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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 October 2016) The Board of Directors of the M.F.A. Program Nancy Livingston Ray Apple Carey Perloff Dagmar Dolby CHAIR Lesley Ann Clement Robina Riccitiello William Draper III Abby Sadin Schnair Kirke M. Hasson Richard T. Davis-Lowell Dan Rosenbaum John Goldman CHAIR PRESIDENT Jerome L. Dodson Sally Rosenblatt Kaatri Grigg Michael G. Dovey Abby Sadin Schnair James Haire Carlotta Dathe Celeste Ford VICE CHAIR Olympia Dukakis Jeff Spears Kent Harvey Frannie Fleishhacker Sarah M. Earley Robert Tandler Sue Yung Li Arnie Glassberg Priscilla Geeslin Frannie Fleishhacker Patrick S. Thompson Christine Mattison Christopher Hollenbeck VICE CHAIR Ken Fulk Joaquin Torres Joan McGrath Luba Kipnis David Riemer Dianne Hoge Jeff Ubben Deedee McMurtry Linda Kurtz VICE CHAIR Jo S. Hurley Adriana Lopez Vermut Mary S. Metz Jennifer Lindsay Steven L. Swig Jeri Lynn Johnson Nola Yee Toni Rembe Toni Miller VICE CHAIR Alan Jones Kay Yun Rusty Rueff Toni Rembe Linda Jo Fitz James H. Levy Joan Sadler Sally Rosenblatt TREASURER Heather Stallings Little EMERITUS Cherie Sorokin Anne Shonk Janet V. Lustgarten ADVISORY BOARD Alan L. Stein Melissa Smith Daniel E. Cohn SECRETARY Jeffrey S. Minick Barbara Bass Bakar Barry Lawson Williams Alan L. Stein Michael P. Nguyen Rena Bransten Carlie Wilmans Patrick S. Thompson Alan L. Stein Martim Oliveira Jack Cortis CHAIR EMERITUS Peter Pastreich Joan Danforth American Conservatory Theater was founded in 1965 by William Ball. Edward Hastings, Artistic Director 1986–92 415.749.2228 5 CELEBRATE A.C.T.’S 50TH SEASON! TICKETS START AT $20. JOHN FEB 1–26, 2017 FEB 22–APR 23, 2017 THE GEARY THEATER THE STRAND THEATER MAR 30–APR 23, 2017 APR 26–MAY 21, 2017 BEGINS JUNE 2017 THE GEARY THEATER THE GEARY THEATER THE GEARY THEATER act-sf.org/join | 415.749.2228 PHOTO CREDITS: Top Row: A Thousand Splendid Suns: Photography ©Shaul Schwarz/Getty Images News/Getty Images. Design by David Mann Calligraphy/Stephen Raw. Bottom Row: Needles and Opium: Wellesley Robertson III in Needles and Opium. Photo courtesy Ex Machina. Battlefield: Photo by Simon Annand. A Night with Janis Joplin: Artwork by Adam Larson ONLY@THE STRAND MARTIN MORAN OBIE Award winner Martin Moran brings his acclaimed solo shows to The Strand Theater, performing All The Rage and The Tricky Part in repertory. Growing up in 1970s Denver, Moran seemed like a poster boy for Catholic school—good grades, clean fingernails, and a smile for everyone on his paper route. Inside, however, Moran was grappling with the conflicting shame and thrill of his relationship with his 30-year-old male camp counselor. Whether experienced individually or as a pair of one-act events, you’ll be riveted by Moran’s heartfelt and often funny journey from teenage pain to human grace. NOV 29–DEC 11, 2016 “Emotion-stirring territory that you don’t often visit at the theater” The New York Times PHOTO BY JOAN MARCUS THE SKIVVIES: HOLIDAY ROADKILL The Skivvies, Broadway’s Lauren Molina and Nick Cearley, are the hottest act in NYC and anything but typical.