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A NOTE FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR By Vincent M. Lancisi, Artistic Director
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elcome. When I go to the theatre I want to be moved. I want to laugh, or cry—get mad, or empathize. I want to care about the people on stage and I want them to speak to me. I want to be introduced to unique individuals going through an authentic moment or moments in life that are important to them. I want to see facets of humanity at work. I want to be entertained. I love it when I’m enlightened. I’m most excited when I need to tell people about it for days on end. Dot is that play for me. Playwright Colman Domingo was smart enough to make Dot a comedy—to focus on humor when dealing with tough subject matter. Dot makes me laugh out loud then punches me in the gut. I love Colman’s ability to do that. He uses humor as a means for survival during difficult times and it’s disarming. It catches me off guard. He delivers the unexpected and provides the audience with discovery after discovery to take in and absorb. The holidays bring out the best and worst in families sometimes. We come together and fall into old roles, old hierarchies. The eldest child is often the ring leader. The youngest is always the baby—no matter how old you are. Our memories are romanticized and often paint an unrealistic picture of our parents, our youth, of our past. Dot does all this and more. It sparks memories of my childhood as I’m sure it will of yours: how you hold your mother up on a pedestal perhaps, how you pictured dad when he was still alive. Maybe the memory E V E RYM A N T H E AT R E | 2
will make you laugh. Or it might bring a tear to your eye. When we are faced with trauma and hit head on by reality, we often don’t see it coming. I recognize in Dot’s family, the breathtaking moments when memories are shattered. Watching Dot fight to hang on to her past, her future, or even this moment, is devastating and true to life. Alzheimer’s disease is such a prevalent issue in today’s society that it is cropping up in many contemporary plays and movies. New York Times theatre critic Ben Brantley made mention of how many plays on and off Broadway today deal with dementia or Alzheimer’s. Dot, I’m afraid, is a timely play and is sure to become a classic. It will withstand the test of time. From the moment I saw Dot I knew I wanted to do it here at Everyman for our audiences. In fact, I approached Colman after a performance of its world premiere at the Humana Festival of New Plays saying I had to do his play. Then it was announced Dot would appear in an off-Broadway production at The Vineyard Theatre. I continued to pursue getting the rights to produce it at Everyman. I saw the New York production and wanted it even more. So here we are. It has been a joy to be one of the first theatres outside of New York to produce this important and amazing new play. Having Colman in early rehearsals with his keen insights was such a gift. New works excite me and Dot is a clear example of why. It’s a great story, well told. Thank you for bearing witness and enjoy the show.
E V ERYM A N THE ATRE presents
Vincent M. Lancisi, Founding Artistic Director Jonathan K. Waller, Managing Director
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Playwright COLMAN DOMINGO Director VINCENT M. LANCISI Dotty.............................................................................................. SHARON HOPE* Shelly..............................................................................................DAWN URSULA* Jackie..................................................................................... MEGAN ANDERSON* Donnie....................................................................................... YAEGEL T. WELCH* Adam...................................................................................................ROB JANSEN* Averie..................................................................................... PAIGE HERNANDEZ * Fidel.............................................................................. RYAN CARLO DALUSUNG Set Design
JAMES FOUCHARD Sound Design
ELISHEBA ITTOOP Dramaturgy
JOHANNA GRUENHUT
Lighting Design
HAROLD F. BURGESS II Choreographer
JOSEPH W. RITSCH Stage Manager
AMANDA M. HALL*
Costume Design
DAVID BURDICK Props Master
JILLIAN MATHEWS Casting Contributor
PAT MCCORKLE, CSA
Time: Now. Christmas. Place: A house in West Philadelphia.
This production will be performed in two acts with one intermission.
PLEASE TURN OFF ALL CELL PHONES. NO TEXTING. NO EATING IN THE THEATRE. Dot is produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. World premiere in the 2015 Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre Of Louisville. Dot was produced by The Vineyard Theatre, Douglas Aibel, Artistic Director, Sarah Stern, Co-Artistic Director, Jennifer Garvey-Blackwell, Executive Director, New York City, Winter, 2016. The videotaping or making of electronic or other audio and/or visual recordings of this production or distributing recordings on any medium, including the internet, is strictly prohibited, a violation of the author’s rights and actionable under United States copyright law. For more information, please visit: www.samuelfrench.com/whitepaper. * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States PRODUCTION SPONSOR
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A NOTE FROM THE MANAGING DIRECTOR By Jonathan K. Waller, Managing Director
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hether it’s the holidays or the crackling fires in the fireplace or the days gathered around family, this is the time of year where I spend more time than any other thinking about the things for which I am grateful. This year, I’m particularly grateful for you, our Everyman family. I’m grateful that each December, you help us continue our mission of keeping professional theatre affordable and accessible in Baltimore by making a contribution to our annual fund. This year, our fundraising goal of $1.6 million will allow us to keep ticket prices well below half of what commercial theatre and Broadway tickets cost. It allows us to keep offering Pay-What-You-Can performances on the Tuesday before each production opens, $10 student tickets, discounted subscriptions like the SNAP! PASS and a myriad other opportunities for everyone from teenagers to senior citizens. I’m grateful that the Henry and Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Foundation will match any new and increased gifts made before December 31. This means that your generous contributions will literally have twice the impact. I’m grateful that so many of you will be joining us on January 7 for our 2017 Winter Gala. We will be honoring Everyman supporter and LifeBridge President and CEO, Neil Meltzer, and presenting the Elspeth Udvarhelyi Volunteer Award to two treasured Everyman stalwarts, Dr. E. Lee and Bea Robbins. This is a sacred E V E RYM A N T H E AT R E | 4
night where you help us raise the critical funds for our innovative High School Matinee Program and make it possible for Everyman to introduce theatre to hundreds of Baltimore high school students each year. This will be the 20 th anniversary of Everyman’s signature education program, which as many of you know, goes beyond simply providing students with tickets. With a focus on repeat exposure and accessibility, your donations provide tickets to five matinee performances as well as in-school pre- and postperformance workshops, study guides, and bus transportation—all completely free of charge to students and their schools. If you would like to join us at the Gala and dance the night away, there is still room, but hurry, tables and tickets are going quickly. Finally, I’m grateful to see this new play by Colman Domingo on the Everyman stage. For me, it is extra special because I got to know Colman during my time at the Vineyard Theatre in New York. It feels like my two theatre families have come together. How fitting that this play speaks to the fragility of memory. It reminds us that nothing is permanent. Even memories fade. For me, it’s a call to make the most of the blessings around me, and to do so in the present moment. I invite you to join me. I wish you a holiday season filled with laughter and family and friendship. Thank you for making Everyman a part of it.
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Colman Domingo at first rehearsal of Dot.
A CONVERSATION WITH COLMAN DOMINGO By Johanna Gruenhut, Artistic Associate
Johanna Gruenhut: I’ve heard you describe yourself as an archivist. I love that. Colman Domingo: I’m a collector of stories. I don’t know, here we are, on a day of an election, where we’re trying to define or redefine who we are, and how we’re going do this [life] together. So that’s what I think my role is as an artist, which is to be an archivist. I don’t particularly consider myself an activist, but I do think that being an archivist is doing the work as well. I guess I’m trying to create these living and breathing documents of our lives. Where the questions that we have, that we’re struggling with, come to life… JG: Do you understand your various roles as playwright, actor, director all in the same way? CD: Every so often I teach. And one thing I always teach is that no one can tell you not to create. Acting, directing, and playwriting—it’s [all a piece of] an art form. It’s a craft, and the more you do, the more you learn, the more you grow. So, it all feeds into one another.
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JG: As playwright, what’s your process like? Do you write everyday or do you think, I want to write a play and then carve out time... CD: There are always questions that I have. And then I think, “Oh, that’s an interesting question for a play.” Usually the opening line of a play is a question, and that’s where the play is going to go. There are times when I get a lot of writing done and there are times when I don’t write for months. I may think out a scene before I ever write it down. And I sort of have to let these characters speak when they need to speak. So there have been plays that have taken, for a first draft, maybe nine months or a year. JG: What about Dot? CD: Dot took exactly two weeks to the first draft. I’m not kidding. It’s just one of those plays I was thinking about, it was on my mind. I have many friends dealing with these issues of an aging parent, so I started researching. It was a total of two weeks of work. And of course writing is rewriting. Then you rewrite and you rewrite. And you hone. But the ideas, all that Dot is, is from the very first draft.
JG: It’s interesting to me that Detroit [Public Theatre] and Baltimore are producing the play simultaneously because there are similar struggles facing those two cities and also not dissimilar from West Philly, where the play is set.
JG: And there’s also this thread of home. Obviously people coming home for the holidays, but the larger idea pulsing through is about how home can change and what happens if you don’t feel at home within your own self.
CD: I have dual regional premieres; at least that’s what I’m calling it! When I was in Detroit recently I was so inspired to get to know the city. And I feel the same way about Baltimore. These cities are on the precipice of change, and you feel it. These cities are going to survive and the arts are there to help it, the arts are going to lead the charge. JG: How do you mean? CD: So I was driving around Detroit and I took pictures of all the houses, all the burned out houses and the one house standing in the middle that’s still pristine, and it really made me think of Dot. So I altered the lines a little, so that the play could echo other places, like Baltimore. I’m writing specifically about these inner cities, about how much beauty and history and intelligence is there. It’s an examination of what’s there now, what was there, what’s going to be there. JG: In the play, what remains constant throughout is the family. CD: Dot is my point of view about the world. It is a family. It is an extended family. It is a blended family. You have your immigrant story, you have your single, Jewish girl from New York story, you have a gay couple story, you have the aging mother story, and we have a young boy who is going to take all these stories of this family—its history, its neighborhoods, its culture, its arts— and move it forward. We touch on everything in this play. This play has been an experiment for me, of putting my thoughts about how we all strive to come together and fight for our humanity.
West Philadelphia 1960
West Philadelphia circa 2013
CD: Yeah… JG: And Dotty herself, she’s the connective dot, the connective link between everyone, but she’s not really at home… CD: The matriarch of this family is named Dot, or some people call her Dotty, but her real name is Dorothy and she is in her own Oz. And like every great story I think Dot is about going home, it’s a home story. I mean you can always go back to The Wizard of Oz! What you’ve been looking for has always been inside you. You have to be comfortable in your own skin. I think that’s the crisis Dot’s going through. Her selfhood is slipping away. But, actually, they are all in this search, in this struggle, looking for home. Fidel is
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looking for home, Donnie and Adam, the couple at the center, are trying to figure out home, or Jackie, who returns, to the neighborhood, to her parents’ empty home. I mean what happens when the home that you know so well doesn’t feel like home? Is that still home? I think every single one of us can relate to that. JG: Identify with… CD: Yes. But it’s as specific as possible to West Philly and to this family as possible. Because in the specificity it becomes universal. JG: You write the most amazing scene titles. I’m thinking specifically about the scene titled (SL)AVERIE. You described the opening of the scene as the nexus of the play for you and clearly the title is very evocative. How did that develop?
Salman Rushdie has said, “The Wizard of Oz shows…the only home is the one we make for ourselves.” Many scholars claim the book, beside fairytale-fantasy, also functions as spiritual allegory.1 Dorothy‘s life in Kansas has been dark and boring until she is transported to the Technicolor paradise of Oz. Yet once there, her only wish is to be back home. Do we infer then that the moral is, “there’s no place like home?” Dorothy, Tin-Man, Lion, Scarecrow, finally come to understand that their needs can only be addressed by looking inwards and by finally appreciating that all their gifts are in full flourish. “The kingdom of Oz is within you.” 2 1 http://www.offthegridnews.com/misc/ following-the-yellow-brick-road-the-realstory-behind-%E2%80%98the-wizard-ofoz%E2%80%99/ 2 llewellyn.com/journal/article/25
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CD: That chitlin monologue [which begins the scene] came to me one day and I knew this is a monologue for Averie. So it’s titled (SL)AVERIE. Because what I think she says is the most outlandish monologue. She’s talking about chitlins [pork innards] and how you clean them, but she’s also talking about the struggles of slavery, she also talking about the struggles of history, of holding onto heritage and culture. She’s bold. She’s brazen. And I hope it comes across with a huge laugh and a "who is this woman?" But hopefully they’ll also see that she holds the philosophy of the play. JG: What would you like audiences to know before seeing the show? CD: I don’t want people to know too much. Come with an open mind and an open heart and try not to research too much. I think the kind of theatre I like to make is the kind that surprises you. But I want you to go for a drink or dinner after the show. Don’t just come to the theatre and go home. Talk about it. Engage with it. Hang out. See the actors. I think that’s what theatre is really trying to do. It makes us share and brings us together.
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WHAT IS ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE? By Johanna Gruenhut, Artistic Associate
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ust about everyone experiences some memory loss as they age. Actually, cognitive scientists and neuroscientists have found that regular declines in cognitive functioning emerge (on average, and in all of us) at around the age of 30! Alzheimer’s is a disease that produces much greater memory loss and much larger general declines in cognitive functioning—compared with those wrought by normal aging. Alzheimer’s also tends to produce dementia, which is not necessarily a normal part of aging. There is currently no cure for Alzheimer’s, only remedies for its symptoms and scientists still are not sure about what causes it. But they do have a good sense of what a brain with Alzheimer’s looks like, and also of how a person with it tends to behave. These are the basics: Alzheimer’s is a degenerative disease, meaning that it is associated with the degeneration of neurons (brain cells that conduct signals through changes in electric potential). It progresses, with increasing and continuous neuronal degeneration until death. Signs of the presence of Alzheimer’s in the brain are ‘plaques’ and ‘tangles’. These are deposits of protein and other cellular material, left-behind and broken down pieces of brain cells. Aging is generally associated with the growth of plaques and tangles; but with Alzheimer’s in larger concentrations. So in the simplest terms Alzheimer’s is a disease that produces brain damage as it spreads. E V E RYM A N T H E AT R E | 10
In typical Alzheimer’s, the disease originates in the medial-temporal lobe (MTL) of the brain, even more specifically in the hippocampus, the seahorse shaped structure found in the brain. Because Alzheimer’s usually begins by causing damage to the hippocampus and MTL, the cognitive effect is therefore also memory loss, or really, the inability to form new memories, which means that patients often cannot remember things that happened only days or even hours ago. As it progresses, it attacks centers in the brain that are responsible for planning, reasoning, and impulse control, Alzheimer’s also causes dementia to set in. In recent years, scientists have discovered that Alzheimer’s can sometimes be detected before major cognitive impairment has set in. Usually, Alzheimer’s symptoms appear in someone only around age 65. But some people who are more likely to present with Alzheimer’s at that age begin to show signs of cognitive decline in their 50s. This is called Mild Cognitive Impairment, or MCI. MCI does not involve dementia, nor even any real memory loss. But it does involve higherthan-normal declines in other basic cognitive functions. This has created new opportunities for doctors and scientists to attempt intervention before symptoms become severe.
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CAST BIOGRAPHIES MEGAN ANDERSON ( Jackie): Everyman Theatre (Resident Company Member): Wait Until Dark, Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, Under the Skin, Blithe Spirit, Grounded, Tribes, The Dresser, Crimes of the Heart, The Beaux’ Stratagem, God of Carnage, You Can’t Take It With You, Fifty Words, All My Sons, Blackbird, The Exonerated, Rabbit Hole, The Cherry Orchard, Filthy Rich, Turn of the Screw, Much Ado About Nothing, And a Nightingale Sang, The School for Scandal, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Proof, Taking Sides, My Children! My Africa, The Crucible, The 5th of July, The Last Night of Ballyhoo. Regional: Theater J: After the Revolution; Olney Theatre Center: Grounded, Rabbit Hole (Helen Hayes, nominated for Outstanding Ensemble); Rep Stage: American Hero, The Whale, The Violet Hour, The Seagull (Helen Hayes Nomination); Round House Theatre: Heartbreak House, The Cherry Orchard, Our Town, Problem Child; Woolly Mammoth: The Faculty Room; Totem Pole Playhouse: Proposals, Crimes of the Heart, Proof; LA Theatreworks/Voice of America: Bus Stop. TV/Film: 3 seasons on The Wire ( Jennifer Carcetti); Hit and Run ( Jane) (Lionsgate/MGM). Teaching: Everyman Theatre, Page to Stage for Young Actors and the Summer Intensive, Acting I and Auditioning. Other: Audition Coach. RYAN CARLO DALUSUNG (Fidel): Everyman Theatre: debut. Adventure Theatre MTC: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Scarecrow), Jumanji (Peter); Arcturus Theater Company: The Pelican (Axel); Spooky Action Theater: Collaborators (Sergei); Rainbow Theatre Project: Beautiful Thing (Tony); Brave Spirits Theatre: The Bloody Banquet (Mazeres); Compass Rose Theater: Murder in the Cathedral (First Tempter, Reginald Fitzurse); Flying V Theatre:
Grandfather Frost & the Snow Maiden (Grandfather Frost). Ryan has also narrated audiobooks for the National Library Service at the Library of Congress, including Harry Potter & the Cursed Child: Parts I & II by J.K. Rowling, High-Rise by J.G Ballard, Fight Club and Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk, and Mister Roberts by Thomas Heggen. www.ryandalusung.com PAIGE HERNANDEZ (Averie): Everyman Theatre: The Children’s Hour (Mary Tilford), School for Scandal (Mariah); Regional Theatre: The Kennedy Center: ALL THE WAY LIVE (Herself), American Scrapbook (Ensemble); Mermaids, Monsters…(Marta Elena); Michigan’s Wharton Center for the Performing Arts: Shape of a Girl (Braidie); LUNGS (W); Adventure Theatre: Wizard of Oz (Dorothy); Imagination Stage: Cinderella The Remix (Cinderella); P.Nokio (Graffiti Fairy); Zomo the Rabbit (Big Fish); Hip Hop Anansi (Spray); Playhouse Square: HAVANA HOP (Yeila), Lied Center of Kansas: PAIGE IN FULL (Herself); Folger Theatre: Second Shepard’s Play (Virgin Mary); GALA Hispanic Theatre: Caribeana Imperial (Sade); Keegan Theatre: The Crucible (Titubua) Baltimore School for the Arts: Lysistrata (Lysistrata) Education: Theatre and Broadcast Journalism, University of Maryland & the Baltimore School for the Arts. SHARON HOPE (Dotty): Everyman Theatre: debut. Regional Theatre: Old Globe: The American Plan, Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival: Sans-Culottes in the Promised Land, Denver Center for the Performing Arts: Little Foxes, GeVa Theatre: Hibernatus Interruptus Festival, Arkansas Rep: From The Mississippi Delta, Alabama Shakespeare: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Indiana Rep: Yerma, McCarter Theatre Center: Christmas Carol and DOT | 13
Having Our Say (national tour). Sharon’s credits in film and TV include episodes on Power, Girls, Law & Order and The Cornerstone Web Series, Little Senegal, and Newlyweeds. When not on stage or on camera, Sharon has written and performed one woman shows Mrs Reader and We Love You Shirley Chisholm. Sharon is a member of SAG Book Pals, African American Women in Cinema (AAWIC), New York Women in Film and TV (NYWIFT), and the League of Professional Theatre Women (LPTW). ROB JANSEN (Adam): Everyman Theatre: debut. Regional Theatre: 1st Stage: Doubt (Father Flynn); Synetic Theatre Company: Three Men in a Boat (Harris); Manbites Dog Theatre: The Tramp’s New World (Tramp); Know Theatre: Angels in America: Millennium Approaches & Perestroika (Prior Walter), Corpus Christi ( Joshua/Cincinnati Entertainment Award Best Actor), Tongues (Speaker); Cincinnati Shakespeare Company: As You Like It (Orlando), Troilus and Cressida (Troilus), Long Day's Journey Into Night (Edmund), Julius Caesar (Octavius), Antony and Cleopatra (Octavius), Much Ado About Nothing (Don John), Twelfth Night (Orsino), Romeo and Juliet (Romeo), Macbeth (Malcolm), King Lear (Oswald), The Tempest (Ferdinand), The Winter’s Tale (Florizel), The Cherry Orchard (Yasha), The Comedy of Errors (Antipholus of Ephesus), The Importance of Being Earnest (Dr. Chausible), Amadeus (Count Rosenberg), Our Town (George Gibbs), Waiting for Lefty ( Joe); New Stage Collective: Dying City (Peter/Craig), The History Boys (Irwin); Seattle Shakespeare Company: Pericles (Leonine); Diorama Theatre of London: The Seagull (Konstantin); Education: MFA in Performance, University of Maryland, College Park; Teaching: University of Maryland, College Park.
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DAWN URSULA (Shelly): Everyman Theatre (Resident Company Member): Death of a Salesman (The Woman), A Streetcar Named Desire (Eunice), Ruined (Mama Nadi, City Paper Best Actress Award), By The Way, Meet Vera Stark (Vera Stark), A Raisin in the Sun (Ruth Younger, City Paper Best Actress Award), Two Rooms (Lanie), Doubt (Mrs. Muller), Gem of the Ocean (Black Mary, City Paper Best Actress Award), Much Ado About Nothing (Ursula/Sexton), Yellowman (Alma), Light Up the Sky (Nan Lowell); Regional: Round House Theatre & Olney Theatre Center: Angels in America I & II (Angel); Round House Theatre: Stage Kiss (She), Next Fall (Holly), Wrinkle In Time (Mother/Mrs. Who); The HUB Theatre: Redder Blood (God); Woolly Mammoth (Resident Company Member): Zombie: The American (Babirye/Abedemi, Helen Hayes Nomination), Marie Antoinette (Polignac/ Mrs. Sauce), The Totalitarians (Francine Jefferson), We are Proud to Present…(Black Woman/Actor 6, Helen Hayes Nomination), The Convert, (Prudence, Helen Hayes Award), Clybourne Park (Francine/Lena, Helen Hayes Nomination), Eclipsed (Rita), The Unmentionables (Aunty Mimi), The Velvet Sky (Margaret Little), Starving (Rosetta); Theater J: Queen’s Girl in The World (solo piece, Helen Hayes Award); Washington National Opera: Lost in the Stars (Grace Kumalo); Arena Stage: Love in Afghanistan (Desiree); Hangar Theatre: Piano Lesson (Berniece); Baltimore Shakespeare Festival: Taming of the Shrew (Kate); True Colors Theatre: Flyin’ West (Fannie Dove); The Kennedy Center: Shear Madness (Barbara DeMarco), Unleashed…(various characters), Mermaids… (various characters); African Continuum Theatre: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Martha Loomis); Rep Stage: Butterfingers Angel… (Tree), Anna Lucasta (Stella); Imagination Stage: Charlotte’s Web (Charlotte).
TV/Film: HBO: The Wire, VEEP; PBS: Prince Among Slaves. Education: MFA The Shakespeare Theatre’s Academy for Classical Acting (GWU), BA University of Virginia, Royal National Theatre Studio Summer Program. Private Coach Vera Katz. www.dawnursula.com. YAEGEL T. WELCH (Donnie): Everyman Theatre: By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, The Beaux’ Stratagem (Aimwell), The Brothers Size (Ogun). Off-Broadway: Lincoln Center: Fly ( J Allen, with The Crossroads Theatre) The Royale ( Jay/Fish); The Acting Company: Desire (Grand), Signature Theatre Company: The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek ( Jonathan), Seattle Repertory Theatre: The Piano Lesson (Lymon), RedBull Theatre: The Revenger’s Tragedy (Revenger); The Acting Company: Of Mice and Men, As You List It. Regional: Seattle Rep: The Brothers Size (Ogun); The Piano Lesson (Lymon); Playmakers Rep: Fences (Cory) Kenny
Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company/ Alliance Theatre : Jitney (Youngblood); The Studio Theatre: In The Red and Brown Water (Shango); The Alabama Shakespeare Festival: Bear Country (multiple roles); The Arden Theatre: The Piano Lesson (Lymon, Barrymore Award nomination); My Children! My Africa! (Thami); Wilma Theatre: Fences (Cory); Arkansas Repertory Theatre: My Children! My Africa! (Thami); Bridgeport Free Shakespeare Festival: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theseus); Chautauqua Institution: Cobb (Oscar Charleston); Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre: Professional Skepticism (Greg). TV/Film: NBC: The Blacklist; CBS: Braindead; CBS: Madame Secretary; Cinemax: The Knick. Education: BA Theatre Arts, Morehouse College; MFA Acting, Brandeis University; MFA, The Shakespeare Theatre’s Academy for Classical Acting.
DIRECTOR AND DESIGNER BIOGRAPHIES DAVID BURDICK (Costume Design) Everyman Theatre (Resident Costume Designer): Death of A Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, August Wilson’s Fences, An Inspector Calls, Blithe Spirit, Ghosts, Ruined, By The Way, Meet Vera Stark, Red, The Beaux’ Stratagem, August: Osage County, You Can’t Take It With You, Private Lives, All My Sons, The Mystery of Irma Vep. Regional: Center Stage: Animal Crackers, The Final Strange Tale of Edgar Allen Poe, An Enemy of the People, The Rivals, Caroline or Change, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Private Lives, Les Blancs, The Piano Lesson, Picnic and others; Theatre of the First Amendment: Open the Door Virginia. Opera: Boston Lyric Opera: I Puritani; Cincinnati Opera: Don Giovanni; Tulsa Opera: Tosca, Carmen, The Barber of Seville, Fidelio. Eastman School of Music: The Rape of Lucretia. Dance: Dayton Contemporary Lyric Fire. Other: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Holiday Spectacular.
of Maryland, fmr Asst. Professor of Lighting Design; Director, College Park Scholars Arts program. Member United Scenic Artists Local 829.
COLMAN DOMINGO (Playwright) is the author of the produced works: Dot (Samuel French), Wild with Happy, A Boy and His Soul, and Up Jumped Springtime. The artistic work of Mr. Domingo has been honored with an Olivier, Tony, Drama Desk and Drama League nomination. He currently stars on AMC's "Fear the Walking Dead," recurs on the Cinemax original series "The Knick" as Dr. Russell Daniels and guest starred on the FOX series "Lucifer." Domingo co-starts in the Fox Searchlight film "The Birth of A Nation" directed by Nate Parker. Of note, Mr. Domingo starred in the Academy Award® nominated film "Selma," directed by Ava DuVernay, as Reverend Ralph Abernathy. Colman made his British and Australian theatrical debuts with his self-penned solo play A Boy and His Soul at the Tricycle Theater and Brisbane Powerhouse Theaters, the production that originated at the New York City’s Vineyard Theater. He starred in his play Wild with Happy that had its debut HAROLD F. BURGESS II (Lighting Design) at the Public Theater. His new play Dot Everyman Theatre: Death of a Salesman, A premiered at the Humana Festival at Actors Streetcar Named Desire, Ghosts, Grounded, Theater of Louisville and Off Broadway at By The Way, Meet Vera Stark, The Dresser, the Vineyard Theatre directed by Susan Heroes, The Brothers Size, The School for Stroman in February 2016. Domingo starred Scandal. Regional: Theatre J: Another Way in The Scottsboro Boys at the Young Vic in Home, The Sisters Rosenweig. Mosaic Theatre London, a role which he originated on and Company: Unexplored Interior. Rep Stage: Off Broadway and reprised on London’s The Butterfingers Angel…, Thom Pain. Studio Theatre: Breath Boom, My Children! My Africa!, West End. He co-starred in many films such as Lee Daniels' "The Butler," "All is Bright" Round House Theatre: A Year With Frog and directed by Phil Morrison and "Newlyweeds" Toad (co-design), Olney Theatre Center: directed by Shaka King. Colman is proud Grounded, Monster, Having Our Say; African to have opened the film "Lincoln" opposite Continuum Theatre Co.: The Story, I Have Daniel Day Lewis as Private Harold Green, Before Me A Remarkable Document Given To directed by Steven Spielberg and starred Me By A Young Lady From Rwanda, From The as Blessing Rowe in the critically polarizing Mississippi Delta, Imagination Stage: Roberto film "Red Hook Summer" directed by Spike Clemente, The Borrowers, James and the Giant Lee. Mr. Domingo has starred in the first Peach. Dance: Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix ever screen adaptation of a Ralph Ellison Singh Dance Company. Education: Master story for PBS, "King of the Bingo Game." He of Fine Arts, Theatrical Design, University of has had supporting roles in films such as Maryland College Park. Teaching: University "Freedomland" directed by Joe Roth, "True E V E RYM A N T H E AT R E | 16
Crime" directed by Clint Eastwood, and "Miracle at St. Ana," directed by Spike Lee. Colman is well known for his star turns in the groundbreaking musical Passing Strange, directed by Annie Dorsen on Broadway and documented on film by Spike Lee. As a director, Domingo staged the Off-Broadway Alliance production of A Band of Angels and helmed August Wilson’s Seven Guitars for Actors Theater of Louisville in the fall of 2015. He also helmed the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway productions of Exit Cuckoo for The Working Theater and Single Black Female for the New Professional Theater. He has directed for Berkeley Rep as well as Lincoln Center Director’s Lab. Colman has received residencies and/or commissions from ACT, People's Light & Theatre Company, New York Theater Workshop, The Wallace Foundation, San Francisco Cash Fund, New Professional Theater and the March of Dimes. Mr. Domingo is on the Board of the Directors of the Vineyard Theater in New York City. Colman is on faculty of The National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center and has taught, guest lecturer and mentored at many others. JAMES FOUCHARD (Set Design) Everyman Theatre: August Wilson’s Fences, The Dresser, Topdog/Underdog, Heroes, A Raisin in the Sun, Stick Fly, Shooting Star, Blackbird, The Mystery of Irma Vep, The Cherry Orchard, Doubt, A Parable, The Turn of the Screw. National Tours: Can-Can starring Chita Rivera, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat starring Patrick Cassidy, The Show-Off with Jean Stapleton, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Phantom, Little Shop of Horrors, South Pacific, The Sound of Music (US and China), Crazy For You, Grease, Oklahoma!, Singin’ In the Rain, Porgy and Bess (Charleston) and 42nd Street (Asia). Scenic supervisor on tours of Will Rogers’ Follies, Smokey Joe’s Café, and Evita (supervised by Harold Prince). Regional: The John F. Kennedy Center Theatre, Walnut Street Theatre, Papermill Playhouse, Pittsburgh CLO, American Musical Theater, Ford’s Theater, Syracuse Stage, Theatre of the Stars, Totem Pole Playhouse, Peabody
Conservatory, Rep Stage, Opera Delaware, Temple University, Summer Opera Theater, Opera Columbus, Feld Entertainment, Olney Theatre Center, Theatre J, Harrah’s (Atlantic City and Lake Tahoe). AMANDA M. HALL (Stage Manager) Everyman Theatre (Resident Stage Manager): Over 75 productions, including Wait Until Dark, Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, Outside Mullingar, An Inspector Calls, Blithe Spirit, Deathtrap, The Understudy, Tribes, The Dresser, Red, Topdog/ Underdog, August: Osage County, Time Stands Still, You Can’t Take It With You, The Brothers Size, A Raisin in the Sun, Stick Fly, Shooting Star, All My Sons, Our Town, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Filthy Rich, Art, Sight Unseen, Betrayal, Opus, The Last Five Years, Uncle Vanya, Proof, Red Herring, The Pavilion, Fences, Glass Menagerie; Regional: MD Stage Company, The Guthrie Theatre, Rep Stage. ELISHEBA ITTOOP (Sound Design) Everyman Theatre: August Wilson’s Fences, Tribes, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, The Beaux’ Stratagem, Private Lives, Shooting Star, Blackbird. NYC: Signature Theatre, And I And Silence; Soho Rep: Duat, Washeteria; Women’s Project: Stuffed, The Architecture of Becoming; Flea: The Recommendation; NYU: Born Bad. Regional: The Kennedy Center: Elephant and Piggie, Homer Figg, Teddy Roosevelt and the Ghostly Mistletoe, Mermaids, Monsters, and the World Painted Purple; Arena Stage: Our War, Love in Afghanistan; Cleveland Playhouse: Yentl; Cincinnati Playhouse: Chapatti; Center Stage: Clybourne Park, Beneatha’s Place; Woolly Mammoth: We Are Proud to Present..., You for Me for You, Mr. Burns; Ford’s Theatre: Driving Miss Daisy; Folger: The Conference of the Birds; Studio: The Big Meal, Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven; Contemporary American Theatre Festival: We Are Pussy Riot, The Full Catastrophe, Uncanny Valley; Virginia Stage Company: Black Pearl Sings, Radio Golf; National Gallery of Art: Framed!; Triad Stage: Abundance; Trinity Rep: Barefoot in the Park; Perseverance: The Mountaintop; Eugene DOT | 17
O’Neill Theater Center: How We Got On, The Nether. Education: North Carolina School of the Arts. www.elishebaittoop.com VINCENT M. LANCISI (Director/Founding Artistic Director) founded Everyman Theatre in October of 1990 and has directed over 35 productions including Death of A Salesman, Under the Skin, Blithe Spirit, Deathtrap, Tribes, The Glass Menagerie, The Beaux’ Stratagem, August: Osage County, You Can’t Take It With You, Stick Fly, All My Sons, Two Rooms, Rabbit Hole, The Cherry Orchard, Doubt, Much Ado About Nothing, The Cone Sister, And a Nightingale Sang, The School for Scandal, A Number, Amadeus, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Buried Child, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, A Delicate Balance, Hedda Gabler, Proof, Uncle Vanya and The Last Five Years. In addition to his work at Everyman, he has taught acting and directing at Towson University, University of Maryland, Catholic University, Howard Community College, and at Everyman Theatre. He is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. Vincent is the President of the Bromo Tower Arts & Entertainment District board. He is also on the Market Center Merchants Board. In the past, he has sat on the boards of the Baltimore Theatre Alliance and the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance as well as panels for the Maryland State Arts Council. Vincent holds his undergraduate degree in Theatre from Boston College and his master’s degree in Directing from The Catholic University of America. PAT MCCORKLE, (C.S.A.), KATJA ZAROLINSKI, ASSOCIATE, MCCORKLE CASTING LTD (Casting Contributor) McCorkle Casting has been casting for theatre film and television for over 35 years. Broadway: Over 50 productions including; On The Town, Amazing Grace, End of the Rainbow, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus, She Loves Me, A Few Good Men. OffBroadway: Highlights; Clever Little Lies, Shear Madness, Tribes, Our Town (Barrow Street), Freud’s Last Session, Toxic Avenger, Almost Maine, Driving Miss Daisy. Feature films: E V E RYM A N T H E AT R E | 18
“Year by the Sea”, “Premium Rush”, “Ghost Town”, “The Thomas Crown Affair”, “Die Hard with a Vengeance”, “School Ties”, etc. Television: “Twisted”, Humans for “Sesame Street”, “Hack” (CBS), “Californication” (Emmy Nomination), “Max Bickford” (CBS), “Chapelle’s Show”, “Strangers with Candy”, “Barbershop” and many more. Regional Theatres: well over 75 theatres throughout the country. www.mccorklecasting.com JOSEPH W. RITSCH (Choreographer) Joseph is a director, choreographer, and the CoProducing Artistic Director of Rep Stage, the Helen Hayes Award winning regional theatre in Columbia, MD. His recent directorial credits include Venus in Fur, Technicolor Life, Antigone Project: A Play in 5 Parts, and The Other Place (Rep Stage). OLIVER! (Adventure Theatre), The Understudy (Everyman Theatre), Pride & Prejudice (Catholic University), The Amish Project (UMBC). Upcoming: The world premier of the new musical Dorian’s Closet (Rep Stage). Joseph holds an MFA in Theatre from Towson University as well as a graduating from the Playwrights Horizons Full Time Professional Program in Acting. Joseph is a proud member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union. Actors’ Equity Association was founded in 1913 to protect Actors from severe mistreatment that permeated the industry at the time. The 40,000 member association consists of distinguished stars and other professional actors and stage managers who work nationwide, from New York’s Broadway to Los Angeles, from Minneapolis to Miami Beach, in regional, stock and dinner theatre, and in theatre for young audiences which build audiences for tomorrow. The actors and stage managers are committed to working in the theatre as a profession, not an avocation, and bring to you the finest professional training and experience. By presenting Equity productions, this theatre offers to you, our audience, the best entertainment presented by the finest quality actors and stage managers that your admission dollars can buy. The Scenic, and Lighting Designers are represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829 of IATSE The Director and Choreographer are members of the Stage Directors and Choreographers society (SDC).
A HISTORY OF EVERYMAN
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veryman Theatre was founded by Vincent Lancisi in 1990. From the beginning Everyman strove to provide top-notch theatre that is affordable and accessible to everyone. With a Resident Company of local, professional artists, Everyman has staged critically-acclaimed productions ranging from classics to contemporary works to world premieres over the past 25 years. Everyman’s first production—The Runner Stumbles—was produced in the winter of 1990 at Saint John’s Church. For the next four years, Everyman could only afford to produce one production per year at various locations in Baltimore, including Vagabond’s Theatre, the Theatre Project and even a classroom at MICA. The 1995/96 Season marked a series for firsts for Everyman. It was the first year at 1727 North Charles Street, which would be Everyman's home for 18 years. It also marked the first multi-production line-up— starting with Sam Shepard's Buried Child— and also offered subscriptions to patrons for the first time. Throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s,
subscriptions numbers grew and a string of popular and acclaimed productions, including Amadeus, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Lion in Winter, The Glass Menagerie, The Crucible, and the wildly successful Proof, proved that Everyman was a mainstay in the Baltimore theatre scene. Through a generous donation from Bank of America and the Harold A. Dawson Trust, Everyman was given its new home on Fayette Street. Over the span of six years, Everyman completed a successful $18 million capital campaign co-chaired by Gina and Dan Hirschhorn. In January 2013, Everyman celebrated the Grand Opening of its new permanent home on Fayette Street with the recordbreaking production of the Pulitzer Prize winning drama, August: Osage County. Everyman celebrated its 25th anniversary during the 2015/16 Season by producing "The Great American Rep," a feat featuring American classics Death of a Salesman and A Streetcar named Desire performed with the same cast in rotating repertory. Everyman invites you to be part of the journey for the next 25 years.
FOUNDING BOARD MEMBERS These extraordinary board members have provided leadership for the organization for ten or more years.
Gordon Becker Nathan Chernoff+ Patricia Egan James R. Eyler Susan Sachs Fleishman + Deceased
Maurice Furchgott Niki Harris Gina B. Hirschhorn Bridget M. Horner Jeannie Howe
Vincent M. Lancisi Jonathan Melnick R. Rex Rehfeld E. Lee Robbins, M.D. Zelig Robinson
Vic Romita Frank Rosenberg Leonard Sachs+ Elspeth Udvarhelyi+ Martha Weiman
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EVERYMAN’S 2016/17 SEASON IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH THE SUPPORT OF OUR GENEROUS DONORS Sponsors listed as of November 10, 2016
SEASON SPONSORS
NEIL & ELLEN MELTZER
DOT PRODUCTION SPONSOR
MAJOR SUPPORT FROM WILLIAM G. BAKER, JR. MEMORIAL FUND, CREATOR OF THE BAKER ARTIST PORTFOLIOS, WWW.BAKERARTIST.ORG
PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN SPONSOR
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ANNUAL FUND DONORS Thank you to all our generous annual fund donors. Your support is essential and allows us to present the very best in live professional theatre. Gifts listed here were received from donors between July 1, 2015 and November 10, 2016.
GOVERNMENT, FOUNDATIONS, FUNDS AND CORPORATIONS ANGEL $20,000+
Anonymous Baltimore County Commission On Arts And Sciences Bunting Family Foundation, Inc. David And Barbara B Hirschhorn Foundation France-Merrick Foundation Helen S. and Merrill L. Bank Foundation The Henry and Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Foundation J. Mayo Greenberg Theatre Fund Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation, Inc. Joseph and Harvey Meyerhoff Family Charitable Funds Maryland State Arts Council Paul M. Angell Family Foundation The Shubert Foundation William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund, creator of the Baker Artist Portfolios, www.BakerArtist.org
RESIDENT COMPANY SPONSOR $10,000 - $19,999 Bank Of America Foundation Goldsmith Family Foundation Hecht-Levi Foundation Legg Mason Corporate Citizenship LifeBridge Health Lockhart Vaughan Foundation T. Rowe Price Foundation Talcott-Gran Charitable Trust
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER $5,000 - $9,999
Anonymous Abell Foundation, Inc. American Trading And Production Corporation Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts Benno and Elayne Hurwitz Family Foundation Earle and Annette Shawe Family Foundation Eddie C. and C. Sylvia Brown Family Foundation Fancy Hill Foundation Helen Pumphrey Denit Trust, U.S. Trust, Bank of America, Trustee + DECEASED
John J. Leidy Foundation, Inc. Lord Baltimore Capital Corporation Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake & the City of Baltimore Creative Baltimore Fund Muller Charitable Foundation, Inc. Sun Trust Venable Foundation Wells Fargo Foundation Yumkas, Vidmar, Sweeney & Mulrenin, LLC
PRODUCER $2,500 - $4,999
Charlesmead Foundation DLA Piper LLP Herschel and Judith Langenthal Philanthropic Fund IBM Corporation
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER $1,000 - $2,499
Anonymous Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts Campbell Foundation, Inc. Harbor Bank Harris Jones & Malone, LLC Harvey M. Meyerhoff Fund, Inc. Jaye and Dr. Ted Bayless Fund Lois and Philip Macht Family Philanthropic Fund M. Sigmund And Barbara K. Shapiro Philanthropic Fund Mary Jean and Oliver Travers Foundation In honor of Stan Miller Richard and Rosalee C. Davison Foundation Sinsky-Kresser-Racusin Memorial Foundation Inc. Susan Sachs Fleishman Fund The Wolman Family Foundation
DIRECTOR $500 - $999
Doctrow Family Fund Eugene and Alice Schreiber Philanthropic Fund Exelon Foundation Francine Manekin and Family Philanthropic Fund Helen M. Hughes Trust McCormick & Company Norfolk Southern Foundation Matching Gifts Program Mr. and Mrs. Raymond L. Bank Family Fund
PLAYWRIGHT $250 - $499
Actors’ Equity Foundation, Inc. Cantler Fulwiler Family Fund Gabbay Family Fund Jacob S. Shapiro Foundation Jencks Family Fund Joyce and Robert Knodell Family Charitable Fund Ransome-Wilcox Family Fund Reliable Churchill Taylor Foundation, Inc.
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INDIVIDUALS ANGEL $20,000+
Anonymous Susan W. Flanigan Gina and Dan Hirschhorn John and Susan Nehra Vic and Nancy Romita
RESIDENT COMPANY SPONSOR $10,000 - $19,999
David and Betsy Nelson Dr. E. Lee and Bea Robbins
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER $5,000 - $9,999
Bunny and Alan Bernstein+ Mary Catherine Bunting Richard Friedler Ronnie Kleiman Peter Leffman Mark Paul Lehman and Kurt Davis Wil Love and Carl Schurr Ellen and Neil Meltzer Stan and Laurie Miller Elizabeth K. Moser Diane and Pete Nachtwey Bryan and Jennifer Rakes John and Marsha Ramsay Frank and Ann Rosenberg Stephen and Gail Shawe Lawrence Yumkas and Miriam Fisher
PRODUCER $2,500 - $4,999
Anonymous William and Pat Bettridge Stan and Edie Brown Shaun Carrick and Ronald Griffin Paul and Kathleen Casey Diane E. Cho and David W. Benn Dr. Larry and Nancy Fishel Corie Godine Lisa Harris Jones and Sean Malone Phyllis and Joe Johnson Sandy and Mark Laken In memory of Shawn Laken Kenneth C. and Elizabeth M. Lundeen Brian and Eileen O’Rourke Grant and Elissa Roch Matthew and Mary Satchwell Len and Selma Sherman Joy and Steven Sibel
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER $1,000 - $2,499 A nonymous
George and Frances Alderson Brenda K. Ashworth and Donald F. Welch Robert R. Bair and Dorothy D. Bair Penny Bank Emile A. Bendit Helen Blakey Dr. and Mrs. Mordecai Blaustein Patty Bond Winnie and Neal Borden Robert and Teresa Brookland Evelyn Cannon Glenda Chernoff Chuck Cohen and Ann Amernick James C. Storey and Janice L. Collins Betty & Stephen Cooper Michael Borowitz and Barbara Crain Harlan and Jean Cramer Jennifer Engel Louis B. Thalheimer and Juliet A. Eurich Nelson and Sara Fishman Gwen DuBois & Terry Fitzgerald Fran and John Flanigan Elborg and Robert Forster Jason and Laurie Frank Charlton G. C. Friedberg Debra and Maurice Furchgott Jill and Ira Gansler Mitzi and Norman Glick Philanthropic Fund Herbert and Harriet Goldman Marci Gordon and Andrew Barnstein Stephen and Julie Gottlieb James and Catherine Hammond Michael Hayes and Lori Clawson Charles Henck and Karen Malloy Sandra and Thomas Hess June and George Higgins William C. Jacob and Jennifer S. Williams Shirley A. Kaufman Kelly Keenan Trumpbour
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Paul Konka and Susan DuganKonka Francine and Allan Krumholz Vincent Lancisi and Robin Vanscoy Bernard and Steffi Liberman Sara Lombardo and James MacNicholl Richard Manichello and Margo Halle/Ram Films Inc Phyllis McIntosh John and Shanae McLean John and Mary Messmore Joseph and Jane Meyer Charlotte Modly and Paul Tarantino Charlie and Marcia Moylan Tracy Namie In memory of Stephen Namie Ruth Nolan Franchella Pailen-Watkins Fred and Grazina Pearson Mike Plaisted and Maggie Webbert Reid Reininger Larry Koppelman and Liz Ritter Harriet Roberts Rona and Arthur Rosenbaum Leslie and Jay Rosenthal Robert and Lelia Russell Monica and Arnold Sagner Gilda B. Sherman Rachelle and Ronnie Silverstein Joaneath A. Spicer Ruth and Chuck Spivak Fred and Joan Steffens Linda Stewart Damie and Diane Stillman Margaret Taliaferro Karen and Jim Trennepohl Michael and Helen Weiss Dr. Laurie S. Zabin
DIRECTOR $500 - $999
Anonymous James and Ellen Adajian David and Suzanne Alexander Tim and Joy Ambrose Dr. Sania Amr In memory of Jo Tyson Tildon Neil Axel Dr. Wendy Matt & Dr. Sukumar Balachandran Joel Balsham Bruce and Amy Barnett Frank Eisenberg and Catherine C. Blake
Mr. James Blackburn Liz Block Harriet and Bruce Blum Mr. and Mrs. A. Stanley Brager, Jr. Livio and Diane Broccolino David Brown Donald D. Brown and Linda W. Brown Arnold D and Joyce Ann Bruckner Hank Bullwinkel and Teri Majewski Jennifer Burdick Dr. Elizabeth Burin and Dr. Avishai Ben-David Vera Case and Adam Ehart Susan L. Chomicz Suzanne F. Cohen Ken Davies Michael and Judith DeHaemer Walter B. Doggett III and Joanne Doggett Ross and Michele Donehower Rosemary Eck Sandra Levi Gerstung Barbara Glynn Dr. and Mrs. Stanley Goldberg George Goodale Judith A. Gottlieb Hannah and Thorne Gould Jon Greenberg and Connie Rosemont Richard B. Gross Michael Guarnieri Donald M. and Dorothy W. Gundlach Betty Gunther In honor of Robert Gunther Robert and Cheryl Guth Stephen P. & Jacquelyn M. Hall Terry Halle and Wendy McAllister Fritzi K. and Robert J. Hallock Dr. Rhoda Harrison Barbara L. Hecht Holly Hertsgaard Samuel and Barbara Himmelrich Robert and Abigail Hoffman Frank and Anne Hubbard Dave and Katherine Hurst Ruth B Hurwitz Dr. and Mrs. Iredell W. Iglehart III Lois and Joseph Johnson, Jr. Ann H. Kahan
Edi and Barbara Karni Townsend and Bob Kent Joan Klein Ann and David Koch Ann Koontz Harriet and Jay Kramer Stanford and Lynne Lamberg Jessica Lanzillotti Harry and Beth Lebow Greg Lehne Diane Leonard Vernon and Doris Lidtke Barry Linkner Kathleen Liparini Joy Mandel and Tim Nehl Frank and Joyce Margolis Patrick Martyn and Eric Lomboy Linda Matheson Dennis G. McGough Herb and Miriam Mittenthal Carl and Undine Nash Linda Nevaldine Andrew and Sharon Nickol Lewis and Dee Noonberg Drs. Mary O’Connor and Charles King Steve and Sherri O’Donnell Gretchen Schmidl and Tim O’Leary Joan W. Orso Thomas L. and Leslie V. Owsley Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence C. Pakula William and Susan Paznekas Dale and Dorothy Piper Leslie and Gary Plotnick Dorothy Holliday Powe In memory of Ethel J. Holliday Scott and Gwyneth Radloff Karen Ray and Howard Turk Sarah S. Robinson Zelig and Linda Robinson Domingo and Karen Rodriguez Carla Wolf Rosenthal and Alan Schwartz Bette Rothman + Jamie and Sarah Ryan Jean Savina and Gayle Barney Norman A. and Leonora D. Sensinger Riva and Dr. Al Shackman David and Sarah H. Shapiro In honor of Gina Hirschhorn Peter and Cheryl Snyder Susan and John Spencer Pat Thompson and Ed Sledge
JoAnn Tracey Elizabeth Trexler Bonnie Binder and Bob Tucker Henry and Barbara Valeri Dr. and Mrs. Peter Warschawski Peter Cohen and Ann Watson In honor of Stan & Laurie Miller Maria Wawer William Marshall and Camille Wheeler Beverly Winter Carol Yumkas Marvin and Cindy Zelkowitz
PLAYWRIGHT $250 - $499 Anonymous Anonymous In honor of Maurice and Debra Furchgott Lissa Abrams and Abe Wasserberger Ronald and Baiba Abrams Brad and Lindsay Alger Eleanor Allen Taunya L. Banks Richard Baum and Kathleen Petersen In memory of Ron Pototsky Jan Boyce Brooks Bradley Jason and Melinda Brandt Jean Brune Joseph and Barbara Cirelli Joan Coley and Lee Rice Cynthia Conklin Will Cooke Joan S. Cornblath Gwen Davidson Albert DeLoskey and Lawrie Deering Michael Domue In honor of Wil Love and Carl Schurr Neil and Deborah Eisenberg Susi Ettinger Tony and Jaymee Farinacci Edgar and Faith Feingold Susie and Bob Fetter John and Dorothy Foellmer Rhona and Sonny Freiman Mrs. Noris and Mr. Avi Friedman Mark and Patty Gillen Mr. and Mrs. David Glickman In memory of David Glickman Stephanie Graham
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Ben Greenwald Dale and Alonzo Griffin Thomas and Rebecca Hamer Gary C. Harn Ricki and George Henschel Ken and Ellen Himmelstein Shirley T. Hollander In memory of Naomi Greenberg-Slovin Harriet S. Iglehart Louise and Richard Kemper Robert Knodell Ron and Marianne Kreitner Evan Toni Krometis Rosalind and Alfred Kronthal Jonna & Fred Lazarus Sara W. Levi Naomi Levin Howard and Peggy Levinton Peter Levy and Diane Krejsa Alison Loughran In memory of Donna MacLeod Loughran Sam and Suzie Macfarlane Diane Maloney-Krichmar Richard Marriott Jeanne E. Marsh Hans and Judy Mayer Stephanie F. Miller Todd Myers and Lois Schneck Barry Narlines In memory of Dr. Ronald Pototsky Ted Niederman and Ricka Neuman Jeffrey Nover Dr. and Mrs. Crossan O’Donovan Robert and Patricia Orr Margaret Palmer In honor of Kyle Prue Bob and Shirley Prue Hazel D. Radowsky Alan and Pamela Ray Jill Ann Rodenburg In memory of Joan Burns Dr. and Mrs. Alfred Rosenstein Dr. and Mrs. Steven Sandler Richard and Kayleen Saucier Frederica Saxon + Susan Scheidle Barbara K. Scherlis Thomas M. Scott III Betsy and Carlton Sexton Joel and Robin Shaivitz
Terry E. Singer In memory of Reuben and Ethel Singer James Slaughter III and Anne Cowan Slaughter Eric Snyder In honor of The Wiesters Sid and Sandy Socolar In memory of Vivienne Shub and Naomi Greenberg-Slovin Judy and Carl Sterling Steve and Sue Sternheimer Hugh and Kitty Stierhoff Ellen Stifler Ellen M. Heller and Shale D. Stiller James Stofan and William Law Harriet Stulman Elizabeth Trimble Eli Velder Joanne Wallach Jonathan and Rachel Waller Joe and Debra Weinberg Mark I. Whitman Raymond Kraft and Gregory Wise Patricia A. Yevics-Eisenberg Miriam and Robert Zadek
The Henry and Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Foundation The Shelter Foundation Yumkas, Vidmar, Sweeney & Mulrenin, LLC
WINTER GALA 2016 CORPORATE SPONSORS
James and Allison Abromitis Andrew Barnstein and Marci Gordon Jody and David Berg Maurice and Debra Furchgott Mark Paul Lehman and Kurt Davis Lawrence and Ellen Macks Christine Miki Eileen and Brian O’Rourke Bob and Jackie Smelkinson Kelly Keenan Trumpbour Joan Young
American Trading And Production Corporation Baltimore Orioles Bank Of America Foundation BGE Brown Advisory Carefirst, Bluecross Blueshield Cho Benn Holback & Associates DLA Piper Evergreen Health Gallagher Evelius & Jones LLP J.S. Plank & D.M. Dicarlo Family Foundation, Inc. Legg Mason Corporate Citizenship LifeBridge Health Lord Baltimore Hotel M&T Bank Charitable Foundation P. Flanigan and Sons PNC Bank Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP Sun Trust
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INDIVIDUALS PRODUCERS’ CIRCLE
Randy Brown Susan W. Flanigan Dan and Gina Hirschhorn Stan and Laurie Miller Dr. E Lee and Bea Robbins Vic and Nancy Romita Larry Yumkas and Miriam Fisher
ARTISTS’ CIRCLE
Bunny and Alan Bernstein+ Jane Daniels Dana DiCarlo and Scott Plank Lisa Harris Jones and Sean Malone Susan and John Nehra David and Betsy Nelson Bryan and Jennifer Rakes Helga Surratt
DIRECTORS’ CIRCLE
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COCKTAILS AT 6 PM | READINGS AT 7 PM December 12
March 27
By Suzan-Lori Parks Directed by Deborah Hazlett
By Julia Cho
THE BOOK OF GRACE
THE LANGUAGE ARCHIVE
February 6
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By Rinne Groff Directed by Megan Anderson
By Alice Childress Directed by Dawn Ursula
THE RUBY SUNRISE
TROUBLE IN MIND
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Bruce Randolph Nelson
Carl Schurr
BOARD OF DIRECTORS Susan W. Flanigan, President Vic Romita, Vice President W. Bryan Rakes, Vice President Mark Paul Lehman, Secretary Eileen M. O’Rourke, Treasurer Edie Brown Jean W. Brune Diane Cho Corie Godine Marci I. Gordon Lisa Harris Jones Gina Hirschhorn Bridget M. Horner Vincent M. Lancisi Johnnie L. Lewis John McLean Neil Meltzer Dr. Stanley Miller Peter Nachtwey Susan L. Nehra Betsy Nelson James Ryan E. Lee Robbins, M.D. Leonard Sherman Kelly Keenan Trumpbour Lawrence J. Yumkas
EVERYMAN THEATRE IS LOCATED AT
315 W. Fayette St. Baltimore, MD 21201
CONTACT INFORMATION Dawn Ursula
Stan Weiman
RESIDENT ARTISTS Daniel Ettinger, Scenic Designer David Burdick, Costume Designer Jay A. Herzog, Lighting Designer Gary Logan, Dialects Coach Lewis Shaw, Fight Choreographer Amanda M. Hall, Stage Manager
Box Office 410.752.2208 Administration 443.615.7055 Email boxoffice@everymantheatre.org
Everyman Theatre is a member of the Theatre Communications Group. Everyman Theatre is a member of the Bromo Arts and Entertainment District.
STAFF
Vincent M. Lancisi, Founding Artistic Director Jonathan K. Waller, Managing Director
ARTISTIC
Noah Himmelstein, Associate Artistic Director Johanna Gruenhut, Artistic Associate
PRODUCTION
Kyle Prue, Director of Production Amanda M. Hall, Associate Director of Production Bill Jamieson, Technical Director Rick Gerriets, Asst. Technical Director Andrew Gaylin, Audio Engineer Juan Juarez, Master Electrician Jillian Mathews, Properties Master Patrick Squibb, Scene Shop Foreman Evan McDougall, Resident Carpenter Joseph Martin, Michael Rasinski, Mason Ross, House Carpenters Amy Kellett, Scenic Artist J. R. Schroyer, Deck Chief Lucy Wakeland, Wardrobe Supervisor Amanda M. Hall, Cat Wallis, Stage Managers Kayla Whisman, Assistant Stage Manager Juan Juarez, Katie Salvi, Light Board Operators Reese Siedlecki, Sound Board Operator Kelsey Schneider, Captioning Operator Ren Brault, Matthew Casella, Darrell Hairston, Jr., Kelsey Schneider, J.R. Schroyer, Reese Siedlecki, Trevor Wilhelms, Zach Yarosz, Carpenters Allison Burris, Parker Damm, Will Dalrymple, Jesse Herche, Brandon Ingle, Lillie Kahkonen, Jeremy Mayo, Jeremy McCord, Tori MuĂąoz, Alex Roberts, Katie Salvi, Elliott Shugoll, Electricians
ADMINISTRATION
Jessica Lanzillotti, General Manager Mike Watson, Operations Manager Laura Weiss, Special Assistant to the Artistic & Managing Directors Shammah Moore, Porter Pat Brent, Bookkeeper Beth Brenner Rose, Rentals Coordinator
DEVELOPMENT
Timothy Ambrose, Director of Development Allie Dreskin, Institutional Giving Manager Dustin Morris, Development Assistant
EDUCATION
Brianna McCoy, Director of Education Andrew Stromyer, Education Coordinator Melani Douglass, Community Engagement Manager Brenna Horner, Education Program Assistant Leiah Poindexter, Jayla Norris, Education Interns Marianne Angelella, Tonya Beckman, Julia Brandeberry, Tara Cariaso, Christine Demuth, Nick Horan, Rachel Hynes, Bruce Randolph Nelson, Steven Satta, Judy Sellman-Hrybyk, Lewis Shaw, Sabrina Sikes-Thornton, Dawn Thomas Reidy, Josh Thomas, Ann Turiano, Teaching Artists
MARKETING
Michele Alexander, Director of Marketing Kiirstn Pagan, Graphic Designer & Video Producer Katherine Marmion, Graphic Designer Matthew Shea, Social Media Coordinator Jeff Rogers, 2016-17 Season Show Art Design
FRONT OF HOUSE
Matthew Shea, Audience Services Manager Nadine Klatt, Box Office Manager David Brasington, Michelle Burke, Abigail Cady, Lacy Comstock, Tim German, Faith Savill, Daniel Romeo, Matthew Schleigh, Bartenders Eddy Collett, Anna-Marie Epps, Cierra Harman, Jonathan Jacobs, Jamil Johnson, Thom Purdy, Matthew Schleigh, Rachel-Miranda Swan, Benairen SwansonTomhave, Lucy Wakeland, Box Office Associates/Gift Shop Kate Appiah-Kubi, Jonathan Jacobs, Jamil Johnson, Derrell Owens, Daniel Romeo, Nickole Scroggins, Amber Wright, House Managers Daniel Gugliuzza, Volunteer Services Coordinator Special thanks to Theater J and Ernest Liotti
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