shakespeare practice. workers. She is a graduate of Vassar College Theater performances with both her family and completed course work in organizational and schools at Student Discovery Matinees. SHELLY OSBORNE & STEVE TIRRELL psychology at JFK University in Pleasant Hill. After earning her B.A. in French at New York (Executive Producers) She lives in Berkeley with her husband, lighting University, she returned to California and soon Shelly and Steve have been subscribers and designer York Kennedy, and their daughter Pippa. began a casting internship at Cal Shakes. donors to Cal Shakes for many years. They were Clea took over as Casting Director at Cal long-time residents of Lafayette and now live in CLIVE WORSLEY Shakes in 2013, after previously serving as Rossmoor. They have donated to the Moscone (Director of Artistic Learning) Artistic Coordinator. She’s a proud member Permanent Endowment for Artistic Learning Mr. Worsley assumed the leadership of California of Cal Shakes’ Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion and to the Cal Shakes Legacy Circle. Shelly Shakespeare Theater’s Educational programs in workgroup and Theatre Bay Area’s Gender Parity spent many years teaching and using literature 2013, having been one of its premier Teaching Advisory Committee. in a performance setting as students learned

20 WWW.CALSHAKES.ORG tolerance, cooperation, and understanding of characters and themselves. Her main Board of Directors focus is Artistic Learning: school residencies, after-school residencies, providing for students to attend matinee performances, and professional development for teachers.

ERIN JAEB & KEVIN KELLY (Producers) Erin Jaeb and Kevin Kelly were drawn to the Cal Shakes community via their eldest child who relished seven summers participating in the Cal Shakes Summer Conservatory. They are subscribers and donors to the theater. Erin is a former board member of Cal Shakes. They’ve focused most of their giving on Artistic Learning’s In-School Residencies, supporting arts education in multiple schools and communities of the East Bay.

AFFILIATIONS

This Theater operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. The Directors and Choreographers are members of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, an independent national labor union. The Scenic, Costume, and Lighting designers are represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE. California Shakespeare Theater is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

The National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest presents Shakespeare in American Communities. California Shakespeare Theater is one of 40 professional theater companies selected to participate in bringing the finest productions of Shakespeare to middle- and high-school students in communities across the United States. This is the thirteenth year of this national program, the largest tour of Shakespeare in American history.

encoreartsprograms.com 21 THANKS TO OUR DONORS INDIVIDUALS These contributors made gifts between July 1, 2015 – June 30, 2016. Levels of support are based on cumulative gifts to our annual fund, tax deductible portions of gala purchases, and in-kind goods and services. Totals also include matching gifts from employers to multiply initial contributions. We strive to ensure the accuracy of these listings. If we have made an error or an omission, please accept our apologies and contact Stephanie Swide at (510) 548.3422 x107 or [email protected] so that we may correct our records.

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$100,000 and above East Bay Community Foundation PRESENTING BART Ida and William Rosenthal Foundation PARTNERS Dean and Margaret Lesher Foundation* North Highland Worldwide Consulting The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation* PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP The James Irvine Foundation* Read Investments The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation* Sam Mazza Foundation The Bernard Osher Foundation $50,000-$99,999 Meyer Sound Up to $4,999 Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation $25,000–$49,999 Bloomfield Vineyards Anonymous California Arts Council & National Arts and Disability City National Bank Center (NADC) Frog Hollow LLC National Endowment for the Arts/Arts Midwest Kiwanis Club of Moraga Valley National Endowment for the Arts: Art Works Lafayette Community Foundation SEASON PARTNERS The Shubert Foundation Orinda Books San Francisco Magazine TWANDA Foundation $10,000-$24,999 ORGANIZATIONS PROVIDING MATCHING Anonymous GIFTS Chevron Adobe Clarence E. Heller Foundation Apple Dale Family Fund Autodesk John Muir Health Bank of America KBLX Bank of the West Lafayette Park Hotel Caterpillar Foundation MCJ Amelior Foundation Charles Schwab McRoskey Mattress Company Chevron Peet’s Coffee & Tea Clorox Company Foundation Sidney E. Frank Foundation Gartner Co. United Airlines Google SEASON PRODUCTION John Wiley & Sons, Inc. PARTNERS $5,000–$9,999 Salesforce Arts for Oakland Kids Shell California Arts Council & the National Endowment for Sidley Austin the Arts: Artists Activating Communities Wells Fargo Dodge & Cox Investment Managers Visa

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CONTACT US ACCESSIBILITY Box Office: 510.548.9666 Wheelchair Lift-equipped Shuttle: See info above, under “Take BART and our (Mon–Fri, 10am–6pm; Sat, 10am–2pm; Sun 12-4) free shuttle.” Mailing & Box Office Address: 701 Heinz Ave, Berkeley, CA 94710 Wheelchair seating: Available in sections A, C, Terrace Rear, and Boxes. Website: www.calshakes.org We can also book seats, adjacent to yours, for up to three companions. (Make Social Media: @calshakes sure to request this seating at time of purchase.) Assistive Listening Devices: Available at no charge from the blanket kiosk on a first-come, first-served basis. Group Sales (10+): 510.809.3290 Open-captioned Performances: Cal Shakes is proud to provide open captioning General: 510.548.3422 or [email protected] for patrons who are deaf or hard-of-hearing during the four main stage shows Donations: 510.548.3422 x107 or [email protected] over our regular season. Open captioning utilizes an unobtrusive screen at the Program Advertising: Mike Hathaway, Encore Media Group, 800.308.2898 front of the theater to display dialogue spoken during a performance. No special x105 or [email protected] equipment is required by patrons; one can simply glance at the screen to read Facilities Rental: 510.548.3422 x123 the text while watching the action on stage. Costume Rental: 510.548.3422 x111 FOR THE ENJOYMENT OF ALL TICKETS AND SEATING Be respectful: Part of Cal Shakes’ mission is to inspire and cultivate diverse and Ticket Exchange & Replacement: Subscribers and Flex Subscribers may inclusive theater experiences. We reserve the right to ask patrons to leave. exchange tickets at no cost up to 24 hours in advance of the time and date Arrive on time: Latecomers will be seated at an appropriate interval at the of their scheduled performance; single ticket holders may do so for a $10 House Manager’s discretion. fee. If you lose or misplace your tickets, the Box Office can arrange for Silence all electronic devices before the performance begins. replacements at no extra charge. Recording: Do not take photos of the performance. The use of any type of Discounts: For information on discounted tickets for military, age 30 and camera, video or audio recorder in the amphitheater is strictly prohibited. Such younger, and student/senior rush, visit calshakes.org/discounts. devices may be confiscated at the House Manager’s discretion. 20 for $20 Policy: We’ve set aside 20 $20 tickets for each performance this Keep the aisles clear during the performance. season, making it easier for more people to enjoy theater. Simply call the Box Observe all signage including directional signage on the grounds. It is posted for Office between noon and 2pm the day of the show and ask to purchase “20 your safety. for $20” tickets. (Subject to availability.) Smoking/Vaping is restricted to the designated area on the plaza. Electronic Terrace Seating: Chairs are pre-placed in all sections. If you’re seated in our cigarettes fall under California’s comprehensive smoke-free laws and are now Terrace or Terrace Preferred sections, you have the options of bringing your banned in all the same places as traditional cigarettes. own chair. If you choose to bring your own, it must be a low-backed beach Be scentsitive: Perfumes or scented lotions may cause discomfort to other chair with a seat no more than six inches off the ground and a backrest no patrons and may attract yellow jackets. Please keep use to a minimum. taller than shoulder height. Picnicking: You’re welcome to enjoy food and beverages during the performance, but please be courteous to others. Unwrap all items before the performance BRUNS AMPHITHEATER begins or at intermission so as not to disturb your fellow patrons. 100 California Shakespeare Theater Way, Orinda, CA 94563 Hours: Box office and grounds open two hours before performance time. ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP Come prepared for the outdoors: Blankets are available to the right of the Our Land: The Bruns is located on the East Bay Municipal Utility District’s main Amphitheater entrance for a suggested $2 donation; please dress watershed land. In agreeing to lease to the theater, EBMUD seeks to serve the warmly for cold nights and bring sunscreen and a hat for matinees. To keep public with a community facility while preserving the watershed with minimal yellow jackets at bay, keep food covered whenever possible and promptly disruption to the pastoral surroundings. dispose of trash and recyclables. We’ve also found fabric softener dryer Recycling: Please use the labeled recycling bins to discard glass, aluminum, sheets work well to repel yellow jackets. plastic, and paper; a portion of the proceeds from the value of our recycled Take BART and our free shuttle: Cal Shakes provides free, wheelchair lift- materials is donated to area schools. equipped shuttle service between the Orinda BART station and the Theater Solar: Cal Shakes is one of the largest solar-powered outdoor professional beginning 2 hours prior to and at the end of each performance. The shuttle theaters in the country. The 144 260-watt panels and four 9000-watt inverters runs approximately every 20 minutes; the final shuttle leaves the Orinda of our Turn Key 37.4 kilowatt DC solar electric system are designed to supply up BART station approximately 20 minutes before curtain. Orinda BART pickup to 98% of the power needs to the Bruns Amphitheater. is in the BART parking lot to the right of the station exit; after the show, Living Roof: Like much of the Bruns Amphitheater grounds, the Sharon catch the shuttle on the Sue & George Bruns Plaza. Simpson Center’s living roof boasts native, drought-resistant plants. SHARON SIMPSON CENTER AMENITIES Café by Classic Catering: Offering a wide selection of gourmet meals, wine, EVACUATION PLAN beer, Peet’s coffee and tea, hot cocoa, and desserts, the café opens two hours before the performance and at intermission. Catering is available for groups (10+) and special events; call 925.939.9224. STAG E

Bar: In addition to beer and wine at the café, we are now serving hand- EXIT crafted cocktails at our new bar located next to the café. Gender-inclusive restrooms: Located to the left of the café. All are welcome THE SHARON SIMPSON to use the restroom that best fits their identity or expression. Single-stall EXIT CENTER EXIT

portable restrooms are available in the Upper Grove. P First Aid: For assistance, please go to the House Management Office, EXIT located inside to the left of the restrooms. Emergency Phone: Since we ask all patrons to silence cell phones EXIT ROUTE

during performances, you may leave the House Office phone number PRIMARY AREA OF REFUGE (MEETING PLACE FOR ALL (925.254.2395) as your contact number during a performance. AUDIENCE MEMBERS)

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