Jazz

A WORLD PREMIERE

BY NAMBI E. KELLEY

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BY LUCAS HNATH SEP 7–OCT 8, 2017

SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE

BASED ON THE SCREENPLAY

BY MARC NORMAN & TOM STOPPARD ADAPTED FOR THE STAGE

BY LEE HALL OCT 19–NOV 26, 2017

LOOKINGGLASS ALICE ADAPTED BY DAVID CATLIN FROM THE WORKS OF LEWIS CARROLL NOV 30–DEC 31, 2017

SKELETON CREW

BY DOMINIQUE MORISSEAU FEB 1–MAR 11, 2018

GEORGE ORWELL’S

ANIMAL FARM

ADAPTED BY IAN WOOLRIDGE MAR 1–APR 1, 2018

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WRITTEN & DIRECTED

BY KWAME KWEI-ARMAH MAY 10–JUN 17, 2018

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CONTENTS This program is published by:

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WelCOME

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SETTING

EDITOR

Maggie Beetz

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DESIGN

Pentagram

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DESIGN/PRODUCTION

ADAptEr

DRAMATURGY

Bill Geenen

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Named the State Theater of Maryland in 1978, Baltimore Center Stage has steadily grown as a leader in the national regional theater scene. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah OBE and Managing Director Michael Ross, Baltimore Center Stage is committed to creating and presenting a diverse array of world premieres and exhilarating interpretations of established works.

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SeCRetAry

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George M. Sherman

WELCOME

I have been hoping and trying to bring a stage adaptation of Toni Morrison’s Jazz to Baltimore Center Stage since I landed here as Artistic Director, years ago now. So when Nambi and I first connected about this possibility, I knew it would be perfect for our audiences.

Baltimore—this most northern of southern cities and most southern of the northern ones, and home to such trailblazers as Frederick Douglass, Eubie Blake, Billie Holiday, and Cab Callaway—is an apt home for this story. Baltimore even makes an appearance in the novel, in recognition of its place in the Great Migration. More so, though, the strength and resilience of our communities; the cacophony of our neighborhoods; the rich flowing tapestry of our stories, from dreams to disappointments; and the people improvising their lives as well as a city to hold them, all echo in Morrison’s story and the choices Nambi has made to bring it to life.

Truly, this is a world premiere to be proud of. The production culminates a long and dramatic journey of profound transformations for Baltimore Center Stage, for which we thank you. And the script we’re performing for you has, quintessentially, changed completely as well—many times—since the first drafts we began with a year ago. To be frank, it’s changed dramatically more than once from the script we started rehearsal with just a few weeks ago. And while it can feel sometimes as if we’ve been working on this for a long time, Jazz is one of several plays we’ve recently fast-tracked from first draft to the stage within a year.

Theater can be timeless and universal—but it can, and should, also be Here and Now. Whatever your previous relationship with this work, or Toni Morrison, or Baltimore Center Stage, I hope that you find your own Here and Now living in this retelling.

Warmly,

Kwame Kwei-Armah ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

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THE CAST in alphabetical order Jasmine Batchelor Dorcas Jason Bowen Henry Lestory

THE ARTISTIC TEAM

BY NAMBI E. KELLEY

Nambi E. Kelley Playwright

DIRECTED BY KWAME KWEI - ARMAH

Kwame Kwei-Armah Director

Leon Addison Brown Joe Trace

Kathryn Bostic Music Director & Composer

Jasmine Carmichael Young Violet / Felice

Tim Mackabee Scenic Designer

Shanesia Davis Violet

David Burdick Costume Designer

Warner Miller Young Joe/Acton

Michelle Habeck Lighting Designer

Michele Shay Alice Manfred/ True Belle

Alex Basco Koch Projection Designer

Benja Kay Thomas Malvonne Avery Whitted Golden Gray / Parrot Geoff Boronda Stage Manager Erin McCoy Assistant Stage Manager Greg Boyer Trombonist Jared Denhard Trombonist (June 24 performances only)

Shane Rettig Sound Designer Tommy Kurzman Hair, Wig, & Makeup Design Paloma McGregor Choreographer Arminda Thomas Dramaturg Rick Sordelet with Sordelet INK Fight Choreographer Pat McCorkle McCorkle Casting, Ltd. Casting Director

BASED ON THE BOOK

BY TONI MORRISON

MAY 19– JUN 25 Please turn off all electronic devices.

There will be no intermission.

The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

A WORLD PREMIERE

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SETTING

TIME

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January, 1926.

And, in memory, from long before to moments ago.

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&

The countryside of Virginia.

PLACE A city block in Harlem.

Various locales in between.

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MEET THE ADAPTER

DIFFERENT CHALLENGES HAVE BEEN POSED BY THE STRUCTURE OF JAZZ THE NOVEL. WHAT I HAVE TRIED TO DO IS ACTUALLY HONOR THAT, THE INTENTION OF JAZZ AS THE ORGANIZING PRINCIPLE FOR THE MATERIAL. THE QUESTION IS, WHAT IS MY JAZZ? THE PROCESS OF DISCOVERING THAT HAS BEEN A JOURNEY.

Nambi E. Kelley Playwright Baltimore Center Stage debut. Playwright credits include—Native Son (Court Theatre and American Blues Theatre, five Jeff Awards noms including best adaptation and production, Kilroy’s List 2015); Xtigone (Chicago Danz Theatre Ensemble and African American Shakespeare Company, dir Rhodessa Jones); she has penned plays for Steppenwolf; Goodman Theatre; and Court Theatre/ American Blues Theater in Chicago, Lincoln Center and the National Black Theatre in New York, and internationally with LATT Children’s Theatre/ Unibooks Publishing Company (South Korea) Teatri Sbagliati (Italy), and The Finger Players (Singapore). Awards—Francesca Primus Award finalist, The Kevin Spacey Foundation Award.

Professional—National Black Theatre Playwright in Residence, Goodman Theatre Playwrights Unit, Steppenwolf Theatre Company New Plays Lab Playwright-In-Residence, Goodman Theatre/ Ellen Stone Belic Institute/ Fellowship Recipient, Goodman Theatre Lila Wallace Fellowship, La MaMa Playwrights Symposium Playwright-In-Residence, Spoleto, Italy under the tutelage of Pulitzer prize winner Lynn Nottage, Ragdale Foundation Artist in Residence, HealthWorks Theatre Colonel Stanley McNeil Playwright-In-Residence, Chicago Dramatists Playwright Emeritus, Danny Glover’s Robey Theatre Co. Playwriting Lab, and MPAACT Playwright Emeritus, Chicago. Acting—On stage and television in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and internationally.

Education—BFA: Theatre School at De Paul University; MFA: Goddard College (Interdisciplinary Arts).

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PLAY TIME

1854-55 White heiress Vera Louise Gray and her Black riding instructor,

1873

Henry Lestory (aka Hunters Hunter),

Golden Gray tracks down his

conceive a child—which gets

father, Henry Lestory, and rescues

Vera banished from her family.

a pregnant woman, Wild; she gives

Taking one slave with her, True Belle,

birth to a baby whom Lestory adopts,

Vera gives birth to Golden Gray

names JOE TRACE, and trains

and settles in Baltimore.

as a hunter.

TIMELINE AND GENEOLOGY

REAL TIME

BY ARMINDA THOMAS, DRAMATURG

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1866-76 Reconstruction—Following the Civil War (1861-65), a series of laws grant newly freed slaves all rights of citizenship. Under the protection of federal troops, Southern Blacks make gains in education, land and business ownership, and political influence.

1888 Amid race riots and lynchings, VIOLET’s family loses their home and all their 1876

possessions; Rose Dear suffers a nervous

VIOLET is born in Virginia to

breakdown and True Belle leaves

Rose Dear, True Belle’s daughter.

Baltimore to take care of them.

Number of African Americans living in New York City:

1880 = 19,663

1890 = 23,601

1876

1877-1900

To secure the election of

The Rise of Jim Crow—Across the South, the

Rutherford B. Hayes as

post-emancipation progress made by African

President, Republicans

Americans gives way to systemic violence

agree to withdraw

and state laws codifying racial segregation

federal troops from the

and white supremacy. These laws, eventually

South and end efforts to

upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in Plessy

protect African American

v. Ferguson, help prompt waves of Black

civil rights. The era of

emigration to the North over the next decades,

Reconstruction is over.

a massive shift in population known as the Great Migration [see below].

THE GREAT MIGRATION This mammoth exodus of African Americans from countryside to city and from the South to the North was the largest voluntary internal movement of Black people ever seen. From the end of Reconstruction until the onset of the Depression in 1930, nearly 1.5 million African Americans left the South—fleeing poverty, segregation, rising tides of violence, and the massive collapse of the Southern agricultural system. Stopping first in Southern cities before moving north in waves, migrants sought ostensibly better lives, or at least employment.

(continuted on page 10)

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PLAY TIME 1892-93

1906

Rose Dear commits

VIOLET and JOE

suicide. True Belle sends

leave Virginia for

VIOLET away to seek

New York, eventually

1907

work. JOE and VIOLET

settling in Harlem.

DORCAS is born in

meet and marry.

1900 = 60,666

1910 = 91,709

REAL TIME

Number of African Americans living in New York City:

East St. Louis.

THE GREAT MIGRATION, continued.

Work, or a lack of it, was a major reason for leaving the South. As the Boll Weevil Infestation devastated the cotton industry (1915–1920), WWI fueled a frenzy of jobs at factories and railroads in the North. Between 1916 and 1918 alone, 400,000 African Americans migrated north. In the summer of 1916, the Pennsylvania Railroad helped more than 10,000 African Americans move— hoping to employ them. The lure of jobs—especially domestic work— drew Black women to the North in greater numbers even than men.

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1917

1919

DORCAS’ parents are

A parade honoring

among the hundreds killed

the return of the

during the East St. Louis

all-Black 369th Regiment

riots, one of the bloodiest

(“Harlem Hellfighters”)

race riots in the nation's

culminates on Lenox

history; she is taken in by

Avenue in Harlem—

1925

her aunt, Alice Manfred,

accompanied every step

JOE & DORCAS begin,

and moves to Harlem.

of the way by JOE.

and end, their affair.

1920 = 152,467

1930 = 327,706

1909

1917

1925

The National Association

America enters World

Survey Graphic magazine

for the Advancement of

War I; 370,000 African

publishes the issue,

Colored People

Americans serve before

(NAACP) is formed to

the Armistice ends combat

“Harlem: Mecca of the

promote civil rights for

in November, 1918.

New Negro.”

African Americans.

Meantime, new communities sprang up in Northern cities. Harlem, especially, became a cultural Mecca in the 1920s. As author and activist James Weldon Johnson wrote, “Harlem is not merely a Negro colony or community, it is a city within a city, the greatest Negro city in the world…it occupies one of the most beautiful and healthful sections of the city.” But as Morrison reminds us, behind the alluring glitter of the Harlem Renaissance or the Jazz Age jitterbugging lay the haunting hardships and potential pain of daily life for ordinary folks.

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Z Z A j f o d l R o the W

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THE CITY "I wanted to recreate a migratory experience, an immigrant’s experience of movement to cities, when they were the places to go, when there were, as you say, infinite possibilities. Seeing oneself in numbers, so that you felt the security of one’s own family or kind. "

FROM JAZZ

—Toni Morrison on Jazz, BBC Interview with Salman Rushdie

“Breathing hurts in weather that cold, but whatever the problems of being winterbound in the City they put up with them because it is worth anything to be on Lenox Avenue…

Get on the streetcar, give the man the nickel, and ride anywhere you please, although you don’t want to go many places because everything you want is right where you are.”

—Toni Morrison

"Negroes at every turn; up and down Lenox Avenue, up and down One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Street; big, lanky Negroes, short, squat Negroes; black ones, brown ones, yellow ones; men standing idle on the curb, women, bundle-laden, trudging reluctantly homeward, children rattle-trapping about the sidewalks; here and there a white face drifting along, but Negroes predominantly, overwhelmingly everywhere. There was assuredly no doubt of his whereabouts. This was Negro Harlem."

—Rudolph Fisher, “City of Refuge” (published in The Atlantic, 1925)

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THE MUSIC "What I was interested in was the concept of jazz, the jazz era, what all of that meant before it became appropriated and redistributed as music throughout the world.

What was jazz when it was just music for the people, and what were those people like? ...The only thing that’s consistent in the debate is the nature of improvisation—that one works very hard in order to be able to invent. It was that quality in these people’s lives that I wanted to capture, moving from the South on into a city, where there were endless possibilities, of both security and danger."

—Toni Morrison, BBC Interview with Salman Rushdie (1992)

"They caught the subway train for Harlem. Arrived there they gravitated to the Congo…They danced, Rose and the boy. Oh, they danced! An exercise of rhythmical exactness for two. There was no motion she made that he did not imitate. They reared and pranced together, smacking palm against palm, working knee between knee, grinning with real joy.

They shimmied, breast to breast, bent themselves far back and shimmied again…And the pianist! At intervals his yellow eyes, almost bloodshot, swept the cabaret with a triumphant glow, gave the dancers a caressing look, and returned to the ceiling.

Lean, smart fingers beating barbaric beauty out of a white frame. Brown bodies, caught up in the wild rhythm, wiggling and swaying in their seats."

The rhythm of life Is a jazz rhythm, Honey.

The gods are laughing at us.

The broken heart of love, The weary, weary heart of pain,— Overtones, Undertones, To the rumble of street cars, To the swish of rain.

Lenox Avenue, Honey.

Midnight, And the gods are laughing at us.

— Langston Hughes, Lenox Avenue: Midnight (1927)

—Claude McKay, Home to Harlem (1928)

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THE CAST Jasmine Batchelor Dorcas

Leon Addison Brown Joe Trace

Baltimore Center Stage: debut. Off Broadway—ARS NOVA Play Group: Hop Tha A; NYTW: Aint No Mo’. Regional— Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey: Timon of Athens, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar; The Human Race Theatre Company: Vertical Hour. TV/Film—The Affair, Miss 2059. Education— The Juilliard School.

Baltimore Center Stage: Short Plays by Thornton Wilder. Broadway—Misery, The Trip to Bountiful, On the Waterfront, Someone to Watch Over Me, Prelude to a Kiss.

Off-Broadway—Signature Theatre: Master Harold and the Boys (Drama League nom for Distinguished Performance), The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek, The Train Driver, The Orphans’ Home Cycle, The Alexander Plays; Foundry Theatre:The Box; LCT: The Lights; TFANA: As You Like It. Selected Regional—Hartford Stage, Westport Playhouse, People’s Light, Arena Stage, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Yale Rep, Long Wharf. Film/ TV—The Breaks, Madame Secretary, The Knick, A Walk Among the Tombstones, The Good Wife, Whirlygirl, Hamlet, Law & Order and SVU. Training—North Carolina School of the Arts.

JASM

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Jason Bowen Henry Lestory Baltimore Center Stage: debut.

Off Broadway—Playwrights Realm: My Mañana Comes.

Regional—Cleveland Playhouse: All the Way; Denver Center: As You Like It, Black Odyssey, TheatreWorks Palo Alto: The Lake Effect; Williamstown Theatre Festival: June Moon; Commonwealth Shakespeare: Love’s Labour’s Lost, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; La Jolla Playhouse/ Berkeley Rep: Ruined; Huntington Theatre: Raisin in the Sun, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (IRNE Award), Prelude to a Kiss, A Civil War Christmas; Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Twelfth Night, Othello, The Duchess of Malfi, The Tempest; Lyric Stage: Groundswell.

Film/TV —Law & Order: SVU, Madam Secretary, Elementary, Braindead, Untouchable, What's Your Number. Awards—Best Actor (Boston Magazine).

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Jasmine Carmichael Young Violet/Felice LEON

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Baltimore Center Stage: dance of the holy ghosts. Regional— Huntington Theatre Company: Milk Like Sugar. TV—Sneaky Pete, Chicago P.D., Blue Bloods, The Following, Unforgettable, Law & Order: SVU, NYC 22.

Education—MGSA, Rutgers University; Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, London.

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THE CAST

Shanésia Davis Violet Baltimore Center Stage: Intimate Apparel (Esther, world premiere). Regional—Mark Taper Forum/ Goodman Theatre: Immediate Family (NAACP award nom); Congo Square: What I Learned in Paris, Brothers of the Dust; South Coast Rep: Intimate Apparel; The Gift/Steppenwolf: Richard III; Court Theatre/ American Blues Theatre: Native Son; Steppenwolf: Our Lady of 121st St, One Arm, The Glass Menagerie; Goodman: Watermelon Rinds (Jeff nom), Black Starline (Pulitzer nom), Spunk, The Visit, Drowning Crow (Jeff/BTAA noms), others. Film/TV—Early Edition, Cleveland Abduction, Empire, Chicago Fire, Crisis, Detroit 187, Chicago Hope, Missing Persons, Making a Case for Murder: The Howard Beach Story, Internal Rivals, Consumed, Damaged Goods, The Weatherman, Uncle Nino, Life Sentence, others. Awards—Black Theatre Alliance Award, Excellence in the Arts Award (Best Actress).

Professional—Congo Square: Artistic Associate. Writer/ producer: WiSh I had A BOx, Fertile. Other—UIC School of Theatre & Music: adjunct faculty, acting/public speaking coach.

JASM

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Michele Shay Alice Manfred/True Belle

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Warner Miller Young Joe/Acton Baltimore Center Stage: debut.

Selected theater credits include—McCarter Theatre Center: Antony & Cleopatra; The Convert (world premiere);

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Kirk Douglas Theatre; Goodman. Other selected credits—Arena Stage, Seattle Rep: Pullman Porter Blues (world premiere); Huntington Theatre: Fences (dir Kenny Leon); Old Globe: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; The Piano Lesson; A Raisin in the Sun; Since Africa.

Film/TV credits include— Netflix: Marvel’s Luke Cage (Tone); HBO: Boardwalk Empire (Milton); American Gangster (Melvin Lucas, dir by Ridley Scott); Law & Order, CSI: NY; Chicago PD.

M IC H

ELE S H AY

Baltimore Center Stage: debut. Broadway—Seven Guitars (Louise, Tony nom), A Raisin in the Sun (dir Kenny Leon); NEC: Home, For Colored Girls. Off-Broadway—Lincoln Center: War (Elfreida), The Vagina Monologues, Meetings (Jean, OBIE Award), NYSF: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Titania, w/ William Hurt), Coriolanus (Virgilia, w/ Morgan Freeman). Tours—Vagina Monologues. Regional— Kennedy Center, Seattle Rep, ACT, Alliance Theater: Gem of the Ocean (Aunt Ester); Yale Rep: Radio Golf, Shakespeare and Company: Antony and Cleopatra (Cleopatra). Film/ TV—He Got Game, One True Thing, Another World (Henrietta Morgan), A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Education—Carnegie Mellon. Professional—Actors Center Company, Acting teacher New Studio, NYU Tisch Undergrad Drama. Other— Fox Grant recipient; Director

THE CAST

Erin McCoy Assistant Stage Manager

credits include: King Hedley II; Gloria, Blue Stockings, da kink in my hair.

Benja Kay Thomas Malvonne Baltimore Center Stage: debut. Off Broadway/New York—Public Theater: Barbecue (Black Adlean); Playwrights Horizons: Booty Candy (Actor 3); Apollo Theater: UNSPEAKABLE (Mama); Fringe Festival: Pearl’s Gone Blue (Mabel Jackson); New Federal Theater: American Menu (Johnny Mae). Regional— Alley Theater: Miller Mississippi (Doris Stevenson); Wilma Theater: Booty Candy (Actor 3); Stamford Theater Works: Intimate Apparel (Mayme).

Film/TV—Gotham, Friends of the People, ICreep, The Warrior Class, A Gun for Jennifer.

Awards—OBIE Award for Booty Candy (2015), New York International Fringe Festival Award for Overall Musical Production (Pearl’s Gone Blue). AUDELCO Award (American Menu).

Avery Whitted Golden Gray/Parrot Baltimore Center Stage: debut.

Film—Sidney Hall. Other—Sam Wanamaker Festival participant.

Education—MGSA: Rutgers University; Shakespeare’s Globe in London.

Geoff Boronda Stage Manager Baltimore Center Stage—My America Too. Off Broadway credits include—The Public Theater: Mobile Unit: Romeo & Juliet, Mobile Unit: The Comedy

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Baltimore Center Stage: debut. Broadway—The 24 Hour Plays. Off Broadway credits include—The Public Theater: Tiny Beautiful Things, Dry Powder, Under The Radar, Buzzer, Fidelis, Public Works: Twelfth Night, Shakespeare in the Park: Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare in the Park: Tempest; Second Stage Theater: Invisible Thread.

Regional credits include— Center Theater Group: A View from the Bridge. Education— Otterbein University.

Greg Boyer Trombonist

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of Errors, Buzzer, Ping Pong, Under the Radar Festival, The Urban Retreat, The Great Immensity, Fortress of Solitude.

New York credits include—Soho Rep: generations; New School of Drama: She Kills Monsters; Rising Circle: Nobody Rides a Locomotive No Mo’. Regional— Center Theatre Group: A View from the Bridge; Yale Rep: Hamlet, Dear Elizabeth, A Doctor in Spite of Himself; The Acting Company: X / Julius Caesar; Dorset Theater Festival: Dear Elizabeth; Triad Stage: Beautiful Star, A Christmas Carol; Connecticut Repertory Theater: The Sunshine Boys. Education— Master’s: Yale School of Drama (Stage Management).

Greg Boyer’s musical career got its start at age 15, playing tenor sax in southern Maryland.

He switched to trombone in his freshman year at St. Mary's College of Maryland. At 19, he joined George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic, where he was the trombonist and arranger until retiring in 1996. He has also worked with Prince, Chuck Brown, Maceo Parker, George Duke, Bootsy Collins, Stanley Clarke, Lalah Hathaway, Sheila E, Robben Ford, Alex Bugnon, Kirk Whalum, David Sanborn, Jonathan Butler, Eric Benét, Mike Phillips, Third World, Richard Smallwood, Brian Culbertson, and more. gregboyer.net

The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

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THE ARTISTIC TEAM Toni Morrison Writer

Novels—The Bluest Eye (1970); Song of Solomon (1977); Tar Baby (1981); Beloved (1987) Jazz (1992); Paradise (1998); Love (2003), A Mercy (2008); Home (2012); God Help the Child (2015). Other writing— Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination; What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction; children’s books include Who’s Got Game?: The Ant or the Grasshopper?; Who’s Got Game?: The Lion or the Mouse?; Remember.

Opera—libretto for Margaret Garner (2005). Award and honors—Numerous including the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Beloved, the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature, the 2000 National Humanities Medal, Officer of the French Legion of Honour (2010), US Presidential Medal of Freedom (2012). Professional— Robert F. Goheen Professor of Humanities, Emeritus, at Princeton University.

Kwame Kwei-Armah Director See page 24.

Kathryn Bostic Music Director & Composer Baltimore Center Stage: Radio Golf. Broadway—Richard Rogers Theatre: Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo; Walter Kerr Theatre: Gem of the Ocean.

Regional—Center Theater

Group: Gem of the Ocean, Radio Golf, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Eclipsed, Of Equal Measure, Good Grief; Seattle Rep: Radio Golf, Brother’s Size, Brownsville Song; Signature Theatre, Court Theatre: Home; Kennedy Center: Harlem; Syracuse Stage: Death and the King’s Horseman; Cornell University Schwartz Theater: Little Women; Goodman: The Ballad of Emmett Till; Geffen Playhouse: Emergency. Other productions include—Crossroads Theatre, Huntington, Children’s Theatre.

Awards—Sundance Fellowship for Filmscoring; Sundance Time Warner Fellowship; BMI Conducting Fellowship.

Nominations—Ovation Awards, NAACP Theater Award.

Performance credits include— Ronnie Scott’s (London), The Blue Note (Tokyo and Osaka), The Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Pori Finland Jazz Festival, Birdland, JVC Jazz Festival NY, Catalina’s (Los Angeles.)

Member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.

Tim Mackabee Scenic Designer Baltimore Center Stage— Amadeus. Broadway—The Elephant Man (starring Bradley Cooper), Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth (dir. Spike Lee). West End—The Elephant Man. Off-

Broadway—MTC: Vietgone, Important Hats of the Twentieth Century; Atlantic: Guards at the Taj (2016 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Set Design), Our New Girl, The Penitent; Lincoln Center Theatre: Heathers The Musical, Luce; Vineyard: Gigantic; Public Theater: Much Ado About Nothing.

Regional—ACT San Francisco, Ford’s, Seattle Rep, Old Globe, Denver Center, Portland Center Stage, Cleveland Play House, Dallas Theatre Center, Geva Theatre, Yale Rep, Syracuse Stage, South Coast Rep, Victory Gardens Theatre, Bay Street Theatre, Asolo Rep, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Arden Theatre Company, Studio Theatre, The Muny, Williamstown Theatre Festival (9 seasons.) Dance—Doug Varone & Dancers, Cedar Lake Dance. TV—Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo, Gotham, Smash, The Today Show. Education— North Carolina School of the Arts, Yale School of Drama. timothymackabeedesign.com

David Burdick Costume Designer Baltimore Center Stage: Next to Normal; Amadeus; Twelfth Night; dance of the holy ghosts; Animal Crackers; …Edgar Allan Poe; The Mountaintop; An Enemy of the People; The Whipping Man; A Skull in Connemara; The Rivals; Snow Falling on Cedars; Working it Out; Cyrano; Caroline, or

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Change; Hearts; Things of Dry Hours; Crumbs from the Table of Joy; Elmina’s Kitchen; Picnic; a.m. Sunday; The Rainmaker; Blithe Spirit; and many others.

Regional—Everyman Theatre: Los Otros, Great Expectations, A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman, An Inspector Calls, Ruined, Red, Private Lives, The Mystery of Irma Vep. Opera—Cincinnati: Don Giovanni; Boston Lyric: I Puritani; Tulsa: Tosca, The Barber of Seville, Carmen, Fidelio. Dance—BAM: FLY: Five First Ladies of Dance; Dayton Contemporary: Lyric Fire (world premiere, dir/choreographer Dianne McIntyre). Other— Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Holiday Spectacular.

Michelle Habeck Lighting Designer Baltimore Center Stage: Marley, Amadeus, dance of the holy ghosts, An Enemy of the People, The Whipping Man, A Skull in Connemara, Let There Be Love, Things of Dry Hours, Elmina’s Kitchen. Broadway—Thoroughly Modern Millie (Slide Artist); The Boy from Oz, King Hedley, Movin’ Out, Thoroughly Modern Millie, King Hedley II Associated & Assistant Lighting Designer). Off Broadway—Fifty Words, MCC Theatre. Regional—The Guthrie, Steppenwolf, Goodman, Alliance Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Children’s Theatre Company, The Zach, Kansas City Rep, Penumbra, Arizona Theatre Company, Writer’s Theatre, Lookingglass, and others. Opera—Austin Lyric Opera: Elixir of Love, The Masked Ball; Julie Taymor’s Grendel,

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New York (Associate Lighting Designer). Awards—NEATCG Career Development Grant for Design, The University of Texas Faculty Fine Arts Award.

Professional—Michelle heads the lighting design program at the University of Texas at Austin.

Alex Basco Koch Projection Designer Baltimore Center Stage: Detroit ’67, Pride and Prejudice, Marley, One Night in Miami…, The Mountaintop, ReEntry (also Round House, Actors Theater of Louisville). Broadway—Walter Kerr: Irena’s Vow. Off Broadway and other New York— Signature: The Liquid Plain; Waterwell: Goodbar (Under the Radar 2012); TerraNOVA Collective: Feeder; Repertorio Espanol: En el Tiempo de las Mariposas, La Casa de los Espiritus; Urban Stages: ReEntry, The Oxford Roof Climber’s Rebellion; Ensemble Studio Theatre: Lenin’s Embalmers.

International—Mori Theater, Chile: La Casa de los Espiritus.

Regional—Court Theatre (Chicago): The Invisible Man (also Studio Theatre in DC); Director’s Company, Theater MITU, Electric Pear, Shalimar, SummerStage, Little Opera Theater, The New Ensemble.

Professional—Technical design for New Georges at sLD and Big Art Groups Dead Set II & III. alexbascokoch.com.

Shane Rettig Sound Designer Baltimore Center Stage: Marley, One Night in Miami…, The Whipping Man, Things of Dry Hours, Elmina’s Kitchen, a.m. Sunday. New York— MTC, The Public, The New Group, Signature, Roundabout, Vampire Cowboys, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Ma-yi, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, The Flea, New Victory, La MaMa, Soho Rep, Rattlestick and HERE. Music/Co-Lyrics for War is F**cking Awesome with Qui Nguyen, 2013 Sundance Lab. Music for The Unknown, 2005 NYMF. Regional—Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, Arena Stage, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Children’s Theatre Company, Dallas Theatre Center, La Jolla, Williamstown, Yale Rep, Prague Quadrennial.

Awards—Drama Desk and Lortel Nominations

Paloma McGregor Choreographer Baltimore Center Stage: Pride and Prejudice, Marley, Amadeus, A Civil War Christmas. Other recent choreography credits include Hamlet (The Public Mobile Unit), Building a Better Fishtrap (Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance), Brownsville Song (LCT3), The House that Will Not Stand (Berkeley Rep and Yale Rep), A Winter’s Tale and Spunk (California Shakespeare Theatre), Four Electric Ghosts (The Kitchen), Children of Killers (Castillo Theater), Indomitable: James Brown (SummerStage), For a Barbarian Woman (Fordham University) and

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Blood Dazzler (Harlem Stage).

A Harlem-based artist, she co-founded Angela’s Pulse with her sister, director Patricia McGregor. She is currently developing a performance work to premiere on the Bronx River in Summer 2018. Paloma toured internationally for six years with Urban Bush Women and has danced with Takoma Parkbased Dance Exchange.

Tommy Kurzman Hair, Wig, & Makeup Design Baltimore Center Stage: The White Snake. Recent makeup design—InTransit, The King & I National Tour (LCT Production), NBC Live Upfronts, Long Day’s Journey into Night (w/ Jessica Lange), Bright Star, Fiddler on the Roof, Thérese Raquin (w/ Keira Knightley) on Broadway.

Associate Hair Design (w/ Tom Watson)—The King & I (Tour & Bway), Falsettos, Bright Star, Fiddler on the Roof, Dames at Sea, The Sound of Music (2016 Tour). Opera—the Met Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Santa Fe Opera Theatre. Built and designed wigs for Broadway/tours—Wicked, Act One, Million Dollar Quartet, You Can’t Take It with You, Waiting for Godot/No Man’s Land, Annie, Rock of Ages. Built and designed wigs for Film/TV— NBC: Chicago Med, Showtime: Masters of Sex. Upcoming designs include—ART: The Night of the Iguana (Makeup/Assoc.

Hair Design); WNO: Champion (Assoc. Hair Design); MTC: The Little Foxes (Makeup/Assoc.

Hair Design; w/ Cynthia Nixon and Laura Linney).

Arminda Thomas Dramaturg Baltimore Center Stage debut.

Off-Off-Broadway—Going to the River (Associate Artistic Director & Resident Dramaturg); Classical Theatre of Harlem: The First Noel; New Federal Theatre: Zora Neale Hurston, A Last Dance for Sybil; New Perspectives Theatre; Soul Struggle: The Works of Georgia Douglas Johnson; Regional— Hattiloo: Shakespeare’s Women (Hattiloo).

Education—MFA: Columbia University (Dramaturgy & Script Development).

Rick Sordelet Fight Choreographer Rick and his son, Christian Kelly-Sordelet, are the creators of Sordelet INK. Baltimore Center Stage: The White Snake, Les Liaisons Dangereuses.

Broadway—70 shows including The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Eclipsed. National Tours—Beauty and the Beast, Les Miserables. International—53 productions including Tarzan, Aida, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Ben Hur Live (Rome and European tour). Opera— The Met Opera: Cyrano (w/ Placido Domingo), Don Carlo (dir. Nicholas Hytner); The Royal Opera House; La Scalia (Milan).

Film—The Game Plan, Dan in Real Life, Brave New Jersey, LIV, Hamlet. TV—CBS: Guiding Light (Chief Stunt Coordinator for 12 years); Kevin Can Wait.

Instructor—Yale School of Drama. Awards—Edith Oliver Award for Sustained Excellence from the Lucille Lortel

Foundation; Jeff Award for Outstanding Fight Director for Romeo and Juliet at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater.

Author—Buried Treasure, Choices. sordeletink.com.

Pat McCorkle Casting Director Baltimore Center Stage: Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Detroit ’67, As You Like It, Pride and Prejudice, Marley, One Night in Miami…, Amadeus, Wild with Happy, Twelfth Night, A Civil War Christmas. Broadway—54 productions including: Amazing Grace, On The Town, End of the Rainbow, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus, She Loves Me, Blood Brothers, A Few Good Men. Off Broadway—Over 60 productions including: Clever Little Lies, Shear Madness, Stalking the Bogeyman, Freud’s Last Session, Tribes, Our Town, Almost Maine, Driving Miss Daisy. Film—over 60 projects including: A Morning Son, Year by the Sea, Junction, Premium Rush, Ghost Town, Secret Window, Basic, Tony and Tina’s Wedding, The Thomas Crown Affair, The 13th Warrior, Madeline, Die Hard III, School Ties. TV/New Media—45 shows including: My America I and II (For BCS), Saint George, Twisted, humans for Sesame Street, Californication (Emmy nom.), Max Bickford (CBS), Hack (CBS), Strangers with Candy, Barbershop, Chapelle’s Show. mccorklecasting.com

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SUPPORT BALTIMORE SUPPORT EDUCATION PROGRAMS! We need your help in ensuring that our work can continue, and expand, to meet the needs of Maryland students.

Here are just a few of the education programs your tax-deductible donation will support: Student Matinees: Over 3,000 students annually attend our plays for little or no cost.

Drama Club: Year-long program trains young adults and teens as artists working in public service.

Young Playwrights Residency Program: Provides classroom-based instruction to students, cultivating creative writing skills and increasing reading comprehension.

Young Playwrights Festival: Promotes literacy and encourages students to express themselves through the art of playwriting.

Camp Center Stage: Builds creative confidence and self-awareness through intensive explorations of theater.

And those are just a few. Each year, Baltimore Center Stage integrates theater into the lives of nearly 10,000 Maryland students.

We ask you to join us today, to help inspire young imaginations and build the next generation of artists and theatergoers, by making a contribution.

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CENTER STAGE NAME A SEAT IN THE NEW HEAD THEATER! We have only a few seats left to name in the Head Theater and we would love for you to be included. For a gift of $5,000, choose a seat in the orchestra of our newly redesigned theater to be inscribed with your name or the name of a loved one; or, for a gift of $2,500, choose a seat in the mezzanine.

This is an amazing opportunity to join the Campaign and commemorate your experiences with Baltimore Center Stage, both past and future, with this meaningful tribute.

THERE’S MORE: Fantastic news for Baltimore Center Stage and for our donors: If you donate $500 or more, you can receive 50% of your gift back in the form of a Community Investment Tax Credit.

For more information, contact Paul Wissman at 410.986.4027 or by email at pwissman@centerstage.org.

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LEADERSHIP

LEADERSHIP Artistic Director

Managing Director

Kwame Kwei-Armah OBE is an award-winning British playwright, director, actor, and broadcaster. At Baltimore Center Stage he has directed Marley, One Night in Miami..., Amadeus, dance of the holy ghosts (City Paper Top Ten Productions, 2013), The Mountaintop, An Enemy of the People, The Whipping Man, (named Best Director), and Naomi Wallace’s Things of Dry Hours. In 2014, Kwame was named Best Director in City Paper’s Best of Baltimore, and he was a finalist for SDC’s Zelda Fichandler Award for Best Theater Director.

Among his works as playwright are Elmina’s Kitchen, Let There Be Love, A Bitter Herb, Statement of Regret, and Seize the Day. Beneatha’s Place debuted at Baltimore Center Stage in 2013 as part of The Raisin Cycle. Other directorial credits include One Night in Miami… at London’s Donmar Warehouse, Twelfth Night, The Comedy of Errors, Much Ado About Nothing and the world premiere of Detroit ’67 at New York’s Public Theater, Wallace’s The Liquid Plain at Signature Theatre, Dominique Morisseau’s Skeleton Crew at the Lark Play Development Center, and the world premiere of The Liquid Plain at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. In 2017, he directed One Love: The Bob Marley Musical, which he also wrote, at Birmingham Repertory Theatre. He has served on the boards of TCG, Steinberg Playwright Awards, The National Theatre, and The Tricycle Theatre (London), and as Artistic Director for the World Arts Festival in Senegal.

He was named the Chancellor of the University of the Arts London, and in 2012 was named an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

Michael Ross returns to Baltimore Center Stage after working for seven seasons as managing director of Westport Country Playhouse. From 2002 to 2008 he was managing director of Center Stage.

Previously, Ross was managing director of Long Wharf Theatre (1997–2002) where he was on the producing team for the commercial transfer of the Pulitzer Prize winner Wit. He was general manager and business manager at Hartford Stage (1986–1996). Ross served as program officer/project director at National Arts Stabilization, and worked with Baltimore Opera Company and Alley Theater, Houston. Ross has consulted in fundraising, board development, executive search, and strategic planning for theaters nationwide, including Kansas City Repertory Theatre, SITI Company, Wilma Theater, Trinity Repertory Company, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, and Everyman Theatre. He has been a panelist for programs hosted by the National Endowment for the Arts, Theatre Communications Group, and New England Foundation for the Arts, among others, and was an adjunct professor in The Yale University School of Drama Theater Management Program. He has served on numerous Boards including Theatre Communications Group, The National Women’s Hall of Fame, and the Connecticut AIDS Residence Coalition.

Ross currently serves on the Board of the Burry Fredrik Foundation.

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She serves on the board of directors for the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance and the Sprott Foundation.

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HANA S. SHARIF

Hana S. Sharif is a director, playwright, and producer. She served as Associate Artistic Director, Director of New Play Development, and Artistic Producer at Hartford Stage; recently as Program Manager of the ArtsEmerson Ambassador Program; and as Developmental Producer/Tour Manager of Progress Theatre’s musical The Burnin’. Hana also served as co-founder and Artistic Director of Nasir Productions, which brings theater to underserved communities. Her directing credits include: Baltimore Center Stage: Les Liaisons Dangereuses; Pride & Prejudice (DCArts: Best Director/Best New Play); Regional: The Whipping Man, Gem of the Ocean (six CCC nominations), Gee’s Bend (CCC Award Best Ensemble, two nominations), Next Stop Africa, Cassie, The Drum, and IFdentity. Hana has directed numerous developmental workshops, including Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder’s The Chat and Chew Supper Club, Janine Nabers’ A Swell

Associate Director, Director of Dramaturgy

GAVIN WITT

Gavin Witt came to Baltimore Center Stage in 2003, after nearly 15 years in Chicago as an actor, director, dramaturg, translator, and teacher—and co-founder of the classically based greasy joan & co theater. Among his translations and adaptations are a half-dozen Shakespeare plays; including a Jeff-nominated version of Pericles; Jeff-nominated translations of Beaumarchais’ The Barber of Seville and Ionesco’s Macbett; and Baltimore Center Stage productions of The Voysey Inheritance and last season’s As You Like It. Baltimore Center Stage directing credits include Twelfth Night and a recent short film from a Kenneth Lin script commissioned by Baltimore Center Stage and the Goethe Institut-Washington as part of the international P3M5 project—as well as more than a dozen Young Playwrights Festival entries, many more play readings, and the 50th Anniversary Decade Plays. In addition to working as a dramaturg on scores of productions, readings, and workshops at Baltimore Center Stage, he has also helped develop new work around the country. A graduate of Yale and the University of Chicago, he is currently on the Humanities faculty at Peabody Conservatory, having previously taught at the University of Chicago, DePaul, and Towson; has served on the advisory boards of several theaters; and spent more than a decade as a regional vice president of LMDA, the national association of dramaturgs, before joining its board.

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Capital CAMPAIGN DonoRS We sincerely thank all of our campaign donors for their tremendously generous support. Without their trust and vision, all of the work we have done and continue to do would not be possible. The following includes gifts of $10,000 or more.

Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation

$2,000,000+

Townsend and Bob Kent

Edward and Ellen Bernard Lynn and Tony Deering Marilyn Meyerhoff

Cordish Family Foundation

McCormick & Co. Ruth Carol Fund Charles and Leslie Schwabe Ellen J. Remsen Webb and J.W. Thompson Webb

Nancy Dorman and Stanley Mazaroff

$25,000–$49,999

Margaret Hammond Cooke (bequest)

Ben and Wendy Griswold The Hyle Family Joan and Murray M. Kappelman, M.D. Earl and Darielle Linehan Joseph and Harvey Meyerhoff Family Charitable Funds

State of Maryland

The Meyerhoff and Becker Families

$1,000,000–$1,999,999

Middendorf Foundation

Eddie C. and C. Sylvia Brown

Mary and Jim Miller

Charlie Noell and Barbara Voss

J. William Murray Judy and Scott Phares

George and Betsy Sherman

Sheridan Foundation

Katherine Vaughns (bequest)

T. Rowe Price Foundation

$500,000-$999,999 Anonymous Janet and James Clauson France-Merrick Foundation Lord Baltimore Capital Corporation Terry H. Morgenthaler and Patrick J. Kerins $250,000–$499,999 Baltimore County Jane and Larry Droppa J.I. Foundation Kenneth C. and Elizabeth M. Lundeen M&T Bank The Pearlstone Family Lynn and Phil Rauch Thalheimer-Eurich Charitable $100,000–$249,999 Anonymous Peter and Millicent Bain Baltimore City Bank of America

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Jay and Sharon Smith Whiting-Turner Contracting Co.

$50,000–$99,999 Anonymous Baltimore Gas & Electric Penny Bank Bunting Family Foundation Mary Catherine Bunting Stephanie and Ashton Carter Augie and Melissa Chiasera Suzanne F. Cohen Jane W. Daniels DLA Piper Brian and Denise Eakes Guy E. Flynn and Nupur Parekh Flynn Daniel P. Gahagan Fredye and Adam Gross Hecht-Levi Foundation Helen P. Denit Charitable Trust Stephen and Susan Immelt Patricia and Mark Joseph, The Shelter Foundation Francie and John Keenan Marion I. and Henry J. Knott Foundation

Anonymous Delbert and Gina Adams Annie E. Casey Foundation Philip and Denise Andrews Clayton Baker Trust James T. and Francine G. Brady Deering Family Foundation Walter B. Doggett III and Joanne Doggett Ernst & Young Robert and Cheryl Guth Harry L. Gladding Foundation/ Winnie and Neal Borden Bart Harvey and Janet Marie Smith Sybil and Donald Hebb Howard Bank A. C. and Penney Hubbard David and Elizabeth JH Hurwitz and The Himelfarb Family Wendy Jachman KPMG John J. Leidy Foundation London Foundation/Meredith and Adam Borden Macht Philanthropic Fund J. S. Plank and D. M. DiCarlo Family Foundation PNC Rollins-Luetkemeyer Foundation Michael Ross Dana and Matthew Slater Scott and Mimi Somerville Gilbert H. Stewart and Joyce L. Ulrich Michael B. Styer Krissie and Dan Verbic Delegate Christopher and Anne West

$10,000–$24,999 Anonymous Robbye D. Apperson William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund

Bradie Barr and Tollie Miller Richard Berndt Katharine Blakeslee G. Brian Comes and Raymond Mitchener Penelope Cordish Peter de Vos James DeGraffenreidt and Mychelle Farmer Jed Dietz and Julie McMillan Linda Eberhart, in memory of William F. Eberhart Sandra and Ross Flax Dick and Maria Gamper Suzan Garabedian Pamela and Jonathan Genn Linda Hambleton Panitz and The Family of T. Edward Hambleton Lee Meyerhoff Hendler Dr. and Mrs. Freeman A. Hrabowski III Cheryl Hudgins Williams and Alonza Williams Joseph and Judy Langmead Jonna and Fred Lazarus Hugh and Leanne Mohler Sandra Liotta and Carl Osterman Stephen Richard and Mame Hunt Valerie and Hutch Robbins Clair and Thomas Segal Barbara Payne Shelton Turner and Judy Smith Scot T. Spencer William Sweet and Geraldine Mullan Dr. Edgar and Mrs. Betty Sweren Harry and Carey Thomasian Donald and Mariana Thoms Kathryn and Mark Vaselkiv Daniel Watson and Brenda Stone Mary Jo and Ted Wiese Ron and Sydney Wilner Todd Wilson and Edward Delaplaine III Linda Woolf Nadia and Elias Zerhouni

INtern DoNors

Baltimore Center Stage thanks these supporters of the Katherine Vaughns Internship Program for providing recent graduates an opportunity to spend the 2016/17 Season working at the theater. The program would not be possible without their generosity.

FULL SEASON INTERN SPONSORSHIPS The Ellen & Ed Bernard Development Intern The Lynn & Tony Deering Producing Intern The Jane & Larry Droppa Audio Intern The Kathleen Hyle Digital Media Fellow The Wendy Jachman Graphics Intern The Elizabeth & Ken Lundeen Carpentry Intern The Terry Morgenthaler & Patrick Kerins Costumes Intern The Judy & Scott Phares Dramaturgy Fellow The Lynn & Philip Rauch Company Management Intern The Sharon & Jay Smith Marketing & Communications Intern

INTERN PROGRAM SUPPORTERS Anonymous Merrill Alterman and Edward Rosenfeld

Amy Macht and George Grose Aida and James Matters

Tracy Bacigalupo and Jake Baker

Christina Moss

Taunya Banks Cecelia and David Beck

Susan Rosebery and Barbara Blom

Meredith and Adam Borden

Lee and Steven Sachs

Winona Caesar

Chris Saxton

Missy and Joe Carrier

Abigail Smith

William Cooke

Terri and Robert Smith

Sue and Buddy Emerson, in honor of Ken and Elizabeth Lundeen

Holly and George Stone

Pamela and Jonathan Genn, in honor of Beth Falcone

Robin and Harold Tucker

Jinet Hamlin Sue Hess Teresa and Tom Ichniowski John Kane Townsend and Bob Kent Carol and Stewart Koehler Sandra Liotta and Carl Osterman

Dorothy Powe

Joanne Towers and W. Blake Hampson Rita L. Walters Patty White

If you’re interested in sponsoring an intern, please contact dkanter@centerstage.org or 410.986.4024.

Christine and Kenneth Lobo

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INDIVIDUALS AND FOUNDATIONS

THANK YOU!

The following list includes gifts of $250 or more made to the Center Stage Annual Fund between July 31, 2015 and February 28, 2017. Although space limitations make it impossible for us to list everyone who helps fund our artistic, education, and community programs, we are enormously grateful to those who contribute to Baltimore Center Stage.

We couldn’t do it without you!

The Center Stage Society represents individual donors who, through their annual contributions of $1,500 or more, provide special opportunities for our artists and audiences. Society members are actively involved through special events, theater-related travel, and behind-thescenes conversations with theater artists.

Marilyn Meyerhoff Sharon and Jay Smith

ARTISTS’ CIRCLE ($10,000- $24,999) The William L. and Victorine Q. Adams Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. George M. Sherman Mr. Louis B. Thalheimer and Ms. Juliet A. Eurich Department of VSA and Accessibility at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

The Bunting Family Foundation The Cordish Family

PLAYWRIGHTS’ CIRCLE ($5,000- $9,999)

The Helen P. Denit Charitable Trust

Taunya Banks

Ms. Margaret H. Cooke +

Peter and Millicent Bain

Ms. Nancy Dorman and Mr. Stanley Mazaroff

Bradie Barr

Brian and Denise Eakes

James T. and Francine G. Brady

Stephanie and Ashton Carter

Ms. Amy Elias and Mr. Richard Pearlstone

Sylvia and Eddie Brown

The Charlesmead Foundation

The Fascitelli Family Foundation

James and Janet Clauson

Mary Catherine Bunting

Genine and Josh Fidler

August and Melissa Chiasera

Daniel P. Gahagan

The Nathan & Suzanne Cohen Foundation

SEASON SPONSORS ($50,000+) Ellen and Ed Bernard

Lynn and Tony Deering The William Randolph Hearst Foundation The Laurents/Hatcher Foundation

John Gerdy and E. Follin Smith The Arthur J. and Lee R. Glatfelter Foundation

Terry H. Morgenthaler and Patrick Kerins

The Goldsmith Family Foundation

Judy and Scott Phares

Fredye and Adam Gross

Lynn and Philip Rauch

The Laverna Hahn Charitable Trust

The Shubert Foundation, Inc.

Meredith and Adam Borden

The Annie E. Casey Foundation

The Jane and Worth B. Daniels, Jr. Fund of the Baltimore Community Foundation The Delaplaine Foundation, Inc. Walter B. Doggett III and Joanne Doggett Beth and Michael Falcone Dick Gamper

The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust

Ms. Wendy Jachman Patricia and Mark Joseph, The Shelter Foundation

PRODUCERS’ CIRCLE ($25,000-$49,999)

The Harry L. Gladding Foundation/Winnie and Neal Borden

Francie and John Keenan

The Hecht-Levi Foundation, Inc.

Townsend and Bob Kent

The John J. Leidy Foundation, Inc.

Keith Lee

Mr. John McCardell

Ken and Elizabeth Lundeen

Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker

The William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund, creator of the Baker Artist Portfolios. www.

BakerArtist.org Penny Bank

Maryland Humanities Council

Dave and Chris Powell

EMC Arts

The Joseph and Harvey Meyerhoff Family Charitable Funds

The JI Foundation

Mr. J. William Murray

Rona and Arthur Rosenbaum

Kathleen Hyle

Charles E. Noell III

Donald and Mariana Thoms

Jane and Larry Droppa

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Stephen Richard and Mame Hunt Blanche and Theo Rodgers

Ellen J. Remsen Webb & J.W. Thompson Webb

Theatre Communications Group

Loren and Judy Western

Mr. Kenneth Thompson

Ted and Mary Jo Wiese

United Way of Central Maryland

DIRECTORS’ CIRCLE ($2,500- $4,999)

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher West

Anonymous

Mr. Todd M. Wilson and Mr. Edward Delaplaine

The Lois and Irving Blum Foundation

Ms. Linda Woolf

Drs. Joanna and Harry Brandt

DESIGNERS’ ($1,500- $2,499)

Gene DeJackome and Kim Gingras

Anonymous

Mr. Dan F. Dent

Scott and Katherine Bissett

Mr. Jed Dietz and Dr. Julia McMillan

Susan Bridges and Bill Van Dyke

Judith and Steven B. Fader

The Caplan Family Foundation, Inc.

Robert and Cheryl Guth Ralph and Claire Hruban

B.J and Bill Cowie

Patricia Yevics-Eisenberg and Stewart Eisenberg

COMPANY ($750-$1,499) Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Richard Alter Ms. Tracy Bacigalupo and Mr. Jake Baker The Jaye and Dr. Ted Bayless Fund of the Baltimore Community Foundation Steve and Teri Bennett Ellen and Mordecai Blaustein Harriet and Bruce Blum Mr. and Mrs. Marc Blum John and Carolyn Boitnott Ms. Barbara Crain and Mr. Michael Borowitz Jan Boyce

Jenkins Baer Associates

The Margaret O. Cromwell Family Fund of the Baltimore Community Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Jennings, Jr.

Andrea and Samuel Fine, in memory of Carole Goldberg

Mr. Paul Burclaff

Francine and Allan Krumholz

Dr. Gladys Arak Freedman and Dr. Matthew Freedman

The Campbell Foundation, Inc.

David and Elizabeth JH Hurwitz

Mr. and Mrs. Earl Linehan/ The Linehan Family Foundation, in honor of Terry Morgenthaler

Ms. Suzan Garabedian

Ms. Sandra Liotta

Pamela and Jonathan Genn, in honor of Beth Falcone

The Macht Philanthropic Fund of The Associated

Sandra Levi Gerstung

Jim and Mary Miller Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Mohler, Jr. Jeannie Murphy John and Susan Nehra Lawrence C. Pakula, in memory of Sheila S. Pakula

The Gladstone Family Foundation, in honor of Dr. Pebble Kranz Dr. Neil Goldberg, in memory of Carole Goldberg Len and Betsy Homer Joseph J. Jaffa

Val and Hutch Robbins

Mr. Barry Kropf

Michelle and Nathan Robertson

Maryland Charity Campaign

The Rollins-Luetkemeyer Foundation

Michael Ross

Charles and Leslie Schwabe

Barbara P. Shelton

The Ida and Joseph Shapiro Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Thomasian

Scott and Mimi Somerville Scot T. Spencer

Nanny and Jack Warren, in honor of Lynn Deering

Mr. Gilbert H. Stewart and Ms. Joyce L. Ulrich

Cheryl Hudgins Williams and Alonza Williams

Mr. Michael Styer

Sydney and Ron Wilner

Barbara and Sig Shapiro

Krissie and Dan Verbic

Jason and Mindy Brandt Dr. and Mrs. Donald D. Brown Meredith and Joseph Callanan Ms. Cheryl Casciani Ms. Sue Lin Chong Mr. G. Brian Comes and Mr. Raymond Mitchener, in honor of Terry Morgenthaler Mr. William Cooke Jane Cooper and Philip Angell Bill and Liz Dausch, in honor of Sharon and Jay Smith The Richard and Rosalee C. Davison Foundation The Deering Family Foundation/Lawrie Deering and Albert F. DeLoskey The Honorable and Mrs. E. Stephen Derby Linda Eberhart The Eliasberg Family Foundation Sue and Buddy Emerson, in appreciation of Ken and Elizabeth Lundeen Sidney Emmer Donald M. and Margaret W. Engvall

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Dr. Ira Papel

Dr. Neal Friedlander and Dr. Virginia K. Adams

Ms. Nancy Patz Blaustein

Frank and Jane Gabor

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JosĂŠ and Ginger Galvez Megan M. Gillick Stuart and Linda Grossman Thomas and Barbara Guarnieri Linda Hambleton Panitz F. Barton Harvey III and Janet Marie Smith, in honor of Terry Morgenthaler Bill and Scootsie Hatter Sandra and Thomas Hess Kelly and Andre Hunter, in honor of Beth Falcone Mrs. Harriet S. Iglehart Mr. and Mrs. Ted Imes Susan and Steve Immelt Mr. Larry Jennings Mr. and Mrs. Allan Jensen Max Jordan Ms. Shirley Kaufman

Walt and Donna Pearson Robin and Allene Pierson, in honor of Terry Morgenthaler Pat Pilling, in memory of Mary C. Lee Janet Plum, in memory of Jeffrey J. Plum Leslie and Larry Polakoff Mr. and Mrs. Robert Porter Ms. Dorothy Powe, in memory of Ethel J. Holliday The James and Gail Riepe Family Foundation, in honor of Lynn Deering Mr. and Mrs. Harold Rojas Mr. and Mrs. Todd Schubert Gail B. Schulhoff Bayinnah Shabazz, M.D. The Earle and Annette Shawe Family Foundation

Ms. Deborah Kielty

The Sinksy-Kresser-Racusin Memorial Foundation

The Herschel and Judith Langenthal Philanthropic Fund

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smelkinson

Andrea Laporte Jonna and Fred Lazarus Dr. and Mrs. George Lentz, Jr. Mr. Stephan Levine and Ms. Lynn Weisberg Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence M. Macks Mr. Alan Macksey Mrs. Diane Markman Ms. Sybil Mead and Mr. Dan Leraris Brad Mendelson John Messmore Joseph and Jane Meyer The Montag Family Fund of The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, in honor of Beth Falcone Mr. Richard Morrison and Mrs. Judith Schoenfeld Morrison Roger F. Nordquist, in memory of Joyce C. Ward Mr. and Mrs. Lee Ogburn Dr. Bodil Ottesen Michael and Phyllis Panopolous

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Robert and Terri Smith Mr. and Mrs. Scott Smith Bonnie and Stuart Stainman George and Holly Stone Mr. and Mrs. John Strahan Susan and Brian Sullam Mr. William J. Sweet and Ms. Geraldine Mullan Kathryn and Mark Vaselkiv Dr. and Mrs. Frank R. Witter Dr. Richard H. Worsham Eric and Pam Young Dr. Laurie S. Zabin Mr. Calman Zamoiski, Jr., in honor of Terry Morgenthaler

ADVOCATES ($250-$749) Anonymous Ms. Diane Abeloff, in memory of Martin Abeloff Ms. Madeline R. Abramson Robbie Q. Adams Bradley and Lindsay Alger, in honor of George J. Staubus

The Alsop Family Foundation Ms. Bernadette Anderson Mrs. Alexander Armstrong Ms. Susan Arnold and Mr. Richard Ochs Mr. Alan M. Arrowsmith II Deborah and Stephen Awalt Ayd Transport Robert and Dorothy Bair Mike Baker The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Bank Family Fund of the Baltimore Community Foundation Amy and Bruce Barnett Ms. Patricia Baum Melissa A. Behm Mr. Gary Bess Ms. Anne Berman Bob and Maureen Black The Honorable Catherine Blake and Dr. Frank Eisenberg Ms. Katharine C. Blakeslee Rachel and Steve Bloom, in honor of Beth Falcone Mr. and Mrs. Steven and Renee Bookoff Margaret and Michael Bowler Mr. and Mrs. A. Stanley Brager, Jr. Ms. Michelle Brown Cindy Candelori Sheldon and Jamie Caplis, in honor of Juliet Eurich and Louis Thalheimer The Jim and Anne Cantler Memorial Fund of the Baltimore Community Foundation Ms. June Carr Joe and Missy Carrier Mr. and Mrs. David Carter Mr. and Mrs. James Case Ms. Jan Caughlin Mr. and Mrs. Carl F. Christ Tracey L. Chunn Ann K. Clapp Brenda M. Cley, M.D. Ms. Clare Cochran Mr. William Coffey Joan Develin Coley and Lee Rice The Elsa and Stanton Collins Charitable Fund Ida and Emmett Collins, in honor of Elizabeth Hurwitz Combined Charity Campaign

INDIVIDUALS AND FOUNDATIONS Combined Federal Campaign The Constantinides Family Foundation David and Sara Cooke Mr. Joe Coons and Ms. Victoria Bradley Betty and Stephen Cooper Scott and Patricia Corbett Janet M. Curnoles, in honor of Sarah Curnoles Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius P. Darcy Mr. Lewis Davis Richard and Lynda Davis Robert and Janice Davis James DeGraffenreidt and Mychelle Farmer Curt Decker David and Emily Demsky Rosetta and Matt DeVito Susan and Joachim Diedrich Ms. Mary Downs Ina and Ed Dreiband The Suzy and Eddie Dunn Fund of the Baltimore Community Foundation, in honor of Terry Morgenthaler Lynne Durbin and John-Francis Mergen Joyce L. Edington Patricia Egan and Peter Hegeman Mr. James Engler Mrs. Christine Epenshade Faith and Edgar Feingold, in memory of Sally W. Feingold Mr. and Mrs. Gary Felser Sandra and John Ferriter Bob and Susie Fetter Merle and David Fishman Bill and Winnie Flattery Dr. and Mrs. Robert P. Fleishman Lindsay and Bruce Fleming Donna Flynn Joan and David Forester Joan and David Forester Whit and Mary Louise Foster Ms. Nancy Freyman Mr. Francis Gallagher Mark and Patti Gillen Hal and Pat Gilreath Dr. Larry Goldstein and Dr. Diane Pappas Mary and Richard Gorman

Marsha Grayson and Harold Hersch Kathleen and Eric Greenberg, in honor of Beth Hauptle and Hilary Judis Michael and Susan Guarnieri Mr. and Mrs. Randy Guttman Joseph and Christine Hall Mr. Roosevelt Harris, Jr. Alma Hays and John Ginovsky Rachel and Ian Heavers John and Cynthia Heller Sue Hess Mrs. James J. Hill, Jr., in memory of James J. Hill Jr. Dr. Dahlia Hirsch and Dr. Barry Wohl James and Rosemary Hormuth Ms. Irene Hornick The A. C. and Penney Hubbard Foundation Sarah and John Issacs Bob Jackson Landscapes, Inc. Mr. William Jacob James and Hillary Aidus Jacobs Mr. and Mrs. Robert and Thea Jones Ann H. Kahan Mr. John Kane Richard and Judith Katz Dr. and Mrs. Myron Kellner Stephen and Laurie Kelly, in memory of Rodney Stieff Alane and George Kimes Roland King and Judith Phair King Deborah King-Young and Daniel Young Joyce and Robert Knodell Donald Knox and Mary Towery, in memory of Carolyn Knox and Gene Towery Ms. Nancy Kochuk Stewart and Carol Koehler Joseph M. and Judy K. Langmead Kevin Larrawe and Lucy Robins Mr. and Mrs. William Larson Lainy Lebow-Sachs Dr. and Mrs. Yuan C. Lee Mr. Raymond Lenhard, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Ronald Lesser Marilyn Leuthold Sara W. Levi

Dr. and Mrs. John Lion Kenneth and Christine Lobo The Ethel M. Looram Foundation, Inc. Amy Macht and George Grose Nancy Magnuson and Jay Harrell, in honor of Betty and Edgar Sweren Dr. and Mrs. Charles Mann The Manziello Family Foundation Matthew and Eileen Margolies The Dr. Frank C. Marino Foundation, Inc. Jeanne E. Marsh Don Martin Aida and James Matters Ms. Carol B. McCord, in memory of Donald and Betty Rothman Mary L. McGeady Teri L. Menke Mary and Barry Menne Mr. and Mrs. Timothy E. Meredith Mr. John Merrill Stephanie F. Miller, in honor of The Lee S. Miller, Jr. Family Tracy Miller and Paul Arnest, in honor of Stephanie Miller Faith and Ted Millspaugh James W. and Shirley A. Moore Mr. and Mrs. Terry Moore Dr. and Mrs. C.L. Moravec Ms. Jill Morgenthaler, in honor of Terry Morgenthaler Wilbert Moultrie Beth and George Murnaghan Stephen and Terry Needel Ms. Katherine Newberger Claire D. O’Neill Ms. Jo-Ann Mayer Orlinksy Fronda Cohen Ottenheimer and Richard Ottenheimer The P.R.F.B. Charitable Foundation, in memory of Shirley Feinstein Blum Justine and Ken Parezo Kevin and Joyce Parks Fred and Grazina Pearson Linda and Gordon Peltz Dr. and Mrs. James M. Pepple Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Phillips Mr. William Phillips Bonnie L. Pitt

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Mr. Bruce Sholk and Ms. Beth Kaplan Mrs. Kimberly Shorter Dr. and Mrs. Edward M.M. Sills Dr. Donald Slowinski Ms. Abigail Smith Sharon and John Stanton Sue and Steve Sternheimer Pamela A. Stevens Clare H. Stewart, in honor of Bill Geenen Mr. Gerhard F. Stronkowski Cindy and Fred Thompson Ms. Cathy R. Tipper Mr. Aaron Tripp Doctors Harold and Robin Tucker Laura and Neil Tucker, on honor of Beth Falcone Sharon and David Tufaro Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Tyler Dr. and Mrs. Henry Tyrangiel Ms. Katherine Urquhart Mr. Eli Velder Dan Watson and Brenda Stone Len and Lindley Weinberg Mr. John Wessner Ms. Camille Wheeler and Mr. William Marshall Ms. Michelle Whelley Stephen S. and Edith F. Winegrad Velda Yelity-Paul Clair Zamoiski Segal William D. Zerhouni and Uriyoan Colon-Ramos

SPECIAL GRANTS & GIFTS: The Leading National Theatres Program, a joint initiative of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Baltimore County Executive, County Council, & Commission on Arts and Sciences Carroll County Government Howard County Arts Council through a grant from Howard County Government Center Stage has been funded by the Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts.

MATCHING GIFT COMPANIES The Abell Foundation, Inc. Bank of America BGE The Black & Decker Corporation Brown Capital Management, Inc. The Annie E. Casey Foundation Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation IBM Foundation Illinois Tool Works Foundation JMI Equity Kraft Foods McCormick Foundation Norfolk Southern Foundation PNC Bank T. Rowe Price Foundation UBS Wealth Management Verizon Western Union We make every effort to provide accurate acknowledgement of our contributors. We appreciate your patience and assistance in keeping our lists current. To advise us of corrections, please call 410.986.4024.

GOVERNMENT GRANTS Center Stage is funded by an operating grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency dedicated to cultivating a vibrant cultural community where the arts thrive. Funding for the Maryland State Arts Council is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

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SPOTLIGHT

pnc supports JAZZ Baltimore Center Stage has been incredibly fortunate to have the support of the PNC Foundation for over a decade, and again this year as our Civic Showcase Sponsor of Jazz.

PNC Greater Maryland has provided Baltimore Center Stage with the essential funding required to bring this celebrated novel to life, as well as additional capital allocated for special activities to promote Baltimore’s status as one of the nation’s emergent urban cultural centers. We are thrilled to turn the spotlight on the achievements of their philanthropic efforts in the Baltimore community.

This year marks an important anniversary for PNC—it’s their 10th year in the market.

In 2006, Mercantile Bank, which was at the time Baltimore’s largest remaining independent bank, was acquired by PNC Financial Service Group. Since that time, PNC has been aggressively maintaining and exceeding the philanthropic efforts of its previous namesake.

PNC’s signature effort is their commitment to Pre-K Childhood Education—visible through the Grow Up Great initiative.

Grow Up Great has invested $350 million to help children from birth through age five develop a passion for learning that lasts a lifetime—and can help set them on a path to success.

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Laura Gamble, Regional President PNC Bank Greater Maryland with Grow Up Great students

which PNC provided more than $4 million in New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC) to help create a fabrication incubator for artists, craftsmen and small manufacturers. PNC also exhibits a commitment to women in business. They support Athena Powerlink—a “women in business” employee engagement group—and are very proud of the success of Regional President, Laura Gamble.

Through their Civic Showcase Sponsor of Jazz, PNC funding is allowing Baltimore Center Stage to bring key influencers in the national theater field to Baltimore for the World Premiere, host a panel discussion featuring the leaders of Baltimore’s innovative cultural community, expand opportunities for those guests to tour some of the city’s cultural treasures. We appreciate the opportunity to increase our marketing efforts in collaboration with other city advocates—working to inspire national dialogue around Baltimore’s artistry.

We are thrilled that funders like PNC help to strengthen our presence in Baltimore. From administrators to artisans to actors, everyone at Baltimore Center Stage is deeply grateful to PNC for their unwavering support.

Great performance deserves applause.

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It takes creativity, discipline, and talent to produce a great performance. That’s why we’re proud to support Baltimore Center Stage and its work to engage, educate, and inspire.

Learn more about the work we’re doing in the community. troweprice.com/responsibility

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sTAff Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah OBE

DEVELOPMENT Interim Development Director Steve Haddad

Managing Director Michael Ross

Associate Director of Development Sabrina S. Thornton

ADMINISTRATION

Corporate Relations Manager Amanda Mizeur

Associate Managing Director Del W. Risberg

Campaign Manager Paul Wissman

Administration Fellow Antonio Eubanks

Executive Assistant/ Research Coordinator David Kanter

Director of Operations Kevin Maroney Building Engineer Harry Piasecki Security James Williams Tyrone Jacobs Custodial Services Broadway Services, Inc.

ARTISTIC Associate Artistic Director Hana S. Sharif Associate Director/ Director of Dramaturgy Gavin Witt Artistic Producer/Director of Community Programs Daniel Bryant Artistic Administrator Stephanie Rolland Company Manager Jennifer Roller Artistic Assistant Danielle Turner The Lynn & Tony Deering Producing Intern Jack Dee The Judy & Scott Phares Dramaturgy Fellow Deanie Vallone The Lynn & Philip Rauch Company Management Intern Emmeline Adams The Kathleen Hyle Digital Media Fellow Jasmine Baxter

Art Director Bill Geenen Publications Manager Maggie Beetz Public Relations Manager Lisa Lance Marketing Manager Hilary Judis Digital Marketing Strategist Amanda Schwarz

Auction Coordinator Sydney Wilner

The Sharon & Jay Smith Marketing & Communications Intern Rosalyn Smaldone

Auction Assistant Norma Cohen Development Assistant Madeline Dummerth

The Ellen & Ed Bernard Development Intern Brian Novotny

The Wendy Jachman Graphics Intern Kaitlynn Larkins Direct Marketing SMART (Strategic Marketing for the Arts)

eDUCATION

Photography Richard Anderson production Dean Alexander advertising

Director of Education Michael Wiggins

AUDIENCE SERVICES

Education Coordinator Kristina Szilagyi Education Intern Rachel Varley Teaching Artists Maria Broom, Lauren Imwold, Zipporah Brown, Vaunita Goodman, Deirdre McAllister, Jerry Miles, Jr., CJay Philip, Courtney Proctor, Virginia Remsberg, D. Wambui Richardson, Andrew Stromyer, Susan Stroupe, Josh Thomas, Ann Turiano, Jacob Zabawa, and The Jokesters: Steve Bauer and Marianne Wittelsberger

FINANCE Director of Finance Beth Fetcho

Audience Relations & Box Office Manager Mandy Benedix Associate Audience Relations and Subscriptions Manager Jerrilyn Keene Assistant Audience Relations and Group Sales Managers Laura Baker, Shannon Ziegler Patron Services Associates Ishai Barnoy, Marlene Bell, Kelli Blackwell, Olivia Brann, Brian Gilbert, Molly Raven Hopkins, Blueberry Emily Keller, Kira-Lynae Pindell, Jazmine Riley Audience Services and Events Manager Alec Lawson

Business Manager Kathy Nolan

House Managers Lindsey Barr, Nick Horan, Lindsay Jacks, Hannah Kelly, Faith Savill

Business Associate Kacy Armstrong

Audience Relations Intern Vivian Barnes

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES

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Director of Marketing & Communications Beth Hauptle

Special Events Coordinator Lisa Portera

Technologies Manager John Paquette

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MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS

PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT

Props Artisan Rachael Erichsen

Director of Production Rick Noble

Props Intern Madeleine Winward

Associate Production Manager Kate Holland

SCENERY

Production & Stage Management Fellow Matt Sykes Stage Management Intern Lucía Ruppert AUDIO Supervisor Amy Wedel Audio Engineer Daniel Hogan The Jane & Larry Droppa Audio Intern Courtney Seibert

Technical Director Rob McLeod Assistant Technical Director Bradley Shaw Scene Shop Supervisor Frank Lasik Carpenters Brian Jamal Marshall, Collin Sage, Eric Scharfenberg, Libby Stone

Costumer David Burdick

STAGE OPERATIONS

Associate Costumer Ben Kress

Stage Carpenter Eric L. Burton

Draper Susan MacCorkle

Wardrobe Supervisor Linda Cavell

Craftsperson William E. Crowther

The following individuals and organizations contributed to this production of JAZZ

ELECTRICS Lighting Director Tamar Geist Master Electrician Carly Shiner Staff Electrician Aaron Haag Lighting Intern Jessica Anderson MULTIMEDIA Multimedia Coordinator Danny Carr Multimedia Fellow Gabriel Macedo

PROPERTIES Props Master Meghan O’Brien Assistant Props Manager Nathan Scheifele

Architect Cho Benn Holback Associates Head Theater Consultants Charcoalblue Multi Media Lobby Designs Jared Mezzocchi Brand Design Pentagram

SCENIC ART Charge Scenic Artist Erich Starke

The Terry Morgenthaler & Patrick Kerins Costumes Intern Matthew Smith

BALTIMORE CENTER STAGE 2016/17 RENOVATIONS

The Elizabeth & Ken Lundeen Carpentry Intern Whitney Stott

COSTUMES

First Hand Elizabeth Roskos

Tailor Ed Dawson

Assistant Lighting Designers Chian-Ann Lu, Yitai Chung

Baltimore Center Stage operates under an agreement between LORT and Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.

The Director and Choreographer are members of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Inc., an independent national labor union.

Carpenters Sam Martin, Jessica Bittorf Draper Christopher Schramm Electricians Jake Epp, Lillie Kahkonen, Bevin Miyake, Will Voorhies, Paul Callahan

The scenic, costume, lighting, and sound designers in LORT theaters are represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE.

Front Of House Engineer Daniel Hogan Hair And Wig Assistant Samantha Figueroa Light Board Operators Jessica Anderson, Aaron Haag Projections Engineer Gabriel Macedo Props Overhire Jacob Zabawa Stitcher And Wardrobe Crew Sarah Lamar Stitcher Sue Holmes

Musicians engaged by Baltimore Center Stage perform under the terms of an agreement between Center Stage and Local 40543, American Federation of Musicians.

Baltimore Center Stage is a constituent of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the nonprofit professional theater, and is a member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT), the national collective bargaining organization of professional regional theaters.

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SERVICES

fOr Our AuDienCes DINING

ACCESSIBILITY

The Sherman Café & Bar is located on the first floor. Our restaurant food provider, Flavor at Baltimore Center Stage, will be serving dinner and small plates on the second floor with a limited menu of small plates available for order at the first floor bars. The brand new Nancy K. Roche Bar in the Deering Lounge on the fourth floor will be open during Head performances.

Our food and beverage service will begin two hours before each performance. The Roche Chapel will no longer offer bar services.

MOBILITY Wheelchair-accessible seating is available for every performance.

DRINKS Drinks from our bars are welcome in the theater; lids are required. Please no food in the theater. No outside food or drinks.

PHONES & RECORDING Please silence all phones and electronic devices before the show and after intermission. Photography, audio recording, and video recording are strictly forbidden.

VISUAL ASSISTANCE The Audio Description/Touch Tour performances of JAZZ take place on Sun, June 11 at 2 pm and 7:30 pm. Touch tours present a pre-show opportunity to feel props and set pieces on stage. Large print and braille programs are available upon request.

AUDIO ASSISTANCE An Open Captioned performance of Twisted Melodies takes place on Sun, April 9 at 7:30 pm. Assistive listening devices are available to be borrowed at no cost.

BATHROOMS New bathrooms are now available on the second floor, in addition to newly renovated facilities on the first and fourth floors.

BOX OFFICE The new Marilyn Meyerhoff Box Office on the first floor can service all patron needs regarding purchasing tickets, will call, listening devices, braille and large print programs, and address any of your questions.

ON-STAGE SMOKING We use tobacco-free herbal imitations for any on-stage smoking and do everything possible to minimize the impact and amount of smoke that drifts into the audience. Let our Box Office or front of house personnel know if you’re smoke sensitive.

CHILDREN Children under six are not allowed in the theater, except for Family Series shows and special events like Back Stage @ Center Stage.

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PARKING If you are parking in the Baltimore Sun Garage (diagonally across from the theater at Monument & Calvert) you can pay via credit card at the pay station in the garage lobby or at the in-lane pay station as you exit. If you have a pre-paid voucher, proceed directly to your vehicle and enter your voucher after inserting the parking ticket received upon entering the garage. We do not validate parking tickets.

LATE SEATING Patrons arriving after curtain will be seated at the house manager’s discretion.

FEEDBACK We hope you have an enjoyable, stress-free experience! Your feedback and suggestions are always welcome: info@centerstage.org.

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