Alliance Theatre: Into the Burrow, October - December 2023

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Attend the Tale of Peter Rabbit™! We’re thrilled you made it into the burrow for this momentous occasion — the first time human beings have been invited to glimpse this vibrant and secretive underground animal world. A world where Beatrix Potter’s beloved animals live full lives and do much more than domestic chores and sip chamomile tea. With her scientific eye, Beatrix Potter showed us that the more you examine the natural world, the more miraculous and wondrous it appears. In this burrow, these tiny animals dream, dance, sing, struggle, and support one another. They share the land, share their grief and uphold the community. But if you look closer (and Beatrix Potter always did), mild peril is always lurking. One wrong move, and Mr. McGregor might bake you into a pie! Yet look closer still, and you just might find hope in the least likely of places or healing in the very things that frighten you.

So thank you for making this journey. When you leave the burrow, make sure to head over to the High Museum to experience Beatrix Potter’s original paintings and sketches in their stunning exhibition, Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature. And before you return to your own chores and chamomile tea, take a minute to look closer. There is awe and wonder hiding in even the smallest of things.

Tinashe Kajese-Bolden Artistic Director & Christopher Moses Artistic Director

MAKING A WONDERFUL WORLD FOR EVERYONE

Writer-Director Mark Valdez on Rehearsals, Mental Health, and A Certain Little Rabbit

STORY BY Ashley Elliott

Mark Valdez describes the call he got from the Alliance Theatre asking him to write and direct Into the Burrow: A Peter Rabbit™ Tale as “one of the best phone calls [he has] ever gotten.”

“Of course, I immediately said yes!” he says. “For many years now, I have been curious and interested in creating immersive pieces that let the audience be a part of the action. Their presence is important to the action of the story. The characters can see them. There is no fourth wall. This aspect of the project was very exciting.”

Although Valdez didn’t grow up with the Peter Rabbit™ stories, he was familiar with the name and, over the course of this project, has become a huge fan. “[Beatrix Potter’s] illustrations are so good! There’s detail — the fur, the color, the eyes; she’s a master artist. And what I appreciate about her stories is that they are not sentimental — quite the opposite, really. They are often very matter-of-fact. They can be sweet, but they’re never treacly. And when bad things happen, the animals find ways of moving forward, which I really like.”

These animals are very important to Valdez as well. Although he says that writing a story based on such beloved characters is “exciting and daunting,” he really enjoyed fleshing out the characters. “Peter Rabbit™ and the other [characters] are a mainstay of our culture,” he says. “It was very exciting (and more than a little daunting!) to have the opportunity to create a new story for these well-known figures.”

To begin the process, he spent a lot of time with the original stories, poring over the illustrations and trying

to imagine each character’s life beyond the page. “For instance,” he says, “I was asking myself, ‘What do they sound like? What would they do at a party? What is the thing they most enjoy and that makes them laugh?’ By asking these questions, I got to know them better and then I was able to select which ones needed to be in this play. I knew I wanted them each to have a talent or skill, so part of my imagining was picturing them performing for each other. That was a fun exercise.”

The characters he ended up selecting to be featured in Into the Burrow: A Peter Rabbit™ Tale, were Benjamin Button, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, Squirrel Nutkin, Mr. Alderman Ptolemy Tortoise, Jeremy Fisher, Mr. McGregor, and, of course, Peter. By parsing out the relationships the characters have with each other in the books, he was able to select the ones that he felt would carry along the story. “I could recognize them as a community, as friends. That informed the message I want to convey, which is that we need each other to get us through the difficult moments and to celebrate the wonderful times, too. Community and friendship are important. And sharing the land and the food. It’s about taking care of each other in all the different ways.”

When describing the rehearsal process, Valdez says it involves “a lot of working and a lot of laughing.” There have been a few workshops with test audiences before the official rehearsal process started, and the overwhelmingly positive feedback gave Valdez and the entire creative team the energy to go forward, knowing they were on the right track. In the rehearsal room, they spend time at a table (“doing a lot of talking to make sure we are all on the same page, understanding how the story is unfolding and how the characters are changing”) and then time staging the show, on their feet (“making sure that movement can help tell the story, which is everything from the way characters walk and move to the pictures we create with all the bodies on the set”).

“The thing that remains consistent, though,” Valdez adds, “is the sense of fun. I try very hard to make space for the actors to be playful, to manifest joy, especially in a story like this that’s about friendship and community.”

One thing that was very important to both Valdez and his partners at the Alliance from the very beginning of the process was the emphasis on mental health and maintaining healthy coping skills. Although these subjects of conversation may seem too heavy to discuss with children, they are crucial. Valdez and his team integrate this topic well in the play, giving kids a great opportunity to jumpstart conversations with their grownups.

Mark Valdez

“At one point Peter lashes out,” Valdez says, describing one of these discussion starting points. “His feelings are too big for his little body and all he can do is get angry. Not because he’s mad, but because he’s frustrated that he doesn’t know how to talk about it, and that frustration builds up and becomes anger. I want young people to be able to see this so that they know it’s okay and for them to know that they can be sad sometimes. I want them to also know that they have friends and family to help them get through those difficult times.”

“I think the last few years have been very hard on everybody,” Valdez continues, “and especially [hard on] young people because grownups sometimes forget that young people experience the same sense of loss, grief, and trauma as adults. We try so hard to shield young people from these difficult things that we convince ourselves that youth don’t feel these things. The truth is that young people feel all the feelings that adults do, they just don’t always have all the words to talk about them [in] the ways that grownups can.”

When asked what he hopes audiences leave the building with, Valdez says he hopes that he and the entire cast and creative team can “make clear the message of community — that we all need each other. This plays out in multiple ways — that humans and animals need to share the land to live together. We need our friends to help us get through the difficult times in our lives. Throughout the play we repeat this saying: ‘Take care of your friends; take care of the land. Share your food and lend a helping hand.’ If everyone can remember that, if they can carry that message in their hearts, then I think we can make a truly wonderful world for everyone.”

Jayla Dyas, Director/Writer Mark Valdez, Artistic Director Christopher Moses, and Collins Desselle at the first rehearsal for Into the Burrow. Photo by Aniska Tonge.

FURTHER INTO THE BURROW

STUDY GUIDE CREATED BY Courtney Moors-Hornick, Teaching Artist Rebecca Pogue, Head of Elementary School Programs

As the audience enters through the doors leading down to the Hertz Stage, they walk into a Beatrix Potter landscape, with charming cottages in the distance. There are trees, painted and real. One tree leads into an underground lair. This is the world that Ms. Potter’s animals inhabit.

Once we walk “into the burrow,” we are in Peter’s house, which he shares with his siblings, Mopsy, Flopsy, and Cotton-tail. The audience stays in the burrow throughout the whole play, but the animal characters leave the burrow to visit Mr. McGregor’s farm.

Peter and the other rabbits in the story live in the burrow, the main setting for our story. A burrow is a hole dug underground where rabbits can eat and sleep. Peter’s burrow is bright and bold in color and is a place where he can socialize with his dearest friends.

Audience members are invited into the burrow to celebrate Peter’s birthday. How do you think the animals will react to seeing humans in the burrow?

Rabbit burrow with rabbits inside and outside. © Steve Shott/Getty

When Peter and his friends visit Mr. McGregor’s Garden, the play uses shadow puppetry to show what is happening to the characters outside of the burrow.

Shadow puppetry is a form of theatrical performance that originated in China and on the Indonesian islands of Java and Bali. This type of puppetry often includes music, singing, and the shadows of puppets cast onto a screen to tell a story. Flat images are manipulated by the puppeteers between a bright light and a translucent screen, on the other side of which sits the audience. The contrast and movement between light and shadow bring the puppet characters to life.

The shadow puppetry in today’s performance was designed by Raymond Carr and has been pre-recorded.

Source: https://studycli.org/chinese-culture/chinese-traditional-shadow-plays/

Taken from the Alliance Theatre Institute Study Guide.

Peter’s house. Source: The World of Peter Rabbit™ Beatrix Potter™ Tool Kit

BEHIND THE WOMAN, BEATRIX POTTER

WRITTEN BY Amanda Watkins

Beatrix Potter’s beloved children’s tales have inspired readers for well over a century. The animals and places breathed to life in stories such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit™, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, and The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle have stood the test of time. They continue to delight households over bedtime reading and to educate young people in classroom story time. Potter’s writing is elegant, without being dusty; it’s smart, while still being accessible; her stories are simple and sweet, without being treacly. A craft like this paints characters with extraordinary staying power — a wealth of friends with whom we can grow and learn. Her skill as a writer is only matched by her skill as an illustrator, a talent she first started to hone at the age of eight, while spending summer holidays in Perthshire, Scotland.

A less well-known fact about Beatrix Potter is that she was an ardent conservationist, with a fierce love of nature and animals. Spending summers in Scotland, and later in the mountainous regions of the Lake District, Potter was given an escape to open air natural habitats, away from the somewhat oppressive expectations of a young woman in England’s Victorian Era. She had a variety of pets (which she drew constantly), from mice to hedgehogs, and even a collection of butterflies. She was fascinated by almost all natural sciences and even developed theories (including one on reproduction) that, because of her sex and amateur status, were rebuked.

An entrepreneur at heart, Potter sketched and painted her own greeting cards to send to friends, while away on holiday. Upon hearing that her former governess’ son was ill, she illustrated a letter in the form of a short story about a rabbit named Peter (inspired by her own pet) and his three siblings, thus launching her career as an illustrator and writer. Gaining independence from the sales of the books that followed, Potter began to buy parcels of land that protected the open fields where sheep grazed as well as woodlands and land that channeled rainfall. She became involved in community planning, resisting developers and restoring and preserving farms.

A creative thinker, an entrepreneur, a conservationist. All of these titles that can be attributed to the legacy behind the name Beatrix Potter are ever present in her carefully drawn characters that inspire Into the Burrow: A Peter Rabbit™ Tale. In today’s production, behind the rally cry of Peter’s “Let’s take back the garden!” you can hear young Potter’s frustration at not being taken seriously by other scientists when she took her findings about lichens to the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. When Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle thinks creatively and uses her tap dancing to set off the traps in Mr. McGregor’s garden, you can see Potter as a young woman lifting up friends and family with beautifully illustrated greeting cards. When Mr. Jeremy Fisher screams “Let’s do it for the butterflies!” you can sense Beatrix Potter, the conservationist. Behind all of the characters in her writings, you will have a peak at the real writer and illustrator Beatrix Potter, a woman ahead of her time.

Beatrix Potter (Photograph from Hulton Archive / Getty)

I Spy at the Theater!

Can you find each of these items in the theater today? A blue jacket

Spike tape (colorful tape on the floor of the stage)

Take Care of Your Friends, Take Care of the Land

Mr. McGregor is destroying the plants our friends in the Burrow need in order to survive! He’s chopping down trees, mowing over bushes, and leaving Peter and his friends without their natural habitats. How could Mr. McGregor and the animals share the land peacefully and equally?

Draw a picture to demonstrate how people and animals might co-exist on Mr. McGregor’s farm.

The holiday classic, told with beautiful live music in an elaborate new staging.

By CHARLES DICKENS

The posting of photos taken before the show, during intermission, or in our lobbies is not only allowed but strongly encouraged! We do kindly ask that you refrain from taking pictures, recording audio, or capturing video during the performance to allow our audiences and performers to stay connected with each other during our brief time together.

Our stories are not simply told for you, but with you.

Adapted by DAVID H. BELL

Directed by CAITLIN HARGRAVES

Based

THE ALLIANCE THEATRE

TINASHE KAJESE-BOLDEN Artistic

Director

&

MIKE SCHLEIFER Managing Director

present

CHRISTOPHER MOSES

Artistic Director

CHRISTIAN ALBRIGHT AND CHRISTIAN MAGBY BRANDON BUSH ANNMARIE MILAZZO DIVINITY ROXX

ORIGINAL SONGS BY JACOB RYAN SMITH EUGENE RUSSELL IV

CHOREOGRAPHY RACHEL VAN BUSKIRK

SCENIC DESIGN KAT CONLEY

MUSIC SUPERVISION BRANDON BUSH

COSTUME DESIGN GARRY LENNON

SOUND DESIGN HIDENORI NAKAJO

CASTING JODY FELDMAN

MUSIC DIRECTION/ORCHESTRATIONS IMANI QUIÑONES

LIGHTING DESIGN KARIN OLSON

SHADOW PUPPET DESIGN/FILMOGRAPHY RAYMOND CARR

STAGE MANAGEMENT BARBARA GANTT O’HALEY*

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY MARK VALDEZ

YOUTH & FAMILY SERIES SPONSOR HERTZ STAGE SERIES SPONSOR

PETER RABBIT™ & BEATRIX POTTER™ © Frederick Warne & Co., 2023. Frederick Warne & Co. is the owner of all rights, copyrights and trademarks in the Beatrix Potter character names and illustrations. Licensed by Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Into the Burrow: A Peter Rabbit™ Tale is presented by special arrangement with Frederick Warne & Co Limited.

CAST

*SHELLI DELGADO Squirrel Nutkin

*PAMELA GOLD Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle

JONTAVIOUS JOHNSON

Mr. Alderman Ptolemy Tortoise

KYLIE GRAY MASK Benjamin Bunny

*WESLEY TUNISON Jeremy Fisher/Mr. McGregor

*JUAN CARLOS UNZUETA Peter

HALLI RIDER

CAMERON SMITH

Benjamin Bunny

Ptolemy Tortoise

MATTHEW WANGEMANN Jeremy Fisher

MUSIC TEAM

IMANI QUIÑONES Conductor/Keyboard

CHRIS GRAVELY Drums

DAVID SCHROEDER Bass & Guitar

STAGE MANAGERS

* BARBARA GANTT O’HALEY

*WESLEY TUNISON

SAMANTHA HONEYCUTT

PRODUCTION AND DESIGN ASSISTANCE

SAMANTHA PROVENZANO Associate Director

CHRISTOPHER MOSES Co-Line Producer

AMANDA WATKINS Co-Line Producer

HANANYA ALLEN Casting Assistant

LAWRENCE BENNETT Co-Production Management Lead

HAYLEE SCOTT Co-Production Management Lead

PAMELA GOLD Dance Captain

JAYLA DYAS Script Supervisor

FOR THIS PRODUCTION

MONICA SPEAKER, LAURA SANDERS

TAMIR EPLAN-FRANKEL.

Mixer

CHARLES BEDELL-ROBINSON, SAWYER GRAY . . . . . . . . . . Deck Sound

DANIEL SILVA, ADIRAH ROBINSON Stagehands

NATHAN PETERS Light Board Op/Programmer

SPECIAL THANKS

Courtney Moors-Hornick

Kim Bowers-Rheay Baran

Emily Gardner and her third-grade gifted class from the Museum School of Avondale Estates (2022-23 school year)

SONG LIST

“Today’s The Day” — Jacob Ryan Smith

“Tippy Tap” — Eugene Russell IV

“A Little Wet Never Hurt Anyone” — Christian Magby (music) & Christian Albright (lyrics)

“For The Butterflies” — AnnMarie Milazzo

“The Heist” — Brandon Bush

“Humans” — Jacob Ryan Smith

“Fresh Greens” — Divinity Roxx

“Tomorrow (Into The Burrow)” — Jacob Ryan Smith

*Denotes a member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States

The Alliance Theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States, and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, an independent national labor union. The Alliance Theatre at the Woodruff is a member of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the American theatre, and is a member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT), the International Association of Theatre for Children and Young Audiences (ASSITEJ/USA), The Atlanta Coalition of Theatres, the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau, and the Midtown Alliance.

Photos may be taken in the theater before the performance, and following the performance. If you share your photos, please credit the designers.

Photos, videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited, is a violation of United States Copyright Law, and is an actionable Federal Offense.

This

show runs approximately forty-five minutes with no intermission.

PATTY DE LA GARZA

(u/s Squirrel Nutkin) is thrilled and humbled to be able to bring to life the story of Into the Burrow with this amazing and talented cast! A Mexican storyteller, on stage she is an actor, dancer, and singer also jumping behind the curtain as a choreographer for both dance and intimacy. She received her BFA in Acting with a minor in dance and voice from Emerson College. Knowing how much art impacts people’s lives and wishing to inspire change, Patty is also a teaching artist with theater’s like the Alliance Theatre, StageDoor, and the Atlanta Shakespeare Company as well as in programs such as Chopart that provides arts to teens experiencing homelessness. When not in the theater world she can be found with a nice cup of tea and her nose in a book…or flowers. She absolutely loves belugas and swimming. She also has her adventures companion: a cute dog named Sirius. Some regional credits include: Blood Wedding at Theater Emory; Chicana Legend with SheArtsATL; Lizard y el Sol at the Alliance Theatre; Urinetown at Actor’s Express; El Guayabo/The Guava Tree at Creede Repertory Theater; Square Blues at Horizon Theater; Frankenstein’s Ball at Found Stages; Othello, All’s Well That Ends Well, and Julius Caesar at the Atlanta Shakespeare Company; and Tuck Everlasting, Schoolhouse Rock Live, And Then They Came for Me, and Aesop’s Fables at Georgia Ensemble Theater. All my love to my family and my partner. Un beso más. Instagram: @pattyndelagarza

SHELLI DELGADO

(Squirrel Nutkin) is excited to return to Alliance Theatre.

Previous Alliance productions: Bina’s Six Apples, A Christmas Carol, Max Makes a Million, Tiger Style!. Recent regional credits: 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Much Ado About Nothing (Warehouse Theatre), Roe, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Completeness (Horizon Theatre); The Crucible [Suzi Bass Award: Best Supporting Actress], A

Doll’s House Part 2, RENT (Actor’s Express); Into the Woods, 4000 Miles, Don’t Dress for Dinner (Aurora Theatre); Sense & Sensibility (Synchronicity). TV/Film: Doom Patrol, The Vampire Diaries, Reptile. Listen to Shelli’s EP, “First Rodeo,” streaming on all music platforms. To all my fellow squirrels — keep choosing bravery. IG: @shellidelgado

PAMELA GOLD (Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle/Dance Captain) [she/her] has performed on Broadway in How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying with Matthew Broderick and Once Upon a Mattress with Sarah Jessica Parker. She has toured nationally as Bebe in A Chorus Line, and appeared on regional stages all over the country, including The Kennedy Center, Goodspeed Opera House, The Old Globe, and Pittsburgh Public Theatre, among others. She is thrilled to return to the Alliance, where she has performed in the pre-Broadway world premiere of Elaborate Lives: The Legend of Aida, The Game of Love and Chance, and Degas’ Little Dancer. Other notable Atlanta credits include Vera in Indecent at Theatrical Outfit, Elizabeth Arden in War Paint at Atlanta Lyric, Mrs. Wilkinson in Billy Elliott at City Springs, Boo Levy in The Last Night of Ballyhoo at Stage Door Players, and Lina Lamont in Singin’ in the Rain at Aurora Theatre. A Yale graduate and passionate theatre educator, she was the Artist in Residence for Theatre at Cliff Valley School and continues to teach and choreograph in Atlanta.

www.pamelagoldactor.com

IG: @pamelaagold

JONTAVIOUS JOHNSON (Mr. Alderman Ptolemy Tortoise) [he/him] is beyond excited to be back at Alliance Theatre! Some of his favorite theatre credits include: Big Charles in The Hot Wing King (Alliance Theatre), Rover in The Incredible Book Eating Boy (Alliance Theatre), Buddy Bolden in Jelly’s Last Jam (National Black Theatre Festival 2019) and Ace in Hoodoo Love (Spelman College)

Jontavious is an Atlanta native, starting

with the Youth Ensemble of Atlanta and later receiving his Bachelor’s of Arts from Morehouse College where he studied Theatre and Performance. TV and Film credits include: Big Door Prize (Apple TV), Modern Love (Amazon Prime), Outer Banks (Netflix), National Champion$ (2021), and P-Valley (STARZ). He thanks his friends and family for their continuous support! To God be the glory!

SIMS LAMASON (u/s Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle) is grateful to be a part of the Alliance Theatre community again, supporting this talented cast. She is a licensed mental health counselor working toward certification as a Drama Therapist, using theatre, dance, and expressive arts methods in much of her therapeutic work. Favorite roles include Jo March in the musical Little Women, Eva Perón in Evita, Alice Arden in Arden of Faversham, Betty Jean in The Marvelous Wonderettes, and Lorraine in the wonderfully campy off-Broadway show Spandex the Musical, recently reimagined and recorded as a full Foley-style radio play! Thanks to Mark and the team, and to you the audience for supporting local live theater!

~Isaiah 61:1-4

KYLIE GRAY MASK

(Benjamin Bunny) is honored to be back at the Alliance performing with such a talented group of artists! Her previous Atlanta credits are: Lucy in Good Bad People at True Colors Theatre, and understudying last season’s A Christmas Carol here at the Alliance. Other favorite regional credits include: Lady Eugenia D’Ysquith in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder at Florida Repertory Theatre, Isabella in A Company of Wayward Saints at the Gilbert Theater, Bianca in Taming of the Shrew with Sweet Tea Shakespeare. Favorite educational credits: Heather Chandler in Heathers: the Musical at UNC Greensboro, Antonio in Twelfth Night, and Susan in The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe with Florida Rep Education. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting with a Musical Theatre minor from UNC Greensboro. Kylie is so grateful to her family and

friends for their unwavering love and support as she pursues her passions. Social media: @kyliegraymask

HALLI RIDER (u/s Benjamin Bunny) [they/ them] is so excited to be in their first professional show at the Alliance Theatre! They graduated from The Gainesville Theatre Alliance in Spring of 2023 with a B.F.A. in Acting. Halli is also a playwright in their free time, and they love reading/watching new works! Some of Halli’s favorite past roles include Gráinne (The Pirate Queen), Little Becky (Urinetown), and Roz Keith (9 to 5). Halli would like to thank their family and friends for their constant love and support, and they hope you enjoy the show! Keep up with them on social media for more! (@halliloo_ladies_) (hallirider.com)

CAMERON SMITH (u/s Peter) [he/him] is excited to work with the very talented cast of Into the Burrow and is excited that you all get to see it. Cameron is so glad to be back at the Alliance. Some of his previous credits are G. Petto in P. Nokio: A HipHop Musical (Aurora Theatre), The D’Ysquith Family in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Festival 56), and Julius in Selma The Musical: The Untold Stories (IC Theatre). Cameron earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre from Reinhardt University and beyond undergrad, he has studied at The Company Acting Studio, Drama Inc., Dad’s Garage, Dwayne Boyd’s Premier Actors’ Network, and AGI Entertainment. Cameron is eternally thankful for his family, his great mentor Mr. Eugene Russell, his teachers, and his friends for always having his back through encouragement, tough love, honesty, and wisdom.

WESLEY TUNISON (Jeremy Fisher/Mr. McGregor/ASM) Alliance debut! Wesley is an actor and improviser from New York. He was most recently seen in Summer: The Donna Summer Musical at Aurora Theatre.

Off-Broadway: Freckleface Strawberry, The Apple Tree, Angelina Ballerina, Wanda’s Monster, Trouble!.

Williamstown Theatre Festival: Mad Forest, Dixon Family Album. New York: Nineteen, Zombie Wedding, Boys Of Summer, Hip Hop High. TV: Vinyl, Game Shakers, Hey Girl. Film: Eugenia and John, 8:46, Hold Fast, Good Luck. He is a graduate of AMDA and is proudly represented by Forward Talent. All the love to Martina, Mom, and my Fam! For more, follow on Instagram: @ wesleytunison and visit www. wesleytunison.com

JUAN CARLOS

UNZUETA (Peter) Select Atlanta credits: Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: The Rock Experience, The Incredible Book Eating Boy, The Lizard and El Sol (Alliance Theatre); In The Heights, Christmas Canteen, País de Bicicleta, 2017 Suzi Award Winning TYA Production The Three Billy Goats Gruff (Aurora Theatre); Little Shop of Horrors, Merrily We Roll Along in Concert and Fun Home (Actor’s Express); Freaky Friday (Horizon Theatre); Guys and Dolls (Atlanta Lyric Theatre); Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (Theatrical Outfit); NINE in Concert and Chess in Concert (Jennie T. Anderson Theatre); Songs for a New World (BUICEntennial Productions).

Education: BFA, BA, University of North Florida. Other: Graphic Designer and Marketing Associate at Aurora Theatre, Film/TV/Commercial Representation by People Store. IG: @juancho181. Juan would like to dedicate this performance to the memory of his father and to Sharon Estela.

ISRAEL VAUGHAN (u/s Mr. Alderman Ptolemy Tortoise) [he/him] is so excited and blessed to make his Alliance debut in Into the Burrow. He recently made his return to stage last winter as Simeon in Mother of God (Southwest Arts Center). You can currently catch him on a few streaming platforms that cannot be listed here due to the SAG-AFTRA strike. Israel is originally from Richmond, VA. He attended college at the University of Virginia where he minored in Drama and was

very active in the department. He would like to thank God, his family, and his friends for all of the love and support he’s received on his journey as a performing artist. TV/Film/commercial representation by: Privilege Talent Agency. Find him on Instagram: @therealdealisrael

MATTHEW WANGEMANN

(u/s Jeremy Fisher) is a recent graduate of Southern Utah University where he earned a BFA in Musical Theatre and Minor in Dance. At SUU he was seen in productions such as Falsettos, Cabaret, Into the Woods, and Assassins, among others. He spent his summer at the Utah Shakespeare Festival where he was a part of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, and The Greenshows. Matthew has spent most of his life in Utah and is thrilled to be joining the company at Alliance Theatre for the first time with Into the Burrow. He is passionate about food, travel, and theatre, and is excited about what adventures may come next!

MARK VALDEZ (Director/ Writer) is the artistic director of Mixed Blood Theatre in Minneapolis, where he partners with communities, organizations, civic institutions, and others, using theater and creative tools to address community needs and lift community voices and stories. His work has been seen at the Alliance Theatre, Cornerstone Theater Company, East West Players, La Peña Cultural Center, Mixed Blood, the Ricardo Montalban Theater/CTG, and Trinity Rep, among others. Recent projects include the animated short film The Curious Cardinal, Detained by France-Luce Benson, and The Most Beautiful Home… Maybe, an interactive performance about affordable housing that toured the U.S. With Mixed Blood, he commissioned 12 artists to create new performances with/ for 12 Twin Cities communities. The project, 12x12, culminated in day long festival of all 12 performances. Mark was the founding Executive Director of the Network of Ensemble Theaters, a collective of artists committed to co-creation. He is the recipient of the

Johnson Fellowship for Artists Transforming Communities, the Zelda Fichandler Award, and the California Arts Council’s Legacy Artist Fellowship.

BRANDON BUSH (Music Supervisor/ Composer) has performed on GRAMMY® Award-nominated and winning releases by John Mayer, Sugarland, Little Big Town, and Train. Recent composing credits include Good Eats (Food Network), Approval Junkie (Minetta Lane Theatre, Audible Originals), and podcasts Broadway Revival, Gangster House, and Baron of Botox. Music Direction credits include Working (Alliance Theatre), Shakespeare In Love (Alliance Theatre) and the world premiere musicals Darlin’ Cory (Alliance Theatre) and Troubadour (Alliance Theatre). Currently, Bush is touring as the music director for his brother Kristian Bush. He also manages the Atlanta based creative studio, Songs of the Architect, where he composes for new media.

CHRISTIAN ALBRIGHT (Composer) is thrilled to be collaborating with the Alliance Theatre on another amazing production! Into the Burrow was such a fun experience and it was such a joy to share the room with other talented artists and creative minds. He is also grateful to be working on another production with his creative partner and best friend Christian Magby. Credits include: Lyricist for The Incredible Book Eating Boy (Alliance Theatre). Bookwriter and Co-Lyricist for Mother of God the musical (Southwest Performing Arts Center). Lyricist for the Seattle Film Festival Selectee, The BoomBox Saints. Christian continues to write songs for numerous artists throughout Atlanta and for theatres across the country, as well as develop musicals and screenplays with other literary professionals. Christian is very thankful for the support from his family and friends! Always thinking of you, Rory Johnson. YEA Alum. IG: @christianjalbright

CHRISTIAN MAGBY (Composer), composer and actor, is excited to be back at Alliance Theatre after an extended world premiere and remount of The Incredible Book Eating Boy, for which he also composed the music. He can currently be seen

in the CW’s hit series, The Flash, as Deon Owens, the Still Force and latest cosmic force to be introduced to the Arrowverse. He can also be seen in the Oscar nominated Amazon feature One Night in Miami, directed by Regina King, starring opposite Leslie Odom Jr., Aldis Hodge and Lance Reddick. He also worked in the music department for the NBC/ Universal motion pictures, Dear Evan Hansen and Pitch Perfect 3. He just finished music directing Dreamgirls with Dominion Entertainment, and Garden at the Archdiocese of Atlanta. Last year, he served as executive producer and composer for the original musical Mother of God, which premiered at the Southwest Arts Center in Atlanta. Proud alum of Youth Ensemble of Atlanta and SCAD. To God be the Glory. IG: @christianmagby

ANNMARIE MILAZZO (Composer)

Composer/Lyricist: Pretty Dead Girl, winner of the special jury award at The Sundance Film Festival. Joy, The Musical, George Street Playhouse. Lucky Us, written with David Foster. A Walk On The Moon, Broadway 2025. Broadway vocal designs: Spring Awakening, Next to Normal, If/Then, Finding Neverland, Almost Famous (nominated for Drama Desk with Tom Kitt), A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical, The revival of 1776. Off Broadway: Carrie, Bright Lights Big City, Super Hero. Regional: Dangerous Beauty, Prometheus Bound, Some Lovers, Dave, A Walk On The Moon. Broadway Orchestrator (with Michael Starobin) Once On This Island (nominated for Tony, Grammy, Drama Desk and Outer Critics awards).

Lyricist: Le Reve at the Las Vegas Wynn Hotel; Composer and Lyricist: Le Perle in Dubai, both shows directed by Franco Dragone. Composer/ Lyricist: Splendor. AnnMarie is the Grammy-nominated female vocalist for The East Village Opera Company on Decca/Universal Records.

DIVINITY ROXX (Composer) is a multi-disciplinary Grammy-nominated composer from Atlanta, GA. She is delighted to collaborate with the Alliance Theatre production of Into the Burrow! Her career as a bass player skyrocketed after touring with 5-time Grammy award-winning bass virtuoso, Victor Wooten. After

that, she toured and performed with Beyoncé as her bassist and Musical Director. Her production company, Divi Roxx Kids, aims to inspire and empower young people through music, edutainment and storytelling. In 2021, Scholastic Inc. released two picture books based on songs from her debut Grammy-nominated Family Music album, ‘Ready Set Go!’ Divinity’s original compositions can be heard on Love and Hip-Hop Atlanta, The Bold Type, and more. She composed and performed the theme song for Lyla in the Loop, premiering on PBS Kids in 2024. She made her theatrical debut as a co-composer on The Boy Who Kissed The Sky (Idris Goodwin). She made her debut as a playwright and actor in the world premiere of Starchild: The Ballad of Debbie Walker at Crossroads Theater in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 2023. She lives in New Jersey and is currently performing all over the world and writing new works. @diviroxx @diviroxxkids

EUGENE RUSSELL IV (Composer) is an Atlanta native, Tennessee State University alumnus, and proud Girl Dad. He’s served as both a vocalist and saxophonist for countless bands who’ve opened for the likes of George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Boyz II Men, KC & the Sunshine Brand, and Mother’s Finest. An accomplished musician/composer whose single “What If” can be found on all streaming platforms, Eugene IV recently cowrote the music for The Boy Who Kissed the Sky, which was co-produced by the Alliance Theatre and Seattle Children’s Theatre. He’s currently working on the music for a Theatrical Outfit world premiere Hip-Hop musical about John Lewis. His regional theatre acting credits include East Texas Hotlinks (True Colors Theatre Company), Dutchman (Nebraska Repertory Theatre), and Before It Hits Home (St. Louis Black Rep), for which he received the prestigious Woodie King, Jr. Award. Film/TV appearances include Disney’s Secrets of Sulphur Springs and the upcoming Netflix film Six Triple Eight. Keep up with Eugene at www.eugeneiv.com and on social media at @theeugeneiv.

JACOB RYAN SMITH (Composer) is a writer/performer living in New York, but originally from right here

in Atlanta, GA. Some of his other writing credits include Like Father, (Book, Music, Lyrics), Painless: The Opioid Musical (Book, Music, Lyrics), and Mr. Sipple (Book, Music, Lyrics). His original compositions have been featured on Disney+ (Hamster & Gretel, co-written with Dan Povenmire), The Today Show, NPR, Out Magazine, and many other publications. You last could hear his writing work in Atlanta through Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre’s Marley Was Dead, To Begin With. (Book & Music). Jacob holds a BFA in Musical Theater Performance and a Minor in Composition from The University of Michigan. He’s proud to have come full circle and be working for The Alliance Theatre. Huge thanks to his incredible family for constantly supporting his dreams. @JakeSmithSings

RACHEL VAN BUSKIRK (Choreographer) danced professionally with the Atlanta Ballet for thirteen years and has been commissioned as a guest artist with various other companies across the country. Professional highlights include North American premieres of David Bintley’s Carmina Burana as the principal lead “Fortuna”, Liam Scarlett’s Vespertine, and the world premiere of Lauri Stalling’s big with Big Boi from Outkast. Some of her favorite roles include “Lucy” in Micheal Pink’s Dracula, “Autumn” in James Kedulka’s The Four Seasons, and the duet in Ohad Naharin’s Minus 16. Rachel was nominated and cover girl for Dance Magazine’s 2012’s “25 to Watch” and named a “30 Under 30” by ArtsATL. In 2017, Rachel co-founded Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre where her roles include Dancer, Co-Director of Terminus Student Company, Marketing Director, and Choreographer. She has choreographed several short works for Terminus’ school and company, co-created a duet, Treaty, which premiered in Montana, created a children’s ballet, Peter & the Wolf, partnered with the Alliance Theatre, and produced The Nutcracker Suite on the Terminus Student Company. In addition to her dance career, Rachel is also a passionate dance educator and mentor and is currently pursuing a Business Degree in Management at Georgia State University.

IMANI QUIÑONES (Music Director/ Orchestrator/Conductor/Keyboard) is a multi-hyphenate music professional. She studied contemporary composition, jazz arranging, and music production at Berklee College of Music. Led by a lifetime love for theatre, she has found a home music directing and sound designing for musical theatre. Notable credits include: Alliance Theatre composition/arrangement credits (The Incredible Book Eating Boy, Roob and Noob); Jennie T Anderson Theatre music direction/ arrangement credits (Last Five Years, Caroline or Change, Secret Garden, A New Brain); School of the Arts @ Central Gwinnett music direction/ arrangements (Spongebob, Sideshow, Les Misérables, Head Over Heels); Broadway Dreams 2022 and 2023, music direction and arrangement. Shout out to my parents and Maya and Kyla for your unending support!

KAT CONLEY (Scenic Design) is ecstatic to return to the Alliance to create this burrow. She has designed the scenery for more than 30 Alliance productions over the past 20 years, from 2003’s Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse to last season’s The Incredible Book Eating Boy. Kat has designed scenery for Arena Stage, Orlando Shakespeare, the Kennedy Center, Georgia Shakespeare, Marin Theatre Company, Actor’s Express, The Atlanta Ballet, The Center for Puppetry Arts, 7 Stages, Theatrical Outfit, Synchronicity Theatre, Theatre in the Square, and Aurora Theatre. She continues to be the Charge Scenic Artist for the Alliance Theatre. Whether dramatically challenging, visionary, or escapist, all theater and art is important; thank you for supporting it in our community.

GARRY LENNON (Costume Design) [he/him] is happy to be returning to the Alliance after previously designing costumes for Sister Act. He has designed multiple productions for Independent Shakespeare Company including Macbeth, Richard III, Twelfth Night, A Winter’s Tale, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He recently designed Metamorphosis and The Winter’s Tale at A Noise Within in Pasadena, CA. Other work includes Fuente Ovejuna and A Christmas Carol at Trinity Repertory, District Merchants,

Jane of The Jungle at South Coast Repertory, and The Thanksgiving Play at the Geffen Theatre. He has also worked with Cornerstone Theater Company, Reprise Theatre Company, and Mixed Blood, among others. Garry is the Costume Design Professor at California State University, Northridge. He is also the Executive Director of Teenage Drama Workshop. Garry can be found online at garrylennon.com.

KARIN OLSON (Lighting Design) is based in Minneapolis, MN, where she designs at the Guthrie Theater, Ordway Performing Arts Center, Children’s Theatre Company, Penumbra Theater, Park Square Theatre, and with many itinerant Twin Cities theater and dance companies. She has also designed regionally for Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Syracuse Stage, and Trinity Repertory Theater. She loves working on new works and has recently created lighting designs for the premieres of The Song Poet with the Minnesota Opera, The Defeat of Jesse James and Runestone at the History Theatre, imagine a U.S. without racism at Mixed Blood Theater, and Spamtown, USA! at The Children’s Theater Company. Other recent designs include Antigone at Cleveland Playhouse, Redwood at the Jungle Theater, the Kung Fu Zombies Saga with Theater Mu, and Jason Moran’s Last Jazz Festival at the Walker Arts Center. Upcoming designs include I am Betty at the History Theatre and Let America Be America with Threads Dance Project. Karin has been honored as a ‘23’24 McKnight Theater Arts Fellow. More info at karinlosonlighting.com

HIDENORI NAKAJO (Sound Design)

A New York-based sound designer, engineer, and mixer. Off Broadway & NYC: The Creeps (Playhouse 46), OCTET (Obie Award Special Citation, Drama Desk nomination., Lucille Lortel nomination., Henry Hewes Design Awards nomination), Autumn Royal (Irish Rep, Drama Desk nomination., and Henry Hewes Design Awards nomination.), mɔːnɪŋ [morning// mourning] by Gelsey Bell (Prototype Festival, NYC), Dodi & Diana (Colt Coeur). Regional: Moby Dick (A.R.T., Elliot Norton Award), Guys & Dolls (Guthrie Theatre), Still (Dorset Theatre Festival), Other World (Delaware

Theater Company), Hold These Truths (People’s Light), A Gift of Love with Adam McKnight (Alliance Theatre, GA). Broadway Associate: Camelot, The Kite Runner, The Front Page Broadway Assistant: The Lightning Thief, Be More Chill, Allegiance, Gigi. He also served Japanese theatrical productions in NYC as a bilingual sound engineer/translator/ coordinator, including Ikuko Kawai & Orchestra Hibiki (Jazz at Lincoln Center), One Green Bottle by Noda Map (La MaMa) and several others for Lincoln Center Festival 2015-17. Hidenori holds BA in Broadcasting from College of Arts, Nihon University, MFA in Sound Design from Carnegie Mellon University. A member of United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829.

RAYMOND CARR (Shadow Puppet Design/Filmography) has been a filmmaker and puppeteer for 20 years. His award-winning films have been accepted into Oscar-qualifying film festivals worldwide. His highly stylized films specialize in puppetry, sci-fi, and fantasy with a social consciousness. He co-stars in the Jim Henson Company’s series Splash and Bubbles on PBS and is an ensemble member of the puppet improv group Puppet Up for Henson Alternative. He has also worked on shows like Crank Yankers, Walking With Dinosaurs, Lazytown on Nick Jr, BBC’s Moon and Me, Earth To Ned on Disney+ and various projects for the Center for Puppetry Arts and Cartoon Network, HBO, Disney. Raymond’s Film Hitori produced by Heather Henson’s Handmade Puppet Dreams is currently available on Amazon Prime. In addition, he served on the board of The Jim Henson Foundation. He was recently the Puppet Captain for the upcoming Netflix limited series ERIC, starring Benedict Cumberbatch premiering in early 2024.

JODY FELDMAN (Casting) began her theater career as an actress in Atlanta before moving into administration as the Assistant General Manager at Frank Wittow’s Academy Theatre. It was at the Academy that Jody realized the importance of theatre to a city’s cultural values and identity. Feldman started her career at the Alliance as casting director in 1991 and added producer to her title and responsibilities in 2001. She

has cast and produced more than 250 productions at the Alliance, encompassing a range of world premieres that include The Last Night of Ballyhoo by Alfred Uhry, Blues for An Alabama Sky by Pearl Cleage, The Geller Girls by Janece Shaffer, In the Red and Brown Water by Tarell Alvin McCraney, more than 20 years of Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition-winning plays, such world and regional premiere musicals as Aida; The Color Purple; Sister Act: The Musical; Bring It On: The Musical; Tuck Everlasting; Ghost Brothers of Darkland County; Harmony, A New Musical; The Prom; Trading Places, and finally exciting new plays developed specifically for children and families, which is integral to the expansion of audience and mission for the Alliance. Jody is most proud of the thriving Alliance community engagement and partnerships that recognize theatrical work as a catalyst for civic conversation and connection.

BARBARA GANTT O’HALEY (Stage Manager) [she/her] is elated to be stage managing this production and introducing it to young theatregoers. Previous Alliance credits include: Hot Wing King, Everybody, Slur, Tell Me My Dream, Courage, Grimm Lives of the In-Betweens. Other Atlanta credits include: Big Fish, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, Simply Simone, In the Heights, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Perfect Arrangement, Indecent, Slow Food, Ms. Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, The Wickhams, Our Town, 110 in the Shade, Pitmen Painters, An Iliad (Theatrical Outfit); as well as My Fair Lady, Cats, Young Frankenstein (Atlanta Lyric Theatre). Love to Patrick, Elliana, and Keeva! Proud Member AEA.

SAMANTHA HONEYCUTT (Stage Management Production Assistant) studied Stage Management at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro before beginning her career working across the country. Her credits include: Year of the Rooster, When January Feels like Summer, and Five Times in One Night (Ensemble Studio Theater). Legally Blonde; Hello, Dolly!; My Fair Lady; and Music Man (Cape Playhouse). Frankenstein, Hairspray, Penny Candy, American Mariachi, Supreme Leader (Dallas

Theater Center). Angry, Raucous and Shamelessly Gorgeous (Hartford Stage), and Trading Places the Musical, Everybody, A Gift of Love with Adam L. McKnight, Hot Wing King, The Boy Who Kissed The Sky, and Water For Elephants (Alliance Theatre).

TINASHE KAJESE-BOLDEN (Artistic Director) stepped into the role of Artistic Director in 2023 after serving as the Alliance’s BOLD Associate Artistic Director. Tinashe is a 2019 Princess Grace Award Winner for Directing and Map Fund Award recipient to develop her devised new work All Smiles, centering the experience of children on the Autism Spectrum. Most recently, she directed the World Premiere of The Many Wondrous Realities of Jasmine StarrKidd. Select directing productions include Toni Stone (co-production Milwaukee Repertory Theater and the Alliance Theatre), School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play (Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre), Ghost (Alliance Theatre), Native Gardens (Virginia Stage Company), Pipeline (Horizon Theater), Nick’s Flamingo Grill (World Premiere at the Alliance Theatre), Eclipsed (Synchronicity Theatre, Best Director Suzi Bass Award). As a director and actor, she has worked on and off Broadway, including The Imperial Theatre, Primary Stages, 59E59 Theatre, Classical Theatre of Harlem; and regionally at Yale Rep, Woolly Mammoth Theater Co, Cincinnati Playhouse, The Geva Theatre, CTG’s Kirk Douglas Theatre, among others, as well as recurring roles on TV/Film (Strays, Suicide Squad 2, Marvel’s Hawkeye, CW’s Valor, Dynasty, HBO’s Henrietta Lacks, Ava Duverney’s Cherish the Day, among others.) She proudly serves on the ArtsATL Artist Advisory Council. “My mission is the pursuit of what connects our different communities and how we create art that serves that.”

CHRISTOPHER MOSES (Artistic Director)has been working in professional theatre for twenty years and in 2022 was awarded the Governor’s Award for Arts in Humanities for his body of work. In January of 2011, Chris took on the position of Director of Education at the Alliance Theatre, overseeing

the Alliance Theatre Institute (twice recognized as an Arts Model by the Federal Department of Education), Theatre for Youth & Families, and the Acting Program. Since taking over this position, Chris has expanded the reach and impact by making the Alliance Theatre Education department a vital resource for advancing the civic agenda of Atlanta. This work is accomplished through deep and sustained partnerships with social service organizations throughout the city. Under his leadership, the Alliance launched its Kathy & Ken Bernhardt Theatre for the Very Young program, which provides fully interactive professional theater experiences for children of all abilities from ages newborn through five years old; the Alliance Teen Ensemble, which performs world premiere plays commissioned for and about teens; the Palefsky Collision Project, where teens produce a new work after colliding with a classic text; expanded the Alliance’s summer camp program to include over 3,000 children in multiple locations across Atlanta; and Alliance@work, a professional development program designed for the business sector — the latest offering of which uses theatre practice to create a culture of civility in the workplace. In 2014, Chris added the title Associate Artistic Director, and has continued to expand the Alliance’s education offerings. During his tenure in this position, the Alliance has produced over a dozen world premiere plays for young audiences, including Pancakes, Pancakes by Ken Lin, The Dancing Granny by Jireh Breon Holder, Max Makes a Million by Liz Diamond, and The Incredible Book Eating Boy by Madhuri Shekar. Currently, the Alliance serves over 100,000 students pre-k – 12 each season, as well as over 4,000 adults through its extensive education offerings. In 2023, he was named Artistic Director of the Alliance Theatre.

MIKE SCHLEIFER (Managing Director) joined the Alliance Theatre in 2014 as the General Manager and in 2016, assumed the role of Managing Director. During his time at the Alliance, Mike has led the administrative and producing team on over 100 productions including bringing Tuck Everlasting and The Prom to Broadway.

He was one of the architects of the “On the Road” season while a multi-million dollar renovation of the Coca-Cola Stage was underway. Mike is excited to have started the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee at the Alliance and to serve on the board of the League of Resident Theatres and True Colors Theatre Company. Prior to Atlanta, he spent 13 years at Baltimore’s Center Stage working in several roles including Associate Producer, Production Manager and Resident Stage Manager. While in Baltimore, Mike was an adjunct faculty member at Towson University and has guest-lectured all over the country. Mike began as a Stage Manager and has dozens of stage management credits between his time in New York and working regionally. Mike is married to theater director and educator Laura Hackman and the proud father of two boys, Jack and Ben.

ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION

(AEA) Founded in 1913, AEA is the U.S. labor union that represents more than 51,000 professional Actors and Stage Managers. Equity fosters the art of live theatre as an essential component of society and advances the careers of its members by negotiating wages, improving working conditions and providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. Actors’ Equity is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. www.actorsequity.org

THE IMAGINE CAMPAIGN

Coming soon to Peachtree Street: THE GOIZUETA STAGE FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES

IMAGINE a state-of-the-art performance space built specifically to deliver the best professional theatre for young audiences this country has to offer.

IMAGINE year-round access to transformative arts experiences empirically proven to improve mental health, literacy, and hope for their own future.

IMAGINE theatre as a birthright for children of all ages and economic backgrounds in our city, across the state, and around the world.

AND JOIN US IN MAKING IT A REALITY. Over the next two years, the Woodruff Arts Center will transform the existing Rich Theatre into Atlanta’s year-round venue for youth and family programming. As a crucial component of this project, the Alliance Theatre is proud to launch The Imagine Endowment, a special $10 million fund providing access subsidies for audiences of all backgrounds and vital resources to equip and maintain Atlanta’s new home for youth, educators, and caregivers in perpetuity. With your help, geography and ticket prices will never be attendance barriers for the bright, empathetic, and creative audiences of tomorrow. Together, we can accomplish this joyful mission.

ENDOWMENT CONTRIBUTORS

Special thanks to our early champions of the Imagine Campaign for their vision and generosity. Kenny Blank // Campaign Chair

Anonymous

Kristin Adams

James Anderson

Elizabeth Armstrong

Ken Bernhardt

Around the Table Foundation

Terri Bonoff and Matthew Knopf

Jennifer and Brian Boutte

Ann and Jeff Cramer

Jeffrey and Roxanne

Cashdan

Joe Crowley and Phil Mack

Linda and Eugene Davidson

Reade and Katie Fahs

Howard and Ellen Feinsand

Richard and Marsha Goerss

John and Laura Hardman

Jocelyn J. Hunter

John Keller

James and Lori Kilberg

Allegra Lawrence-Hardy

Alan McKeon and Evelyn

Ashley

Hays and Anna Mershon

Phil and Caroline Moise

Starr Moore & the James Starr Moore Memorial Foundation

Jamal and Tiffany Powell

Patty and Doug Reid

Robert and Margaret Reiser

Maurice and Tricia Rosenbaum

For more information about Alliance Theatre’s Imagine Campaign or to make an endowment contribution, please contact Trent Anderson, Director of Development, at trent.anderson@alliancetheatre.org or (404) 733-4710.

For information about the capital renovation and the Woodruff Arts Center’s Experience Atlanta, Experience Woodruff Campaign, please contact Kristin Hathaway-Hansen at kristin.hathaway-hansen@woodruffcenter.org or (404) 733-4115.

// Linda & Steve Selig, Cathy & Steve Kuranoff

William and Margie Sleeper

E. Kendrick and Caryl Smith

Benny and Roxanne Varzi

Rebekah and Mark Wasserman

Ben and Ramona White

Todd and Amy Zeldin

The Selig Foundation

When most people read a script for the first time, they envision how the actors will move across the stage, predict what the costumes will look like, or imagine what the set will reveal.

Me? I read a script looking for connections to school curriculum. My first read-through of Into the Burrow: A Peter Rabbit™ Tale was no exception:

How can educators connect Jeremy Fisher’s love of water to the water cycle? How will schools with their own gardens react when the characters steal vegetables from Mr. McGregor? Will students recognize that destroying milkweed bushes interrupts the butterfly life cycle?

The Alliance Theatre Institute partners with districts and schools to elevate teacher practice and impact student academic and social-emotional growth through arts integration, STEAM, and theater. In the 2022-23 school year, the Institute partnered with roughly 4,000 teachers, 23,000 students, and 420 schools through in-school residencies, workshops, and professional learning events.

These partnerships extend to our field trip program, which allows us to serve even more schools and students. The Institute builds on curriculum connections to develop resources so that students will not only enjoy, but also learn from the play. All school groups attending this production will receive a study guide that helps them explore the play’s themes, characters, and more.

Each time I read the script for Into the Burrow, I find connections to curriculum and brainstorm arts-integrated lessons, such as writing persuasive letters to Mr. McGregor or creating frozen tableaux to re-tell the story, but I am even more energized by the meaningful social-emotional connections.

Peter and his friends repeat the following refrain: “Take care of your friends, take care of the land, share the food, and give a helping hand. Remember, you’re never alone.”

While water cycles, food safety, and butterflies might be grade-level specific standards, these lessons are universal. How can we build community, navigate grief, celebrate milestones, and embrace the challenges of tomorrow?

As we welcome school groups and families to see this production, my hope is that no matter their age, they will make their own connections to these beloved characters, this new story, and these important themes.

To learn more about the Alliance Theatre Institute, visit alliancetheatre.org/institute and to access the study guide for this production, visit alliancetheatre.org/fieldtrips.

Rebecca Pogue Head of Elementary School Programs Alliance Theatre

SYNOPSIS

All the neighborly forest animals have gathered in the rabbit’s burrow (under Mr. McGregor’s garden) to throw a surprise party for Peter. And the biggest surprise of all — for the first time ever, they’ve invited you to join them! But the animals soon realize Mr. McGregor has terrible plans for the land around Peter’s den. Peter must face his fears and, together with his friends, gather a community to help save his home. Featuring beloved characters from the classic Beatrix Potter tales, and a variety of original songs, this new story encourages us to acknowledge our fears and work together to overcome challenges.

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ABOUT THE ALLIANCE THEATRE

Founded in 1968, the Alliance Theatre is the leading producing theatre in the Southeast, reaching more than 165,000 patrons annually. The Alliance is led by Artistic Directors Tinashe Kajese-Bolden and Christopher Moses and is a recipient of the Regional Theatre Tony Award® for sustained excellence in programming, education, and community engagement. In January 2019, the Alliance opened its new, state-of-the-art performance space, The Coca-Cola Stage at Alliance Theatre. Known for its high artistic standards and national role in creating significant theatrical works, the Alliance has premiered more than 116 productions including nine that have transferred to Broadway. The Alliance education department reaches 90,000 students annually through performances, classes, camps, and in-school initiatives designed to support teachers and enhance student learning. The Alliance Theatre values community, curiosity, collaboration, and excellence, and is dedicated to representing Atlanta’s diverse community with the stories we tell, the artists, staff, and leadership we employ, and audiences we serve.

OUR MISSION

To expand hearts and minds onstage and off.

OUR VISION

Making Atlanta more connected, curious, and compassionate through theatre and arts education.

LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT

In the sincerest efforts to gain further understanding of the history that has brought us to reside on this land and to accept the knowledge that colonialism is a current and ongoing process under which we need to build our mindfulness of our present participation, we hereby acknowledge this native land of the Muscogee Creek Nation.

OFFICERS

Chair

Jocelyn J. Hunter

Immediate Past Chair

Lila Hertz

Secretary

E. Kendrick Smith

Treasurer

Glenn Weiss

Ex-Officio

Hala Moddelmog

LIFETIME DIRECTORS

Rita Anderson

Ken Bernhardt

Frank Chew

Ann Cramer

Linda Davidson

Laura Hardman

Hays Mershon

Richard S. Myrick

Helen Smith Price

Helen Regenstein

Bob Reiser

Jane Shivers

Ben White

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Kristin Adams

Norman Adkins

Kimberly Ajy

James Anderson

Farideh Azadi

Marc Balizer

Deisha Barnett

Alba Baylin

Maggie Blake Bailey

Kenny Blank

Terri Bonoff

Jennifer Boutte

Jeff Cashdan

Steve Chaddick

Madeline Chadwick

Miles Cook

LeighAnn Costley

Joe Crowley

Reade Fahs

Howard Feinsand

Rick Gestring

Richard Goerss

Claire Gotham

Lila Hertz

Jocelyn Hunter

Malvika Jhangiani

Alexander Johnson

Jane Jordan Casavant

Anne Kaiser

John Keller

Matthew Kent

Andjela Kessler

Jim Kilberg

Jesse Killings

Carrie Kurlander

Allegra Lawrence-Hardy

Robert Masucci

Jean Ann McCarthy

Alan McKeon

Dori Miller

Hala Moddelmog

Phil Moïse

Allison O’Kelly

Victoria Palefsky

Paul Pendergrass

Jamal Powell

Ali Rahimi

Anne Rambaud Herren

Stephanie Ray

Patty Reid

Margaret Reiser

Matthew Richburg

Robyn Roberts

Maurice Rosenbaum

Kerri Sauer

Steve Selig

Kim Sewell

Mital Shah

Bill Sleeper

H. Bronson Smith

E. Kendrick Smith

Chandra Stephens-Albright

Charlita Stephens

Mark Swinton

Julie Teer

Benny Varzi

Roxanne Varzi

Rebekah Wasserman

Dana Weeks Ugwonali

Glenn Weiss

Wai Wong

Todd Zeldin

ADVISORY BOARD

Advisory Board Co-Chair

Laura Hardman

Advisory Board Co-Chair

Phil H. Moïse

Joe Alterman

Luis Andino

Johanna Brookner

Merry Hunter Caudle

Elizabeth Cooper

Mamie Dayan-Vogel

Candice Dixon

Malaika Dowdell

Everett Flanigan

Brandon Fleming

Mary Beth Flournoy

Les Flynn

Natalia Garzón Martínez

Lydia Glaize

Emmanuel Glaze

Meghan Gordon

Tevin Goss

Jeff Graham

Dr. Eve Graves, Ph.D.

Erica Greenblatt

Shauna Grovell

Della Guidry

Campbell Hastings

Elizabeth Hollister

Zenith Houston

Mallika Kallingal

Jodi Kalson

Jennifer Lee

JoJasmin Lopez

Theo Lowe

Carlton Mackey

Nelly Mauta

Tre’Von McKay

Monica McLary

Juan Meija

Caroline Moore

Laura Murvartian

Zach Nikonovich Kahn

Amy Norton King

Susan Sim Oh

Kathy Palumbo

Aixa Pascual

Kisan Patel

Marion Phillips

Alexis Rainey

Daniel Regenstein

Michelle Robinson

Wendy Schmitt

Dr. Shenara Sexton

Beverly Brown Shaw

Brian Stoltz

Maria Storts

Alicia Thompson

Ana Urrego

Emily Washburn

Melinda Weekes-Laidlaw

Angie Weiss

Stuart Wilkinson

Joni Williams

VOLUNTEER LEADERSHIP

President, STARS

Andjela Kessler

Chairman, Theater Advocates

Patricia Walsh

Chairman, Theater Ushers

Edwina Sellan

Chairman, Hospitality

Susan Stiefel

ALLIANCE SPONSORS

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

$500,000+

Delta Air Lines, Inc.

Lettie Pate Evans Foundation

Robert W. Woodruff Foundation

$250,000+

Anonymous

AT&T Foundation

Chick-fil-A Foundation | Rhonda & Dan Cathy

The Coca-Cola Company

Georgia Power

Helen Gurley Brown Foundation

WestRock

$100,000+

Accenture

The Home Depot Foundation

Invesco QQQ

John H. and Wilhelmina D. Harland Charitable Fund

King & Spalding

Norfolk Southern

PNC

Rich Foundation

Shubert Foundation

Warner Bros. Discovery Zeist Foundation

$50,000+

Bank of America ACTivate Awards

City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs

Georgia Council for the Arts

Google

Jones Day

Kaiser Permanente

Kendeda Fund

Liz Blake Giving Fund

Molly Blank Fund of the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation

National Endowment for the Arts

National Vision Theatre Forward

Wellstar Foundation

$25,000+

Black Leadership AIDS Crisis Coalition, powered by AIDS Healthcare Foundation

Cadence Bank

Comcast

Fulton County Board of Commissioners

Georgia Natural Gas

Graphic Packaging

The Imlay Foundation, Inc.

Johnny Mercer Foundation

Newell Brands

Peach State Health Plan

Southwire

$10,000+

AEC Trust

Alexander Babbage

Alston & Bird

Do a Good Day Foundation

Edgerton Foundation

George M. Brown Trust of Atlanta

Georgia-Pacific

John & Mary Franklin Foundation

Northern Trust

SCANA Energy

South Arts

$5,000+

Anonymous

Camp Younts Foundation

Frances Wood Wilson Foundation

Osiason Educational Foundation

Publix Super Market Charities

By attending our theater, you have made a powerful statement about how important the arts are to you. Make another statement of support louder than any standing ovation. Visit alliancetheatre.org and click on Donate.

Individual, foundation, and corporate donors contribute more than $10 million to the Alliance Theatre so that we are able to present exceptional theater and educational programming to our community. We are deeply grateful for your support. To find out more about the benefits of giving or to make your gift, visit us at alliancetheatre.org/waystogive or call 404-733-5157.

Listed below are pledges and gifts to the Alliance Theatre Annual Fund from June 1, 2022 — September 22, 2023.

PREMIERE SUPPORT

Spotlight $100,000+

The SKK Foundation

Spotlight $50,000+

Ms. Stephanie Blank

Chairman’s Circle

$25,000+

Anonymous

The Antinori Foundation

Around the Table Foundation

Brian & Jennifer Boutté

Ann & Jeff Cramer

Katie & Reade Fahs

David & Carolyn Gould

Jocelyn J. Hunter

Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Ivester

Jesse Killings

Jane & J. Hicks Lanier

Daniel Marks & Keri Powell

Starr Moore & the James Starr Moore Memorial Foundation

Bob & Margaret Reiser

Tim & Maria Tassopoulos

Rosemarie & David Thurston

Benny & Roxanne Varzi

Amy & Todd Zeldin

Leadership Circle

$15,000+

Ali and Farideh Azadi

Maggie Blake Bailey & Andrew Bailey

Roxanne & Jeffrey Cashdan

Jane Jordan Casavant

Barbara & Steve Chaddick

Ellen & Howard Feinsand

Heidi & David Geller

Doris & Matthew Geller

Marsha & Richard Goerss

Doug & Lila Hertz

Kristie L. Madara

Mr. & Mrs. Barry McCarthy

Phil & Caroline Moïse

Allison & Shane O’Kelly

David & Mary Jane

Kirkpatrick

Victoria & Howard Palefsky

Wade Rakes & Nicholas Miller

Patty & Doug Reid

Linda & Steve Selig

Mr. & Mrs. David B. Sewell

William & Margarita Sleeper

Dean DuBose & Bronson Smith

Mr. & Mrs. E. Kendrick Smith

Mark Swinton

Director’s Circle $10,000+

Ms. Kristin Adams

James Anderson

The Balloun Family

Deborah L. Bannworth & Joy Lynn Fields

Alba C. Baylin

Terri Bonoff & Matthew Knopf

Judge JoAnn Bowens

Martha & Toby Brooks

Madeline Chadwick

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Chubb III

Ezra Cohen Charitable Fund

Miles & Nicole Cook

LeighAnn & Chad Costley

Joe Crowley & Phil Mack

Mr. Fredric M. Ehlers & Mr. David Lile

Mr. Wayne S. Hyatt

Malvika Jhangiani

John C. Keller

Mr. James Kieffer

James & Lori Kilberg

Allegra J. Lawrence-Hardy & Valerie Haughton

Dr. & Mrs. John Lee

Ms. Evelyn Ashley & Mr. Alan B. McKeon

Dori & Jack Miller

Paul Pendergrass & Margaret Baldwin

Jamal & Tiffany Powell

Mr. & Mrs. Asif Ramji

Matt Richburg

Patricia & Maurice Rosenbaum

Ms. Mital Shah

Dr. & Mrs. Dennis Lee Spangler

Lynne & Steve Steindel

Carol & Ramon Tomé Family Fund

Dana & Obi Ugwonali

Waffle House

Ms. Kathy Waller & Mr. Kenny Goggins

Mark & Rebekah Wasserman

Ramona & Ben White

Suzy Wilner

BENEFACTORS

$5,000+

Anonymous

Liz Armstrong

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas* J. Asher

Lisa & Joe Bankoff

Mr. & Mrs. Roland L. Bates

Ken Bernhardt & Cynthia Currence

Natalie & Matthew Bernstein

Mr. & Mrs. W. Kent Canipe

Franklin & Dorothy Chandler

Ann & Jim Curry

Linda & Gene Davidson

Diane Durgin

Eve Joy Eckardt

Kathy & Jason Evans

Dr. Cynthia J. Fordyce & Sharon Hulette

Dr. & Mrs. Marvin Goldstein

Tad & Janin Hutcheson

In honor of Carol Jones**

Mr. Charles R. Kowal

Burrelle Meeks

Sam & Barbara Pettway

Mr. & Mrs. Norman J. Radow

Ms. Kristin L. Ray

Paula Rosput Reynolds & Stephen Reynolds

Robyn Roberts & Kevin Greiner

Mr. & Mrs. Mark Rosenberg

Mr. George Russell, Jr. & Mrs. Faye Sampson-Russell

Brian Shively & Jim Jinhong

Charlita Stephens & Delores Stephens

Susan & Alan* Stiefel

Maria-Ruth Storts

Chuck Taylor & Lisa CannonTaylor

Julie Teer

Kathy & Ron* Tomajko

Ms. Cathy Weil

Marjan & Navid Yavari

$2,500

Dr. & Mrs. Raymond Allen

Anonymous

Ellen Arnovitz

Ron & Lisa Brill Charitable Trust

Dr. Aubrey Bush & Dr. Carol Bush

Candace Carson

Marcia & John Donnell

The Robert S. Elster Foundation

Tim & Tina Eyerly

Mrs. Anuja Gagoomal & Dr. John Stites

Karen & Andrew Ghertner

Mr. David F. Golden

Dr. & Mrs. John B. Hardman

Ariana L. Hargrave

David Heinsch

Henry & Etta Raye Hirsch

Heritage Foundation

Mr. & Mrs. J. Michael Hostinsky

Linda & Richard Hubert

Jason & Laurie Jeffay

Mr. & Mrs. Wyatt T. Johnson

Leonard Lee

Joan Netzel & John Gronwall

Mr. & Mrs. Travis Newberry

John & Helen Parker

Peg Petersen

Ali Rahimi

Don & Rosalinda Ratajczak

Dana Rice

Dr. & Mrs. Fredric Rosenberg

Jane & Rein Saral

Sharon & David Schachter

Alan & Cyndy* Schreihofer

Ms. Donna Schwartz

Sam Schwartz & Lynn Goldowski

Mallie Sharafat

Mr. & Mrs.* Charles B. Shelton III

Mr. & Mrs. S. Albert Sherrod

Henry N. & Margaret P. Staats

Judith & Mark Taylor

Stan & Velma Tilley

William & Nancy Yang

The Zaban Foundation

$1,500+

Trent Anderson & Leandro Zaneti

Anonymous

Melodie H. Clayton

Susan & Ed Croft

Celeste Davis-Lane

Mr. & Mrs. Paul A. Flexner

Sandeep Goyal & Taylor England

Della & Theo Guidry

Warren M. Gump

Mrs. Elaine L. Hentschel

Ashley & Elton James

Boland & Andrea Lea Jones

Randy & Connie Jones

Mark Keiser

Andjela & Michael Kessler

Greg & Gillian Matteson

Clair & Thomas Muller

Mr. & Mrs. Armond Perkins

Dr. Denise Raynor

Kashi Sehgal

Ms. Amy Speas

Chandra Stephens-Albright & Warren Albright

Ms. Avril Vignos

Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Weiss

Penn & Sally Wells

Kim Boldthen & Carolyn Wheeler

PATRONS

$1,000+

Reza Abree

Dawn & Michael Adamson

Anonymous

Mr. E. Scott Arnold

Mr. George T. Baker

Jay Bernath

Jill Blair and Fay Twersky

Robert Blondeau & Kristen Nantz, in memory of Betty

Blondeau Russell

Michelle Burdick

Karen and Harold Carney

David Cofrin & Christine

Tryba-Cofrin

Richard & Grecia Cox

Gail Crowder

Howard & Ellen Eisenberg

Dr. Azy Esfandiari, City

Springs Dental Studio

Dr. Marla Franks & Rev.

Susan Zoller

Richard Goodjoin & Kelvin Davis

Louise S. Gunn

Ms. Jo Ann Hayden-Miller

Drs. Cathie & Hugh Hudson

Veronica Kessenich

Ms. Lauren Linder & Mr. Jonathan Grunberg

Judith Lyon & Ron Bloom

Ms. Jaime McQuilkin

Mr. & Mrs. Asghar

Memarzadeh

Anna & Hays Mershon

Stacia Minton

Mr. Kasra Naderi & Mrs.

Arezoo Akhavan

Debbie & Lon Neese

Susan C. Puett

Lois & Don Reitzes

Ryan Roemerman

Deborah W. Royer

Ms. Kerri Sauer

Starane Shepherd

Jane E. Shivers

Ann Starr & Kent Nelson

Andrea Strickland & N.

Jerold Cohen

Nossi Taheri & Hope Vaziri

Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth G. Taylor

Adrienne Whitehead

Lynne Winship

ALLIANCE THEATRE

MONTHLY SUSTAINER SOCIETY

We would like to thank our donors who have committed to giving us a recurring monthly donation to the Alliance Theatre Annual Fund. Join today: www.alliancetheatre.org/sustainer

Dr. & Mrs. Marshall Abes

Mr. Faraz Ahmed

Mr. E. Scott Arnold

Dr. Evelyn R. Babey

Dr. Deloris Bryant-Booker

Mr. Lee Burson & Mr. Dean Jordan

Mr. Brandon Bush

Karen & Harold Carney

David Cashman

Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence R. Cowart

Mr. Christopher Cox

Gray & Marge Crouse

Nash Ditmetaroj

Mr. & Mrs. David Felfoldi

Bryant Gresham & Alexander Bossert

Shauna Grovell

Ms. Jo Ann Hayden-Miller & Mr. William Miller

Lindsey E. Hardegree

Ms. Linda L. Hare & Mr. Gerald Barth

Dr. & Mrs. David M. Hill

Becca Hogue

Karen Jones

Kelley J. Jordan-Monné

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Kalista

Amy & Jeremy King

Andrea W. Lawrence

Karen Lightfoot

Ms. Jaime McQuilkin

Heather & Jim Michael

Lori & Jonathan Peterson

Ms. Kendrick Phillips

Marc & Jean Pickard

Dana & Jacqueline Powe

Barbara Schreiber

Tom Slovak & Jeffery Jones

Charles Thompson

Ms. Stephanie Van Parys & Mr. Robert A. Cleveland

Ben Warshaw

Caitlin Way

David & Amy Whitley

Mr. & Mrs. Napoleon A. Williams

MATCHING GIFT COMPANIES

Many companies offer a matching gifts program for employees and retirees. You can double, or even triple, your gift at no additional cost to you simply by asking your employer! Think of how much further your donation can go.

We would like to thank the following companies who have matched contributions to the Alliance Theatre Annual Fund. To find out more about matching gifts, contact Emma Seif at emma.seif@alliancetheatre.org.

AIG Corporation

American Express

Aon Risk Solutions

The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation

AT&T Bank of America/Merrill

BlackRock

Bryan Cave-Powell

Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.

Chubb Charitable Foundation

The Coca-Cola Company

Deloitte

Equifax Inc. Foundation

John and Mary Franklin Foundation

GE Energy

LEGACY SOCIETY

Georgia Power

Goldman Sachs Matching Gift

Goldstein

Hearst Foundations

Home Depot Foundation

Honda Motor Co.

IAC, Inc

IBM

JPMorgan Chase

Kimberly-Clark

Lynch

Macy’s Foundation

McDonald’s Corporation

McMaster-Carr Supply

Microsoft Corporation

Norfolk Southern Corporation

Prudential Financial

Publix Super Markets

Salesforce.com, Inc.

Sprint SunTrust Foundation

Thrivent Financial for Lutherns

Veritiv Corporation

Verizon Corporation

The Walt Disney Company

Wells Fargo

Yahoo!

Celebrating our supporters who have made a legacy gift to the Alliance Theatre.

The Legacy Society celebrates individuals who have made a planned gift to the Alliance Theatre. Making a planned gift is a wonderful way to show your support and appreciation for the Alliance Theatre and its mission, while accommodating your financial, estate planning and philanthropic goals. With smart planning, you may increase the size of your estate and/or reduce the tax burden on your heirs. Just as important, you will know that you have made a meaningful and lasting contribution to the Alliance Theatre.

To learn more about the Legacy Society, please contact Lindsay Ridgeway-Baierl at lindsay.ridgeway-baierl@alliancetheatre.org.

Anonymous

Rita M. Anderson

Roland & Linda Bates

Kathy* & Ken Bernhardt

Anne & Jim Breedlove

Ezra Cohen

Ann & Jeff Cramer

Susan & Edward Croft

Sallie Adams Daniel

Linda & Gene Davidson

Terry & Stacy Dietzler

Diane Durgin

Elizabeth Etoll

Ellen & Howard Feinsand

James Edward Gay*

Laura & John Hardman

Nancy & Glen Hesler

P.J. Younglove Hovey

David A. Howell*

Lauren & David Kiefer

David Kuniansky

Virginia Vann* & Ken Large

Edith Love*

Lauren & John McColskey

Anna & Hays Mershon

Caroline & Phil Moïse

Winifred & Richard Myrick

Victoria & Howard Palefsky

Armond & Sharon Perkins

Jam Pomerantz

Helen M. Regenstein*

Margaret & Robert Reiser

Betty Blondeau-Russell*

Tricia & Neal Schachtel

Debbie* & Charles Shelton III

Jane E. Shivers

Roger Smith & Christopher Jones*

Ron & Kathy Tomajko

Lee Harper & Wayne Vason

Terri & Rick Western

Ramona & Ben White

* deceased

Artistic Directors

ARTISTIC

Tinashe Kajese-Bolden, Christopher Moses

Producer & Casting Director Jody Feldman

Casting Associate

Distinguished Artist in Residence

Brant Adams

Pearl Cleage

Associate Producer Amanda Watkins

BOLD Producing Associate Kay Nilest

Spelman Leadership Fellows Assata Amankeechi, Jayla Dias

Spelman Leadership Interns Shaelyn Mullins, Kerrington Griffin, Asili Johnson

Kenny Leon Intern Morgan Yhap

Cristo Rey Intern Diana Morales Joaquin

Director of Community Partnerships & Engagement Rita Kompelmakher

Reiser Lab Artists

Round 9 Justen Ross aka Domino Juicy Balenciaga. N’yomi Stewart aka Omi Juicy Balenciaga, Jade Maia Lambert, Ipek Eginli, Sara Ghazi Asadollahi, Juana Farfán, Anterior Leverett, Damian Lockhart, Jasmine Waters

Production Management

Director of Production Lawrence Bennett

Associate Director of Production Courtney O’Neill

Education Department Production Manager Haylee Scott

Costume and Wardrobe Director

Costumes

Associate Costume Shop & Wardrobe Director

Design Assistant

Drapers

Laury Conley

Melanie Green

Kayli Warner

Tonja Petersen, Cindy Lou Who

Crafts Master Diana L. Thomas

1st Hands/Stitchers Lyudmila Fesenko, Brett Parker, Mary Cruz Torres

Wardrobe Supervisor Hauzia Conyers

Wardrobe Monica Speaker

Wig Master Lindsey Ewing

Electrics

Alliance@work Sales Associate

Prewitt

Head of Elementary School Programs Rebecca Pogue

Out of School Program Manager Robyn A. Rogers

Artist in Residence & Teen Program Manager Sam Provenzano

Resident Artist & Allyship Program Director Maya Lawrence

Head of Education Advancement Kristen Silton

BIPOC TVY Stage Management Fellow Autumn Stephens

Teaching Artists

Jae Ahn, Jimez Alexander, Will Amato, Chase Anderson, Jasmine Anthony, Ricardo Aponte, Imani Banks, Kim Bowers-Rheay Baran, Olivia Aston Bosworth, Jared Brodie, Chelsea Brown, Lon Bumgarner, Sara Burris, Dan Caffrey, April Andrew Carswell, Katie Causey, Lina Chambers, Hannah Lake Chatham, Hannah Church, Megan Cramer, Kelly Criss, Nakeisha Daniel, Peyton McDaniel Davis, Theresa Davis, Shelli Delgado, Sarah Donnell, John Doyle, Laurin Dunleavy, Suehyla El-Attar, Amitria Fanae, Shelby Folks, Sharon Foote, Spencer Ford, Daryl Funn, Allison Gardner, Neeley Gossett, Ilasiea Gray, Meg Grey, Amber Hamilton, Meg Harkins, Robert Hindsman, Julissa Sabino Hobbs, Deja Holmes, Renita James, Meg Johns, Kendra Johnson, Carole Kaboya, Ashe Kazanjian, Chris Lane, Maya Lawrence, Antonia LeChe, Anja Lee, Kathleen Link, Amy Lucas, Ansley Lynn, Christian Magby, Barry Stewart Mann, Cara Mantella, Gloria Martin, Mari Martinez, Dalyla McGee, Candy McLellan, Karin Mervis, Erika Miranda, Mary Moccia, Courtney Moors-Hornick, Amanda Wansa Morgan, Jenna Jackson Morris, Kevin Moxley, Audrey Myers, JD Myers, Patrick Myers, Amor Owens, Mary Michael Patterson, Tafee Patterson, Sydney Patton, Zuri Petteway, Rebecca Pogue, Michelle Pokopac, Samantha Provenzano, V Reibel, Morgan Rysdon, Daniela Santiago, Riley Schatz, Erin Schaut, Avery Sharpe, Caitlin Slotnick, Alexandria Joy Smith, Lucy Smith, Taryn Spires, Destiny Stancil, Autumn Stephens, LeeAnna Lambert Sweatt, Megan Tabaque, Jasmine Thomas, Callie Timme, Sariel Toribio, Ebony Tucker, Julia VanderVeen, Jeremy Varner, José Miguel Vasquez, Rachel Wansker, Megan Wartell, Andrea Washington, Davia Weatherill, Ayana Williams, Jay Williams, Vallea Woodbury, Melissa Word

Teen Ensemble Members

Director of Lighting & Projections

Rachael N. Blackwell

Associate Director of Lighting & Projection Joy Diaz

Head Electrician Steve Jordan

Staff Electricians Neil Anderson, Gabrielle Drum

Properties

Props Department Director Suzanne Cooper Morris

Props Artisans Kathryn Andries, Bruce Butkovich

Props Artisan/Buyer Kimberly Townsend

Technical Director

Scenery

Kyle Longwell

Associate Technical Directors Rigel Powell, Luke Robinson

Shop Supervisor Patrick Conley

Lead Welder Chris Seifert

Carpenters Kevin Dyson, Parker Ossmann, Marlon Wilson

Charge Scenic Artist Kat Conley

Scenic Artist Amanda Nerby

Sound

Sound Director Clay Benning

Assistant Sound Director Aaron Vockley

Sound Engineers Tamir Eplan-Frankel, Emma Mouledoux, Graham Schwartz

Stage Management

Lily Erera, Jordyn Nelson, Malachi S Chaney, Ella Grace Pavlovsky, Simon Link, Helena Skylark Denton, Haley Smith, Sam Yates, Cordelia O’Bradovich, Minnah Dunlap, Abigail May Watson, Ella Dameron, August Marks, Caleb Vaughn, Kennedy O’Neil, Anna Schwartz, Julianna Grace Pillsbury, Caroline Chu, Tomi Fawehinmi, Sophia Sánchez, Adler Horstemeyer, Ronnie McCoy, Morgan Stamper, Bailey Rodgers, Aria Armstead

MANAGEMENT

Stage Managers

Liz Campbell, Rodney Williams, Amanda J. Perez, Barbara O’Haley

National Vision Stage Management Fellow Kaylee Mesa

Stage Management Production Assistants Samantha Honeycutt, LaMarr White, Jr

Stage Operations

Managing Director

Company Manager

Assistant Company Manager

Director of Finance

Administration & Finance

Mike Schleifer

Laura Thruston

Thomas D. Powell

Valerie Thomas

IDEA Director TeKeyia Amaru Rice

Controller & Head of Administration

Accounting Coordinator

Accounts Payable Lead

Associate Director, Data Operations & Strategy

Management Assistant

Director of Development

Development

Associate Director, Strategic Institutional Advancement

Director of Individual Giving

Associate Director, Corporate Partnerships

Manager, Individual Giving

Development Coordinator for Board Relations & Special Events

Coordinator, Development Operations & Institutional Giving

Manager of Annual Fund & Donor Relations

Elecia Crowley

Julie Hall

Sharette Driver

Christina Dresser

Joseph Quintana

Trent Anderson

Collins Desselle

Edward McCreary

Natalie Adams

Lindsay Ridgeway-Baierl

Kailan Daugherty

Tanesha Ferguson

Emma Seif

Stage Operations Manager

Assistant Stage Operations Manager

Flyman

Scott Bowne

Kate Lucibella

Willie Palmer Parks

Automation Stagehand John Victor Mouledoux Jr.

Crew Chief Bryan Perez

Properties Stagehand Skylar Burks

EDUCATION

Dan Reardon Director of Education

Naserian Foundation Head of Early Childhood

Christopher Moses

Marketing & Patron Services

Director of Marketing & Communications

Manager of Web & Digital Communications

Marketing & Promotions Coordinator

Kathleen Covington

Anna Birtles

Ashley Elliott

Graphic Designer Felicity Massa

Marketing & Public Relations Manager

Social Media Manager & Content Producer

Associate Director of Data & Ticketing

Patron Services Manager

Patron Services Associates

Mashaun D. Simon

Aniska Tonge

Danielle Hicks

Genesis Gates

James McCune, Sydney Michelle, Zuri Petteway, Natalie Brown

Patron Services Coordinator Andi Stanesic

Box Office Associate

Season Ticket Concierge

David Posada

Ken McNeil

Education Sales Coordinator Quintara Johnson

Group Sales & Student Matinee Manager

Group Sales & Student Matinee Coordinator

Jocelyn Rick

Chelsea Street

Lead Front of House Managers Lauren Alexandra, Robyn E. Sutton-Fernandez

House Managers Barbara O’Haley, Brittany Mangham, Phillia Prior, Leah Thomas