Tiny Beautiful Things and An Iliad Stagebill

In the Arcadia Stage

In the Bob and Selma Horan Studio Theatre

Tiny Beautiful Things OCT 24 - DEC 8 An Iliad NOV 13 - DEC 15

WELCOME

From the Producing Artistic Director One of the Arden’s great strengths is that we have three theaters of different sizes that each provide unique opportunities for bringing a wide range of stories to life.

The Haas is an epic space, allowing for larger, more expansive works such as Gem of the Ocean and Ragtime. The Arcadia is an ideal space for smaller stories, be they contemporary or classical, and fosters a connection between actors and audience. The Bob and Selma, our most intimate theater, allows audiences to be up-close-and-personal with the actors, or, as with Every Brilliant Thing, in the play itself. Each of these theaters is flexible, meaning that we move the seats around to best serve the story being told. In recent years, I’ve been more interested than ever in keeping the audience as close to the action as possible, gathered together around the stage, seeing others watching the story, all together in the same room.

I am drawn to Tiny Beautiful Things and An Iliad because each play does just that: they celebrate the power of theater to remind us that we are all in this together.

They are two very different texts – An Iliad is an ancient story, presumed to have been passed down from storyteller to storyteller for centuries before being written down in the eighth century BCE. Tiny Beautiful Things is a completely contemporary creation, a product of the internet age drawn from letters to an online advice columnist and the wisdom she imparts.

But despite such different origins – despite being written thousands of years apart – these two plays share an underlying passion: they are stories that explore what it means to be human. Both stories seek to connect, to confront, and to find truth in what can be a shocking and bewildering world. Both strive to answer the unanswerable – recognizing that the quest is worthy even if the outcome impossible.

Tiny Beautiful Things and An Iliad share another similarity: they both celebrate the power of the actor. I have worked with so many gifted actors over the years and am still in awe of their incredible bravery, by their willingness to share so much of themselves in their crusade to illuminate what it is to be human. Night after night, performance after performance. The great gift of theater is that we get to share their astonishing and inspiring truth and, hopefully, find ourselves in the stories they tell.

When revealing herself as the writer behind Dear Sugar, Cheryl Strayed wrote, “Sugar’s job is to bring things into the light.” She then added, “I’ve always loved the word ‘reveal.’” At its best, theater does just that – and I am so grateful to the actors who give so much of themselves to make this possible.

Thank you for joining us.

ARDEN THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS

TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS Based on the novel Tiny Beautiful Things

by CHERYL STRAYED Adapted for the Stage by NIA VARDALOS Co-Conceived by

MARSHALL HEYMAN, THOMAS KAIL, and NIA VARDALOS Scenic Designer

Costume Designer

CHRISTOPHER HAIG

REBECCA KANACH

Lighting Designer

Sound Designer

MIKE INWOOD+

LUCAS CAMPBELL

Stage Manager

Assistant Director

ALEC E. FERRELL*

CHRISTINE FREIJE

Directed by MAURA KRAUSE October 24 - December 8 Honorary Producer: Elizabeth Gemmill Special thanks to the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust for supporting Arden Theatre Company.

TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS is presented through special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc., a Concord Theatricals Company.

Original New York Production by The Public Theater. Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director, Patrick Willingham, Executive Director.

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Arden Theatre Company receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the + Member of United Scenic Artists

Union of Professsional Actors and Stage Managers in the U.S.

A Message

From our Honorary Producer For over thirty years the Arden has been a home for both classic and contemporary works that tell thought-provoking stories. Tiny Beautiful Things continues that tradition with its compassion and hard-won wisdom.

Tiny Beautiful Things is a play based on a collection of Cheryl Strayed’s online advice columns that she wrote anonymously for two years. The book of Strayed’s columns had great critical success and debuted as Number 5 on the New York Times Best Seller List. In her review of the book for the New York Times, Anna Holmes said that “the writer’s world view - her empathy, her non judgment, her belief in the fundamental logic of people’s emotions and experiences despite occasional evidence to the contrary - begins to seep into the readers’ consciousness in such a way that they can apply her generosity of spirit to their own, and for a few hours at least, become better people.”

Under the deft direction of Maura Krause, we are drawn into Strayed’s generosity and wisdom with the help of Emilie Krause as Sugar.

I am delighted to help bring this extremely wise and compassionate play to the stage for the Arden’s 32nd season.

Cheers, Betsy

Playwright's Note The letters are real… I thought, as I read Cheryl Strayed’s incredibly moving book, Tiny Beautiful Things.

People wrote these letters.

A few years ago, author Cheryl Strayed gave advice as Sugar for the literary website, The Rumpus, and later collected the letters into a book. Journalist Marshall Heyman gave his friend, director Thomas Kail, the book and Tommy gave it to me suggesting it could become a play. As I read the letters exchanged, I wept, smiled, and was astonished by the raw and extraordinary candor.

Sugar and the writers of the letters reveal themselves and we find ourselves in their conundrums and sorrows, in their lives lived and roads traveled. I yearned to be as bold, audacious, and willful. As I adapted the book into a play, I found the words so illuminating that I grieved and moved on from certain events of my own.

Still, if I had one letter to write, it would be: Dear Sugar, I hope to be as brave as the writers of the letters and as open as Cheryl Strayed.

– Nia Vardalos

Director's Note Mention Dear Sugar to someone, and in my experience, more often than not you’ll get a response along the lines of “Oh! I love that book/podcast.”

I have my own “Oh!” response, which is that the book Tiny Beautiful Things came into my life at just the right moment. A friend gave it to me when I was seizing on anything to help me make sense of my tumultuous, seemingly collapsing life. While I was pretty skeptical at first, I ended up reading a couple of columns almost every night before bed for a month. Some of those columns meant a lot to me.

Yet in approaching this play, at first I had no idea how to make these columns mean anything to a live theatre audience. How could the piece feel like anything but a disjointed series of heartfelt monologues? Four incredible actors performing to a room of people felt like the opposite of the reflective nighttime solitude that marked my experience with Dear Sugar.

As it turns out, there is no opposition there. This play is about the creation of community through vulnerability and generosity, which is in turn what made any of our quiet personal connections possible. Without the scores of brave and seeking folx who wrote in so beautifully and openly, the concept of Sugar would have been hollow.

What ultimately gave an engine to our piece is the truth that building a community is hard.

As we learned time and again in the rehearsal room, such an effort compels the individuals involved to navigate generosity in all of its forms. Extending it to others is an act of strength and compassion, sure, but thoughtlessly demanding it from another is an act of privilege. What we think is generosity can actually be our own self aggrandizement, or so much generosity may be unfairly exacted by social oppression that some of our wells are dry before we ever consciously draw on them.

In this production, we explored how each of those kinds of generosity manifests in every character, including Sugar herself. We found moments of failure and triumph, moments where the community catches each other when Sugar cannot, and moments where she touches all of them deeply. We built in healing for Sugar as well as for the letter writers.

I hope this work of ours makes space for a wide range of reactions. I hope folx watching the show feel invited to engage authentically. And I trust that what we’re doing will ring true for someone, in some small private way, more often than not.

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Cast of Characters AKEEM DAVIS*.................................................................Letter Writer #1 JOILET F. HARRIS*...........................................................Letter Writer #2 EMILIE KRAUSE*.................................................................................Sugar BAILEY ROPER.................................................................Letter Writer #3 UNDERSTUDIES EZRA ALI-DOW (WRITER #1), BONNIE BALDINI (WRITER #3), NICOLE RENNA (SUGAR), SABRIAYA SHIPLEY (WRITER #2)

Arden Theatre Company is a professional company employing members of Actors’ Equity Association. *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

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Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 45,000 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. www.actorsequity.org AKEEM DAVIS ( Writer #1) Arden: Gem of the Ocean, A Doll’s House (Barrymore Award for Outstanding Supporting Performance in a Play). Regional: Chorus in The Arsonists (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company); Louis the Dauphin in King John, Lancelot in District Merchants (The Folger Theatre); Jackson in Buzzer (Theatre Exile); Alex in Shitheads (Azuka Theatre Company); Marcus Garvey in Marcus/Emma (InterAct Theatre Company); George in All My Sons (People's Light); William in Lobby Hero, Jabbar/Chili in In the Blood (Theatre Horizon); Oshoosi in The Brothers Size (Simpatico Theatre Project). Florida State University, 2009 Bachelor’s in Humanities.

Barrymore and Helen Hayes nominated actor. Recipient of the 2015 F. Otto Haas Award for Emerging Philadelphia Theatre Artist. Love to Tay. JOILET F. HARRIS ( Writer #2) Arden: A Doll’s House, Part 2, A Doll’s House, TouchTones, Gypsy, A Raisin in the Sun, Caroline or Change, Violet, Third & Indiana, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well.

Regional: Mary Poppins (Syracuse Stage); All My Sons (People’s Light); Because of Winn-Dixie (Delaware Theatre Co.); Crowns (Human Race Theatre); How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Hairspray (Walnut Street Theatre); Ella:The Musical, Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Weston Playhouse).

Film/Television: Law & Order: SVU (NBC); The Wire (HBO); Hack (CBS); Officer Donna in Philly (ABC). Thanks to God for ALL His many blessings! Thanks, as always, to Terry and the Arden staff! To God Be The Glory!!

EMILIE KRAUSE (Sugar) Arden: Charlotte’s Web (2018, 2011), Peter Pan, Funnyman, Beauty and the Beast, Sideways Stories from Wayside School. Regional: Henry V (Delaware Shakespeare); Three Sisters (Studio Theatre); O Monsters, The Adults, 27 (New Paradise Laboratories); The Children’s Hour (EgoPo Classic Theater); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Theatre Exile); Circle, Mirror,Transformation (Theatre Horizon); Our Class (Wilma Theater); Legacy of Light, A Wrinkle in Time (People’s Light) Training: B.A. from Temple University; Canada’s National Voice Intensive.

Emilie is a proud company member of New Paradise Laboratories. Awards: Recipient of a 2017 Independence Fellowship. Thank you to my family, Terry, Maura, and the whole Arden team.

BAILEY ROPER (Writer #3) Pronouns: they/them. Arden: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Puck u/s). Regional: Shakespeare in Love (upcoming, People's Light); Whisper's Gone (Theatre Exile); A Midsummer Night's Dream (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival); Twelfth Night (Shakespeare in Clark Park); Galatea (WP Theater); The Last Door (Ethos Physical Theater/Orlando Fringe). Education: University of the Arts (BFA - Acting). Core Ensemble Member of Plant Me Here (2017-2018).

Bailey's solo and collaborative work with Elliott Arrick has been shown at Single Carrot Theatre, Icebox Project Space,Vox Populi, Elsewhere Museum, Da Vinci Art Alliance, UNCG ArtTruck, DOTBiZ: Cranbrook Academy, and Genevieve's house. To all the gays and theys who keep me whole.

NIA VARDALOS (Playwright/Co-conceiver) wrote and starred in My Big Fat Greek Wedding which earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and an Independent Spirit Award and People’s Choice Award. Stage credits include originating the role of Sugar in The Public Theater’s Tiny Beautiful Things, directed by Thomas Kail, Jennie in Theatre20’s Company, directed by Gary Griffin, and writer and actor of twelve The Second City’s revues (Chicago’s Jeff Award winner, Best Actress.) Writing and acting film and television credits include Helicopter Mom, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, Larry Crowne, Connie and Carla, I Hate Valentine’s Day, My Life in Ruins; Jane the Virgin; Law and Order: SVU, and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.Vardalos is the New York Times bestselling author of Instant Mom, the story of adopting her daughter via foster care, and all proceeds are donated to adoption groups.

CHERYL STRAYED is the author of Tiny Beautiful Things, Brave Enough, Torch, and the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Wild, which was adapted into an Oscar-nominated film starring Reese Witherspoon. Wild was chosen by Oprah Winfrey as her first selection for Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 and has been translated into nearly forty languages around the world. Strayed's essays have been published in The Best American Essays, The New York Times, The Washington Post Magazine, Vogue, Salon, The Sun, Tin House, and elsewhere. She was the co-host, along with Steve Almond, of the hit advice podcast Dear Sugars. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

MARSHALL HEYMAN (Co-conceiver) Marshall is a television writer, journalist and passionate fan of Cheryl Strayed's Dear Sugar columns. He has contributed to such publications as The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue, InStyle, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, where he wrote the Heard & Scene column for six years. A writer on AMC's Dietland, he is currently developing several television and theatre projects and is at work on his first novel.

THOMAS KAIL (Co-conceiver) Broadway directing credits include: Hamilton (Tony Award); In the Heights (Tony Award Nomination); Lombardi and Magic/Bird. Other directing credits include the world premiere of Hamilton, Dry Powder, Tiny Beautiful Things, and Kings at the Public Theater; the world premiere of In the Heights; Broke-ology and the world premiere of When I Come to Die at Lincoln Center Theater; the world premiere of Daphne’s Dive at the Signature Theater. He is the co-creator and director of the hip-hop improv group Freestyle Love Supreme. He is a recipient of a Kennedy Center Honors Award, in addition to the Drama Desk Award, an Obie, a Callaway Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, and the Martin E. Segal Award from Lincoln Center. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University.

MAURA KRAUSE (Director) Arden Debut! Recent directing credits: Tilda Swinton Adopt Me Please (The Greenfield Collective); This Is On Record (Applied Mechanics); Bon Iver Fights a Bear (ampersand); Now More Than Ever by Val Dunn; Hedda Gabler (Arcadia University); Boycott Esther by Emily Acker (Azuka Theatre), for which Maura received a Barrymore nomination for Outstanding Direction of a Play. In the 2019/20 season, Maura is thrilled to be directing Tiny Beautiful Things, in addition to Man of God by Anna Moench (InterAct Theatre Company), and A Room at the Flamingo Hotel by Lena Barnard (Azuka Theatre). Maura is an award-winning director, creator, and producer of new work. She is the Artistic Associate at Azuka Theatre, in addition to being the Artistic Director of Barrymore Award-winning company Orbiter 3, Philadelphia’s first producing playwrights collective. Maura was a National New Play Network Producer-in-Residence for two seasons at InterAct Theatre Company, and is currently an Associated Artist with Applied Mechanics.

Who's Who CHRISTINE FREIJE (Assistant Director) Arden: Metamorphoses. Regional: Dream Rushes (a wonderland trip) (Theatre Contra); The Investigation of Warden Michael J. Cassidy (Philly Improv Theater and Easter State Penitentiary); The Art of Losing (The Greenfield Collective/SoLow Fest); Shrew (Reject Theatre Project). Other favorite projects include Jimmy Grzelak's Song of My Self-Care and a live reading of National Treasure with Theatre Contra. She has worked as an assistant director at Commonwealth Classic Theatre Company, Theatre Horizon, Philadelphia Artists' Collective and Berkshire Theatre Group. Education: College of the Holy Cross.

CHRISTOPHER HAIG (Scenic Designer) A proud graduate and faculty member at the University of the Arts, Chris

has worked professionally as a set and props designer in Philly for almost 20 years. Currently, he is enjoying his 9th season as Props Master at Arden Theatre Company. He has designed sets and/or props for the Arden, Theatre Horizon, 1812 Productions, Inis Nua Theatre Company, 11th Hour, Shakespeare in Clark Park, Tribe of Fools, Delaware Theatre Company, Mazeppa Productions, Commonwealth Classic Theatre Company, Delaware Shakespeare Festival, University of the Arts and Simpatico Theater, including their production of Time Is On Our Side for which he received a Barrymore nomination for Best Scenic Design. Later this season his set designs will be seen at Inis Nua (A Hundred Words for Snow) and Theatre Horizon (Athena). To see more of his work please visit chrishaigdesigns.com.

REBECCA KANACH (Costume Designer) Arden: John. Regional: Peaceable Kingdom (Orbiter 3, Barrymore Award).

Education: NYU Tisch (MFA '20). Rebecca is a company member of Bearded Ladies Cabaret and Lightning Rod Special.

Love to Maura, Cast, and Crew.

MIKE INWOOD (Lighting Designer) Arden: Touchtones. Regional: Mrs. Murray's Menagerie (Ars Nova); Miles for Mary, Hir (Playwrights Horizons); Small Mouth Sounds (Signature Theatre); Stupid Fucking Bird (The Pearl Theatre); Boycott Esther (Azuka Theatre); Cinderella (People's Light); Saudade (BAM); Peter and the Starcatcher, Into the Woods (Theatre Horizon); Rizzo (Philadelphia Theatre Company); La Traviata (Boston Lyric Opera); Rinaldo (Portland Opera). Education: Tisch School of the Arts (MFA). Awards: Emmy Award - 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games 9 (NBC Sports) LUCAS CAMPBELL (Sound Designer) is a sound designer and composer in Philadelphia. In 2017, Lucas was honored with a Barrymore Award nomination for Outstanding Sound Design for Azuka Theatre's production of How We Got On. This production is their debut sound design with the Arden Theatre Company and as an artist, they have had the opportunity to work with Azuka Theatre, Delaware Theatre Company, Theatre Exile, The Greenfield Collective, Lightning Rod Special, People's Light, The Wilma Theater, and others. Upcoming: A Christmas Carol at Delaware Theatre Company and A Room at the Flamingo Hotel at Azuka Theatre.

ALEC E. FERRELL (Stage Manager) Arden credits include: Indecent, Gem of the Ocean, Every Brilliant Thing, Once, Fun Home, Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, TouchTones (World Premiere), Gypsy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Legend of Georgia McBride, The Secret Garden, Funnyman, Metamorphoses, Passion, Macbeth, La Bête, Incorruptible, Three Sisters, Parade, A Raisin in the Sun, Next to Normal, August: Osage County, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Ghost-Writer (World Premiere), Blue Door, Rabbit Hole, My Name is Asher Lev (World Premiere). Regional: PlayPenn; Theatre Horizon; Eugene O’Neill Theater Center; PTC@Play. International: [untitled project] #213 (Edinburgh Festival Fringe). Proud Member of AEA. Love and thanks to the family.

TERRENCE J. NOLEN (Producing Artistic Director) is Co-founder and Producing Artistic Director of Arden Theatre Company. Favorite Arden productions include all-Philadelphia casts of August: Osage County, Death of a Salesman,The Grapes of Wrath, and Hedda Gabler; and such musicals as Next to Normal, Sweeney Todd, Pacific Overtures, Violet, and Caroline, or Change. Terry directed the inaugural production of Arden Children’s Theatre, Charlotte’s Web. He has directed seven world-premiere plays by Michael Hollinger, three by Dennis Raymond Smeal, three by Michael Ogborn, two by Rogelio Martinez, and Bruce Graham’s Something Intangible. Terry has been nominated for multiple Barrymore Awards for his directing work at the Arden and received awards for The Baker’s Wife; Sweeney Todd; Opus; Winesburg, Ohio; Assassins; Something Intangible; and Fun Home. He directed Michael Hollinger’s Opus at Primary Stages in New York and was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Director. His short film The Personal Touch was nominated for an Emmy Award.

Who's Who AMY L. MURPHY (Managing Director) A Philadelphia native, Amy co-founded the Arden in 1988 with Terrence J. Nolen and Aaron Posner. She is especially proud of the Arden Professional Apprentice program and its contribution to the Philadelphia cultural community. She completed the Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders-Arts. Amy has served on the Board of the Cultural Alliance and Theatre Philadelphia. She has served on panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Arts Council, Theatre Communications Group and the Philadelphia Cultural Fund. Amy was named a Hepburn Fellow 2008-9 by the Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center at Bryn Mawr College.

ARDEN THEATRE COMPANY Founded in 1988, Arden Theatre Company is dedicated to bringing to life great stories by great storytellers–on the stage, in the classroom, and in the community. For the 19/20 season, Arden Theatre Company will stage seven productions as part of our mainstage series and two productions through Arden Children’s Theatre, the city’s first resident professional children’s theatre program. We create and produce new work through the Independence Foundation New Play Showcase. The Arden Professional Apprenticeship program trains future theatre leaders, and Arden Drama School classes teach children and teens about the craft of making plays. Our access program, Arden For All, makes our work available to the entire ommunity through subsidized tickets and books for economically disadvantaged young people, and our Arden Arts Education Fund provides scholarships for Arden Drama School classes and camps. The Arden has received twelve Philadelphia Magazine “Best of Philly” Awards, the Arts & Business Council’s Arts Excellence Award, six City Paper “Reader’s Choice” Awards, four Philadelphia Inquirer “Theatre Company of the Year” citations, 77 awards and 418 nominations from the Theatre Philadelphia’s Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre, and was named “Best Theatre Company” by Philadelphia Weekly in 2009. Arden Theatre Company, a professional, nonprofit 501(c)(3) theatre company, is a member of the Theatre Communications Group, the League of Resident Theatres, Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau, and Old City Arts Association.

ARDEN THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS

AN ILIAD By

LISA PETERSON and DENIS O'HARE Based on Homer's THE ILIAD, translated by ROBERT FAGLES

Scenic and Costume Designer

Lighting Designer

JILLIAN KEYS

MARIA SHAPLIN

Sound Designer and Original Music

Assistant Director

JORDAN MCCREE

BAYLA RUBIN

Stage Manager

WENDY BLACKBURN EASTLAND* Directed by REBECCA WRIGHT November 13 - December 15 Honorary Producers:

Sandy and David Beswick Ceth and Sam Plum

Special thanks to the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust for supporting Arden Theatre Company.

AN ILIAD was originally developed as part of the New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspects Program, Off-Broadway premiere produced by New York Theatre Workshop (Jim Nicola, Artistic Director; William Russo, Managing Director) in 2012. AN ILIAD was originally produced by Seattle Repertory Theatre (Jerry Manning Producing Artistic Director; Benjamin Moore, Managing Director). It was subsequently produced by McCarter Theatre Center, Princeton, NJ (Emily Mann, Artistic Direct or; Timothy J. Shields, Managing Director, Mara Isaacs, Producing Director). AN ILIAD was developed in part with the assistance of the Sundance Institute Theatre Program.

AN ILIAD is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

Arden Theatre Company receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. *

Member of Actor's Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the U.S.

Director's Note Two things that people have been doing since the dawn of human time are gathering together to tell stories and fighting.

We are not soldiers. We are storytellers. And The Iliad is a massive and complex story.

Like many great texts, The Iliad lays itself open to many interpretations. It is a portrait of a war waged by the powerful that uses ordinary humans as fodder. A portrait of a society whose entire basis is in war. A portrait of an unjust, inexplicable war. A portrait of a generation completely defined by war. Of a leadership willing to send an entire generation of young men to die for a cause that no one fully believes in. A portrait of the dehumanizing effects of war, even as it is also a portrait of all that is noble about humans. A portrait of the human yearning for peace, and all that is desirable about peace, even as peace is wholly denied.

This adaptation, into which Denis O’Hare and Lisa Peterson poured their Bush-era outrage that an unjust and unprovoked war could proceed despite mass protests, just as easily lends itself to the more contemporary civilian despair that the rich and powerful will wage wars that profit them regardless of what it means for the rest of us, and that a society based in a country at perpetual war cannot be anything but violent, aggressive, inhumane and dehumanizing to its citizens. Agamemnon values personal pride, glory, and power over the welfare of his army. Greek gods orchestrate battles for sport. Achilles can do nothing with his sorrow and grief but turn it into horrific violence. American capitalism tells us to value profit over people, to hold subaltern and underprivileged lives for cheap, to take the violence that the state visits upon its own citizens as a matter of course.

None of us working on this show have ever fought in a war, and telling the stories of those that have only sharpens our sense of the distance between their experience and ours. But all of us have lived our entire lives in a country at war, a country defined by its domestic and international aggression, by its embrace of profit over people, by its addiction to violence and wealth. We live in a society defined by the terrible injustices that support and result from the military-industrial-capitalist complex. With this production of An Iliad, we have done our best to create a prayer for peace. We offer it to you in this spirit, and in hopes that there can be a future where war itself will seem as far away as Achilles, and violence and profit no longer define what it means to be American.

A Message From our Co-Honorary Producers We have always loved and searched for great theatre. One early memory was seeing Judi Dench and Ian McKellen perform Macbeth in one act in London in 1978 at the Warehouse Theatre, which was about the size of the Bob and Selma. The production was so inspiring that it required a second viewing.

In the eighties, our journey through the theater world continued in Connecticut at the Yale Repertory Theater, Long Wharf and the Goodspeed Opera House. Over the years, we have been fortunate to enjoy many New York productions on and off Broadway, at BAM, and at Lincoln Center.

When we moved back to the Philadelphia area and Delaware 18 years ago, our theater odyssey led us to the Arden, where we have seen many inspirational productions. In fact, we have enjoyed some shows at the Arden more than when we saw their original productions in Chicago (Superior Donuts) and New York (August: Osage County).

As ardent Arden supporters who love a great story told well, we are proud to help bring this epic journey to you and your friends.

Sandy and David

Written in the 8th Century BCE, The Iliad by Homer is one of the oldest stories known to humankind. So why has this story reverberated throughout history and remained present in our cultural canon?

It is because throughout history and into modern day, we have sought out stories of wartime heroism and the inevitable cost of battle. There is an allure to wartime stories that both horrifies and emboldens us.

Philadelphia artist Mary Tuomanen brings this epic to life through the adept direction of fellow local Rebecca Wright.

We are proud to bring this story to you today and hope you tell your friends!

Ceth and Sam

An Iliad Artists MARY TUOMANEN*..................................................................The Poet MUSICIAN JORDAN MCCREE UNDERSTUDY BAYLA RUBIN

Arden Theatre Company is a professional company employing members of Actors’ Equity Association. *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

Taking pictures and/or making visual or sound recordings is expressly forbidden.

Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 45,000 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. www.actorsequity.org MARY TUOMANEN (The Poet) Arden: Emma Goldman in Ragtime, Long John Silver in

Treasure Island, Alison in Fun Home, Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Witch in Macbeth, Irina in Three Sisters, Cinderella in Cinderella. Regional: Lise in Ne Quittez Pas (Opera Philadelphia); Quincy/Bart in Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play (Wilma Theater); Molly in Completeness (Theatre Exile); many shows with The Bearded Ladies Cabaret including Ardrei Warhola in Andy: A Popera. As playwright: Marcus/Emma (Interact Theater, 3 Barrymore Nominations including Best Play), Peaceable Kingdom (Orbiter 3, winner of The Virginia Brown-Martin Philadelphia Award), Hello! Sadness! (Kimmel Center Independence Studio, FringeArts). Mary is an alumna of L’Ecole Lecoq 2008, the 2017 Haas Emerging Artist Award winner, and was named Best Theater Talent by Philadelphia Magazine in 2015. An Illiad marks the 18th show she has made with beloved collaborators Rebecca Wright and Maria Shaplin, including a decade of work in their theatre company, Applied Mechanics (www.appliedmechanics.us). Thank you to the Arden for this remarkable challenge.

LISA PETERSON (Co-author) is a theater director who wrote and adapted An Iliad with actor Denis O’Hare, for which they won 2012 Obie and Lucille Lortel Awards. Her other adaptations include The Waves, adapted from the novel by Virginia Woolf, with composer David Bucknam (Drama Desk nominations), the upcoming The Good Book with Denis O’Hare, and Insurance Men with composer Todd Almond. She was Resident Director at the Mark Taper Forum for ten years, and Associate Director at La Jolla Playhouse for three years before that. Her directing credits include the world premieres of Tony Kushner’s Slavs!, Donald Margulies’ Collected Stories and The Model Apartment, Naomi Wallace’s Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, Janusz Glowacki’s The Fourth Sister, John Belluso’s The Poor Itch, Beth Henley’s Ridiculous Fraud, Jose Rivera’s Sueno, Marlane Meyer’s The Chemistry of Change, and many others. She has worked at theaters around the country including New York Theater Workshop, The Public, Playwrights Horizons, The Vineyard, Primary Stages, Manhattan Theater Club, MCC, Guthrie Theater, Seattle Rep, Berkeley Rep, Actors Theater of Louisville, Arena Stage,Yale Rep, and the McCarter Theater. Lisa won an Obie in 1991 for Caryl Churchill’s Light Shining in Buckinghamshire at NYTW, and Dramalogue, Drama Desk, and Calloway Award nominations for many other productions. She was the recipient of a TCG/NEA Career Development grant, and regularly develops new plays with the Sundance Theater Lab, New Dramatists, The Playwrights’ Center, and the O’Neill Theater Center. She is a graduate of Yale College, and a member of Ensemble Studio Theater, and the executive board of SDC. DENIS O'HARE (Co-author) is the co-author, along with Lisa Peterson, of the award winning Solo Performance Play, An Iliad (Obie, Lucille Lortel awards). Mr. O'Hare has appeared numerous times on Broadway in such pieces as Inherit The Wind, Sweet Charity (Drama Desk Award), Assassins (Tony Award Nomination), Take Me Out (Tony, Drama Desk awards), Major Barbara and Cabaret. He has also worked extensively Off-Broadway at the New York Theatre Workshop in The Devils and Vienna Lusthaus, at the New York Shakespeare Festival in Into The Woods, Helen, Take Me Out (Obie, Lucille Lortel Awards), and other theatres. His regional work includes Seattle Rep, Arena Stage, Goodman Theatre, Victory Gardens Theatre, Remains Theatre, and the McCarter Theatre. A prolific film and T.V. actor, Denis appeared in 2 seasons of “True Blood” as King

An Iliad Artists Russell Edgington, on multiple seasons of “American Horror Story,” and as Judge Abernathy on “The Good Wife.” Film work includes C.O.G., The Eagle, Changeling, Milk, Michael Clayton, A Mighty Heart, Duplicity, The Proposal, Charlie Wilson's War, and Garden State, among others. Mr. O'Hare is married to Hugo Redwood with whom he has a son. They live in Brooklyn, NY. REBECCA WRIGHT (Director) Arden: Indecent. Regional: Perfect Day (Headlong); Whisper's Gone (Theatre Exile);This Is On Record, FEED, We Are Bandits, Vainglorious (Applied Mechanics); The Wild Duck, Saint Joan, The Metamorphosis (Quintessence Theater Group); The Gap (Azuka Theater); Close Music for Bodies (Michael Kiley); Articles of Faith (Cynthia Hopkins); Peaceable Kingdom (Orbiter 3); Marcus/Emma (InterAct Theatre Company); At Home With the Humorless Bastard (Annie Wilson); Sarah Flood in Salem Mass (The Flea Theater); Sophie Gets the Horns (The Riot Group). Rebecca is the Artistic Director of Applied Mechanics, a radical theater collective with whom she has created over a dozen original immersive works.

BAYLA RUBIN (Assistant Director) Arden debut! Previous credits include: Applied Mechanics (company member 2012-2016), Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training, The Bearded Ladies, Pig Iron Theatre Company, Mary Tuomanen, Theatre Horizon, Marcel Williams Foster, The Riot Group, Swim Pony Performing Arts, The Berserker Residents, Shakespeare in Clark Park, Leah Stein Dance Company. Education: BFA from The University of the Arts.

JILLIAN KEYS (Scenic/Costume Designer) is stoked to be back at the Arden after previously designing Treasure Island, The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales and The Light Princess (all Barrymore Award nominated for Excellence in Costume Design)! She is a UArts graduate (2011), and former Walnut St. Theatre Apprentice (20112012). Along with managing the Drexel University Costume Shop and doing children's theater at Upper Darby Summer Stage between seasons, she has designed costumes for Pig Iron Theatre Company, 1812 Productions, Orbiter 3, Theatre Exile, Act II Playhouse, Lantern Theater Company, Inis Nua Theatre Company, InterAct, The Berserker Residents, Azuka Theatre, Applied Mechanics, and Simpatico Theater Project, among others. For other fun facts please visit: jilliankeys.com MARIA SHAPLIN (Lighting Designer) Arden: Indecent, Cabaret, John, The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, The Jungle Book. Maria is a Philadelphia-based lighting designer who received her MFA from Temple University.

She has a BA in Anthropology and Sociology from Hampshire College. Maria designs for many Philadelphia-based companies including: Applied Mechanics, The Riot Group, Swim Pony Performing Arts, InterAct Theatre, The Arden, The Wilma Theater, New Paradise Laboratories, The Berserker Residents, 1812, Nichole Canuso Dance Company, People’s Light, Theater Horizon, Headlong Performance Institute, Team Sunshine Performance Corporation, UArts, IRC Theatre Company, and Quintessence Theatre Company. Maria is the co-founder of Applied Mechanics, a company who devises immersive, multi-narrative performance art. mariashaplin.com JORDAN MCCREE (Composer/Musician/Sound Designer) Arden debut! Regional: Communitas: 5 Years Later (Almanac Dance Circus Theatre); Romeo and Juliet, An Octoroon (Wilma Theater); Red Bike (Simpatico Theater); Hands Up: 7 Playwrights, 7 Testaments (Flashpoint Theatre); Ruined (Philadelphia Theatre Company). Education: University of the Arts (2013). Jordan is member of Philly-based hip hop and social justice collective ILL DOOTS. ILL DOOTS' music is available now on Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Google Play, Bandcamp, Soundcloud, and more! #ILLMOVEMENT #ILOVELIVING. ILLDOOTS.com WENDY BLACKBURN EASTLAND (Stage Manager) Arden: Every Brilliant Thing, A Doll's House, Part 2, Cabaret, A Little Night Music. Regional: Hairspray, Inherit the Wind, Gloria, The Tempest, Frankenstein, Real Women Have Curves (Dallas Theater Center); Native Gardens (Trinity Rep); Circle Mirror Transformation (Theatre Horizon). Tours: Hamilton (Angelica).

Training: Arden Apprenticeship Program. Southern Methodist University ‘12.

The Arden Theatre Company wishes to thank . . .

East End Salon, Theresa Posorske, and Robert Vaughan

Corporate, Foundation & Government Support $100,000 & above

The Anne M. and Philip H. Glatfelter, III Family Foundation Hamilton Family Charitable Trust Independence Foundation Monica and Philip Rosenthal, Rosenthal Family Foundation The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust William Penn Foundation Wyncote Foundation

$50,000 to $99,999

Anton Charitable Trust, in memory of Frederick W. Anton, III Comcast Corporation The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation The Philadelphia Foundation Shubert Foundation

$15,000 to $49,999

Arcadia Foundation Catherine R. and Anthony A. Clifton Foundation The CHG Charitable Trust Connelly Foundation Fox Chase Bank Charitable Fund The Philadelphia Foundation Fund For Children The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Harmelin Media Hirsig Family Fund of The Philadelphia Foundation Horner Family Foundation Lincoln Financial Foundation The McLean Contributionship National Endowment for the Arts PECO Pennsylvania Council on the Arts The Victory Foundation The Virginia Brown Martin Fund of The Philadelphia Foundation The Wells Fargo Foundation Wolfson Family Foundation Zeldin Family Foundation

$7,500 to $14,999

Philadelphia Cultural Fund Philadelphia Insurance Companies TD Charitable Foundation Univest Corporation of Pennsylvania

$2,500 to $7,499

Branch Banking and Trust Company The Charlotte Cushman Foundation Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Christopher Ludwick Foundation Civic Foundation Corrine R. and Henry Bower Memorial Trust Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation Ethel Sergeant Clark Smith Memorial Fund Exeter Property Group The Haley Foundation The Huron Foundation Independence Foundation, In Honor of Dr. Andrea Mengel KieranTimberlake Lafayette Ambassador Bank Lagunitas Brewing Co. + The Lida Foundation Louis N. Cassett Foundation The Paul E. Kelly Foundation Penn Community Bank Caroline Frederica Holdship Charity, PNC Charitable Trust TCF – The Community’s Foundation Wellin Family Foundation, In Memory of Keith S. Wellin The Whimsie Fund Wines ‘Til Sold Out+

$750 to $2,499

Elliott-Lewis Corporation Enterprise Holdings Foundation The Hassel Foundation Jenkintown Building Services+ Karr Barth Associates The Kelly Group at Elfant Wissahickon Realtors The Kinser Group+ The Moses and Susan Feldman Fund of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia MC3+ The Rittenhouse Foundation Stable Road Foundation Visit Philadelphia+ Wide Eyed Studios+

$749 & under

AmazonSmile East End Salon+ KateDrinks+ Judith and Edwin Gerber Family Foundation The Manny and Ruthy Cohen Foundation Old City District+ Pinot Boutique+ Quirkbooks Rita’s Water Ice+ Shutterbooth New Jersey+ We Wash It Laundry, Inc. William Goldman Foundation Wynnstay Foundation Yards Brewing Company+ +denotes gifts of services or goods

Actors’ Equity Foundation Alex J. Ettl Foundation Beneserv Brown and Brown of Pennsylvania Bushmill's Irish Whiskey+ CHUBB Cumberland Advisors Elfant Wissahickon Realtors Elfant Pontz Properties

Special Thanks

The Continental Restaurant + Martini Bar Khyber Pass Pub Marilyn Kraut *This list represents gifts made through October 2, 2019*

Matching Gift Partners AXA Foundation Bank of America Charitable .

Foundation, Inc. Boeing Chubb Group of Insurance Companies Exelon Corporation

ExxonMobil Foundation GE Foundation IBM Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs Independence Foundation JP Morgan Chase & Company

Johnson & Johnson Lincoln Financial Foundation Macy’s Foundation Merck Foundation Network for Good PECO

Pfizer Foundation The Philadelphia Foundation The Vanguard Group Foundation United Way YourCause

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The Sylvan Society recognizes individuals who support the Arden’s work by making annual gifts of $1,000 or more.

The special generosity of our members enables the Arden to tell great stories by having the resources to achieve the highest level of artistic quality. *This list represents gifts made through September 30, 2019*

Sassafras Grove

($10,000 and above) Ivy Bayard* Lois G. Brodsky Bob and Cheryl Carfagno Ann E. Diebold Nancy and Bob Elfant Steven Engelmyer and Lisa Wershaw David and Christina Fryman Elizabeth H. Gemmill John Otto and Janet Haas Carole Haas Gravagno, The CHG Charitable Trust Alta and N. Peter Hamilton Charitable Lead Trusts Joanne and Jon Harmelin Hirsig Family Fund of the Philadelphia Foundation Terry and Ann Marie Horner Robin and Saifuddin Mama Seymour Millstein Kristen Phillips and Matt Schreck Irene M. Reiter* Charles Rose and Dr. Mindy Goldberg Rose^ Monica and Phillip Rosenthal, Rosenthal Family Foundation Lee and Chris van de Velde June and Steve Wolfson

Cherry Grove ($5,000-$9,999)

Anonymous (2) Brett and Nan Altman Bethany Asplundh Anne Cook and Russ Troyer Michael A. and Edward C. Donato Joseph and Marie Field Jeanne B. Fisher and Robert F. Lang Linda and David Glickstein,

The Lida Foundation Eileen Heisman and Marty Tuzman Peggy Morgan Tom Petro and Kris Messner Ceth and Sam Plum Joel and Bobbie Porter Gail Redden+ The Suzanne Roberts Cultural Development Fund Sid and Ruth Rosenblatt Hether and Don Smith Rosalyn and Stephen Weinstein, Civic Foundation Ted and Stevie Wolf

Filbert Grove ($2,500-$4,999)

Anonymous John R. Alchin and Hal Marryatt Charles Arnao and Rosemary Watt Sandy and David Beswick John Bitman John Bledsoe Rayenne Chen John and Fern Culhane Robert Dever Marian and Kenneth Disken Deb Dorsey and Mike Green Kathryn Doyle and Maureen Alex Alexander Shannon and Ted Farmer Sandi Foxx-Jones Janis Hawes and Patrick Cunningham Jim and Carolyn Hessinger Kenneth and Eve Klothen William A. Loeb Barbara and Don Matheson John and Amy McCawley^ Keith and Jim Straw Harvey B. Swedloff Sally Walker and Tom Gilmore

Mulberry Grove ($1,000-$2,499)

Anonymous (4) Hank Adamczyk and Iris Melendez Becky and John Adams Stan and Lisa Altman Winnie Anderson and Eric Lien Rhonda Ball Sheryl and Allen Bar Lindy F. Barocchi Maureen Barret and Mike Templeton Gisele Bathish Carol and Tom Beam Max and Elyse Berger Linda and Mark Bernstein Sandy and Mickey Bernstein Regina Blaszczyk and Lee O'Neill Louis Bluver Jean Bodine Viola W. Bostic DeDe and Tony Brown Nancy Burd and Mel Nasielski Thomas Burke and Rick Fountas^ Cordelia Clement Barbara R. Cobb John Cornell Joy De Jesús and James Reynolds Ellen Deacon and Ernest Cuff Mark and Tobey Dichter Samuel Duplessis and Daniel Krewson Michael and Maya Eichberg, In Honor of Daniel and Benji Eichberg Scott and Julia Engel Wally and Jane Evans The Carolyn N. and Joseph M. Evans Jr. Fund Stephen Falchek and John Offidani, III Paul and Judy Farber Mr. and Mrs. Farenback-Brateman Jill Fisch and John Gassenheimer

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Carole M. Foley Tim and Ellen Foster Fran Freedman and Jon Blum Terry Graboyes Ann and Glenn Haig Regina Haigh Dr. and Mrs. James Haney Lynn Martin Haskin and Don Haskin Edward Hillis Karen and Mark Hite Lauren Hughes and Kyle Kane Dr. Paula Humphries Jill Hyman Kaplan and Elliot Kaplan Barbara and Leslie Kaplan Anne Kasprinski Carol Kelley Peter and Louise Kelly Bernadette Koller Marilyn and David Kraut Peter and Emilie Lapham John and Melissa Lore Janice F. Madden Richard Maimon and Susan Segal Lee Marks and Lisl Zach Mary Ellen Marzullo Rhonda McKitten and Aaron Krauss A. C. Missias Leslie and Michael Molder Amy Murphy and Terry Nolen Adam Mussell Marge Neff and Dan Winterstein Michael Norris and Matt Varrato Susan Odessey Barbara Oldenhoff Harry Porter

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Laura and Douglas Pratt Karen* and David Pressel Sheila and Ronald Reese Joy Rigg Rickabaugh Judge Rosalyn Robinson and Warren English Franklyn and Cintra Rodgers Jane A. Rose, CPA Bernard and Camille Rosenberg Mike Salmanson and Tobi Zemsky Kim and Ross Schmucki Ellen Schwartz and Jeremy Siegel Roy and Lee Shubert Salem Shuchman and Barbara Klock Laura and Ron Siena Paulette Singleton George Smith Amanda and Dick Smoot, In Honor of Amy and Terry The Spector Charitable Trust Rudy Sprinkle and Andrea Barsevick William K. Stewart Sr. Foundation Kevin Strauss and Barbara Davis Adelaide Sugarman and Marshall Greenberg Harvey B. Swedloff Cecilia S. Tannenbaum James Timberlake Helgard Tomford Robert and Lisa Trucksess Edna Vasso and Stephen Vasso, MD Judith L. Wellington Caitlin Wood and Martha Schoolman Richard and Diane Woosnam Hope Yursa

LEGACY SOCIETY

Arden Theatre Company would like to recognize the following supporters who have included the Arden in their wills or estate plans. Their planned gift provides support which will help sustain the Arden’s work for decades to come.

Anonymous Ms. Peggy Anderson* Stanley Baurys* Ivy Bayard* Jane Berryman Louis Bluver Mary P. Burr Pearl M. Carpel Larry S. Friedman* and Dean H. Rishel Ellis Ginsberg* Peter Gistelinck and Kim Bloom Grace Gonglewski and Eric Schoefer Jim and Carolyn Hessinger

Suzanne and James Hill Mary Ellen Krober William Loeb Donald Martin and Richard Repetto* Tom Petro and Kris Messner Peggy Morgan Renee E. Polsky* Madeline Portnoy Kristen Phillips and Matt Schreck Irene M. Reiter* Dr. Harry Rosenthal Marilyn and Dean Staats

We hope you will consider including the Arden in your will or estate plans. To be recognized as a member of the Legacy Society or with questions regarding planned giving, please contact Rosalyn C. Forbes, Director of Development, at 215.922.8900 ext. 149

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Thank You to Our Supporters $500-$999 Anonymous Barbara Abrahams Richard and Joan Behr Sheila Bell Michael P. Buckley and Mason Barnett Jessica Calter Francis Carroll Carol and Bruce Caswell Brian and Jennifer Cleary Patricia Collins and Jim Matthews Vic Dawson Emilia Demarco Margaret Dever Epstein Family Charitable Trust Dr. Barry and Mrs. Beth Evans Shannon and Ted Farmer Antoinette Farrar Seymour Lynn P. Fedele Elizabeth Feeney Sara and Dieter Forster John and Elaine Frank Paulette Freeman Michael and Rawan Friel Lou and Rhoda Fryman Dan Gannon Joel R. Gardner and Holly A. Phelps Grace Gonglewski and Eric Schoefe Amy Hagan Charles W. Head Jr. and John A. Fagotti Dick Hoffman and Susan Kellogg Nancy Kane Barbara and Jerry Kaplan Margie and Scott Kasner Phyllis Kauffman Lorraine B. Kilmer Janice King Thomas and Anne Kohn Ruth and Peter Laibson David and Deborah Lesher Morna Livingston Robert Manning Linda McAleer and Maitlon Russell Bradley Mulkern Rosemary Murphy Leonard Nakamura and Myra Leysorek Kathleen Nelson and John Kromer George Newbern Bill and Kathy Nolen Edwards Karin and Tom Pajak Carol Parton Enrique Posner Janet Poth Sharon Prizant Paul Rabe and Cheryl Gunter Lillian Ransom Kurt and Mary-Ann Reiss Elizabeth R. and William H. Rivers, Jr. Barbara Rosenzweig+ Daniel and Faye Ross, The Ross Family Foundation

Adelle Rubin Lawrence and Phyllis Sager Jonathan Silver+ Patricia Smialkowski Dean R. and Marilyn Staats Eric Tamulonis and Deirdre Gibson Tom and Patricia Vernon Elizabeth Weinreb Matthew White Julie D. Williams Tom and Jackie Zemaitis Benjamin Zuckerman and Marian Robinson $250-$499 Anonymous (2) Carol and Bennett Aaron Phylis Barsky Ellen Baxter and Robert Kavash Ron and Joyce Bayer Richard and Eileen Bazelon Judith T. Beck Eddie and Myra Bell Pat and Tom Bender Bruce and Sara Berger Timothy Berger and Sarah Mooers Nancy and Jay Berkowitz Marilyn and Barry Bevacqua Doris and Aaron Bitman Alden and Linda Blyth Michael Bolton and Peter Keleher Marcia Bower Tom and Mary Pat Boyle Kimberly Brannen, In Honor of Maya Malone Dr. Stephen Bulova and Eleanor W. Bulova Jacqueline Campbell Chip Capelli Joseph Casey Caroline M. Castagno Leah Chaplin and Eileen Gildea Marc and Margie Cohen Steve and Helene Cohen James Crawford Warren and Kaye Crown Marta Dabezies Mary Ann and Jacob Dailey Kelly Devine-Hollander Kathy and Eric Dobrzynski Diana Donaldson Donald and Geraldine Duclow Jonathan Evans and Melissa Graf-Evans Anne Ewers Norma Fabian Paula Fuchsberg Charles Gear and Ann Lee Morgan Teresa Gillen Ted and Penny Glackman Carrie Glasby and Kathleen Karhnak William and Virginia Gormley Jamie and Andi Graefe

Paul Green Betty and Gary Grunder Trudy and Paul Gulterman Heidi Hertfelder Mark Hite Daniel and Dorothy Hofer Michael J. Hozik and Margaret L. Rea Aram and Jackie Jerrehian Marge and Philip Kalodner Stephen and Barbara Kieran Deborah and S.W. Kimbell Steven and Patricia King Steven Knepper George F. Koch, Jr. and Santo A. DiDonato George Korein, In Honor of Ann Ritter and Leo Korein Matt and Tanya Koropeckyj-Cox Walter Karl Kraft Jr. and Deborah Hung Mary Ellen Krober Andy Kurovsky and Rich LaVerghetta David Lerman and Shelley Wallock Michael Levitan Arline and Warren Lieberman Wendy Liebling Laura Line Benjamin Lovell John and Martha Lubell Joseph M. Manko Terry A. Marek Lynn Marks and Clifford Pearlman George and Judith McCarthy John McCormick and Ken Schmitt Missy and Bob McQuiston Adrienne Mendell Alan and Susan Miller Madeline Miller Martin Miller Kenneth and Susan Myers Paul Nutaitis and Robert Clark Ann O'Brien Matt and Judy Ochs Brenda J. Oliphant Lucas Phelan Sandy Portnoy Ilene and Coleman Poses Dr. Nancy Post Margaret and Nicholas Potalivo Daniel Promislo Annis Lee Reeves Benjamin Regotti Alice Reyes Graham and Betsy Robb Joseph and Helen Robinette John and Claire Rodgers Dulcie Romm Evelyn Rosen Richard and Anne Rosenberg Mauricio Saavedra and Joanna Sykes-Saavedra Ruth and Marvin Sachs Margie and David Saland

Thank You to Our Supporters Karyn L. Scher Patty and Stephen Segal, In Honor of Marilyn Kraut Alex and Stefanie Seldin Carole Shanis Robert and Karen Sharrar Elaine Sherman and Robert Cohan Susan and Charles Shubin Kathryn Simon James L. Smith Kathy and Don Smith Stanton and SaraKay Smullens, In Honor of Arden Summer Camp Robert Stewart and Barbara Barnett-Stewart Gaynor Strickler, In Honor of Anne Cook April J. Tvarok Helene and Bill Van Hoeven Lewis and Hella Volgenau Thomas and Susan Walther Donna Wechsler Marlene Weinberg Vivian Weinblatt Jonathan Weiss and Abigail Wolf Thomas and Dawn Weiss Leslie and Ellen Welson Richard Willis and Linda Hartnett Jim and Jean Wilson Eric Woolf $125-$249 Anonymous (4) Anonymous, In Honor of My Eight Grandchildren Jerry Abelson and June Idzal Barbara Abrahams Roxie Ash Ina Elfant Asher, In Honor of Bob Elfant, President of the Board Denis Asselin Rosemary Auge Carolyn and George Bassett Raymond Becker and Richard Wilson Susan Becker and Aaron Rubin Charlotte Biddle Rosette and Henry Biester Fern and Bob Billet Wendy Blutstein and Todd Sagin Janice Bogen Michael Boyle Judith Bradley Kimberly Brannen Elizabeth Breault Joseph and Mary Lou Breidenstine Bright Funds Foundation Ann and David Brownlee Arleen Buchanan and James Imbriaco Sally Burrell Charlotte Cady Anthony and Jaquelin Camp Barbara Carmine

Debbie and Alan Casnoff Charles W. Henry School Dr. Lawyer and Rosetta Chapman Drs. Anthony and Estelle Chunn John and Mary Ann Collett Richard and Janet Conn John Cooke Betty Cooper Donna Cordner Elizabeth Cornman Richard Cress Paul Curcio Nancy DeLucia Ray and Ellen Doyle Lucille Schlack Drake Sheila Dyan and Charles A. Gaglia, Jr. Michael and Lori Edmondson Jeff and Michelle Eichen Stewart Eisenberg Paul and Mary Lynn Ellis Wendy Epstein Dr. Mario and Suzanne Ercole Ted and JoAnn Erfer Marie Failey Anne and Steven Fassler Cheryl Feil Rene and Mark Feitelson Pam and Taylor Fernley Kimberly Fetters Joan Finger and Michael Apler Peter Flack Rosalyn C. Forbes Irene Frangatos Allyson J. Frank Helene and Michael Freidman Paul Friedman Brenda Furtak Ofelia Garcia Greg Gephart Sue Glover Deborah Gordon Diane and Fredric Graboyes Melissa Graf-Evans Ellen Greco Susan Greene Rick Greenstein and Claudia Tesoro Eileen and Norman Grey Marcia Halbert Dona and Curt Haltiwanger Allyson Hardy Russell Harris Carol Hauptfuhrer Marcia and John Hiehle Monica Hilferty Terry Hirshorn Daniel Hoffman and Susan Brotherton Donna and Bill Hower Lauren Hughes and Kyle Kane, In Honor of Hope Yursa Thomas Hurster and

Jacqueline Salmon Karl Janowitz Gwendolyn Johnson Sarah and Joe Jordan William Jordan Ellen Kaplan Mr. Douglas and Mrs. Ruth Keating Caroline Kemmerer Brian and Caren Kirschner Alan and Elaine Klawans Susan Koger Vicki and Donald Kramer Kara Krissel James Kronzer Jessica Kulick Barry and Janet Kushner Marilyn Kutler and Ira Silberman Ben Lackey Tim Lambie-Hanson Molly Leahy Drs. Bob and Joyce Leonetti Michael L. Levitan Craig and Stephanie Lewis Sylvia and Norman Lieberman Laurel and Robert Lipshutz Cirel and Howard Magen Rosalie Matzkin Ken and Margery Maurer Larry and Felicia McAllister Ilene McCaffrey McCarley Family Ned and Joan McCarthy Alice McCreary and David Epler Amy McDonald Lorraine and Bruce McMahon Kathy McMaster Celeste McMenamin Arthur B. Melnick Cheryl and Gerry Meyer Lee and Paul Miller Marianne Miller Sandra and Martin Miller Martha Moore Jeff and Maxine Morgan Jackie Morrill and Mike Donahue Anna Morris Ellen and Michael Mulroney Eliot and Bonnie Nierman Etta and Chuck Nissman Carolyn Noone Janet and Dennis Novack Steven Nugent Ann O'Brien Laura Offutt and Steve Fukuchi Ryan O'Gara Mr. and Mrs. Gerald O'Neill Michael and Judy Paul Marcia Paullin Matthew Pettigrew Linda Phillips Jody Piltz-Seymour Claire and Lud Pisapia

Thank You to Our Supporters Jeffrey and Elizabeth Podraza David and Amy Pollack Harry Pollack Mr. John and Mrs. Margaret Preg Michael Prince Gail and Jerry Raznov Mark and Karen Reber Abi and Craig Reed Mary Jo Reilly Alan Reinach and Dana Perlman Leslie Rescorla Nanci Ritter and Jim Hutchison Jennifer Ronon Kenneth and Shelley Rosenberg Harold and Sue Rosenthal Libby Rosof and Murray Dubin Bonni Rubin-Sugarman Bernard and Barbara Ruekgauer Joan Ryder and Robert Ludwig Joan and William Saidel Jason Santini David and Renee Scheibe Karen Schermerhorn and Evan Seymour Perlita and Frank Schorfheide Jill and Kerry Schuman Michael Schummer Gail Scott and Thomas D. Quinlan Karen and Bob Serenbetz Nancy Seweryn Kathy and Richard Sexton Joseph and Louise Shaffer Polly Shaffer Hanna and Dan Shapira Catherine and Jim Shippen Bob Butera and Marilyn Sifford Ilene Silverman M. Celeste Simon and Brian Keith Anne C. Singer Bob and Harriet Singer Tiffany Sipler Jonne and Corey Smith Valerie Smith Larry Smoose and Linda Lee Stanton and SaraKay Smullens, In Honor of Judge Phyllis Beck Wayne Snover and Janet Tebbel Steve and Barbara Speece Pamela and Joel Spiller Michael and Denise Starr James Steiker Mike and Shannon Stellato Susan and Jim Strohman Charles F. Tarr and Roy Ziegler Julie and Craig Tobias Marian Tracey Linda Traver Greg Trotz Rachel Ulitsky John Urofsky Rachel Utain-Evans Jo Ann Ventor

Susan Wainwright Thomas and Cathryn Walsh Thomas and Julie Wamser Tom and Beth Warms Ellen Warren Wendy and Larry White Michelle E. Williams Bertram Wolfson Nancy and Peter Wood Caroline Young William Zeidner $75-$124 Anonymous (5) Rhoda Abrams Emely Aiken John and Janet Alwang Howard and Patricia Anton Dave and Bill Bailey Wade Bailey and Susan Greene Sally and Michael Bailin Sylva Baker George and Judith Balock Theresa Baraldi Yvonne Bartman Robert and Sandy Clay Bauer Richard and Eileen Bazelon Gregory Beasley, In Honor of Mrs. Cynthia Beasley Patricia Beck Connie and Dick Berman The Berry Family Barbara Bisgaier Jocelyn Block Maxine Blum and Samuel A. Bobrow Iris and Michael Boshes Hazel Bowers Stanton and Jill Braid Charles Brennan Eadie and Allan Brooks David Buch and Annemarie Clarke Carol Buettger and Allen Bonner B.J. Capezio Patricia Carbine Ryann Carey William and Lillian Cassel Alice Chittenden Mary E. Chomitz Jolley Christman Rhoda M. Coben Alan R. Cohen Judy Cohen Mark Cohen Stephen and Carol Cohen William and Suzanne Conway Janet Cook Donna Cordner and Brent Groce Elizabeth Cottrill Peter and Valerie Craig Janet Crino Peter Crino Gayle Cutler

Karen Cuzzolino Joseph and Helen D'Angelo Barbara Daneluzzi William Davis Robert and Bonnie DeAngelo Stephanie Deviney Gerald R. and Ellen R. DiPinto Betty and Joe Dittmar, In Honor of Alex Dittmar Kim Dittmar and Mike Soo John Doherty Judy Drasin Beverly Dubin John Dulik and Sandra Folzer David Durham John and Lois S. Durso W. Wallace and Joanne Dyer Robert Earle Jon and Ella Edwards Sally and Stewart Eisenberg Linda Ellsworth John Erickson and Harry Zaleznik Brynn Evans Susan Federico Ruth S. Ferber Leonard and Leila Finkelstein Joan and Aron Fisher Marian and Elliot Fisher Pamela Fisk Adam Foxx and Jodi Kefer Brenda Freitag and Chet Tuthill Carol Fuoco Miriam Galster Joel R. Gardner and Holly A. Phelps Wayne and Deborah Geltz Teresa Gillen Constance Gillespie, In Honor of Bob and Nancy Elfant Matthew Gima Joan D. Gmitter William and Ilse Goldfarb Phillip Graneto and Janice Breen Carole Green Larry and Ann Green Todd Gregoire Priscilla Grosick Matthew Gubicza Nancy S. Halpern Stephen and Ona Hamilton Russell Harris Lynn Martin Haskin and Don Haskin, In Honor of Jonathan Edmondson Beverly Hayden Virginia Hedden Phil and Madeleine Henderson, In Honor of Ella, Matt, Nate, and Noah Michael and Angela Hennessey Herbert and Gayl Henze Susan Herron Sally Hilger Barbara Hindman

Thank You to Our Supporters Morton and Lois Joy Hoffman Esther and Robert Hornik Caren and Stuart Hosansky Dave Huting David Ingram and Melanye Finister Gwynne Isaacs Harold and Blanche Jacobs Susan Jacobson and Michael Goldon Sandra Jarratt Mary Jenkins and Ken Foster Charles and Rebecca Johnson Timothy and Carol Johnson Stephen Kay Margaret Keller Marjorie Epps Kennedy Kate Kidder Richard and Marcia Klafter Reverend David J. Klein Patricia and Charles Kling Robert Kobrin Susan Koger Ellen Kopeland Melvin and Rhoda S. Kreiner Myra and David Kurkowski Anne B. Ladenson Garry Lennon Barrie K. Levine, In Honor of Eileen Heisman Karen Lisker Ruth Loewenstern Edward Lundy and Debra Reiff Donald and Nancy Maclay Terry Mader and David Suter Jeanine and John Mantione Randi Marrazzo Ken and Margery Maurer Lynne Maxwell M. McDonald Arthur and Faith McDowell Kathleen McGrann Barbara McIntyre Arthur and Sallie Melvin Barbara Miller Sylvia R. Miller Ann Mintz and Clifford Wagner Wanda Mohr Brad Moss and Laurie Gottlieb Raymond and Anaise Nolen

Frances Claire Novack Dave and Arline Olim Betsy Oliphant, In Honor of the Ryan Kiddos Julie and Eric Orts Linda Osler Stanton S. Oswald and Phyllis Weber Bettina Pagalilauan Mr. Richard Pariseau Judith Peakes Robert and Margaret Peloso Jane G. Pepper Elaine Petrossian Beverly Pittman Donald and Carol Plank Brooke Porch Tom and Candace Pratt Frank and Patricia Preston Mark Price Nina Pringle Linda Putnam Erat Linda Quam Joanne Rafferty Jon and Karen Richter Clifford Ridley and Betsey Hansell Linda Robinson, Ph.D. and Peter Krill Phyllis Robinson Laura and Lou Romano Barbara and Anthony Rooklin Maxine Rosen J. Randall Rosensteel Edwin and Sally Rosenthol Carolyn Rosner John and Melanie Rowley Marjorie and Alexander Russell Suzanne and Kip Salus Robin Sampson Eileen and Chris Satullo Sandra Sborofsky Carl and Mary Ellen Schneider Deborah Schultz Mark and Nancy Schure Jill and Liz Anastasi Scott Patricia Scott Hobbs Irving Sears* Ruth Septee Sarah Sexton Gina and Stuart Shapiro

Judith Shapiro Leslie J. Sheer Craig Sheetz Frann Shore Eunice Silver Annette Silvers Carleene and David Slowik Steve and Judy Stern Corinne Stone Daniel Szyld and Kathleen Ross Robert and Susan Tafel John Tarves Joseph Terry William and Mary Tsiouris Margaret Evans Tuten Jennifer Vagnozzi, In Honor of William J. Burnett Connie Villiers Edward and Judith Viner Ian Wachstein and Michele Zeldner Anne Walsh Bette Ann and Chan Walton Nach and Maron Waxman Jeannine and David Webber Bob Weinberg and Eleanor Wilner Shelly and Fred Weiner Marsha Weinraub and Stuart Schmidt Constance West Gwendolyn Wiley Marcia Witlin-Basickes Mr. and Mrs. Harry Woodcock Sam and Kuna Yankell Hilary Zankel Jim and Debbie Zug

* Denotes a deceased supporter + Denotes a gift of goods or services ^ Includes a matching gift This list represents gifts made through September 30, 2019

To join the Sylvan Society or for more information on how you can support the Arden, please contact Rosalyn C. Forbes, Director of Development, at 215.922.8900 x149 or rforbes@ardentheatre.org

Gifts In Memory of...

Frederick W. Anton, III Anton Charitable Trust Ivy Bayard Crawford-Doering Family Laurie Beechman Vicki Peterson Clare R. Brown Joseph J. Canavan, Jr. Joel and Kristen Fauson Ellen Greenlee Jane Johnston Frederic Josephson and Margaret Anderson Mary Frances and Ted Kutzer David and Jennifer Lewis Jeanne and David Lewis Eileen Lou Sally A. McCabe Marianne Roche

Family of David Glancey Charisse Lillie Jessica McIlhenny Faith and John Midwood Helene and Mike Minor JoAnn Mitchell Jim Murphy Neil Oxman Daniel Salvatore Alan K. and Dveral Silberstein Wendy and Larry White Jeanne and Jim Zoerkler John Koscelnik Valerie Koscelnik Sheila Kutner Naomi Grabel and Neil Kutner The Kutner Family Earl Levit The Theatre Knights

Grace M. Capezio Anonymous

Frank Mallory Sally Mallory

Mary Davis Michael Pannullo

Jean Markowitz Steve and Jane Heumann

Teresita Fernandez-Vina Elizabeth Fernandez-Vina

Jean McCaffrey VanBuskirk Bernadette and Edwin Haigh

David B. Glancey Anonymous Elaine and Bob Ballantyne Erin Barnes Cathy and Saul Behar Judith P. Camins Miriam Camitta John Cannon Larry Ceisler Mimi and Homyar Choksi David L. and Rhonda Cohen J. H. Cullen Norry Dogan Nancy Donohue Thomas Doran James Dyer S. David Fineman Rita, Jim, Tina, and Neil Glancey Margaret Glancey Erin Hawkins Ronald Henry James and Anne King Gary Krause

Dr. Andrea L. Mengel Sally Downey Independence Foundation The Mother of Monica Dudnyk Beth and Jerry Zatuchni Howard Naidech Rita Axelrod Harry Porter Sr. Anonymous Karen Pressel Milton and Marion Drexler Michelle Burns McHugh Leslie and Michael Molder Richard Repetto Carole Green Dan Rothermel and Michael Hairston

Annie Richardson Anonymous J. Cooper Robb Anonymous Michael Beer Nancy Burd and Mel Nasielski Claire and Hudnall Christopher John and Mary Ann Collett Anne Cook and Russ Troyer Michael A. and Edward C. Donato Bob and Nancy Elfant Valley Veterinary Clinic, Buckingham John and Pat Fiorella Elizabeth H. Gemmill Victoria Grant James Hanes Lynn Harrington Palmer and Judith Hartl Terry and Ann Marie Horner Bob Kaufman Patricia A. Korp Learning Resources, Bucks County Community College Ellie Lloyd Wingate and Janet Lloyd Deborah and Peter Luquer Howard and Cirel Magen Patrick and Linda McCann Amy L. Murphy and Terry Nolen Ceth and Sam Plum Ted Robb Graham Robb and Betsy Robb Mary L. Robb Linda and Hays Rockwell Franklyn and Cintra Rodgers Sid and Ruth Rosenblatt Kim and Ross Schmucki Don Perelman and Elise Singer Dr. and Mrs. Kaighn Smith Holly and Willard Terry Fred Weinstein June and Steve Wolfson Harry Segal Ann Donaghy Rachel Sorkin Nancy Sorkin

Producing Artistic Director........................................................................................................................Terrence J. Nolen Associate Producer.............................................................................................................................. ............. Jonathan Silver Artistic Assistant................................................................................................................................................... Mariah Ghant Commissioned Playwrights...................................................................Lorene Cary, Kash Goins, Jacqueline Goldfinger, James Ijames, R. Eric Thomas

Marketing

Director of Development........................................................................................................................... Rosalyn C. Forbes Associate Director of Development..................................................................................................................Ryann Carey Development Manager........................................................................................................................... Jonathan Edmondson Manager of Individual Giving.................................................................................................................Orelí B. Uzdavinis Development Coordinator..................................................................................................................................Alex Dittmar Director of Arden Drama School........................................................................................................................Sam Pedings Director of Education Outreach.............................................................................................................................José Avilés Education Associates............................................................................................................. Elizabeth Crino, Joshua Thorps Arden Teaching Artists......................................................................... Madison Auch, Elise D’Avella, Kala Moses Baxter, Kelly Filios, Liz Filios, Madi Juleskusky, Brennen Malone, Christina May, Jessica Money, Cindy Paul, Josh Walker, Stephanie Walters, Abby Weissman, Marissa Wolner, Justin Yoder, Holly Yokley Albert M. Greenfield Teen Arden Council..................................Abby Brown, Ani Peterson, Corey Hecdivert, Flynn Nolen, Hannah Reich, Jay Nasser, Sadie McKenna, Samantha Roehl, Sam Rufino

Production

Front of House

Director of Marketing and Communications.................................................................................................Stephen Rapp Marketing Manager...........................................................................................................................................Bryant Edwards Art Director........................................................................................................................................................... Kristy Giballa Graphic Designer.................................................................................................................................Amy Kleinschmidt Teta Publicist................................................................................................................................................................... Bryan Buttler Communications and Group Sales Manager................................................................................................ Kelsey Sherlock

Development

Managing Director............................................................................................................................................ Amy L. Murphy Director of Finance and Administration....................................................................................... Courtney Spiker Martin General Manager..................................................................................................................................................Clayton Tejada Associate General Manager......................................................................................................................... Mary Beth Simon Operations Manager...............................................................................................................................................Kevin White Arden Professional Apprentices............................................... Andressa Royer, Christina Buono, Doménica Castro, Megan Lovely, Nico Galloway, Noriani Estevez, Stephen Emery

Education

Administrative Management

Artistic

Staff

Box Office Manager................................................................................................................................................Katie Frazer Assistant Box Office Manager.........................................................................................................................Jason Blacketer House Manager.......................................................................................................................................................... Kaitlyn Ide Box Office Associates............................................................................................................ Chelsey Gaskins, Adiah Hicks Front of House Assistants............................................. Ezra Ali-Dow, Tara Bankard, Paola Cruz, Margaux Cattelona, Rachel Dolan, Rebecca Fleckner, Christine Freije, Amanda Gulla, Madeline Jones, JJ Jury, Brennen Malone, Maura McErlean, Kimie Muroya, Glynnis Nadel, Olivia Perrin, Tanner Richardett, Amanda Robinson, Jenna Rogalski, Julianne Schaub, Natajia Sconiers, Carly Watson, Abby Weissman, Keshara White, Eric Zavadsky Production Manager........................................................................................................................................Courtney Riggar Technical Director..............................................................................................................................................Glenn Perlman Assistant Technical Director............................................................................................................................... Justin Romeo Scenic Charge Artist..................................................................................................................Kristina Chadwick McGrath Master Electrician............................................................................................................................................Martin Stutzman Audio Engineer..................................................................................................................................................... John Kolbinski Costume Supervisor......................................................................................................................................... Amanda Todaro Properties Master.......................................................................................................................................... Christopher Haig Stage Managers....................Wendy Blackburn Eastland, Alec E. Ferrell, John Flak, Kate Nelson, Rebekah Norviel Tiny Beautiful Things Audio Engineer.........................................................................................................Mary Kate Smyser An Iliad Crew.....................................................................................................................................................Brennen Malone Tiny Beautiful Things Electricians...............................................................................................Nick Hatcher, Garyn Klasek Tiny Beautiful Things Programmers...........................Nick Hatcher, Mikayla Fancella, Kelly Orenshaw, Samantha Wall Tiny Beautiful Things Riser Crew.........................................................Micah Greenleaf, Scott McMaster, Nicholas Rahn Props Artisan.....................................................................................................................................................Scott McMaster Scenic Construction Intern................................................................................................................................. David Pressel Props Construction Intern............................................................................................................................... Jo Vito Ramirez Stage Management Interns..................................................................................Abby Kastenberg, Hunter-Willow Jones

Board and Committee Members Board of Directors Robert Elfant, President Nancy Burd, Vice President Holly Kinser, Vice President Michael A. Donato, Treasurer Rayenne Chen, Secretary Brian Abernathy Rhonda Ball Anne Cook Joy L. De Jesús Nancy Elfant Steven Engelmyer Jeanne Fisher Elizabeth H. Gemmill Albert M. Greenfield, III Joanne Harmelin Richard Harris Nancy Hirsig Ann Marie Horner Michael S. MacFarland Richard L. Maimon Dr. Saifuddin T. Mama John J. McCawley Amy L. Murphy Terrence J. Nolen Kristen Phillips Charles H. Rose

Monica Horan Rosenthal H. Hetherington Smith Lee van de Velde Steve Wolfson Diane Dalto Woosnam Ellen Yin Board Executive Committee Robert Elfant, chair Rhonda Ball Nancy Burd Rayenne Chen Joy L. De Jesús Michael A. Donato Jeanne Fisher Holly Kinser Richard L. Maimon Lee van de Velde Finance Committee Michael A. Donato, chair Nancy Burd Ellen P. Foster Anne Marie Horner Harvey Swedloff Steve Wolfson

FIND

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Board Development Committee Joy L. De Jesús, chair Brian Abernathy Robert Elfant Holly Kinser Saifuddin Mama Lee van de Velde Diane Dalto Woosnam Personnel Committee Rhonda Ball, Chair Michael A. Donato Elizabeth H. Gemmill Richard Harris Michael S. MacFarland Charles H. Rose Facilities Committee Richard L. Maimon, chair Mike Green James Kronzer John J. McCawley H. Hetherington Smith Chris van de Velde

Engagement Committee Jeanne Fisher, co-chair Lee van de Velde, co-chair Anne Cook David Hackney Kristen Phillips Camille Rosenberg Diversity Task Force Nancy Burd Robert Elfant Joy L. De Jesús Richard Harris Terrence J. Nolen Amy L. Murphy The Cornerstone Society Frederick W. Anton, III The Honorable Phyllis W. Beck Gerard J. Conway, Sr. Carole Haas Gravagno Glenn Perlman Aaron Posner Susan Sherman Lee van de Velde

VOICE

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Actor and Sound Designer

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Christy Lee

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30 Americans

OCT 27 – JAN 12

Celebrating its 10th anniversary, 30 Americans showcases influential African American artists of the past four decades, incuding Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas, Kara Walker, Kehinde Wiley, and more.

Experience the groundbreaking exhibition that changed how we think about contemporary art.

B A R N E S F O U N DAT I O N .O R G/ 3 0A M E R I C A N S | # 3 0A M E R I C A N S Mickalene Thomas. Baby I Am Ready Now (detail), 2007. Courtesy of Rubell Family Collection, Miami

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