4TH WALL THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS
The Lifespan of a Fact
by JEREMY
KAREKEN & DAVID MURRELL AND GORDON FARRELL directed by
KIM TOBIN-LEHL
“deadly serious but oh-so-funny” Variety
JANUARY 13 - FEBRUARY 5, 2022 PRESENTING SPONSOR
CULLEN TRUST
SEASON SPONSORS
FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 4th Wall Theatre Company is funded in part by the City of Houston throughHouston Arts Alliance and the State of Texas through the Texas Commission on the Arts.
4th Wall’s mission is to produce extraordinary professional theatrical experiences and to set a high standard for excellence in acting, direction, and design. We believe that only by paying artists a fair wage can we grow and sustain the community of professional theatrical artists in Houston.
4TH WALL STAFF
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
ADVISORY BOARD
Philip Lehl Artistic Director
Gary Chiles President Patricia Larson Secretary Harriet Schubb Treasurer Kenneth Bohan Howard M. Bookstaff Sharyn Feller Harris Michelle Mower
Holly Beretto Jennifer Decker Emma Jacobs Ruth McCleskey Michael Mullins Gabriella Nissen John & Kelly Raley Jason Roberts Chip Schneider Dr. Robert Shimko Diane Tobin Nancy Wozny
Tim Richey Managing Director Kim Tobin-Lehl Resident Artist Catherine Dunaway Marketing & Development Manager Kalin Menzel Communications Coordinator
Dan O’Brien Carol Sugimoto
4th Wall Theatre Company is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization founded in 2011 by Kim Tobin-Lehl and Philip Lehl. Donations to 4th Wall are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law. Contact our office at info@4thwalltheatreco.com or by calling (832) 767-4991. Learn more at www.4thwalltheatreco.com
SPECIAL THANKS Special Thanks to the following people and institutions for their direct involvement with our administration or artistic efforts during this production of The Lifespan of a Fact: Ted Doolittle and The Urban Foresters, Mark Seavers, Mia Van De Mark
4TH WALL THEATRE COMPANY presents
THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT By JEREMY KAREKEN & DAVID MURRELL and GORDON FARRELL Based on the book by JOHN D’AGATA AND JIM FINGAL
Directed by KIM TOBIN-LEHL CAST Jim Fingal.............................................................................. Jack Gereski Emily Penrose...................................................................Pamela Vogel* John D’Agata...........................................................................Nick Farco*
DESIGNERS & PRODUCTION CREW Stage Manager..................................................................Kalin Menzel* Set Design..................................................................Ryan McGettigan Lighting Design...................................................................... Dan Jones Sound Design.........................................................Robert Leslie Meek Costume Design................................................................... Macy Lyne Properties Master............................................................Lauren Davis Carpenter.....................................................................Santiago Sepeda COVID-19 Safety Officers..................................................Philip Lehl* *Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Stage Actors and Stage Managers
Runtime: Approximately 90 minutes with no intermission THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York. THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT was originally produced on Broadway by Jeffrey Richards, Norman & Deanna Twain, Will Trice, Barbara H. Freitag, Suzanne Grant, Gold/Ross Productions, Jamie deRoy, Jennifer Manocherian, Barbara Manocherian, ManGol Productions, Carl Moellenberg/Wendy Federman, Ken Greiner, Van Kaplan, Dominick LaRuffa Jr., Marc David Levine, WitzEnd Productions, Eric Falkenstein/Moreland Mott, Caiola Productions, Remmel T. Dickinson, & Jayne Baron Sherman
PRESENTING SPONSOR
CULLEN TRUST
FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS This organization is funded in part by the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance and by the State of Texas through the Texas Commission on the Arts.
DIRECTOR’S NOTE
What is Truth? The dictionary says: “that which is true or in accordance with fact or reality.” Even the dictionary allows you to define truth with some ambiguity in saying it can be “fact or reality,” and we all know that reality is different for different people. For example, for an extremely large part of the population God is as real as the coffee cup you use to drink your coffee. Even though the wide variations of the experience or understanding of God cannot be called a “fact” but only for an individual the experience has become a “reality” through a person’s belief in a series of stories. If you ask someone if they have “seen” God they will often tell you a story about the love or will of God in action, but not an actual sighting of God. But they believe as if God was standing before them. Does this make God true or not true? Why is this discussion important now? Well, I can only tell you my opinion, which is part of what creates a problem. We don’t trust each other anymore, and we don’t trust anything we read. This allows us to pick what suits our disposition as opposed to seeking out what is true. Building a society on inherent distrust cultivates divisiveness and self-interest (my opinion – not fact). Thinking about what it means to be right or to “know” something, I realized that a lot of things come into play that are both facts and elements of subjective experience. Both things are important parts in fulfilling an empathetic life experience. The issue for me was in how we lost respect and distinction for one or the other or both? Are we losing the ability to think critically or cultivate abstract thought? These skills help us draw our own conclusions about the comfort and sanctity of reality that are big enough to hold greater compassion for each other. The play is written in a way that is funny and quick and truly entertaining to watch! But it deals with these important questions. It allows us to have some real space to look at how we understand, in this technological age, what is factual, as well as what needs to be factual for us to have a sense of respect and dignity. The play is also very clear in wanting you to think about the stories of who you are and how you’ve lived: reminding you that you are more than just facts; that your stories are living things that have the essence of your lifeforce moving through them so that those who come behind you can know you even when you are gone. After all, we live in stories, not in facts. I hope this play gives you all as much to think about as it did me. There is truth on both sides and being able to see that is where the art lies. Have fun!
Kim Tobin-Lehl Director and Resident Artist
In Rehearsal for The Lifespan of a Fact Top: Director Kim Tobin-Lehl Bottom: Pamela Vogel as Emily Penrose and Jack Gereski as Jim Fingal (photos: Jeff McMorrough)
WHO’S WHO JACK GERESKI (Jim Fingal) is excited to be making his 4th Wall Theatre debut. Currently based in the Washington DC area, Jack received his MFA from the University of Houston Professional Actor Training Program. Recent credits include: Lungs (M); Ring Round the Moon (Hugo/Frederic); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Puck); An Ideal Husband (Lord Goring); Urinetown: The Musical (Bobby Strong); and The Last Five Years (Jamie). PAMELA VOGEL (Emily Penrose) is a collective member of the Houston Equity Festival who, in May 2021, during the live indoor performances lockdown, produced and appeared in the digital full-feature Miss American Pie A Historical, Political, and Culinary Monologue. She is thrilled and honored to be working again onstage and at 4th Wall Theatre. Recent and upcoming Houston credits: 4th Wall Theatre: Between Riverside and Crazy (upcoming), Small Mouth Sounds, Body Awareness; Houston Equity Festival: WIT (Vivian); Catastrophic Theatre: Leap and the Net Will Appear (Alice); A.D. Players: The Lilies of the Field (Mother Maria Marté); Unity Theatre: Doubt; Main Street Theater: Peace In Our Time (Best Supporting Actress Finalist Houston Press 2014); Classical Theatre Company: The Importance of Being Earnest, The Triumph of Love (Best Supporting Actress Finalist Houston Press 2012), Tartuffe; Stages: In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play, Southern Rapture; Texas Repertory Theatre: The Lion in Winter, WIT; Houston Shakespeare Festival: Othello, The Taming of the Shrew. Regional credits: Illinois, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Utah Shakespeare Festivals. BFA Boston University. MFA University of South Carolina. Member Actor’s Equity Association. pamelavogelhomepage.com NICK FARCO (John D’Agata) is returning to 4th Wall after previously appearing in True West (Austin), Rapture, Blister, Burn (Don), Reckless (Tom/Tom Jr.), and Small Mouth Sounds (Rodney). Other Houston Credits include – A.D. Players: Dear Jack, Dear Louise (Jack Ludwig) and the Apollo 8 Virtual Premiere (Bill Anders & Others); Alley Theatre: The Other Place (The Man), Around the World in 80 Days (Rehearsal Actor); Alley Theatre All New Festivals: The Carpenter (Steve), When We Left (Chip), The Harassment of Iris Malloy (Sticker/George); Gravity Players at CTC: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Judas); Stages: The Book of Maggie (Peter). Other Regional Credits – Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey: Romeo & Juliet (Sampson/others); Playwright’s Theatre of New Jersey:
WHO’S WHO Fraternity (Skyler); Premiere Stages: Owed to My First Love (John); Findlay Theatre: Born Yesterday (Eddie), Forever Plaid (Eddie); Kitchen Theatre: December Suite (Michael); Bucs County Playhouse/Pocono Playhouse: How to Succeed…(Ensemble/Swing). NY Credits – Players Theatre: The Death of Frank (Frank); Abingdon Theatre: Patriot Acts (Stan); The Actor’s Studio: Faye Drummond (Frank Pescitelli); Young Playwright’s Studio: AKA Al Parker (Al Parker/others). TV/Film – HBO: Boardwalk Empire (Day Player-Capone Thug); Universal Pictures: Evan Almighty (Ark Rider). Training: BFA, Ithaca College, MFA, Rutgers Mason Gross. Sincere Gratitude to Philip and Kim for this opportunity. Thanks to my fellow cast members, our stage manager, the designers, theatre operational heads, and the 4th Wall Board. All my love to Daniela for making so much possible. To Mom: I only get to do this because of you. GORDON FARRELL (Playwright) trained as a playwright at the Yale School of Drama, Gordon received an MFA in 1986 and went from there to work with major Hollywood studios, initially as a story analyst for Warner Brothers and Columbia Pictures, and eventually as a screenwriter. He has written for hire and sold screenplays to Universal Pictures, Warner Brothers, MGM, and ITC. He has worked with Robert Simonds (producer of “The Wedding Singer,” “Molly’s Game,” “Mile 22”); Neal Moritz (producer of “XXX,” “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” “Fast and Furious”) and Bruce Berman (producer of “The Matrix,” “Three Kings,” “Mad Max: Fury Road”). Working in independent film, Gordon has written for and sold projects to NYC indie producer Norman Twain (producer, “Lean on Me,” “Boycott,” “My Dog Tulip”). Gordon’s first independent screenplay, “Girls Who Smoke,” premiered in 2011. It went on to be an official selection at over a dozen film festivals, ultimately winning the Audience Choice Award in Seattle at the Post Alley Film Festival. As a playwright, from 2009 to 2013, Gordon worked with dozens of women on New York’s Lower East Side who wanted to tell their personal stories on stage. The series of monologue plays that grew out of it was called IN THE RED ROOM/EVERY WOMAN DANCES FOR SOMEONE. In May 2019 the fully dramatized version, GIRLS WHO WALKED ON GLASS, played to SRO houses and rave reviews in Buffalo and is scheduled to transfer to New York City in 2020. His other plays have been produced in San Francisco, at the Alleyway Theatre, at the Yale School of Drama, and at Primary Stages in New York. He is the author of “The Power of the Playwright’s Vision,” published by Heinemann Press in 2001. It has been translated internationally and become a standard playwriting text at colleges and universities in North America, Europe, and Asia.
WHO’S WHO JEREMY KAREKEN (Playwright) is a playwright living in New York and Baltimore. His short plays HOT ROD, BIG TRAIN, and 80 CARDS have been performed around the country and internationally. He served as a speech writer and policy analyst for two presidential campaigns. His awards include the Sewanee Conference’s Dakin Fellowship for FARBLONDJET, and Guthrie/Playwrights Center’s Two-Headed Challenge for THE SWEET SWEET MOTHERHOOD. The Hamptons Film Festival Screenwriters Conference selected Kareken and David Murrell for their horror-comedy script about haunted breast implants—“THESE! Conquered the Earth!” In 2018, PlayPenn shortlisted Jeremy’s new political satire about an illiterate king, THE RED WOOL. Born and raised in Rochester, New York, and a graduate of the University of Chicago, he has taught at NYU, NYIT, the Actors Studio Drama School, and currently teaches at the Acting Studio—New York. A lifetime member of The Actors Studio, Jeremy occasionally acts and for 18 years served as the researcher for Bravo TV’s “Inside the Actors Studio.” DAVID MURRELL (Playwright) was born and raised in New York City. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School and the University of Chicago, currently lives in Queens, and has written a sea chest’s worth of TV and film treatments and spec scripts. Access Theater (NYC) and the Cleveland Public Theatre each produced his play DUCTWORK and the Hamptons Film Festival Screenwriters Conference selected his and Jeremy Kareken’s feature screenplay about haunted breast implants, “THESE! Conquered the Earth.” In 2019, the Outer Critics Circle co-awarded David its John Gassner Playwriting Award for THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT.
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Production Photos for The Lifespan of a Fact Top: Jack Gereski as Jim, Pamela Vogel as Emily, and Nick Farco as John Bottom: Pamela Vogel as Emily (photos: Gabriella Nissen)
WHO’S WHO KIM TOBIN-LEHL (Director) is a co-founder of 4th Wall Theatre and the company’s first Resident Artist. She has played numerous roles over the years at 4th Wall including her most recent appearance as Nora in A Doll’s House, Part 2. She is an award-winning director with recent credits at 4th Wall and in NYC and LA. Her work has been seen in Houston at Stages, AD Players, Mildred’s Umbrella, and Texas Repertory. Kim has an extensive list of Off Broadway and OffOff Broadway credits and Los Angeles stage/film/TV credits. She also wrote and starred in The Barrow Group’s production of her original One Woman Show, Inside Out. While living in New York, Kim was an officer with the New Mercury Theatre Company, where (among other roles) she produced and starred in the 1995 revival of A Lie of the Mind. Kim later became the Artistic Director of the Blue Sphere Alliance East Theatre Company. Kim graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Houston with a BA in Theatre. Her conservatory training includes Stella Adler, Circle In The Square, The Barrow Group, and years of training with Gene Frankel and Sandy Marshall, among others. Kim is also a highly sought-after acting and directing teacher. The Kim Tobin Acting Studio focuses on the Sanford Meisner approach to acting and offers an array of courses (from beginner to advanced levels). Kim is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA. KALIN MENZEL (Stage Manager) Credits at 4th Wall Theatre Company: A Doll’s House, Part 2; Between Riverside and Crazy; The Realistic Joneses; The Glass Menagerie; Collected Stories; The Pussy Grabber Plays; Rapture, Blister, Burn; Pride and Prejudice; Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train (Stage Manager); Shakespeare in Vegas; Reckless (Stage Crew); Other credits include: Rogue Productions – I Love You Because (ASM). Kalin is a proud member of the Actor’s Equity Association. @kalinmenzel ROBERT MEEK (Sound Designer) is very excited to be working with 4th Wall again. He has Directed and done Sound Design for: The Tempest, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, The Haunting of Hill House, Veronica’s Room, Titus Andronicus, Christmas Carol, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing (CCCT). He has also done sound design for Between Riverside and Crazy, The Glass Menagerie, Collected Stories, and Pride & Prejudice at 4th Wall Theatre and for Woyzeck at Rec Room. He has assistant directed for The Landing Theatre Company for the world premiere of Small Jokes About Monsters, at 4th Wall Theatre for their production of Ho Ho Humbug 2.0, and at Classical Theatre Company on Government Inspector. Robert is also a music producer and releases original music as “J U N O”, you can listen and learn more at www.junomusichtx.com.
WHO’S WHO RYAN McGETTIGAN (Set Designer) Recent credits include: 4th Wall Theatre Company – A Doll’s House, Part 2, The Glass Menagerie, Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train, Pride and Prejudice, Lobby Hero, Shakespeare In Vegas, Ho Ho Humbug 2.0; Classical Theatre Company – Barber of Seville, Ghost Sonata, The Birds, The Cherry Orchard, A Christmas Carol, The Importance of Being Earnest, Doctor Faustus, Ubu Roi; Theatre Under the Stars – Rocky Horror Show, Million Dollar Quartet, Smokey Joe’s Café; TUTS Underground – Heathers, Striking 12, Bonnie & Clyde (BWW Houston Award for Best Scenic Design), First Date, LMNOP, Reefer Madness; Stages Repertory Theatre – Marie Antoinette (Houston Press Best Scenic Design Award), Who am I This Time?, Straight White Men, Failure: A Love Story, The Marvelous Wonderettes: Caps and Gowns, Language Archive, Next to Normal; The Catastrophic Theatre – Snow White, Trevor, Buried Child, University of Tamarie, A Very Tamarie Christmas, Middletown, Clean/Through, Old as Hell; Main Street Theater – Copenhagen, Love and Information, Putting it Together, Into the Woods, A Civil War Christmas, Close Up Space, Henry V (Prague Shakespeare Company), Memory House, Richard III (Prague Shakespeare Company); Orlando Shakespeare Theater – Julius Caesar; Cape Rep – Jerusalem, Eurydice, Beauty Queen of Leenane, Avenue Q, Mack & Mabel; Shepherd School of Music – Volpone, Our Town, A Little Night Music; Houston Grand Opera – Bound (World Premiere), From My Mother’s Mother (World Premiere), Your Name Means the Sea (World Premiere). www.RyanMcGettigan.com DAN JONES (Lighting Designer) is a native of San Antonio. He is currently working as the Associate Lighting Director at the Alley Theatre. Past credits include Assistant Lighting Designer for The Wiz and Ragtime (Theatre Under the Stars), as well as Associate Light Designer for Sweat and 72 Miles to Go (Alley Theatre). Dan would like to personally thank Philip and Kim for this opportunity.
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WHO’S WHO MACY LYNE (Costume Designer) is a Houston based freelance costume designer and stylist. Theatre credits include: The Realistic Joneses, Lobby Hero, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Body Awareness (4th Wall Theatre); Leap: and the Net Will Appear, Rhinoceros, Evening at the Talk House, Snow White, Buried Child, Song about Himself, Blackest Shore, Hunchback Variations, Detroit (Catastrophic Theatre); The Games Afoot, Little Shop of Horrors (Utah State University); Heathers (Santa Fe University of Art and Design): Ghost Sonata, The Barber of Seville, Henry V, Cherry Orchard, Christmas Carol, Doctor Faustus, Ubu Roi (Classical Theatre Company) Men On Boats, The Last Wife, Revolutionists, Civil War Christmas, Close Up Space, Dog Act, The Light in the Piazza (Main Street Theater); Five Course Love, End of the Rainbow, Bad Jews, Great American Trailer Park Musical, Auntie Mame (Stages Theatre); The Addams Family, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Ragtime, Hairspray, Cats (Miller Outdoor Theatre); Lyle the Crocodile, Good Night Moon, Alice in Wonderland (Main Street Theater for Youth); From My Hometown, Cinderella, Nacirema Society, King Hedley II (The Ensemble Theatre); Tartuffe, Macbeth, The Threepenny Opera (Rice University); Boom, Our House, Farragut North (Black Lab Theatre); Greater Tuna (Unity Theatre); The Fantasticks (Okoboji Summer Theatre); Two by Two, Dames at Sea (Utah Musical Theatre); The Hollow, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, and The Comedy of Errors (Utah State University). Opera: Giulio Cesare, The Barber of Seville, Hansel and Gretel, Albert Herring (Shepherd School of Music, Rice University); Strega Nona, From My Mother’s Mother, Court-side (HGOco); Film/ Television: Feature Film Be Not Afraid, Web Series Penny Power, ZomBFF (promo shoot.) www.maclyne.com LAUREN DAVIS (Properties Master) Recent local credits include: 4th Wall Theatre Company: A Doll’s House, Part 2; The Catastrophic Theatre: Fefu, Speeding Motorcycle, Toast, Bootycandy, Curse of the Starving Class, Snow White, Trevor, Buried Child (props), The Danube (scenic), Tragedy: A Tragedy, Rhinoceros (props and scenic); Main Street Theater: Anne Frank, Charlie Brown, Jackie & Me (props), Frog & Toad, Mr. Popper’s Penguins (scenic); A.D. Players: God’s Favorite (props), Best of Enemies, David the Best...(scene painting); Stages Repertory Theatre: The Fantasticks, Water by the Spoonful, Alma en Venta, Panto Wonderful Wizard, Panto Unfrozen, Mack & Mabel, Xanadu (scenic), and many more. Lauren also works for the University of Houston School of Theater and Dance painting sets, managing props, and teaching future theatre creatives.
Production Photos for The Lifespan of a Fact Top: Jack Gereski as Jim Bottom: Nick Farco as John (photos: Gabriella Nissen)
t s o C The Value of Art At 4th Wall, we are committed to paying Houston’s theatre artists a living wage. While it may be impossible to monetize the value of art in our society, we believe it is imperative that we fairly compensate the artists who enrich our lives. We dream of a day when Houston’s professional theatre artists will be able to ply their trades without needing to work any other job. We aim toward a day when sustained theatrical excellence inspires our audience and community to hold our art and the artists who make it to be an indispensable and valued part of life in Houston. To this end, we have made it our mission to prioritize increasing artist pay every year, even beyond the minimum wage stipulated by the Actors’ Equity Association. This season, we will be paying Equity actors $320 per week, which is 3.5% more than the mandated minimum wage for theatres of our size.
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INDIVIDUAL ARTIST SPONSORSHIP 4th Wall’s mission has always been to improve the pay standard for Houston artists. A direct way to fund local creatives is to sponsor an individual artist contract. By making a gift at one of the tiers below, you will fund a position for one 4th Wall show and enjoy recognition and a variety of benefits. Sponsors gain premium access to 4th Wall events and other perks. All sponsors will have their name featured in the show program, venue signage, and 4th Wall website, and are invited to a special VIP Rehearsal and the Opening Night Party. Additional perks at various sponsorship levels include tickets to give to friends, and even dinner with Artistic Directors Philip Lehl and Kim Tobin-Lehl!
SPONSORSHIP LEVELS $5,000 Actor Sponsorship $3,000 Stage Manager Sponsorship $2,500 Director Sponsorship $1,500 Designer Sponsorship $1,000 Backstage Crew Sponsorship $500
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We also have Corporate Sponsorship Packages that help underwrite our costs and bring your business into the spotlight. Opportunities include prominent logo placement, on-stage thanks, access to opening night parties, complimentary tickets, dinner with our artistic directors, and more. Single show sponsorships start as low as $1,000.
To learn more, contact Tim Richey at timr@4thwalltheatreco.com or 832.668.5903.
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4TH WALL THEATRE COMPANY CONTRIBUTORS Our sincerest thanks to all of you; we truly couldn’t make theater without you. This list reflects donations given from December 1, 2020 – January 10, 2022. Please call Tim Richey at 832-668-5903 to report any errors.
$75,000 and above City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance $50,000 and above Kenneth Bohan Anonymous $20,000 and above The Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts Hamilton James $15,000 and above Gary Chiles & Amy Sutton Carolyn Keating in honor of Kim Tobin-Lehl
4TH WALL THEATRE COMPANY CONTRIBUTORS
$5,000 and above
$2,500 and above
Howard & Karen Bookstaff
English-Speaking Union, Houston Branch
Robert J. Card, MD & Karol Kreymer
Mary & John Arensdorf
Linda Dodge
Sheri Clark Henriksen
The Liberty Group
The Edward & Helen Oppenheimer Foundation
Carl Masterson Richard Moiel & Kathy Poeppel Michelle Mower J & D Entertainment
Duke & C.C. Ensell
Carol Sugimoto & James Zimmerman $2,000 and above
Laura & Dan Pears
Michele Collins & Craig Moffatt
Texas Commission on the Arts
Susan Fargason & Steve Lockless
$3,000 and above Vanessa & Sergio Garza Patricia Larson Diane Tobin
Warren & Marsha Holleman Emma Jacobs in honor of Kenneth Bohan National Endowment for the Arts
4TH WALL THEATRE COMPANY CONTRIBUTORS $1,500 and above Gene Graham Brian & Dawn Greenberg Mary & Rodney Koenig Harriet Schubb & John Harris Gerry & Betty Stacy $1,000 and above June & Steve Barth Mary Kay Casey Jim & Michelle Connor John E. Drewer Nan Earle Sharyn Feller & David Harris Tom Kearns Candace & Weir Kyle Madison Charitable Foundation Jacklyn & Malcolm Mazow Michael McGinity Beverly McPhail & Kevin Kulish Wendell Mendell Virginia Miller Nina & Michael Zilkha Robert Zinn The Edith & Robert Zinn Foundation
$750 and above Ty Buthod Pam & Art Nolting $500 and above Joel & Carol Bell Shondra Marie & Todd Boring Roxanne Cargill & Peter Weston Katy Emde Howard Feldman Denis “Woodja” Flanigan, Ph.D. Nancy Grason & Richard Dixon Lucila & Bill Haase James H. Hazen in memory of Frank Young, Founder of TUTS Mary Jane Keller Joseph Levitan Andrew & Kay McStay Terrylin G. Neale Tom & Carolyn Paul Elizabeth Phillips Cheri & John Randolph David & Kelley Tobin
4TH WALL THEATRE COMPANY CONTRIBUTORS $250 and above Buzz Bellmont & Randy Puddu Claire Brooks Brian Broome Sandra & Clem Reid Bryan & Deborah Domning Sally & Philip Edmundson Susan Edwards Maureen Flynn Raymond Harvey Ann Hasselmo Cindy Hutchinson Green Renato & Linda Mello Lynette Pebernat Don Quaintance Robert C. Richter, Jr Marti & Billy Rosenberg Irene Sasaki Jane & Dick Schmitt Mark Seavers A.D. Players Family in honor of James Tobin Bill Bob Tallent Hywel Upshall Dominique Varner Shari & Gary Winston Anonymous
$100 and above Antha Adkins Maida Asofsky Christopher Bacon Jill Baird in memory of Jim Tobin Lary Barton in honor of Ken Bohan & Dean O’Kelley Lynn Birdwell Douglas Bosse Harry Bowles Eric Bradley & Wanderson Rezende Lynn Brown Holly Clark Elizabeth & David Connelly Wesley Copeland Margaret Culbertson in memory of Sims McCutchan Mary Lou & Harold Dietler Loretta Kania & Mark Doerr Harold Eisenman Nick & Daniela Farco Julie Fontenot Karen Foster Michael Frewer Ruth Gorman Cynthia Greenwood continued on next page...
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Richard J. Heil Anne Loo & Brad Nyberg Sandra Holloway Dagfinn Nygaard Herman Hsuan in honor of Deborah & Luis Quintero Carol Sugimoto Dianne Reece & Alejandro Garza John Rudder Sandra Lee Jordan Amanda Schlafer Marilyn Karr in memory of Bennie & Elizabeth Slavik Lial & Dolores Bockman Joyce Steensrud Paul Kellogg Sandra Stettler Randy Kilpatrick Carla & Robert Stevens, Jr. GROOVE at Creation Station Studio City Madeleine & Reece Stevens Carolyn Stewart in memory Scott & Kate Lambert of John W Stewart Nora Laos Leslie & Ten Eyck Anna Larson Swackhamer Wendy & Stuart Laughton Lily & Mike Sweet Lona McManus Leslie Copeland Taylor & Drew Anderson Amy & Kevin Tones in honor of Kim Tobin-Lehl Walter Ulrich Eve Leonard Eleanor & Richard Viebig Frances Limoncelli Kathleen Vukela The Lin Family Dr. & Mrs. James K. Weatherly Patti Lozano Blake Weisser Gretchen M. Michelfeld Mary Ellen Whitworth Lynn McNamee Anonymous (2) Belinda Mundey
This list reflects donations given from December 1, 2020 - January 10, 2022. Please call Tim Richey at 832-668-5903 to report any errors.
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We regret we cannot include everyone in the Houston theater community on this page. Please make sure to check all local listings for additional theater companies in Houston and for what might be going on in your local area. *These theatres have committed to the fair treatment of the actors and stage managers employed in their productions through agreements with the Actors’ Equity Association (AEA). The AEA fosters the art of live theatre as an essential component of society and advances the careers of its members by negotiating wages, improving working conditions, and providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. Learn more at www.actorsequity.org.
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