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I admit it, I love the movies.

For someone who does what I do, it’s probably cooler to take a kind of “theatre is the ONLY medium” position, but the truth is, I am very happy in front of a big screen. For someone raising a kid, I’m also hyper aware of the role that film plays in cultivating our senses of self, of beauty, of cultural roles and a whole lot else. In other words, I get the power that film wields in our society and on us personally.

Lynn Nottage gets that, too. (She actually gets ALL kinds of things, and deeply, and that’s evidenced by a writing career that features accolades of the Pulitzer Prize variety.) She is a writer who uses the personal to get to the political and whose work moves your heart, your head and your spirit in equal measure. I have always loved how easily she can make an audience laugh — but I love even more the way she can make an audience catch their breath. She last did that for us in Atlanta with her exquisite play Intimate Apparel. And she’s back to do it with one of the smartest dissections of who stars in our movies, and why, that you could imagine.

So yes, I love the movies. But I really love a great play that can tell me why, how and at what cost. Now that’s cool.

Susan V. Booth Jennings Hertz Artistic Director

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Opposite: Actress Theresa Harris with Zeppo Marx in “Horse Feathers” (early 1930s); above, Fredi Washington (center) with Arthur Whetsel (left) and Duke Ellington in “Black and Tan” (1929).

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SATIRICAL EDGE

By Celise Kalke Pulitzer prize winner Lynn Nottage’s playwriting moves with swift intelligence and keen social perception between two literary styles: high melodrama and complex satire. Her melodramas have tremendous emotional appeal. The seamstress in Intimate Apparel — soon to be a film — is an African-American woman in early

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20th-century New York, but she is also the repository of many families’ memories of the immigrant striver in a “new America,” traveling north or across the ocean. Ruined, which won the Pulitzer in 2012, is set in Africa and is inspired by Brecht. It is a melodrama of courage and strength set against the harsh conditions of a civil war in which both sides use women’s bodies as the field of battle.

Nottage’s melodramas, when savvily produced, lift beyond the traditional

reaction to melodrama, (“Oh, no!”) into a more interesting and active investigation of choice and opportunity.

put her in a league with Chris Durang or Dave Chappelle. These plays are sassy and their satirical object large.

Nottage gives her young actresses the wisdom to see that the maids and chauffeurs they play in the 1930s will lead to Oscars for Halle Berry, Denzel Washington and Sydney Poitier.

Nottage’s mature satires, Fabulation and By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, are no less sophisticated and entertaining than her melodramas, but are less widely produced. Nottage grew up in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, on the same block as famed novelist Jonathan Lethem, and there is a quality of Brooklyn edge and smarts in her satires that

By the Way, Meet Vera Stark’s subject is complicated. It begins in the style of the 1930s, in a screwball comedy of race and ambition.

It is the latter end of the early days of Hollywood, and stardom for African-American actors is right there, almost. If they will earn it playing maids, chauffeurs and other service professions, they might achieve the radical position of

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African-American stardom through performing “safe” representations of African-Americans. Nottage gives her young actresses the wisdom to see that the maids and chauffeurs they play in the 1930s will lead to Oscars for Halle Berry, Denzel Washington and Sydney Poitier. They play a long game: a strategy that might get overlooked in the hands of a less intellectually nimble writer. Nottage then moves from the swift hilarity of the 1930s to the rebellious lavishness of the 1970s, when TV demanded a grandeur and decadence from its fading stars in order to remain aesthetically “trashy” (something we forget when contemporary TV aesthetics range from reality TV to the novelistic heights of contemporary cable offerings). And then to the early

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2000s, when academics schooled in the identity politics of race relations perfected choice narratives of tragic intersections of class and race in order to bring out the melodrama in Hollywood pioneers. Here Nottage’s satirical edge becomes the most complicated. Her academics, in the face of mystery, cling to repeating stories of faceless talent heading to despair rather than contentment.

Easy satire creates easy contrast, which is then undermined. Difficult satire provokes questions. By the Way, Meet Vera Stark contains both easy laughs and almost boundless questions, while at the same time celebrating women driven by ambition, hope and an almost maniacal dedication to art.

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cast SETTING Hollywood, 1933; Hollywood, 1973; Hollywood, 2003

CAST in alphabetical order * Andrew Benator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mr. Slasvick/ Brad Donovan * Nikiya Mathis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lottie/Carmen Levy-Green * Genesis Oliver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Leroy Barksdale/Herb Forrester * Courtney Patterson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloria Mitchell * Tiffany Rachelle Stewart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anna Mae/Afua Assata Ejobo * Daniel Triandiflou . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Maximillian Von Oster/Peter Ryhs-Davies * Toni Trucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Vera Stark

ANDREW BENATOR

NIKIYA MATHIS

GENESIS OLIVER

COURTNEY PATTERSON

UNDERSTUDIES Molly Coyne — Gloria Mitchell Leland Fowler — Leroy Barksdale/Herb Forrester Britny Horton — Lottie McBride/Carmen Levy-Green Danielle Thorsen — Vera Stark/Anna Mae Simpkins/Afua Assata Ejobo Jeremy Varner — Mr. Slasvick/Brad Donovan/Maximillian Von Oster/Peter Rhys-Davies DESIGN AND PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS Jamila Reddy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant Director Ashley Farra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Costume Design * Jayson T. Waddell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant Stage Manager S. Renee Clark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vocal and Music Coach/Consultant Patrick O’Neill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Movement Coach/Consultant Prenecia Brooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Apprentice Stage Manager Special thank you to our stage hands, Jeremy Varner and Bryan Saxon.

TIFFANY RACHELLE STEWART

DANIEL TRIANDIFLOU

TONI TRUCKS

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LELAND FOWLER

BRITNY HORTON

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profiles ANDREW BENATOR (Mr. Slasvick/Brad Donovan) Alliance Theatre: Good People, August: Osage County, Eurydice, Tennis in Nablus, A Christmas Carol. Atlanta: Seminar, Becky Shaw (Actor’s Express); Young Man From Atlanta, Freud’s Last Session (Theatrical Outfit); The Tempest (Georgia Shakespeare); Boeing, Boeing (Aurora Theatre); The Ladies Man (Theatre in the Square); Brooklyn Boy (Jewish Theatre of the South). Off-Broadway: Things You Shouldn’t Say Past Midnight, Valparaiso, Flu Season.

Regional: Hartford TheaterWorks, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Sacramento’s B St. Theater, San Jose Rep, San Francisco’s Magic Theater. Film & TV: “Burn Notice,” “House of Payne,” “Meet the Browns,” “Law & Order: CI,” “Third Watch,” Quarantine 2, Game Six, The Good Student, Almanac and the upcoming films Last of Robin Hood with Kevin Kline and Million Dollar Arm with Jon Hamm.

NIKIYA MATHIS (Lottie/Carmen Levy-Green) Theatre: Margie in the world premiere of Kirsten Greenidge’s Milk Like Sugar (dir. Rebecca Taichman) at Playwrights Horizons and La Jolla Playhouse; Shaunta Iyun and Shun in the world premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brother/Sister Plays Trilogy (dir. Tina Landau & Robert O’Hara), at the Public Theater and McCarter Theatre Center; Camae in Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop at Milwaukee Repertory Theater (dir. Mae Adrales); Latonya in Radha Blank’s Seed (dir. Niegel Smith) at Classical Theatre of Harlem; Intimate Apparel at Two River Theater (dir. Seret Scott); Maima in Danai Gurira’s Eclipsed (dir. Liesl Tommy) at McCarter Theatre Center; Claudia in The Bluest Eye (dir. Walter Dallas) at New Freedom Theatre; Ernestine in Crumbs From the Table of Joy (dir. Maggie Miller) and Laura in The Glass Menagerie at the New Century Theatre. Film: Compliance (dir. Craig Zobel); Knucklehead (dir. Ben Bowman); The Exodus (dir. Rosalyn Coleman). MFA: NYU’s Graduate Acting Program.

GENESIS OLIVER (Leroy Barksdale/Herb Forrester) Originally from Detroit. Alliance Theatre debut. NYC: Everything Is Ours at HERE Arts Center; Regional credits include: Map of Heaven, Othello, 39 Steps, A Christmas Carol at Denver Center Theatre Company; Dracula, Game On, Two or a Carload, The Greekest of Tragedies at Actors Theatre of Louisville; The Tempest at Tennessee Shakespeare Company; Othello at Seattle Shakespeare Company; Graduate of the National Theatre Conservatory (MFA).

COURTNEY PATTERSON (Gloria Mitchell) is thrilled to return to the Alliance stage. Other Alliance credits: August: Osage County, Managing Maxine, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (starring Tracy Letts and directed by Amy Morton), Frame 312. Favorite Atlanta credits: Much Ado About Nothing, The Importance of Being Earnest, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Twelfth Night, Hamlet (Georgia Shakespeare); Brownie Points, Lost Highway (Theatrical Outfit); The Drowsy Chaperone, Boeing! Boeing! (Aurora Theatre); My Name Is Rachel Corrie (Synchronicity Theatre). TV/Film: “Stuff You Should Know,” “Drop Dead Diva,” “Past Life,” “Good Eats,” Trouble With the Curve. She can also been seen popping up in various commercials. Much love to my boys, Nick and Javier. www.courtneypatterson.net.

TIFFANY RACHELLE STEWART (Anna Mae Simpkins/Afua Assata Ejobo) is honored to be back in her hometown making her Alliance Theatre debut. Theatre credits include: Conference of the Birds, Folger Theater; The African Company Presents Richard III and Loves Labours Lost, Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Blood Dazzler, Harlem Stages; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Lyceum Theatre; Obama Drama, 45th Street Theatre. TV: “All My Children,” “Royal Pains.” Tiffany recently starred in the short film Hotel Pennsylvania, which

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profiles screened at the Cannes International Film Festival, the European Independent Film Festival and the NY Shorts Festival. Tiffany is an avid dancer and choreographer. She most recently choreographed the world premiere musical The Unfortunates at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Tiffany received her M.F.A. in Acting from the Yale School of Drama in 2007. She sends big sloppy love to her Mom Linda Sue and ATL family.

DANIEL TRIANDIFLOU (Maximillian Von Oster/Peter Rhys-Davies) is an Atlanta resident and thrilled to be making his Alliance debut. Recent plays include Alex in The Book Club Play (Horizon Theatre), Bob in Bob: A Life in Five Acts (Geva Theatre/Aurora Theatre), Henry Bingham/The Fox on the Fairway (Aurora Theatre) and the two-man show The Revengence (Dad’s Garage Theatre Company). He plays a young Rudy Giuliani in the new film Empire State and can be seen in the upcoming movies Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues and the remake of Endless Love. On the Cartoon Network, he’s Benji in the live-action Adult Swim Series “Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell.” Last year the critics and readers of Creative Loafing named him “best local actor.” Still, his best work to date is his amazing son, Henry.

TONI TRUCKS (Vera Stark) is proud to make her Alliance Theatre debut in the title role.

Ms. Trucks has a wide range of work spanning stage, film and television. This fall she can be seen as a recurring character on the new Jerry Bruckheimer CBS series “Hostages.” Other television credits include “The Soul Man,” “Made in Jersey,” “Do No Harm,” “CSI:NY,” “House,” “Brothers,” “Veronica Mars,” “All of Us,” “Barbershop” and “Starstruck.” Trucks most recently completed work on the new Disney feature film Alexander, and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day starring Steve Carell. Past film credits include The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2, Music and Lyrics, Dreamgirls and Ruby Sparks. Regional: Toni/ Cactus Flower (Capital Rep), Gail Lumet/Stormy Weather (Pasadena Playhouse), Lois/Kiss Me Kate (Sacramento Music Circus), Julia/Two Gentlemen Of Verona (Baltimore Center Stage), Anita/West Side Story (Music Theatre of Wichita). Trucks earned her BFA in Musical Theatre from the University of Michigan.

MOLLY COYNE (US Gloria Mitchell) is thrilled to join the Alliance Theatre for By the Way, Meet Vera Stark. Recent regional credits include Suzanne in Don’t Dress for Dinner at the Hippodrome Theatre (Gainesville, FL), and Luisa in The Fantasticks at Florida Repertory Theatre (Fort Meyers, FL). She graduated from Denison University (Granville, OH) in 2012 with a BA in Theatre and a BA in Music (Vocal Performance). An Atlanta native, Molly couldn’t be more excited to return home to continue her career. Many thanks to her wonderful family for always being behind her 100%, and of course, to the Alliance Theatre for the opportunity to be a part of this talented cast!

LELAND FOWLER (US Leroy Barksdale/Herb Forrester) is excited to take on his first professional understudy role at the Alliance. He has most recently been seen in the Alliance Theatre Education Department’s production of The American Journey Through Music with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. His other work at the Alliance includes We Fight We Die, a reading at the 2012 Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition. As a Morehouse College alumnus (B.A. in Drama, 2013), he was blessed to study abroad at the British American Drama Academy in London, where he starred in Oh What a Lovely War. Leland is a Los Angeles native who resides in Atlanta, where he continues to pursue his career as an actor, and is grateful for this opportunity at the Alliance.

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profiles BRITNY HORTON (US Lottie McBride/Carmen Levy-Green) was last seen at the Alliance in Buried Too High, which was a reading at the 2013Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition Readings Festival. Previous theatre credits include ‘da Kink in My Hair, The Talented Tenth and Steel Magnolias. Internationally, Britny studied at the British American Drama Academy, where she played in The Way of The World, Cymbeline and Measure for Measure. Britny has also hosted several events including the “Creative Minds in Cannes Filmmakers Showcase” in Cannes, France. Her film and television credits include Watch Out for The Big Girl, Watson’s Go to Birmingham (Extra) and Let it Shine. Britny is a senior at Spelman College, where she is majoring in Drama.

DANIELLE THORSEN (US Vera Stark/Anna Mae Simpkins/Afua Assata Ejobo) is thrilled to be make her Alliance Theatre debut. She recently graduated from Wake Forest University with a BA in Theatre, where she performed in many shows including Eurydice and The Grapes of Wrath. This is her first time working in Atlanta, and she couldn’t be more excited.

Danielle is grateful to her family and friends for their constant support and to everyone at the Alliance Theatre for this incredible opportunity.

JEREMY VARNER (US Mr. Slasvick/Brad Donovan / Maxillian Von Oster/Peter RhysDavies) is excited to come back to the Alliance for this production. His recent credits here in Atlanta include Tarzan (Legacy Theatre), The Producers, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Lyric Theatre), The Drowsy Chaperone (Aurora Theatre), The Producers (Theatre of the Stars), Charlotte’s Web and A Christmas Carol (Alliance Theatre), Assasins (Fabrefaction Theatre), Kiss of the Spiderwoman (Actor’s Express), and High Society (Stage Door Players). Jeremy graduated with a BFA in Musical Theatre from Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas.

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LYNN NOTTAGE (Playwright) Lynn Nottage’s newest play, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark has been produced off-Broadway at Second Stage Theatre, Geffen Theatre and the Goodman Theatre, among others. Her Pulitzer Prize-winning play Ruined received Obie, Lucille Lortel, New York Drama Critics’ Circle, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for best play (Manhattan Theatre Club, Goodman). It premiered in April 2010 at London’s Almeida Theatre and toured several U.S. regional theatres in 2010-11. Other plays include Intimate Apparel (New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award); Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine (Obie Award); Crumbs From the Table of Joy; Las Meninas; Mud, River, Stone; Por’knockers and POOF! Nottage received the 2010 Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, the Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award, the inaugural Horton Foote Prize for Outstanding New American Play (Ruined), the Lee Reynolds Award and the Jewish World Watch iWitness Award. Her other honors include the 2007 MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant,” the National Black Theatre Festival’s August Wilson Playwriting Award, the 2005 Guggenheim Grant for Playwriting and the 2004 PEN/Laura Pels Award for Drama, as well as fellowships from the Lucille Lortel Foundation, Manhattan Theatre Club, New Dramatists and New York Foundation for the Arts. Nottage is in the process of producing two films, titled First to Fall and Biz-nes-man. She is a proud graduate of the Yale School of Drama.

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profiles LEAH C. GARDINER (Director) NYC: born bad (U.S. premiere, Soho Rep, Obie Award); Bulrusher (world premiere, Pulitzer Prize finalist, Urban Stages); Kent, CT (Zipper Theater).

Nationally: Antony and Cleopatra, Othello (Houston Shakespeare Festival); Fences (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); The Last Five Years (Crossroads Theatre Company); Blue Door (world premiere and Pulitzer Prize finalist, South Coast Repertory); Clementine in the Lower Nine (world premiere, TheatreWorks, Top 10 for 2012); Sucker Punch (U.S. premiere, Studio Theatre); Topdog/Underdog (Philadelphia Theatre Company); Birdie Blue (City Theatre); Orange Flower Water (world premiere, Contemporary American Theatre Festival); The Flag Maker of Market Street (world premiere, Alabama Shakespeare Festival); Streetcar Named Desire (Pillsbury House Theatre); Angels in America, Parts I and II (Connecticut Repertory Theatre); (restaging director) Broadway’s The Normal Heart (Arena Stage, American Conservatory Theater); and the national tour of Wit (Kennedy Center, Ordway, among others). Ms. Gardiner holds an M.F.A. in Directing from the Yale School of Drama. Upcoming: Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, (U.S. premiere, Atlantic Theater Company, NYC). As a film producer: Mother of George, best cinematography, Sundance, 2012.

JOHN COYNE (Set Designer) Regional: Charley’s Aunt (Guthrie Theater); Macbeth (Shakespeare Theater);Rough Crossing (Old Globe Theatre); You Never Can Tell, First Lady (Yale Rep); 3 Tall Women (Center Stage); Henry IV, Pride & Prejudice, Moonlight & Magnolias, My Fair Lady, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Front Page, Of Mice and Men, The Real Thing, Tartuffe (Dallas Theater Center); Hamlet (Public Theatre); San Francisco Opera; New York City Opera, San Diego Opera; Washington Opera; California Shakespeare Festival; Juilliard; Bard College; Goodspeed Musicals; TheatreWorks Hartford.

Education: Yale School of Drama. John is director of scenic design at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

ESOSA (Costume Designer) Broadway: Motown, Porgy and Bess (Tony nom.), Topdog/ Underdog. Off-Broadway: Second Stage: Water by the Spoonful; By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (Lucille Lortel Award); Trust; Crowns. Delacorte: The Capeman; Public Theater: Juan and John, Father Comes Home From the Wars, Romeo and Juliet. NYTW: The Misanthrope, All That I Will Ever Be. Regional: La Jolla/Center Theatre Group: American Night; Arena Stage: Ruined, Cuttin’ Up, Señor Discretion Himself (Helen Hayes Award nom.); Alliance: Twist; Pasadena Playhouse: Twist (2011 Ovation Award); A.R.T.: Best of Both Worlds; Geva Theatre: Fences; Bay Street Theatre: Queen of the Blues, Turandot: The Rumble for the Ring, Ain’t Misbehavin’; Centerstage: Once on This Island, Gleam; Williamstown Theatre Festival: Whaddabloodclot!!!; Denver Center Theatre Company: Sense & Sensibility the Musical. TV: “Project Runway,” season 7 finalist. www.esosadesign.com.

KEN YUNKER (Lighting Designer) is the resident lighting designer for the Sarasota Opera Association, lighting designer for Atlanta Opera on more than 50 productions and international lighting director of FIO Americas in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Alliance Theatre: Good People, What I Learned In Paris, Into the Woods, August: Osage County, Avenue X, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Aladdin, Bluish, Go Dog Go!, The Underpants, Einstein Is a Dummy, Day of Kings, The Miracle Worker, Leap. National: Utah Shakespeare Festival, Bermuda Arts Festival, McCarter Theatre, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Utah Symphony and Opera.

In Atlanta: Ballethnic Dance Company, True Colors Theatre, Atlanta Black Arts Festival,

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CLAY BENNING (Sound Designer) has been the resident sound designer at the Alliance Theatre for 14 years and has designed more than 80 productions. Recent works include Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, Into the Woods, Good People and Next to Normal.

He’s also an associate artist at Georgia Shakespeare, with more than 20 productions.

Other designs include Atlanta Ballet, Cincinnati Playhouse, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Theatrical Outfit, Synchronicity Theatre. Awards: 2006, 2007 and 2009 Suzi Bass awards for outstanding sound design with an additional 11 nominations. He is a graduate of Presbyterian College (BA), North Carolina School of the Arts (MFA) and a member of IATSE/ USA829.

ADAM LARSEN (Projection Designer) is a filmmaker and projection designer. He has designed nearly 100 productions both on and off Broadway, including: Hal Prince’s LoveMusik (Broadway); The Gospel at Colonus (Athens, Edinburgh and Spoleto Festivals); The Wind Up Bird Chronicle (Singapore and Edinburgh Festival); Brief Encounters and My Fair Lady (Shaw Festival); The Women of Brewster Place (Alliance/ Arena Stage); Christmas Carol 1941, Light in the Piazza and The Book Club Play (Arena Stage); Ghost Brothers of Darkland County (Alliance Theatre); big (Atlanta Ballet); Love Lies Bleeding, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy and Balletlujah (Alberta Ballet); From the House of the Dead (Canadian Opera); Lily Plants a Garden (Mark Taper); Maa (Atlanta Symphony/ GloAtl); Quartet (Aspen Santa Fe Ballet); Seed (Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet); Second Hand (New World Symphony); Black Whole (Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center / Moog Music); Le Martyre de St Sebastien and Peer Gynt (San Francisco Symphony); and recently Sight and Sound (Bard Music Festival). Adam holds a B.F.A. in cinematography from N.C. School of the Arts. His documentary about autism entitled Neurotypical premiered on PBS this July.

CELISE KALKE (Director of New Projects) is honored to work as dramaturg on her second production of a Lynn Nottage play, after Intimate Apparel at the Alliance, and excited to work with Leah Gardiner on a full production. Celise is thrilled to be working on the 10th anniversary season of the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwright Competition, with activities spanning the entire theatre for the entire year. Competition world premieres at the Alliance include these critically acclaimed and exciting productions: Bike America, Fairy Tale Lives of Russian Girls, Carapace, Tennis in Nablus, Smart Cookie, In the Red and Brown Water and False Creeds. Both Bike America and Fairy Tale Lives of Russian Girls are receiving important second and third productions this season. Before moving to the Alliance, Kalke was the director of the literary department at the Public Theater in New York and serving as the production dramaturg for the Shakespeare in Central Park productions. At the Public, she worked with many well-known actors including Jeffrey Wright, Mos Def, Ben Stiller, Jimmy Smits, Peter Dinklage and Rosie Perez. She was an artistic associate at Next Theatre and resident dramaturg for Court Theatre in Chicago.

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profiles across the United States (Cleveland Playhouse, San Jose Rep, Arizona Theatre Co., Maltz Jupiter, Trinity Rep, Arena Stage, MUNY, N. Carolina Black Rep) and has taken out several major tours. Her favorite shows include Broadway’s Stick Fly. Some favorite local shows include: Bring It On: The Musical, Zorro, The Nacirema Society, Broke, Dreamgirls, Sheddin’, Duke Ellington’s Sophisticated Ladies, Topdog/Underdog, Good People and Wit. She is a Line Producer/Executive Assistant for Winston-Salem’s National Black Theatre Festival. lark is the proud recipient of Howard University’s 2012 Distinguished Howard Player Award.

JAYSON T. WADDELL (Assistant Stage Manager) is proud to return to the Alliance Theatre! He has had the pleasure to work on such Alliance productions as Carapace, A Christmas Carol, Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, Broke, Spoon Lake Blues, Sex and the Second City, Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls, Next to Normal, Holidays With the Chalks, Bike America. Illinois Shakespeare Festival: Macbeth, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Shame the Devil: An Evening With Fanny Kemble. Jayson is a graduate of the Gainesville Theatre Alliance and a proud member of Actors Equity Association.

JODY FELDMAN (Associate Producer) began her theatre career as an actress in Atlanta before moving into administration as the assistant general manager at Frank Wittow’s Academy Theatre. Jody is the associate producer at the Alliance Theatre, where she started in 1991 as casting director. While at the Alliance, Jody has cast and produced more than 200 LORT B, D and TYA productions including a wide range of world premieres including The Last Night of Ballyhoo by Alfred Uhry, What I Learned in Paris by Pearl Cleage, Broke by Janece Shafer, In the Red and Brown Water by Tarell Alvin McCraney, and 10 years of Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition winning plays, as well as world and regional premiere musicals such as Aida, The Color Purple, Sister Act: The Musical, Bring It On: The Musical, Ghost Brothers of Darkland County and, most recently, Zorro. Jody is most proud of the thriving Alliance engagement activities and partnerships that recognize theatrical work as a catalyst for community conversation and connection.

SUSAN V. BOOTH (Jennings Hertz Artistic Director) joined the Alliance Theatre in 2001 and has initiated the Collision Project for teens, the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition, created local producing partnerships and has overseen regional collaborative productions as well as commercial partnerships on projects including Ghost Brothers of Darkland County; The Color Purple; Bring It On: The Musical; The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; Sister Act: The Musical; Bring in ’da Noise, Bring in ’da Funk; and Jesus Christ Superstar GOSPEL. As a director, she has worked at theatres including the Goodman, La Jolla Playhouse, New York Stage and Film, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Northlight Theatre, Victory Gardens, Court Theatre and many others. She holds degrees from Denison and Northwestern universities and was a fellow of the National Critics Institute and the Kemper Foundation. She has held teaching positions at Northwestern and DePaul universities, and serves as adjunct faculty with Emory University. She is the past president of the board of directors for Theatre Communications Group (the national service organization for the field), is on the artistic board of the Steinberg Charitable Trust in New York and is a trustee of Denison University.

Susan is married to Max Leventhal and is the proud mother of Moira Rose Leventhal. susan.booth@woodruffcenter.org

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“In By The Way, Meet Vera Stark, I discovered that Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Lynn Nottage is not only a woman who is fearless when it comes to illuminating hard truths, but that she also has a wicked sense of humor. Even as we witness Vera’s talent being viewed through a distorted racial lens that seeks to confine her to a certain kind of role, she emerges not as a victim, but as a fabulous force of nature with her wit, her glamour, and her self intact.”

– Pearl Cleage Alliance Theatre Playwright in Residence

Synopsis: By the Way, Meet Vera Stark is a 70-year journey through the life of Vera Stark, a headstrong African-American maid and budding actress, and her tangled relationship with her boss, a Hollywood star desperately grasping to hold onto her career. When circumstances collide and both women land roles in the same Southern epic, the story behind the cameras leaves Vera with a surprising and controversial legacy scholars will debate for years to come.

Do you appreciate live theatre, enjoy meeting new people and trying new things?

If so, then get involved with one of the largest volunteer forces in the arts. The Alliance Theatre volunteer STARS program offers a wide range of opportunities, which includes advocating for live theatre, ushering for Alliance productions, participating in and staffing fundraising & hospitality events, and assisting Alliance staff members with daily office tasks. STARS is composed of four separate organizations working together on fund-saving and fund-raising projects to benefit the theatre. The four volunteer groups are the Alliance Children’s Theatre Guild, Alliance Theatre Guild, the Direct Volunteers and the Usher Corps.

For more information on becoming a volunteer, please contact Shana Orr at shana.orr@ woodruffcenter.org or call 404.733.4761.

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KENDEDA TURNS TEN Anniversary season features new plays from old friends and 2014’s winner The Hertz Stage this season is home to an epic conflagration of imagination, talent and original voices. The four-show lineup introduces Atlanta audiences to new work by some of America’s brightest young playwrights — three old friends and one new one.

Together we’ll celebrate a milestone for the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition, an idea that took root 10 years ago and has grown stronger and more vibrant than we could ever have imagined. This one-of-a-kind national competition helps student playwrights in the country’s leading graduate programs make the transition to professional theatre.

It’s with pride and joy that we introduce you to our 2014 winner, Madhuri Shekar, from the University of Southern California, and welcome back Kenneth Lin (…,” said Said, 2006) and Meg Miroshnik (The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls, 2012). Choir Boy, by Tarell Alvin McCraney (In the Red and Brown Water, 2008), a coming-of-age story set in an all-boys prep school, just closed. In the midst of its run, McCraney was honored with a MacArthur Foundation 2013 “Genius” award.

Each of these is a new piece. The lineup for the rest of the season: Warrior Class. Oct. 25-Nov. 17. Lin’s critically acclaimed political thriller features an Asian-American candidate who’s being groomed for a big Republican race in New York City — unless a former girlfriend publicly besmirches his sterling reputation. Lin has become one of the most widely commissioned and produced Asian-American writers in the country.

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In Love and Warcraft. Jan. 31-Feb. 23, 2014. Evie, a master of relationships, is the focal point in Shekar’s world premiere. She has a waiting list of classmates willing to pay her top dollar to fix their relationships.

How does she do it? By using the skills and tactics she learned while becoming one of the best World of Warcraft players on the planet.

The Tall Girls. March 7-30, 2014. Sometimes basketball is the only way out. Even for a girl.

Even in the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. When a mysterious young man gets off the train in Poor Prairie, a few things are clear. He’s teaching at the high school, he knows the game, and he has the only inflated basketball in town.

Another world premiere from Miroshnik.

These four writers are part of a group of 50 extraordinary artists to have come through the Kendeda competition. The anniversary season also includes 12 readings and workshops by other alumni winners and finalists. Experiences have already included an exciting portrait of a drag family hosted by the Jungle and 570 people sobbing through a mother/ daughter reunion in the face of dementia.

Please email celise.kalke@woodruffcenter.org or check AllianceTheatre.org for details.

Photos, clockwise from far left: Tarell Alvin McCraney (Choir Boy); Kenneth Lin (Warrior Class); Meg Miroshnik (The Tall Girls), and Madhuri Shekar (In Love and Warcraft).

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about the alliance theatre Founded in 1968, the Alliance Theatre has become the leading theatre of the Southeast, creating the powerful experience of shared theatre for diverse audiences. The Alliance values excellence, pursued with integrity and creativity, and achieved through collaboration. Reaching more than 200,000 patrons annually, the Alliance delivers programming that challenges adult and youth audiences to think critically and care deeply. Under the leadership of Susan V. Booth, the Alliance received the 2007 Regional Theatre Tony Award in recognition of excellence.

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The Alliance, known for its artistic standards and national role in creating significant theatrical works, has premiered more than 70 original productions including Tony winners The Color Purple by Alice Walker and Alfred Uhry’s The Last Night of Ballyhoo. It has a reputation for developing important American musicals with a track record of Broadway, touring and subsequent productions, including the world premieres of Sister Act, Come Fly Away, Bring It On and the U.S. premiere of Zorro, with music by the Gipsy Kings. The Alliance nurtures the careers of playwrights through its Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition, producing a premiere for the winner and national networking opportunities for four finalists.

Active in Georgia classrooms, the Alliance has developed programs using theatre techniques to help students learn through storytelling and problem-solving.

The Alliance’s Institute for Educators and Teaching Artists equips teachers with theatrical techniques that link directly to school curriculum, align with the Georgia Performance Standards and increase student learning. These programs include GA Wolf Trap, which focuses on literacy skills for children in Pre-K – 2nd grade, and Dramaturgy K-12, in which students create research material that informs Alliance productions and prepares peer audiences. Twice recognized by the U.S. Education Department as leaders in arts education, these programs reflect the Alliance’s commitment to citywide arts access.

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The Acting Program and Education Department reaches nearly 50,000 students annually through performances, classes, drama camps and in-school initiatives.

The Alliance creates and produces plays for young audiences at every age level: from the Collision Project, where high school artists create and perform new work based on a classic text, to Theatre for the Very Young, creating interactive shows for infants and toddlers. The Alliance offers community education classes for all ages and levels of theatre interest, and adult student productions of unproduced plays in development.

The Alliance delivers the finest talent, art and educational opportunities for Atlanta audiences — proving once again that this is where great theatre lives.

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Victoria Palefsky Reade Fahs Dan Reardon Steve Chaddick

Directors Kristin R. Adams James Anderson Lynn Ayers Kenny Blank Philippa Ellis Daryl Evans Joseph W. Evans Howard Feinsand Molly Fuller Richard Goerss Andrew Golde, M.D. Pat Gunning Virginia A. Hepner Lila Hertz Jocelyn Hunter Rosthema Kastin

John Keller Lauren Kiefer James Kilberg William F. Kimble Jeff Levy Cynthia Maloy Alan McKeon Carol Meadows Hala Moddelmog Phil Moise Maureen Morrison Scarlet Pressley-Brown Helen Smith Price Patty Reid Maurice Rosenbaum Bill Rowland

Rita Anderson Ken Bernhardt Frank Chew Ann Cramer Linda Davidson

George Goodwin Laura Hardman Hays Mershon Richard S. Myrick Helen Regenstein

Life Directors

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Steve Selig Pam Sessions Frank Ski Bill Sleeper Bronson Smith Karen Spiegel John Strom Chuck Taylor Rosemarie Thurston Rebekah Wasserman Cynthia Widner Wall Peter Weitzner Jill Wilson P.J. Younglove Hovey Todd Zeldin

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Advisory Board Chair: Ann W. Cramer John Deushane Sally Dorsey Enid Draluck Cydnee Dubrof Diane Durgin Robert Eckardt Kathryn Farley, Ph.D. Donna Fitzmaurice Cindy Fowler Kevin Glass Patrice Greer Michael Harper Rita Izaguirre Stacii Jae Johnson Andrea Jones David Kuniansky Constance Lewis Kristie Madara Rosemary Magee Juanita Markwalter

Philip McAdoo Reese McCranie Alan McKnight, Jr. Penelope McPhee Dori Miller Mary Moore Starr Moore Cynthia M. Moreland Bill Nigut Kathryn Richard Georgia Schley Ritchie Candace Rodriguez Bobby Rosenbloum Jack Sawyer Chris Schneider Alan Schreihofer Sonny Seals The Honorable Leah Ward Sears Linda Selig

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Lynn Ayers Sarah Larson Jane Morgan

Janece Shaffer Jonathan Shapero Linda Silberman E. Kendrick Smith Lynda Smith Chandra StephensAlbright Charlita StephensWalker Todd A. Tautfest Wayne R. Vason Lynda Walker Bob Walker Aaron Watson Mary Williams Suzanne B. Wilner Joni Winston Paul Root Wolpe ©2013 Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Inc. All rights reserved.

Madelyn Adams Tracie Arnold Connie Austin Terri Bagen Michael Barrett Candace Bell Mark Bell Veronica Biggins Melanie Boltax Erin Brown Stephen Brown Donna Burchfield Catharine Burkett Susan Callaway Imara Canady Sona Chambers Tony Conway Jackie Cushman Sallie Daniel Debbie Dermer

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Alliance Sponsors are businesses, corporations and institutions that have supported the work of the Alliance Theatre. We thank them for their generosity and support.

★★★★★★★ $250,000+ The Coca-Cola Company The Goizueta Foundation The Kendeda Fund

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Wells Fargo Foundation

★★★★★★ $100,000+ Delta Airlines PNC

The Shubert Foundation Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.

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★★★★★ $50,000+ The Frances and Beverly DuBose Foundation Edgerton Foundation New American Plays Award Fulton County Arts & Culture

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★★★★ $25,000+ AT&T Atlanta Foundation Carters, Inc. City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs National Endowment for the Arts

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By attending our theatre, you have made a powerful statement about how important the arts are to you. With the 2013-14 Season, the Alliance Theatre turns 45. Help us celebrate the power of great theatre for 45 years by making another statement of support louder than any standing ovation. Visit our website at alliancetheatre.org and click on Donate.

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Major funding for this organization is provided by the Fulton County Board of Commissioners under the guidance of the Fulton County Arts Council.

This program is supported in

part by the Georgia Council for the Arts (GCA) through the appropriations from the Georgia General Assembly. GCA is a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation

deserves great art.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Major support is provided by the City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs.

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annual fund Victoria & Howard Palefsky

Helen Smith Price Patricia & Maurice Rosenbaum Rosemarie & David Thurston

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Barbara & Steve Chaddick James Starr Moore Memorial Foundation Sally G. Tomlinson

Gene G. Abel, M.D. & Nora Harlow Mrs. Kristin Adams James Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Austin Bill & Peg Balzer Lisa & Joe Bankoff Kathy & Ken Bernhardt Frank & Mary Anne Chew Ezra Cohen Charitable Trust Doug & Donna Curling Marcia & John Donnell Eve & Bob Eckardt Erin & John Heyman Mr. & Mrs. James C. Kennedy Philip I. Kent Foundation David L. Kuniansky Cynthia & Alan Maloy Mr. & Mrs. John S. Markwalter, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John Hays Mershon Dedi & Julian Mohr Mr. & Mrs. Solon P. Patterson Ms. Scarlett Pressley-Brown & Mr. Wendell Brown Hugh & Susanne Ripps Bill & Rhonda Rowland Dr. & Mrs. Dennis Lee Spangler Mr. & Mrs. John R. Strom Bruce Westbrook

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$25,000+ Mr. & Mrs. Howard Feinsand Dan & Garnet Reardon Joni Winston $10,000+ The Balloun Family Susan V. Booth & Max Leventhal Ansley & Mark Callaway Ann & Jeff Cramer Linda & Gene Davidson Diane & Daryl Evans Mr. & Mrs. Joseph W. Evans Mr. & Mrs. Reade Fahs Doris & Matthew Geller Dr. & Mrs. Andrew Golde David & Carolyn Gould Mr. Patrick J. Gunning Doug & Lila Hertz John & Angie Keller Mr. & Mrs. David E. Kiefer James & Lori Kilberg Mrs. J. Hicks Lanier Jeffrey C. Levy Mr. & Mrs. Steven J. Moddelmog Phil & Caroline Moïse Mr. & Mrs. Angus Morrison Richard S. & Winifred B. Myrick Stephen & Marjorie Osheroff Patty & Doug Reid Bob & Margaret Reiser Linda & Steve Selig Mr. & Mrs. H. Bronson Smith John & Karen Spiegel Lynne & Steve Steindel Chandra Stephens-Albright & Warren Albright Charlita Stephens-Walker, Charles* & Delores Stephens Chuck & Lisa Cannon-Taylor Mr. & Mrs. Ramon Tomé Rick & Terri Western Ramona & Ben White Suzy Wilner Amy & Todd Zeldin $7,500 - $9,999 The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation Marsha & Richard Goerss P.J. Younglove Hovey Jocelyn J. Hunter Andrea & Boland Jones Paul & Rosthema Kastin

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$2,500 - $4,999 Dr. & Mrs. Raymond Allen In honor of the Alliance Theatre Education Department Judy M. Anderson Ellen Arnovitz Balfour Beatty Construction Leslie Bassett & Family Ms. Susan Beallor-Snyder & Mr. Stuart Snyder Karen Beardslee & Susie McGinnis Ms. Beryl Bergquist Ron & Lisa Brill Charitable Trust Mr. & Mrs. W. Kent Canipe Mr. & Mrs. Edward S. Croft III Russell & Sandra Dawson Douglas & Camille Duerr Diane Durgin Eierman Foundation Philippa & Burrell Ellis The Elster Foundation John & Cindy Ethridge Kathryn T. Farley, PhD Dr. Cynthia J. Fordyce & Sharon Hulette Mr. & Mrs. Adam Fuller Mr. & MRs. John D. Fuller Mr. & Mrs. Barry Goheen Mrs. Carrie G. Hall John & Simone Hanson

annual fund Dr. & Mrs. John B. Hardman Virginia Hepner & Malcolm Barnes Henry & EttaRae Hirsch Foundation Pearlann & Jerry Horowitz Dr. & Mrs. John A. Johnson Leslie Leigh M.D. Dick Lyon Kristie L. Madara Mr. & Mrs. Paul P. Mattingly Mr. Alan B. McKeon & Ms. Evelyn Ashley Melanie & S. Alan McKnight, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. James D. Meadows Nancy & Mike Millett Mr. Walter W. Mitchell Morgens West Foundation Kathleen Nixon & Gregory Berkey Susan & David Peterson David & Sharon Schachter Alan & Cyndy Schreihofer Sonny & Jeanne Seals Charlotte & Tom Shields Brian Shively & Jim Jinhong Mr. & Mrs. Mark Silberman William & Margarita Sleeper Oronda M. Smith Southern States LLC Henry N. & Margaret P. Staats Taylar Development Karen & Alex Stickney Maria-Ruth Storts Jim & Janie Stratigos Mr. James Thomas Michael & June Tompkins Tull Charitable Foundation Kimberly & Kevin Walther Susan & Tom Wardell Janice M. Warner Penn & Sally Wells Joan N. Whitcomb John & Kathy Zamer $1,500 - $2,499 Judge Gregory A. Adams & Wanda Adams Elaine & Miles Alexander Theodore & Andrea Altholz Rita & Ted Anderson Mr. & Mrs. William Andrade Mary Allen Arnold JW Ayers Plumbing, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. John Bacheller, Jr. Elizabeth & John Bacon James & Therese Bailey Mr. Mrs. Michael Barrett Mr. & Mrs. Basaraba Candace & Jeff Bell Mark & Pam Bell Mr. & Mrs. Mark Blumenthal George H. Boulineau Ginny & Charles Brewer Sara & Alex Brown Susan & Tom Callaway Mark & Ruth Coan

Alliance donors provide over $1.2 million to the Annual Fund and Annual Fundraising events so that we can continue to present exceptional theatre and educational programs to our community. We are deeply grateful for their support. *Gifts processed as of September 1, 2013.

Stephen Brown Dr. & Mrs. Mark Cook Tim D. Couch Mr. & Mrs. James L. Curry Mr. & Mrs. Adams Daniel Julia & André Demetrius Mr. & Mrs. James C. Edenfield Drs. Bryan & Norma Edwards Ralph & Ree Edwards Dr. & Mrs. Norman Elliott Ms. Elizabeth R. Etoll Tim & Tina Eyerly Fantastic Finds & Fantastic Finds For Him Michael & Jody Feldman Andrew & Wendie Fisher Mike Flueckinger Viki & Paul Freeman Heidi & David Geller Mr. Andrew L. Ghertner Patrice & Earnest Greer Mrs. Kristin Hathaway Hanesn & Norman Hansen Dr. Steven & Marnie Harris Joan & David Herskovits Mr. & Mrs. J. Michael Hostinsky Dr. Joyce F. Houser Linda & Richard Hubert Mr. & Mrs. James E Hugh, III Richard & Marcia Jacobson Robert A. Jetmundsen Dr. & Mrs. Michael Kalson Lucy Kinnaird Dr. Shirley Williams-Kirksey Dr. William A. Kiser Steven & Sheri Labovitz Lanier-Goodman Foundation J. Bancroft Lesesne Julie & Billy Levine Conchita Heyn & Robert Lichtefeld Lubo Fund LTC. (Ret) Eugene Martin The McGee Group Sally & Tom McNulty Mr. & Mrs. Nathan Metzger Ms. Nancy Mitchell June M. Morrison Mr. & Mrs. Charles Moseley Joyce & Michael Natbony Neuro Tour Physical Therapy, Inc. Kathy Pais John & Helen Parker Bill & Carey Peard Ms. Kathleen Pendergraft Edwin Perkins & Elicia Scaife Peg Petersen Sam & Barbara Pettway Karen Porch Don & Rosalinda Ratajczak Kathryn & John Richard Dr. Susan Rifkin & Mr. David Rifkin Peter & Alice Rogers Dr. & Mrs. Charles Rosenberg

Mr. & Mrs. Mark Rosenberg The Honorable Leah W. Sears & Mr. Haskell Ward Mr. Scott Shickler Martin & Patricia Silbiger A. Boyd Simpson & Melody Mann-Simpson Dr. Marjorie & Quentin Smith Susan & Alan Stiefel Michelle Sutter Kimberly S. Tribble & Mark S. Lange Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth G. Taylor The Tolson Firm Joshua & Zenobia Trexler Van Laar Skin Care Ms. Ann Westbrook J.M. Wilkerson Construction Company Jeannie Wynn

Lynne Winship Holly & Marty York The Zaban Foundation Lynn T. Zappone * Deceased

$1,000 - $1,499 Mr. & Mrs. Robert Arogeti Mr. & Mrs. Michael P. Barrett Mr. Donald Bonar & Mr. Elmer Langham David H. & Christine T. Cofrin In Memory of George Mason Coleman Terry & Sharon Culp Brad & Sally Currey Mr. & Mrs. Michael DePinto Mr. & Mrs. David E. Dermer Mr. & Mrs. John Deushane Ms. Patricia L. Dickey Karen & David Dorton Enid & Jerry Draluck The Galloway Foundation in honor of Dr. Andrew Golde Mr. & Mrs. John J. Gillin Ron Grapevine & Rosemary Magee Sherry & Isaac Habif Valerie Hartman Mr. & Mrs. Mark Hayler Mrs. Elaine L. Hentschel Mark Hobson Mr. & Mrs. Thomas B. Hyman, Jr. Mr. David Stockert & Ms. Cameron Ives Kay H. & Burke C. Jones Gary C. & Carolyn A. Lovett William McDaniel Ann Starr & Kent Nelson Mr. & Mrs. Markham D. Oswald Ms. Del Podsiadlo Ms. Rebecca J. Reeves Kevin Ruhl Gary, Cannon, Frankie & Trey Sayers Sharon & Chip Shirley Philip Slaughter Susan & Jay Smith Ann Starr & Kent Nelson Bob Sullivan Elizabeth Wallace & Chris Scislowicz Melody Wilder Wilson

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Legacy Society The following are members of the Legacy Society who are ensuring the future strength of the Alliance Theatre through planned gifts to benefit the Theatre. The Legacy Society is the special recognition group for those who have included the Theatre or any component of the Woodruff Arts Center in their estate plans. For more information about making a planned gift to benefit the Alliance Theatre, contact Maya Robinson, Major Contributions Manager at 404.733.4710 or maya.robinson@woodruffcenter.org Rita M. Anderson Anonymous Betty Blondeau-Russell Jim & Anne Breedlove Ezra Cohen Ann & Jeff Cramer Mr. & Mrs. Edward S. Croft, III Sallie Adams Daniel Linda & Gene Davidson Laura & John Hardman

Glen E. & Nancy Hesler P.J. Younglove Hovey William C. Hyde Virginia Vann & Ken Large Mr. & Mrs. John Hays Mershon Mr. & Mrs. John McColskey Phil & Caroline Moïse Jan Pomerantz Helen M. Regenstein Bob & Margaret Reiser

Neal & Tricia Schachtel Mr. & Mrs. Charles B. Shelton, III Jane E. Shivers Wayne & Lee Harper Vason Rick & Terri Western Ramona & Ben White Lynne Winship

Matching Gift Companies We would like to thank the following companies who have donated matching gifts to the Alliance Theatre’s Annual Fund. Please check to see if your employer will match your contribution.

American Express American Honda Motor Co. AIG Corporation Aon Corporation AT&T Bank of America Bryan Cave-Powell Goldstein Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. Chubb & Son, Inc. CIGNA Corporation Citigroup Foundation

The Coca-Cola Company Equifax, Inc. Federated Department Stores Inc. GE Energy Home Depot Foundation IBM Corporation JPMorgan Chase Kimberly-Clark Foundation Macy’s Foundation McDonald’s Corporation Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

Microsoft Corporation NDCHealth Norfolk Southern Corporation Prudential Financial Sprint SunTrust Foundation Time Warner, Inc. UPS Verizon Corporation Yahoo!

Jennings Hertz Artistic Director . . . . . . . Susan V. Booth Sally G. Tomlinson Artistic Director of Theatre for Youth . . . . . . . . . . Rosemary Newcott Associate Producer . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jody Feldman Director of New Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . Celise Kalke Playwright in Residence . . . . . . . . . . . . Pearl Cleage Community Engagement Manager . . . . . . Michael Winn Artistic Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . Margo Moskowitz Artistic Intern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Emily Kleypas Literary Interns . . . . . . . . . . . Rachel Linn, Levi Jelks Kenny Leon Fellow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Emily Kelly

Education

Director of Educational Programs . . . Christopher Moses Director, Institute for Educators and Teaching Artists . . . . . . . . . . . Michele Mummert Education Coordinator & Producer of Drama Camps . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christina Dresser Education Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rachel Jones Theatre for the Very Young Coordinator . . . . Olivia Aston Resident Artist in Education . . . . . . . Patrick McColery Resident Teaching Artists . . . . Kim Bowers-Rheay Baran, Valetta Anderson Teen Programs Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . Sarah Wallis Project Coordinator, Institute for Educators and Teaching Artists . . . . . . . . . . Mary Alice Nichols Education Communications Manager . . . . . . . . J. Noble Teaching Artists . . . . Ricardo Aponte, Paul Armbruster, Olivia Aston, Sharon Brewer, Katie Grace Brown, Daniel Brown, Kristin Calvert, Sarah Lancaster Cave, Jaehn Clare, Steve Coulter, Jessica De Maria, John Doyle, Sharon Foote, Polly Garcia, Allison Gardner, Kimberly Geter, Trevor Goble, Neeley Gossett, Garrett Gray, Terry Guest, Holly Godwin, Al Hamacher, Amy Handler, Michele Hazard, BJ Hughes, John Jaramillio, Rachel Jones, LeeAnna Lambert, Amy Lucas, Barry Stewart Mann, Bryan Mercer, Marcie Millard Tracy V. Moore, Claire Ritzler, Diany Rodriquez, Kirk Seaman, Linda Sherbert, Sheri Mann Stewart, Michael Stiggers, Shirnest Tolbert, Ebony Tucker, Jeremy Varner, Davia Weatherill, Elizabeth Wexler

Production Management Costumes

Costume Shop Manager . . . . . . . . . . Carol Hammond Design Assistant . . . . . . English Benning, Lea Preston Drapers . . . . . . . . . . Julie Kennedy, Cindy Lou Who Stitchers/First Hands . . . . . . . . . . . . . Laury Conley, Lyudmila Fesenko, Maegan Robinson Wardrobe Supervisors . . . . . . John Hardy, Niki Traxler Costume Shop Intern . . . . . . . . . . . . April Andrews

Electrics

Electrics Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pete Shinn Staff Electricians . . . . . . . . Steve Jordan, Steven Love, Jenn Trippe Additional Electricians . . . . . Heather Pynne, Tara O’Neill

Properties

Properties Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert Elliott Master Artisan . . . . . . . . . . Suzanne Cooper Morris Properties Buyer/Artisan . . . . . . . . Heather Schroeder Properties Artisan . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bruce Butkovich Additional Artisan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elizabeth Lyons Technical Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kyle Longwell Assistant Technical Director . . . . . . . . . . . Megan Kier Shop Foreman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patrick Conley Carpenters . . . . . . . . . . Manny Abreo, Erin Canfield, Jonathan Fries, Michael Lyons Charge Scenic Artist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kat Conley Scenic Artist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jenna Engelmann

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Administration/Finance

Director of Finance & Administration . . . . . . Brian Shively Company Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . Laura Thruston Manager of Information Resources . . . . . . . Jim Hubbert Accounting Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Julie Hall Accounting Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . Ashley Bradford

Development

Director of Development . . . . . Kristin Hathaway Hansen Corporate Relations Officer . . . . . . . . . . . Paige Smith Major Contributions Manager . . . . . . . . Maya Robinson Special Events & Board Coordinator . . . . . . Bryan Saxon Grants Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . Rebecca Levenberg Development Coordinator . . . . . . . Janet Abercrombie Development Volunteer . . . . . . . . . . Elaine Hentschel

Marketing

Director of Marketing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gary Sayers Brand Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caroline Tanner Communications Manager . . . . . . . Kathleen Covington Online Marketing Manager . . . . . . . . . . . John Maley Creative Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Talia Bromstad Marketing Volunteer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Don Vann Group Services Coordinators . . . . . . . . Celeste Mercer, Kate McNeely Engagement Marketing Manager . . . . . . Kelundra Smith Marketing Intern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jenna Harris Ticketing & Patron Services Manager . . . . . . . Shana Orr Marketing Communications Coordinator . . . Holland Baird House Managers . . . Olivia Aston, Dana Hylton Calabro, Christina Dresser, Ken McNeil, Margo Moskowitz, Lynn Vatter Assistant Manager Season Tickets . . . . . . Danielle Hicks Senior Ticket Agents . . . . . . . Chad Martin, Ken McNeil

Production

Director of Production . . . . . . . . . . . . Victor W. Smith

Scenery

ArtsVibe Teen Ensemble . . . Adia Barlow, Carolyn Rogan, Delly Fears, Dori Waymer, Emily Russ, Jackie Kenny, Jaelen Tyner, Lucy Brooks, Nick O’Neill, Pedro Rios, Rachel Jordan, Saharah Jiminez, Shaina McLawrence, Shelby Bice, Torreke Evans, Zoe Nuhfer

Stage Management

Alliance Stage Managers . . . . . . . . . . . lark hackshaw Liz Campbell, R. Lamar Williams Alliance Assistant Stage Manager . . . . Jayson T. Waddell Hertz Stage Management . . . . . . . . . . Jon Goldstein, Tia Herrod Stage Management Apprentice . . . . . . Prenecia Brooks, Haylee Scott TYF Stage Management . . . . . . . . . . . Barbara Gantt TYF Stage Management . . . . . . . . . . . Erin Sanchez Production Assistant

Stage Operations

Stage Operations Manager . . . . . . . . . . . Scott Bowne Crew Chief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vincent Simmons Flyman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Willie Parks Properties Stagehand . . . . . . . . . . . Courtney O’Neill Stagehand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Deb Maberry Additional Stagehand . . . . . . . . . . . . Jon Goldstein, Russell Michniak

Sound

Resident Sound Designer . . . . . . . . . . . Clay Benning Sound Engineers/Board Ops . . . . . . . . . Holly Blakely, Michelle Jarvis, Hidenori Nakajo Sound Design Intern . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ashley Singer

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had in its movies — maids, cooks, domestic workers. The play, which has been called a “satire” and a “sharp-toothed comedy” dates back a few years to the night Nottage was watching a 1933 Barbara Stanwyck movie called Baby Face on Turner Classic Movies. That’s when African-American singer-actress Theresa Harris caught her eye.

Harris played Chico, the confidante of Stanwyck’s character. Their on-screen friendship knocked convention on its backside. Their relationship was fuller and far less stereotypical than what was seen in most movies of the time, according to Nottage.

“They were sitting at the same table,” Nottage recalls. “I thought, ‘Wow, I have never seen that in a movie of the 1930s.’ It led me to investigate the role of AfricanAmerican women in the ’20s and ’30s, up until today. This character became my means of investigation.”

by the way,

MEET LYNN NOTTAGE

By Kathy Janich

On her Twitter account, Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright Lynn Nottage describes herself as “playwright, theatremaker and activist.”

On her website, the nouns are “playwright, hunter and gatherer.”

and colleagues alike as “one of our finest playwrights,” “a smart, empathetic and daring storyteller” and a writer “who tells a story an audience won’t expect.”

That gives you some idea about the woman described by critics

With By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, Nottage looks at old Hollywood and the roles African-American women

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Vera Stark is a composite, a character formed from the data Nottage dug up during her sleuthing. She’s part Theresa Harris, part Nina Mae McKinney (1929’s Hallelujah) and part of many other women who played minor roles in early Hollywood.

Nottage became their champion.

“I want these women to be seen above all else,” the playwright says. “I want their talent to be recognized. I want their struggles to be recognized.”

The Brooklyn-born Nottage, now 48, grew up going to the theatre.

Although she wrote plays and staged them in her family’s living room (with her brother as her principal actor), she didn’t realize until late in

college that playwriting could be a viable career. Growing up, the only woman playwright she remembers reading was Lorraine Hansberry.

That changed when she met Paula Vogel, a playwright of note, one of her first playwriting teachers, a mentor and a friend.

Nottage’s work, says Vogel “explores depths of humanness, the overlapping complexities of race, gender, culture and history — and the startling simplicity of desire — with a clear tenderness, with humor, with compassion.”

Both student and teacher are Pulitzer Prize winners — Nottage in 2009 for Ruined (set in the Congo during its civil war), Vogel in 1998 for How I Learned to Drive. And even though women playwrights aren’t produced at the pace men are, Nottage says she can now list more than twodozen female playwrights, both black and white, who work steadily.

Nottage right now is working on the libretto for an opera version of her play Intimate Apparel (seen by Alliance audiences in 2006) and early into a play about how poverty is reshaping the American myth.

She’s not far enough to say more.

Vera Stark, however, never seems far from her consciousness. The Alliance is one of seven companies staging the piece this season, and the character’s life doesn’t stop at the footlights. Her invented history is detailed on two websites — findingverastark.com and meetverastark.com — used by Nottage to continue exploring the character and the mythology of the play.

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The Woodruff Circle

The Woodruff Arts Center and our four artistic partners – the Alliance Theatre, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, High Museum of Art and Young Audiences – rely on the generosity of those donors whose support extends to all parts of our organization. The members of The Woodruff Circle each contributed more than $250,000 to our efforts last year. We are deeply grateful to these 34 partners who help to ensure the arts thrive in our city.

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$250,000 - $499,999

Yolandra & Joseph Alexander Gordon W. Bailey Debrah & Harris Feinn Georgia Power Foundation, Inc. The Goizueta Foundation Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Mabel Dorn Reeder Foundation Pamela & Douglass Selby Margaretta Taylor Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. The Robert W. Woodruff Foundation

A Friend of The Woodruff Arts Center (3) AT&T Bank of America Charitable Foundation Pamela & Oliver Cobb The Community Foundation* for Greater Atlanta, Inc. Deloitte, its Partners & Employees Equifax, Inc. & Employees Fulton County Arts Council The Home Depot Foundation Sarah & Jim Kennedy

PNC PwC, Partners & Employees The Rich Foundation, Inc. Mrs. William A. Schwartz SunTrust Foundation, SunTrust Bank Employees and The SunTrust Trusteed Foundations: Florence C. & Harry L. English Memorial Fund and Greene-Sawtell Foundation UPS Zeist Foundation, Inc. Donations made from June 1, 2012- May 31, 2013

The Patron Circle

Each year the Woodruff Arts Center raises critical dollars in support of the organization’s day-to-day operations through the Annual Campaign. The Patron Circle contributors helped us exceed a $9.2 million goal, ensuring that our artistic partners continue to bring the best in visual and performing arts, as well as arts education, to millions of people in the years ahead. $500,000+

$200,000+

$150,000+

The Coca-Cola Company* Georgia Power Foundation, Inc.*

AT&T The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, Inc. Deloitte, its Partners & Employees* Equifax Inc. & Employees Ernst & Young, Partners & Employees The Sara Giles Moore Foundation SunTrust Foundation, SunTrust Bank Employees and The SunTrust Trusteed Foundations: Florence C. & Harry L. English Memorial Fund and Greene-Sawtell Foundation*

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