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IRISH & CLASSICAL THEATRE The CharityRandallFoundation Generously sponsoredby: THE PITMEN PAINTERS Henry Heymann Theatre Professional Theater inResidence at theUniversity ofPittsburgh by Lee Hall Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre presents The Pitmen Painters by Lee Hall inspired by the book by William Feaver directed by Andrew S. Paul Robert Lyon Brad Heberlee* Oliver Kilbourn Simon Bradbury* Jimmy Floyd Daryll Heysham* Harry Wilson Alan Stanford* George Brown Larry John Meyers* Young Lad Bernard Balbot Helen Sutherland Linda Kimbrough* Susan Parks Rachel McKeon Ben Nicholson Sean Sears

Saturday Night at the Club, Oliver Kilbourn (1936) Scenic Designer Lighting Designer Costume Designer Gianni Downs Jim French Rachel Parent

Sound Designer Properties Projection Designer Chris Rummel George DeShetler Jessi Sedon-Essad

Production Manager Stage Manager Technical Director Gianni Downs Cory Goddard* Aaron Bollinger

Master Carpenter Assistant Stage Manager Scenic Charge Artist Jesse Poole Van-Swol Jessica Wasserlauf Lori Lynn Bollinger

Master Electrician Dialects Scott Conklin Natalie Baker Shirer

THE PITMEN PAINTERS is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York Pitmen Painters’ images © Group Trustees. Images reprinted by permission.

This production runs *member of Actors’ Equity approximately two hours and thirty Association, the Union of Professional Actors and minutes, with one Stage Managers in the 15-minute intermission Wartime Wedding, Harry Wilson (1940) United States. Light Board Operator: Matthew Shearer Sound Engineer: Stephen Tipton Sound Board Operator: Stephen Tipton Projectionist: Patrick Dudiak Deck Crew: John Forton 12 Wardrobe: Jordan Peterson Electricians: JC Bardzil, Jordan Walsh, Louis Costanzo Professional Theatre in Residence Stage Management Apprentice: Jessica Wasserlauf at the Carpentry Apprentice: John Forton Scenic Paint Apprentice: Sarah Leonard Electrics Apprentice: Matthew Shearer Costume Apprentice: Jordan Peterson Stage Management Intern: Angela Trovato would like to thank Carpentry Intern: Steven Lau Lighting Interns: Patrick Dudiak, Harrison Smith our 2012 Media Sponsors! Scenic Art Intern: Grace McConnell Box Office: Helen Radkoff

SPECIAL THANKS: Joe Pino, Chris McGinnis, Beth Lawry, Rebecca Fink PLEASE NOTE: The video and/or audio recording of any of the performances in The Pitmen Painters by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited.

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Daryll Heysham (Jimmy Floyd) is delighted to return to PICT for The Pitmen Painters Acting a third time. He played Inspector Lestrade in last December’s box- office hitThe Mask of Moriarty and appeared as Montano in , Bernard Balbot (Young Lad) is thrilled to return to his hometown to directed by Andrew Paul. This past April, he performed the role of Max collaborate on this production with PICT! Chicago credits include: We Tarasov in Geva Theatre’s critically acclaimed production of Superior Are Proud to Present a Presentation… (Victory Gardens); Far Away Donuts. At the Pittsburgh Public Theater, Daryll originated the role of (Winterfall Chicago); Short Shakespeare! , En Route (Chicago Sammy Carducci in the world premiere of Harry’s Friendly Service. Shakespeare Theater); She Loves Me (Writers’ Theatre); Yeast Nation, He also appeared at the Public as Gil Marshall in The Royal Family The Original Grease, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Radio Play (American and as Luther Flynn in Superior Donuts. Other Pittsburgh credits Theater Company); (Drury Lane Oakbrook). Other include Phil Romano in That Championship Season for The REP, and Regional credits: Blood Brothers (Farmers Alley Theater); Cyrano de Monsieur Pierre in The Clockmaker for City Theatre. Off-Broadway credits include roles Bergerac, Othello, Two Gentleman of Verona (Utah Shakespearean in Tony ‘n’ Tina’s Wedding and Much Ado About Nothing. Daryll played opposite George Festival); Hair, Romeo & Juliet, Androcles and the Lion (Hangar Peppard and Susan Clark in a national tour of The Lion in Winter and he logged over Theater). Training: Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama and Moscow Art Theater 1,000 performances of Shear Madness in the original Philadelphia production. Favorite School. Film: “Warrior.” Endless love and gratitude to my family. roles include Biff Loman in Death of a Salesman (opposite Harold Gould), Milo Tindle in Sleuth, Bernard Nightingale in Arcadia, Mercutio in , and Toby Belch in Simon Bradbury (Oliver Kilbourn) is pleased to return to PICT Twelfth Night. Daryll has appeared at the Walnut Street Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Florida and Pittsburgh, his second home. Previous PICT credits include Will Stage, and Iowa’s Riverside Shakespeare Festival. He has taught acting and voice and Mossop in Hobson’s Choice, which earned him Performer of the Year speech at Cornell University, Philadelphia’s University of the Arts, and AMDA in New from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the title role in Chaplin, Ariel in The York City. A native of Great Britain and trained at London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Pillowman, Clov in Endgame, the title role in The Shaughraun, the Art, Daryll holds a BFA from The Ohio State University and received his MFA from Point Fool in , director of What the Butler Saw and the Interrogator Park University. He resides in Manhattan with his lovely wife, Christine. and Nigel in Rock and Roll. He was a long standing member of the Shaw Festival where he appeared for 16 seasons. His play Chaplin Linda Kimbrough (Helen Sutherland) previously appeared at PICT inauguated the new mandate at Shaw to incorporate plays written by as Mrs. Lintott in The History Boys and Lady Catherine in Pride and living playwrights. Other appearances in Canada are Stratford for 4 Prejudice. Since then, she played Hattie in Ten Chimneys at Northlight seasons, Citadel, Edmonton, Neptune Theatre, Halifax, Theatre New Brunswick, Canadian Theatre in Chicago. Regional credits include Marie in The Gospel Stage Toronto, Vancouver Playhouse and the Arts Club where he just played Chausable According to James (at Indiana Rep, and Victory Gardens in Chicago), in The Importance of Being Earnest. Dottie in Noises Off (The Cleveland Play House and Maltz Theatre), and Julia in The Fourth Wall (Alliance Theater). She has originated Brad Heberlee (Robert Lyon) Off-Broadway: The Bald Soprano roles in four of David Mamet’s plays: Edmond, Reunion, The Water (Pearl Theatre Company), Dada Woof Papa Hot (Atlantic Theater Engine, Squirrels, and as Charlotta in his adaptation of Chekhov’s Company), This Beautiful City (Vineyard Theatre/The Civilians), The The Cherry Orchard. Movies include “Homicide,” “State & Main,” Thugs (Soho Rep), (I am) Nobody’s Lunch (The Civilians), Man Is “Spartan” (with Val Kilmer), “Redbelt,” and the upcoming HBO movie “The Phil Specter Man (Prospect Theater Company). Regional: In The Next Room or Story” with Al Pacino. the vibrator play (PICT), Frost/Nixon (Arkansas Rep), This Beautiful City (Humana Festival/Center Theatre Group/Studio Theatre), The Rachel McKeon (Susan Parks) is so thrilled to be collaborating Sweetest Swing In Baseball (Denver Center Theatre Company), 36 with PICT on this stunning new play. Locally, she has worked with Views (Huntington Theatre), Hay Fever (Baltimore Centerstage), Pittsburgh Musical Theater (Legally Blonde, Spring Awakening), City Serious Money (Yale Rep), I Am My Own Wife and David Copperfield Theatre (Young Playwrights Festival), and toured on behalf of the (Weston Playhouse), A Thousand Clowns (Two River), Amadeus (Syracuse Stage/Virginia Pittsburgh CLO (The Amazingly True Adventures of Nellie Bly). Other Stage/Geva Theatre). Television: “Unforgettable.” Brad is a graduate of the Yale School credits: New York: P.S. 122 (Welcome to Nowhere), The Debate Society (You’re Welcome), Temporary Distortion (Welcome to Nowhere). of Drama. Regional: The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (Tartuffe, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Henry VI, pt I). Rachel will be starring in an independent

feature film, “Homemakers,” shooting in Pittsburgh and Austin, TX this summer, before spending next season with Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Endless thanks to Andrew and the rest of the cast! BFA: NYU/Tisch. The Pitmen Painters Acting Company Lee Hall (Playwright) was born in in 1966. He studied English Literature at Cambridge University and has worked as a writer in theatre, TV, radio and Larry John Meyers (George Brown) returns to Pittsburgh Irish film. He has been writer-in-residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company and Live Theatre, & Classical Theatre for his eleventh season, where his most recent Newcastle Upon Tyne. Theatre credits include Wittgenstein On Tyne, Live Theatre, 1996; roles were in Othello and the Pinter Celebration. A “regional artist” Bollocks, RSC Fringe, 1998; Genie, Paines Plough, 1998; , Live who has called Pittsburgh “home” for most of the past thirty years, Theatre/West End, 1999 (nominated for an Oliver Award for Best Comedy); Spoonface Mr. Meyers has a long and sundry list of credits in theater, television, Steinberg, Ambassadors Theatre, London 2000; Two’s Company, Live Theatre/Bristol and film. A proud member of Actors’ Equity and the newly merged Old Vic, 2001; the Musical, 2004 (Oliver Award Best Musical); The Pitmen SAG-AFTRA, he is currently pondering a memoir, Slow from Bates Painters, Live Theatre/, 2007/08/09/10 and The Manhattan Theatre Street to the Squirrel Hill Tunnel. Club, 2010. Theatre adaptations include Leonce and Lena (Buchner), The Gate Theatre, 1997; Mr. Pultila and His Man Matti (Brecht), Almedia Theatre, 1998, A Servant to Two Masters (Goldoni), RSC/Young Vic, 1999; The Adventures of Pinocchio (Collodi), Lyric Sean Sears (Ben Nicholson) After moving here in 2008, Sean has Theatre, Hammersmith, 2000; Mother Courage (Brecht), Shared Experience/Ambassadors loved every minute of the theatre in Pittsburgh! He has been lucky, Theatre; The Good Hope (Heijermans), Royal National Theatre, 2001; The Barber of in his short time here, to have acted with Prime Stage Theatre as Seville (Beaumarchais), Bristol Old Vic, 2003. Opera: Adaptation of Il Pagliacci/The Joseph Merrick in The Elephant Man; with Throughline Theatre Comedians for the English National Opera, 2008. TV: “,” 1997, BBC; as Benjamin Cohen in The Underpants, with Pittsburgh Irish and “A Prince of Hearts,” 1998, BBC; “Wind in the Willows,” 2007, BBC; “Toast,” 2010, Classical Theatre as Abused Messenger in Antony and Cleopatra; BBC. Radio (all BBC): “I Luv You Jimmy Spud,” 1996 (Writers Guild Award Best New with Quantum Theatre as Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night, Play, Gold Sony Award Best New Play, Alfred Bradley Award, Society of Authors Award); as well as a part of the ensemble for the 2011 Young Playwrights “Spoonface Steinberg,” 1997; “I Love You, Ragie Patel,” 1997; “The Sorrows of Sandra Festival hosted at City Theatre. Sean earned his B.A. in Theatre Arts Saint,” 1997; “Blood Sugar,” 1997; “Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter” (from Vargas Llosa), from Catawba College in 2004 and would like to thank City Theatre 1998; “Gristle,” 1999; “Child of the Snow,” 2000; “Child of the Rain,” 2000. Film: “Billy for all their help and support. Elliot,” , 2000.

Alan Stanford (Harry Wilson) is in his fourth season with PICT, Natalie Baker-Shirer (Dialect Coach) has coached Debbie Reynolds, Katherine Heigl, where he recently played Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being John Leguizamo, Deborah Monk, Isabel Adjani, and other actors for theatre and film. She Earnest. Other PICT directing credits include last year’s record- was dialect coach for One for the Money, for Lakeshore Entertainment, and Diabolique breaking production of The Mask of Moriarty, as well as , with Sharon Stone for MorganCreek. She has been the resident voice and dialect coach Betrayal and Celebration. He began his career at Dublin’s Project for PICT since 1996, 75 plays to date, including Major Barbara, presented at the Galway Arts Centre where his productions included works by Shaw, Arbuzov, Arts Festival. Natalie appeared in Jule Styne’s Broadway production Something More Graham Greene, Brecht, Dürrenmatt and Shakespeare. He is Artistic with Barbara Cook. She played Maria in Michael Bennett’s National Tour of West Side Director of Second Age Theatre Company for whom he has directed Story, in the title role of Gypsy, Julie in Carousel, Rosemary in How to Succeed. She many productions, most recently Philadelphia Here I Come!, , appeared on Misterogers Neighborhood,. received an Emmy for “The Inside Story” and his own adaptation of A Doll’s House. Alan has been principal ((PBS), narrated, “Women Light up the Sky” which was broadcast in fifty-six countries. director at the Gate Theatre Dublin for nearly twenty years. His Video games voiceovers: “Hell” with Dennis Hopper, “Ripper” with Christopher Walken productions there include works by Shakespeare, Moliere, Noel Coward and . and Burgess Meredith, “Spiderman,” “The Venom Factor” and “The Sinister Six.” Natalie He holds the privilege of directing in his own play, The Collection, and has is Associate Professor of Speech and Phonetics at Carnegie Mellon Drama and Tepper presented many of his own adaptations including A Christmas Carol, Pride and Prejudice, School of Business. In partnership with the Online Learning Initiative at CMU, Natalie Oliver Twist, Jane Eyre, The Old Curiosity Shop and The Picture of Dorian Gray. His has developed American English Speech Course supported by the Gates Foundation, work as an actor includes roles with most of the major theatres in Ireland, receiving awards Lumina and Hewlett Packard. It will be open and free to the world this fall 2011. Natalie for his performance as Salieri in Amadeus, Astrov in Uncle Vanya, Higgins in Pygmalion directs a communitybased outreach course, The My True Voice Project, to teach distinct and Valmont in Les Liaisons Dangereuses. His interpretation of Herod in Salome received speech to students in Pittsburgh inner city schools. Natalie’s work is included in “Do international acclaim. He is known as Ireland’s leading exponent of the works of Oscar You Speak American,” a PBS MacNeil/Lehrer show. http://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/ Wilde. With the Gate Theatre’s Beckett Festival he performed as Pozzo in Waiting for standardamerican/truevoice/ Godot and as Hamm in Endgame, performances he repeated at the Lincoln Centre in New York and in Toronto, Melbourne, London, Beijing and Shanghi and two tours of the USA. Aaron Bollinger (Technical Director) is also the Head of Technical Theatre at Point Park For the he has played Judge Brack in Hedda Gabler and Lady Bracknell University in Pittsburgh. He is an MFA graduate of Yale School of Drama’s Technical in The Importance of Being Earnest. Design and Production department. Previously, Aaron was Assistant Professor of Technical Production at FSU’s School of Theatre. His research focuses on efficiency of use and design of dynamic scenery, both projected and automated. His research and work has given him the opportunity to hold many unique positions: Database Designer for Spiderman-Turn off the Dark’s immense automated scenic design on Broadway, Draftsman as a subcontractor for The Lion King’s Pride Rock built by Hudson Scenic, Production Manger and Technical Director for Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Illustrator for the book Control Systems for Live Entertainment: Third edition by John Huntington (currently working on the Fourth Edition), Video/Media Supervisor for the Arts + Ideas Festival in New Haven, CT, Assistant Technical Director at Elon University, Maine State Music Theatre and Orlando Shakespeare Festival, and many other positions. He would like to thank his wife and son for their support and patience.

Lori Lynn Bollinger (Scenic Charge Artist) is in her second season at PICT. Previous PICT credits include scenic charge artist for House & Garden, Race, and The Mask of Moriarty. Over the last ten years, Lori has served as scenic artist and paint shop manager for Florida State University, scenic charge artist for Glimmerglass Opera, staff scenic artist for Yale Repertory Theatre/Yale School of Drama, and scenic charge artist for the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival. Regional theatre credits include shows at Pittsburgh Public Theater, , Huntington Theatre Company and Goodspeed Musicals. Other important roles include wife to Aaron and mommy to Porter.

Scott Conklin (Master Electrician) Scott is in his first season with PICT and is excited to be working with such a talented professional group. In addition to working with PICT, Scott is the Master Electrician/Scene Shop Foreman for the University of Pittsburgh, and he provides lighting design and technical direction for a number of organizations and schools in the Pittsburgh region.

George DeShetler (Properties Master) is excited to be the Props Master for the 2012 season at PICT. George is also currently the Technical Director for Prime Stage Theatre and a carpenter for CMU’s School of Drama. Prior to moving to Pittsburgh in 2009, George was the Technical Director at Imagination Stage in Bethesda, Maryland. George has held various technical positions at regional theatres including Arena Stage (Washington, DC), Contemporary American Theater Festival (Shepherdstown, WV) and Indiana Repertory Theatre (Indianapolis, IN). George graduated from Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio, with a BFA in Theatre Design and Techology.

Gianni Downs (Production Manager/Scenic Manager) is pleased to be returning to PICT for his seventh season to design In the Next Room or the vibrator play, The Pitmen Painters and The Chekov Celebration. While in Pittsburgh, he has designed over 37 plays for PICT, including House and Garden, Race, Pinter Celebration, Crime and Punishment, History Boys, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Playboy of the Western World, and The Mask of Moriarty. Regionally, he has had the pleasure of designing for: The Repertory Theatre of Saint Louis, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, The City Theatre, Prime Stage Theatre, The Stoneham Theatre, and the Point Park Playhouse among others. Gianni is the recipient of a Kevin Kline Award in Excellence in Scenic Design for In the Next Room or the vibrator play and has been nominated for Crime & Punishment and The Lieutenant of Inishmore, as well as a nomination for an Independent Reviewers of New Award for Stoneham Theatre’s The Dazzle. Academically, Gianni received an MFA from Brandeis University, Chris Rummel (Sound Designer) is happy to be working with PICT for the first time. taught at and the University of Pittsburgh, served as a member of Recent designs include Camino (The Hiawatha Project). New York - #9 (Waterwell/59E59), the Special Faculty in Scenic Design at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama, Boy Girl Mind Rock Fun Love (Roundabout Theatre Co.), Freed (59E59), Stockton and was an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Westminster College. His portfolio can be (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Wood (NYMF), The Real Thing, How I Learned To Drive (T. viewed online at www.giannidesigns.net. Schreiber Studio, two NYIT nominations), Raised By Lesbians (NY Fringe), The Jack of Tarts (La Mama ETC), The Listener of Junk City (New Dramatists), and Angels In Jim French (Lighting Designer) Previous designs for PICT: The Importance of Being America (Stella Adler). Chris is the resident sound designer for Personal Space Theatrics, Earnest, Pinter Celebration (Celebration,The Hothouse, No Man’s Land, The Room). Crime a member of TheDrillingCompaNY. BFA, Syracuse University, MFA Candidate, Carnegie And Punishment, History Boys, Rock ‘n’ Roll, Synge Cycle, Playboy of the Western World, Mellon University. Lieutenant of Inishmore. Pittsburgh: A Picasso, Blackbird (City Theatre). Dance: Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Richmond Ballet, Twyla Tharp Dance, Pascal Rioult Dance Jessi Sedon-Essad (Projection Designer) has been a Projection Designer for theatre, Theatre, Jennifer Muller/The Works, Chet Walker/ 8&ah1, Chitresh Das, Jacob’s Pillow dance, and installation in Pittsburgh for the past eight years. Her previous PICT credits Dance Festival, Adele Myers and Dancers. www.jimfrenchld.com include The History Boys and Rock ‘N’ Roll. Jessi is currently the resident projection designer for The and has had the pleasure of working with The Cory Goddard (Production Stage Manager) is in his eighth season with PICT. A , Pittsburgh CLO, Bricolage Theatre, Off Productions, The Pillow graduate of Baldwin-Wallace College in Cleveland, he is thrilled to call Pittsburgh home. Project, Attack Theatre, Hiawatha Project, and spoken word artist Vanessa German. Jessi Cleveland area stage management credits include: , The Laramie Project, The 24 is also the video designer for Squonk Opera and is currently designing Squonk’s new Hour Theatre Project, Grey Gardens, and the non-equity premieres of Brooklyn, Phantom outdoor show, GO Roadshow, set to premiere this summer. Some excerpts of her work of the Opera, and [title of show]. Past PICT credits include: Pinter Celebration, Othello, can be seen at www.shinealightdesigns.com and www.squonkopera.org. House & Garden, Antony & Cleopatra, Beautiful Dreamers, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Jane Eyre, The History Boys, Doubt, What the Butler Saw, Stones in his Pockets, Private Jesse Poole Van-Swol (Master Carpenter) is a third generation carpenter who has been Lives, Synge Cycle, Stuff Happens, Boston Marriage, Synge Cycle, and Salome. He would working in theatre for nearly 20 years. He graduated from the Pinellas County Center like to thank Alan, Rebekah, Jo, Alicia, Phill, Gianni and Lissa. for the Arts with honors in 1997. He has worked all over the Tampa Bay area of Florida, including St. Petersburg Little Theatre and as a master carpenter/scenic tech for the Home Shopping . He moved to Pittsburgh in April of 2011 and jumped headfirst into the Rachel S. Parent (Costume Design)This is Rachel’s third season with PICT. You may theatre scene. He is currently the shop foreman at City Theatre, has worked as technical remember her design from last season’s production of Race. She is a recent CMU grad. director for Quantum Theatre and has worked for the Center. He is excited Favorite designs include Anything Goes (Kalamazoo Civic Theatre) Someone Who’ll Watch to be back for a second season at PICT. Over Me (Phase 3 Productions), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Carnegie Mellon School of Drama). Thank you for supporting Pittsburgh theatre. rachelsparent. com

Andrew Paul (Director) is the co-founder and producing artistic director of PICT. Under his leadership, PICT has produced sixty-six main-stage productions, Festivals devoted to the plays of , John Millington Synge, and Harold Pinter, and two successful international tours. His directing credits for PICT include last year’s productions of David Mamet’s Race and Alan Ayckbourn’s House, the 2010 productions of Othello, No Man’s Land, and Hobson’s Choice, and the 2009 productions of The History Boys and Rock ‘n’ Roll. Other PICT directing credits include Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Henry IV, and Julius Caesar; the world premiere of Thomas Kilroy’s Henry (After Pirandello); Chekhov’s The Seagull and Uncle Vanya; Friel’s Faith Healer and Aristocrats; and David Hare’s Stuff Happens and Via Dolorosa. In 2008, Andrew directed and collaborated with David Hare on the non-English language premiere of Stuff Happens at the Slaski Teatr in Katowice, Poland. He has taught acting at and directing at Carnegie Mellon University, has served as a panelist for Theatre Communications Group and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and is a proud board member of Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre. In 2010, Andrew was a featured speaker at the World Theatre Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan. Many thanks to Chris McGinnis and this amazingly talented cast. I dedicate my work on this production to my late, great friend Mark Russ. High Culture & The Pitmen Painters by Lee Hall Some things in my play are untrue. The Bedlington Terrier was not, for instance, painted by Jimmy Floyd but by another Ashington Group member, William Scott, and Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach were not translated into English until 1938 so Harry probably didn’t quote them in 1933. However; the most obvious untruth is that there were only five members of the group. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the real story is that there were at least 30 people in the first register alone. My main characters — George, Harry, Jimmy, and Oliver — are based on their historical Mother and Child, Oliver Kilbourn (1939) namesakes but inevitably bear aspects of other members of the group. However, with the exception of The Bedlington Terrier, all of the pictures each character paints were in fact done by their historical namesakes, and perhaps more surprisingly, virtually all of the events of the play are based on the truth.

The group did go to London and were entertained to an evening of madrigals by the curator of the Tate. Their work was collected by one of the foremost collectors of Modernism in the country. They were friends with some of the most important artists of their day and were feted by prominent members of the left wing intelligentsia.

But what struck me most about them was that, despite being a group of very ordinary men whose personal histories had been harsh and brutal — surviving war, personal tragedy, and the scantest of educations — they wrote knowledgeably about Cezanne and Picasso, and were ardent devotees of Turner, Ruskin and Blake. Even when he retired, Oliver Kilbourn would stay with Bill Feaver so he could spend whole days in the London galleries studying the Great Masters and the modern Giants. These were fearless souls, confident to talk as equals to the best minds of the day, yet humble enough to go on a life-long search for knowledge and illumination.

Their work, however, is anything but academic, theoretical or difficult. It is accessible, straightforward and full of life. But I didn’t quite understand their achievement until I looked at the attempts their direct contemporaries made to portray the same subjects. If you compare Henry Moore’s drawings of miners with those by Oliver or Jimmy, you can see that the Group can hold their heads high. But what is perhaps most interesting is that a direct comparison is irrelevant because of the Group’s avowedly ‘unprofessional’ status.

The idea that art is somehow a commodity, that culture is something one consumes rather than takes part in, is, of course, a very modern notion. The idea that an artist is someone who makes things to be bought and sold is part of this ideological shift and it is important to remind ourselves that art might indeed mean something more than this. That the Group chose to make art both central to their lives but removed from the ‘economy’ of the art world seems very significant.

Quite clearly the working classes of the early part of last century were aspirational about high art. They not only felt entitled, but felt a duty to take part in the best that life has to offer in terms of art and culture. That 50 years later I could write Billy Elliot, a story about the incomprehension of a mining community towards a similar aspirant to high culture, seems to me some sort of index of a political and cultural failure. Despite the advances in education and the blossoming of the welfare state, somehow we have failed to ‘democratize’ the riches of culture. That the Group managed to achieve so much unaided and unabetted should remind us that dumbing down is not a prerequisite of culture being more accessible. That is a lie perpetrated by those who want to sell us shit. Culture is something we share and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.

© 2008 Lee Hall Pitmen Painters: The Ashington Group by William Feavers On the train to Ashington that afternoon in October 1934, Robert Lyon, Master of Painting at Armstrong College Newcastle (then part of Durham University), was in two minds as to how to proceed. Invited to teach art appreciation Fred Laidler, Jimmy Floyd, and Oliver Kilbourn, c. 1969 from scratch, this immediate instinct was to lay on a feast of lantern slides: High Renaissance for beginners featuring Michelangelo, Leonardo and so on. Ashington was outside his orbit and the nearest he had ever got to consorting with coal miners was his friendship at the Royal College of Art with the son of a Yorkshire colliery official, a young sculptor named Harry, later known as Henry Moore. The Workers Educational Association class that had asked to be supplied with a lecturer wanted to move on from Geology, Evolution, and other such topics. Forty or so turned up at the YMCA hall, an old army hut, for the first session, but only half that number the following week. The reason why so many dropped Pitmen Painters: The Ashington Group, continued out right away was obvious. Lyon himself was the first to realize that there was no point in exposing details of the Sistine Chapel to an audience completely unversed in art. It was agreed that instead of being idle hands looking at black and white projections of remote images on an improvised screen, the men should try making images themselves. Lyon started them off on linocuts, reasoning that the business of gouging lines in resistant material would suit manual workers. And then breakthrough: he and the class came to an understanding. Given a subject (‘Deluge,’ say, or ‘The Hermit’), each member would do a painting accordingly, to be discussed in class the following week. All at Tuesday evening became the focus of life outside of work. The Group flourished.

(Oliver Kilbourn’s The Deluge)

Word of it spread, to Newcastle and beyond. Patrons of art became interested, notably Helen Sutherland, a shipping line heiress who lived at Rock, due north of Ashington. Through her they got to know artists such as Ben Nicholson and David Jones, and she arranged for them to go on a weekend trip to London where they were modestly feted at the Tate and the British Museum. Then Mass Observation, a socio-documentary movement of the late 1930’s dedicated to getting people to recount everything that occurred to them in their daily lives, sought them out as prime examples of working men’s self-expression. They were visited, photographed, and debated over. After eight years of involvement, Lyon moved to Edinburgh to run the College of Art there. Aware that he had gained a reputation on the strength of the Group, he maintained sporadic contact, half expecting that the impetus would soon cease, not least because of wartime circumstances. The Group however flourished. Conscious by this time that their strength lay in their ability to depict as insiders what others could only see from afar and romanticize or politicize, they persisted in painting the settings and incidents of their daily lives. By the end of the war the Group had its own premises, a former army hut, where they went on meeting every Tuesday. When I first encountered the Group, in 1971 (at the preview in the LaingArt Gallery of works from the Helen Sutherland Collection) the surviving members were elderly and reduced in number to fewer than ten. I visited them one cold January evening in their hut. As the fire was lit and overcoats were discarded they began pulling paintings out from under tables and shelves. They were: pictures of life above and below ground, some of the early subjects, some of the more recent gaudy experiments, scenes of allotment, club and domestic carry-on. Already they had been shown all over the country; later they were to be toured to the Netherlands, Germany and China. By 1984 the Group no longer functioned. The hut was demolished when the ground became unaffordable. The paintings were kept together in varying circumstances until, eventually, Oliver Kilbourn and I became founder trustees for the formally constituted permanent collection and deposited it at the Woodhorn Colliery Museum. Two years ago, following expansion and rebuilding, the paintings went on permanent display there in their own gallery. In Lee Hall’s play the urges, the frustrations and the twists and turns of events are composed into argument and narrative, touching and illuminating. The pictures, projected above the actors’ heads, complement the dialogue below. Robert Lyon’s catchphrase ‘seeing by doing’ has come to fruition far removed from the original idea that he hit on one Monday night in an ex-army hut in 1930’s Ashington. Seeing by doing. Doing by seeing. Each time the play is performed it renews in spirit the that united the Group, demonstrating once again that art making is art appreciation and art appreciation is also a zest for life. In the mid-1980’s, not long after the last of his fellow founder-members died, Oliver — then still working on one last set of paintings — wrote to me, putting in words what the paintings represent: ‘A key factor in our long life, I think, was the fact that we were never a commercial group but preserved our idealism. We thought we were doing something that no one else could do. We were depicting a way of life both below and above ground in a mining village that only we knew by experiencing it. Life goes on and we paint life. A funny thing, once you’ve painted a picture you feel it’s part of your life.’

© 2008 William Feavers PICT 2012 SPONSORS PPG Industries, Inc. has generously donated the paint for the season Season Media Sponsors Essential Public Radio 90.5 FM and WYEP 91.3 FM The Pitmen Painters Sponsors Karen & Richard Miller - Friday, June 1 Dina & Jerry Fulmer - Opening Night, June 2 Susan & Joe Karas - Opening Night, June 2 Berger and Green - Saturday, June 9 Sandy & Gene O’Sullivan - Friday, June 22 CHEKHOV FESTIVAL SPONSORS: Richard E. Rauh Bernice H. Jefferson Memorial Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Chester H. Lehman Memorial Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Walter S. Meyer Memorial Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Education and Enrichment Program Sponsors ARAD, First National Bank of Pennsylvania, Henry C. Frick Educational Fund of the Buhl Foundation, Highmark Casualty Insurance, Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, H.J. Heinz Company Foundation, Levin Furniture, McKinney Charitable Foundation through the PNC Charitable Trust Grant Review Committee, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Ryan Memorial Foundation, UPMC Health Plan.

For information on the benefits of sponsorship, please contact Gale McGloin, Development Director, at 412.561.6000 x204 or email [email protected]

Shadyside Inn Suites A Home Away from Home ...Stay a day, a week, a month, or a lifetime... 412-441-4444 5405 Fifth Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15232 Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre Annual Fund Donors Sheri & Bob Sclabassi Peggi Kelley & Joel Bigger Henry & Anne Bent We extend our deepest appreciation to the following donors who support Art Sheffield Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Kerr, Jr. Beth Bershok & PICT programs on the stage and in the community. Virginia & James Starr Gloria Kleiman Tom Bakaitus Drs. Michael & Beverly Paul & Priscilla Laughlin Robin J. Bernstein & Steinfeld Randy & Charlotte Lott Herbert L. Seigle Mr. & Mrs. Harry A. Dennis Lynch & Linda Klena Aya Betensky & Robert Kraut Thompson, II David March Stephanie & Joseph Birnberg Typecraft Press, Inc. Michael Mathier & Thomas G. Black UPMC Gale McGloin Nancy Werner Rachel Givelber Susan J. Block ($25,000 +) William Butler Yeats Mt. Lebanon Floral* Kathleen White Robert H. McDonald Weia F. Boelema Allegheny Regional Asset ($2,500-$4,999) Lewis A. & Susan McGregor-Laine Susan Bonello District First National Bank of Donna M. Patterson Oscar Wilde David & Christina Brendan Booth Anonymous Pennsylvania Charitable Foundation ($250-$499) Michelmore Carlos Borzutzky The David Kremen PNC Foundation Jane C. Arkus Linda Murphy David & Carol Bostick Philip Chosky Charitable & Kresge Foundation The Porch at Schenley Anonymous Mary Lib Myers Robert Boulware Educational Foundation Levin Furniture Anne Shearon Donald B. Arnheim Maeve Nolan William Bradley The Pittsburgh Foundation Karen & Richard Miller Susan & Philip Smith Nancy Bernstein & Dee Jay Oshry & Bart Rack Donald & Becky Brophy Richard E. Rauh Vivian Sue Molina & Sara Steelman Rocky Schoen Deborah & Martin Powell Karen Brown Walter S. Meyer Memorial Fund Richard W. Dugan Target Kenneth & Marlene Brand Stephanie Riso & Kathleen & Carl Bruning of The Pittsburgh Foundation Susan Shira Nilsen John Tomayko Lin & Jim Buck Richard Goodwald Laurie & Frank Bruns James Joyce North Shore School Vincent Lighting Systems William R. Cadwell David & Jane Rodes Martha Buckley ($10,000-$24,999) of the Arts* Bob & Arlene Weiner Susan B. Campbell & Donald & Sylvia Robinson Sarah & Charles Buffington Yes We Cater* Anonymous Sally & Ned Ruffin Patrick Curry Family Foundation Frank & Diane Burke Natalie & Jonathan Shirer R. Casoff, MD Mona Rush & Sam Rush Anne & James Burnham The Fine Foundation UPMC Health Plan Michael & Abigail Cook Elaine Sadowski Charles & Shirley Bursey Hans & Leslie Fleischner ($500-$999) Fund of The Pittsburgh Anne K. Curtis & Merilee Salmon Jay & Linda Bush Anonymous Foundation John Millington Synge Timothy F. Clark David & Erin Shannon-Auel Felecia & Joseph Bute Dr. & Mrs. John Barber Chester H. Lehman Memorial ($1,000-$2,499) Drs. James & Silberman Family Fund of Dione & Chris Cahillane Meyer & Merle Berger Fund of The Pittsburgh Dr. Madalon Amenta Stephanie Dewar The Pittsburgh Foundation Bernadette G. Callery & Family Foundation, Inc. Foundation Alcoa Foundation James & Sara Donnell Preston & Annette Shimer Joseph M. Newcomer Marian & Bruce Block Sandy & Gene O’Sullivan Anchor Fund of The Joseph Fine Lee & Myrna Silverman Mr. & Mrs. James Callomon Howard & Marilyn Bruschi Pennsylvania Council Pittsburgh Foundation Suzanne Flood Harry & Mary Snyder Lisa Campagna Charlton Fund of the on the Arts Anonymous Adel Fougnies & David Solosko & Dr. R.G. & Phyllis Caneva Pittsburgh Foundation James M. & Lucy K. Alan & Margie Baum Richard Thomas Sandra Kniess Matt & Beth Carroll James Christy Schoonmaker Foundation Susan & David Brownlee John & Therese Gallagher Judy & Jerry Starr Patricia Cekoric Carol & David Dalcanton The Shubert Foundation Citizens for the Arts/ Gary & Joanne Garvin Fred Steinberg Susan Cepicka-Dietrich Pennsylvania Council on Peter Donovan Mr. & Mrs. Edward Gerjuoy Robert Swendsen Bill & Susan Cercone Samuel Beckett the Arts Jeanne & Robert Drennan Cathy & Michael Ginsberg John & Nancy Traina Susan Chagnon & ($5,000-$9,999) Cohen & Grigsby, P.C. Federated Investors Greye & Karin Glass Chuck & Janet Vukotich Eric Pederson Cynthia Berger & Maurice B. Cohill Foundation, Inc. Dolores Gluck Louis & Mary Wagner James C. Chaplin IV Laurence Green Peggy & Jim Degnan Gap Foundation Walter & Helen Goldburg Donal & Mary Warde Dan & Laverne Collins BNY Mellon Elliott Company Terri Gould Linda Haddad & Ron Stone David & Naomi Whalen Alan & Lynne Colker Eden Hall Foundation Pearl & Dave Figgins Audrey & Fred Heidenreich Mary & Don Harrison Ramona Baker Wingate Betty & Paul Connelly Henry C. Frick Educational Grambrindi Davies Fund of Bernice H. Jefferson Ann & Jim Harty Robert & Mary Ann Wittig Norb & Carole Connors Fund of the Buhl Foundation Memorial Fund of Anne & Raymond Hasley Judy & John Woffington Marilyn Conroy & The Pittsburgh Dina & Jerry Fulmer Foundation The Pittsburgh Foundation The Daniel S. Heit Bernard Brown Highmark Blue Cross Justin Krauss & Valentina Kevin Gieder Philanthropic Fund of the Brian Friel Dr. Noelette Conway & Blue Shield Pam Groff* Benrexi-Krauss Jewish Community Dr. Hagen Schempf H.J. Heinz Company MaherDuessel ($100-$249) Stephen & Kathleen Guinn Foundation of the Jewish Anonymous Cornelius & Joan Cosgrove Foundation Highmark Casualty Insurance Matis Baum O’Connor Federation of Greater Patricia Cottam George Loewenstein & James & Carol McCague Diane & Christopher Abell Bettyanne & Jim Huntington Pittsburgh Alan L. & Barbara B. James A. Craft Donna Harsch Joseph & Susan Karas Robert McCartney William & Rosette Hillgrove Nelson & Carol Craige McKinney Charitable Ellen & Michael McLean Ackerman Foundation Richard Kelly* Mr. & Mrs. Henry Hillman Ties & Jorunn Allersma David & Mary Ann Foundation through the PNC Linda Kimbrough Sally Minard & Eric Johnson & Richard Alter Creamer Charitable Trust Grant Walter Limbach Jonathan Arac Robert Levin Paul Johnson & Janet Moore Norma S. Artman Dutch Creely Review Committee Sally Levin Dr. Sean Nolan James Keller & Ann Criss PPG Industries PNC Financial Services Dr. & Mrs. Walter Bartynski Patricia Kearney & Mary Ellen Hoy Dotti & John Bechtol Alan & Susan Crittenden Ryan Memorial Foundation Group Robert & Judith Cunningham Ernest McCarty * in-kind Eliese S. Cutler Sandra LaPietra Carol & Fred McCullough Virginia W. Schatz Edith Bell Andy & Debbie Gespass Patricia & Walter Damian Martha S. Helmreich Raymond & Constance George & Karen Schnakenberg Elizabeth Bennett Arlyn Gilboa Marion & Dean Damick Jean & James Higgins McKeever Carolyn & Robert Schumacher Richard A. Beran Mr. Elliott Gill Helen T. Davis E. Bruce Hill David & Margaret McKewon David P. & Elizabeth T. Segel Jeff & Tracy Bishop Mimi Giroux Lila Decker Carol Hochman & Bill Lafe Steve & Dee McMahon Morton & Rita Seltman Bonnie Bloch Bernard Goldstein & Deanna Della Vedova Dena Hofkosh Moni McIntyre Susan & Brian Sesack Kathy & Walter Boykowycz Russellyn Caruth Dave & Diane Denis Lori & Alan Hornell Rosemary Mendel Steven & Evelyn Silberman Chuck & Carol Bradley Michele Gray-Shaffer Barbara DeRiso & Francine Hyde David Meyer Bill & Kathleen Simpson Leslie & Matthew Braksick Dana & Richard Green Donald Newman IBM Milton & Lois Michaels Jen Ann Skiles & Melvin Miller Earl & Rita Brink Peter Greer Maurice Deul Linda Iller John Modis Henry & Adelaide Smith Carrie & Larry Brooks Naomi Grodin Bill Dixon & Kay Gavigan Vaughn & Evelyn Irwin Windle & Kathleen Mook Wallace & Patricia Smith Renee Brown Martha & Francis Groll Richard & Harvette Dixon Lois Jacob Patricia Mooney & Wil Snyder Theresa Brown & Al & Arlene Grubbs Dollar Bank Charlie & Eileen Jacobs Alan Steinberg David Sogg & Lisa Parker Arthur Kosowsky Connie & Jim Guggenheimer Dennis & Mary Doubleday Jim & Gene James Robert & Mary Pat Moorehead Susan and Holly Sphar James Anderson & Meira Gumerman Gianni Downs Linda & Orlando Jardini Regis & Evelyn Murrin Rob & Janet Squires Katherine Brownlee Mark & Helen Gup Robert & Maria Durrant Judy Johnston & Bobby & Lee Myers Richard & Mimi Stadler Kevin Bursley Jerome & Diane Halpern Joe & Helen Eaton Linda Cordisco John Nagle & Judy & Jim Stalder Network for Good Judith & Gerard Hamill Janet & Theodore Eck Sue Johnson & Mark Puda Stephanie Tristam-Nagle Terence & Joanne Starz Dr. Anthony & Phyllis Caggiula Matthew Hampton Dr. & Mrs. Terry L. Evans Jay & Annabelle Joseph Kay Neuhausen George & Karen Stipetich J. Stanton Carson Alayne & Jerry Harris Stephanie & Fred Fall Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Joyce Sam Newbury & Lisa & Peter Strick Michael & Ruth Casey Jane Haskell Lisa & Buck Favorini Takeo & Yukiko Kanade Jan Myers-Newbury Rachel & Lowell Swarts Susan Chagnon & Eric Pedersen Maryanne Hugo & Heidi B. Fenton Sophia K. Katsafanas Robert T. Norman & Patricia L. Swedlow Joan & Harold Chelemer Patrick Hastings Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence Ferlan Jay Keenan Liane E. Norman Jack & Dorothy Swiss Rosemary K. Coffey Patricia Heagy Velma & Harry Ferrari Nancy & Tom Kelly Marianne Novy Irene & Aron Szulman Morton & Greta Coleman Dawn & Dan Heilman Warren D. Ferry Patricia Kelly Jack & Phyllis Ochs Jay & Linda Thier Maren Cooke & Neil Donahue Linda & Robert Heithoff Dr. & Mrs. Robert E. Fidoten Susan Kelly & William Cullen Fabian O’Connor Dr. & Mrs. Albert Treger Cynthia & Bill Cooley Ronald Heller Marian Finegold Claire & Tom Kennedy Patrick O’Donnell Walter & Jane Turner Julie Lynn Coulton Elaine Herald & John Jordan Moses & Laryn Finder Nancy Kenny Fritz Okie Ed & Melanie Turk Joan & Charles Cullen Stephany M. Holland June & Bernard Fineman Tom & Bunny Kerr Kristen L. Olson, Ph.D. Deborah Walker & Barbara Daly Danko Marianne Hooker Paul & Joanna Fitting Ellen Kight Ellen Ormond Paul Floreancig Richard & Suzanne Danks Marita & Ivan Howell Lee Fogarty Sharon Kimble Andrew Paul James Walker & Ellen Viakley Bonnie & Steve Dake Patrick Hughes Leslie Pope Forney Jack & Deb King Marla Perlman John & Irene Wall Mary Davitt & Mitchell Tublin Sean & Carol Hughes Cyril & Jane Fox Dr. Mario & Deidre Kinsella Janine Pearson & Joseph Wister Nikola & Phil Webb Ellen & Gil DeBenedetti Steven Husted Mark & Lynne Frank Gloria & Al Klein Carmen Perez & & Larry Weidman Dr. Candy S. DeBerry & A. E. Jennings, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Carl B. Frankel Terri Klein & Daniel Gup Jorge Vasquez Richard Wells Ms. Carla Myers Perry L. Jubelirer Mark Freeman Alice D. Koger Cliff & Theresa Pinsent Sandra Welsh Ann DeKlerk Joan Kaplan Mark Gasparovic Hanita & Ram Kossowsky Pat & Bill Pohlman Ray & Susan Werner Marylyn F. Devlin Mark Kautzmann William & Margaret Ghrist Don Kosy David & Marilyn Posner Brian & Kathy White Richard Devlin Lorna & Kevin Kearns Patricia Gibbons Carolyn Kyler & Jack & Jill Preston Barbara Widdoes Delia & Victor DiCarlo Gene Keidan Carol Gluck & Albert Weiner Jocelyn Sheppard Carrie & Joe Regenstein Sandra D. Williamson Bob & Gene Dickman Amy H. Kellman John Goodenough Eileen L. Lane Madelyn A. Reilly & Bill & Laurie Winslow Steven Doerfler Ward Kelsey Elizabeth Graf Larry & Lynn Lebowitz Robin Girdhar Sam & Penny Yousem Fr. Garrett Dorsey Mary Kenny John & Suzanne Graf Sylvia & Peter Leo Jim Reitz & Mary Heath Florence & Harvey Zeve Mary Ellen Droll Marylyn Knolle Melissa Hill Grande Claire & Larry Levine Daniel & Lauren Resnick Anne K. Ducanis Dr. & Mrs. Lewis Kuller David & Nancy Green Cindy Limauro & James & Idamae Rich Martin McDonagh Joe & Joellen Duckett Ralph & Maureen Krichbaum Marjorie Greenberger Christopher Popowich Dr. Tor Richter ($50-$99) Aida & Barry Dugan Deborah Landen Conroy D. Guyer Katherine & Lewis Lobdell Margaret A. Riso Anonymous James & Amy Ekmann Carol & Howard Lang Dr. & Mrs. Adam W. Hahn Patrick Mahady Ronald & Harriette Roadman Richard J. Adams Luanne Fabry Alan & Vivian Lawsky Van & Paula Hall John K. Maitland Burton Roberts Dr. Albert & Ellen B. Amshel Janet Felmeth Judy & Gary Lemoncelli Kathleen & Fred Hann Phyllis Majewsky Peter & Leslie Robinson Ellen Ansell & Rick Rogow Elizabeth Fleurant Richard & Mary Lesniak Meg & Ron Hannan Susan Manzi Larry & Sandy Rosen Joan Apt Candace Founds Patty & Stanley Levine Donald Harrington Eric Marchbein Shoshana & Jerry Rosenberg Joel Babkes Anne Franks Frank Lieberman & Ken & Nancy Harris Robert & Laura Marin Mrs. Louisa Rosenthal Bank of America Joan B. Friedberg Beverly Barkon Paula & Howard Harris Joan Markert Claire B. Saalback Susan T. Barclay George & Mary Lou Frost Jackie & Larry Lobl Eleanor Heasley William & Debera Marra Joan M. Saroff Neill & Shirley Barker Carlos Funes Jeffrey & Rachel Lowden Catherine Hebert Carol Marsiglio Thomas & Sheila Savits Barbara Barnett Warren & Linda Galiffa Kilolo Luckett & John Barbera Mark Heine & Helene Bender Rita Martin Karen Scansaroli Christopher A. Beck Mary B. Gallagher Dr. & Mrs. Robert M. Lumish Alan Helgerman & Thomas & Susan McCaffrey Miriam Schaffel Vange & Nick Beldecos Martha Garvey Jim & Pat Lynn Macy’s Foundation Lorraine Starsky George & Joan Shames Special Gifts: Norma Sue Madden Margaret O’Connell Mabel Shaner Hank Mader James Olszewski Aryeh & Rochelle Sherman Anonymous, in honor of Anne Mullaney Richard & Joyce Magee Scott O’Neal Roz Sherman James C. Chaplin IV, in honor of Anne Burnham Joyce Magill Susan & Sean O’Rourke Jo Shores Maurice B. Cohill, in memory of my wife, Anne D. Mullaney Kathleen & Robert Mahoney Thomas Pandaleon & Jay Silberblatt & Lori Sisson Jamini Vincent Davies in honor of Mona Rush’s birthday Ralph & Marcia Malmer Faith Schantz Francis B. Simko, Jr. Mary Davitt, in memory of my father, J. Alan Davitt William & Doris Malter Elizabeth & Todd Pascuzzi David Simon Richard Devlin, remembering Rita Devlin Sandra Simon Mangham Maggie Patterson John Sitton The Fougnies Family, in memory of Catherine & Leon Fougnies David & Kathia Marks Cynthia Pennington & Professor Daniel Sleator In Memory of Leon Fougnies: Demetria Marsh C. Liam Donohue Chester & Anita Smolenski Dr. R.G. & Phyllis Caneva Raymond E. Marsh Ms.Terese Piccoli Stella Smetanka & W.E. & Mary Ann Griffin James Collins, Jr. Kenneth Mason & Charlotte & Norbert Pilewski Kemal Alexander Mericli Alice Koger Barbara & Ralph Danna Marilyn Roberts Jeffrey Pollock Carol Solomon Maxine Nunn Linda Ehrlich David Maxwell Suzanne Powell Gerri Sperling & Nikola & Phil Webb Eleanor Mayfield Kathleen Puskar David Slesnick In honor of David Kremen: Stuart & Mary Staley Bob McAfoos Martin Regan Lisa Campagna Michelle McClendon Douglas & Terri Reiss James Stangl Linda Iller Christine McClure Robert Richardson William & Joan Stenger Bruce & Stephanie Barbara D. Richman Elizabeth Stern James Olszewski McConachie R.C. Ridgway Jaclyn Sternick Jeffrey & Rachel Lowden, in honor of Robert Levin Earl McDaniel Sean Rolly Denee Stevenson Milton & Lois Michaels, in honor of Andrew S. Paul Patricia & James McDonnell Deborah Rosen Barbara Story Robert & Carol Miller, in honor of the marriage of Faye Miller & Diane Pittman Maureen McHugh & Michael & Linda Rosenbaum Mona Strassburger Margaret Mima, in memory of Joseph Mima Fran Barret Ralph & Dolores Roskies Dick Strojan Thomas Pandaleon & Faith Schantz, in memory of Lila Schantz Gerald & Denise Medwick Christine & James Rupp Linda J. Tuite Jeffrey Pollock, in honor of former PICT Board member, Mark Clayton Southers Robert & Christiana Mendoza Ms. Sylvia Sachs Patricia Ulbrich & Mona Rush, in memory of Renee Huff-Moody: A mother who never gave up hope that Richard & Christine Michaels James Sahovey Claus Makowka her lost son would one day be found Robert & Carol Miller Beatrice Salazar Peter Teneyck Anchor Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation in honor of Cynthia Berger Rev. Robert J. Miller Esther Sales Deborah & Stephen Vargo Susan Miller David Salgarolo & Darlene Veghts Margaret Mima Frances Savoia Margaret & Christopher Vincent Christine & Robert Misback Harold & Marla Sue Irving Wender & Jean Gershon Joseph P. Moffitt Scheinman Kaye Wentling & Mondo Italiano Dr. Elizabeth A. Schlenk Richard Spring Vivian & Lewis Morse Sandy & Steve Schmerin Fred & Peggy Whelan Earl Mounts Eleanor Schoenberger Phil & Sarah Wildenhain Eleanor & Ed Nemeth Elizabeth Schoyer Rev. Phillip Wilson Anita Newell Mr. & Mrs. Tony Schryer Merlyn & Jim Williams Walter & Marilyn Noll Iriving & Janet Selsley Allen Wolfert & Dee & Bob Novak Ron Senerius & Adrienne Young Dr. Enrico Novelli Michael Madden Terry & Janet Woodcock Nancy Noyes Amanda Serra Elizabeth Woodland Maxine Nunn Joyce Serratore Barbara & Marc Yergin Peter Oanes & Marianne Shaffer Marlene & John Yokim

* in-kind

Contributions from January 1, 2011 - May 17, 2012. For corrections or information about making a tax-deductible gift to PICT, call Gale McGloin at 412.561.6000, x204. Don’t forget to see if your employer has a gift-matching program. Many thanks to the following companies for supporting PICT by matching their employees’ contributions: Bank of America, BNY Mellon, The Buhl Foundation, Chevron, Computer Associates Inc., Gap Stores, HJ Heinz Co. Foundation, Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, IBM, Macy’s Foundation, PNC Foundation, PPG Industries, Inc., UBS. PICT Board of Directors

Eugene O’Sullivan, President Kevin R. Gieder, Vice-President Cynthia Berger, Secretary Dina J. Fulmer, Treasurer

Alan Baum Fabian O’Connor Joseph Karas Andrew S. Paul, ex-officio Justin Krauss Richard E. Rauh Richard Miller Anne B. Shearon, Esq. V. Sue Molina Arthur Sheffield Advisory Board Members D.L. “Larry” Brophy, E. Bruce Hill, Paul Homick, David Kremen, Robert Levin, Kristen Olson, PhD., Alberta Sbragia, John Sotirakis, Wanda Wilson

Honorary Board Members U.S. Representative Mike Doyle, Charles Gray, Thomas Kilroy, David Norris–Seanad Eireann, Bingo O’Malley, Stephanie Riso

PICT Staff Andrew S. Paul, Producing Artistic Director Stephanie Riso, Operations Director Gale McGloin, Development Director, Education Director Michelle Belan, Marketing Director Gianni Downs, Production Manager & Resident Scenic Designer Carolyn Ludwig, Office Assistant

Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre, Inc. PO Box 23607, Pittsburgh, PA 15222 Tel: 412-561-6000, Fax: 412-561-6686

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