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FROM THE
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Photo by John Everett
WELCOME to Camp David. As I write this, it is two days after the assassination of Iranian General Qassim Suleimani. I’m on a plane headed home from Europe where every passenger has had an extensive heightened security interview before boarding, and my family is terribly worried because the Iranians threatened retaliation “the day after the day.” This is just to say that tensions in the Middle East and the threat of war continue to be very real and relevant. The time we spend learning to understand these tensions is time well spent. On the plane, I’m reading Lawrence Wright’s wonderful book about Camp David, Thirteen Days in September, and I’m struck by this line: “There is never a perfect time or ideal people to bring an end to bloody conflicts, and unlike the talent for war, the ability to make peace has always been rare.” The ability to make peace is indeed rare and heroic. So many plays celebrate the heroism of war and so few the brilliance and bravery of waging peace. I’m very proud to have this play in our season, and I think it shines a beautiful light on what happened at Camp David in 1978 and what we can still aspire to now. In addition to the rich content of this piece, I’m also very excited to welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright back to his artistic home at the Alley and to welcome for the first time theatre legend and my longtime mentor and friend Oskar Eustis. Oskar is in many ways the paragon of all artistic directors. He was instrumental in the success of Angels in America, Hamilton, and Fun Home, and has been a major influence on countless numbers of writers, directors, actors, designers, dramaturgs, and producers working in the American theatre. Oskar has put together an extraordinary team of artists for this project, and having it in my first season at the Alley means we are off to a great start. Thank you for joining us, and I hope you enjoy this remarkable play. Sincerely,
Rob Melrose
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FROM THE
MANAGING DIRECTOR Photo by Gittings
WELCOME to Camp David. Every American reading this letter has known no time that America’s military hasn’t been at war. Currently the U.S. is engaged in Afghanistan (18 years and counting), north-west Pakistan (15 years and counting), and the war on ISIL (5 years and counting). In addition, we are looking at new threats from Iran while we have hardened our positions with North Korea and Venezuela. Furthermore, the U.S. is the largest contributor of military aid throughout the world. We provide some form of assistance to over 150 countries each year. Israel, one of America’s closest allies, has been in constant conflict since its founding in 1948. The 1978 Camp David Peace Accords orchestrated by President Jimmy Carter remains one of the most important agreements that Israel has ever secured. The Accords led to the 1978 Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty. Through the Accords, President Carter was able to achieve his goal of breaking up the Arab alliance, building an alliance between Egypt and Israel, and weakening the Soviet Union’s hold in the Middle East. This political drama is very different from Lawrence’s last play with us. Our 2018 world premiere production of his play Cleo depicted the romance between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton on the set of the 1963 Cleopatra film. Lawrence has also shared work in two of our past five Alley All New Festivals. We are delighted to welcome him back again. Thank you for joining us,
Dean R. Gladden
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DEAN R. GLADDEN
ROB MELROSE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
MANAGING DIRECTOR
P R ESEN T S
CAMP DAVID BY
LAWRENCE WRIGHT
SCENIC DESIGN
COSTUME DESIGN
DAVID ROCKWELL
PAUL TAZEWELL
LIGHTING DESIGN
SOUND DESIGN
XAVIER PIERCE
DARRON L WEST
CASTING
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
HEIDI GRIFFITHS, CSA & JORDAN THALER, CSA
BRANDON WEINBRENNER
STAGE MANAGER
REBECCA R.D. HAMLIN DIRECTED BY
OSKAR EUSTIS G EN ER O US LY S P O N S O R ED BY BETH M AD I S ON
H O N O R ARY PR O D U C E R
CO N N I E A N D ROGER PL ANK
ASSOCIATE PRODUC ERS
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NEU HAU S T HEAT R E
CAST
(In order of appearance)
Jimmy Carter.............................................................STEPHEN THORNE Rosalynn Carter............................................... REBECCA BROOKSHER Anwar Sadat..........................................................ELIJAH ALEXANDER Mohammed Ibrahim Kamel................................................SAM KHAZAI Menachem Begin............................................................. JORDAN LAGE Moshe Dayan........................................................ MARK ZIMMERMAN SETTING September 1978. Camp David, the rustic presidential retreat in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland. ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER Katie Leigh Creeggan 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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B OA RD OF DIREC T OR S EXEC U TI VE C O MMIT T EE Meredith J. Long+
Jesse R. Marion
Butch Mach
Chairman Emeritus
Chairman
President
Kenneth P. Kades
Oscar K. Brown
Peter A. Ragauss
Robert Harrell
Executive Vice President
Vice President, Development
Vice President, Long Range Planning
Vice President, Risk Management
Ron Hulme
Robert Penshorn
Beth Madison
Scott J. Atlas*
Vice President, Endowment
Vice President, Finance
Secretary
Ex-Officio, General Counsel
John A. Carrig
Kathryn L. Ketelsen
Roger B. Plank
Jonathan S. Finger
Mike Loya
Dheeraj “D” Verma
Philip J. John
Stephen C. Morse
D I REC TO R S Mark Allan Smith
Roger D. Aksamit
Edward M. Griffin
Butch Mach
Margaret Alkek Williams
Chad Harkness
Beth Madison
Lois Stark+
Scott J. Atlas*
Robert S. Harrell
Jesse R. Marion
Susana Brener de Stern
Charles L. "Chip" Babcock Patricia P. Hubbard+
Nancy F. Martin
Trent D. Tellepsen
Jonathan Baliff
Ron Hulme
Parker S. Meeks
Michael P. Terracina
Brenda W. Bazan
Valerie Jalufka
Joe Mongrain
Glenn Vangolen
Rutger Beelaerts
Craig M. Jarchow
Stephen C. Morse
Dheeraj “D” Verma
Oscar K. Brown
Philip J. John
Katharine W. Orton
Thomas R. Walters
John A. Carrig
Kenneth P. Kades
Robert Penshorn
Sharyn Weaver
Jonathan W. Cox
Kathryn L. Ketelsen
Cynthia A. Petrello
Temple Webber
Mike Dishberger
William K. Kroger
Roger B. Plank
Scott N. Wulfe
Jonathan S. Finger
Meredith J. Long+
Peter A. Ragauss
Lynn Wyatt+
Mignon Gill
Mike Loya
Ron Rand
Kevin W. Yankowsky
Joel Glover*
Isabel Lummis
Arthur H. Rogers III
Stephen M. Greenlee
Richard Lunam
Douglas D. Shanda
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Elsie J. Eckert
Terry Scarborough
Jeanna Bamburg
Scott Ensell
Mark Seavers
Ashok Belani
Sidney Faust
Helen P. Shaffer
Ryan Boehner
Thomas D. Gros
Nancy B. Shelby
Larry A. Campagna
Eve Lieber Harrell
Sandy Shipley
Sylvia Caracio
Debbie McAngus
Elizabeth Smith
Gracie Cavnar
Charlene O’Shea
David B. Symonds
Michele M. Collins
Karen W. Pinson
Dancie Perugini Ware
Denise DuBard
Scotty Reynolds*
Marcy Taub Wessel
* Ex-Officio + Life Trustee
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A LLEY SPON SORS C AMP DAVID IS M A D E P O SSI BL E BY T H E G EN ERO U S S U P P O R T O F : Beth Madison founded Madison Benefits Group, Inc, an employee benefits brokerage and consulting firm which merged into Higginbotham & Associates in 2008. Beth serves as a Regent for the University of Houston, Trustee of Madison Charitable Foundation, Past Chairman of Houston Grand Opera, Past Chairman of Houston Estate and Financial Forum, Past Chairman of Houston World Affairs Council, and Secretary for the Alley Theatre. She served on the boards of Houston Symphony, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, Moores Society for UH School of Music, Baylor Teen Clinic, Trees for Houston, Preservation Houston, and the Advisory Board for The University of Texas Ransom Center.
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She was a recipient of the University of Houston’s President’s Medallion and honored as a Distinguished Alumnus. She was named ABC/13 Woman of Distinction, is a recipient of the June and Virgil Waggoner Award for Volunteerism, is in the Greater Women’s Chamber of Commerce Hall of Fame, has recieved the Community Pillar Award from Preservation Houston and was named a Visionary Leader by the Houston Symphony.
Roger Plank is founder and CEO of Apex International Energy, a recently formed company focused on acquiring, producing, and exploring for oil and gas in Middle East and North African countries. With offices in Houston and Cairo, Egypt, Apex was awarded by Egypt’s national oil company 1.7 million acres in the prolific Abu Gharadig Basin in Egypt’s western desert. Earlier, as a longstanding supporter of the Alley, Plank co-chaired the Alley Theatre’s Extended Engagement Capital and Endowment Campaign, which funded the Theatre’s complete renovation. He remains an Alley Theatre Board member. Connie Plank is involved in various community activities in Houston. She and Roger enjoy spending time with their three children, their spouses, and six wonderful grandchildren. Connie and Roger support the Alley because it is a cornerstone of Houston’s cultural scene, important to the city’s quality of life, and provides worldclass live theatre!
CONNIE A ND R OGER PL ANK A S S O C I AT E PR O D UC ER S
Rand Group is a passionate supporter of the arts in Houston and is proud to be an Alley Theatre sponsor. Rand Group provides digital transformation and Cloud software solutions that enable clients to maximize the return of today’s modern computing platforms. Headquartered in Houston, Rand Group provides IT Engineering, ERP, CRM, Analytics and Digital Marketing solutions to mid-sized businesses across North America. Rand Group's partnerships with Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP allow us to deliver the best solution for each client’s unique requirements. Our multiplatform service offering allows for objective software selection, solution implementation, user adoption, and ongoing support that streamlines processes, reduces risk and supports revenue growth. Ron Rand is President and CEO of Rand Group, LLC, and an Alley Theatre Board Member. 7
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TH E 2019–20 S EAS ON I S M A D E P O SSI BL E BY T H E G E N E R O U S S U P P O R T O F : Houston is home not only to one of United's important hubs, it is also home to so many extraordinary cultural treasures. The entire United family takes immense pride in the role we play in supporting the vibrant arts scene that has made Houston a magnet metropolis for such cherished cultural fixtures like the Alley Theatre, as well as many others. Our support of Houston’s arts and culture, as well as its wonderful charitable organizations, demonstrates our firm commitment to this community and to our shared future. -Oscar Munoz, CEO, United Airlines
The Alley Theatre's seasonal production and marketing costs are supported in part by the City of Houston through Theater District Improvement Inc. and Houston Arts Alliance.
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This project is funded in part by grants from the Texas Commission on the Arts.
THE AMERICANS
Although there were full delegations from each country, each with advisors and aides, the play tells the story of the Camp David Accords through six characters: President Jimmy Carter
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The 39th President of the United States (1977 - 1981).
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A Naval officer and, later, a peanut farmer, Carter served two terms as Georgia State Senator and one as Governor of Georgia (1971 – 1975). He is a bornagain Christian with deep knowledge of the Bible.
We have to get away from those ancient hatreds and the longing for revenge.
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First Lady Rosalynn Carter
The wife of Jimmy Carter. During her time as First Lady, she sat in on Cabinet and policy meetings
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and served as her husband’s closest adviser.
I think that’s the real test of a person’s character, don’t you? You have to be willing to break with the past. To drop the burden of hatred.
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THE EGYPTIANS
President Anwar Sadat
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The President of Egypt (1970 - 1981). From peasant origins, Sadat became a revolutionary and an
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Egyptian nationalist. In 1978, he was preoccupied
with how he would be remembered in history. He was a devout Muslim and had a callus on his forehead from hours spent in prayer.
For 30 years we have lived with
our enemy. Can we live without him?
Foreign Minister Mohammed Ibrahim Kamel
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Egypt’s Foreign Minister (1977 - 978) and Sadat’s colleague from their days in the anti-British
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underground. The two men had known each other most of their adult lives, spending a significant amount of time in prison together.
I was like a son to Sadat. He had selected me because he wanted a person in whom
he had full confidence. Such a person had
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also to be patriotic and bold.
Prime Minister Menachem Begin
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Founder of Likud (the first right-wing political party in Israel) and the sixth Prime Minister of the State of Israel (1977 - 1983). A devout Jew, he dedicated his life to the creation and preservation of an independent Israel.
We cannot afford to place our security in the balance to win the world’s good favor.
Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan
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The Israeli Foreign Minister (1977 - 1979). As minister
of defense, he received much of the credit for the
Israeli victory in 1967, but he was blamed for Israel's
defeat in 1973. By making him foreign minister, Begin gave him new political life and a chance to reclaim his former glory.
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
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Descriptions of the Carters, Begin, and Sadat reprinted from the Arena Stage Study Guide, written by Sean-Maurice Lynch & Fareed Mostoufi.
LIZ: Please wait just one moment. I’m LIZ: And it is an honor for us to be recording this on two devices and want working with you! It’s also interesting to turn both of them on… how different this play is from Cleo. What was the spark for Camp David? LAWRENCE: You’re doing the best practices of journalism, Liz, with the LAWRENCE: I got a call when I was in redundancy. a cab in New York City from Gerald Rafshoon, who was Jimmy Carter’s LIZ: Well, thank you, Larry. It is great to media advisor when he was in the hear that from you as I was just about White House and also when he was to say that I interview playwrights Governor of Georgia, and he asked frequently, but it’s a bit intimidating “Would you be interested in writing a interviewing you knowing that you are play about Camp David?” The truth is, a Pulitzer Prize-winning interviewer of I had never talked to Jerry Rafshoon other people, so I’m glad I’m doing well before and he caught me totally by so far. surprise. It was great working with you on Cleo two seasons ago, and we look forward to having you back here at the Alley for Camp David! This will be your second production with us and I love that you can just drive over from Austin. What’s it like for you to have a play go up relatively close to home?
But I began to consider the fact that I had lived in Georgia when Carter was governor. I had lived in Egypt when Anwar Sadat became president after Gamal Abdel Nasser’s death, and I had visited Israel as a reporter several times and covered the Middle East.
I thought, “If not me, then
LAWRENCE: To actually be able to who?” It seemed like I was work in my home state is an honor. It’s something I really cherish because most unusually qualified for this of my career has been spent working particular play because of all outside of Texas. To be able to come the experiences that I’ve had. back and work on my play with my fellow Texans, especially at the Alley - I LIZ: What made Gerald Rafshoon think feel like I’ve really formed a relationship; that this should be a play? it’s the premier theatre in the state and it’s an honor to have the opportunity. LAWRENCE: Jerry had long wanted to make a movie about Camp David but he was never able to do it. Then he was 11
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talking to [Artistic Director] Molly Smith at Arena Stage in Washington and they have a series of plays that they commissioned about presidents. And he saw that this idea might work for Molly. And it came to be that Arena Stage commissioned the play.
equivalent position for Menachem Begin and who was far more in favor of the peace settlement than Begin himself.
LIZ: And then I know they went on to produce it and that it was done at the Old Globe in San Diego shortly after. How has the play evolved since those early productions?
LAWRENCE: I always think that, even with fiction, the more you know the better job you can do. So I researched it just as I would a New Yorker story or a book. I went to Plains [Georgia] and met with the Carters, I travelled to Israel and to Egypt and talked to the surviving members of the Camp David delegations and then I talked to many of the Americans who were still alive who had been involved in that process as well. I interviewed dozens of people and I read all the books I could get my hands on. Imagine that you need to cross a big river—which is the story itself—from one side to the other. If you know the facts, and even the words that were actually used, they become like boulders you can place in the river and lead you across. And then what you make up is what gets you from one boulder to another.
LAWRENCE:
Well, Oskar Eustis, the Artistic Director at the Public Theater in New York, had always been interested. Oskar is famous as a dramaturg and he had some ideas about how the play should be changed. And he had read my book [Thirteen Days in September], which I had written after the play was produced and he was inspired by that. And so we talked and the upshot is that I’ve completely rewritten the play using a lot of Oskar's notes and also materials from the book. LIZ: What’s the biggest change? LAWRENCE: I suppose that the one that would be the most noticeable to the audience is that there are now six characters rather than four. The additional characters are Mohammed Ibrahim Kamal, who was Sadat’s foreign secretary and who was fiercely opposed to the peace settlement; and Moshe Dayan, who was in the 12
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LIZ: What was your research process like?
LIZ: What was it like meeting the Carters? LAWRENCE: Jerry Rafshoon and I drove down and the Carters live in a quite modest home. It’s a one story ranch house just outside of this miniscule town of Plains. And they sat in the den on this blue couch. I remember that Carter was wearing a blue shirt and it kind of faded into the couch. He hadn’t shaved; he looked very wintery. Behind him was a painting that he had done of the room that we were in. He’s
an amateur painter. There were the two rocking chairs and a grandfather clock and the painting in it. It reminded me so much of an illustration from Goodnight Moon. At the time, I was trying to decide who else was on the stage. I knew Carter, Begin, and Sadat were my three main characters but anybody else, I didn’t know. So, Jerry says to the former president, “This is Larry Wright. He recently wrote an article for The New Yorker about Scientology.” And Carter says, “Oh I read that. I found it most intriguing.” Then Rosalynn jumps in and says “Since when did you start reading The New Yorker?” “I read it every week!” Anyways, it’s as if she leapt onstage. I felt I needed someone who could talk to Jimmy Carter like that - someone who was candid and honest and knew him through and through. Bear in mind, Rosalynn Carter was born in a house next door to Jimmy Carter. He saw her in the crib. They’d known each other for almost a century. It’s a striking love story that is part of the larger story of Camp David. LIZ: Did the Carters see either of the first two productions? LAWRENCE: They came to the opening night at Arena. Some genius situated Carter right behind me. It was one of the most terrifying experiences of my life!
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I had no idea how he was going to react. I just felt waves of condemnation or puzzlement; I didn’t know what was going on in his mind but I was very worried about his judgement. Anyway, at the end of the play, Jerry and I were asked to come up on the stage and join the actors - as were the Carters and also Jehan Sadat, Anwar Sadat’s widow who was there as well. So, I saw the Carters going down and thanking the actors and Jimmy Carter was streaming tears. His eyes were red. Jerry Rafshoon said he had never seen Carter cry before. He was teasing Richard Thomas who played Jimmy Carter but when he got to Hallie Foote, who was Rosalynn, he took her hand with both of his hands and he said to her, “I fell in love with you again tonight.” Hallie’s knees buckled. It was quite a line for a 90-year-old man. The story that really affected him was the story of his relationship with Rosalynn. LIZ: So Camp David began as a play and you’ve written many books in your career. At what point did you decide to write your book about the topic, Thirteen Days in September? LAWRENCE: It was frustrating that there wasn’t a text to adapt. Carter had written a diary that was mostly incorporated into his White House diary; and in Rosalynn's memoir First Lady from Plains, she talked a bit about Camp David but one of the things she said was that she had kept a diary at Camp David - 200 type-written pages, it said. And so I asked her when I was in Plains, I said “I would really love to have a look at your diary.” She said, “Oh, it must be around here somewhere.” And no offer to find it. I called the Carter Library; they had never heard of this diary. I kept pressuring Jerry Rafshoon and he finally called the President. Then one day in the mail came this manila envelope with these typewritten pages. And it
was helpful to get her side of the story, see it through her eyes. I went through and marked it up and highlighted the passages that I thought I would use. A month later Jerry Rafshoon calls me and says, “Larry, what happened to Rosalynn’s diary? She wants it back. It’s the only copy.” I had to write a letter to her apologizing for marking up this historic document. I’m sure the historians in the future will wonder what happened. There were also books written by members of the Israeli and Egyptian teams and they were extremely helpful. I actually was able to get some documents about the Camp David meetings that were unavailable in the US; they were still classified but I could check them out from the Menachem Begin Library in Jerusalem. Digging around, I was able to get as much material as I could and try to forge a play out of it. Then after I did that I realized I had the makings of a book: I could write the book that I would have adapted had it been in print before. LIZ: That’s fantastic. So, why do you think this is a story worth telling today?
years now is the Camp David Accords that Jimmy Carter brought about in those historic days in 1978. It’s a model for how peace can be negotiated. Repeatedly other presidents and other interested parties have tried to forge a durable peace but none of them have succeeded with the exception, I suppose, of Israel’s relationship with Jordan. If you look at the men who made the peace at Camp David: you have Jimmy Carter who had been a oneterm Georgia governor who was rapidly losing popularity, who was mired in inflation and gas price hikes and teacher strikes, his presidency was on the edge; you had Anwar Sadat, who was a former assassin who had waged war against Israel in 1973, invaded Sinai; and then you had Menachem Begin, who had been a terrorist leader before becoming president.
You couldn’t find three more unlikely candidates to make peace, and yet they did.
And their example is a beacon of hope that if such men can make peace then LAWRENCE: The Middle East is always it should be possible for others. What a source of turmoil that affects the rest they had that seems to be lacking in of the world - not just because of the so many people, in so many political oil and not just because of Israel. And leaders today, is moral courage. That’s now it’s a source of so many refugees what led them to spend those thirteen that are fleeing turmoil and war and days in Camp David and come out of the absence of any hope for the future. there with a durable peace. It was not The problems in the Middle East all go a complete peace, the Palestinian part back to the question of war. Right now of that peace accord has never been you see, once again, the Middle East is implemented, and so it’s an incomplete tearing itself apart because of ongoing peace, but in terms of the relationship conflict. And these conflicts have never between Egypt and Israel there has been successfully resolved by war. never been a single violation in the four The only thing that resolves conflict is decades since then. diplomacy. And, yet, again and again diplomacy has failed in the Middle East. You can read more about Lawrence Wright and his work by visiting alleytheatre.org/wright. And one example of a peace accord that has held up for more than forty 14
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A NOTE FROM THE DIRECTOR
Photo by Joan Marcus
Dear Friends, I first met Larry Wright a decade ago, when he was performing a solo show based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Looming Tower. The play, entitled My Trip to Al-Qaeda, was a revelation. Larry was a charming, warm, and confidence-inspiring performer, but the real revelation was how utterly gripping the drama was. Here was one of America's great investigative journalists able to transform his vast knowledge into compelling theatre. How could I not love him? Dinner after the show confirmed I had found not only a writer I admired, but a man who would go on to be a cherished friend. Since that time, Larry and I have worked on a number of projects and undertaken some wild adventures. In 2010 we created another show, The Human Scale, also a solo performance by Larry. In that show Larry used the kidnapping of the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in the Gaza Strip as a way of examining Jewish and Palestinian relations from biblical times to the present. We took that show to the Mideast, performing at the Cameri Theater in Tel Aviv and engaging in the most substantive and heated post-show discussions I have ever experienced. Sadly, we were prevented from performing in the West Bank by the shocking assasination, still unsolved, of Juliano Mer-Khamis. Juliano was the founder of The Freedom Theatre in Jenin, and the theatre's leadership thought it was too dangerous for us to perform there. The Human Scale, and our tour, was one of the most significant events in my life, and Larry and I went through it together (along with my beloved assistant of many years, the talented director Johanna Gruenhut. She has reunited with us to work on Camp David, as well. Her intimate knowledge of the Mideast, along with her fluent Hebrew, has made her especially essential to this project.) Larry literally wrote the book on Camp David: Thirteen Days in September. Who better to bring us into the heart of the most violently contentious region of our time? It’s an honor to work with him. As it is to direct in Rob Melrose’s first season here at the Alley. Rob and I have crossed paths and shared duties and theatres for many years, and for the last dozen years been friends and collaborators. He is a man of enormous brains, heart, and integrity, and I am so pleased that he has found a home in Houston. He’s going to make great theatre here, and I know he will make you proud. He’s certainly made me proud.
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ABOUT THE
PLAYWRIGHT L AWRENCE WRIGHT
Lawrence Wright is a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker, where he won two National Magazine Awards. He is the author of 12 books, including The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, which won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize and was named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 greatest nonfiction books ever written; Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (2013); and God Save Texas (2018). His most recent book, The End of October, a novel, will be published by Knopf in May. His movies include The Siege (1998), starring Denzel Washington, Annette Bening, and Bruce Willis; and Noriega: God’s Favorite (2000), starring Bob Hoskins. His six previous plays include Cleo, which received its world premiere at the Alley Theatre. His one-man show My Trip to Al-Qaeda (2007), directed by Gregory Mosher, enjoyed a sold-out Off-Broadway run and subsequently became an HBO documentary. Wright performed another one-man show, The Human Scale (2010), for the Public Theater in New York, directed by Oskar Eustis, and again at the Cameri Theater in Tel Aviv. Wright grew up in Dallas and is a longtime resident of Austin. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Society of American Historians. He also serves as the keyboard player in the Austin-based blues band WhoDo.
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W HO’ S W HO ELIJAH ALEXANDER (Anwar Sadat) Alley Theatre: The Winter’s Tale. Recent: Barrington Stage Company: Gertrude and Claudius (Claudius); Berkeley Repertory Theatre: The Good Book (Qasim); Guthrie Theater: Playing With Fire (Creature); South Coast Rep: Shrew (Petruchio), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theseus/Oberon). Broadway: Metamorphoses; Off-Broadway: Shopping and Fucking (NYTW); BAM: Throne of Blood; Royal Shakespeare Company: Tantalus; Guthrie Theater: Watch on the Rhine (Kurt Muller); Oregon Shakespeare Festival, five seasons: Fingersmith, Hamlet, Troilus & Cressida, Pride & Prejudice, Henry VIII, Twelfth Night; Utah Shakespeare Festival, four seasons: Richard III, Julius Caesar; California Shakespeare Theater, three seasons: Man and Superman; Arizona Theater Company: Disgraced; ACT Seattle: The Invisible Hand (Gregory Award); Film: Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Amazing Love, TV: “Touch,” “Awake,” “JAG,” “Summerland;” Training: MFA. Yale School of Drama. elijahalexander.net. REBECCA BROOKSHER (Rosalynn Carter) starred in the Alley’s production of Monster at the Door nine years ago and is excited to be back. New York credits include: Burn This and The Real Thing (Broadway), The Roads To Home (Primary Stages), Loot (Red Bull), Dying City (Lincoln Center, Lortel nomination Best Actress), Love’s Labour’s Lost (The Public Theater), The Scariest (Bleeker Street), White People (Atlantic). Favorite productions regionally include Golden Age at The Kennedy Center, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at Berkshire Theater Group, and Twelfth Night at The McCarter. TV: “Blacklist,” “The Sinner,” “Elementary,” “Ugly Betty,” “Happyish,” “The Good Wife,” “Canterbury’s Law.” Juilliard graduate (Group 34). 17
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SAM KHAZAI (Mohammed Ibrahim Kamel) is a NYCbased actor who transitioned into theatre following a career in counterterrorism and US foreign policy. He is interested in telling stories that allow people to show up as themselves. As founding member of Peydah Theatre Company in NYC, Sam is committed to challenging conventional narratives and empowering marginalized communities. He has appeared on “Law & Order: SVU” (NBC) and “Madam Secretary” (CBS). Recent theatrical credits include Anna Karenina: a riff (Flea Theater), Tosca Tehran (Atlantic Theater), Echo & Narcissus (Flea Theater), and City of No Illusions (La Mama). Sam is grateful to Oskar Eustis and Jordan Thaler of The Public Theater, and Kathy and Jen Olsen of Encompass Arts for this opportunity. He dedicates this show to his parents, who taught him that there is no peace without compromise. Follow Sam at @skhazai and @peydahtheatre. JORDAN LAGE (Menachem Begin) is pleased to be making his debut at the Alley Theatre. He is a founding member of New York’s Atlantic Theater Company where he has performed in over 100 productions since 1985, including many plays by David Mamet. Broadway: Race, Speed-the-Plow, Glengarry Glen Ross, Inherit the Wind, The Best Man, The Old Neighborhood, Our Town, A Few Good Men (national tour). Recent film & TV: Frat Haze, Touched, Good Bones, Tommy, “Madam Secretary,” “Better Call Saul,” “The Looming Tower,” “Billions,” “Taken,” “The Path.” Drama Desk Award, Barrymore Award, Audelco nominmation, CT Critics Circle nominations. jordanlage.com.
W HO’ S W HO STEPHEN THORNE (Jimmy Carter) has been a member of the resident acting company at Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, RI since 2000. Favorite roles at Trinity include: Iago, Othello; Orin, Little Shop of Horrors; Atticus, To Kill a Mockingbird; Tom Joad, The Grapes of Wrath; Ivanov, Arthur, Camelot; John Proctor, The Crucible; Hamlet; Heisenberg, Copenhagen; Garry, Noises Off; Hal/Henry V, The Henriad; Quango, Homebody/Kabul; and Homer Wells, The Cider House Rules. Mr. Thorne has also appeared at Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Long Wharf Theatre, and the Riverside Shakespeare Festival. He has been a member of the Bread Loaf School of English Acting Ensemble since 1999. Mr. Thorne is also the author of two plays: The Completely Fictional – Utterly True – Final Strange Tale of Edgar Allan Poe and Veronica Meadows. MARK ZIMMERMAN (Moshe Dayan) Broadway: Rocky, West Side Story, A Catered Affair, The Rainmaker, Shenandoah, On the Twentieth Century, Brigadoon, and Face Value. 1st National Tours: Mamma Mia! and Kiss of the Spider Woman. Regional and Off-Broadway: A Little Night Music (Joseph Jefferson Award), Moonlight and Magnolias, Paper Moon, 110 in the Shade, and 1776. Television: “Manifest,” “Quantico,” “Sneaky Pete,” “The Blacklist,” “The Good Wife,” “Unforgettable,” “Person of Interest,” “Royal Pains,” “30 Rock,” “Damages,” “Law and Order,” “Conviction,” “Central Park West,” “Murphy Brown,” “One Life to Live,” “As the World Turns,” “General Hospital.” Film: Norman, Delivery Man, The Thomas Crown Affair, Dash and Lilly, Claire Dolan, The Giraffe, For Love or Money, Bonfire of the Vanities. Mark is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association where he served as a Councilor, First Vice President and President. He is currently serving as a Trustee for the Equity League Pension and Health Fund. 18
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DAVID ROCKWELL (Scenic Design). Broadway: Tootsie, Kiss Me Kate, The Nap, Lobby Hero, She Loves Me (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards), On the Twentieth Century (Tony nomination), You Can’t Take It With You (Tony nomination), Kinky Boots (Tony nomination), Lucky Guy (Tony nomination), Hairspray (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations.), and the upcoming production of Take Me Out. Off-Broadway: A Bright Room Called Day, Soundtrack of America, The Hard Problem, and the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park. Film and television: Team America, and the 81st and 82nd Academy Awards (2010 Emmy Award). Founder and President of Rockwell Group, an architecture and design firm based in New York with a satellite office in Madrid. Honors: AIANY President’s Award, Cooper Hewitt National Design Award, Presidential Design Award. PAUL TAZEWELL (Costume Design) designed costumes for the original Broadway productions of Hamilton (Tony Award® 2016), Ain’t Too Proud:The Life And Times of The Temptations (Tony Nomination), In the Heights (Tony Nomination), The Color Purple (Tony Nomination), Memphis (Tony Nomination), Caroline or Change, Elaine Stritch at Liberty, ‘Bring in Da Noise, Bring in ‘Da Funk (Tony Nomination), Lombardi, Magic/Bird, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, Escape to Margaritaville, and Doctor Zhivago. Revivals include SideShow, A Streetcar Named Desire (Tony Nomination), Jesus Christ Superstar, Guys and Dolls, A Raisin in the Sun, and On the Town. Paul also designed the costumes for Harriet for Focus Features and Steven Spielberg’s film of West Side Story due in theatres in December 2020. He also codesigned the costumes for Spike Lee’s Miracle at St. Anna. For television, Paul designed the costumes for “The Wiz! Live” on NBC (Emmy Award® 2016), “Jesus Christ Superstar Live” on NBC, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” HBO Films starring Oprah Winfrey and he co-designed costumes for “Lackawanna Blues,” HBO Films.
W HO’ S W HO XAVIER PIERCE (Lighting Design) White Noise (The Public Theater); How to Catch Creation, Othello, Shakespeare in Love (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Native Gardens, Harvey, Blithe Spirit (Guthrie Theater); Nina Simone: Four Woman (Seattle Repertory Theatre); Smart People, Native Gardens (Arena Stage); The Roommate (Steppenwolf); Pride and Prejudice, Angels in America Part 1 & 2 (St . Louis Rep); Fun Home, How to Catch Creation (Baltimore Center Stage); Little Girl Blue (George Street Playhouse); Yours Unfaithfully, A Day by the Sea (Mint Theatre NYC); Misery (Cincinnati Playhouse); Noises Off (Syracuse Stage); Fences (Long Wharf Theatre, McCarter Theatre); Peter and the Starcatcher, 4000 Miles, The Mountaintop, Detroit ’67 (PlayMakers Repertory Company); My General Tubman, Two Trains Running (Arden Theatre); Outside Mulingar (Arizona Theatre Company); The Piano Lesson (Olney Theatre Center); Othello (A.R.T.); Fly (Florida Studio Theatre); Common Enemy, Red (Triad Stage); A Raisin in the Sun, Thousand Pines (Westport Country Playhouse); Two Trains Running (Two River Theater Company); Everybody, The Glass Menagerie, Black Odyssey, Fences (California Shakespeare Theater); Hamlet, Pippin (Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre); Pipeline (Indiana Repertory Theatre); Hypeman, The FRE (The Flea). DARRON L WEST (Sound Design) is a Tony and OBIE award-winning sound designer whose 30-year career spans theatre and dance, Broadway, and Off-Broadway. His work has been heard in over 600 productions all over the United States and internationally in 14 countries. Additional honors include the Drama Desk, Lortel, Audelco, and Princess Grace Foundation Statue Awards, among many others. HEIDI GRIFFITHS, CSA AND JORDAN THALER, CSA (Casting) Collaborators for three decades at The Public Theater in NYC casting over 300 productions OffBroadway and at The Delacorte Theater in Central Park. Broadway: Girl From The 19
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North Country, The Inheritance, The Iceman Cometh, Sweat, Shuffle Along, Eclipsed, Lucky Guy, Chinglish, The Motherf**ker With The Hat, The Merchant of Venice, Hair, Passing Strange, Caroline, or Change, Take Me Out, Topdog/Underdog, The Wild Party, On The Town, Noise/Funk, The Tempest. UK: The Inheritance (Young Vic and West End) Hair (West End) Film: Lady Bird, Passing Strange. REBECCA R.D. HAMLIN (Stage Manager) has been with the Alley Theatre for over twenty years. Among her favorite shows she has stage managed are A Flea in Her Ear, Grounded, The 39 Steps, The Cake, and A Christmas Carol. She has also staged managed for the Houston Shakespeare Festival, Stages Repertory Theatre, Houston's Main Street Theater and Resident Ensemble Players in Newark, DE. Becky is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. KATIE LEIGH CREEGGAN (Assistant Stage Manager) is in her fourth season at the Alley Theatre. Previous select favorites at the Alley include the Alley All New Festival workshop performance of Enlightened by Theresa Rebeck, as well as Vietgone, The Three Musketeers, Crimes of the Heart, The Carpenter (world premiere), The Cake, Describe the Night (world premiere), and Syncing Ink (world premiere). Regional credits include one season as Production Stage Manager for The Houston Shakespeare Festival. She received her BFA at The University of Houston School of Theatre & Dance. Katie is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. BRANDON WEINBRENNER (Assistant Director) is the Alley’s Associate Producer & Casting Director. He has directed Fully Committed, The Humans, Venus in Fur and several workshops and readings as part of Alley All New. Brandon previously served as the Alley’s Resident Assistant Director, assistant directing over 25 productions. Around town he has directed The Children and The Royale at Rec Room Arts, Fool for Love at The Landing Theatre Co, Stage Kiss
W HO’ S W HO at 4th Wall Theatre Company, Buyer & Cellar and Native Gardens at Main Street Theater. Past theatrical credits include serving as the Bret C. Harte Directing Fellow at Berkeley Rep, producing the 2013 Out of the Loop Fringe Festival in his hometown of Dallas, Texas, and acting in productions at the Guthrie Theater, among others. Brandon is a graduate of the University of Minnesota/ Guthrie Theater BFA Acting Training Program. OSKAR EUSTIS (Director) has served as the artistic director of The Public Theater since 2005, after serving as the artistic director at Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, RI from 1994 to 2005. Throughout his career, Eustis has been dedicated to the development of new work that speaks to the great issues of our time and has worked with countless artists in pursuit of that aim, including Tony Kushner, Suzan-Lori Parks, David Henry Hwang, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Richard Nelson, Rinne Groff, Tarell Alvin McCraney, and Lisa Kron. He is currently a professor at New York University and has held professorships at UCLA, Middlebury College, and Brown University. ELIZABETH FRANKEL (Director of New Work) joined the Alley Theatre in 2015 and produced its first annual Alley All New Festival in early 2016. Since then, nineteen of the twenty-five plays presented in the festival have gone on to world premiere productions, seven at the Alley and twelve elsewhere. For the past three seasons, the Alley has been represented by at least one Festival play Off-Broadway including Rajiv Joseph’s Describe the Night (Obie Award for Best New American Play), Bekah Brunstetter’s The Cake and the upcoming 72 Miles to Go…by Hilary Bettis. Liz moved to Houston after nine years at New York’s Public Theater. There, she helped to start the Emerging Writers Group and ran the program since its inception in 2008, launching the careers of 53 writers in the process. Before joining The Public, she worked at Waxman Williams Entertainment, Miramax Films, 20
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and in the literary office of Manhattan Theatre Club. BA: Colby College. ROB MELROSE (Artistic Director) directed this season's Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express and The Winter’s Tale. He was formerly the Artistic Director and co-founder of the Cutting Ball Theater. He has directed at The Public Theater (Pericles, Prince of Tyre), The Guthrie Theater (Frankenstein, Happy Days, Freud’s Last Session, Pen, Julius Caesar – with the Acting Company); The Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Troilus and Cressida – in association with the Public Theater); Magic Theatre (An Accident, World Premiere); The Old Globe (Much Ado About Nothing); PlayMakers Rep (Happy Days); Black Box Theatre (The Creature, World Premiere, BATCC Award for direction); as well as Actors’ Collective; The Gamm Theatre; and Crowded Fire, among others. His directing credits at Cutting Ball include Timon of Athens, A Dreamplay, Ondine (World Premiere), Mount Misery (World Premiere), Strindberg Cycle, The Chamber Plays in Rep, Krispy Kritters in the Scarlett Night (World Premiere), Pelleas & Melisande, the Bay Area Premiere of Will Eno’s Lady Grey (in ever lower light), The Tempest, The Bald Soprano, Victims of Duty, Bone to Pick & Diadem (World Premiere), Endgame, Krapp’s Last Tape, The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, Hamletmachine, As You Like It, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, among others. He has taught at Stanford University, UC Berkeley, USF, the University of Rhode Island, and Marin Academy. He has a BA in English and Theater from Princeton University and an MFA in directing from the Yale School of Drama. Last winter, he directed Strindberg’s Svarta Handsken (The Black Glove) in Stockholm, Sweden at Strindberg’s Intimate Theater. This was the first time the play was performed on the stage for which it was written, 110 years after it was composed. He has translated Woyzeck, Ubu Roi, Pelleas & Melisande, The Bald Soprano, The Chairs, No Exit, Communique n ̊ 10, Where and When We Died, and The Blind. His translations of Woyzeck, Ubu Roi, Pelleas & Melisande, and
W HO’ S W HO Communique n ̊ 10 have been published by EXIT Press. He has written a number of plays including: Helen of Troy, The Flat Earth, Divorsosaurus, When Human Voices Wake Us, Asylum, and Serpentyne and has written a rock-musical adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s Ozma of Oz with the San Francisco electro-rock group Z.O.N.K. DEAN R. GLADDEN (Managing Director) is in his 14th season with the Alley Theatre where he is responsible for the administrative, financial, marketing, facilities, and development aspects of the Theatre. His career in the performing arts spans over 40 years. Prior to joining the Alley, he was Managing Director at the Cleveland Play House for 19 years and was the Director of Arts Management Graduate Program at the University of Akron. He has also lectured at Case Western Reserve University, University of Houston, and Bowling Green State University. During his career, he has overseen the production of over 300 plays, including more than 80 world and American premieres and produced internationally with theatres from Russia, Mexico, Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia. Mr. Gladden holds a BA in Music from Miami University and a MA in Urban Arts Administration
from Drexel University. He also graduated from the Harvard Business School Executive Education Program in Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management. He is currently a board member and immediate past Chairman of the Board for the Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau, Treasurer of the Board of the Theater District Houston, serves on the Houston First Operations Committee, and is an American Leadership Forum Fellow. He was past president of The Rotary Club of Cleveland. He has served on the Executive Committee of the League of Resident Theatres, Greater Houston Partnership, and was Vice President of the National Corporate Theatre Fund. Gladden has served on panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, Ohio Arts Council, Wisconsin Arts Council, Kentucky Arts Council, Texas Commission on the Arts and the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage. He has lectured nationally for Theatre Communications Group, American Council for the Arts, Association of Performing Arts Professionals, National Association of State Legislators and American Dance Festival. He has presented at the Santiago a Mil Festival in Chile, and also conducted Arts Management workshops in Budapest, Hungary, under the sponsorship of the United States Information Agency.
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Wheelchair access is available to both performance spaces. Please notify the Box Office when purchasing tickets and arrive at the Theatre at least 30 minutes before curtain.
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Your team provided a space where he could be who he was. He learned, thrived, and built confidence I haven’t seen him have before. – Play Makers Parent
SPRING BREAK AT THE ALLEY THEATRE Campers join their peers for a full rotation of group activities designed to help even the most timid child find the confidence to step onto the stage.
Ideal for grades K–5
March 16 – 20 9 AM – 3 PM Extended care available 8 AM - 5 PM
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As of January 24, 2020
ALLEY THEATRE DONORS The Alley Theatre is honored to recognize the following donors who have supported our work on stage, in schools, and in the community through participation in the Annual Fund and Special Events over the past 12 months.
PRODUCER | $100,000 OR MORE The Brown Foundation, Inc. The Cullen Foundation The Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts The Humphreys Foundation Meredith and Cornelia Long
Mike Loya Beth Madison Menninger Foundation Schlumberger Limited Texas Commission on the Arts
City of Houston and Theater District Improvement The W.T. and Louise J. Moran Foundation The Wortham Foundation, Inc. Lynn Wyatt
HONORARY PRODUCER | $50,000 – $99,999 Janet and John Carrig Anne and Albert Chao ConocoPhillips ExxonMobil Corporation The William Stamps Farish Fund Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Angela and Craig Jarchow
Mady and Ken Kades Mike Loya M.D. Anderson Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Butch Mach Occidental Cathy and Jesse Marion Connie and Roger Plank
The Powell Foundation PwC Rand Group LLC Karen and Arthur Rogers The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Michele and D Verma
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER | $25,000 – $49,999 Margaret Alkek Williams Arts Midwest, Shakespeare in American Communities Baker Botts L.L.P. Scott and Rita Ballard Oscar Brown and Sarah Morgan Deloitte Debra and Mike Dishberger Ray C. Fish Foundation Stephen and Donna Greenlee John P. McGovern Foundation Mr. Scott Goldman Valerie A. Jalufka
Kathryn and Jim* Ketelsen Mr. and Mrs. William K. Kroger Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Carol and Michael Linn Macy's Nancy McGregor and Neal Manne Alexandra and Parker Meeks Ms. Trini Mendenhall Christina and Stephen Morse Norton Rose Fulbright Petrello Family Foundation Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. Peter Ragauss and Jennifer Smith
Allyn and Jill Risley Ms. Lillie Robertson Sarofim Foundation Susan and Fayez Sarofim Heide and Douglas Shanda Shell Oil Company Andrea and Trent Tellepsen Vinson & Elkins LLP Thomas R. Walters and Hollis B. Kazmann Sharyn and Jim Weaver / The Gordon A. Cain Foundation Wells Fargo
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE – GOLD | $15,000 – $24,999 Anonymous Roger Aksamit Mr. Jonathan E. Baliff Rutger Beelaerts Maria and Bill Boyce Bracewell LLP Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Carter IV Cheniere Energy, Inc Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Cox Daniel D. Domeracki ENGIE Sidney Faust Karen and Jonathan Finger Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Griffin Mr. and Mrs. Corey Grindal George and Mary Josephine Hamman Foundation Eve and Robert Harrell Mr. and Mrs. Ron C. Hulme
Integrated Corrosion Companies Jackson Walker LLP Josephine and Phil John KPMG LLP Sally J. Langston Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Loner Mr. and Mrs. Ransom C. Lummis Masha and Richard Lunam Mrs. Barbara Mackey and Dr. James Ferrendelli Marlene Marker Nancy and Rob* Martin National Endowment for the Arts Shelby and Eric Nielsen John and Charlene O'Shea Family Foundation Debbie and Robert Penshorn Ron and Demi Rand Mark S. Seavers
Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust Dr. Juan R. Stern and Mrs. Susana Brener de Stern Bonnie and Ralph Stevens Anne and Taft Symonds Michael and Kathleen Terracina Mr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Trauber Mr. and Mrs. Peter Tumminello Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Vangolen The Vaughn Foundation The William A. and Madeline Welder Smith Foundation Williams Scott and Lori Wulfe Stephanie and Kevin Yankowsky
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE – SILVER | $10,000 – $14,999 Anonymous (3) Mr. and Mrs. Ira T. Anderson Charles L. “Chip” Babcock and Nancy Hamilton Baker Hughes Bank of America Ms. Lisa Blackwood Evelyn Brennan CenterPoint Energy Dr. Beth Chambers and Mr. J. Michael Chambers Miquel Correll Credit Suisse Securites (USA), LLC Mr. Juan C. Cuesta The Ensell Family Evercore
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Mary and Tony Gracely Halliburton John and Julie Hardie H-E-B Tournament of Champions Ralph Herbert and Mary Roediger Thomas and Florence Langford Latham & Watkins LLP The Lewis and Joan Lowenstein Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Mach Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth Mattox Amy and John Miller Michele M. Collins and Craig L. Moffatt Joe and Pepette Mongrain Morgan Stanley Mr. Brett Mossman
Murphy Oil Corporation Mr. and Mrs. John S. Orton Laura and Dan Pears Drs. Steven and Diane Platts Radoff Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Hugh M. Ray, Jr. Bud and Maryjane Scherr Nancy B. and Alan Shelby Gerry and Betty Stacy Lois and George Stark Mr. James. W. Stewart, Jr. Vivian L. Smith Foundation Bruce and Mary Alice Volkert Jane and Larry Wagner K. C. and Randa Weiner Nina and Michael Zilkha
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ALLEY THEATRE DONORS CENTERSTAGE | $5,000 – $9,999 Anonymous (2) Gerhard and Birgitt Adenacker Architectural Floors John R. and Mary Arensdorf Barclays Capital Mr. and Mrs. Ashok Belani Mr. and Mrs. Rick Bott Jr. Mr. Stephen E. Brice Barbara and Mark Brookner Rob and Tania Bryngelson Mr. and Mrs. Larry W. Buck Building Concrete Solutions LP C&J Energy Services, Inc. Larry and Patricia Campagna Deborah Cantrell Sylvia Caracio Heather Carr and Aaron Sanders Gracie and Bob Cavnar / The Cavnar Foundation In Memory of Frank and Gene Chambers Ms. Rebecca Crews Chapman Dee and Al Coats John P. Cogan Jr. and Julie Dokell Cogan Mr. and Mrs. Mark D. Cook Scott Cutler Bradley and Leslie Davis Linnet F. Deily
Linda Dodge Denise DuBard Elsie and Les Eckert Carolyn and David Edgar Clayton and Shel Erikson David L. Evans Nanette Finger John B. and Linda L. Fosseen Jean L. Freeman, PhD and Daniel H. Freeman, PhD Mr. Jack A. Fusco Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Gill Janice and Robert Glaser Suzan and Julius Glickman Sheryl and Fred Greene Tom and Barbara Gros Susan A. Han
William E. and Natoma Pyle Harvey Charitable Trust Beth Hentges Dave and Karon Hilditch Carrie M. Horne Patricia P. Hubbard Randall H. Jamail Mr. Steven M. Kass Carolyn J. Keating Kinder Morgan Foundation Ron and Donna Koska Dr. Russell W. H. Kridel
Beverly McPhail and Kevin Kulish Gary and Renae Leach Karen and Victor Linck Mr. and Mrs. Craig Llewellyn Peter and Evangeline Mackintosh Mary Margolis and Tony Canino Debbie McAngus Jillian Jopling and Peter McGillivray Dr. Eric McLaughlin and Eliodoro Castillo Pat and Roger Medors Mile Milisavljevic Mizuho Securities USA LLC Margaret and Ben Morris Beverly and Staman Ogilvie Immanuel and Helen B. Olshan Foundation Martha Farish Oti Karen and Harry Pinson Mr. Rick Plaeger Edward and Ellen Randall Foundation Shirley Rose Roz and David Rowan Russell Reynolds Associates, Inc. Rycore Capital LP Dayna Salter and Tony Smith Kim and Bill Sanchez
Mr. and Mrs. James A. Shaffer Mr. and Mrs. Kirby Shanks Sandy and George Shipley Elizabeth and Benjamin Smith Jeff and Pam Smith Kelly Somoza James Stafford and Deborah Keyser Sunbelt Group, LP Mr. David Symonds TC Energy Welela Tereffe Theatre Forward Thompson & Knight LLP Ann G. Trammell Wayne Turner Walter and Beth Ulrich Mr. and Mrs. David M. Underwood, Jr. W.S. Bellows Construction Corporation Marcy Taub Wessel White & Case Mrs. Vivian Wise-Heacock Mr. and Ms. Thane Wyman Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Yeats T. Michael Young
Michael McGinity Joseph Milton and Patricia Hunt Martha Mortenson Nancy and Skip Neilson David Nelson and Claudia Hackbarth Mr. Erik B. Nelson and Mr. Terry R. Brandhorst Leslie and John Niemand Ms. Luda Orelup Jerre Paseur Karen and Doug Peck Bernadette Prakash Patricia Pratt Mr. and Mrs. David Bowen Rae The Rainbolt Family Eric and Noelle Reed Scott and Vickie Reeve Martha Marberry and Thomas Roraff
Joseph H. Rose Ann and Barry Satterwhite David and Logan Shacklett Mr. and Mrs. Jonathon W. Spears Alana R. Spiwak, M.D. and Sam Stolbun Mr. and Mrs. Don Sweet Dr. Estes C. Thomas Candace and Michael Varty Mr. W. Temple Webber III Donna and Douglas Wheeler Ms. Linda Vennema White Norman and Ann Whitton Mr. Charles Williams Cecily and Jim Young Dr. Meredith Zabolio Mr. and Mrs. John Zavitsanos
Mr. John L. Eymann Mr. F. J. Foulks Mr. and Mrs. Kirk Gentle Mark Gibennus Ms. Elizabeth Glass James Graff Bruce and Lynn Granger Greystar Monica and Leonard Gutierrez Zahava Haenosh Susan Hairston and Charles Soparkar Mr. and Mrs. Sheri and John Hamm Mr. Dan Hanchera Kenneth Harder Kathy Haun Heritage Texas Properties Mr. Julio Hernandez Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Hollins In memory of Ralph W. Hovey Thomas Jackson Jean T. Janssen Jefferies LLC John and Charlene O'Shea Family Foundation Ms. Deanna L. Jones Rodney and Mary Koenig
Mrs. Warren Kreft Joe and Laurie Labra Suzy and Bob Laforge The Larsen Family Charitable Fund Rebecca and Robert LeBlanc Andrew Lee and Hilary Beaver Mr. and Mrs. J. Colter Lewis Mr. and Mrs. George Lindahl Mr. John Lionberger Robert J. Llorente Locke Lord LLP Lockton Global Energy & Marine Kathy M. Lynn Tom Mach Eric and Isabelle Mayer Dr. and Mrs. Malcolm Mazow Yana McFatter Barb and Robert McMillan MetroNational TeriAnn and Nick Miller Richard Miller Penny and Ron Nelson Kenneth Newberry Harold and Jana Newton Julie Sewell and Scott O'Neill Living Water PDR Corporation
ACTOR | $3,000 – $4,999 Anonymous (4) Scott and Nancy Atlas Robert and Carolyn Bailey Richard and Marjorie Barclay Mr. and Mrs. James Barnes Joelle and Jeff Berlat Dr. Ed K. Biegert and Ms. Cathleen J. Trechter Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Boates C. Robert Bunch and Lilia D. Khakimova Ms. Deborah A. Butler Cameron Robin Cooley and Rodney Anderson Chris and Lauri Cragg Ms. Shelly Cyprus Ellena P. Dickerson Dr. and Mrs. Ray M. Fitzgerald Susan and Norbert Flynn
Jeannine and Patrick Flynn Rodi and Bob Franco Gerard and Christine Gaynor Jamie and Joel Grossman Stephen and Dana Halderman Ann Hasselmo Mr. Trevor Heinzinger Steven K. Johnson Debbie and Frank Jones Raymond E. Jones Family Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Kaplan Sandra Elzerman and Martin Kopacz Mr. and Mrs. Victor A. Kormeier, Jr. Glenn and Rebecca Latimer Dr. and Mrs. Morton H. Leonard, Jr. Bryan Margo and Michael Matejcek Patricia and Tom Martin Richard L. Matthews, D.D.S.
ASSOCIATE | $1,500 - $2,999 Anonymous (6) Dr. and Mrs. George J. Abdo Accenture Elaine Adams Mr. and Mrs. Matt Albanese Allegiance Bank Dr. Sara L. Ameringer DVM and Mr. Greg Ameringer Apex International Energy Dian Austin and Sandy Altman Jeff Autor Mrs. Margaret C. Bailey Bank of Texas Terri and George Barile Ms. Vicki F. Barosh Rhonda and Ariel Bass BB&T BDO USA, LLP Mr. and Mrs. Michael B. Bell Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bice Boardwalk Pipeline Partners Pauline W. Bolton Sally and Bill Boone Dr. Michael and Aimee Bornstein Beverly Brannan FKB Legacy 5 Philanthropic Fund Mr. Thomas J. Bullis
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Burns & McDonnell Mrs. Anne H. Bushman Cadence Bank Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Caletka Steve Carrier Mr. and Mrs. Peter E. Cayea CEMEX United States Operations Chamberlain Hrdlicka White & Williams Carolyn and Ralph Cheek Mr. Chris Clark Madeline Coblenz and Family Jimmy and Lynn R. Coe Mr. and Mrs. Winfred Colbert Randall and Donna Collier Core Laboratories Mike and Kelly Crahan Jayne DeBee Bradley and Kimberly Dennison Kim P. Feazle and M. Richard Diaz Sarah and Fred Dietrich Mr. and Mrs. Thomas K. Edwards Richard Elbein and Jerry Peperone Linda and Charlie Elder Robert R. Elliott Emerson/Rosemount Gas Analysis EnCap Investments L.P.
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ALLEY THEATRE DONORS ASSOCIATE CONTINUED | $1,500 – $2,999 Ann Phillips Mr. Chris Propst Lou and Joan Pucher Resco Electric Leonor and Eric Ratliff John Redfield Stuart and Esther Rettie Ibis and David Reynolds Mr. Samuel C. Rizzo Mr. and Mrs. Steven F. Roach Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Roberts Safety Management Systems, LLC Rhoda Saka Marci Rosenberg and Ben Samuels Barbara Sanford Drs. Cynthia and George Santos Bob Scott and Susan Bickley
Mr. Shane Sealy Andrea and Charles Seay Carla Sebesta with Texas Landscape Group LLC Rani and Ram Seetharam Sequent Energy Management Budweiser/Silver Eagle Distributors Slack & Co. Contracting Inc. Sandi and John Slack Mark and Linda Smith Mr. and Mrs. Timothy M. Stastny Mr. John Stein Donald and Denise Stillwagon John and Susan Stone Allen V. Stover Stream-Flo Mr. and Mrs. Adam Szczepanski William Taggart
Tetra Technologies, Inc Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Thomas Dr. Adam Thrasher Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. TRC Companies, Inc. Diana and David VanHorn Jim and Sherry Vetter Cheryl Walker Jeff and Stephanie Waller Alton and Carolyn Warren Mr. and Mrs. Daniel M. Watkins The Webb family Mr. and Mrs. Paul Weider Western Concrete Pumping Dr. Stephan Wexler Richard Whiles Kathleen and Mark Williamson Joshua R. Willoughby of The Willoughby Law Firm
Winstead PC William A. Wise Bob and Melinda Wolfram Charlene Wright Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wyszynski Michele and Dennis Yanta Francene Young and Ken Jones
William C. Lipscomb Robert Lorio William and Jaclyn Low Mr. and Mrs. Garry Mack Mr. and Mrs. Moshe Maor Carol Mateo Frank and LaNelle McKay Robert B. Mease Charlotte Meyer and Russell Miller Margaret Minogue-Heyl The Mithoff Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Moore Dr. and Mrs. Kiran Nair Nathan Navarrete William Nehman Regina and Tom Nichols Ms. Biba Nijjar Miki Lusk Norton Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Palmer Mr. F. Richard Pappas Mr. Harry Pefanis Ms. Emily F. Perryman Ms. Brenda J. Peters The Petrov Family Ms. Jan-Claire Philips and Mr. Jerome Kendall Peter and Joanne Prasthofer Mr. Risher Randall Jo-Ann Reilly and Tim McKian Jackie and Al Richey Mr. and Ms. Dan Rizzo Mr. and Mrs. David Rizzo Boris Rubashkin, M.D. Al and Mickey Sanders Ms. Barbara W. Sasser Ms. Donna Scott Patricia H. Chicoine and James Sczudlo Russell and Elizabeth Sellen Paul and Joan Shack Miss Amy Shahda
Scott Shorey Mr. Jim Slack Dr. Janis Smeal and Mill Aller J T Smith Ms. Helen Solomos The Springer Law Firm Carol Todd Stamatedes Dr. George Starkschall and Mrs. Frada Boxer Linda and Craig Stewart Philip Tereskiewicz Ms. Nicola F. Toubia Uber John and Jean Unger Tim and Adrienne Unger James Vasquez Caroline Vetterling Suzanne Bruce and Malcolm Waddell Mr. and Mrs. William W. Walton CBM Bill Wasko and Susan Brown Dr. and Mrs. Stuart M. Weil Barbara and Howard Weiner Michael Weller Robert and Konnie Haynes-Welsh Erin Werner Douglas and Carolynne White Simon Whitney Mr. Bruce Winquist and Ms. Susan Giannantonio Gary and Shari Winston Mr. Neil Wizel Sally Worthington Edgar and Adriana Yzquierdo The Zaafran Family Syma and Walt Zerkow Mr. Yevgeniy Zilberman Jim Zimmerman and Carol Sugimoto
PATRON | $1,000 – $1,499 Anonymous (4) Ms. Leslie Alston Taseer, Zohra, and Daaniyal Badar Steven Baker Dr. and Mrs. Shakeib Baradhi Mr. Thomas Barbee George Barnes Ms. Jane Bartusch Dr. R. Donald Bartusiak Mr. Ragini Basu Philip Bentlif, M.D. A. Maritza Bernal Stephen Bickel Mr. Clayton Black Gregory Bond Virginia and Steven Booton James Hall and Linda Broocks Mr. and Mrs. Allen S. Brown Bundren Painting & Drywall A.J. and Marina Burchard Mary Jo and Mick Cantu Rich and Alma Carrier C.P. Carroll Carol and Frank Cascio Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Clark Nan Coffman and Craig Moore Donna F Cole Mr. Carlos V. Compain Stewart and Melissa Cooper Cynthia and Robert Creager Everett and Diane Crumley Charles and Sue Currie Mr. and Mrs. John R. Deming Patrick and Patty Dennis Marv and Mary Dettloff Jeanette and John DiFilippo Dr. Donald and Christine Donovan Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Dougherty Mrs. Kathleen C. Empsucha
Dunbar Consuelo Danner Ms. Nan Earle, in memory of Dr. Edward Earle Mr. Paul A. Ehrsam Martin and Lisa Estill Tom Eysenbach Enviromental Technical Services Mr. Jason Folkers Harry and Lynn Froeber Ms. Elizabeth Frost William Fu Wanda S. Funchess J. Thomas Furlan Ms. M. M. Palisin and Mr. Gary C. Gardner Mr. C. Michael Garver Eugenia C. George, M.D Dr. and Mrs. David Yates Graham Julie Gremillion Bambi Grilley of QB Regulatory Consulting LLC Ms. Jean Guy The Herrington Law Firm Dr. Arthur and Mrs. Ella Hamberger Karen and Jay Harberg Misty Haren L.H. 2 Architecture LLC. Jo and Wayne Hillin Hochglaube & DeBorde P.C., Family Law Firm Judy M. and Steven K. Howell Anna B. Jackson Dena and Justin Jarski Mr. C. Hastings Johnson Charlotte Harrison Jones Anne Lamkin Kinder Mr. Carl Kuhnen Patricia Larson Joseph Levitan
*In-Kind Donation In Remembrance
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For more information, or to make changes to your listing, please contact Darryl de Mello at darryld@alleytheatre.org or 713.315.3371.
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NINA VANCE LEGACY SOCIETY
Charter Members as of January 24, 2020
The Nina Vance Legacy Society recognizes individuals who have created a planned gift from their estates for the Alley’s future benefit. Planned gifts include a gift from a will, trust, retirement plan (e.g. IRA, 401k, 403b), life insurance policy or other deferred-giving arrangements to help ensure the Alley’s continued success for generations to come. We are honored to acknowledge the following individuals and thank them for their generosity and foresight. Anonymous (8)
Gina Eandi
Jackie and Malcom
Shirley and Don* Rose
Dr. and Mrs. George Abdo
Nancy D. Giles
James K. Schooler*
Sandy and Russ Andorka
Dean R. Gladden
John and Leslie Niemand
Mark S. Seavers
Dian Austin and Sandy Altman
Tarrant Hancock Charitable Trust
Kathy and John Orton
Nancy B. Shelby in memory
Estate of William Guy Barrow
Ann Hayes Hasselmo
Susan Snider Osterberg
Joelle Berlat
Dorothy Cooke Hayes*
Mr. and Mrs. Edmund and
Estate of Marsha Harris Solomon
Stephen Bishop
Greg Ingram
Alton and Carolyn Warren
Mr. Andrew Bowen
Mr. and Mrs. Raul Irizarry
Jerre Paseur
Gerald T. Burgess Trust
Josephine and Phil John
Howard Pieper*
Mary Kay Wittrock
Larry A. Campagna
Charlotte Harrison Jones
Sue Pilko
Karen and Gerald Woolf
Mr. Efrain Z. Corzo
Barbara and Raymond Kalmans
Don Poole
Jim and Cecily Young
Christy and Lou Cushman
Kathryn and Jim* Ketelsen
Debbie Quinn-Magid
Kim Feazle and Richard Diaz
Beth and Britt Langford
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Randall III
Ellena P. Dickerson
Carol and Michael Linn
Martin P. Rappaport MD* and
Estate of Frank Eyler
Cindy Macias
Bethany A. Rappaport, RN,
John Eymann
Nancy and Rob* Martin
MSN, GNP
Mazow, MD
Megan Pantuliano
of Charles M. Macko
Michael Weller
In Remembrance
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For more information, please call 713.315.3378, e-mail marykayw@alleytheatre.org or visit alleytheatre.org/plannedgiving.
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The cast of The Winter's Tale. Photo by Lynn Lane.
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ALLEY THEATRE STAFF 2019–20 SEASON Rob Melrose, Artistic Director Dean R. Gladden, Managing Director
ADMINISTRATIVE Brandon Kahn, General Manager Caitlin Crombleholme, Associate General Manager Bree Welch, Company Manager Lynn Winker, Executive Assistant Madison Sutton, General Management Intern
ARTISTIC
Michael Locher, Director of Design Kevin Rigdon, Associate Director/Design Brandon Weinbrenner, Associate Producer & Casting Director Elizabeth Frankel, Director of New Work Lily Wolff, Literary Manager Christian Gill, Literary Intern Noah Alderfer, Steffanie Alter, Sierra Beckstrom, Sam Ferrigno, Marley Foster, Victoria Gist, Will Grimme, Jesse Jou, Elizabeth Keel, Alexa Kelly, Donna Latham, Leslie Lenert, Brandy Carie-Marrah, Sam Mayer, Mikayla Moats, Sean Moses, Henry Nash, Danielle Ozymandias, Rebecca Pickard, Michael Weems, Catherine Yu, Script Readers
BOX OFFICE Tom O’Dell, Director of Audience Services Ruthie Rodriguez, Box Office Manager Charlotte Weschler, Patron Services Manager Margie Hayden, Shift Supervisor Juan Flores, Shawna Hardy, Jonathan Jefferson, Carian Parker, Christian Peck, Karla Sanchez, Julian Waneck, Nathan Wilson, Ticket Service Assistants
DEVELOPMENT Deborah B. Lackey, CFRE, Director of Development Laura Lee Cale, Manager Individual Giving Katherine Cunningham, Senior Associate Special Events Darryl de Mello, Director Individual Giving Sam Ferrigno, Development Officer Individual Giving Melissa Kelly, Research Analyst Colton Larsen, Manager Foundation and Grants Julia Ridenhour, Institutional Giving Associate Kristine Rizzo, Director Special Events Matt Speer, Individual Giving Associate Jessica Williams, Development Officer Gifts Processing Mary Kay Wittrock, Director Planned Giving Breanna Word, Development Administrative Assistant
EDUCATION & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Mary Sutton, Director of Education & Community Engagement Cathy Bencivenga, Executive Manager of Education & Community Engagement Chaney Tullos, Assistant Director of Education Jasmine Thomas, Staging STEM & AIN Manager Esme Wu, School Programs Manager Mara McGhee, ECE Programs Coordinator Jon Montgomery, Staging STEM Associate Elena Valladolid-Rivera, Sales and Marketing Associate Bradley Dean Whyte, Resident Master Teaching Artist Josef Anderson, Brendan Bourque-Sheil, Alan Brincks, Juan Sebastian Cruz, Michelle Elaine, B. Connor Flynn, Sara Gaston, Scott Gibbs, Josh Inocencio, Vincent Johnson, Dayne Lathrop, Laura Marie Moreno, Carian Parker, Rain, Gabe Regojo, Lee Trevathan, Wesley Whitson, Annie Wild, Whitney Zangarine, Teaching Artists
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FINANCE
Don Poole, Director of Finance Kay Ross, Controller Iris Hutchison, Accounts Payable Associate Peggy Harvey, Stan Irish, Finance Associates
HOUSE MANAGEMENT Susan Baird, Director of Front of House Julie Rutter, Front of House Manager Suzanne Burck, Rebecca Kutsko, Nancy Leon, Trinity Nobles, Frank Williams, House Managers
HUMAN RESOURCES Sajal Javid, Director of Human Resources Laura Ortiz, Human Resources Generalist Amari Wyatt, Human Resources Assistant
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Michael Bell, Director of Information Technology Richard Jackson, Database Administrator Cameron Bahrami, Desktop Support and Jr. Systems Administrator
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS Rachel Applegate, Director of Marketing and Communications Tina Berry, Director of Marketing Larisa Gawlik, PR and Communications Manager Francisco Delgado, Senior Graphic Designer Cori Redus, Graphic Designer Mara Koss, Group Sales Manager Lauren Pelletier, Marketing Associate Carrithers Studio, Videography Allyson Huntsman, Lynn Lane, Melissa Taylor, Photography
OPERATIONS AND ENGINEERING
Dennis Draper, Director of Events & Operations Daniel Naranjo, Chief Engineer Patrick Glass, Ray Martin, Van Shannon, Phillip Vacek, Stationary Engineers Karen Mata, Madison Turner, Event Managers Eric Moore, Events and Operations Assistant Greg Brown, Office Services Clerk Lauren Muse, Bar Manager Joel Reed Parker, Assistant Bar Manager Robert Inkel, Receptionist
PRODUCTION Raymond Inkel, Production Manager Julie Ann Arbiter, Associate Production Manager Gitiim Chakamoi, Production Office Manager
COSTUMES
Nancy Julian, Costume Shop Manager Janice L. Lopez, Assistant Costume Shop Manager Michael Farris, Shop Assistant/Stock Manager Kim Cook, Erica Griese, Costume Design Assistants Jerome Schram, Tailor Sarah Rogers, Draper Lynne Kesilis, First Hand Stephanie Orr, Tailor First Hand Marisa Chaney, Wardrobe Supervisor Chelsea O’Herron, Assistant Wardrobe Supervisor Desiree Anderson, Ellen Danforth, Stitchers Maria Mignone, Costume Crafts Amy Solomon, Wig Master Alison Hora, Nicholas Parrish, Wig Assistants
ALLEY THEATRE STAFF 2019–20 SEASON LIGHTING Andrew Vance, Lighting Supervisor Dan Jones, Assistant Lighting Supervisor Joe Engler, Master Electrician Merlin Howick, Lead Electrician J.R. Carson, Jesus Pineda, Jacob Moriarty-Stone, Light Board Operators and Electricians
PROPERTIES Karin Rabe Vance, Properties Master Eric C. Brown, Assistant Properties Master Jessica Julien, Prop Shop Assistant/Master Artisan Sarah Powell, Artisan Buyer Travis Nelson, Amelia Templeton, Properties Artisans
RESIDENT ACTING COMPANY Elizabeth Bunch Dylan Godwin Shawn Hamilton Chris Hutchison Melissa Pritchett David Rainey Jay Sullivan Todd Waite
RESIDENT ACTING COMPANY EMERITUS James Black Paul Hope Charles Krohn
SCENERY Aaron Wilson, Technical Director Daniel d'Egnuff, Alexandra Hooper, Assistant Technical Directors Yancy Cooper, Scene Shop Operations Manager/Buyer Kyle Bodiford, Master Carpenter Paul Zappone, Draftsperson Michelle Fullerton, Charge Scenic Artist Rebekah Bryant, Scene Shop Supervisor Noel Greer, Guy Herman, Nicholas Hoovler, Herbert Moore, Carpenters Christie DeBacker, Francisco Robledo, Scenic Artist Eric Breikjern, Stage Supervisor Nicholas Custer, Assistant Stage Supervisor
The Alley Theatre is a member of the League of Resident Theatres.
The Alley Theatre is a constituent of Theatre Communications Group, the national service organization for not-for-profit theatres, the American Arts Alliance and Texans for the Arts.
SOUND
Pierre Dupree, Sound Supervisor Bradley Jay Gowers, Lead Audio Engineer Raul Rivera, Fred Schoppe, Sound Engineers Katie Reif, Sound Observer
STAGE MANAGEMENT
Kristen Larson, Production Stage Manager Emily Bohannan, Katie L. Creeggan, Rachel Dooley-Harris, Rebecca R.D. Hamlin, AEA Stage Managers Jordan Kruis, Rachel Piero, Production Assistants
GENERAL COUNSEL SERVICES Vinson & Elkins
AUDITORS
Blazek & Vetterling
ADDITIONAL STAFF FOR CAMP DAVID: Johanna Gruenhut, New York Assistant Director Haydee Zelideth Antuñano, Associate Costume Designer Phillip Owen, Assistant Sound Designer Peter Royston, New York Production Assistant Jane Guyer Fujita, Dialect Coach Miles Duffy, Cameron Regan, Carpenter Lexy Canon, Daniel Rios, Stage Crew Lexy Canon, Electrician John Santillan, Camila Jaramillo, Wardrobe Olivia Peel, Overhire Production Assistant Ron NaVarre, Tai Chi Instructor Melissa Pritchett, Movement Coach
SPECIAL THANKS FOR CAMP DAVID:
Rabbi Oren J. Hayon, Reverend Laura Mayo, Nafisa Munshi, and Emil Stern
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This theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
The Director is a member of the STAGE DIRECTORS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS SOCIETY, a national theatre labor union.
The Scenic, Costume, Lighting, and Sound Designers in LORT Theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA - 829, IATSE.
Alley Theatre Program © 2019 Director of Marketing and Communications: Rachel Applegate Director of Marketing: Tina Berry Senior Graphic Designer: Francisco Delgado Graphic Designer: Cori Redus PR and Communications Manager: Larisa Gawlik Marketing Associate: Lauren Pelletier