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PROLOGUE Welcome to Berkeley Rep! A letter from the artistic director · 5 To ensure the best experience for everyone: A letter from the managing director · 6 You’re free to bring only beverages in cans, Late seating is not guaranteed. If you Engaging and Eclectic cartons, or cups with lids into the house. are seated late, please follow the house REPORTS manager’s instructions about where to sit. Celebrating our 50th: Food is prohibited in the house. If you leave during the performance, you A tale of three artistic directors · 10 in the East Bay Because, eww! will be reseated at an appropriate break. From Spain to Lebanon and Slovenia to Egypt, 22 countries inspire Hotel Shattuck’s new Please keep Berkeley Rep’s outdoor and This is live theatre, and we’re all in Mediterranean restaurant zino · 12 indoor spaces free of cigarette smoke, this together. Join with your fellow Oakland is the gateway to the East Bay with a little bit of everything to offer, e-cigarettes, and vaping. theatregoers, and remember that people To the next 50 years · 13 respond to the show in different ways. Connecting the classroom and the mainstage and St. Paul’s Towers gives you easy access to it all. An artistic, activist, and Phones that ring during the performance One of the joys of live theatre is the at Berkeley Rep · 14 are a total bummer. For everyone. collective experience! intellectual Life Plan Community, St. Paul’s Towers is known for convenient Ensure that phones and other electronic services, welcome comforts and security for the future. devices will not make noise. Video and/or Enjoy the show! FEATURES photographs of the performance are prohibited. The Origin Story · 18 “You have to want something” (right?) You’ll find classes, exhibits, lectures, restaurants, cafés, and shops all within An interview with Lucas Hnath and Les Waters · 19 walking distance. If you want to venture further, public transportation is Response plays · 21 CONNECT WITH US ONLINE! THE BERKELEY REP MAGAZINE close at hand. At St. Paul’s Towers, you can enjoy everything the East Bay has 2018–19 · ISSUE 1 The creation and impact of A Doll’s House · 23 facebook.com/ to offer, with total convenience. It’s urban community living at its best. berkeleyrep The Berkeley Rep Magazine is published at least seven times per season. CONTRIBUTORS @berkeleyrep For local advertising inquiries, please contact Pamela Get to know us and learn more about moving to St. Paul’s Towers. For Webster at 510 590-7091 or [email protected]. Donors to the Create Campaign · 35 @berkeleyrep Editor Writers Foundation, corporate, and in-kind sponsors · 38 information, or to schedule a visit, call 510-891-8542. Karen McKevitt Marcela Chacón vimeo.com/ Sarah Rose Leonard Individual donors to the Annual Fund · 39 Art Director Karen McKevitt berkeleyrep Nora Merecicky Julia Starr Michael Leibert Society · 41 Graphic Designer Emma Waldman berkeleyrep Kirsten Pribula ABOUT BERKELEY REP Visit our website berkeleyrep.org Contact Berkeley Rep Staff, board of trustees, We’re mobile! Box Office: 510 647-2949 Click berkeleyrep.org Groups (10+): 510 647-2918 Email [email protected] and sustaining advisors · 42 Download our free iPhone or Admin: 510 647-2900 Google Play app. School of Theatre: 510 647-2972 A not-for-profit community owned and operated by Covia. License No. 011400627 COA# 327 EPLG751-02C 8/16

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DO_program.indd 4 8/27/18 2:33 PM PROLOGUE from the Artistic Director

Fifty years. Four hundred and eight shows. Three theatres built. A school. Rehearsal halls, shops, and office space. Hundreds of employees. Thousands of audience members. Innumerable artists of every stripe...with wildly different aesthetic strategies but all trying to reveal the present, past, and future. Trying to blow their own minds. To expand the imagination of the community. To create fervent and fabulous conversation. About who we are and how we live. And how we might — even against all odds and armed only with our creativity — how we just might move forward. And so, with 50 years of history behind us, we welcome you to Berkeley Rep’s golden anniversary season. Featuring plays by a slew of brilliant young writers (Jackie Sibblies Drury, Marcus Gardley, Lucas Hnath), directors turned playwrights (Mary Zimmerman and Lisa Peterson), and a play without any words at all (by the clown/ auteur Geoff Sobelle). Plus John Leguizamo. Who loves nothing more than to break comic boundaries (even ones that don’t exist). With this group of artists leading the way, this season is bound to be a year-long celebration of theatrical possibility. And what better way to kick off the party than by bringing back the intrepid Les Waters, he of the big beard and big talent, who loves directing more than he loves to eat? A Doll’s House, Part 2 is right up his alley, a contemporary fantasy about what happened to Ibsen’s Nora after she famously slammed that door and walked out on her family in 1879. Now she’s come back, 15 years later, seeking to finalize her divorce but running head on into the ramifications of what she abandoned...her family, the law, and her freedom. The genius of the play is that the conversation between Nora and her former household manages to bridge the 140 years since she first appeared on stage. We are both back in time and in the present day. The questions are shock- ingly immediate. And the answers are complicated, humorous, and achingly raw. Les’ work is always beautiful, but he has the added advantage here of having worked with Lucas on many occasions. His understanding of the text and the inten- tions of the author are second to none. I always love seeing what he and his team of designers come up with, not to mention the paths he explores with his expert cast. So here we go. Play 409. Bring on the next 50 years.

Sincerely,

Tony Taccone

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DO_program.indd 5 8/24/18 4:32 PM PROLOGUE Proud to from the Managing Director Support Welcome to Berkeley Rep’s 50th anniversary Berkeley Rep season. You’ve seen the posters on the walls…the huge peace sign, the blue jeans and lanky hair, the early home on College Avenue when we were the best-kept secret in the Bay. 2018 is sure not 1968. The country is not the same. And we aren’t the company we were in 1968. Lord knows we look different. We now have campuses in downtown and west Berkeley. Our Personal attention audience now comes from throughout northern , thoughtful litigation and our school programs serve youth in 10 counties. And our reputation is nationwide. final resolution And yet…as we’ve looked back at the past we’ve realized that our values have

Our goal is to preserve our LAW FAMILY held remarkably steady. We still care about excellence, about speaking forcefully to client’s dignity and humanity. the issues of our day, about reflecting the rich diversity of our community. Regardless of our size and stature we retain a commitment to risk-taking even as we take the long view on the value of good stewardship. These were the hallmarks of our compa- ny in the beginning and they continue to drive our choice-making. FA M I LYLAW G R OUP, P. C . So it should come as no surprise that when Tony announced that this would be his last season, our transition committee went back to our roots. They affirmed their 575 Market Street, Suite 4000 commitment to the values that have driven this company, and in selecting our new San Francisco, CA 94105 artistic director, will reaffirm those values’ place in our future. This is the third time 415.834.1120 www.sflg.com this Theatre has selected an artistic leader, and each time it’s been a bold and surpris- ing choice. That’s because the choices spring, each time, from our commitment to the values and principles that drive everything we do. By the time you read this, the Theatre will likely have announced the selection of a new artistic director who, upon Tony’s departure next summer, will lead us into a new future. This big golden anniversary, with the bittersweetness of fulfilling the audacious ambition of Tony Taccone’s final season and the thrill of planning for the future with our incoming artistic leader, when taken in their fullness, leads me to think this will be a remarkable year for us. This will be a celebratory year. We’ll celebrate 50 years of making theatre with and for you. We’ll celebrate the joy of reinvention that will come with a new artistic leader. And we will celebrate the breadth of Tony’s artistic vision when we celebrate his 23 years of leadership next summer. It’s going to be a fun time and we want you to enjoy it with us. A great place to start is by signing up to see all seven of the thrilling plays that Tony has selected as his grand finale.

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DO_program.indd 9 8/24/18 4:32 PM As Berkeley Rep embarks on its 50th anniversary REPORT season, which marks Tony Taccone’s last as artistic director, we want to look to the future as we celebrate the past. In this first article of our 50th anniversary series, we highlight the three artistic directors who put their mark on Berkeley Rep. We could write a whole book on each of them; here we offer you an overview.

ACT I: MICHAEL LEIBERT When Michael Leibert gathered a troupe of actors together in 1968 under the belief that Berkeley and the East Bay needed a resident 1968: Gretchen Schween in Pigeon, Pigeon professional acting company, he was buoyed in part by a regional theatre movement that was sweeping the nation, fueled by local audiences with an appetite for a rigor- ous menu of Western classics and newer plays. Michael was determined to do the classics, and do them well. When his first production of Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck Celebrating our 50th: proved a hit at UC Berkeley’s International House, he trans- ferred the show to an 85-seat theatre at 2980 College Avenue. For the first five years, Michael offered audiences classics, A tale of three traditional modern plays, world premieres, and even musicals not only to determine what people wanted to see, but also to artistic directors satisfy the artistic talents and interests of his actors. He always encouraged actors to remain with the company for at least sev- BY KAREN MCKEVITT eral plays, if not for a season or two. In the first 10 years, Berke- ley Rep experienced little turnover in its resident company. “In the first few years,” he told the SF Examiner & Chronicle in 1977, “nobody thought beyond the next few months. We evolved into a group that trusts each other and is really like an orchestra playing together. It shows in the work.” In an essay he wrote for the East Bay Review published in 1978, he added, “The company is not a closed shop, but it should not be too fluid or changeable.” Michael succeeded in creating a company of terrific actors performing difficult material in an intimate setting—we still hear from subscribers who fondly recall those early days on College Avenue. When Michael and then Managing Director Mitzi Sales oversaw the creation of the 400-seat Thrust Stage (now the Peet’s Theatre) on Addison Street in 1980, they insist- ed the new theatre retain the sense of intimacy and connection between the actors and the audience that was so integral to the soul of the company. After 15 years at the helm of the company he founded, 1994: The cast of The Woman Warrior PHOTO BY KEN FRIEDMAN Michael Leibert left Berkeley Rep in 1983. The LA Times declared that he built the company from “an idea to a $2 million showplace.” Berkeley Rep was about to enter its first artistic transition.

ACT II: SHARON OTT When Sharon Ott moved to the Bay Area from Milwaukee to become Berkeley Rep’s new artis- tic director in 1984, the young director had al- ready worked in , Los Angeles, , and Seattle, as well as Europe and Japan. With her knowledge of the theatre scene outside the Bay Area, plus a penchant for new work and diverse voices, she introduced directors and designers with national reputations to local artists and audiences. 2018: Francesca Faridany and Carmen Roman in Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika PHOTO BY KEVIN BERNE

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DO_program.indd 10 8/27/18 12:18 PM Under Sharon’s leadership, Berkeley Rep gained a national Award, he continued to think of Berkeley Rep’s place on reputation. She was the first to send a Berkeley Rep production the national scene, and he continued to take risks. Musicals to New York: Richard E.T. White’s production of Dickens’ Hard had never really been a staple of Berkeley Rep’s seasons, Times. She was the first to bring artists from around the country but in 2006 the company produced the world premiere of a to Berkeley Rep, such as George C. Wolfe, Danny Hoch, Anna provocative rock musical, Stew and Heidi Rodewald’s Passing Deavere Smith, Mark Wing-Davey, Dominique Serrand and Strange. A hit in the Bay Area, it went on to Broadway with its Theatre de la Jeune Lune along with Steven Epp, Tony Kushner, original cast, winning the Tony Award for Best Book, as well and Mary Zimmerman—many of whom are still beloved by Bay as three Drama Desk Awards, two Obie Awards, four Audel- Area audiences today. co Awards, and many other honors. Green Day’s American Sharon was also way ahead of the curve on seeking out new Idiot followed in 2009 —which also went to Broadway and voices, and under her Berkeley Rep started commissioning new earned two Tony Awards. In 2017 Berkeley Rep premiered work. She directed the world premiere of Philip Kan Gotanda’s Mira Nair’s Monsoon Wedding and, in partnership with the Yankee Dawg You Die, which went on to New York, and also com- producers of American Idiot, Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and missioned and helmed his Ballad of Yachiyo, which journeyed to Times of The Temptations, which will go to Broadway in Spring Los Angeles, New York, and Seattle. The Theatre also produced 2019. These large productions not only stretched Berkeley work by Jessica Hagedorn, Han Ong, Culture Clash, and, notably, Rep institutionally, but also introduced the Theatre to new Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior, which posted a audiences. More and more people were seeing productions new attendance record in 1994. at Berkeley Rep. Sharon and then Managing Director Mitzi Sales recognized Tony knew that Berkeley Rep needed to develop a stron- that it wasn’t enough to simply develop new work; Berkeley Rep ger structure for creating not only new work and new musicals, also needed to develop an audience for new work. Thus the Par- but also ambitious productions of modern plays and classics. allel Season—a mini-season of usually two plays that subscrib- “We needed to support not only the playwrights, but also the ers could opt into—was born, showcasing work like José Rivera’s many processes of writing. Playwrights take us into different Each Day Dies with Sleep, Geoff Hoyle’s The Convict’s Return, and artistic directions, and a rehearsal process may look very differ- Anne Galjour’s Hurricane/Mauvais Temps. Susan Medak joined ent from play to play.” Berkeley Rep as managing director in 1990, continuing to help The first step was the building of the Roda Theatre. “Sharon Sharon develop new audiences. After several years, the Parallel Ott first saw the need for a second theatre,” says Managing -Di Season morphed into the current Limited Season: two plays that rector Susan Medak. “She knew it would allow us to expand our are included in the 7-play season subscription package. artistic vision, and she really pushed for it.” The 600-seat Roda Under Sharon’s tenure, Berkeley Rep audiences also saw became a reality in 2001 and made it possible to host Robin the work of local directors like Timothy Near (later the artistic Williams, Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen in No Man’s Land, the director of San Jose Repertory Theatre) and a couple of up-and- West Coast premiere of The Laramie Project, and David Henry comers named Oskar Eustis and Tony Taccone, who in 1985 Hwang’s Chinglish, which became Berkeley Rep’s first produc- helmed Emily Mann’s Execution of Justice. After directing several tion to go to Asia, and new plays by Naomi Iizuka, Culture Clash, more successful productions, Tony Taccone joined Berkeley Rep Charles Mee, Lisa Kron, and , to name a few. as associate artistic director in 1988. The next step was the establishment of The Ground Floor: Berkeley Rep embraced more complex material with a Berkeley Rep’s Center for the Creation and Development for directorial focus, and Sharon developed a reputation for highly New Work, which gave the Theatre a structure to support new visual, highly theatrical productions. She put Berkeley Rep at the work by both emerging and mature writers—and it gave those top of the national theatre scene and grew the subscription base writers a home to develop work for either Berkeley Rep’s stag- from 3,000 to 16,000. By the end of Sharon’s term, Berkeley es or stages across the country. The Ground Floor’s Summer Rep received the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre Residency Lab has supported new work from local artists like in 1997—and made its second artistic transition. Jonathan Spector and Erika Chong Shuch and nationally known artists like John Leguizamo and Lucas Hnath. ACT III: TONY TACCONE When Tony Taccone wraps up his final season as artistic Tony Taccone worked alongside Sharon Ott for director, he’ll leave a legacy that includes a deep commitment nine years as associate artistic director before to developing a new generation of American playwrights and he took over the top artistic position in 1997. artists. He’ll also be known for producing provocative work “Sharon expanded Berkeley Rep’s artistic reach that challenges audiences, while also bringing new people to with her directorial focus,” says Tony. “I watched and support- Berkeley Rep with more populist shows. He’ll be known for ed her, and happily inherited what she built.” audacious risk-taking—and also for welcoming over 200,000 Tony affirmed his commitment to many of the artists who patrons to Berkeley Rep each season. came to Berkeley Rep under Sharon and also expanded the roster. Audiences adored Mary Zimmerman, so he introduced As you read this, Berkeley Rep is wrapping its process of them to Ennio, Aurelia Thiérree, Geoff Sobelle (first in 2006 selecting a new artistic director. (In fact, it’s possible we’ve al- with All Wear Bowlers and again this season with Home), and ready announced who that person is!) They’ll be taking us on a director Emma Rice and Kneehigh Theatre. new journey, and while we don’t yet know where that journey Not content to simply rest on the regional theatre Tony will take us, we’re looking forward to the ride.

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DO_program.indd 11 8/27/18 12:18 PM REPORT From Spain to Lebanon and Slovenia to Egypt, 22 countries inspire Hotel Shattuck’s new Mediterranean restaurant zino BY JULIA STARR

The first timeBrandon Hicks walked into the pro- the drinks menu curated by Caleb Kimbley features exotic duce section of Berkeley’s famed and lavishly stocked grocery cocktails with a wide range of influences. Jill’s favorite? A saf- store, Berkeley Bowl, he was reminded of the possibilities that fron-infused cocktail with oloroso sherry and apricot liqueur come with being a chef in California. After decades in called Mouthful of Gold. the Northeast—notably as Chef de Cuisine at New York City’s To create the right ambiance for this lively new dining ilili, he found himself asking, “Why am I not using okra?” experience—the only one of its kind in foodie-central down- A seasoned chef, Hicks came to Berkeley to helm zino, town Berkeley—the hotel completely redesigned its lofty Hotel Shattuck Plaza’s new restaurant featuring Mediter- restaurant and bar as it said goodbye to its longtime American ranean cuisines—plural. “By drawing inspiration from all restaurant, five. Key changes include an expanded bar area 22 Mediterranean countries, you have a lot of flexibility with attractive nooks for lounging, brightly colored North with what you can do,” he says. “We can create interplay African-inspired dishware, and dividing curtains that can be between the countries—maybe weave a little tahini into used to vary the size of the space depending on the needs of something that is French. Or add Provençal flavors to the moment. The dramatic changes to the space all reflect a something that is Lebanese or Jordanian.” With a rotating guiding impulse of the new restaurant: to create a bright and menu of shared plates and entrées, the concept leaves welcoming gathering place with a communal spirit. room for experimentation and exploration based on what Both Chef Hicks and Ms. Taylor are excited to bring this is seasonally available. fresh new dining experience to the Berkeley community—and Not missing from the menu, however, is a California to Berkeley Rep patrons. In the short months they have been influence. The drinks menu will be—as the restaurant’s new at Hotel Shattuck Plaza, they have already noticed the theatre- General Manager Jill Taylor describes—“California meets going crowd, with playbills and tickets in hand. Only time will The Mediterranean.” The wine list brings together Old World tell if okra makes its way onto the menu, but zino is certainly Mediterranean wines with New World local choices. Likewise, worth a visit to find out!

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DO_program.indd 12 8/24/18 4:32 PM REPORT To the next 50 years BY EMMA WALDMAN

Nothing short of spectacular, Berkeley Rep’s OVATION: 50 Years and Glowing drew nearly 400 theatre lovers to The Ritz-Carlton, San Francisco to kick off a season celebrating five decades of exceptional theatre and toasting Berkeley Rep’s future. Guests showed overwhelming support as they raised both champagne glasses and bid paddles in the air. This unforgettable night marked a fundraising record, as Berkeley Rep raised over $815,000 to continue the Theatre’s commitment to fearless artistic innovation, education, and community engagement. The celebratory night brought together the past and present. Tony Taccone and Susan Medak recognized their trailblazing pre- decessors, Berkeley Rep’s former artistic and managing directors, Sharon Ott and Mitzi Sales, and a special ovation was given to the late Michael Leibert, who founded the company in 1968. Former company members, local actors, current and past trustees, stu- dents of the School of Theatre, and cast members of now-touring Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of the Temptations shared the dance floor at the end of a momentous night. Emcee Colman Domingo, now a bona fide star of stage and screen, spoke movingly of his early appearance in Berkeley Rep’s 1996 production of Mary Zimmerman’s Journey to the West, during which he earned his Equity card and professional acting chops. A group of performers from the distant and more recent past sang a clever Beatles parody of Berkeley Rep’s early days. In song, Joe Spano recalled the Theatre’s first show, Woyzeck, which began his decade with the company and launched his career. After a reprise performance from the cast of Ain’t Too Proud, fierce bidding in the live auction earned winners not only celebrity party invitations and luxury yacht voyages, but also the opportunity to further support the Theatre. The weekend didn’t end with the final dance on Saturday night. Celebrations continued at a reunion brunch on Sunday morning attended by Berkeley Rep staff and artists of the past 50 years. A guest book signed by celebrants at both events memorializes this anniversary year and promises to overflow with signatures and well-wishes from our past, present, and future, as it will remain in the lobby for some time to come to be signed by more friends of the Theatre. We would like to give a deeply felt standing ovation of our own to our audience and supporters. We are especially grateful for the outstanding generosity of OVATION’s lead sponsors: Fossil Group, Rich and Robin Edwards, Bruce Golden and Michelle Mer- cer, the Richard Grand Foundation, the Strauch Kulhanjian Family, and Kelli and Steffan Tomlinson. Last but not least, we recognize the hard work and dedication of OVATION’s incredible planning Top to bottom The OVATION committee and Berkeley Rep staff members; committee—the event would not have been possible without Ephraim Sykes of Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of The Temptations them. Here’s to another 50 years of ambitious, entertaining, and serenades guests; Artistic Director’s Circle Committee member Barbara Peterson celebrates a winning bid in the live auction; Author of The Color Purple and inspirational theatre—the celebration goes on! notable activist, Alice Walker, enjoys the event (photos by Cheshire Isaacs)

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REPORT Connecting the classroom and the mainstage at Berkeley Rep BY MARCELA CHACÓN

Since 2001, Berkeley Rep’s School of Theatre has provided our community of artists and theatregoers a place for creative exploration and social engagement. Our unique approach allows students to immerse them- selves in not only the field of study they’re interested in, but also the artistry and soul of Berkeley Rep’s produc- tions through classes taught by the directors, playwrights, and actors involved with our shows. From character development and playwriting to scene study, performance technique, and choreography, students learn from the best teachers in a more intimate and applied way. CONTINUED ON PAGE 16

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EAP full-page template.indd 1 7/25/18 1:19 PM CONTINUED FROM PAGE 14 Last season Esther Antoine, swing/dance captain from Study class. This class is a continuation of a series of classes Ain’t Too Proud, led a choreography and dance class. Actor created by School of Theatre Associate Director MaryBeth Sarah Agnew from Watch on the Rhine taught In Pursuit of Cavanaugh. Having worked on her own translation/adaptation Playfulness and the Pleasure of Performance. Stephen Spinella of A Doll’s House for the past few years, MaryBeth feels that from Angels in America taught an advanced acting intensive, one of the great challenges for actors in this class is studying and our very own Tony Taccone, along with Imaginary Com- the contrast between Ibsen’s use of heightened language, forts cast member Susan Lynskey, led a Creating Solo Work complex rhythms, punctuation, and repetitive phrasing with Through Adaptation playwriting class. Lucas Hnath’s use of more contemporary language. Unques- By connecting tionably, Ibsen’s plays are a directly with the con- wonderful and enormous tent of Berkeley Rep’s challenge for actors due productions at this to his complex characters deeper level, students replete with believable are exposed to tech- contradictions, struggles, niques and challenges, and irony. You are cordially with the added value of invited to join us at the observing each one of School to learn about the these actors’ and direc- technical aspects of this tors’ work on the stage, smart and sophisticated analyzing what they do, comedy, while exploring and discussing it in class. the fascinating questions The students gain the Tony Taccone and Susan Lynskey lead a Creating Solo Work Through Adaptation playwriting class this play raises about tools to translate what marriage and the ways the they see on the stage with what they learn in class in order roles of women have—and haven’t—changed. to develop a whole new set of skills that they can use to Berkeley Rep creates ambitious theatre that challenges realize their personal potential. its audiences, provokes civic engagement, and inspires people “These classes have the most incredible insights that I’ve to experience the world in new ways. The School of Theatre ever seen in examining acting and providing coaching for supports this mission by developing art, education, and actors,” says Nick Louie, who enrolled in Stephen Spinella’s citizenship in a single practice. All programs are designed to class. “I now have developed a better sense for what’s going invite students to explore a production in a way that they can on in a performance, as well as things that a person can do better engage with the world around them and become active to build upon the soul of what that actor brings to a char- members in their social environments. acter. I just hope so many more people in the world get to The Berkeley Rep School of Theatre keeps the stage alive experience this teaching style.” by driving the powerful synergy of connecting talent, edu- This fall, we welcome Mary Beth Fisher—Nora in Lucas cation, and social relevance. Learn more about the School of Hnath’s A Doll’s House, Part 2—who will teach an Ibsen Scene Theatre and its programs at berkeleyrep.org/school. SPEAK YOUR ARTISTRY

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DO_program.indd 16 8/27/18 2:33 PM DO_program.indd 17 8/24/18 4:33 PM One day back in 2012, the playwright Lucas Hnath wrote the words “A Doll’s House, Part 2” on a piece of paper. Just for fun, he decided to write what might be behind that title: a sequel to Henrik Ibsen’s famed classic A Doll’s House. He first rewrote an existing translation of A Doll’s House, stripping out everything iconic we associate with the play (macaroons, the tarantella dance, etc.). He heard that Norwegians often find Ibsen’s plays funny, but Americans don’t as much, probably because most transla- “You have to want something” tions don’t carry the humor over. With this in mind, Hnath used his own sense of humor as a guiding force when creating A Doll’s House, Part 2. Ibsen’s play ends with a (right?) door slam; Hnath knew he wanted his play to begin with a knock at the door. The play premiered at Orange County’s South Coast Repertory in April 2017 before moving to Broadway in a new production. It was nominated for eight Tony Awards, with one award going to for Best Perfor- mance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play. The play bypassed the usual development process—new works typically take years to work out the kinks, but A Doll’s House, Part 2 was workshopped in under a year. During rehearsals Hnath brought in “scraps:” bits and pieces of text. The actors performed those scraps, helping him learn what he wanted to stitch together. In the original play Hnath saw a couple so terrified of honesty that they could not have a real conversation. It was time for these charac- ters to have it out.

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DO_program.indd 18 8/24/18 4:33 PM Playwright Lucas Hnath Director Les Waters PHOTO BY REBECCA MARTINEZ PHOTO COURTESY OF ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE “You have to want something” (right?) An interview with Lucas Hnath and Les Waters BY SARAH ROSE LEONARD

Playwright Lucas Hnath and director Les Waters met in 2012 at the annual Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville, where Hnath’s play Death Tax was being performed. Waters had just stepped into his role of artistic director at Actors Theatre of Louisville, fresh from his stint as the associate artistic director at Berkeley Rep, and was blown away by Hnath’s play. He commissioned Hnath to write a play, and in 2014 the two premiered The Christians at the Humana Festival. The play was subsequently produced nationwide and the two artists formed a close collaboration and friendship. When Berkeley Rep’s Artistic Director Tony Taccone was contemplating the program- ming for the 2018–19 season—his last as artistic director—he asked Waters what he’d like to direct. Waters responded with A Doll’s House, Part 2 as his first choice. In this interview Wa- ters and Hnath discuss with Literary Manager Sarah Rose Leonard the great art of creating and performing arguments.

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DO_program.indd 19 8/24/18 4:33 PM CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE SRL: Les, what draws you to Lucas’ work? At a certain point, I brought the play in conversation with Les: That’s always difficult to say, because it revolves a number of feminist scholars and asked them to take a look at around instinct. And passion. I’m always a little reluctant to the play and counter-argue anything that gets said in it. One put the words on it because it’s a little mysterious to myself of the questions I asked at one point was, “It was shocking for and I prefer to keep the mystery of it. Nora to leave her children at the end of Doll’s House, but if it I just found the writing very exciting and rather ferocious. were written now, what would be the shocking ending?” The Lucas sometimes talks to me about things that he’s thinking response was, “Well that’s still the shocking ending! That’s still about writing, but they always surprise me. That’s terrific be- something that is unthinkable.” That was actually very helpful cause most things aren’t surprising. With Lucas, I never know to hear. I think I had gotten quite numb to the shock. what’s coming next. And there were a lot of arguments in my play that some of the scholars thought went too far. More often than not, I I’m sorry to make you say that in front of him. would actually give whatever critique they had of Nora’s argu- Les: I’m English, so I’m staring at the floor as I say it. ment to Anne Marie and it made the debate better. (Laughter) How did you decide that the cast would be these four Lucas, how did you go about creating a play that could particular characters? be understood relationally but also independently of the Lucas: I tried out a number of other different characters, source text? but those four offered the most essential and unique points Lucas: The setup is there’s a woman who left her family 15 of view. It felt necessary to have a character who’s basically a years ago. That’s kind of the only information you need. The footnote in the original, but is extremely significant, which is play doesn’t get into much about the specifics of the plot that Anne Marie. She was in a position to most directly deal with

All of the things that were debated and negotiated in A Doll’s House are still topics that are debated and negotiated now. So one of the first ideas that I had about A Doll’s House, Part 2 is it’s a play about how much we’ve changed, and how much we haven’t, in terms of thinking about equality between men and women. —LUCAS HNATH, PLAYWRIGHT

motivated her to leave. There aren’t really winky references to the fallout from Nora’s leaving. Then of course Torvald had to the original. It seemed necessary that I write the play in a way be there. Nora has three kids, and at some point I entertained that did not require knowledge of the original, otherwise it the notion of having all three, but then it started to come off as would turn into some kind of inside theatre joke. fussy, and I was most interested in—as opposed to having one of the boys—the perspective of the daughter. Ibsen didn’t necessarily consider A Doll’s House a feminist text, but it’s come to be one over the years. How have Les, what was your casting process like for this production? you entered the conversation on feminism that surrounds Les: What I learned from working with Lucas on The Ibsen’s play? Christians is that you need performers who could stand up in Lucas: All of the things that were debated and negoti- court as lawyers and really argue, who can get the language ated in A Doll’s House are still topics that are debated and in their mouths, and pursue the logic of an argument, find the negotiated now. So one of the first ideas that I had about rhythm of the language, and really go for it. A lot of extraordi- A Doll’s House, Part 2 is it’s a play about how much we’ve nary actors came in and they found it difficult. You’re looking changed, and how much we haven’t, in terms of thinking for people who, A) have an appetite for it, B) who can do it. It’s about equality between men and women. I was reading a lot not the kind of play that has a subtext, like “what are they really of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, who wrote “The Yellow Wall- saying underneath all of this?” What they’re saying is what paper,” while working on the play. She wrote a great deal of they’re thinking. When you find people who can do that, and feminist theory and she had a really interesting line saying, think that’s fun and exhilarating to do, then the thing really flies. when you hear a school teacher, nurse, secretary—she listed a bunch of occupations—the first thing that anybody Lucas, this is in many ways a play about marriage. How did imagines is a woman. She goes on to say that she’s looking your own thoughts on marriage influence your work? forward to the day when you can say one of those titles and Lucas: The argument that Nora makes at the beginning a woman is not the first image that pops into the mind. She’s about predicting and advocating for a world in which there’s thinking about certain limitations in terms of how women no marriage, in which the lines aren’t drawn between couples, are perceived. that’s something I’ve never really been able to understand. My

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DO_program.indd 20 8/24/18 4:33 PM interest in the arguments in the play does not necessarily have to do with what I believe, but with what I don’t understand. I Response Plays don’t understand Nora’s initial argument; I have a hard time relating to it. When I’m writing, I try to find examples of people One could think of A Doll’s House, Part 2 as a who very convincingly make some of those arguments. straightforward sequel. “Part 2” is in the title, after all. George Bernard Shaw wrote a play called Getting Married. But the play does much more than extend the action Shaw often has a cluster of essays in front of his plays. Get- of A Doll’s House: like so many plays that respond to ting Married has a couple of essays that very strongly inform classic texts, it was provoked by an urge to continue a Nora’s big opening speech about marriage. I often try to find conversation. What exactly makes a play a “response arguments that I don’t really agree with, try to put those play” (a term we at Berkeley Rep mostly made up) rather arguments in my own words, and try to make them as convinc- than an adaptation, sequel, backstage drama (where a ing as possible. That tends to be the relationship between the known play is happening in the background of a new plays and what I do or don’t believe. plotline), or a work that’s “inspired by” another play? The lines get blurry, but below are some examples of notable In one interview Lucas gave he said that Nora asks herself plays that grapple with an original work in ways that feel at the end of A Doll’s House, “If I’m left to myself, what do like more of a response than a remake: I want for myself?” What is your current answer to that question for yourself? Afterplay by Brian Friel plucks two characters from Lucas: Oh, yeah! It’s so funny, I was actually just re-watch- Chekhov’s plays—Andrey, the brother from Three Sisters, ing My Dinner with Andre last night. I feel like that question is and Sonya, the dutiful niece from Uncle Vanya—and gives the big question of that movie. Wally [Wallace Shawn] more them closure during a chance encounter in a Moscow tearoom in the 1920s. I just found the writing very exciting and An Octoroon by Branden Jacobs- rather ferocious. Lucas sometimes talks to me Jenkins examines the racism in about things that he’s thinking about writing, one of America’s most popular historical melodramas, but they always surprise me. That’s terrific The Octoroon by Dion because most things aren’t surprising. With Boucicault. Lucas, I never know what’s coming next. Beneatha’s Place by Kwame Kwei-Armah —LES WATERS, DIRECTOR continues the life of the daughter in A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, or less argues, “You have to want something,” and Andre says, but sets it in the same time Afi Bijou and Jasmine Bracey in “But what if you don’t? What if you can just not want some- Berkeley Rep’s 2017 production of periods as Clybourne Park by An Octoroon thing or not try to be doing anything?” I’m very, very happy to Bruce Norris, which is itself a PHOTO BY KEVIN BERNE just always be spending my time making something. I’m more response to Raisin. in the Wally camp. I want to be writing a play. I want to be in the rehearsal room. My least favorite thing is actually watching Desdemona, a Play About a Handkerchief by Paula any of my plays because then I’m not getting to actually do Vogel asks, what would Desdemona be like if Othello’s anything and having to just sit there passively. I’m happiest suspicions about her faithfulness were true? In this play when I’m writing, and in the rehearsal room, and in the midst she is, in fact, sleeping with everyone. of making or rewriting. Fortinbras by Lee Blessing imagines the Norwegian Les, do you have an answer to that? prince, fresh from the battle at the end of Shakespeare’s Les: I just left a very big job. I was artistic director of Hamlet, seizing power, much to the dismay of the Actors Theatre of Louisville for six and a half years. That was recently deceased ghosts of Hamlet and Horatio. one of three big jobs, one after another after another. At the moment, I don’t know. I’m perfectly happy not knowing what Lear by Young Jean Lee places the theme of mortality it is. in Shakespeare’s King Lear in the in the hands of Lear’s daughters, all cast as black women, and the brothers You’re in the Andre camp right now? Edgar and Edmund, one of whom dons a Big Bird Les: I think so. It’s strange. I’m fine not knowing. costume at one point.

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DO_program.indd 21 8/24/18 4:33 PM Camilla Collett, 1893 Magdalene Thoresen PHOTO BY ROBERT COLLETT PHOTO BY HARALD PAETZ

Suzannah Ibsen Henrik Ibsen, 1869 PHOTO BY J. LEEB PHOTO BY JOHANNES JAEGER

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DO_program.indd 22 8/24/18 4:33 PM The creation and impact of

A DollBY SARAH ROSE ’s LEONARD House

Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House ends with an infa- one point Kieler asked Ibsen his opinion of her manuscript of a mous door slam. Nora Helmer, a housewife in Norway, leaves new novel; she needed it published as she was in dire financial her husband, Torvald Helmer, in a dramatic exit that rocked straits. Ibsen did not care for it and failed to recommend it to audiences when the play debuted in Copenhagen in 1879 and publishers. He did, however, find out the cause of her debt. continues to divide viewers today. The play made Ibsen famous She had borrowed money to finance a trip to Italy for her and endures as his most well-known work. It has been translat- husband’s recovery from tuberculosis, but could not tell her ed into 78 languages and is a well-regarded classic in the world husband about the borrowing, as he was terrified of debt. In theatre canon. What made Nora’s door slam so shocking then order to repay the loan she churned out bad novels, but when is remarkably what continues to resonate today: a wife leaves her writing didn’t sell enough she forged a check. When her her husband and children in search of herself. husband discovered her forgery, he demanded a legal separa- The action of A Doll’s House centers on Nora’s attempts to tion on the grounds that she was an unfit mother and placed hide from Torvald her forgery of a signature in order to obtain her in an insane asylum. a loan. When Torvald fell ill, his doctor said it was necessary In his notes for A Doll’s House, Ibsen’s thoughts circle for them to travel to a warmer climate for his recovery, and Kieler’s sacrifice, clearly an act of love rather than deceit, and Nora told Torvald the money for the trip came from her father. encompass her ungrateful husband as well, who treated her Now, years later, Torvald is well, and Nora has saved money in extremely harshly. Ibsen wrote, “The wife in the play ends up secret, slowly repaying the debt. When Torvald finds out, he by having no idea what is right and what is wrong; natural feel- explodes, mostly out of concern for his own social standing, ings on one hand and belief in authority on the other lead her then forgives her. But it’s too late. After Torvald’s outburst to utter distraction…A woman cannot be herself in modern so- Nora sees him as an empty man who is not connected to her ciety. It is an exclusively male society, with laws made by men in any real way. She experiences a revelation: she sees that her and with prosecutors and judges who assess feminine conduct father and Torvald did her a disservice in life by treating her as from a masculine standpoint.” This injustice spurred Ibsen’s though she were a toy, a doll who “lived by doing tricks.” She pre-existing thoughts on feminism. A play began to form. realizes she has no skills to do anything in life and announces Ibsen shifted Kieler’s story to be more “average,” aiming to Torvald, “I have to try to educate myself.” She plans to re- the play at theatregoing Europeans. He swapped in a house- turn to her hometown. Finally, Nora realizes that she is not just wife as a protagonist, rather than a writer. (In A Doll’s House, a wife and mother, but also has duties to herself. She decides Part 2, however, Lucas Hnath makes his Nora a writer.) Ibsen to leave her three children in the care of Anne Marie, their portrayed her husband, Torvald, as a protector rather than a maid who also raised Nora, saying “they are in better hands villain, and instead of taking her to an asylum he merely de- than mine.” She says goodbye to Torvald, and we hear the door nounced her. These adjustments shifted the story away from slam before the curtain falls. the sensational and toward the plausible. Nora and Torvald Ibsen’s protégé, Laura Petersen Kieler, a successful jour- Helmer typified the gender dynamics in a marriage in the late nalist and writer, served as a model for Nora in A Doll’s House. 19th century: husbands essentially dictated their wives’ exis- He called her his “skylark,” as Torvald calls Nora in the play. tence. When the play became a hit, Kieler felt mortified. Her When she was 19, Kieler wrote a novel entitled Brand’s Daugh- story had circulated widely before the play’s publication; any- ters, a sequel to Ibsen’s play Brand, his first financial success. one who knew it recognized Kieler in Nora. She never forgave Ibsen and his wife Suzannah encouraged Kieler as a writer, Ibsen for using her life as fodder for his drama. remaining in close contact with her throughout her life. At CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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DO_program.indd 23 8/24/18 4:33 PM CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE Kieler, however, wasn’t the only woman who influenced NORA: [trembling]. Motherless…! Ibsen’s seminal play. In her paper “The Doll House Backlash: Criticism, Feminism, and Ibsen,” Joan Templeton posits that TORVALD: As you once were. the playwright owed the iconic door slam to three feminist thinkers in his life: Suzannah, his wife; Magdalene Thoresen, NORA: Motherless! [Struggles with herself, lets her travelling Suzannah’s stepmother; and Camilla Collett, a founder of Nor- bag fall, and says.] Oh, this is a sin against myself, but I can- wegian feminism, famous for writing the first novel in Norway not leave them. [Half sinks down by the door.] about women’s liberation in 1854. While Ibsen in his writing appeared more concerned with TORVALD: [joyfully, but softly]. Nora! accurately capturing humanity rather than striving for equality, feminism is baked into A Doll’s House. Nora is a human charac- [The curtain falls.] ter asking for the freedom to be herself, something all people regardless of gender deserve, but the play hinges on the fact However, after several protests against the “distortion of that she is a woman navigating a man’s world. Nora’s speech, the play,” the theatre reverted back to the original script, much particularly at its conclusion, echoes leading feminist thought to Ibsen’s delight. of the time. Ibsen took Collett’s argument that women, like The U.S. premiere took place in Milwaukee in 1883, with men, possess a moral and intellectual nature and have a right the title The Child Wife. The play, under its original title, then to develop their minds. debuted on Broadway in the in 1889, and continues to be per- Many critics argue that Ibsen did not intend to write a formed regularly to this day. feminist play, citing he gave at the 70th birthday Many productions of A Doll’s House reflect a current banquet given in his honor by the Norwegian Women’s Rights conversation about feminism. A notable 2012 production from League in 1898: the Young Vic in London placed Nora’s three young children— including a baby—onstage to make her abandonment of them “I thank you for the toast, but must disclaim the honor of more palpable. (Usually, the children are offstage characters.) having consciously worked for the women’s rights movement That same production team released a short film interpreting […]True enough, it is desirable to solve the woman problem, Nora as a contemporary London working mother, highlighting along with all the others, but that has not been the whole the struggle women face worldwide as they aim to balance purpose. My task has been the description of humanity.” work and motherhood. A decade ago, Lee Breuer directed Mabou Mines Dollhouse, casting actors less than four feet tall The phrase “the woman problem” sounds harsh in the to play the men and tall actresses to play the women. He also English translation, but crops up again and again in writings included puppets and toy furniture to accentuate the loss about the early days of feminism in Scandinavia. It roughly of control the women had over their lives. A recent Chinese stands in for the arguments over how women should be treat- version examined a western woman marrying into a Chinese ed in society. family. A 2004 Norwegian production placed all five actors on When Ibsen’s play premiered in Copenhagen in 1879, the stage throughout, acting as a chorus of sorts. Only Nora audiences exploded with horror and praise alike. Theatres broke the fourth wall to speak to the audience, transforming across Scandinavia clamored to produce A Doll’s House. A her into an observer of a dream. translator living in Stockholm at the time wrote “Such furious Ibsen wanted his audience to consider what it meant to discussion did Nora rouse when the play came out that many a be free. His body of work shows characters constricted by social invitation given in Stockholm during that winter bore the social norms and judgments. Their central conflicts often words ‘You are requested not to mention Ibsen’s Doll’s House.’” concern their personal freedom. In A Doll’s House he invited To leave one’s husband was one thing, but to leave one’s chil- the audience to contemplate the ramifications of Nora’s exit. dren? Beyond the pale. When the play premiered in Germany Lucas Hnath contradicts Ibsen’s intentions by showing us her the actress playing Nora felt so upset by the notion that Nora return. When Hnath asked people what they thought hap- leaves her children that she insisted a new ending be written. pened to Nora after she closed the door, many did not expect Begrudgingly, Ibsen wrote this: her to last long out there in the world. Without education or social standing, her most likely career choices were maid, wife, NORA: … Where we could make a real marriage out of our or prostitute. Many imagined that she returned to Torvald and lives together. Goodbye. [Begins to go.] the children. Others thought she died. Hnath decided to chal- lenge these expectations, and give her a true career. In a way, TORVALD: Go then! [Seizes her arm.] But first you shall see this vindicates Laura Kieler, Ibsen’s inspiration for Nora. After your children for the last time! her stay in the insane asylum, Kieler returned to her husband and children. She fell into a depression and Norwegian society NORA: Let me go! I will not see them! I cannot! largely forgot about her. In A Doll’s House, Part 2 Nora is as Kieler could never be: a resourceful, eloquent woman seeking TORVALD: [draws her over to the door, left]. You shall see how to be her true self in the world. them. [Opens the door and says softly.] Look, there they are asleep, peaceful and carefree. Tomorrow, when they wake up and call for their mother, they will be—motherless.

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By Jackie Sibblies Drury Directed by Sarah Benson Created by Geoff Sobelle Choreography by Raja Feather Kelly Scenic Concept by Steven Dufala In association with Soho Rep. Directed by Lee Sunday Evans Limited Season · Peet’s Theatre Original Songs by Elvis Perkins World premiere production Limited Season · Roda Theatre OCT 4–NOV 4 MAR 22–APR 21

Music by Jason Howland and Larry Kirwan Lyrics by Nathan Tysen Book by Marcus Gardley, Craig Lucas, and Larry Kirwan Based on the songs of Stephen Foster Conceived by Larry Kirwan Supplemental Lyrics by Larry Kirwan and George Cooper Arrangements by Jason Howland and Larry Kirwan Musical Supervision and Orchestrations by Jason Howland Choreography by Bill T. Jones By Denis O’Hare and Lisa Peterson Directed by Moisés Kaufman Main Season · Roda Theatre Directed by Lisa Peterson World premiere Main Season · Peet’s Theatre DEC 27–FEB 17 APR 25–JUN 9

Book by John Leguizamo and Tony Taccone Music by Benjamin Velez Lyrics by David Kamp, Benjamin Velez, and John Leguizamo Based on the myths of Ovid Based on an original screenplay written by Written and Directed by Mary Zimmerman John Leguizamo and Stephen Chbosky from the translation by David R. Slavitt Directed by Tony Taccone Co-production with the Main Season · Roda Theatre Main Season · Peet’s Theatre World premiere JAN 24–MAR 10 MAY 28–JUL 14

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DO_program.indd 26 8/24/18 4:33 PM Berkeley Repertory Theatre, BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE in a co-production with Huntington Theatre Company, TONY TACCONE, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR presents SUSAN MEDAK, MANAGING DIRECTOR

BY CAST Anne Marie Nancy E. Carroll Lucas Hnath Nora Mary Beth Fisher Torvald John Judd DIRECTED BY Emmy Nikki Massoud

Les Waters PRODUCTION STAFF SEPTEMBER 6–OCTOBER 21, 2018 Scenic Design Andrew Boyce RODA THEATRE · MAIN SEASON Costume Design Annie Smart

This show has no intermission. Lighting Design Yi Zhao Sound Design James Ballen Casting Amy Potozkin, csa A Doll’s House, Part 2 is made Alaine Alldaffer, csa possible thanks to the generous support of Production Stage Manager Michael Suenkel SEASON SPONSORS Assistant Stage Manager Amanda Mason Jack & Betty Schafer Michael & Sue Steinberg The Strauch Kulhanjian Family

Originally produced on Broadway by Scott Rudin, Eli Bush, Joey Parnes, Sue Wagner, and John Johnson Commissioned and first produced by South Coast Repertory LEAD SPONSORS A Doll’s House, Part 2 benefited from a residency at New Dramatists. A Doll’s House, Part 2 is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York. The actors and stage managers are members of Actors’ Equity Association, Bruce Golden & Michelle Mercer the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

EXECUTIVE SPONSORS Bill Falik & Diana Cohen

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Nancy E. Carroll John Judd at New Dramatists since 2011. Lucas has ANNE MARIE TORVALD received the Kesselring Prize, Guggenheim Nancy is making her John is appearing for the Fellowship, Whiting Award, two Steinberg/ Berkeley Rep debut. first time at Berkeley atca New Play Award Citations, Outer Critics Her Broadway credits Rep. A Chicago actor Circle Award for Best New Play, an Obie, and include Present Laughter for over 30 years, he the Windham-Campbell Literary Prize. (Roundabout Theatre has appeared on many Company) and her inter- stages there including Les Waters national credits include the , DIREC TOR The Cripple of Inishmaan Steppenwolf Theatre, Obie Award winner Les Waters is delighted to and Big Maggie (Druid Court Theatre, Chicago be back at Berkeley Rep. From 2003 to 2011, Theatre, Ireland) and Shakespeare Theater, he served as the Theatre’s associate artistic Return of the Winemaker (Cork Arts Theatre, Writers Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Looking- director, and his many productions include Ireland). Regionally, she has appeared in glass Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater, and Sarah Ruhl’s and In the Next Room (or Ripcord, I Was Most Alive With You, The Seagull, A Red Orchid Theatre. Other regional stages the vibrator play), Girlfriend by Todd Almond Good People, Luck of the Irish, Prelude to a Kiss, include the Huntington Theatre, Williamstown and Matthew Sweet, Big Love and Fêtes de la Brendan, She Loves Me, The Rose Tattoo, and Theatre Festival, Westport Country Playhouse, Nuit by Charles Mee, Naomi Iizuka’s Concern- Dead End (Huntington Theatre); Rapture Blister McCarter Theatre, Theatre ing Strange Devices from the Distant West, and Burn (Geffen Playhouse); Our Town and She Company, City Theatre, Actors Theatre of The Pillowman and The Lieutenant of Inishmore Loves Me (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Louisville, Beaver Creek Theatre Festival, the by Martin McDonagh. As artistic director Shakespeare in Love, Mothers and Sons, Other Old Globe, and Town Hall Theatre in Galway, of Actors Theatre of Louisville (2012–18), he Desert Cities, The Savannah Disputation, The Ireland. He has appeared off Broadway at Bar- directed the premiere of Lucas Hnath’s The Women, Company, and A Man of No Impor- row Street Theatre, 59E59 Theatres, and bam. Christians and other new work by Jorge Ignacio tance (Speakeasy Stage); The New Electric Ball- Recent screen appearances include Chicago Cortiñas, Sarah Ruhl, Anne Washburn and room, Breath of Life, Trad, Doubt, Happy Days, Fire (nbc), Empire (Fox), sense8 (Netflix), and , Will Eno, Charles Mee, and Mark My Old Lady, and Collected Stories (Gloucester SouthSide (Comedy Central). Schultz. In the last 10 years, his productions Stage); Bailegangaire (Súgán Theatre); and have ranked among the year’s best in The New Humble Boy, Hamlet, and The Winter’s Tale Nikki Massoud Yorker, , Time Magazine, (Publick Theatre). Her TV and film credits EMMY The Guardian, Time Out New York, and usa include Spotlight, Olive Kitteridge, and Irrational A Doll’s House, Part 2 Today. In New York, his shows have been seen Man. Nancy received Elliot Norton Awards for is Nikki’s Berkeley Rep at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Playwrights Present Laughter, Brendan, and Bailegangaire. debut. Her New York Horizons, Classic Stage Company, Second stage credits include Stage, the Connelly Theater, Signature Theatre Mary Beth Fisher Bianca in Othello at New Company, Soho Rep., , NORA York Theatre Workshop, and Manhattan Theatre Club; and regionally Mary Beth has ap- directed by Sam Gold at theatres such as , Long peared at Berkeley Rep and starring Daniel Wharf Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Kirk in Dear Elizabeth. Her Craig. Her regional Douglas Theatre, American Repertory Theater, many Chicago credits credits include the world Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Com- include Blind Date, premiere of Theresa Rebeck’s Zealot at South pany, , and American Vanya & Sonia & Masha Coast Rep, Pericles (Marina/Thaisa) at Two Conservatory Theater. In 2009, he made his & Spike, The Little River Theater, Our Town (Emily) at Portland Broadway debut with In the Next Room (or Foxes, Luna Gale, and Center Stage, and The Glass Menagerie Project the vibrator play). He led the mfa directing The Seagull (Goodman (Laura/Rose) at . She has also program at University of California, San Diego Theatre); Domesticated, appeared on Madam Secretary, Homeland, from 1995 to 2003. Dead Man’s Cell Phone, and The Dresser (Step- Odd Mom Out, Mozart in the Jungle, and hbo’s penwolf Theatre Company); and Guess Who’s Succession. She trained at Brown University/ Andrew Boyce Coming to Dinner, Long Day’s Journey into Trinity Rep (mfa), the British American Drama SCENIC DESIGNER Night, Three Tall Women, The Year of Magical Academy, and Georgetown University. Andrew is an New York City- and Chica- Thinking, The Wild Duck, and Arcadia (Court go-based designer working in theatre, opera, Theatre). Her New York credits include Frank’s Lucas Hnath and film/TV. This is his Berkeley Rep debut. Home (Playwrights Horizons); Boy Gets Girl, PLAYWRIGHT New York City credits include Lincoln Center and The Radical Mystique (Manhattan Theatre Lucas’ plays include A Doll’s House, Part 2 Theater, Roundabout Theatre Company, Atlan- Club); The Night of the Iguana (Roundabout (eight Tony Award® nominations, including tic Theater Company, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre Company); and Extremities (Westside Best Play); Hillary and Clinton; Red Speedo; The Theater, the Play Company, Playwrights Arts). Her TV and film credits include Sense8, Christians; A Public Reading of an Unproduced Realm, Cherry Lane Theatre, and more. His Chicago Fire, Chicago Justice, Without a Trace, Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney; regional credits include Actors Theatre of Numb3rs, Prison Break, nypd Blue, Profiler, Isaac’s Eye; and Death Tax. He has been pro- Louisville, Alliance Theatre, American Players, and Dragonfly.Mary Beth has received two duced on Broadway at the John Golden The- California Shakespeare Theater, Curtis Opera Joseph Jefferson Awards, Drama Desk and atre and off Broadway at New York Theatre Theatre, Theater Center, Geffen Play- Lucille Lortel nominations, the L.A. Drama Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep., house, George Street Playhouse, Goodman Critics’ Circle Award, Chicago’s Leading Lady and Ensemble Studio Theatre. His plays have Theatre, Kirk Douglas Theatre, Long Wharf Award from the Sarah Siddons Society, and is been produced nationally and internationally Theatre, Magic Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, an Inaugural Lunt-Fontanne Fellow at the Ten with premieres at the Humana Festival of New Milwaukee Repertory Theater, The Old Globe, Chimneys Foundation. American Plays, Victory Gardens, and South Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Oregon Shake- Coast Rep. He has been a resident playwright speare Festival, Syracuse Stage, TheatreWorks,

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DO_program.indd 28 8/24/18 4:33 PM Westport Playhouse, and Yale Repertory at the Taj at Marin Theatre Company. Annie Steppenwolf Theatre Company, The Public Theatre, among others. Andrew is a graduate teaches Performance Design at UC Berkeley. Theater, St. Ann’s Warehouse, the Barbican of Yale School of Drama, and is currently Centre, La Jolla Playhouse, American Conser- an assistant professor in the Northwestern Yi Zhao vatory Theater, and the Yerba Buena Center University Theatre Department. Please visit LIGHTING DESIGNER for the Arts. Favorite Berkeley Rep credits andrewboycedesign.com. Yi returns to Berkeley Rep after A Doctor in include Passing Strange, Girlfriend, The Wild Spite of Himself in 2012. His New York credits Bride, American Idiot, Brundibar, The Notebooks Annie Smart include Pipeline at Lincoln Center Theater, of Leonardo da Vinci, and 36 Views. James was COSTUME DESIGNER The House That Will Not Stand and Red Speedo part of the Berkeley Rep fellowship program, Annie is originally from London where she at New York Theatre Workshop, Actually at and has served as sound supervisor for the designed both sets and costumes for produc- Manhattan Theatre Club, Suzan-Lori Parks’ In past seven seasons. tions with Joint Stock, the National Theatre, the Blood and The Death of the Last Black Man and the Royal Court among many others. Her in the Whole Entire World at Signature Theatre, Amy Potozkin, csa many Berkeley Rep credits include Concerning Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. and futurity at DIRECTOR OF CASTING/ Strange Devices from the Distant West, Passing Soho Rep. His work has also been seen at the ARTISTIC ASSOCIATE Strange, Rita Moreno: Life Without Makeup, Guthrie Theater, Mark Taper Forum, Oregon This is Amy’s 29th season at Berkeley Rep. Danny Hoch’s Taking Over, In the Next Room Shakespeare Festival, Yale Repertory Theatre, Through the years she has also had the plea- (or the vibrator play) (also on Broadway), and Dallas Theater Center, the Wilma Theater, sure of casting plays for act (Seattle), Arizona Tiny Kushner (also at the Guthrie Theater and Shakespeare Theatre in D.C., Huntington Theatre Company, Aurora Theatre Company, B the Tricycle Theatre, London). Her other local Theatre Company, and more. His designs for Street Theatre, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, design credits include Quixote Nuevo, Measure opera, music, and dance have been seen at Dallas Theater Center, Marin Theatre Com- for Measure, The Glass Menagerie, Blithe Spirit, ArtsEmerson, Curtis Institute of Music, Proto- pany, the Marsh, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Candida, The Tempest, Man and Superman, type Festival, and Ballet de Lorraine in France. Social Impact Productions Inc., and Traveling and many others for Cal Shakes, and A Doll’s He is a recipient of the 2016 Vilcek Prize for Jewish Theatre. Amy cast roles for various House, Night and Day, and Threepenny Opera Creative Promise in Theatre. Visit yi-zhao.com. independent films, including Conceiving Ada, for American Conservatory Theater. Annie has starring Tilda Swinton; Haiku Tunnel and Love also designed for The Public Theater, Arena James Ballen & Taxes, both by Josh Kornbluth; and Beyond Stage, bam, Steppenwolf Theatre, the Guthrie SOUND DESIGNER Redemption by Britta Sjogren. Amy received Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf James is very happy to be collaborating on A her mfa from Brandeis University, where she Theatre, Magic Theatre, TheatreWorks, Actors Doll’s House, Part 2. His most recent design was also an artist in residence. She has been Theatre of Louisville, and more. She was credit was for John Leguizamo’s Latin History an audition coach to hundreds of actors and a recently awarded Best Set Design by the San for Morons at Berkeley Rep. Other credits presentation/communication coach to many Francisco Bay Area Critics Circle for Guards include productions at the Goodman Theatre, businesspeople. Amy taught acting at Mills

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College and audition technique at Berkeley Huntington Theatre Company Rita Moreno: Life Without Makeup, Game On, Rep’s School of Theatre, and has led work- CO-PRODUCER written with Dan Hoyle, and It Can’t Happen shops at numerous other venues in the Bay The Huntington Theatre Company is Boston’s Here, written with Bennett S. Cohen. In 2012, Area. Prior to working at Berkeley Rep, she leading professional theatre and one of New Tony received the Margo Jones Award for was an intern at Playwrights Horizons in New England’s premier cultural assets since its “demonstrating a significant impact, under- York. Amy is a member of csa, the Casting founding in 1982. Recipient of the 2013 Region- standing, and affirmation of playwriting, with Society of America, and was nominated for al Theatre Tony Award, the Huntington brings a commitment to the living theatre.” Most Artios Awards for Excellence in Casting for The together superb local and national talent to recently, Tony directed the revival of Angels in Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism create award-winning productions, ranging America at Berkeley Rep, and this season he and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures; One from groundbreaking new works to classics will direct the world premiere musical, Kiss My Man, Two Guvnors; and An Octoroon. made current, runs nationally renowned Aztec!, written with John Leguizamo. programs in education and new play de- Alaine Alldaffer,csa velopment, and serves the Boston theatre Susan Medak CASTING community through its operation of the Cal- MANAGING DIRECTOR Alaine’s most recent Berkeley Rep credit is It derwood Pavilion at the bca. The Huntington Susan has served as Berkeley Rep’s managing Can’t Happen Here. Alaine is also the casting is currently planning a major renovation of its director since 1990, leading the administra- director for Playwrights Horizons, where her Huntington Avenue Theatre, converting the tion and operations of the Theatre. She has credits include Grey Gardens (also for Broad- historic theatre into a first-rate modern venue served as president of the League of Resident way), Clybourne Park (also for Broadway), with a new, expansive 14,000 square foot Theatres (lort) and treasurer of Theatre Com- Circle Mirror Transformation (Drama Desk and lobby and greatly expanded services to audi- munications Group (tcg), organizations that Obie Awards for Best Ensemble and an Artios ences, artists, and the community. Under the represent the interests of nonprofit theatres Award for casting), and The Flick (Playwright direction of Artistic Director Peter DuBois and across the nation. Susan chaired panels for Horizons and the Barrow Street Theatre). Tele- Managing Director Michael Maso, the Hun- the Massachusetts Arts Council and has also vision credits include The Knights of Prosperity tington cultivates, celebrates, and champions served on program panels for Arts Midwest, (aka Let’s Rob Mick Jagger) for abc. Associate theatre as an art form. For more information, the Joyce Foundation, and the National En- credits include Ed for nbc and Monk for usa. visit huntingtontheatre.org. dowment for the Arts. Closer to home, Susan Her regional theatre credits include Arena serves on the board of the Downtown Berke- Stage, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Seattle Tony Taccone ley Association (dba). She is the founding Repertory Theatre, and American Conservato- ARTISTIC DIRECTOR chair of the Berkeley Arts in Education Steer- ry Theater. Alaine credits Lisa Donadio as her After more than 30 years at Berkeley Rep, ing Committee for Berkeley Unified School associate casting director. Tony is celebrating his final season with the District and the Berkeley Cultural Trust. Susan company. During Tony’s tenure as artistic serves on the faculty of Yale School of Drama Michael Suenkel director of Berkeley Rep, the Tony Award-win- and is a member of the International Women’s PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER ning nonprofit has earned a reputation as an Forum and the Mont Blanc Ladies’ Literary Michael began his association with Berkeley international leader in innovative theatre. In Guild and Trekking Society. She was awarded Rep as the stage management intern for the these years, Berkeley Rep has presented more the 2012 Benjamin Ide Wheeler Medal by the 1984–85 season and is now in his 25th season than 70 world, American, and West Coast Berkeley Community Fund and the 2017 Vi- as production stage manager. He has also premieres and sent 24 shows to New York, sionary Leadership Award by tcg. During her worked with the Huntington Theatre (Boston), two to London, and one to Hong Kong. Tony time in Berkeley, Susan has been instrumental The Public Theater and New Victory Theatre has staged more than 40 plays in Berkeley, in the construction of the Roda Theatre, the (New York), La Jolla Playhouse, Yale Repertory including new work from Julia Cho, John Nevo Education Center, the renovation of Theatre, and many others. Internationally Leguizamo, Daniel Handler, Culture Clash, the Peet’s Theatre, and in the acquisition of he has stage managed shows in Hong Kong, Rinde Eckert, David Edgar, Danny Hoch, Geoff the Harrison Street campus. She also worked the United Kingdom, and Canada. Among Hoyle, and Itamar Moses. He directed the with three consecutive mayors to help create his favorite Berkeley Rep productions are shows that transferred to London, Continen- Berkeley’s Downtown Arts District. last season’s Angels in America, The Intelligent tal Divide and Tiny Kushner, and three that Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism landed on Broadway: Bridge & Tunnel, Wishful Theresa Von Klug with a Key to the Scriptures, Eurydice, Fêtes de la Drinking, and Latin History for Morons. Prior to GENERAL MANAGER Nuit, The Beaux’ Stratagem, and Mad Forest. working at Berkeley Rep, Tony served as artis- Before joining Berkeley Rep, Theresa had tic director of Eureka Theatre, which produced over 20 years of experience in the New York Amanda Mason the American premieres of plays by Dario Fo, not-for-profit performing arts sector where ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER Caryl Churchill, and David Edgar before focus- she has planned and executed events for Amanda is very pleased to be back at Berkeley ing on a new generation of American writers. dance, theatre, music, television, and film. Her Rep after most recently being production While at the Eureka, Tony commissioned Tony previous positions include the interim general assistant for An Octoroon, Aubergine, Treasure Kushner’s legendary Angels in America and manager for The Public Theater; general Island, Head of Passes, and Accidental Death co-directed its world premiere. He has collab- manager/line producer for Theatre for a New of an Anarchist. She started at Berkeley Rep orated with Kushner on eight plays at Berkeley Audience, where she opened its new state-of- as the stage management fellow in 2010 and Rep, including The Intelligent Homosexual’s the-art theatre in Brooklyn and filmed a major has worked at Aurora Theatre Company and Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to motion picture of the inaugural production Jewish Community High School of the Bay. the Scriptures. Tony’s regional credits include of Julie Taymor’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, She has also worked with Berkeley Rep in the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Arena Stage, released June 2015; production manager at box office and at the School of Theatre. Center Theatre Group, the Eureka Theatre, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center and the Guthrie Theater, the Huntington Theatre New York City Center, including the famous Company, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert; Public Theater, and Seattle Repertory Theatre. and field representative/ lead negotiator for As a playwright, he debuted Ghost Light, the Association of Theatrical Press Agents and

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DO_program.indd 30 8/24/18 4:33 PM Managers. She holds a MS in Labor Relations and Human Resources Management from Baruch College. Audrey Hoo PRODUCTION MANAGER Audrey is pleased to make her Berkeley Rep debut this season. Prior to this, Audrey served as the production manager at American Con- servatory Theater in San Francisco. Highlights of her time there include A Thousand Splendid Suns (dir: Carey Perloff, by Ursula Rani Sarma), A Walk on the Moon (dir: Sheryl Kaller, by Paul Scott Goodman and Pamela Gray), and John (dir: Ken Rus Schmoll, by Annie Baker). Audrey has also served as the production manager at the La Jolla Playhouse. Highlights of her time there include working on Junk (dir: Doug Hughes, by Ayad Ahktar), Come from Away (dir: Christopher Ashley, by Irene Sankoff and David Hein), Hunchback of Notre Dame (dir: Scott Schwartz, by Alan Menken, Peter Par- nell, Stephen Schwartz), and Up Here (dir: Alex STARTS AUG 31 Timbers, by Bobby and Kristen Lopez). Audrey RESERVE TICKETS TODAY! was previously at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (2006–14). During her time at bam, she had the pleasure of working with a wide range of international artists across all performing arts genres such as Robert Lepage, William Kentridge, Moisés Kaufman, Geoffrey Rush, Catherine Martin, Sam Mendes, Paul Simon, John Turturro, and Elaine Stritch. Audrey is also an alumni of the Weston Playhouse, Santa Fe Opera, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. Audrey holds an mfa in Technical Direction from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Madeleine Oldham RESIDENT DRAMATURG/DIRECTOR, THE GROUND FLOOR Madeleine is the director of The Ground Floor: Berkeley Rep’s Center for the Creation and Development of New Work and the Theatre’s resident dramaturg. She oversees commissioning and new play development, and dramaturged the world premiere pro- ductions of Aubergine, The House that will not By DOMINIQUE MORISSEAU AURORATHEATRE.ORG Stand, Passing Strange, and In the Next Room Directed by DARRYL V. JONES 510.843.4822 (or the vibrator play), among others. As literary manager and associate dramaturg at Center 2081 ADDISON STREET Stage in Baltimore, she produced the First DOWNTOWN BERKELEY Look reading series and headed up its young audience initiative. Before moving to Balti- more, she was the literary manager at Seattle Children’s Theatre, where she oversaw an ex- Coldwell Banker Berkeley tensive commissioning program. She also act- ed as assistant and interim literary manager at Locally Grown, Globally Known Intiman Theatre in Seattle. Madeleine served for four years on the executive committee 1495 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the 510.486.1495 | ColdwellBankerHomes.com Americas and has also worked with act (Se- californiahome.me | /cbcalifornia attle), Austin Scriptworks, Crowded Fire, the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, the Kennedy Center, New Dramatists, Playwrights Center, and Portland Center Stage.

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Lisa Peterson The Strauch Kulhanjian Family wrights. In 2002, Bruce and Michelle moved ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR SEASON SPONSORS to London, where they nourished themselves Lisa is a two-time Obie Award-winning writer Roger Strauch has served on the Berkeley on a steady diet of English theatre (note the and director whose previous projects at Berke- Rep board of trustees for the last 22 years as a proper spelling) until they could return to ley Rep include Office Hour (2018); Watch on member and as an executive officer, includ- their beloved Berkeley Rep. They are delight- the Rhine (2017); It Can’t Happen Here (2016); ing president. He is chair of The Roda Group ed once again to be back in the very center of Madwoman in the Volvo (2016); An Iliad (2012), (rodagroup.com), a high technology venture leading-edge theatre and are honored to be which Lisa co-wrote with Denis O’Hare and development company based in Berkeley. lead producers for two of this season’s great which won Obie and Lortel Awards for Best Roda incubated the search engine Ask.com, productions. Their two now-grown children Solo Performance; Mother Courage (2006); now located in Oakland, and Cool Systems are also tremendous theatre junkies and will The Fall (2001); and Antony & Cleopatra (1999). (gameready.com), a medical technology com- hopefully be joining Bruce and Michelle for Other recent West Coast productions include pany recently acquired by Avanos Medical. He some of this season’s performances. You Never Can Tell (California Shakespeare is currently on the board of three cleantech Theater), Hamlet (Oregon Shakespeare Fes- companies in which Roda is a major investor. Bill Falik & Diana Cohen tival), and Chavez Ravine (Ovation Award for Roger is chair of the board of the Mathemat- EXECUTIVE SPONSORS Best Production—Center Theatre Group). She ical Sciences Research Institute and leads the Bill and Diana have been subscribers and has directed world premieres by many major Mosse Art Restitution Project, which searches supporters of Berkeley Rep since its days on American writers, including Tony Kushner, for family art illegally confiscated during Ger- College Avenue. Diana served on the board of Beth Henley, Donald Margulies, José Rivera, many’s Third Reich. He is a board member of trustees from 1991 to 2001. She also served on David Henry Hwang, Luis Alfaro, Marlane the Northside Center, a mental health services Cal Performances’ board of trustees for nine Meyer, Naomi Wallace, Basil Kreimendahl, agency based in Harlem, NY, and a member of years until June 2017. She worked as a family and many others. She regularly works at the UC Berkeley Engineering Dean’s college advi- therapist in private practice for 25 years before Guthrie Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville, sory board. Roger is the founder and chair of retiring to focus on her painting. Bill has been a the Mark Taper Forum, La Jolla Playhouse, The Paros Foundation (parosfoundation.com), real-estate and land-use lawyer for the past 40 Seattle Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, and a philanthropic organization serving thou- years, and served as a trustee for Berkeley Rep New York Theatre Workshop. Lisa and Denis sands in the country of Armenia. His wife, Julie from 2006 to 2016. He currently is the manag- are working on a new play about faith called Kulhanjian, is an attending physician at Benioff ing partner of Westpark Community Builders. The Good Book and a commission for McCarter ucsf Children’s Hospital, Oakland. They have Bill has been an adjunct professor at UC Theatre Center titled The Song of Rome. Lisa three adult children. Berkeley Law School and a member of the pro- is also writing a new music-theatre piece with fessional faculty at Haas Business School, and Todd Almond called The Idea of Order, co-com- The Bernard Osher Foundation teaches interdisciplinary real estate courses at missioned by La Jolla Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, LEAD SPONSOR Berkeley Law School, Haas Business School, and Seattle Rep. The Bernard Osher Foundation, supporting Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design, higher education and the arts, was founded in and the Goldman School of Public Policy. They Jack & Betty Schafer 1977 by Bernard Osher, a respected business- have three grown children and four grandchil- SEASON SPONSORS man and community leader. The Foundation dren, all of whom live in the Bay Area. Betty and Jack are proud to support Berkeley provides scholarship funding at colleges and Rep. Jack just rotated off the Theatre’s board universities across the nation, with a recent Joan Sarnat & David Hoffman and is now on the boards of San Francisco emphasis on assisting reentry students. In SPONSORS Opera and the Straus Historical Society. He addition, the Foundation supports a national David is a consulting research professor of is an emeritus trustee of the San Francisco network of lifelong learning institutes for mathematics at Stanford and a Berkeley Rep Art Institute and the Oxbow School. Betty seasoned adults on the campuses of 122 trustee. He was an associate director of the is on the board of EarthJustice, the Jewish institutions of higher education. The Foun- Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Community Center of San Francisco, and dation also benefits programs in integrative (msri) in Berkeley and has been involved in Sponsors for Educational Opportunity. In medicine at six universities in the United producing museum shows about mathematics San Francisco, Betty is involved with Wise States and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. in the United States, France, and China. Joan Aging, a program for adults addressing the Finally, an array of performing arts organi- is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in challenges of growing older. They have three zations, museums, and select educational private practice in Berkeley. daughters and eight grandchildren. programs in the San Francisco Bay Area and the State of Maine receive Foundation grants. Felicia Woytak & Steve Rasmussen Michael & Sue Steinberg Barbro Osher, Honorary Consul General of SPONSORS SEASON SPONSORS Sweden in California, chairs the Foundation’s Felicia and Steve believe that high-quality Michael and Sue have been interested in the board of directors. programs in the arts and education are essen- arts since they met and enjoy music, ballet, tial to a vibrant community. They are strong and live theatre. Michael, who recently retired Bruce Golden & Michelle Mercer supporters of Berkeley Rep because of its as chairman and chief executive officer of LEAD SPONSORS outstanding contribution to the production of Macy’s West, served on Berkeley Rep’s board Michelle and Bruce have been ardent sup- thought-provoking and risk-taking theatre, as of trustees from 1999 to 2006 and currently porters of Berkeley Rep since 1993, when they well as its enormous contributions to arts ed- serves on the board of directors of the Jewish moved with two young children in tow to ucation at the Berkeley Rep School of Theatre Museum. Sue serves on the board of the Berkeley. Their favorite evenings at Berkeley and in Bay Area schools. Felicia is a member of World of Children. The Steinbergs have always Rep were usually the discussion nights, where Berkeley Rep’s board of trustees. She is a re- enjoyed regional theatre and are delighted to often friends would join them as well. Mi- al-estate investor/developer and together with sponsor Berkeley Rep this season. chelle and Bruce always felt that Berkeley Rep her husband, Steve Rasmussen, owns Palisades was an exceptional Bay Area cultural treasure Vineyard in Napa Valley. Steve is a national as it was willing to support courageous new and international consultant in mathematics works and nurture innovative young play- education and curriculum development.

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DO_program.indd 34 8/24/18 4:33 PM We are extraordinarily grateful to the following patrons who have generously made contributions to the Create Campaign from 2013 to 2017. Along with their contributions to the Annual Fund, their gifts have made possible the landmark renovation of the Peet’s Theatre and the establishment of The Ground Floor: Berkeley Rep’s Center for the Creation and Development of New Work.

CREATORS Frances Hellman & Warren Breslau The James Irvine Foundation Barbro & Bernard Osher Peet’s Coffee Michael & Sue Steinberg The Strauch Kulhanjian Family Jean & Michael Strunsky

INNOVATORS INVESTORS ArtPlace Anonymous Stephen & Susan Chamberlin Thalia Dorwick/Eirik Børve Kerry Francis & John Jimerson Robin & Rich Edwards Bruce Golden & Michelle Mercer Bill Falik & Diana Cohen Koret Foundation Scott & Sherry Haber Helen & John Meyer/Meyer Sound Pam & Mitch Nichter Stewart & Rachelle Owen The Tournesol Project Marjorie Randolph Jack & Betty Schafer Gail & Arne Wagner

INFLUENCERS Time Warner Foundation Inc. BUILDERS Anonymous (3) G. Tiphane Anonymous (3) Shelley & Jonathan Bagg Marcy Wong | Donn Logan Architects Alvin Baum Barbara & Gerson Bakar Felicia Woytak & Steven Rasmussen Anne Brown Bank of America Robert Council & Ann Parks-Council Estate of Jill Bryans GROUNDBREAKERS William Espey & Margaret Hart Edwards David & Vicki Cox Anonymous (2) Karen Galatz & Jon Wellinghoff Stephanie & John Dains Lynne Carmichael Ruth Hennigar David & Vicki Fleishhacker Jennifer Chaiken & Sam Hamilton Panoramic Interests/Patrick Kennedy & Julie Paul Friedman & Diane Manley Nancy & Jerry Falk Matlof Kennedy Jill & Steve Fugaro John & Carol Field Peacock Constuction The Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust Linda Jo Fitz The Estate of Gladys Perez-Mendez The Hearst Foundation, Inc. Kenneth Rainin Foundation Peter Pervere & Georgia Cassel The Karp-Haahr Family Jack Klingelhofer Barbara L. Peterson Zandra Faye LeDuff Susan Medak & Gregory Murphy RGK Foundation Dixon Long Mueller Nicholls Builders Sheli & Burton X. Rosenberg Dale & Don Marshall Eddie & Amy Orton Beth & David Sawi Sandra & Ross McCandless Prospect Creek Foundation Emily Shanks Steven & Patrece Mills Richard Grand Foundation Barry Lawson Williams & Lalita Tademy Dugan Moore Leonard X Rosenberg & Arlene B. Rosenberg Linda & Steven Wolan National Endowment for the Arts Robert L. Sockolov & Audrey Sockolov Patricia Sakai & Richard Shapiro Foundation Joan Sarnat & David Hoffman Karen Stevenson & Bill McClave Patricia & Merrill Shanks Sheila Wishek Stephen Silberstein Continued on next page

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DO_program.indd 35 8/24/18 4:33 PM COMMUNITY LEADERS Anonymous (132) · Anonymous, in memory of Dave & Diana Butler · Jim Butler · Butte Creek Andersen · Burton Peek Edwards · Thomas W. Gunther · Mark D. Guthrie · Robert Gwynn · Sir Farley of Townsend · Anonymous, in Foundation · Pam & Jeff Byers · Linda Cain · Edwards & Rebecca Parlette-Edwards · Elizabeth Haag & Michael Di Pretoro · memory of Flori Magilen · Anonymous, in Mary Callahan & Cliff Weingus · Edward & Charles J. Egiziano · Gary Egkan · David Thomas Haas · Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Hagerty · memory of Jerrie Meadows · Anonymous, in Joan Callaway · Robert P. Camm & Susan Eimerl, in memory of Geoffrey · Youseef Elias · Bronwyn H. Hall · Richard & Lois Halliday, in memory of Kathy Scudder · Anonymous, in Pearson · Katherine R. Campbell · John E. Linda L. Ellinwood, in honor of John honor of Thalia Dorwick · Theresa Halpin, in memory of Ruth & George Staten · Caner · Barbara Cannella · Robert & Margaret Mattimore Peoples · Vicki Elliot & David memory of William Ian Fraser · Katherine E. Anonymous, in memory of Irene Zook · Cant · Candy Capogrossi · Monica Levine · Alexandra Elliott · Mary Jane Elliott · Hamel · Lawrence Hammer & Judith Tarliena Aamir-Balinton · Phyllis Abad · Cappuccini · Mr. & Mrs. John L. Cardoza · Karen Ellis · Bernice Ellison · Linda Biewer Tomasso · Glenn & Ann Hammonds Jr. · Barry Barbara & Richard Abel · Fred & Joanne Elaine Caret · Dan & Allyn Carl · John Carr · Elstob · Roger & Jane Emanuel · Sally-Ann & & Micheline Handon · Lisa Hane · Judith Abrams · Jennifer Adcock & John D. Boggs · Paula Carrell · Denys Carrillo · Peter & Priscilla Ervin Epstein, Jr. · Bill & Susan Epstein · Don & Hanscom · The Hanscom Family · Bonnie Joy Addison · Mark Addleman & Andrea Carson · W. Bradford Carson · David & Angela Libby Erickson · William Espey & Margaret Hansen · William & Luisa Hansen · Stuart Clark · Miriam & Matthew Agrell · Alexis Carter · Elena Caruthers · Ed Carville · Hart Edwards · Sue J. Estey · Leslie Eveland · Hanson & Mary Lou Fox-Hanson · Gary Akervik, in memory of William Ian Fraser · Anthony J. Cascardi · Julia Casella · Joanne Peter Ewell & Helga Recke · Bill & Kathy Harbison · Patricia A. Hare · Dr. & Mrs. Alan Shirley & Lew Albright · Mussa Al-Bulushi & Casey · Castilian Fund · Diann M. Castleberry · Failing · Merle & Michael Fajans · Al & Sue Harley · Jet Harper · Ann Harriman, in Kathryn Horsley · Kevin Alecca, in memory of Philip Catalfo & Michelle Lerager · John & Farmer · Caryll Farrer · Mary & Ben Feinberg · memory of Malcolm White · Donna Harris & William Ian Fraser · Ruth Alexander, in Kathleen Chadwick, in memory of William Ian Anita & Steven Feinstein · Linda A. Feldman, Lyla Cromer · Daniel & Shawna Hartman memory of Dorothy Jansizian · Abbey Alkon & Fraser · Susan Chapman · Kim & Dawn Chase · in memory of Robert Feldman · Bronya Brotsky · Bruce & Donna Hartman · Dee Jonathan Leonard · Fred & Kathleen Allen · Leslie Chatham & Kathie Weston · Jan Feldmann · Ann Felldin · Richard & Yvonne Hartzog · Jonathan Harvey · Diana Hastings · Gertrude E. Allen, in memory of Robert Chernoff & Isabel Wade · Bessie Chin · Terin Fellner, in memory of William Ian Fraser · Robert & Lynda Hay · Geoffrey & Shawn Allen · Roy & Judith Alper · Sara Alspaugh · Christensen · Holly Christman, MD & Max Suzanne Felson · Dorothy Fernandez & Lisa Haynes · Joya Heart · Ellen & Barry Hecht · Peggy & Don Alter · Mark Amaro · Susan E. Perr · Tomas Christopher & Elizabeth Stenmark · Laurel Ferns · Susan Ferreyra · Joan & Mike Heffernan · Harriette & Norm Amrose · Ethan Andelman & Laura Mytels · Giacomo · W. Morris Chubb · Amy Chung · Irina Filipchik · Shelley & Elliot Fineman · Lisa Heibel · Laura Heiman · Michele & Karl Charles & Joyce Anderson · Elisabeth Civic Foundation, Inc. · Carol & Orlo Clark · & Dave Finer* · Mr. & Mrs. Fink, in honor of Heisler · Richard P. Hemann · Austin & Lynne Andreason & Melissa Allen · Jeff Angell & Joan Gail Louise Clark · Jennifer Clarke, in memory Rachel Fink & the School · Krystyna Henderson · Bill Hendricks · Cooper King-Angell · Joan Armenia · Ann Armour · of William Ian Fraser · Gina M. Claudeanos · Finlayson · Sheilah & Harry Fish · Brigitte & Hendricks, in memory of William Ian Fraser · Sharon A. Ascencio · James Ashburn III · Jane Karen Clayton & Stephen Clayton · Rani Louis Fisher · Karen Fitzner, in honor of Lynn Henley · Ruth Hennigar · Carol & Tony Ashland · Naomi Auerbach & Ted Landau · Cochran, in memory of Rhoda Curtis · Beth Joanne Medak · John Flanagan, in memory of Henning · Colleen Henry · Thomas & Ms. Nancy Auker · Vivian & David Auslander · Cohen · Dennis Cohen & Deborah Robison · William Ian Fraser · Stephanie Flaniken & Elizabeth Henry · Daria Hepps & Franco The Austin Group LLC · Carmen Aydelott · Marc & Jennifer Cohen · Mark Cohen · Mark Randolph · Patrick Flannery · James & Faraguna · Irene & Robert Hepps · Laurin Herr Patricia Bacchetti · Anna Badger · Philip Baer · Norman Cohen · Susan Cohen · Leonard & Jessica Fleming · Robert Fleri, in memory of & Trisha Gorman-Herr · Winifred Hess · Patt Bagdon · Lisa Bailey · J. Karren Baker · Roberta Cohn · Joan Cole · R. Arlene Carole S. Pfeffer · Cynthia Fleury, In memory Carole S. Hickman · Carolyn Higgins, in Linda & Mike Baker · Lisa & David Baker · Coleman · Louise Coleman · Eleni Coltos · of Tyrone Collins · Michael & Vicky Flora · memory of Douglas Higgins · Nancy Higham · Rachel Bakker · Elizabeth Balderston · Dr. Comal · Renate & Robert Coombs · Joe & Linda Fogel · Darcie Fohrman & Don Hughes · Fran Hildebrand · Robert Hill · Douglas Hill & Beverly Ballard · Margaret Ballou · Michelle L. Leonardo Connell · Kevin Connell, in memory Stephen Follansbee & Richard Wolitz · Mrs. Jae Scharlin · Richard N. Hill & Nancy Barbour · Mary Jane Barclay · Laurie Barkin · of William Ian Fraser · Nancy N. Conover · Robert Force · Ford Foundation · Gregory & Lundeen · Thomas Hillyard, in memory of Judith Barmack · Kent & Carolyn Barnes · Tom Consoli · Joan Coogan, in memory of Susan Ford · Mary Ford & Robert Lewis · William Ian Fraser · David & Mariko Hingston · Michael & Della Barnett · Azucena Barocio · William Ian Fraser · Judy & Carl Cook · Ryan Catherine Fox · Rose Fraden · Lindley Frahm · Kyle Hinman · Geoffrey & Francia Hirsch · Edith Barschi · Susan & Barry Baskin · Sherry Coombs & Cynthia Der · Harley Cooper · Janet Molly & Harrison Fraker · Lynn Fraley · Dean Adrienne Hirt & Jeffrey Rodman · Elaine D. Bass · Eileen Battat · Frank & Lee Battat · Cooper · Marilyn Berg Cooper · Priscilla K. Francis · Nancy H. Francis, in honor of Kerry Hitchcock · Mr. & Mrs. Peter Hoban · Wilbur & Erica Baum · Ann Bauman & Kelly Thiemann · Cooper & John C. Bartley · Sue Cork · Edith Francis · Sharon & Thomas Francis · Mr. & Mrs. Carolyn Ross Hobbs · Rachel Hochstetler · Joan Baylie & James Mullins · Francine Beall · Cornelsen · Suzanna Cortes · Wendy Cosin · Michael Frank · Christie Fraser · Mary & Doug Marilynn Hodgson · Kelsey J. Hogan · Marie F. Jim & Donna Beasley · Brian & Mary Bechtel · Kathleen Costa · Jim & Jeanette Cottle · Susan Fraser · Donald & Dava Freed · Roger Freitas, Hogan & Douglas A. Lutgen · Charlton Steven Beckendorf & Cynthia Hill · Natasha & Don Couch · Laura Courtney & Neil in memory of William Ian Fraser · Ronald Holland · Kristina Holland · Carolyn Holm · Bell · Marie Bendy, in honor of C. Joseph Gutterson · Dennis E. Cox · Jeanne M. Cox · Freitas, in memory of William Ian Fraser · Miranda Holmes & Brian Sparling · Ruth Bendy · Charles Benedict · Alice Benet · Thomas & Suellen Cox · Pamela Coxson · Ms. Linda Fried & Jim Helman · Thomas & Sandra Holmquist · Derek Holstein · Karen & Robert Kathleen Bennett & Tom Malloy · Mary Ann & Carolyn Cozart · Mr. Paul Craig · Pam & Mike Friedland · Ellen Friedman · Herb & Marianne Holtermann · Dr. Steven J. & Helen Holtz · Len Benson · Audrey M. Berger · Jonathan Crane · Philip Crawford · Kevin Crilly · Earl Friedman · Mary & Stan Friedman · Vicky Lorraine Honig · Biljana Horn · Bronwen & Berk & Rebecca Schwartz · Brenda L. Berlin · Crispell · Lisa Croen · Chris & Lynn Crook · Friedman · Tom & Gail Frost · Toby Fuchs, in Neil Horton · Joanne Howard · Belle Huang & Richard & Katherine Berman · Kevin G. Gerd Cropp · John & Mary Cumberpatch · memory of Joseph Fuchs · Carlos Fuenzalida · Ed Blumenstock · Judy Hubbell · Estie Sid Bermudez · Ed & Judy Berne · Jeffry & Diane Scott Curtin · Kerry & Lynn Curtis · Sharon & Jean M. Furgerson · Kevin Gahagan · Sharon Hudes · Eric, Justin & Gavin Hughes & Priscilla Bernstein · Caroline Beverstock · Barbara Ed Cushman · James Cuthbertson · Darby's Garcia · Paul & Marilyn Gardner · Sandi Wanerus · Harold Hughes & Esther Gordon, Bigelow, in memory of Dr. Welby Bigelow · Dad · Barbara & Tim Daniels · Christina Gariffo · Angie Garling · Kevan Garrett · Steve in honor of Alan Seder · J. Hui · Cecelia Becky J. Bigelow · Elaine Binger · Steve Daniels · Sara Danielson · Susan David · Rena & Valerie Garry · Michele Garside, Ph.D. · Hurwich · Jeannie Hwang-Erickson · William Bischoff · Catherine M. Bishop & Ken Davidow · Dr. General Scott Davie · Annette Philip Gary · Janice & Chuck Gebhardt · Karl & Hyatt · Jane & Nicholas Hyde · Sonja Donnelly · Mina & Monty Bissell · Odette Davis · Marc Davis & Nancy Turak · Paul E. Kathleen Geier · Nancy Geimer & Chris Hyde-Moyer · Richard & Carol Hyman · Ruth Blachman · Naomi Black · Diana Black- Davis · Richard & Anita Davis · Hardy & Judi Vance · Amy & Michael Gerbus · Ellen Ichinaga · Tom Ihrig · Betty Kazuko Ishida · Kennedy · The Blackman Family · Lucia Dawainis · Nerisa de Jesus · Hiram & Eleanora Geringer & Chris Tarp · Laile A. Giansetto · Ron & Virginia Iverson · Sandra Iwamoto · Blakeslee · Susan Blank · Helmut Blaschczyk · De Witt, in honor of Zoltan De Witt · Gail Mary Gibboney · James & Jewelle Gibbs · Jim Nicole Jackson · Susan Jackson, in memory of Beverly Blatt & David Filipek · Irwin & Rita Debellis · Ray & Karen Decker, in memory of Gilbert & Susan Orbuch · Sarah Gill · Karen William Ian Fraser · Maritza Jackson- Blitt · Robin & Edward Blum · Joel & Rochelle William Ian Fraser · Dennis T. De Domenico & Giorgianni · Mitchell Gitin · Harold & Gail Sandoval · Marty & Ellen Jaffe · Stephen & Blumenfeld · Christopher Bogart · Bonnie Sandra Brod · Bill DeHart · Mavis Delacroix · Glassberg · Gail & Mark Glasser · Beth Helene Jaffe · Gillette O. James · Angela Bogue · Beverley Bolt · Juliet Bonczkowski & Teresa DeLillo · Wayne & Lynn Delker · Cecilia Gleghorn · Gerald Glendenning · Carol Jansa · Ginny & Robin Jaquith · Marisita & Tu Family · Randy Borden · Susan & Rick Boreliz, Delury & Vince Jacobs · Paul Demeester · Goehring, in memory of William Ian Fraser · Jarvis · Donald Jen & Margaret Ritchey · Anne in honor of Rio Falik-Segre · Karen Bowen & Harry & Susan Dennis · Judy Derman & Irwin D. Goehring, in memory of William Ian & Douglas Jensen · Herbert Jeong · Barbara B. Beth Gerstein, in honor of · Richard Berger · Kate & Vincent Deschamps · Fraser · Judith Goehring, in memory of Job · Randall Johnson · Sarah Johnson · Susan Karen Bowen & Beth Gerstein · Joanne Toni Deser & Paul Rodman · Kristin William Ian Fraser · David M. Goi · David Johnson · CJones, in memory of William Ian Bowsman · Barbara Boyington · David & Eva Dickerson · Tom Diettrich · John Diller & Gold · Janet Goldberg · Jerry Goldberg · Fraser · Reese & Margaret Jones · Sheila Bradford · Dr. Joan Bradus & Mr. Dale Melissa Levine · The Dillons · Arnold Dito · Roberta Goldberg · Arthur & Carol Goldman · Jordan · Arnold Josselson · Marcia Kadanoff · Friedman · Erin Branagan & Sergio Kakehashi · Sacha D'Merbev & Brian Beaumont-Nesbitt · Dr. & Mrs. Arnold Goldschlager · Bonnie Sheila Kahan · Don & Kim Kahler · Charles & Esta Brand · Bob & Barbara Brandriff · Sheila top dog, in honor of Freedom · Amy Dolan · Goldsmith & Allan Griffin · Ian M. Goldstein · Laurie Kahn · Helmut H. Kapczynski & Braufman · Steve Braunstein, in memory of Karen & David Dolder · Carol Dolezal · Steven Keith Goldstein & Donna Warrington · Colleen Neff · Roy Kaplan, in memory of William Ian Fraser · Alice Breakstone & Donaldson RadiantBrands · Colleen Donovan, Marjorie Goldware · Helene Good · Kimberley Barbara Kaplan · Lisa & David Kaplan · Mr. & Debbie Goldberg · Aida Brenneis · Barbara & in memory of William Ian Fraser · Audrey Goode · Rob & Susie Goodin · Nelson Mrs. M. Kaplan · Muriel Kaplan & Bob Sturm · Ray Breslau · Sandra Briggs · Eugenia Brin · Doocy · Charles & Jean Dormann · Steven & Goodman · Alison Gopnik & Alby Raysmith · Tobey Kaplan & Nan Busse · Beth & Fred Eric Brink & Gayle Vassar · Cathy Bristow · Sylvia dos Remedios · Viktoriya Dostal · Gail Gordon & Jack Joseph · Laura Gorjance · Karren* · Virginia & Larry Katz · Dennis Peter Brock · Nancy Broderick · Broitman- Michael & Andrea Dougan · Diane Douglas · Jane Gottesman & Geoffrey Biddle · Gene Kaump · Vivian Keh & Jonathan Hue · Susan & Basri Family · Craig Broscow · Carol L. Lewis Douglas · Laura Downing-Lee & Marty Gottfried · Diana Graham & Jack Stephen Kellerman · Pat Kelly & Jennifer Brosgart, M.D. & Joseph Gross · Donna B. Lee · Downtown Berkeley Association · Noah Zimmermann · Karen Grassle · Arnold & Doebler · Pat & Chris Kenber · Margaret Brott · Barbara J. Brown · Byron Brown · & Sandra Doyle · Vaughn Draggoo · Diana Gray · Christopher & Carol Gray · Joan Kendall, in memory of Robert Beck · Kimberly Donald Brown · Don & Carol Anne Brown · Dramatists Guild Fund · Becky Draper · Green, in memory of LeRoy Green · Leslie J. Kenley-Salarpi · Marlene & Ilan Keret · Eva Marc & Ellen Brown · Myrna Brown · Kay Melinda Drayton · Mona Dreicer · Inna Green · Nina G. Green · Rico & Maya Green · M. Kertesz · Shakir Khan · James R. Kidder · Browne · Wendy Buchen · Richard Bugg · Dr. Dubchak · Edmund L. DuBois, in honor of Elizabeth Greenberg · Leah Greenblat · Mary Ann Kiely · Kevin R. Kiler · Christopher Alan Burckin & Carol Olmert · Jennifer Ethel McDonald DuBois · Judith Duffy · Kathy Elizabeth Greene · Sheldon & Judy Greene · Killian & Carole Ungvarsky · Rosalind & Burden · Julie & Stan Burford · Gretchen & Leonard Duffy · Patricia Rose Duignan · Don & Becky Grether · Anne & Peter Griffes · Sung-Hou Kim · Mary S. Kimball · Deborah Burgess, in memory of William Ian Fraser · Thomas Dunscombe · Lori & Gary Durbin · Mr. & Mrs. Arnold Grossberg · Nina & Claude Kimsey · Nina C. Kindblad · Adrian King · Doris Jean Burke · Carrie & Jim Burroughs, in honor Anita C. Eblé · Cheryl & Matthew Eccles · Gruen · Dan & Linda Guerra · Cecille Gunst · Kinsley · Ms. Marjorie Kirk · Susan of Kerry Francis · Ann Butcher · Alice Butler · Mark & Judy Eckart · Laura Edelstein & Scott Ms. Teresa Burns Gunther & Dr. Andrew Kirshenbaum, in honor of Daria Hepps &

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DO_program.indd 36 8/24/18 4:33 PM Franco Faraguna · Stephen F. Kispersky · Andy Metz · Dr. & Mrs. Christopher Meyer · Ann & Don Rathjen · Rose Ray & Robert Kroll · Abigail Stavros · Lynn M. & A. Justin Sterling · Kivel & Susan Goldstein · Beverly Phillips Harriett Michael · Joseph Miguel, in memory Patricia Reed · Lucas Reiner & Maud Joel & Ellen Stettner · Beverly Stevens · Mary Kivel · Peggy Kivel · Alan & Ronnie Klein · of William Ian Fraser · Lee A. Millar, in Winchester · Arthur Reingold & Gail Bolan · Alice & Walt Stevenson · Tim Stevenson & Veronica Kleinberg & Susan Kraemenr · Jeff memory of William Ian Fraser · Bruce A. Ian Reinhard · Sue Reinhold & Deborah David Lincoln King · Daniel Steves · Anne & Klingman & Deborah Sedberry · William G. Miller · Emily Miller & Patrick DeNeale, in Newbrun · Debbi & Billy Reinschmiedt, in Douglas Stewart · Corinne Stewart · Kathy Klink · Bruce Koch · Susan Kolb · Janice honor of Margaret Ann Miller · Janet Miller · memory of William Ian Fraser · Phyllis & Steve Morgan Stewart, in honor of Corinne Kolberg · Gloria Kolbe-Saltzman · Lynn Eve David Miller, in memory of Jennifer Miller · Reinstein, in honor of Laurie Barnes · Kala Stewart · Cynthia Stone & David Schnee · Komaromi, in honor of Michael & Sue Jennifer Miller & Jamie Isbester · Richard Renz · Julia Reydel, in honor of Aardvark Laser Cecilia Storr & Mark Chaitkin · Robert Steinberg · Cynthia Kopec & Steve Berley · Miller · Ross & Eva Miller, in honor of Sofie Engraving · Dave Richanbach · Carla & David Strochak · Trevor & Anne-Marie Strohman · Neil Koris · Nancy Kornfield · Neil & Peggy Miller, Production Assistant · Jeff Miner · Riemer · Bryna Rifkind, PhD · Donald A. Riley Margaret T. Stromberg · Marietta Stuart · Sara Kostick · John Kouns & Anne Baele Kouns · Andrea Mitchell · Fran & David Mog · Joseph & Carolyn Serrao · Margaret Riley & Kevin Stutz · Leo & Lucy Stutzin · Jane Summer · Susan Kraft & Patrick Scott · Sharon Krause & Mollick · Andy & June Monach · Sandra Depew · Lawrence Rinder · The Rev. Dr. Monica Sun · Dr. & Mrs. David Surrenda · Bruce Cohen · Joel H. Kreisberg · Shawn Monasch · Geri Monheimer, in honor of Bonnie Ring · Todd & Susan Ringoen · Ryan Angela Sutkaitis · Suzanne & Svend Kresal, in memory of William Ian Fraser · Jane Sharon Kinkade · Julie Montanari & David Ripsteen · Jeffrey Robbins & Mary Spletter · Svendsen · Georgia P. Swanson, in honor of & Mark Kriss · Andrea & Kenneth Krueger · Pearson · Thomas C. Moore · Cynthia Morris · Zona L. Roberts · Lisa Romano · Maria & Ron my children · Renee Swayne · Jane Swinerton · Dorothy Kruse · Elroy & Dee Kursh, in honor Mike & Sharon Morris · The Morris Family: Romano · Deborah Romer & William Tucker · Ian Swinson · Jane Taber · Joanna Taber · Kay of Thalia Dorwick · Louis Labat, in memory of Susan, Kathy, Karen, Steve & Jaxon · Mehdi the roobears · Marc Rosaaen · Helen Rosen · H. Taber · Elizabeth Tan · Sandy & Selma Mrs. Lucille Labat · Germaine LaBerge · Morshed · Eleanor Moscow · Susan Moss · Galen Rosenberg & Denise Barnett · Sheli & Tandowsky · Carol Tanenbaum & John Regina Lackner, in memory of Ruth Eis · Lynn Margaret Moster · Patricia Motzkin Burt Rosenberg, in honor of Len & Arlene Adams · Ernestine Tayabas-Kim · Deborah Landor · Elizabeth Langlois · Shirley Langlois · Architecture · Linda Moulton · Barbara Rosenberg · David S. H. Rosenthal & Vicky Taylor Barrera · Lisa & Jim Taylor · Susan Thomas LaQueur · Derek Larson, in memory Mowry · Donal Murphy & Julie Orr · The Reich · Geri Rossen · Frances Roth · Marjorie Taylor & Paul Utrecht · Homer S. Teng · Kathy of William Ian Fraser · Marit Lash · Benjie Murraywolf Family · Peggy Myers · Michael & Roth · Boyard & Anne Rowe · I. Maxine Rowe · Tennant · Dr. & Mrs. Joseph Terdiman · Adira Lasseau · Ms. Lauren L. Lassleben · Louise Marjorie Nacht · Albert Nahman · Elizabeth Tracie E. Rowson · Sylvia Roye · Lael R. Rubin · Rose Tharan, in honor of Rebecca Castelli · Laufersweiler & Warren Sharp · Laurie & John Nakahara · Ronald & Irene Nakasone · Ron Marci Rubin · Fred & Dolores Rudow · Larry E. Jeff & Catherine Thermond · Dan & Mila Lavaroni, in memory of William Ian Fraser · Nakayama · Shirley Negrin · Jane & Bill Ruff · Phil & Lily Ruiz, in memory of William Thomas · Edward & Carrie Thomas · Gudrun Joan & Gary Lawrence · Valerie Lawrence · Neilson · James & Anicia Nelson · Deborah Ian Fraser · Karl & Alice Ruppenthal Thomspon · Prof. Jeremy Thorner & Dr. Carol Sandy Lawrie · Beatrice Laws · Patricia Nelson · Marilyn K. Nelson · Marty Nelson · Foundation for the Arts · Wondie Russell & Mimura · Tori Tichy · Ceil Tilney · Veronica Lawton · Marilyn Leavitt · Antoinette Lucinda & Steve Newcomb · Amy Newman · Edward Steinman · Deborah Dashow Ruth, in Tincher · Jules Tippett · Tipping Mar · LeCouteur · Susan & David Lederman · Susan Gilbert H. Newman · Sora Lei Newman · Gene memory of Leo P. Ruth · Elizabeth Ryan · M. Frederick Tollini · Ed & Barbara Tonningsen · Ledford · Kelly Gabriel Lee · Glennis Lees & Ng · Marlowe Ng & Sharon Ulrich · James Ryce · Barbara Ryken · Jerry Sabo · Mark & M. Christine Torrington · Cynthia Townsend · Michael Glazeski · Courtney Lehmann · Nancy Nitsos · Don Nix · Claire Noonan & Peter Judi Sachs · Emily Saidel · Monica Salusky & Clarence Travis · Barbara Traylor · Thomas & & George Leitmann, in memory of Helen Landsberger · Judith Norberg · Carol & Mark John K. 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O'Donnell · Gail Offen-Brown · Dr. Babak Sani · Beth & David Sawi · Paul & Patti Heller · Leslie Valas · Judy Valentine · William Donald Kay · Dr. & Mrs. Art Levit · Sandy Patrick O'Halloran, in honor of Anna Deavere Sax · Danny Scher · Heather Schlaff · Susie van Dyk & Margi Sullivan · Deborah & Bob Levitan · Rosanne Levitt · Sylvia Lewin · Eileen Smith · Shanna O'Hare & John Davis · Barbara Schlesinger · Jackie Schmidt-Posner & Barry Van Nest · Elena Vasquez · Barbara & William & Hank Lewis · Flora Lewis & Robert & John Ohlmann · Gerald & Ellen Oicles · Posner · Otto Schnepp · Joyce Schnobrich · Vaughan · Maureen Vavra · Irina Vaysberg · Hatheway · Jean Rowe Lieber · Liedeker Dorothy Okamoto, in memory of William Ian Stephen Schoen & Margot Fraser · Jan Carol Verity · Lola Vollen · Dorothy Walker · Family · Vivian Lily · Alice Lin · Terrie Lind · Fraser · Judith & Richard Oken · Robin Olivier · Schreiber · Dana & Peggy Shultz · Garth Louise & Larry Walker · Wendy Walker · Julianne Lindemann & Michael Weinberger · Kristin & David Olnes · Charles Olson & Yoko Schultz · Linda & Nathan Schultz · Peter & Bonnie Wall · Kathleen Wallace · Patricia Elizabeth S. Lindgren-Young & Robert Young · Watanabe · Crystal Olson · David & Mary Cindy Tsai Schultz · William & Janet Walsh · Marlene & Jerry Walters · Susan D. John Lineweaver · Annette C. Lipkin, in O'Neill · Peggy O'Neill · Peggy O'Neill · The Schumann · Teddy & Bruce Schwab · Joan Ward · Ginny & Philip Warnes · Ellen Widess · memory of Paul Lipkin · Fred Lipschultz · Kris Oppenheim Family · Phyllis M. Orlando · Schwalbe · David Schwartz & Donna Liu · Jan O. Washburn · Marge Watson · Louis Loberg & Tom Summers · Lynn & Penny Peggy Orlin & Paul Davis · Linda & Gregory Peter M. Schwartz & Laura Scott · Pat & Weckstein & Karen Denevi · Barbara Wedge, Lockhart, in honor of Sam & Edie Karas · Fred Orr · Sheldeen Osborne · Thomas Owen · Gregg Schwinn · Ana & Stanley Scott · Karen in memory of William Ian Fraser · Donna & & Amy Loebl · Bill Lokke · The Hardtke Family · Richard Page & Susan Audep-Page · Lynette Scott · David Scruggs, in memory of William Stewart Weinberg · Gene Weinstein · Rhona & Fred Lonsdale · Hannah Love · Jay & Eileen Pang & Michael Man · Panoramic Interests · Ian Fraser · Andrew Sczesnak · Roberta Sears · Harvey Weinstein · Joe Weisman · Dr. Ben & Love · Rianne Lovett · Elaine Lugo, in memory Sandi & Dick Pantages · Herman D. Papa · Don Seaver, in memory of Bill Ian Fraser · Mrs. Carolyn Werner · Elizabeth Werter & of William Ian Fraser · Elise Lusk & Stephen Gerane Wharton Park · Nancy Park · The Parr Barbara & Steve Segal · Iris E. 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David Buckhold Shank, M.D., Ph.D. · Anne Shanto · Angela Wilhelm, in memory of William Ian Madden · Joe & Joanne Magruder · Howard & Pearson & Barbara Schonborn · Bob & Toni Karen Shapiro · Jeff & Charlie Sharp · Amey Fraser · Bonnie Willdorf · Andrew T. & Linda V. Siesel Maibach · Linda Maio · Lila Peckham, in honor of Robert M. Peckham, Jr. · Shaw · Craig Shear · Ida D. Shen · Neal Williams · Barbara Williams · Landon Makrynassios · Bonnie Malicki · Patricia Audrey Pedrin · Barbara Pereira, in memory Shorstein, MD & Christopher Doane · Steve & Williams · Patricia & Jeffrey Williams · Ann Mallari · Radhika Mani · Ruth Manlove · Joan & of Wally Pereira · Lewis Perry · Michael & Susan Shortell · Marian Shostrom · Alexander Williamson · Miriam Wingfield · Fred Winslow Roger Mann · Inna Manyak · Carolyn & Robert Laura Perucchi · Peter Pervere & Georgia Shtulman · Anne Shuford · Michael Sibitz · & Barbara Baratta · William & Brenda Maples · Joseph Marcellino · Helen M. Cassel · Barbara L. Peterson · Barbara Jean Siciliano · Bonnie Siegel · David Silber · Winston · H. Leabah Winter · Susan & Harvey Marcus · Carol Marshall · Mike & Pat Martin · Peterson & Michael Cochrane · Wendy Hugh & Aletha Silcox · Kim Silva · Lisette Silva Wittenberg · William Wolverton · Harry & Alma Martinez, in memory of William Ian Peterson · Matthew C. Petrik · Mary Ann & Hadrian Rivera · Luis A. Silva · Lorinda & Linda Wong · Patricia A. Wood · Patrick Fraser · Mary S. Martinson · Pamela J. Marvel · Petro · John R. Petrovsky · Anthony & Sarah Harry Silverstein · Renee Simi · James Woods & Kathleen Clark · Mary Woolsey & Igor Maslennikov · Shawn & Jane Mason · M. Petru · Mary Pezzuto & Paul Farrington, in Simpson & Tamara Wood · Frances Singer · Mark Peterson · Monty Worth · Evie & Mathews & K. Soriano · Melvin Matsumoto · memory of William Ian Fraser · Regina Phelps Kyle Sircus · Rochelle Sklansky · Margaret Gordon Wozniak · Maurice Wren · Moe & Roy Matthes · Bruce Matzner · Toni Mayer & & Dave Kieffer · Jocheszette Phillips- Skornia · Carra Sleight · Suzanne Slyman · Becky Wright · Tia Wu · Norma Wynn, in Alan Lazere · Kimberly Mayfield Lynch · Krummell, in memory of William Ian Fraser · Jerry & Dick Smallwood · Anne Smith · Archie honor of James F. Wynn · Larry & Mary Caroline McCall & Eric Martin · Phyra Kathleen S. Pierce · Susan T. Pierpoint · Ken & Geraldine Smith · Betsy Smith · Bridget Yabroff · Dr. & Mrs. Mark J. Yanover · Marjorie McCandless & Angelos Kottas · Edward & Pinhero · Therese M. Pipe · Marshall Platt & Smith · Cherida Collins Smith · Ed & Ellen Yasueda & Dale Knutsen · Bob & Judi Yeager · Adeline McClatchie · Sheila A. McClear · Elana Reinin · Carole Plum · Susie & Eric Smith · Pam Smith · Patricia Smith, in memory Janet Yelner · Irene Yen · YMCA PG&E Teen Dylan O. McCombs · Richard McCray · Laura Poncelet · Marcia & Robert Popper · Stephen of Kermit Smith · Peter Smith · Richard & Center · Sandra Yuen & Lawrence Shore · McCrea · Yvonne & Jack McCredie · Suzanne Popper & Elizabeth Joyce · Fred & Judy Porta · Darlene Smith · Theresa Nelson & Bernard Margaret Zabel · Samuel Zabor & Kimberly & Charles McCulloch · Erin McCune · Ray & Steven Potter · Timothy & Marilyn Potter · Smits · Stephen & Cindy Snow · Alice & Scott Rowe · Leslie Zander · Sam & Joyce Zanze · Mary McDevitt · Nora McGuinness · Carrice Riess & Tara Potterveld · Mark J. Powers & So · Pamela Sogge · Buck Sommerkamp & Marti & Shelly Zedeck · Karl Zimmer · Linda McKenna · Christopher McKenzie & Manuela Albert E. Moreno · Fred & Susan Pownall · John Yuelkenbeck, in memory of William Ian Zittel · Mark Zitter & Jessica Nutik Zitter Albuquerque · Miles & Mary Ellen McKey · Irina Pragin, in memory of William Ian Fraser · Fraser · Valerie Sopher · Carmen Elena Jeanne McKinney · Marcia McLean · Janet Felisa Preskill & Zachary Scholz · Meghan Sosa-Fraser, in memory of William Ian Fraser · McManus · Martin & Janis McNair · Joanne Pressman · Rich Price · Tony Prince · Hank & Douglas Sovern & Sara Newmann · Janet Medak & Peter Katsaros · Gadi & Donna Meir · Sarah Pruden · Laurel & Gerald Przybylski · Sovin, in memory of Flora Roberts · LIz Amelie Mel de Fontenay & John Stenzel · Paul Puppo, in memory of William Ian Fraser · Spander · Sandra Spangler · Patricia Speier · Herb & Marilyn Meltzer · Edith Mendez · Michael & Davida Rabbino · Nancy Rader & Rhonda Spencer · Nancy Spero & Norm Phyllis Menefee · Susan Merrill · Susan Dick Norgaard · Leslie M. Radin · Cynthia Brand · Thomas H. Sponsler · Tiffany Messina · Karen L. Metz, Leon Farley, Wendy Rahav · Sara Rahimian · Lynne D. Raider · Sprague · Hildie Spritzer · Robert & Naomi Fountain & Donald Klingbeil · Mary & Gene Carolyn Ramsey · Florence & Paul Raskin · Stamper · Barbara Stanley · Karen Starko · List as of July 21, 2018

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DO_program.indd 37 8/24/18 4:33 PM We thank the many institutional partners who enrich our community by BERKELEY REP championing Berkeley Rep’s artistic and community outreach programs. THANKS We gratefully recognize these donors to Berkeley Rep, who made their Institutional Partners gifts between March 2017 and June 2018.

LEGEND Ground Floor donor

GIFTS OF $100,000 AND ABOVE GIFTS OF $25,000–49,999 GIFTS OF $5,000–9,999 The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Anonymous Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation The Shubert Foundation BayTree Fund Reinhold Foundation Time Warner Foundation Inc. The Ira and Leonore S. Gershwin Philanthropic Fund Walter & Elise Haas Fund GIFTS OF $1,000–4,999 GIFTS OF $50,000–99,999 Woodlawn Foundation Joyce & William Brantman Foundation The Reva and David Logan Foundation Civic Foundation Jonathan Logan Family Foundation GIFTS OF $10,000–24,999 Karl & Alice Ruppenthal Foundation for the Arts Koret Foundation Anonymous rhe Charitable Foundation National Endowment for the Arts Berkeley Civic Arts Program The Bernard Osher Foundation jec Foundation The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust Ramsay Family Foundation The Tournesol Project

CORPORATE SPONSORS

SEASON SPONSORS SPONSORS BUSINESS MEMBERS The Andreason Group at Morgan Stanley BluesCruise.com Mechanics Bank Wealth Management Field Paoli Architects, in memory of The Morrison & Foerster Foundation John & Carol Field Perforce Foundation CORPORATE PARTNERS tmg Partners, in memory of John & Carol Field Armanino llp AT&T LEAD SPONSORS Deloitte McCutcheon Construction Panoramic Interests Schoenberg Family Law Group

PERFORMANCE SPONSORS Bayer Boston Properties, in memory of John & Carol Field EXECUTIVE SPONSORS Gallagher Risk Management Services Macy’s American Express Is your company a corporate sponsor? Berkeley Rep’s Corporate Partnership program offers excellent opportunities to network, entertain clients, reward employees, increase visibility, and support the arts and arts education in the community. For details visit berkeleyrep.org/support or call Daria Hepps at 510 647-2904.

IN-KIND SPONSORS EXECUTIVE SPONSORS MATCHING GIFTS The following companies have matched their employees’ contributions to Berkeley Rep. Please contact your company’s HR office to find out if your company matches gifts. Accenture · Adobe Systems Inc. · Apple · Applied SPONSORS Ann’s Catering Hafner Vineyard Materials · Autodesk Inc. · Bank of America · Chevron Hugh Groman Catering Au Coquelet Jazzcaffè Corporation · Clorox · Dolby · Electronic Arts Latham & Watkins llp Aurora Catering La Note Outreach · Farallon Capital Mangement · Fremont Mayer Brown llp Autumn Press Lucia’s of Berkeley Group Foundation · Gap Foundation · Genentech · mcgarrybowen Babette at bampfa Maison Bleue GE Foundation · Google · ibm Corporation · Intel Barco ocho Candy Corporation · John & Maria Goldman Foundation · Ramsay Winery Johnson & Johnson · Kresge Foundation · Lawrence Rhoades Planning Group Bare Picante Livermore National Laboratory · Levi Strauss & Co. · Robert Meyer’s Mangia/Nosh Bobby G’s Pizzeria PiQ Microsoft · Morrison & Foerster · norcal Mutual Catering Company Cancun Sabor Mexicano Platano Salvadoran Cuisine Insurance Company · Oracle Corporation · Pixar Semifreddi’s Comal Revival Bar + Kitchen Animation Studios · Salesforce · S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Corison Winery SoulCycle Foundation · Shell Oil · Sidley Austin llp, San PARTNERS Donkey & Goat Winery zino Francisco · Union Bank, The Private Bank · Varian act Catering East Bay Spice Company Medical System · visa u.s.a., Inc. · The Walt Disney Almare Gelato Eureka! Hotel Shattuck Plaza is the Company · Workday Angeline’s Louisiana Kitchen Gather Restaurant official hotel of Berkeley Rep.

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DO_program.indd 38 8/24/18 4:33 PM We thank the many individuals in our community who help Berkeley Rep produce adventurous, thought-provoking, and thrilling theatre and bring arts education to thousands BERKELEY REP of young people every year. We gratefully recognize these donors to Berkeley Rep, who THANKS made their gifts between March 2017 and June 2018. Individual Donors To make your gift and join this distinguished group, visit berkeleyrep.org/give or call 510 647-2906.

SPONSOR CIRCLE SEASON SPONSORS SPONSORS Jack & Valerie Rowe Ms. Wendy E. Jordan Jack & Betty Schafer Anonymous Patricia Sakai & Richard Shapiro Fred Karren, in memory of Beth Michael & Sue Steinberg Michelle Branch & Dale Cook Joan Sarnat & David Hoffman Karren The Strauch Kulhanjian Family Maria Cardamone & Paul Matthews Ed & Liliane Schneider Rosalind & Sung-Hou Kim Cindy J. Chang, MD & Christopher Laura & Nicholas Severino Ted & Carole Krumland LEAD SPONSORS Hudson K Barry Lawson Williams & Lalita Susan & Moses Libitzky Edward D. Baker David & Vicki Cox Tademy Dixon Long Bruce Golden & Michelle Mercer Robin & Rich Edwards Linda & Steven Wolan Peter & Melanie Maier Jonathan Logan Family Foundation Cynthia A. Farner Felicia Woytak & Steven Rasmussen Helen M. Marcus Jane Marvin/Peet's Coffee David & Vicki Fleishacker Phyra McCandless & Angelos Kottas Stewart & Rachel Owen Paul Friedman & Diane Manley ASSOCIATE SPONSORS Martin & Janis McNair Mary Ruth Quinn & Scott Shenker Jill & Steve Fugaro Anonymous Ed Messerly & Sudha Pennathur Karen Galatz & Jon Wellinghoff Shelley & Jonathan Bagg Steven & Patrece Mills M EXECUTIVE SPONSORS Scott & Sherry Haber Edith Barschi Norman & Janet Pease Barbara Bakar James C. Hormel & Michael P. Nguy- Neil & Gene Barth Peter Pervere & Georgia Cassel Susan Chamberlin en, in honor of Rita Moreno Valerie Barth Barbara L. Peterson John Dains Jerry & Julie Kline The Battle Family Foundation Gary & Noni Robinson Bill Falik & Diana Cohen Jack Klingelhofer Ben Brown & Louise Rankin Cynthia & William Schaff Kerry Francis & John Jimerson Michael H. Kossman Brook & Shawn Byers Emily Shanks M Paul Haahr & Susan Karp Suzanne LaFetra Collier Lynne Carmichael Pat & Merrill Shanks Frances Hellman & Warren Breslau Ken Lamb Julie & Darren Cooke Shirlen Fund, in memory of Shirley Wayne Jordan & Quinn Delaney Sandra & Ross McCandless Robert Council & Ann Parks-Council and Philip Schild Marjorie Randolph Ken & Gisele Miller Paul Daniels, in honor of Peter Stephen & Cindy Snow Jean & Michael Strunsky Dugan Moore Yonka Karen Stevenson & Bill McClave Guy Tiphane Pam & Mitch Nichter Narsai & Venus David K Lisa & Jim Taylor Kelli & Steffan Tomlinson Leonard X & Arlene B. Rosenberg William Espey & Margaret Hart Wendy Williams Gail & Arne Wagner Sheli & Burt Rosenberg, in honor of Edwards Martin & Margaret Zankel Len & Arlene Rosenberg Steven Goldin

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE

PARTNERS Pure Dana Fund Betsey & Ken Cheitlin Lynda & Dr. J. Pearce Hurley Paula B. Pretlow Anonymous Sue Reinhold & Paul Collins K Bill & Lisa Kelly Linda Protiva Tarang & Hirni Amin Deborah Newbrun Constance Crawford Stephen F. Kispersky Bill Reuter & Ruth Major Stephen Belford & Bobby Joe Ruck & Donna Ito Karen & David Crommie Jean Knox, in memory of David S. H. Rosenthal & Minkler Jaimie Sanford & Ted Storey James Cuthbertson John T. Knox Vicky Reich Jennifer Chaiken & Sam Jackie Schmidt-Posner & Barbara & Tim Daniels M John Kouns & Boyard & Anne Rowe Hamilton Barry Posner Richard & Anita Davis Anne Baele Kouns Lisa Salomon & Scott Forrest Barbara & Rodgin Cohen Joyce Schnobrich Merle & Michael Fajans Lucy Kuntz, in honor of Monica Salusky & Thomas W. Edwards & Neal Shorenstein, MD & Tracy & Mark Ferron The Cage Players John K. Sutherland Rebecca Parlette-Edwards Christopher Doane Lisa & Dave Finer Woof Kurtzman & Liz Hertz Jeane & Roger Samuelsen Nancy & Jerry Falk Ed & Ellen Smith Thomas & Sharon Francis Randy Laroche & Linda & Nathan Schultz Kimberley Goode Audrey & Bob Sockolov Lisa Franzel & Rod Mickels David Laudon Brenda Buckhold Shank, Nelson Goodman Vickie Soulier Herb & Marianne Friedman Nancy & George Leitmann, M.D., Ph.D. Ms. Teresa Burns Gunther & Deborah Taylor Barrera Kevin & Noelle Gibbs in memory of Helen Barber Sherry & David Smith Dr. Andrew Gunther Susan West Dennis & Susan Johann Ellen & Barry Levine Valerie Sopher Richard & Lois Halliday Patricia & Jeffrey Williams Gilardi Elsie Mallonee Sally & Joel Spivack Earl & Bonnie Hamlin Sheila Wishek Daniel & Hilary B. Goldstine Lois & Gary Marcus Alison Teeman & Michael Bonnie & Tom Herman Mary & Nicholas Graves Rebecca Martinez Yovino-Young Kathleen & Chris Jackson BENEFACTORS Robert & Judith Greber Henning Mathew & Susan Terris Barbara E. Jones, in memory Anonymous (5) Karen Grove & Michelle Deane Beth Weissman of William E. Jones Martha & Bruce Atwater Julian Cortella Kirk McKusick & Eric Allman Steven Winkel & Seymour Kaufman & Naomi Auerbach & Garrett Gruener & Toby Mickelson & Barbara Sahm Kerstin Edgerton Ted Landau Amy Slater Donald Brody Sam & Joyce Zanze Duke & Daisy Kiehn Nina Auerbach Bob & Linda Harris Dan Miller Wanda Kownacki Michelle L. Barbour Vera & David Hartford Andy & June Monach Louise Laufersweiler & David Beery & Ruth Hennigar Scott Montgomery & Warren Sharp Norman Abramson Richard N. Hill & Marc Rand Eileen & Hank Lewis Cynthia & David Bogolub Nancy Lundeen Judith & Richard Oken Dale & Don Marshall Broitman-Basri Family Elaine Hitchcock Sheldeen Osborne Sumner & Hermine Marshall Tracy Brown & Greg Holland Bill Hofmann & Judy O’Young, MD & LEGEND K in-kind gift Erin McCune Don Campbell and Family M Robbie Welling M Gregg Hauser Miles & Mary Ellen McKey Ronnie Caplane Hilary & Tom Hoynes Sandi & Dick Pantages M matching gift Susan Medak & Leslie Chatham & Paula Hughmanick & Mary Ann Peoples, We are pleased to recognize first-time donors to Berkeley Rep, whose names appear in italics. Greg Murphy Kathie Weston Steven Berger in memory of Lou Peoples

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DO_program.indd 39 8/24/18 4:33 PM BERKELEY REP THANKS Individual Donors

CHAMPIONS Eileen Love · Naomi & Bruce Mann · Charlotte ADVOCATES Leiman-Carbia · Jennifer S. Lindsay · Dottie Anonymous (4) · Pat Angell, in memory of & Adolph Martinelli · Match Vineyards · Geri Anonymous (12) · Abbey Alkon & Jonathan Lofstrom · Jane & Bob Lurie · Gerry & Kathy Gene Angell · Marcia & George Argyris · Monheimer, in honor of Sharon Kinkade · Leonard · Emily Arnold · Steven & Barbara MacClelland · Paul Mariano · Charles Marston Leslie & Jack Batson · Don & Gerry Beers M · Brian & Britt-Marie Morris · Jerry Mosher · Aumer-Vail · Marian Baldy · Susan & Barry & Rosa Luevano · Igor Maslennikov · Caroline Caroline Beverstock · Eric Brink & Gayle Marvin & Neva Moskowitz · Daniel Murphy · Baskin · Stephanie Beach · Richard & Kathi McCall & Eric Martin · Daniel & Beverlee Vassar · John Carr · Paula Carrell · Richard & Jane & Bill Neilson · Suzette S. Olson · Carol J. Berman · Steve Bischoff · Nancy Blachman & McFadden · Karen & John McGuinn · Brian Linnea Christiani · Ed Cullen & Ann O'Connor · Ormond · Janet & Clyde Ostler · Gerane David desJardins · Naomi Black · The McRee · Ruth Medak · Jeff Miner · Ronald Ilana DeBare & Sam Schuchat · David Wharton Park · Bob & MaryJane Pauley · Blackman Family · Ed & Kay Blonz · Bob & Morrison · Aki & Emi Nakao · Ron Nakayama · Deutscher · Francine & Beppe Di Palma · Regina Phelps & Dave Kieffer · Malcolm & Barbara Brandriff · Marilyn Bray · Peter Brock Christina & Geoffrey Norman, in memory of Karen & David Dolder · Burton Peek Edwards · Ann Plant · David & Bobbie Pratt · David & · Don & Carol Anne Brown · Jane Buerger · John & Carol Field M · Sharon Noteboom · Pier Susan English & Michael Kalkstein · Paul Mary Ramos · Kent Rasmussen & Celia Robert & Margaret Cant · Carolle J. Carter & & Barbara Oddone · Judy Ogle · Eddie & Amy Feigenbaum & Judy Kemeny · Martin & Ramsay · Audrey & Paul Richards · Helen Jess Kitchens · Laura Chenel · Terin Orton · Frederick Oshay · Brian D. Parsons · P. Barbara Fishman · Linda Jo Fitz · Patrick Richardson · Maxine Risley, in memory of Christensen · John & Izzie Crane M · Pam & David Pearson & Barbara Schonborn · Bob & Flannery · James & Jessica Fleming · Dean James Risley · John & Jody Roberts · Deborah Mike Crane · Kathleen Damron · Harry & Toni Peckham, in honor of Robert M. Francis · Donald & Dava Freed · Chris R. Romer & William Tucker · Galen Rosenberg & Susan Dennis · Jacqueline Desoer · Thalia Peckham, Jr. · Lewis Perry · James F. Pine · F. Frostad M · Marjorie Ginsburg & Howard Denise Barnett · The Karl and Alice Dorwick · Kathy Down & Greg Kelly · Mary & Anthony Placzek · Ronnie Plasters K · Roxann Slyter · Anne & Peter Griffes · Migsy & Jim Ruppenthal Foundation for the Arts · Dace P. Ben Feinberg · Martin Fleisher · Frannie R. Preston · Laurel & Gerald Przybylski · Hamasaki · Ann Harriman, in memory of Rutland · Teddy & Bruce Schwab · Andrew & Fleishhacker · Mary & Stan Friedman · David Sheldon & Catherine Ramsay · Teresa L. Malcolm White · Dan & Shawna Hartman Marva Seidl · Beryl & Ivor Silver · Dave & Lori Gaskin & Phillip McPherson · Karl & Kathleen Remillard · Deborah Dashow Ruth, in memory Brotsky · Christina Herdell, in memory of Simpson · Cherida Collins Smith · Alice & Geier · Diana Graham & Jack Zimmermann · of Leo P. Ruth · Dorothy R. Saxe · Kenneth & Vaughn & Ardis Herdell · Howard Hertz & Scott So · Gary & Jana Stein · Monroe W. Rico & Maya Green · Don & Becky Grether · Joyce Scheidig · Laurel Scheinman · Dr. David Jean Krois · Don & Janice Holve, in memory of Strickberger · Samuel Test · Pate & Judy Paula Hawthorn & Michael Ubell · Irene & Schulz · Seiger Family Foundation · Glenn and Daisy & Paul Persons · The Hornthal Family Thomson · Henry Timnick · Michael Tubach & Robert Hepps · Clifford Hersh · Doug & Leni Lori Shannon · Sarah E. Shaver · Steve & Susan Foundation, in honor of Susie Medak · Amrita Singhal · William van Dyk & Margi Herst, in honor of Susie Medak · Fran Shortell · Arlene & Matthew Sirott · Carra Marilyn & Michael Jensen-Akula · Corrina Sullivan · Pamela Gay Walker/Ghost Ranch Hildebrand · Alice Hill & Peter Starr · George & Sleight · Suzanne Slyman · Jerry & Dick Jones · Dennis Kaump · Lynn Eve Komaromi, Productions · Jonathan & Kiyo Weiss · Leslie Hume · Mr. & Mrs. Harold M. Isbell · Smallwood · Sigrid Snider · Robert & Naomi in honor of the Berkeley Rep Staff · Janet Elizabeth Werter & Henry Trevor · Charles Reese & Margaret Jones · Claudia & Daly Stamper · Lillis & Max Stern · Ruthann Taylor · Kornegay & Dan Sykes · Susilpa Lakireddy · Wolfram & Peter Wolfram · Sally Woolsey · Jordan-Koch · Kaarel Kaljot · Helmut H. Prof. Jeremy Thorner & Dr. Carol Mimura · Helen E. Land · Jane & Mike Larkin, in memory Ron & Anita Wornick Kapczynski & Colleen Neff · Christopher Mike & Ellen Turbow · Sarah Van Roo · Louise of Jerry & Marilyn Ungar · Sherrill Lavagnino Killian & Carole Ungvarsky · Jeff Klingman & & Larry Walker · Robert & Sheila Weisblatt · & Scott McKinney · Henry Lerner, in honor of Deborah Sedberry · Susan Kolb · Robert Lane Robert T. Weston · Dick & Beany Wezelman · Joanne Levene Lerner · Marcia C. Linn · Tom & Tom Cantrell · Carol P. LaPlant · Glennis Peter Wiley · Sharon & Kenneth Wilson · Moe Lockard & Alix Marduel · Sidne J. Long · Jay & Lees & Michael Glazeski · Julius R. & Becky Wright · Margaret Wu & Ciara Cox

We gratefully recognize & Martin Tannenbaum · Mr. & Mrs. C. D. & Philip Warnes · Mr. & Mrs. William Webster · Linda Fried & Jim Helman · Ken Frucht · Don Jensen · Ann L. Johnson · Ken & Judith Keith R. Weed & Julia Molander · Arthur Weil · Fujino M · Kevin Gahagan · Nancy Galloway & the following donors whose Johnson · Roxy Jones · Armond & Kathy Mrs. James Weinberger · Noah & Caryn Weiss · Andy Morse · Robert & Linda Garb · Loretta contributions were received Jordan, in memory of Alice L. Cummings · Dr. Ben & Mrs. Carolyn Werner · Ted D. Garcia · Clara Gerdes · Helen & Paul Nadine Joseph · Pauline Jue · Marcia Westphal · Ann Williamson · Ann Willoughby · Gerken · Paul Gill & Stephanie D’Arnall · from April 1 to July 21, 2018 Kadanoff · Charles & Laurie Kahn · Patricia H. Leabah Winter · Evie & Gordon Wozniak · Deborah Gilman · Gayle & Steve Goldman · Kaplan · Beth & Tim Kientzle · Carl & Ellie Paul Wyman · Ellen & Irving Zucker Dr. & Mrs. Arnold Goldschlager · William SUPPORTERS Kinczel · Deborah & David Kirshman, in Goldstein · Manuel & Cynthia Gonzales · Barry Anonymous (34) · Gerry Abrams · Joseph & memory of John & Carol Field · Andy Kivel & CONTRIBUTORS & Erica Goode · Prof. & Mrs. Nelson H. Esther Adler, in honor of Stan Zaks & Vivian Susan Goldstein · Peggy Kivel · Ken & Monica Anonymous (39) · Mark Aaronson & Marjorie Graburn · Scott & Shirlee Graff · Ann Green · Calderon Zaks on their 50th wedding Kulander · Wayne Lamprey & Dena Gelb · Bruce & Sue Adams · Fred & Kathleen Judy & Jeff Greenhouse · Karen Greig & Mike anniversary · Gertrude E. Allen, in memory of Watson-Lamprey K · Shirley Langlois · David Allen · Claire & Kendall Allphin · Paula & Art Frank · Mr. & Mrs. Arnold Grossberg · Mr. & Robert Allen · Laurence Anderson · JoAnne & Mari Lee · Dr. Doreen Leighton · Catherine Alm · Albert Andersen · Brian Andersen, Mrs. Ervin Hafter · George & Mary Hake M · Appel · Rose Marie Avery · Laura Basha · Lois Lerza · Claire & Brett Levay-Young · Susan B. Michelle Jolly, Bill Walker & Mary Wisnewski · Robin Halprin & Abbas Khaligh · Lawrence A. Battuello · Alvin Baum, in memory of John Levine & Jim Lauer · Steve & Judy Lipson · Jeff Angell & Joan King-Angell · Clara Arakaki · Hammer & Judith Tomasso · Janice & Carol Field · Dorothy & Ervin Behrin · Mary Patricia Litton · Ann L. Livingston & Nobby Paul Axelrod · Catherine Bailey & Jack Telian · Hammond · Glenn & Ann Hammonds Jr. · Ann & Len Benson · Peter Benvenutti & Lise Akiha · Lisa Lomenzo M · Martha & Arthur Lisa Bailey · Nina Barton · Phillip Batson · Chuck & Susie Hanson · Carol & Don Pearlman · Gail Berger · Alison Bers · Jurg & Luehrmann · Samantha & Laurence Lyons · Eileen Battat · Jim & Donna Beasley · Brian & Hardesty · Paul & Julie Harkness · Dr. & Mrs. Christel Bieri · Mina & Monty Bissell · Judith Mary A. Mackey · Robert McDowell · Steven Mary Bechtel · Jennifer Bell · Joanne Bell · Alan Harley · Henry L. Hecht · Irene Heller · Bliss & Gerald Huff · Judith L. Bloom · James & McGlocklin · Christopher McKenzie & Sally Benjamin · Michele Benson · Roy C. Bob & Kathy Helliesen K · Philippe Henri · Elizabeth Branson · Alice Breakstone & Manuela Albuquerque · Ralph & Melinda Bergstrom · Reverend Kevin Blattel · Bonnie Rick & Jocelynn Herrick Stone · Dr. Robert R. Debbie Goldberg · Barbara & Ray Breslau · Mendelson · Phyllis Menefee · Michael Bogue · Ayako Boswell · Constance Boulay · Herrick · Carole S. Hickman · Thomas Hird · John H. Buckman · Fran Burgess · Melissa Merrigan · Mary & Dennis Montali · The Carol Bowen · Christopher Bowen · Pat & Page & Joseph R. Holmes · Joe Houska & Cadwallader & William E. Kramer · Robert P. Morris Family: Susan, Kathy, Karen, Steve & Mary Boyle · Thomas & Lori Breunig · Linda K. Christine Paige · Judy Hubbell · Carolyn Camm & Susan Pearson · Lawrence & Marilyn Jaxon · Mr. & Mrs. Gary Morrison · Yael & Brewer, in honor of Carol & Tim Wehr · Joan Jacobs · Steven Jacobsohn · Rebecca Jacofsky · Capitelli · The Cariño Fund · Denys Carrillo · Gavriel Moses · Kerry Newkirk · Marlowe Ng Broer · Carol L. Brosgart, M.D. & Joseph Marty & Ellen Jaffe · Elizabeth James · Hermia Nancy Catena, in memory of Anthony & Sharon Ulrich · Jennifer Nixon & Charles Gross · Kathleen Brown · Valarie & John James · Marisita & Tu Jarvis · Katharine Catena · David Christensen M · Barbara Clayton Wood · Bruce & Risa Nye · Dr. Patrick Burgess · Mary Burkhard · Lee & George Jennings · Randy Jones · Don & Kim Kahler · & Marc Nelson · Karen Clayton & Stephen O'Halloran, in honor of Anna Deavere Smith · Burnett · Douglas Bury · Katherine Byrne · Gerald Kaminski · Lisa & David Kaplan · Clayton · Joe & Leonardo Connell · Catherine Ron & Ruth Parker · David Pasta, in memory Franchesca Callejo · Cristina Campbell & Tim Catherine Karrass · Joyce Keil · Joanne Kelly · Corison · Dennis E. Cox · Ian & Cheryl Crane · of Gloria J.A. Guth · Paul Paulson & Robert DeWolf · Jules Campbell · Sue & Darrell Pat & Chris Kenber · Kimberly J. Kenley- Lori & Michael Crowley · Sheila Cullen · Jill & Siefer · Susie & Eric Poncelet · Fred & Judy Cannon · W. Bradford Carson · Paula Salarpi · Marlene & Ilan Keret · Kathryn Evan Custer · Robert & Loni Dantzler · Pat & Porta · Chuck & Kati Quibell · Sara Rahimian · Champagne & David Watson · Robin & Kersey · Mary Ann Kiely · Ms. Marjorie Kirk · Steve Davis · Allan Defraga · Cecilia Delury & Danielle Rebischung · Karen & Jeff Ryszard Chetkowski · Timothy & Rita Child · Susan Kirk · Lawrence & Carolyn Klein · Vince Jacobs · Carol DiFilippo · Diana Divecha · Richardson · Dr. Lynn Robertson · Susan Ronald & Susan Choy · Greg & Barbara Jennifer Kline · Cynthia Koenigsberg & Harry Kathy & Leonard Duffy · Martha Eckert · Mary Robertson · Carole Robinson & Zane O. Ciapponi · Teresa Clark · Gene & Ann Patsch · Ron & JoAnn Koopman · Regina Eichbauer & Greg Gartrell · James Emery & P. Gresham · John & Kyoko Robinson · Mrs. Clements · Eric Cohen, in honor of Bruce Lackner, in memory of Ruth Eis · Maria & Irving · Roger & Margaret England · Alan William C. Robison · Rick & Stephanie Rogers · Golden & Michelle Mercer · Salvatore David Laforge · Thomas S. Lakritz · Laurence Entine · Michael Evanhoe · Betty & Ken Mary Rooney-Zarri & Philip Zarri · John Compagno · Bart Connally · Chris & Martie Lange · Aaron & Myra Latkin · William Leach · Fehring · Brigitte & Louis Fisher · Stephen Rosenberg & Diane Gerstler · Nancy Saldich · Conner · Jim & Jeanette Cottle · Susan & Don Trudy & Rolf Lesem · John Leys · Eva Follansbee & Richard Wolitz · Mrs. Robert Carol A. Savary & George Koster · Barbara & Couch · Thomas & Suellen Cox · Rich Craig · Lieberman · Harvey & Wendy Leiderman · Force · Patricia Fox · Mary & Doug Fraser · Jerry Schauffler · Richard J. Schoofs · Ron & Chris & Lynn Crook · Mr. & Mrs. Dermott Julianne Lindemann & Michael Weinberger · Thomas & Sandra Friedland · Tom & Gail Esther Schroeder · Helen Schulak · James Cullen · Faith & Bob Cushman · Jennifer & Suzanne & William Lingo · Kim Liu · Paul & Frost · Susanne Gallagher · Philip Gary · Scillian · Barbara & Steve Segal · Louise Shalit · Allan Daly · Roberta D'Anneo & Scot Terry · Robin Ludmer, in honor of Ronni, Michael & Gregory Giska · Steven Goldberg · Ian M. Sandy Shelton · Frances Singer · James Mark de Souza · Jerome Dean · Ann & Dave Georgia Minnis · Nancy Lumer · Linda & Steve Goldstein · Keith Goldstein & Donna Skelton · William & Martha Slavin · Betsy Del Simone · Teresa DeLillo · Wayne & Lynn Lustig · Gregg Lynn · Dana Rae & Bruce Warrington · Sue & Eric Gordon · Helen Smith · George & Camilla Smith · Marian Delker · The Dillons · John Dineen · top dog, in MacDermott · Mike & Linda Madden · Gould · Bernice Greene · Bonnie Grossman · Snow · Steven & Susan Sockolov, in honor of honor of Freedom · Joe Douglass · Deborah Michael & Loxie Manchester · Ruth Manlove · Marcia & Joseph Grossman · John G. Guthrie · Audrey & Bob Sockolov · John St. Dennis & Doyle · Drs. Nancy Ebbert & Adam Rochmes · Ana Maria Martel · Paul & Claire Maxwell · Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Hagerty · William & Luisa Roy Anati · Herbert Steierman · Beverly Sue & Peter Elkind · Peter Ewell & Helga Miriam Maxwell · Kevin McCarty · Ben Hansen · Ken & Karen Harley · John & Jean Stevens · Eric Stietzel · Dr. & Mrs. Joseph Recke · Caryll Farrer · Barry & Cheri Feiner · McClinton & Karen Rosenbaum · Daniel Hearst · Bill & Judy Hein · Austin & Lynne Terdiman · Tracy Thompson · Bill & Sandy Karin Fetherston · Richard & Barbara Fikes · McDonald · David & Wendy McGrath · Henderson · Lisa Herrinton · Dixie Hersh · Threlfall · Paula Trauner · Rick Trautner · Dean Sheilah & Harry Fish · William & Andrea Beatrice McIntosh · Katherine McKenzie · Peter Hobe & Christina Crowley · Jeff Hoel · Ujihara · Mr. Leon Van Steen · Liz Varnhagen · Foley · Costanza Foran · Natalie Forrest & Catherine McLane · Jack McPhail · Douglas & Marie F. Hogan & Douglas A. Lutgen · John & Carol Verity · Gerald & Lynda Vurek-Martyn · Douglas Sprague · Mr. & Mrs. Michael Frank · Mary McWilliams · Michelle Medeiros · Elise Holmgren · Rosalie Holtz · Alex Ingersoll Dorothy Walker · Emily & Bob Warden · Ginny Christie Fraser · Walt French & Virginia Yang · Lyanne Melendez · Ellen Meltzer · Steve Merlo ·

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DO_program.indd 40 8/24/18 4:33 PM Robin E. Miller · Sandy Mills · Mary Mizroch · FRIENDS Christina Halsey · Randall Ham & Linda Politopoulos · Harry Pollack & Joanne Nancy Montague · Silvia & Wayne Montoya · Anonymous (31) · Anonymous, in memory of Wilford · Marjorie Hamm & Angela Bottum · Backman · Bradford Pollock · Dixie Lee Post & Leslie Moreland · Susanna Morin-Groom · Irene Zook · Phyllis Abad · Larry Abel · Denise Larry Hanover · Jeffrey & Meg Hargreaves · Dave Shaw · Don & Virginia Poulton · William Barbara Mowry · Jim & Susan Murphy · Abrams & David Harrington · Gary & Kay Dennis & Juanita Harte · Linda Headrick, in & Joan Pridgen · Marilyn Radisch · Lynne D. Katherine K. Murphy · Linda L. Murray & Carl Anderson · Ann Marie Arndt · Werner honor of Ann Brannen · Claire J. Heinzelman · Raider · Mahendra Ranchod · Ann Rarden · Schemmerling · Patricia Murray · Ronald & Bachmann · Mike Bandrowski · Michael & Della Jay Helms & Terry O'Loughlin · David Kim Regan · John & Diane Rice · Gregg Irene Nakasone · Linda Nakell & Robert Barnett · Erica Baum · Joan Baylie & James Hendricks · Donald E. Hershman, DPM · Susan Richardson & Lee Mingwei · Jean Richardson · Dawson · Shirley Negrin · Joseph & Berna Mullins · Taylor Beard · Carolyn Beasley · L. Hill · Gayl & Harlan Hirschfeld · Elizabeth Margaret Rienzi · Geraldine Riordan · Jeff & Neumiller · Wendy Niles · Katherine Nolan · Audrey M. Berger · Sandra Bernard · Barbara Hoffmann · Kristina Holland · Carolyn Holm · Ann Roberts · Agnes Rogacsi · Phyllis Rogaski · Ms. Mary Ilene Odenheimer · Chas Ogle · Bernstein · David Bezanilla · Tom & Terri Miranda Holmes & Brian Sparling · Karen & Kim Rohrer · Alex G. Ross · Geri Rossen · John Howard & Charlene Okamoto · Susan & Paul Bishop · Annette Blanchard · Anita Bloch · Joan Robert Holtermann · Frances Hopson · Estie Rostkowski · Sylvia Roye · Lael R. Rubin · Marci Opsvig · Ruth A. Pease · Raymond Perrault · Bodway · Giselle Bosc · Joan Bose · Mary Sid Hudes · Donald Bruce Hunter · Linda Rubin · Daniel & Gail Rubinfeld · Peter Rudy · Wendy Peterson · John R. Petrovsky · Kate Bourguignon & Richard Wood · Karen Bowen Infelise · Sandra Iwamoto · Christine Izaret · Anne Rutherdale · Marcee & Mark Samberg · Pope · Barbara Porter · Steven Potter · Mark J. & Beth Gerstein, in honor of Donald Trump · Christopher Johnson · Kathleen Johnson · Gayna Sanders · John & Melanie Sandler · Powers & Albert E. Moreno · Danilo Purlia & Mr. Michael Braisted · Julian & Elizabeth Sharon A. 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Linda Brandenburger Mary & Nicholas Graves Shirley & Joe Nedham Karen & Henry Work Broitman-Basri Family Elizabeth Greene Theresa Nelson & Bernard Smits Martin & Margaret Zankel Bruce Carlton & Don & Becky Grether Pam & Mitch Nichter Richard G. McCall Richard & Lois Halliday Sheldeen G. Osborne Gifts received by Paula Carrell Julie & Paul Harkness Sharon Ott Berkeley Rep: Stephen K. Cassidy Linda & Bob Harris Amy Pearl Parodi Anonymous Paula Champagne & Fred Hartwick Barbara L. Peterson Estate of Suzanne Adams David Watson Ruth Hennigar Regina Phelps Estate of Helen Barber Terin Christensen Douglas J. Hill Margaret Phillips Estate of Fritzi Benesch Sofia Close Hoskins/Frame Family Trust Marjorie Randolph Estate of Carole B. Berg Andrew Daly & Jody Taylor Lynda & Dr. J. Pearce Hurley Bonnie Ring Living Trust Estate of Nelly Berteaux The society welcomes the M. Laina Dicker Robin C. Johnson Tom Roberts Estate of Jill Bryans following new members: Thalia Dorwick Janice Kelly & D. Carlos Kaslow David Rovno Estate of Nancy Croley Sheldon & Judy Greene Rich & Robin Edwards Bonnie McPherson Killip Tracie E. Rowson Estate of Carol & John Field Gregg Richardson Thomas W. Edwards & Lynn Eve Komaromi Deborah Dashow Ruth Estate of Rudolph Glauser Gail & Arne Wagner Rebecca Parlette-Edwards Scott & Kathy Law Patricia Sakai & Estate of Zandra Faye LeDuff Susan West Bill & Susan Epstein Ines R. Lewandowitz Richard Shapiro Estate of John E. & William Espey & Dot Lofstrom Betty & Jack Schafer Helen A. Manning Sustaining members Margaret Hart Edwards Helen M. Marcus Brenda Buckhold Shank, Estate of Richard Markell as of July 2018: Dr. Stephen E. Follansbee & Dale & Don Marshall M.D., Ph.D. Estate of Gladys Anonymous (7) Dr. Richard A. Wolitz Sumner & Hermine Marshall Kevin Shoemaker Perez-Mendez Norman Abramson & Kerry Francis Rebecca Martinez Valerie Sopher Estate of Margaret Purvine David Beery Dr. Harvey & Deana Freedman Suzanne & Charles Michael & Sue Steinberg Estate of Leigh & Ivy Robinson Sam Ambler Joseph & Antonia Friedman McCulloch Dr. Douglas & Anne Stewart Estate of Stephen C. Schaefer, in Carl W. Arnoult & Paul T. Friedman John G. McGehee Jean Strunsky honor of Jean and Jack Knox Aurora Pan Dr. John Frykman Miles & Mary Ellen McKey Henry Timnick Estate of Peter Sloss Ken & Joni Avery Laura K. Fujii Margaret D. & Winton McKibben Guy Tiphane Estate of Harry Weininger Nancy Axelrod David Gaskin & Ruth Medak Phillip & Melody Trapp Estate of Grace Williams Edith Barschi Phillip McPherson Susan Medak & Greg Murphy Janis Kate Turner Neil & Gene Barth Marjorie Ginsburg & Stephanie Mendel Dorothy Walker Susan & Barry Baskin Howard Slyter Toni Mester Weil Family Trust—Weil Family

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DO_program.indd 41 8/24/18 4:33 PM BERKELEY REP STAFF BOARD OF TRUSTEES JOIN A.C.T.’S NEXT CHAPTER Artistic Director Managing Director Tony Taccone Susan Medak President WITH NEW ARTISTIC DIRECTOR General Manager Theresa Von Klug Stewart Owen Vice Presidents ARTISTIC First Hand Webmaster Elyse Shafarman · Arje Shaw · Joyful Carrie Avery PAM MACKINNON Director of Casting & Janet Conery Christina Cone Simpson · Cleavon Smith · M. Graham Scott Haber Artistic Associate Wardrobe Supervisor Video & Multimedia Producer Smith · Elizabeth Vega · James Wagner · Dan Wolf Treasurer Amy Potozkin Barbara Blair Benjamin Michel Richard M. Shapiro Director, The Ground Floor/ Program Advertising Teaching Artists Resident Dramaturg ELECTRICS Pamela Webster Miriam Ani · Shannon Davis · Amber Secretary Madeleine Oldham Flame · Daryl Harper · Dave Maier · Jack Leonard X Rosenberg Master Electrician Front of House Director Nicolaus · Carla Pantoja · Bryan Quinn · Literary Manager Frederick C. 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Logan Company Manager Joy Lancaster, Recruitment Associate General Manager Subscription Manager Jane Marvin Jean-Paul Gressieux Selma Meyerowitz, Off-Sites Amanda Williams O’Steen Laurie Barnes and Procedures Henning Mathew Sandra R. McCandless Executive Assistant Box Office Supervisor A Doll’s House, Part 2 Docents STAGE MANAGEMENT Susan Medak Kate Horton Julie Gotsch Ellen Kaufman, Lead Docent Pamela Nichter Production Stage Manager Miles Drawdy · Helen Gerken · Bookkeeper Box Office Agents Sudha Pennathur Michael Suenkel Muriel Kaplan · Catherine Warren · Kristine Taylor Gabrielle Boyd · Jordan Don · Laura Severino Stage Managers Linda Williams Associate Controller Katherine Gunn · Ariana Johnson · Tony Taccone Chris Armond · Bradley Hopper · Oliver Kampman · Jaden Pratt Amanda Mason · Megan McClintock · Eric Ipsen Kelli Tomlinson 2018–19 BERKELEY REP Gail Wagner Lisa McGinn · Betsy Norton · Leslie M. Payroll Administrator FELLOWSHIPS Steven C. 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