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Jacob G. Padrón ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Kit Ingui MANAGING DIRECTOR
Presented in partnership with Baltimore Center Stage, Stephanie Ybarra, Artistic Director.
PRESENTS
FIRES IN THE MIRROR: CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN AND OTHER IDENTITIES CONCEIVED, WRITTEN AND ORIGINALLY PERFORMED
by Anna Deavere Smith (she/her) DIRECTED
by Nicole Brewer° (she/her) COMPANY Cloteal L. Horne† (she/her) PERFORMER
Diggle* (he/him)
SCENIC DESIGNER
Mika Eubanks (she/her) COSTUME DESIGNER
UptownWorks with Bailey Trierweiler* (they/them), Daniela Hart* (she/they) & Noel Nichols* (she/they)
Porsche McGovern* (she/her) LIGHTING DESIGNER
Norman Anthony Small † (he/him) STAGE MANAGER
SOUND DESIGN AND ORIGINAL MUSIC
Camilla Tassi* (she/her) PROJECTION DESIGNER
X Casting CASTING
FIRES IN THE MIRROR: CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN AND OTHER IDENTITIES CONCEIVED, WRITTEN AND ORIGINALLY PERFORMED BY ANNA DEAVERE SMITH. ORIGINAL NEW YORK PRODUCTION BY NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL. FIRES IN THE MIRROR: CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN AND OTHER IDENTITIES IS PRESENTED BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WITH DRAMATISTS PLAY SERVICE, INC., NEW YORK.
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FOR THIS PRODUCTION Grace Chariya (she/her)
Sherri Alfonso (she/her)
Raecine Singletary (she/her)
Katie Brown (she/her)
Rodrigo Hernandez Martinez (he/they)
Michael Logue (he/him)
Allison Esannason (she/her)
Karissa Vasil (she/her)
Vianey Salazar (she/her)
Jess Rosso (she/her)
John Horzen (he/him)
Liam Bellman-Sharpe (he/him)
Rachel Finley (she/her)
Colby Adams (he/him)
Molly Amster (she/her)
Eric Lin (he/him)
Simon Feil (he/him)
Jordan Cowan (she/her)
Dede Jacobs-Komisar (she/her)
Joslyn Eaddy (she/her)
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
COVID COMPLIANCE OFFICER
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
LIGHTING SUPERVISOR
ASSISTANT SCENIC DESIGNER
ASSISTANT COSTUME DESIGNER
LIGHTING PROGRAMMER
LIGHTING ASSISTANT
ASSISTANT LIGHTING DESIGNER
LIGHT BOARD OPERATOR
ASSISTANT PROJECTION DESIGNER
AUDIO SUPERVISOR
ACCENT COACH
AUDIO ENGINEER
CULTURAL COMPETENCY CONSULTANT
CULTURAL COMPETENCY CONSULTANT
CULTURAL COMPETENCY CONSULTANT
PROJECTIONS ENGINEER
RUN CREW
WARDROBE
Chiara Klein (she/her)
CULTURAL COMPETENCY CONSULTANT
° = Member of SDC
* = Member of USA 829
† = Member of AEA
All the Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
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A NOTE FROM THE DIRECTOR What happened in Crown Heights thirty years ago, exists in the ‘rememory’ of it, to use a word coined by Toni Morrison, as a harbinger to our present. When I look beyond the tragedy of the lives lost on August 19, 1991, it’s clear the repetitive pattern of oppression in which all our lives hinge. How do we disrupt a society and culture which was formed and maintained to capitalize and weaponize our differences? Fires offers us the opportunity to practice the art of witnessing, that, when done well, places us in a posture of listening. That listening is not just to others but to what our bodies are telling us about what we need for our own healing. The work of transformation, the work of right relationship, requires our attention and commitment to listen beyond our fear, our pain, our loss, our grief, our rage. It requires us to keep looking at ourselves, our communities and at those who are not like us. We do this to begin to see and feel our mental barriers which prevent us from forming genuine connections across differences. The work of collective healing begins with individuals like yourself, for we all have work to do—though not the same work—to disrupt the conditions and systems that would deny our liberation. And if we can do that, give ourselves permission to heal, Fires perhaps reaches its goal to become a play which is no longer relevant precisely because we heeded its call. To my parents and children, I love you. Your support allows me to practice my heart’s work. My deepest gratitude to all the humans, including audience, donors, community activists, Long Wharf Theatre staff, the show’s designers, actors, and stage management team, all of whom generously tithed their time, talent, and artistry into this production. Thank you! NICOLE BREWER, DIRECTOR
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CONTENT TRANSPARENCY Fires in the Mirror catalogs reflections of the Crown Heights Riots, a racially-charged conflict that engulfed the New York neighborhood in 1991. This play contains strong language and references to racism, slavery, lynching, anti-semitism, sexual violence, and the Holocaust. ABOUT THE SHOW
In 1991, in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, an Hasidic man’s car jumped a curb, killing Gavin Cato, a seven-year-old Black child. Later, in what appears to have been an act of retaliation on the part of a faction of the black community, Yankel Rosenbaum, an Hasidic rabbinical student, was stabbed and killed. The ensuing riots that wracked Crown Heights’ previous atmosphere of tolerance for its divergent cultures made national headlines and pointed to the growing friction in racial and cultural relations across America. Drawing verbatim from a series of over fifty interviews with Crown Heights’ residents, politicians, activists, religious leaders, gangs, street dwellers, victims, and perpetrators alike, Anna Deavere Smith’s Fires in the Mirror is a theatrical event distilling the lives and voices of twenty-six of the incident’s survivors into a visionary amalgam, the import of which touches upon every American regardless of race, color, or beliefs. IN MEMORIAM
We welcome you to our meditation and reflection space in the lobby. We invite you to process, digest, and release here during intermission and after the show.
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CROWN HEIGHTS HISTORICAL TIMELINE
LEFT: 1839 deed of Sale for land in Brooklyn’s 9th Ward, which became Weeksville via the Brooklyn Historical Society.
1827
1908
1930s & 1940s
After slavery was abolished in New York State in 1827, free Black professionals founded Weeksville in what is now known as Crown Heights. It was the second-largest free Black community in the antebellum U.S. Weeksville flourished throughout the 19th century and was eventually absorbed into greater Brooklyn.
The earliest Jewish immigrants in Crown Heights arrived in the 1900s (though Jewish families had lived in parts of Brooklyn since the 1600s). The expansion of subway service to Brooklyn in 1908 led many Jewish immigrants to relocate from the Lower East Side of Manhattan to parts of Brooklyn, including Crown Heights.
In the 1930s, Jamaican immigrants and Eastern European Jewish immigrants arrived in the area. Black Americans from the South began to arrive in the 1940s.
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CROWN HEIGHTS HISTORICAL TIMELINE
LEFT: Lubavitch men in 770 Eastern Parkway, 1972. (Copyright: Brooklyn Public Library)
1940
1950s
1960s
In 1940, the Lubavitch Rebbe Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn fled wartime Europe and moved to Crown Heights, bringing many members of the Lubavitch Hasidic community to Brooklyn. Crown Heights became the headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, and the community continued to grow in the decades that followed.
While many white families moved to the suburbs after World War II, this option was not open to many Black families, who faced significant discrimination in the suburbs and were forbidden from applying to live in certain suburban towns. As many white Jewish, Irish, and Italian families left Crown Heights for the suburbs, Black families from the Southern U.S. and Caribbean immigrant families moved in.
The Caribbean community in particular grew in the 1960s as many Caribbean nations became independent from their colonial governments. England became more restrictive of immigration from its former colonial states, and the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 reversed over fifty years of discriminatory immigration policy in the U.S.
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LEFT: The headquarters of the ChabadLubavitch Hasidic movement in Crown Heights. (Copyright: Brooklyn Jewish Historical Initiative) RIGHT: The Kings Theatre in “Little Caribbean.” (Copyright: Pablo Serrano)
1980s
1990s
TODAY
While many other Jewish communities gradually moved away from Crown Heights throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the Lubavitch Hasidic Jewish community remained. In 1969, Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson chose to keep the community in Crown Heights.
In the 1990s, Eastern Parkway served as a dividing line: African American and AfroCaribbean communities lived primarily north of the Parkway, and the Hasidic Jewish community lived primarily south of it.
Currently, Hasidic Jewish people represent about 25% of the Crown Heights population. There are approximately forty synagogues in Crown Heights serving different Jewish communities. The Little Caribbean neighborhood in Crown Heights is the largest and most diverse Caribbean-AmericanLatine/x community outside of the West Indies.
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REMEMBERING THE CROWN HEIGHTS RIOTS, 30 YEARS LATER In Fires in the Mirror, we hear a wide array of first-hand accounts of events that took place during three days in August 1991 in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY. Part of the complexity of the play lies in the conflicting accounts about what happened and differing interpretations about why tensions erupted into violence. Below is a timeline of key moments we hear about in the play. TIMELINE OF EVENTS
AUGUST 19, 1991 (AROUND 8PM) - Car crash involving a car driven by Yosef Lifsh which results in the death of seven year old Gavin Cato, the son of Guyanese immigrants, who was fixing his bike on the sidewalk. AUGUST 19, 1991 (LATER) - Crowds and rumors grow, opinions and mourning erupts into violence. AUGUST 19, 1991 (around 11pm) - Yankel Rosenbaum, a twenty-nine year old Jewish university student is stabbed and beaten by a group of young Black men, resulting in his death later that night in the hospital. AUGUST 20-22, 1991 - Three days of clashing opinions, public violence, and protest, including communities from —7— outside the neighborhood and leaders like Reverend Al Sharpton and Sonny Carson. AUGUST 22, 1991 - Over 1,500 police officers dispatched to stop the attacks on people and property. BY THE END - 66 civilians and 168 police officers were injured and 163 people were arrested. Crown Heights to this day still remembers and is working through the violence that roiled the neighborhood. Anna Deavere Smith interviewed the people we hear in the play and wrote Fires in the Mirror very shortly after the events took place and it premiered just nine months later in May 1992 at The Public Theater
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in New York. She is widely considered one of the key figures in the verbatim theatre, which is a particular style of documentary theatre that relies on interview transcripts, recordings, court proceedings, or other texts that are arranged into a performance piece where they are performed verbatim, exactly as spoken. 30 years later, Fires in the Mirror gives us the opportunity to reflect on how much has changed since August 1991 and yet how much remains the same. It’s up to each of us to draw our own conclusions about how to move toward healing and create communities of belonging. WRITTEN BY ANNALISA DIAS AND ESTRELLITA BEATRIZ AT BALTIMORE CENTER STAGE
ABOVE: Photo Credit: Newsday / Mitsu Yasukawa
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SUPPLEMENTAL READING & SOURCES Remembering Crown Heights BY NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
The history of Weeksville: When Crown Heights had the second-largest free black community in the U.S. BY LUCIE LEVINE
Caribbean Cuisines Merge and Evolve in Crown Heights BY JANELLE CARTER-SMALL
Little Caribbean
BY THE LITTLE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY
The Peopling of New York
BY MACAULAY HONORS COLLEGE SEMINAR 2 AT BROOKLYN COLLEGE
The History of Eastern Parkway BY MACAULAY HONORS COLLEGE
Crown Heights Oral History Collection BY 2021 BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY
SONG CREDITS:
IMAGE CREDITS:
Joel Rubin Jewish Music Ensemble Tish Nigunim (trad., arr Joel Rubin, GEMA) Beregovski’s Khasene (Beregovski’s Wedding): Forgotten Instrumental Treasures from the Ukraine Schott Music & Media/Wergo SM 1614-2, 1997 www.wergo.de
British Pathé Domenic Germano/Alamy Stock Photo New York Times Co./Getty Images New York Daily News New York Daily News Archive/Getty Images RebbeDrive Archive One Crown Heights Lead Artist: Danielle McDonald Assistant Artist: Vince Ballentine Groundswell
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CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM Anna Deavere Smith (she/her) PLAYWRIGHT
Anna Deavere Smith is an actor, teacher, playwright, and creator of unique one-woman plays based on interviews. Anna Deavere Smith has won two Obie Awards, two Tony nominations for Twilight: Los Angeles, and a MacArthur Fellowship. A Pulitzer Prize finalist for her play Fires in the Mirror, Smith is founder and director of the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue at New York University. As an actress she has appeared in many films and on the television series "The West Wing." Her book Letters to a Young Artist is published by Anchor Books.
Nicole Brewer (she/her) DIRECTOR
ONE SENTENCE INTRODUCTION: Nicole is an antiracist cultural worker who uses theatre to strengthen connections across differences to foster healing, joy, and liberation. SELECTED THEATRE CREDITS ELSEWHERE: Fires in the Mirror (Baltimore Center Stage), Kamala (WAM), Milk Like Sugar (St. Louis Black Rep), Songs For A New World (Sheridan College), Ties that Bind (Catholic University), Jonkonnu (Howard University). CREATIVE INSPIRATION: The complexity of the constant-chaotic-convex-concave-consciousness called life. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT/ACTIVIST WORK: Facilitator of Anti-Racist Theatre Trainings. AWARDS/PROUDEST ACHIEVEMENTS: I’m most proud of being a caregiver to some extraordinary children. FINAL WORD: What comes next in the entertainment industry is up to us... I’m encouraged this time we may get it right.
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Cloteal L. Horne (she/her) PERFORMER
Cloteal L. Horne’s name aptly weaves together parts of her grandparents’ names. From mustering the courage to stand before witnesses on stage or screen, to being a raw nerve shining a light upon hidden parts of humanity, and architecting worlds that ignite the imagination towards transformation, she is committed to collaborative processes that illuminate humanity through the craft of storytelling. Her work uproots classics and tethers itself to immersive ceremonies and rituals that center blackness and black femininity. Horne calls on both the sacred and profane to locate that small (sometimes quiet) place where healing happens. She dedicates her practice to community, honest liberation, and building more just and joyous futures. Blissfully standing on the shoulders of those that come before her, she is a product of her grandmother’s prayers + her ancestors’ wildest dreams. Glory be. MFA, Acting, Boston University/ Trinity Rep. Acting, Brown University/Trinity Rep. BFA, Theater Arts, Boston University Boston University.
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Diggle (he/him)
SCENIC DESIGNER
Diggle is a proud Gay Mexican-Latinx designer. Selected NYC credits include Shakespeare Call & Response (The Public Theater Mobile Unit), The Conversationalists (Bushwick Starr), Cowboy Bob (National Alliance for Musical Theatre), Decky Does A Bronco (Royal Family), So Long Boulder City (SubCulture), Red Emma & The Mad Monk (Tank/ANT Fest.) Regional and International: Electra, Fade (Dallas Theater Center); 10 Out Of 12 (Undermain Theatre); Why Do You Stand There In The Rain? (Edinburgh Fringe/ Scotland Tour). Current Projects: Monstersongs (TheaterWorks Hartford). Associate Scenic Design credits include work for Clint Ramos, Dede Ayite, and Rachel Hauck. Broadway Associate Scenic Designs: Slave Play (Golden and August Wilson Theatres) and Grand Horizons (Hayes Theatre).
Mika Eubanks (she/her) COSTUME DESIGNER
Currently in New York, but hailing from Maryland, Mika Eubanks received her MFA in Costume Design at Yale School of Drama where she has designed Death of Yazdgerd and Tent Revival. Other work includes Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again., In the Red and Brown Water, School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, The Purple Flower (Yale Cabaret); Feeding Beatrice (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); Harry and the Thief (Strand Theater); King Lear starring Andre De Shields (St. Louis Shakespeare Festival); and Seize The King (Classical Theater of Harlem). Mika has worked at Center Stage, the Hippodrome, and Morgan State University. In film, she has designed costumes for short films like Candace and the Hulu mini series Initiative 29. In awards she earned the Leo Lerman
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Graduate Fellowship in 2019, the Jada Pinkett Smith Applied Arts Award in 2015, and holds a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art. In spring 2019 she designed Twelfth Night at Yale Repertory Theatre, for which she received the Connecticut Critic Circle Award for Outstanding Costume Design.
Porsche McGovern (she/her) LIGHTING DESIGNER
Porsche McGovern designed The West End (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park), Skeleton Crew and We Are Proud to Present... (Playmakers Repertory Company), The Thanksgiving Play (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis), and The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). She has an MFA from California Institute for the Arts and a BA from St. Lawrence University. Porsche McGovern is the author of the Howlround series, “Who Designs & Directs in LORT Theatres by Pronoun." she is a frequent panelist, speaker, and facilitator at regional and national events for conversations on diversity and social justice in theatre.
Bailey Trierweiler (they/them)
SOUND DESIGN AND ORIGINAL MUSIC
Bailey Trierweiler is a non-binary, East Coast based sound designer, engineer and artist. Bailey works as a Sound Associate with UptownWorks NYC and they are most interested in uplifting marginalized voices and engaging community through thoughtful collaboration and various forms of media. BFA, University of Colorado Boulder; MFA Candidate, Yale School of Drama.
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Daniela Hart (she/they)
SOUND DESIGN AND ORIGINAL MUSIC
Daniela Hart is a New York City-based sound designer and composer currently completing an MFA in Sound Design at Yale School of Drama. Selected theatre credits include already there (Kennedy Center), Vapor Trail (MIT), How to Save the World in 90 Minutes (Cherry Lane); Mr. Burns (Yale); References to Salvador Dali... (Harvard Radcliffe at ART); Julius Caesar, Neighborhood 3, Must Wash Hands (Rattlestick Theater); References (Harvard Radcliffe at ART); The Parlour (Soho Rep). She has also music directed with La Mama and Brooklyn College and produces, directs and edits with her company UPTOWNWORKS.
Noel Nichols (she/they)
SOUND DESIGN AND ORIGINAL MUSIC
Noel Nichols is a sound designer and engineer based in the New York area. Credits include: I Hate it Here (Studio Theatre, Recordist), already there (Kennedy Center, Assoc. Sound Design). Select design credits include: ain’t no dead thing, We are Proud to Present a Presentation…, (Yale Cabaret); The Masses are Asses (Wesleyan CFA); Fun Home, In His Hands (Yale School of Drama); Latinos Who Look Like Ricky Martin (Verano Cabaret); Ghost Card (Fullstop Collective); Counting Pebbles (Faultline Ensemble).
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Camilla Tassi (she/her)
PROJECTION DESIGNER
Camilla Tassi is a projection designer and musician from Florence, Italy. Design credits include Stinney: An American Execution (PROTOTYPE, NYC), Fun Home (Yale School of Drama), O Jerusalem & L’Orfeo (Apollo’s Fire tour), The Fall of the House of Usher (MASS MoCA), The Magic Flute (Berlin Opera Academy), The Rules (Yale Cabaret), as well as video design for the Washington Chorus, Les Délices, Nasty Women Connecticut, and Chicago Ear Taxi. She holds degrees in computer science and music from the University of Notre Dame, an MA in Digital Musics from Dartmouth College, and is an MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama.
Norman Anthony Small (he/him) STAGE MANAGER
Norman Anthony Small, an Orlando, FL native, is a stage manager, company manager, virtual technical director, and actor. Before exploring the world of freelance, he worked at notable institutions such as Apollo Theater, New York Public Radio, and Sony Music Entertainment. Some of Norman’s stage management credits include Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven (Atlantic Theater Company), a tribute to Ntozake Shange called A Night of Wild Beauty (The Public Theater), an all-female Othello: The Moor of Venice (Harlem Shakespeare Festival), Emergency (Crossroads Theatre Company), and A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction (Baltimore Center Stage). Norman earned a BM degree in Music Engineering Technology from the University of Miami and a MBA degree from the Metropolitan
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College of New York. He is also the recipient of the inaugural Charlie Blackwell Symposium Scholarship for Stage Managers of Color. Norman would like to dedicate his work on this production to his stage management mentors - Debra Ann Byrd, Jana Llynn, and John Eric Scutchins.
Rachel Finley (she/her) ACCENT COACH
Rachel Finley is an accent coach, intimacy coordinator, director, actor, and Arizona State University professor who earned her BFA at Carnegie Melon University and her MFA at Florida Atlantic University. Rachel is certified in Fitzmaurice Voicework and Knight Thompson Speechwork. Her work, which includes theatre, performance art, spoken word poetry, film, video games and new media has appeared on stages, in studios and on sets from Miami to Los Angeles and Canada to New Zealand. In the last few months, Rachel has worked on productions for New York City-based ANDTheatre Co, Miami-based Zoetic Stage, Netflix, Xbox Studios, and several indie film and theatre companies.
Victor Vazquez (he/him) CASTING
Victor Vazquez, CSA is a Casting Director in New York City. He is the founder of X Casting and sits on the national board of the Casting Society of America. He is the son of Mexican immigrants.
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Oliver Kai Molloy
Astmann Family
Judith & Mark Sklarz
Betty & Dave Monz
Paul & Joanne Bailey
Susan & Steven B. Smith
Ira & Marsha Moses
Richard & Alice Baxter
Celeste Suggs & Joel Zackin
Ivan & Naomi Otterness
Christopher J. Berman
Abby N. Wells
Diana Bowes & James Torrey
Stuart Warner & A. David Paltiel
Art & Ann Yost
Henry P. Brightwell Fund
Perakis Family
Ruth & Stearns Bryant
Richard Proffitt
ACTOR'S CIRCLE $1,000-2,499 Howard & Katherine Aibel Foundation, Inc.
Rita A. Landino, Ph.D.
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Rolan Joni Young
Linda Greenhouse Ideal Printing Company, Inc.
Mr. & Mrs. William D. Nordhaus
$500-$749
Larry & Lucie Iannotti
Mark & Lauren Thunem
Mark Ammann & Linda Taylor
Kit Ingui & Geoffrey Molloy
Margaret M. Timlin
Anonymous
Dr. Jay & Kathy Kaplan
The Tow Foundation
Automated Mailing Services L.L.C.
Bernard & Gale Kosto
Tzedakah House, LLC
Andrew & Patricia Balter
Richard Lalli & Michael Rigsby
Marc Wallman & Cynthia Carr
Charles Bates & Ruth LeBar
James & Hannah Leckman
Natan & Eliza Bauman
Charles & Susanne Lendler Marsh
Nancy Berliner & Alan Plattus
Donna & Sid Levine
ENSEMBLE CIRCLE $250-$499 Michael & Carol Ahlijanian
Mr. Peter Brandt & Ms. Laura Burwick
Madeo Studio
Rachel & Ian Alderman
Adam Man
Brenner, Saltzman & Wallman LLP, New Haven
Daria L. Andriole
Susan B. Matheson & J. J. Pollitt
Anonymous (5)
Matt Broder & Susan Neitlich Nancy Brown Dr. & Mrs. S. M. Bull Barbara Bzdyra Karen Camp & Burdeen Camp Jonathan Clapp Wendy Davies
Sylvia M. Montero New Haven Bank Arlene O'Tell Jacob G. Padrón
Rachel & Tom Ardito Stephen & Judith August Samuel Babbitt
Mary L. Pepe
Raymond Baldelli & Ronald Nicholes
James M. Perlotto, M.D. & Thomas Masse
Robert & Katalin Baltimore
Ellen Petrino
Barbara & George Delmhorst
Philip Pivawer & Linda Hewlett
Dembinski Law Office
Jeffrey R. Powell
Margaret D. Edwards
David & Janet Rimm
Emily Fine & Stephen Stein
Elisse Rosen
Eden & Allan Fisher
Sheilah B. Rostow
Bill & Pat Fitzgerald
Jean Routt & Richard Shanahan
Teresa Freeman & Brian Blakeley
Nancy H. Apfel
Bill & Donna Batsford Susan E. Bender & Alvin K. Klevorick Elsie Blackshear Chapman Wojtek Borowski Michael & Maryann Bracken William & Ellen Brainard Rev. Hiram & Dr. Pat Brett Linda & Daniel Brill
Karen & Kert Sabbath
Rabbi Herb & Elin Brockman
Ann Gabriel
Errol C. Saunders, II
Joel & Carol Bronz
Sandi & Jeff Garfield
Rebecca & Alan Scheps
Rodney Brooks
Joe Goldberg
Nathan M. Silverstein
John Gordon
J. Philip & Loretta K. Smith
Susan Bryson & Laurence Nadel
Robert & Judith Hamilton
Pam Stanton & John Sawyer
Roni & Howard Harmetz
James Bundy & Anne Tofflemire
Shepard & Marlene Stone
Mark A. Healey & Celia Pinzi
Fred Byron
Thimble Island Brewing Company
Lynn Cadan
Peter Hunt
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Michael & Jody Ceraso
Katherine S. Frumento
Dr. & Mrs. Robert A. Linden
Paula Cewe
Dennis Gaetano
Dwight Lopes
Barbara Chesler & Karen Dahl
Toddie & Chris Getman
Anne MacClintock & Jerry Mashaw
Harriet Chessman Norman Chonacky & Jane Jervis Claire's Corner Copia Renee & Lewis Cohen John Coleman Bob & Mary Beth Congdon Audrey Conrad Sharon & Bill Crain Nedra & Jack Crane Dennis Curtis & Judith Resnik Hugh & Judy Cuthbertson Denese Deeds & David Gioiello Francis & Helen Degnan Chun Desiderato Lloyd & Genie Dethloff Harriet & Bob Dewey Cynthia Dobie & Bruno Masciana
John & Maren Gillespie Carol R. Goldberg Robin Golden & David Berg Todd & Louise Gould Ruth B. Grannick Thomas Griggs & Edward Bottomley Joseph & Heidi Groeger Jon & Joan Grossman
Janet A. Madigan, MD Tiger Mann Laura Marasco Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Martz Dr. Kathleen Maurer & Nann Cooke Emly McDiarmid & Joel Schiavone
Elizabeth Haas
Sue McDonald & Corey Stone
Judith Hahn
Ann & Chad McLaughlin
James & Justine Hawley
Neil Mellen
Li & Gene Hayes
Marta Elisa Moret & Peter Salovey
Kathleen & Mark Hoffman Michele Hoffnung & John Faragher
Jim & Marcia Morley
Bill & Nancy Horowitz
Marilyn Moss & Michael Clemen
Linda Hughes Ellie & Daniel Hurwitz Francie Irvine & Andrew McLaren
Laura J. Morrison
Matthew Nemerson & Marian Chertow Nancy O'Brasky
Joanna & Lee Jacobus
Roy & Maria Ogren
Lois & Eliot Jameson
Sam Pagano
Susan & Jonathan Katz
Ann & Marc Palmieri
Patricia Egan & Peter Hegeman
Beth Kaufman
Helene Panzer
Kenneth Kidd
Joey Parnes
Louise Endel Fund
Peggy & Bill Kohlhepp
Leonard Peterson
Sally Esposito
Diane Krause
Diane & Guido Petra
Susan Etkind
Dan & Diane Krevolin
Leslie Pollack
Edward & Gisele Everett
Ulf Kristoffersson & Kathleen Cravero-Kristoffersson
Carroll & Stan Possick
Eileen Fappiano Richard & Lana Ferguson
Dana Kyder
Sabra Purtill
Chris Field
J & J Lange
Alec Purves
Nancy Noyes Foss
Robert & Jeralea Levine
Deborah & Alan Radoff
David & Leslie French
Sheree Levine
Joan Rice Robinson
Jackie Downing Cathy Edwards & Mike Wishnie
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George & Kathy Priest
Jerry Rosenband & Nancy Korobkin Lynda E. Rosenfeld & Richard M. Weiss Missy & Allen Rosenshine Karl Ruling Karen & John Schneider Kenneth Schwartz Fiona Scott Morton Jane Shaw Claire E. Shea Morris & Annelies Sheehan Michael & Gale Silverberg Alix Simonetti William & Betsy Sledge Allen Sparer Harold Spitzer & Tom Martin Lisa Stanger & Gregory Colodner Jeffrey & Pamela Stein Art & Cathy Stevens Susanne Stutts Rachel Sutin J. Terrazzano Theatre Development Fund Frank & Mary Troncale Kalman L. Watsky & Deborah Fried Seymour Weingarten Tanya & Randy Wingate
Laura Berry & Bernard Hulin
Susan & David Earle
Sam & Paulette Bobrow
Anastasia Eccles
Geofrey & Mary Ann Bonenberger
Marcia Eckerd
Deborah Bovilsky Irwin M. Braverman, MD Dorothea Brennan Phyllis Brodoff Linda & Stephen Broker James T. Brown, Jr. Richard Bruno Janet & Phil Brunwin Kimberly Buckley Reni Butler Chris & Penny Canny Margaret Carl
Eileen & Andrew Eder James English Amy Eppler-Epstein Robert & Vandelina Esposito Robert & Janet Fiske Catherine Forman Barbara & Gerald Gaab Frances Gaines Fran Giffin Mary Gillette & Karl Insogna Lindy Lee Gold Maya Goldman
Mitz Mary Elizabeth Carr
Jennifer Goodnow & Michael Kaminsky
David Carter & Robert Parker
Dr. & Mrs. Isaac Goodrich
Valentino Caruso & Sara Schmidt
Shari Goodstein
Frank & Alison Chapman Joy Chavez Barry & Marsha Cohen Cynthia D. Conrad Suzanne Cooney Lizanne Cox & David Gibson Mr. Douglas Crowley Phyllis Cummings-Texeira CyberChrome, Inc. Lorri & Andrew Danzig
Lyn & Robert Gradoville Patricia Grigg Mr. and Mrs. E. Hadjimichael Larry & Roberta Harris BJ Hickey Jay Hirsch Jeffrey & Betsy Hoos Amy Hopkins Dale Hurwitz Cary & Dick Jacobs Kathleen & Al Jaffe
$150-$249
Drs. Gary Desir & Deborah Dyett Desir
Spencer & Linda Adams
Sonja Devitt
George Alexander
Sheree DiMario
David Johnson & Cynthia Morrill
Marian & Mark Altman
Donna Doherty
Katie Kindilien
Anonymous (3)
M. Dominguez & J. Poloso
Benjamin Klein
Maggie Barkin
Ellen K. Downes
Lucinda Kramer
Eric & Ethel Berger
Julia Downs
Wendy Kravitz
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Donna Jarlenski & Bruce Larkin
Joan Krochmal Leo Kuczynski Kim Taylor & Bruce Kueffner Sara Lamar-Sterling Susan Landau Dr. & Mrs. Wayne Larrison Matthew Larson Kate Lee Mary Brett Lee Thomas and Jennifer Lee Joan & Jeff Leonard Mimi Lines Lois Longwell Marilyn Lord & James Meisner Bernard Lytton & Dawn Wood Anita P. Madzik Alan & Lisa Malina Joseph Marafito Palmer Marrin Kica Matos Rita McCleary & Richard Davis Phyllis McGrath & Patrick Sheehan Dwight Merriam Mark & Adele Messina Amy Meyer & Karen Meyer Samuel Miller
Jeff O'Donnell & Dorothy Muller Lisa Omark & John McLaughlin Vanda M. O'Reilly Kathy & Joe Pajor Judith Paniccia Lynne & Ernest Paushter Trish Pearson Cecilia Phillips-Ritchey Trude Piscitelli Carol & Wesley H. Poling Susan Preminger David R. & Donna J. Pruett Shelley Quiala Peggy & Peter Rae Norman Redlich Bill & Sharon Reynolds Frank Rizzo Katherine Roberts Leslie Robinson Kathy & Don Rocklin Steven & Judith Rolnick Helen Rosenberg Marjorie Ross Thomas Ryan Mary Ellen Savage, M.D. Patricia Schein
Harold & Sandra Stern Carolyn Stockage Shilarna Stokes Peter & Lee Stolzman Elsa Stone & Steven Wolfson Martha Stone Ken & Katherine Stone Susan K. Swirsky Ugo N. Toppo Mary Ann Turner Kinan Valdez Louis & Joy Van Leeuwen Joan G. Venditto John Ward Patricia Webster Alison Weir Jean Welty & Jim Cole Jeanne Wendschuh Sandra White John & Virginia Wilkinson Mary K. Willmott Fred & Pat Ziegler Linda & Howard Zonana Dr. & Mrs. B. D. Zuckerman
LEGACY CIRCLE Robert Alvine & Joann Thompson
Mary S. Mitchell
Eileen Schuman & Robert J. Snyder
Patricia Morris
Patricia A. Scully
Joan & Richard Bonomi
Jan Musen
Josephine Shepard
Dr. Harold D. Bornstein, Jr.
Joyce Narden & Girin Munshi
Doug & Susan Skalka
Alice B. Colonna
Kenneth & Susie Ng
Mike Skinner
Richard & Barbara Franke
Robert Nixon
Margie Slater
Toddie & Chris Getman
Victoria Nolan & Clarkson Crolius
Catherine Smith
Charles & Gretchen Kingsley
Raina Sotsky
Jacqueline Koral
Ken Staffey
Henry Lord
Debra & Ron Nudel
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June Baldyga
Ruby Melton & Gail McAvay
Liana & David Snyderman
Elizabeth Monz by Deborah Freedman & Ben Ledbetter, Thomas Griggs & Edward Bottomley, Mary L. Pepe, James M. Perlotto, M.D., and Thomas Masse
Pamela Tatge & Jerry Zinser
Angela Nietopski by Ted Koeth
Patsy R. Taylor Dr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Tinghitella
Jacob G. Padrón by Peggy Koenig, Sara Lulo, James M. Perlotto, M.D., and Thomas Masse
Frank P. Villani
Elba Ramirez by Rodney Brooks
Abby Roth & Lee Stump Jean Routt & Richard Shanahan
LEGACY CIRCLE, ESTATE GIFTS Cynthia Kellogg Barrington
Anne Schenck by Richard Lalli & Michael Rigsby Eileen Wiseman by The Tow Foundation Miriam Zimmer by Allison Sharry
James T. Brown, Jr. Louise W. Dimond James D. English
DONATIONS IN MEMORY OF
Robert Evans
Jack Abraham Huttner by Sharon G. Huttner
Mary C. Hallenbeck
Katherine A. Berman by Christopher J. Berman
Gilbert Kenna
Jack Bouclier by The Dyson Family
Ruth Lord June M. Rosenblatt
Mateo & Ann Ceraso by Michael & Jody Ceraso
Paula L. Schiller
Maggie C. Free by Rev. Hiram & Dr. Pat Brett
Joan H. Scranton
Ruth Lord by Ruth DuPont Lord Charitable Trust
Martin Shubik Charitable Remainder Unitrust
Al Meizell by Carol & Bill Kaufman Francis D. & Marcella A. Moran by Michael J. Moran
DONATIONS IN HONOR OF Athena Brown by Sahar Usmani-Brown & Josiah Brown
Diane Rodriguez by Kinan Valdez
Ayse Coskun by Deborah Elkin
Deborah Ryan by Thomas Ryan
Barbara Franke by Maya Goldman
Lewis A. Swyer by Susan & David Earle
Robert Foley by Merryl & Tony Eaton
Robert Tanner by Esther Edwards
Jim Horwitz & Sandy Allison by Evan Horwitz Kit Ingui by Anh Molloy James M. Perlotto, M.D., and Thomas Masse, & Fayne Molloy Aaron Jafferis by Sara Zeiger Oliver Kai Molloy by Fayne Molloy Ruby Melton by Constance Royster, JD
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ADDITIONAL DONATIONS MATCHING GIFT ORGANIZATIONS
DONATIONS OF GOODS & SERVICES
Aetna Foundation, Inc.
Automated Mailing Services L.L.C.
Bank of America Matching Gifts Program
Centerbrook Architects
Bristol Myers Squibb Matching Gift Program
CyberChrome, Inc.
Casey Matching Gift Programs
Ideal Printing Company, Inc.
GE Foundation
Madeo Studio
IBM Corporation
Thimble Island Brewing Company
Pfizer Foundation
WithumSmith+Brown, PC, Karen Kowgios
State Street Matching Gift Program UBS Foundation United Technologies
Lists recognize the most recent cumulative giving for FY21 and FY22 during the time period of December 9, 2020 - December 9, 2021.
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INSTITUTIONAL GIVING Long Wharf Theatre programs are made possible, in part, with the support of the Department of Economic & Community Development Endowment, and the Department of Economic & Community Development, Office of the Arts, which also receives support from the federal CARES Act. Long Wharf Theatre is a member of Theatre Communications Group. Long Wharf Theatre is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit arts.gov.
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THEATRE FORWARD—CURRENT FUNDERS $100,000+ Bank of America Bank of America ACTivate Awards Support Hearst Foundations COVID-19 Emergency Relief, May–December 2020
Pfizer, Inc.
John Thomopoulos
George & Pamela Smith National Society Membership
Travelers
TD Charitable Foundation Educating Through Theatre Support
$2,500-$4,999 DLR
James S. & Lynne P. Turley Moving Forward Support
Christ Economos National Society Membership
The Schloss Family Foundation Moving Forward Support
$10,000-$14,999
Lucy Fato & Matt Detmer National Society Membership
$50,000-$99,999
Bloomberg Philanthropies
Morgan Stanleyz COVID-19 Emergency Relief, May–December 2020
Citi Sue Ann Lonoff de Cuevas
$25,000-$49,999 The Augustine Foundation Educating Through Theatre Support
Aetna
Joyce & Gregory Hurst
Judy R. Bartlett
Dorsey & Whitney LLP Bruce & Tracey Ewing
S&P Global
Elliott Sernel & Larry Falconio National Society Membership
$5,000-$9,999
Allison & Thomas Tam National Society Membership
Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.
Pamela Farr & Buford Alexander
AudienceView Includes In-kind Support
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
The Sheri and Les Biller Family
MetLife Foundation Lisa Orberg Educating Through Theatre Support Daniel A. Simkowitz & Mari Nakachi
Louise Moriarty & Patrick Stack National Society Membership
Mary Beth Winslow & Bill Darby National Society Membership Joseph Yurcik National Society Membership
Foundation Michelle Cenis Floyd Green III Roe Green National Society Membership
$1,500-$2,499
$15,000-$24,999
Richard K. Greene
Joseph Baio & Anne Griffin National Society Membership
Mitchell J. Auslander & Kimberlee Abraham
Nancy Hancock Griffith National Society Membership
John R. Dutt National Society Membership
KLDiscovery
David Schwartz & Amy Langer National Society Membership
Steven & Joy Bunson Paula A. Dominick EY The Maurer Family Foundation Moving Forward Support Gretchen Shugart & Jonathan Maurer
Patti & Rusty Rueff Foundation Bank of America ACTivate Awards Support Michelle Schwartz Raja Sengupta
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Michael A. Wall National Society Membership
$500-$1,499
Kate Courtemanche
Tammey Tanner
Decker Anstrom
Margaret Cuomo Maier
Lee Tucker
Diana Buckhantz
Ann Davies
Sarah Valente
Ben & Nikki Clay
Jody Falco & Jeffrey Steinman
Jenifer Warren
Cathy Dantchik DeWitt Stern Dorothy Strelsin Foundation Dramatists Play Service James Haskins Scot Safron Debbie Saline, Veritext
$250-$499 Harry Abrams Madelyn Adamson Anonymous Gary Bagley Richard Dean Lucy Anda Hardison Ian Hochman Robert Levin Marla Moskowitz-Hesse Noelle Norton Patrick Owen Anne Pasternak Steven Showalter Carl Sylvestre
$100-$249 Anonymous (3) Yvonne Bell
Elliott Forrest Beverly Gans Sandra L. Gibson Shawn Hartman Judith Hayward Jeffrey Herrmann Robert Kennedy Laura Kepley Brad Koepenick Deborah Korkmas Fran Kumin Anki Leeds James Loughlin Melissa Makhmaltchi Audrey L. Mandell Joseph Mazur Ryan Merkel Andrew Mezey Emily Miller Deborah Neale Beth Newburger Tom Parrish & Steve Dow Meghan Pressman The Professional Group John Roberts—In Memory of Patricia Rumble
Neil Berkson & Ilene Lang
Peter Ritt—In Memory of Patricia Rumble
Deborah Brabrand
Katherine Roeder
Stephanie Bulger
Norma Rosenberg
Mary Ellen Cositore - In Memory of Helene Rivlin
The Shehati Family Brian Siegel Ben Silver
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ABOUT LONG WHARF THEATRE
ABOVE: Photo Credit: Long Wharf Theatre
Established in 1965 at the start of the regional theatre movement, Long Wharf Theatre was born on the notion that New Haven deserves an active arts culture that is locally created. Our founders shared the dream of starting a professional theatre company in Connecticut, built with the aid of community leaders and patrons of the arts. We are a theatre of international renown, recognized for a historic commitment to commissioning, developing, and producing new work.
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ABOUT BALTIMORE CENTER STAGE
ABOVE: Photo Credit: Baltimore Center Stage
Founded in 1963 and designated the State Theater of Maryland in 1978, Baltimore Center Stage provides the highest quality theater and programming for all members of our communities, including youth and families, under the leadership of Artistic Director Stephanie Ybarra. Baltimore Center Stage ignites conversations and imaginations by producing an eclectic season of professional productions across two mainstages and an intimate 99-seat theater, through engaging community programs, and with inspiring education programs. Everything we do at Center Stage is led by our core values—chief among them being Access For All. Our mission is heavily rooted in providing active and open accessibility for everyone, regardless of any and all barriers, to our Mainstage performances, education initiatives, and community programming.
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DO YOU BELIEVE THEATRE IS FOR EVERYONE? Then become a member of Long Wharf Theatre, a theatre renowned for incubating new works, celebrating the kaleidoscope of human experiences, and most importantly, making theatre for everyone. BECOME A MEMBER TODAY
THEATRE IS FOR EVERYONE.