2022-2023 Annual Report

Joel Ashur in Good Bones.

Photo by Margot Schulman.

2022-2023 ANNUAL REPORT

FROM LEADERSHIP FRIENDS, Studio’s 2022-2023 season felt to us like the one that marked our emergence from the long COVID era. That’s a remarkable thing to say, given that the season started 900 days after we shut down and went home in 2020. But it took that long for us to settle back into a rhythm and feel some semi-solid ground beneath our feet.

And what a welcome emergence it was! We experienced a string of institutional successes the likes of which we hadn’t seen in years. Audiences returned in full force, setting box office records. Our production department found its groove again and mounted plays of real ambition. The development team delivered a series of wins, including a remarkably successful annual benefit. Our building felt alive as we hosted Washington Improv Theater as a company-in-residence, and we opened our doors to a number of large-scale rental events that brought in additional earned revenue. And most importantly, it was a season that we feel proud of artistically, full of plays about our contemporary moment that featured indelible performances and unforgettable design. Given the difficulties of the past three seasons and the struggles our field is still going through, we feel lucky about, gratified by, and proud of the success we’ve experienced.

Our challenges are far from behind us. We are working with a smaller full-time staff than in pre-pandemic times, we haven’t yet realized the full potential of our renovated building, there is ongoing work to be done to make ourselves a more welcoming and diverse place, and we have a budget gap to close. But it’s nice to feel a skip in our step again, and to look at the future with hope.

That you are reading this indicates that you likely had something to do with helping make our 44th season worthy of applause. We offer you and the rest of the Studio family our sincerest thanks.

Yours, David Muse

Rebecca Ende Lichtenberg

Artistic Director

Executive Director

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FROM BOARD CHAIR DEAR STUDIO SUPPORTERS, Let’s all say goodbye to isolation. We are back, with full theatres, in-person events, community partners returning to our building, live student matinees, and a full season of making art with six productions.

Your hunger for great theater resulted in two of Studio’s largest hits ever in English and Fun Home, both of which were extended for a month beyond their planned closing date.

Audience size for the season exceeded pre-pandemic levels. Our art is strong and still bringing people together, fostering dialogue, and creating community. We thank the talented artists and staff that made this possible.

Great art costs money. In addition to selling tickets, we celebrated with donors at our annual benefit, featuring Tony-Award-winning Michael Cerveris who originated the role of Bruce in Fun Home on Broadway. The event completely sold out. We also launched our first-ever donor trip to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, which filled up immediately. These new and reimagined ways of coming together allowed us to connect with friends who care about us and want to have a great time.

In facing an operating deficit, our Board is guiding the organization toward fiscal health and stability while keeping our eye on the mission and values of the organization. Our work around equity, diversity, and inclusion continues, with the launch of an open application process for Board membership to further diversify the Board, ongoing learning from equity, diversity and inclusion experts in the regional theatre field, and outreach events that welcome new and diverse audiences. In my final year as Board Chair, I am proud of what we’ve achieved. We are lucky that Vice Chair Rob Batarla has agreed to take the lead as our new Chair.

Thank you to our longtime supporters who have been standing with us through the past challenging years. Welcome to the many new supporters who have joined us. Whether you bought a single ticket, subscribed to the season, donated to us, or served on our Board, you have helped make all this possible.

THANK YOU! Amy Weinberg

Board of Trustees, Chair

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2022-2023 SEASON BY THE NUMBERS

OUR AUDIENCE

10 327 PERFORMANCES EXTENSION WEEKS

, 46 174 40 AUDIENCE WEEKS OF

OUR

19 POST-SHOW CONVERSATIONS 129 STUDENT MATINEE ATTENDEES

9 COMMUNITY

MEMBERS

PRODUCTIONS

COMMUNITY

EVENTS

ACTIVE 170 WASHINGTON IMPROV 10 PARTNERSHIPS THEATER PERFORMANCES

HELD AT STUDIO

WITH DC-AREA NON-PROFITS

OUR COMPANY

207 ARTISTS 101 PART-TIME STAFF

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11 APPRENTICES 27 FULL-TIME STAFF

BY WILL ARBERY DIRECTED BY SIVAN BATTAT

(Broadway World)

Laura C. Harris, Louis Reyes McWilliams, and Gregory Connors. Photo by Margot Schulman.

HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING

“Anyone who has a questioning mind and heart will be rewarded by this indelible production.”

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022 – OCTOBER 20, 2022 Studio opened the 2022-2023 Season with Will Arbery’s Pulitzer-finalist play Heroes of the Fourth Turning. Set designer Yu Shibagaki transformed the Mead Theatre into the wide-open expanse of the Wyoming wilderness for Arbery’s portrait of white conservatives trying to make a sense of where they and their country stand in the week after the Charlottesville Unite the Right rally and on the eve of the full solar eclipse. We welcomed back director Sivan Battat, who began their career at Studio as a Directing Apprentice in the 2015-2016 Season. The play, praised as “evocatively well-acted” (Washington Post), tracks the loneliness and despair of four young people a few years out of their conservative Catholic college wrestling with how they’ve been called to live in relationship to the secular world.

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Kristen Bush. Photo by Margot Schulman.

“You will not soon shake Kristen Bush’s tour de force performance” (DC Theatre Arts)

PEOPLE, PLACES & THINGS

BY DUNCAN MACMILLAN DIRECTED BY DAVID MUSE NOVEMBER 10, 2022-DECEMBER 11, 2022 Studio was poised to produce People, Places & Things for several years, waiting until the renovation of the Victor Shargai theatre was complete (and then again for the end of the Omicron wave, which postponed the show from the 2021-2022 season). Artistic Director David Muse directed Duncan Macmillan’s vivid and disorienting look at active addiction and the early stages of recovery, pulling together a design team who used light, sound, and projections to plunge the audience into one woman’s experience of reality, from intoxication to the intensity of medical withdrawal to the disorientation of life in recovery. Studio partnered with long-time community partner Whitman-Walker Health for this production; staff and community members from their Substance Use Treatment Programs visited rehearsals, provided resources for actors and audience members, and participated in talkbacks to share information about their services.

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Tara Grammy and Maboud Ebrahimzadeh.

Photo by DJ Corey Photography.

“A sterling production of playwright Sanaz Toossi’s seriocomedy” (Washington Post) ENGLISH

BY SANAZ TOOSSI DIRECTED BY KNUD ADAMS JANUARY 11, 2023 – MARCH 12, 2023 Set in Karaj, Iran in spring 2009 in a class for the Test of English as a Foreign Language, English follows a teacher and her four students who are looking to the test—and English more broadly—as a key to a green card, medical school admission, or family reunification.

On its surface, Sanaz Toossi’s play—which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in May 2023—is a comedy of miscommunication; at its core, the play also interrogates how speaking a new language can both expand your world and change your voice.

The production, led by director Knud Adams, was a sensation: We extended the production before we began performances and it became the third-highest grossing play in our history. Our all-Persian cast worked on English during the first months of the “Woman Life Freedom” uprising that followed the September 2022 death of Mahsa Amini while in police custody in Tehran, and Studio is particularly grateful for the resilience and joy they brought to the project of working on a play set in Iran during such a charged time.

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CLYDE’S

BY LYNN NOTTAGE DIRECTED BY CANDIS C. JONES MARCH 1, 2023-APRIL 24, 2023

The cast and creative team of Clyde’s at Ben’s Chili Bowl. Photo by Avi Littky.

Set designer Junghyun Georgia Lee re-oriented the Victor Shargai Theatre for the season’s second production in our flexible space, creating a nearly working professional kitchen that could be either purgatory or retreat for regeneration for the formerly incarcerated cooks who work there. Clyde, one of the most vivacious bad bosses of the American stage, runs her truck-stop kitchen with intimidation, expired food, and flash firings, but her head cook Montrellous is determined not to give up on the palates or futures of the ex-cons who work there.

Led by director Candis C. Jones, Lynn Nottage’s comic drama was a prop project, with dozens of sandwiches made—and eventually composted—every show. Studio was also able to offer free and $10 tickets to Thrive DC, The Reentry Network, and Georgetown’s Prisons and Justice Initiative, organizations that support returning citizens, to bring formerly incarcerated audience members to Nottage’s thoughtful and funny play that reimagines America’s current systems of punishment and reintegration.

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Brandon Ocasio and Kashayna Johnson.

Photo by Margot Schulman.

“In the hands of a top-notch cast and creative team directed by Candis C. Jones… “Clyde’s” at Studio Theatre is thought-provoking, subtle, and charming” (MD Theatre Guide)

BY JAMES IJAMES DIRECTED BY PSALMAYENE 24 WORLD PREMIERE

(The New York Times)

Cara Ricketts, Joel Ashur, and Johnny Ramey. Photo by Margot Schulman.

GOOD BONES

“The questions Ijames raises in “Good Bones,” directed by Psalmayene 24, are profound”

MAY 10, 2023-JUNE 18, 2023 Studio commissioned James Ijames’s Good Bones in 2018, long before he won the Pulitzer for Fat Ham, his reimagined Hamlet. One of the inspirations for the play was his own experience as a new-to-the-neighborhood homeowner in Philadelphia; another was the ghosts of a former neighborhood beneath the gleaming renovations he saw on a tour of the Shaw and U Street neighborhoods during a playwriting residency here. These various tributaries coalesced into Good Bones, a story about a Black civil engineer who has returned to her hometown to renovate a row house near the public housing she grew up in.

The play is part ghost story about gentrification and legacy, and part investigation of how to create neighborhoods that can integrate new community into their existing structures.

During the run of the show, director Psalmayene 24, who is a member of Studio’s Cabinet, led a special “Psalm’s Salon” with food, DJ’d music, and a conversation with playwright James Ijames and a panel of local experts in the history and culture of DC. 2022–23 REPORT | PAGE 8

“’Fun Home’ rings universal and true.

Studio’s lovingly done production delivers the message without hesitation” FUN HOME

BY LISA KRON (BOOK AND LYRICS) AND JEANINE TESORI (MUSIC), BASED ON THE GRAPHIC MEMOIR BY ALISON BECHDEL DIRECTED BY DAVID MUSE JUNE 28, 2023-AUGUST 27, 2023

Quinn Titcomb and Bobby Smith.

Photo by Teresa Castracane.

(Washington Blade)

Studio originally programmed Fun Home for June 2020. With its successful production this year, the upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic finally seems to be behind us. Tesori and Kron’s adaptation of Alison Bechdel’s award-winning memoir about an awardwinning cartoonist who tries to untangle the central mystery of her father’s suicide: How did she survive their shared rural hometown, their shared queerness, when he did not?

This was another long-in-the-making production directed by Artistic Director David Muse, and Debra Booth’s stripped-down set located the play’s action primarily in the clean lines of adult Alison’s art studio instead of the rococo furniture and set dressing of most productions. With songs both jubilant and dissonant, and an ensemble anchored by three Alisons of different ages—the youngest played by 10-year-old Quinn Titcomb, the production was a hit, breaking the record set by English earlier in our season to become the second highest-grossing play in Studio history.

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STUDIO R&D 2022-2023 was an active year for Studio R&D, our new play program. Alongside our commissions of playwrights Sarah DeLappe, Erika Dickerson-Despenza, and a newly issued commission to Molly Smith Metzler, Artistic Director David Muse commissioned five directors to help Studio imagine our programming over the next few years, with a particular eye towards thinking about diverse ways to use the newly renovated Victor Shargai Theatre. These directors are Sivan Battat, Raymond Caldwell, Miranda Haymon, Tyne Rafaeli, and Geoff Sobelle, wildly different thinkers and creators.

Another way Studio supports artists and their work is to host multiday workshops for our commissioned playwrights, working with writers to find a director who shares their vision and assembling a cast for the workshop, each of which concludes with a reading for invited guests. We workshopped three plays over the 2022-2023 Season: Sea Wax Mad by Kate Mulvaney, which Studio commissioned alongside the Australian Embassy; Studio-commissioned Saint Pigtail by Kimberly Belflower, who also wrote John Proctor is the Villain; and Screech Owl by Madison Fiedler.

Playwright Kate Mulvaney and director Rory Pelsue during the workshop of Mulvaney’s commission, Sea Wax Mad. Photo by Rebecca Fischler.

Playwright Kimberly Belflower and director Taylor Reynolds on break during the workshop of Belflower’s commission, Saint Pigtail.

Photo by Avi Littky.

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COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT To engage with our Logan Circle neighborhood and the broader DC community, Studio Theatre maintains partnerships with community organizations. Through these partnerships, we connect with area high school and college students, reach new audiences, and support area non-profits that provide critical services to our neighbors. Here are two examples of the many partnerships we nurtured this year.

N STREET VILLAGE TOILETRY DRIVE During the late fall run of People, Places & Things, Studio worked with unhoused women’s shelter (and longtime partner) N Street Village to organize a toiletry drive for N Street’s residents. In just four weeks, Studio patrons and staff donated nearly a thousand travel-sized toiletry items, far surpassing both Studio and N Street’s expectations. Then, on March 16 and March 21, Studio employees journeyed to N Street headquarters for two staff Service Days, where they worked with N Street managers to sort through the shelter’s clothing donation bins.

BEN’S CHILI BOWL PARTNERSHIP For the spring 2023 production of Clyde’s, set in an industrial kitchen, Studio pulled in famed DC eatery Ben’s Chili Bowl as the show’s “sandwich consultant.” At the start of the rehearsal process, the Clyde’s cast and creative team took an early-morning trip to Ben’s U Street kitchen, where Ben’s co-owner Sonya Ali led the group on a tour of Ben’s opening process. In addition to sharing the establishment’s history and answering cast questions, Sonya also donated props (including several eight-pound cans of ketchup) to Clyde’s onstage kitchen!

In the final weeks of Clyde’s performances, Ben’s catered their famous chili, chili dogs, cold-cuts, and cornbread for over 160 Studio audience members, at Clyde’s Student Night on March 8 and at the Psalm’s Salon on March 13. Ben’s food was complimentary for all event attendees and helped facilitate both the largest Student Night and Psalm’s Salon of the 2022-2023 season.

Director Candis C. Jones and actor Kashayna Johnson on a field trip to Ben’s Chili Bowl. Photo by Avi Littky.

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STUDENT ENGAGEMENT Howard acting majors (juniors and seniors) with staff members from Studio, STC, and Florida Rep.

Student Matinees

Nurturing the Next Generation of DC Performers This year, Studio deepened its partnerships with the theatre departments at both Duke Ellington High School and Howard University, two of DC’s most storied arts training programs. Studio hosted Duke Ellington’s annual senior showcase in the Mead Theatre.

In an effort to make the notoriously opaque casting process more transparent, Studio worked with Howard professor Eric Ruffin to facilitate a student-specific audition for Good Bones; Studio also partnered with Shakespeare Theatre and Florida Rep on an audition workshop, helping students finesse their resumes and monologue choices.

More than just providing students with rare behind-the-scenes experience through the lens of a professional theatre, Studio’s own productions often look to this pipeline of local creators. This year we welcomed back Duke Ellington alumnus as Candis C. Jones (Clyde’s) and Howard alumnus Psalmayene 24 (Good Bones) as directors.

With support from a DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities grant, Studio hosts its annual student matinee program.

During the 2022-2023 season, Studio welcomed students from six public high schools for a free performance of James Ijames’ Good Bones. To provide educators with additional resources to deepen student engagement, Studio hired an educational consultant to create a curriculum guide that aligns with local and federal curriculum goals. The performance was followed by a Talk Back where students were invited to ask questions of the cast.

Banneker Volunteer Program In the fall of 2022, Studio joined 600 other area non-profits as a Community Lab partner for Banneker High School, recently relocated to the Logan Circle area. Over the course of the year, Studio hosted two Banneker volunteers; each week, the students were mentored by Studio staff on tasks in casting, literary management, electrics, or scenic before they eventually chose an area of focus.

Studio also hosted several Banneker students as volunteer ushers.

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The 2022-2023 Apprenticeship class. Photo by Avi Littky.

APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM Since 2006, Studio has trained over 150 early-career professionals through its Apprenticeship Program, an integral part of Studio’s operations. During the program, apprentices live together in dedicated housing just a few blocks from Studio, while receiving a weekly stipend. Studio welcomed 11 apprentices during the 2022-2023 season who served in key roles supporting each of the six productions, community engagement, and administration.

This comprehensive training experience called on apprentices to take on many different kinds of projects to support Studio: Stage Management Apprentices Delaney Dunster and Pheobe Sweatman could be found backstage shooting stage blanks from a firearm or premixing fake vomit in Heroes of the Fourth Turning; Technical Director Apprentice MT Taylor helped lead carpenters through complex set builds; Production Management Apprentice Clarice Berardinelli partnered with Electrics and Sound Apprentices Indigo Garcia and Sarah Velkovich to run sound for community partner Duke Ellington School for the Arts’s senior showcase; and Directing Apprentice Emily Abrams served as the assistant director for five of Studio’s Main Stage productions. Meanwhile, in the administrative office, Development Apprentice McKenna Canty took a leading role in supporting Studio’s year-end fundraising direct mail campaign by interviewing several guest artists to document the personal experiences that made Studio their artistic home.

The alumni of the 2022-2023 apprentice class are now working with major theatre companies, nonprofits, and cultural institutions, such as Signature Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, Shakespeare Theatre Company, and here at Studio.

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FISCAL YEAR 2023 IN CONTEXT The 2022-2023 Season was Studio’s first year back to a full season, which included six productions. Single ticket income and attendance exceeded pre-pandemic levels, fueled by two hit shows that ranked as our second and third highest-grossing shows of all time (Fun Home and English, respectively). Although the number of subscribers was still down 25% from pre-pandemic levels, subscription income was only down by 12% because we expanded the subscription season from five to six plays. We also focused on growing revenue from space rentals and more than doubled that earned income stream.

Fundraising has remained relatively steady over the past several years, with individual giving making up the largest portion of contributed income at 54%. This year we focused on restructuring and revitalizing our annual fundraising event and raised almost three times what we have in the past three years.

Despite operating with a 30% smaller full-time staff, and two to three fewer productions than in pre-pandemic seasons, expenses are up by 8% or approximately $500,000. In addition to costs rising across the board due to inflation, Studio made an investment in raising the salary floor for full-time staff, increasing the median salary by $15,000 in four years, and paying artists more equitably.

Despite significant successes on the income front, the rise in expenses has created an operating deficit equal to 10% of our budget. Thanks to the incredible support of the federal and local governments through COVID relief funds during the pandemic, Studio ended the past three fiscal years with surpluses. Those funds are covering the deficit and are helping to sustain Studio’s operating budget as we work to increase income to cover expenses.

Annual Operating INCOME 43%

Contributed Income

Annual Operating EXPENSES 53%

Art Programs & Development

6%

INCOME

$5,941,207 45%

Ticket Income

12%

Other Earned

EXPENSES

$6,645,809

Fundraising

26%

Admin & Facilities

15%

Marketing

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THANK YOU STUDIO THEATRE EXTENDS OUR GRATITUDE TO ALL OF OUR 2022-2023 DONORS WHO SUPPORTED OUR WORK ON STAGE AND IN THE COMMUNITY. SEASON SPONSORS

Rick Kasten

The Honorable Ann Brown

Arlene and Robert Kogod

Susan and Dixon Butler

Kathleen Kunzer Rosenzweig and Paul Rosenzweig

Dr. Mark Epstein and Amoretta Hoeber

Albert G. Lauber and Craig Hoffman

Lynn Bonde and Richard Lehmann John Chester and Betty Shepard Rick and Gary Copeland

Katy Kunzer Rosenzweig and Paul Rosenzweig

Herb and Dianne Lerner

Margery Doppelt and Larry Rothman

Joan and David Maxwell

Karen Doyne

Albert G. Lauber and Craig Hoffman

Lou Mazawey

E&B Family Trust

Belinda and Gregory Nixon

George Ferris

Teresa and Dan Schwartz

Gerard Fiala

Steve and Linda Skalet

Navroz and Perinaaz Gandhi

Bobbi and Ralph Terkowitz

Wendy and William Garner

Terry Theologides and Deb Rodriguez

George Wasserman Family Foundation

Mark Tushnet and Elizabeth Alexander

Frona Hall

Sari Hornstein

Joan and David Maxwell Teresa and Dan Schwartz Steve and Linda Skalet Bobbi and Ralph Terkowitz Mark Tushnet and Elizabeth Alexander Amy Weinberg and Norbert Hornstein Robert H. Winter* and Carole Winter

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE The Honorable Ann Brown Susan and Dixon Butler Trudy H. Clark Sheryl and Rick Donaldson

Amy Weinberg and Norbert Hornstein

John Horman

OVATION CIRCLE

Hal Jones and Anne-Lise Auclair-Jones

Marc Albert and Stephen Tschida Dr. Stewart Aledort and Dr. Sheila Rogovin Jeremias Alvarez

Hope and Mark Foster

Rob Batarla

The Galena-Yorktown Foundation

Jeffrey Bauman and Linda Fienberg

Jinny and Mike Goldstein

Nan Beckley

Susan L. Gordon

Bernard Family Foundation

Sari Hornstein

Linda Lurie Hirsch

Robert H. Winter* and Carole Winter

Dr. Mark Epstein and Amoretta Hoeber

John and Meg Hauge

Donald E. Hesse and Jerrilyn Andrews

Alan Asay & Mary Sturtevant

Peter Bieger and Demian Gaiteri

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Lynne and Joseph Horning

John Keator and Virginia Sullivan Helen and David Kenney Arlene and Martin Klepper Judy and Peter Blum Kovler Foundation Barry Kropf Vinca and David LaFleur Pat Lark and Lutz Prager The Lewis Butler Foundation Sydney Lewis B. Thomas Mansbach

Stanley and Rosemary Marcuss

OPEN CIRCLE

Ronald and Belinda Mason

Donald Adams and Ellen Maland

Renee R. Matalon and Stephen H. Marcus

Christine Fisher and Oscar Goldfarb Paula Seigle Goldman

Dean Amel and Terry Savela

Ellen Goldstein

Dan & Karen Mayers

Marcia and Larry Arem

Gail Gulliksen

Virginia A. McArthur and E.C. Michael Higgins

R. Joseph Barton

Sherry Marts and Larry Haller

Scott Douglas Bellard

Bonnie Hammerschlag

Jessica Berman

Christie Harris

Morrissette Family Foundation

Robin Berrington

James Heegeman

Zell Murphy and Mark Wasson

Joe & Sue Bredekamp

Jonathan Herz and Steven Hill

Ken and Margaret Muse

George and Antoinette Brenkert

Lydia Jean Herz

Larry and Joan Naake Carl and Undine Nash

Susan Buffone

John and Gail Howell

Melanie Nussdorf

Michael Burke and Carl Smith

Jason Johnston

Jamie Pate

Vincent Castellano

Leonade D. Jones

Michael and Penelope Pollard

Dr. Morris J. Chalick

Thomas Joseph

Peter S. Reichertz

Will and Carol Cooke

Mr. Christopher Junker

Irene Roth and Vicken Poochikian

David Cooper and Stephen Nash

Terrance Kalahurka

Dr. April Rubin and Mr. Bruce Ray

Sharon and Dan Crampton

Linda & William Rule

Johanna Cummings

Amit Sevak and Luz Blancas Sevak

Christopher Curtis and Susan Nash

Barney Shapiro

Carol and Joseph Danks

Linda and Stanley Sher

Richard and Janet Dante

David and Peggy Shiffrin Aimee Smart and Shefa Gordon

Laurie Davis and Joseph Sellers

Andy and Ed Smith

John Driscoll

Spoor Family Fund

James A. Feldman and Natalie Wexler

The Morningstar Foundation

Ed Starr and Marilyn Marcosson

Michael Crosswell

Richard and Pamela Hinds

Kyle Kerr William and Luis Kibby Robert L. Kimmins Leslie Kogod Stuart Kogod and Denise Garone Michael W. Kolakowski Patricia and John Koskinen Dr. and Mrs. William Kramer Robert Lanman and Debra Bergoffen Chad Lash & Caryn Wagner

Jill A. Fields

Marion Ein Lewin

Joshua Stiefel

The G.A. Files Foundation

Ed Liebow & Erin Younger

Robert Tracy and Martha Gross

Leo S. Fisher & Susan J. Duncan Gift Fund

Brian and Judy Madden

Alan and Irene Wurtzel Judy and Leo Zickler Margot Lurie Zimmerman

Sarah Hope Franks and Michael O. Moore

Shawn C. Helm and J. Thomas Marchitto Dan and Susan Mareck

Amy C. Gilbert and Steven Newpol

Martha Washington StrausHarry H. Straus Foundation

Charles Goldfarb

Lynne Martin

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THANK YOU Wallis McClain Richard and Ellen Miller

Grant P. and Sharon R. Thompson

Jane Molloy

Kazuko Uchimura

The Mufson Family Foundation

Steve Verna

Louisa and William Newlin

Eric R. and Laura M. Wagner

Hal Jones and Anne-Lise Auclair-Jones

Martha Newman

Anne and Ernie Wallwork

Kay Kendall and Jack Davies

Stan Peabody

Elisse Walter and Ronald Stern

Arlene and Martin Klepper

Carl and Margaret Pfeiffer

Kip Weissman and Kathy Balog

Ane Powers

Henry Otto & Judy Whalley

Kathleen Kunzer and Paul Rosenzweig

Lifland-Radmer Fund

Carolyn L. Wheeler

Reinsch Pierce Family Foundation

by Lola C. Reinsch

Elizabeth B. White

Julie Rios Lucinda Romberg Steven M. Rosenberg and Stewart C. Low III Steve and Ilene Rosenthal

Gail and John Harmon Meg and John Hauge Sari Hornstein

Albert Lauber and Craig Hoffman

Jack and Sue Whitelaw

Renee R. Matalon and Stephen H. Marcus

Sandy and Jon Willen

Bruce and Mara Mayor

Natalie Winston Paul Wolfson

Virginia A. McArthur and Michael Higgins

Eleanore Zartman

Elvi Moore Larry and Joan Naake

Lynn Rothberg

BENEFIT SUPPORT

Carl and Undine Nash

Drs. Carole and Barry Rubin

Jeremias Alvarez

Louisa and William Newlin

Frank Sammartino and Ellen Starbird

Cindy and Mark Aron

Belinda and Gregory Nixon

Rob Batarla

Craig Pascal

Linda B. Schakel

Sherri Blount and Edward W. Gray Jr.

Jamie Pate

The Honorable Ann Brown

The Honorable Carol Schwartz

Perkins Coie

Susan Buffone

Tucker Scully and Lee Kimball

Bob and Nina Randolph

Susan and Dixon Butler

Jennifer Shea and Peter Bruns

Lola Reinsch

Trudy H. Clark

Paula Feeney and Patrick Shooltz

Liz and Tim Cullen

Irene Roth and Vicken Poochikian

Sandra and Albert Schlachtmeyer

Sarah Sloan Lauren Kogod and David Smiley Karl Smith, Jr. Cecile Srodes David Stevens and Linda Wymbs

Mike Dellapa Sheryl and Rick Donaldson

Daniel Pattenden

Dr. April Rubin and Bruce A. Ray

Karen L. Doyne

Saks Fifth Avenue Chevy Chase

Dr. Mark Epstein and Amoretta Hoeber

Teresa and Dan Schwartz

Rhona and Donald Friedman Navroz and Perinaaz Gandhi

Jeanne Stovroff

Olena Gaponenko

Aileen and Jack Sullivan

Jinny and Michael Goldstein Susan L. Gordon

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Amit Sevak and Luz Blancas Sevak Steve and Linda Skalet Bobbi and Ralph Terkowitz Terry Theologides and Deb Rodriguez

Bob Tracy and Marty Gross Stephen Tschida and Marc Albert

2022-2023 STUDIO BOARD

Mark Tushnet and Elizabeth Alexander

Amy Weinberg, Chair

Amy Weinberg and Norbert Hornstein

Rob Batarla, Vice Chair

CORPORATE, FOUNDATION, AND GOVERNMENT SUPPORT Anonymous

Navroz Gandhi, Treasurer Belinda Nixon, Secretary

William S. Abell Foundation, Inc. Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts

David Muse, President, Ex Officio

DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities

Rebecca Ende Lichtenberg, Vice President, Ex Officio

Dimick Foundation Fannie Mae’s Gift Matching Program The Jacob and Charlotte Lehrman Foundation

Marc Albert

JGB Smith Properties

Jeremías Alvarez

Martha Washington Straus-Harry H. Straus Foundation

Susan L. Butler

The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Milton and Dorothy Sarnoff Raymond Foundation

Karen Doyne Dr. Mark Epstein Mark W. Foster

The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation

Jinny Goldstein

National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs Program and the US Commission of Fine Arts

Susan L. Gordon

National Endowment for the Arts

Ronald Mason, Jr.

The Nora Roberts Foundation

Renee Matalon

Paul M. Angell Family Foundation

Larry Naake

Share Fund

Jamie C. Pate

The Shubert Foundation

Katy Kunzer Rosenzweig

Weissberg Foundation

Teresa Schwartz

*In memoriam

Luz Blancas Sevak

This list represents contributions made to special events, special initiatives, and the annual fund received by August 31, 2023.

Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of this listing. For more information, please contact the Development Office at 202.919.3712.

Steven A. Skalet

Albert G. Lauber

Bobbi Terkowitz Terry Theologides Robert Tracy

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Andrea Prestinario, Quinn Titcomb, and Bobby Smith.

Photo by Teresa Castracane.

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