August Wilson's Jitney at Center Theatre Group, November 2019

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FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

WELCOME TO CENTER THEATRE GROUP It is an honor to continue to give August Wilson’s work a stage and an artistic home in Los Angeles through both productions like Jitney at the Taper and education programs like the August Wilson Monologue Competition and the August Wilson In-School Residency. For many years we served as one of the regional theatres that presented Wilson’s works during their pre-Broadway development process.

It feels like we’re going full circle now in bringing the Broadway production of Jitney to Center Theatre Group—the final play of Wilson’s American Century Cycle to appear on Broadway—and it’s a privilege to have Ruben SantiagoHudson directing a truly great cast of actors.

Mike Birbiglia is part of a long theatrical tradition of solo storytellers, and we’re proud that a number of seminal practitioners of the form have worked at Center Theatre Group. Spalding Gray developed his most famous piece, Swimming to Cambodia, here. We premiered Anna Deavere Smith’s Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992. And just weeks ago, we presented John Leguizamo’s Latin History for Morons. All this is to say that Mike Birbiglia and his hilarious, heartfelt The New One are in great company at the Ahmanson.

Of course Wilson and Birbiglia are just two of the many great storytellers coming to our stages this season. In the next three months alone we’re welcoming work from a murderers’ row of them: Matthew Bourne, Sting, Heidi Schreck, and Dael Orlandersmith. Thank you for sharing in these stories.

Sincerely,

Michael Ritchie

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ON OUR STAGES

IN THE THEATRE

THE NEW ONE AHMANSONTHEATRE OCT 23 – NOV 24, 2019 From Mike Birbiglia, the creator and star of Sleepwalk with Me, and executive producer Ira Glass, The New One tells the hilarious story of Birbiglia’s reluctance to become a father and the revelations he experienced on the other side of parenthood. Full of heart and humor, The New One is “a life-affirming piece of work for fathers, mothers, and all of us who have them” (Vogue).

AUGUST WILSON’S JITNEY MARKTAPERFORUM NOV 22 – DEC 29, 2019 Set in the early 1970s, this richly textured play follows a group of men trying to eke out a living by driving unlicensed cabs, or jitneys. Directed

by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, one of Wilson’s finest interpreters, this acclaimed production received six Tony nominations, winning Best Revival of a Play. ®

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UNTIL THE FLOOD KIRKDOUGLASTHEATRE JAN 24 – FEB 23, 2020 Pulitzer Prize finalist and celebrated performer Dael Orlandersmith explores the social uprising in Ferguson, Missouri following the shooting of teenager Michael Brown. Pulling from her extensive interviews with Missouri residents, Orlandersmith crafts a stunning theatrical experience.

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around CENTER THEATRE GROUP The Stars Come out for September Opening Nights You could be forgiven for wearing sunglasses in the theatre for the first three opening nights of the 2019/20 Season; celebrity star power was in full wattage for John Leguizamo’s Latin History for Morons at the Ahmanson, Ethan Coen’s World premiere A Play Is a Poem at the Taper, and Bill Irwin’s On Beckett at the Douglas.

(L–R) Roy Choi, Jon Favreau, Hutchi Hancock, Laura Bell Bundy, Gina Torres, John Leguizamo, Laurence Fishburne, Cedric the Entertainer, Nia Vardalos, Jeri Ryan, Edward James Olmos, and Michelle Kwan at Latin History for Morons on September 8, 2019.

Photo by Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging.

IT WAS STANDING-ROOM-ONLY at the USC Wallis Annenberg Hall on September 11, 2019 as John Leguizamo (center) and director Tony Taccone (right) discussed comedy, representation, and the creation of Latin History for Morons as its Ahmanson run began. The free, open-tothe-public event was part of an ongoing partnership between Center Theatre Group and the USC Center on Public Diplomacy, whose Director, Jian Wang (left), moderated.

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(Top, L–R) Brad Pitt, Kate Burton, Frances McDormand, Josh Brolin, Nia Vardalos, Ethan Coen, and (bottom left) John Goodman at A Play Is a Poem on September 21, 2019.

Photos by Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging.

(L–R) Lily Rabe, Aubrey Plaza, Bill Irwin, and Hamish Linklater at On Beckett on September 18, 2019. Photo by Nick Gingold/Capture Imaging.

Sundance Playwriting Intensive: L.A. We loved hosting six local playwrights at Center Theatre Group on September 5, 2019 for a Playwriting Intensive presented by the Sundance Institute. Patricia Garza (top, center), Line Producer of Special Artistic Projects at Center Theatre Group, helped facilitate; L.A. Writers’ Workshop member Marcus Gardley led a workshop; and former Associate Artistic Director Diane Rodriguez (top, third from left) and playwright and L.A. Writers’ Workshop member Luis Alfaro (top, second from left) served as advisors over the course of a daylong immersion that ended with a performance of Latin History for Morons at the Ahmanson.

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CENTER THEATRE GROUP’S NEW YORK SEASON (L–R, Top–Bottom) Maria-Christina Oliveras (obscured), Geena Quintos, Billy Bustamante, Conrad Ricamora, Jaygee Macapugay, Jon Hoche, and Daniel May in Soft Power at the Ahmanson. Deirdre O’Connell in Dana H. at the Douglas.

Joey Slotnick and Micaela Diamond in A Play Is a Poem at the Taper. Ian Barford in Linda Vista at the Taper. Photos by Craig Schwartz.

FOUR SHOWS ARE TRANSFERRING THANKS TO PARTNERSHIPS WITH TOP THEATRES

FOUR OF THE BUZZIEST SHOWS IN NEW YORK CITY THIS SEASON ARE TRANSFERRING THERE FROM CENTER THEATRE GROUP—an exciting moment for Los Angeles theatre that showcases the promise and excitement around one of our tent pole strategies for the creation and support of new work.

Center Theatre Group has co-commissioned new plays for many years with top theatres from around the country and the world.

In 2017, we formalized the process thanks to the Edgerton Foundation Playwrights Initiative, a $1 million grant to commission at least two shows annually with four different theatres.

“PARTNERSHIPS ARE A CENTRAL PART OF OUR STRATEGIC INVESTMENTS AND SUPPORT OF NEW WORK,” said Artistic Director Michael Ritchie. “Co-commissions offer artists more support—both financial and creative—and ensure that a work will have a second production and a continued life after the World premiere. What we’re seeing, too, is that a co-commission or early co-production can have a domino effect and bring new work to still more theatres and bigger audiences.”

This fall, Center Theatre Group is co-presenting the Steppenwolf Theatre production of Tracy Letts’ Linda Vista, an audience and critical favorite from our 18/19 Taper Season, on Broadway at Second Stage’s Hayes Theater. Second Stage is one of our Edgerton Foundation Playwrights Initiative partners, and Steppenwolf Artistic Director Anna D. Shapiro is also one of our Associate Artists.

Soft Power

A few days after the first performance of Linda Vista, David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori’s Soft Power arrives at The Public Theater for a run that was extended due to audience demand weeks before performances began. Soft Power is a co-commission and co-production with The Public and made its World premiere at the Ahmanson to close out our 50 anniversary celebration as part of our 17/18 Season.

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A Play Is a Poem

This winter, our co-production of Lucas Hnath’s Dana H.—which had its World premiere at the Douglas this past spring—will appear Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre after a lauded Chicago run at the Goodman Theatre, another Edgerton Foundation Playwrights Initiative partner. And in the spring, Ethan Coen’s A Play Is a Poem heads from the Taper, where its World premiere launched our 2019/20 Season, to Atlantic Theater Company.

Linda Vista

“Los Angeles is as exciting a city as there is right now for theatre.

But you don’t have to take my word for it,” said Ritchie. “Our partners in New York and around the country agree, too, and by the time the season is over, I think New York audiences will feel the same way.”

“LOS ANGELES IS AS EXCITING A CITY AS THERE IS RIGHT NOW FOR THEATRE...”

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(L–R) Teaching Artists Matias Ponce, Mara Palma, Carissa Pinckney, and Ramy El-Etreby, Resident Teaching Artist Debra Piver, and Teaching Artist Peter Mendoza.

BRINGING THE CLASS TO THE STAGE, AND THE STAGE TO THE CLASS Center Theatre Group Relies on our Teaching Artists to Help Educate and Inspire the Next Generation AT CENTER THEATRE GROUP, WE BELIEVE IN THE VALUE OF BRIDGING WHAT STUDENTS LEARN IN THE CLASSROOM WITH WHAT THEATRE PROFESSIONALS DO EVERY DAY. Enter our Teaching Artists, creative professionals who integrate their art form, perspectives, and skills into our educational programming.

These educators move seamlessly between the classroom and the Los Angeles stages—including ours. Bernard K. Addison, a veteran of our Education programs, appeared on our stages most recently in 2018’s Water by the Spoonful and 2017’s Citizen: An American Lyric; our 2017 Zoot Suit revival cast featured Teaching Artists Melinna Bobadilla and Rocío López. In addition, many of them are on the faculty at schools and institutions around the region.

Our Teaching Artists—we work with 40 or more each season—are also playwrights, directors, choreographers, and designers. They all bring a wealth of hands-on experience and real-world philosophy that benefit students across many different programs we offer, including Student Matinees, Disney Musicals in Schools, and our August Wilson program.

This year, two of the new Teaching Artists we welcomed to our Student Matinee faculty are familiar faces at Center Theatre Group. Actors Peter Mendoza and Matias Ponce were inspired to come on board after participating in the program during their own stints in leading roles on Center Theatre Group stages. Mendoza played the titular role in 2017’s Elliot, a Soldier’s Fugue at the Douglas and appeared in last year’s production of Sweat at the Taper, and Ponce played Henry Reyna in our acclaimed Zoot Suit revival.

“I was unprepared for how involved and engaged the students would be,” recalled Mendoza of the Elliot Student Matinee performances, which were followed by Q&As with the cast. “It was an amazing experience that I wanted to continue—interacting and getting students excited about great theatre.”

Both Mendoza and Ponce began their Teaching Artist experience helping immerse high school students into the world of John Leguizamo’s Latin History for Morons. Their work on the program includes team-building exercises with staff and fellow Teaching Artists, Educator Conferences with participating teachers, and in-school pre- and post-show visits.

They know firsthand how valuable it is to provide opportunities to students to see and engage with live theatre, especially those who may never have considered getting involved in theatre, performance, or art as a whole.

Ponce described the Student Matinee Program as the perfect opportunity to “share my love for theatre and how it can revolutionize the minds of youth through freedom of expression and break the stereotypes our youth have been taught.”

But perhaps the most important asset the Teaching Artists can bring to their efforts is their firsthand knowledge of the power of theatre to change lives for both the actors/creators and the audience. “Theatre is such a giving and inspiring art form that connects you to the world and your community,” explained Mendoza. “It gives you a voice and the ability to play. There is nothing that can compare to the connection between the audience and the characters/actors.”

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Seven Guitars Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Two Trains Running

CENTER THEATRE GROUP HAS CELEBRATED AUGUST WILSON’S WORK ON AND OFF OUR STAGES FOR THE PAST THREE DECADES. We’re proud to have this new Jitney, directed

by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, join a list of productions of Wilson’s magisterial American Century Cycle that feature some of the most talented actors of our time, including Laurence Fishburne, Viola Davis, Phylicia Rashad, and of course Santiago-Hudson himself.

Beginning with 1990’s The Piano Lesson, Center Theatre Group joined a network of regional theatres producing Wilson’s plays across the country. As Founding Artistic Director Gordon Davidson wrote in our program, “This ‘theatre network’ has afforded plays the opportunity of moving from one theatre to the next with a kind of continuity— one different from commercial touring—an opportunity which promotes the play’s ongoing development.”

Joe Turner’s Come and Gone

The dividends paid off immediately, as the Yale Repertory Theatre/ Center Theatre Group production of The Piano Lesson moved to Broadway, where it went on to win the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play and receive five Tony Award nominations. Similar arrangements followed for Two Trains Running, King Hedley II, Gem of the Ocean, and Radio Golf. ®

(L–R, Top–Bottom) Ruben SantiagoHudson, Tommy Hollis, Viola Davis, and Michele Shay in 1996’s Seven Guitars.

Lillias White in 2016’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Laurence Fishburne in 1992’s Two Trains Running. January LaVoy, Glynn Turman, Gabriel Brown, Lillias White, Skye Barrett, and Keith David in 2013’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. Charles Brown and Harry Lennix in 2000’s King Hedley II. Photos by Craig Schwartz.

Center Theatre Group is also committed to bringing Wilson’s work to a new generation through our education programming, which includes the August Wilson Monologue Competition and the August Wilson In-School Residency. Both programs give students hands-on introductions to The American Century Cycle and an opportunity to connect Wilson’s stories to their own lives. This year, we’re also bringing students from across Southern California to Jitney through our Student Matinee Program.

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“This ‘theatre network’ has afforded plays the opportunity of moving from one theatre to the next with a kind of continuity—one different from commercial touring—an opportunity which promotes the play’s ongoing development.”

The Piano Lesson

Radio Golf

August Wilson Monologue Competition

(L–R, Top–Bottom) August Wilson Monologue Competition. Photo by Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging. S. Epatha Merkerson and Lou Myers in 1990’s The Piano Lesson. John Earl Jelks and Rocky Carroll in 2005’s Radio Golf.

Photo by Craig Schwartz. Phylicia Rashad in 2003’s Gem of the Ocean. Photo by Craig Schwartz. Viola Davis and Keith David in 1996’s Seven Guitars.

Gem of the Ocean

Seven Guitars

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Diverse Stories and Remarkable Talents

MEET THE PLAYWRIGHTS OF OUR 2019/2020 FOR ANY PLAYWRIGHT, the opportunity to create and converse in a collaborative setting is a golden one. Especially unique is an environment as immersive and supportive as the L.A. Writers’ Workshop, now beginning its 14 year at Center Theatre Group.

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The seven local playwrights who will be writing new works with our support during the 2019/2020 Season are Adelina Anthony, Ngozi Anyanwu, Jonathan Caren, Boo Killebrew, Kenneth Lin, Liliana Padilla, and Kemp Powers—and together they offer a diverse medley of both talents and perspectives.

Indeed, almost all of this year’s artists also work in Hollywood—writing (Lin, for example, has written on Star Trek: Discovery, House of Cards, and Sweetbitter, while Caren wrote on Netflix’s Gypsy); acting (Anthony on Starz’s Vida, Anyanwu on HBO’s The Deuce); directing (Powers co-directed the 2020 Disney/Pixar feature Soul); and producing (Killebrew is executive producer on the upcoming AMC dramedy Aim High).

The L.A. Writers’ Workshop was founded to take advantage of exactly these kinds of talents.

“Los Angeles has become a destination for writers in a way that New York was in the past.

There are more many fantastic playwrights living in L.A. than ever before,” said Associate Artistic Director/Literary Director Neel Keller. “We wanted the theatre’s new

play development efforts to provide a creative home for the growing number of local writers.”

That support comes from regular meetings of the playwrights—along with members of the company’s Artistic staff—to share, discuss, and improve their developing works in an encouraging space.

“It can be a lonely occupation, so I think the impulse to band together in a community where you can share the thrills and burdens of writing a play is important,” Keller noted.

The Workshop kicks off with conversations with experts in the subject matter of their plays.

In the past, Center Theatre Group has invited everyone from a plastic surgeon and a theologian to a UFO researcher. At the end of the year, actors are brought in for readings that allow the playwrights to better envision how their works will appear onstage.

Participants both past and present also have the opportunity to showcase their work in the annual L.A. Writers’ Workshop Festival, which features public readings of selected new works by former Workshop participants.

(Top–bottom) Ngozi Anyanwu, Boo Killebrew, Kenneth Lin, Adelina Anthony, Kemp Powers, Liliana Padilla, and Jonathan Caren.

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An Interview with the Creator and Star of The Last Ship Is there anything Sting can’t do? This winter, the renowned songwriter, musician, and actor will have all of his prodigious talents on display at the Ahmanson Theatre in The Last Ship, the musical he created and stars in, which is based on the story of the town where he grew up.

“I’m repaying a debt, if you like, to the community that raised me, that created me, that gave me the engine of my ambition—first of all, to escape. I didn’t want to work in the shipyard,” said Sting.

“In hindsight, I realized I’d been given a gift. I’d been brought up in a very strong community”—Wallsend, on the coast of Northeastern England— “with an identity that was completely wrapped up in building ships, giant ships. The community was very proud of what they did. When that was taken away, the town was destroyed—in every way.”

The Last Ship is set against that backdrop of swift and savage decline—and while it’s a personal story for Sting, it’s also very familiar. “This is something that’s happening all over the West. When industries close down, communities are bereft,” he said. “They don’t know what to do, what are they, how do they identify themselves? So it’s a universal theme and a universal malaise.”

The show doesn’t offer solutions, but it does have a particular point of view.

“This is not just limited to my town or limited to America. It’s everywhere,” said Sting. “It’s about human dignity—we’ve lost that sense of purpose, that sense of identity, that sense of community, that bond—that social bond. It’s not them and us. It’s just us, and we have to get back to that.”

Another major, universal theme of the show is “the agency of women. Women are very important in this play,” said Sting. “We need more women in power.

Men have messed it up, we really have. This is one of the main tropes of the play: it’s women who save the day.”

In order to write this story, “I began to go back in my life to the environment that formed me, made me who I am. I started to revisit the people I’d known in that community, the people who worked in the shipyard, the people who were my neighbors, the people who were my friends,” recalled Sting.

“I wanted to write a story about the richness and the value of community, the spirit of community.”

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Sting will be playing a key person in that community at the Ahmanson. “He’s called Jackie White. He’s the foreman of the yard.

He’s a very conflicted character because he’s loyal to the company that’s employed him since he was 14. He’s also loyal to his men who work in the shipyard and who are being royally shafted by the company. That split of loyalty is what ultimately destroys him,” said Sting. “I had no intention of being in the play myself until someone suggested it, and I’m so glad I did because I’m having the time of my life.

I understand this character. His strengths, his weaknesses, his conflict actually coincide with some of mine, so that is where the sparks fly. It’s really a psychological exercise. It’s good therapy.”

Once the curtain rises, Sting is just one member of an ensemble of 18 actors and eight musicians; it’s a big, Broadway musical, after all. “The production value of the show is extraordinary. It’s something you haven’t seen in the theatre before,” said Sting. “We launch a ship at the end of the show, and it just gets people out of their seats and—wow.”

(L–R) Oliver Savile and Sting. Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann.

“I wanted to write a story about the richness and value of community, the spirit of community.”

—Sting

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2019 – 2020 From Chinese modern dance to an urban-rooted a cappella performance, this season celebrates diverse cultural expression and creativity.

Oct. 19 | 8 p.m.

Perla Batalla in The House of Cohen

Dec. 14 | 8 p.m.

Kiran Ahluwalia

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Beijing Dance/LDTX at Ambassador Auditorium

May 2 | 3 p.m. & 8 p.m.

Capitol Steps

Nov. 17 | 8 p.m.

Naturally 7

Jan. 25 | 8 p.m.

Kres Mersky The Life and Times of A. Einstein

Mar. 15 | 3 p.m.

Eileen Ivers

May 17 | 3 p.m.

Wolfgang’s Magical Musical Circus

For a 10% discount on adult tickets use code PM (Valid for all events except Capitol Steps) For ticket and other information go to: CaltechLive.Caltech.edu Ticket Office: 626.395.4652 1200 E. California Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91125 All performances in Caltech’s Beckman Auditorium (except for Beijing Dance/LDTX)

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AN OPPORTUNITY TO CELEBRATE An Interview with Jitney Director Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Brian D. Coats. Photo by Joan Marcus.

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l-r: Amari Cheatom, Harvy Blanks, and Brian D. Coats. Photo by Joan Marcus.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson describes August Wilson’s Jitney as “two parallel love stories.”

“August writes about all the things that are innate in human nature—jealousy and nobility, love, deceit. Jitney has all of those things,” explained the actor, director, and writer, who last appeared at Center Theatre Group this past spring in Lackawanna Blues at the Taper. “But if you look at it from the outside, it looks like a bunch of men trying to hold onto their station.”

“Jitney is important to today’s audiences and yesterday’s audiences and tomorrow’s audiences,” said SantiagoHudson. “We’re watching these two love stories clashing and passing each other. It’s the opportunity to see people of color wanting, needing, and achieving everything that’s called the American Dream, people of color trying to attain the most simple of lives and values—justice, liberty, freedom.

That’s the conflict—that’s the challenge we’re facing from the minute we were thrown on this soil.”

Santiago-Hudson noted that throughout all of Wilson’s American Century Cycle, people of color are fighting “for Set in 1970s Pittsburgh, Jitney is on its face about the drivers common, basic human needs”—from Gem of the Ocean at an unlicensed taxi cab (or jitney) station fighting against (taking place in 1904) to its final installment, Radio Golf (set the forces of gentrification that threaten to shut them down. in the late 1990s). “It’s important that the audiences come But there is much more to the story, which is why this new in and witness the beauty, the magnificence, the anger, production, directed by Santiago-Hudson, resonated on ® the disdain, the joy, the humor, and love of people of color.

Broadway, where it received six Tony Award nominations, ’Cause we all got it,” he said. winning Best Revival of a Play.

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Amari Cheatom. Photo by Joan Marcus.

Nija Okoro. Photo by Joan Marcus.

“August writes about all the things that are innate in human nature— jealousy and nobility, love, deceit. Jitney has all of those things.”

Those emotions are all on display throughout the two love stories at the center of Jitney. The first follows a “totally tattered” relationship between a father and son “who don’t know how to bring that love together, who don’t know how to get on the same because they’re estranged and no longer know each other,” said Santiago-Hudson. “There’s another love story—one in jeopardy—about two young people with a child that are trying to figure out how to make their love a successful love,” he said.

There are few people as intimately acquainted with Wilson’s work as Santiago-Hudson, who acted in Seven Guitars and Gem of the Ocean, winning the Tony for his performance in Seven Guitars. He was also a friend. Weeks before Wilson died in 2005, Santiago-Hudson asked if he could be the person to bring Jitney—the only show in the American Century Cycle that had not appeared on Broadway in Wilson’s lifetime—to the Great White Way.

Wilson agreed, but had his own request: for Santiago-Hudson to perform in Wilson’s autobiographical one-man show, How I Learned What I Learned, first. “He called me specifically and asked me to do How I Learned What I Learned because he couldn’t complete his journey with that play,” said Santiago-Hudson. “So two weeks before his transition—when he passed—I promised him that I would.” It took a little longer than anticipated, but in 2013, Santiago-Hudson made good on the promise, starring in How I Learned What I Learned Off-Broadway at the Signature Theatre.

Bringing Jitney to Broadway was its own journey as well.

“They felt there was no need for the show to go to Broadway, and I selfishly thought, why not complete the 10-play cycle?” said Santiago-Hudson. “I feel like at this point I’m not satisfied—I can never be satisfied. Contentment is my enemy. If I get content, then I’ll never keep fighting.”

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Ray Anthony Thomas. Photo by Joan Marcus.

“...August’s writing always instills a completeness in human beings, even though they’re in a struggle. They still have nobility.

They still have dignity. Rarely do we get to celebrate in that way. And August gives you that opportunity every time.”

Nonetheless, he believes he’s “paid a wonderful honor” in being a part of this Jitney revival.

“August Wilson accomplished things that no other writer in America has ever accomplished,” said Santiago-Hudson.

“He wrote 10 plays, and all of them went to Broadway. Now there are writers who’ve written 10 times as many plays, five times as many plays. But has every one gone to Broadway?”

Wilson is “batting 1.000,” said Santiago-Hudson. “That in itself is monumental.”

So is the work itself. “I don’t think there’s been a whole lot of opportunities for people of color, African American people— people from African descent in America—to be celebrated in such a fullness,” said Santiago-Hudson. “And August’s writing always instills a completeness in human beings, even though they’re in a struggle. They still have nobility. They still have dignity. Rarely do we get to celebrate in that way. And August gives you that opportunity every time.”

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CAST

(In Alphabetical Order)

Booster ....................................................................................FRANCOIS BATTISTE Shealy .............................................................................................HARVY BLANKS Youngblood .................................................................................. AMARI CHEATOM Fielding ...................................................................................ANTHONY CHISHOLM Philmore ........................................................................................ BRIAN D. COATS Becker ............................................................................. STEVEN ANTHONY JONES Rena .....................................................................................................NIJA OKORO Doub ................................................................................KEITH RANDOLPH SMITH Turnbo ............................................................................... RAY ANTHONY THOMAS

UNDERSTUDIES Understudies never substitute for a listed performer unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the performance.

JAMES T. ALFRED (Booster, Youngblood) A. RUSSELL ANDREWS (Philmore, Becker, Doub, Turnbo) BRIAN D. COATS (Shealy, Fielding) PATRESE D. McCLAIN (Rena) FIGHT CAPTAIN James T. Alfred TIME & PLACE A gypsy cab station in the Hill District of Pittsburgh in the early fall of 1977.

INTERMISSION Jitney will be performed with one 15-minute intermission.

Please turn off all electronic devices such as cellular phones and watch alarms. The use of any recording device, either audio or video, and the taking of photographs, with or without flash, is strictly prohibited.

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WHO’S WHO FRANCOIS BATTISTE (Booster) is known for his roles on Broadway in Bronx Bombers (Circle in the Square); Magic/ Bird (Longacre); and Prelude to a Kiss (Roundabout). His London credits include One Night in Miami (Donmar Warehouse), which received the 2016 Olivier nomination for Best Play. Select Off-Broadway credits include Paradise Blue (Signature Theatre); Obie Award winner The Good Negro, Head of Passes, and Detroit ’67 (Public Theater); The Merchant of Venice starring Al Pacino and The Winter’s Tale with Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Delacorte Theater); and 10 Things to Do Before I Die (Second Stage). Regionally, he has worked with Sundance; NY Stage & Film; Williamstown; Chicago Shakespeare; and the Goodman. His television and film credits include ABC’s Ten Days in the Valley and The Family; HBO’s The Normal Heart; CBS’s Person of Interest and The Good Wife; Are We There Yet? on TBS; Men in Black III; and A Long Walk. Francois was a John Houseman Prize recipient at The Juilliard School and attended Oxford’s British American Drama Academy. He also earned his BS at Illinois State University.

HARVY BLANKS (Shealy) was seen on Broadway in August Wilson’s Jitney.

His regional credits include King Hedley II (New Jersey); Familiar (Seattle); Moscow (Williamstown); The Mountaintop (Portland); Fire on the Mountain (Mountain View); Familiar (Yale Rep); and Jitney (Red Bank). He has performed in all 10 plays in August Wilson’s American Century Cycle and won the Drama Desk Award for the Off-Broadway production of Tabletop.

AMARI CHEATOM (Youngblood). Theatre credits include Skeleton Crew (The Old Globe SD); Detroit ’67 (Baltimore Center Stage); The Temple Bombing (Alliance Theatre); Fetch Clay, Make Man (True Colors Theatre Co.); Dutch Masters (LAByrinth Theater Company); On the Levee (Lincoln Center); The Book of Grace (The Public Theater); and Zooman and the Sign (Signature Theatre). A graduate of the Juilliard School Drama Division.

The Freddie Hendricks Youth Ensemble of Atlanta. Film credits include Roman J. Israel, Esq.; Detroit; Crown Heights; Moths and Butterflies; The Alchemist Cookbook; Django Unchained; Newlyweeds; Night Catches Us; and

Knucklehead. Television credits include Numbers (CBS), Chase (USA), Detroit 1-8-7 (ABC), and Georgetown (ABC).

ANTHONY CHISHOLM (Fielding) can currently be seen recurring in the Hulu series Wu-Tang: An American Saga. He is a Tony Award ® nominee for his portrayal of Elder Joseph Barlow in August Wilson’s Radio Golf. His other Broadway credits include August Wilson’s Two Trains Running and Gem of the Ocean. OffBroadway credits include August Wilson’s Jitney, for which he received the Drama Desk Award and Obie Award for his portrayal of Fielding, The Happiest Song Plays Last at Second Stage Theater, and roles with the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater, among others.

Overseas: the hit Vietnam play Tracers at London’s Royal Court Theatre; Sydney, Australia’s Seymour Center and Melbourne’s Universal; and August Wilson’s Jitney at the National Theatre in London (Olivier Award, Best New Play).

He is also the recipient of the NAACP Theatre Award, the AUDELCO Award, the Ovation Award, and the IRNE Award.

His film work includes Going in Style, Chiraq, My Bakery in Brooklyn, and Beloved, among others. Select television credits include Random Acts of Flyness, High Maintenance, Shades of Blue, Detroit 1-8-7, Law & Order: SVU, and the role of Burr Redding on HBO’s Oz. BRIAN D. COATS (Philmore, Understudy for Shealy, Fielding). Broadway: (MTC/national tour) Jitney. Off-Broadway includes The Brothers Paranormal (Pan Asian Repertory Theatre), Travisville (Ensemble Studio Theatre), La Ruta (Working Theater), The Bacchae, The First Noel (Classical Theatre of Harlem/The Apollo), On the Levee (Lincoln Center), The Merry Wives of Windsor, Two Gentlemen of Verona (Public/NYSF). Regional: The Royale (Cleveland Play House), The Nest (Denver Center Theatre), Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (Huntington Theatre, Studio Theatre DC), King Hedley II, Seven Guitars, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Two River Theater), Fences, A Raisin in the Sun (Geva Theatre), Distant Fires (People’s Light and Theatre Company), Clybourne Park (Caldwell Theatre), The Wedding Gift, pen/man/ship (Contemporary American Theater Fest), Count (PlayMakers Rep). TV includes Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, JAG, Blue Bloods, The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire, Luke Cage, and The Blacklist.

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STEVEN ANTHONY JONES (Becker) was the Artistic Director of the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre. He has worked professionally on stage, television, and in film for 46 years.

He has performed in the works of August Wilson, Fuller, Fugard, Stoppard, Gotanda, Beckett, Pinter, Molière, Shakespeare, Chekhov, and others. He was in the original cast of A Soldier’s Play produced by the Negro Ensemble Company, which won an Obie Award for ensemble acting and the Pulitzer Prize for Best Drama. He performed, taught, and directed at the American Conservatory Theater for 22 years as a member of the core acting company.

Mr. Jones received his early theatre training at Karamu House in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio.

NIJA OKORO (Rena) is thrilled to be back at the Taper. Some of her theatre credits include The Legend of Georgia McBride (Geffen Playhouse); Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Mark Taper Forum); Two Trains Running (Matrix Theatre); Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (understudy, Mark Taper Forum); the World premiere of Zoey’s Perfect Wedding (Denver Center); An Octoroon (Chautauqua Theater); Blueprints to Freedom (La Jolla Playhouse); The Mountaintop (Cape May Stage); Bossa Nova (Sundance Theatre Lab); and Echo in Silence (McCarter Theatre). TV: The Deuce, Animal Kingdom, StartUp, Insecure, Monday Mornings, Hail Mary, Southland, Medium, and ER. Upcoming film: Red River, A Doll’s House (starring Sir Ben Kingsley), and Gilpin. Nija has received two Ovation Awards and a Stage Raw Award for her work in Mr. Wilson’s plays.

Graduate of The Juilliard School. Dedicated to Malvenia.

KEITH RANDOLPH SMITH (Doub).

Broadway: Jitney; American Psycho; Come Back, Little Sheba; Salome; King Hedley II; Fences; The Piano Lesson. Off-Broadway: Paradise Blue; Lockdown; Tamburlaine; Holiday Heart; The First Breeze of Summer; Jitney; The Revolving Cycles Truly and Steadily Roll’d; Intimacy. Regional: A Human Being, of a Sort; How to Catch Creation; Our Town; Romeo and Juliet; Antony and Cleopatra; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Tempest; Three Sisters; Ivanov; The Seagull; In Walks Ed; Water by the Spoonful; Sunset Baby; The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey. Film and TV: The Good Fight; Law & Order; One Life to Live; I’ll Fly Away;

NY Undercover; Cosby; Malcolm X; Girl 6; Path to Paradise; Anesthesia; Backstreet Justice; The Warrior Class; Dead Dogs Lie; Fallout.

RAY ANTHONY THOMAS (Turnbo) is thrilled to return to this production. His Broadway credits include Jitney, The Crucible, and Race. Ray has created roles in two Pulitzer Prize-winning plays: Water by the Spoonful and Between Riverside and Crazy. He also created a role in Volunteer Man (Obie-winning performance).

Recent theatre includes Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow (Off-Broadway); Two Trains Running (Cincy/Milwaukee); The Year to Come (La Jolla); and Artney Jackson (Williamstown). Other credits include Fences and Jitney for August Wilson’s American Century Cycle with NPR Radio. Recent film and TV credits include Isn’t It Romantic and High Maintenance (HBO).

JAMES T. ALFRED (Understudy for Booster, Youngblood) is widely recognized as the cereal-eating music producer/owner of Ghetto Ass Studios on FOX’s hit drama EMPIRE. Off-Broadway credits: Pipeline (understudy, Lincoln Center); Blood (NBT); This Land (Vineyard Theatre); All’s Well That Ends Well (Public Theater).

Select regional theatre credits: Head of Passes (World premiere); Hushabye (Steppenwolf Theatre); Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Mountaintop (Guthrie Theater, ATC); Jitney (Penumbra, KC Rep, ATC); Two Trains Running, Detroit ’67, A Brown Tale (Penumbra Theatre); Fences (Denver Center, IRT, ATC, Milwaukee Rep); Endgame (Baltimore Center Stage). Television credits: Empire, Chicago P.D., Blacklist, Blindspot, FBI, Boss, and Prison Break.

A. RUSSELL ANDREWS (Understudy for Philmore, Becker, Doub, Turnbo).

Founding member of award-winning StageWalkers Productions. Russell won two NAACP Theatre Awards and two L.A. Ovation Awards for work as actor/producer with Wilson’s Jitney and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, where he won his first Best Actor NAACP Theatre Award. After developing both Mister in the World premiere of King Hedley II at Pittsburgh’s New Hazlett Theater and Youngblood in the inaugural production of Jitney at Pittsburgh’s Public Theater, he reprised his role

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of Youngblood in the Jitney cast that won the 2002 Olivier Award for Best New Play at London’s Royal National Theatre.

Film/TV credits include Vice Principal Gaines on HBO’s Insecure and Principal Avery in HBO’s upcoming Sterling.

PATRESE D. McCLAIN (Understudy for Rena) is delighted to be joining the Jitney family. Originally from Chicago, she has worked with many theatre companies in her hometown and in regional theatres all over the country. Select regional theatre credits include Pipeline and Skeleton Crew at Actors Theatre; Short Shakespeare! Romeo and Juliet at Chicago Shakespeare Theater; The Mountaintop and Skeleton Crew at People’s Light and Theatre Company; White Guy on the Bus at Northlight Theatre; for colored girls..., Spunk, Tartuffe, and The Misanthrope at Court Theatre; Two Trains Running at Geva Theatre Center; No Child... and Pericles at The St. Louis Black Rep. Recent film credits include BET’s Friend Request, Workingman, Widows directed by Steve McQueen, and Captive State directed by Rupert Wyatt. Television credits include Chicago Med, Chicago Fire (NBC); Sirens (USA); and Detroit 1-8-7 (ABC). Awards include Barrymore Award winner for Outstanding Leading Actress, St. Louis Theater Circle Award winner for Best Solo Performance, and two-time Joseph Jefferson nominee for Outstanding Supporting Actress. Training: BFA Howard University, MFA Pennsylvania State University. patresedmcclain.com AUGUST WILSON’s (Playwright) plays include Gem of the Ocean, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Piano Lesson (Pulitzer Prize winner), Seven Guitars, Fences (Pulitzer Prize winner, Tony Award winner), Two Trains Running, Jitney (Olivier Award winner), King Hedley II, and Radio Golf. In 2003, he made his stage debut in his one-man show, How I Learned What I Learned. He received an Emmy Award nomination for his screenplay The Piano Lesson. Other works include The Janitor, Recycle, The Coldest Day of the Year, Malcolm X, The Homecoming, and the musical satire Black Bart and the Sacred Hills. Other awards include eight New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards, Rockefeller and Guggenheim Fellowships in Playwriting, a Whiting Award, 2003 Heinz Award, 1999 National Humanities Medal, and induction into the Theater Hall of Fame.

RUBEN SANTIAGO-HUDSON (Director) is honored to continue this journey with August Wilson’s Jitney, which, as a recent Broadway production, has garnered several awards for Outstanding Revival including the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama League, and the NY Drama Critics’ Circle Award, along with six Tony nominations. Ruben’s directing credits include The Piano Lesson, Skeleton Crew, Othello, Gem of The Ocean, Paradise Blue, My Children! My Africa!, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Cabin in the Sky, The Happiest Song Plays Last, Two Trains Running, Things of Dry Hours, The First Breeze of Summer, and Your Blues Ain’t Sweet Like Mine, among many others. Mr. Santiago-Hudson received a Tony Award as featured actor for his performance in August Wilson’s Seven Guitars. He made his Broadway acting debut alongside Gregory Hines in Jelly’s Last Jam. Other Broadway credits include Stick Fly and Gem of the Ocean. The multi-award-winning director/writer/actor wrote, executive produced, and co-starred in the HBO film Lackawanna Blues based on his Obie and Helen Hayes Award-winning play. The movie received several honors including Emmy, Golden Globe, NAACP Image, Humanitas, National Board of Reviews, Black Filmmaker Foundation, and Christopher Awards. In a career that spans over four decades, Ruben considers opening The Ruben Santiago-Hudson Fine Arts Learning Center in 2014 in his hometown of Lackawanna, NY as one of his proudest and most cherished accomplishments.

DAVID GALLO (Scenic Designer) has designed more than 30 Broadway productions, including Memphis, First Date, The Drowsy Chaperone (Tony Award for Best Scenic Design), The Mountaintop, Reasons to be Pretty, Xanadu, Company, and Thoroughly Modern Millie. Working with August Wilson from 1996 until his death, David designed the premiere productions of Wilson’s later works, including King Hedley II, Jitney, Gem of the Ocean, and Radio Golf—the latter two of which each garnered him Tony nominations. Other awards: Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Ovation, Obie, L.A. Drama Critics, Outer Critics Circle, and NAACP. davidgallo.com TONI-LESLIE JAMES (Costume Designer). Broadway: Come From Away (2017); Amazing Grace; Lucky Guy; The Scottsboro Boys; Finian’s Rainbow; Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life; Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; King Hedley II; One Mo’ Time; The Wild Party; Marie Christine; Footloose; The Tempest; Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992; Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika; Chronicle PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P11

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of a Death Foretold; and Jelly’s Last Jam. Awards: Tony nomination, three Drama Desk nominations, six Lucille Lortel nominations, Hewes Design Award, Irene Sharaff Young Masters Award, and the 2009 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Costume Design.

An American Love Story (PBS), for which he composed many of the songs for the soundtrack. Other film credits: Lackawanna Blues, New York Stories, Miss Ruby’s House, American Gangster, and Cadillac Records. Training: Ohio State University. heritagebluesorchestra.com

JANE COX’s (Lighting Designer) projects with Ruben Santiago-Hudson include Seven Guitars at Signature Theatre.

Broadway: The Color Purple; Machinal; All the Way; Come Back, Little Sheba; and Picnic. Recent projects include Amélie at Berkeley Repertory Theatre; Othello at NYTW; Hamlet at the Barbican; Roe at OSF; The Flick at the National Theatre, London; and Passion, Peer Gynt, and Allegro at Classic Stage Company. Jane is a member of the Monica Bill Barnes Dance Company, has a long collaboration with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and is the director of the theatre program at Princeton University.

MATTHEW ARMENTROUT’s (Hair and Wig Designer) Broadway design credits include Bernhardt/Hamlet. Other design credits include Merrily We Roll Along (Roundabout), Anna May Wong—The Actress Who Died a Thousand Deaths (Mabou Mines), Paradise Square (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Othello (Shakespeare in the Park), London Rocks (Busch Gardens Williamsburg), and A Christmas Carol (Busch Gardens Williamsburg).

DARRON L WEST (Sound Designer). The American Plan, To Be or Not to Be, The Royal Family, Top Girls, and Time Stands Still. He is a Tony- and Obie Award-winning sound designer whose work for theatre and dance has been heard in more than 500 productions nationally and internationally, on and Off-Broadway. His accolades for sound design also include the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel, and AUDELCO awards. He is a two-time Henry Hewes Design Award winner and a proud recipient of the Princess Grace Award statue.

CHARLES COES (Sound Designer) is a New Jersey-based sound designer. Off-Broadway he’s designed: Dreams of the Washer King (Playwrights Realm); The Servant of Two Masters (TFANA, among others); The Robber Bridegroom (Roundabout); For Peter Pan on her 70TH Birthday (Playwrights Horizons); and Natural Shocks (WP Theater).

He teaches at the Yale School of Drama and has worked as an associate on many Broadway shows including Peter and the Starcatcher; Great Comet of 1812; and To Kill a Mockingbird. He’s won the Craig Noel Award (San Diego) and the Footlights Award (Milwaukee) for sound design.

BILL SIMS JR. (Original Music) is an internationally respected “Master of the Blues.” He is a 2012 Grammy ® nominee for And Still I Rise and an Obie Award winner for Lackawanna Blues. Recent theatre credits: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Two River), The Piano Lesson (Hartford Stage and Signature Theatre), August Wilson’s Two Trains Running and Jitney (Two River). Mr. Sims was the subject of the documentary

THOMAS SCHALL (Fight Director) has worked on more than 60 Broadway shows, including The Front Page, The Crucible, Blackbird, The Color Purple, Waitress, The King and I, War Horse, This Is Our Youth, Of Mice and Men, Romeo and Juliet, Lucky Guy, Death of a Salesman, Venus in Fur, and A View from the Bridge. He has worked extensively at Lincoln Center (Disgraced, Blood and Gifts), The Public Theater (Hamlet, King Lear, Mother Courage, Father Comes Home from the Wars), MTC (Ruined, Murder Ballad), NY Theatre Workshop (Red Speedo, Othello), and the Met Opera (Le Nozze di Figaro, Il Trovatore).

AWOYE TIMPO (Associate Director). Off-Broadway: In Old Age (New York Theatre Workshop), Good Grief (Vineyard Theatre), The Revolving Cycles Truly and Steadily Roll’d (Playwrights Realm), The Homecoming Queen (Atlantic Theater), Carnaval (National Black Theatre), Ndebele Funeral (59E59, South African tour, Edinburgh Festival), Sister Son/ji (Billie Holiday Theatre), In the Continuum (Juilliard).

Regional: Paradise Blue (Long Wharf Theatre), Skeleton Crew (Chester Theatre). Producer: CLASSIX, a reading series exploring classic plays by black playwrights. Other: ABC/ Disney, Cherry Lane, Fire This Time, Ma-Yi, New Black Fest, New Dramatists, NOW Africa, PEN World Voices, Royal Shakespeare Company, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, WNYC. CAPARELLIOTIS CASTING (Broadway Casting). Select Broadway: King Lear, Hillary and Clinton, Ink, The Waverly Gallery, The Boys in the Band, Three Tall Women, Meteor Shower, A Doll’s House, Part 2, Jitney, The Glass Menagerie, Blackbird, Fences. Select theatres: Signature, Atlantic, Ars Nova, Old Globe, McCarter, Goodman, Berkeley Rep, Seattle Rep, Arena Stage. Current TV: New Amsterdam (NBC).

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LAURA STANCZYK (Additional Casting). Broadway, OffBroadway, and tours: Encores! Off Center, Side Show, After Midnight, A Night With Janis Joplin, Follies, Lombardi, Ragtime, Impressionism, Seafarer, Radio Golf, Coram Boy, Translations, Dirty Dancing, Glorious Ones, Noura, Little Rock, Fetch Clay, Brother/Sister Plays. Multiple seasons for Kennedy Center, Shakespeare Theatre, Hartford Stage, McCarter, etc.

NANCY PICCIONE (Broadway Casting). Broadway credits include: Choir Boy, Jitney, Heisenberg, The Father, Venus in Fur, Wit, Time Stands Still, Top Girls, Shining City, The Assembled Parties, Outside Mullingar, Casa Valentina, and Constellations. She cast the original productions of Proof and The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife Off-Broadway and on Broadway as well as their national tours. Off-Broadway credits include: Sugar in Our Wounds, Cost of Living, Linda, Incognito, The Explorers Club, Choir Boy, The Whipping Man, Ruined, Equivocation, and The World of Extreme Happiness.

Prior to working at Manhattan Theatre Club, she was a member of the casting staff at the New York Shakespeare Festival for 10 years, where she worked on Shakespeare in the Park and numerous productions at The Public Theater.

She cast the American actors for the first two seasons of The Bridge Project, produced by BAM and the Old Vic London. She is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and a member of the Casting Society of America.

KAMRA A. JACOBS (Production Stage Manager). Broadway credits include American Son and Children of a Lesser God. The Public: Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, and As You Like It. Her regional credits include The Bitter Game, Last Tiger in Haiti, The Wholehearted, The New One, The King and I, and Disney’s The Little Mermaid. Film credits include American Son (Netflix). Education: MFA, University of California, San Diego.

MANDISA REED (Assistant Stage Manager) is excited to be at the Mark Taper Forum. She worked at The Public on The Bitter Game. Regional credits include Diana, The Heart of Rock and Roll, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, and Squirrels. Education: MFA, University of California, San Diego.

MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB (MTC). Under the dynamic leadership of Artistic Director Lynne Meadow and Executive Producer Barry Grove, MTC has become one of the country’s most prominent theatre companies. Productions at its Broadway and Off-Broadway venues have garnered numerous awards, including 27 Tony Awards and seven Pulitzer Prizes. MTC premieres include August Wilson’s

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Jitney and The Piano Lesson, Ink, Choir Boy, Wit, Vietgone, Venus in Fur, Ruined, Rabbit Hole, Doubt, Proof, Love! Valour!

Compassion!, Crimes of the Heart, and Ain’t Misbehavin’. manhattantheatreclub.com MAXIMUM ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCTIONS (General Manager) is a producing, developing, and management company founded by Avram Freedberg, Mary Beth Dale, and Eva Price, and is joined by Managing Director/General Manager Carl Flanigan. Select Broadway, Off-Broadway, and touring credits include What the Constitution Means to Me (national tour); Cruel Intentions: The ’90s Musical; Small Mouth Sounds; Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons on Broadway!; The Hip Hop Nutcracker; The Lion; Verso; Black Light; Born for This (L.A. and Boston); 50 Shades!

The Musical; Ivy + Bean: The Musical; Voca People; and Colin Quinn: Long Story Short. maximumcompany.com SENOVVA (Production Supervisor) is built on the vast experience and personal relationships of our producers, managers, designers, and technical specialists; SenovvA focuses on solution-driven services in theatre, broadcast, and architecture throughout the world. Current theatrical projects include: Freestyle Love Supreme, The Sound Inside, American Moor, Cirque du Soleil—’Twas the Night Before..., Audible @ Minetta Lane, Jersey Boys, Only Human, Mrs. Doubtfire.

CENTER THEATRE GROUP MICHAEL RITCHIE (Artistic Director) is in his 15TH season as Center Theatre Group’s Artistic Director, and has led over 200 productions to the Ahmanson Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, and Kirk Douglas Theatre stages, including the premieres of six musicals that moved to Broadway— The Drowsy Chaperone, Curtains, 13, 9 to 5: The Musical, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, and Leap of Faith—and the Pulitzer Prize in Drama finalist Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. MEGHAN PRESSMAN (Managing Director) joined Center Theatre Group as Managing Director in 2019. Previously, she served as Managing Director of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (D.C.), Director of Development for Signature Theatre (N.Y.), and Associate Managing Director of PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P13

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Berkeley Rep, in addition to working at numerous other theatre and arts organizations across the country. She is the ViceChair of the National Board for the Theatre Communications Group (TCG).

DOUGLAS C. BAKER (Producing Director) is now in his 30TH season at Center Theatre Group. He is an active member of the Broadway League, the Independent Presenters Network, and is a proud member of the Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers. In May 2013, Doug received the Broadway League’s prestigious Outstanding Achievement in Presenter Management Award.

NAUSICA STERGIOU (General Manager) has worked supporting artists in theatres of all shapes, sizes and locales including Center Theatre Group as General Manager and, previously, as Audience Development Director. She oversees productions at the Taper and Douglas, as well as new play commissions and developmental productions. Nausica has taught at USC’s School of Dramatic Arts and works with local nonprofits including Hollywood Orchard.

GORDON DAVIDSON (Founding Artistic Director) led the Taper throughout its first 38 seasons, guiding over 300 productions to its stage and winning KELLEY KIRKPATRICK (Associate Artistic countless awards for himself and the Director). Since arriving at Center Theatre theatre—including the Tony Award for Group in 2005, Kelley has produced over theatrical excellence, Margo Jones 60 productions at the Ahmanson Theatre, Award, The Governor’s Award for the Mark Taper Forum, and Kirk Douglas Theatre, Arts, and a Guggenheim fellowship. The Kentucky Cycle many of which have gone on to future lives and Angels in America (Part One) won the Pulitzer in on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and beyond. consecutive years and, in 1994, three of the four plays In addition to producing shows across nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play were from the Center Theatre Group’s three stages, he has had the privilege Taper (Angels in America won). In 1989, Gordon took over of collaborating with numerous local and national artists to the Ahmanson and, in 2004, he produced the inaugural commission and develop new works. season in the Kirk Douglas Theatre.

The cast of Jitney. Photo by Joan Marcus.

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ADDITIONAL STAFF FOR JITNEY

Production Manager .........................................................Ron Grimshaw Associate Production Manager ..................................... Anna Engelsman Associate General Manager .........................................Casey McDermott Associate Director ..............................................................Awoye Timpo Associate Scenic Designer .............................................. Viveca Gardiner Associate Costume Designer ....................................... Michael Magaraci Associate Lighting Designers ..................Tess James, Solomon Weisbard Lighting Design Associate ..................................................Itohan Edoloyi Assistant Sound Designer ................................................... Stephen Dee Production Carpenter ....................................................... Daniel Whiting Production Electrician ....................................................... Rachael Shair Production Audio ................................................................ Stephen Dee Production Properties ........................................................ Eric Reynolds Production Assistant ....................................................Jessica R. Aguilar Casting Assistant ...............................................................Sarah Cooney

CREDITS SHOW CONTROL AND SCENIC MOTION CONTROL FEATURING STAGE COMMAND SYSTEMS ® BY PRG-SCENIC TECHNOLOGIES, A DIVISION OF PRG BROADWAY, L.L.C., NEW WINDSOR, NY. Scenic items fabricated by PRG-Scenic Technologies, a division of PRG Broadway, L.L.C., New Windsor, NY. Sound equipment by Masque Sound. Select costumes executed by John Kristiansen New York Inc.; David Samuel Menkes Custom Leatherwear; and Virginia Commonwealth University.

Production properties provided by propNspoon. Production trucking by Clark Transfer.

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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.

The following employees are represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Machine Operators, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, its Territories and Canada, AFL-CIO, CLC: Stage Crew Local 33; Local Treasurers and Ticket Sellers Local 857; Wardrobe Crew Local 768; Makeup Artists and Hair Stylists Local 706. The scenic, costume, lighting, and sound designers are represented

by United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE. Directors are members of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, Inc., an independent national labor union.

Center Theatre Group is a member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT), the American Arts Alliance, the Broadway League, Independent Producers’ Network (IPN), LA Stage Alliance, National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) and the Theatre Communications Group (TCG).

MAXIMUM ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCTIONS Eva Price, Carl Flanigan, Josh Altman, John Albert Harris, Avram Freedberg, Mary Beth Dale

Production Supervisor SenovvA Inc. Arianna Knapp, James E. Cleveland, Lindsay Child, Ron Grimshaw, Anna Engelsman

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MICHAEL RITCHIE ♦ Artistic Director | MEGHAN PRESSMAN Managing Director | DOUGLAS C. BAKER♦ Producing Director GORDON DAVIDSON Founding Artistic Director Center Theatre Group would like to thank its exceptional staff for their ongoing commitment, dedication, and extraordinary efforts.

ARTISTIC LINDSAY ALLBAUGH♦.................................................. Associate Artistic Director NEEL KELLER♦................................. Associate Artistic Director/Literary Director KELLEY KIRKPATRICK♦............................................... Associate Artistic Director PATRICIA GARZA♦ ..................................Line Producer, Special Artistic Projects MICHAEL DONOVAN CASTING................................................Casting Consultant SUZANNE HEE MAYBERRY .................................................Casting Coordinator TIFFANY SLAGLE ...................................................................... Literary Assistant MATTHEW BOURNE, DANAI GURIRA, ANNA D. SHAPIRO ......................................................................Associate Artists KRISTINA WONG..............................................Sherwood Award Recipient, 2019 EDUCATION, ENGAGEMENT, AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS KATHRYN MACKENZIE ................................................ Director of Administration TYRONE DAVIS.....................................................Audience Engagement Director TRACI KWON♦................................................. Arts Education Initiatives Director JESUS REYES ♦.................................................Community Partnerships Director CAMILLE SCHENKKAN..................................Next Generation Initiatives Director CARLA JACKSON....................................................................... Program Manager JAQUELYN JOHNSON...........................................Audience Engagement Manager FELIPE M. SANCHEZ............................................................Emerging Artists and Arts Professionals Program Manager ESTELA GARCIA............................................................. Resident Teaching Artist DEBRA PIVER................................................................. Resident Teaching Artist MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION NAUSICA STERGIOU♦................................................................. General Manager JEFFREY UPAH♦ ..........................................................................General Manager KATIE SOFF♦...............................................................Associate General Manager ERIC SIMS ♦................................................................Associate General Manager MEGAN AARON........................Company Manager & Assistant General Manager KEVIN JOHNSON..................................................General Management Associate ALANA BEIDELMAN♦........................ Executive Assistant to the Artistic Director PRODUCTION JOE HAMLIN♦...................................................................... Director of Production KRYSTIN MATSUMOTO.......................................................... Production Manager CHRISTOPHER REARDON......................................................Production Manager KATIE CHEN...........................................................Assistant Production Manager ERIN TIFFANY........................................................Assistant Production Manager ERICA LARSON..................................................................Production Coordinator SHAWN ANDERSON♦.................................. Head Carpenter (Ahmanson Theatre) SCOTT LUCAS...........................................Head Properties (Ahmanson Theatre) JAMES WRIGHT.......................................... Head Electrician (Ahmanson Theatre) ROBERT SMITH♦................................................Head Sound (Ahmanson Theatre) SHANE ANDERSON............................................Head Flyrail (Ahmanson Theatre) MICHAEL GARDNER♦........................ Wardrobe Supervisor (Ahmanson Theatre) MARY WARDE......................................................... Hair and Make-up Supervisor .............................................................................................. (Ahmanson Theatre) CHRISTINE L. COX♦.....................................House Manager (Ahmanson Theatre) EMMET KAISER............................................Head Carpenter (Mark Taper Forum) MARY ROMERO........................................... Head Properties (Mark Taper Forum) AARON STAUBACH♦....................................Head Electrician (Mark Taper Forum) BONES MALONE♦.............................................. Head Sound (Mark Taper Forum) DENNIS SEETOO♦................................ Wardrobe Supervisor (Mark Taper Forum) RICK GEYER♦............................. Hair & Make-up Supervisor (Mark Taper Forum) LINDA WALKER♦ ......................................... House Manager (Mark Taper Forum) ADAM PHALEN♦ ............................................ Head Audio (Kirk Douglas Theatre) SEAN MEYER .......................................Head Electrician (Kirk Douglas Theatre) CAMBRIA CHICHI............................Wardrobe Supervisor (Kirk Douglas Theatre) BEN GRAY..............................................Stage Supervisor (Kirk Douglas Theatre) CHAD SMITH♦........................................................................... Technical Director LEE O’REILLY........................................................... Associate Technical Director SEAN KLOC...................................................................................Shop Supervisor MERRIANNE NEDREBERG♦............................................................... Prop Director KATE REINLIB..................................................................Associate Prop Manager ERIC BABB............................................................. Assistant Prop Shop Manager ERIN WALLEY.........................................................................Assistant Prop Lead CANDICE CAIN♦.......................................................................... Costume Director BRENT M. BRUIN..............................................................Costume Shop Manager MADDIE KELLER..................................................................... Costume Generalist WHITNEY OPPENHEIMER..........................Resident Assistant Costume Designer KAT PATTERSON......................................Resident Assistant Costume Designer SWANTJE TUOHINO♦......................................................................................Tailor

OPERATIONS DAWN HOLISKI♦........................................... Director of Operations and Facilities PETER WYLIE........................................................................ Operations Manager ELIZABETH LEONARD................................................... Senior Facilities Manager MAX OKEN................................................................................ Facilities Manager SONDRA MAYER♦..........................Concessions Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) PRECIOUS ALFARO........................................................... Operations Coordinator NIKI ARMATO........................................................................... Facilities Assistant JULIO A. CUELLAR♦................................................................. Facilities Assistant JOE HALLAM..................................................................................................Driver FINANCE, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, AND HUMAN RESOURCES CHERYL SHEPHERD...........................................................Chief Financial Officer SARAH STURDIVANT.................................... Director of Finance and Technology SUZANNE BROWN.................................................................................. Controller DANNY LAMPSON OPSTAD♦.................................................Accounting Manager NAKISA ASCHTIANI......................................................... Senior Staff Accountant XOCHITL RAMIREZ.................................................. Accounts Payable Supervisor KERRY LARICK.....................................................................Accounting Assistant JESSICA HERNANDEZ................................................................. Payroll Manager JUAN MARTINEZ......................................................................... Payroll Specialist TOM MEGALE................................................... Director of Business Applications JANELLE CABRERA TORRES..................... Senior Tessitura & Web Administrator MICHAEL J PALERMO JR.................................................. Systems Administrator CHIMA OMEAKU......................................................................Help Desk Support JODY HORWITZ........................................................Director of Human Resources PJ. PHILLIPS.................................................Senior Human Resources Generalist MELISSA MCCAFFREY...........................................Human Resources Generalist MOSS ADAMS............................................................................................. Auditor MICHAEL C. DONALDSON, LISA A. CALLIF..................................... Legal Counsel GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER......................................................... Legal Counsel INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT YVONNE CARLSON BELL♦.........................Director of Institutional Advancement TYLER ENNIS................................ Deputy Director of Institutional Advancement JASON CABRAL....................... Director of Advancement Operations & Analytics LOUIE ANCHONDO............................... Director of Events & Corporate Relations ASHLEY TIERNEY.......................................................Director of the Annual Fund TERRA GOULDEN..........................................................Senior Major Gifts Officer LAURA HITE............................Associate Director of Gift Operations & Reporting NIKKI MICHELA................................... Associate Director of Institutional Grants MANDI OR♦...................................................Associate Director of Special Events RYAN WAGNER...............................................Associate Director of Donor Data & .......................................................................................Communication Strategy VANESSA WHEELER..............................Associate Director of Prospect Research MOLLY COTTEN........................................................................ Major Gifts Officer SARAH RIDDLE..................................................................Annual Fund Manager ELIZABETH DELLORUSSO...................................................... Annual Fund Officer DONALD JOLLY♦.................................. Advancement Communications Specialist EDUARDO MOLLINEDO-PIÑÓN.......................... Advancement Database Analyst MIKE RATTERMAN........................................................ Donor Advisor Supervisor ERIC SEPPALA................................................Executive Assistant to the Director ................................................................................of Institutional Advancement OLIVIA BERUMEN......................................... Advancement Operations Associate SOHINI RISAM............................................ Institutional Advancement Assistant AL BERMAN♦, VARTAN MERJANIAN, BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ, NICOLE SCIPIONE, PAUL VITAGLIANO...........................................Donor Advisors KARLA GALVEZ♦, JUSTINE PEREZ♦............................. Donor Services Associates MURRAY E. HELTZER, EARL KLASKY.............................Development Volunteers

MARKETING DEBORAH WARREN..............................................................Director of Marketing GARRETT COLLINS.................................................... Marketing Strategy Director KYLE HALL...................................................................................Creative Director KIYOMI EMI♦.............................Senior Marketing Manager, Promotions & Events EMYLI GUDMUNDSON....................Senior Marketing Manager, Creative Content MARIN ROBINSON............................................Senior Marketing Manager, Media MIMI RIOS..........................................................................Marketing Coordinator CAROLINE THOMPSON/IMPACT 123............................................ Media Planning DEANNA McCLURE........................................................... Art and Design Director IRENE T. KANESHIRO♦..................................................... Senior Design Manager SANDI SILBERT............................................................................ Senior Designer TARA NITZ.....................................................................................Senior Designer JAVIER VASQUEZ............................................. Senior Designer-Digital Specialist COMMUNICATIONS JAMES SIMS..............................................................Director of Communications JASON MARTIN♦......................................................................... Head of Publicity KRISTI AVILA............................................................................................ Publicist KAREN BACELLAR.........................................................................Junior Publicist SARAH ROTHBARD.....................................................Associate Editorial Director TYLER EMERSON............................................................Digital Product Manager MICAELA CUMMINGS........................................................Social Media Specialist SYDNEY SWEENEY.................................................. Communications Coordinator REZA VOJDANI ......................................................Communications Coordinator HAL BANFIELD......................................................................Multimedia Producer TICKET SALES AND SERVICES SHAWN ROBERTSON♦.......................................................... Ticket Sales Director SKYPP CABANAS ♦.......................................... Senior Manager, Ticket Operations NICOLE MEDINA.....................................................Ticket Operations Coordinator MICHAEL ZOLDESSY............................................Senior Manager, Account Sales SANDY CZUBIAK♦.......................................................... Audience and Subscriber ....................................................................................................Services Director JENNIFER BAKER♦, CHERYL HAWKER♦, RICHARD RAGSDALE♦......................................... Audience Services Supervisors ALICE CHEN♦................................................ Audience Services Asst. Supervisor MICHAEL ESPINOZA, GARY HOLLAND....... Audience Services Sales Associates SAM AARON♦, JESSICA ABROMAVICH, KIMBERLY ARENCIBIA, VICKI BERNDT, DAVID BETANCOURT, ALEJANDRA DE PAZ, JONATHAN FLORES, KAITLYN GALVEZ, ANASTASHIA GARCIA, ELIANA HERNANDEZ-FAUSTO, CHRISTINE PEDROZA, EILEEN PEREZ, CHRISTIAN UNGER..............Audience Services Representatives DANUTA SIEMAK♦............................................... Subscriber Services Supervisor CHRISTINA GUTIERREZ♦ .......................... Subscriber Services Asst. Supervisor IRENE CHUANG♦, LIGIA PISTE♦, PETER STALOCH♦...............Subscriber Services ..........................................................................................Senior Representatives SARAH K. GONTA♦ ................................................................ Box Office Treasurer ANGELICA CARBAJAL♦, MICHAEL VALLE♦........................... Assistant Treasurers KEANA JACKSON, MICHAEL KEMPISTY♦, KEVIN LAUVER, CRIS SPACCA..................................................... Box Office Staff KERRY KORF♦................................................................ Priority Services Director CANDICE WALTERS................................. Priority Services Senior Sales Manager PAUL CUEN♦, KRISTEN SCHRASS.............................. Priority Services Managers SOFIJA DUTCHER......................................Priority Services Assistant Supervisor ................................................................................................................................

BEALENE AHERN, REBEKAH BOROUGHS, CLAY BUNKER, MAGGIE DODD, NATALIE DRESSEL, MARC “BYRON” DROTMAN♦, FRANK ENSENBERGER, LOU GEORGE♦, BRAD GRIFFITH, KATHLEEN LITTLEFIELD, CONSTANCE HARCAR, SHEP KOSTER♦, THIEN NGUYEN, JULIANNA OJEDA, IAN PRICE, DIANE WARD, JOE WEBSTER...........................Priority Services Representatives ................................................................................................................................

DAVID JIMENEZ, JESSICA KEASBERRY, RAFAEL MEDINA, EVA WANG......................................................................Interns ♦

On staff for 10+ years.

ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENT & COMMISSIONS As part of our commitment to supporting a new generation of playwrights, we foster and develop a broad range of theatrical work from artists within the diverse communities of Los Angeles as well as from across the nation and abroad.

Artists creating new work commissioned by Center Theatre Group this season:

DAVID ADJMI JON ROBIN BAITZ STEVE CUIFFO LISA D’AMOUR WILL ENO JENNIFER HALEY

ALESHEA HARRIS RAJIV JOSEPH LISA KRON KIMBER LEE YOUNG JEAN LEE MATTHEW LOPEZ

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Since 2005, we have invited local playwrights to spend a year researching and writing a new work with the feedback of their fellow writers and artistic staff as part of our L.A. Writers’ Workshop.

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The Corporate Circle is comprised of companies that support Center Theatre Group’s education and community partnership programs.

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Corbell Family Dr. Frederic H. Corbin, M.D. Ted Cordes Judy Tishkoff & Keith Crasnick Steve & Linda Darling Eunice David Bill & Ellie D’Elia James & Lynne DeWitt Dr. & Mrs. Donald E. Dickerson Betty J. Dranow Ms. Laurie Dubchansky Mr. & Mrs. Gene B. Duncan Jack & Cynthia Edelstein Mr. Jill & Bob Eisfelder It’s A Wrap Motion Pictures Joyce A. Esposito Ellen Eubanks Victoria I. Evers Johanna & Gene Felder Edwin & MaryAnn Feo Robert Finkel & Adelle Gross Darcy Fleck Ruth Fleming-Stephens Laura E. Fox, M.D. & John D. Hofbauer, M.D. Sylvia Fredricks Carolyn Hope Fried Susan R. Friedman Rosalie Friis-Ross Howard J. Fulfrost Dr. Robert Gasway & Kristen Wong Lesley & Dr. Kenneth H. Geiger Kate & Dr. Stephen Geller Jeanne K. Gerson Jeri & Keith Gertzman Catherine Gessner Laura Gibson Patrick & Frank Gibson-McMinn Howard Gleicher Dr. Irene Goldenberg Tanya & David Goodman Dr. Sudha & Dr. Gopal Govindarajan Terry Grossman Scott Hall & Rhonda Church Diane & J.P. Harris Gene Hawkins Sharon & Joe Hernandez Winifred Hervey Dorothy Hoffman Rand Hoffman & Charlotte Robinson Dozar Office Furnishings Dorothy K. Hull Dr. & Mrs. Robert Itami Susan & Larry Ivanjack Irwin & Meredith Jacobson In Memory of Wayne Jervis, Jr. Sean Johnson & Alex Ocampo Starr C. Johnson Roz & Jerry Joseph David & Martha Kadue Janet & Steve Kahane Kathleen Kane Regina & Richard G. Kaplan Elyse & Stanley Katz Cari & Marty Kavinoky Cynthia & Jerry Kay Albert Kelly & Marjorie Stevens Kelly Sarah E. Kiefer Jules Kievits & Lorraine Bagdasarian

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Nathalie & Jim Rosen Rabbi & Mrs. Moshe Rothblum Ron & Sharon Ryan Jay & Linda Sandrich Linda & Clifford Schaffer Carmen & Gordon Schaye Drs. T.V. Scott & Karen Hill Scott Scott Shagrin Ruth & Mitchell Shapiro Lynn Sharp James & Alexis Sheehy Loretta Hirsh Shine Steven E. Shulem Jan & Carl Siechert In Memory of Ruth & Leon Sirkin Scott Sigman Karen & Gordon Silverstein Kurt & Keli Skarin Martin & Leah Sklar Stephen & Judith Slagle Leslie Smith Roberta Smith Shani Smolens Mason A. Sommers & Rami Aizic James & Diane Staes Carol Stein Sterling & James Sterling Jill Stein David A. Steinberg Tom Stempel Bobbie Stern Lynn Bider & Daniel Stone Dr. Arthur H. Streeter Mr. Stan Sullins Jeff Sung Jack & Marlene Susser Dr. Allan & Roslyn Holt Swartz Craig Sweeny Judith N. Taylor Mary & Peter Tennyson Marla Thornton Elizabeth Topkis Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Traver Joyce Huyett Turner & Craig Turner J Usaraga Ms. Andrea Valcourt Valerie Vanaman Carol Vernon & Robert Turbin Claire Vincent Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Volk Elliott & Felise Wachtel Cliff Warner Charles W. Weeks Ms. Lynn E. Weisman Kathy Weisshaar Dr. Pat West Kim White Peterson Lori Williams & Stephen Schulte Valerie & Nathaniel E. Williams Dr. Michele A. Kerr Wolfe Madelon Yamamoto George Ziegler Myrna & Stanley Zimmerman

Center Theatre Group gratefully appreciates all of our donors who, due to space constraints, could not be listed here. The above list reflects donations made as of September 1, 2019. If your name was misspelled or omitted from this list in error, please contact the Advancement Department at 213.972.7654. Thank you.

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BILL FRISELL & JULIAN LAGE DUO

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2019-20 SEASON SAMIN NOSRAT IN CONVERSATION WITH LINDY WEST Sun, Oct 13 | Royce Hall

RACHEL FULLER’S ANIMAL REQUIEM

MAYA BEISER/WENDY WHELAN/ LUCINDA CHILDS/DAVID LANG

A Concert to Celebrate and Honor All Animals With special guest Pete Townshend

THE DAY

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OUR SUPPORTERS

for your campaign support

Anne Marie Ketchum Artistic Director

Laraine Ann Madden Accompanist

We would like to take this opportunity to thank the incredibly generous donors who have contributed leadership gifts in support of Center Theatre Group’s 50 Anniversary Campaign. Your loyalty to our theatre and support in honor of our history paves the way for the next 50 years. AS OF SEP. 1, 2019.

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$250,000+ Anonymous Thomas Beers Joni & Miles Benickes Diana Buckhantz & The Vladimir and Araxia Buckhantz Foundation Cindy & Gary Frischling Center Theatre Group Affiliates Cindy & Gary Frischling Nancy & Eric Garen Vicki King Jody & David Lippman The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Thomas Safran Glenn & Andrea Sonnenberg Judie Stein & J R Stein Family Foundation Matt & Dana Walden $100,000+ Yvonne & Derek Bell The Campagna Family Mara & Joseph Carieri Friars Charitable Foundation Manuela & James Goren Bill Resnick & Michael Stubbs Deidra Norman Schumann Cheryl A. Shepherd Donna & John Sussman Hope Landis Warner $50,000+ Anonymous Anne Bruner & Jim Bremner Carol & Stephen Rountree Sunshine Stone Peter & Iona Tompkins

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We would also like to thank the following donors for making commitments to the 50th Anniversary Campaign through legacy gifts to our Endowment.

WHERE TO GO LO S A N G E L E S • O R A N G E CO U N T Y • SA N D I E G O

$1,000,000+ Judith & Thomas Beckmen Martin Massman Diane & Leon Morton Peter & Susan Van Haften $500,000+ Richard & Norma Camp Susan A. Grode Linda S. Peterson

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OTHER LEGACY GIFTS Linda & Maynard Brittan – Traub Brittan Family Trust Steven Llanusa & Glenn Miya, M.D. Gloria Lothrop Carol & Douglas Mancino Renee & Robert Nunn Nan Rae Randy & Bruce Ross Wes Schaefer & Cathy King-Schaefer Dr. and Mrs. Daniel Wallace Margaret White

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OUR SUPPORTERS

“Tapestries of Music”

SUNDAYS ó®ã« COLEMAN

for being a part of our history

116th Season • 2019 - 2020

The Affiliates have supported Center Theatre Group since 1971. Through volunteering and fundraising, members introduce young people and their peers to the magic of live theatre. We are forever grateful for their long-term support. AS OF SEP. 1, 2019.

PRESIDENT Carmen Schaye

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Kim White Peterson* Sheila Poncher* Sharon Reisz Marsha Tauber Sallai June Sanders Sattler* Joyce Sheingold Maggy Simon Carole Solomon Marilyn Stambler* Janice Brock Wallace* Janice Weiner Rosalind Zane*

EXECUTIVE BOARD Anne Bruner* Ilene Eisenberg Roberta Haft* Christine Harte Thea F. Koss Diane Lesser Jerri Nagelberg Diane Neubauer*

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Barbara Krasnoff Beau Lavine Rita Lee Annie Maria Lehrer Marilyn Levin Helen Gordon Lowy Dr. Elizabeth Lu Marianne Mandel Phyllis Massing Ph.D Leah Mendelsohn Jacqueline Nach Deena Nahmias Olivia Neece Phyllis Parvin Gina Russ Posalski* Courtney Rangen Anne Reismann Irene Ribner Harriett Chatters Rose Lois Rosen Marla Rubin Gaile Gray Ryan Bonnie Sachs Carole Schiffer Kelly Schiffer* Zrelda Sealey Suzanne M. Shapiro Robbie J. Solomon Marilyn Lee Stark Carol Stein Debbie Stein Judy Stone Betsy Straszheim Gloria Stroock-Stern Donna Sussman* Rosalyn Holt Swartz Louise Taper Phyllis Teller Katherine L. Todd* Sue Tsao Roberta Turkat Elinor Turner Carol Le-Veque-Uri Barbara Van Orden Donna Marie Venick* Sue Wittner

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Our programming engine, TMC Arts, convenes artists, communities and ideas to deepen the cultural lives of all. With relevant, engaging arts experiences and arts education programs, TMC Arts reflects the diverse voices and interests of the many communities of Los Angeles.

The Music Center is home to and the force behind some of the most creative expression today.

2019/2020 MUSIC CENTER BOARD OF DIRECTORS OFFICERS Cindy Miscikowski Board Chair

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Diane G. Medina Secretary

Susan M. Wegleitner Treasurer

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August Wilson’s Jitney CENTER THEATRE GROUP @ Mark Taper Forum Thru 12/29 FRI 22 NOV / 8:30 p.m.

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BOARD OF SUPERVISORS COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES Support from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors plays an invaluable role in the successful operation of The Music Center.

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: MARK RIDLEY-THOMAS, Second District; SHEILA J. KUEHL, Third District; JANICE HAHN, Fourth District, Chair; KATHRYN BARGER, Fifth District; and HILDA L. SOLIS, First District

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THE SORAYA IS

THE VALLEY’S CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

NOVEMBER

OK GO THE LIVE VIDEO TOUR Sat Nov 2 | 8PM Sun Nov 3 | 3PM FARRUQUITO Sat Nov 9 | 8PM THE KALICHSTEIN-LAREDO-ROBINSON TRIO Onstage Sessions Chamber Music Tue Nov 12 | 8PM Wed Nov 13 | 8PM - SOLD OUT

ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET’S

THE NUTCRACKER USHER IN THE SEASON WITH THIS HOLIDAY CLASSIC

CAMILA MEZA THE NECTAR ORCHESTRA ÁMBAR Onstage Sessions Jazz Club Fri Nov 15 | 8PM Sat Nov 16 | 8PM

Sat Dec 7 | 3PM & 8PM Sun Dec 8 | 3PM

FRANKIE AVALON Thu Nov 21 | 8PM

DECEMBER NOCHEBUENA FEATURING EUGENIA LEÓN BALLET FOLKLÓRICO DE LOS ÁNGELES MARIACHI GARIBALDI DE JAIME CUÉLLAR Sat Dec 14 | 3PM & 8PM VOCTAVE THE SPIRIT OF THE SEASON Sun Dec 15 | 3PM

TheSorayaStage | TheSoraya.org | (818) 677-3000

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