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From the Founder & Producing Director ED HERENDEEN

Here we are in a special place: Shepherdstown, West Virginia — the home of the Contemporary American Theater Festival. After several intense weeks of pre-production work and rehearsals, we have finally arrived at the beginning of the 2018 Repertory: six provocative writers, six new plays, five world premieres, and a first-class artistic company.

Here we are in a fabulous place: the Cultural Gateway to West Virginia — where the future of American theater spends the summer.

You are about to have a momentous theatrical immersion, as you participate in this fiercely gripping repertory, teeming with secrets, confessions, passions, and memories. This new work overflows with storytelling vitality that will awaken your senses.

I invite you to unplug and sit up! Pay attention! And listen . . . be here with us now. These plays await you. ED HERENDEEN FEED YOUR HEAD.

MISSION TO PRODUCE AND DEVELOP NEW AMERICAN THEATER

THE VISION THE ULTIMATE THEATER EXPERIENCE

CORE VALUES FEARLESS ART; DARING AND DIVERSE STORIES; A PROFOUND DYNAMIC AMONG THE AUDIENCE, THE ARTIST, AND THE WORK

1 ED HERENDEEN TABLE OF CONTENTS Founder & Producing Director

PEGGY MCKOWEN LETTER FROM THE PRODUCING DIRECTOR ...... 1 Associate Producing Director CATF INSTITUTIONAL FUNDERS ...... 4 JOSHUA MIDGETT General Manager LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD ...... 6

GABRIELLE TOKACH BOARD OF TRUSTEES ...... 8 Public Relations Manager LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT OF SHEPHERD UNIVERSITY ...... 10 VICKI WILLMAN SUPPORT CATF ...... 12 Director of Development MAJOR CONTRIBUTORS ...... 14 NICOLE M. SMITH Company Manager 2018 COMPANY LIST ...... 16

TRENT KUGLER THE CAKE ...... 18 Production Manger MEMOIRS OF A FORGOTTEN MAN ...... 20 CHASE MOLDEN THIRST ...... 26 Production & Props Supervisor THE HOUSE ON THE HILL ...... 28 BERTA, BERTA ...... 32 Contemporary American A LATE MORNING (IN AMERICA) WITH RONALD REAGAN . . . 34 Theater Festival at Shepherd University ABOUT THE 2018 COMPANY ...... 40

P.O. Box 429 EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES ...... 66 Shepherdstown, WV 2018 FELLOWS, INTERNS, & APPRENTICES ...... 67 25443 ART AROUND THE FESTIVAL ...... 68 800.999.CATF www.catf.org LECTURES & SPECIAL EVENTS ...... 72

CATFatSU SUPPORTERS ...... 74 @thinktheater @thinktheater CATF CONTRIBUTORS ...... 76 PRODUCTION HISTORY ...... 80 ADVERTISERS’ INDEX ...... 82 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE ...... 84

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OCTOBER 12 - 14 AND 19 - 21 American Conservation Film Festival A showcase of international conservation films with discussions, workshops, and family programming.

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THANK YOU ACTORS’ EQUITY FOUNDATION MARION PARK LEWIS FOUNDATION THE ALFORD FOUNDATION NATIONAL ENDOWMENT The Contemporary American FOR THE ARTS AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION Theater Festival’s 2018 NATIONAL NEW PLAY NETWORK Season is supported, in part, BB&T THE NORA ROBERTS FOUNDATION by the following foundations, BB&T WEST VIRGINIA FOUNDATION corporations, institutions, PGPRESENTS, LLC BIG CORK VINEYARDS and government agencies. THE RANSON CONVENTION BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB FOUNDATION AND VISITOR’S BUREAU MATCHING GIFT PROGRAM ROGERS RISSLER FOUNDATION CASEY FAMILY PROGRAMS MATCHING GIFT PROGRAM SHAFFER WEALTH ADVISORY GROUP OF JANNEY MONTGOMERY SCOTT, LLC CITY NATIONAL BANK SHEPHERD UNIVERSITY CLAUDE WORTHINGTON BENEDUM FOUNDATION SHEPHERD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION

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Welcome from the President of the CATF Board of Trustees PAUL S. GARRARD

“The world only spins forward.” —Tony Kushner, Angels in America

On behalf of the CATF Board of Trustees, welcome to Shepherdstown and the 28th season of the Contemporary American Theater Festival!

We’re delighted you’re here to experience another season of fearless art, daring and diverse stories, and the profound dynamic we know will result between the audience, the artists, and the work. PAUL S. GARRARD There is no doubt you will be talking and thinking about this season’s plays for years to come. However, this professional theater located in the oldest town in West Virginia is about so much more than just the plays. CATF is a festival, which means you are part of a celebration! You have now become part of the CATF community, a wonderfully inclusive group of your fellow citizens who want to be entertained, who want to be challenged, and yes, who want and need to be disturbed by what they see, hear, and feel.

The trustees, the company, and our gifted CATF staff have worked tirelessly to ensure your experience at CATF is a memorable one; one that is true to our mission of producing and developing new American theater.

We are indeed nationally and internationally known, but I would humbly submit that our success is your success, and it is your support that contributes to both. Please know that your generosity is never ever taken for granted. The entire company — from the set and costume designers; to the builders and electricians; to the interns, painters, directors, actors, and of course the playwrights — they are all dependent on you, the audience, to experience the art they have created and that you become part of, all of which makes CATF so unique.

CATF is profoundly grateful to the entire town of Shepherdstown for embracing the Festival and to Shepherd University for its unwavering partnership, without whom CATF simply could not do what we do.

My personal thanks to our remarkable trustees who make my role as President such an easy one and to our former trustees on whose shoulders we stand.

Once again, welcome to Shepherdstown and CATF!

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2018 Contemporary American Theater Festival BOARD OF TRUSTEES

PAUL S. GARRARD MARELLEN AHERNE* EX OFFICIO EMERITUS BOARD PRESIDENT JON AMORES DOW BENEDICT RONALD JONES SHARON J. ANDERSON LINDA RICE ALLISON MARINOFF JASON AUFDEM-BRINKE HONORARY BOARD SHIRLEY MARINOFF ‡ CARLE BETH BATDORF JENNY EWING ALLEN MICHAEL PROFFITT ‡ VICE PRESIDENT DR. SCOTT BEARD MARTIN BURKE *MEMBER OF CATF’S EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ROBIN BERRINGTON ELLEN CAPPELLANTI SCOTT WIDMEYER ‡ IN MEMORIAM MARY I. BRADSHAW CARMELA CESARE VICE PRESIDENT ROBERTA L. DEBIASI, MD BRIDGET COHEE BILL DRENNEN S. ANDREW ARNOLD MIRIAM DICKINSON MARY CLARE EROS TREASURER JAMES J. EROS THOMAS S. FOSTER NANCY FELDMAN LILY HILL PETE HOFFMAN HANS FOGLE CATHERINE E. IRWIN SECRETARY ANN M. HARKINS JUDITH W. KATZ-LEAVY DR. MARY J.C. HENDRIX SUSAN KEMNITZER ED HERENDEEN KATHA KISSMAN PAUL KESSLER DIMETRA LEWIN ELIZABETH MCDONALD TRIPP LOWE PEGGY MCKOWEN STANLEY C. MARINOFF, MD KAKIE MCMILLAN TIA MCMILLAN SUSAN MILLS NOAH MEHRKAM FRANKLIN C. MOORE ANDREW D. MICHAEL JEANNE MUIR* JOYCE CAROL OATES MICHELLE OLSON KAREN RICE PATRICIA F. RISSLER MICHAEL SANTA BARBARA AUDREY ROWE LYNN SHIRLEY RB SEEM* STEPHEN SKINNER RICK SHAFFER* MARY HELEN STRAUCH SYLVIA BAILEY SHURBUTT* KEVIN STRUTHERS SID STOLZ KIRSTEN TRUMP THE REV. DR. ROSE HERR MARJORIE WEINGOLD WAYLAND, D.MIN. LISA YOUNIS

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10 129 W. GERMAN STREET 304.876.8777 3 W. German Street | 304.876.1106 Letter from the President of Shepherd University

A Letter from the President of Shepherd University DR. MARY J.C. HENDRIX

WELCOME to Shepherd University and to the Contemporary American Theater Festival that we so proudly host each summer. The longstanding partnership between Shepherd and CATF has enriched our community for more than a quarter of a century.

The Center for Contemporary Arts is home to Shepherd’s Department of Contemporary Art and Theater, a unique combination of the visual and performing arts centered in one beautiful complex. The Center for Contemporary Arts houses art and graphic design classrooms, studios — including the L. Dow Benedict Sculpture Studio named in honor of a beloved and longtime faculty member and dean — set and costume shops, and the Stanley C. and Shirley A. Marinoff Theater, where you will have the opportunity to see DR. MARY J.C. HENDRIX several of this season’s plays.

We are grateful to Dr. Marinoff and his family for their support of CATF, Shepherd University, and the arts. The arts thrive because of support by generous and thoughtful donors.

Since its inception in 1991, CATF has been led by the remarkably talented Ed Herendeen. He developed the Festival in order to produce and develop new American theater and to celebrate playwrights both established and upcoming. A whirlwind of energy and artistic vision, Ed is directing two of the six plays being presented this season.

I hope you will take advantage of all that is offered by the theater Festival, historic Shepherdstown, and Shepherd University during your time with us this summer. CATF evinces Shepherd’s dedication to excellence, innovation, and opportunity. We are extremely proud to be a partner of the Contemporary American Theater Festival, and play a role in transforming the future.

With many best wishes,

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SHEPHERD UNIVERSITY MUSIC

EXPECT THE Extraordinary!

Shepherd University’s Department of Music offers the highest-quality educational experiences for our students, while serving as a resource of cultural enrichment to our community. We embrace our tradition of molding young people into competent, inspiring leaders who carry their experience beyond our region across the nation. Please consider supporting our commitment to excellence.

All contributions are tax-deductible. Checks payable to the Shepherd University Foundation can be mailed to Shepherd University Foundation, P.O. Box 5000, Shepherdstown, West Virginia, 25443-5000. For other ways to contribute or to make a contributions online go to http://shepherduniversityfoundation.org.

Thank you for your support! DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC 304-876-5555 • [email protected] • www.shepherd.edu/music Support CATF

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Each season is possible because of you.

As a nonprofit arts organization, the Festival does not cover its costs through ticket sales alone. In order to bridge the gap between earned income (ticket sales) and the Festival’s total budget, CATF depends upon grants and donations from businesses and individuals like you. For each dollar of support CATF receives, 90 cents is invested in producing the art on our stages during the Festival.

A contribution to CATF is an investment in the future of American theater. Help us to continue producing unparalleled theater by making a donation. Give today in support of bringing compelling stories and ambitious new theater to life.

Visit CATF.ORG/DONATE to learn more about donor benefits and to Fight director Aaron Anderson at the 2018 Company Meet and Greet. make a tax-deductible donation.

STUDENT REP PASS ROGERS-RISSLER MATCHING SPONSORSHIP GIFT CHALLENGE

Give the gift of theater to the next generation. Contributions made during the Festival using the enclosed gift envelope Sponsor a student RepPass which CATF will support the Rogers-Rissler Matching Gift Challenge. With thanks distribute to regional high school and college to long-time Festival friends, James Rogers and Pat Rissler, your gift students that might not otherwise have the to CATF will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $20,000 to support chance to participate in the Festival. CATF’s ongoing mission to produce and develop new American theater.

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2018 Contemporary American Theater Festival Taran Schatz, PROJECTIONS DESIGNER & VIDEO DEPARTMENT HEAD/ENGINEER COMPANY LIST Stephanie Yackovetsky, ASST. SOUND DESIGNER

STAGE MANAGEMENT Debra A. Acquavella, DIRECTORS ED HERENDEEN PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER* PRODUCING DIRECTOR Adrienne Campbell-Holt*** Lori M. Doyle, STAGE MANAGER* Reginald L. Douglas*** PEGGY MCKOWEN Lindsay Eberly, STAGE MANAGER* ASSOCIATE PRODUCING DIRECTOR Ed Herendeen*** Jeremy Phillips, STAGE MANAGER* Courtney Sale JOSHUA MIDGETT Tina Shackleford, STAGE MANAGER* Sam Weisman GENERAL MANAGER Cate Agis, ASST. STAGE MANAGER* Charlotte La Nasa, ASST. DIRECTOR & Madolyn Friedman, GABRIELLE TOKACH EDUCATION ASST. ASST. STAGE MANAGER PUBLIC RELATIONS MANAGER Shaun McCracken, Ryan Kane, PRODUCTION ASSISTANT VICKI WILLMAN ASST. DIRECTOR & DRAMATURG DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT Aaron Anderson, FIGHT DIRECTOR*** ACTING COMPANY Theresa M. Davis, HOSTEL YOUTH! DIRECTOR Jason Bowen* NICOLE M. SMITH Jalon Christian COMPANY MANAGER Pat McCorkle, CASTING DIRECTOR Katja Zarolinski, CASTING DIRECTOR Ryan Nathaniel George* TRENT KUGLER Joe Myers, ASST. FIGHT DIRECTOR Kelly Gibson* PRODUCTION MANAGER Kirsten Trump, DIALECT COACH Bianca LaVerne Jones* John Keabler* CHASE MOLDEN Miles Orduna, ASSISTANT TO MICHAEL WELLER PRODUCTION & PROPS Sam Morales* SUPERVISOR DESIGNERS David McElwee* Therese Bruck, COSTUME DESIGNER Monet* Trevor Bowen, COSTUME DESIGNER Joey Parsons* PLAYWRIGHTS Sarita Fellows, COSTUME DESIGNER** Ruby Rakos* John Ambrosone, LIGHTING DESIGNER** Erika Rolfsrud* BEKAH BRUNSTETTER Tony Galaska, LIGHTING DESIGNER Jessica Savage* ANGELICA CHÉRI Lee Sellars* D.M. Wood, LIGHTING DESIGNER** D.W. GREGORY William Oliver Watkins* Dewey Dellay, ORIGINAL MUSIC C.A. JOHNSON Justin Withers MICHAEL WELLER David M. Barber, SCENIC DESIGNER** AMY E. WITTING Jesse Dreikosen, SCENIC DESIGNER PRODUCTION STAFF Luciana Stecconi, SCENIC DESIGNER** Rachel D’Amboise, Victoria Deiorio, SOUND DESIGNER** ASSOCIATE PRODUCTION MANAGER Elisheba Ittoop, SOUND DESIGNER** Kassidy Coburn, TECHNICAL DIRECTOR David Remedios, SOUND DESIGNER** Joshua Frachiseur, TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

16 Clifford Glowacki, TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Bryce Hargrove, COMPANY MANAGEMENT INTERN Miguel Angel Lopez, TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Maranda Jenkins, COMPANY MANAGEMENT INTERN Zach Murhpy, LEAD CARPENTER Isaiah Hall, COMPANY MANAGEMENT & FRONT OF HOUSE INTERN David Kelley, CARPENTER Tristin Baro, COSTUME FELLOW Rachel McCall, CARPENTER John Polles, COSTUME INTERN Steve Schaffer, CARPENTER Meredith Prouty-Due, COSTUME INTERN Gabby Ullman, CARPENTER Georgia Fried, COSTUME INTERN & KCACTF DESIGN FELLOW Jessica Palagano, ELECTRICS INTERN Stephanie Shaw, COSTUME SHOP MANAGER Sabrina Wertman, ELECTRICS INTERN Madeline Corcoran, SHOP ASST./STITCHER/DRESSER Mack Woods, ELECTRICS INTERN Anthony Gary, SHOP ASST./STITCHER/DRESSER Mary Heyl, FRONT OF HOUSE INTERN Lizz Williams, FIRST HAND/JR. CUTTER/DRESSER Alex Kosick, FRONT OF HOUSE INTERN Evan Carlson, MASTER ELECTRICIAN Wendy Parkulo, FRONT OF HOUSE INTERN Bri Weintraub, MASTER ELECTRICIAN Molly Schafer, FRONT OF HOUSE INTERN Bridget Williams, MASTER ELECTRICIAN Rachel Squires, FRONT OF HOUSE INTERN Bridget Willingham, FESTIVAL CHARGE ARTIST Nylah Bannister, FRONT OF HOUSE & MARKETING APPRENTICE Sophia Adsit, SCENIC ARTIST Kenneth May, FRONT OF HOUSE & MARKETING INTERN Clinton O’Dell, SCENIC ARTIST Mikayla Carr, PAINTS INTERN Sebastien Oliverios-Tavares, SCENIC ARTIST Jasmine Ratcliff, PAINTS INTERN Chase Molden, PRODUCTION & PROPS SUPERVISOR Danica Rodrigues, PRODUCTION INTERN Katelin Ashcraft, ASSISTANT PROPS SUPERVISOR Annie Hall, PROPS INTERN Rebecca Bandy, PROPS ARTISAN Mars Martin, PROPS INTERN Sean Doyle, SOUND DEPARTMENT HEAD Rachel Seabaugh, PROPS INTERN William D’Eugenio, PROJECTIONS Yvonne Tessman, PROPS INTERN Jeremiah King, SCENERY INTERN ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF Emily Taylor, SCENERY INTERN Nicole M. Smith, COMPANY MANAGER* Monty Wilson, SCENERY INTERN Joel Kimling, BOX OFFICE MANAGER Christopher Erbe, SCENERY INTERN & KCACTF DESIGN FELLOW Amanda Hartman, FRONT OF HOUSE MANAGER Lindsey Cohen, SOUND INTERN Madison St. Amour, ASSOCIATE GENERAL MANAGER Rowan Wilkerson, SOUND FELLOW This Theater operates under an Allene Punekii, EDUCATION ASSISTANT Mathias Brown, SOUND INTERN & agreement between the League Hunter Strauch, EVENTS MANAGER KCACTF DESIGN FELLOW Of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Thomas Breck, STAGE MANAGEMENT INTERN Equity Association, the Union Jennifer Miller, RESIDENCE MANAGER of Professional Actors and Stage Dan Karlin, STAGE MANAGEMENT INTERN Managers in the United States. CREATIVE TEAM Rachel Lockett, STAGE MANAGEMENT FELLOW *Actors’ Equity Association Jen Rolston, GRAPHIC DESIGN Jess Winward, KCACTF DESIGN FELLOW **United Scenic Artists ***Stage Directors and Seth Freeman, PHOTOGRAPHER Shaye Evans, KCACTF DESIGN FELLOW Choreographers Society Jared Scheerer, SEASON IMAGES UNDERSTUDIES & OBSERVERS INTERNS, FELLOWS, & APPRENTICES Kimberly Belflower, Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin, Zoe Thomas, ADMINISTRATIVE INTERN Dave Harris, Daria Marinelli, and Lulu Connolly, COMPANY MANAGEMENT Graham Schmidt, OBSERVERS FELLOW & INTERN DEPUTY Bryce Hargrove, UNDERSTUDY

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SETTING & TIME: NORTH CAROLINA: A BAKERY, A HOME. NOW.

CAST: DELLA JEN SCENIC DESIGN PRODUCTION STAGE ERIKA ROLFSRUD KELLY GIBSON DAVID M. BARBER MANAGER DEBRA A. ACQUAVELLA TIM MACY COSTUME DESIGN LEE SELLARS MONET THERESE BRUCK STAGE MANAGER LINDSAY EBERLY LIGHTING DESIGN D.M. WOOD ASST. STAGE MANAGER MADOLYN FRIEDMAN SOUND DESIGN Run Time: 100 minutes. VICTORIA DEIORIO CASTING DIRECTORS Performed without an intermission. PAT MCCORKLE, CSA TECHNICAL DIRECTOR KATJA ZAROLINSKI, CSA Warning: mature themes and content. CLIFFORD GLOWACKI Guest cupcakes compliments of Shepherdstown Sweet Shop Bakery.

An Interview with the Playwright Researched, interviewed, and edited by Sharon J. Anderson, CATF Trustee/Professional Story Listener and Creative Director BEKAH BRUNSTETTER www.sharonjanderson.com

CATF: Why can’t you have your cake and rights were violated when the owner of the bakeshop refused to eat it, too? make their wedding cake because of his Christian beliefs. The baker also argued that he is an artist. On behalf of the Trump Bekah Brunstetter: In terms of the play, administration, Solicitor General Noel Francisco argued: “A custom does that phrase mean that you can eat wedding cake is not an ordinary baked good; its function is more cake with someone even when you don’t communicative and artistic than utilitarian.” accept her or his beliefs, while fundamentally disagreeing with them? I want What is the function of a wedding cake for you? to believe that you can, and that’s what the play is hoping to exhibit. It’s not productive to reject people’s Cake is incredibly universal. It’s really hard to find someone who points of view and not treat everyone with kindness and respect. doesn’t like cake. A wedding cake is particularly universal because It is possible to eat cake — by that I mean have fellowship with it brings everybody together after the ceremony to celebrate the people you fundamentally disagree with. union and experience pure joy. It’s the specific thing that means the wedding has happened, so it is not a regular cake. The By the time this interview is published, the Supreme Court may Masterpiece Cake Shop baker offered to make the gay couple a have ruled on Masterpiece Cake Shop v. Colorado Civil Rights birthday cake, he didn’t have a problem with that, he just couldn’t Commission — a case about a gay couple who believe their civil make a wedding cake.

continued on page 24 19 FRANK CENTER FRANK MEMOIRS OF A FORGOTTEN MAN DIRECTED BY ED HERENDEEN SPONSORED BY PETER EMCH

SETTING & TIME: A WORLD PREMIERE MOSCOW AND POINTS EAST, 1957 & LENINGRAD (FORMLY ST. PETERSBURG), 1937-1938

SEE PLAY NOTES ON PAGE 22

CAST: NATALYA/ SCENIC DESIGN PRODUCTION STAGE MADAME DEMIDOVA DAVID M. BARBER MANAGER ALEXEI/AZAROV JOEY PARSONS DEBRA A. ACQUAVELLA DAVID MCELWEE COSTUME DESIGN PEASANT WOMAN/ THERESE BRUCK STAGE MANAGER KREPLEV/VASILY MISS MARKAYEVNA/ LINDSAY EBERLY LIGHTING DESIGN LEE SELLARS MOTHER/UTKIN D.M. WOOD ASST. STAGE MANAGER ERIKA ROLFSRUD MADOLYN FRIEDMAN SOUND DESIGN Run Time: 105 minutes. VICTORIA DEIORIO CASTING DIRECTORS Performed with one intermission. PAT MCCORKLE, CSA TECHNICAL DIRECTOR KATJA ZAROLINSKI, CSA CLIFFORD GLOWACKI

Memoirs Of A Forgotten Man is produced at Contemporary American Theater Festival as a part of a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere. Other partnering theaters are Shadowland Stages (Ellenville, NY) and New Jersey Repertory Company (Long Branch). For more information please visit www.nnpn.org.

An Interview with the Playwright Researched, interviewed, and edited by Sharon J. Anderson, CATF Trustee/Professional Story Listener and Creative Director D.W. GREGORY www.sharonjanderson.com

CATF: You have said that a recurring precisely and to know very precisely where things are going off the theme in your work is “to explore political rails. He also apparently has the inability to keep quiet about it. questions through personal stories.” What I finished the first draft of this play in the summer of 2016, before political questions are you exploring in the last election. The results of that election give the play a greater Memoirs of a Forgotten Man? urgency. I’m struggling with the price you pay when you decide D.W. Gregory: One of the questions that that your political agenda is more important than your adherence I’m wrestling with in the play is the power to the facts and truth. There are such things as verifiable facts. of propaganda and the conflict that arises Stalin literally erases his political enemies from the record book. when people begin to see the conflict between their experience In an effort to rewrite the record, he Photoshops enemies out of and the official party line. A mundane example is in the workplace the photographs and then erases them in reality when he has when management puts out stuffy memos about how great them murdered. everything is when people in one department or another know For a long time, we’ve been in a place in our democracy where we that it’s not true. A profound example is what we’re wrestling with are not on the same page as to what the facts are, the fundamental in the play, a regime that’s literally rewriting history. You have the facts. A huge media machine, particularly Sean Hannity and FOX memory man, Alexei, who has the ability to remember very News, is basically churning out propaganda. If we can’t be on the

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KEY DATES AND YEARS KEY TERMS DEFINED The action of the play moves between an NIKOLAI BUKHARIN: Nikolai Bukharin was a cherished Politburo member, revered as one office in Moscow 1957, a village in the of the greatest Marxist theorists since Lenin. Stalin expelled Bukharin from the Politburo in eastern provinces before the Revolution, 1929, and during the following decade, Bukharin carefully shared his voice of dissent. Bukharin and Leningrad in the late 1930s. was arrested for treason in February 1937 and stood trial in 1938. Cameras captured his 1713-1913 Romanov Dynasty, ending with ten-day-long show trial and broadcast his false confession to the entire Soviet population. Tsar Nicholas II struggling to govern. SERGEI KIROV: Kirov became party chief in Leningrad in 1926, and subsequently earned full Final chaotic years influenced by corrupt Politburo membership in 1930. On December 1, 1934, a lone gunman assassinated Kirov in the “Holy Man” Rasputin. corridor of his Leningrad office. In 1937, Stalin responded to Kirov’s death by launching an 1917 February Revolution. Riots and elimination campaign known as “The Great Terror.” Stalin sent the secret police (then called demonstrations force Nicholas II to abdicate the NKVD) to arrest or execute any suspected “wreckers” in the Communist Party. During in March. Rebels implement disastrous this chaotic year, the NKVD arrested 1.3 million citizens of whom nearly 700,000 were shot. provisional government. IZVESTIA: Russian word for “delivered messages.” Russia’s top soviet newspaper born out OCTOBER 1917 Bolshevik Revolution begins. of the 1917 revolution after a small group of revolutionaries took hold of a printing office. V.I. Lenin leads the Bolshevik fight to stay in Bhukarin served as editor of Izvestia, and during this time the daily paper earned a reputation power over the more conservative Marxists, as an energetic news source at the forefront soviet journalism. Bukharin and three other known as Mensheviks. Civil war begins. editors were tried an executed during the Terror. NOVEMBER 1920 Bolsheviks defeat Mensheviks. Lenin becomes leader of SHOW TRIAL: Constantly paranoid about potential threats to his power, Stalin insisted his Communist Party and Soviet Union. enemies confess to crimes against the party. There were three trials between 1936 and 1938, forcing confessions from fifty party leaders and officials; each trial was broadcast to the 1921 Lenin implements the New Economic public. Many defendants lied in their confessions out of complete loss of political hope. Plan to replace War Communism after dramatic inflation and lack of cooperation. KULAK: Bolsheviks branded the land owning sector of the peasant class as “kulaks” or “rich 1924 Lenin dies. Nikolai Bukharin prevents peasants.” Kulaks owned 40% of the land in the countryside, and any farmer opposed to Trotsky from succeeding to Lenin’s position. government policy was assigned to this demonized caste. In 1929, Stalin announced the necessity of “the liquidation of the Kulaks as a class” in order to achieve collectivization. 1929 Collectivization begins; Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin forces government control over NEP: The New Economic Plan describes Lenin’s economic policy replacing war communism, production and distribution. which completely abolished the private sector during the Bolshevik Revolution. The NEP DECEMBER 1934 Sergei Kirov is assassinated. established that production was limited, but farmers were still allowed to sell their own goods with careful monitoring by government officials. Bukharin was a proponent of the NEP, which FEBRUARY 1937 Bukharin is arrested; The effected party tensions when Stalin demanded collectivization in 1929. Great Terror begins. Millions of Russians sent to labor camps in the Soviet Gulag system. BOLSHEVIK: Meaning “majority,” Marxism as interpreted by Lenin. Aimed to replace capitalist dictatorship over working class with workers’ dictatorship over capitalist class (not individuals). MARCH 2-12 1938 Bukharin’s show trial and execution. Bolsheviks believed Socialism must be forced upon Russia, so that the end of capitalism could begin in Russia immediately. MARCH 1953 Stalin dies. He does not appoint a successor before passing. FURTHER READING 1956 Nikita Khrushchev delivers speech The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book About a Vast Memory, by A.R. Luria; The Whisperers, On the Cult of Personality and Its by Orlando Figes; The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Consequences, exposing Stalin’s crimes. Stalin’s Russia, by David King

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I see both sides of this issue and couldn’t they want it to be.” Not just “they” – the BEKAH have written the play if I couldn’t see both media – but also people who are out to sides. My parents share the same beliefs as misconstrue what you’re saying to fit it into BRUNSTETTER this baker, so I can’t turn my back on it. And their narrative. I can’t turn off my empathy, so I’m stuck When your father supported the 2011 PLAYWRIGHT, THE CAKE trying to figure out what to do. Defense of Marriage Act, also known as If the Supreme Court rules in favor of the Amendment One, that defines marriage as BEKAH BRUNSTETTER hails from Winston- Masterpiece Cake Shop, isn’t it a slippery only between one man and one woman, you Salem, North Carolina, and currently lives in slope to taking away same-sex marriage and said that your family was forced to “really other LGBT rights? confront our different belief systems.” What Los Angeles. She is a Supervising Producer was that confrontation like? I’m constantly playing devil’s advocate with on NBC’s critically-acclaimed hit series, This myself. It’s so complicated because I do It was more like awkwardness over dinner. see that it’s discrimination. If you have It wasn’t a blowout because I’m not gay. I’m Is Us. She has previously written for MTV’s a storefront that offers to make cakes for straight. Since high school, I’ve had many people, you need to make a cake for gay friends, and my support of them and Underemployed, ABC Family’s Switched at anyone who wants one. We would culturally their relationships has always been a point Birth, and Starz’s American Gods. Bekah’s plays understand the baker’s perspective – and of contention. My father helped to pass this I’m not equating the two at all – if he didn’t bill; he did not create it or bring it to the include: The Cake (Echo Theater Los Angeles, want to make a cake for a Satanist. People table. Nevertheless, it passed and his name are reacting with that same extreme feeling. was on it. I could no longer ignore what was Alley Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse), Going to happening within myself, my family, my I absolutely see how it is a slippery slope circle of friends, and my theater community. a Place where you Already Are (South Coast and could easily become refusing anyone I could no longer be silent. So during service at any time. What I don’t understand Repertory), The Oregon Trail (Portland Center conversations, I started to challenge my is this: Jesus stood for love and acceptance parents. But it wasn’t like a God of Carnage Stage, Flying V), Cutie and Bear, A Long and and hung out with prostitutes and lepers. How can this baker use Jesus to justify throw down. It was more like me simply Happy Life, Be A Good Little Widow (Ars Nova), discrimination? saying, “No, that’s wrong.” which was huge for me at the time. and Oohrah! (The Atlantic Theater, Steppenwolf You’ve said that there are lots of plays about lesbian couples like Jen and Macy in The A reviewer of this play faulted you for not Garage, the Finborough Theater / London). Cake, but not so many about Della, the forthrightly labeling Della “a bigot.” In response to that, a reader challenged the Bekah is currently working on two new musicals, owner of the bakery. “I’m fascinated by stories where somebody said this stupid reviewer with, “You still have to love your one with Cinco Paul and another with Karen O thing,” you have said, “and then all of a family. You still have to reach across the sudden, we all hate them, they’re horrible table . . . Della is lovable because most of from the band Yeah Yeah Yeahs. In feature films, people. I always have sympathy for them, the time your family members are lovable . . . You have to give people time to change, she wrote the screenplay adaptation of the because I say stupid things all the time.” reevaluate and change some more.” It’s so human to misspeak, especially now. book The Secret. Bekah is an alumna of the CTG Everything so quickly gets misquoted and That response was so beautiful. The reviewer, Writers Group, Primary Stages Writers Group, regurgitated and put on the internet and in fact, proved my point. He wasn’t self-aware shared and shared and shared. One tiny enough to realize that he was making a Ars Nova Play Group, The Playwright’s Realm, misstep can explode in a way that it couldn’t judgment about how a person should live in before. this world. I’m a straight, white woman, and and the Women’s Project Lab. She is currently a I need to remember that many people have My dad was a politician for years, and once member of the Echo Theater’s Playwright’s Lab. been marginalized all their lives and view I started building traction in my playwriting the world differently than I do . . . BA UNC Chapel Hill; MFA in Dramatic Writing career, he told me, “You’ve gotta be careful what you say,” and, “No matter what you Continue reading the interview online: from the New School for Drama. say, they’re going to twist it to whatever catf.org/cake-bekah-brunstetter

24 Gregory interview continued from page 21 same page about the fundamentals of Are we responsible for it? We are all D.W. verifiable facts, then we are in a state of responsible. I’ve taken a lot of heart from madness. what I’ve seen recently of engaged and active young people; for example, the GREGORY That is precisely what you write in your Parkland students who organized the notes at the end of your play: “When our “March for Our Lives” protest. These young PLAYWRIGHT agreed upon narrative is disrupted – so that people know that they must be physically MEMOIRS OF A FORGOTTEN MAN I deny your suffering, your sacrifice. Deny engaged because we no longer have the your very existence – we lose our bearings. luxury of not paying attention. These D.W. GREGORY’s plays frequently explore political We lose our way. Our very sanity. It becomes students are not intimidated. They are not issues through a personal lens. The New York a form of national madness.” allowing themselves to be silent. Times called her “a playwright with a talent to We’re losing our grip on reality because we Why did you set this play specifically in the enlighten and provoke” for her most produced can’t agree on the fundamentals of facts period of Stalin and his Terror campaign to themselves. I’m an old-school journalist who rewrite public memory? work, Radium Girls, about the famous case of grew up in the mainstream media, and industrial poisoning. Other plays include Memoirs I kind of backed into this play when I came I’ve been appalled for a long time by this of a Forgotten Man; Molumby’s Million, nominated narrative that every major newspaper across a book – The Mind of a Mnemonist and network in this country is somehow by A.R. Luria – a Soviet neurologist. The for a Barrymore Award by Philadelphia Theatre swimming in liberal bias. This narrative book is the author’s account of working Alliance; The Good Daughter, October 1962; and with a young man who had a limitless undermines the press. At one point Trump a new musical comedy, The Yellow Stocking memory as well as synesthesia – turning called the press, “The enemy of the people” Play, with composer Steven M. Alper and lyricist – a line straight out from Stalin; straight out sounds into vivid visual imagery. I was of Animal Farm. The first step in the direction intrigued and thought he would make a Sarah Knapp. She is also a two-time finalist of tyranny is undermining the press. fascinating character and his story would for the Heideman Award at Actor’s Theater of make a fascinating play, but I didn’t really Louisville, where her short comedy So Tell Me In his book On Tyranny, historian Timothy have a handle on what the play would be. Snyder writes that Americans have about This Guy was produced on a bill of short I was also intrigued by what Luria left out settled for a “a self-induced intellectual works. In addition, Gregory writes for youth of his account. He was working with his coma.” How much as we to blame? Are we patient in the 1920s and 1930s and even into theatre and makes occasional appearances as a accommodating? the 1950s, but there is almost no reference teaching artist. Her new drama, Salvation Road, We’ve accepted the erosion of some to the world outside. This made sense recently released by Dramatic Publishing, was foundational norms, but we still have a free because in that time and place, the less you the winner of the American Alliance for Theatre press. We still have – despite efforts to said about that world, the better. Here was undermine it – a democracy. We still have someone with a novel memory for vivid in Education’s Playwrights in Our Schools Award the principle that no one is above the law, detail, time and dates, how things tasted, and developed through New York University’s New not even the President of the United States. smelled, and looked; living in a time and place Plays for Young Audiences program. Her work It is frightening to see the degree to which where the regime was trying to rewrite has also received the support of the National Congress, particularly the Republicans in history and public memory and that Congress, have completely capitulated and someone is unable to forget anything. The Endowment for the Arts, the National New Play given up their Constitutional responsibility juxtaposition of those two things ultimately Network, the Maryland Arts Council (she is a to act as a check on the Executive Branch took me to writing this play . . . two-time winner of the Individual Artist Award in of government. continue reading the interview online: Playwriting), the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the When your party is in power and you don’t catf.org/memoirs-forgotten-man-d-w-gregory/ New Harmony Project and the HBMG Foundation. question when the Executive is overreaching A member of the Dramatists’ Guild, Gregory is also and going beyond constitutional authority, an affiliated writer with The Playwrights’ Center then you’re responsible for giving up that ground. A completely compliant Congress in Minneapolis and an affiliated artist with NNPN. is not at all what the Founders had in mind. More information can be found on her website at DWGregory.com and at dramaticpublishing.com. 25 THIRST DIRECTED BY ADRIENNE CAMPBELL-HOLT SPONSORED BY CATF TRUSTEES SID STOLZ & SCOTT WIDMEYER SETTING & TIME: A WORLD PREMIERE A CLEARING IN THE WOODS AND AN OFFICE INSIDE A WATER MANUFACTURING FACILITY. LATER THIS CENTURY AFTER A DEBILITATING CIVIL WAR. THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF A LOCALLY BROKERED PEACE.

CAST: KALIL COOLIE SCENIC DESIGN STAGE MANAGER JALON CHRISTIAN JUSTIN WITHERS JESSE DREIKOSEN LORI M. DOYLE SAMIRA TERRANCE COSTUME DESIGNER ASSISTANT STAGE MONET RYAN NATHANIEL GEORGE TREVOR BOWEN MANAGER CATE AGIS GRETA BANKHEAD LIGHTING DESIGN JESSICA SAVAGE WILLIAM OLIVER WATKINS TONY GALASKA CASTING DIRECTORS PAT MCCORKLE, CSA SOLDIER/FIGHT CAPTAIN SOUND DESIGN KATJA ZAROLINSKI, CSA BRYCE HARGROVE ELISHEBA ITTOOP Run Time: 100 minutes FIGHT DIRECTOR Performed without an intermission. TECHNICAL DIRECTOR AARON ANDERSON KASSIDY COBURN Warning: performance contains smoke, ASST. FIGHT DIRECTOR simulated blood and firearms. JOE MYERS Thirst was developed with the support of PlayPenn: Paul Meshejian, Artistic Director

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CATF: You’ve said that your writing is We scrape by even in the direst of emotional straits, but if you inspired by “the hard truths.” What hard don’t have the resources that keep you alive, that’s it. How do I truths are in your play, Thirst? raise the stakes in a play about the complexities of gender and race? How do I have that universal conversation in a way that C.A. Johnson: The hard truths are the reaches more people without giving them the out that they are ones buried beneath intersecting ideas, simply inside the trappings of a very specific play? Without giving identities and people. Thirst puts a lot of them permission to say, “Yes, I see that trauma, but I wouldn’t people in motion and conflict and, inside have experienced it because I am not a black woman from this of that motion and conflict, they bump up against things that are, place and this time.” But if you make the trauma about the most to me, the real battles. Maybe Thirst is about politics, maybe it’s essential thing – the moment when you feel thirst – no version of about gender, maybe it’s about special preferences, maybe it’s all you can say, “I’ve never felt that.” of these things . . . or maybe, it’s just a play about how hard it is to let go. About the water crisis in Cape Town South Africa, Guilio Boccaletti, the global managing director for water with the Nature Conservancy The very last line of W.H. Auden’s poem, First Things First is, said, “Inequity plays out in water very obviously and what we’re “Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.” seeing in Cape Town risks becoming an example of that. The social

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SETTING & TIME: ALEXANDRA’S FARMHOUSE. JUNE 9, 2015 AND THE BEFORE.

CAST: ALEXANDRA ALEX SCENIC DESIGN STAGE MANAGER JOEY PARSONS SAM MORALES JESSE DREIKOSEN LORI M. DOYLE YOUNG FRANKIE FRANKIE COSTUME DESIGN TECHNICAL DIRECTOR RUBY RAKOS JESSICA SAVAGE TREVOR BOWEN KASSIDY COBURN LIGHTING DESIGN ASSISTANT STAGE TONY GALASKA MANAGER Run Time: 90 minutes. CATE AGIS Performed without an intermission. SOUND DESIGN ELISHEBA ITTOOP CASTING DIRECTOR The House on the Hill was originally commissioned by PAT MCCORKLE, CSA Atlantic Theater Company: Neil Pepe, Artistic Director, KATJA ZAROLINSKI, CSA Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director. Supported, in part, by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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CATF: Why is this play called, The House we can’t quite understand. In our own houses that we build we fill on the Hill, and not something like, Long it with things to try and make sense of our own lives. What is a Day’s Journey into the Past? right-sized emotion for trauma? How can we protect ourselves but keep up an exterior image of who other people think we are? Amy E. Witting: The house is another How did we get to where we are? What do we do with each of the character in the play. We all – I know I do rooms inside of us? – create containers for trauma. In this particular house, Alexandra has created a In other notes, you write that the house has a “heartbeat.” sanctuary in different compartments to hold the pain of a specific This particular house is almost like another person. Alexandra and event she experienced. the house interact. She is able to interact with her emotional pain Your notes for the play include a beautiful description of the role by creating a house that is comfortable for her. I think that there’s of the house. [Following are part of those notes:] a way we kennel certain things after a particular loss to keep the memory alive. The House on the Hill is a container for all the pain and trauma Alexandra, or really we all, hold inside of ourselves. I believe we In the past, one of my boyfriends – Charlie – passed away while create shelters for ourselves to contain the emptiness and pain he was in Ireland. I went to visit the house where he lived and this

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C.A. contract breaks down if the rich find their own about large men with big dreams trying to solution and leave the rest to fend for conquer the world. Right beside them were themselves.” the realistically resilient women who took care of everyone else but themselves. We JOHNSON A fellow playwright once sat in on a reading don’t have enough plays yet where we can of Thirst, and afterwards said, “Imagine a PLAYWRIGHT, THIRST imagine what it’s like for a woman to take world where a small sector of black men care of herself, although that’s shifted in the suddenly have power they can wield and they C. A. JOHNSON hails from Metairie, Louisiana, last half century. The strong black woman can wield that power for good.” We try to stereotype is complete bull and doesn’t allow imagine futures in which we suddenly have but currently lives and writes in Queens. Her that woman to be a person with interiority power and would wield it in an unquestioning, or anxiety or any of those things that make loving way. But in Thirst these men aren’t her normal or human. I want to write plays plays include Thirst (2017 Kilroys List, 2017 doing that, or at least they are and failing for that give you some version of a woman’s totally petty, personal reasons. Our own pain strength and resilience that is true and not PlayPenn Conference), The Climb, All the Natalie can corrupt the good in us. a stereotype. I want to show you the cracks Why is the moral center of this play a boy and dare her to show them to you. The Portmans, An American Feast (NYU Playwrights between the ages of nine and eleven? reason I call it impossible is because it’s been deemed impossible for so long, but the Kids have brutal honesty because they haven’t truth is that it’s very possible. We’ve known Horizons Theater School), Mother Tongue, and learned how or why we sometimes hush the women our entire lives who are like that so truth. They just say what they think. Some why aren’t we seeing more of them? Elroy Learn His Name. She is a member of the kids become what I call “super adult children” who have all the joy of a kid playing with a What do you think of this perspective from Margaret Atwood? “Why do men feel 2017 Working Farm at SPACE on Ryder Farm toy car, but are also constantly taking in the evils of the world and trying to translate them threatened by women?’ I asked a male friend into something good. They are trying to blend of mine. … ‘They’re afraid women will laugh and a Core Writer at the Playwrights Center. at them,’ he said. ‘Undercut their world view.’ what’s true about the cruelty of people with … Then I asked some women students in a their childhood innocence. “Yes,” they say, poetry seminar I was giving, ‘Why do women She was previously The Lark’s 2016-17 Van Lier “all those things are true, but the sun is feel threatened by men?’ ‘They’re afraid of coming up tomorrow.” being killed,’ they said.” Playwriting Fellow, a 2016-2017 Dramatists Guild Kalil – the young boy in your play – says, “I Those comments are obviously spot-on. We know fightin’ ain’t good, but sometimes, not Fellow, and a member of The Civilians R&D are constantly in these conversations about all the time, but sometimes . . . it’s necessary.” where we’re headed and some of that is What are you willing to do to survive? because for a long time we’ve been having Group. Her work has been developed with The That’s something I think about a lot especially legal conversations about parity and paid when I’m inside these plays. I’ve always said family leave . . . all these things that matter Lark, Luna Stage, Open Bar Theatricals, The that I will be the best version of myself after to women and mothers. These conversations I have children. I don’t know why I think that, are necessary and now so are big movements Dennis and Victoria Ross Foundation, and The but I know that sometimes when my mother like MeToo. What does it mean when women looks at me, there’s this thing in her eyes that say to men, “Here are the things that you’ve says, “Yeah, yeah, you – I would die for.” done to me.” It scares the crap out of men. I Fire This Time Festival. Most recently, C.A. was find it exciting and good because women have In your artistic statement, you say, “I like to been terrified forever . . . named the 2018 P73 Playwriting Fellow and a imagine the impossible in my work, those sublime moments when a woman discovers continue reading the interview online catf.org/thirst-c-johnson Sundance/Ucross Fellow. BA: Smith College her own truth and finds herself suddenly bare before an audience.” Why is this impossible? MFA: NYU. For a long time, the American theater was

30 Witting interview continued from page 29 giant house felt so sad, like it had its own It was years before I was able to stand on a AMY E. energy, its own feelings, and also contained solid foundation. pieces of him that we never talked about. I How did you survive grief? How do any of us saw those little things and held onto them. survive grief? WITTING We hold onto our pain to hold onto the memory of the person or the thing that we My first defense was drinking a lot so I PLAYWRIGHT, loved. wouldn’t have to think about it. It helped me THE HOUSE ON THE HILL to move forward. Once that became an issue, The reason I may have a lot of wisdom about I stopped drinking and then began a lot of AMY E. WITTING finally admits she is from New trauma is that I experienced many deaths at a self-care. Writing and therapy really helped. very young age. You can’t really talk about your Jersey, although she now resides in Sunnyside, own trauma until you sift through it and spend The movie, Coco, shows how we need to talk New York. She received her bachelor’s degree time processing it. Another boyfriend – Brandt about and remember people who have from Ithaca College and her MFA in playwriting – died in 2011 when he fell off a cliff in Africa. touched our lives and are no longer with us. from Hunter College. Her plays include The House That death is specific to this play in that there It doesn’t matter how long we’ve known on the Hill (Atlantic Theater Inaugural LAUNCH was no chance of having a memorial because them or whatever our relationship was with Commission, NNPN National Showcase, CATF they weren’t able to bring his body back to them. If you feel pain about the loss, that World Premiere), Anne Page Hates Fun (ASC America for a service. They brought back his pain is valid. Upcoming World Premiere), The Midnight Ride ashes and we had a memorial here in Brooklyn. Is there any forgiveness in this play? of Sean & Lucy (Roundabout Underground It felt like there wasn’t any closure at all. Workshop featuring Elisabeth Moss & Bryce For Alexandra there is forgiveness of self Pinkham, Semi-finalist 2017 O’Neil Playwrights The play explains why we need a place to go throughout the play. At the end, she does Conference), Day 392 (The Kennedy Center to mourn tremendous losses. Mourning come to a place of being open to the process ACTF/NNPN MFA Playwrights Workshop, Hunter Charlie, by being able to go to Ireland and of forgiveness. She becomes open to Playwrights Week, Honorable Mention Kilroy’s visit a specific place and experience time forgiving Frankie. with people who loved him felt, very different List), and A Bad Night: A Documentary Play from mourning Brandt, who died while What is worse? Being a victim of childhood About Consent (MTC’s Creative Center, June traveling in a foreign country then not having trauma or not being able to forgive childhood Havoc Theatre, Upcoming NY Rep Workshop). anywhere to go to mourn. I felt lost. trauma? She has received a Jerome Foundation Emerging Artist Fellowship, NEA Grant, The Anne Freedman They are equally as devastating. What I love We don’t openly talk about our grief or we Grant, and winner of the 2018 Shakespeare’s about the journey of this play is that we get compare our pain with other people’s pain. New Contemporaries Prize. She also has been In our current world especially, we’re living to see the love Alexandra and Frankie had for each other before the incident. Not only a nominee for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, in a post-traumatic stress environment. I are they grappling with that loss, but they Weissberger Award, Stavis Award, and Theatre want my play to give people permission to are also grappling with the loss of their Visions Award. Her plays have been developed talk about their pain and grief. relationship. After a trauma, you become a at Atlantic Theater Company, Roundabout You preface your play with this quote from different person. Theatre, The Lark Play Development Center, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The SPACE on Ryder Farm, Pipeline PlayLAB, Tofte We have empathy for victims of an awful loneliest moment in someone’s life is when Lake Center, Unicorn Theatre, NJ Rep, National tragedy, but seldom for the perpetrator. We they are watching their whole world fall apart, New Play Network, and The Kennedy Center. rarely put under the microscope the family and all they can do is stare blankly.” She is currently under commission from The of the perpetrator. Aren’t they victims, too? Queens Council on the Arts for her upcoming At some point in their life, everyone has a I struggle with this a lot, because I like to project Sunnyside Impressions. Amy is a member moment when they realize that their world think that we are all born from goodness; of The Dramatists Guild, affiliated artist with is falling apart. Those moments are frozen that we all have an opportunity for a second National New Play Network, a member of Mission in time. When I got the phone call that Charlie chance. During some readings of this play, I to Ditmars Propulsion Lab, and founder of aWe had died, I remember watching the world received a lot of strong criticism for . . . Creative Group. While she is not writing, Amy around me falling apart and realizing that is busy working in the New York Public School my life was going to be different. I was continue reading the interview online: system as a Teaching Artist where she most paralyzed and didn’t really know what to do. catf.org/house-hill-amy-e-witting/ recently curated an original play about young immigrants called Catch Me in America. Leading 31 with love is her most important credit. BERTA, BERTA

SPONSORED BY PETER EMCH DIRECTED BY REGINALD L. DOUGLAS SPONSORED BY LAWRENCE DEAN & MINA GOODRICH A WORLD PREMIERE SETTING & TIME: BERTA’S HOME IN MERIDIAN, MISSISSIPPI. EARLY 1920s.

CAST: LEROY SCENIC DESIGN STAGE MANAGER JASON BOWEN LUCIANA STECCONI JEREMY PHILLIPS BERTA COSTUME DESIGN CASTING DIRECTORS BIANCA LAVERNE JONES SARITA FELLOWS PAT MCCORKLE, CSA KATJA ZAROLINSKI, CSA LIGHTING DESIGN JOHN AMBROSONE SOUND DESIGN DAVID REMEDIOS TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Run Time: 90 minutes. MIGUEL ANGEL LOPEZ Performed without an intermission. Warning: mature content.

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CATF: You first heard the song, Berta, of their origins in African song traditions, while others were instituted Berta, while watching a production of to raise morale. Still others were used as a form of rebellion and August Wilson’s, The Piano Lesson. You resistance. But Berta, Berta is a love song. said that the song pierced you in a very What’s so striking about Berta, Berta, is that people from all over haunting way. Why? have sung this for decades and have no idea who the man is who Angelica Chéri: Sound has a reverberation, originated this song or who the woman is who is the subject of and the firsttime we hear a type of music, this song. Every man who sang this song had his own Berta. He our bodies have to adjust to it. I’m used to gospel, hip hop, jazz, R&B – had the same longing, disenfranchisement, and captivity. Where different forms of music from the African American heritage that I have did this song come from? I had to write an origin story. a reference point for. I didn’t have a reference point for the way a field Why do you even want to know where the song came from? song would vibrate with my body. I had read The Piano Lesson, and it Obviously, I’m a romantic. The way that stories come to me is that they was easy to skip over the song, Berta, Berta. But when I was in the same visit me in a moment. It was one thing to have a Berta, Berta moment room with this song, I was overwhelmed. in the theater, it was another thing to hear this again on YouTube and American work songs were sung by enslaved people to remind them yet again in the context of hip-hop. Berta, Berta was showing me that

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CAST: RONALD REAGAN SCENIC DESIGN STAGE MANAGER JOHN KEABLER LUCIANA STECCONI TINA SHACKLEFORD COSTUME DESIGN PROJECTIONS DESIGN VOICES: SARITA FELLOWS Aaron Anderson, Tom Brooks, Hans Fogle, Ryan Nathaniel CHRISTOPHER ERBE, George, Kelly Gibson, Dan Karlin, Constance McCashin, LIGHTING DESIGN TARAN SCHATZ Karen McDonald, David McElwee, Joshua Midgett, Lee JOHN AMBROSONE Sellars, Anatoly Smeliansky, Julia Smeliansky, Zoe TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Thomas, Gabrielle Tokach, Kirsten Trump, William Oliver SOUND DESIGN MIGUEL ANGEL LOPEZ Watkins, Sam Weisman, Justin Withers DAVID REMEDIOS CASTING DIRECTORS ORIGINAL MUSIC PAT MCCORKLE, CSA DEWEY DELLAY KATJA ZAROLINSKI, CSA

Run Time: 85 minutes. Performed without an intermission. Supported, in part, by a grant from the Laurents/Hatcher Foundation.

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CATF: What’s the story behind the Something about Reagan was very elusive. Some things were development of this play with CATF? more familiar to me – the sorts of odd jobs you did as a kid and Michael Weller: An actor who had played certain domestic things – but the elusiveness of him as a person Ronald Reagan in a TV movie wanted to do made it very difficult to get a sense of who he was. Other accounts a one-man show about Reagan. Our all seemed to come to this similar conclusion. I thought, “What respective agents were from the same would it be like to try to embody the events associated with Reagan? agency, so I was asked if I would be How might Reagan remember them? How might he want to portray interested in writing it. Politically, I am from himself?” So I started writing it. the other side of the world, and I said that it was very unlikely, but let me read about Reagan. As I did, he just started to fascinate me. I connected with Ed Herendeen about another play of mine that had some controversy at Brandeis, and after telling him about this Why? What did you read? Reagan monologue, Ed invited me to try it out at CATF. Meanwhile, I read H.W. Brands biography, Reagan: A Life, of course, as well as the actor unexpectedly pulled out of the play, so we had a crisis Reagan’s autobiography and notes and a stack of other resources meeting, asking ourselves, “How do we move ahead? How do we covering his life from all different angles. do this?”

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ANGELICA it’s still relevant. But the story behind it was not The reason why Leroy winds up in jail the first available. time is because a sheriff fabricated a crime. ‘ The time was cotton season and the crop had In an interview you said that the mystery to be harvested. “We don’t have enough CHERI behind writing this play “became exploring people to harvest all the cotton,” thought the Leroy’s psychosis.” PLAYWRIGHT, BERTA, BERTA sheriff, “so we need to lock up more people.” It’s no secret that Leroy is going to jail; ANGELICA CHÉRI is a playwright, musical theatre Parchman Prison is the haunted setting in otherwise we don’t have a prison song to Jesmyn Ward’s National Book Award-winning bookwriter/lyricist, screenwriter, and poet. The reference. So I started with that. Why is he 2017 novel, Sing, Unburied, Sing. Ward has plays of her Prophet’s Cycle Trilogy include The going to jail? What did he do? After many said, “By the numbers, by all the official Seeds of Abraham (Signature Theatre, Billie iterations and drafts, it became clear that he records, here at the confluence of history, of Holiday Theatre, mentored by Lynn Nottage), had been to jail before and was haunted to be racism, of poverty, and economic power, this The Sting of White Roses (North Carolina Black at Parchman Prison again. is what our lives are worth: nothing.” Repertory Company, National Black Theatre Festival) and Crowndation; I Will Not Lie to David I wanted to bring into the conversation the Look at Freddie Gray. Look at Mike Brown. I (National Black Theatre-I AM SOUL Residency). prison industrial complex – the wrongful could go on – this mentality of our lives being Other plays include Slow Gin Fits (Fire This Time imprisonment for the sake of commerce – expendable either by imprisonment or death. Festival) and The Yin & The Yang (Columbia because it is still a prevalent issue in the The mindset of the American commercial University). Angelica is currently commissioned African American and Hispanic communities, infrastructure is still, “This is labor.” You see by Peppercorn Theatre to write and develop a communities of color. it happening now with immigration. I live in new children’s play for their upcoming season. Los Angeles and witness this mentality about Berta, Berta first received readings at the Leroy shows up at Berta’s door knowing that Mexicans and Hispanics: “These people work National Black Theatre and Playwright’s he’s done something that’s going to earn his for us. They do this kind of labor.” If it’s not a Foundation; it was one of twenty-five finalists way back to an institution where he did not black person, it’s a brown person. Some form out of 500 submissions for the 2017 Bay Area deserve to be the first time he was there. Once of infrastructure both in our American psyche Playwrights Festival. Angelica was the Master you get looped into that prison industrial and in our commerce necessitates slave labor. Playwright in the Frank Silvera Writer’s Workshop complex – that prison pipeline – you’re stuck. Berta, Berta is a love story. Can love redeem Inaugural 3in3 Playwright Festival, and has Even when you get out, something is going to evil – all the injustice going on outside of written for the Obie-Award-Winning 48 Hours pull you back. That was Leroy’s psychosis. Berta’s house? in Harlem Festival. She and collaborator Ross In the play, Leroy says, “That’s what they do Their love highlights the evil that they are Baum have developed their musical Gun & to us Berta. Colored men. Decide we ain’t faced with, the evil that keeps them apart. Powder at Goodspeed Opera, Two River Theater, slaves no more, but find another way to own Prison is the only reason why they are not the NYU Center for New Musicals and the 2017 our time.” African Americans are incarcerated able to be together. The narrative of it will be SigWorks Lab, with public presentations in the at more than five times the rate of whites. One one of disenfranchisement, which is the same Broadway’s Future Songbook concert series at in three black men can expect to go to prison narrative of so many of our people and our Lincoln Center and in the Drama League’s 2018 in their lifetime according to the Bureau of history. The prison industrial complex for DirectorFest, and are the current recipients of Justice Statistics. Berta, Berta was something that naturally the prestigious Richard Rodgers Award sprang from digging deeper into the narrative, for Musical Theatre.. Also with Baum, Angelica The United States was and has always been but the core of it was always the love story. was commissioned by Diverging Elements founded on the premise and the foundation Theatre Company to write the short children’s of slavery. All the industries of the South We don’t have enough narrative in our canon play, A Letter to Auntie Rosa as well as the started with slavery. The 13th Amendment of African American stories that highlights official anthem of the National Children’s abolished slavery with one caveat – people love. It’s always about the pain of dis- Theater of South Africa. Angelica received her could not be enslaved and work for free unless enfranchisement, violence or injustice. . . BA in Theatre from UCLA, MFA in Playwriting they were in prison. That caveat made it from Columbia University and MFA in Musical possible for the commercial infrastructure to continue reading the interview online: Theatre Writing from NYU. AngelicaCheri.com still exist and rely on the labor of prisoners. catf.org/berta-berta-angelica-cheri

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For the future of the play and also because of a successful life and community, and if you MICHAEL certain elements I had discovered while writing leave them alone, they’ll all see to each the piece, we began to wonder what would other’s well-being and so forth – is the happen if this play that began as an interview behavior of Republicans. My relatives are WELLER with Reagan near his 82nd birthday was a good advertisement for that behavior. In actually played by a younger person. What general, however, the Republican Party is PLAYWRIGHT, A LATE MORNING. . . would that yield in terms an ability to connect a terrible advertisement for human nature. with Reagan in a certain way? We were More and more people seem to be saying, Best known plays: Moonchildren, Loose Ends, intrigued, so moved ahead with that idea. “Maybe we do need help from the State Spoils of War, and Fifty Words. Movies: Hair, because people aren’t going to help out if You have said, “It’s where I am in the bigger Ragtime, Lost Angels. Based on private left to the natural forces of human nature.” journey of a play and what I’m trying to work I’ve always been puzzled that people can mentoring throughout his career, Weller out in it that matters to me.” What kind of hold the idea of totaling trusting human journey are you on in A Late Morning (in designed the acclaimed Mentor Project of the America)? nature to take care of the world, unfettered and uncontrolled. Cherry Lane Theatre, and served for its first I was raised by Communists. My parents met ten years as Supervising Mentor. He has won at a John Reed Club and were members of On the other side is a person like Reagan the WPA. They were friendly with Russians and his ilk whose reductio is you can’t trust an Academy Award nomination, an N.A.A.C.P. because Russians were our allies during World the State to take everything over and control Outstanding Contribution Award, Critics Outer War II. Left-wing people dominated much of your life. I’ve come to the idea that there’s American intellectual life, and this was something in the middle that’s corrupted by Circle Award, a Rockefeller Foundation Grant, the idea of no government because too many atmosphere that I knew as a child. I grew into the Flora Roberts Award of the Dramatists Guild other ideas myself, but it’s still very much in me people are blindly entering politics with little that labor’s prize is capital and more of it should training, insight, excellence, and expertise. of America for distinguished playwriting, and They get disillusioned and don’t hold steady be in the hands of people who are responsible the Helen Merrill Award. The Broken Watch for generating it. the way professional European politicians seem to do. They don’t understand politics Theatre Company named their playhouse in Many members of the family I married into are to be a career like medicine. This attracts a his honor. He received a Brandeis Creative Republicans. I wondered what it might be like lot of ideological loonies. to honestly enter the mind of a person – really, Arts Award for 2017, and was commissioned an icon – who seems to have been quite Early on in your play, Reagan asks, “. . . how to write an original play for them, Buyer straightforward, genuine in his heart and stood could a near-sighted, would-be football player, ex-lifeguard who never quite made it for virtually everything I don’t like. What would Beware, centering around the legacy of Lenny to the top in Hollywood become leader of it be like to find out how he could hold his values? the free world?” He attributed it to television. Bruce and his challenging comedy’s effect on You are known for your play, Moon Children, Does this explain our current leader of the contemporary students. It was set to premiere about eight college students living communally free world? in an off-campus attic in the mid-1960s, as well at Brandeis in November, but due to Lenny I have no idea what explains our current as the screenplay for the movie version of the leader. I don’t think anybody does. To be Bruce’s effect on contemporary students – it musical, Hair. Both are opposite the Reagan blunt – he was elected by Russians, and spectrum. did not open as scheduled. that’s not really America. It’s America off The Republicans in my family are among the guard, and now the offguarded-ness is being His most recent play, Jericho, based on Ferenc most decent people I’ve met. In terms of their taken double advantage of . . . conduct and how you might feel about a world Molnar’s celebrated international hit Liliom, full of people like this, Republicanism would continue reading the interview online: catf.org/late-morning-america-ronald- (known best in its musical form as Carousel) be a happy idea. The final reductio of the reagan-michael-weller opened in New York at the Wild Project in Republican idea – “less government is better,” and you can trust people to be an example of January, 2018.

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THE CAKE by Bekah Brunstetter THE HOUSE ON THE HILL by Amy E. Witting SPONSORED BY KATHA KISSMAN SPONSORED BY CATF TRUSTEES PETE HOFFMAN, JEANNE MUIR, & RB SEEM SINGLE PERFORMANCES: SINGLE PERFORMANCE: Saturday, July 7, Opening Night 8:30PM Sponsored by Mario Durham & Craig Horness Saturday, July 7, Opening Night 8:30PM Sponsored by Marjorie Weingold Friday, July 13, 8:30PM Sponsored by James G. Gatz & G. Benjamin Baker Sunday, July 15, 6:30PM Sponsored by The Residents of BERTA, BERTA by Angelica Chéri The Woods Hedgesville, WV SPONSORED BY LAWRENCE DEAN & MINA GOODRICH Shirley Marcus Allen & Lloyd H. Buckner, Rosalee Chiara, Donna J. Dean & John L. Meyer, Isabel P. Dunst, SINGLE PERFORMANCES: Alan & Cynthia Kehr, Beverly McNeill, Audrey Rowe, Friday, July 6, Opening Night 2:00PM Emma J. Stokes, Rose Herr Wayland and Ramona Zammetti Sponsored by Ray & Robin Fidler

Thursday, July 12, 6:00PM Sponsored by John & Patty Bachner MEMOIRS OF A FORGOTTEN MAN by D.W. Gregory Saturday, July 21, 8:30PM SPONSORED BY PETER EMCH Sponsored by Jenny Ewing Allen, To congratulate the artistic team of “Berta, Berta” and its stage director SINGLE PERFORMANCE: Reginald L. Douglas from City Theatre Company Friday, July 20, 8:30PM Sponsored by Richard Krajeck & Anita Difanis A LATE MORNING (IN AMERICA) WITH RONALD REAGAN by Michael Weller THIRST by C.A. Johnson SPONSORED BY EDWARD MOORE & PAUL S. GARRARD

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AARON ANDERSON*** CATE AGIS* Fight Director Assistant Stage Manager Aaron is thrilled to be returning to CATF – as it is his absolute THIRST / THE HOUSE ON THE HILL favorite place to pretend to beat people up. He is a former US Army CATF Credits: H20. Broadway: Miss Saigon (ASM), Natasha, Pierre, explosive ordinance specialist and current university professor at and the Great Comet of 1812 (PA). Off Broadway/New York: Sleep Virginia Commonwealth University. He is internationally certified No More, National Theatre of Scotland’s The Strange Undoing as a fight director with the Society of American Fight Directors and of Prudenica Hart, Ragtime: On Ellis Island, Roundabout Theater the British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat and has taught Company, Oregon Shakespeare Festival Play On!. Regional: at universities and theaters across the United States and Europe, American Repertory Theatre, ArtsEmerson, Actors’ Shakespeare including the Banff Center for the Performing Arts, London’s City Project, The Hanover Theater. Literary Institute, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, London’s Italia Conti School of Performing Arts, Northwestern University, The University of Illinois, North Carolina School of the JOHN AMBROSONE** Arts, and the University of Hawaii. Favorite shows at CATF include Lighting Design The Wedding Gift, Not Medea, On Clover Road, Everything You Touch, BERTA, BERTA / A LATE MORNING… H2O, Heartless, Modern Terrorism: Or They Who Want to Kill us and How We Learn to Love Them, Scott and Hem in the Garden of Allah, CATF: The Niceties, Wild Horses, Not Medea, On Clover Road, Barcelona, Captors, Gidion’s Knot, In a Forest Dark and Deep, Ages Everything You Touch, Uncanny Valley, H2O, Barcelona, The of The Moon, Lidless, Fifty Words, History of Light, Farragut North, Exceptionals, We Are Here, Race, Yankee Tavern, Farragut North. The Overwhelming, Stick Fly, and Pig Farm. Aaron is a member of Broadway: The Old Neighborhood. Off Broadway: Uncanny Valley the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers union. (59E59 St. Theatres), Nocturne (New York Theatre Workshop). US Tour: The King Stag. International Designs: Sao Paulo, Brazil; Strasbourg, France; Berlin, Germany; Tokyo, Japan; London, DEBRA A. ACQUAVELLA* England; Leon, Mexico; Singapore; Moscow, Russia; and Taipei, Production Stage Manager Taiwan. Regional Theatre: American Repertory Theatre, Alley THE CAKE / MEMOIRS OF A FORGOTTEN MAN Theatre, Arena Stage, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Capital Deb is delighted to be back at CATF for her thirteenth season. No Repertory, Clarence Brown Theatre, Coconut Grove Playhouse, stranger to new play festivals, Deb spent fifteen seasons working Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Merrimack as the Production Stage Manager of Actors Theatre of Louisville, Repertory, People’s Light & Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre where she stage managed dozens of premieres in the Humana Company, PlayMaker’s Repertory Company, Prince Music Theatre, Festival of New American Plays. Other regional credits include four Ridge Theatre, Royal George Theatre of Chicago, Trinity Repertory seasons at Baltimore’s Center Stage, Mala, by Melinda Lopez at Company, Virginia Stage Company. Professional Affiliations: The Huntington Theatre & The Guthrie Theatre, Trinity Repertory John is a member of the United Scenic Artists Local 829, United Company, Studio Arena Theatre, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, States Institute for Theatre Technology. Teaching: Head, MFA/ Barter Theatre, and Breath and Imagination by Daniel Beaty at BA Lighting Design at Virginia Tech. Boston’s Paramount Theatre. On Broadway, Deb was PSM of the long-running Metamorphoses at Circle in the Square, Master Harold… and the boys, and Jane Eyre – the Musical. Off-Broadway credits include Radio Macbeth, directed by Anne Bogart, Falsettos at This Theater operates under an agreement between the League Of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Playwrights Horizons, The Thing about Men at the Promenade Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Theatre, and Metamorphoses at Second Stage Theatre. In the off- *Actors’ Equity Association **United Scenic Artists ***Stage Directors and Choreographers Society season, Deb is the Head of the Stage and Production Management Program in the Performing Arts Department at Emerson College in Boston. Working professionally at CATF with her students is the best of both worlds!

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domestic was part of the NEA’s Shakespeare in American Communities RYAN NATHANIEL GEORGE* initiative. He has also served as Professor of Theatre for West Actor Virginia University and Scenic Carpenter and Props Artisan for the daytime drama As the World Turns. Josh is blessed by the THIRST font of creativity and endurance of his daughter, Corina. Ryan is a Miami raised, NYC based actor, with a BFA from the University of Florida. His NYC credits include the title role of TONY GALASKA Othello (Alchemical Theater Laboratory) and Jeb in Rush (Paradise Factory Theater). Lighting Design His Regional Credits include Oshoosi Size in The Brothers Size THIRST / THE HOUSE ON THE HILL (Gablestage), Fish in The Royale (Gablestage), Spike in Vanya and Tony Galaska is in his fifth season with CATF. Company design Sonya and Masha and Spike (Florida Rep), Caliban in The Tempest credits: Welcome to Fear City, We Will Not Be Silent, pen/man/ (Hippodrome Theater), Associate in The Christians (Riverside ship, The Second Girl, World Builders, The Ashes under Gait Theater) and Monk in Fault (TheatreSquared). He’s excited to be City, and Dead and Breathing. Tony has worked professionally here at CATF and honored to be in the world premiere of such a with companies such as Toy Box Theatre Company, The Gallery powerful and compelling play. Players, Wings Theatre Company, Metropolitan Playhouse, New Perspective Theatre Company, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (twelve seasons), and The Texas Shakespeare Festival KELLY GIBSON* (five seasons). Tony is currently Associate Professor of Lighting Design and Head of Design and Production at Florida International Actor University in Miami. He received his MFA in Lighting Design THE CAKE from Purdue University, a BFA from The University of Wisconsin Kelly Gibson, originally from Denver and Stevens Point, and an A.A. from The University of Wisconsin- now based in New York City, is thrilled to be Waukesha. Tony is currently the Chair of Design, Technology, making her CATF debut. She has performed and Management for The Kennedy Center American College internationally with Arcola Theatre (London), Theatre Festival Region IV. in New York with New York Classical Theatre, as well as regionally with Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Unicorn Theatre, Coterie Theatre, Kansas City Actors Theatre, and CLIFFORD GLOWACKI Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Favorite roles include Portia in The Technical Director Merchant of Venice, Cecile in Les Liaisons Dangereuse, and Madge in Picnic. She is also a fierce fiddler, lover of poetry, and enjoys THE CAKE / MEMOIRS OF A FORGOTTEN MAN involvement in new play/musical development while in NYC. Kelly Clifford Glowacki is the Technical Director (TD) for the Frank Center holds an MFA from University of Missouri at Kansas City, a BFA Theater, and is a three-year veteran of CATF. He has previously from University of Colorado at Denver, and is a proud member of worked as the TD for the Marinoff Theater in support of pen/man/ AEA. Her deepest thanks go out to the McCorkle Casting team, ship, The Second Girl, Welcome to Fear City, and We Will Not Be Eisen Associates, and her ever-supportive family. KellyGibson.me Silent. Since graduating with his BFA degree in Theater Design/ Technology, he has begun attending Florida State University in pursuit of an MFA in Technical Production. Cliff enjoys the creative, ED HERENDEEN*** collaborative atmosphere of CATF, and is proud to be a part of the new works produced here, in West Virginia’s oldest town. Founder & Producing Director MEMOIRS OF A FORGOTTEN MAN THE HOUSE ON THE HILL Ed Herendeen founded the Contemporary American Theater Festival in Shepherdstown, West Virginia in 1991 with the mission to produce and develop new American theater. Through his leadership, and operating under an AEA LORT D contract and an annual budget of over one million dollars, the theater Festival has

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Thomson on her workshop production of the musical staff after completing his graduate studies at adaption of the Wilkie Collins novel, The Woman in White at American University in Arts Administration. the Tribeca Performing Arts Center. She was the new play and During his time in the District of Columbia, he production dramaturg for David Toney’s Frankenstein: Dawn of worked with a handful of arts organizations a Monster (Virginia Commonwealth University). Shaun worked in various capacities, including the DeVos Institute of Arts at CATF in 2016 as the Assistant Director and Dramaturg 20th Management, GALA Hispanic Theatre, Young Playwright’s Theatre, Century Blues andThe Second Girl. In 2017, Shaun was the Assistant and American University’s Greenberg Theatre. While at American, Director and Dramaturg for We Will Not Be Silent and Everything Joshua studied abroad as a part of the University’s Certificate in is Wonderful. Shaun also directed a staged reading of Silas International Arts Management program, spending a semester at House’s Family of Strangers for CATF. Regionally, Shaun served Victoria University of Wellington studying Tourism Management. as the New Play Dramaturg for Lucia DelVecchio’s play, Off the He also served as the Financial Chair for the Emerging Arts Rails at the Magnetic Theatre. Leaders Symposium, an organization dedicated to inspiring conversation among current and future leaders in the arts about the spectrum of concerns facing the industry. In addition to PEGGY MCKOWEN his role at the Festival, Joshua has directed three Shepherd Associate Producing Director University productions. He currently serves on the Board of the JCCVB and is a proud alumnus of Leadership Jefferson Peggy McKowen’s association with CATF (LJ Once). Joshua has previously served as a Company and began in 2006, when she designed the Residence Manager for companies such as the Utah Shakespeare costumes for Mr. Marmalade and Jazzland. Festival, the Glimmerglass Festival, Dorset Theatre Festival, She joined the full-time staff the following and the Peterborough Players. His undergraduate studies were year. As designer, her work at CATF includes: at Keene State College in New Hampshire, where he earned a costumes for The Wedding Gift, Not Medea, Everything You Touch, Bachelor’s of Art in both Directing and Economics. 1001, H2O, Scott and Hem in the Garden of Allah; and scenery for From Prague, Wrecks, and Gidion’s Knot. Previously, Peggy was the resident designer for the Obie-award-winning Jean Cocteau CHASE MOLDEN Repertory in NY and the Phoenix Theatre Ensemble. 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41 CONGRESS STREET • BERKELEY SPRINGS, WV • 304-258-7888 • 877-258-7888 from Indiana and has spent the last 10 years traveling the country ERIKA ROLFSRUD* as a freelance stage manager. He’d like to thank Peggy and Deb Actor for the opportunity to work in such an amazing environment. Also, he gives many thanks to his parents who don’t know what THE CAKE he does exactly, but are really happy that he does it. MEMOIRS OF A FORGOTTEN MAN Erika Rolfsrud is thrilled to be making her CATF debut! Her credits include the RUBY RAKOS* Broadway productions of The Coast of Actor Utopia, The Big Knife, Exit the King, and Rabbit Hole. Some of her Off-Broadway credits include Electra in a THE HOUSE ON THE HILL One-Piece, Misalliance, The Glory of Living, How I Learned to Drive, Ruby is thrilled to make her CATF debut in Love’s Fire, Trout Stanley, O, Pioneers!, and more. Regionally, Erika The House on the Hill! Broadway: Billy Elliot has performed at the Old Globe Theatre (Sea of Tranquility, The (Tracey Atkinson). Regional: Judy Garland Seagull, Cymbeline, Henry IV, Dancing At Lughnasa, Macbeth, The in Chasing Rainbows: the Road to Oz (Flat Gate of Heaven), St Louis Repertory Theatre (Little Dog Laughed, Rock Playhouse/Goodspeed Opera House). She is a graduate Kevin Kline Best Actress Award), Cleveland Playhouse (Steel of the Professional Performing Arts School in New York City. Magnolias, The Game’s Afoot by Ken Ludwig, World Premiere), Huge thanks to Nicole and everyone at DGRW, Sally, Anthony, Hartford Theaterworks (Good People, Connecticut Critics Circle, her family, and Scout! Best Actress Award, Time Stands Still, Rabbit Hole), Pittsburgh Public Theatre (Rabbit Hole), Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey DAVID REMEDIOS (Shakespeare In Love, Misalliance, I Capture The Castle), Arizona ** Theatre Company (Bad Dates), ACT Theatre (Jumpers), and many Sound Design Shakespearean Festivals. She has appeared in the films Unsane BERTA, BERTA / A LATE MORNING… and Alone, and has been seen on TV in House of Cards, Law & David Remedios celebrates his 10th consecutive season at CATF. Order: SVU, The Knick, The Following, The Mysteries of Laura, He has designed sound for CATF’s The Niceties, Wild Horses, Blindspot, and more. Soon to be seen in Luke Cage and Younger. Not Medea, On Clover Road, Everything You Touch, North of ErikaRolfsrud.com the Boulevard, One Night..., Scott and Hem in the Garden of Allah, Modern Terrorism, Captors, In a Forest, Dark and Deep, The Insurgents, We Are Here, Inana, The Eelwax Jesus 3-D COURTNEY SALE Pop Music Show, Yankee Tavern, and Farragut North. Recent Director credits include The Villains’ Supper Club, Knyum, and The Royale THE CAKE (Merrimack Repertory Theatre); Old Money and Romeo and Juliet Courtney Sale is thrilled to be back at CATF (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); The Curious Incident after directing Allison Gregory’s Not Medea of the Dog in the Night-Time (IRNE Award, SpeakEasy Stage and Wild Horses. She is the current Artistic Company); and The Effect (Gloucester Stage, directed by Sam Director at Seattle Children’s Theatre (SCT), Weisman). David’s work has been heard regionally at Trinity Rep, where she is developing works with Idris Goodwin, James Still, 59E59, Geva Theatre Center, Huntington Theatre Company, Studio Karen Hartman, and Cheryl West. She served as the Associate Theatre, Portland Stage, Theatre for a New Audience, American Artistic Director at Indiana Repertory Theatre for three seasons, Repertory Theatre (50 productions), La Jolla Playhouse, and where select directing credits include The Mountaintop, The Cincinnati Playhouse, among many others, and internationally Mousetrap, Jackie & Me, The Giver, and the world premiere of at prominent arts festivals in Bogotá, Paris, Hong Kong, and April 4, 1968: Before We Forgot How to Dream. Other credits Edinburgh. David is Assistant Professor and Program Head of include Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play, and On Clover Road at the Sound Design at Boston University. RemediosSound.com. Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis; Zen Prayers & Songs at Fusebox Festival; and The Tempest and Twelfth Night for Heartland Rep. She has developed new work at Denver Center, NW Playwrights at Seattle Rep, New Harmony, The Orchard Project, Write Now, Dorset Theatre Festival, and New Plays for Young Audiences at NYU/Provincetown Playhouse. Up next she is working on the

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Four Seasons Books Shepherdstown School of Dance world premiere of Steven Dietz’s The Ghost of Splinter Cove Theatre). Film: James White, Tenderness, Curse of the Crimson at Charlotte Children’s Theatre. MFA, UT Austin. BFA, Cornish Mask, The Savages, Groundhog Day. Television: Deception, College of the Arts. Elementary, House of Cards (recurring), Mindhunter, Power (recurring), Luke Cage (recurring), Shades of Blue, Chappelle’s JESSICA SAVAGE* Show, The Sopranos, ER (recurring). Actor THIRST / THE HOUSE ON THE HILL TINA SHACKLEFORD* Jessica Savage is thrilled to be back at CATF! Stage Manager Previously at CATF: Byhalia, Mississippi and A LATE MORNING… Everything is Wonderful. Select Theater Tina Shackleford happily returns for her third season at CATF. credits include: By the Water (Manhattan Her regional credits include productions with Weston Playhouse, Theatre Club), Kimberly Akimbo (Barrington Stage Company) As La Jolla Playhouse, The Shakespeare Theatre, Saint Michael’s You Like It, Muckrakers (Chautauqua Theater Company). The Playhouse, Clarence Brown Theatre, Seattle Group Theatre, Juilliard School: Iphigenia and Other Daughters (dir. Ellen Lauren), Noel Gallagher’s Guitar (dir. Sam Buntrock), Smash (dir. Quantum Theatre, Zachary Scott Theatre Center, Actor’s Theatre Victor Pappas). Television: Quantico (ABC), Elementary (CBS). of Louisville, Riverside Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, and Awards: The Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater the Shakespeare Festival of Dallas, as well as collaborations Awards in Acting. Training: The Juilliard School. with Theatre de la Jeune Lune and the Latino performance group, Culture Clash. Recent ventures into the world of opera include Falstaff, Cendrillon, and Amahl and the Night Visitors for TARAN SCHATZ Resonance Works Pittsburgh. She was also Production Stage Projections Designer / Video Department Head & Engineer Manager for Iowa Summer Repertory and the Illinois Shakespeare Festival. Film credits include Graduation and Love and Bones. Tina A LATE MORNING... teaches Stage and Production Management at Carnegie Mellon Coming from a background in video and photography, Taran went School of Drama, where she is also the Option Coordinator for to Michigan Technological University to study sound design. By Production Technology and Management. For USITT, she is the gaining experience with all aspects of audio, including sound Management Commissioner, serves on the Board of Directors, design, mixing, recording, and system design, he established a and is active in the Institute’s Diversity programs. Tina holds an strong understanding of audio in both studio and live settings. It MFA from the University of California-San Diego. was from here that Taran began to combine this understanding of video and audio to create projections for theater, including productions of Lauren Gunderson’s Silent Sky and Anna Deavere STEPHANIE SHAW Smith’s Fires in the Mirror. Costume Shop Manager Stephanie Shaw is returning to CATF for her sixth season as the LEE SELLARS* Costume Shop Manager. She received her BFA in Theatre Design Actor and Technology from WVU (Let’s go, Mountaineers!) and her THE CAKE MFA in Costume Design and Technology from Purdue University. MEMOIRS OF A FORGOTTEN MAN Stephanie has served as Costume Shop Manager and Costume CATF: On Clover Road, The Full Catastrophe, Technologist for Purdue University, The University of Maryland, White People, The Eelwax Jesus 3D Pop Weston Playhouse, Texas Shakespeare Festival, North Shore Music Music Show, Rounding Third, Coyote on Theater, Des Moines Metro Opera. She has also served as the a Fence. Broadway: A Time to Kill, West Side Story, Talk Radio. Instructional Assistant Professor of Costume Technology for the Off-Broadway: Iowa, A Small Melodramatic Story, The Alchemist. University of Mississippi, Ole Miss. “Thanks to Peggy, Ed, and the Regional: Hollywood (LaJolla Playhouse), Chimerica (Studio entire CATF family for six great summers. Love and hugs to family Theatre), A Few Good Men (Alley Theatre), Ether Dome (LaJolla, and friends. Another summer of creativity is dedicated to my Hartford Stage, Huntington), Tales from Hollywood (Guthrie mother, a lover of all things artistic and beautiful. We will miss you!”

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NICOLE M. SMITH* Company Manager Nicole holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Design and Technology with an emphasis in Stage Management. Her career in Stage Management took her from her home town in Arizona to both Washington D.C. and New York. Nicole worked with Roundhouse Theatre in Bethesda, Maryland, Sitar Arts Center in Washington DC, The Juilliard School in New York and Theatreworks USA where she traveled across the United States. It was her work in New York that brought her to CATF for the first time in 2012, and introduced her to Company Management. After three summers at CATF, Nicole moved back to Arizona where she worked with the Arizona Theatre Company as their Assistant Company Manager for a season. Since 2015, Nicole has served as the Housing Coordinator in the Company Management department at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, working on over 33 productions! This summer, Nicole returns to CATF as the Company Manager and a full time staff member.

LUCIANA STECCONI** Scenic Design BERTA, BERTA / A LATE MORNING… Luciana Stecconi returns to CATF after designing The Ashes Under Gait City, Dead and Breathing, Heartless, A Discourse on The Wonders of the Invisible World, The Exceptionals and Barcelona. Recent credits include: The Winter’s Tale (Folger Theatre) The Invisible Hand (Olney Theatre Center), Straight White Men (Marin Theatre), The Vagrant Trilogy (Mosaic Theatre), The Effect (Studio Theatre). Luciana has also designed for many DC area theaters, including Signature Theatre, Woolly Mammoth, Roundhouse, Theatre J, The Kennedy Center Theatre for Young Audiences, Imagination Stage, Adventure Theatre MTC, and many more. EDUCATION: MFA in Theatre Design from Brandeis University. LucianaStecconi.com

GABRIELLE TOKACH Public Relations Manager Gabrielle Tokach began working in CATF’s Unique Menu of High-quality Medicinal box office in 2010. Her time at CATF inspired Sweets and Savories Herbal Products her to pursue her Master’s degree in Arts Management, which she earned from Organic, Responsibly House-blended George Mason University. While at GMU, Sourced Herbs Teas and Syrups she served on the executive committee of the Graduate Arts Workshops and Classes Holistic Health Consultations Management Society, an organization dedicated to providing 140 E GERMAN STREET, SHEPHERDSTOWN 304.870.4527

Tonic arts management activities beyond the classroom. Gabrielle SAM WEISMAN was presented with the Erin Isabelle Edwards Gaffney Memorial Director Award in 2017. She obtained her Bachelor’s from West Virginia A LATE MORNING... Wesleyan College and has worked with Arvold Casting, Scrappy Cat Sam Weisman worked as an actor before Productions, and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. Relishing in making the transition to directing. His community involvement, Gaby serves on marketing committees directing credits include the feature films for local organizations such as the SVC and others. George of the Jungle which received a British Academy Award nomination for Best Children’s Movie), The Out-of-Towners, Bye-Bye Love, D2: The Mighty Ducks, and KIRSTEN TRUMP Dickie Roberts. Mr. Weisman has directed or produced for Dialect Coach television shows such as Family Ties, Moonlighting, L.A. Law, and Kirsten is a Professor of Theatre at Seventh Heaven, and was the Co-Creator of NBC’s The Sing Off, Shenandoah Conservatory, where she serving as Executive Producer. His television work has received Emmy Nominations, Humanitas Awards, Golden Globe teaches Voice and Speech for the Actor, Nominations, and a Golden Globe Award. Mr. Weisman received Dialects, and Voiceover. Her most recent a B.A. in music from Yale, and an M.F.A. in Acting and Directing dialect coaching includes Blue Stockings from Brandeis University, where he has returned to teach and at Shenandoah, 39 Steps at the University of Wisconsin, Marion direct. He was Chairman of the Massachusetts Spirts and County and Superior Donuts at Maryland Ensemble Theater. Entertainment Comission, has served on the East Coast Council Recent directing credits at Shenandoah include The Last Days of of the Directors Guild of America, and is a voting member of the Judas Iscariot, Trojan Women, and In the Red and Brown Water. Directors’ Branch of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Here at CATF, Kirsten has coached voice and dialects for over Sciences. Mr. Weisman is thrilled to be working with fellow twenty plays and is always happy to be spending time with CATF. Brandeis alumnus, Michael Weller. He dedicates his work in this production to his family: his wife, actress, and therapist Constance McCashin; their son, Dan (and his wife Lizzie); and their daughter, WILLIAM OLIVER WATKINS* Margaux (and her husband, Will). Actor THIRST VICKI WILLMAN This is Will’s first production with CATF Director of Development and his first official visit to West Virginia. Vicki Willman joined the theater Festival’s Regional and Off-Broadway: Othello professional staff in January 2016 following (Cincinnati Shakespeare Co.), The Christians, over two decades of progressively respons- The Merchant of Venice (Gulfshore Playhouse); As You Like It, One ible fundraising positions in the performing Night in Miami, Jackie & Me, Ruined (Denver Center Theatre); arts, public radio, television, eldercare, Merry Wives of Windsor (HipToHip Theatre Company); Lombardi and higher education. Prior to joining CATF, she served for (Cleveland Playhouse/AZ Theatre Co); Act One: The Moss Hart eleven years as Director of Development with the Maryland Story (Good Theater, Portland); I Knew King When He Was Nobody Symphony Orchestra (MSO) based in Hagerstown, MD. Vicki was (Abingdon); Snakeskin Suit, Nodding Off (EST); Happy New Year! first drawn to the development profession through volunteering (Barrow Group); Camp Logan (Nat’l Black Theater); A Raisin in the with a community orchestra and public radio station while simultaneously working alongside her father in the operation of Sun (Studio Arena); To Kill A Mockingbird (Great Plains Theater a commission agency for Greyhound Bus Lines in Bismarck, ND. Fest); Blues for an Alabama Sky, Train is Comin’ (St. Louis Black Following her father’s retirement, she joined the development staff Rep). Film/TV: Blindspot; The Blacklist: Redemption; Madam of Prairie Public Broadcasting as a Corporate Support Associate. Secretary; Forever; Nasty Baby; Nurse Jackie; Law & Order (SVU Vicki’s rebuilding of the radio network’s sponsorship base led to and Original Series); Rescue Me. Training: BFA, Webster University successive positions with Wisconsin Public Television in Madison, Conservatory; Wynn Handman Studio. Will is originally from WI, and Maryland Public Television (MPT) in Owings Mills, MD. Cincinnati, OH. Prior to joining MPT, she briefly held other development positions

64 in her native North Dakota with The Sacred Heart Benedictine D.M. WOOD** Foundation and at her alma mater, the University of Mary, where Lighting Design she earned her BS in Music Education. Vicki has served as a music panelist for the Maryland State Arts Council, performs regularly THE CAKE as a timpanist with the Frederick (MD) Symphony Orchestra, and MEMOIRS OF A FORGOTTEN MAN following a three-year term as the congregation’s senior warden she Previous Designs for CATF: Everything is currently chairs the finance committee and assists in stewardship Wonderful; Byhalia, Mississippi ; 20th activities at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Boonsboro, MD. Century Blues; The Wedding Gift; WE ARE PUSSY RIOT; The Full Catastrophe; One Night; North of the Boulevard; Heartless; A Discourse on the Wonders of the JUSTIN WITHERS Invisible World; In a Forest Dark and Deep; Captors; Ages of the Actor Moon; The Insurgents; The Overwhelming; Pig Farm; 1001; The Pursuit of Happiness; Mr. Marmalade; Sex, Death and the Beach THIRST Baby. Recent credits include: the World Premiere of Mamzer Justin Withers is thrilled to be making his Bastard (Royal Opera House, Hackney Empire); Medea (Opera professional theater debut at CATF! Justin Omaha); Madama Butterfly and La bohème (Opera di Firenze was born in Chicago, Illinois and lived there - Florence, Italy); Tosca (Nevill Holt Opera, U.K.); Star Wars en until age 14 when he persuaded his family Concert (Orchestre National de Lyon); the World Premiere of to allow him to move to NYC in pursuit of acting training. He then 4.48 Psychosis (Royal Opera House, Lyric Hammersmith); Maria attended Edward R. Murrow High School’s Screened Theater Program Stuarda (Seattle Opera); Kansas City Choir Boy (New York, Boston, before attending and recently graduating (2018) from Mason Gross L.A., Miami); Le nozze di Figaro and La bohème (Boston Lyric School of the Arts at Rutgers University with a BFA in Acting. As a Opera); Don Giovanni (Bergen Nasjonale Opera, Norway); Norma part of his Rutgers training, Justin spent a year studying abroad at (Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, Spain); Anna Bolena (Lyric Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London. His recent Rutgers Credits Opera of Chicago); Medea, Margherita, Risurrezione, Silent Night, include: BJJ/George in An Octoroon and Rosalind in an all-male Don Bucefalo and Salomé (Wexford Festival Opera, Ireland); cast of As You Like it. He is thrilled to be a part of such a fantastic Euryanthe (Bard Summerscape); La favorite (Oper Graz, Austria); cast and creative team here at CATF. He would like to thank Ed Don Giovanni and The Importance of Being Earnest (Northern Herendeen for trusting him with this role as well as C.A. Johnson Ireland Opera); L’Enfant et les sortilèges (The Bolshoi); Il trittico for writing such a compelling story. Last but certainly not least, he (Royal Opera House - Convent Garden); L’heure espagnole / would like to thank God, as well as his Mom, and family for always Gianni Schicchi, Candide, and L’importance d’être Constant (Opéra supporting his dreams to pursue the arts. It’s moments like these National de Lorraine, Nancy, France); and El Chico de Oz (Teatro that make it all worth it! Municipal, Lima, Peru). Ms. Wood received the U.K.’s 2012 Knight of Illumination Award for her design of Suor Angelica (Royal BRIDGET WILLIAMS Opera House, Covent Garden). Upcoming designs include: The Niceties (Huntington Theatre Company, Manhattan Theatre Master Electrician Club and McCarter Theatre); Il barbiere de Siviglia (Boston Lyric Bridget Williams is returning to CATF for her Opera); Star Wars en Concert and A Midsummer Night’s Dream third season. She is the Instructor of Design (Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier); James Bond Symphony and Production at Interlochen Center for the (Orchestre National de Lyon) and L’elisir d’amore and Les enfants Arts. Bridget received an M.F.A. in Lighting terribles (Opera Omaha). Design from Indiana University and a B.F.A. in Stage Management from Western Michigan University. Bridget has also worked for Cardinal Stage Company, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Indiana Festival Theatre, The Musical Arts Center, The Jewish Theatre of Bloomington, and Children’s Theater of Madison.

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EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

CATF/U LEARN MORE: WWW.CATF.ORG/CATFU CATF welcomes America’s college students to Shepherd University. See shows on a college budget! We offer affordable housing, meal options, workshops, discussions, and artists meet & greets.

Hostel YOUTH! LEARN MORE: WWW.CATF.ORG/HOSTELYOUTH The Hostel YOUTH are back! CATF’s theater immersion program for high school students returns for its fifth year and will have two sessions (July 17-19 & 24-26) during the 2018 season. Housing, meals, workshops with CATF artists, and performance tickets are all included in the package. Support for CATF’s Hostel YOUTH! is made possible, in part, by a grant from the Marion Park Lewis Foundation. Additional support to sponsor tuition scholarships for the 2018 HY! sessions has been provided by generous contributions from CATF’s Board President, Paul S. Garrard, Trustee, Dr. Roberta L. DeBiasi, and the Shepherd University Foundation.

ROAD SCHOLARS LEARN MORE: WWW.ROADSCHOLAR.ORG CATF has partnered with Road Scholars to provide educational adventures that further inspire learning and friendship through theater. Registrants attend shows, discuss dramatic themes and the production process with actors and staff, take part in workshops on writing, acting and directing, and experience exclusive programming.

KENNEDY CENTER ACTF Started in 1969, the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) is a national theater program involving 18,000 students helping to improve the quality of college theater in the United States. It has grown into a network of academic institutions throughout the country, where student artists showcase their work and receive outside assessment by KCACTF respondents. This year, KCACTF Design fellows are: Mathias Brown, Christopher Erbe, Shaye Evans, Georgia Fried, and Jess Winward.

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THE 2018 FELLOWS, INTERNS, & APPRENTICES

The Contemporary American Theater Festival is committed to the education and training of future theater professionals. In 1991, the Intern Program began with five interns and three apprentices in the production department. Now in CATF’s 28th Season, the program continues to thrive, offering positions each year in artistic, administrative, and technical areas. To date, over 400 students and Back Row: Maranda Jenkins, Wendy Parkulo, Rowan Wilkerson, Yvonne Tessman, Jasmine Ratcliff, recent graduates have completed the program with Jessica Palagano, Emily Taylor, Kenneth May. 3rd Row: Bryce Hargrove, Lulu Connolly, Mack Woods, many pursuing professional careers in theater. Thomas Breck, Mathias Brown. 2nd Row: Mars Martin, Monty Wilson, Tristan Baro, John Polles, Shaye Evans, Jeremiah King, Christopher Erbe, Mikayla Carr, Georgia Fried, Sabrina Wertman. 1st Row: Annie Each year, professional theater artists and Hall, Meredith Prouty-Due, Rachel Lockett, Dan Karlin, Isaiah Hall, Lindsey Cohen. Not Pictured: Nylah administrators make a commitment to mentor these Bannister, Mary Heyl, Alex Kosick, Danica Rodrigues, Molly Schafer, Rachel Seabaugh, Rachel Squires, Zoe Thomas, Jess Winward. budding artists. This summer, CATF is proud to have 38 members of its Intern Program working in Through the generous support of Dr. Administration, Company Management, Costumes, Stanley C. Marinoff and his daughter Allison Electrics, House Managment, Paints, Performance, Marinoff Carle, Shepherd University Props, Scenery, Sound, and Stage Management. students are acknowledged for their exceptional work during the Festival. The With missions dedicated to providing educational Fund is designated to support Shepherd opportunities, the BB&T West Virginia Foundation, University students who have an interest the FirstEnergy Foundation, and the Shirley A. in theater performance, production, or The 2018 Shirley A. Marinoff interns: Kenneth Marinoff Fund for Education are proudly supporting administration. May, Isaiah Hall, and Danica Rodrigues our 2018 Fellows, Interns, & Apprentices program. (not pictured).

BB&T Market President, Jodi A. Frankenberry, is pictured with the 2018 BB&T West Virginia Foundation Business Management Intern: Zoe Thomas

FirstEnergy Manager, External Affairs, Thomas Butcher, is pictured with the 2018 FirstEnergy Foundation Electrics Fellow: Jessica Palagano

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ART AROUND THE FESTIVAL

HIGH DENSITY SUSAN CARNEY: IDENTITY Phase II Art Gallery / Across from Marinoff Theater Studio 112 Hallway and the Frank Center Gallery

What do you feel when a work of art confronts you with far Typically process has been a fundamental component of more information than you can instantly process? Are you Carney’s work. With these paintings it is more the content overwhelmed, frustrated, intrigued, or energized by large that the process that drives the imagery. Susan’s journey volumes of visual information? Is it a discomfort or a direct to learn about contributors of identity and how they shape challenge when layers of meaning in a sculpture or painting a life led her to use certain images, such as roots or trees, are not easily decipherable? High Density is a curated as metaphors for this exploration. Stories, heartbreak, exhibition of student art that employs a range of disciplines heredity, and the navigation of life guided this body of work. and conceptual tactics to provoke these questions.

BADGERHOUND STUDIO AND GALLERY Opening Reception: July 7, 4-7 PM michaeltimothydavis.com/events THE BRIDGE Opening Receptions: July 7, 6-8 PM & July 8, 3-5 PM bridgegalleryandframing.com/events.html OVER THE MOUNTAIN STUDIO TOUR

Antietam Winter Summer Show: July 13 - 15 by Michael Timothy Davis overthemountainstudiotour.com/summer-show

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ART AROUND THE FESTIVAL

Open House Studio Exhibit …just 1.8 mi from the Marinoff Theater

OUTDOOR ART WALK Saturday, July 7 and Sunday, July 8 – 11 AM - 5 PM. On the campus of Shepherd University. MEET THE ARTISTS Friday, July 13 – 4 - 8 PM Saturday, July 14 and Sunday, July 15 – 11 AM - 5 PM L - R: Beacon by Christian Benefiel, Under the Wave by Kevin Dartt, Uplift by Harold “Skip” Van Houten.. 409 Howard Farm Road, Shepherdstown, WV 25443 For additional information phone: 304-876-6519 All CATF visitors are invited to enjoy Doug and Karen Kinnett’s unique home/studio designed by noted Shepherdstown Architect, David A. Kemnitzer - a meld of New York Loft, Old Country Farm House, with touches of Italianate, and Scandinavian colors. On exhibit:

Paintings by Doug Kinnett, former Shepherd University SEIZING THE MOMENT: JULY 26 - 29 Art Education program coordinator. An Exhibition of Paintings, Prints, and Turned Wood, by Susan Carney, Isabelle Truchon, and Neil Super The Shepherdstown Community Club 102 E. German St. 10am-8pm Thur & Fri, 9am-9pm Sat, and 9am-5pm Sun

Opening Reception: Saturday, July 28, from 5pm-9pm with live music and refreshments.

L - R: Mad Hatter Juggling Identities by Susan Carney, Study of Spirit by

Isabelle Truchon, Empty Nest by Neil Super Photography and Paintings by Gary Bergel, adjunct professor at Blue Ridge CTC. ART AROUND THE FESTIVAL

RURAL ARTS COLLABORATIVE Opens July 13 in the CCA/I, Room 113 Gallery Talks: July 20 4:00-4:45PM & July 21 4:30-5:00PM

Where? — an art, video, and projection installation created by students from Magnolia High School. The work explores what it means to live in a small town in West Virginia. The piece is a deeply moving study that gives voice to the isolation and hope these students feel and love about their home. Part of the Rural Arts Collaborative (RAC) Arts Education project, funded by the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation, this project is designed to identify Teaching Artists and schools in rural school districts and coordinate full academic year residency placement of those artists in classrooms to facilitate a hands-on, project- based learning approach. CATF is proud to host the art, the installation, and the artists from the first RAC project funded in the state of West Virginia.

The project is led by resident artist Michael McKowen. An art instructor at Wheeling Jesuit University and the Curator of Exhibitions at Oglebay’s Institute Stifel Fine Arts Center, Michael has over 25 years of experience working as a professional designer and artisan for theater, film, and events across the country. He earned his MFA in scenic and costume design from New York University’s Tisch School for the Arts and his MFA in film and television from SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts.

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SATURDAYS AT 5PM | 60 MINUTES | FREE | NO RESERVATION REQUIRED Guest speakers and resident artists discuss issues raised in the season’s plays and challenges facing the contemporary theater. JULY 7: PLAYWRIGHTS OF THE CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN THEATER FESTIVAL: A DISCUSSION REYNOLDS HALL | 109 KING STREET

JULY 14: BEHIND THE SCENES: THE FRANK CENTER REPERTORY CHANGEOVER* | FRANK CENTER | 260 UNIVERSITY DRIVE *following the 2:30 performance of The Cake

JULY 21: THE ACTOR BEHIND RONALD REAGAN AND THE MAKING OF ONE-PERSON SHOW: A CANDID CONVERSATION WITH JOHN KEABLER SHIPLEY RECITAL HALL | 260 UNIVERSITY DRIVE

JULY 28: MASTERPIECE CAKESHOP V. COLORADO CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION SHIPLEY RECITAL HALL | 260 UNIVERSITY DRIVE

CATF IN CONTEXT

SATURDAYS AT 10AM IN CCA/II ROOM G03 | 62 W CAMPUS DRIVE | 60 MINUTES FREE | RESERVATIONS REQUIRED | LIMITED SPACE A scholarly approach to the repertory. Dive deeper into the themes and unique approaches to the season. JULY 7: THE FESTIVAL DIRECTORS JULY 14: SALT TREATY DURING THE COLD WAR JULY 21: INCLUSIVITY AWARENESS: UNDERSTANDING THE HISTORY OF STEREOTYPES JULY 28: MOMS DEMAND ACTION FOR GUN SENSE IN AMERICA

FRIDAY FILMS FRIDAYS* AT 2PM AT THE SHIPLEY RECITAL HALL | 260 UNIVERSITY DRIVE DONATIONS ENCOURAGED | NO RESERVATION REQUIRED *excluding Opening Weekend. JULY 13: WATER & POWER: A CALIFORNIA HEIST Presented in partnership with the American Conservation Film Festival JULY 20: TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY JULY 27: GAYBY BABY

72 GALLERY TALK STAGED READING SERIES

FRIDAY JULY 20 4:00PM - 4:45PM TUESDAYS AT 6PM IN THE MARINOFF THEATER SATURDAY JULY 21 4:30PM - 5:00PM 62 W CAMPUS DRIVE FREE | STUDIO 113 FREE | NO RESERVATIONS REQUIRED

Part of the Rural Arts Collaborative funded by the Claude Worthington Join CATF in supporting all stages of a play by experiencing new works Benedum Foundation, Where? is an art, video, projection installation that are rehearsed and read for audiences in the same day. This exciting created by students from Magnolia High School. The work explores opportunity is a perfect complement to a Tuesday night performance of A what it means to live in a small town in West Virginia. The piece is a Late Morning (in America) with Ronald Reagan. See the evolution of new deeply moving study that gives voice to the isolation and hope these plays in a single evening! (Plays to be selected in June.) students feel and love about their home. The third play in this series will be presented in Join us as the high school students and their Artist/Teacher discuss conjunction with the Dramatists Guild Fund’s their process and the gift of making art - in their community and Traveling Masters program. Traveling Masters is a about their community. nationwide education program providing master classes and events on the craft of writing. Participants interact with luminaries of the modern stage, allowing them AFTER THOUGHTS to learn, ask questions, and develop their talents with input from experts.

SATURDAYS FOLLOWING THE PERFORMANCES COPPER CANYON | 62 W CAMPUS DRIVE FREE* | NO RESERVATION REQUIRED

Enjoy a drink after the show and share your thoughts with CATF artists and staff as they join you in Copper Canyon (the patio between Studio 112 and the Marinoff Theater). *additional cost for food and drinks.

This project is presented with financial assistance from the West Virginia Humanities Council, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Support for ‘talktheater’ is made possible, in part, by a grant from the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations do not West Virginia Humanities Council, the Claude Worthington Benedum necessarily represent those of the West Virginia Humanities Council or the Foundation, and the Jefferson Arts Council. National Endowment for the Humanities.

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74 Thank you to our special partners at Shepherd University: Thank You to Our Housing Hosts: Jayne Angle Steve & Rebecca Ayraud Quality Inn Dow Benedict Julia Davis Lori Robertson & Marcey Clements & Dining Services Desert Sunrise Chris Crawford Tim Haines Pete Hoffman Carolyn & Elroy Rodis Dr. Mary J.C. Hendrix, Shepherd University President Heather & Don Marshall Shepherd University Adam Paige Jeanne Muir & Jim Ford G. T. Shramm Don Rottel Elizabeth McGowen The Thomas Shepherd Inn Eric Schuler & Facilities Management Diane Niedzialkowski Shepherd University Campus Police Susan Pellish Jack Shaw & Auxiliary Enterprises Sonya Sholley & Office of the President Staff Rhonda Smith Jim Sweeney OUR MEDIA PARTNERS Tori Wilds Elissa Woodbrey & Residential Life Comcast Newsmakers comcastnewsmakers.com Thank you for sponsoring our 28th Season Special Events: The Journal Newspapers www.Journal-News.net Mary I. Bradshaw & Donald H. Hooker, Jr. Allison Marinoff Carle & Wydler Brothers Real Estate The Herald Mail www.heraldmailmedia.com Annette Gavin Bates & Jefferson County Convention & Visitors Bureau The Observer www.WVObserver.com Todd Beckwith & City National Bank WV Radio Corporation, Martinsburg Julia Davis & Leonard Frenkil www.wepm.com www.wkmz.com Nicolas H. Diehl & Jefferson County Development Authority The Shepherdstown Chronicle Jodi A. Frankenberry & BB&T www.ShepherdstownChronicle.com William Hamilton, Paula Jackson & Sally Patterson The Spirit of Jefferson Erich D. Hosbach & The Graham Georgetown www.SpiritofJefferson.com Myra MacPherson WPFW & Andy Shallal www.wpfwfm.org The McMillan Family & Jefferson Distributing Company WRNR Talk Radio Martha Moss www.TalkRadioWRNR.com Joan Mower WSHC - SU Radio Sheila Shaffer & Shaffer Wealth Advisory Group of www.897wshc.org Janney Montgomery Scott LLC WTOP Shepherd University www.wtop.com Steven Rivelis, Linda Brown Rivelis, Mallory Staley and The Elephant CATF Contributors

Catherine Hayes Grady B. Hedgespeth OUR DONORS KEEP GIVING James Heegeman Thomas J. Henderson ARTIST’S CIRCLE Robert & Susan Meader Tobias Concordia Church Women Heidi K. Henson, In memory of Phyllis N. Kresan Fredrick & Christine Andreae Marie Tyler-McGraw Walter Connelly Thomas & Ann Hettmansperger Nan Beckley Victoria Weagly & Polly Kuhns Edward E. Cragg Dr. Becki S. Hill Rick & Burma Bochner Mary Ann Wren, David & Katy Culp Lily R. Hill Eli & Sara Burke In memory of William J. Wren Theresa M. Davis Bill & Betse Hinkley James Campbell & Nancy Hooff Dr. Peter B. Young Deanna Dawson Linda Holland, In honor of Bill & Ellen Conner John & Ann Delaney Jen Rolston, Patrick Shunney, Donna J. Dean & PATRON’S CIRCLE Bill Drennen, In memory of & Sam Shunney John L. Meyer Maggie Drennen Tom & Kathleen Altizer Diana Horvat Tony & Nancy DeCrappeo Alison Drucker & Thomas Shirley Marcus Allen & John L. Howell Isabel P. Dunst Lloyd H. Buckner Holzman RC Howes Anne Rose N. Eapen Jerome Andersen Sharon Dubble & William Richkus Ruth B Hurwitz Elena Furman & Efrem Osborne John Arrington & Linda King Bill & Joan Eisner Susan & Paul Hayman Frona Hall Carol & Erwin Asam Diana Eldridge Catherine E. Irwin Stephen W. Hanze Jameel Audeh, M.D. Alice K. Epstein Margaret & Paul Isenman Al B. Honick & Jo-Ellen Turner Steve & Rebecca Ayraud Coralie Farlee John Janik Jonathan Kelinson Susan R. Baker George & Elaine Farrant Elizabeth B. Johns & Demi Lewin Steven & Candace Barrigar David & Elaine Fishman Donald C. Evason Barry Linkner Janet & Morton Berfield Patrick Fleming, In honor of Dawn Jones Leigh H. Fleming James K. McNeel Elinor & Alan Berg Sara & Barclay Jones Larry Franks & Ellen Berelson Lex & Pam Miller Don & Nancy Bliss Merle Duskin Kailas Charles Fuller Alfred Munzer & Joel Wind Dr. & Mrs. L.T. Bowles, Ann & Dan Kasprzyk Renee Shaffer Galvin, In honor Catherine Nelson & In honor of Marjorie Weingold of Sheila & Rick Shaffer Hattie & Eric Katkow Walter Diewald Dr. & Mrs. L.T. Bowles, Paul S. Garrard, In honor of the Jacqueline Kendall Barbara Orman, In memory of Dr. Allan Weingold fabulous cast of Welcome to Stephen G. Kent In honor of Ed Herendeen Marc & Judith Briod Fear City Jim & Faith Kirk Cynthia & Steven Puckett Betsy Brown, In memory of Mary Carol Geidt & Beverly Robert & Barbara Kott Dianne Rawl & John Burns Palmer Brown Speight-Mohamed Bev & Frank Kristine Karen & Bill Rice Charlie Brown James & Maria Gentle June Krupsaw Carolyn Rodis Susan R. Buswell Beryl Gilmore Kris Kudrnac Margaret Ann Ross Carole A. Calhoun, In memory of Alan Goldberg Lee & Patricia Stine Barbara Kirkpatrick Marcel C. LaFollette & Renu Gopalan Jeffrey K. Stine Nelson Smith , Marianne Morse Callahan Roberta & Jay Greenberg, In Standford & Lynne Lamberg In honor of Paul Garrard Juju Chang & Neal Shapiro memory of Dr. Allan B. Weingold Eddie Landrum & Susan Sterling, In honor of Ann K. Christy Henry Greene Sheila & Rick Shaffer Theresa Trainor Jo Ricks & Jeffrey Clark David & Jane Greene Sidney Stolz, Allan & Sondra Laufer Douglas & Barbara Cobb In honor of CATF Staff Eugenia Grohman Julia Leonard, In honor of Andris Strauss & Margery Cohen Gail Gulliksen Lucy Caroline Leonard Marie Burgess-Strauss Vic & Marla Cohen Ann O. Hamilton Peppy G. Linden Hugh & Marty Talton Wayne Coleman Beverly & Gordon Hawkins William F. Lindgren

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Joe & Sonya Livingston Peter & Eleanor Pella While we make every effort to provide a complete and accurate acknowledgement of our contributors, if we have made an error, Kevin & Bev Lloyd Pia Peltola & Andy Singletary please accept our apologies and contact Vicki Willman, Director Mark A. Longo Samuel & Charlene Phillips of Development, at [email protected] or 304.876.5683. David Lusk & Deb Bodner Craig & Louise Potter Contributions Key: Myra MacPherson Judy Lynn Prince & Bob Haiman PRODUCER’S CIRCLE $10,000+ Earle Jay Maiman & Sharon Chazz & Donna Printz PLAYWRIGHT’S CIRCLE $5,000-$9,999 Brose Maiman Barbara Pryor & Brad Gehrke AGENT’S CIRCLE $2,000-$4,999 Connie & George Manger Veronica Ramaty DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE $1,000-$1,999 Nancy Mannes Josie Raney & Brian Lund ARTIST’S CIRCLE $500-$999 PATRON’S CIRCLE $100-$499 Ellen W. Mansueto Sohi Rastegar FRIEND’S CIRCLE TO $99 Frances Marshall Peter Relic, In honor of Marc Masterson Mary Jo Relic Michele Maurer, In honor of Doug & Jan Ripper Joshua Midgett Markley Roberts Pat & Jim Stemmle Karl Wolf Judy & David Mauriello Joan & Lu Rudel David M. Stevens & Linda Wymbs Colonel J & Cynthia Yates Tom Mayes & Rod Glover, In Dr. Stephen M. Sachs & memory of Florence Schon Sally A. Bohn Bill Strein & Mary Campbell Ramona Zammetti Vicki McClinton, In memory of Clifford Sanbongi & Marianne Davis Jessica Tava Laurel Ziemianski Rhoda Laura Scanlan, In memory of George W. Tenley, In honor of Carolyn Zwior Richard K. McKee Susan Landis Judy Tenley Noah Mehrkam Shirley Schlessinger Judi A. Teske FRIEND’S CIRCLE Dr. Paul M. Mendelman Falynn Schmidt Robert & Margaret Tessier Walter Abbott & Shelby Conley Robert Thomason Beth Merricks Jeffrey Schragg & Mary Jo George William & Patricia Abeles Gabrielle Tokach Joshua Midgett Stevie & Will Sheridan Donald & Anne Alsedek Jack & Carol Topchik Barbara & Claude Migeon, Joy Sibel Jane & Robert Anthony In honor of Emily Fackler & Martha Trunk Joe & Julie Siler Laura Atwood Peggy McKowen Robert Tsukayama, In memory Howard & Marilyn Silver Jason Aufdem-Brinke Susan Miller of Gladys Conaway Sidney Simon Carolyn Bain Audrey Morris Vendini, Inc. by Mark Tacchi William Skane & Ann Muromachi David & Stephanie Banks Joan Mower Kristen & John Vorhes Delacey Skinner Michael & Lissa Baerry Judy Mullins & Neil Macmillan, Meadow Lark Washington Stephen Skinner, In honor of In honor of Sharon Anderson & Mary C. Bell Michelle Olson Don & Natalie Wasserman Adrienne Haddad Dow Benedict Patricia E. Smeton Barbara & Martin Wasserman Audrey & Earle Nevitt Theodore Berman Donna Smith Forrest & Virginia Weight James & Joy Newkirk Marjorie & Raj Bery Elizabeth Smith, In honor Judith Weintraub Peter Nicholas & Clea Benson Claiborne Booker of Rick Shaffer Susan Hawkens Whalton & Marie Nicol Joseph Smith Michael Whalton, In honor of Lynda Breznitsky Louise Novotny Rhonda J. Smith Mary Bradshaw Marcia Brooks Virginia Nuessle Shannon & Jerry Sollinger & Margaret Willingham, In honor Alonzo Brown of Catherine Irwin Amanda & Robert Ogren Sandy Adams-Choate Geoffrey Brown & Mary O’Hara Pam & John Splaine Vicki Willman, In honor of Marilyn Benoit M.D. the 2017 CATF Summer of Six Richard & Nadine Osborn Peter & Lois Spreen Festival Company Jennifer Burdick Lisa Parker & David Sogg Loretta Stanish Linda Winslow James Butcher Estver Pearlstone Elisabeth Staro Beverly Winter, In memory of Gary & Jan Butler Douglas Peddicord Robert Stein & Gina Daddario Jackson Winter Rosalee Chiara

77 Daniel & Kathleen McCabe Jan & Bill Harrod Victoria McCormick Mary Sitgraves Chokel Liz & Steve Hass-Hill, Zakee McGill Norm & Cathy Slemenda Vicky Clark In honor of Lily Hill Beverly McNeill Mildred Anne Smith Deborah Coburn Barbara S. Hawkins & Kyle Meyer Rhoda Sommer & Don Friedman Stephen G. Singer Juan Manuel Ocasio Colon Daniel Moore Raymond & Jean Stark Charla Hayen Porter Conroy Robert Morrow Sally Stearns Rebecca Heagy Cathy Costantino, In honor of Dian Nelson Sam Steinberg Ann Harkins Deborah & Robert Hefferon Stephen O’Brien Laurie Stroope Janice Davis, In memory of Ella Alan Helgerman & Sandra R. Lee & Shelley Stull Trainor & John Hanks Lapietra Ray O’Connor & Paula Lelansky Patricia Taylor Glen Donath & Laura Catherine Hogendobler Kathryn O’Toole Zuckerman, In memory of Beth Howard, In honor of Constance Otto, In honor of Richard & Myra Thayer Shirley A. Marinoff Sharon J. Anderson’s Birthday! Anne DeVaughn JoAnn Tracey Trevor Drake Deborah Hubbell Ellie Palmer, In honor of Bob Tracy & Marty Gross Rosemary & Paul Dumont Andrew Hyde Marjorie & Allan Weingold Sam Transleau Derreth Duncan, In honor Linda Ingram Tracy Palmer Teresa Tretter of Jim Eros Ylonn Jackson Ralph & Delores Pecora Julie Tucker Jeanne Duffy Jane Jasper Rebecca Phipps Valerie Van Hollen Pamela Edwards Betsy Johnson Michael Pieper Andrea Van Hook Lakita Edwards Robbie Johnson Ruth & Harris Pitlick Vincent Vizachero, In honor of Pat & Jack Egle Alan & Cynthia Kehr Rhoda Poston Gabrielle Tokach Cynthia Eichberg, In honor Ronald Kelly, In honor of Rick & Fred & Kathy Powell Andrew Wachter of Suze & Tim Sheehan Sheila Shaffer Barbara Ratner, In memory of Bruce & Dianne Waldron Elena Fazio Susan & David Kemnitzer Iris Simpkins Adam Wasserman Amy Filko James Kempf Catherine Read Tracy Weese Carolyn Finegar David Kennedy Pamela Reeves Phyllis Weinberg Carol Fischer Kathleen Kiely Rebecca Reickel Lynn Wheeler & Gerald Klauber Chantel Follett Joel Kimling Susan Rexroad John Wiedemer Doris S. Forster, Susan King Peta Richkus, In honor of Rie Wilson In honor of JHU Osher Katharine E. Koch Julia P. Davis & Len Frenkil Lewis Winarsky David Freidman Carole Kolker Richard Riese Sheri H. Wolfe Arlene Friedlander Maureen Kostial Anne Rooney Ron Wood Carol Gallant, Douglas & Rebecca Lane Judy Ross William Wulf In memory of Robin Bridges Beth Leaman Richard & Ellen Rubin Don & Dale Yablonowitz Jennifer Gamliel Jennifer Lee Dianne Scheper Susan Zimecki Brian Ganz Jennifer Loud Suzanne Schmidt D. Geratz & T. Averill Helga Lumpkin Arnold Schwartz Kimberly Godwin David C. Lyman Eric Schwartz Lars & Jayne Golumbic Frances L. Lynch Alan Scott Robin Good Susannah Lynch Ivan & Betty Severson, In Dr. & Mrs. David H. Goodman memory of Shirley A. Marinoff Ric MacDowell, In memory David L. Gorsline of Ruth Lepperd MacDowell Sue Shaffer & Edward Rogerson Nancy & Jamie Gregory Peggy Mahoney Carolyn & Martin Shargel Andy Haire Joelle Margolis Lesley Anne Simmons Linda Hardy Martin Marinoff Thomas Simplot

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1991-2018 PRODUCTION HISTORY

2018 The Cake by Bekah Brunstetter 2012 Gidion’s Knot by Johnna Adams Berta, Berta by Angelica Chéri The Exceptionals by Bob Clyman Memoirs Of A Forgotten Man by D.W. Gregory In a Forest, Dark and Deep by Neil LaBute Thirst by C.A. Johnson Captors by Evan M. Wiener A Late Morning (In America) With Barcelona by Bess Wohl Ronald Reagan by Michael Weller The House On The Hill by Amy E. Witting 2011 From Prague by Kyle Bradstreet Race by David Mamet 2017 The Niceties by Eleanor Burgess Ages of the Moon by Sam Shepard Welcome to Fear City by Kara Lee Corthron We Are Here by Tracy Thorne Wild Horses by Allison Gregory The Insurgents by Lucy Thurber Byhalia, Mississippi by Evan Linder Everything is Wonderful by Chelsea Marcantel 2010 The Eelwax Jesus 3-D Pop Music Show by Max Baker & Lee Sellars We Will Not Be Silent by David Meyers Lidless by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig 2016 pen/man/ship by Christina Anderson Breadcrumbs by Jennifer Haley Not Medea by Allison Gregory Inana by Michele Lowe The Wedding Gift by Chisa Hutchinson White People by J.T. Rogers 20th Century Blues by Susan Miller 2009 The History of Light by Eisa Davis The Second Girl by Ronan Noone Yankee Tavern by Steven Dietz 2015 World Builders by Johnna Adams Dear Sara Jane by Victor Lodato Everything You Touch by Sheila Callaghan Fifty Words by Michael Weller On Clover Road by Steven Dietz Farragut North by Beau Willimon WE ARE PUSSY RIOT by Barbara Hammond 2008 Stick Fly by Lydia R. Diamond The Full Catastrophe by Michael Weller A View of the Harbor by Richard Dresser 2014 The Ashes Under Gait City by Christina Anderson Pig Farm by Greg Kotis One Night by Charles Fuller WRECKS by Neil LaBute Uncanny Valley by Thomas Gibbons The Overwhelming by J.T. Rogers North of the Boulevard by Bruce Graham 2007 Lonesome Hollow by Lee Blessing Dead and Breathing by Chisa Hutchinson My Name is Rachel Corrie from then writings 2013 A Discourse on the Wonders of the Invisbile World by of Rachel Corrie, edited by Alan Rickman and Liz Duffy Adams Katharine Viner Modern Terrorism, or They Who Want to Kill Us The Pursuit of Happiness by Richard Dresser and How We Learn to Love Them by Jon Kern 1001 by Jason Grote H2O by Jane Martin Heartless by Sam Shepard Scott and Hem in the Garden of Allah by Mark St. Germain

80 127 plays. 52 world premieres. 10 new play commissions. 90 writers. 65 plays by women; 62 by men.

2006 Augusta by Richard Dresser 1998 Gun-Shy by Richard Dresser Jazzland by Keith Glover Interesting Times by Preston Foerder Mr. Marmalade by Noah Haidle Carry the Tiger to the Mountain by Cherylene Lee Sex, Death and the Beach Baby by Kim Merrill BAFO by Tom Strelich

2005 Sonia Flew by Melinda Lopez 1997 Lighting Up the Two Year Old by Benjie Aerenson The God of Hell by Sam Shepard Below the Belt by Richard Dresser American Tet by Lydia Stryk Demonology by Kelly Stuart Father Joy by Sheri Wilner 1996 Tough Choices for the New Century by Jane Anderson The Nina Variations by Steven Dietz 2004 Flag Day by Lee Blessing The Nose by Elizabeth Egloff Rounding Third by Richard Dresser Octopus by Jon Klein Homeland Security by Stuart Flack Bad Girls by Joyce Carol Oates The Rose of Corazon by Keith Glover 1995 Betty the Yeti by Jon Klein 2003 Whores by Lee Blessing Maggie’s Riff by Jon Lipsky Bright Ideas by Eric Coble Psyche Was Here by Lynn Martin The Last Schwartz by Deborah Zoe Laufer Voir Dire by Joe Sutton Wilder by Erin Cressida Wilson 1994 What are Tuesdays Like? by Victor Bumbalo 2002 Thief River by Lee Blessing Shooting Simone by Lynne Kaufman Silence of God by Catherine Filloux Spike Heels by Theresa Rebeck The Late Henry Moss by Sam Shepard Forgiving Typhoid Mary by Mark St. Germain Orange Flower Water by Craig Wright 1993 A Contemporary Masque by Stephen Bennett 2001 Tape by Stephen Belber Dream House by Darrah Cloud The Occupation by Harry Newman Alabama Rain by Heather McCutchen The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa by John Olive Black by Joyce Carol Oates The Pavilion by Craig Wright 1992 The Baby Dance by Jane Anderson 2000 Something in the Air by Richard Dresser The Swan by Elizabeth Egloff Mary and Myra by Catherine Filloux Still Waters by Lynn Martin Miss Golden Dreams, A Play Cycle by Joyce Carol Oates Static by Ben Siegler Hunger by Sheri Wilner 1991 Accelerando by Lisa Loomer 1999 Coyote on a Fence by Bruce Graham Welcome to the Moon by John Patrick Shanley Compleat Female Stage Beauty by Jeffrey Hatcher Tatjana in Color by Julia Jordan The Water Children by Wendy MacLeod

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THE CAKE PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN PREVIEWS WEEK 1 Fri 7/6 Sat 7/7 Sun 7/8 BY BEKAH BRUNSTETTER FRANK CENTER THE CAKE 10:00AM CONTEXT BREAKFAST 260 UNIVERSITY DRIVE TUE, 7/3 8:30PM • THUR, 7/5 8:30PM RUN TIME: 100 MINUTES 12:00PM LUNCH & ART REAGAN BERTA

BERTA, BERTA 2:00PM BERTA** THIRST HOUSE BERTA, BERTA TUE, 7/3 6:00PM • THUR, 7/5 6:00PM A WORLD PREMIERE 2:30PM MEMOIRS CAKE BY ANGELICA CHÉRI MEMOIRS OF A FORGOTTEN MAN 4:30PM BERTA STUDIO 112 SUN, 7/1 7:30PM • WED, 7/4 8:30PM 92 W CAMPUS DRIVE LECTURE RUN TIME: 90 MINUTES 5:00PM THIRST REAGAN SUN, 7/1 7:00PM • WED, 7/4 8:00PM MEMOIRS OF A 6:00PM REAGAN** THIRST

FORGOTTEN MAN A LATE MORNING [IN AMERICA] 6:30PM MEMOIRS A WORLD PREMIERE WITH RONALD REAGAN BY D.W. GREGORY SUN, 7/1 5:00PM • WED, 7/4 6:00PM 8:00PM THIRST** HOUSE**

FRANK CENTER MEMOIRS** CAKE** REAGAN THE HOUSE ON THE HILL 260 UNIVERSITY DRIVE 8:30PM TUE, 7/3 8:00PM • THUR, 7/5 8:00PM RUN TIME: 105 MINUTES BERTA

THIRST WEEK 2 Tues 7/10 Wed 7/11 Thur 7/12 Fri 7/13 Sat 7/14 Sun 7/15 A WORLD PREMIERE BY C.A. JOHNSON 10:00AM BREAKFAST CONTEXT BREAKFAST MARINOFF THEATER 62 W CAMPUS DRIVE BERTA REAGAN BERTA REAGAN BERTA RUN TIME: 100 MINUTES 12:00PM LUNCH & ART

A LATE MORNING 2:00PM HOUSE THIRST FRIDAY FILM HOUSE THIRST (IN AMERICA) WITH RONALD REAGAN 2:30PM CAKE MEMOIRS CAKE MEMOIRS A WORLD PREMIERE 4:30PM BERTA BY MICHAEL WELLER STUDIO 112 LECTURE 92 W CAMPUS DRIVE 5:00PM RUN TIME: 85 MINUTES REAGAN BERTA

6:00PM READING REAGAN^ BERTA HOUSE THE HOUSE ON THE HILL A WORLD PREMIERE 6:30PM CAKE BY AMY E. WITTING MARINOFF THEATER 8:00PM REAGAN HOUSE^ THIRST^ HOUSE THIRST 62 W CAMPUS DRIVE RUN TIME: 90 MINUTES CAKE MEMOIRS CAKE MEMOIRS REAGAN 8:30PM REAGAN BERTA

** OPENING NIGHT 10:00PM AFTER THOUGHTS ^FOLLOWED BY A POST-SHOW DISCUSSION AFTER THOUGHTS WEEK 3 Tues 7/17 Wed 7/18 Thurs 7/19 Fri 7/20 Sat 7/21 Sun 7/22 An afterhours mixer with the CATF company, following 10:00AM BREAKFAST CONTEXT BREAKFAST Saturday evening performances. COPPER CANYON BERTA REAGAN BERTA REAGAN BERTA 12:00PM 62 W CAMPUS DRIVE LUNCH & ART

BREAKFAST WITH ED 2:00PM THIRST HOUSE FRIDAY FILM THIRST HOUSE ROOM G03 2:30PM MEMOIRS CAKE MEMOIRS CAKE 62 W CAMPUS DRIVE 4:30PM BERTA

LUNCH & ART LECTURE 5:00PM 12PM | POTOMAC PLACE - REAGAN BERTA RIVERSIDE MARKET 77 W CAMPUS DRIVE 6:00PM READING REAGAN BERTA^ THIRST

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