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A Message from Artistic Director Dámaso Rodriguez “We keep stopping and we keep talking and we just need to do it.”

–Actor 6 in We Are Proud to Present...

Welcome to Artists Rep and to the 6th production of our 2015/16 season. I am indeed proud to present the Portland premiere of Jackie Sibblies Drury’s boldly funny, insightful, ironic, urgent, unsettling and electrifying We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South West Africa, From the German Südwestafrika, Between the Years 1884–1915.

Throughout each season, I strive to provide our audiences with a wide range of theatre experiences: from heartwarming to heartrending, from realistic to absurd, from linear to non-linear, from conclusive to purposely ambiguous.

For many in the audience, today’s performance may be unlike any you’ve experienced. I think it best to avoid revealing details, but I propose that it will be difficult to walk away at the finish of We Are Proud… without engaging in an immediate conversation about the questions asked and the lines crossed during the course of the play. We’ll do our best to facilitate a productive dialogue following each performance.

As always, I hope you enjoy your experience at Artists Rep and that we’ll see you in the audience again this season, and beyond. We recently announced the 2016/17 season, please visit our website for titles, play descriptions and information on subscriptions. Thank you for joining us!

Warmly,

THE PLAYWRIGHT JACKIE SIBBLIES DRURY Jackie is a Brooklyn-based playwright. Her plays include We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 18841915, Social Creatures and And now I only dance at weddings. The presenters of her plays include Soho Rep, Victory Gardens, Trinity Rep, Matrix Theatre, Woolly Mammoth, Undermain Theatre, InterAct Theatre, Actors Theater of Louisville, Available Light, Company One and Bush Theatre in London. Sibblies Drury has developed her work at Sundance, The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep, A.C.T., Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, New York Theatre Workshop, PRELUDE.11&14, The Civilians, The Bushwick Starr, The LARK, Magic Theatre, Bay Area Playwrights Festival and The MacDowell Colony. She was a dramaturg for Zero Cost House by Pig Iron Theatre Company & Toshiki Okada and The Garden by Nichole Canuso Dance Company. She received the 2012– 2013 Van Lier Fellowship at New Dramatists and was the inaugural recipient of the 2012–2014 Jerome Fellowship at The LARK. She is a NYTW Usual Suspect and is currently a member of The Writer’s Room at Manhattan Theatre Club and Ars Nova.

DIRECTOR’S NOTES by Kevin Jones JACKIE SIBBLIES DRURY POSES MANY QUESTIONS FOR US TO WRESTLE WITH AND YET SHE OFFERS VERY FEW ANSWERS. One of the questions Drury’s provocative play asks is: What is our responsibility as artists to the stories that we tell and to the owners of those stories?

Is it actually possible in America, in the 21st Century, to tell a story about a distant genocide, without the story being appropriated by a contemporary conversation about race? In this day and age when we engage with information on a “sound byte” level, what is our role in sifting through the rhetoric and extracting useful meaning?

Drury gives the actor and audience member the opportunity to step out of the social labels and definitions that hold us all in place. I am grateful for the opportunity to get out from under our collective social agreements around race. I feel constrained by the myriad of projections put on to me as a middle-aged black man, an

actor, a director, an activist and a social entrepreneur. I know I’m not alone. As much as we appear to need certain social agreements to function as a society, I am ready to free myself from the ways those agreements constrain us as human beings.

The question is how.

How do we exit this social construct called race and all the other “isms” that keep us in check? Drury offers me an opportunity to challenge myself and everyone else to consider our commonality, and our membership in the same biological family, regardless of our external appearance. Perhaps one way out is to accept the notion that we all share the same DNA code. Genetically we are not very different. In fact, we humans are among the most similar of all species on the planet. Yet, we embrace this idea of diversity and difference with fervor and self-righteousness. Therefore, are we not culpable of perpetuating the construct of race by holding tightly to and defending our social identities? Do we justify our hurtful behavior by claiming that our selfhood is being threatened?

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How do we help our audience navigate this seldom-chartered terrain? Theatre should mirror the culture from which it emerges and the culture should respond with commentary. To that end, how does theatre help people wake up and smarten up? How do we open ourselves to another context where we can imagine another world for ourselves?

I want to be challenged as an artist and social commentator to step out of pop culture’s narrative about race. One that says that there are bad people and there are good people – that the good people are getting hurt and it’s the bad people who are doing the hurting. This notion sets the stage for simplistic kinds of stories. I am bored with those stories. They’re neither integral to how we live our lives today nor are they socially responsible in their lack of complexity. The victim/oppressor discourse forces us to stay on the sidelines. It doesn’t speak to us personally and it’s not the kind of relationship that we’re reaching for in our lives today. It’s time for all of us to create a new story.

BY JACKIE SIBBLIES DRURY

DIRECTED BY KEVIN JONES

DÁMASO RODRIGUEZ, Artistic Director SARAH HORTON, Managing Director

The 2015/16 Artists Repertory Theatre season is presented by

CAST Actor 6/Black Woman...........................................Chantal DeGroat* Actor 1/White Man...............................................Joshua J. Weinstein*^ Actor 2/Black Man.................................................Vin Shambry*^ Actor 3/Another White Man................................Chris Harder*^ Actor 4/Another Black Man..................................Joseph Gibson Actor 5/Sarah........................................................Rebecca Ridenour*

David & Christine Vernier SEASON MEDIA SPONSORS

CREATIVE TEAM Director..................................................................Kevin Jones^ Scenic Designer.....................................................Kristeen Willis Crosser^ Costume Designer.................................................Wanda Walden Lighting Designer..................................................Peter West Composer...............................................................Matt Tabor Musical Director....................................................Jen Raynak Dialect Coach.........................................................Mary McDonald-Lewis^ Choreographer......................................................Kemba Shannon Dramaturg.............................................................Luan Schooler Props Master.........................................................Will Bailey Production Stage Manager..................................Michelle Jazuk* Fight Director........................................................Jonathan Cole Assistant Director..................................................Chelsea Burwasser Production Assistants...........................................Jessica Evans Irvine Kira Atwood-Youngstrom Board Operator.....................................................Dave Petersen

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THERE WILL BE NO INTERMISSION. TIME: RIGHT NOW PLACE: ARTISTS REPERTORY THEATRE We Are Proud to Present … received its world premiere in April 2012 at Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago, Illinois, directed by Eric Ting, Chay Yew, artistic director, Jan Kallish, executive director, and had its New York premiere at SoHo Rep, Sarah Benson, artistic director, Cynthia Flowers, executive director. We Are Proud to Present … was developed at Magic Theatre’s Virgin Play Series, San Francisco; the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Playwrights Foundation, San Francisco; and Victory Gardens Theater’s IGNITION Festival.

SHOW CO-SPONSORS Trish & Bennett Garner Kris Olson & Les Swanson

Produced by special arrangement with DRAMATIC PUBLISHING, Woodstock, Illinois The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means is strictly prohibited. * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Actors’ Equity Association, founded in 1913, represents more than 49,000 actors and stage managers in the U.S. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. Equity seeks to foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. www.actorsequity.org + ^

Equity Membership Candidate Artists Repertory Theatre Resident Artist

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Partial support for open captioning performances provided by Theatre Development Fund.

ACTOR & DIRECTOR BIOS CHANTAL DEGROAT Actor 6/Black Woman Chantal is over the moon to return to Artists Rep! She is honored to collaborate with Mr. Jones, and was last seen performing in The Piano Lesson under his direction. Training: Shakespeare and Company (Lenox, MA) and Emerson College. Proud company member of Third Rail Rep! Select local credits iclude Artists Rep., Portland Center Stage, Portland Playhouse, Profile Theatre, Badass Theatre, Northwest Classical Theatre Co, and Clackamas Rep. Gratitude for the companies she teaches with: The August Wilson Red Door Project, PlayWrite, Portland Center Stage (All is Fair in Love and Shakespeare outreach program), and with Exeter University in England.

Chantal is thankful for the love and support from family and friends who champion her! www.chantaldegroat.com

JOSHUA J. WEINSTEIN Actor 1/White Man Joshua is a Resident Artist here at Artists Rep and has been seen here in The Miracle Worker (James), 4000 Miles (Leo), Tribes (Daniel), Foxfinder (William) and Red Herring (James). Josh is a former Apprentice at the Portland Playhouse.

Many thanks to Kevin, the cast, crew, and design team, and Brandy. Always.

VIN SHAMBRY Actor 2/Black Man Vin is honored to be back at Artists Rep, where he is a Resident Artist.

His previous Artists Rep productions include The Liar, Intimate Apparel, (I Am Still) the Duchess of Malfi and Superior Donuts, for which he won a 2011 Portland Drammy Award for Lead Actor. Other Portland credits include the role of executioner in Salome (Portland Opera), Our Town and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Portland Center Stage), four August Wilson shows: Jitney, King Hedley II, Gem of the Ocean and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Portland Playhouse) and Songs for a New World (Staged! and Miracle Theatre) for which he also won a 2011 Portland Drammy Award for Lead Musical Actor. Broadway credits include Tom Collins in Rent and John in Miss Saigon. He has toured nationally with Rent, Miss Saigon, Honk and Big River. He is currently working on a book of short stories about his childhood. www.vinshambry.com

CHRIS HARDER Actor 3/Another White Man Chris is delighted to return to the Artists Rep stage for We Are Proud to Present... Theatre credits include Intimate Apparel, Ten Chimneys, The History Boys, Chasing Empires Soul (Artists Rep), Cyrano, Othello, The Receptionist, Antigone, JAW: Outrage, This Thing of Darkness, Auto Delete, Parts They Call Deep, Two Birds and a Stone, Five Minute Wars (Portland Center Stage), Mother Teresa is Dead, Angels in America, Twelfth Night (Portland Playhouse), The Turn of the Screw (Portland Shakespeare Project), Fishing For My Father, The Centering (original solo works), The Snowstorm (Many Hats/CoHo), The Yellow Wallpaper, Fool For Love (CoHo), Shining City (Third Rail), One Day (Sojourn.) Film/TV credits include Gus Van Sant’s Restless, Extraordinary Measures with Harrison Ford, Everyman’s War, Rid Of Me, Recovery, Music Within, Leverage and Grimm. Chris was a founding member of the Sowelu Theatre Ensemble for seven seasons, he studied theatre at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and trained with Shakespeare & Co. in Lenox, MA. He is a faculty member of Portland Actors Conservatory, and offers private classes and coaching here at Artists Rep. www.chrisharder.com

JOSEPH GIBSON Actor 4/Another Black Man Joseph is excited to make his Artists Rep debut with We are Proud to Present...

Past credits include How We Got on (Portland Playhouse), Cymbeline (Anon it Moves), American Night (Teatro Milagro), Masque of the Red Death (Shaking the Tree) and The Lion in Winter (Northwest Classical Theatre.)

REBECCA RIDENOUR Actor 5/Sarah Rebecca is very happy to return to Artists Rep. Portland credits include Judith in Equivocation at Post 5 Theatre (directed

by Paul Angelo), Constance Leadbelly in Good Night Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet with Northwest Classical (Brenan Dwyer/Sarah Tansey), Miss Foxhill in Suddenly Last Summer with Shaking The Tree (Samantha Van Der Merwe), Gender Tree with Post 5 Theatre (Ty Boice),

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Ophelia in ¡O Romeo! with Milagro Theatre (Olga Sanchez), Susan Brady in The Playboy of the Western World with Artists Rep (Dámaso Rodriguez), Goneril in Lear and Brutus in Julius Caesar with Bag & Baggage (Scott Palmer), Nancy in Hard Times Come Again No More with Sowelu Theater (Lorraine Bahr), and Spectravagasm I,II,III, VI,VII,VIII (Sam Dinkowtiz). Rebecca is a graduate of Portland Actors Conservatory class of 2012. Many thanks to Kevin Jones and the company.

KEVIN JONES Director Most recently, Kevin directed The Piano Lesson by August Wilson at Portland Playhouse, The Motherfucker With the Hat by Stephen Adly Guirgis and August Wilson’s Seven Guitars at Artists Rep, and at Profile Theatre Romulus Linney’s A Lesson Before Dying and Blood Knot by Athol Fugard, which won a Drammy Award for Best Actor in a Lead Role. Prior to that, Jones directed the highly acclaimed production of August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom at Portland Playhouse. Kevin is the co-creator of The August Wilson Red Door Project – an organization that uses art as a catalyst to transform the racial ecology of Portland. He has enjoyed working on the American stage for more than 30 years. Regional theatres include American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Repertory Theatre of St Louis, Asolo Theatre in Saratoga, Florida, Florida Studio Theatre, Fountain Theatre (LA Drama Critics Circle Award for Actor in a Lead Role); Los Angeles Theatre Center, East West Players (LA Drama Critics Circle award for Actor in a Supporting Role); Great Lakes Shakespeare, Magic Theatre in San Francisco, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Arkansas Repertory Theatre and The Stanford Actor’s Project. Locally he has performed at Artists Rep, Portland Center Stage, Third Rail Repertory and Portland Playhouse where he received a Drammy Award for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role for his heartwarming performance of Old Joe in Radio Golf by August Wilson. His TV and film credits include Dr. Quinn, Say Uncle, Deadly Outbreak, War Games, Sweet Valley High and The Bachelor.

CREATIVE TEAM BIOS KRISTEEN WILLIS CROSSER

WANDA WALDEN

Scenic Designer

Costume Designer

Kristeen received her BA from Centre College in Danville, KY and received her MFA in lighting design from Wayne State University, Hilberry Company in Detroit, MI. Previously, she designed lights for several Artists Rep productions, including The Miracle Worker, Blithe Spirit, Tribes, The Invisible Hand, The Playboy of the Western World, The Monster-Builder, Foxfinder, Ten Chimneys, Red Herring, And So It Goes…, The Cherry Orchard and Eurydice. She designed the set for The Understudy, Broomstick, 4000 Miles and Foxfinder. She has designed scenery and/or lighting for several area theatres including Northwest Children Theatre’s Peter Pan, Willy Wonka and Pinocchio; Profile Theatre’s True West, My Children, My Africa, Master Harold and the Boys (2013 Drammy) and Thief River; CoHo Production’s Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune and The Outgoing Tide; Miracle Theatre’s Mariela in the Desert and Oedipus El Rey (2012 Drammy); and Third Rail Rep’s The Aliens, A Bright New Boise (2014 Drammy) and Gideon’s Knot (2014 Drammy).

Wanda has designed costumes for over 30 years. Wanda’s first production for Artists Rep dates back to 1989 and her credits here include Having Our Say, The Subject was Roses, A Taste of Honey, Buried Child, Gossip, Sharon and Billy, Destiny of Me, Normal Heart, Amazing Grace, Ballerina and Six Women with Brain Death. Wanda has costumed for numerous companies including Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, Frank Silvera Workshop, New York, Portland Repertory Theater, Oregon Stage Co, Portland Black Repertory, StoreFront, IFCC and NW Children’s Theatre. Some of Wanda’s favorite productions are American King Umps, Passin Art in collaboration with Damaris Webb, Sherman written by S. Renee Mitchell with music by Thara Memory, The Colored Museum, When will I Dance, Two Trains Running, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Red Beans and Rice, Simply Heavenly, The Pews (2002 Drammy) and Lullaby. Wanda has costumed for PassinArt Theater Co. since 1997. She has recently costumed the Langston Hughes play, Black Nativity and Tommy J and Sally. As an actor, some of her roles

include, Camille in Wet Carpets, Grace in Piano Lessons, Ms. Leah in Flying West and Rachel in Zoo Man and the Sign.

PETER WEST Lighting Designer Peter is a native New Yorker transplanted to the Pacific Northwest. His early lighting work for groundbreaking modern dance companies such as Cirque/ Portland Dance Theatre was followed by many ballets for Oregon Ballet Theatre including James Canfield’s signature work Equinoxe. He is designer in residence at Portland State University’s Opera Studio, having lit The Merry Widow, Street Scene, Dialogues des Carmélites, La Rondine, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Le Nozze di Figaro. He designed lighting for Carmen, Martha, Der Rosenkavalier, Andrea Chénier, The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and Don Pasquale for Portland Opera, for whom he is Assistant Lighting Designer. He has designed and produced corporate events and trade shows worldwide for Nike, Nordstrom, Nintendo, Skechers, Intel, Autodesk, Hewlett-Packard, Adidas, Daimler and Dr. Martens. His architectural projects include lighting for The Museum at Warm

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Springs, the University of California Berkeley Anthropological Museum, Niketown Atlanta and the renovation of The Historic Grand Theatre in Salem, Oregon. He is Resident Lighting Designer at Milagro Theatre, earning four Drammy Awards in previous years. Past work for Artists Rep includes Seven Guitars and The Motherfucker With the Hat for director Kevin Jones, and Exiles and Cuba Libre for director Dámaso Rodriguez.

MATT TABOR Composer Originally a drummer and percussionist, Matt switched to piano when he met professor Darrell Grant while auditioning for the music department at Portland State University. That meeting ignited the inspiration for Matt to pursue a new path, studying jazz piano with Grant as his private instructor. Since graduating in 2008, Matt has established himself in the Portland jazz scene, leading his own trio as well as playing as a sideman with a variety of local acts. He has also been an in-demand composer and arranger, and is excited to be working on We Are Proud to Present…, his first collaboration with Artists Rep. Other recent work has included the 2012 PAMTA awardwinning musical Recognition, for which he received nominations for Outstanding Orchestration and Best Original Score, and the Portland Playhouse’s 2014 production of August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson. These days Matt can be found playing solo piano at Portland Prime on Thursday nights, as well as working as musical director for the Tony Starlight Showroom.

JEN RAYNAK Musical Director Jen has been designing sound for theatre and film in Portland since the mid-90s, including six years as a company member of Third Rail Repertory Theatre and a 10-year stint at Portland Center Stage. By day, Jen is the Carproelsofly Department Head in Portland’5’s Winningstad Theatre.

MARY MCDONALD-LEWIS Dialect Coach Mary McDonald-Lewis has been a professional artist since 1979. She resides in Portland, Oregon, and is an international dialect coach for film, television and stage. She also works as a voice actor, on-camera actor, stage actor and director. Last season at Artists Rep, MaryMac coached Intimate Apparel, Blithe Spirit, The Invisible Hand, The Price and Tribes; this year, she has

coached Cuba Libre, Broomstick and The Miracle Worker. As house coach for Portland Center Stage, she managed Threesome and Three Days of Rain, which featured two stars from the NBC hit show Grimm, who she also coaches. Listen for her work on Streetcar Named Desire at PCS, and Grand Concourse at Artists Rep soon! Her favorite new client is Patrick Stewart. MaryMac loves what she does, and she thanks Finnegan, Sullivan and Flynn for always wagging their tails when she comes home.

KEMBA SHANNON Choreographer Kemba received her BFA from Towson State University and trained at the Alvin Ailey American Theater, Martha Graham School, The Edge, Lula Washington, Peridance and Morgan State University.

She has taught dance classes at, UCLA, Loyola Marymount, El Camino College, Portland State University and others.

Kemba’s stage credits include The Lion King (LA cast), The Color Purple (Broadway cast), Zumanity (Cirque du Soleil), Aida and FAME. Kemba’s ambition and drive have won her world recognition with musical icons such as Madonna (Drowned World Tour), Pink (Try This World Tour), Celine Dion (Taking Chances World Tour), Rihanna (Nike RockStar World Tour), Kanye West, R. Kelly and Fantasia just to name a few.

Her television credits include American Dreams (NBC), Oscars (Chicago Performance), MTV Music Awards (Pink performance), the Emmys (Kristin Bell performance), World Music Awards (Kanye West and R. Kelly), NAACP Awards and the Grammys.

LUAN SCHOOLER Dramaturg Luan joined Artists Rep as the Director of New Play Development & Dramaturgy in April 2015, to build the Table | Room | Stage program, which supports the creation and development of new work.

Luan honed her skills as a company member of Perseverance Theatre in Alaska, working with then-artistic director Molly Smith on new plays and devised works with wide ranging artists including Paula Vogel, John Murrell and John Luther Adams. After leaving Alaska, Schooler became the Literary Manager/ Dramaturg for Berkeley Rep. During seven years there, she worked with many luminary writers, including David Edgar, Naomi Iizuka, Salman Rushdie, Dominique Serrand, Rinde Eckert, Lillian Groag, Bridget Carpenter, Adam Rapp and Robert Fagles, and astute directors

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Tony Taccone, Mark Wing-Davey, Stephen Wadsworth and Lisa Peterson, among others. She has also worked on several devised pieces at Denver Center with artistic team Pavel Dobrusky and Per-Olav Sørensen, and worked as dramaturg at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, California Shakespeare Festival, A Traveling Jewish Theatre and Shaking the Tree Theatre.

MICHELLE JAZUK Production Stage Manager As a stage manager in Portland theatre for the past decade, it has been Michelle’s pleasure to collaborate with several companies. She has worked with Oregon Ballet Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Broadway Rose Theatre, Theatre Vertigo, Staged!, and also, Third Rail Repertory (A Bright New Boise, A Noble Failure, Penelope). However, her usual home was always with Artists Rep where some of her favorite projects include Cuba Libre, Tribes, The Big Meal, Ten Chimneys, God of Carnage, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, All My Sons, House, Garden, Orson’s Shadow and Theatre District. She is also proud to recognize her time with Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, where she was the Assistant Stage Manager for several shows including Metamorphoses, One, My Fair Lady, Sing Hallelujah! and Always Patsy Cline. She is lovingly appreciative of the continued support from her family. Chelle is a member of Actors’ Equity Association.

JONATHAN COLE Fight Director Jonathan has worked throughout the Northwest as a director, actor and fight director, and is a tenured faculty member of the Theatre Department at Willamette University. He is one of two Society of American Fight Directors Certified Teachers of stage combat in Oregon, and co-owns Revenge Arts, one of the largest stage combat consortiums in the United States. His choreography is most often seen on Artists Repertory Theatre’s stage, where he recently choreographed fights for The Miracle Worker, The Understudy, The Liar, Exiles, The Playboy of the Western World and The MonsterBuilder, and on Third Rail’s stage, where he choreographed Belleville, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Middletown and The Mystery of Irma Vep. Jonathan’s choreography has also been seen at Portland Shakespeare Project, Clackamas Repertory Theatre and Profile Theatre.

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STAFF Artistic Director: Dámaso Rodriguez Managing Director: Sarah Horton

ARTISTIC Artistic Producer: Shawn Lee Artistic Associate: Michael Mendelson Visiting Artistic Associate: Jerry Tischleder Director of New Play Development & Dramaturgy: Luan Schooler Resident Artists: Linda Alper, Ayanna Berkshire, Owen Carey, Kristeen Willis Crosser, Chris Harder, JoAnn Johnson, Kevin Jones, Val Landrum, Sarah Lucht, Susannah Mars, Gilberto Martin Del Campo, Mary McDonald-Lewis, Michael Mendelson, Allen Nause, Amy Newman, Vana O’Brien, Rodolfo Ortega, Sharath Patel, Gregory Pulver, John San Nicolas, Vin Shambry, Andrea Stolowitz, Joshua Weinstein, Megan Wilkerson

ADMINISTRATIVE Director of Finance & Administration: Jim Neuner Finance & Administrative Assistant, Casting Associate: Vonessa Martin

MARKETING & AUDIENCE SERVICES Marketing & PR Director: Nicole Lane Marketing & Publications Manager: Jessica Gleason Marketing & Promotions Specialist: Sarah Bills Digital & Graphic Design Specialist: Jeff Hayes Music Events Specialist: Susannah Mars Audience Services Manager: Karen Rathje Assistant Audience Services Manager: Christina DeYoung Box Office Systems Manager: Jon Younkin Box Office Associates: Jessie Duncan, Jessica Hillenbrand, Jack Ridenour House Managers:

Jessie Duncan, Karl Hanover, Valerie Liptak, Tara McMahon, Cecily Overman Concessions: Jessie Duncan, Karl Hanover, Tim Thompson, Jennifer Zubernick Resident Photographer: Owen Carey Video: ShutterSky Pictures

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DEVELOPMENT Development Director: Sarah Taylor Donor Relations Specialist: Laura Murray

PRODUCTION Production Supervisor: Jon Plueard Associate Technical Director: Rudy Schuepbach Resident Production Stage Managers: Michelle Jazuk, Carol Ann Wohlmut Master Carpenters: Nathan Crone, Eddie Rivera Master Electrician: Ruth Nardecchia Scenic Charge: Sarah Kindler Production Interns: Charlie Capps

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Marcia Darm, MD, Chair* Mike Barr, Vice-Chair Susanne Kuhn, Treasurer* Michele BowlerFailing, Secretary* Cody Hoesly, Past Chair* Julie Ball Jeffrey Condit Denise Frisbee* Patricia Garner Andrew Glass Blake Johnson Michael Parsons Andrea Schmidt Barbara Sepenuk Elisa Wickstrom* * Member of the Executive Committee

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