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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Earle J. Hereford Terri Olson Miller Braden Abraham† Kutcher Hereford Bertram Civic Leader Seattle Rep Burkart Brown & Cashman PLLC TABLE OF CONTENTS Lisa Oratz Clodagh Ash‡ MANAGING DIRECTOR Perkins Coie About the Show ��4 Civic Leader Jeffrey Herrmann† Seattle Rep Rebecca Pomering From the Artistic Director ��8 Susan Ashmun Moss Adams Wealth Advisors LLC Civic Leader Alyssa Hochman Meet the Cast �� 10 Point B Anita Ramasastry Matthew Bergman University of Washington Beyond the Stage �� 17 Bergman Draper Oslund Winky Hussey Civic Leader Tim Rattigan Donor Recognition �� 19 Jarvis Bowers Citigroup Global Markets Inc. Holland America Bruce E.H. Johnson Anne Simpson EDITOR-IN-CHIEF GRAPHIC DESIGNER Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP Lynne Bush Civic Leader Noelle McCabe Sayed Alamy Civic Leader Deborah T. Killinger Civic Leader Richard B. Stead, M.D. COMMUNICATIONS CREATIVE DIRECTOR Debra A. Canales Bio-Pharma Consulting Services LLC DIRECTOR Angela Nickerson Providence Health & Services Gwenann Kroon Christian Barclay Civic Leader SRT FOUNDATION Oneika Cassanova REPRESENTATIVE U.S. Bank Mandy Leifheit Carlyn Steiner† Microsoft Corporation Civic Leader Elizabeth Choy, M.D. Civic Leader Marko Liias John Stilin Washington State Senator – Civic Leader Donna M. Cochener 21st District HomeStreet Bank Janice Tsai Charlotte Lin Mozilla SRO REPRESENTATIVE Civic Leader Diane Cody† Marisa Walker Civic Leader SRO PRESIDENT Baird Private Wealth Management Sandra Lucas† Jim Copacino Civic Leader Nancy Ward Copacino+Fujikado, LLC The World Justice Project Marcella McCaffray Tracy Daw Civic Leader Tom Wright Funko, LLC Filmmaker Rick McMichael Donte Felder Civic Leader Seattle Public Schools Carla Millage Scottland Glenn Civic Leader Kantor Taylor PC

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PRODUCTION AUGUST WILSON'S Doub ��Keith Randolph Smith SPONSOR Turnbo �� Ray Anthony Thomas Jitney UNDERSTUDIES James T. Alfred (Booster, Youngblood) ASSOCIATE A. Russell Andrews (Philmore, Becker, Doub, Turnbo) SPONSORS WITH Brian D. Coats (Shealy, Fielding) Bank of America Francois Battiste Harvy Blanks Amari Cheatom Patrese D. McClain (Rena) The Boeing Company Anthony Chisholm Brian D. Coats FIGHT CAPTAIN Perkins Coie Steven Anthony Jones Nija Okoro James T. Alfred Keith Randolph Smith Ray Anthony Thomas SEASON SPONSOR James T. Alfred A. Russell Andrews Patrese D. McClain The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States�

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RUN TIME Ruben Santiago-Hudson February 28 - March 29, 2020 Approximately 2 hours, 30 minutes including one SCENIC DESIGN COSTUME DESIGN LIGHTING DESIGN SOUND DESIGN ORIGINAL MUSIC 15 minute intermission. David Gallo Toni-Leslie James Jane Cox Darron L West Bill Sims Jr. & Charles Coes HAIR & WIG DESIGN FIGHT DIRECTION PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER Upcoming SRO Spotlight: Matthew Armentrout Thomas Schall Kamra A. Jacobs Mandisa Reed Thursday, March 12, 2020 BROADWAY CASTING ADDITIONAL CASTING COMPANY MANAGER PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR Caparelliotis Casting Laura Stanczyk Casey McDermott SenovvA Inc. Meet the artists of August Wilson’s & Nancy Piccione Jitney! SRO Spotlight luncheons and NATE WATTERS interviews are an opportunity to GENERAL MANAGER informally visit with cast members, Maximum Entertainment Productions theater artists, and staff who make each show possible. Original Broadway Production produced by Manhattan Theatre Club at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre Learn more:

IN ASSOCIATION WITH seattlerep.org/SRO Eric Falkenstein Ron Simons John Legend/Mike Jackson Ken Wirth Nicole Lewis in Two Trains Running (2018)

4 ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Braden Abraham MANAGING DIRECTOR Jeffrey Herrmann SETTING A gypsy cab station in the Hill District of Eric Falkenstein and Ron Simons Pittsburgh, early fall, 1977. John Legend Mike Jackson Get Lifted Suzanne Grant C A S T Ania Czekaj Beth Dewoody Wendy Morgan-Hunter (in alphabetical order) IN ASSOCIATION WITH Booster �� Francois Battiste Manhattan Theatre Club Shealy ��Harvy Blanks Youngblood �� Amari Cheatom ARTISTIC DIRECTOR EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Fielding �� Anthony Chisholm PRODUCING Lynne Meadow Barry Grove PARTNER Philmore ��Brian D. Coats Joan Cremin PRESENT Becker ��Steven Anthony Jones Rena ��Nija Okoro

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IN ASSOCIATION WITH seattlerep.org/SRO Eric Falkenstein Ron Simons John Legend/Mike Jackson Ken Wirth Nicole Lewis in Two Trains Running (2018)

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Leonard J. Oremland in In an evacuation, wait $5,000-$9,999 honor of Rachel Oremland Deborah Van Eck* ♦ for an announcement #JitneySeaRep AudienceView † Francine Walker ♦ for further instructions. DLR ♦ @seattlerep Joseph Yurcik* Ushers will be available Dramatists Play Service, Inc. for assistance. Familiarize Irwin & Rosalyn Engleman yourself with the exit route nearest your seat. If you note an inadvertent error in our donor listing, please contact Carl Sylvestre at Photography, recording, WATTERS NATE [email protected] or 212.750.6895 Doctors and other and use of cell phones emergency contacts may * National Society Membership are strictly prohibited reach you at 206.443.2222. † Includes In-kind support during the performance. ♦ Educating through Theatre Support Give your name and seat • Bank of America ACTivate Awards Support For a complete list of funders, visit theatreforward.org David Kaverman in In the Heights (2018) From the Thank you to Artistic Director our Production Sponsor Encore Ad

August Wilson's ten-play cycle—known as The American this work on, as he put it, “a bigger canvas.” In Jitney, Century Cycle—portraying African American life in every the distinctive features of Wilson's theatrical vision and for supporting decade of the 20th century is among the most ambitious genius emerged fully formed: his meticulous observation of projects ever attempted in American theater and, by any African American life and culture; his virtuosic command of Jitney! standard, one of its greatest achievements. But Seattle Rep language; his insights into how oppression provokes rage audiences know this. Seattle Rep began doing these plays and self-defeating violence; his rare ability to show how in the 1980s. When the playwright moved to Seattle in 1990, politics and economics affect ordinary people; his deep At Microsoft, our mission is Wilson became a key member of concern for community to empower every person our artistic community, and Seattle and history, and his belief and every organization on Rep was part of the consortium that the loss of either the planet to achieve more. of theaters that developed and In Jitney, the distinctive leaves us rootless, lost, That is why we invest in produced his King Hedley II and features of Wilson's and powerless. the continued health and Radio Golf. Seattle Rep audiences vitality of Washington State were among the first anywhere theatrical vision and genius Jitney comes to the by advancing community to see the entire ten-play cycle— Bagley stage directly on initiatives that aim to make and we remain one of the only emerged fully formed the heels of our revival of our home state a great place theaters to have done both the another modern classic, to work and live. We do entire cycle and Wilson's autobiographical one-man show, Sam Shepard's True this through empowering How I Learned What I Learned, which he himself performed West, a play written at almost exactly the same time as people, strengthening our here in 2003. And recognizing these plays as classics, we Jitney. Although Shepard and Wilson are contemporaries, communities, fostering continue to revisit them. these giants of American theater are generally treated economic opportunity, and as completely unrelated artists, which seems odd when protecting our region and I am particularly thrilled to see Jitney on our stage again. I say you see their work side-by-side. Both have very original the planet. We are proud to "again" because in 2002, I saw the Seattle premiere of Jitney styles that reflect the fact that their playwriting was support civic institutions like in this theater, directed by Marion McClinton, one of the less influenced by dramatic literature than by modern Seattle Rep that put theater two directors who worked most closely with Wilson on the art (for Wilson, the collages of Romare Bearden) and at the heart of public life, cycle. It was one of the great theater experiences of my life. music, specifically African American music. And both centering diverse voices, The new production is directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, are quintessentially American artists. Each is single- presenting great American a longtime friend and colleague of the playwright and the mindedly dedicated to exploring a specific community playwrights like August Wilson, Encore Ad preeminent contemporary interpreter of Wilson's work. At and experience, and in doing so both expose fundamental and bringing our community the time of Wilson's death in 2005, Jitney was the only play truths about our nation; truths which powerfully illuminate together to strengthen the of the cycle that had not been produced on Broadway. Ruben our America, our communities, and our current national social fabric of our region. rectified that omission with his 2017 Tony Award-winning debates. This is one reason we regard some plays as production, and it's a great pleasure to have him and many of “classic,” and why we keep returning to them. his Broadway team and cast here at Seattle Rep.

There is a symmetrical fitness to Jitney being the last of the cycle to get to Broadway, as this portrait of a quasi- legal gypsy cab company and the community it serves

Braden Abraham CHRIS BENNION marked the start of Wilson's career as a playwright and of Artistic Director The American Century Cycle. Written in 1979 (and revised 20 years later), Jitney was August Wilson's first ever effort to write a full-length play. He was not, however, a beginning writer: he was 34 and had devoted two decades to developing his voice as a poet and writing about the people, life, and culture of his community, the Hill District of Pittsburgh. For Wilson, playwriting was just a way to continue Cynthia Jones in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2005)

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There is a symmetrical fitness to Jitney being the last of the cycle to get to Broadway, as this portrait of a quasi- legal gypsy cab company and the community it serves

Braden Abraham CHRIS BENNION marked the start of Wilson's career as a playwright and of Artistic Director The American Century Cycle. Written in 1979 (and revised At the show 20 years later), Jitney was August Wilson's first ever effort to write a full-length play. He was not, however, a beginning writer: he was 34 and had devoted two decades or on the go to developing his voice as a poet and writing about the people, life, and culture of his community, the Encore is your Hill District of Pittsburgh. For Wilson, playwriting was just a companion way to continue to Seattle’s Cynthia Jones in Ma Rainey’s performing arts. encorespotlight.com Black Bottom (2005)

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Amari Cheatom Brian D. Coats Nija Okoro Youngblood Philmore, u/s Shealy, Fielding Rena Francois Battiste Theater credits include: Skeleton Crew Broadway: (MTC/National Tour) Jitney. Off- Theater credits include: The Legend of Georgia Booster (The Old Globe, S.D.); Detroit '67 (Baltimore Broadway includes: The Brothers Paranormal McBride (Geffen Playhouse); Ma Rainey’s Center Stage); The Temple Bombing (Alliance (Pan Asian Repertory Theatre); Travisville Black Bottom (Mark Taper Forum); Two Trains Francois Battiste is known for his roles Theater); Fetch Clay Make Man (True Colors (Ensemble Studio Theatre); La Ruta (Working Running (Matrix Theatre); Joe Turner’s Come on Broadway in Bronx Bombers (Circle in Theatre Co.); Dutch Masters (LAByrinth Theatre Theater); The Bacchae, The First Noel and Gone (u/s Mark Taper Forum); the world the Square); Magic/Bird (Longacre); and Company); On The Levee (Lincoln Center); (Classical Theatre of Harlem /The Apollo); On premiere of Zoey’s Perfect Wedding (Denver Prelude to a Kiss (Roundabout). His London The Book of Grace (The Public Theater); and the Levee (Lincoln Center); The Merry Wives Center); An Octoroon (Chautauqua Theater credits include: One Night in Miami (Donmar Zooman and the Sign (Signature Theatre). A of Windsor, Two Gentlemen of Verona (Public/ Center); Blueprints to Freedom (La Jolla Warehouse), which received the 2016 Olivier graduate of the Juilliard School Drama Division. NYSF). Regional: The Royale (Cleveland Play Playhouse); The Mountaintop (Cape May nomination for Best Play. Francois’ select The Freddie Hendricks Youth Ensemble of House); The Nest (Denver Center Theatre); Stage); Bossa Nova (Sundance Theatre Lab); Off-Broadway credits include: Paradise Blue Atlanta. Film credits include: Roman J. Israel, Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (Huntington and Echo In Silence (McCarter Theatre). TV: (Signature Theatre); Obie Award-winner The Esq.; Detroit; Crown Heights; Moths and Theatre, Studio Theatre D.C.); King Hedley "The Deuce," "Animal Kingdom," "StartUp," Good Negro, Head of Passes, and Detroit Butterflies; The Alchemist Cookbook; Django II, Seven Guitars, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom "Insecure," "Monday Mornings," "Hail Mary," ’67 (The Public Theater); The Merchant of Unchained; Newlyweeds; Night Catches Us; (Two River Theater); Fences, A Raisin in the "Southland," "Medium," and "ER." Upcoming Venice starring Al Pacino and The Winter’s and Knucklehead. Television credits include Sun (Geva Theatre); Distant Fires (People's film: Red River, A Doll’s House (starring Sir Ben Tale with Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Delacorte "Numbers" (CBS), "Chase" (USA), "Detroit 1-8-7" Light and Theatre Company); Clybourne Park Kingsley), and Gilpin. Training: The Juilliard Theater); and 10 Things to Do Before I Die (ABC), and "Georgetown" (ABC). (Caldwell Theatre); The Wedding Gift, pen/ School. Dedicated to Malvenia. (Second Stage). Regionally, he has worked man/ship (Contemporary American Theater with Sundance; NY Stage & Film; Williamstown; Fest); Count (PlayMakers Rep). TV includes: Chicago Shakespeare; and The Goodman. His "Law & Order," "Law & Order: SVU," "JAG," television and film credits include: ABC’s "Ten "Blue Bloods," "The Sopranos," "Boardwalk Days in the Valley" and "The Family"; HBO’s Empire," "Luke Cage," and "The Blacklist." The Normal Heart; CBS’s "Person of Interest" Encore Ad and "The Good Wife"; "Are We There Yet?" on TBS; Men in Black III; and A Long Walk. Francois was a John Houseman Prize recipient at The Juilliard School and attended Oxford’s Anthony Chisholm Keith Randolph Smith British American Drama Academy. He also Fielding Doub earned his B.S. at Illinois State University. Anthony Chisholm can currently be seen Broadway: Jitney; American Psycho; Come recurring in the Hulu series, "Wu-Tang: An Back Little Sheba; Salome; King Hedley II; American Saga." He is a Tony Award nominee for Steven Anthony Jones Fences; The Piano Lesson. Off-Broadway: Paradise Blue; Lockdown; Tamburlaine; Holiday his portrayal of Elder Joseph Barlow in August Becker Wilson's Radio Golf. His other Broadway credits Heart; The First Breeze of Summer; Jitney; include August Wilson’s Two Trains Running and Steven Anthony Jones was the artistic director The Revolving Cycles Truly and Steadily Roll’d; Gem of the Ocean. Off-Broadway credits include of the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre. He has Intimacy. Regional: A Human Being of a Sort; August Wilson’s Jitney, for which he received the worked professionally on stage, television, and How to Catch Creation; Our Town; Romeo Drama Desk and Obie Awards for his portrayal in film for 46 years. He has performed in the and Juliet; Antony and Cleopatra; Midsummer Harvy Blanks of Fielding; The Happiest Song Plays Last works of August Wilson, (Charles) Fuller, Fugard, Night’s Dream; The Tempest; Three Sisters; Shealy at Second Stage Theatre; and roles with the Stoppard, Gotonda, Beckett, Pinter, Moliere, Ivanov; The Seagull; In Walks Ed; Water By the NY Shakespeare Festival/The Public Theater, Shakespeare, Chekhov, and others. He was in Spoonful; Sunset Baby; The Absolute Brightness Harvy Blanks was seen on Broadway in August among others. Overseas: the hit Vietnam play the original cast of A Soldier’s Play produced of Leonard Pelkey. Film and TV: "The Good Wilson’s Jitney. His regional credits include Tracers at London’s Royal Court Theatre; Sydney, by the Negro Ensemble Company, which won Fight"; "Law & Order"; "One Life to Live"; "I’ll Fly King Hedley II (New Jersey); Familiar (Seattle); Australia’s Seymour Center and Melbourne’s an Obie Award for ensemble acting and the Away"; "NY Undercover"; "Cosby"; Malcolm X; Moscow (Williamstown); The Mountaintop Universal; and August Wilson’s Jitney at The Pulitzer Prize for Best Drama. He performed, Girl 6; Path to Paradise; Anesthesia; Backstreet (Portland); Fire on the Mountain (Mountain National Theatre in London (Olivier Award, taught, and directed at the American Justice; The Warrior Class; Dead Dogs Lie; View); Familiar (Yale Rep); and Jitney Best New Play). He is also the recipient of the Conservatory Theater for 22 years as a member Fallout. (Redbank). He has performed in all ten plays NAACP Theatre Award, the AUDELCO Award, of the core acting company. Mr. Jones received in August Wilson’s American Century Cycle the Ovation Award, and the I.R.N.E. Award. His his early theater training at Karamu House in his and won the Drama Desk Award for the Off- film work includes Going In Style, Chiraq, My hometown of Cleveland, Ohio. Broadway production of Tabletop. Bakery in Brooklyn, and Beloved, among others. Select television credits include "Random Acts of Flyness," "High Maintenance," "Shades of Blue," "Detroit 1-8-7," "Law & Order: SVU," and the role of Burr Redding on HBO’s "Oz."

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Amari Cheatom Brian D. Coats Nija Okoro Youngblood Philmore, u/s Shealy, Fielding Rena Francois Battiste Theater credits include: Skeleton Crew Broadway: (MTC/National Tour) Jitney. Off- Theater credits include: The Legend of Georgia Booster (The Old Globe, S.D.); Detroit '67 (Baltimore Broadway includes: The Brothers Paranormal McBride (Geffen Playhouse); Ma Rainey’s Center Stage); The Temple Bombing (Alliance (Pan Asian Repertory Theatre); Travisville Black Bottom (Mark Taper Forum); Two Trains Francois Battiste is known for his roles Theater); Fetch Clay Make Man (True Colors (Ensemble Studio Theatre); La Ruta (Working Running (Matrix Theatre); Joe Turner’s Come on Broadway in Bronx Bombers (Circle in Theatre Co.); Dutch Masters (LAByrinth Theatre Theater); The Bacchae, The First Noel and Gone (u/s Mark Taper Forum); the world the Square); Magic/Bird (Longacre); and Company); On The Levee (Lincoln Center); (Classical Theatre of Harlem /The Apollo); On premiere of Zoey’s Perfect Wedding (Denver Prelude to a Kiss (Roundabout). His London The Book of Grace (The Public Theater); and the Levee (Lincoln Center); The Merry Wives Center); An Octoroon (Chautauqua Theater credits include: One Night in Miami (Donmar Zooman and the Sign (Signature Theatre). A of Windsor, Two Gentlemen of Verona (Public/ Center); Blueprints to Freedom (La Jolla Warehouse), which received the 2016 Olivier graduate of the Juilliard School Drama Division. NYSF). Regional: The Royale (Cleveland Play Playhouse); The Mountaintop (Cape May nomination for Best Play. Francois’ select The Freddie Hendricks Youth Ensemble of House); The Nest (Denver Center Theatre); Stage); Bossa Nova (Sundance Theatre Lab); Off-Broadway credits include: Paradise Blue Atlanta. Film credits include: Roman J. Israel, Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (Huntington and Echo In Silence (McCarter Theatre). TV: (Signature Theatre); Obie Award-winner The Esq.; Detroit; Crown Heights; Moths and Theatre, Studio Theatre D.C.); King Hedley "The Deuce," "Animal Kingdom," "StartUp," Good Negro, Head of Passes, and Detroit Butterflies; The Alchemist Cookbook; Django II, Seven Guitars, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom "Insecure," "Monday Mornings," "Hail Mary," ’67 (The Public Theater); The Merchant of Unchained; Newlyweeds; Night Catches Us; (Two River Theater); Fences, A Raisin in the "Southland," "Medium," and "ER." Upcoming Venice starring Al Pacino and The Winter’s and Knucklehead. Television credits include Sun (Geva Theatre); Distant Fires (People's film: Red River, A Doll’s House (starring Sir Ben Tale with Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Delacorte "Numbers" (CBS), "Chase" (USA), "Detroit 1-8-7" Light and Theatre Company); Clybourne Park Kingsley), and Gilpin. Training: The Juilliard Theater); and 10 Things to Do Before I Die (ABC), and "Georgetown" (ABC). (Caldwell Theatre); The Wedding Gift, pen/ School. Dedicated to Malvenia. (Second Stage). Regionally, he has worked man/ship (Contemporary American Theater with Sundance; NY Stage & Film; Williamstown; Fest); Count (PlayMakers Rep). TV includes: Chicago Shakespeare; and The Goodman. His "Law & Order," "Law & Order: SVU," "JAG," television and film credits include: ABC’s "Ten "Blue Bloods," "The Sopranos," "Boardwalk Days in the Valley" and "The Family"; HBO’s Empire," "Luke Cage," and "The Blacklist." The Normal Heart; CBS’s "Person of Interest" Encore Ad and "The Good Wife"; "Are We There Yet?" on TBS; Men in Black III; and A Long Walk. Francois was a John Houseman Prize recipient Wholesale and Retail Sales ¿ Roasting fine coffees since 1993 at The Juilliard School and attended Oxford’s Anthony Chisholm Keith Randolph Smith British American Drama Academy. He also Fielding Doub earned his B.S. at Illinois State University. Anthony Chisholm can currently be seen Broadway: Jitney; American Psycho; Come recurring in the Hulu series, "Wu-Tang: An Back Little Sheba; Salome; King Hedley II; American Saga." He is a Tony Award nominee for Steven Anthony Jones Fences; The Piano Lesson. Off-Broadway: Paradise Blue; Lockdown; Tamburlaine; Holiday his portrayal of Elder Joseph Barlow in August Becker One of Seattle’s original Wilson's Radio Golf. His other Broadway credits Heart; The First Breeze of Summer; Jitney; include August Wilson’s Two Trains Running and Steven Anthony Jones was the artistic director The Revolving Cycles Truly and Steadily Roll’d; roaster cafes, Lighthouse Gem of the Ocean. Off-Broadway credits include of the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre. He has Intimacy. Regional: A Human Being of a Sort; has spent more than August Wilson’s Jitney, for which he received the worked professionally on stage, television, and How to Catch Creation; Our Town; Romeo twenty years creating a in film for 46 years. He has performed in the and Juliet; Antony and Cleopatra; Midsummer Drama Desk and Obie Awards for his portrayal loyal following of coffee Harvy Blanks of Fielding; The Happiest Song Plays Last works of August Wilson, (Charles) Fuller, Fugard, Night’s Dream; The Tempest; Three Sisters; Shealy at Second Stage Theatre; and roles with the Stoppard, Gotonda, Beckett, Pinter, Moliere, Ivanov; The Seagull; In Walks Ed; Water By the lovers. Lighthouse roasts NY Shakespeare Festival/The Public Theater, Shakespeare, Chekhov, and others. He was in Spoonful; Sunset Baby; The Absolute Brightness consistently great coffee Harvy Blanks was seen on Broadway in August among others. Overseas: the hit Vietnam play the original cast of A Soldier’s Play produced of Leonard Pelkey. Film and TV: "The Good Wilson’s Jitney. His regional credits include in small batches of the Tracers at London’s Royal Court Theatre; Sydney, by the Negro Ensemble Company, which won Fight"; "Law & Order"; "One Life to Live"; "I’ll Fly King Hedley II (New Jersey); Familiar (Seattle); freshest premium beans, Australia’s Seymour Center and Melbourne’s an Obie Award for ensemble acting and the Away"; "NY Undercover"; "Cosby"; Malcolm X; Moscow (Williamstown); The Mountaintop Universal; and August Wilson’s Jitney at The Pulitzer Prize for Best Drama. He performed, Girl 6; Path to Paradise; Anesthesia; Backstreet hand roasted in a vintage (Portland); Fire on the Mountain (Mountain National Theatre in London (Olivier Award, taught, and directed at the American Justice; The Warrior Class; Dead Dogs Lie; cast-iron roaster each day. View); Familiar (Yale Rep); and Jitney Best New Play). He is also the recipient of the Conservatory Theater for 22 years as a member Fallout. (Redbank). He has performed in all ten plays NAACP Theatre Award, the AUDELCO Award, of the core acting company. Mr. Jones received in August Wilson’s American Century Cycle the Ovation Award, and the I.R.N.E. Award. His his early theater training at Karamu House in his and won the Drama Desk Award for the Off- film work includes Going In Style, Chiraq, My hometown of Cleveland, Ohio. Broadway production of Tabletop. Bakery in Brooklyn, and Beloved, among others. Select television credits include "Random Acts of 400 N 43rd St. ¿ Seattle, WA. 98103 ¿ 206-633-4775 Flyness," "High Maintenance," "Shades of Blue," "Detroit 1-8-7," "Law & Order: SVU," and the role LIGHTHOUSEROASTERS.COM of Burr Redding on HBO’s "Oz."

encorespotlight.com 11 NAACP Theatre Awards and two LA Ovation (Pulitzer Prize winner, Tony Award winner), Two Wilson’s later works, including King Hedley Robber Bridegroom (Roundabout); For Peter (Playwrights Realm), The Homecoming Queen Awards for work as actor/producer with Trains Running, Jitney (Olivier Award winner), II, Jitney, Gem of the Ocean, and Radio Golf Pan on Her 70th Birthday (Playwrights); and (Atlantic Theater), Carnaval (National Black Wilson’s Jitney and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, King Hedley II, and Radio Golf. In 2003, he — the latter two of which each garnered him Natural Shocks (WP Theater). He teaches at the Theatre), Ndebele Funeral (59E59, South where he won his first Best Actor NAACP. After made his stage debut in his one-man show, Tony nominations. Other awards: Drama Desk, Yale School of Drama and has worked as an African tour, Edinburgh Festival), Sister Son/ developing both "Mister" in the world premiere How I Learned What I Learned. He received Lucille Lortel, Ovation, Obie, L.A. Drama Critics, associate on many Broadway shows including ji (Billie Holiday Theater), In the Continuum of King Hedley II at Pittsburgh’s New Hazlett an Emmy Award nomination for his screenplay Outer Critics Circle, and NAACP. davidgallo.com Peter and the Starcatcher; Great Comet of 1812; (Juilliard). Regional: Paradise Blue (Long Wharf Theater and "Youngblood" in the inaugural of The Piano Lesson. Other works include The and To Kill a Mockingbird. He’s won the Craig Theatre), Skeleton Crew (Chester Theatre). Ray Anthony Thomas production of Jitney at Pittsburgh Public Janitor, Recycle, The Coldest Day of the Year, Toni-Leslie James Noel Award (San Diego) and the Footlights Producer: CLASSIX, a reading series exploring Turnbo Theater, he reprised his role of "Youngblood" in Malcolm X, The Homecoming, and the musical Costume Designer Award (Milwaukee) for sound design. classic plays by Black playwrights. Other: ABC/ the Jitney cast that won the 2002 Olivier Award satire Black Bart and the Sacred Hills. Other Disney, Cherry Lane, Fire This Time, Ma-Yi, New Ray Anthony Thomas is thrilled to return to for Best New Play at London’s Royal National awards include eight New York Drama Critics Broadway: Come From Away (2017); Amazing Bill Sims Jr. Black Fest, New Dramatists, NOW Africa, PEN Grace; Lucky Guy; The Scottsboro Boys; this production. His Broadway credits include Theatre. Film/TV credits include Vice Principal Circle Awards, Rockefeller and Guggenheim Original Music World Voices, Royal Shakespeare Company, Jitney, The Crucible, and Race. Ray has Gaines on HBO’s "Insecure" and Principal Avery Fellowships in Playwriting, a Whiting Writers Finian’s Rainbow; Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Lincoln Center Directors Lab, Soho Rep Writer/ created roles in two Pulitzer Prize-winning in HBO’s upcoming "Sterling." Award, 2003 Heinz Award, 1999 National Life; Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; King Hedley Bill Sims Jr. is an internationally respected Director Lab, WNYC. plays: Water by the Spoonful and Between Humanities Medal, and induction into the II; One Mo’ Time; The Wild Party; Marie “Master of the Blues.” He is a 2012 Grammy Riverside and Crazy. He also created a role in Theater Hall of Fame. Christine; Footloose; The Tempest; Twilight: Los nominee for And Still I Rise and an Obie Caparelliotis Casting Angeles, 1992; Angels in America: Millennium Award winner for Lackawanna Blues. Recent Volunteer Man (Obie-winning performance). Broadway Casting Recent theater: Moscow Moscow Moscow Ruben Santiago-Hudson Approaches; Perestroika; Chronicle of a Death theater credits: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Two Foretold; and Jelly’s Last Jam. Awards: Tony River), The Piano Lesson (Hartford Stage and Select Broadway: King Lear; Hillary and Clinton; Moscow Moscow Moscow (Off-Broadway); Director Two Trains Running (Cincy/Milwaukee); The nomination, three Drama Desk nominations, Signature Theatre), August Wilson’s Two Trains Ink; The Waverly Gallery; The Boys in the Band; Year to Come (La Jolla); and Artney Jackson Ruben Santiago-Hudson is honored to continue six Lucille Lortel nominations, Hewes Design Running and Jitney (Two River). Mr. Sims was Three Tall Women; Meteor Shower; A Doll’s (Williamstown). Other credits include: Fences this journey with August Wilson’s Jitney, whose Award, Irene Sharaff Young Masters Award, and the subject of the documentary An American House, Part 2; Jitney; The Glass Menagerie; and Jitney for August Wilson’s American recent Broadway production garnered several the 2009 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence Love Story (PBS), for which he composed Blackbird; Fences. Select theaters: Signature, Century Cycle with NPR Radio. Recent film and Patrese D. McClain awards for Outstanding Revival including the in Costume Design. many of the songs for the soundtrack. Other Atlantic, Ars Nova, Old Globe, McCarter, TV credits include Isn’t It Romantic and "High u/s Rena Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics film credits: Lackawanna Blues, New York Goodman, Berkeley Rep, Seattle Rep, Arena Maintenance" (HBO). Circle Award, Drama League, and the NY Jane Cox Stories, Miss Ruby’s House, American Gangster, Stage. Current TV: "New Amsterdam" (NBC). Patrese D. McClain is delighted to be joining Drama Critics Circle Awards, along with six Tony Lighting Designer and Cadillac Records. Training: Ohio State the Jitney family. Originally from Chicago, she nominations. Ruben’s directing credits include: University. heritagebluesorchestra.com Nancy Piccione Jane Cox’s projects with Ruben Santiago- has worked with many theater companies The Piano Lesson, Skeleton Crew, Othello, Gem Broadway Casting in her hometown and in regional theaters of the Ocean, Paradise Blue, My Children! My Hudson include Seven Guitars at Signature Matthew Armentrout Theatre. Broadway: The Color Purple; Broadway credits include Choir Boy, Jitney, all over the country. Select regional theater Africa!, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Cabin in the Hair and Wig Designer credits include: Pipeline and Skeleton Crew at Sky, The Happiest Song Plays Last, Two Trains Machinal; All the Way; Come Back, Little Heisenberg, The Father, Venus in Fur, Wit, Actors Theatre; Short Shakes R&J at Chicago Running, Things of Dry Hours, The First Breeze Sheba; and Picnic. Recent projects include Broadway design credits include Bernhardt/ Time Stands Still, Top Girls, Shining City, The Shakespeare Theater; The Mountaintop and of Summer, and Your Blues Ain’t Sweet Like Amélie at Berkeley Repertory Theatre; Othello Hamlet. Other design credits include Merrily Assembled Parties, Outside Mullingar, Casa Skeleton Crew at People's Light and Theatre Mine, among many others. Mr. Santiago-Hudson at NYTW; Hamlet at the Barbican; Roe at OSF; We Roll Along (Roundabout), Anna May Wong— Valentina, and Constellations. She cast the James T. Alfred Company; White Guy on the Bus at Northlight received a Tony Award as featured actor for The Flick at the National Theatre, London; The Actress Who Died a Thousand Deaths original productions of Proof and The Tale and Passion, Peer Gynt, and Allegro at Classic (Mabou Mines), Paradise Square (Berkeley of the Allergist’s Wife Off-Broadway and on u/s Booster, Youngblood Theatre; for colored girls..., Spunk, Tartuffe, his performance in August Wilson’s Seven and The Misanthrope at Court Theatre; Two Guitars. He made his Broadway acting debut Stage Company. Jane is a member of the Repertory Theatre), Othello (Shakespeare Broadway as well as their national tours. Off- James T. Alfred is excited to join this production Trains Running at Geva Theatre Center; No alongside Gregory Hines in Jelly’s Last Jam. Monica Bill Barnes Dance Company, has a long in the Park), London Rocks (Busch Gardens Broadway credits include Sugar in Our Wounds, of Jitney. Off-Broadway credits: Pipeline–u/s Child... and Pericles at The St. Louis Black Other Broadway credits include Stick Fly and collaboration with the Oregon Shakespeare Williamsburg), and A Christmas Carol (Busch Cost of Living, Linda, Incognito, The Explorers (Lincoln Center); Blood (NBT); This Land Rep. Recent film credits include: BET’s Friend Gem of the Ocean. The multi-award-winning Festival, and is the director of the theater Gardens Williamsburg). Club, Choir Boy, The Whipping Man, Ruined, (Vineyard Theatre); All's Well That Ends Well Request, Workingman, Widows directed by director/writer/actor wrote, executive produced, program at Princeton University. Equivocation, and The World of Extreme (The Public Theater). Select regional theater Thomas Schall Steve McQueen, and Captive State directed and co-starred in the HBO film Lackawanna Happiness. Prior to working at Manhattan credits: Head of Passes–world premiere; Darron L West by Rupert Wyatt. Television credits include: Blues based on his Obie and Helen Hayes Fight Director Theatre Club, she was a member of the casting Hushabye (Steppenwolf Theatre); Ma Rainey’s "Chicago Med," "Chicago Fire" (NBC), Sound Designer staff at the New York Shakespeare Festival for Award-winning play. The movie received several Thomas Schall has worked on more than 60 Black Bottom, Mountaintop (Guthrie Theater, "Sirens" (USA), and "Detroit 1-8-7" (ABC). 10 years, where she worked on Shakespeare honors including Emmy, Golden Globe, NAACP Previously at the Friedman: The American Plan, Broadway shows, including The Front Page, ATC); Jitney (Penumbra, KC Rep, ATC); Two Awards include: Barrymore Award Winner in the Park and numerous productions at The Image Award, Humanitas, National Board of To Be or Not to Be, The Royal Family, Top Girls, The Crucible, Blackbird, The Color Purple, Trains Running, Detroit ‘67, A Brown Tale for Outstanding Leading Actress, St. Louis Public Theater. She cast the American actors Reviews, Black Filmmaker’s Foundation, and and Time Stands Still. He is a Tony and Obie Waitress, The King and I, War Horse, This Is (Penumbra Theatre); Fences (Denver Center, Circle Theatre Award Winner for Best Solo for the first two seasons of The Bridge Project, Christopher Awards. In a career that spans over Award-winning sound designer whose work for Our Youth, Of Mice and Men, Romeo and Juliet, IRT, ATC, Milwaukee Rep); End Game (Baltimore Performance, two-time Joseph Jefferson produced by BAM and the Old Vic London. She four decades, Ruben considers opening The theater and dance has been heard in more than Lucky Guy, Death of a Salesman, Venus in Fur, Center Stage). Television credits: "Empire," Nominee for Outstanding Supporting Actress. is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and a Ruben Santiago-Hudson Fine Arts Learning 500 productions nationally and internationally, and A View from the Bridge. He has worked "Chicago P.D.," "The Blacklist," "Blindspot," Training: B.F.A. Howard University, M.F.A. member of the Casting Society of America. Center in 2014 in his hometown of Lackawanna, on Broadway and off. His accolades for sound extensively at Lincoln Center (Disgraced, Blood "FBI," "Boss," and "Prison Break." Pennsylvania State University. NY as one of his proudest and most cherished design also include the Bay Area Theatre Critics and Gifts), The Public Theater (Hamlet, King www.patresedmcclain.com Laura Stanczyk accomplishments. Circle, Lucille Lortel, and AUDELCO awards. Lear, Mother Courage, Father Comes Home Additional Casting He is a two-time Henry Hewes Design Award from the Wars), MTC (Ruined, Murder Ballad), Artistic/ David Gallo winner and a proud recipient of the Princess NY Theatre Workshop (Red Speedo, Othello), Broadway, Off-Broadway, and tours: Encores! Scenic Designer Grace Award statue. and the Met Opera (Le Nozze di Figaro, Il Off Center, Side Show, After Midnight, A Night Production David Gallo has designed more than 30 Trovatore). with Janis Joplin, Follies, Lombardi, Ragtime, Charles Coes Broadway productions, including Memphis, Impressionism, Seafarer, Radio Golf, Coram Awoye Timpo August Wilson First Date, The Drowsy Chaperone (Tony Award Sound Designer Boy, Translations, Dirty Dancing, Glorious Associate Director Ones, Noura, Little Rock, Fetch Clay, Brother Playwright for Best Scenic Design), The Mountaintop, Charles Coes is a New Jersey-based sound A. Russell Andrews Sister Plays. Multiple seasons for Kennedy August Wilson's plays include Gem of the Reasons to Be Pretty, Xanadu, Company, designer. Off-Broadway, he’s designed: Tales Off-Broadway: In Old Age (New York Theatre u/s Philmore, Becker, Doub, Turnbo and Thoroughly Modern Millie. Working with Center, Shakespeare Theatre, Hartford Stage, Ocean, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Ma of the Washer King (Playwright’s Realm); Workshop), Good Grief (Vineyard Theatre), McCarter, etc. Founding member of award-winning Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Piano Lesson August Wilson from 1996 until his death, Servant of Two Masters (TFANA, among others); The Revolving Cycles Truly and Steadily Roll’d StageWalkers Productions. Russell won two (Pulitzer Prize winner), Seven Guitars, Fences David designed the premiere productions of 12 NAACP Theatre Awards and two LA Ovation (Pulitzer Prize winner, Tony Award winner), Two Wilson’s later works, including King Hedley Robber Bridegroom (Roundabout); For Peter (Playwrights Realm), The Homecoming Queen Awards for work as actor/producer with Trains Running, Jitney (Olivier Award winner), II, Jitney, Gem of the Ocean, and Radio Golf Pan on Her 70th Birthday (Playwrights); and (Atlantic Theater), Carnaval (National Black Wilson’s Jitney and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, King Hedley II, and Radio Golf. In 2003, he — the latter two of which each garnered him Natural Shocks (WP Theater). He teaches at the Theatre), Ndebele Funeral (59E59, South where he won his first Best Actor NAACP. After made his stage debut in his one-man show, Tony nominations. Other awards: Drama Desk, Yale School of Drama and has worked as an African tour, Edinburgh Festival), Sister Son/ developing both "Mister" in the world premiere How I Learned What I Learned. He received Lucille Lortel, Ovation, Obie, L.A. Drama Critics, associate on many Broadway shows including ji (Billie Holiday Theater), In the Continuum of King Hedley II at Pittsburgh’s New Hazlett an Emmy Award nomination for his screenplay Outer Critics Circle, and NAACP. davidgallo.com Peter and the Starcatcher; Great Comet of 1812; (Juilliard). Regional: Paradise Blue (Long Wharf Theater and "Youngblood" in the inaugural of The Piano Lesson. Other works include The and To Kill a Mockingbird. He’s won the Craig Theatre), Skeleton Crew (Chester Theatre). Ray Anthony Thomas production of Jitney at Pittsburgh Public Janitor, Recycle, The Coldest Day of the Year, Toni-Leslie James Noel Award (San Diego) and the Footlights Producer: CLASSIX, a reading series exploring Turnbo Theater, he reprised his role of "Youngblood" in Malcolm X, The Homecoming, and the musical Costume Designer Award (Milwaukee) for sound design. classic plays by Black playwrights. Other: ABC/ the Jitney cast that won the 2002 Olivier Award satire Black Bart and the Sacred Hills. Other Disney, Cherry Lane, Fire This Time, Ma-Yi, New Ray Anthony Thomas is thrilled to return to for Best New Play at London’s Royal National awards include eight New York Drama Critics Broadway: Come From Away (2017); Amazing Bill Sims Jr. Black Fest, New Dramatists, NOW Africa, PEN Grace; Lucky Guy; The Scottsboro Boys; this production. His Broadway credits include Theatre. Film/TV credits include Vice Principal Circle Awards, Rockefeller and Guggenheim Original Music World Voices, Royal Shakespeare Company, Jitney, The Crucible, and Race. Ray has Gaines on HBO’s "Insecure" and Principal Avery Fellowships in Playwriting, a Whiting Writers Finian’s Rainbow; Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Lincoln Center Directors Lab, Soho Rep Writer/ created roles in two Pulitzer Prize-winning in HBO’s upcoming "Sterling." Award, 2003 Heinz Award, 1999 National Life; Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; King Hedley Bill Sims Jr. is an internationally respected Director Lab, WNYC. plays: Water by the Spoonful and Between Humanities Medal, and induction into the II; One Mo’ Time; The Wild Party; Marie “Master of the Blues.” He is a 2012 Grammy Riverside and Crazy. He also created a role in Theater Hall of Fame. Christine; Footloose; The Tempest; Twilight: Los nominee for And Still I Rise and an Obie Caparelliotis Casting Angeles, 1992; Angels in America: Millennium Award winner for Lackawanna Blues. Recent Volunteer Man (Obie-winning performance). Broadway Casting Recent theater: Moscow Moscow Moscow Ruben Santiago-Hudson Approaches; Perestroika; Chronicle of a Death theater credits: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Two Foretold; and Jelly’s Last Jam. Awards: Tony River), The Piano Lesson (Hartford Stage and Select Broadway: King Lear; Hillary and Clinton; Moscow Moscow Moscow (Off-Broadway); Director Two Trains Running (Cincy/Milwaukee); The nomination, three Drama Desk nominations, Signature Theatre), August Wilson’s Two Trains Ink; The Waverly Gallery; The Boys in the Band; Year to Come (La Jolla); and Artney Jackson Ruben Santiago-Hudson is honored to continue six Lucille Lortel nominations, Hewes Design Running and Jitney (Two River). Mr. Sims was Three Tall Women; Meteor Shower; A Doll’s (Williamstown). Other credits include: Fences this journey with August Wilson’s Jitney, whose Award, Irene Sharaff Young Masters Award, and the subject of the documentary An American House, Part 2; Jitney; The Glass Menagerie; and Jitney for August Wilson’s American recent Broadway production garnered several the 2009 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence Love Story (PBS), for which he composed Blackbird; Fences. Select theaters: Signature, Century Cycle with NPR Radio. Recent film and Patrese D. McClain awards for Outstanding Revival including the in Costume Design. many of the songs for the soundtrack. Other Atlantic, Ars Nova, Old Globe, McCarter, TV credits include Isn’t It Romantic and "High u/s Rena Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics film credits: Lackawanna Blues, New York Goodman, Berkeley Rep, Seattle Rep, Arena Maintenance" (HBO). Circle Award, Drama League, and the NY Jane Cox Stories, Miss Ruby’s House, American Gangster, Stage. Current TV: "New Amsterdam" (NBC). Patrese D. McClain is delighted to be joining Drama Critics Circle Awards, along with six Tony Lighting Designer and Cadillac Records. Training: Ohio State the Jitney family. Originally from Chicago, she nominations. Ruben’s directing credits include: University. heritagebluesorchestra.com Nancy Piccione Jane Cox’s projects with Ruben Santiago- has worked with many theater companies The Piano Lesson, Skeleton Crew, Othello, Gem Broadway Casting in her hometown and in regional theaters of the Ocean, Paradise Blue, My Children! My Hudson include Seven Guitars at Signature Matthew Armentrout Theatre. Broadway: The Color Purple; Broadway credits include Choir Boy, Jitney, all over the country. Select regional theater Africa!, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Cabin in the Hair and Wig Designer credits include: Pipeline and Skeleton Crew at Sky, The Happiest Song Plays Last, Two Trains Machinal; All the Way; Come Back, Little Heisenberg, The Father, Venus in Fur, Wit, Actors Theatre; Short Shakes R&J at Chicago Running, Things of Dry Hours, The First Breeze Sheba; and Picnic. Recent projects include Broadway design credits include Bernhardt/ Time Stands Still, Top Girls, Shining City, The Shakespeare Theater; The Mountaintop and of Summer, and Your Blues Ain’t Sweet Like Amélie at Berkeley Repertory Theatre; Othello Hamlet. Other design credits include Merrily Assembled Parties, Outside Mullingar, Casa Skeleton Crew at People's Light and Theatre Mine, among many others. Mr. Santiago-Hudson at NYTW; Hamlet at the Barbican; Roe at OSF; We Roll Along (Roundabout), Anna May Wong— Valentina, and Constellations. She cast the James T. Alfred Company; White Guy on the Bus at Northlight received a Tony Award as featured actor for The Flick at the National Theatre, London; The Actress Who Died a Thousand Deaths original productions of Proof and The Tale and Passion, Peer Gynt, and Allegro at Classic (Mabou Mines), Paradise Square (Berkeley of the Allergist’s Wife Off-Broadway and on u/s Booster, Youngblood Theatre; for colored girls..., Spunk, Tartuffe, his performance in August Wilson’s Seven and The Misanthrope at Court Theatre; Two Guitars. He made his Broadway acting debut Stage Company. Jane is a member of the Repertory Theatre), Othello (Shakespeare Broadway as well as their national tours. Off- James T. Alfred is excited to join this production Trains Running at Geva Theatre Center; No alongside Gregory Hines in Jelly’s Last Jam. Monica Bill Barnes Dance Company, has a long in the Park), London Rocks (Busch Gardens Broadway credits include Sugar in Our Wounds, of Jitney. Off-Broadway credits: Pipeline–u/s Child... and Pericles at The St. Louis Black Other Broadway credits include Stick Fly and collaboration with the Oregon Shakespeare Williamsburg), and A Christmas Carol (Busch Cost of Living, Linda, Incognito, The Explorers (Lincoln Center); Blood (NBT); This Land Rep. Recent film credits include: BET’s Friend Gem of the Ocean. The multi-award-winning Festival, and is the director of the theater Gardens Williamsburg). Club, Choir Boy, The Whipping Man, Ruined, (Vineyard Theatre); All's Well That Ends Well Request, Workingman, Widows directed by director/writer/actor wrote, executive produced, program at Princeton University. Equivocation, and The World of Extreme (The Public Theater). Select regional theater Thomas Schall Steve McQueen, and Captive State directed and co-starred in the HBO film Lackawanna Happiness. Prior to working at Manhattan credits: Head of Passes–world premiere; Darron L West by Rupert Wyatt. Television credits include: Blues based on his Obie and Helen Hayes Fight Director Theatre Club, she was a member of the casting Hushabye (Steppenwolf Theatre); Ma Rainey’s "Chicago Med," "Chicago Fire" (NBC), Sound Designer staff at the New York Shakespeare Festival for Award-winning play. The movie received several Thomas Schall has worked on more than 60 Black Bottom, Mountaintop (Guthrie Theater, "Sirens" (USA), and "Detroit 1-8-7" (ABC). 10 years, where she worked on Shakespeare honors including Emmy, Golden Globe, NAACP Previously at the Friedman: The American Plan, Broadway shows, including The Front Page, ATC); Jitney (Penumbra, KC Rep, ATC); Two Awards include: Barrymore Award Winner in the Park and numerous productions at The Image Award, Humanitas, National Board of To Be or Not to Be, The Royal Family, Top Girls, The Crucible, Blackbird, The Color Purple, Trains Running, Detroit ‘67, A Brown Tale for Outstanding Leading Actress, St. Louis Public Theater. She cast the American actors Reviews, Black Filmmaker’s Foundation, and and Time Stands Still. He is a Tony and Obie Waitress, The King and I, War Horse, This Is (Penumbra Theatre); Fences (Denver Center, Circle Theatre Award Winner for Best Solo for the first two seasons of The Bridge Project, Christopher Awards. In a career that spans over Award-winning sound designer whose work for Our Youth, Of Mice and Men, Romeo and Juliet, IRT, ATC, Milwaukee Rep); End Game (Baltimore Performance, two-time Joseph Jefferson produced by BAM and the Old Vic London. She four decades, Ruben considers opening The theater and dance has been heard in more than Lucky Guy, Death of a Salesman, Venus in Fur, Center Stage). Television credits: "Empire," Nominee for Outstanding Supporting Actress. is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and a Ruben Santiago-Hudson Fine Arts Learning 500 productions nationally and internationally, and A View from the Bridge. He has worked "Chicago P.D.," "The Blacklist," "Blindspot," Training: B.F.A. Howard University, M.F.A. member of the Casting Society of America. Center in 2014 in his hometown of Lackawanna, on Broadway and off. His accolades for sound extensively at Lincoln Center (Disgraced, Blood "FBI," "Boss," and "Prison Break." Pennsylvania State University. NY as one of his proudest and most cherished design also include the Bay Area Theatre Critics and Gifts), The Public Theater (Hamlet, King www.patresedmcclain.com Laura Stanczyk accomplishments. Circle, Lucille Lortel, and AUDELCO awards. Lear, Mother Courage, Father Comes Home Additional Casting He is a two-time Henry Hewes Design Award from the Wars), MTC (Ruined, Murder Ballad), Artistic/ David Gallo winner and a proud recipient of the Princess NY Theatre Workshop (Red Speedo, Othello), Broadway, Off-Broadway, and tours: Encores! Scenic Designer Grace Award statue. and the Met Opera (Le Nozze di Figaro, Il Off Center, Side Show, After Midnight, A Night Production David Gallo has designed more than 30 Trovatore). with Janis Joplin, Follies, Lombardi, Ragtime, Charles Coes Broadway productions, including Memphis, Impressionism, Seafarer, Radio Golf, Coram Awoye Timpo August Wilson First Date, The Drowsy Chaperone (Tony Award Sound Designer Boy, Translations, Dirty Dancing, Glorious Associate Director Ones, Noura, Little Rock, Fetch Clay, Brother Playwright for Best Scenic Design), The Mountaintop, Charles Coes is a New Jersey-based sound A. Russell Andrews Sister Plays. Multiple seasons for Kennedy August Wilson's plays include Gem of the Reasons to Be Pretty, Xanadu, Company, designer. Off-Broadway, he’s designed: Tales Off-Broadway: In Old Age (New York Theatre u/s Philmore, Becker, Doub, Turnbo and Thoroughly Modern Millie. Working with Center, Shakespeare Theatre, Hartford Stage, Ocean, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Ma of the Washer King (Playwright’s Realm); Workshop), Good Grief (Vineyard Theatre), McCarter, etc. Founding member of award-winning Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Piano Lesson August Wilson from 1996 until his death, Servant of Two Masters (TFANA, among others); The Revolving Cycles Truly and Steadily Roll’d StageWalkers Productions. Russell won two (Pulitzer Prize winner), Seven Guitars, Fences David designed the premiere productions of encorespotlight.com 13 SenovvA focuses on solution-driven services in by Seattle Rep since the construction of the Leo K. Kamra A. Jacobs Viveca Gardiner Seattle Rep is a member of the League Production Stage Manager theater, broadcast, and architecture throughout Associate Scenic Designer For Seattle Rep Theater in 1995; saw its world premiere of Come of Resident Theatres, a nationwide the world. Current theatrical projects include: From Away open on Broadway and launch North association of not-for-profit theaters. Broadway credits include: American Son and Braden Abraham Freestyle Love Supreme, The Sound Inside, Michael Magaraci American and international tours; reconfigured The directors are members of the Stage Children of a Lesser God. The Public Theater: Artistic Director Directors and Choreographers Society, American Moor, Cirque du Soleil — Twas the Associate Costume Designer the Bagley Wright Theater in order to produce Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, and Night Before..., Audible at Minetta Lane, Jersey David Byrne’s groundbreaking, immersive a national theatrical labor union. As You Like It. Her regional credits include: Braden Abraham joined Seattle Rep in 2002, Boys, Only Human, Mrs. Doubtfire. Tess James & starting as an artistic intern, then holding several musical Here Lies Love, which now stands as the The Actors and Stage Managers employed The Bitter Game, Last Tiger in Haiti, The highest-grossing show in Seattle Rep’s history; in this production are members of Wholehearted, The New One, The King and I, Solomon Weisbard positions on the artistic staff. He served as Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Associate Artistic Director for seven years before has committed to an initiative to increase equity, Professional Actors and Stage Managers in and Disney’s The Little Mermaid. Film credits Additional Staff/ Associate Lighting Designers diversity, and inclusion at every level of the theater; the United States. include: American Son (Netflix). Education: assuming artistic leadership of the theater in 2014. During his tenure, Braden has re- and completed its first strategic plan in more The scenic, costume, lighting, and sound M.F.A., U.C. San Diego. Productions Itohan Edoloyi than a decade. Prior to his arrival in Seattle, Jeff designers are represented by United Scenic envisioned the New Play Program and initiated Artists, Local USA-829 of the I.A.T.S.E. Lighting Design Associate served as Managing Director of Washington D.C.’s Scenery Construction and Operations Mandisa Reed Credits Seattle Rep’s Public Works. An accomplished performed by employees represented director, he has directed many productions Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company for seven by I.A.T.S.E. locals 15 and 488. Wardrobe Assistant Stage Manager Stephen Dee seasons. Before that, Jeff served as Producing services are performed by employees SHOW CONTROL AND SCENIC MOTION for Seattle Rep, including most recently: True represented by T.W.U Local 887. Mandisa Reed is excited to be at Seattle CONTROL FEATURING STAGE COMMAND Assistant Sound Designer / West; The Great Moment (premiere); A Doll’s Director at Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, AK Rep. She worked at The Public Theater on for eight seasons. Jeff started his career in arts Seattle Rep is a constituent of Theatre SYSTEMS® BY PRG-SCENIC TECHNOLOGIES, Production Audio House, Part 2; Last of the Boys; Ibsen in Chicago Communications Group (TCG), the national The Bitter Game. Regional credits include: A DIVISION OF PRG BROADWAY, L.L.C., NEW (premiere); Well; Luna Gale; A View from the administration with the Albany Berkshire Ballet service organization for the nonprofit Diana, The Heart of Rock and Roll, SUMMER: WINDSOR, NY. Scenic Items Fabricated by Daniel Whiting Bridge; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; A Great in Pittsfield, MA, where he served as Managing professional theater. The Donna Summer Musical, and Squirrels. PRGScenic Technologies, a division of PRG Director for three years. Born in upstate NY and Production Carpenter Wilderness (premiere); and Photograph 51. Seattle Rep is a member of Education: M.F.A., U.C. San Diego. Broadway, L.L.C., New Windsor, NY. Sound He has developed plays with The O’Neill, Ojai raised in West Hartford, CT, Jeff received his B.A. in Theatre Puget Sound. Equipment by Masque Sound. Select costumes Rachael Shair Playwrights Conference, The Denver Center, English at Vassar College and his M.F.A. in Theatre Manhattan Theatre Club executed by John Kristiansen New York Inc.; Management at the Yale School of Drama. Seattle Rep is a member of NAMT, a not- Production Electrician Inge Festival, Portland Center Stage, The for-profit organization serving the musical MTC David Samuel Menkes Custom Leatherwear; Playwrights’ Center, and Perseverance Theatre. theater community. and Virginia Commonwealth University. Seattle Rep Under the dynamic leadership of Artistic Eric Reynolds Seattle Rep operates under an agreement Production Properties provided by propNspoon. Jeffrey Herrmann Seattle Rep puts theater at the heart of public Director Lynne Meadow and Executive Production Properties with AFM, the American Federation of Production trucking by Clark Transfer. Managing Director life. Founded in 1963 and winner of the 1990 Musicians. Producer Barry Grove, MTC has become Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre, one of the country’s most prominent theater This production was rehearsed at Jessica R. Aguilar In May 2014, Jeffrey Herrmann was appointed Seattle Rep is currently led by Artistic Director companies. Productions at its Broadway and The Pershing Square Signature Center Production Assistant as the fifth Managing Director in Seattle Rep’s Braden Abraham and Managing Director Jeffrey Off-Broadway venues have garnered numerous 480 West 42nd Street, NY, NY 10036 56-year history. In this role, Jeff oversees all Herrmann. Over a season and throughout the awards, including 27 Tony Awards and 7 www.signaturetheatre.org Sarah Cooney the administrative functions of this $15 million, year, Seattle Rep collaborates with extraordinary Pulitzer Prizes. MTC premieres include August Casting Assistant nationally-recognized, not-for-profit performing artists to create productions and programs Wilson’s Jitney and The Piano Lesson, Ink, MAXIMUM ENTERTAINMENT arts organization, including development, finance, that reflect and elevate the diverse cultures, Choir Boy, Wit, Vietgone, Venus in Fur, Ruined, PRODUCTIONS marketing, operations, and Board relations. perspectives, and life experiences of the Pacific Rabbit Hole, Doubt, Proof, Love! Valour! Since his arrival—which coincided, to the day, Northwest. Seattle Rep’s nationally recognized Compassion!, Crimes of the Heart, and Ain’t Eva Price, Carl Flanigan, with Braden Abraham’s appointment as Artistic programs include the New Works Program, Seattle Misbehavin’. manhattantheatreclub.com. Josh Altman, John Albert Harris, Director—activity, attendance, fundraising, and Rep’s Public Works, the August Wilson Monologue Avram Freedberg, Mary Beth Dale the budget have all shown marked increases. Competition, Pay What You Choose ticketing Maximum Entertainment Under their management, the theater also recently options, and numerous audience enrichment and Productions PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR completed a significant renovation of the PONCHO engagement opportunities including post-play General Manager Forum, the first major capital project undertaken panels, discussions, and community events. SenovvA Inc. Maximum Entertainment Productions is a Arianna Knapp, James E. Cleveland, producing, developing, and management Lindsay Child, Ron Grimshaw, company founded by Avram Freedberg, Mary New this season! Get ready to bust a move while Beth Dale, and Eva Price; and is joined by Anna Engelsman Managing Director/General Manager Carl supporting Seattle Rep! Following Revel Flanigan. Select Broadway, Off-Broadway, and PRODUCTION STAFF: touring credits include What the Constitution + Raise, Seattle Rep’s annual Gala, dance Means to Me (National Tour); Cruel Intentions: James E. Cleveland the night away at the hottest 80s party The ‘90s Musical; Small Mouth Sounds; Frankie Production Supervisor Valli and the Four Seasons on Broadway!; in town, featuring cocktails, comfort The Hip Hop Nutcracker; The Lion; Verso; Ron Grimshaw Black Light; Born for This (L.A. and Boston); 50 Production Manager food by Tom Douglas, raffle prizes, and Shades! The Musical; Ivy + Bean The Musical; sweet surprises. Voca People; and Colin Quinn: Long Story Anna Engelsman Short. www.maximumcompany.com Associate Production Manager Saturday, April 4, 2020 Join Seattle Rep on our biggest SenovvA Casey McDermott at 9:30 p.m. fundraising night of the year and gain Production Supervisor Associate General Manager access to the best party in the city! SenovvA is built on the vast experience and Tickets: $75 personal relationships of our producers, Awoye Timpo managers, designers, and technical specialists. Associate Director Grab your tickets now → seattlerep.org/revelry-after-hours 14 SenovvA focuses on solution-driven services in by Seattle Rep since the construction of the Leo K. Kamra A. Jacobs Viveca Gardiner Seattle Rep is a member of the League Production Stage Manager theater, broadcast, and architecture throughout Associate Scenic Designer For Seattle Rep Theater in 1995; saw its world premiere of Come of Resident Theatres, a nationwide the world. Current theatrical projects include: From Away open on Broadway and launch North association of not-for-profit theaters. Broadway credits include: American Son and Braden Abraham Freestyle Love Supreme, The Sound Inside, Michael Magaraci American and international tours; reconfigured The directors are members of the Stage Children of a Lesser God. The Public Theater: Artistic Director Directors and Choreographers Society, American Moor, Cirque du Soleil — Twas the Associate Costume Designer the Bagley Wright Theater in order to produce Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, and Night Before..., Audible at Minetta Lane, Jersey David Byrne’s groundbreaking, immersive a national theatrical labor union. As You Like It. Her regional credits include: Braden Abraham joined Seattle Rep in 2002, Boys, Only Human, Mrs. Doubtfire. Tess James & starting as an artistic intern, then holding several musical Here Lies Love, which now stands as the The Actors and Stage Managers employed The Bitter Game, Last Tiger in Haiti, The highest-grossing show in Seattle Rep’s history; in this production are members of Wholehearted, The New One, The King and I, Solomon Weisbard positions on the artistic staff. He served as Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Associate Artistic Director for seven years before has committed to an initiative to increase equity, Professional Actors and Stage Managers in and Disney’s The Little Mermaid. Film credits Additional Staff/ Associate Lighting Designers diversity, and inclusion at every level of the theater; the United States. include: American Son (Netflix). Education: assuming artistic leadership of the theater in 2014. During his tenure, Braden has re- and completed its first strategic plan in more The scenic, costume, lighting, and sound M.F.A., U.C. San Diego. Productions Itohan Edoloyi than a decade. Prior to his arrival in Seattle, Jeff designers are represented by United Scenic envisioned the New Play Program and initiated Artists, Local USA-829 of the I.A.T.S.E. Lighting Design Associate served as Managing Director of Washington D.C.’s Scenery Construction and Operations Mandisa Reed Credits Seattle Rep’s Public Works. An accomplished performed by employees represented director, he has directed many productions Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company for seven by I.A.T.S.E. locals 15 and 488. Wardrobe Assistant Stage Manager Stephen Dee seasons. Before that, Jeff served as Producing services are performed by employees SHOW CONTROL AND SCENIC MOTION for Seattle Rep, including most recently: True represented by T.W.U Local 887. Mandisa Reed is excited to be at Seattle CONTROL FEATURING STAGE COMMAND Assistant Sound Designer / West; The Great Moment (premiere); A Doll’s Director at Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, AK Rep. She worked at The Public Theater on for eight seasons. Jeff started his career in arts Seattle Rep is a constituent of Theatre SYSTEMS® BY PRG-SCENIC TECHNOLOGIES, Production Audio House, Part 2; Last of the Boys; Ibsen in Chicago Communications Group (TCG), the national The Bitter Game. Regional credits include: A DIVISION OF PRG BROADWAY, L.L.C., NEW (premiere); Well; Luna Gale; A View from the administration with the Albany Berkshire Ballet service organization for the nonprofit Diana, The Heart of Rock and Roll, SUMMER: WINDSOR, NY. Scenic Items Fabricated by Daniel Whiting Bridge; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; A Great in Pittsfield, MA, where he served as Managing professional theater. The Donna Summer Musical, and Squirrels. PRGScenic Technologies, a division of PRG Director for three years. Born in upstate NY and Production Carpenter Wilderness (premiere); and Photograph 51. Seattle Rep is a member of Education: M.F.A., U.C. San Diego. Broadway, L.L.C., New Windsor, NY. Sound He has developed plays with The O’Neill, Ojai raised in West Hartford, CT, Jeff received his B.A. in Theatre Puget Sound. Equipment by Masque Sound. Select costumes Rachael Shair Playwrights Conference, The Denver Center, English at Vassar College and his M.F.A. in Theatre Manhattan Theatre Club executed by John Kristiansen New York Inc.; Management at the Yale School of Drama. Seattle Rep is a member of NAMT, a not- Production Electrician Inge Festival, Portland Center Stage, The for-profit organization serving the musical MTC David Samuel Menkes Custom Leatherwear; Playwrights’ Center, and Perseverance Theatre. theater community. and Virginia Commonwealth University. Seattle Rep Under the dynamic leadership of Artistic Eric Reynolds Seattle Rep operates under an agreement Production Properties provided by propNspoon. Jeffrey Herrmann Seattle Rep puts theater at the heart of public Director Lynne Meadow and Executive Production Properties with AFM, the American Federation of Production trucking by Clark Transfer. Managing Director life. Founded in 1963 and winner of the 1990 Musicians. Producer Barry Grove, MTC has become Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre, one of the country’s most prominent theater This production was rehearsed at Jessica R. Aguilar In May 2014, Jeffrey Herrmann was appointed Seattle Rep is currently led by Artistic Director companies. Productions at its Broadway and The Pershing Square Signature Center Production Assistant as the fifth Managing Director in Seattle Rep’s Braden Abraham and Managing Director Jeffrey Off-Broadway venues have garnered numerous 480 West 42nd Street, NY, NY 10036 56-year history. In this role, Jeff oversees all Herrmann. Over a season and throughout the awards, including 27 Tony Awards and 7 www.signaturetheatre.org Sarah Cooney the administrative functions of this $15 million, year, Seattle Rep collaborates with extraordinary Pulitzer Prizes. MTC premieres include August Casting Assistant nationally-recognized, not-for-profit performing artists to create productions and programs Wilson’s Jitney and The Piano Lesson, Ink, MAXIMUM ENTERTAINMENT arts organization, including development, finance, that reflect and elevate the diverse cultures, Choir Boy, Wit, Vietgone, Venus in Fur, Ruined, PRODUCTIONS marketing, operations, and Board relations. perspectives, and life experiences of the Pacific Rabbit Hole, Doubt, Proof, Love! Valour! Since his arrival—which coincided, to the day, Northwest. Seattle Rep’s nationally recognized Compassion!, Crimes of the Heart, and Ain’t Eva Price, Carl Flanigan, with Braden Abraham’s appointment as Artistic programs include the New Works Program, Seattle Misbehavin’. manhattantheatreclub.com. Josh Altman, John Albert Harris, Director—activity, attendance, fundraising, and Rep’s Public Works, the August Wilson Monologue Avram Freedberg, Mary Beth Dale the budget have all shown marked increases. Competition, Pay What You Choose ticketing Maximum Entertainment Under their management, the theater also recently options, and numerous audience enrichment and Productions PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR completed a significant renovation of the PONCHO engagement opportunities including post-play General Manager Forum, the first major capital project undertaken panels, discussions, and community events. SenovvA Inc. Maximum Entertainment Productions is a Arianna Knapp, James E. Cleveland, producing, developing, and management Lindsay Child, Ron Grimshaw, company founded by Avram Freedberg, Mary New this season! Get ready to bust a move while Beth Dale, and Eva Price; and is joined by Anna Engelsman Managing Director/General Manager Carl supporting Seattle Rep! Following Revel Flanigan. Select Broadway, Off-Broadway, and PRODUCTION STAFF: touring credits include What the Constitution + Raise, Seattle Rep’s annual Gala, dance Means to Me (National Tour); Cruel Intentions: James E. Cleveland the night away at the hottest 80s party The ‘90s Musical; Small Mouth Sounds; Frankie Production Supervisor Valli and the Four Seasons on Broadway!; in town, featuring cocktails, comfort The Hip Hop Nutcracker; The Lion; Verso; Ron Grimshaw Black Light; Born for This (L.A. and Boston); 50 Production Manager food by Tom Douglas, raffle prizes, and Shades! The Musical; Ivy + Bean The Musical; sweet surprises. Voca People; and Colin Quinn: Long Story Anna Engelsman Short. www.maximumcompany.com Associate Production Manager Saturday, April 4, 2020 Join Seattle Rep on our biggest SenovvA Casey McDermott at 9:30 p.m. fundraising night of the year and gain Production Supervisor Associate General Manager access to the best party in the city! SenovvA is built on the vast experience and Tickets: $75 personal relationships of our producers, Awoye Timpo managers, designers, and technical specialists. Associate Director Grab your tickets now → seattlerep.org/revelry-after-hours encorespotlight.com 15 Seattle Rep’s August Wilson Monologue Beyond Ruben Santiago-Hudson, the Stage Competition Celebrates 10 Years of Impact Wilsonian Warrior By Alex Lee Reed, Seattle Rep Youth Engagement Manager Jitney director Ruben Santiago-Hudson has been described as one of the “master interpreters” of August Wilson’s works. A multi-faceted and multi-award-winning theater maker, Santiago- Hudson has been involved as an actor or director in all of Wilson’s works and credits Wilson for being “largely responsible” for his career.

As an actor, Santiago-Hudson won the 1996 Tony Award for his performance as Canewell in Wilson’s Seven Guitars, which he originated on Broadway, and he also originated a role in the playwright’s Gem of the Ocean. Wilson entrusted him to perform How I Learned What I Learned, Wilson’s autobiographical one-man show, in the years following the playwright’s passing in 2005. (See Santiago-Hudson’s full artistic bio on page 12.) Having directed many of 2019 Seattle AWMC semifinalists ANGELA NICKERSON Wilson’s plays and been a personal friend of the playwright, Santiago-Hudson was a driving force behind Manhattan Theatre Club’s production of Jitney, the last of Wilson’s plays to 2020 marks Seattle Rep’s tenth year hosting a regional contest Other youths appreciate free drama coaching from theater appear on Broadway. for the national August Wilson Monologue Competition professionals. “Being able to get feedback from people who (AWMC), a free program that introduces high school students actually do this as a job has been great,” says South Kitsap High to the legendary playwright’s American Century Cycle, ten plays School student Marlowe Lawson. From projection and physicality ON WILSON’S WORKS: depicting the African American experience in each decade of the to text analysis and character development, participants report 20th century. The competition was founded by two of Wilson’s strong improvements in performance technique. “In [August Wilson’s] plays, we get to see and feel the spirit and electricity of people in this community navigating frequent collaborators, Kenny Leon and Todd Kreidler, in 2007, this landscape called America. It’s a beautiful thing to watch us—and by us I mean Black folk—work it out, because shortly after his death. As one of Wilson’s artistic homes and For some competitors, the AWMC ignites a passion for we don’t get to see that on TV, film, and rarely onstage.Everything contained in life is contained in his plays, and in one of a handful of theaters to produce all ten plays, Seattle Rep performance that sets them on a new path in life. “This is Black culture.” (American Theatre Magazine) was a natural fit to adopt this program. my third year competing, and before coming here I’d had no professional coaching,” says Cassidy Huff of Mount Rainier Over the past decade, more than 600 young people have High School in Burien. “I’m now auditioning for colleges with competed in Seattle Rep’s regional preliminaries. The monologues I’ve learned for this competition.” competition is open to all students, regardless of race or ethnicity, and has grown more diverse each year as we have Success at the AWMC can help position performers for a ON DIRECTING: ON JITNEY: promising career. Two early Seattle winners, Aubrey Taylor engaged more schools in South Seattle and South King County. "The way I direct August Wilson, I'm not trying “Jitney is important to today’s audiences and and Xavier Evans, earned scholarships to train at Circle in the Through in-school recruitment workshops across the region, to explain my people to you. I want you to yesterday’s audiences and tomorrow’s audiences… Square in New York City, and are now professional actors with Seattle Rep’s professional teaching artists have introduced experience them the same way I experience Fiddler We’re watching these two love stories clashing stage, television, and film credits. Sophie Kelly-Hedrick, who nearly 9,000 youths to Wilson’s work. Once students register on the Roof. The same way I experienced David and passing each other. It’s the opportunity to see competed in the Seattle finals for three years, originated a role for the competition, we help them select and rehearse a Henry Hwang's Kung Fu, the same way I experience people of color wanting, needing, and achieving in Erica Schmidt’s adaptation of MAC BETH when it premiered monologue during free coaching sessions. Each spring, two any other culture. I just want to sit there and be everything that’s called the American Dream, at Seattle Rep in 2018, and has since reprised that role in two regional winners compete alongside performers from 13 other inundated by something that I really don't know people of color trying to attain the most simple of Off-Broadway productions while studying drama at NYU. cities in the national competition at the August Wilson Theatre every day externally, and internally, something I lives and values—justice, liberty, freedom. That’s on Broadway. Regardless of whether they plan to pursue acting professionally, know every day. Relationships." (KPBS) the conflict—that’s the challenge we’re facing from participants benefit from the core goals of the program: to the minute we were thrown on this soil.” While only two students will win a trip to New York, every “Art should reflect the times, art should be a introduce Wilson’s work to new generations and build bridges (Center Theatre Group) competitor gains something valuable from this process. “I feel catalyst for change…it should be a catalyst among students from all backgrounds. “While the monologue like it’s made me a lot more confident,” says Destiny Ames of for enlightenment and enrichment in your life, “I would like for audiences to come in and competition is certainly most impactful for students of color, Timberline High School in Lacey—a sentiment echoed by nearly because you all of a sudden know more about see [Jitney] and not only be entertained but it ensures that students of all races are learning deeply about all of her fellow participants. human beings; know more about the people that enlightened. I want them to feel the jolt, vibrancy, the experiences and perspectives of African Americans,” says you don’t get up in the morning and see in your and electricity of African American life. How we Constanza Romero, an Associate Artist at Seattle Rep who kitchen and have breakfast with, or the person who fight our fights and how we win. How we stand is also Wilson’s widow and literary executor of his estate. you pass on the street. Art brings you into that our own ground, and we’re not talking Florida “They’re building both their capacity for empathy and their person’s realm. That’s why when I direct Jitney, stand your ground, we’re talking about integrity understanding of our country’s complex history with race, while what happens up there happens to the people up as human beings, as people. I want people to nurturing August’s artistic legacy for all audiences.” By imbuing there. I don’t have my actors present it to you, I experience the dignity of the community.” these lessons in the next generation, the competition ensures have you come in and witness and experience what (American Theatre Magazine) that Wilson’s vital work lives on. ANGELA NICKERSON happens.” (PBS American Masters Podcast)

2019 Seattle winners Analisa Allen and J'Dyn Plater Learn more: seattlerep.org/AWMC

16 Seattle Rep’s August Wilson Monologue Beyond Ruben Santiago-Hudson, the Stage Competition Celebrates 10 Years of Impact Wilsonian Warrior By Alex Lee Reed, Seattle Rep Youth Engagement Manager Jitney director Ruben Santiago-Hudson has been described as one of the “master interpreters” of August Wilson’s works. A multi-faceted and multi-award-winning theater maker, Santiago- Hudson has been involved as an actor or director in all of Wilson’s works and credits Wilson for being “largely responsible” for his career.

2019 Seattle winners Analisa Allen and J'Dyn Plater Learn more: seattlerep.org/AWMC

encorespotlight.com 17 Diamond Artistic Director's Circle ($100,000+) A Brief History of Jitneys Individual Donors Chap & Eve Alvord Each year, support from our generous donor Stellman Keehnel & Patricia Britton “We providing a service to the community. We ain’t just giving rides to people. family ensures Seattle Rep’s artistic vitality and Marcella McCaffray We providing a service.” —Becker, August Wilson’s Jitney financial stability. We gratefully acknowledge the following individuals whose philanthropic Gold Artistic Director's Circle ($75,000 - $99,999) investment is pivotal to supporting the theater’s Rideshare culture is an evolving trend in today’s world. From Pittsburgh’s jitney scene (where August Wilson’s Jitney takes Rod & Nancy Hochman mission-driven work. Lyft, Uber, bike and scooter rideshares, to classic yellow place) still continues on today. The Knossos Foundation cabs, there are a variety of ways to get around outside of Join Seattle Rep’s donor family. No gift is too small. a city’s main public transportation system. Before many of According to studies, American households spent an Silver Artistic Director's Circle ($50,000 - $74,999) the other rideshare apps and options that exist today, there average of $9,737 on transportation in 2017, making Give Online David & Joanna Beitel were jitneys. The word is said to derive from the Louisiana transportation the second largest expense for American seattlerep.org/support Donna Cochener Creole French word jetnée for five cents or a nickel, the first households behind housing. Jitneys live on as a convenient Allan & Nora Davis fare charged in these unlicensed cabs. and cheap transportation option, though with jitneys being unregulated, there are few official protections for Questions? Winky & Peter Hussey Amy Bokanev Jitneys initially emerged in the 1910s, when personal car drivers and passengers. What’s the key to being a safe and Linda & Ted Johnson 206.443.2212 ownership became more popular and individuals wanted to successful jitney driver? Build trust with your passengers – John & Nancy Jo Keegan [email protected] earn some extra money by charging for a ride. But it wasn’t many veteran jitney drivers have lists of passengers they’ve Ann P. Wyckoff long before government agencies began cracking down on cultivated over the years. Anonymous this informal transportation system, and by 1918, numbers of operating jitneys declined from 62,000 to 6,000 nationwide. Artistic Director's Circle ($25,000 - $49,999) "There were a lot of jitney stations in Pittsburgh, Despite this decrease, jitneys continued on as an essential located in storefronts with a pay phone. It was a Mary Tedd Allen & Leslie Lackey George E. Scott transportation mode for many underserved communities perfect place for a play because you had a set and Christopher & Alida Latham across the country. The jitney became an integral part of a community of players who work together and Elias & Karyl Alvord Becky Lenaburg & Paul Urla have created something out of nothing, having no many Black neighborhoods, as taxi companies refused to Rich & Nancy Alvord Charlotte Lin & Robert Porter reliably serve these areas. In addition, many established jobs. They are generally older men who had jobs Bob & Clodagh† Ash Tom Miller & Terri Olson Miller working in the steel mills and on the railroad. If taxi companies would not hire Black drivers. In the years Stuart & Sue Ashmun since, jitneys have continued on in other forms. New York they were lucky enough to have a pension, there Karen Rose Mitchell Matthew & Kim Bergman has “dollar vans” or "guaguas," which initially began in the was a need to supplement with additional income, Elizabeth Rudolf & Fernando 1980s in response to a transit strike that paused buses and so they drove jitneys. And I think they do it because Bobbe & Jon Bridge Sancho subway trains, but morphed into a system primarily utilized they enjoy the company of each other; they Debra Canales Maryanne Tagney & David by low-income and immigrant communities have something to do and it's a place to Leslie & Dale Chihuly Jones belong. They are a microcosm of the without easy or reliable access to Margaret Clapp Nancy Lee Ward & Toby public transportation. In the 1990s, community at large." Bright Joan Cremin city officials in Los Angeles —August Wilson Kenneth & Rosemary Willman Jay Hereford & Margaret Winsor began cracking down on (Conversations with Bagley & Virginia Wright Fund August Wilson) Suzanne Hittman unlicensed “bandit taxis.” Anonymous Deborah T. Killinger

Actor's Circle ($15,000 - $24,999) Mary Blodgett & Carlton Calvin Paula & Steve Reynolds Michael & Lynne Bush Lee & Stuart Rolfe Joanne R. Euster Jeanne Sheldon & Marvin Parsons Ellen Ferguson Anne Simpson & Charlie Conner William E. Franklin Inda Taylor & Raymond Spindle Anne E. Gittinger Estate of Marion G. Stamper Bruce E. H. Johnson & Sherry & John Stilin Sandra E. Davis Cynthia Stroum Maria C. Mackey Janet & Doug True Sandy & Chris† McDade James & Katherine Tune Kevin Millison & Jeanne Ballot Marcia & Klaus Zech Vic & Mary Kay Moses Anonymous CHRIS BENNION Tim & Paula Rattigan

This list acknowledges individuals whose cumulative support of productions, programming, and projects occurring over the last year totaled $600 or more, and is inclusive of gifts made towards general operations (including matching gifts), capital needs, special projects, the endowment, and Rocky Carroll and Denise Burse in Radio Golf (2006) during the Gala. List as of December 2019. Diamond Artistic Director's Circle ($100,000+) A Brief History of Jitneys Individual Donors Chap & Eve Alvord Each year, support from our generous donor Stellman Keehnel & Patricia Britton “We providing a service to the community. We ain’t just giving rides to people. family ensures Seattle Rep’s artistic vitality and Marcella McCaffray We providing a service.” —Becker, August Wilson’s Jitney financial stability. We gratefully acknowledge the following individuals whose philanthropic Gold Artistic Director's Circle ($75,000 - $99,999) investment is pivotal to supporting the theater’s Rideshare culture is an evolving trend in today’s world. From Pittsburgh’s jitney scene (where August Wilson’s Jitney takes Rod & Nancy Hochman mission-driven work. Lyft, Uber, bike and scooter rideshares, to classic yellow place) still continues on today. The Knossos Foundation cabs, there are a variety of ways to get around outside of Join Seattle Rep’s donor family. No gift is too small. a city’s main public transportation system. Before many of According to studies, American households spent an Silver Artistic Director's Circle ($50,000 - $74,999) the other rideshare apps and options that exist today, there average of $9,737 on transportation in 2017, making Give Online David & Joanna Beitel were jitneys. The word is said to derive from the Louisiana transportation the second largest expense for American seattlerep.org/support Donna Cochener Creole French word jetnée for five cents or a nickel, the first households behind housing. Jitneys live on as a convenient Allan & Nora Davis fare charged in these unlicensed cabs. and cheap transportation option, though with jitneys being unregulated, there are few official protections for Questions? Winky & Peter Hussey Amy Bokanev Jitneys initially emerged in the 1910s, when personal car drivers and passengers. What’s the key to being a safe and Linda & Ted Johnson 206.443.2212 ownership became more popular and individuals wanted to successful jitney driver? Build trust with your passengers – John & Nancy Jo Keegan [email protected] earn some extra money by charging for a ride. But it wasn’t many veteran jitney drivers have lists of passengers they’ve Ann P. Wyckoff long before government agencies began cracking down on cultivated over the years. Anonymous this informal transportation system, and by 1918, numbers of operating jitneys declined from 62,000 to 6,000 nationwide. Artistic Director's Circle ($25,000 - $49,999) "There were a lot of jitney stations in Pittsburgh, Despite this decrease, jitneys continued on as an essential located in storefronts with a pay phone. It was a Mary Tedd Allen & Leslie Lackey George E. Scott transportation mode for many underserved communities perfect place for a play because you had a set and Christopher & Alida Latham across the country. The jitney became an integral part of a community of players who work together and Elias & Karyl Alvord Becky Lenaburg & Paul Urla have created something out of nothing, having no many Black neighborhoods, as taxi companies refused to Rich & Nancy Alvord Charlotte Lin & Robert Porter reliably serve these areas. In addition, many established jobs. They are generally older men who had jobs Bob & Clodagh† Ash Tom Miller & Terri Olson Miller working in the steel mills and on the railroad. If taxi companies would not hire Black drivers. In the years Stuart & Sue Ashmun since, jitneys have continued on in other forms. New York they were lucky enough to have a pension, there Karen Rose Mitchell Matthew & Kim Bergman has “dollar vans” or "guaguas," which initially began in the was a need to supplement with additional income, Elizabeth Rudolf & Fernando 1980s in response to a transit strike that paused buses and so they drove jitneys. And I think they do it because Bobbe & Jon Bridge Sancho subway trains, but morphed into a system primarily utilized they enjoy the company of each other; they Debra Canales Maryanne Tagney & David by low-income and immigrant communities have something to do and it's a place to Leslie & Dale Chihuly Jones belong. They are a microcosm of the without easy or reliable access to Margaret Clapp Nancy Lee Ward & Toby public transportation. In the 1990s, community at large." Bright Joan Cremin city officials in Los Angeles —August Wilson Kenneth & Rosemary Willman Jay Hereford & Margaret Winsor began cracking down on (Conversations with Bagley & Virginia Wright Fund August Wilson) Suzanne Hittman unlicensed “bandit taxis.” Anonymous Deborah T. Killinger

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Reay encorespotlight.com 21 $400,000+ STAGE CREW: BAGLEY Heather Seethoff Allison Dunmore SPECIAL EVENTS DIRECTOR SOCIAL MEDIA PROFESSIONAL STAFF WRIGHT THEATER & PRESS MANAGER ARTS TRAINING Seattle Repertory Theatre Foundation Institutional Noel Clayton Anna Strickland PROGRAM (PATP) DONOR STEWARDSHIP MANAGER Noelle McCabe Braden Abraham, Artistic Director* MASTER STAGE CARPENTER PUBLICATIONS & DIGITAL Antonieta Castillo Carpio Donors Jeffrey Herrmann, Managing Director CONTENT MANAGER PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT Dave Scamporlina Chris Quilici $100,000 - $399,999 DONOR RELATIONS OFFICER MASTER ELECTRICIAN Michelle S. Leyva Jamie “James” Coblentz PUBLICIST SCENIC ARTS (PROPS) Seattle Rep is proud to Jeremiah Foglesong* Janet Shaughnessy DONOR RELATIONS OFFICER acknowledge the support of the Artistic CARPENTERS MASTER PROPERTIES Richie Carpenter Madisen Crowley WEB PRODUCTION SPECIALIST STAGE MANAGEMENT following regional and national Jon Zucker** Nathan Kahler* Laura Owens GRANTS ASSOCIATE Elisabeth Farwell- SCENE SHOP FOREMAN HEAD AUDIO ENGINEER organizations, whose generous Moreland* Sayed Alamy Gabrielle Duong GRAPHIC DESIGNER SCENIC ARTS (PAINT) PRODUCING DIRECTOR Denny Hartung** Tony Smith Ben Swenson-Klatt grants and sponsorships make DEVELOPMENT MASTER SHOP CARPENTER HEAD FLYPERSON $50,000 - $99,999 Hattie Claire Andres COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST Catherine Huber Reed Flores possible artistic and audience MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS ASSISTANT TO THE ARTISTIC DIRECTING/LITERARY SCENIC CARPENTERS STAGE CREW: COORDINATOR programs serving 150,000 DIRECTOR & ARTISTIC ASSOCIATE Linnea Ingalls Patrick Robinson* LEO K. THEATER GIFT PROCESSING SPECIALIST Yanci Huezo theatergoers each year, including * Kaytlin McIntyre Randall Reece Olivia Mangione YOUTH ENGAGEMENT Joel Wilmot GRAPHIC DESIGN ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF CASTING Michael McKenna Sarah Wright mainstage productions, new MASTER STAGE CARPENTER & NEW PLAY DEVELOPMENT Joel Herrera SENIOR DEVELOPMENT Annika Perez-Krikorian work, and youth and community ASSISTANT BUSINESS DIRECTING/CASTING Desirae Brownlee Julia Thornton COSTUME SHOP OPERATIONS engagement initiatives. RESIDENT MUSIC CONSULTANT MASTER ELECTRICIAN Anna Vraney Evan Cartwright John Graham Denise Damico* ENGAGEMENT STAGE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATE ARTISTS COSTUME DEPARTMENT Mark Krida BUSINESS OPERATIONS Join these philanthropic leaders in Foundation HEAD AUDIO ENGINEER DIRECTOR Hal Brooks DIRECTOR Nabra Nelson Abigail Wang supporting great theater in Seattle. Constanza Romero DIRECTOR OF ARTS LIGHTING DESIGN Emily Blanche STAGE MANAGEMENT ENGAGEMENT Joanna Barnebey ASSISTANT COSTUME DATA OPERATIONS MANAGER Alyssa Woodbury Christopher Breyer DEPARTMENT MANAGER Jessica C. Bomball Alex Lee Reed $25,000 - $49,999 CONSULTING DRAMATURG DEVELOPMENT More Information Caitlin Denney-Turner YOUTH ENGAGEMENT MANAGER Timothy V. Norris Jr. Danielle Nieves Rachael Dorman DATA RESOURCES MANAGER ARTISTS UNDER Melissa Husby COSTUME DESIGN ASSOCIATE Jeremiah Givers Maddie Napel Garneau-Nicon COMMISSION PATP COORDINATOR PATRON EXPERIENCE 206.443.2202 x1014 Ballinger Family The Chisholm Maria Gray Ballmer Group Family Marco Collins Naomi Weber Zachary Jenkins [email protected] Foundation Foundation Wendy Goldberg TAILOR/DRAPER Claire Koleske Foundation Stina Lotti PATRON EXPERIENCE DIRECTOR Lily Houghton Adrienne Mendoza FINANCE Lisa Lockard** Justin Huertas Michael B. Paul Grousemont Laura Mé Smith** Vinita Gupta Veliere Crump C.A. Johnson Cristine Ann Reynolds GROUP SALES MANAGER FIRST HANDS DIRECTOR OF FINANCE Foundation Hansol Jung Shellie Stone Brian Quijada Sarah Gladden** Brenda K. Walker Wollansa Chekol Marcus Williams Matt Schatz PATRON SERVICES MANAGER COSTUME STOCK MANAGER Erin B. Zatloka AP COORDINATOR Seattle Samantha Silva The Norcliffe Repertory Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation Foundation Ruby Rae Spiegel Joyce Degenfelder** Supriya Hariharan Sutton Vie Organization PATRON SERVICES ASSISTANT Cheryl L. West WIG MASTER ACCOUNTANT PUBLIC WORKS MANAGER Anna Ziegler Brent Roberts Angie Kamel Devonnie A. Black COSTUME PROPS ARTISAN/DYER PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR $10,000 - $24,999 INFORMATION PATRON SERVICES LEAD PRODUCTION Lia Fakhouri TECHNOLOGY ATLAS Workbase The Morgan Fund at Seattle Foundation Imelda Daranciang* PATRON SERVICES Sann Hall BAGLEY WRIGHT WARDROBE PUBLIC WORKS ASSOCIATE Chip Phillips SUPERVISOR SPECIALISTS Avennia Winery NextLevel PRODUCTION MANAGER DIRECTOR OF I.T. 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PRODUCTION MANAGER AUDIENCE SERVICES DIRECTOR Jolene Obertin** Sean Little FACILITIES SUPERVISOR Wiley PROPERTIES DIRECTOR DEVELOPMENT Taylor Kesterson $5,000 - $9,999 ASSOCIATE TECHNICAL Debra Forman* LEAD LOBBY MANAGER DIRECTOR Karla Davenport Jamie Herlich McIalwain RECEPTIONIST Forest Foundation Moccasin Lake Foundation PROPERTIES ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT HOUSE MANAGERS Stina Lotti Tony Morse Hazel Miller Foundation Muckleshoot Charitable Fund PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER James Severson* Melissa Husby Nicolette Vannais** MARKETING & Zacharee Simms ASSOC. DIRECTOR OF Haley Thomas Kutscher Hereford Bertram Burkart Brown & Pecado Bueno Lily McLeod Angela Zylla DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATIONS Cashman, PLLC LIGHTING ASSOCIATE PROPERTIES ARTISANS Perkins Coie Christian Barclay Ellie Savidge The Loeb Family Charitable Foundations Sarah Bednar Summit Law Group CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR ASL INTERPRETING Yuko Ariga SCENIC ARTS COORDINATOR Macy's PRODUCTION COORDINATOR DIRECTOR U.S. Bank Private Wealth Management Ruth Gilmore Steve Brown CHRIS BENNION CHARGE SCENIC ARTIST Kate Neville MARKETING & ADVERTISING ARTIST RELATIONS DIRECTOR $2,500 - $4,999 INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERSHIPS Ariel Bui Maureen Wilhelm* DIRECTOR Angela Nickerson BECU Four Park Avenue LLC INTERIM COMPANY MANAGER LEAD SCENIC ARTIST Amy Bokanev CREATIVE DIRECTOR An employee of 10 or more years. BNSF Railway Foundation Lester and Phyllis Epstein Foundation * Christy Bain Beth Peterson INDIVIDUAL GIVING DIRECTOR ** An employee of 20 or more years. 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MEDIA SPONSORS SRO is a 70+ member volunteer group established in 1963. Through The Shop at the Rep, Sandra Lucas Judy Hucka Cathy Kitto themed fundraisers, and four service projects, SRO donates more than $30,000 and over PRESIDENT TREASURER CORRESPONDING LIST AS OF JANUARY 2020 3,800 volunteer hours each season. They also support Interns and Apprentices, assemble SECRETARY Carmen Spofford Dottie Delaney Italics represent in-kind gifts. subscriber materials for mailings, and volunteer at the Seattle Rep admin front desk. FIRST VICE PRESIDENT RECORDING SECRETARY Diane Cody * Includes capital support Monthly Spotlight Meetings feature “Interviews with the Artists.” SRO REPRESENTATIVE Kenajuan Bentley and Jack Willis Michael Leake Learn more at seattlerep.org/volunteer SECOND VICE PRESIDENT in The Great Society (2014) $400,000+ STAGE CREW: BAGLEY Heather Seethoff Allison Dunmore SPECIAL EVENTS DIRECTOR SOCIAL MEDIA PROFESSIONAL STAFF WRIGHT THEATER & PRESS MANAGER ARTS TRAINING Seattle Repertory Theatre Foundation Institutional Noel Clayton Anna Strickland PROGRAM (PATP) DONOR STEWARDSHIP MANAGER Noelle McCabe Braden Abraham, Artistic Director* MASTER STAGE CARPENTER PUBLICATIONS & DIGITAL Antonieta Castillo Carpio Donors Jeffrey Herrmann, Managing Director CONTENT MANAGER PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT Dave Scamporlina Chris Quilici $100,000 - $399,999 DONOR RELATIONS OFFICER MASTER ELECTRICIAN Michelle S. Leyva Jamie “James” Coblentz PUBLICIST SCENIC ARTS (PROPS) Seattle Rep is proud to Jeremiah Foglesong* Janet Shaughnessy DONOR RELATIONS OFFICER acknowledge the support of the Artistic CARPENTERS MASTER PROPERTIES Richie Carpenter Madisen Crowley WEB PRODUCTION SPECIALIST STAGE MANAGEMENT following regional and national Jon Zucker** Nathan Kahler* Laura Owens GRANTS ASSOCIATE Elisabeth Farwell- SCENE SHOP FOREMAN HEAD AUDIO ENGINEER organizations, whose generous Moreland* Sayed Alamy Gabrielle Duong GRAPHIC DESIGNER SCENIC ARTS (PAINT) PRODUCING DIRECTOR Denny Hartung** Tony Smith Ben Swenson-Klatt grants and sponsorships make DEVELOPMENT MASTER SHOP CARPENTER HEAD FLYPERSON $50,000 - $99,999 Hattie Claire Andres COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST Catherine Huber Reed Flores possible artistic and audience MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS ASSISTANT TO THE ARTISTIC DIRECTING/LITERARY SCENIC CARPENTERS STAGE CREW: COORDINATOR programs serving 150,000 DIRECTOR & ARTISTIC ASSOCIATE Linnea Ingalls Patrick Robinson* LEO K. THEATER GIFT PROCESSING SPECIALIST Yanci Huezo theatergoers each year, including * Kaytlin McIntyre Randall Reece Olivia Mangione YOUTH ENGAGEMENT Joel Wilmot GRAPHIC DESIGN ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF CASTING Michael McKenna Sarah Wright mainstage productions, new MASTER STAGE CARPENTER & NEW PLAY DEVELOPMENT Joel Herrera SENIOR DEVELOPMENT Annika Perez-Krikorian work, and youth and community ASSISTANT BUSINESS DIRECTING/CASTING Desirae Brownlee Julia Thornton COSTUME SHOP OPERATIONS engagement initiatives. RESIDENT MUSIC CONSULTANT MASTER ELECTRICIAN Anna Vraney Evan Cartwright John Graham Denise Damico* ENGAGEMENT STAGE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATE ARTISTS COSTUME DEPARTMENT Mark Krida BUSINESS OPERATIONS Join these philanthropic leaders in Foundation HEAD AUDIO ENGINEER DIRECTOR Hal Brooks DIRECTOR Nabra Nelson Abigail Wang supporting great theater in Seattle. Constanza Romero DIRECTOR OF ARTS LIGHTING DESIGN Emily Blanche STAGE MANAGEMENT ENGAGEMENT Joanna Barnebey ASSISTANT COSTUME DATA OPERATIONS MANAGER Alyssa Woodbury Christopher Breyer DEPARTMENT MANAGER Jessica C. Bomball Alex Lee Reed $25,000 - $49,999 CONSULTING DRAMATURG DEVELOPMENT More Information Caitlin Denney-Turner YOUTH ENGAGEMENT MANAGER Timothy V. Norris Jr. Danielle Nieves Rachael Dorman DATA RESOURCES MANAGER ARTISTS UNDER Melissa Husby COSTUME DESIGN ASSOCIATE Jeremiah Givers Maddie Napel Garneau-Nicon COMMISSION PATP COORDINATOR PATRON EXPERIENCE 206.443.2202 x1014 Ballinger Family The Chisholm Maria Gray Ballmer Group Family Marco Collins Naomi Weber Zachary Jenkins [email protected] Foundation Foundation Wendy Goldberg TAILOR/DRAPER Claire Koleske Foundation Stina Lotti PATRON EXPERIENCE DIRECTOR Lily Houghton Adrienne Mendoza FINANCE Lisa Lockard** Justin Huertas Michael B. Paul Grousemont Laura Mé Smith** Vinita Gupta Veliere Crump C.A. 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Alyssa Hall Baird Private Wealth Management Nordstrom, Inc. Brian Fauska* Steve Stoudt Administration Emily Hall TECHNICAL DIRECTOR BAGLEY WRIGHT DRESSER Guy Simpson, III Bank of America Charitable Foundation Peach Foundation & Operations H U M A N R E S O U R C E S Nathan Smith Cindy Sabye* The Boeing Company Robert Chinn Foundation Robert J. Aguilar* DonYeta Villavaso-Madden LIGHTING DIRECTOR LEO K. WARDROBE SUPERVISOR Alyssa Bostwick DIRECTOR OF HUMAN FRONT OF HOUSE City Catering Company Treeline Foundation EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT RESOURCES Tyler Krieg PROPERTIES & BOARD LIAISON Lance Park Clark Nuber P�S� U.S. Bank Foundation ASST. PRODUCTION MANAGER AUDIENCE SERVICES DIRECTOR Jolene Obertin** Sean Little FACILITIES SUPERVISOR Wiley PROPERTIES DIRECTOR DEVELOPMENT Taylor Kesterson $5,000 - $9,999 ASSOCIATE TECHNICAL Debra Forman* LEAD LOBBY MANAGER DIRECTOR Karla Davenport Jamie Herlich McIalwain RECEPTIONIST Forest Foundation Moccasin Lake Foundation PROPERTIES ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT HOUSE MANAGERS Stina Lotti Tony Morse Hazel Miller Foundation Muckleshoot Charitable Fund PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER James Severson* Melissa Husby Nicolette Vannais** MARKETING & Zacharee Simms ASSOC. DIRECTOR OF Haley Thomas Kutscher Hereford Bertram Burkart Brown & Pecado Bueno Lily McLeod Angela Zylla DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATIONS Cashman, PLLC LIGHTING ASSOCIATE PROPERTIES ARTISANS Perkins Coie Christian Barclay Ellie Savidge The Loeb Family Charitable Foundations Sarah Bednar Summit Law Group CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR ASL INTERPRETING Yuko Ariga SCENIC ARTS COORDINATOR Macy's PRODUCTION COORDINATOR DIRECTOR U.S. Bank Private Wealth Management Ruth Gilmore Steve Brown CHRIS BENNION CHARGE SCENIC ARTIST Kate Neville MARKETING & ADVERTISING ARTIST RELATIONS DIRECTOR $2,500 - $4,999 INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERSHIPS Ariel Bui Maureen Wilhelm* DIRECTOR Angela Nickerson BECU Four Park Avenue LLC INTERIM COMPANY MANAGER LEAD SCENIC ARTIST Amy Bokanev CREATIVE DIRECTOR An employee of 10 or more years. BNSF Railway Foundation Lester and Phyllis Epstein Foundation * Christy Bain Beth Peterson INDIVIDUAL GIVING DIRECTOR ** An employee of 20 or more years. Compton Lumber Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management CONTRACT CONSULTANT SCENIC ARTIST Bold Member of Senior Leadership Team Davis Wright Tremaine Tulalip Tribes Charitable Contributions Flatstick Pub Washington State Arts Commission Seattle Rep Organization (SRO) SRO Executive Board

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