Nice Fish A.R.T. Program by American Repertory Theater

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As another Boston winter settles in, I'm happy to welcome you to Nice Fish. Set in the icy expanses of the Great Lakes, this new play reflects on the (sometimes surreal) stories hidden in frozen landscapes. I am pleased to welcome back Claire van Kampen (Director, Composer) and Mark Rylance (Ron, Playwright) to the A.R.T. for the first time since our 1991 productions of Hamlet and The Seagull. Mark and Claire have a long history of working together, collaborating on numerous award-winning plays and films, and earning international recognition for their work on the founding of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London. In creating Nice Fish, they have joined forces with Minnesota-based poet Louis Jenkins. Frequently featured on NPR’s A Prairie Home Companion, Louis’ prose poems find wise, wry truths swimming just below the surface of everyday experiences. I am thrilled that he has joined the cast of this production for his acting debut. Also making their A.R.T. debuts are cast members Kayli Carter, Bob Davis, and Jim Lichtscheidl, as well as designers Todd Rosenthal, Ilona Somogyi, Japhy Weideman, and Scott W. Edwards. After closing in Cambridge, we are delighted that this production will travel to St. Ann’s Warehouse in New York. Thank you for joining us for this production that contemplates the quieter, stranger side of nature through the talents of this exceptional team of artists.

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By MARK RYLANCE & LOUIS JENKINS Drawn from the words of LOUIS JENKINS Scenic Design TODD ROSENTHAL

Costume Design ILONA SOMOGYI

Composer CLAIRE VAN KAMPEN

Lighting Design JAPHY WEIDEMAN

Casting JIM CARNAHAN, CSA

Sound Design SCOTT W. EDWARDS

Production Stage Manager EVANGELINE ROSE WHITLOCK*

Directed by CLAIRE VAN KAMPEN Produced in association with Shakespeare Road, Inc. Originally commissioned and produced by The Guthrie Theater 2013, Joe Dowling, Artistic Director. First performance at the Loeb Drama Center on January 17, 2016.

PRODUCTION SUPPORT Alan Jones and Ashley Garrett This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. The artistic residency of Mark Rylance and Claire van Kampen is generously supported by Katie and Paul Buttenwieser.

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The 2015/16 season is supported in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which receives support from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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CAST

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Flo ��KAYLI CARTER* The DNR Man ��BOB DAVIS* Wayne ��LOUIS JENKINS* Erik ��JIM LICHTSCHEIDL* Ron ��MARK RYLANCE* UNDERSTUDIES Understudies never substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement for the appearance is made at the time of the performance. For Wayne: BOB DAVIS*

ADDITIONAL STAFF Assistant Stage Manager............................................................Katie Ailinger* Associate Lighting Designer....................................................Jax Messenger Production Assistant.................................................................Jake Stepansky (*) Member of Actors' Equity Association

Additional equipment provided by Sound Associates and d&b audiotechnik.

SPECIAL THANKS Joe Dowling, Tyson Forbes, Emily Swallow, Chris Carlson, and the Cast, Stage Management, Creative Staff, and audiences of the 2013 production at the Guthrie Theater Sonia Friedman Productions Colin Beveridge, Robert and Ruth Bly, Matthew Cowles, Michael Eisenberg, Peter Fitzgerald, James Hillman and Margot, Ann Jenkins, Senator Ed Markey and his office, Nataasha and Apache, Greg "Greggers" Reif, Jan Saragoni, Stuart Thompson, Lena Voghel

HARVARD UNIVERSITY ARTS AND MUSEUM FELLOWS Supported by the Harvard University Office of Career Services Eliza Mantz '18 Laura Peterson '16 Gussie Roc '17 Juliana Sass '17 7

A Word or Two of Welcome from Mark Rylance This play is, truly, a collaboration between all the actors, a poet, a playwright, a director, the stage managers and designers, and now you, the audience and spectators. I came up with the initial idea of making a play using the poetry of Louis Jenkins, but the words and story and images you will hear and see today have arisen from all these people and others too, no longer present. Now, of course, the play lives or dies in your imagination and senses, and the final necessary collaboration hopefully takes place. I have collaborated on a number of adaptations, translations, and new plays in my 40 years as an actor, but this is only my second original play, and I rely very heavily on the help of my wife, Claire van Kampen, and on my friends and fellows in the rehearsal room, especially Jim Lichtscheidl and Bob Davis, who have come from Minneapolis to work on the play a second time. All our lives are required in the kitchen of the rehearsal room! Mostly I have relied on the life experience of my friend Louis Jenkins. I have read and re-read the hundreds of poems he has written and selected poems and passages to stitch together like an old American quilt of beloved garments, each one bearing a piece of history, an experience. Louis is a prose poet, and here is his description of a prose poem: THE PROSE POEM The prose poem is not a real poem, of course. One of the major differences is that the prose poet is incapable, either too lazy or too stupid, of breaking the poem into lines. But all writing, even the prose poem, involves a certain amount of skill, just the way throwing a wad of paper, say, into a wastebasket at a distance of twenty feet, requires a certain skill, a skill that, though it may improve hand-eye coordination, does not lead necessarily to an ability to play basketball. Still, it takes practice and thus gives one a way to pass the time, chucking one paper after another at the basket, while the teacher drones on about the poetry of Tennyson.

Here are a couple of poems about what it is like to be a prose poet: AUTUMN LEAVES “And you call yourself a poet!” she said, laughing, walking toward me. It was a woman I recognized, though I couldn't remember her name. “Here you are on the most beautiful day of autumn…. You should be writing a poem.” “It's a difficult subject to write about, the fall,” I said. “Nevertheless,” she said, “I saw you drinking in the day, the pristine blue sky, the warm sunshine, the brilliant leaves of the maples and birches rustled slightly by the cool west wind which is the harbinger of winter. I saw how you watched that maple leaf fall. I saw how you picked it up and noted the flame color, touched here and there with bits of gold and green and tiny black spots. I’m sure that you saw in that leaf all the glory and pathos, the joy and heartache of life on earth and yet you never touched pen to paper.” “Actually,” I said, “most of what I write is simply made up, not real at all.” “So…?” she said. JAZZ POEM I always wanted to write one of those Jazz poems. You know the kind, where it's three a.m. in some incredibly smoky, out of the way, little club in Chicago or New York, April 14, 1954 (it’s always good to give the date) and there are only a few sleepy people left in the place, vacant tables with half-empty glasses, overturned chairs… and then Bird or Leroy or someone plays this incredible solo and it’s like, it’s like… well, you just should have been there. The poet was there and you understand from the poem that jazz is hip, intellectual, cool, but also earthy and soulful, as the poet must be, as well, because he really digs this stuff. Unfortunately, I grew up listening to rock and roll and decidedly unhip country music and it just doesn’t work to say you should have been in Gary Hofstadter's rec room, July 24, 1961, sipping a Pepsi, listening to Duane Eddy’s latest album and playing air guitar. (continued) 9

The last time I was here at the A.R.T. was in 1991/92. I was playing Hamlet and also the hopeful dramatist Konstantin in Chekov’s The Seagull. Prophetically, Konstantin’s experimental play in The Seagull is, like Nice Fish, set by a lake. It was my first professional acting job in America, for which I am very grateful, as I was raised in America from the age of 2 through 18, and my character has always been partly American as well as English. I lived for a time in Connecticut, but mostly beside the crumbling shores of Lake Michigan in the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Louis began his life in the dust of Oklahoma and followed his heart to Duluth, Minnesota, where he too has lived by a big lake—the deepest of all, Lake Superior. Perhaps it is our shared experience of these deep, icy, dangerous, and beautiful Midwest lakes that has brought us together.

THE LAKE

Streets run straight downhill to the water. The lake brings the city to an end. It is there, always, changing the direction of my walks. Sometimes I go for days without coming near, catching only a glimpse through the trees: a sail, a white speck turning on the dark blue. Perhaps someone very old touched the back of my wrist, lightly, for only the briefest moment, or you said something to me. What was it? The waters close above my head suddenly without a sound. But I think what really draws me to Louis is his ability to express an internal reality of what it feels like to be a human being through the description of an external natural American landscape. In this light he gives me the same pleasure that the wonderful Transcendentalist writers, Thoreau,

Whitman, Emerson, and others of these Eastern woods and waters have always given me, so it is lovely to be recreating this Midwestern play in Massachusetts.

STONE ARCH, NATURAL ROCK FORMATION

It is higher, more narrow, more treacherous than we imagined. And here we are in a spot where there’s no going back, a point of no return. It has become too dangerous to continue as we have. We simply are not as sure-footed and nimble as we were when we started out. There’s nothing to do but sit down, carefully, straddling the rock. Once seated, I’m going to turn slightly and hand the bag of groceries back to you. Then I’m going to scoot ahead a few inches and turn again. If you then lean forward carefully and hand me the bag you will be able to move ahead to the spot I previously occupied. It is a miserably slow process and we still have the problem of the steep descent on the other side. But if we are patient, my love, I believe we will arrive safely on the ground again a few yards from where we began.

Thanks for coming out. I hope you enjoy our play. Poems reprinted from Before You Know It: Prose Poems 1970-2005 (Will o' the Wisp Books, 2009) and An Almost Human Gesture (Eighties Press and Ally Press, 1987).

A Long Way From Home A Note from Louis Jenkins

I saw Mark Rylance’s performance in the lead role of Peer Gynt, at the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis in February, 2008, and was knocked out. Mark had undertaken to adapt Robert Bly’s translation of Ibsen’s play for the theater. Who is this guy, I wondered, who could take a strange play like that and make the character of Peer come alive? It turned out that Mark and I had mutual friends in Robert and Ruth Bly and in James Hillman and his wife Margot McLean, but Mark and I did not meet during that performance. One evening when I was home in Duluth, I got an excited email from Margot McLean saying that Mark had used one of my prose poems as his acceptance speech for the Best Actor Tony Award. I was flabbergasted. I watched the speech on YouTube and saw that with Mark’s delivery the poem had wonderful comic effect. I immediately emailed Mark, and from that contact our collaboration on the Nice Fish project began. The idea Mark proposed was that we use my poems as text of a story that he had envisioned. My first thought was, “this isn’t going to work.” But I said, “sure,” figuring that whereas I knew next to nothing about theater, Mark probably knew a lot. In December 2008, Mark arranged a workshop performance of one act of the play in New York. When I arrived at Mark’s apartment he and Matthew Cowles were rehearsing a scene from the play. Mark had typed out the poems on sheets of paper and arranged them on the wall according to which poem went with which scene. So I joined in, putting my two cents worth whenever possible. Miraculously, it seemed to me, the play began to come together. We continued to work on the play over the next few years. Mark had the primary job of constructing and shaping the play. I provided the poems as speeches for each of the characters and, also, occasional bits of plot. It was in a way like putting together a jigsaw puzzle, finding the right place for each piece, or the right piece for each place, except that there were extra pieces and places continually shifted. 12

"The writing of poems is a solitary activity, and often the poems never leave the page on which they were written, or the room in which they were written."

When the play went to rehearsals at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis in March 2013 the process remained the same, poems on the wall, and with new cast members and Mark’s wife Claire van Kampen as director, the discussion was expanded. Due to this input the play grew and I think got better. I found it all to be great fun. The writing of poems is a solitary activity, and often the poems never leave the page on which they were written, or the room in which they were written. Working on a play in this manner is a much more collaborative, group effort. Working with Mark has always been a great pleasure. He seems to have endless energy and enthusiasm. And to have my poems take this direction is a total surprise, for them to wander so far from home.

Of course, the poems are all my children. “What?” I say, “You are going into theater?! Oh, well, whatever makes you happy.” Louis Jenkins' poetry has been published in a number of magazines and anthologies including American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, Poetry East, Paris Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review.

This article was originally published in the A.R.T. Guide, available in the theater lobby and online. Take a copy home to learn more about the productions and artists in A.R.T.'s current season.

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Cast KAYLI CARTER Flo A.R.T.: Debut. Theater: Machinal (Irene Ryan nomination), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Spring Awakening, SCAD. Workshops: The Aeneid. TV/Film: “Z” (Amazon, Dir. Tim Blake Nelson), “Rings” (Paramount, Dir. F. Javier Gutiérrez). Performing Arts BFA from Savannah College of Art and Design. BOB DAVIS The DNR Man A.R.T.: Debut. Regional: The Crucible, Othello, Nice Fish, dozens more, Guthrie Theater (26 seasons since 1987); Richard III (Richard III, Star Tribune Best Performance), Ten Thousand Things; Betrayal, Sylvia, Jungle Theater; Peter Pan, Children’s Theatre; Sherlock Holmes, Park Square Theatre; The Foreigner, Chanhassen Dinner Theatres; Mixed Blood; New Classic; Actors Theatre of St. Paul; Cricket Theatre; Illusion Theater; Pasadena Playhouse. TV/Film: Factotum, A Simple Plan, Trauma, “Algo’s FACTory.” Awards: McKnight Fellowship, LuntFontanne Fellowship. LOUIS JENKINS Wayne/Poet A.R.T.: Debut. Louis Jenkins has been writing and publishing poetry for more than 50 years, and most of this poetry was written in Duluth, Minnesota, Mr. Jenkins' home for the last 45 years. His most recent books are Tin Flag: New and Selected Prose Poems and Before You Know It: Prose Poems 19702005, both published by Will o’ the Wisp Books.

JIM LICHTSCHEIDL Erik A.R.T.: Debut. International: Tiny Kushner, Tricycle Theatre, London. Regional: The Miser, Berkeley Rep, Alley Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Theatre de la Jeune Lune; Santaland Diaries, Portland Center Stage; The 39 Steps, Arizona Theatre Company; Love’s Labour's Lost, Actors Theatre of Louisville; over 30 productions with the Guthrie Theater including Uncle Vanya, Peer Gynt, Side Man, Merrily We Roll Along, Arms and the Man, Clybourne Park, and Nice Fish. Film: A Serious Man, Best Man Down, Factotum. MARK RYLANCE

Ron/Playwright Mark Rylance played the title role of Hamlet and Treplev in The Seagull at A.R.T. in 1991. In addition to the A.R.T. production, he has played Hamlet over 400 times in his life: in high school at age 16, at The RSC at age 28, and at The Globe at age 40. His most recent credit is King Philippe V in Farinelli and the King by Claire van Kampen in London’s West End, first seen at Shakespeare’s Globe. Other recent theater includes Ron in Nice Fish at the Guthrie Theater in 2013; Countess Olivia in Twelfth Night and Richard III at Shakespeare’s Globe, in the West End, and on Broadway in 2013; and Johnny “Rooster” Byron in Jerusalem at the Royal Court, in the West End, and on Broadway in 2011. Other West End/ Broadway performances have included La Bête (Valère), and Boeing Boeing (Robert). His first play, I Am Shakespeare, premiered in 2007 at the Chichester Festival Theatre and was published in 2012. He has appeared at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre, the Bush, The Tricycle, Shared Experience, Theatre for a New Audience, and for his own companies, The London Theatre of Imagination (LTI) and Phoebus Cart. He was the Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre from 1996-2006. Rylance’s most recent film roles include Bridge of Spies; the upcoming BFG; Wolf Hall on PBS and the BBC; The Gunman; and We

Creative Team Are Many. Other film work includes Days and Nights; Anonymous; The Government Inspector; The Grass Arena; Love Lies Bleeding; Intimacy; Angels and Insects; Nocturne; and Institute Benjamenta. He trained at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (1978-1980) under Hugh Cruttwell, and is an honorary bencher of the Middle Temple Hall in London; trustee of The Shakespearean Authorship Trust; an ambassador of SURVIVAL, the movement for tribal peoples; and a patron of PEACE DIRECT. CLAIRE VAN KAMPEN Director/Composer Claire van Kampen was composer and music director of the A.R.T. productions of Hamlet and The Seagull in 1991. She began her theater career with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1986, followed by work at the Royal National Theatre in 1987, becoming the first woman to be a musical director with either company. She has subsequently developed an international career as a composer/ performer, writing and playing for theatre, radio, television and film soundtracks and the concert hall. Since the opening of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London in 1997, she was Mark Rylance’s Associate Artistic Director, and the Founding Director of Theatre Music, creating both period and contemporary music for more than 35 of the Globe’s productions. She is now a Senior Research Fellow and Associate for Early Modern Theatre Music at the Globe. Other work includes music for La Bête on Broadway and the West End; Richard III and Twelfth Night at Shakespeare’s Globe/West End/Broadway; True West and Boeing-Boeing on Broadway; As You Like It at Theatre for a New Audience. Her new play Farinelli and the King ran in the West End last fall and is to become a screenplay. Recent films featuring her music include Anonymous, Days and Nights, and the miniseries Wolf Hall (historical music arranger). She was given The Vero Nihil Verius Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Arts at Concordia University in Portland, OR and the 2007 Sam Wanamaker Award for the founding work during the opening ten years at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.

TODD ROSENTHAL Scenic Designer A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: August Osage County (Tony Award), The Motherf**ker with the Hat (Tony nomination), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Of Mice and Men, This is Our Youth, Fish in the Dark. Off Broadway: Red Light Winter, Barrow Street; Domesticated, Lincoln Center; Qualms, Playwrights Horizons. Set designer for 6 years for the Big Apple Circus. International: August Osage County, National Theatre, London, Sydney Theater, Australia; The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Theatre Royal, Ireland. Regional: Steppenwolf (33 productions), Goodman Theatre (Artistic Partner), Guthrie Theater, Alliance, Mark Taper Forum, La Jolla Playhouse, Arena Stage, Berkeley Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Alley, Lyric Opera of Chicago, OSF, and many others. Select Museum Exhibitions (Lead Designer): Mythbusters: The Explosive Exhibition, The International Exhibition of Sherlock Holmes. Other Awards: Laurence Olivier, Helen Hayes, Ovation, Back Stage Garland, Joseph Jefferson, Michael Merritt Award for Excellence in Design and Collaboration. Associate Professor, Northwestern University. Graduate, Yale School of Drama. ILONA SOMOGYI Costume Designer A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: Clybourne Park. Off-Broadway: Gloria, Vineyard Theatre; Satchmo at the Waldorf, My Name is Asher Lev, Westside Theatre; The World is Round, Ripe Time at BAM; A Soldier’s Tale, Carnegie Hall. Regional: Disgraced, Huntington Theatre Company; Grey Gardens, Bay Street Theater; Body of an American, An Opening in Time, Hartford Stage; Pride and Prejudice, Center Stage; King Hedley II, Smokey Joe’s Café, Arena Stage. MFA and Faculty, Yale School of Drama.

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Creative Team JAPHY WEIDEMAN Lighting Designer A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: Sylvia, Old Times, The Visit (Tony nomination), Airline Highway (Tony nomination), The Nance (Tony nomination), Of Mice and Men (Tony nomination), The Heidi Chronicles, Macbeth at Lincoln Center (Drama Desk nomination), and The Snow Geese. Off-Broadway: Lincoln Center, Public Theater, NYTW, Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, MTC, MCC, LAByrinth, and Vineyard Theatre. International: West End, Royal Shakespeare Co-Stratford, La ScalaMilan, Nederlands Opera-Amsterdam, Edinburgh International Festival, National Theater of Greece, National Theatre of Korea, and Opera Lyon. SCOTT W. EDWARDS Sound Designer A.R.T.: Debut. As the Resident Sound Designer for the Guthrie Theater, Edwards has designed over 100 productions in the last 20 years. Minneapolis/St. Paul area: The Children’s Theatre Company (over 40 productions), The Jungle Theater, Penumbra Theatre Company, Mixed Blood Theatre, Illusion Theater, Ballet of the Dolls (founding member), Theater Mu, Eye of the Storm Theatre, Teatro Latino, The Minnesota Opera. Regional: San Jose Rep, Arizona Theatre Company. Radio: Production Manager/Live Sound Engineer, Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion. Awards: Minneapolis Star Tribune Outstanding Sound Designer (2003, for Pride and Prejudice; 2004, for The Pirates of Penzance); Helen Hayes Award nomination (2014, You Can't Take It With You, Arena Stage).

JIM CARNAHAN, CSA Casting A.R.T.: The Glass Menagerie, Once. Director of Artistic Development for Roundabout Theatre Company. Roundabout: Thérèse Raquin, Old Times, Twentieth Century, Real Thing, Cabaret, Violet, Machinal, Winslow Boy, Drood, Cyrano, Harvey, Anything Goes, The Importance of Being Earnest, Sunday in the Park…, Pajama Game, 12 Angry Men, Assassins, Nine. Other Broadway: Fun Home, Constellations, The River, You Can’t Take It With You, The Glass Menagerie, Once, Matilda, Peter and the Starcatcher, Mountaintop, Jerusalem, Scottsboro Boys, American Idiot, Boeing-Boeing, Spring Awakening, The Pillowman, Copenhagen, True West. Film: The Seagull. TV: "Glee." EVANGELINE ROSE WHITLOCK Production Stage Manager A.R.T.: Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3). Off-Broadway: Lost Girls, MCC; Grounded, Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3), Antony and Cleopatra, Public Theater; The Odyssey, The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, Public Theater - Public Works productions directed by Lear deBessonet; Vinegar Tom, Pentecost, PTP/NYC at Atlantic Stage 2. National Tour: Flashdance the Musical. Regional: The Scottsboro Boys, CTG/Old Globe/ A.C.T.; Allegiance, A Room With a View, Odyssey, Engaging Shaw, Old Globe; Limelight: The Story of Charlie Chaplin, A Dram of Dummhicit, La Jolla Playhouse; What is the Cause of Thunder?, Williamstown Theatre Festival. Adjunct Faculty at Adelphi University. MFA, UC San Diego.

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About the A.R.T. A.R.T. BOARDS BOARD OF TRUSTEES Steve Johnson, Chair Amy Brakeman Laurie Burt Paul Buttenwieser RoAnn Costin Mike Dreese Zita Ezpeleta Michael Feinstein Provost Alan M. Garber Catherine Gellert Rebecca Grafstein Lori Gross Ann Gund Sarah Hancock Jonathan Hulbert Alan K. Jones Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard Dennis Masel Thomas B. McGrath Rebecca Milikowsky Ward Mooney Robert Murchison Andrew Ory Diane Paulus Diane Quinn Mike Sheehan Diana Sorensen Sid Yog

BOARD OF ADVISORS Ann Gund, Co-Chair Karen Mueller, Co-Chair Paolo Abelli Frances Shtull Adams Yuriko Jane Anton Robert Bowie, Jr. Philip Burling* Greg Carr Antonia Handler Chayes* Lizabeth Cohen Kathleen Connor Rohit Deshpande Susan Edgman-Levitan Jill Fopiano Shanti Fry Erin Gilligan Jonathan Glazer Candy Kosow Gold Rachael Goldfarb Barbara Wallace Grossman Peggy Hanratty Marcia Head James Higgins Horace H. Irvine II Emma Johnson Dean Huntington Lambert Timothy P. McCarthy Travis McCready Irv Plotkin Martin Puchner Ellen Gordon Reeves Pat Romeo-Gilbert Linda U. Sanger Maggie Seelig Dina Selkoe John A. Shane Michael Shinagel Lisbeth Tarlow Sarasina Tuchen Susan Ware Stephen H. Zinner, M.D. *Emeriti

FOUNDING DIRECTOR Robert Brustein

The A.R.T. at Harvard University is a leading force in the American theater, producing groundbreaking work in Cambridge and beyond. The A.R.T. was founded in 1980 by Robert Brustein, who served as Artistic Director until 2002, when he was succeeded by Robert Woodruff. Diane Paulus began her tenure as Artistic Director in 2008. Under her leadership, the A.R.T. seeks to expand the boundaries of theater by programming events that immerse audiences in transformative theatrical experiences. Throughout its history, the A.R.T. has been honored with many distinguished awards, including the Tony Award for Best New Play for All the Way (2014); consecutive Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Musical for Pippin (2013) and The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (2012), both of which Paulus directed; a Pulitzer Prize for Marsha Norman's 'Night, Mother (1983); a Jujamcyn Prize for outstanding contribution to the development of creative talent; the Tony Award for Best Regional Theater; and numerous Elliot Norton and IRNE Awards. The A.R.T. collaborates with artists around the world to develop and create work in new ways. It is currently engaged in a number of multi-year projects, including a new collaboration with Harvard's Center for the Environment that will result in the development of new work over several years. Under Paulus’s leadership, the A.R.T.’s club theater, OBERON, has been an incubator for local and emerging artists and has attracted national attention for its innovative programming and business models. As the professional theater on the campus of Harvard University, the A.R.T. catalyzes discourse, interdisciplinary collaboration, and creative exchange among a wide range of academic departments, institutions, students, and faculty members, acting as a conduit between its community of artists and the university. A.R.T. plays a central role in Harvard's newly launched undergraduate Theater, Dance, and Media concentration, teaching courses in directing, dramatic literature, acting, voice, design, and dramaturgy. The A.R.T. Institute for Advanced Theater Training, which is run in partnership with the Harvard Extension School, offers graduate training in acting, dramaturgy, and voice. Dedicated to making great theater accessible, the A.R.T. actively engages more than 5,000 community members and local students annually in project-based partnerships, workshops, conversations with artists, and other enrichment activities both at the theater and across the Greater Boston area. Through all of these initiatives, the A.R.T. is dedicated to producing world-class performances in which the audience is central to the theatrical experience.

Donors

The American Repertory Theater is deeply grateful for the generous support of individuals, foundations, corporations, and government agencies whose contributions make its work possible. The following gifts were received between July 1, 2014 and November 30, 2015.

VISIONARY Barr-Klarman Arts Capacity Building Initiative Laura and Michael Dreese* Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Sarah Hancock*

$100,000 and above President and Fellows of Harvard College Rosemarie and Steve Johnson* Janet and Howard Kagan* Alison and Bob Murchison*

The Linda Hammett Ory and Andrew Ory Charitable Trust RN Family Foundation The Shubert Foundation

Zita Ezpeleta and Kewsong Lee* Rebecca and Laurence Grafstein* The Hershey Family Foundation Alan Jones and Ashley Garrett* Massachusetts Cultural Council Thomas B. McGrath and Sandy Medallis*

Lucy and Ward Mooney* National Endowment for the Arts Maureen and Mike Sheehan* The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust

Fresh Sound Foundation Ann and Graham Gund* John W. Henry Family Foundation Barbara and Amos Hostetter* Lizbeth and George Krupp* Jeanne and Dennis Masel*

Newbury Comics Inc. Lisbeth Tarlow and Stephen Kay* Theatre Forward

Barbara Jordan and Robert Pemberton Judith and Douglas Krupp Priscilla Lawrence and Patrick Melampy Serena and Bill Lese Tristin and Martin Mannion Mass Humanities Sally McNagny and Robert Green Sharon and Daniel Milikowsky Hee-Jung and John Moon Karen and Gary Mueller Marjorie and Robert Ory Stacy Osur and Keith Gilbert Diane Paulus and Randy Weiner

Cokie and Lee Perry Julia Pershan and Jonathan Cohen Janet and Irv Plotkin Stan Ponte and John Metzner Andrea and Ron Rodericks Patricia Romeo-Gilbert and Paul S. Gilbert Valerie Beth Schwartz Foundation State Street Corporation Melinda B. Thaler Charlotte and Herb Wagner Susan and Donald Ware Fran and Barry Weissler Nadine Wong and David Chang

Candy Kosow Gold and Martin Waters Rachael Goldfarb Lindsay and Garth Greimann Rosa Hallowell and Mark Stein Peggy Hanratty The Office of the Provost at Harvard University Heather and James Higgins Jonathan Hochwald Maisie and James Houghton Ambassador Swanee Hunt Karen Johansen and Gardner Hendrie Terry and Gene Kaufman Landry Family Foundation^ Lars Foundation Lori Lesser

Fumi and Kako Matsumoto Carolyn and Phil Perelmuter Heather Randall Cynthia and John Reed Rosse Family Charitable Foundation Nichole Bookwalter Savenor and Alan Savenor Lisa Schmid and Joel Alvord Maggie and Jonathan Seelig The Shane Foundation John Travis Sarasina and Mike Tuchen Davin T. Wedel and David M. Paul Mary and Ted Wendell Stephen H. Zinner and S. Wade Taylor

BENEFACTOR The Bank of America Charitable Foundation, Inc. Amy and Ed Brakeman* Katie and Paul Buttenwieser* Betsy and Edward Cohen* The Dana Foundation E.H.A. Foundation

$50,000 - $99,999

LEADER Laurie Burt* The Gregory C. Carr Foundation RoAnn Costin* Sandi and Andrew Farkas* Michael Feinstein and Denise Waldron*

$25,000 - $49,000

PRODUCER Amy and David Abrams Yuriko Jane Anton and Philip Anton Jill and John Avery Robert Bailey Hilary and Philip Burling Chung Family Foundation Barbara and Rodgin Cohen The Elphaba Fund Drew Faust Catherine Gellert Jody and Thomas Gill Erin Gilligan and Hoil Kim Perrin and Bruns Grayson Marcia Head Horace H. Irvine II

$10,000 - $24,999

PARTNER Anonymous (2) The Acorn Foundation/ Barbara and Theodore Alfond Frances Shtull Adams Peter Antoszyk Patricia Beilman and David Poor Robert Bowie jr. Kate and Gerald Chertavian Alexi and Steve Conine Christopher Connolly and Marjorie Liner Kathy Connor Karen Conway Susan Edgman-Levitan and Richard Levitan Gerald Flaxer Charitable Foundation Shanti Fry and Jeffrey Zinsmeyer

$5,000 - $9,999

SPONSOR Anonymous (6) Dianne Anderson Barbara E. Bierer, M.D. and Steven E. Hyman, M.D.* Nancy and David Berman Diane Borger Joy and Steven Bunson Ronni and Ronald Casty Clarke and Ethel D. Coggeshall Beth and Richard Compson Lynn Dale and Frank Wisneski Walter Donovan Silvia Gosnell Barbara and Steve Grossman Pamela Haran and David S. Godkin Mady and Sandy Harman Phyllis Harrington Linda A. Hill and Dr. Roger E. Breitbart Peter Hornstra The Roy A. Hunt Foundation Susan Jacobs Madeline Jacquet

$2,500 - $4,999 Debbie Jean and Darin Samaraweera Kay Kane Jerome P. Kassirer, MD and Sheridan Kassirer Barbara H. Landreth, M.D. G. Barrie Landry Susan and Steven Levkoff Joyce Linde Barbara Manocherian Professor Timothy McCarthy and CJ Crowder Kathy Metcalfe and Langdon Wheeler Emily Moskowitz Diana Nelson and John C. Atwater Mercedes Nugent-Head and James C. Marlas William O. Nutting and Veronica Zoani Quinterno Mary-Kathleen O'Connell and Jeffrey Bernfeld^ The Open Gate Inc.

PATRON Anonymous (3) Mary Akerson and Steven Cohen Alexander, Aronson, Finning & Co., CPAs Barbara and George Beal Carol Beggy The Beker Foundation Janet L. Berkeley and Robert Duboff Nancy Bernhard and David Margolin Linda Cabot Black Barbara and William Boger Garen Bohlin Charity Brown Dorothea and Sheldon Buckler Jonathan Bush Betsy Cabot The Edmund and Betsy Cabot Charitable Foundation Diane Cataldo Carol and Chet Cekala Antonia H. Chayes Charles Cherington Jim Chervenak Lizabeth Cohen and Herrick Chapman Mr. and Mrs. Stewart L. Cohen Elizabeth Creighton Anthony Demarco Leigh Denny Nancy Donahoe and John Cohen Eastern Bank Amy Edmondson and George Daley Mary and Juan Enriquez Deborah and Ronald Feinstein Linda and Michael Frieze Kathleen Gaffney Mark Glasser Lisa Katz Golod Andy Grasier James Gray Marjorie and Nicholas Greville Lori E. Gross and Robert Douglas Campbell Jeanne Hagerty Melinda Hall and Larry Pratt Joseph Hammer Kathy and Ernie Herrman

Madeline Osit and Dan Maude Gabrielle and Michael Palitz D. Randy Peeler Gerald Pier Amy and Jonathan Poorvu Ellen Gordon Reeves Jeffrey Richards Helen Riess, M.D. and Norman Nishioka, M.D. Susan and Glenn Rothman Molly Schoeck and Guy MacDonald Kristine Shadek Rachael Solem Deborah Sweet and Steven Lazar Jack Tantleff Delia and Robin Thompson Deb Tolman and Luis Ubinas Ruth and Bill Weinstein Dyann and Peter Wirth

$1,000 - $2,499 Perry Hewitt Megan and David Hinckley Alice Hoffman Hunt Alternatives Hurlbut Family Charitable Lead Unitrust Allison Johnson Jerry Jordan Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman Rita J. and Stanley H. Kaplan Family Foundation, Inc. Susan B. Kaplan Stephanie and Rakesh Khurana Nancy P. King Lawrence Kotin Peri and Jim Kutchin Laurie Ann Laba and Neale I. Eckstein Dean Huntington Lambert Katie Lapp Jeannie and Jonathan Lavine Stacey Schneer Lee Lori Leif Karen and Nathaniel Levy Harriet and Alan Lewis John D.C. Little Mr. and Mrs. Hambleton Lord Monique Sullivan Lowitt and Ian Lowitt Macy's Inc. Marcia Marcus Alice and Coleman Mark Jennifer Maseda Kelly and Steven Migliero Dr. Ann Moritz and David Arnold Jonathan Moses The Cozen O'Connor Foundation Inc. Kate Olmsted and John Grossman Eunice Panetta Alecia Parker Patricia and Finley Perry Dr. Vibha PinglĂŠ and Ashutosh Varshney Fern Portnoy and Roger Goldman Suzanne Priebatsch Sara Gold Rafel Jean Renfield-Miller and

Doug Miller Karen Foote Richards Jill Richardson and Peter Chinetti AndrĂŠe Robert and Thomas M. Burger Ms. Gabriela Romanow Carol and Jim Rosen Amy Russo Katie and Jim Ryan Allison K. Ryder and David B. Jones Linda Sallop and Michael Fenlon Cynthia Samuelson Janice Saragoni Claire and Edward Saxe Susan Schechter Lori and Jon Shaer Christine and Richard Shea Michael Shinagel and Marjorie North The Sholley Foundation, in honor of Jeremy Geidt Deborah Sinay and Charles J. Kravetz Dr. Mark Slovenkai Somerled Charitable Foundation Megan and Soyoun Song Ildiko Sragli and Barry Appelman Susan Stafford Leslie Anne Sullivan Robert Svikhart Janet Tiampo and David Parker The Joseph W. and Faith K. Tiberio Charitable Foundation Brad Voigt and William Burton Mindee Wasserman Janet and Jim Wirtz Gwill York and Paul Maeder Jonathan Yorks Fancy and Jeff Zilberfarb

CONTRIBUTOR Anonymous (2) Tina Aronson and Koby Rotstein Jenny Lyn Bader Evelyn Barnes William M. Bazzy Kathleen Begala and Yves-AndrĂŠ Istel Lisa Bevilaqua Renee Brant Kathleen Brochin Andrew Burns Marla Capozzi and Tim Harned Andrew Cogan Elizabeth Colt and Peter Simonds Dino DiPalma Esta and Robert Epstein Eversource Energy Foundation Homa Farjadi and Mohsen Mostafavi Judith and Warren Feder Anna May and Timothy Feige Chris Flynn Donald Fulton Brian Gerson Givenik LLC Beth Golden Professors Mary Jo and Byron Good Grafton Street Ms. Laura Green and Dr. David Golan Drs. Shelly Greenfield and Allan Brandt

$500 - $999 Lisa Gruenberg and Martin Carmichael^ Dena and Felda Hardymon Harvard University Public Affairs and Communications Department Ruth and Stephen Hendel Nikola and David Hennes Vijay Iyer Dawn Jardini Belinda Juran and Evan Schapiro Marjie and Robert Kargman Jane Katims and Dan Perlman Priscilla Kauff Jim Keegan Lynn Kodama Liberty Mutual, Give with Liberty Program Scott Mauro Dr. Lindsay McNair Anita Meiklejohn and Vincent Piccirilli Cordelia and Carl Menges Patricia E. Cleary Miller Ph.D Sandra Moose and Eric Birch Mylar Productions LLC Newton at Home Sabrina and Robert Nicholson Susan Novick Susan Olsen Virginia Osborne Andrew Perlmutter Susan Pett Sarah Piper

SUPPORTER Anonymous (4) Jennifer Aronson Elizabeth Ascher and Michael Yogman Sue and Henry Bass Mrs. Nicolette Beerel and Dr. Gustav H. Beerel, PhD Barbara Berke Margie and Michael Bogdanow Lisa Breen and Jack Welch Nancy Dellarocco Thomas Engelman Lisa Ennis Anita Feins and Steven Lampert Elizabeth Fennell Anna Fitzloff and Elissa Best Brenda and Harvey Freishtat Constance and Michael Fulenwider Alan Garber and Dr. Anne Yahanda Howard Gardner, M.D. Kathleen and Robert Garner Verna C. Gibbs, M.D. Laurie and Jeffrey Goldbarg, M.D. Mark Granovsky Liz Grinspoon Robert Harrington

Jill Rachesky Sally C. Reid and John D. Sigel Carolyn G. Robins Ruthie Rohde and Sigmund Roos Deborah Ross Adina Schecter Deborah Sharpe Wendy Shattuck and Sam Plimpton Steven Showalter and Jeffrey Davis Mason and Jeannie Smith Nancy and Edward Stavis Lisa Stern David Stonestreet, in honor of Beth Pollock Tavneet Suri T&C Main Street Inc. Beth and Anthony Terrana Gloria and Arnold Tofias Toscano Vitality Personal Fitness Inc. Ashley and Alexander von Perfall Kristen Wainwright and Richard Harriman Stacey Gillis Weber and Jeffrey Weber Bruce Whitacre Ms. Kelsey Wirth and Dr. Samuel Myers Joanne Wise Melissa and Jim Woodman

$250 - $499 John Hart Sally and Mark Harty Marija and John Hauser Robert and Mary Higgins Diane and James Hirshberg Sonia Hofkosh and Jonathan Hulbert Amy and Paul Holt Caroline and Fred Hoppin Cyndi Jones and Steve Birnbaum Rona and Robert Kiley Claire Kohn Lisa and Bill Laskin Kenneth Livak Kathleen Malley Barbara A. Manzolillo James Mattimore Daniel McCarthy Sharon Miller Evelyn and Mac Musser Christian Nolen Professor Suzanne P. Ogden and Peter Rogers Carol Paik and Daniel Slifkin Drs. Hilda and Max Perlitsh Tom Quintal

Wendy Sarasohn Nina Schwalbe and Sally Girvin Pamela Schwartz Ellen and Mark Silverman Lisa Sotto and Bruce Saber Stephen Stulck Tides Foundation Jane and William Vaughn III Ellen Weissberg and Lewis Gould Ryan West Sharon Goddard White and David White San San Wong Clark Wright Carolyn Zern William Zinn * Donors who provide annual operating support of $25,000 or more are members of the Artistic Director's Circle ^ Donors who have given in memory of Bryan Bernfeld

A.R.T. N.Y.C. DONORS A.R.T. N.Y.C. is a group of curious, committed, and engaged individuals who provide generous annual support to the American Repertory Theater. The following individuals supported with gifts of $250 and above. LEADERSHIP CIRCLE $10,000 and above

The A.R.T. N.Y.C. Leadership Circle includes New York-based donors of $10,000 and above, and all New York-based Trustees and Advisors. Barbara and Rodgin Cohen, Zita Ezpeleta and Kewsong Lee, Sandi and Andrew Farkas, Catherine Gellert, Rebecca and Laurence Grafstein, Heather and James Higgins, Alan Jones and Ashley Garrett, Rebecca Gold and Nathan Milikowsky, Janet and Howard Kagan, Serena and Bill Lese, Jeanne and Dennis Masel, Hee-Jung and John Moon, Julia Pershan and Jonathan Cohen, Stan Ponte and John Metzner, Ellen Gordon Reeves, Melinda B. Thaler, Nadine Wong and David Chang

A.R.T. N.Y.C. SUPPORTER

Anonymous (2), Jenny Lyn Bader, Kathleen Begala and Yves-André Istel, Patricia Beilman and David Poor, Amy and Ed Brakeman, Kathleen Brochin, Joy and Steven Bunson, Laurie Burt, Andrew Cogan, Anna May and Timothy Feige, Michael Feinstein and Denise Waldron, Brian Gerson, Candy Kosow Gold and Martin Waters, Beth Golden, Andy Grasier, Nikola and David Hennes, Rosemarie and Steve Johnson, Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman, Priscilla Kauff, Barbara H. Landreth, M.D., Lori Lesser, Monique Sullivan Lowitt and Ian Lowitt, Cordelia and Carl Menges, Lucy and Ward Mooney, Jonathan Moses, Susan Novick, Mercedes Nugent-Head and James C. Marlas, Carol Paik and Daniel Slifkin, Sarah Piper, Jill Rachesky, Heather Randall, Deborah Ross, Adina Schecter, Lisa Sotto and Bruce Saber, Lisa Stern, Deb Tolman and Luis Ubinas, Ashley and Alexander von Perfall, Stacey Gillis Weber and Jeffrey Weber, Bruce Whitacre

IN-KIND SUPPORTERS The A.R.T. thanks the following individual and corporate supporters for their invaluable in-kind donations. Southwest Airlines (Official Airline Sponsor) southwest.com

Ilex Designs/ Andrew Anderson (Floral Sponsor) ilexflowers.com

Aesop Allagash Brewing Company, Inc. Beat Brasserie Amy and Ed Brakeman Be Our Guest Inc. Cambridge, 1. The Catered Affair The Charles Hotel Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Google

The Urban Grape/ Hadley and T.J. Douglas (Wine Sponsor) theurbangrape.com

DigBoston (Publishing Partner) digboston.com

Rebecca and Laurence Grafstein Grafton Street The Graphic Group Grendel's Den Harvest Henrietta's Table Georgene and Dudley Herschbach Megan and David Hinckley Alan Jones and Ashley Garrett Bob and Alison Murchison Night Market

Peterson Party Center (Party Rental Sponsor) Petersonpartycenter.com

Noir Bar Mary-Kathleen O'Connell and Jeffrey Bernfeld Linda Hammett Ory and Andrew Ory Parsnip Regattabar Rialto The Sinclair Melinda B. Thaler Toscano United Staging and Rigging

THEATRE FORWARD Theatre Forward is a not-for-profit organization that advances the American theatre and its communities by providing funding and other resources to the country’s leading nonprofit theatres. The following foundations, individuals, and corporations support these theatres through their contributions of $2,500 and above to Theatre Forward. ACE Group* Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty* Buford Alexander and Pamela Farr*◊ American Express* AOL◊† Mitchell J. Auslander*◊ Bank of America* Bloomberg BNY Mellon Steven & Joy Bunson*◊ Christ & Anastasia Economos◊ Chubb Group of Insurance Companies* Cisco Systems, Inc.* Citi DeWitt Stern* Paula Dominick*◊ Dorfman and Kaish Family Foundation, Inc. ◊ Dorsey & Whitney Foundation Dramatists Play Service, Inc.* John R. Dutt*◊ Edgerton Foundation Irwin & Rosalyn Engelman* Epiq Systems* EY* Bruce R. and Tracey Ewing*◊ Jessica Farr*◊ Richard Fitzburgh*◊ Ford Foundation Alan & Jennifer Freedman*◊ Ruth E. Gitlin◊ Goldman, Sachs & Co. Goodwin Proctor LLP*

Mason and Kim Granger*◊ Ted Hartley & RKO Stage* Hanover Insurance Group* HCC Specialty Underwriters, Inc.* Colleen & Philip Hempleman ◊ Hiscox* Gregory S. Hurst*◊ Howard and Janet Kagan ◊ Joseph F. Kirk*◊ Adrian Liddard ◊ Susan & John Major Donor Advised Fund at the Rancho Sante Fe Foundation ◊ Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. John R. Mathena *◊ Jonathan Maurer and Gretchen Shugart*◊ McGraw Hill Financial MetLife Morgan Stanley National Endowment for the Arts ◊ Newmark Holdings* Ogilvy & Mather† OneBeacon Entertainment* Lisa Orberg ◊ Frank & Bonnie Orlowski*◊ Edison Peres*◊ Pfizer, Inc. Pryor Cashman LLP* PURE Insurance* Thomas C. Quick RBC Wealth Management ◊ The Schloss Family Foundation ◊ Seyfarth Shaw LLP*

Showtime Networks, Inc.* The Shubert Organization, Inc.* Sills Cummis & Gross P.C.* Daniel A. Simkowitz *◊ Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom* George S. Smith, Jr.*◊ Southwest Airlines ◊† TD Charitable Foundation ◊ Theatermania.com/Gretchen Shugart *◊ John Thomopoulos*◊ Travelers Entertainment* Evelyn Mack Truitt* James S. & Lynne Turley*◊ UBS Michael A. Wall* Wells Fargo*◊ Lynne Wheeler ◊ Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP* Isabelle Winkles*◊ *Theatre Forward/DeWitt Stern Fund for New American Theatre ◊ Educating through Theatre Support †Includes In-kind support As of December 2015 Theatre Forward supporters are former supporters of National Corporate Theatre Fund and Impact Creativity.

A.R.T. Education & Community programs offer in-depth access to A.R.T. artists and productions for everyone in our community. Education Experience A.R.T. experiences spark meaningful discourse, in-school and out. In addition to fostering creativity, collaboration, and intellectual curiosity in our community, we support teachers with free artsintegrated teaching tools, free classroom visits, and affordable tickets to world-class theater at the A.R.T. Community Connections A.R.T. partners with Boston-area non-profit organizations, bringing high-quality arts experiences to underserved families and individuals. Community Connections pair tickets to A.R.T. performances with deep enrichment programming ranging from private artist talks to creative workshops. Neighborhood Podcast Play Series A.R.T. works with non-profit partners around the city to enliven and creatively engage with our public spaces through site-specific audio plays written by local children and teens, available on our website.

Photo: Johnathan Carr.

Education & Community Programs

Students in Proclamation 3: World Sick, an afterschool playmaking intensive for Bostonarea high school students led by the A.R.T.'s award-winning Education & Community Programs department.

WORDplay Summer Theater & Writing Camp Each year, A.R.T. and writing center 826 Boston partner for a free camp for children ages 11-14. Twenty-five students participate in the free, five-week program to write scripts, design sets, costumes, and perform plays inspired by the A.R.T. season. A.R.T. Kids Company Children ages 5-10 join us on Saturday mornings to learn the fundamentals of theater in the fall and spring by creating weekly re-imaginings of classic and contemporary fairy tales, live! Proclamation An ensemble of local high school juniors and seniors team up with A.R.T. artists and Harvard scholars for an eight-week afterschool playmaking intensive. The result is a vivid, provocative, extremely fresh, high-quality performance work. This season, Proclamation 3 explored topics of environmental crisis.

American Repertory Theater Staff THE TERRIE AND BRADLEY BLOOM ARTISTIC DIRECTOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

ARTISTIC

Producer Director of Artistic Programs/Dramaturg Director of Special Projects Line Producer Resident Director Artistic Associate Company Manager Artistic Fellow

INSTITUTE

Director Administrative Director Associate Director Co-head of Dramaturgy Co-head of Dramaturgy Resident Literary Advisor Head of Voice & Speeach Institute Associate IATT Production Manager Associate IATT Stage Manager Technical Director Student Financial Aid Administrator

OBERON

Associate Producer Venue Manager Programming Manager Programming Associate Assistant Venue Manager Production Manager House Technician Sound Console Operator

DIANE PAULUS DIANE QUINN

Diane Borger Ryan McKittrick Ariane Barbanell Mark Lunsford Allegra Libonati Shira Milikowsky Ryan Sweeney Sammi Cannold

Scott Zigler Julia Smeliansky Marcus Stern Anatoly Smeliansky Ryan McKittrick Arthur Holmberg Erika Bailey Sean Cummings Katherine Clanton Elizabeth Haroian Skip Curtiss Sophia Henderson

Ariane Barbanell Leo X. Crowley Julia Kraus Emma Watt Megan Minger Skip Curtiss Justin Paice Alex Giorgetti

EXTERNAL AFFAIRS DEVELOPMENT

Director of Development Megan Hinckley Deputy Director of Development Jessica Morrison Grants Manager Meghan Coleman Development Officers Lily Lewis-McNeil, Lindsay Soson Development Information Coordinator Brendyn Schneider Development Associate Jonathan Remmers

MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS

Director of Marketing and Communications Anna Fitzloff Director of Press and Public Relations Katalin Mitchell Assistant Director of Marketing and Communications Grace Geller Senior Graphic Designer Joel Zayac Senior Education and Community Programs Manager Brendan Shea Education and Community Programs Associate Brenna Nicely Publications and Artistic Programs Associate Robert Duffley Videographer Johnathan Carr Marketing Interns Nicole Banks, Durra Jingfeng Liang, Lena Voghel Education Interns Caraline Connor, Pablo Hernandez Basulto

GENERAL MANAGEMENT General Manager Associate General Manager

FINANCE

Director of Finance Senior Finance Accountant Financial Administrator Payroll Administrator Accounting Assistant

PRODUCTION

Production Manager Associate Production Managers HRDC Technical Supervisor

COSTUMES

Costume Shop Manager Assistant Costume Shop Manager Crafts Artisan Wardrobe Supervisor Wig Runner Costume/Props Stock Manager

LIGHTS

Lighting Supervisor Assistant Lighting Design Light Board Operator

PROPERTIES

Props Master Assistant Props Master Props Carpenter

SCENERY

Technical Director Assistant Technical Director Assistant Technical Director Scene Shop Supervisor Scenic Charge Artist Master Carpenter Scenic Carpenters Scenic Painter Purchaser

SOUND

Sound Supervisor Sound Board Operator Theatrical Audio Technician

STAGE

Stage Supervisor Assistant Stage Supervisor Props Runner Fly and Stage Hand

THEATER AND FACILITIES Theater and Facilities Manager

RECEPTION DESK Main Receptionists Receptionists

PATRON SERVICES

Director of Patron Services/ System Administrator Derek Mueller Ticket Services Manager Alicia Curtis Audience Services Manager Stephen Wuycheck Senior Ticket Services Coordinator Karen Snyder Ticket Services Representative Cassandra Long Weekend Shift Supervisor Heather Conroe Ticket Services Staff Taylor Hughes, Nickolas Mellace, Jessica Mullen, Tani Nakamoto, Emma Putnam Front of House Manager Matt Spano Volunteer Usher Coordinator Barbara Lindstrom

As of January 2015

Steven Showalter Teresa Gozzo

Kathryn Rosenberg John Josti Stacie Hurst Paul Ravelo Toufiq Aitelfqih

Patricia Quinlan Skip Curtiss, Jeremie Lozier Kathryn Nakaji Jeannette Hawley Carson Eddy Jeffrey Scott Burrows Alma Reyes Burgos Emily Damron Suzanne O. Kadiff Matthew Adelman Sean Pieroth Jeremy Goldenberg Cynthia Lee-Sullivan Rebecca Helgeson Nicholas Menge Stephen Setterlun Mike Hamer Kristin Knutson David Schultz Jerry Vogt Peter Doucette Dan Lincoln, Garrett McEntee, York-Andreas Paris Heather Morris David Jewett Sam Lerner Brian Walters Katrina Sistare

Henning Malm Christopher Eschenbach Matthew Sebastian Keelia Liptak

Tracy Keene Sarah Leon, Maria Medeiros Barbara Lindstrom, Sean O'Leary, Sarah Rodman, Matt Spano

FOR NICE FISH

Draper Stitchers Additional Crafts Sound Board Operator Additional Sound Crew

Carmel Dundon Tyler Kinney, Sara Marhamo Jen Bennett Michelle Reiss Michael Policare, Bryan "Bratterberry" Atterberry, Elizabeth Cahill, Becca Stoll, Kevin Thurber, Sam Warton Master Electrician Alex Brandt LX Design Intern Ali Witten Props Craftspeople Lisa Guild, Madelynne Hays Scenic Painters Liz Goble, Cameron McEacheron Projection Supervisor Dan Carr Additional Carpenters Peter Birren, Thomas Eckenfels, Derek Jay, Greg Miller, Alex Phillips, Alex Platt, Johnathan Proctor, Ray Reyes, Rachel Shainwald, Nick Tosches, Bryan Wheat, Nat Taylor Open Captioning c2 Primary Audio Describer Alice Austin Secondary Audio Describer Janet Stankus ASL Coach John Pirone

Notes & Masthead

PLEASE NOTE: The photographing or sound recording of any performance or the possession of any device for such photgraphing or recording inside this theater, without the written permission of the management, is prohibited by law. Violators may be punished by ejection, and violations may render the offender liable for monetary damages. EMERGENCIES: In case of emergency, contact the House Manager or nearest usher.

Post-performance discussions follow select matinees, visit our website for specific dates and times.

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WEST LOBBY

Assistive listening devices are available for all A.R.T. performances. Large Print and Braille programs are available at select performances. A.R.T. offers Open Captioning, Audio Description, ASL interpreted, & Sensory Friendly Programming at Designated performances throughout the year. email: ticketservices@amrep.org/call: 617.547.8300

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