Crossing Program by American Repertory Theater

2014/15 Season

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Harvard Murals

November 16, 2014– July 26, 2015

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A new presentation of the rarely seen mural series, featuring an innovative digital projection conservation approach.

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Artistic Director’s Welcome DIANE PAULUS The Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director American Repertory Theater

Welcome to the world premiere of Crossing. In 2012, the A.R.T. launched our Civil War Project, a multi-year initiative to commemorate the 150th anniversary of this critical moment in our nation’s history. In collaboration with Harvard faculty, and largely inspired by the scholarship of Harvard University President and Civil War historian Drew Faust, the A.R.T. has devoted the last three years to investigating the Civil War through a series of productions, readings, panel discussions, and academic courses. I first met Matthew Aucoin when he was an undergraduate at Harvard University. After seeing the opera he wrote his senior year, I approached Matthew about composing a new work for the Civil War initiative. We suggested Whitman’s Memoranda During the War as a source of inspiration. Two months later, he sent us a treatment for the opera that has become Crossing. One of my goals is to provide artists with a home where they can develop work over time. It has been a great pleasure to work on this production with Matthew over the last three years, and to continue A.R.T.’s history of staging new opera, which in the past has included works by composers Philip Glass and Tod Machover. Throughout this process, I have been grateful for the partnership of Diane Wondisford and Music-Theatre Group—an organization that took a risk on me when I was a young director. I am also thrilled to be working with such an inspiring creative team—designers Tom Pye, Jennifer Tipton, David Zinn, Finn Ross, and choreographer Jill Johnson, Director of Dance at Harvard. Thank you for joining us for this world premiere and for the culmination of the A.R.T.’s Civil War Project.

The American Repertory Theater in association with Music-Theatre Group presents

Music and Libretto by MATTHEW AUCOIN Set Designer TOM PYE Sound Consultant AARON MACK

Costume Designer DAVID ZINN Associate Director ANDREW EGGERT

Lighting Designer JENNIFER TIPTON Rehearsal Pianist ADAM NIELSEN

Projection Designer FINN ROSS

Stage Manager CAROLYN RAE BOYD*

Conductor MATTHEW AUCOIN Featuring Chamber Orchestra A FAR CRY Choreographer JILL JOHNSON

Director DIANE PAULUS World Premiere at the Citi Performing Arts Center Shubert Theatre on May 29, 2015. Crossing was commissioned through the generous support of Catherine and Paul Buttenwieser. The world premiere of Crossing was made possible through the extraordinary support of Betsy and Edward Cohen. Special thanks to Jody and Thomas Gill, Lizbeth and George Krupp, and Alison and Bob Murchison for their leadership gifts in support of the opera. PRODUCTION SUPPORT

SEASON SUPPORT

The Shubert Foundation

The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust

The National Civil War Project is supported, in part, by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

CAST Walt Whitman ��ROD GILFRY* John Wormley �� ALEXANDER LEWIS* Freddie Stowers �� DAVONE TINES* Messenger �� JENNIFER ZETLAN* Ensemble...................................................... WILLIAM GOFORTH*, FRANK KELLEY*, MICHAEL KELLY*, DAVID KRAVITZ*, MATTHEW PATRICK MORRIS*, MILES MYKKANEN*, DANIEL NEER*, JAMES ONSTAD*, EDWARD PARKS*, JORELL WILLIAMS*, GREGORY ZAVRACKY* Dancers..................................................... HIROKI ICHINOSE, JEHBREAL JACKSON, WALDEAN NELSON, JENNA POLLACK

COVERS EDWARD PARKS* Walt Whitman, MILES MYKKANEN* John Wormley, IAN POMERANTZ* Edward Parks, SHARIN APOSTOLOU* Messenger The role of Walt Whitman will be played by Edward Parks* on Friday, June 5.

A FAR CRY 1st Violin—MIKI-SOPHIA CLOUD (concertmaster), ANNIE RABBAT, CHARLES DIMMICK; 2nd Violin—LIESL DOTY, MEGUMI STOHS LEWIS, ANDREW ENG; Viola—JASON FISHER, SARAH DARLING, AMELIA HOLLANDER-AMES; Cello–MICHAEL UNTERMAN, JACQUES LEE WOOD; Doublebass—KARL DOTY, ERIK HIGGINS; Flute—RACHEL BRAUDE, VANESSA HOLROYD; Oboe—MIRI KUDO; Clarinet—RANE MOORE; Bassoon—DAVID RICHMOND; French Horn—HAZEL DEAN DAVIS, CLARK MATTHEWS; Trumpet—PAUL PERFETTI; Trombone—GABE LANGFUR; Percussion—NICHOLAS TOLLE, ROBERT SCHULZ, GEORGE NICKSON; Piano—ADAM NIELSEN Running Time: 1 hour, 40 minutes There will be no intermission. Crossing was inspired by the poetry and prose of Walt Whitman. (*) Members of Actors' Equity Association

ADDITIONAL STAFF Assistant Director......................................................................................ALLEGRA LIBONATI Assistant Choreographer.....................................................................CLIFFORD WILLIAMS Assistant Stage Manager............................................................................ LEEANN LISELLA* Dramaturgy................................JULIA BUMKE, RYAN MCKITTRICK, BRENNA NICELY Music Preparation...................................................................................................JULIA BUMKE Dialect Coach............................................................................................ DAWN-ELIN FRASER Production Assistants..................CATHERINE AGIS, NINA GOODHEART, LILY HAJE Assistant Conductor................................................................................ BENJAMIN VICKERS Contractor, A Far Cry......................................................................................... JASON FISHER Supertitle Preparation..................................................................................... BRENNA NICELY Projection Programmer....................................................................................MATT HOUSTLE Follow Spot................................................................................JOHN BORECKI, RJ LAMURA Light Board Operator......................................................................................KEVIN BARNETT Props Craftsperson......................................................................................................LISA GUILD Producing Director, Music-Theatre Group.................................... DIANE WONDISFORD

SPECIAL THANKS Brian Zeger; The Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts at The Juilliard School; The John Duffy Composers Institute at the Virginia Arts Festival; Virginia Symphony Orchestra; Phillip Bauman, M.D.; Isaac Gerwitz, Curator of the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Poetry; Philip Rothman; Stephen Zinner, M.D.; Russell Nauta, M.D.

THE NATIONAL CIVIL WAR PROJECT AT A.R.T.

César Alvarez and Edwin Lee Gibson in Futurity (2011/12 Season)

PHOTO: EVGENIA ELISEEVA

Over the past three seasons, the American Repertory Theater has commemorated the 150th anniversary of the Civil War by developing new work that reexamines this critical moment in our nation’s history. Through a series of roundtable discussions, readings, and world premiere productions, this initiative has explored not only the Civil War itself, but also the ways in which that conflict continues to resonate in our lives today. Since 2012, the A.R.T. has been a part of The National Civil War Project, a multi-year, multi-city collaboration among five performing arts organizations and four leading universities: A.R.T. and Harvard; Alliance Theatre and Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts at Emory University in Atlanta, GA; Arena Stage and The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.; Center Stage in Baltimore, MD; and The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland in College Park, MD. Inspired by choreographer Liz Lerman (who was in residence at Harvard in 2011 to develop her own Civil War dance project, Healing Wars), The National Civil War Project brought together a range of artistic and academic voices with the goal of commissioning new work that speaks to the themes of the Civil War and civil strife as it continues today. As the professional theater at Harvard University, the A.R.T. is in a unique position to explore the ways in which artistic innovation and scholarly research can inform each other. Guided by Harvard President Drew Faust’s idea that the arts should play a central role in the cognitive life of the university, the A.R.T. convened a series of Civil War roundtable discussions that brought scholars from Harvard and beyond into dialogue with directors, choreographers, writers, composers, and performers, with the goal of generating public dialogues, readings, and productions at the A.R.T., and new courses in the university curriculum. The first roundtable was a conversation co-hosted by the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research that explored Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Subsequent roundtables focused on “Medicine, Weaponry, War Wounds, and The Soldier’s Body,” and “Documenting the Civil War through Photography, Letters, Memoir, and Painting,” a discussion co-hosted by the Harvard Art Museums.

Work staged as part of The National Civil War Project at the A.R.T. has included:

World Premiere Productions: Futurity: A Musical by The Lisps, an indie-rock, sci-fi musical about a Union soldier who collaborates with the mathematician Ada Lovelace to end the war. (Mar. - Apr. 2012, OBERON) The Boston Abolitionists Project, an ensemble-devised piece about the trial of fugitive slave Anthony Burns, featuring the A.R.T. Institute Class of 2013. (May 2013, The Ex) Father Comes Home From The Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3), the first three parts of an epic new play by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks. Presented in association with The Public Theater. (Jan. - Mar. 2015, Loeb Drama Center) Crossing, an opera written and composed by Matthew Aucoin (Harvard '12), inspired by the journal Walt Whitman kept as a nurse during the Civil War. (May 29 June 6 2015, Citi Shubert Theatre)

New Work Developed: War Dept., a musical by Ruth and Jim Bauer set in Ford’s Theatre after the assassination of President Lincoln. War Dept. was selected to be part of the 2014 National Music Theater Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Four Harriets, a play by Harvard University Professor Timothy P. McCarthy, about the intersecting lives of four abolitionist women: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Wilson, Harriet Jacobs, and Harriet Tubman. (Reading, Fall 2015).

New Work Devised and Produced by the A.R.T. Community Connections Program: The Proclamation Project, a collaborative creative writing/ performance intensive for local high school students, who draw inspiration from the Civil War and other themes and events from American history. The inaugural July 2013 workshop was simultaneously conducted with the Alliance Theatre's Collision Project, a program for Atlanta area teens. Each week, via Skype, both groups shared their process and exchanged ideas on the legacy of the Civil War in America. Proclamation 2 (Nov. 2014) was inspired by themes of rebellion, protest culture, and radicalism. The group of students used The Radical Reader as their source text and worked with A.R.T. artists and Harvard University Professor Timothy P. McCarthy to devise a new piece. Proclamation 2 premiered at OBERON and focused on an Occupy Wall Streetstyle protest that asked the question, "Will you join up or will you turn away?"

New Courses at Harvard University: “History and Literature 90x: Staging the Civil War — From the Archive to the A.R.T.” This seminar taught by Professor Timothy P. McCarthy explored how contemporary writers and directors use history to find new and creative ways to tell the story of the American Civil War on stage. (Spring 2015)

“Dramatic Arts 105: Production Dramaturgy and A.R.T. Civil War Project” This seminar taught by A.R.T. Director of Artistic Programs/Dramaturg Ryan McKittrick gave students opportunities to engage dramaturgically with work in The National Civil War Project. (Spring 2015)

Public Dialogues: “All the Way: The Civil Rights Act from 1964 to Today,” a conversation moderated by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. , Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University, during the run of Robert Schenkkan’s All the Way, a play about LBJ and the passage of the Civil Rights Act. Co-hosted by the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research and the A.R.T. (Sept. 23, 2013) “All the Way?: The Unfinished Struggle for Civil Rights,” a conversation with playwright Robert Schenkkan, Harvard Law School Professor Lani Guinier, Tufts University Professor Peniel E. Joseph, and Harvard University Chief Diversity Officer Lisa Coleman. (Oct. 22, 2014)* “Fighting for Freedom: The Civil War and Its Legacies,” a conversation with Columbia University Professor Eric Foner and Harvard University Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Feb. 8, 2015, following Father Comes Home From The Wars*) "Crossing: A Lecture/Recital," a recital and discussion with composer Matthew Aucoin (Harvard College '12) about his new opera, inspired by the journals and poetry of Walt Whitman. Moderated by Robert N. Shapiro (AB '72, JD '78); featuring Davone Tines (Harvard College '09). Co-hosted with the Mahindra Humanities Center. (Mar. 12, 2015) * These conversations are part of The A.R.T. of Human Rights, a collaboration between the A.R.T. and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, directed and hosted by Harvard University Professor Timothy P. McCarthy, and supported by a project grant from Mass Humanities.

View the public dialogues archive online and look for the schedule of upcoming events at americanrepertorytheater.org/civilwarproject

Photo: Gretjen Helene Photography

Matthew Aucoin at a workshop presentation of Crossing.

On Crossing By Matthew Aucoin “But for the opera…I could never have written Leaves of Grass,” Walt Whitman reminisced late in life. It’s perhaps surprising that the quintessential American poet, the writer whose signature bard-call is a “barbaric yawp” rather than a refined warble, spent his formative years— before setting off to cross a wild, apparently “formless” poetic frontier— absorbing the bel canto operas of Donizetti, Bellini, Rossini, and the young Verdi. I share Whitman’s opinion that the essence of opera has nothing to do with the stuffy salons and social one-upmanship of the Americans who imported it to New York in the 19th century: opera is a primal union of animal longing, as expressed in sound, and human meaning, as expressed in language. Indeed, Whitman considered opera the pinnacle of human expression, something beyond the powers of language alone. And in his best poems, Whitman operates like an opera composer: he carries the English language into a new musical landscape. Whitman’s “melodies” surge boundlessly, spilling over the side of the page; his exclamations are wild and craggy. His poetry is both the waterfall and the rocks on which the water crashes. 10

“What is it, then, between us?” With this resonant question at the climax of “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,” Whitman asks many things at once: what is his relationship to his contemporaries, his fellow men and women? What is his relationship to you, the reader, whoever you may be, whenever and wherever you may be reading his poem? And what is the relationship between the contradictory elements of his own self? The phrase “between us” itself has a double meaning: what is the relationship between us, and what stands between us, keeping us apart? In the moment that Whitman asks this question, he is in a state of unknowing; he wants to know, and needs to know. Crossing emerges out of my sense that Whitman wrote his poetry out of need—that his poetry is not, or is not exclusively, a vigorous assertion of what he is, but rather the expression of a yearning to be what he is not, or to reconcile opposing aspects of his identity. The person/persona/personality “Walt Whitman, an one of So, in Crossing, the Walt Whitman American, the roughs” is the who walks the stage is not that living product of this need.

familiar poetic persona. Rather, this is Whitman as I imagine he might have been to himself...

So, in Crossing, the Walt Whitman who walks the stage is not that familiar poetic persona. Rather, this is Whitman as I imagine he might have been to himself, starting from a midlife crisis which prompts his radical, heroic decision to drop everything and volunteer in the war hospitals. Naturally, this Whitman is a fictional creation. Crossing is a musical fantasia which imagines and realizes the many forces—generosity, insecurity, longing, selflessness, bravery, unfulfilled sexual desire, a need to escape his own life, a boundless kindness—that caused a man named Walter Whitman, Jr. to forge an indelible embodiment of the American spirit in his poetry. Matthew Aucoin composed and wrote Crossing and is conducting its world premiere.

CAST SHARIN APOSTOLOU

WILLIAM GOFORTH (Tenor)

A.R.T.: Debut. Theater: Carousel, Camelot, Glimmerglass; Pirates of Penzance, Pensacola Opera. Opera: Dido and Aeneas, Macao International Music Festival; Rinaldo, L’enfant et les sortilèges, Albert Herring, La Calisto, Portland Opera; Ciro in Babilonia, Caramoor Festival; Falstaff, Utah Opera; Rigoletto, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Shreveport Opera. Upcoming: My Fair Lady, Ash Lawn Opera; Carmen, Shreveport Opera; The Merry Widow, Utah Opera; Die Fledermaus, Baltimore Concert Opera; The Mikado, Anchorage Opera.

A.R.T.: Debut. Opera: The Rape of Lucretia (Male Chorus), Eugene Onegin (Triquet), Juilliard Opera. Performances at the Heidelberger Frühling Festival, Casalmaggiore International Music Festival, with pianist Wenwen Du, the New Juilliard Ensemble, and Pink Martini. B.M., St. Olaf College, M.M., The Juilliard School.

Messenger (Cover)

ROD GILFRY (Baritone)

Walt Whitman

A.R.T.: Debut. Opera: World Premieres: A Streetcar Named Desire (Stanley), San Francisco Opera; Nicholas and Alexandra (Nicholas), Los Angeles Opera; Sophie’s Choice (Nathan), Covent Garden/Washington National Opera; Every Man Jack (Jack London), Sonoma City Opera; Margaret Garner (Edward Gaines), Michigan Opera Theatre/ Cincinnati Opera/Opera Company of Philadelphia; Gesualdo, Zurich Opera. A two-time Grammy nominee, Gilfry’s discography of 28 audio and video recordings includes his one-man show My Heart is So Full of You. Gilfry holds the Steven Crocker Chair in Music at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music.

Ensemble

HIROKI ICHINOSE Dancer

A.R.T.: Debut. Opera: Dr. Sun Yat Sen, Santa Fe Opera. Dance: Awa’a, Aszure Barton & Artists; Watershed, When the Wolves Came In, Kyle Abraham/ Abraham.In.Motion; Performance, Light Years, Rashaun Mitchell; Do You Like This Title, Wendy Osserman; Fernando Melo’s Shadow Waltz, Tom Weinberger’s BenLeBen, Crystal Pite’s Dark Matters, Springboard Danse Montreal. Training: B.F.A., New York University.

JEHBREAL JACKSON Dancer

A.R.T.: Debut. Dance: Limbs Theorem 1, Confirmed Dances, Various Works, The Francesca Harper Project; Agon, Dancing on the Front Porch of Heaven, The Lark Ascending, Glinka pas de Troi, Pas De Dix, Far But Close, Contested Space, Gloria, Return, Dance Theater of Harlem; Lyrical Male Suite, City Center; Nutcracker (Cavalier/Snow King), Ohman School of Ballet; When Love, Rudolf Nereyev Gala/Vail Festival. Training: B.F.A., The Juilliard School.

CAST FRANK KELLEY (Tenor) Ensemble

A.R.T.: Debut. Opera: Death and the Powers: The Robots’ Opera, The Dallas Opera/ Opéra de MonteCarlo; Boston Lyric Opera; Florentine Opera; Opera Theater of St. Louis; San Francisco Opera Company; Teatre del Liceu; Théâtre de la Monnaie; The Frankfurt Opera; Peter Sellars’ Die Sieben Todsünden, Das Kleine Mahagonny, Così fan tutte, Le nozze di Figaro. Kelley has over 30 recordings, two of which have been awarded Grammys. A resident of Boston, Kelley sings there regularly with Emmanuel Music.

MICHAEL KELLY (Baritone) Ensemble

A.R.T.: Debut. Concerts: Schubert’s Mass in G, Manhattan Concert Productions; Carmina Burana, Pacific Symphony; John Harbison’s Flashes and Illuminations, Britten in Song: A Centennial Celebration, SongFusion; Brahms Celebration, Baltimore Lieder Weekend; David Del Tredici’s Dum Dee Tweedle, Detroit Symphony; Handel’s Messiah, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.

DAVID KRAVITZ (Baritone) Ensemble

A.R.T.: Death and the Powers: The Robots' Opera. Theater: Fiddler on the Roof (Tevye), Ash Lawn Opera; A Little Night Music (Fredrik), Emmanuel Music; The Mikado (Pooh-Bah; IRNE award), Lyric Stage Company of Boston. Opera: Approaching Ali (Davis Miller; DC Theatre Scene Audience Choice nomination), Washington National Opera; Peter Grimes (Balstrode),

Chautauqua Opera; The Great Gatsby (Nick Carraway), Emmanuel Music; Le Rossignol (Chamberlain), Boston Symphony Orchestra; Turandot (Ping), Florentine Opera; The Rake’s Progress (Nick Shadow), Emmanuel Music. ALEXANDER LEWIS (Tenor) John Wormley A.R.T.: Debut. Opera: The Nose (The Nose), Rigoletto (Borsa), The Merry Widow (Raoul de St. Brioche), Met Opera; Moby Dick, Washington National Opera; The Magic Flute, West Australian Opera Company; Gloria: A Pig Tale, New York Philharmonic. Musical Theater: Sunday in the Park with George, Victorian Opera Company; Sweeney Todd, Opera Australia; Titanic, Seabiscuit Productions; The Phantom of the Opera, The Really Useful Group. Concerts: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Bangalow Music Festival; Petite Messe Solenelle, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society; Adriana Lecouvreur, The Opera Orchestra of New York.

MATTHEW PATRICK MORRIS (Baritone)

Ensemble

A.R.T.: Debut. West End: Candide. Bouffes du Nord, Piccolo Teatro, International Tour: Peter Brook’s Une Flûte Enchantée (Papageno, Molière Award Best Musical). Off-Broadway: La Périchole, New York City Opera; Hello Again (Soldier), Manhattan Theater Source. National Tour: Scrooge the Musical (Young Scrooge). Regional: Les Misérables (Marius), Amarillo Opera. Film: The Producers! TV: “Law & Order SVU”. B.M., The Juilliard School; M.M., Bard College Conservatory. Thanks to Mom, Dad, & Edwin.

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CAST MILES MYKKANEN (Tenor)

Ensemble/John Wormley (cover) A.R.T.: Debut. Opera: Eugene Onegin (Lensky), Il barbiere di Siviglia (Almaviva), La finta giardiniera (Belfiore), Le donne curiose (Florindo), Le nozze di Figaro (Basilio). Concert and opera appearances with Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, Wolf Trap Opera Company, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Caramoor Music Festival, New World Symphony. TV: American Voices (PBS Great Performances). B.M. and M.M. from The Juilliard School (Toulmin Foundation Scholar) under the tutelage of Cynthia Hoffmann.

DANIEL NEER (Tenor) Ensemble

A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: Coram Boy; Baz Luhrmann’s La Bohème. Opera: Numinous City, Royal Opera House (ROH2); Strange Fruit, New York City Opera/ Harlem School of the Arts; Séance on a Wet Afternoon, American Opera Projects; Four Saints in Three Acts, BAM; Mata Hari, HERE. Regional: The Iliad/ The Odyssey, The Lensic. Concert: A Composer’s Journey with Diedre Murray, The Apollo; Many Many Women, Ostrava New Music Festival; Historia di Job, Aspen Music Festival. Workshop: Arjuna’s Dilemma, Music-Theatre Group.

WALDEAN NELSON Dancer

A.R.T.: Debut. Dance: Camille A. Brown & Dancers (2014 Bessie Award for Outstanding Production, for Mr. Tol E. Rance); Jose Navas/Compagnie Flak; The 605 Collective; Kate Wallich/ The YC; Ronald K. Brown/Evidence.

Education: B.A., Haverford College (Growth & Structure of Cities, conc. Architecture).

JAMES ONSTAD (Tenor) Ensemble

A.R.T.: Debut. Opera: The Crucible (Rev. Parris), Boston Opera Collaborative; Candide (Candide), Lowell House Opera; Le Docteur Miracle (Silvio), Street Scene (Sam), Spring Symphony (Tenor Soloist), University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Concerts: Vespers, Kentucky Symphony Orchestra; St. John Passion, Boston Baroque. Upcoming: Hopscotch (Orfeo), The Industry. Education: Harvard College (A.B. ‘09, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology), University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (M.F.A., Vocal Performance).

EDWARD PARKS (Baritone)

Ensemble/Walt Whitman (cover) A.R.T.: Debut. Opera: Il barbiere di Siviglia (Fiorello), La bohème (Schaunard), La fanciulla del West (Larkens), Don Carlo, Die Zauberflöte, Met Opera; Faust, Atlanta Opera; Le nozze di Figaro, Central City Opera; Les pêcheurs de perles, Michigan Opera Theater; La bohème, PORT Opera; Le nozze di Figaro, Opera Theatre of St. Louis; Thérèse Raquin, Chicago Opera Theater/Long Beach Opera; Le nozze di Figaro, Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra. Concerts: Marilyn Horne Foundation; Winterreise, The Schubert Club, Carnegie Hall; Carmina Burana, Prague Proms. Training: Lindemann Young Artists Development Program, Met Opera.

CAST JENNA POLLACK

DAVONE TINES (Bass Baritone)

A.R.T.: Debut. Opera: Two Boys, Prince Igor, Eugene Onegin, Met Opera; Images of Sappho, Ballet Opera Pantomime. Dance: Dancing The Grimm, Lincoln Center Education; A Type of Translucence, Preferred Project(ion) (Co-Producer and Dancer), Juilliard Center for Innovation in the Arts; Delectable Body, Artificial Paradise, Dau al Set Productions; Grazing Gracefully, The Equus Projects; A Place Where Something Flourishes, Bryan Arias; Make Brilliant Campaign, Pantone; Works by Fernando Melo and Aszure Barton, Springboard Danse Montréal. Dance Performance B.F.A., The Juilliard School.

A.R.T.: Debut. Opera: Cartoons, Lincoln Center; La bohème, Royal Opera House Muscat; La fanciulla del West, Palacio de la Opera; Otello, Castleton Festival; Only the Sound Remains, Dutch National Opera; American Gothic (upcoming); The Black Clown (upcoming). Concerts: Alice Tully Hall, New York Festival of Song, U.S. Supreme Court, Verdi’s Shakespeare, New York Shakespeare Society; Boston Pops (upcoming), Tanglewood Music Festival (upcoming). Education: Harvard College (A.B., ‘09), Juilliard School (M.M., ‘13).

Dancer

IAN POMERANTZ (Bass Baritone)

Edward Parks (cover) A.R.T.: Debut. Opera: Acis and Galatea (Polyphemus), Harvard Early Music Society; Martha (Sir Tristam, cover), Boston Midsummer Opera; La Traviata (Marquis), The Mikado (Pooh-Bah), Opera Providence; The Burning Fiery Furnace (Azarias), Opera Brittenica; Lakmé (Nilakantha), Lowell House Opera. Resident Fellow, Atlantic Music Festival (2011); Member and Resident Artist, Voice of the Turtle; Member, Boston Lyric Opera chorus; Member and Teaching Artist, Cantata Singers; Member and bass soloist, Canto Armonico.

Freddie Stowers

JORELL WILLIAMS (Baritone)

Ensemble

A.R.T.: Debut. Opera: Blue Viola (Vernon Addams; World Premiere), Artisphere; L’elisir d’amore (Belcore), Kaye Playhouse; H.M.S. Pinafore (Captain Corcoran), Caramoor Festival; Candide (Maximilian), Globe-News Center; Lear on the Second Floor (Nurse/Lawyer; World Premiere), Conrad Prebys Music Center; Die Fledermaus (Falke), American Ballet Theater; Street Scene (Henry Davis), Norton Hall. Off-Broadway: Lost in the Stars (Villager), Encores!. Workshops: Two Boys, Senna, Met Opera. Film Shorts: Business Romantic/T.Leberecht. Film: Spider-Man 3 (Boom Operator), Columbia Pictures. Concerts: Dooryard Bloom (Jennifer Higdon), Philharmonic of Southern New Jersey.

CAST GREGORY ZAVRACKY (Tenor)

JENNIFER ZETLAN (Soprano)

Ensemble

Messenger

A.R.T.: Debut. Opera: Il barbiere di Siviglia (Almaviva), Townsend Opera; Once Upon a Mattress (Prince Dauntless), Chautauqua Opera; Il barbiere di Siviglia (Ufficiale), Boston Lyric Opera; Gianni Schicchi (Gherardo), Opera Saratoga; Don Pasquale (Ernesto), Opera in the Heights; Così fan tutte (Ferrando), Cape Cod Opera; Le nozze di Figaro (Don Basilio/Curzio), Connecticut Lyric Opera; Messiah, Rhode Island Philharmonic; Bach’s Magnificat, Back Bay Chorale; Britten’s Les Illuminations, Aurea Ensemble. D.M.A. in voice performance from Boston University.

A.R.T.: Debut. Opera: Two Boys, Boris Godunov (Xenia), L’elisir d’amore, Macbeth, Met Opera; Rigoletto (Gilda), La bohème (Musetta), Das Rheingold, Götterdämmerung (Woglinde), Siegfried (The Forest Bird), Seattle Opera; Dark Sisters (Zina), Gotham Chamber Opera/The Music-Theatre Group/Opera Company of Philadelphia. Concerts: Mozart’s Requiem, American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall; Chichester Psalms, Carmina Burana, Oratorio Society of New York; Mozart’s Mass in C minor, New York Philharmonic.

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CREATIVE TEAM MATTHEW AUCOIN

Music/Libretto/Conductor A 2012 graduate of Harvard College, Aucoin is currently the Solti Conducting Apprentice of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, where he made his conducting debut in February of 2014; he has also served as an Assistant Conductor at the Met Opera. His next project, Second Nature, an opera for young people commissioned by Lyric Opera of Chicago, premieres in Chicago in August 2015. He also holds a commission by the new works program of the Met Opera/Lincoln Center Theater. Recent and upcoming performances of Aucoin’s orchestral and chamber works include performances by the Zürich Tonhalle Orchestra, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, pianist Benjamin Hochman, countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, the SOLI Chamber Ensemble, the Gramercy Trio, violinist Keir GoGwilt, and pianist George Fu. Aucoin studied composition with Robert Beaser at Juilliard, where he received a graduate diploma. He was Composer-in-Residence at the Peabody Essex Museum in 201314. Also in the 2013-14 Season, Aucoin made conducting debuts with Juilliard Opera (Eugene Onegin), the Rome Opera Orchestra, and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago (in a public rehearsal featuring cellist Yo-Yo Ma), while also serving as a cover conductor at the Met Opera (The Nose) and the Los Angeles Philharmonic (Così fan tutte). Aucoin has served as guest lecturer on music and literature at the New York Shakespeare Society and New York University’s Casa Italiana and has hosted classical music radio programs for New York’s WQXR.

DIANE PAULUS

Director Diane Paulus is The Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director of the A.R.T. at Harvard University and was selected for the 2014 TIME 100, TIME Magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Paulus is the 2013 recipient of the Tony Award for Best Director of a Musical (Pippin). A.R.T.: Finding Neverland, Witness Uganda, Pippin, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess,

Prometheus Bound, Tod Machover’s Death and the Powers: The Robots’ Opera, The Donkey Show, Best of Both Worlds, Johnny Baseball. Her other recent work includes Amaluna, Cirque du Soleil’s newest creation which had its world premiere in Montreal in April 2012 and is currently on tour in the US; The Public Theater’s Tony Awardwinning revival of HAIR on Broadway and London’s West End. As an opera director, her credits include The Magic Flute, Il mondo della luna, Don Giovanni, Le nozze di Figaro, and the Monteverdi trilogy L’incoronazione di Poppea, Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, and Orfeo. Diane is a Professor of the Practice in Theater in Harvard University’s English Department. She was named one of Boston Magazine’s “50 Most Powerful Bostonians” in 2012 and was awarded the 2012 Founders Award for Excellence in Directing from the Drama League. Recently, Diane was selected as one of Variety’s “Trailblazing Women in Entertainment for 2014” and Boston Magazine’s “50 Thought Leaders of 2014.”

A FAR CRY

A Far Cry stands at the forefront of an exciting new generation in classical music. According to the New York Times, the GRAMMY nominated self-conducted orchestra “brims with personality or, better, personalities, many and varied.” A Far Cry was founded in 2007 by a tightly-knit collective of 17 young professional musicians—the Criers—and since the beginning has fostered those personalities, developing an innovative structure of rotating leadership both on stage and behind the scenes. By expanding the boundaries of orchestral repertoire and experimenting with the ways music is prepared, performed, and experienced, A Far Cry has been embraced throughout the world with hundreds of performances coast to coast and across the globe, and hundreds of thousands of online views of live streaming concerts and YouTube archives. Dreams and Prayers and Law of Mosaics, the first albums from A Far Cry's in-house label, Crier Records, have collectively garnered a GRAMMY nomination and 22

CREATIVE TEAM critical acclaim from the New Yorker’s Alex Ross. The Criers are proud to call Boston home, and maintain strong roots in the city, rehearsing at their storefront music center in Jamaica Plain and fulfilling the role of Chamber Orchestra in Residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Collaborating with local students through an educational partnership with the New England Conservatory, A Far Cry aims to pass on the spirit of collaboratively-empowered music to the next generation.

JILL JOHNSON

Choreographer A.R.T.: O.P.C. Director of Dance, Senior Lecturer, Harvard University. Co-founder of the Movement Invention Project in NYC and master dance teacher for YoungArts Foundation; a former soloist with the National Ballet of Canada, protégé and principal dancer for William Forsythe, and stages Forsythe’s work on dance companies worldwide, including, The Paris Opera Ballet, Netherlands Dance Theater, Batsheva Dance Company, La Scala, Boston Ballet, and American Ballet Theatre. Film and television choreography credits include dance film shorts for Bravo TV in Canada, and Clear House Dance for Allianz in Germany. Recent choreographic work and collaborations include: The Copier, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet; Folding Articulation, Princeton University; Solo for Jeff, Juilliard; RE:RE:RE:, SEESAW, LOOK UP, Degrees of Difference, Battle Hymns with the Harvard Radcliffe Collegium Musicum at Harvard; comovement direction on a film for fashion designer Dries Van Noten at the Louvre; Mikhail Baryshnikov and poet Jorie Graham.

TOM PYE

Set Designer A.R.T.: Witness Uganda. Broadway/ West End: The Testament of Mary (Fiona Shaw); All My Sons (John Lithgow & Dianne Wiest); Top Girls, MTC; Cyrano de Bergerac (Kevin Kline); The Glass Menagerie (Jessica Lange); Fiddler on the Roof (Tony nomination); Medea

(Fiona Shaw); Sinatra. Other design credits: The Death of Klinghoffer, Eugene Onegin, Met Opera; Così fan tutte, Met Opera/ENO; Thebans, ENO; High Society, Old Vic; John Gabriel Borkman, BAM; The Low Road, NSFW, Royal Court; Miss Fortune, Bregenz, Royal Opera; Death in Venice, La Scala (Premio Franco Abbiati della Critica Musicale Italiana); The Cunning Little Vixen, Glyndebourne.

DAVID ZINN

Costume Designer A.R.T.: Ajax, Island of Slaves, Orpheus X, Olly’s Prison, Highway Ulysses. Broadway: Fun Home (Tony nomination, Best Scenic Design), Airline Highway (Tony nomination, Best Costume Design), Last Ship, Rocky, In The Next Room (Tony nomination, Best Costume Design), Xanadu. Off-Broadway: The Flick, Circle Mirror Transformation, Choir Boy, Dogfight. Regional: Guthrie Theater, Berkeley Rep, Mark Taper Forum, Yale Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Steppenwolf. Opera: Lyric Opera Chicago, Santa Fe Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Washington National Opera.

JENNIFER TIPTON

Lighting Designer A.R.T.: The Birthday Party, The King Stag, Endgame. Broadway: The Testament of Mary, Broadway/The Barbican. Recent work: La Traviata, Teatro Real; Shostakovich Trilogy, American Ballet Theater/San Francisco Ballet; Richard Nelson’s Apple Family Plays, New York Shakespeare Festival. Ms. Tipton teaches lighting at the Yale School of Drama. She received the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize in 2001, the Jerome Robbins Prize in 2003, and in April 2004 the Mayor’s Award for Arts and Culture in New York City. In 2008 she was made a United States Artists “Gracie” Fellow and a MacArthur Fellow.

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CREATIVE TEAM FINN ROSS

Projection Designer A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, National Theatre, West End, Broadway; Betrayal. London: American Psycho, Chimerica (Olivier Award), Almeida; Closer, Donmar Warehouse; Master and Margarita, All My Sons, Shunkin, Complicite. Opera: La Scala; Royal Opera House; English National Opera; Theatre an der Wien; Dutch National Opera; Opera North; Glyndebourne; LA Philharmonic; Bregenz; Malmö Opera. Training: Central School of Speech and Drama. Ross has won two Olivier Awards for set and lighting.

AARON MACK

Sound Consultant A.R.T.: The Light Princess (A.R.T. and New Victory Theater), The Snow Queen, Hansel and Gretel. Recent work: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Production Manager); Santa Fe Opera Company (Titles Administrator); Brown University/ Trinity Rep (Sound Design Artist in Residence); OBERON (Head of Sound). Aaron is currently the Associate Director of Production at the Sheen Center for Thought and Culture, a new venue and organization on Bleecker Street in NoHo.

ANDREW EGGERT

Associate Director A.R.T.: Death and the Powers: The Robots' Opera (Associate Director). Opera: Productions at Chicago Opera Theater, Boston Lyric Opera, Guerilla Opera, Dallas Opera, Opera Omaha, Gotham Chamber Opera. Training programs include Glimmerglass Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Wolf Trap Opera. Education: B.A., Yale University. M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University. Eggert is currently Head of Opera at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University.

ADAM NIELSEN

Rehearsal Pianist A.R.T.: Debut. Performances with the Utah Symphony, Stony Brook Symphony, Windscape, Fry Street Quartet. Recitals at Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, Alice

Tully Hall, Aspen Festival. Faculty: Juilliard Vocal Arts. Staff: Aspen Opera Theater, Heifetz Institute, Ravinia Steans Institute, Opera on the Avalon. D.M.A., University of Stony Brook. M.M., The Juilliard School.

CAROLYN RAE BOYD

Stage Manager ART: Witness Uganda, Death and The Powers: The Robots' Opera, Sleep No More, Let Me Down Easy. Off-Broadway: Sleep No More. Regional: Huntington Theater Company, Williamstown Theater Festival, Boston Ballet, Hangar Theater. Education: Boston University College of Fine Arts: B.F.A., Stage Management.

LEEANN LISELLA

Assistant Stage Manager A.R.T.: The Donkey Show, Sleep No More. Broadway: The Country House, The Snow Geese, Manhattan Theatre Club. Off Broadway: Sleep No More; Red Eye to Havre De Grace, New York Theatre Workshop; Choir Boy, Manhattan Theatre Club; Forces and Ascension, Streb Extreme Action Company. B.F.A. Stage Management, Emerson College.

ALLEGRA LIBONATI

Assistant Director A.R.T.: The Light Princess, Hansel and Gretel (Director); The Snow Queen (Director/Adapter); The Donkey Show (Resident Director); The Tempest, Prometheus Bound (Associate Director), Death and the Powers: The Robots' Opera, Best of Both Worlds (Assistant Director). OBERON:Once In Hell: Dante’s Inferno in 10 Dinner Courses; Matchmaker, Matchmaker, I’m Willing to Settle: A Musical Guide to Internet Dating. Broadway: HAIR (Assistant Director, Tony Award-winning Revival). Summer Theater of New Canaan: South Pacific, My Fair Lady, Carousel, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, H4 (an original adaptation of Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2).

CREATIVE TEAM DAWN-ELIN FRASER

Dialect Coach A.R.T. Finding Neverland. Broadway: Finding Neverland. National Tour: The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess. Off-Broadway: Our Lady of Kibeho, Signature; Passing Strange, Public Theater. Regional: Comedy of Errors, Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Passing Strange, Fêtes de la Nuit, Berkeley Rep; ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, A.C.T. Awards: Sony/Tisch NYU Faculty Excellence Award; Joan Eckert Fellowship, A.C.T.; Theatre Bay Area CASH Grant; Maureen McKibben Faculty Excellence Fellowship, American Conservatory Theater; Bay Area Critics’ Circle Award—Best Ensemble, Five Flights. Education: MFA, American Conservatory Theater.

MUSIC-THEATRE GROUP

(DIANE WONDISFORD, PRODUCING DIRECTOR) is dedicated to helping artists turn creative inspiration into dramatically compelling works of musictheatre. For 43 years, MTG has gathered a creative, collaborative community of composers, poets, playwrights, directors, choreographers, designers, and performers working with them at the beginning and throughout the life of their projects to develop and produce fresh,

thought-provoking works of art. MTG and its artists have garnered a reputation for generating seminal works that blur the boundaries between music, theatre and opera. Some examples are: Dark Sisters by Nico Muhly (music) and Stephen Karam (libretto), Rebecca Taichman (director); Arjuna’s Dilemma by Douglas Cuomo (music, libretto), Robin Guarino (director); Running Man by Diedre Murray (music), Cornelius Eady (libretto) and Diane Paulus (director), finalist for the 1999 Pulitzer Prize in Drama; Marco Polo by Tan Dun (music), Paul Griffiths (libretto) and Martha Clarke (director), Grawemeyer Award recipient; Juan Darien by Julie Taymor and Elliot Goldenthal, recipient of 25 awards among them 5 Tony Nominations, including one for Best New Musical; and Martha Clarke’s Garden of Earthly Delights with music by Richard Peaslee and Dr. Selavy’s Magic Theatre by Stanley Silverman (music) and Richard Foreman (libretto, director). Upcoming projects include The Very Enterprising Burke, Hare by Julian Grant (music), Mark Campbell (libretto), and Charles Maryan (director); and Patient Zero by Diedre Murray (music) and Cornelius Eady (libretto). Music-Theatre Group is a member of Opera America and A.R.T./NY, the Alliance of Resident Theatres, NY.

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. The Director is a member of the STAGE DIRECTORS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS SOCIETY, a national theatrical labor union. United Scenic Artists represents the designers and scenic painters for the American Theatre. The musicians employed in this production are members of the American Federation of Musicians. The American Repertory Theater is a proud partner of PoNY 2.0, providing an artistic home for PoNY Playwrights of New York. The American Repertory Theater is a member of ArtsBoston, StageSource, and Theater Communications Group

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Rachael Goldfarb, Co-Chair Ann Gund, Co-Chair 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 Erin Gilligan Candy Kosow Gold Barbara Wallace Grossman Peggy Hanratty Marcia Head Horace H. Irvine II Emma Johnson Dean Huntington Lambert Travis McCready Karen Mueller Irv Plotkin Ellen Gordon Reeves Pat Romeo-Gilbert Linda U. Sanger Maggie Seelig Dina Selkoe John A. Shane Michael Shinagel Lisbeth Tarlow Sarasina Tuchen Stephen H. Zinner, M.D. *Emeriti

FOUNDING DIRECTOR Robert Brustein

About the A.R.T. 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 '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 The National Civil War Project, an initiative that culminates in the staging of new work this season. 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. artists also teach undergraduate 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 Moscow Art Theater School, offers graduate-level training in acting, dramaturgy, and voice. Dedicated to making great theater accessible, the A.R.T. actively engages more than 4,000 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.

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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 October 1, 2013 and April 24, 2015.

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$500-$999 Susan Olsen Virginia Osborne Randall Perkins Andrew Perlmutter Robert Pill Sally C. Reid and John D. Sigel Helen Riess, M.D. and Norman Nishioka, M.D. Ristorante Toscano Malcolm Rogers Ruthie Rohde and Sigmund Roos Adina Schecter Deborah Sharpe Steven Showalter and Jeffrey Davis Stephanie and Fred Shuman Mason and Jeannie Smith David Stonestreet, in honor of Beth Pollock Rose Styron Tavneet Suri T&C Main Street Inc. Claire and Paul Traub Lynn and George Vos Richard and Martha Wagner Kristen Wainwright and Richard Harriman Ms. Kelsey Wirth and Dr. Samuel Myers Joanne Wise Melissa and Jim Woodman Paula Young

SUPPORTER

Anonymous (7) Kenneth Abbott Alka and Ravin Agrawal Elizabeth Ascher and Michael Yogman Jenny Lyn Bader Sybilla and Alexandre Balkanski Kathleen Begala and Yves-André Istel Pamela Bell Susana and Clark Bernard Margie and Michael Bogdanow Lisa Breen and Jack Welch Kathleen Brochin Andrea Buchbinder Richard Carson Betsy Ellis Chung and Peter Chung Andrew Cogan Dr. Lisa Coleman Kathy Cormier Glorianna Davenport Jane Mendelsohn Davis and Nick Davis Nancy Dellarocco Mark Diker Thomas Engelman Judith and Warren Feder Anna May and Timothy Feige Anita Feins and Steven Lampert Timothy Finn Anna Fitzloff and Elissa Best Robin Freeman Brenda and Harvey Freishtat Constance and Michael Fulenwider Howard Gardner, M.D. Kathleen and Robert Garner Brian Gerson Laurie and Jeffrey Goldbarg, M.D. Drs. Susan Graham and Michael Harrison Mark Granovsky Liz Grinspoon Patricia and Homer Hagedorn Robert Harrington John Hart Sally and Mark Harty

$250-$499 Rita and Gus Hauser Deborah L. Hicks Dr. James Hirshberg Caroline and Fred Hoppin Cyndi Jones and Steve Birnbaum Ms. Bambi Kapp and Dr. Randall Berliner Carol Kelly Lynn Kodama Deborah and Jonathan Kolb Lisa and Bill Laskin Mary Beth and Greg Lesher Peter Lichtenthal Megan Linehan Barbara A. Manzolillo Wendy Mariner and Toby Nagurney James D. Marver Ellen and Matt Masseur James Mattimore Daniel McCarthy Jenifer Wells Megalli and Mark Megalli Donna Friedman Meir and Gadi Meir Sharon Miller Morgan Stanley Global Wealth Management Evelyn and Mac Musser Carol and Davis Noble Christian Nolen Mr. and Mrs. H. Roderick Nordell Susan and Edward Novick Professor Suzanne P. Ogden and Peter Rogers Jaclyn and Terence Paré Drs. Hilda and Max Perlitsh Sarah Piper Rose Polidoro C. Taylor Poor Tom Quintal Jill Rachesky Carolyn G. Robins Abram Rosenfeld Deborah Ross Beth Sackler Sarah and Gregory Sands

Wendy Sarasohn Nina Schwalbe and Sally Girvin James Scopa Christine and Michael Sigman Ellen and Mark Silverman Nancy and Edward Stavis Lisa Stern Jean and Michael Strunsky Stephen Stulck Leslie Sullivan Kathryn Taylor and Tom Steyer Hal Tepfer Mr. and Mrs. Theodore H. Teplow Tides Foundation Gloria and Arnold Tofias Diana Walsh and Kent Walker Stacey Gillis Weber and Jeffrey Weber Ellen Weissberg and Lewis Gould Ryan West Bruce Whitacre Sharon Goddard White and David White Kathy Williams and Douglas Carlston Grace Kyung-Sun Won and Richard Holden San San Wong Clark Wright Carolyn Zern William Zinn Gail and Hayward Zwerling *Donors who provide annual operating support of $25,000 or more are members of the Artistic Director’s Circle ^Donors who have made designated gifts to support development and world premiere production of Crossing † In Memoriam

A.R.T. NYC DONORS A.R.T. NYC is a group of committed and engaged individuals that provide generous annual support to the American Repertory Theater. The following gifts of $250 and above were received between October 1, 2013 and April 24, 2015. PRODUCER $10,000 and above

Betsy and Edward Cohen, Zita Ezpeleta and Kewsong Lee, Catherine Gellert, Rebecca Gold and Nathan Milikowsky, Rebecca and Laurence Grafstein, Deborah and Glenn Hutchins, Rosemarie and Steve Johnson, Alan Jones and Ashley Garrett, Janet and Howard Kagan, Stacey and Eric Mindich, Hee-Jung and John Moon, Lucy and Ward Mooney, National Corporate Theatre Fund, Julia Pershan and Jonathan Cohen, Stan Ponte and John Metzner, Melinda B. Thaler, Donald and Susan Ware

PARTNER $5,000-$9,999

Anonymous (2), Patricia Beilman and David Poor, Robert Bowie Jr., Candy Kosow Gold and Martin Waters, Heather and James Higgins, Marean and Thomas Pompidou, Heather Randall, Ellen Gordon Reeves, Fran and Barry Weissler

SPONSOR $2,500-$4,999

Anonymous, Joy and Steven Bunson, Barbara and Rodgin Cohen, Jody Gorton, Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman, Barbara H. Landreth, M.D., Lori Lesser, Monique Sullivan Lowitt and Ian Lowitt, Mercedes Nugent-Head and James C. Marlas, Dr. Linda U. Sanger, Deb Tolman and Luis Ubinas, Ashley and Alexander von Perfall, Ruth and Bill Weinstein, Ann Wozencraft and Craig Willey

MEMBER $250-$2,499

Anonymous, Kenneth Abbott, Jenny Lyn Bader, James Basker, Diana and Richard Beattie, Kathleen Begala and Yves-André Istel, Pamela Bell, Kathleen Brochin, Andrew Cogan, Milton Cooper, Jane Mendelsohn Davis and Nick Davis, Mark Diker, Emma Dunch and Elizabeth Scott, Judith and Warren Feder, Anna May and Timothy Feige, Brian Gerson, Beth Golden, Andy Grasier, Rita and Gus Hauser, Nikola and David Hennes, Joan and George Hornig, Ms. Bambi Kapp and Dr. Randall Berliner, Priscilla Kauff, Peter Lichtenthal, Ellen and Matt Masseur, Jenifer Wells Megalli and Mark Megalli, Jonathan Moses, New Vernon Capital, Susan and Edward Novick, Jaclyn and Terence Paré, Sarah Piper, Rose Polidoro, Jill Rachesky, Deborah Ross, Beth Sackler, Adina Schecter, Nina Schwalbe and Sally Girvin, Stephanie and Fred Shuman, Ildiko Sragli and Barry Appelman, Lisa Stern, Claire and Paul Traub, Stacey Gillis Weber and Jeffrey Weber

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 Aesop Allagash Brewing Company, Inc. Be Our Guest Inc. The Catered Affair Betsy and Edward Cohen Donna DePrisco Dig Publishing/Dig Boston Google Rebecca and Laurence Grafstein

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

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

Grafton Street The Graphic Group Grendel's Den Henrietta's Table Georgene and Dudley Herschbach Megan and David Hinckley MAX Ultimate Food/Dan Mathieu and Neal Balkowitsch Tom McGrath and Sandy Medallis

Peterson Party Center, Inc. (Party Rental Sponsor) Petersonpartycenter.com Alison and Bob Murchison National Corporate Theatre Fund Linda Hammett Ory and Andy Ory Rialto Restaurant Ristorante Toscano Sandrine's Bistro Tory Row and Cambridge 1. United Staging and Rigging UpStairs on the Square

NATIONAL CORPORATE THEATRE FUND National Corporate Theatre Fund is a not-for-profit corporation created to increase and strengthen support from the business community for this country's most distinguished professional theatres. The following foundations, individuals and corporations support these theatres through their contributions of $2,500 and above to National Corporate Theatre Fund. 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 • CMT/ABC**† • 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* • Ernst & Young* • 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.* • The Hearst Foundations** • 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. • PURE Insurance* • Pryor Cashman LLP* • 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** *NCTF/DeWitt Stern Fund for New American Theatre **Impact Creativity †Includes In-kind support As of April 2015

AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER STAFF ARTISTIC The Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director Producer/Interim Managing Director Director of Artistic Programs/Dramaturg Director of Special Projects Assistant Producer Special Assistant to the Artistic Director Resident Director Artistic Associate Company Manager/Hasty Pudding Institute Producing Fellow Artistic Intern

GENERAL MANAGEMENT Diane Paulus Diane Borger Ryan McKittrick Ariane Barbanell Mark Lunsford Julia Kraus Allegra Libonati Shira Milikowsky Ben Nelson Nina Goodheart

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

Scott Zigler Julia Smeliansky Marcus Stern Anatoly Smeliansky Ryan McKittrick Arthur Holmberg Josh Glenn-Kayden Katherine Clanton Elizabeth Haroian Skip Curtiss Janie Rangel

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

Ariane Barbanell Leo X. Crowley Skip Curtiss Ryan Sweeney 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 Yuvika Tolani Development Intern Julia Bumke MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS Director of Marketing and Communications Anna Fitzloff Director of Press and Public Relations Katalin Mitchell Marketing and Communications Manager Grace Geller Graphic Designer Joel Zayac Education and Community Programs Manager Brendan Shea Education and Community Programs Associate Brenna Nicely Publications and Artistic Programs Associate Robert Duffley Videographer Johnathan Carr Social and Digital Media Assistant Mark Mauriello Marketing Interns Nicole Banks, Ahsante Bean, Jen Epervary, David Imani, Shannon Reed PATRON SERVICES Director of Patron Services/ System Administrator Derek Mueller Ticket Services Manager Alicia Curtis Audience Services Manager Stephen Wuycheck Ticket Services Representatives Karen Snyder, Cassandra Long Weekend Shift Supervisor Heather Conroe Ticket Services Staff Brittany Bonnell, Taylor Hughes, Natalie Lurowist, Nickolas Mellace, Jessica Mullen, Tani Nakamoto, Emma Putnam Duty House Managers Heather Conroe, Marissa Friedman, Stephanie Holmes, Brenna Nicely, Megan Nussle, Courteney Smith, Matthew Spano Volunteer Usher Coordinator Barbara Lindstrom

General Manager

Steven Showalter

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

Kathryn Rosenberg John Josti Stacie Hurst Paul Ravelo Toufiq Aitelfqih

PRODUCTION Production Manager Associate Production Managers HRhDC Associate

Patricia Quinlan Skip Curtiss, Jeremie Lozier Kathryn Nakaji

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

Jeannette Hawley Ameera Ali Caitlin Menotti Jeffrey Scott Burrows Alma Reyes Emily Damron Suzanne Kadiff

LIGHTS Lighting Supervisor Assistant Lighting Design Light Board Operator

Matthew Adelman Wen-Ling Liao Jeremy Goldenberg

PROPERTIES Props Manager Assistant Props Master Props Carpenter

Cynthia Lee-Sullivan Rebecca Helgeson Nicholas Menge

SCENERY Technical Director Associate Technical Director Assistant Technical Director Scene Shop Supervisor Scenic Charge Artist Master Carpenter Scenic Carpenters

Stephen Setterlun Chris Swetcky Kristin Knutson David Schultz Jerry Vogt Peter Doucette Garrett McEntee, York-Andreas Paris Heather Morris

Scenic Painter SOUND Sound Supervisor Sound Board Operator Theatrical Audio Technician

Sam Lerner Brian Walters Katrina Sistare

STAGE Stage Supervisor Assistant Stage Supervisor Stage Production Assistants

Henning Malm Christopher Eschenbach Keelia Liptak, Matthew Sebastian

THEATER AND FACILITIES Theater and Facilities Manager RECEPTION DESK Main Receptionists Receptionists

Tracy Keene Sarah Leon, Maria Medeiros Barbara Lindstrom, Sean O'Leary, Sarah Rodman, Matt Spano As of May 2015

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