MOTHER ROAD
BY OCTAVIO SOLIS | DIRECTED BY DAVID MENDIZÁBAL
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What a joy and source of pride to welcome Octavio Solis to the Peet’s Theatre for the first ever production of his work at Berkeley Rep. While he is lauded up and down the West Coast (and across the country) he has not been produced here until now, though he made his home in the Bay Area for many years. Particularly interesting, perhaps, as he has written such an exquisite play about the journey to home, even if that home is as unknown and unknowable as California was for Steinbeck’s Joads, who inspired this story. And for their descendants, as embodied in Mother Road’s William Joad and Martín Jodes, and the fellow travelers he gathers (Wizard of Oz style) as he travels in the reverse journey from California to that infamous farm in Oklahoma.
One of the beauties of Octavio’s play is the way in which he upends the tropes of traditional Americana, from the roadtrip to the diner to the roadside motel. All reinvented and repurposed, much as he reclaims the notion of a Greek chorus and allows us to experience anew that specific representation of community — an ancient form reshaped in David Mendizábal’s production to bridge the contemporary world and the ageless tradition it references.
As you watch this performance, perhaps you will take a moment to contemplate the road that brought you here; what safety you abandoned in favor of the unknown; the fellow travelers who joined you along the way; and whether the journey might shape your understanding of yourself, this moment, and the adventures that lie ahead.
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Your Berkeley Rep journey this season ends on the Mother Road with Octavio Solis’ 21st-century response to John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Thank you for joining us this season, which featured both local California stories and shows that aim for Broadway and beyond. There is great energy and momentum at your theatre right now, and that is due in no small part to your patronage and charitable support.
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From Steinbeck TO SOLIS
BY SARAH ROSE LEONARD
Octavio Solis’ Mother Road descends directly from John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Commissioned by The National Steinbeck Center in Salinas, the play carries on the legacy of the novel’s protagonist Tom Joad and his extended family as they travel from Oklahoma to California during the Great Depression. Mother Road reverses the Joads’ migration, traveling from “Weedpatch,” a migrant farmworker camp in Bakersfield, California back to Sallisaw, Oklahoma. You will meet two characters who are Joad descendants: William, Tom Joad’s first cousin, and Martín, Tom Joad’s great grandson. Along the Mother Road (Route 66) Solis’ Joad family collects strangers and friends from their past.
Steinbeck’s fictional Joad family captured the American imagination. Every character’s story is interspersed with prose-poem interludes that paint a wider picture of the circumstances of the Great Depression. Steinbeck effectively causes his readers to understand their struggles as functioning inside of the problematic system of American agricultural economics. His simple, plain-spoken language and rich, detailed plot found wide appeal. The novel brought attention to the struggles of migrant farmworkers in America, arousing nationwide sympathy. The Grapes of Wrath won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1940.
The novel earned Steinbeck a reputation as the “conscience of America.” Growing up among farmworkers raised his consciousness about workers’ struggles. Steinbeck was born in Salinas — the “salad bowl” of America — in 1902 to a working-class family where he developed a close relationship with nature. He spent his free time in the fields, and often spent summers in Monterey and Big Sur by the ocean. He decided to be a writer as a teenager. While attending Stanford, he signed on only for those courses that interested him: classical and British literature, writing courses, some science. The President of the English Club said that Steinbeck, who regularly attended meetings to read his stories aloud, "had no other interests or talents that I could make out. He was a writer, but he was that and nothing else."
To pay his way as a writer, he worked as a manual laborer and beet harvester. The people he met on these jobs deepened his empathy for workers. His first three novels (Cup of Gold, The Pastures of Heaven, To a God Unknown) did not find success, but he broke through with Tortilla Flat in 1935. This series of humorous stories follows Monterey-based Mexican Americans on various adventures. His next novels followed agricultural laborers: In Dubious Battle (1936) tells the
tale of a strike, and Of Mice and Men (1937) dives into the bond between two displaced migrant laborers. In 1939, he published The Grapes of Wrath. Both of those novels became famous films, furthering Steinbeck’s popularity.
Steinbeck’s impressive body of work, including Cannery Row (1945), The Pearl (1947), and East of Eden (1952), shaped America's perception of rural laborers, raising awareness about the sources of the injustices they faced. His approachable, imaginative writing married social criticism with a fierce love of the land. Each novel contains rich symbolism, lifting up his characters’ struggles to an almost mythic level, while still grounding them with details of their quirks and flaws. Though Steinbeck lived the later part of his life in New York City, where he passed away in 1968, his fictional worlds took shape in California. His ashes reside in the Garden of Memories Cemetery in Salinas.
The playwright Octavio Solis began his relationship with Steinbeck’s work in 2010, when he adapted Steinbeck’s Pastures of Heaven, a collection of short stories. The resulting play premiered at California Shakespeare Theater with the SF-based company Word for Word, which theatricalizes short works of fiction. That project introduced him to the National Steinbeck Center. In 2013, Solis joined the Center on an 11-day trip that retraced the Mother Road route of the Joad family, in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of The Grapes of Wrath. The journey began in Sallisaw, OK, a region where thousands of impoverished families like the Joads had to abandon their farms, and ended near Bakersfield, where the Joads found paltry work. Solis joined two other artists and staff members in collecting oral histories from Dust Bowl survivors and their descendants. Solis re-read The Grapes of Wrath on that road trip. He reflected, “One young man told me, ‘We’re the new Okies, and I’m the new Tom Joad.’ So, I thought, what if Tom had gone to Mexico and married a Mexican woman? What if Tom’s only descendant today was a Mexican living on this side of the border?”
Teatro Campesino, a leader in the Chicano theatre movement during the 1960s that has a perfect tie to Steinbeck: it was founded by a group of farmworkers and artists dedicated to educating workers about the need for a union. Solis’ early years as a writer saw him blending poetic prose with personal-as-political narratives. He also found a love for adapting classics from Shakespeare to Spanish Golden Age theatre. His Man of the Flesh (1987) adapts the Don Juan play, The Trickster of Seville, to Orange County, CA, where a Chicano womanizer is dispatched by his father to work as a gardener for a rich white family. In Dreamlandia (1998), an adaptation of the classic Spanish play Life is a Dream, each dream opens doors to the next, creating a profoundly trippy effect on the audience. The 1990s–early 2000s saw Solis’ plays produced on stages across the country. Most recently, you might have seen his adaptation of Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote, entitled Quixote Nuevo at Cal Shakes in 2018. This Quixote rants at his windmills: drones in the sky, operated by border patrol. Solis is now one of the most-produced Latine contemporary playwrights in the U.S.
His works are full of visions in many forms, not only dreams, but myths embodied, hallucinations, religious revelations. This style of writing is perfectly at home in the theatre, a place where leaps of imagination are required for any travel to happen. And like Steinbeck, Solis’ characters go on epic journeys, but are rooted in their homes (for Steinbeck, California, for Solis, the border). His immigrant characters struggle to leave and struggle to stay.
Solis’ writing, like Steinbeck’s, has strong themes that he deepens and complicates with each new project. His characters live in in-between spaces spiritually and literally — much of his work takes place on, or is psychically about, the U.S./Mexico border. Solis was born and raised in El Paso, Texas, half a mile from the Rio Grande. As a kid, he saw up close the charged encounters between migrants and the Border Patrol. Those early impressions of people struggling with daily life on the border imprinted on his imagination and led him to create a body of work that both draws inspiration from and expands beyond the Mexican American experience.
Solis began his career as an actor but transitioned to writing partially to create more roles for Mexican American artists. He moved from Dallas to San Francisco in 1989, where he developed rich collaborations with the Magic Theatre and Intersection for the Arts. He wrote plays for El
In Mother Road the chorus says, “Family new-made of so many.” Solis' Joads create a chosen family on their road trip, and upon their arrival in Oklahoma create a hard won, forged home. This echoes Steinbeck’s Joad family, who lose blood relatives on their journey and gain friends upon their arrival who help them survive harsh circumstances. Both writers articulate the experience of home being something you lose, remake, and find again. In an article on Solis’ work, the theatre scholar Todd London writes that his Joad character’s arrival is “weary, elegiac, and full of a hope that can only come with facing the real-real.”
Both Steinbeck and Solis define what it is to be American, yet their work centers around people who are perpetually searching to belong. Perhaps this continuous striving for a defined identity is what makes us Americans, never settling for being one thing in a home for immigrants and their descendants. Solis identifies with this in-between state as someone who has always moved between worlds. He says, “The real life, the real me, is Mexican. Still, Mexicans reject us and tell us that we should embrace our Americanness. Instead, we are somewhere between realities.”
And Steinbeck — through the portals of time — answers: “I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.”
ROAD TRIPPING
AN INTERVIEW WITH THE PLAYWRIGHT
In 2013, playwright Octavio Solis joined a road trip sponsored by the National Steinbeck Center, which retraced the Joad family’s mythic Route 66 journey from Sallisaw, OK to Bakersfield, CA in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. This literary pilgrimage through the American Southwest along with Steinbeck’s novel served as the inspiration for Mother Road. The Berkeley Rep Artistic staff asked Octavio about this trip, road trips beyond, and his own journey as a legendary figure in Chicano and Americana literature.
What was the most memorable stop on your road trip along Route 66?
The second stop after we arrived in Oklahoma. We drove to Sallisaw, where the local library had prepared for our arrival by decorating the entire library in burlap and old farm implements, posting photos of the Dust Bowl and Depression in the area. They even parked an old Model A truck in front and loaded it up with gear for the long journey west. But the best thing were all the seniors who had survived the era and were ready to be interviewed by us. Over 40 people gave their oral histories. It was very moving. But the final station of our trip was at Weedpatch itself, which was eye-opening, since the final part of The Grapes of Wrath takes place there, but also since it is still in operation as a federal migrant housing facility. Yet, the most interesting person we met there was Jorge Guillen, who had grown on the camp and had been deeply influenced by the novel. It was his account that led me to the story of my Mother Road.
When you think of Bakersfield, CA and Sallisaw, OK what comes to mind?
I think of these two cities as twin agricultural communities.
If you could take a road trip in any vehicle of your choosing, what would you want to cruise around in?
Definitely an Airstream would be the ideal transportation for a true road trip.
What’s your favorite song to sing on a road trip?
Golden Earring’s “Radar Love”. (…The radio's playin' some forgotten song, Brenda Lee's “Coming On Strong”…)
What’s your favorite road trip story, book, or film?
What’s the most interesting or unusual spark that has inspired your writing?
María Irene Fornés destroyed my idea of how writing happens and then she opened my eyes to the possibilities of true writing. In a long workshop with her and my colleagues, we were definitely schooled in playing outside the box. What themes, images, or ideas do you see recurring throughout your work?
For me, it was always On the Road , Kerouac’s novel of transformative travel. As far as film is concerned, I have been stirred by Y Tu Mamá También, Easy Rider, and Into the Wild, the Walden of my daughter’s generation.
If you were to take another long road trip, who are the three people you would want to travel with?
My characters are outsiders, people who misbehave, people you don’t want to have over for dinner. These are the people who don’t know the rules and therefore break them with impunity. Love and Death are the two-headed animals in my work; the consummation of one is often the realization of the other.
What do you read or listen to that brings you peace or comfort?
I would definitely take a long road trip with my wife Jeanne, the director/actor Marissa Chibás Preston, and my artist friend Cody Bustamante.
Mother Road was inspired by Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Which other literary figures have inspired your work?
I have been nursed on the works of Sam Shepard, who understands the desert like no one else. I am also drawn to the literature of Cormac McCarthy.
The works of Arvo Pärt are a constant balm on my soul. Even as an atheist, I find solace in all his devotional works. I find a different comfort in the music of Joe Henry, the poet of love and unlove. The poetry of Mary Oliver is at my nightstand when I feel the nightmares looming. So too the poems of Mark Doty.
So much of Mother Road is about the theme of finding home. What are the three things you need to feel at home?
I require books (and music), I require animals, and I require my wife most of all.
BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE
Johanna Pfaelzer, Artistic Director | Tom Parrish, Managing Director presents
MOTHER ROAD
BY
OCTAVIO SOLIS
DIRECTED BY
DAVID MENDIZÁBAL
SCENIC DESIGN TANYA ORELLANA
COSTUME DESIGN RODRIGO MUÑOZ LIGHTING DESIGN CHA SEE
STAGE MANAGER ELISA GUTHERTZ*
DIRECTOR OF MARKETING AND AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT VOLEINE AMILCAR
DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION AUDREY HOO
DIRECTOR OF FACILITIES MARK MORRISETTE
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER CHRISTINA HOGAN*
GENERAL MANAGER SARA DANIELSEN
DIRECTOR OF THE SCHOOL OF THEATRE ANTHONY JACKSON
DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES AND DIVERSITY MODESTA TAMAYO
FINANCE DIRECTOR JARED HAMMOND
DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT ARI LIPSKY
DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS AMANDA WILLIAMS O’STEEN
World premiere produced by Oregon Shakespeare Festival Bill Rauch, Artistic Director | Cynthia Rider, Executive Director
Mother Road was produced in a developmental production by Goodman Theatre, Chicago in the New Stages Festival Robert Falls, Artistic Director | Roche Schulfer, Executive Director
It was commissioned by the National Steinbeck Center and first read as part of the National Steinbeck Festival
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CAST
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Cher Álvarez* Amelia/Chorus
James Carpenter* William Joad
Daniel Duque-Estrada* Abelardo/Chorus
Emilio Garcia-Sanchez* Martín Jodes
Branden Davon Lindsay* James/Chorus
Michael Moreland Milligan* Roger/Chorus
Lindsay Rico* Mo/Chorus
Benny Wayne Sully* Curtis/Chorus
Courtney Walsh* Ivy/Chorus
UNDERSTUDIES
(in alphabetical order)
Scott Coopwood* William Joad, Roger, Chorus
Marilet Martinez* Mo, Amelia, Ivy, Chorus
Kenny Scott James, Chorus
Angel Villalobos Martín Jodes, Abelardo, Curtis, Chorus
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June 14–July 21, 2024
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Route 66 Reads: The Grapes of Wrath
Over six weeks starting on Jun 3, Berkeley Rep will host a guided reading of Steinbeck’s renowned novel, offering participants a deeper understanding of the Americana literary tradition that Octavio Solis interrogates and enriches through Mother Road. To join us on this journey down the Mother Road, register for Route 66 Reads. And if you’d like to purchase the book in advance, it’s available at Half Price Books, Books Inc., and other local retailers.
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MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS
Voleine Amilcar .. Director of Marketing and Audience Development
Heather Orth ......................... Associate Director of Marketing
DC Scarpelli Creative Director
Kevin Kopjak –
Prismatic Communications .............. Public Relations Consultant
Lindsey Abbott ...................... Audience Development Manager
Sarah Doherty ................................. Digital Content Manager
Calvin Ngu Video and Multimedia Content Creator
Beatriz Hernandez Marketing Associate
PATRON SERVICES
Derik Cowan
Director of Ticketing and Sales
pan ellington, Joelle Joyner-Wong, Alanna McFall, Aya Newman, Em Parker, Dom Refuerzo Box Office Agents
Kelly Kelley ...................................... Front of House Director
Maddi Gjovik, Nina Gorham.............. Patron Services Supervisors
Emma Allen-Landwehr, Alicia Battle, Megan Bedig, Steven Cole, Matthew Hayden, Latasha Hayes, Armando Herrera, Jeremy Johnson, Caitlyn Lee, Jennifer Light, Ana-is Lino, Kalani Murray, Maura Oliverira, Kathleen Parsons, Angela Phung, Nicolas Puorro, Tuesday Ray, Anna Riggin, Melissa Scheulin, Alana Scott, Debra Selman, Sloane Sim, Anna Vorobyeva, Linda Wu, Kailani Zabala ......... Patron Experience Representatives
2023/24 BERKELEY REP FELLOWSHIPS
Belle Alatorre
Kayla Badia
Harry Weininger Sound Fellow
Production Management Fellow
Gabrielle Bañuelos ..................................... Costumes Fellow
Louis Blachman ............................ Bret C. Harte Artistic Fellow
Laurel Capps ............................... Scenic Construction Fellow
Rebs Chan
Peter F. Sloss Artistic Fellow
Rodrick Edwards Marketing and Development Fellow
Faith Elder
Company Management Fellow
Anthony Lopez .............................. Stage Management Fellow
Sophie Lynd ............................................... Lighting Fellow
Katie Owen Properties Fellow
E. Wayman-Murdock Scenic Art Fellow
Cher Álvarez*
Amelia/Chorus
Cher is exceptionally thrilled to be making her Berkeley Rep debut. She has created and performed alongside other brilliant artists at Steppenwolf Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Writers Theatre, Drury Lane Theatre, and American Players Theatre. She has also appeared on Apple TV's Sugar, Amazon's Leverage: Redemption, CBS’ NCIS Hawai'i, NBC’s Chicago Med, NBC’s Chicago PD, Showtime's Shameless, and ABC's Station 19. She holds a B.F.A in Musical Theatre from Webster Conservatory of Dramatic Arts. Los quiero much Ademi.
James Carpenter*
William Joad
James is a former Berkeley Rep Associate Artist, most recently appearing in Wintertime, MacBeth, Three Sisters, Peoples Temple, Fête de la Nuit, and Lieutenant of Inishmore. Other credits include California Shakespeare Theater, Aurora Theatre Company, Marin Theatre Company, Mark Taper Forum, The Old Globe, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Yale Rep, Santa Cruz Shakespeare, Huntington Theatre Company, Intiman Theatre, American Conservatory Theater. Screen credits include The Rainmaker, Metro, For the Coyotes, and the series Nash Bridges. James is co-founder of the Actors Reading Collective (arcstream.org) and the recipient of many San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards, including the 2007 Award for Excellence in the Arts and the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2010, he was named a Ten Chimneys Foundation Lunt-Fontanne Fellow.
Daniel Duque-Estrada*
Abelardo/Chorus
Daniel is making his Berkeley Rep debut. He has appeared Off-Broadway in Recent Alien Abductions (PlayCo) and Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (Women’s Project Theater). Regional theatre credits include Resident Actor at Trinity Repertory Company and Dallas Theatre Center (2013-2015); Oregon Shakespeare Festival (2 seasons); and Latino Theatre Co. Bay Area credits: Magic Theatre, Campo Santo, Marin Theatre Company, Shotgun Players, and California Shakespeare Theater. BA: UC Berkeley. MFA: Brown University/Trinity Rep.
Emilio
Garcia-Sanchez*
Martín Jodes
Emilio was born and raised in the East Bay (Alameda stand up!) so it goes without saying that he is truly honored to be sharing a story for the first time with Berkeley Rep. After graduating with his BFA from CalArts, Emilio has been featured in: The Society (Netflix), Nate & Gigi (Hulu), Criminal Minds (CBS), Family Guy (FOX), & Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Disney+). Stage performances include: Scene with Cranes (Redcat), Pomegranate Jam (Edinburgh Fringe), The Glass Menagerie (Intl. City Theatre), Shelter (The Kennedy Center). Gracias a todo mi familia, blood and chosen.
Branden Davon
Lindsay* (he/him)
James/Chorus
Branden is a Southern gentlemen born and raised in Greenville, SC. Credits include A Soldier’s Play National Tour (Roundabout Theatre), Merry Wives (Public Theater), The Greatest Beer Run Ever (Apple TV+), Three Birthdays (Independent), Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens (Comedy Central), Evil (CBS), and Blue Bloods (CBS). MFA NYU Tisch School of the Arts, BA William Carey University. Instagram: @BrandenLindsay_
Michael Moreland Milligan*
Roger/Chorus
Broadway: La Bete, August: Osage County, Jerusalem. Off-Broadway: Mercy Killers, Thom Pain, The Golem. Shakespeare Theatre Company (DC): King Lear, Don Juan, Taming of the Shrew, Love’s Labors Lost, The Alchemist. Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Othello (Iago), Emma, Tug of War. McCarter Theatre: Thom Pain, Candida, Christmas Carol. Television: Somebody Somewhere, The Knick, Law & Order, Chicago Med, Chicago Fire, Chicago Justice, Person of Interest, APB, Next. Awards: Fringe First (Mercy Killers, Edinburgh Fringe Festival); John Houseman Prize (Juilliard, Group 30). Michael is also the Brand Manager of the family knife company – New West KnifeWorks.
Lindsay Rico* (she/her)
Mo/Chorus
Lindsay is making her Berkeley Rep debut. Selected credits include The Skin of Our Teeth (Broadway), Measure for Measure (California Shakespeare Theater/Santa Cruz Shakespeare), Fefu and Her Friends (Theatre for
a New Audience), Alligator (The Sol Project/New Georges), A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction (Baltimore Center Stage), River (The Whitney Museum). Other credits include: Ars Nova, The Williamstown Theatre Festival, and LaMama, to name a few. BA Wellesley College. She’d like to thank her friends and family.
Benny Wayne Sully* (he/him)
Curtis/Chorus
Benny is a classically trained actor and an enrolled citizen of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, home of the Sicangu Lakota Oyate. He is no stranger to the stage, having appeared in Jiehae Park’s peerless at 59E59 in NYC, at UCB Franklin on one of their coveted Harold improv teams, and with many prestigious theatre groups including Center Theatre Group, Native Voices, and PAC NYC. In 2022, he was one of twenty actors chosen to participate in the WarnerMedia Access Spotlight Showcase. @TheDoophus
Courtney Walsh*
Ivy/Chorus
Berkeley Rep: Three Sisters u/s. International: Clytemnestra (Berlin, Amsterdam, Athens, Cardiff, Sydney, Auckland), Wanderings of Odysseus (Athens), Happy Days (Paris, Montpellier). New York: Mother Lear (Brooklyn Botanic Garden). Bay Area: The Wizard of Oz (American Conservatory Theater), Clue, Jerusalem, and Seared (San Francisco Playhouse), Native Son (Marin Theatre Company), Phèdre, Timon of Athens (Cutting Ball Theater), Mother Lear, Romeo and Juliet (We Players), Boys Go to Jupiter (Z Space), twelve seasons at Stanford Repertory Theater. Theatre Bay Area Awards: Outstanding Performance, Production, Directing, Ensemble. Training: Yale University. Courtney has also been a lawyer for abused children. courtneywalsh.net
Scott Coopwood*
U/S William Joad, Roger, Chorus
Berkeley Rep: Shad Ledue in It Can’t Happen Here (both onstage in 2016 and the Radio Play adaption in 2019) and Lennox in Macbeth. Regional: Arkansas Rep, Artists Rep, Center Rep, Sacramento Theatre Company, Capital Stage, Capitol Rep, Arizona Theatre Company, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, San Francisco Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, Marin Theatre Company, and the Colorado, Seattle, Utah, Lake Tahoe, and Orlando Shakespeare Companies/Festivals.
Marilet Martinez* (she/they)
U/S Mo, Amelia, Ivy, Chorus
Marilet is a queer, bilingual, multi-hyphenate theatre practitioner and resilience-focused teaching artist. She/they are currently the Director of Youth and Community Arts at PCPA, where she is also a resident director and actor. As a founding core member of @Ratas_De_2_Patas (Chicago’s award winning all Latine queer comedy collective) and co-founder of @tus.tias.productions, it is @mariletmartinezsf mission is to create comedic theatrical experiences that challenge the hetero cis patriarchy while using humor to uplift systemically oppressed voices. Their show, The Invocation of Selena (Tus Tias Productions) was recently featured at La Jolla Playhouse’s Latinx New Plays Festival.
Kenny Scott
U/S James, Chorus
Recent credits include productions with TheatreWorks
Silicon Valley (A Distinct Society), Aurora Theatre Company (Paradise Blue), California Shakespeare Theater (Lear), Marin Theatre Company (Two Trains Running), Crowded Fire (Inked Baby, SUBVERiTas), Z Space (The Institute for Counterfeit Memory), The New Conservatory Theatre Center (Mystery of Love and Sex), The Forum (Sarafael), Idiot String (Port Stories), and Quantum Dragon Theatre (Ageless). Kenny is a company member with the Oakland Theatre Project (Hamlet, Mother Courage) as well as Shotgun Players (The Claim, The Light). He attended Morgan State University and was a member of the Laney College Fusion Theatre Project.
Angel Villalobos
U/S Martín Jodes, Abelardo, Curtis, Chorus
Angel is beyond thankful to be making his Berkeley Rep debut. Recent regional credits include Final Request (Frida Kahlo Theater), Macbeth (Prague Shakespeare Company), Llave (Teatro de las Américas), Three Sisters (Center Stage SB). He is a graduate of UCSB’s BFA Acting and Sociology programs, and is a teaching artist with Theatricum Botanicum. Amor y salud! @villaslowbos
Octavio Solis
Playwright
Octavio Solis is a playwright and author whose works Mother Road, Scene with Cranes, Quixote Nuevo, Se Llama Cristina, John Steinbeck’s The Pastures of Heaven, Ghosts of the River, Lydia, Lethe, Gibraltar, Bethlehem, Dreamlandia, El Otro, Man of the Flesh, Prospect, El Paso Blue, Santos & Santos, La Posada Mágica, and Cloudlands (with music by Adam Gwon) have been mounted in theatres across the country such as the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, California Shakespeare Theater, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Center Theatre Group, Yale Repertory Theatre, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Magic Theatre, South Coast Repertory Theatre, El Teatro Campesino, and Campo Santo. He worked as a voice actor and consultant on the Disney/Pixar film Coco. His short stories have been published in Zyzzyva, Catamaran, Huizache, and The Chicago Quarterly Review. Solis has received numerous awards including the United States Artists Fellowship for 2011 and the 2014 Pen Center USA Award. His book Retablos is published by City Lights Publishing.
David Mendizábal (they/he) Director
David is a director, designer, producer, and Berkeley Rep’s Associate Artistic Director. They are one of the producing artistic leaders of the Obie award-winning The Movement Theatre Company and a founding collective member of the Obie award-winning Sol Project. Directing credits include Mexodus (Baltimore Center Stage/Mosaic), the bandaged place (Roundabout), Mushroom (People’s Light), Sanctuary City (Berkeley Rep/Arena Stage), Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Board Members (Soho Rep/Sol Project), This Bitter Earth (TheatreWorks Hartford), and Don’t Eat the Mangos (Magic Theatre/Sundance). David is an alumnus of the Soho Rep Project Number One Residency, Ars Nova Vision Residency, Drama League Directors Project, Labyrinth Intensive Ensemble, artEquity, NALAC, LCT Directors Lab, and TCG Leadership U. They are the recipient of a 2021 Princess Grace Award Honoraria in Theater. David earned a BFA from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts. davidmendizabal.com
Tanya Orellana (she/her)
Scenic Design
Tanya designs performance spaces for theatre, opera, and immersive experiences. Selected credits include Kate Attwell’s Big Data, María Irene Fornés’ Fefu and her Friends, and Qui Nguyen’s Poor Yella Rednecks (American Conservatory Theater); For The People
by Larissa FastHorse and Ty Defoe (Guthrie Theatre); Oedipus, directed by Jenny Koons (The Getty Villa); Lear by Marcus Gardley, directed by Eric Ting (California Shakespeare Theater); The Travelers, by Luis Alfaro, directed by Catherine Castellanos (Magic Theatre); What Became of Us (Atlantic Stage 2); and Where Did We Sit on The Bus? (Denver Center Theatre Company). She received her MFA in Scenic Design from CalArts and is a recipient of the Princess Grace Fabergé Theatre Award. She is a long-time member of Campo Santo. tanyaorellana.com
Rodrigo Muñoz
Costume Design
Rodrigo is a NY based Costume Designer, Originally from Mexico City. Recent credits Off-Broadway: Sally & Tom, Plays for the Plague Year (The Public Theater); What Became of Us (Atlantic Theater): Bernarda’s Daughters (The New Group); Sorry for Your Loss (Minetta Lane Theatre); Rent (Paper Mill Playhouse); Notes From Now (Prospect Theater Company); This Space Between Us (Theatre Row); Preparedness (Bushwick Starr); Volpone, The Revenger’s Tragedy (Red Bull Theater). Regional: The Bluest Eye (Huntington Theatre), Red Velvet (Shakespeare Theatre Company), Dial M for Murder, Torera (Alley Theatre); Cabaret; (Barrington Stage Company); Palacios Sisters (Gala Theatre); Somewhere (Geva Theatre), How to Make an American Son (Arizona Theatre Company), Mushroom (People’s Light), Fall of the House of Usher (Boston Lyric Opera), Bad Dates (Portland Stage). rodrigomunozdesign.com
Cha See
Lighting Design
Cha See is an Obie Award-winning lighting designer from Manila, Philippines. Highlights include: Sanctuary City (Berkeley Rep, Arena Stage); Jordans (Public Theater); Cole Escola’s Oh, Mary!; Wet Brain (Playwrights Horizons, Lortel Nomination for Outstanding Lighting Design); Is It Thursday Yet? (La Jolla, PAC NYC); You Will Get Sick (Roundabout); On That Day in Amsterdam (Drama Desk and Lortel Nominations for Outstanding Lighting Design); The Seagull/Woodstock, NY, and one in two (The New Group); Sorry for Your Loss, The Fever, and Lucy (Audible Theater); What to Send Up When It Goes Down (A.R.T., Playwrights Horizons, BAM, Public Theater); soft (MCC). MFA NYU Tisch. Seelightingdesign.com @seethruuu
Jake Rodriguez Sound Design
Jake is a sound designer and composer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has designed over a dozen shows for Berkeley Rep, most recently Wintertime and Angels in America.
Other recent credits include Between Two Knees (Perelman Performing Arts Center, Yale Repertory Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Frankenstein Revived (Stratford Festival); Poor Yella Rednecks: Vietgone 2 (American Conservatory Theater); Dear San Francisco (Club Fugazi); and The Cassandra Sessions (Shotgun Players). He is the recipient of a 2004 Princess Grace Award and received an honorary MFA from A.C.T. in 2021. Find sounds at soundcrack.net
Ritmos Tropicosmos
Original Music
Ritmos Tropicosmos is a seven-piece psychedelic cumbia group from Oakland, CA, creating heavy tropical rhythms with an emphasis on live percussion, synthesizers, and familial stories put into song. Together in a timewarped crossroads of electric and acoustic instrumentation, Ritmos Tropicosmos stands somewhere within the traditional rhythms of the past and the futuristic soundscapes of The Now. Their debut LP La Vida es Pa’ Vivir will be released on Econo Jam Records in Summer 2024. Find out more at tropicosmos.com.
Taylor Williams Casting
Artios Award. Film: Good One (Sundance 24), Front Room (A24), Omni Loop (2am). Broadway: Stereophonic, Enemy of the People, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive, Slave Play, Is This a Room & Dana H, What the Constitution Means to Me. Upcoming: Purple Rain. TaylorWilliamsCasting.com
Jonathan Bauerfeld (he/him) Music Director
Jonathan is an NYC-based composer, music director, and orchestrator. Music team credits include: Berkeley Rep - Galileo. BroadwayThe Who’s Tommy, King Kong, Escape to Margaritaville, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical Off B’way - The Gospel According to Heather (MD, Additional Vocal Arrangements), Single Rider (MD, Orchestrations), The Pout-Pout Fish (MD, Arrangements). Regional: Hamilton (Chicago, First Nat’l), Trading Places (Alliance Theatre), Pride and Prejudice (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley). Bauerfeld’s original scores include: The Jury (A.R.T. New York, TNNY), Book Lovers (MTI), The Book of Names (Edinburgh Fringe), and Short Shakes! The Comedy of Errors (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre). jonathanbauerfeld.com
Adi Cabral Voice and Dialect Coach
Regional: Fat Ham (Huntington Theatre / Alliance Theatre); Laughs in Spanish (Houston Stages / Theatre Squared); Born with Teeth and Or, (Santa Fe Playhouse); Various (Utah
Shakespeare Festival); Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles and A Christmas Carol (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); Queens Girl in the World (Hangar Theatre / Central Square Theater); keyp-ing (New Rep); A Christmas Carol: The Musical (Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities); The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano (New Hazlett Theatre). Numerous audiobooks. Education: MFA in Theatre Performance (ASU). VASTA President-elect. Professor of Voice and Movement at the University of Nevada Reno. AdiCabral.com
Zoë Swenson-Graham (she/her) Fight Choreographer
Zoë returns to Berkeley Rep after working on Clyde’s last season. Prior to 2015, she lived in London for nearly seven years, where she worked as an actor, dancer, stage combat choreographer, and teacher around the UK, including the Royal Opera House, Soho Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, Guildford School of Acting, Royal Welsh College, Southwark Playhouse, British American Drama Academy, and stunt work for Derren Brown: Apocalypse (Channel 4). Bay Area credits include American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco Playhouse, Hillbarn Theatre (San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle nomination for fight choreography), Marin Musical Theatre Company (TBA Award finalist for fight choreography), Sierra Repertory Theatre, Youth Musical Theater Company, Mountain Play, and Shotgun Players.
Elisa Guthertz*
Stage Manager
Elisa has been a stage manager in the San Francisco Bay Area for 30 years. Most recently, she stage managed Bulrusher, English, and the ripple, the wave that carried me home at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Some of her many shows at American Conservatory Theater include: Big Data, The Headlands, Fefu and Her Friends, Toni Stone, Testmatch, Seascape, and Sweat Other credits: Sanctuary City at Berkeley Rep and Arena Stage; A Thousand Splendid Suns at A.C.T., The Old Globe, and Theatre Calgary; Big Love at Long Wharf Theatre, Goodman Theatre, and BAM; The Good Body with Eve Ensler at A.C.T. and the Booth Theater on Broadway; The Vagina Monologues with Eve Ensler at Alcazar Theatre in San Francisco.
Christina Hogan* (she/her)
Assistant Stage Manager
Christina returns to Berkeley Repertory Theatre after working on Bulrusher, POTUS, English, Sanctuary City, and It Can't Happen Here. Other theatre credits include: Kristina Wong: Sweatshop Overlord, The Headlands, Fefu and Her Friends, Gloria, Top Girls, and Men on Boats (American Conservatory Theater); August Wilson's Two Trains Running, Pass Over, and
Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberly (Marin Theatre Company); Lear (California Shakespeare Theater); Josephine’s Feast, In Old Age, and The Baltimore Waltz (Magic Theatre); The Road to Mecca and Ripped (Z Space). Hogan has a BA in Theatre Arts from Saint Mary’s College of California.
Johanna Pfaelzer
Artistic Director
Johanna joined Berkeley Rep in 2019 as its fourth artistic director, following 12 years as artistic director of New York Stage and Film (NYSAF), a New York City-based developer of new works for theatre, film, and television. Johanna is proud to have developed work by notable established and early career writers like Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda; Goddess by Saheem Ali, Michael Thurber, and Jocelyn Bioh; The Humans by Stephen Karam; Hadestown by Anaïs Mitchell; The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe; The Invisible Hand by Ayad Akhtar; A 24-Decade History of Popular Music by Taylor Mac; The Homecoming Queen by Ngozi Anyanwu; The Great Leap by Lauren Yee; Doubt by John Patrick Shanley; The Fortress of Solitude by Michael Friedman and Itamar Moses; The Jacksonian by Beth Henley; and Green Day’s American Idiot. Johanna previously served as associate artistic director of American Conservatory Theater and is a graduate of Wesleyan University and the Actors Theatre of Louisville Apprentice Program. She lives in Berkeley with her husband, Russell Champa, and their son, Jasper.
Tom
Parrish
Managing Director
Tom has served as a theatre leader and arts administrator for over 20 years, with experience in organizations ranging from multi-venue performing arts centers to major Tony Award-winning theatre companies. Prior to Berkeley Rep, he served as executive director of Trinity Repertory Company, Geva Theatre Center, and Merrimack Repertory Theatre and as associate managing director/general manager of San Diego Repertory Theatre. His work has been recognized with a NAACP Theatre Award for Best Producer and “Forty Under 40” recognition in Providence, Rochester, the Merrimack Valley, and San Diego. He received his MBA/MA in Arts Administration from Southern Methodist University; BA in Theater Arts and Economics from Case Western Reserve University; attended the Commercial Theater Institute, National Theater Institute, and Harvard Business School’s Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management; and is certified in Leading Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion by Northwestern University. He and his husband live in Berkeley.
THANK YOU to our supporters!
We thank the many organizations, companies, and individuals who enrich our community by championing Berkeley Rep’s artistic, education, and community engagement programs.
Institutional Funders
FOUNDATION
Anonymous (3)
The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation
The California Wellness Foundation
Civic Foundation, Inc.
Davis/Dauray Family Fund
The William H. Donner Foundation, Inc.
The Ira and Leonore S. Gershwin
Philanthropic Fund
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
JEC Foundation
Koret Foundation
Laurents/Hatcher Foundation
Jonathan Logan Family Foundation
The Maurer Family Foundation
The Bernard Osher Foundation
The Shubert Foundation
Taube Philanthropies
Woodlawn Foundation
Corporate & Hospitality Sponsors
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EXECUTIVE SPONSOR
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Berkeley Repertory Theatre gratefully recognizes the following contributors for their transformational contributions to The Resilience Campaign that support the Theatre’s future.
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California Wellness Foundation
Stephen & Susan Chamberlin
Yogen & Peggy Dalal
Robin & Rich Edwards
David & Vicki Fleishhacker
Kerry Francis & John Jimerson
Jill & Steve Fugaro
Karen Galatz & Jon Wellinghoff
Bruce Golden & Michelle Mercer
Marcia Grand
Frances Hellman & Warren Breslau
Dugan & Philippe Lamoise
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Gisele & Kenneth F. Miller
Sudha Pennathur & Edward Messerly
Jack & Betty Schafer
Pat & Merrill Shanks
Michael & Sue Steinberg
The Strauch Kulhanjian Family
Kelli & Steffan Tomlinson
Gail & Arne Wagner
Linda & Steve Wolan
We thank the many individuals in our community who help Berkeley Rep produce adventurous, thought-provoking, and thrilling theatre and bring arts education to thousands of people every year. We gratefully recognize our donors at the Advocate level and above, who made their gifts between January 1, 2023 and April 24, 2024. We also express our deep gratitude to all of the Friends of Berkeley Rep that we are unable to recognize here due to space limitations.
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SEASON SPONSORS
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Stephen & Susan Chamberlin
Yogen & Peggy Dalal
Bruce Golden & Michelle Mercer
Frances Hellman & Warren Breslau
Wayne Jordan & Quinn Delaney
Jonathan Logan & John Piane
Gisele & Kenneth F. Miller
Jack & Betty Schafer
The Strauch Kulhanjian Family
Kelli & Steffan Tomlinson
Gail & Arne Wagner
LEAD SPONSORS
Anonymous
Barbara Bass Bakar
Jill & Steve Fugaro
Mary Ruth Quinn & Scott Shenker
EXECUTIVE SPONSORS
Anonymous (2)
Anne & Anuj Dhanda
Christopher Doane & Neal Shorstein, MD
Robin & Rich Edwards
Bill Falik & Diana Cohen
Kerry Francis & John Jimerson
Dr. Daniel F. Goodman
Marcia Grand
Melinda Haag & Chuck Fanning
Melanie Maier
Sandra & Ross McCandless
Sudha Pennathur & Edward Messerly
Leonard X & Arlene B. Rosenberg
Pat & Merrill Shanks
Michael & Sue Steinberg
Steven & Linda Wolan
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Shelley & Jonathan Bagg
Walter Brown
David & Vicki Cox
Christina Crowley
William T. Espey & Margaret Hart Edwards
Karen Galatz & Jon Wellinghoff
Paul Haahr & Susan Karp
Scott & Sherry Haber
Rick Hoskins & Lynne Frame
Jack Klingelhofer
Suzanne LaFetra Collier
Susan & Moses Libitzky
Erin McCune
Pam & Mitch Nichter
Jack & Valerie Rowe
Todd Rubin
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Artistic Directors Circle
PARTNER
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Edward D. Baker
John Brennan & Stephanie McKown
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Italo & Susan Calpestri
Jennifer Chaiken & Sam Hamilton
John Dains
Richard DeNatale & Craig Latker
Thomas W. Edwards &
Rebecca Parlette-Edwards
Merle & Michael Fajans
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Linda Jo Fitz
Lisa Franzel & Rod Mickels
Dennis & Susan Johann Gilardi
Rico & Maya Green
Karen Grove & Julian Cortella
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Elaine Hitchcock
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Randy Laroche & David Laudon
Joel Linzner & Teresa Picchi
Rosa Luevano & Charles Marston
Elsie Mallonee
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Marymor Family Fund
Seth Mickenberg & Alfredo Silva
Judy Minor
Sandi & Dick Pantages
Lauri Paul & Mark Hamilton
Peter Pervere & Georgia Cassel
Pure Dana Fund
Jaimie Sanford & Ted Storey
Emily Shanks
Elizabeth Werter & Henry Trevor
Sheila Wishek
BENEFACTOR
Anonymous (2)
Norman Abramson, in memory of David Beery
Eric Allman & Kirk McKusick
Philip Arca & Sherry Smith
Linda & Mike Baker
Michelle L. Barbour
Ashvini Bhave & Kishore Bopardikar
Becky & Jeff Bleich
Jeffrey Breslow
Linda Brown
Ronnie Caplane
Constance Crawford
Ed Cullen & Ann O’Connor
Lisa Conte
Dr. Jim Cuthbertson
Barbara & Tim Daniels
Richard & Anita Davis
Ilana DeBare & Sam Schuchat
Bill DeHart
Corinne & Mike Doyle
Linda Drucker
Sandra & Ken Eggers
William & Susan Epstein
Jerry Falk
Descendant Cellars
Joan Sarnat & David Hoffman
Sargina & Marc Silvani
Jean Strunsky, in memory of Michael Strunsky
Felicia Woytak & Steven Rasmussen
ASSOCIATE SPONSORS
Anonymous (3)
Edith Barschi & Robert Jackson
Anna Bellomo & Josh Bloom
Lynne Carmichael
Cindy J. Chang, MD & Christopher Hudson
Narsai & Venus David
David & Vicki Fleishhacker
Steven Goldin
Laura Graham
Elise Haas
Richard N. Hill & Nancy Lundeen
George Jacob
Ms. Wendy E. Jordan
Fred Karren, in memory of Beth Karren
Sy Kaufman & Kerstin Edgerton
Rosalind & Sung-Hou Kim
Dugan & Philippe Lamoise
Eileen & Hank Lewis
Paul Feigenbaum & Judy Kemeny
The Flatows
Dean Francis
Sharon & Tom Francis
Herb & Marianne Friedman
Mio & Jon Good
Mary W Graves
Stan Hoffman
Robert & Judith Greber
Anne & Peter Griffes
Migsy & Jim Hamasaki
Dan & Shawna Hartman Brotsky
Tamra C. Hege
Ruth Hennigar
Bill Hofmann & Robbie Welling
Paula Hughmanick & Steven Berger
Muriel Kaplan & Bob Sturm
Bill & Lisa Kelly
Dana Kirkland
Stephen F. Kispersky
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Lynn & Gerald Ungar
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Susanna & Brad Marshland
Rebecca Martinez
Henning Mathew & Michelle Deane
Miles & Mary Ellen McKey
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Susie Medak & Greg Murphy
Robin Meezan
Ali Long, In Honor of T. Dixon Long
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David J. Williamson
Phyra McCandless & Angelos Kottas
Martin & Margi Cellucci McNair
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Julie Moreland
Tom Parrish & Steve Dow
Norman & Janet Pease
Johanna Pfaelzer & Russell Champa
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Leslie & Mark Ragsdale
Dr. Jason Ravenel and Leann Ravenel
Carla & David Riemer
Audrey & Paul L. Richards
Richard A. Rubin & H. Marcia Smolens
Becky Saeger & Tom Graves
Jeane & Roger Samuelsen
Dan Scharlin & Sara Katz
Jackie Schmidt-Posner & Barry Posner
Jon and NoraLee Sedmak
Shirlen Fund, in memory of Shirley & Philip Schild
Allan & Maria Smith
Ed & Ellen Smith
Karen Stevenson & Bill McClave
Alison Teeman & Michael Yovino-Young
Henry Timnick
Larry Vales
Deborah & Bob Van Nest
Kimberly Webb & Richard Rossi
Beth Weissman
Patricia & Jeffrey Williams
Mark Zitter & Jessica Nutik Zitter
CHAMPION
Anonymous (4)
• George & Marcia Argyris • Paul Bendix • Patti Bittenbender • Eric Brink & Gayle Vassar • Stacey
Carlo • Dr. Jon Carr • Keith & Maria Carson • Karen & David
Crommie • Josh Dapice • Carol DiFilippo • Joan M. Dove & Jim Daughn • Ben & Mary Feinberg • Donald & Dava Freed
• Marjorie Ginsburg & Howard Slyter • Mary Grogan • Henry L. Hecht • Thomas & Elizabeth Henry • Sudhir Kasanavesi
• Susan Kolb • Woof Kurtzman & Liz Hertz • Shirley Langlois
• Ellen & Barry Levine • Marcia C. Linn • Lois & Gary Marcus, in memory of Ruth Weiland, Mose & Selma Marcus • Paul Mariano & Suzanne Chapot • Mina Morita • Jane Neilson •
Judith & Richard Oken • Bob & MaryJane Pauley • Todd & Susan Ringoen • Maxine Risley, in memory of James Risley
• John & Jody Roberts • Mitzi K. Sales • Helen Schulak •
Susan Shafton • Laura Shennum • David & Lori Simpson • Amrita Singhal & Michael Tubach • Suzanne Slyman •
Cherida Collins Smith • Trevor & Anne-Marie Strohman • Annie Ulevitch • William van Dyk & Margi Sullivan • Gerald & Lynda Vurek-Martyn • Brian Watt & Daisy Nguyen • Jonathan & Kiyo Weiss
ADVOCATE
Anonymous (12) • David Ahirhima • David Baer • Paula Bakalar • Celia Bakke • Irene Balcar • Valerie Barth • Richard & Kathi Berman • Brent Blackaby • Mark & Peggy Bley • Judy Blumenstein • Thomas Bosserman • Cathy Bristow • Paul Brody • Aimee Brown • Jane V. Buerger • John Bundschuh & Deborah Sorondo • Fran Burgess • Robert & Margaret Cant • Bruce Carlton • Russell Champa • Daren Chan • Laura Chenel • Joan & Edward Conger • Cathy Corison and William Martin • Pam & Mike Crane • Rajen Dalal • Harry & Susan Dennis • Joe & Lisa Downes • Tammerlin Drummond • Kevin Eggan • Sue J. Estey • Paul Finkle & Sue DeVinny • Martin & Barbara Fishman • James & Jessica Fleming • Carol & Tony Friscia • Chris R. Frostad • Lisa and Jack Fuchs • Ellen Geringer & Chris Tarp • Judy & Sheldon Greene • Mark Greenstein • Karen Greig & Mike Frank • Don & Becky Grether • Sylvaine Guille • Jeannene Hansen • Dennis & Juanita Harte • Paula Hawthorn & Michael Ubell • Lisa Herrinton • Al Hoffman & David Shepherd • Rachel & John Horsch • Hilary & Tom Hoynes • Maria Inchauspe • Patricia J. Ishiyama • Atsuko Jenks • Barbara & Peter Jensen • May Johnston • Alan Karras & David Schulz • Leslie Karren • Ralph & Tonya Koenker • Andrea & Kenneth Krueger • Lucy Kuntz and Ned Fielden • Wayne Lamprey & Dena Watson-Lamprey • Susan Carol Ledford • Elizabeth Lewis • Jennifer S. Lindsay • Mark & Roberta Linsky • Ari Lipsky • Margo & Josh Lowensohn • Peter Luk • Gerry & Kathy MacClelland • Ingrid Madsen & Victor Rauch • Rob and Diane Master • Don Mathews • M. Mathews & K. Soriano • Kevin McCarty • Amelie Mel de Fontenay • Ellen Meltzer and George Porter • Susan Morris • Ron Nakayama • Sandra Nichols • Shanna O’Hare & John Davis • Patti Oji Haas • Jeannie Pfaelzer & Peter Panuthos • Malcolm & Ann Plant • Kathleen Quenneville & Diane Allen • Daniel & Barbara Radin • Elizabeth Raffin • Jackie Lynn Ray • Kalpana Reddy • Terri Remillard • William Rogers • Patrick Romani • Shasta Roope • Deborah Dashow Ruth, in memory of Leo P. Ruth • Eve Saltman & Skip Roncal, in honor of Kerry Francis & John Jimerson • Eric & Lauren Schlezinger • Teddy & Bruce Schwab • Deborah Sedberry & Jeff Klingman • Jacob Sevart • Ruchira Shah & David Grunwald • Brenda Buckhold Shank, M.D., Ph.D. • Steve & Susan Shortell • Beryl & Ivor Silver • Robert Sinha • Gary & Jana Stein • Jane & Jay Taber • Margo & Drew Tammen • Kathy Taylor • Ruthann Taylor • Karen Tiedemann & Geoff Piller • Dana Tom & Nancy Kawakita • Dale Underwood & Kirsti Aho • Jill Van Dalen • Barbara & Mordechai Winter • H. Leabah Winter • Susan Wittenberg • Molly Wood • Moe & Becky Wright • Irene Yen
The Michael Leibert Society
Berkeley Rep gratefully acknowledges the following individuals who have generously provided for the theatre in their estate plans:
Anonymous (9)
Norman Abramson & David Beery*
Sam Ambler
Carl W. Arnoult & Aurora Pan
Ken & Joni Avery
Nancy Axelrod
Edie Barschi
Neil & Gene Barth
Susan & Barry Baskin
Linda Brandenburger
Broitman-Basri Family
Bruce Carlton & Richard G. McCall*
Victoria Carter*
Stephen K. Cassidy
Paula Champagne & David Watson
Terin Christensen
Sofia Close
Ed Cullen & Ann O’Connor
Andrew Daly & Jody Taylor
Narsai & Venus David
M. Laina Dicker
Thalia Dorwick
Robin & Rich Edwards
Thomas W. Edwards & Rebecca Parlette-Edwards
Bill & Susan Epstein
William Espey & Margaret Hart Edwards
Bill Falik & Diana Cohen
Dr. Stephen E. Follansbee & Dr. Richard A. Wolitz
Catherine Fox
Kerry Francis
Dr. Harvey & Deana Freedman
Joseph & Antonia Friedman
Paul T. Friedman
Laura K. Fujii
David Gaskin & Phillip McPherson*
Marjorie Ginsburg & Howard Slyter
Mary & Nicholas* Graves
Elizabeth Greene
Sheldon & Judy Greene
Don & Becky Grether
Richard & Lois Halliday
Barry* & Micheline Handon
Julie & Paul Harkness
Linda & Bob Harris
Fred Hartwick
Ruth Hennigar
Daria Hepps
Douglas J. Hill*
Peter Hobe & Christina Crowley
Hoskins/Frame Family Trust
Lynda & Dr. J. Pearce Hurley
Robin C. Johnson
Janice Kelly & Carlos Kaslow
Bonnie McPherson Killip
Lynn Eve Komaromi
Nancy Kornfield*
Michael H. Kossman
Woof Kurtzman
Scott & Kathy Law
Jim Lillienthal*
Dot Lofstrom
Ingrid Madsen & Victor Rauch
Andrew Maguire
Helen M. Marcus
Dale* & Don Marshall
Rebecca Martinez
Sarah McArthur LeValley
Sandra & Ross McCandless
Suzanne & Charles McCulloch
John G. McGehee
Miles & Mary Ellen McKey
Ruth Medak
Susie Medak & Greg Murphy
Stephanie Mendel
Toni Mester
Shirley & Joe Nedham
Jane & Bill Neilson
Pam & Mitch Nichter
Sharon Ott
Fr. David Pace
Amy Pearl Parodi
Barbara L. Peterson
Regina Phelps
Margaret Phillips
Marjorie Randolph
Gregg Richardson
Bonnie Ring Living Trust
David Rovno, M.D.
Tracie E. Rowson
Deborah Dashow Ruth
Patricia Sakai & Richard Shapiro
Brenda Buckhold Shank, M.D., Ph.D.
Emily Shanks
Kevin Shoemaker*
Theresa Nelson & Bernard Smits
Valerie Sopher
Michael & Sue Steinberg
Dr. Douglas & Anne Stewart
Jean Strunsky
Mary, Andrew & Duncan Susskind
Jim Tibbs & Philip Anderson
Henry Timnick
Guy Tiphane
Dana Tom & Nancy Kawakita
Phillip & Melody Trapp
Janis Kate Turner
Gail & Arne Wagner
Barry & Holly Walter
Weil Family Trust - Weil Family
Susan West
Steven & Linda Wolan
The Woolfson Blumenfeld
Living Trust
Karen & Henry Work
Anders Yang, JD
Martin & Margaret Zankel
* deceased
GIFTS RECEIVED BY BERKELEY REP
Estate of Suzanne Adams
Estate of Pat Angell, in memory of theater
architect Gene Angell
Estate of Nina Auerbach
Estate of Helen C. Barber
Estate of Fritzi Benesch
Estate of Carole B. Berg
Estate of Nelly Berteaux
Estate of Jill Bryans
Estate of Paula Carrell
Estate of Nancy Croley
Estate of John & Carol Field
Estate of Ralph Garrow
Estate of Audrey J. Lasson
Estate of Zandra Faye LeDuff
Estate of Ines R. Lewandowitz
Estate of John E. & Helen A. Manning
Estate of Richard Markell
Estate of Sumner & Hermine Marshall
Estate of Margaret D. & Winton McKibben
Estate of Robert S. Newton, in honor of John T. & Jean Knox
Estate of Sheldeen G. Osborne
Estate of Timothy A. Patterson
Estate of Gladys Perez-Mendez
Estate of Margaret Purvine
Estate of Guy T. Roberts, Jr.
Estate of Leigh & Ivy Robinson
Estate of Gretchen Saeger
Estate of Stephen C. Schaefer, in honor of Jean and Jack Knox
Estate of Peter Sloss
Estate of Harry Weininger
Estate of Grace Williams
MAKING THEATRE
A BEHIND-THE-SCENES LOOK AT THE ARTISANS WHO BUILD OUR SHOWS
BY DC SCARPELLI
The Road Story is a genre essential to American culture, and every Road Story — from Kerouac to McCarthy and from Thelma and Louise to Nomadland — has at its center an iconic vehicle.
Perhaps the archetype of Road Story vehicles is the truck used by the Joad family in The Grapes of Wrath. For the 1940 movie version of the book, 20th Century Fox chopped down a 1926 Hudson Super Six sedan and gave it homemade truck hindquarters.
True to this “Frankentruck” heritage, Berkeley Rep props artisans took parts from five different vintage Dodge trucks, resized them for the stage of the Peet's, and then welded them back together (with additional surprises!) to make the central vehicle for our journey along the Mother Road: a shapeshifting truck that serves as the primary scenic element throughout the play. The props artisans have named it Mercy.
We hope you enjoy Mercy's performance as Cesar the truck, along with the rest of the extraordinary cast of Mother Road!
PHOTOS BY LISA MEI LING FONG AND LISA LÁZÁR
Henry Fonda, Dorris Bowdon, Frank Darien, Eddie Quillan, Russell Simpson, Frank Sully, and O.Z. Whitehead load up the truck in The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Here and immediately below: Mercy takes shape
Amelia in the driver’s seat, running a final checklist after a long journey!
Clockwise from top left: Truck leader Amelia BurkeHolt with props team Adam Clay, Sofie Miller, Katie Owen, and Lisa Mei Ling Fong.
Not pictured: Jillian A. Green, Brittany Watkins, and Robin Maegawa-Goeser.
SEP 13–OCT 20, 2024
MEXODUS
BY AND FEATURING BRIAN QUIJADA AND NYGEL D. ROBINSON | DIRECTED BY DAVID MENDIZÁBAL WEST COAST PREMIERE
OCT 18–DEC 8, 2024
THE MATCHBOX MAGIC FLUTE
ADAPTED AND DIRECTED BY MARY ZIMMERMAN | BASED ON MOZART’S OPERA IN ASSOCIATION WITH GOODMAN THEATRE | WEST COAST PREMIERE
NOV 8–DEC 15, 2024
JAJA’S AFRICAN
HAIR BRAIDING
BY JOCELYN BIOH | DIRECTED BY WHITNEY WHITE | IN ASSOCIATION WITH MADISON WELLS LIVE & LACHANZE A CO-PRODUCTION WITH ARENA STAGE AND CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER | WEST COAST PREMIERE
JAN 31–MAR 9, 2025
THE THING ABOUT JELLYFISH
BASED ON THE NOVEL BY ALI BENJAMIN | ADAPTED FOR THE STAGE BY KEITH BUNIN | DIRECTED BY TYNE RAFAELI IN ASSOCIATION WITH MADISON WELLS LIVE | WORLD PREMIERE
FEB 14–MAR 23, 2025
UNCLE VANYA BY ANTON CHEKHOV | ADAPTED BY CONOR McPHERSON | DIRECTED BY SIMON GODWIN A CO-PRODUCTION WITH SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY
APR 5–MAY 11, 2025
TECTONIC THEATER PROJECT’S HERE THERE ARE BLUEBERRIES
BY INS CHOI
