BY DAVID ADJMI
AN A.R.T./ YALE REPERTORY THEATRE CO-PRODUCTION
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Artistic Director’s Welcome
Diane Paulus, Artistic Director
MARIE ANTOINETTE Welcome to Marie Antoinette, the kick-off production of our 2012/13 Season. I’m thrilled you’ve joined us here for this world premiere by playwright David Adjmi. Arriving on our mainstage just in time for the 2012 elections, Marie Antoinette is not only a historical portrait of the infamous queen, but also an incisive look at the world that created her. David Adjmi takes us beyond the conventional story of Marie’s downfall and into the deeper human narrative that lies beneath. By asking us to witness the violent birth of democracy in France from an unexpected perspective, the play sends a detonating message about the world we live in today. I’m pleased to introduce you to director Rebecca Taichman, who is making her A.R.T. debut, 3 and to welcome back longtime A.R.T. collaborators: costume designer Gabriel Berry, last here in 2004 with The Provok’d Wife; choreographer Karole Armitage, here in 2011 with Death and The Powers; and designers Christopher Akerlind and Riccardo Hernandez of last year’s The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess. For the first time in our theater’s history, the A.R.T. is partnering with Yale Repertory Theatre on this production. After its run here in Cambridge, the entire production will move to New Haven. I’m grateful to Artistic Director James Bundy and his entire staff for their collaboration in this endeavor. I look forward to the ways this production will not only introduce you to a Marie you may not know, but also stimulate conversations about the America we live in today. Welcome to 2012/13 at the A.R.T., and, as always, thank you for joining the Experience!
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AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER IN A CO-PRODUCTION WITH YALE REPERTORY THEATRE PRESENTS
BY DAVID ADJMI
SCENIC DESIGN RICCARDO HERNANDEZ
COSTUME DESIGN GABRIEL BERRY
LIGHTING DESIGN CHRISTOPHER AKERLIND
SOUND DESIGN MATT HUBBS
PUPPET DESIGN MATT ACHESON
FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHER J. DAVID BRIMMER
CASTING TARA RUBIN CASTING
STAGE MANAGER AMANDA SPOONER* CHOREOGRAPHER KAROLE ARMITAGE
DIRECTOR REBECCA TAICHMAN First performance at the Loeb Drama Center on September 1, 2012 First performance at the Yale Repertory Theatre on October 26, 2012 Marie Antoinette was commissioned and developed by Yale Repertory Theatre. James Bundy, Artistic Director Victoria Nolan, Managing Director Production support for Marie Antoinette is provided by Yale’s Binger Center for New Theatre, made possible by funding from the Robina Foundation. Additional support provided by the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust.
PRODUCTION SUPPORT
SEASON SUPPORT
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Fred Arsenault*
Marie Antoinette
Brooke Bloom*
Yolande de Polignac/ Mrs. Sauce Hannah Cabell* The Dauphin 6
Sheep
Andrew Cekala
David Greenspan*
Royalist Vin Knight* Marie’s Coterie Jo Lampert* Therese de Lamballe
Polly Lee*
Louis XVI Steven Rattazzi* Axel Fersen
Jake Silbermann*
Marie’s Coterie Teale Sperling* Guard Brian Wiles*
(*) members of Actors’ Equity Association
Assistant Stage Manager Assistant Director s Voice Coach Assistant to the Playwright Dramaturgy Dance Captain Fight Captain Stage Management Intern
Kevin Schlagle* Stephanie Ward, Vahdat Yeganeh Jane Guyer Fujita Philip Gates Marissa L. Friedman Jo Lampert Fred Arsenault Greg Swartz
Draper Carmel Dundon First Hand Michelle Ross Stitchers Sally Ravitz, Carol Schaberg, Jen Bennett, Lisa Dezmelyk, Anita Canzian, Becky Hylton Crafts Artisans Jeffrey Burrows Milliner Denise Wallace Crafts Assistant Jill Thibault Wigmaster Rachel Padula Shufelt Dressers Emily Damron, Amber Voner, Brian Choinski Servant, Guard, and Dauphin Costumes Liz Perlman and CostumeWorks Assistant to the Costume Designer Fabian Aguilar Costume Interns Rachel Gibian, Amalya Goldberg Scene Shop Buyer Ryan Anderson Carpenters Nathaniel Drake, Tim Jones, Adam Medlyn, Matthew Meeds, Kyle Moore, Andrew Remillard, Ray Reyes, Jon Seiler, John VanRoosendaal Scenic Carpenter Interns Derek Jay, Caitlin Magness, Chris Marks, Kristin Matsumoto, Seth Randall-Tapply Scenic Painters Elizabeth Johnson, Heather Morris Scenic Paint Interns Brian Crete, Christopher Kavanah Props Artisan Props Intern
Edward Hartigan Heather Mauldin
Tara Rubin, C.S.A.; Merri Sugarman, C.S.A.; Eric Woodall, C.S.A.; Lindsay Levine; Kaitlin Shaw; Stephanie Yankwitt, Casting
Harvard Summer Interns 2012 with support from the Office of the President and Provost and in partnership with the Office of Career Services: Madeleine Bersin, Rachel Gibian, Heather Mauldin, Civry Melvin, Anise Molina, Benjamin Moss, Ryan Smillie, Susanna Wolk
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BRIEF URE S A E M SOME IS PLAY N I T A TH S TO TH 1778 December 19 - Marie RELATE Antoinette gives birth to a daughter, Marie Thérèse 1770 May 16 - Marie Antoinette (14 years old) marries Dauphin Louis Auguste (15 years old) 1775 June 11 - Louis XVI is crowned King of France
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The kingdom teeters on the verge of bankruptcy, saddled with a huge deficit. The nobility and clergy are exempt from taxation, commoners (96% of the population) pay inordinate taxes to make up for the shortfall and live in grinding poverty
1776 Marie Antoinette’s hair reaches new heights
1780 November - Rumors of Marie Antoinette’s affair with Axel von Fersen, a Swedish diplomat, fly throughout Paris 1783 Pamphlets circulate condemning Marie Antoinette as extravagant, immoral, and licentious 1785 The Diamond Necklace Affair (see note below) 1787 March 27 - Marie Antoinette finishes Le Hameau de la Reine, a lavish pastoral retreat complete with perfumed flocks of sheep adorned with satin bows Le Hameau
Elisabeth Vigee-LeBrun. Marie Antoinette, 1783.
1777 August 10 - Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI consummate their marriage after 7 years
1789 May 5 – Louis summons the Estates-General, an assembly representing the clergy (First Estate), the nobility (Second Estate), and the common people (Third Estate), for the first time in over a century
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Jacques-Louis David. Marie Antoinette on her last journey to the guillotine, 1793.
BRIEF URE S A E M SOME IS PLAY N I T A TH S TO TH 1793 October 16 - Marie RELATE
Antoinette is executed by the guillotine
1789 June 17 – Third Estate leaves the Estates-General and forms the National Assembly
June 20 - The National Assembly writes The Tennis Court Oath, vowing not to disband until a constitution is created and ratified July 14 - Storming of the Bastille - considered the beginning of the Revolution October 6 – The royal family is moved to the Tuileries in Paris
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1794 July 27 - Robespierre and others are arrested and promptly executed
1795 June 8 - The Dauphin, brutalized and alone, dies in the Temple
1791: June 20 - 25 - The royal family attempts to escape and is caught in Varennes 1792 July 25 - Brunswick Manifesto (see note below)
August 10 - The Storming of the Tuileries heralds the official fall of the monarchy
1793 January 21 - Louis XVI is executed by the guillotine 1793 September 5 - The Reign of Terror begins
July 28 - The Reign of Terror ends; 18,500-40,000 “enemies” were executed
December 18 - Marie Thérèse, Marie Antoinette’s daughter and the only surviving member of the royal family, is released
1830 August 2 - After marrying Louis Antoine, the Duke of Angoulême, Marie Thérèse technically becomes Queen of France for twenty minutes 2012 January - The bottom 50 percent of income earners in the U.S. now collectively own less than 1 percent of the nation’s wealth
Karen Kilimnik. Marie Antoinette Out for a Walk at her Petite Hermitage, France, 1750 (Paris Hilton).
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The Diamond Necklace Affair
In 1772, King Louis XV had an incomparable diamond necklace made for his mistress; he died before it was finished, and she was banished from court. The jewelers tried to sell it to Marie Antoinette, who did not want it. In 1785 the adventurous Madame de La Motte, hoping to gain wealth and power, convinced the Cardinal de Rohan, her lover, to loan her money to purchase this necklace to present to Marie Antoinette and gain the royal favor he desperately sought. De La Motte sent the necklace to London and had the diamonds sold separately. When one of the payments for the necklace was insufficient, the jeweler went to Marie Antoinette; but she had neither ordered nor received the necklace. Although Marie was blameless in this scandal, it added to her reputation as a reckless spendthrift.
The Brunswick Manifesto
12 Issued by the Duke of Brunswick, commander of the Allied Army of Austrian and Prussian forces on July 25, 1792, this manifesto threatened an invasion of Paris and harm to civilians if Louis XVI and his family were harmed. Rather than intimidate the revolutionaries, this proclamation backfired and provoked the increasingly radical measures of the National Assembly.
The Reign of Terror and Maximilien Robespierre
Maximilien Robespierre (1758 – 1794) was one of the most iconic figures of the French Revolution. Inspired by Enlightenment philosophy, he was a member of the EstatesGeneral-turned-National Assembly. In 1793 he was elected head of the Committee of Public Safety, the executive government during the Reign of Terror. The Terror lasted from September 5, 1793 until July 28, 1794, during which time 16,594 were guillotined. Robespierre’s followers eventually turned on him, and his execution by guillotine ended The Terror. Compiled by Marissa L. Friedman and Stephanie Ward
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Fred Arsenault Joseph/ Mr. Sauce A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: The Royal Family, MTC; Born Yesterday. OffBroadway: Henry V, The Guthrie Theater/ The Acting Company; Blue Man Group. Regional/ International: The Spy, The Guthrie Theater; The Book Club Play, Arena Stage; Travesties, McCarter Theatre; Twelfth Night, She Stoops to Conquer, Measure for Measure, The American Shakespeare Center; Billy Bishop Goes to War, Virginia Stage; The Blackamoor Angel, Bard Summer Scape; Playboy of the Western World, The Hangar Theatre; Pericles, The Continuum Company in Florence, Italy. Awarded the Baryshnikov Fellowship. Film/ TV: Shadows & Lies, “The Good Wife,” “Person of Interest,” “Law & Order: SVU.” Training: MFA from the NYU/Graduate Acting Program.
Brooke Bloom Marie Antoinette A.R.T.: Debut. Theater: Becky Shaw (Barrymore Award for title role), The Wilma Theater, Philadelphia; Hamlet (Ophelia), South Coast Repertory Theatre; Lungs, Barrington Stage Theater; A Feminine Ending, Portland Center Stage and SCR; Completeness, SCR; Ojai Playwrights Conference; NYSF. Film: He’s Just Not That Into You, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Ceremony, Gabi on the Roof in July. TV: Recent pilots for NBC and FOX along with “The Good Wife,” and a recurring role in “CSI: Miami.” Member of the Antaeus Company, Los Angeles, CA.
Yolande de Polignac/ Mrs. Sauce A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: A Man for All Seasons, Roundabout. Off-Broadway: 3C, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater; Compulsion, The Public Theater; Zero Hour, Mark Smith, 13P; Pumpgirl, Manhattan Theatre Club; Jane Eyre, The Acting Company; Millicent Scowlworthy, SPF; Gentleman Caller, Clubbed Thumb; Things I Found on Craigslist, Theater for a New City. Regional/International: As You Like It, Continuum Company, Florence; Compulsion (world premiere, BACCA nomination), Yale Repertory Theatre and Berkeley Repertory Theatre; Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of Three Sisters, Cincinnati Playhouse; Lewis Black’s Slight Hitch, NY Stage and Film; world premiere of Sarah Ruhl’s In the Next Room, or the vibrator play (BACCA nomination), Berkeley Rep; Sedition, Mary’s Wedding, Westport Country Playhouse. TV/Interactive: “Law & Order: CI,” Homefront, Grand Theft Auto. MFA, NYU/Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Acting. Recent recipient of the Annenberg Fellowship for the Arts.
Andrew Cekala The Dauphin A.R.T.: Debut. Theater: All My Sons (Bert), Huntington Theatre Company; The Life of Galileo (Andrea Sarti), Underground Railway Theatre; A Christmas Story (Ralphie, IRNE Nomination), New Repertory Theatre; Ragtime (Edgar), Berklee College of Music; The Full Monty (Nathan), Turtle Lane Playhouse; Oliver (Oliver), Wellesley Players. He also has performed in numerous Watertown Children’s Theatre productions and with Revels. continued>
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Sheep A.R.T.: Debut. Melancholy Play, Orlando (dir. Rebecca Taichman), The Metal Children, Cornbury, Beebo Brinker Chronicles, Some Men and Faust (Obie), The Boys in the Band (Obie) and his own plays, Dead Mother at the Public, She Stoops to Comedy (Obie) and Go Back to Where You Are at Playwrights Horizons, The Argument (Obie) with Target Margin, The Myopia with The Foundry and with Stephin Merritt Coraline at MCC. He performed a solo rendition of Barry Conner’s 1925 play The Patsy with Transport Group and Gerturde Stein’s lecture Plays with The Foundry. Guggenheim, Alpert Award and an Obie for Sustained Achievement.
Vin Knight Royalist A.R.T.: Gatz. Member of Elevator Repair Service and has appeared in the U.S. and internationally in its productions of Gatz, The Select (The Sun Also Rises), The Sound and the Fury, and No Great Society. Other New York credits: The Temperamentals (Barrow Group); over two dozen productions with the adobe theater company and performances at Clubbed Thumb, Andhow!, Soho Rep, HERE, New Georges, and Theatreworks/USA. TV/Film credits: Louie, Robot Stories, Dumped!, and Love God. He is a graduate of Yale University.
Marie’s Coterie A.R.T.: Prometheus Bound. New York: Murder Ballad (workshop), Manhattan Theatre Club; Fun Home (workshop), The Public Theater, The Last Goodbye (Mercutio), Joe’s Pub, The Wild Project; Dance, Dance Revolution (dir. Alex Timbers), Ohio Theatre; The Daughters (Aphrodite), Joe’s Pub; Hamlet (Composer, Player), Galapagos Art Space. Regional: The Last Goodbye, Williamstown Theater Festival; Raindogs (dir. Andrew MacBean), Bay Street Theater; The Daughters (dir. Mark Brokaw), Yale Institute for Music Theatre. TV/ Film: Terry Richardson’s Last Hours (dir. Charlotte Robert); Declare Independence (Bjork music video /dir. Michel Gondry). BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts (Playwrights Horizons Theater School/ Experimental Theater Workshop).
Polly Lee Therese de Lamballe A.R.T.: Debut. New York: Nightlands, New Georges; How I Fell In Love, Abingdon Theatre; Roadkill Confidential, One Thing I Like to Say Is, Demon Baby, Clubbed Thumb; Lenin’s Embalmers, Close Ties, Ensemble Studio Theatre; Graceland, LCT3; Slag Heap, Cherry Lane Theatre; Abigail’s Party (u/s performed), The New Group; Water, HERE Arts Center. Regional: La Jolla Playhouse, Humana Festival, Passage Theatre, O’Neill Playwrights Conference, Gloucester Stage Co., McCarter Theatre, Wilma Theater, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Studio Arena and more. Film: Day Zero, First Look International. Miss Lee has narrated many audiobooks and is a member of EST, Rising Phoenix Rep., AEA, and an affiliated artist of Clubbed Thumb. She is a recipient of New Dramatists’ Charles Bowden Award. continued>
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Louis XVI A.R.T.: Debut. New York: David Adjmi’s Stunning, Lincoln Center’s LCT3; Galileo (with F. Murray Abraham), The Tempest (with Mandy Patinkin), Age of Iron (dir. Brian Kulick), Therese Raquin (dir. David Esbjornson), Classic Stage Company; The Tempest, Dinner Party (dir. David Herskovits), Target Margin; Spy Garbo, New Islands Archipelago (dir. Paul Zimet), 3LD; Walk Across America for Mother Earth (Taylor Mac), La Mama; Henry V (with Liev Schrieber, New York Shakespeare Festival; Painted Snake on a Painted Chair (OBIE), Talking Band; McGurk, Elevator Repair Service; The Fourth Sister (dir. Lisa Peterson), Vineyard Theatre; Samuel’s Major Problems (Richard Foreman), Ontological Theater at St. Mark’s. Regional: The Lovesong of J. Robert Oppenheimer (dir. Mark Wing-Davey), Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; Really Rosie (Maurice Sendak). TV: “The Venture Brothers” (Dr. Orpheus).
Jake Silbermann Axel Fersen A.R.T.: Debut. OffBroadway credits: David Adjmi’s 3C, The Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre; Dracula (alongside George Hearn), The Little Shubert Theatre. Regional theater credits: Phaedra Backwards (world premiere), McCarter Theatre; Derby Day (world premiere), Camisade Theatre Company. Television: “As the World Turns” (created the role of Noah Mayer), CBS; “The Good Wife,” “Gossip Girl,” “Guiding Light.” Writer and co-producer of the award-winning short film “Stuffer.” Native New Yorker, graduate of Syracuse University.
Marie’s Coterie A.R.T.: Debut. New York: Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Radio City Music Hall; URANUS, Superhero Clubhouse at Dixon Place; TheBCam/Macbeth, Inertia Productions. TV/Film: Elf Man, “Sesame Street,” “My Gimpy Life.” Writer/Producer: The Congo Project, online celebrity interviews for Angelika Film Center NYC, and the upcoming short film Small World. Graduate of Rutgers University BFA acting program where she had the opportunity to study for a year at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London.
Brian Wiles Guard A.R.T.: Debut. Regional: Three Sisters, Yale Rep; Our Town, Camp Monster, Williamstown Theater Festival; elijah, Small Prophecies, Local Theater Company, Boulder. Television: “Home Court,” “As The World Turns.” Brian recently received his MFA in acting from the Yale School of Drama, where his credits include Iachimo in Cymbeline, Elijah in Michael Mitnick’s elijah, and Jane Heimlich in Jake Jeppson’s Miss Heimlich.
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David Adjmi Author A.R.T.: Debut. David Adjmi is the author of Elective Affinities, the 2011 site-specific Off-Broadway hit starring four-time Tony winner Zoe Caldwell (commissioned by the Royal Court; world premiere at Royal Shakespeare Company). Other plays include Stunning (Lincoln Center Theater’s LTC3, Woolly Mammoth), The Evildoers (Sundance, Yale Rep, Royal Court), 3C (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre), Caligula (Soho Rep Studio Series), and Strange Attractors (Empty Space). He received the 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship, 2010 Whiting Writers’ Award in Playwriting, 2009 Steinberg Playwright Award, 2009 Bush Fellowship, 2009 Kesselring Fellowship, Helen Merrill Award, Marian Seldes-Garson Kanin Award, Cherry Lane Mentor Project Fellowship, multiple MacDowell Colony fellowships, Sundance/Ucross residency and others. David has been awarded commissions from Lincoln Center Theater, Yale Rep, Berkeley Rep, and the Royal Court. A collection of David’s work, Stunning and Other Plays, is published by TCG, and he is currently writing a novel for Harper Collins.
Rebecca Taichman Director A.R.T.: Debut. New York: Off-Broadway: upcoming Luck of the Irish (by Kristen Greenidge), LCT3; Milk Like Sugar (by Kirsten Greenidge), Playwrights Horizons; Orlando (by Sarah Ruhl), Classic Stage Company; Dark Sisters (world premiere, music by Nico Muhly, libretto by Stephen Karam), Music Theater Group/Gotham Opera at John Jay; Orpheus (by Telemann), New York City Opera; The Scene (by Theresa Rebeck), Second Stage; Menopausal Gentleman, The Ohio Theatre. Regional: The Winter’s Tale, upcoming at McCarter Theatre and Shakespeare Theatre Company; Sleeping Beauty Wakes (book by Rachel Sheinkin, music and lyrics by Groove Lilly), Twelfth Night, McCarter Theatre; Milk Like Sugar (world premiere),
La Jolla Playhouse; She Loves Me, Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Cymbeline, Twelfth Night, and The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare Theater Company; Dead Man’s Cell Phone (world premiere, by Sarah Ruhl), The Clean House (by Sarah Ruhl, 2006 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Resident Play), Woolly Mammoth; The Evildoers (world premiere by David Adjmi), Iphigeneia at Aulis, Yale Repertory; The Green Violin, (world premiere by Elise Thoron with music by Frank London, 2003 Barrymore Award for Outstanding Direction of a Musical), The Prince Music Theatre; Swimming in March (world premiere by Kate Robin, 2001 IRNE Award for Best New Play), The Market Theater; Oklahoma City (by Tom Cole), Theatre Offensive. Currently co-creating new piece Rehearsing Vengeance with Paula Vogel for OSF and Yale Repertory Theatre. Instructor: The O’Neill National Theater Institute, MIT, Yale University, and the University of Maryland. Training/Affiliations: TCG New Generations Grant Recipient with Woolly Mammoth, Drama League Directing Fellowship, MFA from Yale School of Drama.
Karole Armitage Choreographer A.R.T.: Death and the Powers: The Robots’ Opera. Artistic Director of the Armitage Gone! Dance Company based in New York, and renowned for pushing the boundaries to create contemporary works that blend dance, music, and art. Armitage has choreographed for major dance companies throughout Europe and the U.S. and has directed opera for leading European houses. She was director of the Florence Ballet (1996–2000), the Venice Biennale of Contemporary Dance (2001), and was resident choreographer for the Ballet de Lorraine (2000–2005). She is known for her collaborations with important contemporary artists, such as Jeff Koons, Brice Marden, filmmaker James Ivory, and pop icons Madonna and Michael Jackson. She has also created choreography for a William Wegman dog and choreographed the Cirque du Soleil production AmaLuna in 2012, directed by Diane Paulus. Armitage received a Tony nomination for her Broadway choreography continued>
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of Hair (2009), also directed by Diane Paulus, after making her Broadway debut with Passing Strange (2008), also filmed by Spike Lee. She received the French honor Commandeur dans L’ordre des Arts et des Lettres. She danced with Balanchine’s Geneva Ballet (1973–1975) and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (1976–1981).
Peter Sellars for the Teatro Real in Madrid, Stew and Heidi’s The Total Bent at The Public Theater and the world premiere of Tennessee Williams’s last play, Of Masks Outrageous and Austere at the Bleeker Street Theater in New York. An OBIE and Bessie award winner, Ms. Berry is the only American to ever win an individual medal at the Prague International Design Quadrennial. She received a silver medal for her contributions to experimental theater.
Riccardo Hernandez
Christopher Akerlind
Set Designer A.R.T.: Close to 20 credits, including most recently The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Prometheus Bound, Best of Both Worlds, The Seagull, Julius Caesar, Britannicus and Marat/Sade. Broadway: The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, The People in the Picture (Studio 54); Caroline, or Change (also National Theatre London); Topdog/Underdog (also Royal Court, London); Elaine Stritch at Liberty (also West End’s Old Vic, London and national tour); Parade (Hal Prince director, Tony and Drama Desk nominations); Bells Are Ringing; Noise/Funk (also national tours and Japan); The Tempest. Other New York credits: Over two dozen productions at New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater; as well as Lincoln Center, Second Stage, NYTW, MTC, MCC, Playwrights Horizons, Cherry Lane, BAM; and numerous regional theaters: Guthrie, Goodman, Taper, etc. Opera: Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, NYCO, Houston Grand and most recently Il Postino for Los Angeles Opera, Opera de Chatelet Paris, Theater an der Wien and Lost Highway (London’s English National Opera/ Young Vic) directed by Diane Paulus. Also: Avignon Festival, Festival Automne Paris, Oslo National Theater, Det Norske Teatret, Norway. Upcoming: Ital Die Entfuhrung Aud dem Serail for Opera de Nice, France.
Lighting Designer A.R.T.: The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, The Seagull, Britannicus, Island of Slaves, Orpheus X, Olly’s Prison, Oedipus, La Dispute, Uncle Vanya, Enrico IV, Misalliance. Recent: Set and Lighting Design for Topdog/Underdog (directed by Suzan-Lori Parks), Two River Theatre; Broadway production of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (Tony nomination); Martha Clarke’s L’Altra Metra del Cielo, Teatro alla Scala, Milan; the world premiere of Philip Glass’s Appomattox (directed by Robert Woodruff), San Francisco Opera. Broadway: End of the Rainbow, Superior Donuts, Top Girls, 110 in the Shade (Tony nomination), Shining City, Rabbit Hole, Talk Radio, Awake and Sing (Tony nomination), Seven Guitars (Tony nomination), The Light in the Piazza (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, and Henry Hewes awards). His extensive credits in opera include productions at the Boston Lyric, Dallas, Glimmerglass, Hamburg, Houston, Minnesota, New York City, Nissei, and Santa Fe Operas and over forty-six productions for Opera Theatre of St. Louis, where he was resident lighting designer for twelve years. He is the recipient of an OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design, the Michael Merritt Award for Design and Collaboration, and numerous nominations for the Drama Desk, Lucile Lortel, Outer Critics Circle, and Tony awards.
Gabriel Berry Costume Designer A.R.T.: The Provok’d Wife; Pericles; The Birthday Party; Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2; Henry V; The Tempest; The Threepenny Opera. Recent work includes Osvaldo Goliov’s Ainadamar directed by
Matt Hubbs Sound Designer A.R.T.: Three Pianos. Sound Design credits: How We Got On, Death Tax, A Devil at Noon, Humana Festival of New American Plays; Three Pianos, continued>
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Tara Rubin CASTING NYTW; The Human Scale, Public Theater; 100 Saints You Should Know, Playwrights Horizons; Telephone, Foundry Theatre; Hammock, The Matter of Origins: Tea, Blueprints of Relentless Nature, and 613 Radical Acts of Prayer, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange; the National Playwrights Conference, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. A company member of the TEAM, he has designed Mission Drift, Architecting, Particularly in the Heartland, and A Thousand Natural Shocks. BA in Philosophy as a University Scholar at Xavier University.
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Puppet Designer A.R.T.: Debut. Worked with: Dan Hurlin, Mabou Mines, Lee Breuer, Basil Twist, Paula Vogel, Chris Green, Metropolitan Opera, MTV, and Lake Simons. Favorite collaborations include: A Howling Flower (directed by Nami Yamamoto); Rinne Groff’s Compulsion (dir. Oskar Eustis). Film: In the House of the Sin Eater. Currently, Matt directs the Puppet Lab at St. Ann’s Warehouse; Resident Puppetry Director for Warhorse, Lincoln Center Theater; Associate Puppetry Director for the War Horse North American tour.
J. David Brimmer Fight Choreographer A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway choreography: Wit; Born Yesterday; A Life in the Theatre; Speed the Plow; Come Back, Little Sheba; Spring Awakening; The Lieutenant of Inishmore. New York premieres: Blasted, The Whipping Man, Ages of the Moon, The American Pilot, Blackbird, Bug, Killer Joe. Worked with: The Public Theater, Metropolitan Opera, MTC, The Atlantic, The Roundabout, The Guthrie, David Mamet, Sam Shepard, Ethan Coen, Martin McDonough, Tracy Letts, Ken Russell, Franco Zeffirelli.
Casting A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: Ghost; Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway; How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying; Promises, Promises; A Little Night Music; Billy Elliot; Shrek; Guys and Dolls; The Country Girl; RockN’Roll; The Farnsworth Invention; …Young Frankenstein; The Little Mermaid; Mary Poppins; My Fair Lady; Pirate Queen; Les Misérables; History Boys; Spamalot; Jersey Boys; …Spelling Bee; The Producers; Mamma Mia!; Imaginary Friends; Phantom of the Opera; Oklahoma!; Happiness; The Frogs; Contact; Thou Shalt Not. Off-Broadway: Love, Loss, and What I Wore, Second Stage. Regional: Yale Repertory Theatre, Kennedy Center, La Jolla Playhouse, Dallas Theatre Center, The Old Globe, Westport Country Playhouse. Film: Lucky Stiff, The Producers.
Amanda Spooner Stage Manager A.R.T.: Debut. Off-Broadway: Black Tie, Happy Now?, NEWSical the Musical, Ink’d, Macbeth. Regional: Yale Repertory Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse, Baltimore’s CenterStage, Northern Stage, Elm Shakespeare. National Tours: NEWSical the Musical, Finding Ways…, Macbeth. Television: “The Academy Awards.” Amanda received her MFA from Yale School of Drama.
Kevin Schlagle Assistant Stage Manager A.R.T.: Prometheus Bound, The Donkey Show, Alice Vs. Wonderland. In association with OBERON: Roller Disco the Musical! Regional: God of Carnage, Ruined, Prelude to a Kiss, Huntington Theatre Company; The Comedy of Errors, Ten Cents a Dance, Williamstown Theatre Festival; Boston Playwrights’; Boston Children’s Theatre; Arden Theatre Company of Philadelphia; Westport Country Playhouse. Opera credits include Romeo et Juliette, Susannah, Dialogues of the Carmelites, Cosi fan tutte, Jake Heggie’s Three Decembers. BFA Stage Management Boston University.
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Assistant Director A.R.T.: Debut. Worked with: La Jolla Playhouse, Marin Theatre Company, Northlight Theatre, The Cutting Ball Theatre. New York International Fringe Festival: Baristas, Heads. She previously worked as an Agent Trainee at William Morris Endeavor Entertainment. She attended The Boston Conservatory and graduated from Northwestern University.
Assistant Director A.R.T.: Debut. Boston Experimental Theatre Company, director and producer: The Spurt of Blood, The Misunderstanding, There Is Another Court: An Evening with JonBenet Ramsey, Trim: The Tyger Woods Story, The Other Woman, Crying Deer, Play Strindberg; Dance of Death (Best Directing Award from KCACTF-2007). Assistant director: Nora Theatre, Underground Railway Theatre, Shakespeare Now! Theatre Company. Stage manager and actor in Iran, and director The Most Honest Murderer in The World. Film producer: Over There (Golden Alexander at THESSALONIKI film festival for the Best Future Movie-2008).
Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 49,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org The scenic, costume, lighting and sound designers in LORT Theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA-829 IATSE.
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A.R.T. Board of Trustees Donald Ware, Chairman Laurie Burt Paul Buttenwieser Kevin Cole Costin Mike Dreese Michael Feinstein Provost Alan M. Garber Lori Gross Ann Gund Sarah Hancock Fumi Matsumoto Rebecca Milikowsky Ward Mooney Diane Paulus James Rhee Dina Selkoe Diana Sorensen Lisbeth Tarlow A.R.T. Board of Advisors Kathleen Connor, Co-Chair Rachael Goldfarb, Co-Chair Frances Shtull Adams Joseph Auerbach* Philip Burling* Greg Carr Antonia Handler Chayes* Bernard Chiu Lizabeth Cohen Rohit Deshpande Susan Edgman-Levitan Jill Fopiano Erin Gilligan Candy Gold Barbara Wallace Grossman Horace H. Irvine II Dan Mathieu Travis McCready Ellen Gordon Reeves Linda U. Sanger Maggie Seelig John A. Shane Michael Shinagel Sam Weisman Alfred Wojciechowski Yuriko Jane Young *Emeriti Founding Director Robert Brustein
About the A.R.T. The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University is dedicated to expanding the boundaries of theater. Winner of the 2012 Tony Award for Best Musical Revival for its production of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, the A.R.T. 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. In 2008, Diane Paulus stepped into the role of Artistic Director. The A.R.T. is the recipient of numerous other awards including the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theater, the Pulitzer Prize, and many Elliot Norton and I.R.N.E. Awards. Its recent premiere production of Death and The Powers: The Robots’ Opera was also a 2012 Pulitzer Prize nominee. During its 32-year history, the A.R.T. has welcomed many major American and international theater artists, presenting a diverse repertoire that includes premieres of American plays, bold reinterpretations of classical texts and provocative new music theater productions. The A.R.T. has performed throughout the U.S. and worldwide in 21 cities in 16 countries on four continents. The A.R.T. is also a training ground for young artists. The Theater’s artistic staff teaches undergraduate classes in acting, directing, dramatic literature, dramaturgy, voice, and design at Harvard University. In 1987, the A.R.T. founded the Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University. A two-year, five-semester graduate program that operates in conjunction with the Moscow Art Theater School, the Institute provides world-class professional training in acting, dramaturgy and voice. Since becoming Artistic Director, Diane Paulus has programmed innovative work that has enhanced the A.R.T.’s core mission to expand the boundaries of theater. Productions such as Sleep No More, The Donkey Show, Gatz, The Blue Flower, Prometheus Bound, Death and the Powers: The Robots’ Opera, and The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, have immersed audiences in original theatrical experiences. The A.R.T.’s club theater, OBERON, which Paulus calls a “second stage for the 21st century,” has become an incubator for local artists and has also attracted national attention for its groundbreaking model for programming. Through all of its work, the A.R.T. is committed to building a community of artists, technicians, educators, staff and audience, all of whom are integral to the A.R.T.’s mission.
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Yale Repertory Theatre is dedicated to the production of new plays and bold interpretations of classics and has produced well over 100 premieres — including two Pulitzer Prize winners and four other nominated finalists—by emerging and established playwrights. Eleven Yale Rep productions have advanced to Broadway, garnering more than 40 Tony Award nominations and eight Tony Awards. Yale Rep is also the recipient of the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. Professional assignments at Yale Repertory Theatre are integral components of the program at Yale School of Drama, the nation’s leading graduate theatre training conservatory. Established in 2008, Yale’s Binger Center for New Theatre is an artist-driven initiative that devotes major resources to the commissioning, development, and production of new plays and musicals at Yale Rep and across the country. Among the Center’s programs, a key component is its Production Enhancement Fund, which provides financial support for productions at other theatres of works commissioned by and/or first produced at Yale Rep. The Center also facilitates residencies of playwrights and composers at Yale School of Drama. To date, the Center has supported the work of more than 40 commissioned artists as well as the world premieres and subsequent productions of twelve new American plays and musicals—including David Adjmi’s Marie Antoinette, Dear Elizabeth by Sarah Ruhl, and Bill Camp and Robert Woodruff’s new adaptation of In a Year with 13 Moons by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, all of which will premiere in Yale Rep’s 2012-13 season. Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground, adapted by Bill Camp and Robert Woodruff, was the first commissioned play supported by the Center to receive its world premiere at Yale Rep. In 2010, Notes had its West Coast premiere at La Jolla Playhouse and its New York premiere at Theatre for a New Audience, in association with the Baryshnikov Arts Center. The Center also supported the world premiere co-production of Rinne Groff’s Compulsion at Yale Rep, Berkeley Rep, and The Public Theater; the world premiere of the Yale Rep-commissioned On the Levee by Marcus Gardley, Todd Almond, and Lear deBessonet at Lincoln Center Theater’s LCT3; and the world premiere of Maggie-Kate Coleman and Anna K. Jacobs’s musical POP! at Yale Rep and its May 2012 production at Pittsburgh’s City Theatre. For more information, please visit yalerep.org.
Commissioned Artists David Adjmi, Todd Almond, Christina Anderson, Hilary Bell, Adam Bock, Sheila Callaghan, Bill Camp, Lucinda Coxon, Lear deBessonet, Will Eno, Dorothy Fortenberry, Marcus Gardley, Matt Gould, Kirsten Greenidge, Danai Gurira, Ann Marie Healy, Amy Herzog, Naomi Iizuka, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Aditi Brennan Kapil, Carson Kreitzer, Dan LeFranc, Elizabeth Meriwether, Scott Murphy, Julie Marie Myatt, David Lefort Nugent, Lina Patel, Jay Reiss, Sarah Ruhl, Octavio Solis, Rebecca Taichman, Lucy Thurber, The Rude Mechs, Alice Tuan, Paula Vogel, Kathryn Walat, Anne Washburn, Marisa Wegrzyn, Robert Woodruff
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A.R.T./MXAT Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University Scott Zigler, Director Julia Smeliansky, Administrative Director Marcus Stern, Associate Director Nancy Houfek, Head of Voice and Speech Andrei Droznin, Head of Movement Anatoly Smeliansky, Co-Head of Dramaturgy Ryan McKittrick, Co-Head of Dramaturgy
American Repertory Theater Diane Paulus, Artistic Director/CEO
Moscow Art Theater School Anatoly Smeliansky, Head
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Faculty Donna Ames Robert Brustein Thomas Derrah Andrei Droznin Jane Guyer Fujita Tatyana Gassel Jeremy Geidt David Hammond Adrienne Hawkins Arthur Holmberg Nancy Houfek Robert Lada Jodi Leigh Allen Will LeBow Ryan McKittrick Robert Najarian Marin Orlosky Diane Paulus Brendan Shea Anatoly Smeliansky Julia Smeliansky Marcus Stern Tommy Thompson Robert Walsh Sam Weisman Marina Van Winkle Scott Zigler
The Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University was established in 1987 by the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) as a training ground for the professional American theater. Its programs are fully integrated with the activities of the A.R.T. In the summer of 1998, the Institute commenced a historic joint program with the Moscow Art Theater (MXAT) School. Students engage with two invaluable resources: the work of the A.R.T. and that of the MXAT, as well as their affiliated schools. Together, this exclusive partnership offers students opportunities for training and growth unmatched by any program in the country. The core program features a rigorous two-year, five semester period of training in acting, dramaturgy, or voice pedagogy, during which students work closely with the professionals at the A.R.T. and the MXAT as well as with the best master teachers from the United States and Russia. At the end of the program, students receive a Certificate of Achievement from Harvard University and an M.F.A. Degree from the faculty of the Moscow Art Theater School. Further information about this program can be obtained by calling the Institute for a free catalog at (617) 495-2668 or going to our web site at www.harvardtheatertraining.org.
Singing Criticism and Dramaturgy Acting Movement Voice Russian Language and Culture Acting Acting, Shakespeare Social Dance Theater History, Dramaturgy Voice and Speech Alexander Technique Coordinator of Movement Training Voice-over Dramaturgy, Dramatic Literature Combat Movement Theater Practice Adaptation Theater History, Dramaturgy History of Set Design, Translation Acting Alexander Technique Combat Director of Professional Development Ballet Acting, Dramaturgy
Staff Chelsea Keating Janie Rangel Christopher Viklund Skip Curtiss Acting David Abrams Devin Ackerman Elizabeth Bates Martha Boles Kristen Alyson Browne Billy Calder Erin Callahan Benjamin Crockett Lauren Doucette Samantha Eggers Eduardo FernandezBaumann Marisa Fratto Ashruf Ghanimah Elijah Guo Mario Haynes Megan Hopp Amen Igbinosun Dramaturgy Marissa Friedman Leslie Gehring Morgan Goldstein Fiona Kyle Voice Ronald Carlos
Institute Program Assistant Financial Aid Production Manager Technical Director Samara Kelly Rushi Kota Laura Kruegel Pedram Naseri Justin Packard Jamie Perkins Sarah Beth Roberts Adeola Role Henry Austin Shikongo Marissa Stewart Rebecca Strimaitis Dereks Thomas Robert Torres Katherine Vos Alec Wilson William Yuekun Wu Jing Xu Dara Yazdani Alexandra Juckno Kenneth Molloy Liana Stillman
Ashleigh Reade
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, 2011 and July 31, 2012.
Visionary Barr Foundation The Dana Foundation Ira and Leonore Gershwin Philanthropic Fund Sarah Hancock*
$100,000 and above The President and Fellows of Harvard College RN Family Foundation The Shubert Foundation
Benefactor E.H.A. Foundation Ann and Graham Gund* The Hershey Family Foundation
$50,000-$99,999 HILT – Hauser Grant Program Massachusetts Cultural Council The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust
Lisbeth Tarlow and Stephen Kay* Susan and Don Ware*
Edgerton Foundation Karmaloop Lizbeth and George Krupp* The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
National Corporate Theatre Fund National Endowment for the Arts Newbury Comics
LEADER Bank of America Katie and Paul Buttenwieser* The Gregory C. Carr Foundation Laura and Michael Dreese*
$25,000-$49,999
Producer Admirals Bank Hilary and Philip Burling Laurie Burt Kevin Cole Costin RoAnn Costin and James Bailey Bernard Chiu Ted and Joan†Cutler Sandi and Andrew Farkas Bernadette Feeney Michael Feinstein and Denise Waldron
Jill Fopiano and Paul Brickman Andrea and Marc George Gershwin Frances Gershwin Godowsky Trust Marcia Head DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund Barbara W. Hostetter Horace Irvine Judith and Douglas Krupp Kako and Fumi Matsumoto
Partner Anonymous The John W. Alden Trust Lisa and Joel Alvord Cambridge Trust Company Chung Family Foundation Ethel D. and Clarke Coggeshall Susan and Gerald Cohen Randi and Joel Cutler
Ashley Garrett and Alan Jones Erin Gilligan and Hoil Kim Candy Kosow Gold and Martin Waters Rachael Goldfarb John Hancock Financial Rosemarie and Steve Johnson Shelly and Ofer Nemirovsky
Sponsor Anonymous Frances Shtull Adams Enid Beal Nancy and David Berman Ruth and Mark Golub Barbara Wallace Grossman and Steve Grossman Roy A. Hunt Foundation
Donors
Barbara H. Landreth, M.D. Lori E. Lesser Wladzia and Paul McCarthy David G. Mugar Jeryl and Stephen Oristaglio Diane Paulus and Randy Weiner Melissa Posen and Larry Hirschhorn
$10,000-$24,999 Lucy and Ward K. Mooney Alison and Bob Murchison Cokie and Lee Perry Julia Pershan and Jonathan Cohen James Rhee and Margaret Smith Dina and Greg Selkoe Trust for Mutual Understanding Welch & Forbes
$5,000-$9,999 Bessie Pappas Charitable Foundation Janet and Irv Plotkin Valerie Beth Schwartz Foundation The Shane Foundation Fran and Barry Weissler Mary and Ted Wendell Yuriko Jane Young
$2,500-$4,999 Patricia Romeo-Gilbert and Paul Gilbert Nichole Bookwalter Savenor and Alan Savenor Christine and Rick Shea Rachel Solem Lynn and George Vos Zipcar
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Patron Anonymous Philip Anton Sheldon Appel Jan Bergstrom and Walter Fey Barbara E. Bierer and Steven E. Hyman, M.D. Linda Cabot Black Foundation Bill Brett Dorothea and Sheldon Buckler, M.D. Lynne and John Chuang Lizabeth Cohen and Herrick Chapman Maura Connolly and John Egan Margaret and Gardner Dozier Eastern Bank Susan Edgman-Levitan and Richard Levitan Julie Farkas and Seth Goldman Kiki and David Gindler Marjorie and Nicholas Greville
Joan and Charles Gross Lori E. Gross and Robert Douglas Campbell Joseph W. Hammer Jen Horton and Dave Regan Hunt Alternatives Fund Karen Johansen and Gardner Hendrie Sheridan and Jerome Kassirer Lawrence Kotin John D. C. Little Gregory Maguire Barbara Manocherian Marie and James Marlas Erica and Bob Mason Karen and Gary Mueller Alan Muraoka Emily and Dan O’Neil Janine and Robert Penfield Patricia and Finley Perry
$1,000-$2,499 Gerald Pier Lia and William Poorvu Larry Pratt Ellen Gordon Reeves Helen Riess, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Andres Rodriguez The Schneer Foundation Wendy Shattuck and Sam Plimpton Michael Shinagel and Marjorie North John Snow, Inc. Brenda Sullivan and Jeremy Kindall Deborah Sweet Janet Tiampo and David Parker The Joseph W. and Faith K. Tiberio Charitable Foundation Paul Traub John Travis Susan Whitehead Francis H. Williams
Contributor
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Anonymous Nancy Wang Adams Marta Bach Chris and Jim Barker William M. Bazzy Nina and Nessan Bermingham Jane and Leonard Bernstein, M.D. Diane Borger Dina Catani and Ned Gray Antonia H. Chayes Eleanor and Brian Chu G. David Forney Howard Gardner, M.D.
$500-$999
Grayson Family Foundation/ ABS Ventures Ms. Laura Green and Dr. David Golan Lindsay and Garth Greimann Dena and Felda Hardymon Hurlbut Family Charitable Lead Trust Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman Susan Kaplan Jane Katims and Dan Perlman Katherine N. Lapp Anita Meiklejohn and Vincent Piccirilli Jane Minasian and J. Grant Monahon NSTAR Foundation
Jennifer and Thomas Pincince Fern Portnoy and Roger Goldman Sally C. Reid and John D. Sigel Patti and Charles Ribakoff Jane Brooks Robbins Joan Arbetter Rosenberg Adina Schecter Marsha and Paul Shorthose Mark Slovenkai Jeannie and Mason Smith Dyann and Peter Wirth William Zinn
Lynn Kodama Lisa and Bill Laskin Mary and Paul Lee Liberty Mutual, Give with Liberty Program Ann Marie Lipinski Jennifer and Nick Littlefield Cynthia Livingston Barbara A. Manzolillo Mary Milton Kyra Montagu Faith Moore Ruth Moorman and Sheldon Simon Evelyn Musser Susan Napier and Stephen Coit Joan and Roderick Nordell Tris Oakley and Robert Stringer Drs. Hilda and Max Perlitsh Michael Ress Marita Rivero Andree Robert and Thomas M. Burger Peter Rogers Bonnie Rosse Janice Saragoni and Ben Bradlee
Belinda and Evan Schapiro Edward Silbert Diana Sorensen Spencer Foundation Michele Steckler Stephen Stulck S. Wade Taylor, Ph.D. and Stephen Zinner, M.D. Nicholas Warren Mindee Wasserman Sam Weisman and Constance McCashin Weisman Ryan West Alfred Wojciechowski and Tammerah Martin Antoinette and Michael Yacobian
Supporter Anonymous Janet and Godfrey Amphlett Richard Beaty Phillip Boykin Dennis Carboni Tatiana and Brian Cavanaugh Della Cushing Anna C. Fitzloff Sherri Floros Mr. and Mrs. Michael Frieze Kathleen and Robert Garner Mark Glasser Laurie and Jeffrey Goldbarg, M.D. Mary Jo Good Alicia and Martin Gordon Silvia Gosnell Robert Harrington Megan and Dave Hinckley Julie Joyal and Paul Reville Tracy Keene and Tim Longman Georgia Levenson Keohane and Nat Keohane CC King and Tom Tarpey
$250-$499
* Donors who provide annual operating support of $25,000 or more are members of the Artistic Director’s Circle. † deceased
Annual Fund Donors (continued)
A.R.T. NYC Donors A.R.T. NYC is a group of curious, committed, and engaged individuals that provides generous annual support to the American Repertory Theater. The following gifts of $250 or more were received between July 1, 2011 and July 31, 2012.
PRODUCER Sandi and Andrew Farkas
$10,000 OR MORE
Julia Pershan and Jonathan Cohen
PARTNER Ashley Garrett and Alan Jones
$5,000-$9,999
Andrea and Marc George Gershwin
SPONSOR Ruth and Mark Golub Barbara H. Landreth , M.D.
Lori E. Lesser Melissa Posen and Larry Hirschhorn
MEMBER Anonymous Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman Marie and James Marlas
Mary Milton Georgia Levenson Keohane and Nat Keohane
$2,500-$4,999 Lynn and George Vos
$250-$2,499 Michael Ress Adina Schecter
In-Kind Supporters The A.R.T. thanks the following individual and corporate supporters for their invaluable in-kind donations. Ilex Designs/ Andrew Anderson (2012/13 Season Floral Sponsor) ilexflowers.com
90+ Cellars Boston Beer Company/Kris Comtois Cambridge 1 The Catered Affair The Charles Hotel Dig Publishing/DigBoston Event Illuminations/Derek Wiles Nathan D. Fowler
MAX Ultimate Food/ Dan Mathieu and Neal Balkowitsch (2012/13 Season Catering Sponsor) maxultimatefood.com Google Grafton Street Henrietta’s Table Hotel Veritas The Kendall Hotel Latitude Beverage Company OM Rutland Nurseries/Sean Green
The Urban Grape/ T.J. and Hadley Douglas (2012/13 Season Wine Sponsor) theurbangrape.com Sandrine’s Bistro The D.L. Saunders Companies Tory Row Trader Joe’s Upstairs on the Square Zipcar
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 or more to National Corporate Theatre Fund. Acquis Consulting Group† • American Airlines† • American Express Foundation • AOL† • Mitchell J. Auslander** • Bank of America • Bingham McCutchen* • Bloomberg • BNY Mellon • Broadway Across America* • James E. Buckley* • Steven Bunson • Christopher Campbell/Palace Production Center† • Christ Economos** • Cisco Systems, Inc.* • Citi • Cleveland Clinic* • CMT/ABC**† • Columbia Records* • Dantchik Family* • Datacert, Inc.* • Dorsey & Whitney Foundation • Dramatists Play Service, Inc. * • John R. Dutt • Epiq Systems* • Ernst & Young • Bruce R. and Tracey Ewing** • Pamela Farr • Richard Fitzburgh • Steve & Donna Gartner** • Goldman, Sachs & Co. • Nancy Hancock Griffith* • Kathleen Hancock* • Mariska Hargitay** • Gregory S. Hurst • Joseph F. Kirk • Michael Lawrence and Dr. Glen Gillen* • Marsh & McLennan Companies • John R. Mathena • Jonathan Maurer and Gretchen Shugart** • The McGraw-Hill Companies • MetLife • John G. Miller • Morgan Stanley • Theodore Nixon** • Ogilvy & Mather† • Frank Orlowski • Edison Peres • Pfizer, Inc. • Planet Data* • Thomas Quick • RBC Wealth Management • RVM INC. * • The Ralph and Luci Schey Foundation** • Seyfarth Shaw LLP* • Sharp Electronics† • Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLC* • George S. Smith, Jr. • Theatermania.com/Gretchen Shugart* • John Thomopoulos** • TrialGraphix* • Evelyn Mack Truitt* • James S. Turley • The James S. and Lynne P. Turley Ernst & Young Fund for Impact Creativity** • UBS • Vernalis Systems† • Michael A. Wall* • Wells Fargo** • Wilkins Management* • Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP* • Isabelle Winkles** *Fund for New American Theatre **Impact Creativity †Includes In-kind Support As of July 2012
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AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER STAFF
FINANCE Comptroller Senior Finance Accountant Financial Administrator Payroll Administrator Financial Assistant Student Financial Aid Administrator Financial Analyst
PRODUCTION
ARTISTIC Artistic Director/CEO Producer/Interim Managing Director Artistic Coordinator Director of Special Projects Dramaturg Special Assistant to the Artistic Director/CEO Company Manager Artistic Associate Artistic Director Fellow Company Management Intern Dramaturgy Intern
Diane Paulus Diane Borger Chris De Camillis Ariane Barbanell Ryan McKittrick Lauren Antler Mark Lunsford Allegra Libonati Shira Milikowsky Anna Kelsey Josh Glenn-Kayden
INSTITUTE Director Administrative Director Associate Director Co-head of Dramaturgy Co-head of Dramaturgy Resident Literary Advisor Head of Voice and Speech Institute Program Assistant Production Manager Technical Director
Scott Zigler Julia Smeliansky Marcus Stern Anatoly Smeliansky Ryan McKittrick Arthur Holmberg Nancy Houfek Chelsea Keating Christopher Viklund Skip Curtiss
EXTERNAL AFFAIRS DEVELOPMENT
36 Director of Development Grants Manager Special Events and Corporate Partnerships Officer Development Information Coordinator Development Associate
Barbara Addison John Josti Stacie Hurst Floyd Patterson Nira Tejada Janie Rangel Ann Kellegher
Megan Hinckley Meghan Coleman Emily O’Neil Brendyn Schneider Lily Lewis-McNeil
MARKETING Director of Marketing and Communications Anna Fitzloff Director of Press and Public Relations Katalin Mitchell Marketing and Communications Manager Jared Fine Graphic Designer Joel Zayac Education and Community Programs Associate Brendan Shea Marketing and Communications Associate Grace Geller Donkey Show VIP Coordinator Julia Sommer Marketing Interns Sam Lanier, Emma Bridges, Emily Mitchell Education Interns Andy Short, Hayley Sherwood, Jenna Spencer
Production Manager Associate Production Managers
Patricia Quinlan Christopher Viklund, Skip Curtiss J. Michael Griggs
Loeb Technical Director COSTUMES Costume Shop Manager Assistant Costume Shop Manager Costume Artisan Wardrobe Supervisor Costume/Props Stock Manager
Jeannette Hawley Mary R. Hurd Caitlin Menotti Stephen Drueke Suzanne Kadiff
LIGHTS Master Electrician Light Board Operator Assistant Lighting Designer
Derek L. Wiles Matthew Houstle Porsche McGovern
PROPERTIES Properties Manager Assistant Properties Master Properties Carpenter SCENERY Technical Director Assistant Technical Directors Scenic Charge Artist Master Carpenter Scenic Carpenters
Cynthia Lee-Sullivan Rebecca Helgeson Stacey Horne-Harper Stephen Setterlun Nick Fouch, Chris Swetcky Jerry Vogt Peter Doucette York-Andreas Paris, Kristin Knutson, Garret McEntee
SOUND Resident Sound Designer/Engineer Deck Audio Technician Sound Console Operator STAGE Stage Supervisor Assistant Stage Supervisor Production Assistants
Clive Goodwin Katrina Sistare Brian Walters Jeremie Lozier Christopher Eschenbach Kevin Klein, Matthew Sebastian
OBERON Producer Associate Producer Production Manager Venue Manager Programming Manager House Technician Sound Console Operator
Randy Weiner Ariane Barbanell Skip Curtiss Erin Wood James Wetzel Justin Paice Aaron Mack
BOX OFFICE Head of Patron Systems Derek Mueller Box Office Manager Ryan Walsh Box Office and Group Sales Coordinator Alicia Curtis Box Office Representative Karen Snyder Box Office Staff Heather Conroe, Cassandra Long, Amelia Mason, Emma Putnam THEATER AND FACILITIES Theater and Facilities Manager Tracy Keene Front of House Manager Stephen Wuycheck Receptionists Sarah Leon, Maria Medeiros Volunteer Usher Coordinator Barbara Lindstrom Duty House Managers Anna Kelsey, Nick Mansur, Heather Quick, Adam Quinn, Eleanor Regan, Courtney Smith, Matthew Spano, Ben Tyson, Matt Wood
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A.R.T. EDUCATION EXPERIENCE & COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS The A.R.T. community programs are designed to provide an unprecedented level of access to A.R.T. artists and productions. Over the course of the 2011/12 Season, over 4,000 students and community members participated in the A.R.T.’s education and community activities. The Education Experience engages the theater’s resources to provide a deep arts education experience for students in the Greater Boston area. Each of the A.R.T.’s partner schools enters into a season-long collaboration with the A.R.T., during which students are provided subsidized access to A.R.T. performances, mentoring opportunities, classroom visits from A.R.T. artists and staff, and innovative workshops that tie curricular concepts to specific A.R.T. productions.
Community Connections aligns the theater with Greater Boston non-profit organizations, for the purpose of providing underresourced families and individuals with access to high-quality arts experiences. Community Connections partners get a custom-built arts program that pairs subsidized tickets to the A.R.T. with an array of enrichment programming—ranging from private artist talks to creative workshops.
Some of our Community Connections Partners:
Artists for Humanity Cambridge Community Services Goddard House Mssng Lnks MGH Youth Programs Primary Source Students Organized Against Racism United South End Settlements Wheelock Family Theater YWCA Boston
Learn more at americanrepertorytheater.org/community The A.R.T. would like to thank the following for being our “connectors:” Adele Fleet Bacow, Linda Chin, Susan Edgman-Levitan, Erin Gilligan, Mike Feinstein, Sheldon Fischer, Sarah Patrick Morgese, and Ann Moritz.
Both the Education Experience and Community Connections are dependent upon charitable contributions. Providing support for education and outreach not only underwrites a ticket, but also provides a student or community member with an unforgettable arts experience. A gift of $25 sponsors a child for a performance A gift of $50 sponsors a child and a chaperone for a performance A gift of $100 sponsors a child for the entire 2012/13 Season For more information on supporting the Education Experience or Community Connections programming, including opportunities to sponsor an entire school or non-profit organization, please call the Development Department at 617.496.2000 x8847 or email megan_hinckley@harvard.edu
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