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2014 Winter/Spring Season JUN 2014

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Published by: BAM 2014 Winter/Spring Sponsor: BAM 2014 Winter/Spring Season #RadioLoveFest

Brooklyn Academy of Music Alan H. Fishman, Chairman of the Board Cynthia King Vance, Chair, Board of Trustees William I. Campbell, Vice Chairman of the Board John S. Rose, Vice Chair, Board of Trustees Adam E. Max, Vice Chairman of the Board Susan Rebell Solomon, Vice Chair, Board of Trustees Karen Brooks Hopkins, President Mayo Stuntz, Vice Chair, Board of Trustees Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer Laura R. Walker, President & CEO

BAM and WNYC present RadioLoveFest

Produced by BAM and WNYC

Jun 4—8

LIVE PERFORMANCES VENUE KEY Radiolab® Trusts No One, Jun 4, 7:30pm, OH BC=BAMcafé Wait Wait... Don’t Tell Me!®, Jun 5, 7:30pm, OH BRC=BAM Rose Cinemas Voices Carry: Stories of Inside Frequencies FB=Fisher Building HT=BAM Harvey Theater The Moth, Jun 5, 8pm, BC OH=BAM Howard Gilman Ask Me Another®, Jun 6, 7:30pm, OH Opera House Studio 360® with Kurt Andersen, Jun 6, 7:30pm, HT : One Night Only at BAM, Jun 7, 7:30pm & 10pm, OH Soundcheck®, Jun 7, 7:30pm, HT Sunday in New York with Jonathan Schwartz, Jun 8, 3pm, HT

SCREENINGS Stop Making Sense, curated by Brian Lehrer With guest Jonathan Demme | Jun 4, 7:30pm, BRC The Princess Bride, curated by Intro by Brooke Gladstone | Jun 8, 7:30pm, BRC

BAMCAFÉ LIVE Curated by Terrance McKnight Villalobos Brothers, hosted by Helga Davis Jun 6, 9pm—free, BC BROWN RICE FAMILY, hosted by Terrance McKnight Lead support for RadioLoveFest provided by Jun 7, 9pm—free, BC American Express Delta Air Lines StoryCorps listening station | Jun 5—8, FB DeWitt Stern

Major support for RadioLoveFest provided by Talk: Dave Isay with guest Charles & Valerie Diker and Jun 8, 1pm | FB Santander RadioLoveFest Jun 4

RADIOLAB® TRUSTS NO ONE Jun 4, 7:30pm, BAM Howard Gilman Opera House

RADIOLAB® is WNYC’s Peabody Award-winning cult sensation about wonder, discovery, and big ideas. Co-hosted by and Jad Abumrad, the show tackles topics as diverse as why Kenyans win marathons, what is time, and why left-handedness persists. Radiolab® podcasts are downloaded over four million times each month and the program is carried on 470 stations across the nation. Airs Thursdays at 8pm on WNYC 93.9 FM, and Saturdays at noon on WNYC 93.9 FM and 6pm on WNYC AM 820. For more information visit radiolab.org.

JAD ABUMRAD, the son of a scientist and a ROBERT KRULWICH, in addition to co-hosting doctor, did most of his growing up in Tennes- Radiolab, reports for National Public Radio. see, before studying creative writing and music Krulwich Wonders is his NPR blog featuring composition at Oberlin. Following graduation, he drawings, cartoons, and videos that illustrate wrote music for films and reported and produced hard-to-see concepts in science. For 22 years, documentaries for local and national public radio Krulwich was a science, economics, general as- programs, including , Studio 360 signment, and foreign correspondent at ABC and with Kurt Andersen, , All Things CBS News. His specialty is explaining complex Considered, and WNYC’s “24 Hours at the Edge subjects, science, technology, economics, in a of Ground Zero.” While on staff at WNYC, Abum- style that is clear, compelling, and entertaining. rad conceived of one of public radio’s most popu- On television he explored the structure of DNA lar shows—Radiolab, for which he is a co-host using a banana; on radio he created an Italian and producer. The program won the prestigious opera, “Ratto Interesso,” to explain how the George Foster Peabody Award and explores big Federal Reserve regulates interest rates; he also questions in science, philosophy, and mankind. pioneered the use of new animation on ABC’s Under Abumrad’s direction, the show uses a Nightline and World News Tonight. He has won combination of deep-dive journalism, narra- Emmy awards for a cultural history of Barbie, tive storytelling, dialogue, and music to explore for a Frontline investigation of computers and and discover. Abumrad was a 2011 MacArthur privacy, a George Polk and an Emmy for a look at Fellow; he also produced and hosted “The Ring the Savings & Loan bailout, and the 2010 Essay & I,” an insightful look at the enduring power Prize from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Krulwich of Wagner’s Ring Cycle. It aired nationally and also won the AAAS Science Journalism Award internationally and earned 10 awards, including for a 2001 a NOVA Special, “Cracking the Code the prestigious 2005 National Headliner Grand of Life”; the Extraordinary Communicator Award Award in Radio. from the National Cancer Institute; and an Alfred I. Dupont-Columbia Award. Krulwich earned a BA in history from Oberlin College, and a law degree from Columbia University. RadioLoveFest Jun 5

WAIT WAIT... DON’T TELL ME!® NPR® Jun 5, 7:30pm, BAM Howard Gilman Opera House

Wait Wait... Don’t Tell Me!® is NPR’s weekly hour-long quiz program hosted by . Panelists for this edition include comics, pundits and pop culture pros Peter Grosz, Jessi Klein, and Mo Rocca. Along with Sagal, they test listeners’ knowledge by deducing what’s real news and what’s made up. Airs Saturdays at 11am on WNYC 93.9 FM and WNYC AM 820 and Sundays at 4pm on WNYC 93.9 FM. For more information visit waitwait..org.

PETER SAGAL (host), prior to becoming host of JESSI KLEIN is a native and Wait Wait in 1998, had a varied career including writer/comedian who is currently the head stints as a playwright, screenwriter, stage writer and an executive producer of Inside Amy director, actor, extra in a Michael Jackson video, Schumer on Comedy Central. She has also travel writer, essayist, ghostwriter, and staff written for Saturday Night Live. In 2010 she writer for a motorcycle magazine. He lives in the taped her first half-hour stand-up special for Chicago area with his family, and is working on Comedy Central. Despite her diverse comedy a book titled The Big Book of Vices, about how experience, she is still overwhelmed by writing people—other people, of course—misbehave. bios and hates referring to herself in the third Since he now has his own Web site, he is finally person, so I’m switching to first right now. a real boy. There, that’s better. I’m currently working on my first book, to be published by Grand Central PETER GROSZ has been performing Publishing. Depending on how tonight goes, you improvisation and sketch comedy since 1995. might be interested in following me on He is an alum of the Second City’s ETC stage; where I am @jessirklein. a founding member of the Improv Olympic ensembles Preponderate, JTS Brown, and Four MO ROCCA is a contributor to CBS Sunday Square, and improvised with Asssscat at the Morning with Charles Osgood and the host UCB theater in New York. Grosz has appeared of The Tomorrow Show with Mo Rocca on in the films The Weatherman, Stranger than CBSNews.com. He has appeared on most every Fiction, and The Promotion, and has written for cable network, including Telemundo, where The Naked Trucker and T-Bones Show and The he wowed audiences in a small but pivotal Colbert Report. If you’re craving a burger when role in the hit telenovela Amor Descarado. He you hear his voice it’s because he also co-starred appeared on Broadway in The 25th Annual with TJ Jagodowski in a bunch of commercials Putnam County Spelling Bee. His book, All The for Sonic drive-in restaurants. Presidents’ Pets, blows the lid off the White House’s deepest, darkest secrets. RadioLoveFest Jun 5

VOICES CARRY: STORIES OF INSIDE FREQUENCIES THE MOTH RADIO HOUR LIVE Jun 5, 8pm, BAMcafé

THE MOTH, since its launch in 1997, has presented thousands of stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. Its programs are renowned for the wide range of human experience they showcase. Each show starts with a theme, and the storytellers explore it in often unexpected ways. Since each story is true and every voice authentic, the shows dance between documentary and theater, creating a unique, intimate, and often enlightening experience for the audience. For RadioLoveFest, The Moth presents Voices Carry: Stories of Inside Frequencies which will focus on stories from the world of public radio. Steve Burns hosts guests poet and performer Al Letson and actress Cristin Milioti. Airs Wednesdays at 8pm on WNYC 93.9 FM, Saturdays at 2pm on WNYC 93.9 FM and 7pm on WNYC AM 820. For more information visit themoth.org.

STEVE BURNS (host) is best known for playing for Black History Month. Produced by the Public Steve on Nickelodeon’s Blue’s Clues from Radio Exchange and distributed by NPR, State 1996—2002. Since then, he has hosted and of the Re:Union travels to an American town to told stories for The Moth, released a rock record discover things people do to create community for grown-ups that received pretty good reviews, and transcend their circumstances, focusing on toured with , made an vital cultural narratives. Letson also works as a of music for children, and appeared in strange professional playwright and actor. Drawing on plays, mostly in . his background as a performance poet, Letson seamlessly weaves spoken word into the fabric AL LETSON’s soul-stirring, interdisciplinary work of his theater work. His solo play, Summer in has garnered him national recognition, critical Sanctuary, will be produced off-Broadway by acclaim, and devoted fans. Early in his career, the Abingdon Theatre Company at Dorothy Letson established himself as a heavyweight in Strelsin Theatre. By examining difficult topics the Poetry Slam Movement, which reaped artistic and influential historical themes, Letson strives to credibility and renown. He has performed on a focus on our common humanity—and to always number of national, regional, and local stages, present a production with consummate artistry. including such venues as HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and CBS’ 2004 Final Four PreGame. In CRISTIN MILIOTI was most recently seen as 2008, Letson was one of three finalists out of “The Mother” in the long-running hit CBS series more than 1,500 applicants to win the Public How I Met Your Mother and opposite Leonardo Radio Talent Quest. The Talent Quest is an effort DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese’s Academy-Award by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to Nominated The Wolf of Wall Street. Prior to that find new voices and innovative programming she originated the role of “Girl” in the Broadway to launch nationally on public radio. Letson’s hit musical Once, for which she won a Grammy program State of the Re:Union is gearing up Award and was nominated for a Tony. This fall for a full season of 12 episodes and a robust she will star in NBC’s new comedy series A to Z. multimedia campaign that launched in February She lives in Brooklyn. RadioLoveFest Jun 6

ASK ME ANOTHER® NPR® AND WNYC Jun 6, 7:30pm, BAM Howard Gilman Opera House

Ask Me Another® is the rambunctious live show from NPR and WNYC that blends brainteasers, pub trivia, comedy, and music into an evening of hilarity. Host Ophira Eisenberg invites guests and listeners, alike, to stretch their noggins, tickle their funny bones and to be serenaded by house musician , with guests artists , and guests Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich from Radiolab®. Airs Saturdays at noon on WNYC AM 820 and 3pm on WNYC 93.9 FM. For more information visit askmeanother.npr.org.

OPHIRA EISENBERG is the host of NPR’s song “Code Monkey” was the theme for the G4 Ask Me Another. A familiar face in the comedy animated series Code Monkeys, and in 2007 world, Eisenberg moved from Canada to New he wrote “Still Alive” for the game Portal; that York in 2001 and performs stand-up regularly song won the Game Audio Network Guild’s at comedy clubs and headlines across the US, Best Original Vocal Pop Song award in 2008. Canada, and Europe. She tours as a host and In 2011, he wrote “Want You Gone” for Portal’s storyteller with The Moth and is featured on acclaimed sequel. Artificial Heart, Coulton’s The Moth Radio Hour and podcast. Selected as new album, showcases the talents of guest one of New York magazine’s “Top 10 Comics artists , John Roderick of the that Funny People Find Funny,” and featured Long Winters, and Sara Quin of Tegan and Sara. in as a skilled comedian It springs from a brief run opening for They and storyteller with a “bleakly stylish” sense of Might Be Giants that ended with member John humor, Eisenberg has appeared on The Late Flansburgh offering to produce Coulton’s next Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Comedy Central, record. He tours extensively in the US, Canada, The Today Show, VH-1, and more. Her debut the UK, and Europe. memoir, Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy, was recently optioned by Zucker THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS is an original Productions for a feature film. from Brooklyn founded by and , including on guitar, JONATHAN COULTON is the in-house musician on bass, and , the for NPR’s Ask Me Another. In 2005, Coulton left king of the drums. The band works continuously, a software career to write music on the Internet. writing, recording, and touring. They Might Be He embarked upon a bold experiment called Giants has also been involved in numerous Thing a Week, in which he home-recorded and television and film projects. They Might Be released a new song a week for a year, giving Giants’ latest album is called Nanobots—25 them all away. Even he thought he was crazy. unreasonable songs in 45 phenomenal minutes. While the music industry struggled over file They Might Be Giants was on tour for most sharing and shifting business models, Coulton of 2013 and is currently working on two new quietly amassed techies, nerds, and dedicated projects—an album for kids and an album for superfans who buy his music. Coulton’s adults. theymightbegiants.com characters include the lovelorn mad scientist from Skullcrusher Mountain, the powerless wage slave from Code Monkey, and the former Refer to Radiolab on Jun 4 for biographies for coworker/zombie from Re: Your Brains. His Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich. RadioLoveFest Jun 6

STUDIO 360® WITH KURT ANDERSEN Jun 6, 7:30pm, BAM Harvey Theater

The two-time Peabody Award-winning Studio 360® with Kurt Andersen, from PRI and WNYC, is public radio’s smart and surprising guide to what’s happening in pop culture and the arts. Each week, Andersen gets inside the creative mind, introducing listeners to the people who are creating and shaping our culture on movie sets, in galleries, and on the internet. At BAM, Andersen presents an evening of music and conversation featuring Andrew Bird, one of the most acclaimed and inventive songwriters in indie music; Jennifer Egan, whose novel A Visit from the Goon Squad won the Pulitzer Prize; Hari Kondabolu, a Brooklyn-based, -raised comic and correspondent for FX’s Totally Biased; and Joel Esher, a music director with Story Pirates. Airs Mondays at 8pm on WNYC 93.9 FM, Saturdays at 4pm on WNYC 93.9 FM, and Sundays at 11am on 93.9 FM and 2pm on WNYC AM 820. For more information visit studio360.org.

KURT ANDERSEN is host and co-creator of and collaborated with inventor Ian Schneller on Studio 360, the Peabody Award-winning public Sonic Arboretum, an audio-visual installation at radio program. In addition, he’s the author of New York’s Guggenheim Museum and Chicago’s three critically acclaimed novels, most recently Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2012 he True Believers, as well as the prize-winning New released two , Break It Yourself and York Times bestseller Heyday and the national Hands of Glory, an acoustic companion album. bestseller Turn of the Century. His non-fiction books include Reset and The Real Thing. He JENNIFER EGAN is the author of The Invisible also writes for television and the theater, and is Circus, Look at Me, a finalist for the National a regular contributor to The New York Times and Book Award in fiction in 2001, Emerald City and Vanity Fair. Previously, he was a columnist and Other Stories, and the bestselling The Keep. Her critic for and Time, served as most recent novel, A Visit From the Goon Squad, editor-in-chief of New York, and co-founded Spy won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, the National magazine. Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and the LA Times Book Prize. Her short stories have ANDREW BIRD, a Chicago-based composer, appeared in The New Yorker, Harpers, Granta, multi-instrumentalist, and lyricist, picked up his McSweeney’s, and other publications. She is a first violin at age four and spent his formative recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National years soaking up classical repertoire completely Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in fiction, by ear. As a teen Bird became interested in a and a Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Fellowship variety of styles including early jazz, country at the New York Public Library. Her non-fiction blues, and gypsy music, synthesizing them into articles appear frequently in The New York Times his unique brand of pop. Since 1997 he has Magazine. Her 2002 cover story on homeless released 11 albums, and his first solo record children received the Carroll Kowal Journalism Weather Systems in 2003. Bird went on to Award, and “The Bipolar Kid” received a 2009 record with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and NAMI Outstanding Media Award for Science and perform at Carnegie Hall. In 2011 he composed Health Reporting. his first ever film score for the movie Norman, contributed to the soundtrack of , (cont.) RadioLoveFest Jun 6

HARI KONDABOLU is a Brooklyn-based, JOEL ESHER is the New York Regional Music Queens-raised comic. He just released his debut Director for the Story Pirates, a nationally standup comedy album Waiting for 2042 on respected education and media organization Kill Rock Stars. He was also recently a writer founded in 2003 to celebrate the words and and correspondent for FX’s Totally Biased with ideas of young people. He is an active and W. Kamau Bell. He has appeared on The Late sought-after coach and accompanist for musical Show with David Letterman, NPR’s improv and sketch comedy, playing regularly at with , WTF with Marc Maron, Conan, The Magnet Theater, the PIT, and the Upright Jimmy Kimmel Live, and John Oliver’s New York Citizens Brigade. Esher music directed and Standup Show. His Comedy Central Presents composed music for Folk Wandering, a new half-hour television special debuted in February musical which recently received a sold-out 2011. When in New York City, Kondabolu co- premiere at Joe’s Pub; he’s currently working hosts the Untitled Kondabolu Brothers Podcast on a new musical, Joey and Ron, with friend with his younger brother Ashok (“Dap” from and fellow Story Pirate, Louie Pearlman. As a hip-hop group Das Racist) and their live show, teaching artist, Esher leads arts enrichment the Untitled Kondabolu Brothers Project programs for students throughout the New York (kondabolubrothers.com). Kondabolu graduated Metro area with Disney Theatrical Group, the from Bowdoin College with a BA in comparative Metropolitan Opera Guild, and the Trinity Church politics in 2004. A former immigrant rights at Wall Street, among others. He also facilitates organizer in Seattle, he earned a Masters in professional development for teachers and other Human Rights from the London School of teaching artists, melding comedic improvisation Economics in 2008. with music. harikondabolu.com | @harikondabolu RadioLoveFest Jun 7

THIS AMERICAN LIFE: ONE NIGHT ONLY AT BAM Jun 7, 7:30 & 10pm, BAM Howard Gilman Opera House

This American Life with uses this evening at BAM as a chance to try something it’s never attempted before: an evening of true stories staged as radio dramas. A handful of these will be staged with actors, musicians, and sometimes dancers. One of the stories will be an original mini-musical by Broadway composer Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of the musicals and Bring It On. In another, the Monica Bill Barnes Dance Company will perform while Glass narrates. This American Life is a public radio show broadcast on more than 500 stations to 2.2 million listeners each week. Another million people listen each week to the podcast produced by WBEZ Chicago. Airs Tuesdays at 8pm on WNYC 93.9 FM, Saturdays at 1pm on WNYC 93.9 FM and 3pm on WNYC AM 820 and Sundays at 7pm on WNYC 93.9 FM. For more information visit thisamericanlife.org

IRA GLASS is the host of WBEZ Chicago’s This The show relocated to New York in 2006 to American Life. The show is heard each week do a television version of the program. The staff on over 500 public radio stations. It’s also the asked that it be taken off TV after two years and biggest podcast in the country most weeks, three Emmys. Everyone stayed in New York. with over a million people downloading. Glass Glass’ only career regret is that he’s being listed started working in public radio in 1978, when here in an official theater program at BAM and he was 19, as an intern at NPR’s headquarters he can’t do what you’re supposed to do in a in Washington, DC. He worked on nearly proper New York theater bio: name at least one every NPR news show and did almost every Law and Order appearance. He vows to rectify production job: tape-cutter, desk assistant, that before his next BAM appearance, even if it newscast writer, editor, producer, reporter, and means a part on SVU. substitute host. He moved to Chicago in 1989 and put This American Life on the air in 1995. RadioLoveFest Jun 7

SOUNDCHECK® Jun 7, 7:30pm, BAM Harvey Theater

Soundcheck® is WNYC’s smartly-curated destination for music fans to discover their ongoing personal soundtrack. Hosted by John Schaefer, the radio show is a regular stop for artists working and performing in New York City. Blending intimate conversation, live in-studio performances, and audience interaction, Soundcheck® reveals insights from songwriters, critics, and tastemakers. This evening at BAM is headlined by Leithauser, frontman for New York music scene veterans . Leithauser and his new band will perform songs from his newly released solo album, Black Hours. Also joining Soundcheck® is Wyatt Cenac, the New York-based stand-up comedian, actor, and writer best known for his work on with Jon Stewart. Plus, San Fermin—the project of Brooklyn composer and songwriter Ellis Ludwig-Leone—plays music from their self-titled 2013 debut album. Airs Monday through Friday at 9pm on WNYC 93.9 FM. For more information visit soundcheck.org.

JOHN SCHAEFER has hosted Soundcheck blogging for WNYC when accompanying the New since the show’s inception in 2002. He has York Philharmonic on its historic (and apparently also hosted and produced WNYC’s radio series very weird) trip to North Korea in 2008 and New Sounds since 1982 (“The No. 1 radio continues to blog at soundcheck.org. He is a show for the Global Village” —­ Billboard) and regular contributor to the World Science Festival the New Sounds Live concert series since and the White Light Festival at ; he 1986. Schaefer has written extensively about has also written about horse racing (Bloodlines: music, including the book New Sounds: A A Horse Racing Anthology, Vintage NY 2006) Listener’s Guide to New Music (Harper & Row, and was a regular panelist on the BBC’s soccer- NY, 1987; Virgin Books, London, 1990); The based program Sports World. Cambridge Companion to Singing: World Music (Cambridge University Press, UK, 2000); and WYATT CENAC is a New York-based stand-up the TV program Bravo Profile: Bobby McFerrin comedian, actor, and writer, best known for (Bravo Television, 2003). He was contributing his work on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, editor for Spin and Ear magazines, and his liner where he was a correspondent and writer for notes appear on more than 100 recordings, half of the last decade. Cenac can be seen in ranging from The Music of Cambodia to ’s film, , and recordings by Yo-Yo Ma and Terry Riley. In 2003, Medicine for Melancholy, which was nominated Schaefer was honored with the American Music for three Independent Spirit Awards. In 2011, he Center’s prestigious Letter of Distinction for his premiered his Comedy Central special, Comedy “substantial contributions to advancing the field Person. He can be seen in David Cross’ film Hits, of contemporary American music in the United which premiered at Sundance earlier this year. States and abroad.” In May 2006, New York His upcoming album, BROOKLYN, will be on magazine cited Schaefer as one of “the people sale on vinyl only in early fall 2014. whose ideas, power, and sheer will are changing New York” in its Influentials issue. He began (cont.) RadioLoveFest Jun 7

HAMILTON LEITHAUSER released his includes a job assisting composer/arranger Nico debut solo album Black Hours on June 3— Muhly. After finishing his musical studies at Yale, inaugurating a new chapter in an already Ludwig-Leone wrote the album in six weeks in remarkable career which includes 14 years as a studio on the mountainous border between frontman of New York City band The Walkmen. Alberta and British Columbia. He focused on Last winter, after he and his bandmates life issues—youth, nostalgia, anxiety, unrequited decided to part ways, Leithauser took a warbly, love—and tied these vast themes to different meandering piano recording fellow-Walkmen characters through vocal contributions from member Paul Maroon had sent from New longtime friend Allen Tate, as well as Jess Wolfe Orleans, and began composing the song that and Holly Laessig of Lucius. San Fermin is not would become Black Hours’ opener, “5 AM.” an album of singles but rather a sweeping, full- The album brings Leithauser full circle and bodied listen with multiple distinct peaks and then some, from those lonely midwinter piano- ambitious thematic connections. Ludwig-Leone and-vocals sessions to a loud, live rock ‘n’ roll composed all of the album’s arrangements and group and back again. Featuring Leithauser lyrics in full prior to collaborating and recording, with a slew of talented collaborators including noting that “writing for a large group of unknown (), Paul musicians infused the writing process with a Maroon (The Walkmen), Morgan Henderson kind of operatic scope.” Since then, the band (Fleet Foxes), and Richard Swift (The Shins), has coalesced into a core of eight members the album showcases Leithauser at his most in addition to Ludwig-Leone: Allen Tate and passionate, personal, and free. Charlene Kaye, lead vocals; Rebekah Durham, vocals/violin; John Brandon, trumpet; Stephen SAN FERMIN is the work of Brooklyn composer Chen, saxophone; Tyler McDiarmid, guitar; and and songwriter Ellis Ludwig-Leone. His self- Mike Hanf, drums. San Fermin is available now titled debut album is strongly influenced by his via Downtown Records. unique background in classical music, which RadioLoveFest Jun 8

SUNDAY IN NEW YORK WITH JONATHAN SCHWARTZ Jun 8, 3pm, BAM Harvey Theater

This event brings the spirit of Jonathan Schwartz’s weekly radio broadcasts to the stage, with Music Director , featuring performances and conversation with the John Pizzarelli Quartet, Jes- sica Molaskey, Tierney Sutton, Cyrille Aimée, and Tony DeSare. Airs Saturdays at 8pm on WNYC 93.9 FM, Sundays at noon on WNYC 93.9 FM and streaming online at thejonathanchannel.org.

JONATHAN SCHWARTZ joined WNYC in 1999 gypsies from throughout Europe descend upon and has been on the radio in New York City Samois-sur-Seine, setting up caravans in nearby since 1967. His programs are extemporaneous. meadows for the annual Django Reinhardt His novels and stories have been published Festival. A young, curious Aimée wandered into by Random House and Doubleday, including the encampments and fell in love with gypsy his memoir All in Good Time, hailed by The music and way of life. She spent her evenings in New York Times as “luminous” and received their quarters, learned their language and sang enthusiastically by The Wall Street Journal, by the fire with Django’s descendants. Hybrid Newsweek, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and The influences have resulted in a fresh sound. Her Los Angeles Times, among others. Schwartz’s distinctive voice caught the attention of Stephen stories and articles have been published in Sondheim, who cast Aimée for an Encores! dozens of magazines. For four years he was the Special Event at New York City’s City Center in artistic director of Lincoln Center’s American November 2013. If joy is part of the equation, Songbook series, and for five years appeared as Aimée’s concerts—with her band or as a duo the music correspondent on NBC’s Sunday Today with Brazilian guitarist Diego Figueiredo—are not Show. He has been a monthly columnist for GQ to be missed. magazine and a weekly columnist for the Village Voice. His own three CDs on the Muse label TONY DeSARE, named a “Rising Star” male were released in 1978, 1979, and 1983. He vocalist in Downbeat magazine’s 2009 Critics has performed more than 400 times at Michael’s Poll, has lived up to the distinction by winning Pub, Rainbow & Stars, and other rooms in New critical and popular acclaim for his concert York. “The Jonathan Channel” provides an performances throughout the US, Australia, unparalleled showcase for this timeless music, Japan, and Hong Kong. From jazz clubs to presented by its strongest advocate, Jonathan Carnegie Hall to Las Vegas headlining with Don Schwartz, in his intimate, insightful, and utterly Rickles, DeSare has brought his fresh take on original approach that combines impeccable old school class around the globe. DeSare has taste with countless personal tales, colorful three top 10 Billboard jazz albums and was anecdotes, and encyclopedic knowledge. featured on the CBS Early Show, NPR, the Today Show; his music was recently posted by CYRILLE AIMÉE, winner of Montreux Jazz social media celebrity George Takei. DeSare is Festival’s International Vocal Competition, also an accomplished award-winning composer. the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal He not only won first place in this year’s USA Competition, and a finalist in the Thelonious Songwriting Contest, but has also written the Monk Vocal Competition, is ”one of the most theme song for the film My Date With Drew promising jazz singers of her generation” (Will along with several broadcast commercials. His Friedwald, The Wall Street Journal). Aimée was compositions—romantic, funny, and soulful—are born in Fontainebleau, France, to a French father found on his top-selling recordings as well as and Dominican mother. Her introduction to jazz on his YouTube page, frequently updated with was the result of the fortuitous location of her recordings not available on his current releases. upbringing, the village Samois-sur-Seine, where Tonydesare.com | .com/adesare legendary gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt once lived. Over the last several decades in May, (cont.) Jun 8

JESSICA MOLASKEY is an American actor and honored to open for Frank Sinatra’s international singer of torch songs and show tunes. She has tour and then joined in the celebration for his appeared in a dozen Broadway shows such as 80th birthday at Carnegie Hall. John Pizzarelli the revival of Sunday in the Park with George, has recorded as a bandleader for RCA, Chesky, Tommy, , , Oklahoma!, and Stash, and Novus, and in 1997 appeared in the and has premiered theater pieces off- Broadway musical Dream, a revue of Johnny Broadway, including the Mercer songs. Along the way, Pizzarelli has 1995 musical Songs for a New World, A Man earned rave reviews. “The John Pizzarelli Trio of No Importance and (Lincoln Center), has never been tighter, and Pizzarelli himself has Dream True (Vineyard Theater), The Most Happy never been looser,” the Village Voice said of a Fella (Encores! at City Center), and many world recent New York show. Pizzarelli was also named premieres in regional theaters across the US. “Jazz Vocalist of the Year” by Swing Journal in its Molaskey performed the role of Sister Bertha in Readers Poll. 2013 NBC live televised version of starring . She has TIERNEY SUTTON, a six-time Grammy performed in concert all over the world from nominee, is often described as “a singer’s Carnegie to Disney Hall and in Jazz Festivals singer,” but just as often as a “musician’s from Montreal to Monterey. Her songwriting skills singer,” who uses her voice like an instrument. can be heard on dozens of recordings. Her recent She has fronted the Tierney Sutton Band for 20 critically acclaimed concert Portraits of Joni, years. The band’s nine CDs have consistently as part Lincoln Center’s American Songbook, topped the US jazz charts, leading to Tierney’s featured her daughter Madeleine Pizzarelli on selection as Jazzweek’s Vocalist of the Year guitar and vocals. She is married to jazz singer/ as well as to several Jazz Journalist Award guitarist John Pizzarelli, who has appeared nominations. In addition to four consecutive on each of her five solo albums. Other artists Grammy nominations for Best Jazz Vocal who have performed with Molaskey include Album, the Tierney Sutton Band’s latest CD, (Live CD), “American Road” was also nominated for its , , , collaborative arranging, putting Tierney and the and . She co-hosts a nationally band alongside arrangements written for Sting, syndicated weekly two-hour radio program called Barbra Streisand, Tony Bennett, and Queen Radio Deluxe. Latifah. Tierney’s most recent project After Blue earned her a sixth Grammy nomination JOHN PIZZARELLI has cultivated an in 2014. In it, she performs the music of Joni international career by singing classic standards Mitchell and she has been touring that project and late-night ballads, and by playing sublime in a unique trio setting with Mark Summer on and inventive guitar. Using greats like Nat “King” cello and Serge Merlaud on guitar. Sutton has Cole and Frank Sinatra and the songs of writers headlined at Carnegie Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, like Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen Kennedy Center, and Jazz at Lincoln Center. She as touchstones, Pizzarelli is among the prime tours extensively throughout the world and can revivalists of the great American songbook, also be heard on film and television soundtracks bringing to his work the cool jazz flavor of his including the Academy Award nominated film brilliant guitar playing. Born on April 6, 1960, in The Cooler and on television commercials. Paterson, NJ, Pizzarelli has been playing guitar When she is off the road, Tierney is an active since age six, following in the tradition of his educator. She taught for over a decade at USC’s father, guitar legend Bucky Pizzarelli. Hanging Thornton School of Music and is currently the out with his father, he was exposed to all the vocal department head at the Los Angeles great jazz music of the era, from Erroll Garner Music Academy in Pasadena, CA where she and Les Paul to Django Reinhardt. He began has created a new curriculum for vocalists. playing with his father at age 20, then went out Tierney has mentored some of jazz’s finest new on his own. Since 1992, the John Pizzarelli Trio generation of singers including Gretchen Parlato, has toured extensively. In 1993, the trio was Kathleen Grace, and Sara Gazarek. RadioLoveFest—BAMcinématek JUN 5 & 8

BAMcinématek screenings curated by WNYC hosts Brian Lehrer and Brooke Gladstone BAM Rose Cinemas

For these special screenings, WNYC hosts Brian Lehrer and Brooke Gladstone tap their inner movie buff, choosing and discussing film favorites with special guests. The Brian Lehrer Show airs Monday through Friday at 10am on WNYC 93.9 FM and WNYC AM 820. On the Media® airs Friday nights at 8pm on WNYC 93.9 FM, Saturdays at 7am on WNYC 93.9 FM and Sundays at 10am on WNYC 93.9 FM and 3pm on WNYC AM 820. For more information visit .org and onthemedia.org.

JUN 5, 7:30PM­ STOP MAKING SENSE (1984) 88min Dir. Jonathan Demme. Q&A with Brian Lehrer and Jonathan Demme.

JUN 8, 7:30PM THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) 98min Dir. Rob Reiner. Intro by Brooke Gladstone.

JONATHAN DEMME is among Hollywood’s media reporter, senior editor of NPR’s All Things first rank of filmmakers, with credits that Considered, and the senior editor of Weekend include Philadelphia, Beloved, The Silence of Edition with Scott Simon. As the years progress, the Lambs, for which he won an Oscar, and a she grows ever more senior. She’s the recipient trilogy of Neil Young documentaries. Tackling of two Peabody Awards, a National Press Club challenging and controversial subjects, he has Award, an Overseas Press Club Award and many directed eight different actors in Oscar-nominated others you tend to collect if you hang out in performances. Demme is also an activist whose public radio long enough. Just before coming to concern is reflected in such projects as Artists for On the Media, she did some pilots for WNYC of Democracy in Haiti, the documentary Right to a call-in show about human relationships with Return on post-Katrina residents of New Orleans, called A More Perfect Union. That and its follow-up, the portrait documentary I’m was pretty cool. She also is the author of The Carolyn Parker: The Good, the Mad, and the Influencing Machine (W.W. Norton), a media Beautiful. manifesto in graphic form, listed among the top books of 2011 by The New Yorker, Publisher’s BROOKE GLADSTONE is best known for the Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal, …pause…that inserts before and among the “10 Masterpieces of Graphic mentioning her name in the credits for On the Nonfiction” by The Atlantic. Media. Among her other accomplishments, she was an NPR Moscow-based reporter, its first (cont.) RadioLoveFest—BAMcinématek JUN 5 & 8

BRIAN LEHRER is host of The Brian Lehrer issue-oriented web video. In addition to the Show, WNYC’s daily call-in program, covering Peabody, Lehrer has won numerous awards, politics and life, locally and globally. The show including seven New York airs weekdays from 10am—noon on WNYC Broadcasters “Best Interview” Awards since 93.9 FM, AM 820 and wnyc.org. The Brian 2000. Lehrer was a questioner in the 2006 Lehrer Show was recognized with a 2007 televised campaign debates for US Senate and George Foster Peabody Award for “Radio That Governor of New York, and in five televised New Builds Community Rather Than Divides.” Guests York City mayoral debates between 1997 to range from political figures such as Barack 2013. He has hosted his eponymous program, Obama, Chris Christie, John McCain, and originally called On The Line, since its inception Hillary Clinton to cultural figures such as Werner in 1989. Prior, he was an anchor and reporter Herzog, DJ Spooky, and Margaret Atwood to for the NBC Radio Networks, and an award- New York City middle school students. Lehrer is winning author and documentary producer. also a commentator on local and national issues Lehrer holds master’s degrees in public health on television and in print. He has appeared on from Columbia University and journalism from TV networks and has written op-ed pieces for Ohio State University and a bachelor’s in music major publications. He hosts a weekly television and mass communications from the State program on CUNY-TV, BrianLehrer.tv, featuring University of New York at Albany. RadioLoveFest—BAMcafé Live JUN 6 & 7

BAMCAFÉ LIVE curated by TERRANCE McKNIGHT BAMcafé—FREE Jun 6, 9PM VILLALOBOS BROTHERS — Hosted by Helga Davis Jun 7, 9PM BROWN RICE FAMILY — Hosted by Terrance McKnight

WQXR’s weeknight host Terrance McKnight is also the host of the Saturday evening program All Ears with Terrance McKnight, a show about musical discovery, which was honored with an ASCAP Deems Taylor Radio Broadcast Award in 2010. He brings that spirit of curiosity to his role as the emcee of the “Battle of the Boroughs”—The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at WNYC and WQXR’s annual competition to find New York City’s best undiscovered musical talent. As part of RadioLoveFest, McKnight curates two nights of music for BAMcafé, featuring “Battle of the Boroughs” winners Villalobos Brothers and BROWN RICE FAMILY. Helga Davis, host on Q2 Music—WQXR’s stream dedicated to contemporary classical music—will emcee the first night. Terrance McKnight is WQXR’s weekday evening host. For more information visit wqxr.org.

BROWN RICE FAMILY, winner of the 2012 and directed by Saskia Boddeke. Previously, she “Battle of the Boroughs” creates organic world- was featured in The Temptation of St. , roots music that stems from jazz, Afro-beat, at BAM in 2004. In 2008, Davis interviewed reggae, rock, Latin rhythms, hip-hop, and artist Kara Walker for the Whitney Museum funk. Based in Brooklyn, the band features retrospective of Walker’s work, and wrote and eight members from around the world—Japan, performed the multimedia piece Imaginings Jamaica, Haiti, Nigeria, South Africa, and the with Lukas Ligeti, Pyrolator, and Kurt Dahlke US. The members’ diverse national backgrounds at the Whitney at the conclusion of the Walker set the stage for their unique coexistence and retrospective. In 2007, Davis began hosting musical creativity. Overnight Music on WNYC and was awarded the ASCAP Deems Taylor Multimedia Award for VILLALOBOS BROTHERS’ music masterfully hosting 24:33—24 hours and 33 minutes of blends the indigenous rhythms and melodies John Cage. of their native Veracruz, Mexico. Combining the intricate harmonies of jazz and classical music, TERRANCE MCKNIGHT is the WQXR weekday they deliver an intoxicating brew of musicality, evening host. He also hosts the Saturday evening cadence, and ingenuity. A trio of virtuoso program, All Ears with Terrance McKnight, violinists, singer-songwriters, and composers, a show about musical discovery, which was the Villalobos Brothers were the “Ultimate Battle” honored with an ASCAP Deems Taylor Radio winners in The Greene Space’s 2013 “Battle of Broadcast Award in 2010. McKnight’s musical the Boroughs” competition. They have performed experiences—from glee club soloist and at the Latin Grammy Awards as well as at accomplished pianist, to professor at Morehouse Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the John F. College, and finally as producer and host of Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, among several music programs for public radio—have other historic venues, and have collaborated and consistently juxtaposed the European Classical recorded with legendary musicians including tradition alongside American classic traditions Paddy Moloney and The Chieftains, Dolly Parton, —jazz, gospel, African American spirituals Pierre Boulez, Eddie Palmieri, and many others. and other musical genres. McKnight was first heard in New York in 2008 when he joined HELGA DAVIS is a New York-based artist the staff of WNYC. He moved to WQXR in whose interdisciplinary work includes October 2009. Previously he worked at Georgia collaborations with composers and Public Broadcasting, where he was creator, choreographers producer, and host of Studio GPB, a program alike. She was a featured performer in the that introduced a wide array of musical artists 2012—13 touring revival of Einstein on the through interviews, live studios sessions, and Beach (30th Next Wave Festival), and stars in commercial recordings. He has won a 2014 The Blue Planet, written by Peter Greenaway New York Press Club Award for feature reporting. RadioLoveFest—Storycorps Jun 5—8

STORYCORPS listening station Jun 5 & 6, 5—8pm Jun 7 & 8, 10am—5pm BAM Fisher (Hillman Studio)

Visitors can stop by the BAM Fisher to record and interact with personal histories and touchstone moments from people’s lives via recordings and a listening wall—where short conversations recorded on smart phones are uploaded onto StoryCorps’ Wall of Listening online. Visitors can make an appointment to record a full-length StoryCorps interview. Each participant gets a free CD of their story, and the recording is preserved at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. Film audiences will see StoryCorps’ animated shorts in the BAM Rose Cinemas prior to first-run movies. StoryCorps is one of the largest oral history projects of its kind, and millions listen to the weekly broadcasts on NPR’s Morning Edition, on the StoryCorps podcast, and at StoryCorps.org. The project serves as an independent nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide people of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of people’s lives. Since 2003, StoryCorps has collected and archived more than 50,000 interviews with over 90,000 participants.

TALK: DAVE ISAY with guest SCOTT SIMON Jun 8, 1pm BAM Fisher (Fishman Space)

DAVE ISAY is the founder of StoryCorps newest book, Ties that Bind, was released in and the recipient of numerous broadcasting October 2013 in celebration of the StoryCorps’ honors, including five Peabody Awards and a 10-year anniversary. MacArthur Fellowship. He is the author/editor of numerous books that grew out of his public radio SCOTT SIMON is an American journalist documentary work, including two StoryCorps and the host of Saturday on books: Listening Is an Act of Love (2007) and National Public Radio. He also guest-hosts Mom: A Celebration of Mothers from StoryCorps PBS’ Need to Know. (2010)—both New York Times bestsellers. His RadioLoveFest

WNYC, at 93.9 FM, AM 820, and wnyc.org, is Peabody Awards in the last decade, the highest the most listened-to news and information public recognition in journalism. WNYC also offers the radio station in the nation. As New York City’s best programming from NPR, PRI, APM, and flagship public radio station, WNYC produces a the BBC. WNYC’s content is available to people wide range of news, current events and cultural wherever they are via mobile platforms, online programming for local and national audiences. audio streams, podcasts, and social media. The WNYC produces podcast sensations Radiolab, new WNYC mobile app, with the innovative and Freakonomics Radio with Stephen Dubner, “Discover” feature, was designated a “best- which consistently reside on iTunes Top 10 designed” app by the Society for News Design. weekly downloads, plus public radio favorites WNYC is part of the New York Public Radio On the Media, Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen, family, which includes Classical 105.9FM WQXR, The Takeaway, The Brian Lehrer Show, The New Jersey Public Radio, and The Jerome L. Leonard Lopate Show, and Soundcheck. Our Greene Performance Space, which together reach award-winning newsroom covers the New York over 14 million monthly, on air, online, and in region and beyond. Among many other awards, person. WNYC shows have received seven George Foster New York Public Radio

Board of Trustees Cynthia King Vance, Chair Andrea Collins Jon W. Rotenstreich John S. Rose, Vice Chair Charles M. Diker Joshua Sapan Susan Rebell Solomon, Vice Chair Tom Finkelpearl, ex officio Herb Scannell Mayo Stuntz, Vice Chair Martha Fleischman Lauren Seikaly Howard S. Stein, Treasurer Alan Jenkins Peter Shapiro Alan G. Weiler, Secretary Alexander Kaplen Peter Tague Laura R. Walker, President & CEO J. Levy Nicki Newman Tanner Jean B. Angell Joanne Matthews Andrea L. Taylor Tom Bernstein Bethany Millard Keith Thomas John Borthwick Richard A. Pace Wilma S. Tisch David R. Caplan Ellen Polaner Bradley A. Whitman Judith M. Carson Jonelle Procope Frank D. Yeary

New York Public Radio gratefully acknowledges the following lead contributors:

The Alec Baldwin Foundation Kaplen Foundation Stavros Niarchos Foundation Steffi and Robert Berne Jeffrey Kenner and Hyunja Laskin Richard Ravitch The Booth Ferris Foundation John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Charles H. Revson Foundation The Carson Family Charitable Trust John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur The Rockefeller Foundation Corporation for Public Broadcasting Foundation Sarah Reetz and Herb Scannell Judith-Ann Corrente The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Alfred P. Sloan Foundation The Estate of Vicki Cowen Bethany and Robert B. Millard Bernard and Anne Spitzer The Joyce and Daniel Cowin Foundation Victoria and Stephen Morris Elizabeth and Mayo Stuntz The Diller-Von Furstenberg Foundation Henry and Lucy Moses Fund Estelle Newman Tanner and Harold The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation National Endowment for the Humanities Tanner FJC, A Foundation of Donor-Advised National Science Foundation The Thompson Family Foundation, Inc. Funds New Venture Fund Wilma S. Tisch Ford Foundation Hive Digital Media Learning Fund in the The Tow Foundation Sidney E. Frank Foundation New York Community Trust Lulu and Anthony Wang The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation New York City Department Of Design and Elaine and Alan G. Weiler Eugene and Emily Grant Construction The Winston Foundation The Marc Haas Foundation New York State Department of Education Wyncote Foundation Jerome L. Greene Foundation New York City Economic Development Corporation

Executive Team Laura R. Walker Noreen O’Loughlin President & CEO Vice President, Integrated Marketing & General Manager of The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space Dean Cappello Chief Content Officer & Senior Vice President of Programming, Graham Parker WNYC General Manager, WQXR & Vice President, NYPR

Thomas Hjelm Michele Rusnak Vice President of Business Development & Chief Digital Officer Chief Financial Officer & VP of Finance, Administration & Business Affairs Margaret Hunt Vice President of Development RadioLoveFest—The Moth RadioLoveFest—The Moth

Additional Who’s Who: Additional Who’s Who:

Rob Fasano has been a researcher, social worker, community organizer, and printer (he has been Rob Fasano has been a researcher, social worker, community organizer, and printer (he has been plagued by indecision). He has disabilities as a result of several medical events in his life, leading plagued by indecision). He has disabilities as a result of several medical events in his life, leading him to be an advocate for universal health care. Fasano lives in Brooklyn with his wife Susan and his him to be an advocate for universal health care. Fasano lives in Brooklyn with his wife Susan and his 12-year-old daughter Lily and is presently a stay-at-home dad. 12-year-old daughter Lily and is presently a stay-at-home dad.

Jen Rubin is a former New Yorker living in Madison, WI. An obsessive maker of mix-tapes and the Jen Rubin is a former New Yorker living in Madison, WI. An obsessive maker of mix-tapes and the best challah baker in town, she has worked for social change throughout her career. Rubin now works best challah baker in town, she has worked for social change throughout her career. Rubin now works in children’s advocacy, while also raising two kids and writing a book. She ran a craft club for years in children’s advocacy, while also raising two kids and writing a book. She ran a craft club for years but this year the young teenagers decided staring at their handheld devices was more interesting than but this year the young teenagers decided staring at their handheld devices was more interesting than turning old jeans into pillows. Rubin has told stories at the Milwaukee Moth StorySLAM, Milwaukee turning old jeans into pillows. Rubin has told stories at the Milwaukee Moth StorySLAM, Milwaukee Moth GrandSLAM, and Madison Listen To Your Mother. (Rubin would happily give a loaf of challah to Moth GrandSLAM, and Madison Listen To Your Mother. (Rubin would happily give a loaf of challah to any editor or publisher who wants to learn more about her book.) any editor or publisher who wants to learn more about her book.)

Michael Rips has published two volumes of a memoir, writes for The New York Times on art, Michael Rips has published two volumes of a memoir, writes for The New York Times on art, and has clerked on the Supreme Court of the . He lives in the Chelsea Hotel. and has clerked on the Supreme Court of the United States. He lives in the Chelsea Hotel.

Critically acclaimed as one of America’s most talented and versatile performers, and fresh off a Critically acclaimed as one of America’s most talented and versatile performers, and fresh off a five-week tour of Africa as a cultural ambassador on behalf of the United States Department of State, five-week tour of Africa as a cultural ambassador on behalf of the United States Department of State, violin/vox/freestyle composition artist Mazz Swift has engaged audiences all over the world with violin/vox/freestyle composition artist Mazz Swift has engaged audiences all over the world with the signature weaving of song, melody, and improvisation that she calls MazzMuse. She is a singer, the signature weaving of song, melody, and improvisation that she calls MazzMuse. She is a singer, composer, and Juilliard-trained violinist who has, over the years, performed and recorded with a composer, and Juilliard-trained violinist who has, over the years, performed and recorded with a diverse array of artists including Whitney Houston, Perry Farrell, Dee Snider, James “Blood” Ulmer, diverse array of artists including Whitney Houston, Perry Farrell, Dee Snider, James “Blood” Ulmer, Vernon Reid, Valerie, June, DJ Logic, William Parker, Butch Morris, Jason Lindner, Kanye West, Vernon Reid, Valerie, June, DJ Logic, William Parker, Butch Morris, Jason Lindner, Kanye West, Common, and Jay-Z. Mazz is currently recording two CDs: MazzMuse: The Band (produced by Vernon Common, and Jay-Z. Mazz is currently recording two CDs: MazzMuse: The Band (produced by Vernon Reid of Living Colour) and Solo MazzMuse (produced by Suphala, electronica sensation and tabla Reid of Living Colour) and Solo MazzMuse (produced by Suphala, electronica sensation and tabla student of Zakir Hussein). Please visit www.MazzMuse.com for more information on Mazz’s releases student of Zakir Hussein). Please visit www.MazzMuse.com for more information on Mazz’s releases as well as show updates. as well as show updates. RadioLoveFest—The Moth RadioLoveFest—The Moth

PRODUCTION CREDITS PRODUCTION CREDITS Directors Catherine Burns and Jenifer Hixson Directors Catherine Burns and Jenifer Hixson Producer Caleigh Waldman Producer Caleigh Waldman Assistant Producer Kim Nederveen Pieterse Assistant Producer Kim Nederveen Pieterse Executive Producers Sarah Haberman and Sarah Austin Jenness Executive Producers Sarah Haberman and Sarah Austin Jenness

Hosted by Steve Burns Hosted by Steve Burns Stories by Rob Fasano, Al Letson, Cristin Milioti, Michael Rips, Jen Rubin Stories by Rob Fasano, Al Letson, Cristin Milioti, Michael Rips, Jen Rubin Music by Mazz Swift Music by Mazz Swift

MOTH STAFF MOTH STAFF Artistic Director Catherine Burns Executive Director Sarah Haberman Artistic Director Catherine Burns Executive Director Sarah Haberman

Producing Director Sarah Austin Jenness Producing Director Sarah Austin Jenness Senior Producer Jenifer Hixson Senior Producer Jenifer Hixson Senior Producer Meg Bowles Senior Producer Meg Bowles Senior Producer Maggie Cino Senior Producer Maggie Cino Senior Producer, Corporate Programs Kate Tellers Senior Producer, Corporate Programs Kate Tellers Deputy Director of Development David Mutton Deputy Director of Development David Mutton Office ManagerAnna Katrina Sacramento Office ManagerAnna Katrina Sacramento Producer Kirsty Bennett Producer Kirsty Bennett Production Manager, Radio and Podcast Jenna Weiss-Berman Production Manager, Radio and Podcast Jenna Weiss-Berman Manager, Community Program Larry Rosen Manager, Community Program Larry Rosen Manager, High School StorySLAM Program Catherine McCarthy Manager, High School StorySLAM Program Catherine McCarthy Manager, StorySLAMs Robin Wachsberger Manager, StorySLAMs Robin Wachsberger Associate Producer, Radio and Digital Media Whitney Jones Associate Producer, Radio and Digital Media Whitney Jones Associate Producer Caleigh Waldman Associate Producer Caleigh Waldman Associate Producer Jenelle Pifer Associate Producer Jenelle Pifer Associate Producer, Video and Social Media Jemma Brown Associate Producer, Video and Social Media Jemma Brown Executive Assistant Sarah Jane Johnson Executive Assistant Sarah Jane Johnson

MOTH BOARD MEMBERS MOTH BOARD MEMBERS Deborah Dugan, Co-Chair; Ari Handel, Co-Chair; Serena Altschul, Lawrence C. Burstein, Joan D. Deborah Dugan, Co-Chair; Ari Handel, Co-Chair; Serena Altschul, Lawrence C. Burstein, Joan D. Firestone, Tony Hendra, Courtney Holt, Anne Maffei, Dr. Alan Manevitz, Melanie Shorin, Roger Skelton Firestone, Tony Hendra, Courtney Holt, Anne Maffei, Dr. Alan Manevitz, Melanie Shorin, Roger Skelton This American Life at BAM The Radio Drama Episode This American Life at BAM

collaborations with The Trey McIntyre Project, and The Radio STREB Kiss the Air (Park Avenue Armory) and One Extraordinary Day at the London Cultural Olympics 2012. Also works as a stylist for fashion and musicians Drama Episode and is a wearable technology artist. Nevin Steinberg (Sound Designer): Recent projects include Terrence McNally’s Mothers and Sons on THE PRODUCTION TEAM Broadway, and the world premiere of John Kander and Greg Pierce’s musical The Landing at The We’ve enlisted an insanely experienced team to put us Vineyard Theatre. Nevin received his sixth Tony Award onstage here at BAM. The core Production Team are all nomination for Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella Broadway vets, several of them Tony winners. Getting in 2013. In addition to his theater design work, Nevin to see them do their jobs has been one of the great serves as Audio Consultant for Stern Auditorium at pleasures of making this show, for all of us radio folks. Carnegie Hall. As a former founding principal of Acme Sound Partners, Nevin provided sound design services Christine Jones (Scenic Designer) is the Artistic for dozens of Broadway shows including such diverse Director of the critically acclaimed Theatre for One, Tony Award winners as In the Heights, Hair, Monty a portable private performing arts space for one Python’s Spamalot, The Light in the Piazza, Avenue Q, actor and one audience member. Most recently, she and La Bohème. directed Queen of the Night, an immersive theatrical feast at the Diamond Horseshoe. Jones is also a Tony Robert Saenz de Viteri (Line Producer) Mostly works Award-winning set designer. Broadway credits include: in theater, now getting into dance, and just started American Idiot (Tony Award); Hands on a Hardbody; dabbling in radio stories that become other things. On a Clear Day; Spring Awakening (Tony Nomination); All of my love and all of my thank you’s to Bonds. and Everyday Rapture. Additional credits include: Rigoletto (Metropolitan Opera), The Book of Longing Jim Bay (Location Recording) Jim’s more infamous (Lincoln Center Festival); Much Ado About Nothing credits include Lypsinka: A Day In The Life and Carrie: (Shakespeare in the Park); and Burn This (Signature The Musical on Broadway. He is currently a broadcast Theatre). engineer at the Metropolitan Opera.

Mark Barton (Lighting Designer) Broadway: Violet, The Leslie Bloome (Onstage Foley Artist) Leslie is a Realistic Joneses. Recent Off-Broadway: Bad Jews, Look seasoned Foley Artist with over 250 feature film and Back in Anger (Roundabout); The Watson Intelligence, television credits. He performs live with artists including Detroit, The Big Meal, Circle Mirror Transformation John Bock. In addition, he owns Alchemy Post Sound (Playwrights Horizons); Arguendo, The Select, The in Westchester County, NY. Sound and the Fury, Gatz (Elevator Repair Service); The Village Bike (MCC); Bethany (Women’s Project); David Caparelliotis (Casting) Current and upcoming Uncle Vanya, Elective Affinities (Soho Rep); February Broadway and Off-Broadway: Casa Valentina, Holler If House, Titus Andronicus (The Public); Notes From You Hear Me, Disgraced, The Country House, It’s Only Underground, Chair (Theatre for a New Audience). A Play, Sex With Strangers, Lost Lake. Upcoming TV: Other recent NYC: Encores! Off-Center (City Center), NBC’s Odyssey. The Cunning Little Vixen (Julliard Opera). Alex Hajjar (Assistant Stage Manager) Broadway: The Andrea Lauer (Costume Designer) Broadway: Bring It Realistic Joneses, After Midnight. Off-Broadway: A On: The Musical, American Idiot. Selected New York: Midsummer Night’s Dream (TFANA), Belleville (NYTW), What’s it All About (NYTW), Title and Deed (Signature We Are Proud to Present a Presentation. (SoHo Rep) Theatre), Midsummer Night’s Dream and Unnatural Melancholy Play (13P). Regional: February House, My Acts (Classic Stage), RX (Primary Stages), Out Cold/ Name is Asher Lev, Ain’t Misbehavin’, The Train Driver, Zippo Songs (BAM, production designer) Regional Agnes Under the Big Top (Long Wharf Theater) Theater: Guthrie, Alliance, Berkeley Rep, The Muny, Bay Street, and The Alley Theatre. Dance: numerous This American Life at BAM

Palmer Hefferan (Assistant Sound Designer) Palmer experiments with all forms of sound design, from CAST AND CREATIVE BY ACT multimedia art installations to symphonic scores. She is a rare, fourth generation Orlandonian, but now calls Brooklyn her home. Thanks Mom and Dad! Act One. Jeremy Lydic (Associate Production Manager) works as performer, director, artist, and craftsman. His studio, : Lydic!Design, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, builds props of all kinds for Broadway and beyond. He was last at BAM The Musical with Einstein on the Beach.

Anne McPherson (Production Stage Manager). Music and Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda Broadway: Les Misérables, Pippin, Motown the Musical, Mary Poppins, The Phantom of the Opera, The Coast of Lin-Manuel Miranda (Narrator, Composer, Lyricist) Tony Utopia, Doubt, Absurd Person Singular. Many National and Grammy-winning composer-lyricist of Broadway’s Tours and Off-Broadway productions. Proud supports In the Heights. Co-composer/co-lyricist of Broadway’s of BC/EFA! Bring it On: The Musical (2013 Tony nomination Best Musical). Theater Performance Credits: In The Amy Rubin (Associate Set Designer) Amy Rubin Heights (2008 Tony nomination, Best Actor), Merrily is a New York designer exploring the juncture of We Roll Along (Encores!) and the upcoming tick, tick… environment and emotion. Productions designed at Boom! (Encores! Off-Center). TV and film:Freestyle Curtis Opera, Paramount Center , 3LD, Cherry Love Supreme, The Electric Company, Sesame Street, Lane, Juilliard, HERE, BAC, MTV, ComedyCentral, TV The Sopranos, House, Modern Family, Do No Harm, Land & Spike TV. Check her out at www.amycrubin.com Smash, How I Met Your Mother, Polar Bears, The Odd Life of Timothy Green and 200 Cartas. His upcoming Michelle Rose (Assistant Stage Manager) Rose musical, Hamilton, will make its world premiere at The has worked across arts disciplines ranging from Public Theater in 2015. performance to production. She currently works with Monica Bill Barnes & Company, as well as 3 Acts, 2 Michael Mayer (Director) Michael Mayer Is a Tony Dancers, 1 Radio Host with Ira Glass. Award-winning director. Currently on Broadway: Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Amy Jean Wright (Associate Costume Designer) Broadway: The Realistic Joneses. Other Credits: Ben Cohn (Musical Director) is currently the associate American Idiot the Musical (Tours), Tiffany’s Annual conductor and pianist for Wicked on Broadway. He Blue Book Ball, Time Warner Cable Studio Experience. is also the musical director/arranger for American Idol runner-up Clay Aiken, Stephanie J. Block, and recording artist Alfio. Other Broadway credits include: The Woman in White, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, In My Life, and Wonderful Town. Ben has worked on the music teams of The Book Of Mormon and 9 to 5 and recently conducted the pre-Broadway readings of Anastasia and Finding Neverland. He has arranged and produced for Disney Cruise Line, Tokyo Disney, Sea World, Busch Gardens, and NBC. Ben has conducted and arranged The Easter Bonnet and Gypsy of the Year shows for Broadway Cares since 2007. Ben lives in NYC with his partner Sean McDaniel and their son Allister. This American Life at BAM

Scott Wasserman (Assistant Music Director; Beats) (KC Rep), Ryan Scott Oliver’s 35MM. Lindsay’s debut Broadway: Annie (revival); - Music jazz album, This Time, is now available on itunes. Assistant. Workshops: Hamilton; Soapdish; The www.LindsayMendez.net Sparkley Clean Funeral Singers. Sheet Music Preparation: Sesame Street. Orchestrations/ (Justin) Last seen at the 52nd Street arrangements: Standardized Testing – The Musical!!!!; Project in the new musical Hamilton and Radio City Heritage (Alpha Major Publishing). Christmas Spectacular. Thanks to Jesus for everything, www.scott-wasserman.com Mom, Dina, family and friends. Thanks to Lin “Gracias www.thickerthanwaterthemusical.com por todo amigo,” Ira, and the cast and crew at BAM. Jeremiah 29:11 Michael Starobin (Orchestrator) for orchestrations of (2009) and Alex Boniello (Chorus) Alex is proud to be involved (2004). Other orchestrations include If/Then, Little Miss in this awesome project! Other Theatre: Green Day’s Sunshine, Annie, Dogfight, Leap of Faith, Queen of the American Idiot, Spring Awakening (Moritz), Avenue Mist, People in the Picture, , Q (Princeton). TV/Film: Contest, Detachment, others. Glorious Ones, Grinch, Adrift in Macao, Bernarda Thanks to Michael, KMR, SGM, family. Alba, Spelling Bee, Tom Sawyer, , A Christmas Carol (MSG), , Guys & Dolls, My Gerard Canonico (Chorus) Broadway: Spring Awakening Favorite Year, , , Sunday in the Park (OBC), American Idiot (OBC), Les Miserables (‘99). with George, , Closer Than Ever, Off-Broadway: Bare, The Talls, Prince and the Pauper. Legs Diamond, Romance Romance, Carrie, Birds of Feature Films: Not Fade Away, Boy Wonder. Thanks to Paradise, , Three Guys Naked, Von Richtofen. Mom, Dad, Ariana, and CESD.

Lorin Latarro (Choreographer) choreographed Antwaun Holley (Chorus) Tours/ American Idiot. NYC Broadway’s Waiting For Godot with Sir Patrick Stewart Readings/ A Good Man, Class of 68. Regional/ Passing and Sir Ian McKellen, Queen Of The Night - Diamond Strange- Youth, Dreamgirls- C.C. White, Pippin- Player Horseshoe, Encore’s Fanny, Broadway’s Scandalous, u/s Pippin. Happy to work with new and old friends! American Idiot (Assoc), Met Opera’s Rigoletto (Assoc), Cy Coleman’s The Best Is Yet To Come (Drama Desk Jonathan Dunklage (Violin) Currently the concertmaster Award), Sendak’s Hansel and Gretel-PBS Live From at Matilda the Musical, Jonathan has appeared in many Lincoln Center, Kiss Me Kate-Barrington, Hands On shows including: Legally Blonde, Chicago, and Spider- A Hard Body (Assoc), Jasper In Deadland- Prospect Man. He has recorded and/or performed with RUSH, Theater, Rocky Horror, Ain’t Misbehavin’, World Goes James Taylor, Barbra Streisand, Lou Reed, Rod Stewart, ‘Round, Summer of ’42-Bucks County Playhouse, The and many others. Magic Flute- Juilliard Opera Company, Greenday’s Grammy performance. As a performer, 14 Broadway Sean McDaniel (Drums) has performed in 15 shows, Twyla Tharp, Martha Graham Co and Momix. Broadway shows and created the drum parts for six. He Dancebreak recipient. Founder artammo.org. BFA The is currently drummer for Book of Mormon and Violet on Juilliard School. Latarro.com Broadway, and for American Idol runner-up Clay Aiken.

Lindsay Mendez (Naomi) is fresh off a run playing David Cinquegrana (Guitar) Founding member of Elphaba in the Broadway production of Wicked, Freestyle Mondays, NYC’s longest running live hip-hop and had the honor of playing the role for the 10th session. Guitar for The Last Goodbye at Williamstown anniversary of the production. Prior to that, she was Theater Festival. Guitar with Lauryn Hill, The Midtown seen off-Broadway and received Drama Desk, Drama Men, Next To Normal (Broadway sub). League, and OCC nominations for her portrayal of Rose Fenny in Second Stage’s World Premiere Emily Brausa (Cello) Hailing from Kansas, Emily is a musical Dogfight, directed by Joe Mantello. Other graduate of The Juilliard School. She has performed Broadway: Godspell (2011 Revival), Everyday Rapture with numerous ensembles in NYC and around the (Roundabout), Grease (2007 Revival). Off-Broadway: world, and is currently playing in Violet on Broadway. Everyday Rapture (2nd Stage), The Marvelous Wonderettes. Other Credits: A Little More Alive, This American Life at BAM

Mark Vanderpoel (Bass guitar) A native of San Diego, Terry Kinney (Director) Co-founded the Steppenwolf California. Extensive Broadway and sideman credits. Theatre with Gary Sinise and Jeff Perry in 1976. Currently at Bullets Over Broadway. Passions include Since then, he’s directed several plays for Steppenwolf, surfing and using the Vitamix. including The Violet Hour, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Clockwork Orange, And a Nightingale Sang, and Of Mice and Men. In New York he’s directed Checkers, After Ashley, Beautiful Child at the Vineyard Theatre, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Tony Award, Best Act Two. Revival), and Reasons To Be Pretty (MCC, Broadway, Of Mice and Men Best Director nomination, Drama Desk Awards). He has lots of TV and film appearances and directed the film Diminished Capacity with Matthew Broderick, Louis Mike Birbiglia (Himself) made his This American Life C.K., and Alan Alda. debut in 2008 with an excerpt from his one-man show Sleepwalk With Me. The story led to a collaboration Ilana Becker (Assistant Director to Terry Kinney) Ilana with Ira Glass on the film adaptation of Sleepwalk With has developed new work at Lark, Flea, 54 Below, Me, which won an audience award at Sundance Film O’Neill Center, Dixon Place, Disney/ASCAP, FringeNYC, Festival and defeated The Avengers opening weekend NYU, among others. Bastard Playground, Playwrights per screen average (okay, it was just one screen). His Horizons Robert Moss Directing Resident, LCT Directors recent show My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend toured the world Lab. Avid TAL listener. and played its final show at Carnegie Hall with special guests Ira Glass, Monica Bill Barnes, and Anna Bass. Josh Hamilton (Josh) At BAM-The Bridge Project, With After the show they all handed out ice cream in the Terry Kinney at Steppenwolf- The Violet Hour. Recent street. He’s currently on a 100-city tour called “Thank Theater: Reasons to be Happy (MCC), Dead Accounts God For Jokes.” (Broadway) Cherry Orchard and Three Sisters (CSC). Recent Film and TV: American Horror Story, Dark Staging and Choreography by Monica Bill Barnes Skies, Necessary Roughness, Frances Ha. Upcoming: Gracepoint (Fox), Louie, and The Real Thing on Broadway.

James Ransone (David) He’s appeared in numerous Act Three. tv shows, movies, and plays. He is incredibly honored How Do You Slow to be working on something as iconic as This American Life. He finds it troublesome writing about himself in the This Thing Down third person.

Matt Marks (Ethan, actor, and playing French horn) Joshuah Bearman (Narrator, Writer) has written for Matt is a Brooklyn-based performer/composer. Along , Wired, The New York Times Magazine, with horn, he also plays keys, sings, and occasionally Harper’s, McSweeney’s, and contributes to This acts. He’s performed with and composed for ensembles American Life. He has written about jewel thieves, like the LA Philharmonic and Alarm Will Sound. deranged private investigators, rival Santa Clauses, and the metaphysical implications of being the world’s Carolyn Baeumler (Nurse Laurie) performed at BAM greatest Pac Man player. Bearman blew the lid off as the original Lydia in Big Love. Huge gratitude to the story of the great rodent disaster of 2003, when Terry Kinney for this, along with Servy-n-Bernice giant gerbils ate part of China. The movie Argo was 4Ever, A Clockwork Orange, Speak Truth to Power and based on Bearman’s 2007 Wired article, “The Great Diminished Capacity. Escape.” Bearman is adapting his family stories from This American Life into a book for Farrar, Strauss, and Seth Barrish (Doctor, Rabbi) Seth Barrish is the co- Giroux, called St. Croix. artistic director of The Barrow Group Theater Company. Seth is an actor, director, composer, teacher, and author. He regularly appears in television and film and is honored to be here. This American Life at BAM

Bhavesh Patel (Doctor 2). Bhavesh is a NY-based actor P. MacKinnon. MTC/The Columnist. D. Sullivan. Old Vic/ for over 10 years who is very excited to be a part of The Norman Conquests. M. Warchus. Roundabout/12 This American Life! Recent Work: The Good Wife, Two Angry Men S. Ellis: Off Broadway: MTC, NYS&F, SCR, Days in NY and LCT’s War Horse. MFA - NYU’s Grad Baltimore, Westport, YRT, Huntington. Film/TV: The Acting Program. Immigrant, Smash, Ironside, L&O, POI. MFA/YSD.

Zakiya Young (Nurse) Broadway: Stick Fly, The Little Seth Barrish (Bus Driver boss) Mermaid (OBC), Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Off-Broadway: Tenderloin, Storyville (AUDELCO Zakiya Young (Nurse) Nomination). Regional: Good People, Aida, White Christmas, It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane…It’s Superman. Jeremiah 29:11. Act Five. I’m Riverdancing Act Four. as Fast as I Can Bus! Stop!

Monica Bill Barnes (Choreographer, Director, Dancer) Sasheer Zamata (herself) is an actress, writer and is thrilled to be a part of this event. She has also comedian based in NYC. She trained in sketch and collaborated with Ira Glass to create a show that improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and does combines radio stories and dances: Three Acts, Two stand up across the country. She’s performed on Inside Dancers, One Radio Host. It will be coming to Town Amy Schumer, ABC’s Would You Fall For That and Hall in NYC this September. Monica Bill Barnes & can currently be seen as a featured player on Saturday Company has created over 30 shows for stages large Night Live. and small. She’s also choreographed a few things in today’s show that would be spoilers to mention here. Nicole Byer (herself) Nicole is an actress and comedian www.monicabillbarnes.com based in LA and currently appears on MTV’s Girl Code. www.3acts2dancers1radiohost.com She has appeared in other things as well. I guess follow her Twitter @nicolebyer Anna Bass (Dancer) has been working with MBB & Co. since 2003. Upcoming projects include touring the Chris Gethard (Driver, Graham) is a comedian and country with Monica and Ira and being featured in MBB public access television host and wrote a couple books. & Co.’s new show - Up, up and away. A comedy booker recently told him he had achieved “Brooklyn Headliner” status, and that made him Kelly Hanson (Costume/Set Designer) has been really happy. collaborating with MBB & Co. since 2001. She is an Emmy-nominated art director for television and currently Frank Garcia Hejl (Bus Driver) Writer/Performer at the directs art for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. Monica Bill Barnes & Company has created over Matthew Mindler (CAT Scan Guy) Acting since the age 30 shows for stages large and small, including a of six, Matthew has appeared on Broadway, television, new show with Ira Glass: Three Acts, Two Dancers, and the Big Screen. His interests include Parkour, Java One Radio Host which will be coming to Town Hall in programming, and history. Thanks to Innovative Artists NYC this September. and Inspired Artist Management.

Tony Ward (Police Officer, Orderly with Dry Mop) Broadway: Old Globe/12th Night/Richard III T. Carroll Steppenwolf/Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? This American Life at BAM

Rachel Felstein (Soprano) is delighted to be a part of this incredible show! Recent roles include Antonia/ A Story We Don’t Want Aldonza (Man of La Mancha) and Corinna (Il Viaggio a To Say Much About Reims). Thanks to my wonderful friends and family! In the Program. Candice Hoyes International soprano Candice Hoyes shines in classical and jazz repertoire, culminating in her forthcoming debut album with artists from Jazz at Lincoln Center. Candice attended Harvard and writes for Matthew Aucoin (Composer) Matthew Aucoin is at LA Review of Books, and livinglikemusic.com work on a new opera commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera. His third opera, Crossing, commissioned by the Rod Gilfry He is a two-time Grammy-nominated singing American Repertory Theater, will premiere in Boston actor of opera and musicals, and has created leading next spring, directed by Diane Paulus. Aucoin is also roles in six operas. Also a Metropolitan Opera Principal currently the Solti Conducting Fellow of the Chicago Artist. He just finished performances with the Los Symphony Orchestra, where he made his conducting Angeles Philharmonic. He’s also Carin’s dad. debut in February. Recent and upcoming premieres of his work include performances by Zurich’s Tonhalle Heather Buck Ms. Buck has appeared internationally Orchestra, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Italy’s Spoleto in both operatic and concert repertoire, ranging from Festival. This season, Aucoin made conducting debuts Baroque to contemporary music. She last performed at with the Chicago Symphony, Juilliard Opera, and the BAM as Pat Nixon in Nixon in China with the Brooklyn Rome Opera Orchestra. Philharmonic. William Hobbs (Music Director/Pianist/Conductor): Born Marnie Breckenridge Praised for her “pure and supple in Austin, Texas, William Hobbs received his Bachelor’s voice,” “note-perfect musicianship,” and “major-league in Piano Performance summa cum laude from the acting.” She is enjoying a career throughout the world University of Colorado at Boulder, and a Master of singing leading ladies in both modern and traditional Music in Piano Performance from the Eastman School opera with flair, heart, soul, and gusto. of Music in Rochester, New York. Mr. Hobbs works at many of the world’s major opera houses as conductor Adrian Rosas Previously employed as an usher with and coach. These have included the Salzburg Festival, BAM, Adrian is excited to have the opportunity to be the San Francisco Opera and the Opéra de Monte- on the other side if the audience! Mr. Rosas holds a Carlo. Mr. Hobbs joined the Piano and Voice Faculty Master’s Degree from The Juilliard School. at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey in Fall 2010, and was appointed Assistant Professor Jeanine De Bique Jeanine is a Trinidadian soprano. II effective Fall 2014. He is the founder and artistic She begins her 2014-2015 season singing Clemene in director of Opera Slavica, which is devoted to presenting the Baroque opera Fetonte at the Theater Heidelberg in full productions of masterworks from Russian, Czech, Germany. She gives recitals in Cincinnati and Boston and Polish composers. this fall and in Canada in 2015. This summer she sings Sister Rose in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking Carin Gilfry (herself) Carin Gilfry is an opera singer, with Central City Opera. actress, and audiobook narrator. She has narrated more than 50 audiobooks and sung on operatic stages all over the world. She now spends much of her time recording in the closet, though she always tries the door first.

Sarah Nelson Craft (Mezzo-soprano) Sarah Nelson Craft, a Brooklyn native, is a versatile singer who has performed as a soloist in a variety of leading venues including Lincoln Center, the Caramoor Festival, and the Macau International Music Festival. This American Life at BAM

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Stephin Merritt releases albums under the band names Choreography and Direction by Monica Bill Barnes , , the Gothic Archies, and . Merritt has written and recorded Costumes by Kelly Hanson 10 Magnetic Fields albums, including his popular 1999 album, . The song “The Book of Performance by Monica Bill Barnes, Anna Bass, and cast Love” was covered by Peter Gabriel and has become an unlikely wedding favorite. Currently he is composing for This show was produced by Ira Glass and Robyn theater, television, film, and dance, as well as his album Semien with Allison Davis and Julie Snyder. Elise projects. www.houseoftomorrow.com. Bergerson and Seth Lind also worked on the show. Thanks to our colleagues who covered for us while we Pinky Weitzman (Violin) Pinky has performed with went to music rehearsals and set design discussions. Belle & Sebastian, Moby, and The Hold Steady, and Thanks to the incredible staff and crew at BAM who played in Spring Awakening and The Great Comet of had no idea what a big show we’d be doing when they 1812. She gleefully fronts junkyard cabaret Not Waving booked us, and who’ve been great partners as this But Drowning. expanded to dozens of actors, singers, and musicians.

The plan is to broadcast this show in two weeks: the Sam Davol (Cello) Member of The Magnetic Fields weekend of June 20th. Video of the show will become for over 20 years. When not performing, Sam and his available for download or streaming that weekend as wife Leslie run The Uni Project, a nonprofit that creates well. If you like the show, please tell your friends to open-air reading rooms in NYC. watch. It’ll just cost them five bucks. You can hear the hour-long radio version of the show on WNYC 93.9 FM at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday June 21st and 7:00 p.m. on Sunday June 22nd. It’ll be on WNYC AM 820 at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday the 21st. The podcast— which’ll probably be a little longer—will be available for download Sunday night, June 22nd. BAM

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2014 Next Wave Festival Preview BAMcinématek—Spike Lee

Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch in Kontakthof. Photo: Oliver Look Denzel Washington in He Got Game. Photo: Buena Vista Pictures/Photofest An overview of the 2014 Next Wave Festival’s tempting slate of 43 shows A look at director Spike Lee, subject of by Susan Yung BAMcinématek’s series, By Any Means Necessary: A Spike Lee Joints Retrospective BAM partners with Irish Arts Center by Michael Koresky An Irish cultural wave hits Brooklyn’s shores. A talk with Joseph V. Melillo and Aidan Connolly

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Bill Beckley Bill Beckley is a New York-based conceptual artist who garnered recognition in the 1970s for work that combines photographic images and text to form repetitive, often highly sexualized compositions. Pioneering the use of saturated color photography and overt references to popular advertising tropes, Beckley and contemporaries like William Wegman, John Baldessari, and Gerhard Richter are sometimes referred to as part of the Narrative Art movement, a loosely associated group of artists who influenced the Pictures Generation. In the 1990s Beckley’s conceptual explorations led him to edit a series of academic essays called Aesthetics Today for the School of Visual Arts, where he has taught semiotics since 1970. His most recent solo show, Bill Beckley: Facts (Fuck) I Love You, was on view in at Friedman Benda Gallery this past fall. Hanging in the Peter Jay Sharp Opera House Lobby, I’m Prancin’ is a photograph of vibrantly colored, swirling ribbons—free of digital manipulation—which takes its inspiration from the energetic lyrics of a Jack White song. It is the perfect complement to BAM’s multidisciplinary offerings, which feature a combination of dance, music, and performing arts. This work is currently available for purchase for $28,000; all proceeds benefit BAM. For more information please contact Holly Shen Chaves, Curator of Bill Beckley, I’m Prancin, 2013. Cibachrome Visual Arts, at [email protected] or 718.636.4101. photograph, 74” x 48”. Image courtesy of the artist. 2014 Next Wave Festival #BAMNextWave

Next Wave’s 43 Flavors Ivy Baldwin Dance, Oxbow . Photo: Andy Romer Think of BAM’s 2014 Next Wave Festival’s 43 Let’s look at the 12 shows in the BAM Fisher’s productions as you might Baskin-Robbins’ 31 Fishman Space, the newest venue, which has flavors. There’s something for every taste, but it’s acquired a big fanbase for its infinite flexibility nearly impossible to imagine savoring everything, and intimate size. Three lauded choreographers at least all at once. Here’s an approach to the present new works, each with a unique ap- festival that might help in parsing just what you proach: Jodi Melnick’s Moment Marigold has want to see this Next Wave, and what flavors music by Steven Reker; Ivy Baldwin’s Oxbow might be the most satisfying to you. includes a sculptural set by Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen Nguyen; and The Wanderer by Jes- In September, we celebrate the recording label sica Lang uses Schubert’s lieder. Nonesuch’s 50 years with a deep, diverse lineup of 13 programs, bookended upfront by a reunion Theater from Ireland at the Fisher includes of seismic proportions—Philip Glass and Steve riverrun by Olwen Fouéré voicing the river in Reich with their ensembles, on one stage—and Finnegans Wake, and Howie the Rookie by Mark at the end of the month, a true rock star, Robert O’Rowe, in which one actor tackles two roles. On Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters. In the political end of the scale, in Salt of the Earth, between, you’ll find the varied sounds of Brad PuppetCinema draws you in to its miniature Mehldau and Chris Thile; Dawn Upshaw and puppet war drama via projected video, and a Gilbert Kalish; John Adams, Alarm Will Sound; chapter in PFC Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning’s Youssou N’Dour; Rhiannon Giddens; Devendra riveting story is revealed in The Source, a work Banhart, Sam Beam of Iron and Wine, and of music-theater by Ted Hearne, Mark Doten, Stephin Merritt; Kronos Quartet with Natalie and Daniel Fish. Merchant, Giddens, Sam Amidon, and Olivia Chaney; Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet Fisher shows with a scientific twist: ABACUS, in Landfall; Rokia Traoré, Toumani and Sidiki something like a performance/TED talk, and Diabaté; and Caetano Veloso. Seek out new QUANTUM, touching on antimatter with the sounds, choose your current favorite artists, or help of dancers and some advice from CERN better yet, both. physicists. Martha Wilson picked Clifford Owens, #BAMNextWave

Dynasty Handbag, and Pablo Helguera for the second Brooklyn Bred series featuring perfor- mance artists. Geoff Sobelle and David Neumann examine attic junk and emotional assocations in The Object Lesson, and Holcombe Waller’s song cycle, Wayfinders, poetically weighs the ques- tion, where am I? One sure answer: the Fisher.

Now we turn to the Harvey Theater and the Howard Gilman Opera House. Of the four dance events, just the sleek, visceral Beijing Dance Theater is in the Harvey, with Wang Yuanyuan’s Wild Grass. In the big house, L.A. Dance Project makes its New York debut with rep by its director Six Characters in Search of an Author. Photo: Jean-Louis Fernandez (and Paris Opera Ballet-bound leader) Benjamin the Opera House in Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Millepied, icon William Forsythe, and rising star performed by the Berliner Ensemble and directed Justin Peck. Perpetual favorite Batsheva Dance by Robert Wilson. And Philip Glass returns with Company returns with Ohad Naharin’s Sadeh21. nine of his best piano virtuoso friends to render And Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch per- his 20 etudes in style. Rounding out the big

LA Dance Project, Reflections. Photo: Dave Morgan venue’s fare is Exposed: Songs for Unseen War- hol Films, including 15 of Andy Warhol’s 1960’s films accompanied by songs from musicians culled by Dean Wareham, including Tom Verlaine and Eleanor Friedberger.

And finally, music-theater in the Harvey... Mer- edith Monk’s soaring vocals in On Behalf of Na- ture will no doubt transport audiences to spiritual heights. The Brooklyn Youth Chorus sings Black Mountain Songs in another inspiring collabora- tion, curated by Bryce Dessner and Richard Reed Parry. Los Angeles is the subject of Gabriel Ka- hane’s The Ambassador, a performance rich in visuals as well as music. And VIJAY IYER: Music forms Kontakthof, a reprisal from the work’s first of Transformation showcases this versatile, ac- BAM performances in 1985. claimed composer in several works, including the world premiere of a BAM commission. Theater offerings in the Harvey are rich, as usual. In Big Dance Theater ’s Alan Smithee Di- So take a deep breath, channel your inner Next rected This Play, expect genre-bending surprises. Wave maven, and dig in to the rich selection! Lisa Dwan tackles the tour de force of three solo —Susan Yung Beckett shorts in Not I, Footfalls, Rockaby. The acclaimed Dutch troupe Toneelgroep Amster- Birds With Skymirrors. Photo: Kamrouz dam performs a stripped-down version of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America. Théâtre de la Ville brings an intimate production of Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author. En Garde Arts’ Basetrack takes a look at the personal side of, and toll on, troops in Afghanistan. And in the Opera House, Lemi Ponifasio focuses on tragic endgame of climate change on a tiny island in Micronesia in Birds With Skymirrors.

Rufus Wainwright’s enchanting music fills BAMcinématek #SpikeLeeJoints Rosie Perez and Spike Lee in Do the Right Thing . Photo: Universal/Photofest Perez Rosie SpikeBy Any Means Lee Necessary by Michael Koresky

There are many ways critics, journalists, and student film ever selected for Lincoln Center’s other kinds of commentators have tended to prestigious New Directors/New Films festival— categorize Spike Lee. He has been called the but She’s Gotta Have It introduced him to the most important African-American filmmaker of world, making a splash at festivals from Cannes our time. Or perhaps he’s the most controversial to San Francisco (where, legendarily, premiere American filmmaker. Or the most political. Or, audiences were so blissed out by the film’s most suspiciously, the most angry. The “most” first half-hour that they didn’t budge when a business is a most tiresome one, isn’t it? A wildly neighborhood-wide blackout interrupted the film formidable, inspiringly versatile director such as for 30 excruciating minutes). Spike Lee deserves more consideration—and intense focus—than the mere hyperbole his Even amid a movie renaissance that helped blistering films appear to invite. make independent icons of Jim Jarmusch, Gus Van Sant, and more, Spike Lee stood out. Shot Media discussion of Lee as a controversial figure in 12 days for $175,000, She’s Gotta Have It, has long distracted from considerations of his about an artist romantically juggling three men of aesthetics. If one looks back over his career, differing classes and personalities, exploded with without the pre- and mis-conceptions that have radical technique and emotional candor, and all dogged him, the idea of Spike Lee as a provo- but confirmed Lee as a poet of Brooklyn. Kicking cateur first seems specious. From the first, he off with a series of gorgeous monochrome photo- was a director with the vibrancy and gameness graphs taken around the borough by his brother, of a French New Waver. Nearly thirty years of David, the film features direct camera address, increasingly prepackaged American indies have lovingly askew compositions, and expression- only made his black-and-white feature debut, istic flourishes, including a memorable dance She’s Gotta Have It (1986) seem that much sequence shot in color—a wonderfully left-field more pleasurably shocking. The NYU film school homage to The Wizard of Oz. graduate had already begun to make a name for himself with his hour-long Joe’s Bed-Stuy This scene speaks to the sense of constant visual Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983)—the first discovery in Lee’s films: he’s not merely telling BAM

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you something important, but finding exciting decided to shoot the film’s ugliest scenes (the ways of showing you his ideas. The studio- contemporary minstrel show that becomes a hit) financed Do the Right Thing (1989), about racial on beautiful eye-catching 16mm. conflict hitting a boiling point on a hot summer day on one Bed-Stuy block, contains the kind Such images—seductive and repellent at once, of seismic power most filmmakers only dream showing us things we might not want to see, and of. He was using cinema to rip the gauze off in a way we never thought we’d see them—are of black America’s barely concealed wounds. key to Lee’s importance and singularity as an At the time, it incited debate—about racial American auteur. Lee has managed a specific reconciliation, about the efficacy of violent versus style and artistic perspective across a variety nonviolent aggression—but to today’s genera- of films with the help of recurring collaborators tion of critics and filmmakers there seems to be like cinematographer Ernest Dickerson, editor little need for discussion: this is one of the major Sam Pollard, musicians Bill Lee (his father) and works of popular art of the 20th century. later Terence Blanchard, but they have always remained distinctly, ineluctably his. At this point, Lee moved into the ’90s and beyond with force, he’s directed big-budget historical epics, cock- at times taking up the mantle of importance with eyed comedies, and even a cops-and-robbers hit, issue-driven dramas (Jungle Fever, Malcolm X, but as his recent, low-budget Red Hook Summer Clockers, Get on the Bus—all excellent), at other shows, cinema is not for him merely a medium times confounding expectations with idiosyncrat- for expression—it continues to be a way to ic, sensual character studies (Mo’ Better Blues, wrestle with the power of image-making itself. Girl 6), and occasionally turning to documentary with tremendous results (4 Little Girls, When the Levees Broke). With his galvanizing Bam- Michael Koresky is the staff writer of the Criterion boozled (2000), he entered the digital age with Collection and the co-editor-in-chief of Reverse Shot. confidence and robust skepticism; his scath- His writings have appeared in Film Comment, Cinema ing, disturbing satire on media minstrelsy was Scope, Sight & Sound, and the Village Voice. His book Terence Davies will be published September 15 by among the first major American films shot on University of Illinois Press. early-millennium, low-grade video. Brilliantly, Lee

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done a lot of theater, but hadn’t done as much presenting. I’ve been at IAC since 2007, and 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL found that was a real opportunity, that there was IRISH THEATER a very a lot of high quality, innovative, beauti- Embers | Sep 17—20 fully performed work, of a modest scale—solo performances, two-handers—that fit well within riverrun | Sep 17—20 the scale of our facility, 99 seats. You’re creating Not I, Footfalls, Rockaby | Oct 7—12 experiences for your audiences who say, “I can’t believe I got to see something that special, that Howie the Rookie | Dec 10—14 surprising, that robust, in such an intimate set- ting.” People feel close to it, and that gets people Irish artistic spine, and that the Irish Arts Center to become more loyal, but they also want to and the BAM Fisher are a kind of skeletal help you execute those projects. It helps inspire structure... support and fundraising, and without a culture of philanthropy around culture, there wouldn’t be AC: ...An alignment. It’s exciting to think about much culture. It’s a tribute to our artists, the fact what Ireland brings to the table in terms of that we’re able to do so much. theater, and more broadly in terms of the arts. With theater, as Joe says—it’s kind of a paradox 2014 Next Wave Festival’s Irish programming because at one level you’ve got this incredible JVM: It’s interesting to hear Aidan talk about the innovation that’s happening. You look back to intimacy of his venue, which corresponds to the Beckett and Joyce, through to Mark O’Rowe... intimacy of the Fisher. Two of the Irish works in All significant form innovators, which makes it the Next Wave Festival are in the BAM Fisher— perfect for that work to be shown at BAM. But Olwen Fouéré doing riverrun from James Joyce; at the same time, what I love about Ireland’s and Howie the Rookie, which is contemporary contribution to performance innovation, is just writing. In the Harvey Theater, we have Not as Joe said—at the end of the day, we never I, Footfalls, Rockaby—a solo work—still very forget that we’re here to tell a story. At a certain intimate Beckett; in Not I you actually only see level, it’s always just the little village and the the woman’s mouth in the space. And Embers, local seanchaí (storyteller) sitting around to hear Beckett’s radio play adapted to the theatrical a great story. I love that about all forms of Irish form, featuring just two mature Irish actors, but culture—there’s something incredibly social and has a very complicated scenic installation. But important about that experience. Even when it is fascinating how this thread of storytelling is we’re innovating, the greatest innovators are still the authentic moving the story along. . Photo: Ste Murray Howie the Rookie and Mark O’Rowe, Vaughan-Lawlor Tom Securing BAM’s Future

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Our special thanks to the foresight of the charitable BAM Angels listed below.

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Karen Brooks Hopkins, President Darrell M. McNeill, Associate Paul Bartlett, Jennifer Grutza, Harsh Lochan, Building Operations Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer, Music Audrey Hoo, Dylan Nachand, Assistant Producer R. Michael Blanco, DanceMotion Elizabeth Moreau, Production USASM, Project Director Supervisors BUILDING MAINTENANCE Alice Bernstein, Executive Vice Tanya Calamoneri, DanceMotion Ryan Gastelum, Danielle Colburn, Anthony Shields, Maintenance President USASM, Project Manager Production Coordinators Supervisor Matthew Bregman, Vice President Sophia Shackleton, DanceMotion Heli Soell, Administrative Coordinator Daniel Curato, Calvin Brackett, for Development USASM, Project Coordinator Katy Atwell, Intern Ronald Hunter, Maintainers Stephanie S. Hughley, Vice Jacqueline Folville, DanceMotion Carl Blango, Assistant Maintainer President of Education & USASM Intern STAGE CREW Humanities Danny Kapilian, Producer, R&B Thomas Paulucci, Crew Chief SECURITY Soo Pak, Vice President of Festival, MetroTech Cyrus Similly, Head Carpenter, OH Chris Thompson, Security Manager Marketing & Communications Steven Serafin, Special Consultant Timothy Fuller, Flyman, OH Melvin Patterson, Manuel Taveras, Keith Stubblefield, Chief Financial & Editor, BAM: The Complete James D’Adamo, Head Electrician,OH Supervising Attendant Guards Officer and Vice President of Works Amy Domjan, Assistant Electrician, OH Kenneth Aguillera, Collie Dean, Finance & Administration Bill Horton Jr., Master of Properties, Senior Attendant Guards ARCHIVES OH Marlon Desouza, Felix Jusino, PRESIDENT’S OFFICE Sharon Lehner, Director of Archives Marc Putz, Sound Engineer, OH Kevin Lemon, Teonia Smith, Andel Grace Eubank, Project Coordinator Sarah Gentile, Digital Project Archivist James Kehoe, Head Carpenter, HT Thomas, Michael Whyte, Attendant Michael Hurst, Administrative Louie Fleck, Archives Coordinator John Manderbach, Head Guards Assistant Ryan Evans, Joseph Bradshaw, Electrician, HT Michael Messina, Processing Edward Donohue, Master of CUSTODIAL SERVICES BAM ROSE CINEMAS Archivists Properties, HT Ramon Cabassa, Custodial Efi Shahar, Cinema Executive Jan Carr, Digital Content Writer Alison Dabdoub, Sound Engineer, HT Supervisor Manager Anita Goss, Volunteer Librarian Joe Werner, Assistant Carpenter, HT Allan Boyce, Ludlow Chamberlain, Michael Katz, Projectionist Alison Basford, Bree Midavaine, Oscar Gruchalski, Utility Man Isaias Flores, Mayra Guillen, Ron Adam Goldberg, Assistant Manager Ivonne Paredes, Anika Paris, Richard Wurzbach, Utility Man Rathan, Akeon Thomas, Custodians Adam Birnbaum, Film Buyer Mary Rhymer, Interns Mary Lou Houston, Wardrobe Andreea Drogeanu, Davina Roberts, Larysa McKenna, Jonna Pressman, Supervisor DEVELOPMENT Anthony Shields Jr., Shana Kay Volunteers INDIVIDUAL GIVING Smith, Head Floor Staff ARTIST SERVICES William Lynch, Director of GENERAL MANAGEMENT Mary Reilly, Director of Artist Services Leadership Gifts BAMCINÉMATEK Patrick J. 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Jones, Associate Theater Richard Serrano, Research Manager Marketing Assistant Project Coordinators Manager Holly Shen Chaves, Curator of Ryan Werner, Programmer at Large Molly Rodino, GM Coordinator, Sonia Clayton, Jacqueline David, Visual Arts Budgets & Contracts Leroy Houston, Theater Staff Mary Gordanier, Visual Arts Assistant ARTISTIC PROGRAMMING Dakota Scott, Administrative Supervisors David Bertozzi, Visual Arts Intern Stonie Darling, Department Manager Assistant Ben Lasser, Major Gifts Coordinator Ross Marshall, Manager of Artistic Nivia Prescod, BAM Fisher Front BUILDING OPERATIONS Travis Calvert, Major Gifts Assistant Planning of House Rep. & Rentals Asst. 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Cheryl-Lyn Miller, Membership HUMANITIES DIGITAL MEDIA Katie Dixon, Director, Special Assistant Violaine Huisman, Director of Stephen Litner, Director of Digital Projects Shannon Alexander, Jessica Humanities Media Benton, Allison Bodwell, Molly Silberberg, Humanities Aaron Weibel, Digital Operations CAPITAL PROJECTS Stéphanie De Latour, Justin Gray, Coordinator Manager Jonathan Jones, Director, Capital Kimberly Howard, Samantha Lucile Hecht, Humanities Intern Nicholas Breul, Jamie Kraus Projects Inniss, Melissa Krzywicki, Emilie Digital Production Administrators Matthew Baclini, Capital Projects McDonald, Joe Mulligan, Adrienne LEAD INSTRUCTORS Benjamin Cohen, Associate Analyst Reynolds, Amanda Wilder, Joshua Cabat, Young Film Critics Director of Video Laura Grady, Capital Projects Saarah Zebede, Membership Michael LoMonico, Shakespeare Ben Katz, Video Production Manager Representatives Teaches Teachers Manager Gwendolyn Kelso, Young Alexander Guns, Catherine Lee, GOVERNMENT & COMMUNITY INSTITUTIONAL GIVING Shakespeare Video Production Assistants AFFAIRS Clemente Luna, Director of Jenny Rocha, Dancing into the Tamara McCaw, Director of Institutional Giving Future MARKETING Government & Community Bethany Basile, Kailin Husayko, Pat Hall, BAM/Restoration Gillian Fallon, Director of Affairs Institutional Giving Managers DanceAfrica Coordinator Marketing Dewonnie Frederick, Community Kaitlyn McKeon, Institutional Mo Beasley, Arts & Justice Raphaele de Boisblanc, Program Affairs & Bazaar Coordinator Giving Coordinator Program Marketing Manager Stephanie Caragliano, Intern Allison Kadin, Program Marketing HUMAN RESOURCES TEACHING ARTISTS Coordinator Seth Azizollahoff, Director of CORPORATE RELATIONS Sarah Abrams, Harold Claire Frisbie, Content Marketing Human Resources Chantal Bernard, Director of Akyeampong, Sékou Alájé, Manager Jenny Rodriguez, Human Corporate Relations Jennifer Armas, Melissa Brown, Joaquin Esteva, Advertising Resources Manager Gwendolyn Pointer, Director, Mahogany Browne, Chia-Ti Chiu, Manager Cynthia Smith, Payroll Manager Corporate Sponsorships/New Darian Dauchan, Emily Davis, Jenny Choi, Marketing Sajal Javid, Benefits Manager Business Development Harris Eisenstadt, Imani Faye, Publications Manager Neil Acharya, Alexis Boehmler, Ashley Jacobson, Corporate Kimani Fowlin, Samara Gaev, Robert Wood, Copywriter Human Resources Assistants Relations Manager Ana Garcia, Ingrid Gordon, Lily Friedman, Operations Manager Elizabeth Sarkady, Business Mel House, Kanene Holder, Britt Aronovich, Marketing Analyst INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Development Manager Lauren Keating, Nicole Kempskie, Morgan Green, Marketing William Allen Lee III, Director of Rebecca Carew, Sponsorship Farai Malianga, Geneva Manley, Assistant Information Technology Assistant Hector Morales, Kwesi Nkroma, Thomas Brown, Tessitura Nadege Nau, Intern Monica Ortiz-Rossi, Gene Osborne, STRATEGIC MARKETING Business Manager Pamela Patrick, Katie Issel Pitre, Molly Meloy, Director of Strategic Ira Sibulkin, Associate Director PATRON SERVICES Baba Wali Rahman, Mike Ramsey, Marketing of IT Ramzi Awn, Director of Patron Gwenyth Reitz, Najee Ritter, Melanie Cherry, Marketing Chris Tusciuk, Web Development Services Victor Sanchez, Robby Stamper, Manager, Community, Edu- Manager Michael Kendrick, Manager of Rohiatou Siby, Elizabeth Simmons, cation & Family Programming Timothy Assam, Systems Patron Services & Donor Karen Thornton-Daniels, Justin Monsen, Marketing Administrator Relations Leese Walker, Adia Whitaker Manager, Development Svetlana Mikhalevskaya, Database Jessica Hindle, Patron Services Jessica Goldschmidt, Copywriter Developer Coordinator BROOKLYN INTERNS FOR ARTS Rhea Daniels, Volunteer Jason Q. 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Wachtel Special Events Assistants Treasurer Services Representative Taylor Dafoe, Intern Kevin McLoughlin, Charlie Dolce, Jonas Angelet, Anaïs Blin, Robert Bookseller Russell Grier, Assistant Treasurers Ebanks, Miranda Gauvin, Laura Greenlight Bookstore ENDOWMENT & PLANNED Grady, Joya Harris, Sindy Jean, GIVING PUBLICITY Katora Matthews, Edgar Mendoza, European Production Denis Azaro, Endowment & Sandy Sawotka, Director of Warren Ng, Elsie Pacella, Representative Planned Giving Director Publicity Megan Pearson-Mason, Edward On Tour Ltd., Roger Chapman Alexandra Biss, Manager of Board Joe Guttridge, Associate Director Raube-Wilson, Tara Ricasa, Relations of Publicity Shanice Tulley, Noel Vega, Althea Film Buyer Susan Yung, Editorial Manager Wilkinson, Ticket Services Adam Birnbaum EDUCATION & HUMANITIES Adriana Leshko, Sarah Garvey, Representatives Shana Parker, Director of Publicity Managers Immigration Counsel Operations for E&H David Hsieh, Publicist FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION Jonathan Ginsburg, Fettman, Jennifer Leeson, Operations Lauren Morrow, Publicity Assistant FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION Tolchin and Majors, PC Manager for E&H Baha Ebrahimzadeh, Education & Ellen Leszynski, Administrative Nathan Gelgud, Box Office Humanities Publicist Coordinator Insurance Broker Manager James Sutton, Publications Dewitt Stern Cathleen Plazas, Internship Assistant FINANCE Coordinator Ally Greco, Intern Kozue Oshiro, Controller Legal Counsel Tamar MacKay, Education Assistant Tameka White, Assistant Controller Ronald E. Feiner PC Rebekah Gordon, Administrative DESIGN Claudia Bailey, Budget Manager Assistant Clara Cornelius, Director of Design Samuel Grello, Accounts Medical Consultants Patrick Morin, Associate Director Receivable Coordinator Ahmar Butt, MD EDUCATION of Design Brian Gee, Accounting Associate Anders Cohen, MD Steven McIntosh, Director of Adam Hitt, Senior Designer David McCullough, Accounting Education & Family Programs Ryan Rowlett, Senior Interactive Coordinator Restaurateur John P. Tighe, Assistant Director Designer Seon Gomez, Staff Accountant Great Performances John S. Foster, Education Manager Katie Positerry, Interactive Adam Sachs, Fiscal Manager Eveline Chang, Verushka Wray, Designer Douglas Fischer, Fiscal Coordinator Program Managers Michelle Angelosanto, Designer Barbara Ely, Fiscal Assistant May 15, 2014 Victoria Collado, Education Intern Casey Cleverly, Design Studio Suzanne Youngerman, Curatorial Coordinator SPECIAL PROJECTS Consultant Ariel Davis, Intern Jeremy Dewey, Director, Project Management