CULLEN TRUST FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS THE SOUND INSIDE written by ADAM RAPP directed by K. LORREL MANNING January 19 - February 11, 2023
4th Wall Theatre Company is funded in part by awards from the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance, the State of Texas through the Texas Commission on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
MISSION
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.
STAFF
Philip Lehl, Artistic Director, Co-Founder
Jennifer Dean, Managing Director
Kim Tobin-Lehl, Resident Artist, Co-Founder
Catherine Dunaway, Development Manager
Gabriel Velazquez, Marketing Manager
Rubena Gracia, Box Office Associate
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Gary Chiles, President Patricia Larson, Secretary Harriet Schubb, Treasurer Kenneth Bohan, Howard M. Bookstaff, Dominic Cellitti, Sharyn Feller Harris, Michelle Mower, Dan O’Brien, Carol Sugimoto
ADVISORY BOARD
Jennifer Decker, Ruth McCleskey, Michael Mullins, Gabriella Nissen, John and Kelly Raley, Jason Roberts, Chip Schneider, Dr. Robert Shimko, Nancy Wozny
SPECIAL THANKS
Special thanks to the following people and organizations for their direct involvement with our administration or artistic efforts during this production:
Ted Doolittle, John Meek, Rachel Ryder, John Tyska, and Hannah Warren.
4th Wall Theatre Company is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization founded in 2011 by Kim Tobin-Lehl and Philip Lehl. Donations are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law.
By ADAM RAPP Directed by K. LORREL MANNING
4TH WALL THEATRE COMPANY presents THE SOUND INSIDE
Presenting Sponsor THE CULLEN TRUST FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Director Sponsor SHERI C. HENRIKSEN CAST Bella Lee Baird ................................................. Kim Tobin-Lehl* Christopher Dunn ........................................ Christian Tannous DESIGNERS & PRODUCTION CREW Stage Manager ...................................................... Kalin Menzel* Set Designer .................................................... Ryan McGettigan Lighting Designer ....................................... Christina Giannelli Sound Designer ........................................... Robert Leslie Meek Costume Designer ............................................ Paige A. Willson Props Designer ........................................................ Corey Nance Scenic Production ........................................... Santiago Sepeda Crew ................ Lauren Ayala, David E. Brandt, J.R. Marshall Content Warning: Discussion of self-harm. Runtime: Approximately 90 minutes. No intermission. No re-entry once performance has begun. *Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Stage Actors and Stage Managers.
Sound Inside” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
Broadway Production Produced
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Falkenstein, Salman Vienn Al-Rashid, Spencer Ross, FilmNation Entertainment/Faliro House, Jane Bergère, Caiola Productions, Mark S. Golub and David S. Golub, Ken Greiner, Gemini Theatrical Investors, Scott H. Mauro, Jayne Baron Sherman, Czekaj Productions, Wendy Morgan-Hunter, Kristin Foster, Jacob Soroken Porten, and Williamstown Theatre Festival, Mandy Greenfield, Artistic Director. The World Premiere of “The Sound Inside” was produced by Williamstown Theatre Festival in July 2018. “The Sound Inside” was originally commissioned by Lincoln Center Theater.
FROM THE DIRECTOR
Kim Tobin and I met over twenty years ago in an acting class at the Barrow Group in New York City. From day one, I’ve been a huge admirer of her work, and I have always loved working with her. So, when she offered me the opportunity to direct The Sound Inside, I quickly accepted. The Sound Inside spoke to me on many levels. I’ve been an avid fan (and follower) of Adam Rapp’s writing ever since I saw the New York premiere production of his play Red Light Winter at the Barrow Street Theatre in 2006. I love the punch-in-the-gut feeling I get from his work whenever I encounter it. However, The Sound Inside is unlike any of his other plays. It haunted me for days after I read it.
On the surface, the play is about Bella, a middle-aged Yale writing professor, and the friendship she develops with Christopher, one of her students, over their love of writing. However, on a deeper level, the play is about loneliness and our conscious and unconscious desire for human connection. I saw myself in both Bella and Christopher, both talented writers who are so consumed with their art that they have trouble truly existing in the world revolving/evolving around them. Honestly, I think that anyone who has experienced profound loneliness and isolation at some point in their lives and found solace in a great novel, or any other form of art, will be able to connect with these two characters.
The play skillfully pushes the boundaries of storytelling on the stage. As a director, I like the challenge the play presents of exploring the gray area between reality and fiction. Rapp has given us a solid blueprint with enough latitude for the director and actors to “build the house” any way they want. What is true? What isn’t? You decide. I’ve had an absolute blast building this house with my amazingly talented actors and crew.
Welcome to The Sound Inside. Enjoy the ride!
K. Lorrel Manning Director of The Sound Inside
NEW MANAGING DIRECTOR
The first time I met Kim Tobin-Lehl, I had signed up to take one of her acting classes. My palms were sweaty; my heart was pounding. I was captivated from the first moment. I took notes. Tried to remember everything. Tried to soak it all up like a sponge.
I think the first time I met Philip Lehl was a brief introduction after a production of Arcadia at Main Street Theater that I saw with my husband. Philip knew Kevin from the audition scene around town, and we had a quick conversation after the show. I was taken in by his exuberance and energy.
If only I knew then how significant these meetings would be to the trajectory of my life. Over the next ten years, I would have ongoing opportunities to work with 4th Wall and get to know Kim and Philip. They saw things in me that I wasn’t ready to see in myself yet. I grew up here as a director because of the faith and belief that they had in me. Time and experience allowed me to develop my skills all around. Now I know I am ready and able to help 4th Wall move into the future. I am beyond thrilled to officially be part of the team.
My first weeks have been amazing. I have such confidence in the foundation that has been laid, and I am very excited about the future. I look forward to meeting you, sharing in the laughter, tears, and sometimes gasps as an audience member; and hopefully encouraging you to take that next step of support to become a season ticket holder, a volunteer, or a donor.
Yes, 4th Wall exists because of the hard work of the staff, casts, designers, and crew members, but we will not be as strong as we can without our committed board of directors, volunteers, and ultimately you! We need you. Thank you for being here; thank you for your support. Who knows how this theater can change us. Let’s keep going!
Enjoy the show!
Jennifer Dean Managing Director of 4th Wall
FROM OUR
KIM TOBIN-LEHL (Bella Lee Baird) 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 Detective O’Connor in Between Riverside and Crazy. 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, A.D. Players, Mildred’s Umbrella, and Texas Repertory. Kim has an extensive list of Off Broadway and Off-Off 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 B.A. 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.
CHRISTIAN TANNOUS (Christopher Dunn) is a Houstonbased actor and is currently working towards his B.A. in Fine Arts and Arts Administration at the University of Houston-Downtown. As this production marks his debut at 4th Wall Theatre, he could not be more grateful to Philip, Kim, and Lorrel for this incredible opportunity. Various theatre credits include: Twelfth Night (Sir Toby Belch), Ring Round the Moon (Romainville), Reasons to Be Pretty (Kent), and Romeo and Juliet (Romeo). He is also proud to be part of The Man from Beyond cast at Strange Bird Immersive. Christian would like to thank his friends and family for their unrelenting love and support through this exciting chapter, especially his brother, Jordan...the very reason Christian ended up coming back “home” in the first place.
ADAM RAPP (Playwright) is the author of numerous plays, which include Nocturne (American Repertory Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop), Finer Noble Gases (26th Humana Festival), Stone Cold Dead Serious (A.R.T.), Blackbird (The Bush, London), Essential Self-Defense (Playwrights Horizons/ Edge Theatre), Kindness (Playwrights Horizons), The Metal Children (The Vineyard), The Hallway Trilogy (Rattlestick),
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The Edge of Our Bodies (36th Humana Festival), Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling (The Atlantic), Through the Yellow Hour (Rattlestick), Wolf in the River (The Flea), The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois (The Atlantic) and Red Light Winter (Steppenwolf, Barrow Street Theatre), for which he won Chicago’s Jeff Award for Best New Work, an Obie, and was named a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize. He made his Broadway debut with The Sound Inside (Studio 54), which received a 2020 Outer Critics Circle Honor for Outstanding New Broadway Play. The Sound Inside was commissioned by Lincoln Center and received its world premiere at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. His playwriting honors include Boston’s Elliot Norton Award, The Helen Merrill Prize, The 2006 Princess Grace Statue, a Lucille Lortel Playwright’s Fellowship, the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation Award, and The Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
K. LORREL MANNING (Director) is a New York City-based award-winning writer, director, actor, and musician who actively works in both theatre and film. Most recently, his critically-acclaimed play Awake, which he also directed, had its world premiere at the Barrow Group in New York City. Up next for Manning is a workshop production of his solo play Lost...Found and a starring role in the new Off-Broadway play, Unentitled. On the film front, he is scheduled to direct the short Holocaust thriller The Red Shoe later this year and is in development for his second narrative feature, Sheila & The Punk Rock. Manning holds an M.F.A. in Film from Columbia University and a B.F.A. in Drama from the University of Georgia. He currently teaches directing, screenwriting, and advanced acting at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, and is a resident director and instructor at the Barrow Group Theatre Company and School in New York City.
KALIN MENZEL (Stage Manager) Credits at 4th Wall Theatre Company: The Thin Place; Between Riverside and Crazy; Gloria; The Lifespan of a Fact; A Doll’s House, Part 2; 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). Rogue Productions: I Love You Because (ASM). Kalin is a proud member of the Actors’ Equity Association. @kalinmenzel open studios
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RYAN McGETTIGAN (Set Designer) Recent credits include: 4th Wall Theatre Company – Between Riverside and Crazy, The Lifespan of a Fact, 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
CHRISTINA GIANNELLI (Lighting Designer) is so very happy to be back at 4th Wall where she has previously designed lights for The Thin Place, Between Riverside and Crazy, A Doll’s House, Part 2 (Houston Press Award), The Glass Menagerie, Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train, Pride and Prejudice, Lobby Hero, and BEDLAM’s Saint Joan (Houston Press Award). She has been the Resident Lighting Designer for Houston Grand Opera, Cleveland-San Jose Ballet, Texas Ballet Theater, Houston Ballet, and the Metropolitan Opera. Favorite recent projects in Houston include Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and No One Owns Me for A.D. Players; Dido and Aeneus for Ars Lyrica;
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Peer Gynt for Classical Theatre Company; MacGyver the Musical (Houston Press Award), Sensitive Guys, Replica (Houston Press Award), Veronica’s Room, and End of the Rainbow for Stages; Loving Clara for Mercury; on love and As the Shadows Fall for CORE; Pippin for TUTS; and Sideshow for Queensbury. For many years she produced Weekend of Texas Contemporary Dance and other dance events at Miller Outdoor Theatre. Ms. Giannelli has served on the Boards of Zocalo Artists Yard, Infernal Bridegroom Productions, and the DiverseWorks Artists Board. She is the founder of Dance Source Houston, a service organization that supports and promotes dance in Houston.
ROBERT LESLIE MEEK (Sound Designer) is very excited to be at 4th Wall for the whole season. Previous credits include sound design for Collected Stories, Pride and Prejudice, The Glass Menagerie, Between Riverside and Crazy, The Lifespan of a Fact, and The Thin Place here at 4th Wall Theatre Company and for Woyzeck, Hurricane Diane, and Put Your House In Order at Rec Room Arts. He has also 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, and Much Ado About Nothing (CCCT) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at The University of Houston. Robert is also a music producer with more than 200,000 streams on Spotify and releases original music as “J U N O”, you can listen and learn more at www.junomusichtx.com.
PAIGE A. WILLSON (Costume Designer) is a Professor of Costume Design and Technology at the University of Houston and a freelance costume and mask designer for theatre, dance, and performance art. She holds a B.F.A. from the University of Louisiana-Lafayette in Performing Arts Dance Choreographic Design and an M.F.A. from the University of Houston in Costume, Lighting and Scenic Design. Recent projects include U.S. National Exhibit space for the Prague Quadrennial 2019, Prague, Czech Republic, titled Concordance. Publications include The Encyclopedia of Musicians and Bands on Film, and Dracula’s Daughters; Chapter 3: Alienation, Essentialism, and Existentialism through Technique: An Analysis of Set Design, Lighting, Costume, and Music in Dracula’s Daughter and Nadja. Costume credits include at 4th wall: Twelfth Night, Gloria, Pride and Prejudice, As You Like It, Houston Shakespeare Festival: Henry 4.1, Two Gentlemen of Verona, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2010 and 2002), Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, The Tempest, As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew (2011 and 2004), The Winter’s Tale; Generations Theatre Company: Sweeney Todd; Stages Theatre: Panto Hansel and Gretel; A.D. Players: Apollo 8, The Hiding Place; Main Street Theater: Daisey, Relatively Speaking, Elliot: A Soldier’s Fugue. www.paigeawillson.com
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COREY NANCE (Props Designer) 4th Wall Theatre Company: Gloria, Alley Theatre: Christmas Carol, Clue; Catastrophic: Innominate, Tamarie Cooper Show Sticky Sweet Summer Show; Main Street Theater: Cinderella, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Charlotte’s Web, Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! The Musical!; Techland Houston: Little Shop of Horrors, The Lion King; University of Houston: Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Spirits to Enforce, Romeo and Juliet; HITS Theatre: 101 Dalmatians; San Jacinto Community College: August: Osage County. Education: B.F.A, University of Houston, Theatre Production.
SANTIAGO SEPEDA (Scenic Production) is a second year M.F.A. Design and technical direction graduate student at the University of Houston. He completed his B.F.A. at the University of Houston. He currently owns and operates the production company Sepeda Design & Production which has given him the opportunity and privilege of working with non-profit theatre companies all over the Houston area. Santiago would like to thank his beautiful children Mia, Tato, Lulu, and Eva, as well as his partner, Mary.
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The Value of Art Cost
Remarkably, artists often can and do produce high quality art for little or no pay. Because they are not compensated in a way that sustains life in our society, they are true amateurs in the original sense of the wordthey do it for the love of their art form.
At 4th Wall, we are not interested in amateur art. We are interested in producing consistently high quality professional art by supporting a community of professional artists, people who are highly trained in their discipline and who practice their artform as their primary source of financial compensation.
To this end, we have made it our mission to prioritize increasing artist pay every year until we reach a true living wage for artists. This season, we are paying Equity actors $355 per 26 hour work week, which is 8% more than the union-mandated minimum wage for theatres of our size and 88% more than the Texas-mandated minimum wage.
You can partner with us in revolutionizing the pay standard for professional artists by making a tax-deductible donation to sponsor an artist contract. Contact Catherine Dunaway at (832)767-4991 or catherine@4thwalltheatreco.com to learn more.
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4TH WALL THEATRE COMPANY CONTRIBUTORS $100,000 and above Kenneth Bohan $25,000 and above Jim & Cherie Flores City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance Hamilton E. James Anonymous $15,000 and above Amy Sutton & Gary Chiles Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts Carolyn Keating $10,000 and above Michele M. Collins & Craig L. Moffatt National Endowment for the Arts $5,000 and above Steve & June Barth Bookstaff Family Giving Fund Tony Canino & Mary Margolis Robert J. Card, MD & Karol Kreymer Linda P. Dodge Sheri C. Henriksen Robert Horn Candy & Weir Kyle Carl Masterson Richard Moiel & Katherine Poeppel J & D Entertainment Townes G. Pressler, Jr. Carol Sugimoto & Jim Zimmerman Texas Commission on the Arts Diane Tobin
4TH WALL THEATRE COMPANY CONTRIBUTORS $2,500 and above Duke & C.C. Ensell Michael McGinity Wendell W. Mendell & Pamala C. Henjum Betty & Gerry Stacy $2,000 and above Joel & Carol Bell Mary Kay Casey Dominic Cellitti Julie Dokell Cogan John Drewer Nan R. Earle Katy Emde Sharyn Feller Butch & Carmen Mach Madison Charitable Foundation Jackie & Malcolm Mazow Beverly McPhail & Kevin Mark Kulish Virginia M. Miller Joyce Steensrud Edith & Robert Zinn $1,000 and above Charles W. Adcock Mary & John Arensdorf The Edward & Helen Oppenheimer Foundation Patricia Larson Michelle Mower Eric D. Mullins Laura & Dan Pears Nick & Dorena Battaglino Gene Graham Brian & Dawn Greenberg Tom Kearns Joseph Levitan Hugh E. McGee, III Harriet Schubb & John Harris Kelley & David Tobin $1,500 and above Christopher Bacon Bob Beathard Buzz Bellmont & Randy Puddu Shondra Marie & Todd Boring Jim & Michelle Connor Susan Fargason & Steve Lockless Howard Feldman Denis “Woodja” Flanigan, Ph.D. Mary Laura Gibbs Nancy Grason & Richard Dixon Lucila & Bill Haase Ann Hasselmo $500 and above
4TH WALL THEATRE COMPANY CONTRIBUTORS Warren & Marsha Holleman Megan Hotze Editorial Emma Jacobs Breast Cancer Foundation Elizabeth & Dan King Mary & Rodney Koenig Debra Laporte & Eric Lombardi Andrew & Kay McStay Carolyn & Bart Nay Raquel Padilla Thomas Paul Lynette Pebernat Kathryn & Andrew Principe Cheri & John Randolph Clem & Sandra Reid Timothy J. Richey Robert C. Richter, Jr The Seabrook Family Rebecca Udden Kathryn & Andrew Principe Mary Ellen & Tom Whitworth Steven & Christine Adams Antha Adkins & Frank Davies R. Scott Allen Susan & Gerald Anhalt Claire & Ronald Auchter Lary D. Barton Doug Benditz Harry Bowles Fredricka Brecht Brian Broome Warren Burkholder & Sheryl Starry Peter V. Weston & Roxanne C. Cargill Elizabeth & David Connelly Susan Edwards Cheryl & Peter Fasullo Mark Folkes & Christopher Johnston Stephen Forrette Michael R. Frewer Jeannette Garrett Ruth & Donald Gorman Raymond Harvey James H. Hazen Kate & Scott Lambert Nora Laos Bryn K. Larsen Gary & Renae Leach Karen Lu in honor of Carol Sugimoto Georgia & Miller McCalmon Terrylin G. Neale Kelsey Nibert Pam & Art Nolting Howard Patton & Sue Owens Rebecca & Philip Kortum Marti & Billy Rosenberg Jane & Dick Schmitt Nancy & Alan Shelby Adam & Tiffany Till Kevin & Amy Tones Roy & Dominique Varner The Winston Family Fund Anonymous (3) $500 and above, continued $250 and above
4TH WALL THEATRE COMPANY CONTRIBUTORS Thea Albert John Alford Jill T. Baird Roger Barascout Eric Bradley & Wanderson Rezende Claire & Richard Brooks Dr. Landrus Burress Jane Campbell Lu Chambers Holly Clark Costco Margaret Culbertson in memory of Sims McCutchan Larry Danziger Patricia Denman & John Hanna Mary Lou & Harold Dietler Loretta Kania & Mark Doerr Bryan & Deborah Domning Bruce & Reva Edison Ann L. Faget Angela D. Flowers Karen Foster Cynthia Greenwood & Robert Molder David Greiss & David Romero Marc Grossberg Deborah Hall Margaret Hansen Holly Hildebrand Larry Hitt Sandra Holloway Jamie Kim & Herman Hsuan in honor of Carol Sugimoto Marianna & Michael Jayson Diane Kaplan Diana & Damian Katz Barbara Kauffman Joel Kaufman Mr. & Mrs. Kent Keith Scott Burkell & Joe Kirkendall Wendy & Stuart Laughton Ibituroko-Emi Lawson Deanna Lehl Frances Limoncelli Jasmine Lin & Family David Mailman Linda S. Marlin Lynn McNamee Gretchen Michelfeld in memory of Beatrice Terry Lopez Belinda Mundey Anne B. Loo & Brad C. Nyberg Scott Orr Cecelia & Charles Ottenweller Stuart Purdy Deborah & Luis Quintero Venu & Elsie Rao Karen Reichek Kent & Terry Richter Irene Sasaki John Shannon Sandra S. Stettler Carla & Robert Stevens, Jr. Dawn Stoecker-Simon & Edward Simon Leslie & Ten Eyck Swackhamer Emily Leland Todd in honor of Robert C. Richter Allan Van Fleet & Ruth Goldberg Eleanor & Richard Viebig Dr. & Mrs. James K. Weatherly Bradley & Lynn Winkler Marcia Wolf & Scott Shorey Heather Wolfe Gay Yellen & Don Reiser Anonymous (6) $100 and above
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THANK YOU TO OUR VOLUNTEERS!
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LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
4th Wall Theatre Company acknowledges that we gather on the traditional lands of the Karankawa, Atakapa, and Akokisas peoples. We honor, with gratitude, the land itself and the people who have stewarded it throughout the generations. This calls us to continually learn how to be better stewards of the land we inhabit.
We encourage all who visit our theatre to learn more about the native history of the land and the ongoing legacy of the people who first inhabited it. There are links to additional resources on our website.
We would like to offer special thanks to the American Indian Center of Houston for helping us draft this statement.
ON A STAGE NEAR YOU
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We regret we cannot include everyone in the Houston theatre community on this page. Please make sure to check local listings for additional theatre companies in Houston.
*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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Artistic Director Philip Lehl to act and direct at Classical Theatre Company in The School for Scandal, and Managing Director Jennifer Dean to direct Every Brilliant Thing at A.D. Players.
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