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Dear Friends,

Welcome to the third production of our 88th season, There is superb work being done by actors in all The Understudy, Theresa Rebeck’s comedy of life back- fields right now: television, film, and in the hun- stage and onstage, of the overlap of drama and reality, dreds of non-profit regional theaters across our and the one’s infringement on the other, something country. The Understudy celebrates, analyzes and that often becomes the norm in our profession. explores the comedy and drama in the clash of acting “cultures” that can occasionally result in a Casting any production is always a challenge, and certain kind of casting. I hope you will enjoy this often the process goes on for months. Lists of names deservedly much-produced play by a writer whose are generated by the New York casting office (in our gifts in the mediums of television and live theater case, the redoubtable Tara Rubin) and discussed at lend it a special verisimilitude. length. Artistic directors are often pressured to find “names,” stars of television and film, whose pres- ence on the stage might boost ticket sales above and beyond the subscriber base. This is the central MARK LAMOS conflict of Theresa’s play: a bona fide and recogniz- Artistic Director able movie star — who has deigned to appear in a (very) serious play on Broadway — in rehearsal with an actor who primarily works in live theater.

I’m not the only artistic director whose mind gets boggled by an audience’s mad desire to be in the presence of a well-known TV or film personality. And it’s difficult to make clear to them, when I’m asked about it, that these types of performers are not always interested in working very hard for a couple months of rehearsal and performance for salaries far below what they normally earn. When you can make the same amount of money for a three-minute appearance in a film as you would for two months of mentally and often physically challenging work, you can see why. Besides, those three minutes will be seen by millions of people, whereas work on a stage in Minneapolis, Dallas or Westport, or even Manhattan, will be seen by a mere fraction of those numbers.

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BY THERESA REBECK

DIRECTED BY DAVID KENNEDY

SCENIC DESIGN COSTUME DESIGN LIGHTING DESIGN Andrew Boyce Maiko Matsushima Matthew Richards

SOUND DESIGN CHOREOGRAPHER FIGHT DIRECTOR Fitz Patton Noah Racey Michael Rossmy

PROPS MASTER CASTING PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER Alison Mantilla Tara Rubin Casting Megan Schwarz Dickert Laura Schutzel, CSA

The world premiere of THE UNDERSTUDY was produced by The Williamstown Theatre Festival. (Nicholas Martin, Artistic Director, July 23, 2008) THE UNDERSTUDY was commissioned by Playwrights Horizons with funds provided by The Leading National Theatres Program, a joint initiative of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. THE UNDERSTUDY is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

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HARRY Eric Bryant

JAKE Brett Dalton

ROXANNE Andrea Syglowski

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theresa rebeck on day I walked into the theater and I was watching the understudy the tech come together, and the set designer had painted a little castle on the window of the interrogation room, and the lighting designer was creating lightning, and the sound designer had a monstrous storm going full throttle.

It’s always a little strange when you write a play, and then somebody does it; you don’t have anything at all, a few thoughts in your head, and then you have some typing, and words on a page, and then it seems like suddenly there are people in a theater and a whole play, and they’re actually doing something that you just made up moments ago. This time, they were doing this play that I had made up, and they Sometimes when people say to me “Do you have were also doing a Kafka play, which I had made up. a favorite, among all the plays you’ve written?” It was so funny and joyful to watch these wonderful I stutter and look over my shoulder and evade, designers kind of lose their minds. because you’re not supposed to have a favorite amongst your own plays; they’re like children, it’s just not done, to play favorites. And then every our world has gotten too now and then I look over my shoulder and mutter strange and we are not in the truth, under my breath: The Understudy. control of its strangeness. I worked on the first draft of the play at the New Harmony Project, a new play development I also enjoy the strangeness of Harry, who seems to program in the middle of nowhere, Indiana. I wrote know that the audience is there, while Jake and a lot of that draft quickly, and finally stopped Roxanne do not. So the audience is there and not there. about halfway through, which seemed to be a good place to pause and think. Then I bumped into one We are in a Kafka play, and we are of it. Our world of the other writers there, at a coffee shop, and we has gotten too strange and we are not in control of talked about where we were in the process, and he its strangeness. And yet we can make art, and we said, “You have four more days here; why don’t you especially can make comedy. just finish it?” So of course I had to take the dare. I believe in the joy of comedy. And I love my little Then I did some more work on it and eventually understudy. I hope you do as well. it got a production at Williamstown Theatre Festival, where again you just don’t have enough time. So we were working really fast, and then one

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PROGRAM NOTES BY DAVID KENNEDY, ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR; AND LIAM LONEGAN, 2018 DIRECTING FELLOW

“In the fight between you and the world, back the world.” FRANZ KAFKA

Born in Prague, the capital of what is transformed into a large insect. In now the Czech Republic, Franz Kafka The Castle, an official is erroneously (1883–1924) ranks among the most summoned for a non-existent job and influential writers of the 20th century. cannot gain access to the prevailing His work chronicles the feelings authorities to clear up the situation. of disorientation, alienation, and Against the backdrop of the last helplessness that afflict people who century’s totalitarian bureaucracies, come into contact with powerful and these stories could easily be read as impersonal forces. Kafka authored political metaphors, but Kafka’s work vivid, nightmarish worlds populated by sprang just as much from his personal anxious people living through absurd struggles with an authoritarian and situations. His most celebrated novel, distant father, as well as his own sense The Trial, tells the story of Josef K., of self-loathing. And though they do who, though he cannot recall having function as windows into the prevailing done anything wrong, is arrested feeling of existential dread that has and prosecuted for a crime that is come to define much of modern life, never identified. In his most famous it is important to note that Kafka short story, “Metamorphosis,” Kafka considered his stories comic, and recounts the tale of Gregor Samsa, sometimes, while reading his work an average man who wakes one aloud, would laugh so hard he could morning to discover that he has been not continue. Kaf·ka·esque /käfkə'esk/ adjective Of, relating to, or suggestive of Franz Kafka or his writings; especially: having a nightmarishly complex, bizarre, or illogical quality. Kafka and other artists While Theresa Rebeck makes singular use of the imaginative universe of Franz Kafka as a metaphor for the absurdities and indignities of a life in show business, she is far from the first artist to find inspiration in the pages of his stories and novels. What follows are a handful of the more interesting Kafka homages and adaptations.

In 1962 Orson Welles released his film of The Trial, which he called “my greatest work, even greater than Citizen Kane. ” It divided critics upon its release, but has grown in stature over the years. In this image, Anthony Perkins as Josef K. flees a visual In Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, representation of a vast and soulless bureaucracy. protagonist, Kafka Tamura, chooses his new name the in honor of Franz Kafka — and given the nightmarish quality of the novel, with its potent blend of the mundane and the surreal, dark humor and suspense — he could not have chosen a more apt moniker.

In the 1990s, comic book artist Peter Kuper adapted nine of Kafka’s short stories in a volume described as grasping “the satirical edge” of the Czech writer. In this image, Kuper’s take on “Metamorphosis,” Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning as an insect. There have been numerous Kafka references on “The Simpsons” over the years, among them Café Kafka, a dark and pretentious literary hangout frequented by the college students of Springfield.

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Eric Bryant Neverland Pirates.” Brett’s theatre credits Harry include Passion Play, Romeo and Juliet, and Happy Eric Bryant returns to Now? (Yale Repertory); Sweet Bird of Youth and Westport having previously Demon Dreams (Williamstown Theatre Festival); appeared in the 2016 award- Macbeth (Macbeth) and You Can’t Take It With winning production of Ayad You (Chautauqua Theater Company). Dalton has Akhtar’s The Invisible Hand a degree in Art and Theater from the University (CT Critics Circle Award- of California at Berkeley and an MFA in Acting Outstanding Actor), and from Yale School of Drama. Room Service. His New York professional debut was as an actual understudy Andrea Syglowski in the Signature Theatre’s Off-Broadway revival Roxanne of Angels in America, covering the roles of Prior Westport Country Playhouse Walter, Louis Ironson, and Joe Pitt, ultimately debut. Recent credits: going on for all three. Other NYC credits include: queens (Lincoln Center, Cut Throat (Abingdon), The Pillow Book (59E59), LCT3); Cry It Out (Humana); Even Maybe Tammy (Flea), and Billy Witch A Doll’s House (Huntington (APAC). Other regional work includes: John Theatre Company), IRNE Cariani’s Almost, Maine (CT Critics Circle Award- Award nomination for Best Outstanding Ensemble), the recent remount Actress; The May Queen of The Invisible Hand (TheaterWorks Hartford), (PlayMakers Repertory); Dear Elizabeth (Dorset Leslye Headland’s Bachelorette (Studio Theatre, Theatre Festival); The Nest (The Denver Center); DC), Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap (Walnut Of Good Stock (South Coast Rep); Venus in Fur Street), and Lewis Black’s One Slight Hitch (NY (Huntington Theatre Company), winner of the Stage and Film). TV: “Mr. Robot,” “The Blacklist,” 2014 Elliot Norton Award and 2015 IRNE award “The Follwoing,” “Blue Bloods,” “Deception.” for Best Actress; A Flea In Her Ear; Bully to You; Education: MFA, Yale School of Drama. BA, Schmoozy Togetherness; White Trash Anthem University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Three Sisters; Loves Labors Lost; Elijah; Carve (Chautauqua Brett Dalton Theatre Company); Much Ado About Nothing; Jake A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare Brett Dalton is best known at the Manor); Asking for Trouble (Ensemble for his role as “Agent Grant Studio Theatre); The Walk Through (Slant Ward” in Joss Whedon’s Theatre Company). TV: “How to Get Away hit ABC series, Marvel’s with Murder,” “Elementary,” “.” “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” New Play Development at: The Roundabout, for which he received NYTW, EST, The O’Neill, and many, many more. a Best Male Breakout Training: USC and The Juilliard School, class Star Teen Choice Award. of 2013, where she was the recipient of the Prior to this, Brett appeared in National Robin Williams Scholarship. Geographic’s “Killing Lincoln,” a Tony and Ridley Scott Production. More recently, Brett Theresa Rebeck guest starred on “Elementary,” as well as Playwright “Blue Bloods,” “Army Wives,” and “Nurses.” Theresa Rebeck is a widely produced playwright On the big screen, Brett starred as the lead in both in the United States and abroad. Past New the independent features The Resurrection of York productions of her work include Mauritius Gavin Stone, Lost In Florence, and Beside Still at the Biltmore Theatre in a Manhattan Theater Waters, directed by Chris Lowell. Brett also Club Production; The Scene, The Water’s Edge, starred alongside a tremendous ensemble Loose Knit, The Family of Mann and Spike Heels at cast in the BAFTA Award-winning horror Second Stage; Bad Dates, The Butterfly Collection video game “Until Dawn” for Playstation 4, and Our House at Playwrights Horizons; View of opposite Hayden Panettiere and Rami Malek. the Dome at New York Theatre Workshop; and Other voiceover work includes “Milo Murphy’s The Understudy at the Roundabout. Omnium Law,” “Robot Chicken,” and “Jake and the Gatherum (co-written, finalist for the Pulitzer

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Prize in 2003) was featured at the Humana others. Andrew is a graduate of Yale School of Festival, and had a commercial run at the Drama, and is currently an Assistant Professor Variety Arts Theatre. She has won the National in the Northwestern University Theater Theatre Conference Award, The William Inge Department. www.andrewboycedesign.com New Voices Playwriting Award, an IRNE Award for Best New Play, and the Elliot Norton Award Maiko Matsushima for various works. She has published two novels Costume Design through Shaye Areheart/Random House and Maiko is a Japan-born and Philadelphia- has taught writing at Brandeis University and based visual artist, costume designer and . theater faculty at Bryn Mawr College. She challenges traditional notions of the David Kennedy American aesthetic and identity by creating Director visual and experiential works infused with a Westport Country Playhouse: Appropriate, multiplicity of perspectives, by incorporating The Invisible Hand (Connecticut Critics Circle influences from outside the U.S. style, form Awards for Outstanding Production and and content. Her designs have been seen at Outstanding Director), And a Nightingale Sang, Philadelphia’s The Wilma Theater, Headlong, Nora, Loot, Tartuffe, Suddenly Last Summer, BalletX, Pig Iron Theater Co. Broadway: Spring Beyond Therapy, Dinner with Friends. Kennedy Awakening, Radio Golf, Lestat, Assassins, and joined the Playhouse in March 2009 as Good Body and Pacific Overtures as an associate associate artistic director. He previously served costume designer. Since working as a theatrical as associate artistic director at Dallas Theater designer in Tokyo, NYC, and regional theaters Center from 2004 to 2007 and as acting artistic around the U.S. for over two decades, she is director for their 2007-08 season. He has also now joined with David Brick, a co-founder of staged productions at the Wilma Theater, Headlong, transitioning into creating public TheaterWorks Hartford, Clarence Brown engaged art, seen recently at the Washington Theatre Company, Shakespeare Theatre of Avenue Green between 2016 and 2017. New Jersey, 78th Street Theatre Lab, Prospect Her works create luminosity visible to the naked Theater Company, and Kitchen Dog Theater, eye, otherwise invisible or taken for granted. among others. He was a founding artistic director of The Lunar Society in Toronto and Matthew Richards Milkman Theatre Group in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Lighting Designer Kennedy teaches in the graduate directing Westport Country Playhouse: A Flea In Her Ear, program at the University of Alberta, and is Romeo and Juliet, Appropriate, The Invisible Hand, a former Phil Killian Fellow at the Oregon Red, Art, And A Nightingale Sang, The Liar, Nora, Shakespeare Festival, a Drama League Directing Loot, Tartuffe, Suddenly Last Summer, Dinner Fellow, and a graduate of Yale School of Drama. with Friends. Broadway: Ann. Off-Broadway: Absolute Brightness …, and The Curvy Widow Andrew Boyce at Westside Arts; The Killer, Tamburlaine, Scenic Designer and Measure For Measure at Theatre For a Westport Country Playhouse: Appropriate, Buyer New Audience; The Atlantic; B.A.M.; MCC; and Cellar, Loot, Twelfth Night. NY credits: Lincoln Playwrights Horizons; Play Co.; Primary Center Theater, Roundabout Theater Company, Stages; Rattlestick; Second Stage. Regional: Atlantic Theater Company, Primary Stages, Actor’s Theater of Louisville; Arena Stage; Rattlestick, Play Company, Playwrights Realm, Baltimore’s Center Stage; Playhouse; Cherry Lane, and more. Regional credits: A.C.T. Cleveland Playhouse; Dallas Theater Center; (SF), Actors Theatre of Louisville, Alliance, Asolo Ford’s Theatre; The Goodman; Hartford Stage; Rep, California Shakespeare Theater, Curtis The Hangar; The Huntington; La Jolla Playhouse; Opera, Dallas Theater Center, Geffen, George Long Wharf; New York Stage and Film; The Old Street Playhouse, Goodman, Kirk Douglas, Long Globe; Shakespeare Theatre; Williamstown Wharf, Mark Taper Forum, Milwaukee Rep, Theatre Festival; Yale Repertory Theatre. Oregen Shakespeare Festival, Portland Center Graduate: University of Massachusetts, Yale Stage, Syracuse Stage, and Yale Rep, among School of Drama. matthewrichardsdesign.com

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Fitz Patton Michael Rossmy Sound Designer Fight Director Westport Country Playhouse: A Flea In Her Westport Country Playhouse: A Flea In Her Ear, Ear, Appropriate, The Invisible Hand, And a Flyin’ West, Romeo and Juliet, Appropriate, Lettice Nightingale Sang, Intimate Apparel, Nora, and and Lovage, Camelot, The Invisible Hand, Art, more. Broadway: Three Tall Women, Bernhardt Red, Broken Glass, The Liar, Nora, Room Service, Hamlet, Choir Boy, Meteor Shower, Present Harbor, Loot, A Raisin in the Sun, Tartuffe, Into the Laughter, Our Mother’s Brief Affair, The Humans, Woods. Broadway: A Tale of Two Cities. Regional: The Father, Blackbird, Act of God, It’s Only a Play, The Public Theatre, Asolo REP, Yale Repertory Airline Highway, The Other Place, I’ll Eat You Last, Theatre, The Old Globe, Geffen Playhouse, Outside Mullingar, Casa Valentina, The House of Long Wharf Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Blue Leaves, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Primary Stages, Delaware REP, SoHo Repertory Bound. 2016 Drama Desk Award for The Humans. Theatre, The MUNY, Baltimore’s Center Stage, 2010 Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Awards for Goodspeed Opera House, Paper Mill Playhouse, When the Rain Stops Falling at Lincoln Center’s Seattle Repertory Theatre, Huntington Theatre, Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. He is the founding Shakespeare Theatre, Rattlestick Theater, Pace editor of Chance Magazine, a serialized art book University, , Smith Street on performance and design. Stage, and others. He was nominated for a 2016 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Fight Noah Racey Direction. Michael is a faculty member at the Choreographer Yale School of Drama where he teaches Stage Noah is an award-winning New York based Combat, and the Stage Combat Supervisor for actor, creator, and educator. Broadway: all undergraduate productions at Yale College. Terms of My Surrender (Movement Director); He is also the Creator/Coach of the physical Curtains; Thoroughly Modern Millie (Associate training program, “The Actor as Athlete.” Choreographer, TONY AWARD for Best Choreography); Never Gonna Dance; Follies. Alison Mantilla Regional credits include: Seattle 5th Avenue Props Master (Cinderella, Guys and Dolls); Goodspeed Opera Westport Country Playhouse: Flyin’ West, House (Show Boat, Annie Get Your Gun—both Appropriate. Broadway: My Fair Lady, Once on won Connecticut Critics Circle Award for this Island, Significant Other, Spring Awakening, Outstanding Choreography); Sacramento Music Gigi, Of Mice and Men. Off-Broadway: Lincoln Circus; and the Asolo Repertory Theatre, as well Center Theater, The Public Theater, Roundabout as the world premiere of Turn of the Century Theater Co., The Atlantic Theater Co. SUNY at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre (starring Jeff Purchase Alumni. Daniels, directed by Tommy Tune). Noah is the Founding Artistic Director of the New York Tara Rubin Casting Song & Dance Company which has toured Casting the globe. Their full production, Pulse, had its Sixth Season at Westport Country Playhouse. world premiere at the Asolo Repertory Theatre, Selected Broadway: King Kong (upcoming), directed by Jeff Calhoun. Noah’s latest work Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, The Band’s (working title - The Noah Racey Project) premiered Visit, Prince of Broadway, Indecent, Bandstand, at NY Symphony Space - written and performed Sunset Boulevard, Miss Saigon, Dear Evan Hansen, by Noah, directed by Dick Scanlan. This fall A Bronx Tale, Cats, Falsettos, Disaster!, School of Noah will star in Jeff Calhoun’s new production Rock, Les Misérables, The Heiress, The Phantom of of Music Man as Professor Harold Hill. He’s also the Opera, Billy Elliot, Shrek, Spamalot, …Spelling the new Assistant Professor of Musical Theatre Bee, The Producers, Mamma Mia!, Jersey Boys at Colorado State University. Noah is a proud Off-Broadway: Smokey Joe’s Café, Jersey Boys, product of—and strong proponent for—arts Here Lies Love. Selected Regional: Berkeley funding in public schools. Repertory Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, Asolo Rep. www.tararubincasting.com

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Tara Rubin Casting Shakespeare in the Park (As You Like It). He was Tara Rubin, CSA; Laura Schutzel, CSA; Artistic Director of Hartford Stage for 16 seasons Eric Woodall, CSA; Merri Sugarman, CSA; (1989 Tony Award). Other theater: Kennedy Kaitlin Shaw, CSA; Lindsay Levine, CSA; Center, Canada’s Stratford Festival, Guthrie Claire Burke, CSA; Felicia Rudolph, CSA; Theater, Yale Repertory Theatre (Associate Xavier Rubiano Artist), A.C.T., The Old Globe, Delaware REP, Ford’s Theatre, D.C.’s Shakespeare Theatre, Megan Schwarz Dickert Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and others. He Production Stage Manager was the first American to direct a company in New York: Lincoln Center/LCT3, TFANA, the former Soviet Union (Desire Under the Elms Playwrights Horizons, NYTW, Public, Vineyard, at Moscow’s Pushkin Theatre), and the first to Page 73, Clubbed Thumb (affiliated artist), WP act as dramaturge in the creation of a ballet, Theater, Playwrights Realm, Play Company, Alexei Ratmansky’s The Tempest for American Juilliard, Rattlestick, Foundry, Working Theater, Ballet Theatre. His work in opera is extensive. 13P, Civilians, Flea, Builders Association, For the Metropolitan Opera: New productions of New Georges. Regional: Bard SummerScape, I Lombardi with Luciano Pavarotti, and Wozzeck Hartford Stage, Williamstown, NYSAF, Long (both televised for “Great Performances”), Wharf, Actors Theatre of Louisvillle, Trinity Rep, as well as the world premiere of Harbison’s Adirondack Theatre Festival, Big Apple Circus, The Great Gatsby, and Adriana Lecouvreur with Capital Rep. Idaho, North Carolina, Utah, and Placido Domingo. He created many productions Nebraska Shakespeare Festivals. Megan is an for NYC Opera, including televised productions advanced open water scuba diver and has run of Paul Bunyan, Tosca, Central Park, and five marathons. www.megandickert.com Madama Butterfly (Emmy Award). Other opera: Glimmerglass, Bergen National, Gothenberg, Michelle Lauren Tuite Munich Biennale, London’s Barbican, L’Opera Assistant Stage Manager du Montreal, Chicago Lyric, Santa Fe, St. Louis, Westport Country Playhouse: Grounded. Off Dallas, San Francisco, and others. Lamos began Broadway/NYC: A Letter to Harvey Milk (LDK his career in the theater as an actor on and Productions), CAUGHT (The Play Company), Off-Broadway and in regional theater and made Charlotte’s Web (TheatreworksUSA), Too his film debut in Longtime Companion. He was Heavy For Your Pocket (Roundabout Theatre awarded the Connecticut Medal for the Arts as Underground), Jericho (Abingdon Theatre well as honorary doctorates from Connecticut Company). Regional: Beautiful Star (Triad Stage); College, Trinity College, and the University of Fireflies, Disgraced, and Our Town (Long Wharf Hartford. In October 2016, he was the recipient Theatre);Tenderly, The Rosemary Clooney Musical, of the John Houseman Award. Calendar Girls, South Pacific, Memphis, and La Cage Aux Folles (Ivoryton Playhouse). Michael Barker Managing Director Mark Lamos Michael Barker joined Westport Country Artistic Director Playhouse in 2016 from Mill Valley, CA, where Westport Country Playhouse: Artistic Director he was the managing director of Marin Theatre since 2009. Broadway: Our Country’s Good (Tony Company. Previously, Barker was general nomination); The Rivals, Cymbeline, Seascape manager of Laguna Playhouse in Laguna (Tony nomination, best revival) for Lincoln Beach, CA, and managing director for the Center Theater; The Deep Blue Sea; The Gershwins’ Los Angeles classical theater ensemble The Fascinating Rhythm. Off-Broadway: Tiny Alice, Antaeus Company. Before moving to California, Measure for Measure (Lortel Awards for both); Barker was associate managing director at Yale productions at Playwrights Horizons, Primary Repertory Theatre and managing director of Stages, Signature Theatre, The Public Theater, Yale Summer Cabaret, and produced the first

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annual Carlotta Festival of New Plays. He was explore issues presented by the work on stage; Seattle Repertory Theatre’s 2008 Managing the New Works Circle, a program dedicated to Director Fellow. Barker holds an MFA in theater the discovery, development, and production of management from Yale School of Drama and new live theatrical works; special performances an MBA from Yale School of Management. and programs for students and teachers with At Yale, he was the recipient of the Daniel extensive curriculum support material; Script and Helene Sheehan Scholarship for theater in Hand play readings throughout the year to management and a Kosciusko Scholarship deepen relationships with audiences and artists for outstanding students of Polish descent. alike; the renowned Woodward Internship He served on the Yale School of Management Program during the summer months for Alumni Advisory Board. He is a member of the aspiring theater professionals; Family Festivities inaugural class of artEquity diversity, equity presentations from November through April and inclusion facilitators. Prior to graduate to delight young and old alike and to promote school, he was associate director of marketing reading through live theater; and the beautiful for Court Theatre in Chicago, and also worked and historic Playhouse campus open for with Goodman Theatre, American Theater enjoyment and community events year-round. Company, Sansculottes Theater Company, and In 2017, The Playhouse proudly named the The Playground Theater. Broadway Method Academy as its resident conservatory program, training hundreds of Westport Country Playhouse young performers annually. The value of the The mission of Westport Country Playhouse is Westport Country Playhouse to all it touches to enrich, enlighten, and engage the community is immeasurable. through the power of professionally produced theater worth talking about and the welcoming For This Production experience of the Playhouse campus. The Assistant Costume Designer: Meghan Jane Playhouse creates this relationship with the Assistant Lighting Designer: Krista Smith community and provides this experience Production Assistants: Katie Cecil Cairns and in multiple ways by offering: Live theater Page Tazewell experiences of the highest quality, under the Fight Captain: Megan Schwarz Dickert artistic direction of Mark Lamos, from May through November; educational and community engagement events and opportunities to further

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PREMIERE CIRCLE FRIENDS CIRCLE PRODUCER ($100,000 & ABOVE) Ellen Petrino Mr. Arthur C. Tauck, Jr. Howard J. Aibel* Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth J. Seel Cathy & Colin Walker Eunice & David Bigelow Foundation Nancy & David Tillson Jane & Richard B. Wolf Stephen Corman PATRON ($5,000–$9,999) CHAMPION ($1,000–$1,499) AMBASSADOR ($50,000–$99,999) Anonymous (2) Anonymous (2) Burry Fredrik Foundation Aquarion Water Company Jim Arata CT Department of Economic & Community The Daphne Seybolt Culpeper Memorial The Ashken Family Development, Office of the Arts Foundation, Inc. Shelly & Drummond Bell Michele & Marc Flaster The Neil & Sandra DeFeo Family Foundation Jean H. Bennett Lucille Lortel Foundation Jodi & Bill Felton Seth & Vani Birnbaum Newman’s Own Foundation Edith Hall Friedheim Prill & Mike Boyle The Shubert Foundation, Inc. The Goss Family Aileen & Jeffrey Brill Barbara & John Streicker Stan Green Jack & Amy Gillis Jacobson/Moskovitz Family Harold Gordon SPONSOR ($25,000–$49,999) KeyBank Malcolm Gordon & Nan Miller Bank of America Lucinda E. Knuth Jane Green & Ian Warburg Connecticut Health & Education Laura & Dale Kutnick Ms. Shirley Gura Facilities Authority Lux Bond & Green The Harry Donenfeld Foundation Anna Czekaj-Farber Mr. & Mrs. Robert Pizzella Linda Jacob Kate & Bob Devlin, The Devlin Foundation Nancy & Roger Sachs Marta Jo Lawrence Fidelity Investments Ann Sheffer & Bill Scheffler Mark Manus Jerome Levy Foundation Kimberly V. Strauss Harold Matzner Judy & Scott Phares Peter & Wendy McCabe Barbara & John Samuelson SUSTAINER ($3,000–$4,999) Kimberly Mullen & Brian Foster Roz & Bud Siegel Robert & Jan Anestis Jeff Peterson Marietta Battaglia White Andrea & Theron Hoffman Patrice C. Peugnet (In honor of Actor The Winston Foundation Richard & Terry Lubman Christopher Walken) John & Sharon Miller PARTNER ($15,000–$24,999) David & Mindy Pritchard Anne & Chuck Niemeth BNY Mellon Vivian Rosenberg Westport Young Woman’s League Cohen & Wolf, P.C. Paul & Jeanne Russ CT Humanities CONTRIBUTOR ($1,500–$2,999) Deborah Shear Robert & Susan Doran Anonymous Michael & Bridget Streicker Angela & Mark Graham/ Molly Alger & Jay Dirnberger Vincent & Connie VonZwehl The Graham Foundation of CT Ballet Etudes (in honor of Nannette Vallas) Sylvia Wall & Pamela Wall Michael Klingher & Lindsay Schine Bruce & Susan Barnet Sara & John Walsh Darlene Krenz Barneys New York Frances S. White & Harry B. Evans Mary Ellen & Jim Marpe Sharon & Stephen Baum LEADER ($750–$999) National Endowment for the Arts Dr. & Mrs. Garry Boxer Gloria & Franchon Smithson Pitney Bowes, Inc. Arthur Cohen Joan Ross Sorkin Janet & Fred Plotkin / Adolph & Ruth Rebecca Colin Joan Waricha Schnurmacher Foundation Elwood & Catherine Davis Carol & Peter Seldin Essex Financial Services SUPPORTER ($350–$749) Johnna G. Torsone & John McKeon Mr. R. Bradford Evans on behalf of PTM Anonymous (4) BENEFACTOR ($10,000–$14,999) Charitable Foundation Actors’ Equity Foundation, Inc. George A. & Grace L. Long Foundation, Daniel Aibel & David Pittman Athena & Daniel Adamson Bank of America, N.A., & Alan Dr. & Mrs. Todd E. Arnold Galia & Adam Clemens Terry & MJ Hogan Nadine Baccellieri Amy & Richard Corn Barbara & Greg Joseph Livia Barndollar The David & Geri Epstein Private Foundation Steven & Yvette Kohn Ruth Barrett Fairfield County’s Community Foundation Mitzi Lyman & David Geronemus Helen Martin Block Katia Friend Marianna & Mark McCall Deborah Harper Bono & Girome Bono Fiona Garland & Andrew Bentley Marjorie Neville & Michael Jacoby Robert Bourguignon & Brandon Bone Jessie A. Gilbert Allen & Lorraine Noveck Susan & Michael Boyar Philip & Lisa Green Alan & Frances Offenberg Arvin Brown Joyce Hergenhan Rina & Howard Pianko Meagan Burns-Min Carole Hochman The Richenthal Foundation James & Janey Campbell Beryl & Roger Leifer Steve & Frances Rowland Andrea & David Cross Thomas & Paula McInerney Susan & Gene Shanks Mia Dillon & Keir Dullea Teresa Nardozzi Patti & Rick Slavin Paal & Roseann Elfstrum Northwestern Mutual Financial Network, Lyla & Peter Steenbergen, MD The Bender Financial Group Susan S. Ellis Catherine & Chris Stroup Joyce N. Fensterstock

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SUPPORTER ($350–$749) CONT’D Bettina & David Fiore David & Laurie Boczar Claire Ford Mary & Frode Foss-Skiftesvik Chris & Laurie Bradbury Howard Forman Stephanie Ercegovic & Brian Foster Edward & Jane Brennan Marguerite Bunny Franco Sally & Bob Galan Wesley Broderick Doris Fuertes Joe Godfrey & Keith Halstead Bernard Shapiro & Michele Brown Frank & Jean Gallinelli Ellen Graff & Martin Fox Nancy Brown Hilary & Will Gibson William Gratz & James Bruno Mr. & Mrs. Matthew R. Bud Jack Gilpin & Ann McDonough Dorothy & Fred Haas Lois & Robert Bull Givenik.com Scott & Beth Hensel Michael Burnette Carol Gluckman Alexa Kantgias Mr. David Caddis Betty & Joshua Goldberg Craig & Caroline Lazzara Maureen & Rick Campbell Susan & Laurence Goldfein Michael E. Loeb Arlene Carpenter Arnold Grant Jane Malakoff Katelin Carr & Bevan Moore Jill Greenberg & Mitchell Lester Josephine Merck Nancy Catalano Amy & Michael Greenberg Virginia & Timothy Millhiser Paul & Lois Cathcart Mimi & Chuck Greenlee Howard & Ginger Morgan Benjamin Chalfin James Haag & Todd Samburg Barry Nalebuff & Helen Kauder Peter & Megan Chenot Matt & Kristen Haines William Nolan Mrs. Eleanor Cilo Gladys Handelman Douglas Ormond Dupre Cocrhan J. Handschumacher Karen & Michael Parrella John & Cindy Cody Laura & Ted Harlan Joan Phillips John & Eva-Lena Cody Roni & Howard Harmetz Playhouse Staff Yvette Cole Peter Harrar Josephine A. Raimondi Kevin & Pamela Collins Kevin Harrington Susanne Risoli Jacquelyn Conlon Aleta Mitchell & Thomas Haskell Eva & Paul Rosenblatt Kerry Connell Patricia Hayman (in memory of A.R. Gurney) Dr. & Mrs. Arturo Constantiner Marion Heiss Christopher E.G. Saxe Kerry Cooper Rebecka Hekmat Maureen & Edwin Schloss James Corgel Sophie Hekmat Rick & Becky Scott Shelagh & John Corporon Nancy Herzog George & Madeline Shepherd Paige Couture Louise Kerz Hirschfeld Allen & Leslie Silberman John Crocco Joyce & Robert Hobbie Isaac & Ellen Sonsino Kendall Crolius & Stephen Stout Beth Hochhauser Benson & Betty Srere Roselle & Brian Crombie Mr. Leigh Hoffman Ron & Maryann Stell Christopher Cunningham Heather Hopkins Ricki & Stanley Stern Mr. & Mrs. Robert Dannies Cynthia & Peter Hurvitz Christian & Eva Trefz Carol & Joel Davis Virginia Hyde Mr. & Mrs. Lee D. Vincent Patricia & Raymond Dayan Bob & Bev Iannucci Barbara Wojtusik (in honor of Patricia Delano Janet & Bill Jacklin Michael Barker & Mark Lamos) Wendy DiChristina Arthur & Mary Ann Jacobs Richard & Beth Zucker Jo-Ann Dierks Barbara James FRIEND ($150–$349) Joe & Emily DiMiceli Estelle & Charles Jones Anonymous (6) Jill & Alex Dimitrief Nancy Kail Martha & Lawrence Aasen Gina & Peter Dodge Honorable Edward & Renie Karazin Elizabeth Albertini Alexander Dunev Anna Karidas Durelle Alexander Deborah Dyer Janet & Leo Karl III Mr. & Mrs. Lynn Austin Frank & Ellen Estes Mrs. Mickey Karlan Bob & Barbara Bachner Barbara Ettinger Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Katzman J. Edward Backus Joanna Exacoustos Frederick Kennedy Harold & Bernicestine Bailey Lee Ann Fallet Michael & Elizabeth Kessler Mr. & Mrs. Henry Banach Mr. & Mrs. Stuart Farber Daniel Kiely & Gretchen Johanns James R. Barker Dina Ferdman Charles Kiernan Stacy & Howard Bass Virginia Ferrari Lynda Kinney Debra & David Bauer Gael Thomas Ficken & Barry E. Ficken Michele & Mark Kolier Rebecca & Michael Bellora Thomas & Anita Field Anatole & Rosaria Konstantin Michelle Benner Sue & Steve Fields Phyllis & Adam Kurzer Rick & Totney Benson Michelle Fitzpatrick Michael Kyle Geoffrey Beringer Carolaline Flaumenhaft Warren & Lisa Lagerloef James Berner & Sheila Ward Pat Fleischmann Kamala Lakhdhir Nancy & John Billington Heidi & Robert Flicker Leona Lamberson Thomas C. Bloch Tim & Pam Foarde Barbara Lampugnale

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FRIENDS CIRCLE FRIEND ($150–$349) CONT’D Stephen & Lisa Lawrence Alexander Orthwein Sabina Slavin The Lederer Family Samantha Owades Sara Lev & Michael Sloan Gordon & Lynne Leibowitz Penny Palmer Alison & Mark Smith Ms. Leona R. Lepofsky Don & Alice Parker Kathleen Smith Marcia Levy Parks Drivers Nancy W. Smith Doree & Robert Levy Dr. & Mrs. Michael F. Parry Jenny Sozzi Lillian Lewis Penny Pearlman Peary & Patti Spaght Rita & Stephen Lewis Joan Pendergast Ken Staffey Amber Llorens John & Elizabeth Peto David & Gayle Stebbins Kathy & Wayne Locurto Zelie & Andy Pforzheimer Katina Stefanova Tom Lombardi Steve Pincus Sybil & Harold Steinberg Marilyn Lord & James Meisner Dr. & Mrs. Warren R. Pistey Warren Steinberg MD Arline & Marvin Lubin Louis Pittocco Steve Stockman William Lutkins & Julie Oh Susan & Richard Plutzer Kristine Story James & Margot Mabie David & Nicole Pogue Fran & Martin Stuttman Mrs. Mary Makowka Anne & Saul Pollack Ann & Robert Svensk Peter & Carol Maloney John & Kim Porio Tara Tanzer Susan Manicke Dr. Joan Poster & Dennis Poster (in honor of Jenny Taubman Rebecca Martin & John Donoghue Meredith Poster) Margaret & Alan K. Temple Richard & Cora Martin Julie Potack Nancy Thiel Donald & Amanda Martocchio Carol Quinn & David Mayo Elva & John Thompson Carolina Mata-Tovar Juan Alejandro Ramos Charlotte & Cooper Tirola Mr. & Mrs. David S. Matlow Ms. Marilyn Rappoport Chrissy Toeplitz Fern & Joseph Mayer Lou & Paula Reens Juana Toporovsky Carole & Anthony Mazzarella Jim Reesman Laurence & Nikki Untermeyer John & Susan McCabe Paula & David Ridge Joseph Valerio Teresa & Joseph McCartin Jay & Joyce Riemer Irma & Henri Van Dam William & Irene McCutchen Mr. & Mrs. Dominic Rispoli Ralph & Maria Ventura Leigh & Edward McDermott Megan Robbins Sarah Vigoda Jessica McEntee Betty & Dan Roberts Ms. Olga Vladimirsky Andy McGrade Donna Rodenburg Donna Volpitta Beryl Meiner & Richard Carleton Bruce & Mary Rogers Alison Wachstein Nadine Melniker Cynthia & John Rohrs John & Pamela Waesche Joan & John Mendenhall Daniel Romanello Suzy & Sadek Wahba Maria Mendoza-Smith Benjamin Romney Janine Waldman Lois & Richard Miller Mr. & Mrs. Marc Rosen Norma & Paul Warner Elizabeth Molinelli Howard & Abby Ross Carol & John Waxman Carol Morris & Kim Hourihan Mr. & Mrs. Michael F. Ross Mary & Charles Welch Jack & Lu Morris Anthony & Patricia Rotella Brian Welker Robert Morris Dr. & Mrs. Steven Rothenberg Patricia Wentworth & Mark Fagan Stanley Morten Ann & Donald Rully Eden & Joel Werring Kathleen Mufson Katherine Ryden Marion & Joe Wertheim Eric & Adrienne Muntzenberger Anita Sabatino James White & Ann Jacobi-White Tanya Murphy Elizabeth & Matt Salem Myrtis & Roger White Ken Nagin & Laurie Brown-Nagin Molly Sargent Laura & Paul Whitmore Mark Neidig Lida Saw Michael Wilens & Carolyn Longacre Helen & Melvin Neisloss Mark Schiff Michelle Wiles Anurag Nema Barbara & Greg Schindler C. Webb Williams & Sallie Walter Williams Kenneth Ng Lois G. Schine Caroline Williams Richard & Alyona Nicholson Howie Schmuck Sheryl & Tim Williams Mr. & Mrs. Mark Nickson Josef & Vicki Schoell Ruth & Alan Winnick Jolande Niedekker Laurie & Charles Schott Paul Wolff Mr. & Mrs. Scott E. Niven Tricia & Matthew Schwartz Cynthia Wood Robert Nixon Jean T. Sells Richard & Robin Woods Judith & Alphonse Noë Jennifer Seymour Dan Woog Marna & Stuart Novack MD Jerome & Catherine Shereshewsky Suzanne Zelinski Carole Novick Larry & Ruth Sherman Ronni & Fred Zinn Salvador & Audrey Novoa Edith D. Sillman David Zippel & Michael Johnston Dacey & Dennis O’Connor Ms. Eileen Simonson Fran & Ed O’Neill Cheryl P. Slater & James A. Slater, MD

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SPECIAL GIFTS BRIDGE TO THE FUTURE WOODWARD INTERNSHIP PROGRAM IN-KIND DONATIONS Howard J. Aibel* SPONSORS Asylum Distillery Judy & Scott Phares Howard J. Aibel* BetterITS Barbara & John Samuelson Eunice & David Bigelow Foundation Patricia Blaufuss Joyce Hergenhan Stephen Corman Broken Shed Vodka Roz & Bud Siegel Robert & Susan Doran Castle Wines & Spirits Czekaj Artistic Productions Jodi & Bill Felton Greenhook Ginsmiths Lindsay Schine & Michael Klingher Michele & Marc Flaster Hilton Garden Inn Barbara & John Streicker Fiona Garland & Andrew Bentley Bruce & Beth Miller The Goss Family Moffly Media NEW WORKS CIRCLE Angela & Mark Graham / The Graham Newman’s Own Foundation Michele Flaster, Chair Foundation of Connecticut Parks Driving Service FOUNDING MEMBERS Judy & Scott Phares Peter & Carol Seldin Howard J. Aibel* Carol & Peter Seldin Westport Inn Stephen Corman Roz & Bud Siegel WSHU Public Radio Ania Czekaj-Farber Barbara & John Streicker Sandra & Neil DeFeo Marietta Battaglia White Kate & Bob Devlin Ann Sheffer & Bill Scheffler Michele & Marc Flaster FRIENDS Susan Jacobson & David Moskovitz Molly Alger & Jay Dirnberger Judy & Scott Phares Patti & Rick Slavin Barbara & John Samuelson Barbara & John Streicker Johnna G. Torsone & John McKeon ANNUAL MEMBERS Darlene Krenz Terry Nardozzi Roz & Bud Siegel Marietta Battaglia White

All gifts as of July 5, 2018 * Deceased THE UNDERSTUDY 31 32 WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE | 2018 SEASON THE UNDERSTUDY 33 A GALA EVENING TO BENEFIT WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE

2017 GALA BENEFACTORS 2017 GALA PATRONS Howard J. Aibel * Athena and Daniel Adamson Carole Hochman Stephen Corman Molly Alger and Jay Dirnberger Michael and Elizabeth Kessler Kate and Bob Devlin, Robert and Jan Anestis KeyBank The Devlin Foundation The Ashken Family KPMG Michele and Marc Flaster Bank of America Darlene Krenz Philip and Lisa Green Stacy and Howard Bass Stephen and Lisa Lawrence Claudia and Rob Hahn Shelly and Drummond Bell Beryl and Roger Leifer Joyce Hergenhan Mr. and Mrs. David Bigelow Kerry and Maggie Lehnerd-Reilly Mary Ellen and Jim Marpe Seth and Vani Birnbaum Lance and Terry Lundberg Harold Matzner BNY Mellon Wealth Management Tanya Murphy Judy and Scott Phares Deborah Harper Bono Teresa Nardozzi Janet and Fred Plotkin / Adolph and Galia and Adam Clemens Steve and Diane Parrish Ruth Schnurmacher Foundation Cohen and Wolf, P.C. Jeffrey Peterson Barbara and John Samuelson Ania Czekaj-Farber Ellen Petrino Roz and Bud Siegel Sandra and Neil DeFeo Pitney Bowes, Inc. Barbara and John Streicker Stephanie Ercegovic and Brian Foster Ann and Peter Pollack Bettina and David Fiore Lindsay Schine and Michael Klingher Edward A. Froelich Carol and Peter Seldin Fiona Garland and Andrew Bentley Diana and Dan Sussman Jessie Gilbert Nancy and David Tillson Angela and Mark Graham Marietta Battaglia White Connie and Stewart Greenfield David Zippel and Michael Johnston

We give our profound thanks to Stephen Corman for his $100,000 challenge grant!

34 WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE | 2018 SEASON Our 2017 gala, moonlight over venice, was a great success, raising more than $500,000! Thanks to all who joined us to hear Broadway star Jonathan Groff perform for the benefit of our beloved Playhouse.

2017 GALA SUPPORTERS Dr. Tanya Futoryan 2017 GALA DONATIONS The Hirsch Family Arline P. Gertzoff Anonymous (2) Michele Hance lppolito Mary Gladden William Bowers and JoAnne Kennedy Melissa Kane Ruth and Steven Glazer Claire and Hayes Clark (in honor Jill N. Lundin Sarah Goldstein of Molly Alger) Mr. and Mrs. John M. Nevin, Jr. Patricia Goodrich DeWitt Stern Group, Inc. Jim and Carol Randel William Gratz and James Bruno Pamela Farr and Buford Alexander Philip and Wendy Schaefer Jerry and Mary Gail Gristina Michael D. Gilligan Ann Sheffer and Bill Scheffler Diana Hopper Carmen and Ed Gulbenkian Margie Jacobson Al and Celia Hegyi 2017 GALA FRIENDS Richard and Francoise Jaffe IATSE Local 74 Jane and Peter Jordan Estelle and Charles Jones Anonymous (6) The Maric Family J.W. Kaempfer Elizabeth Albertini Donald and Amanda Martocchio Brinton Taylor Parson Andrew and Ellie Antrobus Ginger More and Paul McMillan Joyce Pauker Lee Arthurs and Judy Kessler Maria Mendoza-Smith Carolyn B. Raymond Paul Ballasy Francie Morris Susan and Gene Shanks Kathie and Scott Bennewitz John and Beth Peto Mr. and Mrs. Richard Siderowf Rick and Totney Benson Richard and Susan Plutzer Richard and Deborah Smilow Robert Bourguignon and David and Nicki Pogue (in honor of Michael Klingher Brandon Bone Doug and Dana Robinson and Ann Sheffer) Tricia and James Brady Janet Rubel David and Susan Smith Nancy A. Brown Anita Sabatino Johnna G. Torsone and John McKeon Miggs Burroughs Elizabeth and Matt Salem Esme Usdan and James Snyder Craig and Karen Chodash Joseph H. and Irma K. Schachter Cheryl Wiesenfeld and Cathy Colgan Barbara Silver Slaine Gerald Rosenberg Paige Couture Katina Stefanova and Harry Singh Roselle and Brian Crombie Leslie Stetter Shealeigh Crombie Eleanor Streicker Betty Lou Cummings A. Morris and Jennifer Tooker Diane DelVecchio Alison Wachstein Nancy Diamond and Jeffrey Mayer The Westport Library John Donoghue and Becky Martin Willis Towers Watson Jonathan and Melissa Ellis Betsy and Cliff Wolf Kurt Fladten and Corbett Mercer Mindy Wolkstein and Frank Giresi Ed and Lisa Friedland

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38 WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE | 2018 SEASON WCP | BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Barbara K. Streicker, Chair Mark S. Graham HONORARY TRUSTEES ARTIST CIRCLE Michele Flaster, Vice Chair Joyce Hergenhan Elisabeth Morten, Chair A.R. Gurney* Johnna G. Torsone, Vice Chair Carole Hochman Howard J. Aibel* Lynne Meadow Walter Bergen Kenneth Seel, Treasurer James Earl Jones James Naughton Michael Klingher James P. Bradley Carol West Seldin, Secretary Sandra DeFeo Darlene Krenz Richard Slavin, Asst. Secretary Kate Devlin Roger Leifer Robert Devlin Mary Ellen Marpe Robert H. Forrester Athena T. Adamson Teresa Nardozzi Edith Hall Friedheim Harold Bailey, Jr. Ellen H. Petrino Helen Lee Henderson Adam G. Clemens Judy M. Phares Catherine Herman Stephen Corman Janet Plotkin Dan Kail Amy C. Corn Christopher Plummer Bill Mitchell Anna Czekaj-Farber Jake Robards Judith Resnick Ann Sheffer Robert Doran Barbara Samuelson Joel Smilow Katia Friend David Tillson Sharon Sullivan Fiona Garland Marietta Battaglia White John Vaccaro Jessie A. Gilbert Joanne Woodward Steven Wolff Bob Wright WCP | STAFF LEADERSHIP MARKETING MARK LAMOS Artistic Director Cynthia Astmann Graphic Design Director MICHAEL BARKER Managing Director Jennifer Carroll Community and Sales Manager Stephen Emerick Digital Content Manager ARTISTIC Patricia Blaufuss Public Relations Manager David Kennedy Associate Artistic Director Justin Jones Marketing Intern Anne Keefe Associate Artist Bethany Gugliemino Artistic and Management Associate PRODUCTION Liam Lonegan Directing Fellow DAVID DREYFOOS Associate Producer/Director of Production Laura Silence Family Festivities Coordinator RJ Romeo Technical Director/Assoc. Director of Production Bruce Miller Company Manager GENERAL MANAGEMENT Alexandra Rappaport Associate Company Manager BETH HUISKING General Manager Anthony Servetas Head Stage Carpenter/Flyman Geoff Topalian Data Analyst Bob McDevitt Head Electrician/Light Board Operator Kelly Mikolasy House and Events Manager Jon Damast Head Sound/Sound Board Operator Rich D’Arinzo Facilities Manager Jason Thompson Head Shop Carpenter Josh Sinclair Box Office Manager Lisa Ficco Wardrobe Supervisor Eve Lyons Asst. Box Office Manager Jess Ploszaj Scenic Artist Jake Krasniewicz Box Office Supervisor; Heather Ogden Stage Management Intern First-Time Subscriber Concierge Aaron Moss Cohen Carpentry/ATD Intern Molly Hamilton Box Office Associate Carol Ann Rotella Company Management Intern Kaitlyn Speakman Front of House Intern Kaylee Drake Wardrobe Intern DEVELOPMENT Sean Sanford Scenic Painting/Props Intern CAROLE SOUTHALL Director of Development FINANCE + HUMAN RESOURCES Aline O’Connor Associate Director of Development SHARON BOILINI Director of Finance Georgia Sayers Grant Writer Kerry Maloney HR and Finance Manager Clare Livingston Stephen Corman Development Fellow Kaylee Moran Development Intern * Deceased THE UNDERSTUDY 39 WCP | 2018 SUPPORT

WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES GENEROUS LEADERSHIP SUPPORT FOR THE 2018 SEASON.

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BNY MELLON WEALTH MANAGEMENT AQUARION WATER COMPANY BNY Mellon Wealth Management is a leading wealth manager. Aquarion Water Company applauds the Westport Country In 2016 it was named by Family Wealth Report as the top U.S. Playhouse for its starring role as one of our area’s most important Private Bank and rated the Top Private Bank for Family Offices by artistic institutions. We also congratulate the public for its Professional Wealth Management magazine. Barron’s ranked it commitment to sustaining not just local cultural resources but the 8th largest U.S. wealth manager in 2016. The firm has more the natural ones as well. With demands on our water supplies than two centuries of experience in providing services to clients growing across our service area, we’ve seen a tremendous who today include financially successful individuals and families, response to our requests for increased conservation. We their family offices and business enterprises, planned giving especially thank all those community members who are now programs, and endowments and foundations. It has nearly $205 limiting outdoor sprinkler irrigation to two times per week billion in total private client assets, as of December 31, 2016, and or less. For many more ideas on conserving water, just visit an extensive network of offices in the U.S. and internationally. aquarionwater.com. And, remember, any time you’re looking for BNY Mellon Wealth Management, which provides investment an alternative to the fine beverages you may be enjoying tonight, management, custody, wealth and estate planning and private Aquarion reminds you that there’s always water. banking services, conducts business through various operating subsidiaries of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation. For more information go to bnymellonwealth.com or follow us on Twitter @BNYMellonWealth.

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FIDELITY INVESTMENTS PITNEY BOWES Fidelity Investments is proud to be a 2017 sponsor of Westport Pitney Bowes is proud to support Westport Country Playhouse as Country Playhouse. Fidelity’s mission is to inspire better futures a sponsor for the Family Festivities series. Pitney Bowes is a global and deliver better outcomes for the customers and businesses we technology company, powering billions of physical and digital serve. We focus on meeting the unique needs of a diverse set of transactions in the connected and borderless world of commerce. customers helping more than 26 million people invest their own Pitney Bowes and the Pitney Bowes Foundation support literacy, life savings. Local investors can access Fidelity’s guidance and education and the diverse community interests of Pitney Bowes investment tools via the web, by telephone, or in person, working employees. We focus our energies on advancing learning and with investment professionals at their local Investor Center. enrichment for students in underserved school districts in an To learn more about Fidelity Investments, visit one of our three effort to help close the academic achievement gap and prepare Fairfield County locations — Stamford, Greenwich, or Fairfield — the future workforce. or call 800-544-9797. Please visit fidelity.com. Fidelity Brokerage Services, Member NYSE, SPIC. 831742.2.0

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2018 CORPORATE CLUB

2018 MEDIA SPONSORS

Moffly Media — publisher of Greenwich, Westport, New Canaan- WSHU is a non-profit, listener-supported group of public radio Darien, Stamford, and athome magazines — celebrates community stations whose mission is to be a unique and independent voice with excellence in design and editorial as well as online content, in our community. Every day, we engage listeners through a custom events and philanthropic partnerships. range of thoughtful programming that includes NPR News, award-winning local news, entertainment and classical music. www.wshu.org.

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2018 IN-KIND SUPPORT

Castle Wine and Spirits is proud to be a Hilton Garden Inn believes that the arts The Westport Inn is well known for its sponsor of Westport Country Playhouse. are the fabric of our society and make contemporary New England hospitality. They have been meeting the needs of a community a better place to live and This boutique hotel offers richly their customers and their community for work. After an evening at the theater, appointed rooms with luxurious bedding more than 20 years. The knowledgeable spend the night at the nearby Hilton and onsite dining. Visit www.wesportinn. staff can assist you find something to Garden Inn Norwalk and discover why com or call 203-557-8124 to receive the enjoy from their more than 1500 wines, they were voted Best Hotel 7 years in a Playhouse’s preferred rate. hundreds of spirits and an extensive row. Free shuttles to the Playhouse. Visit selection of craft beers. Make Castle at norwalkhilton.com or call 203-523-4000. 1439 Post Road East your one-stop wine and beverage shop.

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PRODUCTION SPONSORS BARBARA & JOHN SAMUELSON BARBARA & JOHN STREICKER PRODUCTION PARTNERS CAROL & PETER SELDIN EDUCATION SPONSOR THE GRAHAM FOUNDATION OF CT

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CORPORATE PRODUCTION PARTNER WCP | ABOUT THE PLAYHOUSE

We hope to make your experience here as enjoyable as possible. If you need assistance, please notify the house manager or a member of the staff.

Westport Country Playhouse 25 Powers Court | Westport, CT 06880 BOX OFFICE: (203) 227-4177 westportplayhouse.org

Photo: Robert Benson

BOX OFFICE HOURS EMERGENCY CONTACT 12PM–6PM Tuesday–Friday (and through Babysitters or other emergency contacts may show time on performance days) call the house manager during the performance 11AM–8:30PM Saturday performance days at (203) 227-5137 x196. Please have contacts provide the location of your seats. 11AM–3:30PM Sunday performance days CLOSED Other Saturdays, Sundays, Mondays CONCESSIONS Tickets available online 24 hours a day: A variety of food and beverages are available westportplayhouse.org for purchase at the Playhouse concessions stand on the orchestra level of the lobby. ELECTRONIC DEVICES Beverages are only allowed in the theater in For the enjoyment of all patrons, please silence a souvenir glass purchased at concessions. all cell phones, pagers, and electronic devices No food is allowed in the theater. while in the theater. If you use your phone during intermission, please remember to ACCESSIBILITY silence it for the remainder of the performance. A number of accessible seats for patrons with ASSISTED LISTENING DEVICES mobility requirements are available throughout the theater. A limited number of infrared assisted listening devices are available from the box office to aid If you require an accessible seat, please contact in your enjoyment of the performance. the house manager.

PHOTOGRAPHY The use of photographic or recording devices The Playhouse is a non-profit theater, is strictly prohibited. and can only survive with the PLEASE NOTE: The audience may be generous support of donors like you. photographed by Playhouse staff for archival Please make your gift today. and publicity purposes. If you prefer that your likeness not appear in Playhouse materials, Contact Aline O’Connor please notify the house manager. [email protected] | 203 571 1138

2018 RESTAURANT PARTNERS

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