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Meanwhile, our intensive Summer Training leadership of Artistic Director Carey Perloff, we embrace Congress attracts students from around the world, and the San our responsibility to conserve, renew, and reinvent our rich Francisco Semester offers a unique study-abroad opportunity theatrical traditions and literatures, while exploring new for undergraduates. Other programs include the world-famous artistic forms and new communities. Founded by William Ball, Young Conservatory for students ages 8 to 19, led by 28-year a pioneer of the regional theater movement, A.C.T. opened its veteran Craig Slaight; Studio A.C.T., our expansive course of first San Francisco season in 1967. We have since performed theater study for adults; and the Professional Development more than 350 productions to a combined audience of more Training Program, which offers actor training for companies than seven million people. Every year we reach more than seeking to elevate their employees’ business performance skills. 250,000 people through our productions and programs. Our alumni often grace our mainstage and perform around the Bay Area, as well as on stages and screens across the country. Rising from the wreckage of the earthquake and fire of 1906 and hailed as the “perfect playhouse,” the beautiful, historic A.C.T. also brings the benefits of theater-based arts education Geary Theater has been our home since the beginning. When to more than 12,000 Bay Area students and educators each the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake ripped the roof apart, San year. Central to our ACTsmart education programs, run by Franciscans rallied together to raise a record-breaking $30 Director of Education & Community Programs Elizabeth million to rebuild the theater. The Geary reopened in 1996 with Brodersen, is the longstanding Student Matinee (SMAT) a production of The Tempest directed by Perloff, who took over program, which has brought hundreds of thousands of young in 1992 after the retirement of A.C.T.’s second artistic director, people to A.C.T. performances since 1968. We also provide gentleman artist Ed Hastings. touring Will on Wheels Shakespeare productions, teaching- artist residencies, in-school workshops, and study materials to Perloff’s 24-season tenure has been marked by groundbreaking Bay Area schools and community-based organizations. productions of classical works and new translations creatively colliding with exceptional contemporary theater; cross- With our increased presence in the Central Market neighborhood disciplinary performances and international collaborations; marked by the renovation of The Strand Theater and the and theater made by, for, and about the Bay Area. Her fierce opening of The Costume Shop Theater, A.C.T. plays a leadership commitment to audience engagement ushered in a new era role in securing the future of theater for San Francisco and of InterACT events and dramaturgical publications, inviting the nation. everyone to explore what goes on behind the scenes. American Conservatory Theater Board of Trustees (As of July 2016) The Board of Directors of the M.F.A. Program Nancy Livingston Ray Apple Robina Riccitiello William Draper III CHAIR Lesley Ann Clement Dan Rosenbaum John Goldman Abby Sadin Schnair Kirke M. Hasson Richard T. Davis-Lowell Sally Rosenblatt Kaatri Grigg CHAIR PRESIDENT Jerome L. Dodson Abby Sadin Schnair James Haire Michael G. Dovey Jeff Spears Kent Harvey Carlotta Dathe Celeste Ford VICE CHAIR Olympia Dukakis Robert Tandler Sue Yung Li Frannie Fleishhacker Sarah M. Earley Patrick S. Thompson Christine Mattison Arnie Glassberg Priscilla Geeslin Frannie Fleishhacker Joaquin Torres Joan McGrath Christopher Hollenbeck VICE CHAIR Ken Fulk Jeff Ubben Deedee McMurtry Luba Kipnis David Riemer Dianne Hoge Adriana Lopez Vermut Mary S. Metz Linda Kurtz VICE CHAIR Jo S. Hurley Nola Yee Toni Rembe Jennifer Lindsay Steven L. Swig Jeri Lynn Johnson Kay Yun Rusty Rueff Toni Miller VICE CHAIR Alan Jones Joan Sadler Toni Rembe Linda Jo Fitz James H. Levy EMERITUS Cheryl Sorokin Sally Rosenblatt TREASURER Heather Stallings Little ADVISORY BOARD Alan L. Stein Anne Shonk Janet V. Lustgarten Barbara Bass Bakar Barry Lawson Williams Melissa Smith Daniel E. Cohn SECRETARY Jeffrey S. Minick Rena Bransten Carlie Wilmans Alan L. Stein Michael P. Nguyen Jack Cortis Patrick S. Thompson Alan L. Stein Martim Oliveira Joan Danforth CHAIR EMERITUS Carey Perloff Dagmar Dolby American Conservatory Theater was founded in 1965 by William Ball. Edward Hastings, Artistic Director 1986–92 415.749.2228 5 TILSON THOMAS FABIANO IZOTOV An Italian Celebration Michael Tilson Thomas conductor MTT and the SF Symphony showcase the many THU SEPT 22 8PM Michael Fabiano tenor facets of Italian music—from its sweeping drama FRI SEPT 23 7:30PM The Swingles vocal ensemble to moments of delicate beauty and lighthearted SAT SEPT 24 8PM Eugene Izotov oboe joy. Hear Verdi’s show-stopping Te Deum, San Francisco Symphony Chorus alongside Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble Ragnar Bohlin director The Swingles, SF Symphony Principal Oboe Eugene San Francisco Symphony Izotov, and tenor Michael Fabiano singing works by Verdi and Donizetti.