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For a long time, I read plays about Gen X’ers in their 20s avoiding adulthood. Angry, bitter and stuck in pre-Internet office jobs, seething with resentment. Then I read plays about millennials in their 20s avoiding adulthood. Entitled, pampered and attached to smartphones, waiting for an opportunity to strike. Then last October I read this play, Start Down. These characters in their 20s wore adulthood with grace: They care deeply about meaningful work; they live well and love well; they expect themselves to have both voice and impact on society writ large.

Written with an insider’s knowledge and a love of San Francisco tech startup culture, Start Down finds drama and passion in software development, business development and education reform.

At the same time, the play’s characters dramatize the tech belt’s promise of a class transcending multiracial meritocracy.

Eleanor Burgess writes with a wry comic sensibility. Winners of the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition often go on to subsequent productions around the country.

However, much like the technology at its center, Start Down is forward-thinking: It will have its second production in March at the Centenary Stage Company in New Jersey, an unusually quick turnaround even for an Alliance/Kendeda winner. It will also receive publication through Samuel French. Start Down is the play other theater communities will be discussing avidly next year, but you are seeing it first here in Atlanta.

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Playwright Eleanor Burgess digs into divisive debate over technology and how we educate our kids

By Julie Bookman

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f you don’t keep champagne in the fridge, then you don’t think you deserve to have anything good happen to you.”

That’s just one handy real-life tip you’ll find in Eleanor Burgess’ comic drama Start Down, the 2016 winner

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of the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition. Such lines provide a pleasant counterpoint to the bantering and bickering her “brogrammers” do while hatching their ambitious tech startup.

Does Burgess buy into that advice?

“Totally,” she says.

When she learned her play had been chosen from 72 submissions as this year’s winner of the Alliance/Kendeda competition, she went to her refrigerator and opened the bottle of bubbly waiting there.

“I’m incredibly superstitious,” she says. “I am convinced that keeping champagne in the fridge helped.

When I got the call from the Alliance, I had to drink that champagne and thank it.”

The Kendeda prize brings with it a prodigious benefit for any up-and-coming playwright: The Alliance gives the winning script a full-scale production on the 200-seat Hertz Stage — not a workshop, not a staged reading — and helps the playwright make the transition from student to professional.

It’s the only program of its kind in American regional theater.

Burgess, 31, is a “writer to watch, and the Alliance is lucky to be working with her at the beginning of a terrific career,” says Celise Kalke, the Alliance’s director of new projects.

Kalke has been involved in the shaping of Start Down for the past year. The process included a reading as part of the Alliance’s Institute for Educators in June, and more work at the M.F.A. Playwrights Workshop at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Kalke praises Burgess for having the guts to dive into a divisive issue: how we live, how we educate our children and our core values around technology.

If you don’t have a child in the public school system, you likely don’t know what’s happening in classrooms, Burgess says.

“I want the play to be

saying, ‘Hey, change is happening, let’s look at what’s going on and let’s combine the best of what tech has to offer and the best of what teachers have to offer.’ ” More comedy than drama, Start Down brings to life the culture and roller-coaster process of tech startups with style and wit, Kalke says, and without bogging down in detailing logistics.

For Burgess, it’s been quite a journey. She’s had to delve into the myriad issues of the education-tech controversy and discover the nuances of the play.

“With this big topic, you’re also talking about class and gender and race and humor and personality. So exploring all those nooks and crannies has taken a while.”

But she knows the territory.

Her husband is co-founder of a startup called HireArt, an online recruiting platform.

She herself has a day job as the website manager for a nonprofit foundation in Manhattan.

Start Down features two couples, four players impacted by the the startup of an ed-tech platform called “Personal Classroom.” In each couple, the woman is an overworked teacher.

Burgess knows that turf, too. She majored in history at Yale College and taught high school before earning her M.F.A. in dramatic writing at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

The idea for Start Down began to ping for Burgess, who has written three other fulllength plays, when her husband was working on HireArt in Mountain View, Calif., in the Silicon Valley-land of startups.

She became fascinated with the way tech people

“If you don’t keep champagne in the fridge, then you don’t think you deserve to have anything good happen to you.”

Eleanor Burgess

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dialogue in general. I’m someone who does a lot of talking; it’s very natural and it’s what drew me to writing plays.

I’m not one of those playwrights who could also write novels.

“I’m so interested in what people say — and what they don’t say. And how they speak to each other and what exactly it sounds like when someone’s excited, or uncomfortable.

“I love how different people talk in their own unique ways.

I mean I really love exploring where a conversation takes off, where it sputters.”

Is Start Down a cautionary tale?

“I hope that the play is a question-raising tale,” she says, adding that it was important to her to be fair to both sides of the issue.

“I never wanted to write a dystopian let’s-be-afraid-oftechnology play because that would be an oversimplification.

I mean, we all spend too much time on our phones, so there must be something we do love about it!” A

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FROM TOP: Start Down is set in San Francisco, home of the Golden Gate Bridge and many a tech startup; teachers and students work with innovation/technology in their classrooms.

talk to one another.

“They are some of biggest optimists in the world,” Burgess says. “They really believe that there’s a solution to so many human problems and that things can get better and that they will be the ones who make them better.”

She was also struck by their energy.

“It’s really something, to be around a whole city full of people who want to change the world and who also want to get rich and who don’t necessarily think that there’s a conflict between wanting to save the world and wanting to get rich.”

Start Down’s dialogue may make playgoers feel as if they’re in the room where the ed-tech debates happen.

“For me, the dialogue is the most natural part,” Burgess says. “When I am being really facetious and jokey, I sort of refer to that Malcom Gladwell idea of 10,000 hours,” that it takes roughly that long to become a master in any field.

“I love conversation and

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* TRACEY BONNER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Karen ANTHONY CAMPBELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jesse ANDREW PUCKETT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Matty * ANNIE PURCELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sandy * ERIC SHARP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Will * JOSH TOBIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adam UNDERSTUDIES

KRISTINA ADLER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sandy MATT MERCURIO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Will JUSTEN ROSS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jesse DANIELLE THORSEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Karen JUSTIN WALKER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adam/Matty STAGE MANAGEMENT

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PRODUCTION AND DESIGN ASSISTANCE PAUL LIEBER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Projection Design ALICIA QUIRK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Script Supervisor EMILY KLEYPAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Casting Organizer

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profiles KRISTINA ADLER (US Sandy) is thrilled to work on her first Alliance show! Atlanta credits: The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek (Catalyst Arts Atlanta), The Great Greek Puntheon (Atlanta Shakespeare Tavern). Favorite credits: Man of La Mancha (Open Space Cafe Theatre), Around the World in 80 Minutes (California International Theatre Festival), Crimes of the Heart (Elon University), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Alabama School of Fine Arts). Film/TV: “Your Worst Nightmare,” “Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell,” “The Drunks,” and Dirty Nails. Graduate of Elon University with a B.F.A. in acting and B.A. in theatrical design/production. Huge thanks to my family, my roommates and my agents at People Store. KristinaAdler.com TRACEY BONNER (Karen) is honored to make her Alliance Theatre debut. Theatre credits include April 4th, 1968: Before We Forgot How to Dream, What I Learned in Paris and The Mountaintop at Indiana Repertory Theatre; We Are Proud to Present ... at Victory Gardens Theatre; Native Son, Invisible Man and Home at the Court Theatre; Bud, Not Buddy and Jackie and Me at Chicago Children’s Theatre; Radio Golf at Virginia Stage Company; Jitney at True Colors Theatre; Brothers of the Dust, The Talented Tenth and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone at Congo Square Theatre; and How the Kanye West Was Won and Six Degrees of Reparation at Second City. TV/film: Mother’s Day, The Longest Ride (20th Century Fox), “Betrayal” (ABC), “Low Winter Sun” (AMC), “Chicago Fire” (NBC), “Casandra French’s Finishing School for Boys” (MTV), Trapped in the Closet (IFC) and “Prison Break” (Fox). Bonner has an M.F.A. in acting from the Theatre School at DePaul University and is a proud ensemble member at Congo Square Theatre Company.

ANTHONY CAMPBELL (Jesse) is delighted to make his Alliance Theatre debut. He recently interned on Black Nativity in Atlanta and is a senior at New Manchester High School Fine Arts Program, with a dual major in theatre and dance. He has appeared in Almost Main as well as Footloose, Aida, Hello, Dolly!, The Drowsy Chaperone and Tarzan at East Ridge High School in Clermont, Fla. After graduating, Campbell hopes to major in theatre at a university to perfect his skills so he can pursue his dream of performing on Broadway.

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MATT MERCURIO (US Will) is thrilled to be back at the Alliance to work on another dynamite new play.

Favorite stage credits: Jesus Hopped the A-Train (Angel Cruz), In the Blood (Jabber) and Dark Play (Adam). Recent TV: “Sleepy Hollow” (Fox), “The Inspectors” (CBS), “Powers” (Sony), “Nashville”(ABC), “Graceland” (USA). Recent film: Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (TriStar), Miracles From Heaven (Paramount Pictures), Mena (Universal Pictures). He is infinitely grateful to his family for providing the foundation and support to pursue his dreams, to his friends who provide sitcoms of material and to his best friend and love, Christina, who makes the journey worthwhile. actormattmercurio.com ANDREW PUCKETT (Matty) is thrilled to make his Alliance Theatre debut. Favorite Atlanta credits: A Confederacy of Dunces (Theatrical Outfit), The Shape of Things, Lobby Hero (Pinch ‘N’ Ouch), Moby Dick (Saiah Arts International). TV/film: “Swamp Murders” and Invasion of the Undead. He has a B.A. in theatre and performance studies from Kennesaw State University. He thanks Jeremy and Jody for this amazing opportunity and Eleanor for creating such a stellar and important work. He also thanks his wife, Julie, for her unwavering love and support.

ANNIE PURCELL (Sandy) is delighted to make her Alliance debut.

Broadway: The Coast of Utopia: Voyage, Shipwreck and Salvage at Lincoln Center; Dividing the Estate and Awake and Sing! Off-Broadway: Fashions for Men (The Mint); Illusions (Baryshnikov Center for the Arts); Twelfth Night (Fiasco); Cycling Past the Matterhorn (Theater Row); The Tempest (Continuum Company). Regional: Northern Lights (Hudson Valley Shakespeare); Awake and Sing!

(Huntington Theatre); Partners (Humana Festival); The Real Thing (Studio Theatre); Ed, Downloaded (Denver Center Theatre); Scorched, A Christmas Carol and Endgame/Play (American Conservatory Theatre); The Tosca Café (Theatre Calgary, Vancouver Playhouse); In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); Elektra (Getty Villa); Mary’s Wedding (Portland Stage Company); The House in Hydesville (Geva Theatre); and Uncle Vanya (Cal Shakes). Television: “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee,” “Louie” and “The Black Donnellys.” B.A., Fordham University at

profiles cast Lincoln Center, M.F.A. NYU. Purcell also writes plays, teaches and delights in making theatre in all ways.

JUSTEN ROSS (US Jesse) is excited to make his professional debut with the Alliance Theatre. He is a two-time Atlanta finalist for Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre August Wilson Monologue competition. He has interned at Rising Sage Theatre and volunteers with the Southwest Arts Center. He is an 11th-grader at Our Lady of Mercy Catholic High School, where he is the captain of the improv troupe and actor representative for the Thespian Honors Society. Ross made school history when he became the first freshman inducted in the Thespian Honors Society. justenrossactor@gmail.com ERIC SHARP (Will) is thrilled to make his Alliance debut. The Minneapolis-based actor and playwright recently wrote and starred in the world premiere of Middle Brother at Mu Performing Arts and will tour the show to South Korea this summer. Other regional credits include M. Butterfly (Guthrie Theater), The Jungle Book (Children’s Theatre Company), The Miser (Theatre de la Jeune Lune), After the Quake (Walking Shadow Theatre) and Mother Courage and Her Children (Frank Theatre). Sharp has performed at the Minnesota, Toronto and Edinburgh fringe festivals, and portrayed the young Dalai Lama in TigerLion Arts’ tour of The Buddha Prince.

DANIELLE THORSEN (US Karen) is incredibly excited to be back at the Alliance Theatre. She previously understudied at Alliance for Blues for an Alabama Sky (Us Delia) and By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (US Vera, Anna Mae). She has also understudied at Georgia Ensemble for Homers (US Claire). She graduated from Wake Forest University with a BFA in Theatre and performed in many shows during her time there including Eurydice and The Grapes of Wrath. Much love to everyone who makes this crazy journey possible.

JOSH TOBIN (Adam) is thrilled to make his Alliance debut. New York: Gluten! (59E59 Theaters); July House (NYFringe); Scapin (Theater Row); Until Next Time (The Brick Theater).

Regional: 4000 Miles (Baltimore Center Stage); Something Intangible (Gulfshore Playhouse); The Imaginary Invalid, Cabaret, Clybourne Park, Henry

IV & V, Big River (PlayMakers Repertory Company); Fifty Ways, As You Like It, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Chautauqua Theater Company). Film: Ricki and the Flash, Happy Birthday Tommy. Education: M.F.A., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill/ PlayMakers; B.A., Davidson College.

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JUSTIN WALKER (US Adam/ Matty) is very excited to be working with the Alliance Theatre for the first time. Regional credits include TheatreSquared, Georgia Shakespeare, Arkansas Rep, Aurora Theatre, Atlanta Shakespeare Company, Warehouse Theatre, Serenbe Playhouse, SC Rep, South Arkansas Symphony, The Distracted Globe, Centre Stage, Step 1 Theatre, and Bright Star, among others. Justin holds an M.F.A. in acting from the University of Arkansas.

JEREMY B. COHEN (Director) is thrilled to return to the Alliance, and is in his sixth season as producing artistic director of the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, having previously served as associate artistic director/director of new play development at Hartford Stage, where he directed several premieres.

Other directing credits include productions at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Alley Theatre, Alliance, Centerstage, Dorset Theatre, George Street Playhouse, Goodman, Kansas City Rep, McCarter, Mixed Blood, New Victory, Open Fist, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Royal George, Steppenwolf, Theater J, Theatre Latte Da, Victory Gardens and Workhaus Collective. Workshops: At the O’Neill Playwrights’ Conference, New York Stage & Film, Pasadena Playhouse, Denver Center, New Harmony, Bay Area Playwrights Festival and Woolly Mammoth.

As founding artistic director of Naked Eye Theatre Company in Chicago, Cohen developed/directed more than 15 plays, including several premieres. He has received numerous directing awards, an NEA/ TCG Directors Fellowship and a Northwestern University grant for his play 12 Volt Heart. Last season he directed the world premiere of a new musical off-Broadway (the Duke on 42nd Street) by singer/songwriter Jonatha Brooke called My Mother Has Four Noses, which is touring the United States.

This season he directs four world premieres, including Bad Dog (Olney), Lullaby (Theatre Latte Da) and the rolling world premiere of Le Switch (The Jungle).

ELEANOR BURGESS (Playwright) is thrilled to be the recipient of the 2016 Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Award. Previous plays have been produced by the Last Act Theatre

profiles Company, Centenary Stage Compan, and the Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Festival, and developed at the Huntington Theatre, the Kennedy Center/NNPN M.F.A. Playwrights Workshop, Merrimack Repertory Theatre and Luna Stage. She has been a playwriting fellow at the Huntington Theatre Company, a recipient of an EST/Sloan rewrite commission and a member of the writers’ group at the Arcola Theatre in London. Originally from Brookline, Mass., she studied history at Yale College and playwriting at NYU/Tisch School of the Arts. Love and gratitude to Nick.

JOSHUA EPSTEIN (Lighting Design) Alliance: False Creeds. Regional: Mark Taper Forum, the Guthrie, the Goodman, Kirk Douglas Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Pasadena Playhouse, Trinity Repertory Company, Baltimore Center Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Playmakers Repertory and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park.

Opera: Minnesota Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Opera Saratoga, Opera Santa Barbara, Wolf Trap Opera Company, Berkshire Opera, Manhattan School of Music. He has served as an adjunct professor at UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television since 2014. Epstein received his M.F.A. from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He is a recipient of the NEA/ TCG Career Development Program for designers and a member of the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference Artistic Council. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and three daughters. joshepsteindesign.com JOSHUA HORVATH (Sound Design) is a Bay area and Chicago award-winning sound designer/ composer/music producer. Alliance credits: Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls (original composition). His designs and music have been heard regionally at Long Wharf, Hartford Stage, Centerstage, Alliance Theatre, the Goodman, Steppenwolf, the Court, Lookingglass, Milwaukee Rep, the Arena, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, McCarter, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, California Shakespeare, the Mark Taper Forum, and Oregon Shakespeare.

Horvath has taught sound design for theatre and film at Northwestern and DePaul universities. He is a four time Joseph Jefferson Award winner and L.A. Ovation winner, a House Theatre of Chicago company member, a Lookingglass Theatre artistic associate and a collaborative partner with the Goodman.

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IVAN INGERMANN (Costume Design) Theatre: Ultimate Energy, Wanda Movie Park Wuhan, China; Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls, Alliance; Disney on Ice: Dare to Dream national and international tours, A’lure: The Call of the Ocean, SeaWorld. Film: Suits, Rules of the Game, Escape to Life, “2x4” (Sundance winner) TV: national commercials for Pier One, Toyota, Pontiac, BMW, McDonald’s and MTV. Awards: 2012 Suzi Bass Award, Costume Designers Guild excellence in commercial costume design nomination. Assistant credits: Grease (Willa Kim); The Snow Maiden (Desmond Heeley); Chicago (William Ivey Long); How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Night of the Iguana (Susan Hilferty). He is a member of the United Scenic Artist Union Local 829 and a tenured faculty member in UGA’s Department of Theatre and Film Studies.

More at ingermanndesign.com CAITE HEVNER KEMP (Scenic & Projection Design) Alliance debut! Caite is a New York-based scenic and projection designer. Off-Broadway: Ugly Lies the Bone, Roundabout Underground; Tail! Spin!, Lynn Redgrave Theater; My Mother Has 4 Noses, the Duke on 42nd Street; Who’s Your Baghdaddy?, Actors Temple; Honky, Urban Stages; Triassic Parq, Soho Playhouse; Jukebox Jackie, La MaMa. New York: Parade, Avery Fisher Hall; Game Play, Ars Nova; You Better Sit Down, The Civilians; Il Cambiale di Matrimonio and La Scala di Seta, Juilliard.

Regional: Alley Theatre, Arena Stage, Barrington Stage Company, Bristol Riverside Theatre, Cleveland Play House, Dallas Theater Center, Guthrie Theater, Marin Theatre Company, Northern Stage, Pasadena Playhouse, People’s Light, Playmakers Repertory Company, Round House Theater, Seattle 5th Avenue, Theater J, Williamstown Theatre Festival. Adjunct faculty at Fordham University and Ramapo College.

Member of Wingspace Theatrical Design. caitekemp.com JODY FELDMAN (Casting) 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 and casting director at the Alliance, where she started in 1991 as casting director. While at the Alliance, she has cast and produced more than 200 LORT B, D and TYA productions encompassing 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 Shaffer, In the Red and Brown Water by Tarell Alvin McCraney and more than 10 years of Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition-winning plays, as

profiles cast well as such world and regional premiere musicals as Tuck Everlasting, Aida, The Color Purple, Sister Act: The Musical, Bring It On: The Musical, Ghost Brothers of Darkland County and Harmony, A New Musical. Jody is most proud of the thriving Alliance engagement activities and partnerships that recognize theatrical work as a catalyst for community conversation and connection.

stage-managed Zorro: The Musical, What I Learned in Paris, August Wilson Full Circle: Gem of the Ocean and Radio Golf, Doubt, Jelly’s Last Jam and the world premieres of Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, Sister Act: The Musical, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and A Christmas Carol. Thanks a million to my lovely wife, Jacinta, & Jacinta’s PrayerPosse for showing the beauty & power of Soka!

CELISE KALKE (Director of New Projects/ Dramaturg) joined the Alliance in 2005, and manages the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition. Kalke has grown the competition to include a prominent New York festival, an Atlanta festival and a workshop at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. The competition’s world premieres at the Alliance include such critically acclaimed and exciting productions as The C.A. Lyons Project, In Love and Warcraft, Bike America, Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls, Carapace, Tennis in Nablus, Smart Cookie, In the Red and Brown Water and False Creeds. Before moving to the Alliance, Kalke was director of the literary department at the Public Theater in New York, working with such writers as John Guare, Diana Son, Tracey Scott Wilson and Stephen Adly Guirgis, and serving as the production dramaturg for Shakespeare in Central Park productions. She was an artistic associate at Next Theatre and the resident dramaturg for Court Theatre in Chicago.

SUSAN V. BOOTH (Jennings Hertz Artistic Director) joined the Alliance Theatre in 2001 and has initiated the Palefsky Collision Project for teens, the Alliance/ Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition, local producing partnerships and regional collaborative productions as well as commercial partnerships on projects including Tuck Everlasting; Ghost Brothers of Darkland County; The Color Purple; Bring It On: The Musical; Twyla Tharp’s Come Fly Away With Me; Sister Act: The Musical; Bring in ’ da Noise, Bring in ’ da Funk and Jesus Christ Superstar GOSPEL. As a director, she has worked at such theatres as 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 at Emory University. She is a past president of the board of directors for the Theatre Communications Group, the national service organization for the field, and is a trustee of Denison University and the Howard School. Susan is married to Max Leventhal and is the proud mother of Moira Rose Leventhal.

R. LAMAR WILLIAMS (Stage Manager) is an Atlanta native who studied theatre at Florida A&M University’s Essential Theatre. His 13-year tenure at the Alliance has included stage managing such shows as In Love and Warcraft, Choir Boy, Bike America, The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls, Carapace, Sammy & Me, Tennis in Nablus, The Second City: Peach Drop Stop & Roll, The Second City: Miracle on 1280 Peachtree Street and Broke. He assistant

SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Start Down was developed with generous support from The Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science & Technology Project and the Huntington Theatre Company.

Special thanks to Michelle Morgan, NEX/Atlanta, Tech Village, and Joe and Lisa Bankoff for their support of Start Down audience engagement initiatives.

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In Start Down I discovered a story that shows the real issues of entrepreneurs.

It’s an intensely emotional experience to found a company – and more so if you are working to disrupt an industry. The media talks about it on the company side, but this play shows you the personal side as well. Being the founder is full of conflict and really not so glamorous. You lose things and people along the way. You see who you really are. It’s hard to describe what entrepreneurs do; it’s different for each one in that the project or business is different, but the part that is the same — the conflict, the self-awareness and how it’s acquired in the process. It’s brutal work, but we love it.

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Will believes he has a bright future in software development once he breaks away from Facebook for Pets. But until he listens to his girlfriend, Sandy, and her best friend, Karen (both teachers), debate issues around class size and teacher capacity one night at dinner, he lacks THE idea. That night, he envisions a program that tests and teaches individual students at their own level. As the program evolves and begins a testing phase, Sandy goes from being an early adopter to a skeptic.

Eventually, clashing values test their relationship.

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about the alliance theatre The Alliance Theatre is Atlanta’s national theater, expanding hearts and minds on stage and off. Founded in 1968, the Alliance Theatre is the leading producing theater in the Southeast, reaching more than 165,000 patrons annually. The Alliance delivers powerful programming that challenges adult and youth audiences to think critically and care deeply. Under the leadership of Susan V. Booth, Jennings Hertz Artistic Director, the Alliance Theatre received the Regional Theatre Tony Award® in recognition of sustained excellence in programming, education, and community engagement.

Known for its high artistic standards and national role in creating significant theatrical works, the Alliance has premiered more than 95 original productions including Tony Award® winners The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Aida by Elton John and Tim Rice, and Alfred Uhry’s The Last Night of Ballyhoo.

The Alliance has developed and premiered important American musicals with a strong track record of Broadway, touring, and subsequent productions, including the world premieres of Sister Act: The Musical, Twyla Tharp’s Come Fly Away, Bring It On: The Musical, Stephen King and John Mellencamp’s Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, Harmony – A New Musical by Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman, and most recently the world premiere of the new musical Tuck Everlasting. The Alliance also creates and nurtures the careers of artists through the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition, producing the world premiere for the competition winner as part of the regular season, and the Reiser Atlanta Artists Lab, providing developmental support and production resources for three performing arts projects each year.

The Alliance’s dedication to providing access to the arts is reflected in its commitment to creating new work for all ages, and to bringing that work into classrooms and communities across Atlanta and throughout the region. More than 50,000 students each year experience age-specific professional performances and participate in acting classes, drama camps, and in-school initiatives through the Alliance Theatre Acting Program and Education Department. The Alliance’s groundbreaking Kathy and Ken Bernhardt Theatre for the Very Young performances offer professionally-produced, fully interactive theater for infants and toddlers; the Palefsky Collision Project invites high school artists to create and perform new civic-minded theater based on a classic text; and community acting classes and skill-building workshops engage professional artists, young actors, business leaders, and curious learners of all ages. Twice recognized by the U.S. Department of Education for leadership in arts education, the Alliance Arts for Learning Institute equips classroom teachers with theatrical techniques that link directly to school curriculum and have been empirically proven to improve student learning. These programs include Georgia Wolf Trap Early Learning Through the Arts and Dramaturgy K–12, in which students create research material that informs Alliance productions and prepares peer audiences.

The work produced by the Alliance allows locally based artists the chance to create on a nationally watched stage, building and sustaining Atlanta’s artistic community. The vision of the Alliance Theatre is to be a beacon of leadership for the national field, while remaining deeply rooted in and reflective of our local Atlanta community.

MISSION Atlanta’s national theater, expanding hearts and minds on stage and off.

VISION The Alliance will lead the national field by deeply engaging with its local community, modeling radical inclusion and catalytic experiences on our stages, in our classrooms, and throughout Atlanta. alliancetheatre.org or 404.733.4650

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board of directors Officers Chair: Reade Fahs* Immediate Past Chair: Victoria Palefsky* Treasurer: Steve Chaddick*

Lifetime Directors Rita Anderson Ken Bernhardt Frank Chew Ann Cramer* Linda Davidson

Laura Hardman* Hays Mershon Richard S. Myrick Helen Regenstein Bob Reiser

Jane Shivers Sally G. Tomlinson Ben White

Directors Kristin R. Adams* James Anderson* Lynn Ayers^ Kenny Blank Peter Carter Jeffrey S. Cashdan Steve Chaddick* Leigh Ann Costley Fred Ehlers Daryl Evans Joseph W. Evans Reade Fahs* Howard Feinsand* Molly Fuller Richard Goerss* Alexander Goldsmith

Pat Gunning Virginia A. Hepner^ Lila Hertz* Jocelyn Hunter* Christopher M. Jones Leslie Joyce Anne Kaiser* John Keller Lauren Kiefer* James A. Kilberg Mary Jane Kirkpatrick Malinda Krantz* Alan McKeon* Carol Meadows* Hala Moddelmog Phil Moise*

Maureen Morrison Victoria Palefsky* Scott Pioli Helen Smith Price Patty Reid Margaret Reiser* Fran Rogers* Maurice Rosenbaum Bobby Rosenbloum Bill Rowland Surishtha Sehgal Steve Selig Pam Sessions* Mark Silberman Chris Sizemore Bill Sleeper

Bronson Smith Karen Spiegel Chuck Taylor Rosemarie Thurston Rebekah Wasserman Cynthia Widner Wall Brad Watkins Jill Wilson Paul Wrights Todd Zeldin * Executive Committee Member

Advisory Board

Advisory Board Chair: Laura Hardman* Vice Chair: Phil Moise*

Joel Alvarado Shean L. Atkins Maurice Baker Michael Barrett Shana Basnight Paul Bianchi Danny Blumenfield Keith Arthur Bolden Donna Bowman Heidi Boykin Erin Brown Stephen Brown Kristen Wood Burke Tarsha Whitaker Calloway

Madison Cario Sona Chambers Andrew Chang Greg Changnon Caren Cook Emily Decker Angela Edmond Lisa Ramirez Ellinger David Felfoldi Matt Geller Barbara Goldman September Gray Lauren Linder Grunberg Nancy Halwig

Janet Stovall Harrell Heather Vincent Holley Rita Izaguirre Rachelle Kuramoto Santiago Marquez Liza McSwain Dori Miller Marjorie Mitchell Valerie Mosley Kendrick Heather Phillips Almeera Jiwa Pratt Chris Schneider Jennifer Schwartz Ron Segal

Nancy Silverboard Steven Steindel Chandra StephensAlbright Charlita StephensWalker Susan Stiefel Natasha Trethewey Alexandra Tucci Shawn Tylka Avril Vignos Ellen Adair Wyche

Volunteer Leadership

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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.

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

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Wells Fargo Foundation

★★★★★★ $100,000+ AT&T Delta Air Lines, Inc. The Home Depot

The Kendeda Fund The Shubert Foundation Turner

★★★★★ $50,000+ Carter’s The Edgerton Foundation Fulton County Arts & Culture North Highland Company

PNC R. Howard Dobbs, Jr. Foundation Wal-Mart Foundation The Zeist Foundation

★★★★ $25,000+ Atlanta Foundation Camp-Younts Foundation City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs Emory Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences & Emory Brain Health Center

Georgia Power Publix Super Markets Charities, Inc. The Rich Foundation The Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust Target

★★★ $10,000+ Accenture Alston & Bird Thalia & Michael C. Carlos Foundation Cartoon Network Georgia Council for the Arts Georgia Natural Gas

Georgia-Pacific Foundation Greenberg Traurig LLP Hire Profile National Endowment for the Arts State Bank & Trust Company Sutherland Asbill & Brennan, LLP

Theatre Forward/NCTF The Mark & Evelyn Tramell Foundation United Distributors Frances Wood Wilson Foundation

DocAuto William and Eva Fox Foundation John and Mary Franklin Foundation Jones Day

King & Spalding, LLP Plum Creek Foundation Theatre Communications Group

★★ $5,000+ AON Arby’s Foundation Balentine+Company CKKO Foundation

By attending our theatre, you have made a powerful statement about how important the arts are to you. With the 2015/16 Season, the Alliance Theatre turns 47. Help us celebrate the power of great theatre for 47 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 support is provided by the Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs.

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annual fund Individual donors contribute more than $2 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 their support. To find out more about the benefits of giving or to make your gift, visit us at alliancetheatre.org/donate or call 404-733-4757.

Listed below are pledges and gifts to the Alliance Theatre Annual Fund and special events for the 2014/15 and 2015/16 seasons from June 1, 2014 through January 1, 2016.

$100,000+ The Spray Foundation $50,000+ Victoria & Howard Palefsky Mr. & Mrs. H. Bronson Smith $25,000+ Stephanie Blank Barbara & Steve Chaddick Ann & Jeff Cramer Mr. & Mrs. Howard Feinsand David & Carolyn Gould Malinda Krantz Starr Moore & the James Starr Moore Foundation Stephen & Marjorie Osheroff Dan & Garnet Reardon Patty & Doug Reid Bob & Margaret Reiser Linda & Steve Selig Sally G. Tomlinson $15,000-$24,999 Mrs. Kristin Adams James Anderson The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation Susan Booth & Max Leventhal Mr. & Mrs. Joseph W. Evans Mr. & Mrs. Reade Fahs Doris & Matthew Geller Marsha & Richard Goerss Jocelyn J. Hunter John C. Keller Mr. & Mrs. David E. Kiefer James & Lori Kilberg David & Mary Jane Kirkpatrick Mrs. J. Hicks Lanier Mr. Alan B. McKeon & Ms. Evelyn Ashley Phil & Caroline Moïse Mr. & Mrs. Angus Morrison John & Karen Spiegel Rosemarie & David Thurston Mark & Rebekah Wasserman Ramona & Ben White Paul Wrights Amy & Todd Zeldin $10,000-$14,999 Billye & Hank Aaron Gene G. Abel, M.D. & Nora Harlow John & Lynn Ayers The Balloun Family Linda & Gene Davidson Mr. & Mrs. Adam Fuller

Mr. Patrick J. Gunning Doug & Lila Hertz Andrea & Boland Jones Mrs. Leslie Joyce Sarah & Jim Kennedy Mr. & Mrs. John S. Markwalter, Jr. Anna & Hays Mershon Hala & Steve Moddelmog Richard S. & Winifred B. Myrick Helen Smith Price Dr. & Mrs. R. K. Sehgal Dr. & Mrs. Dennis Lee Spangler William & Margarita Sleeper Lynne & Steve Steindel Charlita Stephens-Walker, Charles* & Delores Stephens Chuck & Lisa Cannon-Taylor Mrs. Mary Rose Taylor Mr. & Mrs. Ramon Tomé Nina Urban Suzy Wilner Mrs. Jill Wilson Joni Winston $7,500-$9,999 Kathy & Ken Bernhardt Leslie D. Leigh M.D. Patricia & Maurice Rosenbaum Mr. Russell B. Still In honor of the Alliance Theatre Education Department & Carol Jones $5,000-$7,499 Ellen Arnovitz Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Austin Lisa & Joe Bankoff Mr. & Mrs. W. Kent Canipe Leigh Ann Costley Susan & Ed Croft Marcia & John Donnell Eve & Bob Eckardt Mr. Fredric M. Ehlers & Mr. David Lile Eierman Foundation John & Cindy Ethridge Diane & Daryl Evans Marie and Brad Foster Heidi & David Geller Karen and Andrew Ghertner Erin & John Heyman Paul & Rosthema Kastin David L. Kuniansky Mr. & Mrs. Solon P. Patterson Scott, Dallas, & Mia Pioli

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Bill & Rhonda Rowland Sharon & David Schachter Alan & Cyndy* Schreihofer Sonny & Jeanne Seals Mr.& Mrs.* Charles B. Shelton III Mr. & Mrs. E. Kendrick Smith Chandra Stephens-Albright & Warren Albright Tim & Maria Tassopoulous Susan & Tom Wardell P.J. Younglove Hovey $2,500-$4,999 Elaine & Miles Alexander Dr. & Mrs. Raymond Allen Pam Anderson Mike & Karen Armand The Rockdale Foundation Karen Beardslee & Susie McGinnis Ms. Beryl Bergquist Ron & Lisa Brill Charitable Trust Sara & Alex Brown Susan & Tom Callaway Frank & Mary Anne Chew Ann & Jim Curry Diane Durgin Mr. Fred Ehlers Dr. & Mrs. Norman Elliott Philippa & Burrell Ellis Kathryn T. Farley, PhD Dr. Cynthia J. Fordyce & Sharon Hulette Mr. & Mrs. John D. Fuller Dr. & Mrs. Edmond I. Griffin Mrs. Carrie G. Hall Dr. & Mrs. John B. Hardman Virginia Hepner & Malcolm Barnes Hindman Family Charitable Trust Henry & EttaRae Hirsch Foundation Linda & Richard Hubert Mr. Wayne S. Hyatt Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Kauffman Brian & Carrie Kurlander Neuro Tour Physical Therapy, Inc. I AM PR Agency LLC Kristie L. Madara Carol & Dart Meadows Mr. & Mrs. William E. Michalewicz The Zaban Foundation Mr. Walter W. Mitchell Dedi & Julian Mohr June M. Morrison Debbie & Lon Neese Susan & David Peterson

Mr. Jared Ripps & Dr. Kiera von Besser The Elster Foundation Charlotte & Tom Shields Brian Shively & Jim Jinhong Mark & Linda Silberman Nancy & Gerald Silverboard Henry N. & Margaret P. Staats Karen & Alex Stickney Maria-Ruth Storts Mr. & Mrs. John R. Strom Mr. James Thomas Michael & June Tompkins Mr. James Wall & Mrs. Cynthia Widner Wall Mr. & Mrs. Edus H. Warren, Jr. J.M. Wilkerson Construction Co. Lynne Winship John & Kathy Zamer $1,500 - $2,499 Claire Abreu Judge Gregory A. Adams & Wanda C. Adams Diane & Kent Alexander Mary Allen Arnold Cyndae Arrendale Elizabeth & John Bacon Mr. & Mrs. Gerardo Balboni Michael & Andrea Barrett Mr. & Mrs. Roland L. Bates Ms. Susan Beallor-Snyder & Mr. Stuart Snyder Wilma Elizabeth Beaty Candace & Jeff Bell Mark & Pam Bell Hardy & Amy Brumfield Lucinda Bunnen Aubrey & Carol Bush Kelly & Joe Cannon Mrs. Erin D. Cay Melodie H. Clayton Mark & Ruth Coan David Cofrin & Christine Tryba-Cofrin Brad & Sally Currey Mr. & Mrs. F. Tread Davis, Jr. Cassandra Edmond Ralph & Ree Edwards Ms. Elizabeth R. Etoll Tim & Tina Eyerly Michael & Jody Feldman Andrew & Wendie Fisher Jennifer Fletcher Viki & Paul Freeman Linda M. Garrett Mr. John Garver & Ms. Penelope Prime Mr. & Mrs. Joel Goldman

annual fund Dr. & Mrs. Steven Harris Valerie Hartman John Haupert Mark Hobson Mr. & Mrs. J. Michael Hostinsky Dr. Joyce F. Houser Mr. W. Glenn Howard Adrienne Hudson Dr. Maleka Ingram Jason & Laurie Jeffay Kay H. & Burke C. Jones Dr. & Mrs. Michael J. Kalson Mr. & Mrs. Gert Kampfer Mr. Maddox Kilgore Dr. William A. Kiser Steven & Sheri Labovitz Jeffrey C. Levy Konrad & Natasha Lewis Conchita Heyn & Robert Lichtefeld Linda L. Lively & James E. Hugh, III Richard Long & Sheri Easton-Long Mr. Heath Massey & Mr. John Mitchener Mary Lou McCloskey Jim & Jo McLean Mrs. Carol Meadows Mr. & Mrs. Nathan Metzger Ms. Nancy Mitchell Mr. & Mrs. Charles Moseley Molly Osborne Brandie Park Bill & Carey Peard Peg Petersen Sam & Barbara Pettway Karen Porch Daniel Marks & Keri Powell

Ms. Cynthia Power Erin Quinn Don & Rosalinda Ratajczak Rebecca & John Reeves Helen M. Regenstein Dr. Susan Rifkin & Mr. David Rifkin Peter & Alice Rogers Dr. & Mrs. Charles Rosenberg Dr. & Mrs. Fredric Rosenberg Mr. & Mrs. Mark Rosenberg Ms. Carolyn L. Rountree Jacob Rumney John Sabine Jane & Rein Saral Dr. William Torres David Saylor Mr. Scott Shickler Jane E. Shivers Philip Slaughter Mr. Scott Sorrels Ms. Martha B. Stephens & Ms. Linda B. August Susan & Alan Stiefel Ms. Dot Stoller Jim & Janie Stratigos Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth G. Taylor Kathy & Ron Tomajko Penn & Sally Wells $1,000 - $1,499

Mr. & Mrs. Charles Brusco Ronald L. Budde Frank Buonanotte Eleanor B. Cobb Ralph & Rita Connell WMLB, AM 1690 Marvin & Lynn Davis The DeCoster Family Leonard Epley Bryan & Barbara Fields Ms. Lee Foster Mrs. Cindy P. Fowler Mr. & Mrs. Paul Gaffney Mr. Charles Gardner & Mrs. Patti Eylar Mr. & Mrs. Chris Gentry Mr. & Mrs. John J. Gillin Patrice & Ernest Greer Warren M. Gump Lucy & Alfred Guo Halpern Enterprises, Inc. Mr. Lucas Hathaway Mrs. Elaine L. Hentschel Dawn & Jack Hereth Carsten Hilker Mr. Wayne S. Hyatt Mr. & Mrs. Bahman M. Irvani Robert Judd Mr. & Ms. Mark A. Kaiser Mark Keiser Lucy Kinnaird Lanier-Goodman Foundation

Dawn & Michael Adamson Kellie Appel Mr. & Mrs. Neil H. Berman Thomas & Wendy Betenia Shirley Blaine Mr. & Mrs. Francis S. Blake in honor of Reade Fahs Stephen Brown

Andrea & Mike Leven Ms. Vikki Locke Mr. & Mrs. Harold J. Logan Lubo Fund Mrs. Myra E. McElhaney Mr. Bijon Memar Dori & Jack Miller

Janice & Tom Munsterman Dennis & Debra Murphy Ann Starr & Kent Nelson Mr. & Mrs. Markham D. Oswald Margo Brinton & Eldon Park Mr. Chris Payne Mr. Michael Richardson Dr. Jerry Richman, DDS Roger & Lynn Ritvo in honor of Ken McNeil Dr. & Mrs. Robert Schultz Ms. Pam Sessions & Mr. Don Donnelly Tim & Maria Tassopoulous Mr. Richard Thomas Ms. Avril Vignos Vogel Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Bradford L. Watkins Sue S. Williams Melody Wilder Wilson William & Nancy Yang

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Alliance Theatre Staff Giving

We would like to thank the following Alliance Theatre & Woodruff Arts Center staff members who have contributed to the 2015/16 Alliance Theatre Annual Fund.

Brooke Beall Jessica Boatright Susan V. Booth Scott Bowne Kristin Buckley Clifford Clark Jamie Clements Kat Conley Patrick Conley Megan DeWitt Christina Dresser Jody Feldman Jim Hubbert Rachel Jones Megan Kier

Kyle Longwell Liz Lyons Michael Lyons Deb Mayberry Suzanne Morris Victor Mouledoux Christopher Moses Margo Moskowitz Patrick Myers Rosemary Newcott Mary Alice Nichols J. Noble Courtney O’Neill Shana Orr Willie Parks

Rebecca Pogue Mike Schleifer Amy Schwartz Brian Shively Vincent Simons Paige Smith William Spratt Matthew Tanner Laura Thruston Caitlin Way Jackalyn Williams Jennifer Williford Michael Winn

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annual fund 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, please contact Caitlin Way, Associate Dir. of Development, Board/Major Gifts at 404-733-4757 or caitlin.way@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 Howard & Ellen Feinsand

Laura & John Hardman Glen E. & Nancy Hesler P.J. Younglove Hovey William C. Hyde Lauren & David Kiefer Virginia Vann* & Ken Large Anna & Hays Mershon Mr. & Mrs. John McColskey Phil & Caroline Moise Richard S. & Winifred B. Myrick

Howard & Victoria Palefsky 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

Matching Gift Companies We would like to thank the following companies who have matched contributions to the Alliance Theatre Annual Fund. Please visit alliancetheatre.org/match to find out if your employer will match your contribution.

American Express AIG Corporation Aon Corporation AT&T Bank of America/Merrill Lynch Bryan Cave-Powell Goldstein Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. Chubb Corporation The Coca-Cola Company Deloitte Equifax, Inc.

GE Energy Georgia Power Home Depot Foundation Honda Motor Co. IBM Corporation JPMorgan Chase Kimberly-Clark Foundation Macy’s Foundation McDonald’s Corporation Microsoft Corporation Neiman Marcus

Norfolk Southern Corporation Plum Creek Prudential Financial Publix Super Markets Sprint SunTrust Foundation Time Warner, Inc. Verizon Corporation Yahoo!

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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 404.733.4761 or shana.orr@woodruffcenter.org.

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THE WOODRUFF CIRCLE Woodruff Circle members each contribute more than $250,000 annually to support the arts and education work of the Woodruff Arts Center, Alliance Theatre, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and High Museum of Art. We are deeply grateful to these 36 partners who lead our efforts to ensure the arts thrive in our community.

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PNC Patty and Doug Reid Mrs. Charles A. Smithgall Jr. Woodruff Circle & Patron Circle donations made: June 1, 2014 – May 31, 2015 Beauchamp C. Carr Challenge Fund Donors

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alliance theatre staff A rtistic Jennings Hertz Artistic Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Susan V. Booth Sally G. Tomlinson Artistic Director of Theatre for Youth and Families . . . . . . . . . . . . .Rosemary Newcott Producer & Casting Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jody Feldman Director of New Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Celise Kalke Playwright in Residence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pearl Cleage Phil Kent Directing Fellow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jessica Holt Artistic Support Associate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Emily Kleypas Literary Intern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Olivia Matthews Reiser Lab Artists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Annie Harrison Elliott, Linnea Frye, Katie Givens-Kime, Neeley Gossett, Marium Kahlid, Mark Kendall, Haddon Kime, Addae Moon, Nichole Palmietto

Production Management

Director of Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Victor W. Smith Assistant Production Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Margo Moskowitz

Costumes

Costume Shop Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jeff Cone Design Assistants . . . . . . . . . . . April Andrew, Jordan Jaked Carrier Drapers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Julie Kennedy, Cindy Lou Who Craftsmaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Diana L. Thomas Stitchers/First Hands . . . . Laury Conley, Lyudmila Fesenko, Brett Parker Wigs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lindsay Ewing Wardrobe . . . . . . . Hauzia Conyers, Alexandra Matthews, Niki Traxler

Electrics

Electrics Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pete Shinn Staff Electricians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gabby Ide, Steve Jordan, Steven Love, Jennifer Nakahara

Properties

Scenery

Technical Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kyle Longwell Assistant Technical Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Megan Kier Shop Foreman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patrick Conley Carpenters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Manny Abreo, William Spratt, John Victor Mouledoux Jr., Michael Lyons Charge Scenic Artist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kat Conley Scenic Artist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brooke Beall Additional Scenic Artist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lauren Rondone

Sound

Resident Sound Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clay Benning Production Sound Engineer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Michelle Jarvis Sound Engineers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kristin von Hinezmeyer, Elyssa Kohen, Holly O’Reagan

Stage Management

Resident Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bret Torbeck Alliance Stage Managers . . . . . . . . . . . lark hackshaw, Liz Campbell, Barbara O’Haley, R. Lamar Williams Assistant Stage Managers . . . . . . . . Haylee Scott, Jayson T. Waddell Stage Management Production Assistants . . . . . . . . . Britney DeRosa, Jade McGill, Kara Procell

Stage Operations

Stage Operations Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Scott Bowne Crew Chief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vincent Simons Stagehand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Deb Maberry Flyman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Willie Parks Properties Stagehand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Courtney O’Neill Additional Stagehand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . James Schlachter

Properties Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Liz Lyons Master Artisan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Suzanne Cooper Morris Props Artisan and Buyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kimberly Townsend Props Artisan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bruce Butkovich

Education Dan Reardon Director of Education & Associate Artistic Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christopher Moses Alliance Arts for Learning Institute Director . . . . . . . . . Barbara O’Brien Database & Content Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christina Dresser Administrative Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rachel Jones Family Programs Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Olivia Aston Bosworth Early Childhood Program Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Kristen Buckley Theatre for the Very Young Coordinator & Family Programs Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Corinne Weintraub Teen & Adult Programs Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sarah Wallis Institute Program Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mary Alice Nichols Institute Program Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rebecca Pogue Education Sales & Customer Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nicole Kang Communications Specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J. Noble Professional Learning Specialist . . . . . . . . . Kim Bowers-Rheay Baran Teaching Artists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Abyss, Karen Aguirre, Olivia Aston Bosworth, Kim Bowers-Rheay Baran, Kati Grace Brown, Kyle Brumley, Daniel Burns, Amy Cain Lucas, Kirstin Calvert, Kara Cantell, Taryn Carmona, Katie Causey, Sarah Cave, Greg Chagnon, Tara Chiusano, Jaehn Clare, Steve Coulter, Nakeisha Daniel, Benjamin Davis, Theresa Davis, Shelli Delgado,

Teaching Artists (cont’d) . . John Doyle, Laurin Dunleavy, Tawni Edwards, Rachael Endrizzi, Jessica Espinoza, Sharon Foote, Dan Ford, Daryl Funn, Polly Garcia, Allison Gardner, Ann Marie Gideon, Trevor Goble, Neeley Gossett, Al Hamacher, Sarah Newby Halicks, Greg Hernandez, Mira Hirsch, Brandi Hoofnagle, BJ Hughes, Adam King, LeeAnna Lambert, Clayton Landey, Nicole Livieratos, Barry Stewart Mann, Cara Mantella, Gloria Martin, Mari Martinez, Paige Mattox, Patrick McColery, Bethany Lind Mendenhall, Bryan Mercer, Karin Mervis, Courtnee Miles, Donal Noonan, Tafee Patterson, Tawny Powell, Eric Prather, Julie Puckett, J.L. Reed, Iris Rice, Claire Ritzler, Anandi Salinas, Henry Scott, Kirk Seamon, Linda Sherbert, Suzanne Stroup, Ebony Tucker, Jose Miguel Vasquez, Rachel Wansker,Andrea Washington, Davia Weatherill, Corinne Weintraub, Stephanie Willis, Vallea E. Woodbury Teen Ensemble Members . . . . . . . . Caroline Bergwall, Matthew Brown, Olivia Cappelletti, Emily Combs, Chloe Citron, Sydni Daniels, Ashley Elmore, Jamila Gray, Grace Hawkins, Kyla Hunter, Tess Luman, Jade Nixon, Anna Patterson, Aushailene Ragin, Khaira Reese, Alexandria Smith, Autumn Stephens, Angel Upshaw, Dequadray White, Jordon Whitehead, Camille Williams, Dhakirah Williamson

Management General Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mike Schleifer Company Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Laura Thruston Off-Campus Season Producer . . . . . . . . . . . . . Donya K. Washington

A dministration & Finance

Director of Finance & Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brian Shively Manager of Information Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jim Hubbert Accounting Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . Stephanie Covington, Julie Hall Management Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patrick Myers Interim Management Associate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elecia Crowley

Development

Director of Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jamie Clements Associate Director of Development, Board Relations & Major Gifts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caitlin Way Associate Director of Development, Individual Giving & Special Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Paige Smith Grants Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clifford Clark Development Coordinator, Board Relations & Special Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Megan DeWitt

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Marketing

Director of Marketing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jessica Boatright Manager of Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kathleen Covington Online Marketing Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Maley Creative Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Talia Bromstad Marketing & Promotions Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Holland Baird Marketing Communications Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jenna Harris Group Services Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thomas Pinckney Group Services Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Daviorr Snipes Group Services and Education Sales Coordinator . . . . . . . . Elisia’ Parker Community Engagement Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael Winn Ticketing & Patron Services Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Shana Orr Front of House & Patron Services Manager . . . . . . . . . . . Marjon Wolfe House Managers . . . . . . . . . Dana Hylton Calabro, Christina Dresser, Ken McNeil, Margo Moskovitz Assistant Manager Season Tickets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Danielle Hicks Senior Ticket Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ken McNeil Marketing Volunteer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Don Vann

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