'The Whipping Man' Program

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By Matthew Lopez

Directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah The Head Theater

April 4–May 13 | 2011–12 season

State Theater of Maryland

Letter from the Playwright

History is an unending sequence of great and calamitous events.

To paraphrase Alan Bennett for a family audience: history is simply one thing after another.

But that is the history of kings, nations, and armies and it ignores completely the people who are caught up in its unyielding progression. To look at it from a different perspective, History is the story of life interrupted, suspended momentarily, and then put back differently. History is the constant reshuffling of the deck of cards that is the human experience.

What fascinates me are the moments that History skips over: when calamity subsides and life is free to return to normal.

Of course, after such events, “normal” is rarely the state to which life returns. The deck is never shuffled the same way twice. A new normal takes the place of the old.

How, for example, after centuries of bondage, do slaves become free people? What is that first morning like? How long does it take to register the immensity of that change? What, simply, do you do?

For American slaves, in particular, there was no “normal” to return to. Their deck wasn’t reshuffled. It was replaced entirely.

Those are the questions that prompted me to write The Whipping Man. In researching the end of the Civil War and the eventful month of April 1865, I came across a reference to the fact that Passover began that year on April 10, the day immediately following Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. This meant that as Jews across the nation were celebrating this sacred ritual commemorating their ancestors’ freedom from bondage in Egypt, a new kind of liberation was occurring all around them. The parallels were irresistible.

What I found myself exploring, then, seemed like an inexorable link between the African American and Jewish imperatives of reminding successive generations about their people’s past. There has always been a conversation between Black and Jewish histories in the United States. It is a conversation based, I believe, on a similar history. In The Whipping Man, that similar history becomes a shared one.

And so, in one southern home in April 1865, two slaves and their former master, all self-identifying Jews, celebrate the observance of Pesach together. As they do, they each come to realize the immensity of the moment they find themselves in and of the tremendous scars, both real and psychological, they bear from their encounter with slavery. It is the story about when history ends and life begins again, much like the springtime in which the story is set.

The Whipping Man could never tell that story in its entirety. No one piece of fiction ever could. My hope is that this play tells the story of the first tentative steps of the long, painful, hopeful journey that began in April 1865 and continues today.

—Matthew Lopez, Playwright

Contents

The Whipping Man

A Question of Inheritance

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Witness to War

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A Rift among the Rabbis

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Biographies: The Cast

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Biographies: Artistic Team

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Biographies: Staff

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FYI: Audience Services

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Preview: 50th Anniversary Season

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Supporting: The Annual Fund 20 Board of Trustees

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CENTERSTAGE Staff

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By Matthew Lopez Directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah The Head Theater

Apr 4–May 13

The Artistic Team

The Cast (in alphabetical order)

Kwame Kwei-Armah

Michael Micalizzi*

Director

Caleb

Neil Patel

Kevyn Morrow*

David Burdick

Johnny Ramey*

Scenic Designer

Simon

Costume Designer

John

Michelle Habeck

Lighting Designer

Laura Smith*

Stage Manager

Shane Rettig

Sound Designer

The CenterStage Program is published by: Center Stage Associates, Inc. 700 North Calvert Street Baltimore, Maryland 21202 Editor Heather C. Jackson Art Direction/Design Bill Geenen Design Jason Gembicki

Katie Ambrose*

Assistant Stage Manager

Faedra Chatard Carpenter

Production Dramaturg

Matthew Melchiorre*

Assistant Stage Manager

Gillian Lane-Plescia

Dialect Consultant

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association

J. Allen Suddeth

Fight Director

Stephanie Klapper Casting

Casting Director

The Setting

Time: April 13–15, 1865

Contributors Drew Barker, Faedra Chatard Carpenter

Place: Richmond, VA

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A Question of Inheritance

by Faedra Chatard Carpenter, Production Dramaturg; Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, College Park

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t’s April 15, 1865 in Richmond, Virginia. Three Jewish men gather in the vestiges of a once-palatial home—a home that is not only broken by war, but also torn apart by circumstance and choice. Despite the chaotic uncertainty that grows with each passing day, these men are assured of one thing: it is Passover.

Attempting to find some solace in the practice of their faith, the eldest, Simon, cobbles together the bare requisites of a makeshift Seder. While lacking in traditional elements, the meager feast that Simon composes honorably fulfills the spirit of this longstanding ceremony: it dutifully employs a ritualized meal; uses the interactive qualities of call-and-response; and features the story of the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt in order to honor the past, give thanks for the present, and express hope for the future.

However, when Simon utters (in his best Hebrew) the familiar question, “Why is this night different from all other nights?”, the ritualistic query resounds with meaning that extends far beyond the ceremony’s common narrative. It is, again, April 15, 1865 and General Robert E. Lee and his Confederate troops have surrendered only six days earlier, ostensibly bringing the Civil War—and the institution of American slavery—to an end. While the fall of the Confederacy will affect all three men in varying ways, the end of slavery resounds in the hearts and minds of Simon and John with a particular force: as Black Jews, Simon and John celebrate this Passover with the knowledge that they can finally experience their own exodus from the bonds of involuntary servitude.

The dramatic irony of this situation, of course, was carefully conceived and crafted by The Whipping Man’s playwright, Matthew Lopez. After deciding that he wanted to tackle the Civil War as a topic for his next play, Lopez read The Jewish Confederates by Robert Rosen and was immediately fascinated by the concept of slave-owning Jews: “It illustrated for me how pernicious and unavoidable slavery was: that Jews, with their own history of enslavement, could own slaves themselves.”

Indeed, this paradoxical predicament was a major issue of concern among Jewish clergy and it fostered contentious rabbinical debates [see A Rift Among the Rabbis, page 5].

However, in addition to animating these allusions, The Whipping Man also refashions familiar narratives regarding American history and Black-Jewish relations by considering the presence of Black Jews in the Confederate South.

Central to Lopez’s treatment of these various histories is the character of Simon, a man who chooses to claim and maintain 2 | CENTERSTAGE

Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are about you, of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids…

[T]hey shall be your possession.

And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen forever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule.

—Leviticus 25

It certainly got me to thinking.

Were we Jews or were we slaves?

Were we the children of Israel or we just the heathen that were round about you? Because we couldn’t be both, that was clear.

And now you say you’ve given up praying just as easily as that.

Because it was yours to discard if you wanted to. It was never ours.

It was given to us and it could be taken away with just some careful reading of Leviticus.

—Matthew Lopez, The Whipping Man

the Jewish identity that also signifies his enslavement. Despite the scant records on the topic, we know that Simon’s story represents the fact that there were, indeed, enslaved Blacks who considered themselves Jewish due to the faith of their masters. However, Jewish Law (Halakha) requires that one must either be born to a Jewish mother or undergo gerut, formal rabbinic conversion, if one is to be considered truly Jewish. Although we can assume that there were Jewish women who had Black children during slavery, such accounts have not been well-documented. Moreover, while there is one outstanding case on record, it is even more unlikely that Jewish masters were in the practice of formally converting their slaves to Judaism. Nevertheless, it is also telling that, after the fall of American slavery, many Jewish congregations agreed to take on converted Jews as long as they were not “people of colour”—a rule that may have been in place because there was actually a significant enough number of converted Black Jews to disavow.

For some former bondmen and women, this type of racial discrimination was of no concern: rather than keeping the faith of their masters, they asserted their new sense of freedom and autonomy by converting to Christianity. But for others, like Simon, the choice to continue embracing Judaism—a faith whose narratives powerfully echoed their personal travails— signified their own sense of agency. This crisscrossing over faithbased lines reminds us that the adoption of Judaism among enslaved Blacks is actually no more phenomenal than the more familiar adoption of Christianity. And in both cases, Blacks may have taken on the religion of their masters, but they also asserted their will and independence by making these faiths their own.

Moreover, in recognizing that the origins of both Judaism and Christianity can trace roots through Africa, the practice of these faiths by enslaved Blacks can be interpreted as acts of recovery— manifestations, if you will, of inheritance.

Consequently, we are left to wonder how Simon, postemancipation, will wrestle with the question of his inheritance.

His predicament asks us to reflect on the manner in which religious law both clarifies and confounds. It is particularly fitting, then, that The Whipping Man employs a Seder, with its modes of remembrance and questioning, to help us interrogate and affirm our various belief systems. In doing so, it invites us to engage in a rich and ever-proliferating dialogue about the meanings of faith, inheritance, and inherited faith. For all those eager to partake in this abundant feast of ideas, we welcome you to the table. ✡ The Whipping Man | 3

Witness to War

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“It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.”

—Comment from Robert E. Lee to James Longstreet on seeing a Federal charge repulsed in the Battle of Fredericksburg (Dec 13, 1862)

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By Drew Barker, Assistant Dramaturg; University of Maryland, Master’s Candidate: Theatre & Performance Studies

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uring the course of the Civil War, both sides suffered terrible losses—likely more than a million overall casualties, which includes those killed, wounded, or missing. Because of their prominence, officers were one and a half times more likely to be shot than enlisted men. If captured, prisoners of all ranks endured wretched conditions, with some prison camps suffering a 25% mortality rate. Injury often meant amputation at least, if not disease and death. Going missing could entail almost anything from desertion to complete physical obliteration. Nor were civilians immune to the destruction. One fact emerges clearly: when the smoke of battle cleared, the devastation went far beyond the shattered bodies left on the field.

Tracing the battles that Caleb mentions in the play reveals the incredible violence and hardship he would have seen as a Captain in the Army of Northern Virginia. At Antietam (Sharpsburg, Maryland), he would have seen a sunken farm road that gave Confederate riflemen a natural trench to repel brigade after brigade of Union troops. Later the same day, when the Confederates found themselves flanked, that sunken road earned the name “the Bloody Lane,” as bodies piled two and three deep.

The future founder of the American Red Cross, Clara Barton, was also present at the battle attending to wounded Union soldiers.

She barely escaped becoming casualty herself, as a fatal bullet swept one soldier out of her arms while she gave him water.

At Fredericksburg, Virginia, Caleb would have seen Confederate sharpshooters picking off Union bridge builders, then battle in the streets, in a decisive victory for the Rebels. At Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, he would have seen trampled, bloody blue and gray corpses side by side in the Wheatfield; watched a rocky outcropping transform into the Devil’s Den; then witnessed the high water mark of the Confederate offensive, as about 12,000 Southerners charged valiantly across open ground to certain death.

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Back in Virginia again, at the nine-month-long siege of Petersburg, he would have seen hundreds die in an instant after Union miners ignited 8,000 pounds of explosives within a tunnel dug under Confederate trenches. But he would have also seen his side recover and take aim at the confused enemy as they charged straight into the Battle of the Crater afterwards. Still, Petersburg fell to Federal forces.

Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy, fell next, after a long and protracted demise. Just outside the city, however, the suffering at the military hospital of Chimborazo was ameliorated by some of the best facilities of its day. While working there, Simon would have seen battle’s horrors, of course—but also a soaphouse, a bakery, a brewery, and professional surgeons. Known as “the hospital on the hill,” Chimborazo was at the vanguard of combating infection and disease through isolation and ventilation.

Even so, there as throughout the war, “the third army” of disease would be responsible for two-thirds of all deaths.

On April 2, 1865, the day before Richmond fell into Union control, citizens became frantic. Confederate President Jefferson Davis (and countless others) fled in haste. Orders were given to burn the tobacco holds and to take axes to the liquor stocks. As night fell, the fires spread. Soon, the entire business district was ablaze.

Looting turned desperate and rampant. Then, with thunderous calamity, the fire consumed the armory.

Two days later, Lincoln visited Richmond’s charred remains and Davis’ mansion headquarters, surrounded by a throng of Union officers and newly freed Blacks. Five days later, on April 9, General Robert E. Lee sat down with General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse to sign terms of surrender. The United States of America began the fraught and arduous task of putting itself back—attempting to heal the body politic in ways it could never heal the bodies and spirits broken in the conflict. ✡

A Rift among the Rabbis:

By Faedra Chatard Carpenter, Production Dramaturg; Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, College Park

The Debate on American Slavery The Civ il Wa r Era was a Time of Great Conf lict.

Hmm…one might ca ll t hat a n understatement.

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hile America’s Civil War is readily identified as a battle between Unionists and Confederates on the issue of slavery, this palpable tension erupted from an explosive cocktail of ethical, political, and economic concerns. The combat that ensued, then, was not limited to struggles between political parties, armies, or states. Rather, antagonisms—minor and major, physical and philosophical—also erupted within families, communities, and institutions. Included in these warring factions were religious leaders; and rabbis, like their Christian counterparts, were not exempt from taking sides.

One of the most fervent and influential pro-slavery proponents was Rabbi Morris J. Raphall of New York City. The fame and repute of Raphall increased exponentially after he delivered an 1861 sermon titled “The Bible View of Slavery.” Artfully twisting biblical references to suit his purposes, Raphall not only interpreted the Hebrew term for “servant” (‘ebed) as “slave,” but also asserted that the Bible’s merciful practice of slavery could serve as an ideal model for the Southern states to replicate. Moreover, while Raphall forcefully argued that the Bible condoned slavery, he further insisted that abolition was sacrilegious. Rebuking the moral deficiency of abolitionists, he wrote: When you remember that Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Job—the men with whom the Almighty conversed, with whose names he emphatically connects his own most holy name…—that all these men were slaveholders, does it not strike you that you are guilty of something very little short of blasphemy?

Understandably, Raphall’s sermon received a tremendous amount of publicity from both sides of the slavery divide. The oration’s popularity led to its repeated reproduction, and a number of pro-slavery leaders, including sympathetic Christian clergyman, integrated Raphall’s prose into their own lectures and homilies.

This laudatory attention, however, incited anti-slavery activists to respond with equal fervor. Among those who publically refuted Raphall’s testimony was Baltimore’s own David Einhorn.

As the rabbi of Baltimore’s Har Sinai Temple, Einhorn penned several articles on the issue of slavery. Within these articles,

the rabbi asserted that slavery, though tolerated in the Bible, was an indisputable evil; that practicing the true spirit of Judaism necessitated slavery’s eventual demise; and that the real blasphemy was manipulating the Bible to justify human malevolence. Admonishing the use of Judaism in support of slavery, Einhorn also argued for the recognition of Black humanity: Is it anything else but a…rebellion against God, to enslave human beings created in His image, and to degrade them to a state of beasts having no will of their own? Is it anything else but an act of ruthless and wicked violence, to reduce defenseless human beings to a condition of merchandise, and relentlessly to tear them away from the hearts of husbands, wives, parents, and children…?

The fact that Einhorn (one of a fairly small number of abolitionist rabbis) responded to Raphall is notable in itself, but his moral resolve is especially commendable in light of the Confederate sympathies that dominated Maryland at that time. Although friends and foes alike had warned the rabbi about his anti-slavery campaign, he refused to acquiesce and permitted his articles to be redistributed in pamphlets and newspapers. Unfortunately, Einhorn’s heroic crusade in Baltimore finally came to an end when boiling tensions between Union and Confederate supporters ignited into rioting. Learning that he had a proverbial target on his back (a number of abolitionists were injured and killed during the melees), Einhorn reluctantly left Baltimore for the sake of his family’s safety, never to return.

Notably, both Raphall and Einhorn were Northern rabbis: most Southern rabbis, steeped in their regional culture, commonly expressed support of the slavery system. However, while Raphall and Einhorn represent the two extreme positions of the time, it is important to recognize that Jews also espoused every ideological stance in-between. The reason, of course, is simple: although united by a common faith, American Jews have never been a homogeneous population, nor lacked difference and diversity.

Of course, the same thing can be said about all Americans— and perhaps that, too, is an understatement. ✡ The Whipping Man | 5

Biogr aphies The Cast

Michael Micalizzi*— Caleb. CENTERSTAGE: debut.

New York—The Flea Theater: The Memoirist, Looking at Christmas (world premiere), The Great Recession, Love/ Stories (or But You Will Get Used To It) (world premiere), The Footage (world premiere).

International—The Old Vic: However Long the Night. Regional—Son of Semele Theater: things i found on craigslist; Mile Square Theater: Bottom of the Ninth; Eugene O’Neill Theater: Standing Ground. Readings/ Workshops—The Public: Yellowjackets; Playwrights Horizons: I Wanna Destroy You; Working Theater: Waiting for Lefty; The Flea Theater: Off the Main Road (William Inge, world premiere). Film/TV—Army Wives, Looking at Christmas (Great Performances Series), The Red Woman, New Brooklyn, The Likes of Us, Blue Sky, American Gothic, Think Tank, Circledrawers

Kevyn Morrow*—Simon.

CENTERSTAGE: debut.

Broadway—original casts of The Scarlett Pimpernel, Dream, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Leader of the Pack; additional Broadway includes Dreamgirls (1987 revival), A Chorus Line (1990 closing company).

London West End—125th Street (Georgie Blues, World Premiere), Ragtime (Coalhouse Walker Jr., 2004 Olivier Award Nominee for Best Actor in a Musical). Off Broadway— 40th Anniversary Production of The Boys in the Band (Bernard), Blue (Blue Williams).

Regional—Broadway bound Stormy Weather (Billy Strayhorn), The First Wives Club (1st Husband Bill, 2010-NAACP Best Male Actor Nominee), It’s a Wonderful Life (Clarence the Angel), The Little Mermaid (King Triton),

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Xanadu (Danny/Zeus), Gem of the Ocean (Solly Two Kings), Radio Golf (Harmond), The Pajama Game (Sid), The Three Musketeers (Aramis), Five Guys Named Moe (Nomax/Four-Eyed), Thunder Knockin On The Door (Jaguar), Our Town ( Dr. Gibbs), Stone My Heart (Othello), Tambourines to Glory (Buddy Lomax, 2005 Helen Hayes Award Nominee for Best Actor), The Winter’s Tale (King Polixenes). Film/TV—Dark Light, The Trade, Stayin Alive, 2010 Kennedy Center Honors (feature), Hope and Faith (recurring), Ed (recurring), Law & Order (guest), Coach (guest), Murphy Brown (guest), L.A. Law (guest), One Life To Live( recurring), Kidsworld (Host).

Johnny Ramey*—John.

CENTERSTAGE: debut. New York—credits include MTSource: God is a Puerto Rican; Nylon Fusion Co.: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Classical Theatre of Harlem: The Three Sisters; Fulcrum Theater: Julius by Design; Juilliard: credits include Top Dog/Underdog, Our Lady of 121st Street, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, The Winter’s Tale, The Three Sisters, Twelfth Night, Cymbeline, King Lear.

Regional—credits include Crossroads Theatre Co.: A Raisin in the Sun; Studio Theatre: Superior Donuts (Helen Hayes Award, Lead Actor). Film—New Year’s Eve, Addicted, A Happy Ending, Prodigal, Sealed, Pour Aimer Encoure. Training—Juilliard. *Member of Actors’ Equity Association

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Biogr aphies The Artistic Team

Playwright Matthew Lopez’s The Whipping Man has, in recent years, become one of the most regularly produced new American plays. It premiered in 2006 at Luna Stage in Montclair, NJ, and was subsequently produced at Penumbra Theatre Company, Barrington Stage, and The Old Globe prior to arriving in New York last winter where it opened Off Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club in a production directed by Dough Hughes. Matthew was awarded the John Gassner Playwriting Award from the Outer Critics Circle in 2011 for the play. His play Somewhere received its world premiere production last autumn at The Old Globe, directed by Giovanna Sardelli.

It will receive a second production next year at TheatreWorks in Palo Alto with Ms. Sardelli directing again. Other plays include Reverberation, Zoey’s Perfect Wedding, and The Legend of Georgia McBride. His one-act play The Sentinels was included in Headlong Theatre Company’s Decade project, a collection of plays about 9/11, which ran in London in conjunction with the tenth anniversary of the attacks. Matthew is a recent Playwright-in-Residence at The Old Globe, he is commissioned by Roundabout Theatre Company, is a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect, and is a past member of the Ars Nova Play Group. He is currently adapting a musical version of the documentary Mad Hot Ballroom.

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Kwame Kwei-Armah—Director.

See page 17.

Neil Patel—Scenic Designer.

CENTERSTAGE: American Buffalo, Working it Out, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Once on This Island, Elmina’s Kitchen, Ain’t Misbehavin’, The Hostage, As You Like It, many others. Broadway—Oleanna; Wonderland; [title of show]; Ring of Fire; ’night, Mother; Sideman (also West End & Kennedy Center). Off Broadway—Signature Theatre: My Children! My Africa!; Second Stage: By the way, Meet Vera Stark, Gruesome Playground Injuries, Peter & Jerry, Living Out; Roundabout: McReele, Hurrah at Last; Vineyard: Now.Here.This., The Long Christmas Ride Home; MTC: Between Us, The Whipping Man | 9

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Biogr aphies The Artistic Team continued

Kaller); Guthrie: A Raisin in the Sun, Gem Glimmer Glimmer and Shine; MCC: The of the Ocean. Steppenwolf: Love Song, The Mercy Seat; NYTW: The Beard of Avon, Chosen, Ten Percent of Molly Snyder. Michelle Lydie Breeze, Resident Alien, A Question has also designed for The Goodman, of Mercy, Bob, Quills, Slavs!; Playwrights Alliance, Kansas City Repertory, Penumbra, Horizons: Lobster Alice, On the Mountain; Public/NYSF: Dirty Tricks, Othello. Regional— Arizona Theatre Company, Writer’s Theatre, Lookingglass, and others. Awards—NEATCG includes Guthrie, Steppenwolf, La Jolla, Career Development Grant for Design, The McCarter, Alley, Long Wharf, Mark Taper.

University of Texas Faculty Fine Arts Award.

Opera—Chicago Lyric Opera: Anna Bolena; Houston Grand Opera: Mary Stuart, NYCO: Shane Rettig—Sound Designer.

Alcina; Santa Fe: Carmen, Salome, Madame CENTERSTAGE: Things of Dry Hours, Elmina’s Mao; Minnesota: Madame Butterfly; St. Kitchen, a.m. Sunday. New York—The New Louis: Cavalleria Rusticana, Suor Angelica, Group: One Arm, Marie and Bruce, A Lie of Gloriana; Nikikai: Le Nozze di Figaro, Don the Mind, The Starry Messenger, Groundswell, Giovanni; FGO: Anna Karenina. Television— Mourning Becomes Electra, Rafta, Rafta…, In Treatment (HBO). Awards—Obie Award The Music Teacher; Vampire Cowboys: (2), Helen Hayes Award, Eddy Award, Hewes The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G, nom (5), Drama Desk nom (3).

Alice in Slasherland; Flea Theater: She Kills Monsters; Ma-Yi: The Sugar House at the David Burdick— Costume Designer.

Edge of the Universe, Microcrisis; Clubbed CENTERSTAGE: A Skull in Connemara; The Thumb: Civilization: All You Can Eat, Dearest Rivals; Snow Falling on Cedars; Working it Eugenia Haggis; EST: Photograph 51, Lenin’s Out; Cyrano; Caroline, or Change; Hearts; Embalmers, 2008-2010 Marathon; The Things of Dry Hours; Crumbs from the Table Civilians: In the Footprint, Nobody’s Lunch. of Joy; Elmina’s Kitchen; Picnic; a.m. Sunday; Regional—Arena Stage, ATL, BTF, DTC, Yale The Rainmaker; Blithe Spirit; many others.

Rep, Williamstown, Juilliard, NYU. FacultyRegional—Everyman Theatre: Private Rutgers University.

Lives, All My Sons, The Mystery of Irma Vep; Walnut Street/Totem Pole: The Last Night Faedra Chatard Carpenter— of Ballyhoo, Moon Over Buffalo. Opera— Production Dramaturg. CENTERSTAGE: Cincinnati: Don Giovanni; Boston Lyric: I Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Fabulation, Puritani; Tulsa: Tosca, The Barber of Seville, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. Regional— Carmen, Fidelio. Dance—BAM: FLY: Five First Kennedy Center: The Wings of Ikarus Ladies of Dance; Dayton Contemporary: Jackson, Locomotion, New Voices/New Lyric Fire (world premiere, dir./ Visions; African Continuum: Fresh choreographer Dianne McIntyre).

Flavas New Play Development program; Miscellaneous—Baltimore Symphony TheatreWorks: Fences; Crossroads: Former Orchestra: Holiday Spectacular.

Resident Dramaturg/Literary Manager, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, Spirit North Michelle Habeck—Lighting Designer. (world premiere); Arena Stage: Long Day’s CENTERSTAGE: A Skull in Connemara, Journey Into Night, The Odyssey (American Let There Be Love, Things of Dry Hours, premiere). Professional—Assistant Elmina’s Kitchen. Broadway—Slide Artist: Professor of Theatre, University of Maryland, Thoroughly Modern Millie (also London and College Park; Board of Directors for tour); Associate Lighting Designer: The Boy Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the from Oz, King Hedley II; Assistant Lighting Americas (LMDA); member of the American Designer: Movin’ Out, Thoroughly Modern Society for Theatre Research (ASTR), and Millie, King Hedley II. Opera—Associate Association for Theatre in Higher Education Lighting Designer: Julie Taymor’s Grendel.

(ATHE). Education—BA, Spelman College; Off Broadway—Fifty Words. Regional— MA, Washington University; PhD, Stanford.

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Biogr aphies The Artistic Team continued

J. Allen Suddeth—Fight Director.

CENTERSTAGE: American Buffalo; The Homecoming; The Wiz; Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; Cyrano; Sweeney Todd; ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; The Matchmaker; Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead; Joe Turner’s Come & Gone; Hearts; Arsenic & Old Lace; Ah, Wilderness!; Death and the Maiden; The Three Sisters; King Lear; over 60 others.

Broadway—Newsies, Gem of the Ocean, Saturday Night Fever, Jekyll & Hyde, Angels in America, Loot, Saint Joan, A Small Family Business, Hide and Seek. Off Broadway— MTC, The Public, Playwrights Horizons, INTAR, Women’s Project, NYTW, TFANA, Big Apple Circus. Regional—Arena Stage, Shakespeare Theatre (DC), Denver Center, Hartford Stage, Goodman, ATL, Seattle Rep, many others. Recently: Newsies for Disney/ Papermill Playhouse, The Broken Hearts for TFNA. TV—over 750 episodes. Author— Fight Directing for the Theater. Professional— one of 16 Fight Masters recognized by The Society of American Fight Directors.

Gillian Lane-Plescia—Dialect Consultant. CENTERSTAGE: A Skull

in Connemara, The Homecoming, The Importance of Being Ernest, ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, Things of Dry Hours, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, Hay Fever, The Voysey Inheritance, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Elmina’s Kitchen, Sweeney Todd, Mary Stuart, Peter Pan, Blithe Spirit, A Raisin in the Sun, An Ideal Husband.

Broadway—War Horse; Priscilla: Queen of the Desert; Roundabout: The Philanthropist.

Off Broadway—NYTW, Public, Classic Stage Co., Cherry Lane, Clurman, Madison Square Garden, Acting Company, Roundabout, George Street Playhouse. International— Banff Centre (Canada). Regional—Alley, Arena Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Barrington Stage Co., Bay Street, Goodman, Guthrie, Hartford Stage, Huntington, Long Wharf, NJ Shakespeare Fest, McCarter, Milwaukee Rep, Seattle Rep, Steppenwolf, Trinity Rep, Yale Rep. Professional—Faculty, The Juilliard School.

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E. Faye’s many credits here include Caroline, or Change; Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; Trouble in Mind; and two sold-out Cabaret performances.

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Laura Smith*—Stage Manager.

CENTERSTAGE: Gleam; The Rivals; Snow Falling on Cedars; Cyrano; Working it Out; Fabulation or, The Re-Education of Undine; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. Regional—Everyman: Pygmalion, Shipwrecked, The Exonerated, Rabbit Hole, Doubt, Gem of the Ocean, And a Nightingale Sang, The School for Scandal, A Number, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, Yellowman; Woolly Mammoth: Gruesome Playground Injuries, House of Gold, The Unmentionables, Vigils, After Ashley; Folger: Measure for Measure, The Comedy of Errors (ASM); Olney Theatre: Stuff Happens; Theater Alliance: Headsman’s Holiday, Pangea, [sic]; Catalyst: Cloud 9; Longacre Lea: Man with Bags.

Katie Ambrose*—Assistant Stage Manger. CENTERSTAGE:

Gleam, The Rivals, Crime and Punishment, The Homecoming, ReEntry, The Wiz, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Working it Out, Cyrano, Around the World in 80 Days, The Importance of Being Earnest.

Broadway—Sister Act. Regional— Florida Studio Theatre: Boleros for the Disenchanted, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), and others; Heart of America Shakespeare Festival: Macbeth, Richard III, Othello.

Matthew Melchiorre*—Assistant Stage Manager. CENTERSTAGE: Stage

Manager Into the Woods, Assistant Stage Manger A Skull in Connemara. Broadway— The Light in the Piazza, Coram Boy, Hamlet, Curtains, Monty Python’s Spamalot, Wicked, The Lion King, All Shook Up, The Frogs. Off Broadway—A.R. Gurney’s Black Tie dir.

Mark Lamos, Happy Now?, Shipwrecked! An Entertainment…, A.R. Gurney’s Buffalo Gal dir. Mark Lamos, White Chocolate, Open Heart, The Architecture of Loss (Primary Stages). Other New York—Show Boat In Concert (Carnegie Hall). Regional—Twelfth Night, or What You Will dir. Mark Lamos; Suddenly Last Summer; Lips Together, Teeth Apart dir. Mark Lamos; Beyond Therapy; The Diary of Anne Frank; Beckett’s Happy Day’s dir. Mark Lamos; She Loves Me dir. Mark

Lamos; That Championship Season dir. Mark Lamos; Tick, Tick, Boom!; Around the World in 80 Days; A Holiday Garland; The Pavilion (Westport Country Playhouse); Honk! (Two River Theater Company).

Stephanie Klapper— Casting Director.

CENTERSTAGE: A Skull in Connemara. Her work has been seen on Broadway, Off Broadway, regionally, internationally, on television, internet, and film. Selected Broadway and Off Broadway—RX, Motherhood Out Loud, Olive and the Bitter Herbs, Stop the Virgins!, Cactus Flower, Black Tie, In Transit, Secrets of the Trade, The Temperamentals, Dividing the Estate (2009 Tony Nomination), Bells are Ringing, Dinner with Friends, an oak tree NY/LA (Artios award winner), Indoor Outdoor. National Tour—A Christmas Story, The Musical.

Resident casting director for Primary Stages, New York Classical Theatre, and the Pearl Theatre Company. NY Casting—The Cherry Sisters (Actor’s Theatre of Louisville), Eric Rosen and Matt Sax’s Venice, Saved! for Gary Griffin, Moises Kaufman’s Into the Woods, Mary Zimmerman’s The White Snake, The Arabian Nights, Mirror of the Invisible World. International—Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Vienna), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Frankfurt). Ongoing projects for a number of regional theatres including: Capital Repertory Theatre, Hartford Stage Company, Westport, Delaware Theatre Company, Milwaukee Rep, Adirondak Theatre Festival, Asolo Theatre, Playmakers Rep, Kansas City Rep, The New Theatre, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company. Numerous independent feature films. Member— Casting Society of America and League of Professional Theatre Women.

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Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah, an award-

winning British playwright, director, actor, and broadcaster, is well-known to Baltimore audiences through his plays Elmina’s Kitchen and Let There Be Love—which had their American debuts at CENTERSTAGE—as well as his work as director of Naomi Wallace’s Things of Dry Hours. He has served on the boards of The National Theatre and The Tricycle Theatre, both in London. He most recently served as Artistic Director for the World Arts Festival in Senegal, a month-long festival of Black arts and culture, which featured more than two thousand artists from 52 countries participating in 16 different arts disciplines. He was recently named the Chancellor of the University of the Arts London.

Associate Artistic Director/ Director of Dramaturgy Gavin Witt, came

to CENTERSTAGE in 2003 as Resident Dramaturg, having served in that role previously at several Chicago theaters.

As a dramaturg, he has worked on well over 60 plays, from classics to new commissions—including play development workshops and freelance dramaturgy for TCG, The Playwrights Center, The New Harmony Project, The Old Globe, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, CATF, The Kennedy Center, and others. A graduate of Yale and the University of Chicago, he was active in Chicago theater for more than a decade as an actor, director, dramaturg, translator, and teacher, not to mention co-founder of greasy joan & co. theater, while serving as a regional Vice President of LMDA, the national association of dramaturgs. He has been on the faculty of the University of Chicago and DePaul University, and currently teaches at Towson University.

Audience Services

Managing Director Stephen Richard, a leader

on the national arts scene for more than 30 years, joined CENTERSTAGE in January 2012. Stephen comes most recently from a position as Vice President, External Relations, for the new National Children’s Museum. Previously, he served 18 years as Executive Director of Arena Stage, where he planned and managed the theater’s $125 million capital campaign for the Mead Center for American Theater.

Also a professor at Georgetown University and George Mason University, he has served on the boards and committees of some of the nation’s most prestigious arts organizations, including the National Endowment for the Arts, American Arts Alliance, League of Resident Theatres, and Theatre Communications Group. twitter: @sjrcenterstage

Pre-Show Dining Visit Sascha’s Express, our preperformance dinner service located just up the lobby stairs in our Mezzanine Café. Featuring delicious prix fixe dining, service begins two hours before each performance. You’ll find the current menu at www.centerstage.org/saschas.

Accessibility Programs Wheelchair-accessible seating is available for every performance.

For patrons who are hearing impaired, we offer assistive listening devices at no charge. An Open Captioned performance is available for one Sunday performance of each Classic Series production for deaf and hearing impaired patrons. Several performances also feature Audio Description, and Braille programs or magnifying glasses are available upon request.

On-Stage Smoking When a play requires on-stage smoking, we use tobacco-free herbal imitations and do everything possible to minimize the amount of smoke that drifts into the audience. If you’re smoke-sensitive, be sure to let our Box Office know.

Photography & Recording Prohibited Because of copyright and union regulations, photography or recording of performances—both audio and video—is strictly forbidden.

Be Courteous Please silence your cell phone, pager, or other electronic devices both before the show starts and after intermission.

And, while you’re welcome to take beverages with lids to your seat, eating is never allowed inside the theater.

Anything else we can do?

CENTERSTAGE wants every patron to have an enjoyable, stress-free experience. Your feedback and suggestions are always welcomed: info@centerstage.org.

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Announcing CENTERSTAGE’s 2012–13 50th Anniversary Season!

At its core, next season’s selection of great classics and exciting new plays revolve around the notion of Conversation: »» A conversation between two lead actors swapping roles to explore the same character takes center stage in An Enemy of the People—itself a conversation between originator Henrik Ibsen and adaptor Arthur Miller, and between two sides of a divided community. »» A dialogue between Baltimore and its icon, Edgar Allan Poe, pulses at the heart of the hilarious-yet-enchanting The Completely Fictional—Utterly True—Final Strange Tale of Edgar Allan Poe. »» The conversation continues in Katori Hall’s wondrous new play, The Mountaintop, as a fascinating exchange unfolds between Martin Luther King, Jr. and a hotel maid on the last evening of his life. »» Edward Albee’s Pulitzer-winning A Delicate Balance and the World Premiere of Marisa Wegrzyn’s Mud Blue Sky are nothing short of brilliant conversations investigating our fears and hopes and how we negotiate with them, often simultaneously. »» Finally, we close the season with a lively call-and-response between Bruce Norris’s celebrated look at race and gentrification, Clybourne Park, and the premiere of a new play penned by Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah, Beneatha’s Place, that replies to both Clybourne and its inspiration—Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun. These plays will perform in rotating repertory, as The Raisin Cycle.

Locally and nationally, civically and artistically, our aim is to be a focal point for art as a catalyst for debate. We hope that, when you leave each of these shows, whether you’ve loved it or not, you will have been exposed to an idea, an emotion, or an experience that will stay with you long after you have left the auditorium.

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An Enemy of the People

By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Arthur Miller Directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah Sep 19 – Oct 21

American icon Arthur Miller (The Price) takes on Ibsen’s classic conundrum, pitting brother against brother and a community against itself. Just in time for election season comes this riveting saga that asks, does the good of some outweigh the good of the rest?

The Completely Fictional— Utterly True—Final Strange Tale of Edgar Allan Poe

By Stephen Thorne Directed by Curt Columbus For Trinity Repertory Company

Oct 17 – Nov 25

Hometown favorite Bruce Nelson stars in this tale of the morbid life and mysterious final days of Baltimore’s treasured emblem of oddness, E.A. Poe. By turns a madcap vaudeville and a touching examination of artistic aspiration, this new script playfully and poignantly adds up the sum of a life lived.

A Delicate Balance

By Edward Albee Directed by Mark Lamos Nov 21 – Dec 23

Agnes and Tobias seem to have it all, as they enter the quiet later years of life.

But in Edward Albee’s living rooms, all is never as it seems, and the clink of cocktails masks a deeper unease. With signature wit and acerbic style, Albee (Virginia Woolf, Three Tall Women) asks what we owe to friendship or ourselves, and wonders what really lurks behind our fears.

All titles and dates subject to change.

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The Mountaintop

By Katori Hall Directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah Jan 9 – Feb 24

The Lorraine Hotel. April, 1968. In room 306, Dr. King unwinds and prepares. A visit from a hotel maid offers welcome diversion and a challenging new perspective—but also raises profound and surprising questions. Already a worldwide sensation, recently hailed in a star-studded Broadway production, Katori Hall’s sensitive new play gets its first showing for Baltimore audiences.

Mud Blue Sky

World Premiere

By Marisa Wegrzyn Directed by Susanna Gellert Mar 6 – Apr 14

Work, motherhood, missed connections, and prom night form the backdrop for Marisa Wegrzyn’s tender, funny new play. In a nondescript hotel room near O’Hare Airport, three flight attendants and an unlikely fourth companion poise on the brink of looking back and moving ahead.

The Raisin Cycle Playing in rotating repertory:

Clybourne Park

By Bruce Norris Directed by Derrick Sanders Apr 10 – Jun 9

The Pulitzer Prize-winning drama taking America by storm. Picking up where Lorraine Hansberry left off in her landmark Raisin in the Sun (2001-02 Season), The New York Times called Clybourne Park a “darkly humorous… dissection of race, gentrification and real estate.”

Beneatha’s Place

World Premiere

By Kwame Kwei-Armah Directed by Derrick Sanders May 8 – Jun 9

For his first drama set in America, Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah (Let There Be Love, Elmina’s Kitchen) offers his own response to Hansberry, continuing the conversation initiated in Clybourne Park.

50 Years of World-Class Theater Here’s a sneak peek at our anniversary events.

To learn more about the events and these photos from our first 50 years, visit www.centerstage.org/50.

2012 Gala | May 5, 2012

The Gala will honor former Managing Director Peter Culman.

50th Anniversary Weekend Celebration | September 27-29, 2012 Opening Night of the first show of the 50th Anniversary Season, An Enemy of the People Readings of Plays—a one-night, star-studded staging of hits and highlights from our first 50 years Backstage@CENTERSTAGE—expanded, enhanced, and bursting with workshops, tours, demonstrations, street painting, and special performances by theaters from across the state.

My America

50 short monologues by America’s leading playwrights

Our Birthday | January 23, 2013 50th Anniversary Gala | May 4, 2013

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Artists Circle

The following list includes gifts of $250 or more—individual, corporate, foundation, and government contributions— made to the CENTERSTAGE Annual Fund between September 1, 2010 and February 1, 2012. 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 each person who contributes to CENTERSTAGE. We couldn’t do it without you! ●● Playwrights Circle

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The CENTERSTAGE Society represents donors who, with their annual contributions of $2,500 or more, provide special opportunities for our artists and audiences. Society members are actively involved through special events, theater-related travel, and behind-the-scenes conversations with theater artists.

The Baltimore Life Companies

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McCormick & Co. Inc.

The William L. and Victorine Q. Adams Foundation & The Rodgers Family Fund The William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund Baltimore Community Foundation Penny Bank The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation, Inc. The Bunting Family Foundation The Helen P. Denit Charitable Trust Ms. Nancy Dorman and Mr. Stanley Mazaroff Mr. and Mrs. Larry D. Droppa John Gerdy and E. Follin Smith The Goldsmith Family Foundation The Laverna Hahn Charitable Trust Ms. Kathleen Hyle J. I. Foundation Kenneth C. and Elizabeth M. Lundeen Mr. and Mrs. Samuel G. Macfarlane Terry H. Morgenthaler and Patrick Kerins Mr. and Mrs. J. William Murray Mr. and Mrs. Philip Rauch George Roche Mr. Louis B. Thalheimer and Ms. Juliet A. Eurich Ms. Barbara Voss and Charles E. Noell, III

Anonymous The Lois and Irving Blum Foundation, Inc. Drs. Joanna and Harry Brandt Sylvia and Eddie Brown Mary Catherine Bunting The Annie E. Casey Foundation Marjorie Rodgers Cheshire and Mark Cheshire August and Melissa Chiasera The Mary & Dan Dent Fund of the Baltimore Community Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Walter B. Doggett, III Patricia Yevics-Eisenberg and Stewart Eisenberg Judith and Steven B. Fader Mr. and Mrs. Michael Falcone Ms. Suzan Garabedian Fredye and Adam Gross Robert and Cheryl Guth The Hecht-Levi Foundation, Inc. Dr. and Mrs. J. Woodford Howard The Harley W. Howell Charitable Foundation Ms. Sherrilyn A. Ifill Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Immelt Jonna and Fred Lazarus Maryland Charity Campaign Linda and John McCleary Mr. and Mrs. John L. Messmore Jim and Mary Miller Jeannie Murphy The Israel & Mollie Myers Foundation/ Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Myers/Mr. and Mrs. Herschel Langenthal Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence C. Pakula Monica and Arnold Sagner Scott and Mimi Somerville Scot T. Spencer The Estate of George H. Steele Mr. Michael Styer Trexler Foundation, Inc. - Jeff Abarbanel and David Goldner Kathryn and Mark Vaselkiv Mr. and Mrs. Loren and Judy Western Scott and Mary Wieler Ted and Mary Jo Wiese Ms. Cheryl Hudgins Williams and Alonza Williams Sydney and Ron Wilner Drs. Nadia and Elias Zerhouni

McGuireWoods LLP PNC Bank PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Procter & Gamble Stifel Nicolaus Transamerica Financial Solutions Group Venable, LLP Whiteford, Taylor & Preston LLP The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company

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INDIVIDUALS & FOUNDATIONS

($10,000–$24,999)

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Anonymous Denise and Philip Andrews Peter and Millicent Bain James T. and Francine G. Brady The Charlesmead Foundation The Nathan and Suzanne Cohen Foundation The Cordish Family The Jane and Worth B. Daniels, Jr. Fund of the Baltimore Community Foundation Brian and Denise Eakes Fascitelli Family Foundation Dick and Maria Gamper The Harry L. Gladding Foundation/ Winnie and Neal Borden Dr. and Mrs. Neil D. Goldberg Martha Head Dr. and Mrs. Freeman A. Hrabowski, III Murray and Joan Kappelman Francie and John Keenan Mr. and Mrs. E. Robert Kent, Jr.

($2,500–$4,999)

●● Associates

($1,000–$2,499)

Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Bank Family Fund of the Baltimore Community Foundation Ms. Taunya Banks Amy and Bruce Barnett Donald Bartling Bob and Maureen Black Ms. Katharine C. Blakeslee Mr. and Mrs. Marc Blum John and Carolyn Boitnott Mr. and Mrs. John Bond, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Donald D. Brown Sandra and Thomas Brushart Mr. and Mrs. George L. Bunting Maureen and Kevin Byrnes Meredith and Joseph Callanan The Campbell Foundation, Inc. Caplan Family Foundation, Inc. Sally and Jerry Casey John Chester Ann K. Clapp Dr. Joan Develin Coley and Mr. Lee Rice Constantinides Family Foundation Robert and Janice Davis The Richard & Rosalee C. Davison Foundation Albert F. DeLoskey and Lawrie Deering Rosetta and Matt DeVito Mr. Jed Dietz and Dr. Julia McMillan, MD Mr. and Mrs. Eric Dott Jack and Nancy Dwyer Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Freedman Frank and Jane Gabor Jose and Ginger Galvez Jonathan and Pamela Genn, in honor of Cindi Monahan and Beth Falcone Sandra Levi Gerstung Janet and John Gilbert Ms. Ana Goldseker H.R. LaBar Family Foundation Fund of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation Dr. and Dr. James and Vicki Handa F. Barton Harvey, III and Janet Marie Smith Bill and Scootsie Hatter Donald and Sybil Hebb Sandra and Thomas Hess Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Homer Mr. and Mrs. James Hormuth The A. C. and Penney Hubbard Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Imes Joseph J. Jaffa Mr. and Mrs. Mark Joseph The Abraham & Ruth Krieger Family Foundation, Inc. Francine and Allan Krumholz Sandy and Mark Laken

Dr. and Mrs. George Lentz, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Earl & Darielle Linehan/ Linehan Family Foundation Ms. Mary L. McGeady Tom and Cindi Monahan Ms. Stacey Morrison and Mr. Brian Morales Mr. and Mrs. Lee Ogburn Bodil Ottesen Ms. Beth Perlman Ronald and Carol Reckling The James and Gail Riepe Family Foundation Nathan and Michelle Robertson David A. Robinson Mr. Grant Roch The Rollins-Luetkemeyer Foundation Ben and Esther Rosenbloom Foundation Lainy Lebow Sachs and Leonard Sachs Mr. and Mrs. Todd Schubert Mrs. Gail Schulhoff Charles & Leslie Schwabe Mr. Steve Schwartzman The Tim and Barbara Schweizer Foundation, Inc. Bayinnah Shabazz, M.D. Barbara and Sig Shapiro The Earle & Annette Shawe Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Robert N. Smelkinson Judith R. and Turner B. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Robert and Terri Smith Mr. and Mrs. Scott Smith Dr. and Mrs. John Strahan Susan and Brian Sullam Becky and Andrew Swanston Dr. Edgar and Betty Sweren, in honor of Kwame Kwei-Armah Mr. and Mrs. Ronald W. Taylor Sanford and Karen Teplitzky The David and Adena Testa Fund Mr. and Mrs. Donald and Mariana Thoms John A. Ulatowski Dr. and Mrs. John Vaden Mr. and Mrs. George and Beth Van Dyke Nanny and Jack Warren, in honor of Lynn Deering Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Thompson Webb Janna P. Wehrle Ms. Yvonne L. Williams John W. Wood Ms. Jean Wyman Dr. Laurie S. Zabin Mr. E. Zuspan

●● Colleagues ($500–$999)

Anonymous Ms. Diane Abeloff, in memory of Martin Abeloff Stephen and Madeleine Adams

The Alsop Family Foundation Elizabeth and Kenneth S. Aneckstein Mr. Appel Mrs. Alexander Armstrong Art Seminar Group Mr. Robert and Dorothy Bair Mayer and Will Baker, in honor of Terry Morgenthaler Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. and Patti Baum Ms. Jane Baum Rodbell Jaye and Dr. Ted Bayless Fund Mr. and Mrs. S. Woods and Catherine L. Bennett Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Blum, in memory of Shirley Feinstein Blum Mr. and Mrs. Carl F. Christ Combined Charity Campaign Mr. G. Brian Comes and Mr. Raymond Mitchener in honor of Terry Morgenthaler Gwen Davidson The Deering Family Foundation Mr. James H. DeGraffenreidt, Jr. and Dr. Mychelle Y. Farmer, M.D. Gene DeJackome and Kim Gingras The Honorable and Mrs. E. Stephen Derby Lynne Durbin and JohnFrancis Mergen Dave and Joyce Edington The Eliasberg Family Foundation, Inc. Buddy and Sue Emerson, in appreciation for Elizabeth and Ken Lundeen Margaret and Donald Engvall Mr. and Mrs. Edgar and Faith Feingold, in memory of Sally W. Feingold Sandra and John Ferriter Andrea and Samuel Fine Dennis and Patty Flynn Elborg and Robert Forster Ms. Nancy Freyman Mr. and Mrs. Francis X. Gallagher, Jr. Hal & Pat Gilreath Alma Hays and John Ginovsky Ann and Jim Gordon Mary and Richard Gorman Stuart and Linda Grossman Louise A. Hager Kevin and Angie Hall Terry Halle and Wendy McAllister Michael and Ann Hankin Melanie and Donald Heacock Rebecca Henry and Harry Gruner Allan and Heidi Hoffman Henry P. Hornung, Jr., in memory of Trude Marx Mr. James Hughes Dr. and Mrs. Barry Hurwitz Ms. Harriet F. Iglehart

Richard Jacobs and Patricia Lasher Dr. Richard J. Johns Candy and BJ Jones Dr. and Mrs. Juan M. Juanteguy Michael and Jennifer Kagan Peter and Kay Kaplan Lee Kappelman and John Rybock Ms. Shirley Kaufman Mr. and Mrs. Padraic Kennedy, in honor of Ken Lundeen Roland and Judy Phair King The Kyle Family Foundation, in honor of Guy and Sue Parr Joseph M. and Judy K. Langmead Mr. and Mrs. John Leahy, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Yuan C. Lee Mr. Claus Leitherer and Mrs. Irina Fedorova Marilyn Leuthold Marty Lidston and Jill Leukhardt Kenneth and Christine Lobo The Ethel M. Looram Foundation, Inc. Ruth R. Marder Ms. Mary Beth Marsden and Mr. Mark McGrath S. R. McCullough Jean and Chris Mellott Joseph and Jane Meyer Ms. Mary Page Michel and Mr. Michael Morrill, in honor of Lynn and Tony Deering Jeston I. Miller Stephanie F. Miller, in honor of The Lee S. Miller Jr. Family The Montag Family Fund of The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, in honor of Beth Falcone The Joseph Mullan Company, in care of Peggy Greenman Cliff and Courtney Muller George and Beth Murnaghan Lettie Myers Judith Needham and Warren Kilmer Roger F. Nordquist and Joyce Ward Mimi O’Donnell, in memory of Helen O’Donnell Claire D. O’Neill Ms. Jo-Ann Mayer Orlinsky Kevin and Joyce Parks Mr. and Mrs. James and Mimi Piper Fund of the Baltimore Community Foundation Bonnie Pitt Mike Plaisted and Maggie Webbert Dave and Chris Powell Ms. Jill Pratt Mr. and Mrs. Richard Radmer Mrs. Peggy L. Rice Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Roesler Mr. and Mrs. Harold Rojas Dorothy L. and Henry A. Rosenberg, Jr. Mr. Michael Ross

Kevin and Judy Rossiter Special Grants Mrs. Bette Rothman & Gifts Mr. Al Russell Sheila and Steve Sachs Ms. Renee C. Samuels The Leading National Theatres Program, a Ms. Sherry Schnepfe joint initiative of the Mr. and Mrs. Eugene H. Doris Duke Charitable Schreiber Foundation and The The Ida & Joseph Shapiro Foundation Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Kathy Levin-Shapiro and Sandy Shapiro ●● Government Ruth Shaw, Inc. Grants Barbara Payne Shelton Scott Sherman and Julie CENTERSTAGE is funded Rothman by an operating grant Alan and Lisa Shusterman from the Maryland Ronnie and Rachelle State Arts Council, an Silverstein, in memory agency dedicated to of Louis and Sarah cultivating a vibrant Silverstein and Jacob cultural community and Rena Kramer where the arts thrive.

The Sinksy-KresserFunding for the Maryland Racusin Memorial Foundation State Arts Council is also provided by the National Dana and Matthew Slater Endowment for the Arts, Susan Somerville-Hawes, a federal agency. in honor of Encounter Georgia and George This project was made Stamas possible by a grant from Mr. Gilbert H. Stewart the Maryland Humanities and Ms. Joyce Ulrich Council, through support Robert and Patricia Tarola from the National Diana and Ken Trout Endowment for the Sharon and David Tufaro Humanities. Any views, United Way of Central findings, conclusions, Maryland Campaign or recommendations Judy Vandever expressed in this program Carolyn and Robert do not necessarily Wallace represent those of the The Toby and Melvin National Endowment for Weinman Foundation the Humanities or the Michael T. Wharton Maryland Humanities Paul Wittemann/ Council.

Greenspring Energy LLC CENTERSTAGE’s catalog Dr. and Mrs. Frank R. of Education Programs Witter has been selected by the Drs. Dahlia Hirsch and President’s Committee on Barry Wohl the Arts and Humanities Ann Wolfe and Dick Mead as a 2011 National Arts and Humanities Youth Ziger/Snead Architects Program Award Finalist.

Mr. and Mrs. Barry Zirkin

●● Advocates ($250–$499)

Anonymous Lindsay and Bradley Alger Mr. Alan Arrowsmith, II Mr. and Mrs. Jon Baker, in honor of Terry Morgenthaler Susan and Craig Bancroft Drs. Lewis and Diane Becker Judge Robert Bell Rachel and Steven Bloom, in honor of Beth Falcone Perry and Aurelia Bolton ChiChi and Peter Bosworth Betty Jo Bowman Jan Boyce Beth and Dale Brady Mr. Walter Budko Mr. David Bundy Dr. and Mrs. Robert Burchard Ms. Kathleen Cahill Ms. Deborah W. Callard Cindy Candelori The Jim and Anne Cantler Memorial Fund of the Baltimore Community Foundation Mr. and Mrs. David Carter

CENTERSTAGE participates annually in Free Fall Baltimore, a program of the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts Baltimore County Executive, County Council, & Commission on Arts and Sciences Carroll County Government Howard County Arts Council through a grant from Howard County Government

Season Partners

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supporting The Annual Fund

Mr. Andrew J. Cary Mr. and Mrs. James Case Donna and Tony Clare Stanton Collins Combined Federal Campaign David and Sara Cooke Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Crafton Ms. Barbara Crain Mr. Thomas Crusse and Mr. David Imre, in honor of Stephanie and Ash Carter Ms. Sarah Curnoles Diane and Donald D’Agati Richard and Lynda Davis Mr. and Mrs. Ivor Edmonds Deborah and Philip English Ms. Rhea Feikin Dr. and Mrs. Robert P. Fleishman Donna Flynn David and Joan Forester Scott and Amy Frew Dr. Neal M. Friedlander and Virginia K. Adams Dr. Joseph Gall and Dr. Diane Dwyer Constance A. Getzov Mark and Patti Gillen Bruce Goldman Herbert and Harriet Goldman Ron and Andrea Griesmar Thomas and Barbara Guarnieri Ms. Doris M. Gugel Mr. David Guy Mr. and Mrs. James Hackman Jane Halpern and James Pettit Ms. Paulette Hammond Mark and Stephanie Harrison Barbie Hart John and Cynthia Heller Lee M. Hendler Betsy and George Hess John and Kate Hetherington Mr. Donald H. Hooker, Jr. Mr. Jonathan Hornbeck Ms. Irene Hornick James S. and Hillary Aidus Jacobs A.H. Janoski, M.D., in honor of Jane Janoski Ms. Mary Claire Jeske James and Julie Johnstone Max Jordan Ann H. Kahan Henry Kahn and Marlene Trestman Richard and Judith Katz Donald Knox and Mary Towery, in memory of Carolyn Knox and Gene Towery David and Ann Koch Henry Koether Dr. and Mrs. Randi L. Kohn Gina Kotowski Esther Krasevac Edward Kuhl

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Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Lagas Drs. Don and Pat Langenberg Mr. Richard M. Lansburgh Drs. Ronald and Mary Leach Donna Lee and Dick Frisch Mr. Samuel Legg Leon B. Levy Terry Lorch and Tom Liebel Dr. and Mrs. John Lion Carol Macht and Sheldon Lerman Paul and Anne Madden The Dr. Frank C. Marino Foundation, Inc. Mr. Elvis Marks Mr. and Mrs. Terrell Marshall J. A. McAlpine Ms. Michael McMullan Mary and Barry Menne Carolyn and Michael Meredith Dr. Carole Miller Faith and Ted Millspaugh Mr. and Mrs. James and Shirley Moore David G. Morrison James D. Morrison The Honorable Diana and Fred Motz, in memory of Nancy Roche Mr. and Mrs. William H. Mullin Dr. Patrick Murphy and Dr. Genevieve A. Losonsky Stephen and Terry Needel Nina Noble Ms. Irene Norton and Heather Millar Fronda Cohen Ottenheimer and Richard L. Ottenheimer The P.R.F.B. Charitable Foundation, in memory of Shirley Feinstein Blum Justine and Ken Parezo Steve Parker and Ginny Larsen Ms. Nancy Patz Blaustein Fred and Grazina Pearson Linda and Gordon Peltz Chris and Deborah Pennington Mr. William Phillips Ronald and Patricia Pilling Ms. Tamara Plant Leslie and Gary Plotnick Dr. Albert J. Polito and Dr. Redonda G. Miller Mr. Joseph Press Robert E. and Anne L. Prince Mr. Robert Proutt Ms. Sharon Proutt Connie and Roger Pumphrey Dr. Jonas Rappeport Mr. Rex Rehfeld and Ms. Ellen O’Brien Dr. Michael Repka and Dr. Mary Anne Facciolo Natasha and Keenan Rice Alison and Arnold Richman

Richard and Sheila Riggs Richard and Mary Rimkunas Ms. Elizabeth Ritter and Mr. Lawrence Koppelman Ida and Jack Roadhouse David S. Roberts Mr. and Mrs. Domingo and Karen Rodriguez, in honor of Emma Grace Barnes Mr. Steven Sachs Ms. Gloria Savadow Frederica and William Saxon, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel and Thea Schnydman Thomas H. Segal and Clair Zamoiski Segal Ms. Minnie Shorter Mr. and Mrs. L. Siems Mr. Daniel Silverman Dr. and Mrs. Donald J. Slowinski Jim and Rosie Smith Mr. and Mrs. Lee and Gloryann Snyder Solomon and Elaine Snyder The Wilner-Stack Family, in appreciation of Sydney and Ron Wilner Joseph Sterne Brenda and Dan Stone Subway Sandwiches Mr. and Mrs. James R.and Gail Swanbeck Ted and Lynda Thilly Fredrick and Cindy Thompson Donald and Darlene Wakefield Mary A. Walsh and Richard F. Roy Mr. and Mrs. David Warshawsky Ms. Magda Westerhoust Ms. Camille Wheeler and Mr. William Marshall Mr. Tappan Wilder Ann Williams Baldwin Memorial Fund, in memory of Harry L. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Wilson Crickett and Brad Woloson Mr. Raymond Worley Mr. Calman Zamoiski, Jr. Drs. Eva and James Zinreich Mr. Paul Zugates

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Staff Kwame Kwei-Armah–Artistic Director Administration

Associate Managing Director–Del W. Risberg Management Fellow–Kacy Armstrong

Artistic

Associate Artistic Director–Gavin Witt Artistic Producer–Susanna Gellert Artistic Administrator–Katie Byrnes Company Manager–Sara Grove

Audience Relations

Box Office Manager–Mandy Benedix Assistant Manager/Subscriptions Manager– Jerrilyn Keene Assistant Manager–Blane Wyche Group Sales Associate–Alana Kolb Full-time Assistants–Whitney Cunningham, Ashley Fain, Courtney Proctor, Christopher Lewis Part-Time Assistants–Janna Small, Froilan Mate, Susie Martinez Bar Manager–Sean Van Cleve House Manager & Volunteer Coordinator– Bertinarea Crampton Assistant House Managers–Linda Cavell, Faith Savill Audience Relations Intern–Cedric Gum Audio Description–Ralph Welsh & Maryland Arts Access

Audio

Engineer–Amy Wedel Assistant–Eric Lott Multimedia Fellow–Stewart Ives The Jane and Larry Droppa Audio Intern– Dan Cassin

Community Programs & Education

Director–Julianne Franz Education Coordinator–Rosiland Cauthen Community Programs Fellow–Jay Gilman The James and Janet Clauson Education Intern– Shayna Small Teaching Artists–Rain Pryor, Joan Weber Part-time Interns–Ashley Kelley, Tanner T. Medding

Costumes

Costumer–David Burdick Tailor–Edward Dawson Craftsperson–William E. Crowther Stitcher–Jessica Rietzler The Judy Witt Costumes Intern– Maggie Masson

Development

Director–Cindi Monahan Grants Manager–Sean Beattie Annual Fund Manager–Katelyn Rumbaugh Events Coordinator–Brad Norris Events Assistant–Julia Ostroff Assistant–Christopher Lewis Auction Coordinator–Sydney Wilner Auction Assistant–Norma Cohen The Ed and Ellen Bernard Development Intern– Marie Roth

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Stephen Richard–Managing Director Dramaturgy

Stage Management

Electrics

Stage Operations

Director–Gavin Witt The Lynn and Tony Deering Dramaturgy Fellow–Kellie Mecleary Master Electrician–Lesley Boeckman Assistant–Cartland Berge Light Board Operator–Patience Haskell The Barbara Capalbo Electrics Intern– Meghan O’Rourke

Finance

Director–Susan Rosebery Business Manager–Kathy Nolan Associate–Carla Moose

Graphics

Art Director–Bill Geenen Senior Designer–Jason Gembicki Production Photographer–Richard Anderson

Information Technologies

Director–Joe Long Systems Administrator–Mark Slaughter

Marketing & Communications

Director–David Henderson Promotions Director–Charisse Nichols Public Relations Manager–Heather C. Jackson Digital Media Associate–Timothy Gelles Assistant–Courtney Proctor Public Relations Assitant–Alex Braslavsky Marketing Intern–Kiirstn Pagan Media Services–Planit

Operations

Director–Harry DeLair Operations Assistant–Len Dozier Housekeeper–Kali Keeney, Jacqueline Stewart Security Guards–Crown Security

Production Management

Production Manager–Mike Schleifer Assistant Production Manager–Raine Bode Production/Stage Management Intern– Caitlin Powers

Properties

Manager–Jennifer Stearns Assistant Manager– Nathan Scheifele Artisan–Jeanne-Marie Burdette Carpenter–Victoria K. Schilling The Kenneth C. and Elizabeth M. Lundeen Properties Intern–Samantha Kuczynski

Scenery

Technical Director–Tom Rupp Assistant Technical Director–Laura P. Merola Shop Supervisor–Michael “Slippy” Lavrich Master Carpenter–Trevor Gohr Carpenters–Joey Bromfield, Scott Richardson Scene Shop Intern–Stephanie Waaser

Scenic Art

Scenic Artist–Ruth Barber The Freeman and Jacqueline Hrabowski Scenic Art Intern–Johanna Josephian

Production Assistant–Kathryn Ambrose The Peter and Millicent Bain Stage Management Intern–Becky Reed Stage Carpenter–Eric Burton Wardrobe Supervisor–Lisa Allen Wardrobe Intern–Lizzy Trawick

Telefunding

Managers–Jasmine Davis, Janet McMannis Callers–Maureen Bass, Wanda Bradley, Veronica Eldridge, Cory Frier, Cathy Haggarty, Paulette Hammond, Bruce Jenkins, Rena Lomax, Jason R. Trimmer, Julia Whiting, Michael Wright

The following designers, artisans, and assistants contributed to this production of

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Assistant Director–Jay Gilman Assitant Lighting Designer–Meghan O’Rourke Assistant Dramaturg–Drew Barker Carpenters–Bernard Bender, Mark Eisendrath, Seth Foster, Brian Mandel Electrics–Karen Bilotti, John Elder, Jake Epp, Alexander Keen, Joey Walls Hebrew Consultant—Rabbi Steven Fink Scenic Art—Maureen Bass, Anne Boisvert, Kali Keeney, William McConnell, Kathryn Pong, Lynne Twining, Beth-Ann Wilson Van Cleve CENTERSTAGE 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.

The scenic, costume, lighting, and sound designers in LORT theaters are represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE. Musicians engaged by CENTERSTAGE perform under the terms of an agreement between CENTERSTAGE and Local 40-543, American Federation of Musicians.

CenterStage 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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